The trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his “co-conspirators” is delayed now. It’s meant to be a media show, as the men have already been found guilty by our judge/jury media circus. The problem that US prosecutors are having is that elements of truth might slip through and spoil the show. So they are insisting that all proceedings be put on a tape delay system so that they can edit as they go. This is the same system that radio and TV stations use to filter their output in case someone yells “Bullshit!”

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is a basket case, probably mentally debilitated by physical and psychological torture, and maybe even a psychotic to begin with anyway. If he is insane, by means of abuse or otherwise, he’s a perfect patsy now that the biggest patsy of them all, OBL, was officially killed on a reality TV show.

These five men did not have anything to do with 9/11, or let’s say if they did, they are hiding their little lights under a bushel basket. Imagine these clowns arranging the event in coordination with war games and exercises that effectively shut down the US air defense system that day. Imagine that they caused passenger airliners to perform physically impossible feats, brought down three buildings and destroyed five others by means of some miraculous process. Better than Penn and Teller, they put a jet airliner through the wall of the Pentagon and then made it vanish! These are not criminals. These are geniuses!

But they don’t look like geniuses. Oh well, whatever they did has to remain classified, so that if they spill the beans the US national security state can intercept their words before they get out to the world. We would not want this information to fall into the hands of Evildoers

I had an exchange over the weekend on another blog, and the subject of Guantanamo came up. Here’s what was offered to us:

As to Guantanamo – I have always opposed its continued functioning, but as I stated before, I don’t know how to close it. Look at a list of current detainees – most of them cannot legally or morally be transferred to their home countries, as their home countries are known to practice torture or lack a reliable court system or simply don’t want them. We could maybe send back a Kenyan and a couple Kuwaitis, but the rest of them really have little hope of going home and being treated humanely or getting a fair trial (though the Afghan detainees could legally be held as POWs by the government of Afghanistan). And I doubt their lives would be improved by moving to US prisons, even if the states running those prisons could be persuaded to take them.

There are many errors and false assumptions in that statement – it’s pretty damned naive. Actually, it’s adorable! But it did force me to think a little harder about what is going on at Gitmo. I’ve taken it for granted that they were holding prisoners posing little real danger to anyone as an element of the PSYOP aspect of 9/11, our permanent state-of-fear regime.

But it is troublesome, as they are holding some of those poor schmucks for over a decade now. It costs untold millions of dollars to house, feed and abuse them, and since the world is watching, they must at times give the appearance of good behavior in their treatment. True, there could be abuse and torture whenever the Red Cross is not looking, which is most of the time. But there must be more to it than that. Under normal circumstances, these men would simply have been killed on the spot rather than detained indefinitely. There is no force of law in sub-radar U.S. military aggression. Capturing and holding these men at great expense must serve some other end.
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Looking over readership for the past few weeks, I have ascertained that writing about the American election produces the great volume of hits. Along those lines, I have decided to set up two discussion threads:

Obama good! Romney baaad! In this thread we’ll discuss our hatred of Muslims, advocacy of military aggression world-wide, fears that social programs are too burdensome, and minor issues like gaffes, demeanor at debates, references to cultural icons and advertising strategies and weekly football picks.

The other thread is

Romney good! Obama baaad! In this thread we’ll discuss our hatred of Muslims, advocacy of military aggression world-wide, fears that social programs are too burdensome, and minor issues like gaffes, demeanor at debates, references to cultural icons and advertising strategies and weekly football picks.

Please chime in. Also, for those who are less astute politically, I offer a third thread:

Offbeat issues: Military aggression, attacks on social programs, dumbing down of political debate, campaign finances, Citizens United, Wall Street crime and no punishment, erosion of civil liberties, political campaigns as a distraction from real political issues.

I expect the latter thread to have few participants.

A summary of news headlines from around the world:

• Afghan AOPP News: Insiders report that American President Obama, troubled by sagging poll results, has suggested to his campaign staff that they arrange for Osama bin Laden to be killed again. His staff has came up with a number of possibilities:
  • He drifted ashore;
  • He reappeared as a zombie, since the original Navy Seal raid forgot the need for a double-tap;
  • He was found drifting in a life raft;
  • And the most likely choice, that he was not actually killed in the first raid. Under this plan, Obama would assert that the Seals had mistakenly killed one of his Dopplegangers used as stunt doubles in the various short films credited to him over the years.

  Faced with the possibility that the American public would not buy a second staged killing of the same man, Obama’s campaign chief, Jim Messina, said that they were not worried about all of public opinion, and only had to fool Democrats, “…quite an easy task, actually.”

• Jerusalem אפרטהייד: Polls show that African Americans far harder to fool than whites. A recent poll offering phrases such as
  • “You wanna buy this car?”
  • “We are an equal opportunity employer;”
  • “No, seriously, Democrats really care about you” and
  • “We’ll meet you at the apartment for a showing at 1:00 PM, don’t be late”

  most often elicited the answer “Sheeeeit – you makin me a fool?” from the list of choices.

• Tehran Times: “Americans are just fuckin’ liars,” says a government official after President Obama announced that the US was seeking peaceful resolution to the current crisis. “There’s nothing to resolve,” said Nazim Abdullah, head of the Iranian State Bureau to Cut Through Western Bullshit. “What the fuck is there to resolve?” said Abdullah. “We’re just sittin’ here chillin out, and like pow! Scientists get knocked off, battle ships in the harbor … Holy Crap!” The general consensus on the ruling council, as put forth by Mullah Mohammed Omar, is “Get us a fuckin’ bomb, and soon!”
• Damascus Gaspro headline:
  

  “Yeah, like all this shit goin’ down, and we like just go and shoot some Turks. Yeah. We’re that stupid.”

Obama will probably win, but Romney might. Both have powerful factions behind them.

Nothing else changes except …

If Romney wins, the Democratic base will assume the old pre-Obama posture of opposing the very things they are now supporting.

Oh yeah, almost forgot: If Romney wins, Republicans will stop talking about deficits. Blessed relief!

There’s been chatter around since the debate in Denver that Romney won, or failed to lose less than Obama failed to win. It’s a moot point to me, but important, I suppose, in a land where the only confrontation allowed without paid ads are the so-called debates.

One question is why did Obama not attack? There are several possible answers:

• Angry Black Man: There are still racial undertones, and Obama succeeds because of his smooth-spoken command of the English language, and his beautiful wife and children. He’s half white, and that is the part that many white people vote for.

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I start with the assumption that 98% of the terrorism in the world originates in the bowels of the Pentagon/Langley, MI6 and Mossad. If you want to argue 99% I won’t put up much of a fight, but I won’t go 100%, as the world is full of bad guys.

But weak people don’t ask to be attacked. So the attackers have to do it for them.

That is a constant theme throughout recent history, and probably through all of military history. From Operation Himmler to Tonkin to Brothers to the Rescue to 9/11, provocative attacks of no military or strategic value are senseless unless self-inflicted. Even Shoe and Underpants bombers are likely psychopathic losers under control of western intelligence. They reinforce our fear. Israel is especially well-practiced at this, and the ease with which they can launch a few rockets at themselves allows them to terrorize the West Bank and Gaza at will and invade Lebanon with near-impunity. (Hezbollah effectively ousted the Israelis from Lebanon, which is why we call that group “terrorists.”)

A question arises – really ugly terror like bus bombs and department store massacres – would western intelligence pull those off as well? What about car bombs in Iraq, marketplace massacres, snipers, beheadings … are these deeds done by agents provocateur? There are two possible answers here in my view: Most likely, and yes.

And please understand, and I repeat – the world is full of bad guys. They are not all employed by us. But there are weak bad guys and strong ones. The weak ones don’t go around begging to be attacked by the overwhelming military power of Israel, NATO and the U.S. Counterforce operations are designed to be effective – like Tet and Pearl Harbor. These were intelligent, well-planned and well-timed. The Japanese, under embargo in 1941 and knowing war was imminent, did not decide to blow up a shopping mall. The Vietnamese did not set their underpants on fire.

So when we read that a lone drone entered Israeli air space, it is not only wise to suspect that it was done by the Israelis, but perfectly logical. Who the hell else would pull such a stunt? More importantly, why?

The post down below drew the expected reaction, silence, pity and/or disbelief. That is neither discouraging or off-putting. The accusation drawn from it was that I held the American people in contempt. That is in part true, but I reserve my contempt for our intellectual, academic and journalistic classes. They are the ones we call on in times of need, and who answer only to power.

So if my position is merely one of contempt for regular people, then it cannot be that the evidence is unsettling or troubling, but rather merely a clash of personalities. I am then self-deluded to the point of imagining myself all-knowing while silently imagining all others to be stupid. But that’s neither true nor useful. Anyone traveling through life, attending meetings and conferences, family gatherings and parties, cannot help but notice the overall intellectual competency, even excellence, of the professional classes. The technical classes – electricians and mechanics and even accountants, people with a modicum of education and reading ability, also carry high intelligence for less abstract pursuits. But anyone attending a tailgating function cannot help but be discouraged.

All levels of awareness, and all levels of perceptions and intelligence exist among us. If the object is to reach people and mobilize them, the first move would be to fry their TV sets. More specifically, to turn off their news. Television news is a drug, a source of delusion in that it allows people to feel informed while shielding them from information.
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Journalists tell the truth to tell a lie. Novelists tell a lie to tell the truth. Norman Mailer (perhaps apocryphal)

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see very day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have. (T.H. White)

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future. (George Orwell)

In a an obscure movie we once watched called “Wag the Dog,” the entire premise is built around the notion that Americans do not get their news from television – they get their truth from there. It’s a really fun movie to watch – the president has been exposed as having molested a Girl Scout, and his staff needs a distracting story. They call in the expert, CIA man Conrad Brean (Robert Di Niro), who says that the scandal is so damaging that a war is needed to push it off to obscurity. But there is never a real war – there are only words and images (done in Hollywood using CGI), which is all the American people need. When other factions within government “end” the war, Brean “starts” it again.

But prior to the restart, Brean informs the president’s campaign staff that they are beaten – “The war is over. I saw it on TV.” That is, reality aside, what happens. TV is reality for Americans. No matter how illogical or contrary to nature, if it is read from a script by a credible person, if an image is shown, people believe it.

It’s a very good movie, based on the book American Hero by Larry Beinhart.

I vowed I was not going to do this, no sir. It’s a time-sink. No one will believe it anyway, as it is not on TV. But I did it. I am speaking of the events of 9/11, a very large and sophisticated military/intelligence/psychological operation. With such a phenomenon, street-level “researchers” enter a hall of mirrors. Those sophisticated and powerful enough to bring this event to fruition also know that a few hundred thousand skeptics will not buy the official story. Books will appear, photos will be analyzed, so that the stagers must run a counter-“truther” operation as well. Such an operation is replete with false leads and discrediting sideshows like fake moon landings and UFO’s. In that manner, those who question 9/11 are caged with those who believe in space aliens. For our benefit there are spooks masquerading as “Truthers” doing “limited hangouts.” I waded through much of this, but was fortunate enough to be able to eliminate the noise and clutter using a simple premise: If it looks like a garden path, leave the garden.
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