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mystery at sea

Sep 6

Posted by A. Peasant in Iran, Israel, Media, Military, Mossad, Nuclear Weapons, Russia | No Comments

A lot of mystery still shrouds the Arctic Sea. Your guess is as good as mine what’s really going on here, but I advise keeping a few facts in mind:

Six Jewish companies own 95% of the world’s media. You know the saying you get what you pay for. Well in the case of corporate media, you get what *THEY* pay for.

Israel wants to start a war with Iran (real reason here) on false pretenses, since the IAEA and the NIE have both repeatedly assessed that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. So something has to be arranged: a false flag.

Mossad’s motto is ‘by deception shall you make war.’

Keeping all that in mind…

Times Online (a Murdoch paper) now says Mossad more or less saved the day by tipping off Russia that the Arctic Sea was carrying S-300 missiles to Iran, arranged by “former military officers linked to the underworld.” Whoever that means. Funny how Mossad comes out smelling like a rose, hmm?

Meanwhile, NPR (Annenberg Foundation/CPB) reports that Conde Nast (Jewish owned, founded by a Russian Jew), which owns GQ, is trying to keep a story about Putin’s “Dark Rise to Power” away from Russian readers. As if that could possibly work. As a matter of fact, it would seem to me that NPR doing a story about such a cover-up will pretty much ensure that the information about Putin will get around, and with just enough of a conspiracy patina to convince those who don’t normally traffic in conspiracy theories that this one could be true, since the legitimate but left-leaning NPR dug it up. There’s a tool for every job.

“But these stories will get out, they will get read in Russia. They’re being somewhat naive to believe that by limiting this to their American edition that somehow they’re preventing this from being read.”

Naive my ass. Maybe they want to build mystery around Vladimir Putin. Maybe it’s helpful to certain people if Vladimir Putin has a tarnished reputation. Maybe if some doubt surrounds Vladimir Putin’s motives, then he can take some of the blame when something goes down. And anyway, speaking of naive, does anyone think the Russian people are naive about Vladimir Putin or anything else? For pete’s sake, the Russian people must be some of the toughest people on earth. Of course Putin has a shady background! And I would imagine that Russians consider it an asset not a liability. So this whole thing doesn’t pass the smell test to me. I mean, if anyone is naive on this planet it has to be Americans who believe just about anything as long as they get it from teevee. I think Americans are the mark, as usual.

I mean, there’s some weird stuff out there about Putin. Who knows. Maybe Putin is a good guy, as Brother Nathanael seems to think. I’m just trying to point out that you really can’t take anything at face value. Power is seedy. All people in power have been compromised. They lie. They have suspect motives. They make money off of wars.

And they own newspapers and magazines and television and radio. That’s the way it is. So take it from where it comes.

Update: xymphora has another take on the same Times Online article:

Another explanation for the Russian ship mystery is that it was a decoy/counterintelligence operation to identify any ‘dual loyalist’ Jews in the Russian government who might be tipping off the Israelis to any Russian military sales to the Middle East. All other explanations fail to account for the fact that it was the Russians who made a big deal out of this, hardly likely if the cargo of this unknown ship was embarrassing to them. A few ‘accidents’ and the Russian security problem is cleaned up.

Yeah. Personally I think the Russians are very smart, and maybe Brother Nathanael is right about Putin, and if that’s the case then it would explain the little whisper campaign currently underway about Putin in the corporate media, with naive liberal NPR-listening and GQ-reading metro-sexual Americans as the target for this little piece of mind-control.

Anyone who still believes that *anyone* in power is some sort of boy scout….well…you see…
it’s not like that actually.

Moving on….

the responsible parties

Sep 5

Posted by A. Peasant in Mind-fucking, Psychopaths | No Comments

Back when I was a brand new blogger (10/07), I saw this op ed where the guy actually wrote:

Indeed, if and when America craps out completely, it will be because of {…ok guess what it’s because of….}

…

the suffocating political apathy of our current crop of young people. {!!!!!}

Who Knew?? It’s been the Young People All This Time?!?!???

Yeah, um, no. Actually I knew this was wrong even before all this other horrible stuff happened in the meantime, because I wrote:

I just don’t think it’s fair to expect the younger generation to fix all the problems made by greedy boomers. Pony up the money, people, and the power, both of which your generation has ruthlessly amassed, and take some responsibility for the mess your generation made of the world.

Which all came rushing back to me as I read this interview with Obama’s Education Secretary, Arne Duncan. You see, according to Education Secretary Duncan, it’s students and their parents who need to step up and take some responsibility around here. If you want to click through and read his wisdom, be my guest. I’ll just highlight a few of the unfortunate circumstances Mr. Duncan points out as being problematic for students and their families today. It’s very sad how nobody seems to take responsibility for these grievous challenges, but you know, it’s rude to notice stuff like that (wink wink wink)! And since nobody powerful bears any responsibility for these problems, the responsibility for succeeding against impossible odds falls to students and their parents. Good Luck Kids!

Here’s a quick recap of the many challenges facing our students and their parents today.

1. The doors of opportunity only open if you have the secret pa$$word:

For students that don’t have a great education, students that don’t really apply themselves — those that do have a whole series of doors continue to open for them as they get older. And those who don’t see doors start to close on them very, very quickly.

2. There are so many more media distractions and temptations:

There’s also a lot more temptation than ever before. I’m not that old, but I didn’t have MTV. We didn’t have video games. There’s a whole bunch of things today that can get in the way of students really applying themselves academically.

Silver Lining Alert #1: The internet is great (as long as they don’t have to take it over and shut it down for national security):

The flip side is, there’s a whole set of opportunities, the Internet, chances to learn in ways that just didn’t exist before.

Also, as an aside, hard work pays off and success has nothing to do with who you know. Just ask Barack Obama:

And here he is, the president of our country, the leader of the free world, because he received a great education and worked so hard.

Back to the problems, which are the bane of students and parents across America…

3. The school day and school year needs to be much longer to accommodate parents who have to work such long hours:

This is not my most popular line when I’ve talked to young folks. But I think the idea of schools being open five days a week, six hours a day, nine months of the year just doesn’t work for families in our country anymore.Families are working one and two and three jobs now to make ends meet. Schools are safe havens. We want to make sure those are open longer hours, after school, weekends, throughout the summer.

4. In addition, the school day and school year needs to be longer to prepare our children to compete with students from around the world, since there are no good jobs left in America:

I also want to make sure that our students can compete in an international economy. They’re competing for jobs against children in India and China. And the fact is that many of those young people in other countries are going to school 25, 30 percent longer than our students here.

I think our students are smarter than anyone. I just want to give them a chance to be successful.

Silver Lining Alert #2: Thank God the stimulus package averted disaster. It could be much, much worse!!!

The biggest thing you’ll see is hundreds of thousands of teachers in buildings who wouldn’t have been there without the stimulus package. We averted an education catastrophe. We were on the verge of just a total disaster, seeing class size go from 25 to 40.So a second-grader or a third-grader won’t know, necessarily, that their teacher may not have been there, had it not been for this package.

That just is so important. We have to get dramatically better. We couldn’t afford to take a step backward.

5. Everyone (well, not *everyone* exactly) has to Give More. That’s the answer to our problems.

I just want to say thank you. Teachers are the unsung heroes in our society.In so many other professions, you’re measured by what you get, what you accumulate. Wealth and power and prestige and fancy titles.

Education, teaching, is totally different. It’s all about what you give, not what you get. Helping students learn. Giving students a sense of self-esteem. Giving them a vision of what they can accomplish.

And teachers, hundreds of thousands of teachers, every single day, are making a miraculous difference in the lives of our students.

Parents are always going to be our students’ first teachers. The most important thing I can do is to read to my children every night, to not have them watching TV and to really be a partner with that teacher.

Parents have to step up. I know it’s tough. People are working several jobs now. They’ve never been under more financial stress.

What a disaster. What can we do Education Secretary Duncan?!?!?

But there is nothing more important any of us can do

than to help our students be successful academically,

to really let our children know how important school is,

how much we value education,

and how much teachers and principals are our partners in helping our students fulfill their potential.

Really? That’s the answer?

You know something? I have a great education, and I worked hard. And this is NOT THE DAMN ANSWER.

There’s exactly ONE THING that people in this country need to learn about right now: PSYCHOPATHS. How many there are (1 in 25 people), how they operate (without conscience), where they work (throughout the highest echelons of society), and what their damned names are. That is the knowledge that will change the world.

dirty jobs are their niche

Sep 3

Posted by A. Peasant in Afghanistan, CIA, Corruption & Crime, Military | No Comments

So Mother Jones has a story by Daniel Schulman about Americans acting like assholes in Afghanistan. Lots of bad behavior, incriminating pictures. Go ahead and see. The company involved here is Wackenhut.

Wackenhut and the CIA go way back. This information comes from 1992, you know, Last Century stuff:

It is not possible to overstate the special relationship Wackenhut enjoys with the federal government. It is close. When it comes to security matters, Wackenhut in many respects “is” the government. In 1991, a third of the company’s $600- million in revenues came from the federal government, and another large chunk from companies that themselves work for the government, such as Westinghouse.

Wackenhut is the largest single company supplying security to U.S. embassies overseas; several of the 13 embassies it guards have been in important hotbeds of espionage, such as Chile, Greece and El Salvador.

It also guards nearly all the most strategic government facilities in the U.S., including the Alaskan oil pipeline, the Hanford nuclear-waste facility, the Savannah River plutonium plant and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Wackenhut maintains an especially close relationship with the federal government in other ways as well.

While early boards of directors included such prominent personalities of the political right as Captain Eddie Rickenbacker; General Mark Clark and Ralph E. Davis, a John Birch Society leader, current and recent members of the board have included much of the country’s recent national-security directorate:

  • former FBI director Clarence Kelley

  • former Defense secretary and former CIA deputy director Frank Carlucci

  • former Defense Intelligence Agency director General Joseph Carroll

  • former U.S. Secret Service director James J. Rowley

  • former Marine commandant P. X. Kelley

  • acting chairman of President Bush’s foreign- intelligence advisory board and former CIA deputy director Admiral Bobby Ray Inman

Before his appointment as Reagan’s CIA director, the late William Casey was Wackenhut’s outside legal counsel.

The company has 30,000 armed employees on its payroll. We wanted to know more about this special relationship; but the government was not forthcoming. Repeated requests to the Department of Energy for an explanation of how one company got the security contracts for nearly all of America’s most strategic installations have gone unanswered.

Similarly, efforts to get the State Department to explain whether embassy contracts were awarded arbitrarily or through competitive bidding were fruitless; essentially, the State Department said, “Some of both.”

Wackenhut’s competitors - who, understandably, asked not to be quoted by name - have their own version.

“All those contracts;” said one security-firm executive, “are just another way to pay Wackenhut for their clandestine help.”

And what is the nature of that help?

“It is known throughout the industry,” said retired FBI special agent William Hinshaw, “that if you want a dirty job done, call Wackenhut.”

OK, fine, good enough. It took me about thirty seconds to find this information. It does not surprise me that a company like Wackenhut would use techniques that result in a working environment of fear and coercion:

Multiple guards say this deviant hazing has created a climate of fear and coercion, with those who declined to participate often ridiculed, humiliated, demoted, or even fired. The result is an environment that is dangerous and volatile. Some guards have reported barricading themselves in their rooms for fear that those carrying out the hazing will harm them physically. Others have reported that AGNA management has begun to conduct a witch hunt to identify employees who have provided information about this atmosphere to POGO.

That would be standard operating procedure, advanced mind-fucking, for a CIA-affiliated organization, as anyone paying attention knows.

Not that it shouldn’t be exposed. Yes, by all means, let’s have it. But why now, when this has been going on for a long long time?

I mean, it’s a little distracting all of a sudden, with these pictures and everything. Kinda like a limited hangout or something….

[ding]

UPDATE: There are more DOD defense contractors in Afghanistan than uniformed US military personnel.

Contractors provide essential logistical, translation and other services, while offering increased flexibility. But they also pose management challenges in monitoring performance and preventing fraud. In the worst cases, “abuses and crimes committed by armed private security contractors and interrogators against local nationals may have undermined U.S. efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan,” the CRS report noted.

Um, yeah. Guess so.

making self-defense a crime

Sep 2

Posted by A. Peasant in Experts, Flu psyop, Mind Control | No Comments

From a speech on mind control given by John Rappoport, date unknown, but probably at least ten years ago, maybe more:

I am investigative reporter, for about the last fifteen years, and I basically have been investigating what I call medical fascism which I believe is the mechanism by which people are going to be dragged into Brave New World if that is the outcome that we unfortunately end up with. That issue is not decided, but because the medical world has such great authority with people, they believe so much in doctors and experts, they are going to try to make that move … they are going to try to bring people to heel under the aegis of medicine … they are going to try to say that they know science, and therefore you have to listen to what they say, and if they say take a drug, or you are suffering from a germ, there is no questioning that. If they say you are detained or quarantined, there is no questioning that … I see that as being something that is coming around here.

Oh like this?

Department Of Health
__________ County Health Department
QUARANTINE DETENTION ORDER
By authority of Chapter 381 and 252, Florida Statutes
and Chapter 64D-3, Florida Administrative Code
_____ CHD Order #____________.
Pursuant to the authority vested in this office by Chapter 381, Florida Statutes, and by your refusal to comply with the Orders of the _______ County Health Department, you, __________ _(name)____________ are hereby DETAINED under QUARANTINE in the following secure facility, ___________________________. You are further classified as non-compliant with quarantine because after you were counseled about a communicable disease or unsafe condition that poses a threat to the public health, and methods to minimize the risk to the public and, despite such counseling, you indicated an intent by (words or actions) to expose the public to ________________. All other reasonable means of obtaining your compliance with quarantine have been exhausted; no less restrictive alternative exists.
You shall remain in detention from the date of this Order until (date) or until released from DETENTION QUARANTINE by the undersigned, such determination to be made upon the recommendation of the State Epidemiologist or State Health Officer.
While in DETENTION QUARANTINE, you shall comply with all orders of the detention facility regarding your medical care. You shall cooperate with the detention facility’s access to you and access to your medical records for purposes of delivering or monitoring your medical care.
Other Requirements/Orders:
1
Reasons For Above:
DONE and ORDERED by the ________ County Health Director/Administrator this ____
day of ___________, 20___.
By order of:
___________________________
________ County Health Department
_________Area Code & Phone Number
(for quarantine review requests, contact person)
DUTY TO COMPLY: This action is taken under the police power authority of the health department and your cooperation is required by law. Violation of any term of this Order or failure to comply during the life of this Order with the above-stated directives, including any attempt by a person to enter, exit or behave in a manner prohibited by the Order, is a CRIME.
RIGHT TO REVIEW. Upon request to the CHD, this Quarantine Order will be reviewed on an expedited basis. Review can be initiated by a phone call to the telephone number of the official whose name appears on this Order.
RIGHT TO CHALLENGE: This Quarantine Order may be challenged, such as through petition for writ of habeas corpus, Ch. 79, F.S., following the procedures set out in Rule 1.630, Florida Rules of Civil Procedure (extraordinary remedies) or by Petition For Administrative Review, sec. 120.569 et seq., F.S.
If you have concerns or questions regarding this Quarantine Order that you wish to discuss with your attorney please do so by telephone. Do not go to your attorney’s office or break this Quarantine in any way.
Legal Authority: s.381.0011(4),(5),(6) and s.381.0012(5), and s. 252.36(2), F.S.; Rules 64D-3.005 and 64D-3.007, Florida Administrative Code

Aren’t they so clever? After they “counsel” you, and you refuse, let’s say because you don’t want poison injected into your body, the next thing you know you’re really INDICATING an INTENT to EXPOSE the PUBLIC. You CRIMINAL!!

Um, no, actually you’re just trying to protect yourself.

But thus, through the law, does self-defense become a crime in the eyes of the state.