Reflections on a world with too much spying

 "Go, sir, rub your chain with crumbs." -- Adjusting. Surviving. These are what the last decade plus have been for me. There were a lot of things to look at when it came to trying to piece together some sort of logic as to "why?" "Why me?" "Why target me?" Among the answers I rarely mention was being at the center of, being the connection between a progressive group of people, yet being probably the most conservative among them at the time. A possibility of some kind of progressive movement within the Democratic Party. Well, we can all see what they think of that idea. Buttigieg is a Republican in pretty much every way and yet he is rewarded with Executive Branch experience because that corporate neoliberal psychopath is the future of the Democratic Party; heir to the throne. So, let me be certain that people know I said, "F*** him and f*** the Democratic Party." I really shouldn't. I should shut up and play pretend; try to fit in w

My old boss in NYC, from Texas, RIP, used to, in those rare occasions when things on commercial construction projects got out of hand, would initiate what he called a “Come to Jesus Meeting.” What he meant of course was to get everyone back working to towards the same goal, back on script{“-ure”}, back to remembering the point of the project. Back to the same philosophy. “What If an invitee is Jewish?” I think I once offered. Don’t recall the answer, but probably included the words “then Moses” in it. So what’s the point? The point is that the Central Intelligence Agency is insane. As an organization, it is certifiably bonkers. Not in the sense that it isn’t a rational actor. It knows what it’s doing, it knows how to achieve its agenda. But the agenda... It’s clear to see. The Seattle occupation. The original intention of Blackwater co-founder Eric Prince to provide firing ranges with the later intention of privatizing police. The fusion center’d, meaning direct access of CIA to PDs, t

Quick off-the-cuff response to Matt Taibbi’s piece here: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/reporters-once-challenged-the-spy Much of which I agree with. Seems I can’t fit responses into even the now longer tweets these days. That’s good in the sense of being more specific, bad in the sense that less chance of people actually reading it because it’s tldr; territory. Also wanted to start with a criticism in general about investigative journalists. I suspect this has to do with working without an editor, but I’m not certain. I noticed this on occasion with Seymour Hersh. Then later with Jeremy Scahill    {who I trust knows I am rather fond of} on his brief tv appearances on MSNBC. I think it stems from attempting to “data dump” in a short timeframe. Essentially what happens is, we are told a lot of information but not what we, typically as laypersons to the specific kind of news, whether it be war, NATSEC, or the financial industry and Wall Street. We aren’t certain what the revelations mean

As noted elsewhere, I am of the {mostly} informed opinion that it is possible to alter people’s moods remotely utilizing specific microwave pulses. I believe in part this because the Army stated in this document that their research showed it was possible. Short version: there’s a thing called the blood-brain-barrier {BBB} that protects the brain from infection and other things. When specific pulses are aimed at a person, it allows too large or too small molecules to pass through the barrier, causing various effects of mood and energy level which the Army compare to the administration of drugs: https://thermoguy.com/wp-content/uploads/Bioeffects-of-Selected-Non-Lethal-Weapons.pdf You’ll notice that the document is dated in the 1990s, released years later under the Freedom of Information Act. Once that is recognized as possible to make happen, and one understands the history of the US intelligence community and its close working relationship with Old Money, one can start to imagine the v

Had originally thought I included this in Wicked Game , my unfinished in-need-of-editing bio, but apparently did not. As is probably fairly obvious to any but the most casual of observers, I am upset with the Democratic Party for various reasons not the least of which are getting down in the mud with the GOP {which is in some way preferable to the older and other reason:} and dismissing what they do and have done as harmless or somehow within the bounds of normal or part of the regular democratic process. Deception and lying among the larger things I’m referring to. Attempting to woo Republican donors, one assumes, instead of pointing out how they poison the well {thinking of Russia getting all the attention instead of Mercer and Cambridge Analytica} might be related to this. I am putting all of that aside for a moment. Warning , this gets a little disturbing towards the end. The purpose is to explain the kinds of political and covert games that get played. I’m not looking to lay blame

It’s uncertain, to me anyway, which St. Elizabeth, probably of Hungary, 17th Century indentured servant John Charman IV named, confusingly, not one but two tracts of land he gained St. Elizabeths [sic]. Both were in what is now Washington, DC. Elizabeth is known as the patron saint of bakers, beggars and brides but should probably be known as that of patriarchal abuse, maybe S&M. Yeah, I know, that’s probably a bunch of them, maybe a majority. What do we want from the 13th Century? Well, besides Old Money’s desire to return to monarchy and the Dark Ages, I mean. One of the tobacco slave’s tracts became home to St Elizabeths Hospital. In the 1800s, it was quite a progressive project, pushed by Dorothea Dix, who probably is deserving of some kind of sainthood herself. She and a doctor designed the buildings and, along with abuses and questionable practices like electroshock therapy, the first federal mental hospital laid the groundwork for non-bedlam style mental healthcare. What sta

{Response to a FB post that took on a life of its own. It’s not that I disagree that free speech is important nor with the fundamental point: The Democrats are now doing what the Republicans have been doing for years. Lying a lot about important things and using censorship as a primary tool instead of debate. Totally agree that that is true. See again GOP doing this for years and hasn’t really stopped. Will I actually watch the Maté / Greenwald video? Not sure. Probably should. But I’ve read a lot of what Glenn has already said on the subject and get the general idea.} Is it due to cynicism after neocon successes? Has there ever been a paradigm shift in culture that was done fairly, ethically, and above board? Those are the questions I’ve been asking myself. Except because I’m so sick of all the lying and deception in general, I admit that I’m not sure free speech can always be condoned, especially when a} the philosophy being condoned does not itself hold free speech as important and