Monday, January 08, 2018
Saturday, January 06, 2018
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Thursday, December 28, 2017
Sunday, December 24, 2017
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Monday, December 18, 2017
World’s Most Expensive Home? Another Bauble for a Saudi Prince - The New York Times
World’s Most Expensive Home? Another Bauble for a Saudi Prince - The New York Times
A $300 million chateau is one of a string of
extravagant purchases for a prince who is cracking
down on ill-gotten wealth and preaching fiscal austerity.
Paraphrasing Seinfeld's Newman: "O the hypocrisy....."
A $300 million chateau is one of a string of
extravagant purchases for a prince who is cracking
down on ill-gotten wealth and preaching fiscal austerity.
Paraphrasing Seinfeld's Newman: "O the hypocrisy....."
Sunday, December 17, 2017
With interest rates low, facts don’t justify panic over national debt - The Boston Globe
With interest rates low, facts don’t justify panic over national debt - The Boston Globe
It doesn't seem to bother the author of this essay that our national debt increases 50% by 2027. Other nations are worse off, he says. We should learn to love the debt -- his words.....
See this
Gordon Gekko said "greed is good." Now we have "Debt is good."
Are they?
It doesn't seem to bother the author of this essay that our national debt increases 50% by 2027. Other nations are worse off, he says. We should learn to love the debt -- his words.....
See this
Gordon Gekko said "greed is good." Now we have "Debt is good."
Are they?
Thursday, December 14, 2017
is Himalayan rock salt really from Himalayas?
We got to wondering. Turns out: not. According to Google:
Himalayan salt is rock salt or halite from the Punjab region of Pakistan. It is falsely marketed as being from the Himalayas.
Sometimes it seems like nothing in this world is as it appears to be.
Illusion vs. reality.
If you can't trust your salt, what can you trust?
Meanwhile, pass the Pakistani salt, please.....no, not that one, the one from the Punjab, bro.....
Himalayan salt is rock salt or halite from the Punjab region of Pakistan. It is falsely marketed as being from the Himalayas.
Sometimes it seems like nothing in this world is as it appears to be.
Illusion vs. reality.
If you can't trust your salt, what can you trust?
Meanwhile, pass the Pakistani salt, please.....no, not that one, the one from the Punjab, bro.....
Monday, December 11, 2017
Saturday, December 09, 2017
Friday, December 08, 2017
Tuesday, December 05, 2017
John Hockenberry, Former WNYC Radio Host, Is Accused of Sexual Harassment - The New York Times
John Hockenberry, Former WNYC Radio Host, Is Accused of Sexual Harassment - The New York Times
We listened many times to Hockenberry scorch right-wing oppressors, himself all liberal, leftist and smugly self-righteous. Now a real picture of this former NPR heavy hitter comes out.....
The national news director of NPR was similarly brought down....
We listened many times to Hockenberry scorch right-wing oppressors, himself all liberal, leftist and smugly self-righteous. Now a real picture of this former NPR heavy hitter comes out.....
The national news director of NPR was similarly brought down....
Friday, December 01, 2017
This Robot Said to Sell Facebook. Next Time It May Be Right - Bloomberg
This Robot Said to Sell Facebook. Next Time It May Be Right - Bloomberg
Those who know AI, machine learning, programming, data analytics will rule the world. Scratch that. Make that "already rule the world"......
Those who know AI, machine learning, programming, data analytics will rule the world. Scratch that. Make that "already rule the world"......
Flynn could deliver a knockout blow to Trump - The Washington Post
Flynn could deliver a knockout blow to Trump - The Washington Post
The days of Donald Trump appear to be numbered.
May not get a chance to tax the middle class, enrich the rich, and add $1 trillion to deficit after all.......too bad.....for shame......
The days of Donald Trump appear to be numbered.
May not get a chance to tax the middle class, enrich the rich, and add $1 trillion to deficit after all.......too bad.....for shame......
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Can’t You See War On The Horizon? -- Paul Craig Roberts - PaulCraigRoberts.org
Can’t You See War On The Horizon? -- Paul Craig Roberts - PaulCraigRoberts.org
Brilliant writing and thinking from PCR......again
Brilliant writing and thinking from PCR......again
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Psychiatry in Denial Over Demons - henrymakow.com
Psychiatry in Denial Over Demons - henrymakow.com
Demons also serve in major roles regarding panic attacks, OCD and they will take people already weakened with PTSD and amplify the problem and milk it for all the misery they can. When nightmares happen, you can be assured there is a demon nearby. They play a major role in the various personality disorder clusters.
Those that unfortunately have been raised or in a relationship with a narcissist, a borderline or even a sociopath all note the uncanny ability of these people to be a step ahead in the torment game. Some even call them "demons incarnate" as they have an unfair advantage because they are heavily influenced by demons, demons that know our weaknesses to a molecule.
Dr. Jerry Marzinsky worked for 35 years as a psychiatrist in mental hospitals and prisons in the US. He states that these thoughts happen to all of us sooner or later: "Think about the last time you were strolling along minding your own business and all of a sudden a horrible, disgusting, revolting thought blasted into your mind to do or say something that you would never do or say and were even shocked that you could even have such a thought. This has happened to all of us at one time or another. The first thing we wonder is, "Where did that come from?" It came from an outside source that doesn't belong to us and is not a part of you."
Could you imagine if these thoughts and images were being blasted at you day and night? Most of these disorders can be cured and with the new energy therapies and it can happen pretty quick.
However, sociopaths and narcissists are a different problem because they will never acknowledge they have a problem nor will they ever introspect and look into themselves.
Feature from the RSS news feed at sarkett.com/news.
Demons also serve in major roles regarding panic attacks, OCD and they will take people already weakened with PTSD and amplify the problem and milk it for all the misery they can. When nightmares happen, you can be assured there is a demon nearby. They play a major role in the various personality disorder clusters.
Those that unfortunately have been raised or in a relationship with a narcissist, a borderline or even a sociopath all note the uncanny ability of these people to be a step ahead in the torment game. Some even call them "demons incarnate" as they have an unfair advantage because they are heavily influenced by demons, demons that know our weaknesses to a molecule.
Dr. Jerry Marzinsky worked for 35 years as a psychiatrist in mental hospitals and prisons in the US. He states that these thoughts happen to all of us sooner or later: "Think about the last time you were strolling along minding your own business and all of a sudden a horrible, disgusting, revolting thought blasted into your mind to do or say something that you would never do or say and were even shocked that you could even have such a thought. This has happened to all of us at one time or another. The first thing we wonder is, "Where did that come from?" It came from an outside source that doesn't belong to us and is not a part of you."
Could you imagine if these thoughts and images were being blasted at you day and night? Most of these disorders can be cured and with the new energy therapies and it can happen pretty quick.
However, sociopaths and narcissists are a different problem because they will never acknowledge they have a problem nor will they ever introspect and look into themselves.
Feature from the RSS news feed at sarkett.com/news.
Saturday, November 18, 2017
Friday, November 17, 2017
Wednesday, November 08, 2017
French actor Gerard Depardieu visits Istanbul, eats kokoreç
French actor Gerard Depardieu visits Istanbul, eats kokoreç
Most of what we present here is drop dead serious. This item in a Turkish newspaper made us LOL.....as they say on ESPN, Come On, Gerard, Come On....
Most of what we present here is drop dead serious. This item in a Turkish newspaper made us LOL.....as they say on ESPN, Come On, Gerard, Come On....
Wednesday, November 01, 2017
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Alec Baldwin on Classical Music
From his 2017 memoir, Nevertheless:
In 2009, I attended a concert at Carnegie Hall featuring Christoph Eschenbach and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Seated in the box next to me were MatIas Tarnopolsky, the vice president of artistic planning for the New York Philharmonic, and the one and only Zarin Mehta, president and executive director of the Phil, brother of Zubin Mehta, and gentleman without equal. "What are you doing here?" Tarnopolsky blurted out. After. I explained that years of being trapped in a car in another life had made me a classical music fan, MatIas and Zarin exchanged a look; then Zarin said, "Come see me." Soon after that, I was hired as the announcer for the New York Philharmonic's weekly radio broadcast. What a great honor, education, and joy that has been.
In the '8os, I would drive around LA, listening to KUSC, KFAC, and other, now lost FM classical stations. As I'd approach the gates of Warner or Paramount to head into an appointment, the symphony on my radio was still unfolding. I'd call the stations' programming directors, whose numbers I kept on speed dial on my Motorola car phone (yes, you'd dial and they would pick up the phone), to find, out all of the details of the piece: composer, ensemble, conductor, recording label. Then I'd hustle over to Tower Classical on Sunset and order the discs.
There was no ArkivMusic back then, no Amazon, so I would have to drive back to West Hollywood to pick up the order two weeks later. But it was so worthwhile. Before the advent of digital downloads, I collected a lot of music. I concentrated on that battery between conductor and ensemble that produced much of the more acclaimed classical recordings, back when many of the majors were recording more frequently: Charles Dutoit with the Montreal Symphony, Leonard Slatkin with the St. Louis, George Szell with the Cleveland, Georg Solti with the Chicago, Bernstein with the New York Phil, Levine in Boston, Previn in London, Zubin Mehta in Los Angeles, Eschenbach, Barenboim, Gergiev, Dudamel, Tilson Thomas, Maazel, Haitink, Masur, Salonen, Dohnányi, Abbado, Boulez, Karajan, van Zweden, Boult, Muti.
Classical music renewed me. Like painting and literature, it put me in a grounded place of peace; So much so that if I did it all over again,. I'd learn to play the piano and become a conductor. Oh, God, would 1 ever. Go online and watch Charlie Dutoit conduct. Dutoit, the most elegant of them all. What I wouldn't give to be him for a year. These men (and a few women, like Mann Alsop) float on a cloud made of God-given genius and intense hard work. In the audience, I have been disappointed countless times at the movies, less often at the theater, but never at the symphony, where the orchestra brings to bear the remarkable talents of men and women who exist in their own aerie atop the performing arts. With all my heart, I urge you to visit the symphony in your town or nearby. Afterward, you just might be renewed.
My taste runs toward the lush, the romantic, the sonorous. I've been compiling the list of the recordings I want played at my funeral for some time:
I know, I know. It's a long playlist. But come to my. funeral, if only for the music. For those of you who are classical fans, I know I'm laying up on the fairway here, going for par. But, hey, at that point I'll be dead. Allow me this last indulgence.
In 2009, I attended a concert at Carnegie Hall featuring Christoph Eschenbach and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Seated in the box next to me were MatIas Tarnopolsky, the vice president of artistic planning for the New York Philharmonic, and the one and only Zarin Mehta, president and executive director of the Phil, brother of Zubin Mehta, and gentleman without equal. "What are you doing here?" Tarnopolsky blurted out. After. I explained that years of being trapped in a car in another life had made me a classical music fan, MatIas and Zarin exchanged a look; then Zarin said, "Come see me." Soon after that, I was hired as the announcer for the New York Philharmonic's weekly radio broadcast. What a great honor, education, and joy that has been.
In the '8os, I would drive around LA, listening to KUSC, KFAC, and other, now lost FM classical stations. As I'd approach the gates of Warner or Paramount to head into an appointment, the symphony on my radio was still unfolding. I'd call the stations' programming directors, whose numbers I kept on speed dial on my Motorola car phone (yes, you'd dial and they would pick up the phone), to find, out all of the details of the piece: composer, ensemble, conductor, recording label. Then I'd hustle over to Tower Classical on Sunset and order the discs.
There was no ArkivMusic back then, no Amazon, so I would have to drive back to West Hollywood to pick up the order two weeks later. But it was so worthwhile. Before the advent of digital downloads, I collected a lot of music. I concentrated on that battery between conductor and ensemble that produced much of the more acclaimed classical recordings, back when many of the majors were recording more frequently: Charles Dutoit with the Montreal Symphony, Leonard Slatkin with the St. Louis, George Szell with the Cleveland, Georg Solti with the Chicago, Bernstein with the New York Phil, Levine in Boston, Previn in London, Zubin Mehta in Los Angeles, Eschenbach, Barenboim, Gergiev, Dudamel, Tilson Thomas, Maazel, Haitink, Masur, Salonen, Dohnányi, Abbado, Boulez, Karajan, van Zweden, Boult, Muti.
Classical music renewed me. Like painting and literature, it put me in a grounded place of peace; So much so that if I did it all over again,. I'd learn to play the piano and become a conductor. Oh, God, would 1 ever. Go online and watch Charlie Dutoit conduct. Dutoit, the most elegant of them all. What I wouldn't give to be him for a year. These men (and a few women, like Mann Alsop) float on a cloud made of God-given genius and intense hard work. In the audience, I have been disappointed countless times at the movies, less often at the theater, but never at the symphony, where the orchestra brings to bear the remarkable talents of men and women who exist in their own aerie atop the performing arts. With all my heart, I urge you to visit the symphony in your town or nearby. Afterward, you just might be renewed.
My taste runs toward the lush, the romantic, the sonorous. I've been compiling the list of the recordings I want played at my funeral for some time:
- Mãhler's Ninth Symphony, fourth movement, Lorin Maazel conducting the New York Philharmonic.
- Chopin's Nocturne in B-flat Minor, op. 9, no. i, performed by Yundi Li
- Mahler's Fourth Symphony, third movement, George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra.
- Ravel's Ma Mere Wye (the Mother Goose Suite), Charles Dutoit conducting the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
- Rachmaninov's Symphony no 2 in E Minor, third movement, Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony Orchestra.
- Chopin's Nocturne in D-flat Major, op. 27, no 2, performed by Lang Lang.
- Ralph Vaughan Williams's Serenade lo Music, Sir Adrian Boult conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
- Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 6 (Pathetique), fourth movement, Valery Gergiev conducting the Orchestra of the Kirov Opera.
I know, I know. It's a long playlist. But come to my. funeral, if only for the music. For those of you who are classical fans, I know I'm laying up on the fairway here, going for par. But, hey, at that point I'll be dead. Allow me this last indulgence.
Friday, October 27, 2017
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Monday, October 23, 2017
Sunday, October 22, 2017
Zigs, Zags, Zips: the ever unpredictable Donald Trump makes the right call
Trump To Allow Release Of 3,000 Never Before Seen Documents On JFK Assassination | Zero Hedge
Our new book is in the research stage: False Flags, Government Deceptions: A Short History of the Modern Era, and we are greatly interested in this and other such insights into the real working of governments, criminals, intelligence agents, et al.....
Our new book is in the research stage: False Flags, Government Deceptions: A Short History of the Modern Era, and we are greatly interested in this and other such insights into the real working of governments, criminals, intelligence agents, et al.....
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Keeping the public in the dark
Trump Likely to Block Release of Some JFK Files - POLITICO Magazine
Conspiracy theorists of the world, get ready for some bad news.
Trump administration and other government officials say privately that President Donald Trump is almost certain to block the release of information from some of the thousands of classified files related to the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy that are scheduled to be made public in less than a week by the National Archives.
Administration officials would not identify what specific information related to Kennedy’s murder might be kept secret on Trump’s orders, though they acknowledged concern over classified documents held at the Archives that were created decades after the assassination—specifically, in the 1990s.
The officials held out a slim possibility that the always-unpredictable Trump could decide at the last minute to release all the remaining JFK files held at the Archives—tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of pages of long-secret documents—but said it was highly unlikely, especially because of concern that documents from the 1990s might expose relatively recent American intelligence and law-enforcement operations. Some of those documents could be partially released, with some of the information blacked out, they said.
A previously released, bare-bones index of nearly 3,100 never-before-seen assassination-related documents scheduled for release next week shows that the vast majority were created in the 1960s and 1970s, and many, if not most, of them appear likely to be declassified. Only several dozen date from the 1990s, and most of those were created by the CIA; many are letters written at the spy agency to a special federal review board that, at the time, was trying to decide how much of the JFK record from the 1960s could be made public without damaging national security or U.S. foreign policy.
Lindsay Walters, a White House spokeswoman, told POLITICO Magazine that the White House was working “to ensure that the maximum amount of data can be released to the public” by next Thursday, Oct. 26—the 25-year deadline set by Congress under a 1992 law signed by President George H.W. Bush that was intended to try to tamp down conspiracy theories about Kennedy’s assassination.
But there has been concern, she said, over classified assassination-related documents stored at the National Archives that were created decades after Kennedy’s murder. “Some of the records within this collection were not created until the 1990s” and they need to be closely reviewed to guarantee there would be no “identifiable harm” to national security if made public, she said. She was not more specific in identifying the documents in question.
A congressional official who has been closely monitoring the issue, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Trump had been under pressure from the CIA to block the release of some of the assassination documents on national security grounds, possibly to protect CIA tradecraft and the identity of agency informants who might still be alive.
With only days to go before the deadline, “everything is in flux,” the official said. “I guess the president could change his mind at the last minute. But unless there is a dramatic change of heart, there will not be an absolutely full release of this information. I think you’ll see a lot of the files next week. Just not all of them, unfortunately. And a lot of documents that should have been released in full won’t be—there will be deletions.
The 1992 law, the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act, was passed by Congress in response to the furor created by Oliver Stone’s conspiracy-laden hit film “JFK,” which was released the year before. As a result of the law, millions of pages of documents related to the assassination were made public in the 1990s—but not all.
A relatively small fraction—the 3,100 documents that the public has never seen, as well as the full text of more than 30,000 files previously released only in part—have been held back until now. Most of those documents were created inside the CIA, the FBI and the Justice Department. Under the law, however, everything must be released, in full, by next Thursday unless Trump decides otherwise.
Until now, Trump, himself no stranger to conspiracy theories, including a seemingly bizarre theory offered during last year’s presidential campaign that connected JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald to the father of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, has given no clue in public on his plans for the JFK documents. (Cruz and his father adamantly deny the allegations of a family tie to Oswald.)
Almost 54 years after Kennedy’s murder in Dallas, a White House decision to block the release of any of the documents will outrage historians, other researchers and the nation’s army of conspiracy theorists—who have been waiting for years for the release of the last of the assassination files. A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill has joined together in recent months to call for full disclosure of the JFK files.
In an interview this week, Rep. Walter Jones, a North Carolina Republican who has led the effort, said he has yet to receive word from the White House on its plans for the documents. But he said he is working with Trump’s friend and adviser Roger Stone, the controversial Republican consultant who had recently become entangled in congressional investigations of possible collusion between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign, to pressure the president to agree to a full release.
Stone, author of a book alleging that President Lyndon B. Johnson was the mastermind of JFK’s assassination, has said that he had been told authoritatively that CIA Director Mike Pompeo is urging Trump to block the declassification of some of the agency’s files.
Jones said Stone “tells me he talks to the president regularly—and I think Roger Stone has real influence.” In an interview Thursday with radio talk show host—and ever-outraged conspiracy theorist—Alex Jones, Stone said that he had talked to Trump by phone Wednesday to urge the president to release all of the JFK documents. “He did not tip off his current decision,” Stone said. But Trump was “all ears,” he said, and “I am optimistic the president is going to do the right thing.” Stone said he was hopeful that Trump would decide to declassify the full library of documents “based on his general comments and on his long history of supporting transparency.”
A move to block any of the release would doubtless help keep alive conspiracy theories that have swirled around Kennedy’s murder virtually from the moment those gunshots rang out in Dealey Plaza in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Opinion polls in recent decades have shown consistently that the American people believe there was a conspiracy in Kennedy’s death, despite government investigations that concluded Oswald acted alone.
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We were reflecting recently on the lethal power of Identity Politics in general, and naming and shaming in particular. Politico begins its report here with the term "conspiracy theorists." The use of this term is one such way to label a group of people, and obliterate them -- all in two short words. The handle is a seemingly handy way to disqualify, ridicule, marginalize those few willing to look beyond misdirection, PR handouts, denials, and outright falsehoods, to get down to the bedrock level of truth. The connotation of the pejorative term implies something like 'lunatics who wear tin foil hats,' who "know" there is a bogeyman under the bed, who wait expectantly and assuredly that the sky is falling.
Unlike "you and me," who know better, who are superior.
Still....
What is in shorter supply, today, than "truth?" In today's world, where the following is viewed and accepted as "normal"?
Money
War
Environment
We but barely scratch the surface....
"Conspiracy theorists" attempt to connect the dots, gain understanding, make sense of a senseless world. We thank God for them.....
Conspiracy theorists of the world, get ready for some bad news.
Trump administration and other government officials say privately that President Donald Trump is almost certain to block the release of information from some of the thousands of classified files related to the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy that are scheduled to be made public in less than a week by the National Archives.
Administration officials would not identify what specific information related to Kennedy’s murder might be kept secret on Trump’s orders, though they acknowledged concern over classified documents held at the Archives that were created decades after the assassination—specifically, in the 1990s.
The officials held out a slim possibility that the always-unpredictable Trump could decide at the last minute to release all the remaining JFK files held at the Archives—tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of pages of long-secret documents—but said it was highly unlikely, especially because of concern that documents from the 1990s might expose relatively recent American intelligence and law-enforcement operations. Some of those documents could be partially released, with some of the information blacked out, they said.
A previously released, bare-bones index of nearly 3,100 never-before-seen assassination-related documents scheduled for release next week shows that the vast majority were created in the 1960s and 1970s, and many, if not most, of them appear likely to be declassified. Only several dozen date from the 1990s, and most of those were created by the CIA; many are letters written at the spy agency to a special federal review board that, at the time, was trying to decide how much of the JFK record from the 1960s could be made public without damaging national security or U.S. foreign policy.
Lindsay Walters, a White House spokeswoman, told POLITICO Magazine that the White House was working “to ensure that the maximum amount of data can be released to the public” by next Thursday, Oct. 26—the 25-year deadline set by Congress under a 1992 law signed by President George H.W. Bush that was intended to try to tamp down conspiracy theories about Kennedy’s assassination.
But there has been concern, she said, over classified assassination-related documents stored at the National Archives that were created decades after Kennedy’s murder. “Some of the records within this collection were not created until the 1990s” and they need to be closely reviewed to guarantee there would be no “identifiable harm” to national security if made public, she said. She was not more specific in identifying the documents in question.
A congressional official who has been closely monitoring the issue, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Trump had been under pressure from the CIA to block the release of some of the assassination documents on national security grounds, possibly to protect CIA tradecraft and the identity of agency informants who might still be alive.
With only days to go before the deadline, “everything is in flux,” the official said. “I guess the president could change his mind at the last minute. But unless there is a dramatic change of heart, there will not be an absolutely full release of this information. I think you’ll see a lot of the files next week. Just not all of them, unfortunately. And a lot of documents that should have been released in full won’t be—there will be deletions.
The 1992 law, the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act, was passed by Congress in response to the furor created by Oliver Stone’s conspiracy-laden hit film “JFK,” which was released the year before. As a result of the law, millions of pages of documents related to the assassination were made public in the 1990s—but not all.
A relatively small fraction—the 3,100 documents that the public has never seen, as well as the full text of more than 30,000 files previously released only in part—have been held back until now. Most of those documents were created inside the CIA, the FBI and the Justice Department. Under the law, however, everything must be released, in full, by next Thursday unless Trump decides otherwise.
Until now, Trump, himself no stranger to conspiracy theories, including a seemingly bizarre theory offered during last year’s presidential campaign that connected JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald to the father of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, has given no clue in public on his plans for the JFK documents. (Cruz and his father adamantly deny the allegations of a family tie to Oswald.)
Almost 54 years after Kennedy’s murder in Dallas, a White House decision to block the release of any of the documents will outrage historians, other researchers and the nation’s army of conspiracy theorists—who have been waiting for years for the release of the last of the assassination files. A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill has joined together in recent months to call for full disclosure of the JFK files.
In an interview this week, Rep. Walter Jones, a North Carolina Republican who has led the effort, said he has yet to receive word from the White House on its plans for the documents. But he said he is working with Trump’s friend and adviser Roger Stone, the controversial Republican consultant who had recently become entangled in congressional investigations of possible collusion between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign, to pressure the president to agree to a full release.
Stone, author of a book alleging that President Lyndon B. Johnson was the mastermind of JFK’s assassination, has said that he had been told authoritatively that CIA Director Mike Pompeo is urging Trump to block the declassification of some of the agency’s files.
Jones said Stone “tells me he talks to the president regularly—and I think Roger Stone has real influence.” In an interview Thursday with radio talk show host—and ever-outraged conspiracy theorist—Alex Jones, Stone said that he had talked to Trump by phone Wednesday to urge the president to release all of the JFK documents. “He did not tip off his current decision,” Stone said. But Trump was “all ears,” he said, and “I am optimistic the president is going to do the right thing.” Stone said he was hopeful that Trump would decide to declassify the full library of documents “based on his general comments and on his long history of supporting transparency.”
A move to block any of the release would doubtless help keep alive conspiracy theories that have swirled around Kennedy’s murder virtually from the moment those gunshots rang out in Dealey Plaza in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Opinion polls in recent decades have shown consistently that the American people believe there was a conspiracy in Kennedy’s death, despite government investigations that concluded Oswald acted alone.
==============================================
We were reflecting recently on the lethal power of Identity Politics in general, and naming and shaming in particular. Politico begins its report here with the term "conspiracy theorists." The use of this term is one such way to label a group of people, and obliterate them -- all in two short words. The handle is a seemingly handy way to disqualify, ridicule, marginalize those few willing to look beyond misdirection, PR handouts, denials, and outright falsehoods, to get down to the bedrock level of truth. The connotation of the pejorative term implies something like 'lunatics who wear tin foil hats,' who "know" there is a bogeyman under the bed, who wait expectantly and assuredly that the sky is falling.
Unlike "you and me," who know better, who are superior.
Still....
What is in shorter supply, today, than "truth?" In today's world, where the following is viewed and accepted as "normal"?
- Debt/insolvency of individuals, governments (U.S. $20 trillion)
- Tensions between nations, groups, sexes (N. Korea, et al)
- Mass murders (too many to list)
- Environmental disasters, hurricanes, fires, latent volcanoes stirring (Yellowstone)
Money
War
Environment
We but barely scratch the surface....
"Conspiracy theorists" attempt to connect the dots, gain understanding, make sense of a senseless world. We thank God for them.....
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Are Sit Ups Bad for You? The U.S. Military Seems to Think So… : ISSA Online.edu
Are Sit Ups Bad for You? The U.S. Military Seems to Think So… : ISSA Online.edu
- Drawbacks of sit-ups:
Sit-ups impose extremely large compression forces on the discs and vertebrae of the spine, especially in the lower back. The U.S. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health has set the action limit for low back compression at 3300 N and repetitive loading above this level is linked with higher injury rates in workers. Compression readings that surpass this limit are imposed on the spine with each sit up repetition.
Monday, October 16, 2017
Friday, October 13, 2017
Here's what can happen with naval forces entering "hot" area,
a lesson from history
Trump Sends Second Aircraft Carrier To Korean Peninsula With 7,500 Marines Aboard | Zero Hedge
1898: USS Maine and
The Spanish-American War
“Remember the Maine ,
to hell with Spain ”
The modern era history of Cuba
pre-dates that of the USA . Spain
claimed Cuba in
1492 when Christopher Columbus landed there.
The Italian explorer was working for the Spanish Crown. British settlers, on the other hand,
colonized Jamestown , Virginia
As America
expanded in the years following, it kept one eye on Cuba ,
as it did on other Spanish territories, e.g. Philippines ,
Guam , and Puerto Rico .
Spanish overlords ruled the Cuban natives harshly for many
years; a series of rebellions took place
in the 19th century (1826, 1829, 1837), and rebellion was in the air again by
the late 1880s. U.S.
newspapermen like William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer took up the rebel
cause.
When riots broke out in the capital Havana ,
on January 25, 1898 , the U.S.
sent the U.S.S. Maine to the Havana
harbor to quell the disturbance, and protect U.S.
civilians there tending to sugar and tobacco businesses. On February 15, the Maine
exploded; 266 of the 355 sailor aboard
were killed.
Hearst and Pulitzer immediately blamed Spain
and called for war. The New York Journal
headlined "Spanish Treachery."
“Remember the Maine , to
hell with Spain ”
would become a handy slogan. The Navy,
for its part, blamed a mine for the explosion, but refrained from blaming Spain .
Feelings over facts held sway for many. We find a good example of this feeling in a
February 16 letter Theodore Roosevelt wrote a friend saying, “Being a Jingo, as
I am writing confidentially, I will say, to relieve my feelings, that I would
give anything if President McKinley would order the fleet to Havana
tomorrow. This Cuban business ought to stop. The Maine
was sunk by an act of dirty treachery on the part of the Spaniards, I believe;
though we shall never find out definitely, and officially it will go down as an
accident.”
President McKinley was indeed amenable. Backed by Congress, McKinley put on a naval
blockage of Cuba
on April 21. Spain
declared war on the U.S.
April 23, and the U.S.
followed suit, April 25. War lasted
until August 12, 1898 .
President McKinley went to Congress and got permission to
place a blockade of Cuba
on April 21st. Spain
then declared war on the U.S.
on April 23rd and immediately following the U.S.
followed suit and declared war on Spain
on April 25th. The war lasted to August 12, and ended with a U.S.
victory. The Treaty of Paris (signed December 10, 1898 ) provided for Spain
to cede control of Cuba ,
The Philippines, Puerto Rico , Guam ,
and parts of the West Indies .
This marked the end of Spain
as world empire, and the taking up of that mantle by the U.S.
Circling back, did Spain
actually sink the Maine ? In 1911,
the Department of the Navy brought up the remains of the ship and undertook
another investigation that returned the same conclusion: a mine did it.
Other investigators thought it possible that there was a
spontaneous combustion of coal sitting next to the magazine of ammunition in
the forward hull. They said the evidence supporting this was that the blast
blew outward from the hull and not inward as a mine would cause.
The Spanish never claimed responsibility for the blast. In fact, their officials and civilians from
the adjacent Spanish cruiser Alfonso XII helped the survivors from the blast,
making it unlikely that Spain
was itching for war vs. the U.S. As a result of this assistance from the
Spanish, as well as another U.S.
ship anchored nearby, some 100 lives were saved.
If this was a false flag, i.e. not the work of the Spanish,
it illustrates that a government can manipulate a tragedy to its own end -- whatever
the genesis of it. In the modern
parlance, "never let a crisis go to waste."
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Final thought: if nearly two weeks after Las Vegas Massacre, we don't have clarity on the who/what/where/when/how, etc., how much less will we know about what happens in the sea offshore Korea. Putting major military assets offshore an adversary, may be regarded as one step lower than a naval blockade which is usually construed as an act of war. Ships offshore are, at the least, a provocation. Reminds one of the old school street saying, "if you pull a gun on me, you better use it."
Mr. Trump, while we are still in this "calm before the storm," as you say, have you thought this out, step by step, to its full conclusion, all the possible if-thens? Humanity wants to know.
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Final thought: if nearly two weeks after Las Vegas Massacre, we don't have clarity on the who/what/where/when/how, etc., how much less will we know about what happens in the sea offshore Korea. Putting major military assets offshore an adversary, may be regarded as one step lower than a naval blockade which is usually construed as an act of war. Ships offshore are, at the least, a provocation. Reminds one of the old school street saying, "if you pull a gun on me, you better use it."
Mr. Trump, while we are still in this "calm before the storm," as you say, have you thought this out, step by step, to its full conclusion, all the possible if-thens? Humanity wants to know.
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Monday, October 09, 2017
Not with H bombs, or EMPs, but rather through a new twist in world trade......
The Gold Worm on the Yuan Hook
“There is more than one way to skin a cat” says an old proverb. And there is another way to bring the US to its knees, besides using hydrogen bombs or EMPs."
Brilliant analysis. Perhaps this is the mechanism by which USA is excluded from Bible prophecy? A stunning ending to the self-appointed appellation "American exceptionalism"?
“There is more than one way to skin a cat” says an old proverb. And there is another way to bring the US to its knees, besides using hydrogen bombs or EMPs."
Brilliant analysis. Perhaps this is the mechanism by which USA is excluded from Bible prophecy? A stunning ending to the self-appointed appellation "American exceptionalism"?
Friday, October 06, 2017
Thursday, October 05, 2017
Las Vegas as San Bernardino II: Ballistics Evidence Is the Key - john.sarkett@gmail.com - Gmail
Las Vegas as San Bernardino II: Ballistics Evidence Is the Key - john.sarkett@gmail.com - Gmail
When I saw footage of the shooting, I thought to myself, "why two windows? For one shooter with a machine gun. Why would he run back-and-forth between two windows, wouldn't that slow his satanic progress?"
Others are asking this and similar questions, as evidenced by this piece just forwarded to me moments ago.....
Las Vegas as San Bernardino II:
Gary North - October 05, 2017
When I saw footage of the shooting, I thought to myself, "why two windows? For one shooter with a machine gun. Why would he run back-and-forth between two windows, wouldn't that slow his satanic progress?"
Others are asking this and similar questions, as evidenced by this piece just forwarded to me moments ago.....
Las Vegas as San Bernardino II:
Ballistics Evidence Is the Key
Gary North - October 05, 2017The obvious question in the San Bernardino mass shootings in December 2015 was this: "Does the ballistics evidence at the murder scene show that the alleged shooters' weapons were involved?"
I asked this ten days after the shootings.
The Washington Post reported this:
Agents from the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and the ATF headed to the scene of the shooting to aid local law enforcement, authorities said.The 10 special agents from the ATF included ballistics experts and explosive specialists as well as two explosive detection canines, said Meredith K. Davis, an ATF special agent.
We are still waiting for the release of that evidence.
I ask the same about the weapons supposedly used by the alleged shooter in Las Vegas. (1) Do the rounds that killed and wounded all those people match the weapons in the shooter's motel room? (2) Are there rounds that do not match, indicating more than one shooter?
The ballistics evidence would answer these questions.
This is technically easy to check. It just takes time, money, and the public's willingness to hold the investigators' feet to the fire.
There are other unanswered (and mainstream media unasked) questions. I have a Ph.D. in history. I know what to ask. I would ask what any reporter would ask: who, what, when, where, why, and how?
1. How and where did he buy the automatic weapons?
2. Where and when did he train to master them?
3. How did he get them into the hotel room(s)?
4. How did he shoot from two windows? [Removed by user shortly after this was posted. Instead, go here.]
5. Was he registered in both rooms?
6. Why did it take the police 20 minutes to locate which floor and room?
7. Why did it take them 52 more minutes to get to the room?
All of this is easy to check.
If the authorities do not respond, this will add fuel to the fire of disbelief.
If the mainstream media do not keep demanding this information from the authorities, then they are in bed with the authorities.
If reporters in the mainstream media do not investigate these matters independently, then the media are in bed with the authorities.
If the authorities and the media stonewall on these issues, then Obi Wan is on the job in Las Vegas.
Tuesday, October 03, 2017
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Saturday, September 23, 2017
Illinois' Kamikaze Bondholders Cheer Massive New $6 Billion Bond Deal: "It Has Turnaround Potential" | Zero Hedge
Illinois' Kamikaze Bondholders Cheer Massive New $6 Billion Bond Deal: "It Has Turnaround Potential" | Zero Hedge
"Last time we checked, non-residents weren't on the hook to pay Illinois taxes..."
Must read entire piece re pension funds, etc.
"Last time we checked, non-residents weren't on the hook to pay Illinois taxes..."
Must read entire piece re pension funds, etc.
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Monday, September 18, 2017
Pension Storm Coming: "This Will Become One Of The Most Heated Battles Of My Lifetime" | Zero Hedge
Pension Storm Coming: "This Will Become One Of The Most Heated Battles Of My Lifetime" | Zero Hedge
Here in Dallas I pay about 2.7% in property taxes. When I bought my home over four years ago, I checked our local pension and was told we were 100% funded. I even mentioned in my letter that I was rather surprised. Turns out they lied. Now, realistic assessments suggest they will have to double the municipal tax rate (yes, I said double) to be able to fund fire and police pension funds. Not a terribly popular thing to do. At some point, look for taxpayers to desert the most-indebted cities and states. Then what? I don’t know. Every solution I can imagine is ugly.
Here in Dallas I pay about 2.7% in property taxes. When I bought my home over four years ago, I checked our local pension and was told we were 100% funded. I even mentioned in my letter that I was rather surprised. Turns out they lied. Now, realistic assessments suggest they will have to double the municipal tax rate (yes, I said double) to be able to fund fire and police pension funds. Not a terribly popular thing to do. At some point, look for taxpayers to desert the most-indebted cities and states. Then what? I don’t know. Every solution I can imagine is ugly.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
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Monday, September 04, 2017
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
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Saturday, August 26, 2017
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Washington Redskins Yield to Pressure, Drop Offensive Name
The Washington Redskins yield to pressure and finally drop that part of their name that is offensive to most people.
Dan Snyder, owner of the NFL Redskins, has announced that the team is dropping "Washington" from the team's name, and it will henceforth be simply known as "The Redskins."
It was reported that he finds the word 'Washington' imparts a negative image of poor leadership, mismanagement, corruption, cheating, lying, narcissism, and graft, and is not a fitting role model for young football fans.
Dan Snyder, owner of the NFL Redskins, has announced that the team is dropping "Washington" from the team's name, and it will henceforth be simply known as "The Redskins."
It was reported that he finds the word 'Washington' imparts a negative image of poor leadership, mismanagement, corruption, cheating, lying, narcissism, and graft, and is not a fitting role model for young football fans.
What Lies We Are Fed, as Children, then Ever After; PCR puts this one straight
How We Know The So-Called “Civil War” Was Not Over Slavery - PaulCraigRoberts.org
Apparently Even Asians Can Be White Supremacists If They Are Named Robert Lee
ESPN has pulled an Asian-American named Robert Lee (Lee is a common name among Asians, for example, Bruce Lee) from announcing the University of Virginia/William & Mary football game in Charlottesville this Saturday because of his name.
Saturday, August 19, 2017
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Monday, August 14, 2017
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Wednesday, August 09, 2017
Tuesday, August 08, 2017
Doctor, what grade did you give yourself for surgery?
Professor Lets Students Choose Their Own Grades For "Stress Reduction" | Zero Hedge
The Politically Correct Movement Marches On.........
The Politically Correct Movement Marches On.........
Monday, August 07, 2017
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Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Last Night the Leading Young Female Pianist Brought Down the House at Ravinia Festival
Yuja Wang and the Art of Performance | The New Yorker
See also:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/apr/09/yuja-wang-piano-interview-fiona-maddocks-royal-festival-hall
We were mourning the cancellation of Denis Matsuev, leading contender for the Horowitz mantle, from the Ravinia calendar (ill health), when we were more than compensated by Ms. Yang. Brava, Yuja!
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/dedf4a99bef2a47ee0bf52e7cc6a5210a682641b/416_607_4660_2796/master/4660.jpg?w=1300&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=b8f26b61e18a4b3b5f0fb0cdaaaa29cd
See also:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/apr/09/yuja-wang-piano-interview-fiona-maddocks-royal-festival-hall
We were mourning the cancellation of Denis Matsuev, leading contender for the Horowitz mantle, from the Ravinia calendar (ill health), when we were more than compensated by Ms. Yang. Brava, Yuja!
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/dedf4a99bef2a47ee0bf52e7cc6a5210a682641b/416_607_4660_2796/master/4660.jpg?w=1300&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=b8f26b61e18a4b3b5f0fb0cdaaaa29cd
Saturday, July 08, 2017
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