Author: White Whale

http://nypost.com/2015/08/09/lawsuit-could-reveal-secret-saudi-connection-to-911/

Whoever was behind 9/11–and I mean planting the explosives in the buildings–had to have been extremely well funded and organized, and they needed support within at least elements of the US government to conceal their involvement, and indeed the very presence of the explosives.  It seems likely this would imply a government level involvement.  I have said all along the Saudis would be one obvious candidate.  They feared Iraq, too, as indeed they fear Iran, and have pushed for war, by us, with Iran, for them, just as they pushed for war with Syria, also for them, and their jihadists, although both Al Queda and ISIS are at least outwardly too radical even for them.

There can be NO DOUBT, none, that the full story of 9/11 is not in the public domain.  People literally got away with mass murder, and concealed the fact of their crime, so there was never even a serious, credible investigation.

One hopes our system remains sufficiently robust and honest that at long last at least these redacted facts about the Saudis can be shared with the people our government exists in theory to protect.

http://www.ae911truth.org/news/225-news-media-events-sefi.html

Peer reviewed paper, accepted for presentation, rejected at last second for blatantly spurious reasons.

In my considered view, nothing is consistent with the facts but a massive conspiracy on 9/11, and thereafter, which continues to this very day.  At least hundreds of people must know something.  Why do they say nothing?  Fear?  That’s a quite valid hypothesis, but belief seems more likely.

What do they believe in?  Ah, that’s a question for full sobriety.  I have ideas, hinted many times.

This is a really odd blog, isn’t it?  I change on a dime, with the wind–or without the wind, simply because some bunny invisible to everyone else ran across my field of vision and distracted me.  C’est la me.  I think I’ve said that before.

So, I get these momentary, fraction of a second, something seen out of the corner of your eye, moments of deep, deep happiness.  Peter Levine talks about trauma resolution as an important spiritual path, and I seem to be walking that path.  I am in touch, on a primary emotional level, with what I felt as a small child.  I understand why I dissociated.  I understand why this was necessary, absolutely necessary.

And I look at all of us, craving love from others.  Everyone you meet, you really want, on some level, love from.  Most of us are so lonely.  Not all: I know happy, well adjusted people exist.

But many of us carry, in some unseen place: wounds, blood flowing out, there was a knife, where did it come from?  Who has been living my life?  I need to check in.

This is where the thirst for alcohol, or sex, or gambling, or weed, or heroin (a logical choice for some problems), or work, or just checking out emotionally comes from.  I see this.  I feel this.  Water flows downhill, and emotions have an irrefutable logic.

But ponder this: if, instead of asking every person you meet “will you love me, will you complete me, will you lighten this burden I have carried as long as I can remember?”, you instead were filled with a deep, rich, warm, flowing LOVE that instantly connected you with them?  What if the love flowed out, rather than in?

Social isolation is the result of trauma.  But in healing it, what if it inverts?  I am increasingly inclined to think that may be the case.  Which would be super cool. (that last line makes me laugh.)

Yes: alcohol.  But I am getting more and more moments of connection, at a deep level, with the gestalt of alcohol-less-ness. I have reasons, good reasons, for why I am how I am.  As Winston Churchill put it, roughly: I have taken far more out of alcohol than it has taken out of me.  It has been a Godsend, a lifeline, something without which I could never have managed the pain flowing through me.  I would have remained dissociated, in all likelihood, and if ever pushed hard, thrown into overt psychosis.

But new feelings are flowing through me, new thoughts, new imaginings.  The horror is subsiding.  The shaking is subsiding (but certainly not gone).  I can allow antique feelings to flow through me, and I can watch them and not detach.

It’s impossible to know what good this blog does, but I really do, from the bottom of my heart, wish it to be of use, to someone, somewhere.  I have a prodigious amount of love in me.  Oceans.  And I am just getting started.  I am only a child in the world where I want to spend the rest of my life.

It occurs to me that PC is precisely bigotry directed at white males, particularly WASP’s.  It is OK to treat “them” as a monolithic group, and direct all forms of derision, mockery, prejudice and hate at them, in the abstract, in a process morphologically identical to those subsumed under the terms of racism, sexism, and classism.  This is what Jon Stewart did every night.

This is the ugly under-belly of the notion that NO criticism can be directed at, that no general statements can be made about, anyone BUT white male Christians.

Here is the thing: the principle that we all deserve, as individuals, to rise or fall in the esteem of others on our own merits is–or should be–absolute.  If you are a solid person, your race, gender, proclivity for male parts or female parts, or income, should not matter.  If you are a fuck up, likewise.

Nobody cares about white fuck-ups, and there are plenty of them.  Turns out, most white fuck-ups are OK with that.

The problem lies in that fuck-ups of other races have excuses made for them, when that is the last thing they need.  Failing is easy, always, and pushing through tough times is not.  If you make it easy to fail, you also make it harder to push through the tough times.  This helps no one.

https://video-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xtf1/v/t42.1790-2/11799144_10153563021276171_1992158956_n.mp4?efg=eyJybHIiOjM3NCwicmxhIjoxMTQzLCJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InJlc180MjZfY3JmXzIzX21haW5fMy4wX3NkIn0%3D&rl=374&vabr=208&oh=52960b85075270ceea228d94b5bd066f&oe=55C7E8CE

I like where this guy’s head is at.

To be clear, I understand it is quite obvious he is trying to push every button he can, but I think that sort of thing has a place and time.  And I would find an equivalent rant by a feminist about conservatives equally funny.  Words don’t offend me–not insults anyway.  Lies do make me mad.

I have actually wondered if it might be fun and USEFUL to have Politically Incorrect days, in which you have a room where people stand up and make the most politically incorrect speeches they can, in the midst of a diverse audience.  Whites go off on blacks, blacks on whites, gays on straights, straights on gays, men on women, women on men, and every other area of social difference they can think of.

Think of a roast of Political Correctness.

I think we would find that words only hurt if we let them, and that it is actually liberating to be able to actually speak what you were thinking anyway.

I also think that it is obvious that PC speech codes make it HARDER to solve actual problems, because you can’t discuss them.  40% of inner city black kids drop out of school.  This, when jobs are already hard to come by.  How is it any wonder they are economic failures, who fail to parent the children they father, and thus create another generation of the same?  Who is talking about this?  Who is saying the politically incorrect thing that you can scarcely call someone “disadvantaged” who is not already making use of the advantages they DO have?

I do wonder if at some point these PC lunatics will push things so far, make things so ridiculous, that the whole thing blows up completely.  We are already seeing some hint of this in the on-going popularity of Donald Trump.  I think many people are tired of feeling compelled to ostracize and denounce people for thought crimes.  We should not have to treat adults as hypersensitive children; and I think the demand is reasonable that people only be offended on their OWN behalf, and not that of others they don’t understand, and certainly can’t speak for.

This made me think of this Murphy Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GSk5RabXTk  The part I like starts about 13 minutes in.

I have been going back and forth with some silly people, but the way I work is that these sorts of things always energize and engage me, and my understanding grows and develops, even when dealing with idiots, or–as appears to be the case here–volunteer or paid propagandists.

Anyway, I became aware that there are many 9/11 Truth groups out there.  The one that caught my attention was Military Officers for 9/11 Truth: http://www.mo911truth.org/

The guy who started it was a trained, professional airplane crash investigator, and he doesn’t think planes crashed in Pennsylvania or the Pentagon.

• “In my first position paper, titled The Precautionary Principle, [see below] written shortly after the attacks on NYC and the Pentagon, I cautioned readers against a rush to judgment, although the immediate evidence suggested the crime had been an inside job. As the years went by, a virtual mountain of physical evidence was collected by hundreds of highly qualified investigators — evidence  sufficient to convince any dedicated Grand Jury that the horrendous events of 9/11 were clearly an inside job. The Precautionary Principle no longer applies. It is time to positively conclude that a well-orchestrated and obviously pre-planned cover-up of the worst mass murder in our country’s history began immediately following the deaths of 3,000 innocent people on September 11, 2001.  Nearly nine years later the criminal cover-up continues. Fortunately for our country, our judicial system provides no statute of limitations for treason, first degree murder, and terrorism.”

 I am Major General Albert Stubblebine. I am retired Army Major-General. In my last assignment — my last command — I was responsible for all of the Army’s strategic intelligence forces around the world. I had responsibility for the Signals Intelligence, Photo Intelligence, Counter Intelligence, Human Intelligence. They all belonged to me, in my last assignment. …  

I was supposed to find out what the enemy was doing, before the enemy did it so that we could take action against the enemy. That’s Intelligence, OK, before the fact. So, we always — always — rely not on a single piece of data, before we make a statement, but on multiple and the more pieces of data that you have that correlate, the better you know exactly what is going on. …  

So I have had a lot of experience looking at photographs. I have looked at many, many different kinds of photographs, from many, many different platforms on many, many different countries, around the world.  

Interviewer: OK. So on September the 11th, in 2001, what hit the Pentagon? 
General Stubblebine:  I don’t know exactly what hit it, but I do know, from the photographs that I have analyzed and looked at very, very carefully, it was not an airplane.  

Interviewer:  What made you believe that? 
General Stubblebine:  Well, for one thing, if you look at the hole that was made in the Pentagon, the nose penetrated far enough so that there should have been wing marks on the walls of the Pentagon. I have been unable to find those wing marks. So where were they? Did this vessel — vehicle, or whatever it was — have wings? Apparently not, because if it had had wings, they would have made marks on the side of the Pentagon.  

One person counteracted my theory, and said, “Oh, you’ve got it all wrong. And the reason that it’s wrong is that as the airplane came across, one wing tipped down and hit the ground and broke off.” I said, “Fine, that’s possible, one wing could have broken off.” But if I understand airplanes correctly, most airplanes have two wings. I haven’t met an airplane with only one wing. So where was the mark for the second wing? OK, one broke off — there should have been a mark for the second wing. I could not find that in any of the photographs that I’ve analyzed. Now I’ve been very careful to not say what went in there. Why? Because you don’t have that evidence. … 
I did — I’ve never believed that it was an airplane since I’ve looked at the photographs. Up until the time I looked at the photographs, I accepted what was being said. After I looked at it — NO WAY! …  

We pride ourselves with the “free press.” I do not believe the “free press” is free any more. It’s very expensive. It’s very expensive. And the press is saying what they have been told to say about this.  

Now, do I have proof of that? No. But I believe that what is being — what certainly the — the stories that were told — all about 9/11 were false. I mean, you take a look at the buildings falling down. They didn’t fall down because airplanes hit them. They fell down because of explosives went off inside. Demolition. Look at Building 7, for God’s sake. It didn’t fall down to its side. It didn’t fall to this direction or that direction; just like the two Towers.

 
When you look at the temperatures that you can create with fuel in a gas tank or a fuel tank of an airplane, and then you investigate the amount of heat that would be required to melt — to melt — the superstructure of the buildings that came tumbling down, when you put all of that together, the one thing that shows; It does not match the facts. What is it they do not want the public to know?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daNr_TrBw6E

They you got Physicists for 9/11 Truth, who produced many detailed technical analyses, as here:

http://physics911.net/missingwings/

It is inescapable that a MASSIVE, astonishing conspiracy happened on 9/11, one which HAD to have involved elements of our government, certainly including the FBI.  There is no other credible hypothesis.

Donald Trump is a “birther”–which means he has not renounced his reality testing in favor of compliance with a manufactured “reality”–so I wonder if he might be willing to become a “truther”, and put this mountain of lies on the map of ordinary, deluded Americans.

I am feeling less inclined to post.  This really is in some respects an alternative to living, even if I like to believe I sometimes say useful things.  But I’m having a bit of champagne (my $7 a bottle stuff still makes me happy, and consists in the only agreement I have ever had with Keynes, who, when asked if he had any regrets, said “I wish I had had more champagne”;  actually, early Keynes was honest, as in “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”; he just had an AHA moment when he realized that his people were Lenin’s people) and thought I’d opine a bit more today.

Damn, I have a shitload of opinions.  It’s tiring, and even if I am smart enough to be able to say reasonable things most of the time, the process underlying it has been compulsive and not healthy, not free.

Be that as it may, hundreds, perhaps thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of Africans–I assume this disease will not only affect Zimbabwe–will lose their sources of income because of the bans on hunting, the bans on transport of animal “trophies” by most major airlines, and the increased costs in bribes that increased government control of the hunting industry will necessitate.  And enable.

Lions kill some 250 Africans annually.  Some 30 Americans die from lightning every year (this number has been decreasing for a century.  Here is what to me is an interesting article on it.)

How many Africans FEAR lions, though?  Are you afraid of sharks?  The US averages one shark attack fatality every two years.  What would it be like worrying about a shark every time you are standing at the bus stop or walking to the market?

My point–and I am making it poorly, in part because I am not entirely disinclined to empathize and even support those who found Cecil’s murder quite troubling and even traumatic–is that many humans–men, women, and children–will suffer because of the outrage over the killing of a 13 year old carnivorous beast.

I think those Africans who believe that Americans care more about their wildlife than them are on quite solid ground.  That is self evidently and obviously the case.  But I think they fail to remember that Americans only think about what comes on the magic box they put on a shrine in every room of most of their homes. If it’s not on the magic box, it doesn’t exist.  They don’t exist.

I have named this blog “Moderates United”.  I really do retain a “passion for the middle”, and that is what I am pursuing here.  I am not going to call the wailers wrong, nor deny the Africans the right to say their lives matter too.

I read this morning about the latest kick in the balls to the law and the principles of transparency and accountability: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/5/obama-stonewalls-seal-team-6-extortion-17-helicopt/

It seems like a week does not go by without some new news of Obama saying some form of FUCK YOU to the American people, our system, and the very idea that there should be any restrictions on his freedom of action.

In the case of SEAL Team 6, my strong suspicion is that they were set up, and that one of the Afghan commandos with them was Taliban, and that he shot off an RPG within the chopper.

We KNOW that the cleric at the funeral for our fallen sailors and airmen CURSED them: http://therightscoop.com/military-leaders-allowed-muslim-cleric-to-pray-at-funeral-for-seal-team-6-members-but-he-cursed-them-instead/

Imagine the mileage the complicit media could have got out of this if this had happened under Bush.  If ANY of Obama’s dozens of atrocities against sane and honest governance had happened under Bush.  They ran Alberto Gonzalez out of office–and I will remind people Hillary was one of the leaders of that charge–who had done NOTHING.  Eric Holder is complicit in MURDER, hundreds of them.

And the fucking idiots in America, the some 40% of people who still support him, fail to know ANY of this.  It isn’t reported to them, and they don’t seek it out.  They have some vague ideas about him being black, telegenic, and promising all sorts of shiny magical things to the faithful, and that all his failures are the result of nefarious villains who just want the rich to get richer.   Comic book stuff.  That is where we are at.

And I think our Founders were on solid ground when they only granted the right to vote to men of property.  After this requirement was ratified, our economy grew steadily, from 1789 until Jackson in the 1830’s, and we enjoyed, largely, political stability.  As far as I read, there were no predations upon the populace as a whole as a result of this system.  It was not abused.  The rich did not get richer by passing themselves one-sided laws.  Not that I have read.

Certainly, with the passage of years, one can see how this could happen, though.  That was a quite extraordinary generation, and decay is in the nature of time and being human.

But the principle first stipulated by the Greeks, that democracy can only survive until people figure out they can vote themselves other people’s money, remains quite true.  It has crashed Argentina and Greece (or will soon, there: they are incapable of learning; else, they would recall their own maxim), and put massive stress on most of the governments of Latin America, and much of the developing world.

They did not call it Socialism then: it was simply the greed mediocre people have for other people’s stuff.  What the Socialists did was put a pseudo-scientific patina on it, and philosophical underpinning based on godlessness.

The thing about demanding other people’s money is there is no end to it.  The logical end is an economic collapse, which hurts everyone, and mediocre people are simply not capable of foreseeing these things.  Alternatively, they DON’T CARE because even if they poison themselves too, at least they got the bastard on the hill.  Socialists rarely speak about making everyone wealthy.  They speak about “tax the rich, feed the poor, until there are no RICH no more.”  They forget that when there are no rich no more, there are ONLY poor.  Not for nothing  is Socialism called the creed of resentment.  There is literally NOTHING life-affirming or positive in it.  Charity is necessary as a palliative, but economic health is necessary to raise all boats.  Socialism serves neither.

A massive crash is obviously coming to the United States–because as a people we have been extraordinarily remiss in demanding our government act responsibly–but very few see it.  It may be 5-10 years, but the longer it takes, the worse it will be.  And all the news networks will track every cause but the actual one: the short-sighted stupidity of the American people, and of course their complicity in helping to hide from them the fact of their stupidity.

I continue to believe that only people who pay income taxes should be allowed to vote.  You should only get a seat at the table if you have money in the game.  This is fair.  This is common sense.  

How could one ever take credit for something one DIDN’T do?

Leads among Hispanic Republicans: http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/08/05/boom-univision-reluctantly-reports-donald-trump-leading-with-latino-republicans/

See, here is the thing: Leftists deal exclusively in cartoons and cartoonish caricatures.  They think of “hispanics” and “Mexicans”, and “illegal aliens” as blocs.  They themselves submit to the leadership of thought creators and directors, and assume that everyone must be like them, that all it takes to turn an entire group, like a school of fish, on a dime, once the new Talking Point, or meme is released and propagated, is direction.  You hate the people we tell you to hate.  You love the people we tell you to love.

But Hispanic-Americans are AMERICANS.  They are like everyone else, and they see the rot caused by people sneaking over here and taking jobs from people born here, and/or pushing down wages.  Leftists assume their primary allegiance must be to the group that is used to push identity politics.  Why?  I think it safe to say that most Hispanic-Americans–especially Cuban-Americans–love the Star Spangled Banner, too, and love and respect the freedoms we enjoy, and are more conscious than most of the responsibilities that go with that freedom.

The true racism/prejudice is that expressed by people who naively and arrogantly assume that all of any given “THEM” must be monolithic, and united around shared grievances and petty avarices.  This sloppy thinking is made inevitable by the Socialist rejection of Individualism.  Individuals exist.  Society does not.  Thus, they begin with an unanchored abstraction, and begin their infliction of violence on the truth from there.