But I was sitting there wincing, looking at my water dispenser, and thinking of the 3 X-men, where Jean Grey becomes Phoenix. I was thinking of the bubbles in the water dispenser in the house scene. What is not said is that she is clinically dissociated. She is suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder, and that, itself, is pretty much always the result of severe abuse. She was likely molested as a small child.
And as a metaphor, you can see the small become the large; you can see powerlessness turn into absolutely uncontrolled fury and lust.
Comics are very interesting to me. In important respects, they are our contemporary substitute for myth, and Comic Conventions of various sorts a sort of ritual. People need order, and when it is not there, they create it.
Demographically, part of the reason this works is that they are not having many children, but does not our own entire society depend in some ways on the well being of the children being born today?
There is this tendency to treat children as lumps for their first couple years, since they don’t “say” anything. But in important respects, these are the most important years. Every template for life is being laid, or not laid.
There is no way to know what stories should be front page news, but which disappeared, through voluntary or other suppression.
We have been treating Saudi Arabia as our ally for a long time, and during that time they have been exporting Jihadist ideology continuously.
We may need to ratify the de facto situation in the Ukraine–or for that matter, allow the troops of the two nations to continue to fight–but it is my sense that Russia and the United States share two common enemies: the globalists–who we might roughly conflate with the international bankers who run and benefit from the Central Banks of the world, which all come together in the Bank of International Settlements; and the power elites who rotate among corporate boards, political postings, and academic positions–and the Islamists, who are best represented, in my view, by the Saudis and Iranians.
My sense is that Russia has no compelling reason not to distance itself from Iran, and facilitating that alone would be a major reason to cozy up to Russia. There are economic incentives, but across the board a deal maker like Trump could put something together which would satisfy everyone.
The frenzy we are seeing, the piranhas thrashing in the water, is plainly related, in my view, to a fear on the part of a power elite that for the first time in a generation they won’t get one of their people in office. They hate Putin because he isn’t one of them. He doesn’t want to be in that club. He doesn’t need to be in that club.
Trump, likewise, calls his own shots. He is and always has been a maverick. When he was more or less a Democrat, they loved that about him. Now that he is the candidate of all things they are told are evil, he is erratic and untrustworthy. Possibly true, but we KNOW what Hillary will do, and all of it is bad. She is absolutely trustworthy in that respect.
Billions have been invested creating a nearly hermetically sealed media, and the final touches could likely get done in Hillary’s first four years. Just call Drudge “hate”, and the usual drones will accept it with their usual glass eyed complacency, and you can ban it. Alex Jones would be even easier.
If you think about it, it is really astonishing that things have evolved so much that Jones has become virtually mainstream. He is one of the only people who has chosen to retain his right to say whatever he wants to say, even if some of it is crazy. The thing is: a lot of what he says is not crazy at all.
I can’t imagine even Ted Cruz talking about possible poll rigging. But Trump did. It’s a valid concern, but it would not have been considered polite enough by anyone else, certainly not Bush, who in any event is a member of the Uniparty.
History has seasons. I know that good comes and goes. Evil comes and goes. This evil could last a very long time, but not forever. That is why I wrote my piece on “Perfection” some years ago.
I do fear political prison, torture, but not so much death. I have faced death so many times, that I think I will be ready for it when it comes.
It’s hard to see reasons for hope. This is one election cycle, but over the long haul, our youth are decadent, dependent, needy, stupid, and completely lacking in what was once called “moral fiber”. They are raised with pornography and violent video games, by parents either emotionally detached or overly involved, and marinated in a continual stream of leftist propaganda. What reverses this? I can’t say I know.
The guy who used his CIA credentials to lie on behalf of Hillary has done it before.
Wake the fuck up America.
I had not realized that in 2011, in the early stages of a popular uprising against him, Al-Assad released a bunch of political prisoners who, if they were not radical when they went into his prisons, were certainly radical when they got out. What many Syrians believe is that by putting on the street people who hated him and who were very violent, the peaceful voices of protest would quickly be drowned out by the radical ones. This would free him to use violence against all of them. That is the theory at any rate.
But roughly a third of Syrians also believe that America created ISIS. Why would this be? As I keep saying, I believe we funneled arms to what became ISIS, and provided them training. This is my gut instinct.
I have been believing this was simply bad policy, but what if creating ISIS were the GOAL? What if the intent was to create an enemy who could then be used to create fear? What if the goal of importing these people in large numbers, knowing many were violent, was as an end game the suppression of the civil liberties of Europeans? You create the fear, and they react like we did after Oklahoma City and 9/11.
Anyone capable of bombing the Murrah building, or destroying 3 skyscrapers in New York, would certainly not balk at such a project.
What if the little boy who did so much to build sympathy for the Syrian cause was drowned ON PURPOSE?
As I try to calm myself down, the world sure as fuck is not doing much to help. Well: I believe I chose this life. I’m going to make of it what I can, using the challenges that present themselves, and I will never quit trying to do so.
This is the letter he sent to most of Congress, who largely ignored him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCYIn8QzRjI
This is part 1 of a 19 minutes lecture which covers the highlights of his case.
I have commented on this from time to time. The case he assembles is, to my non-expert eyes, irrefutable that numerous more bombs were in place in Oklahoma City, and that this fact was COVERED UP by the FBI and other Federal and apparently State and even City agencies. Certainly, the fact that the evidence was disposed of nearly immediately is absolute. And far too many people describe additional explosive devices being found for that not to be viewed as a reasonable certainty.
People can and should ask what Hillary has on the FBI. Could we not start with the cover up in Oklahoma City? The FBI seems to have allowed people it was supposedly keeping its eye on to blow up a building under their watch and under their noses. That is the most generous explanation. The more invidious one is that it HELPED, with the obvious political goal of helping bring about tyranny in the United States.
If the news doesn’t sicken you, you aren’t understanding it. I don’t like it, but this is my time on Earth, this is my life, and this is what is happening.
Alex Jones has a good explanation, to my mind: Trump apparently raised $97 million in the month after the convention. That is a strong showing, and shows a lot of support.
Julian Assange is also claiming he has even more damning emails on Hillary, which among other things put final evidence forward for the likely scenario of her funneling arms from Libya to what became ISIS. And lying about it. You can append that to virtually every claim made about Hillary. They say of Muhammad, Peace be upon him. You can say of Hillary “Lies be upon her”. She’s talking: what further evidence is needed?
Finally, it is quite possible that in their demonstrable panic, at least some media outlets are doctoring polling data to create the impression of an unstoppable Hillary juggernaut. They are peaking much too soon, though, which to my mind lends credence to a warranted fear about what is in those emails. They are trying to close the deal three months early. That is not good strategy, and there is likely a reason.
At some point, more and more eyes will start to open. People will start saying “wait a minute, they are not reporting news: they are trying to influence the election”.
There remain several months left before the election. It’s still anybody’s game, no matter how desperately the media is trying to close the deal.