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.
This is out and out propaganda–self serving, conscious, carefully crafted lies–coming from the top of a key sector of our intelligence apparatus. This is prima facie evidence of high level corruption, of the sort we already saw more or less in the open in the FBI’s unwillingness to do its job and prosecute her for the crimes she clearly committed.
Nothing is impossible if she gets in office. Nothing.
Short except:
I
spent four years working with Mrs. Clinton when she was secretary of
state, most often in the White House Situation Room. In these critically
important meetings, I found her to be prepared, detail-oriented,
thoughtful, inquisitive and willing to change her mind if presented with
a compelling argument.
I
also saw the secretary’s commitment to our nation’s security; her
belief that America is an exceptional nation that must lead in the world
for the country to remain secure and prosperous; her understanding that
diplomacy can be effective only if the country is perceived as willing
and able to use force if necessary; and, most important, her capacity to
make the most difficult decision of all — whether to put young American
women and men in harm’s way.
Mrs.
Clinton was an early advocate of the raid that brought Bin Laden to
justice, in opposition to some of her most important colleagues on the
National Security Council. During the early debates about how we should
respond to the Syrian civil war, she was a strong proponent of a more
aggressive approach, one that might have prevented the Islamic State
from gaining a foothold in Syria.
First off, she fucking hates America and most of its troops and law enforcement officers. She has made this obvious many times and in many ways.
Second, no mention of Benghazi. Two of the 4 men killed were CIA employees, or so I understand.
Third, no mention of gun running to Syria, which almost certainly happened, and which he very certainly knew about if it did, since he would have been one of the people coordinating it. That gun running armed what became ISIS.
I could go on, but if you don’t get the picture, you’re not going to.
This is a senior government official telling lies in the service of a corrupt candidate. America, wake the fuck up.
But I want friction, anger, fight. And I was trying to trace this today. What feelings lead me down that path? How do they start? What other possibilities exist? Arguing is not wrong, but compulsivity is unhealthy.
Arguing consists in large measure in judging compulsively, in labeling things right or wrong, positions and people as right or wrong, defensible or indefensible.
And it hit me: the process of judgement is related to the primitive instinct of in/out, safe/dangerous. It is related to the animal instincts that kept, and sometimes still keep, us safe, that keep us aware and switched on when we need to be.
As such, it is–without me knowing enough to be more specific–related to the fight/flight/freeze response. Fear and judgement go together.
If we posit, as I do, that feelings precede explanation (Existence precedes essence, as a severely traumatized man once said), then compulsive judgement is a consistent outcome of developmental and other trauma. So too would be the inability to judge. Hyper and hypo arousal.
So I manage my own fear by judging others, as well as–more or less continuously–judging myself. It has been a not particularly funny joke I tell myself for some time that I’m fucked no matter what I do. There is and can be no right answer to any situation concerning my emotions and behavior. That is likely another reason I like abstraction so much. There resolution is possible. I land, or crystallize, my fear, my generalized anxiety.
But if we imagine ourselves as wild horses, running on a primitive and open prairie, we would not–even if we were talking horses–spend too much time on ethics, or political theory, or how to develop the prairie and get rich. We would live in primary experience.
One could say that the cultivation of fear which has so characterized the Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions has happened pari pasu with the ubiquity of strong moral judgements.
And I was wondering today if one could speak of “trauma cultures”, where children are acculturated through fear and violence, and who then develop those traits in their own children. Children who are traumatized will naturally gravitate towards being highly judgmental. Their culture will reflect that, and in a cycle, create it. Fearful kids become judgmental adults who foster fearful kids.
There are so many things in the modern world which are CLOSE to important truths. It is true that dogmatism is bad, and that most moral situations have many possibly valid interpretations. It is true that competing dogmatisms–competing fears disguised as absolute judgments–often lead to violence. Violence, too, is of course on the continuum with the already-activated fight or flight impulse.
One could view judgement as a sort of attack.
I fear I am meandering, but hopefully there is something useful here.
I will add that my own moral philosophy on judgement–moral decisions must be local, necessary, and imperfect–is quite consistent with a judgement which is not compulsive. In some way, I saw all this long ago.
I have an odd mind that is perennially thinking thoughts I don’t have anyone else to share with. That is where you, silent internet, come in. Thank you!!!!!
Oh, and this: http://www.dailywritingtips.com/judgement-or-judgment/ I was judging my spelling, but it’s apparently all good.
A nation–let me say culture–can only be as good as it treats its children up to 18 months, and it can only be as good as what it demands of its youth.
I do believe in global elites, and for some time it has been my belief that how they condition their own young is by molesting them. I have some slight, but personal, evidence for this. This creates both a blank slate for inserting desired ambitions and passions, and a long term lust for power. In all events, it protects dynasties, by ensuring that indifference is not an option.
Put another way, would maturing not consist in the ability to deal better with life without activating the “fight, flight, freeze” system?
The opposite, self evidently, of self regulation, is OTHER regulation, which is what we are seeing on college campuses. The sense is that creating safe spaces will make them safer, but the reality is that by making them weaker and less resilient, less self regulating in a healthy way, it will make them more anxious, more violent, and less able to live happy lives.
A wise person once said “It’s a great life if you don’t weaken”. This is a good motto.
The converse is “It’s a shitty life, if you are weak”.
The task of good people is to become strong themselves–to be able self regulate in highly heterogeneous and challenging situations–and to help others do likewise.
And those who seek to cultivate weakness in others, and to accept it in themselves, make everything worse. We see this. We feel this. But I am trying to explain it more clearly.
We would not be able to say that all the red heads were killers, but that at a minimum if we did not let the red heads in, we would not be importing serial killers. We could let in blondes and brunettes and blacks, and hispanics, and Asians. Just no red heads. Or if we did let in red heads, we would ask a lot more questions.
Would this not make sense?
What if, in your city, a red headed serial killer were operating? The only description is “white male, aged 20-45, between 5’8″ and 6’2″, red hair”. What do you think would happen to the dating prospects of red headed men who fit that profile in that city? On Match, Tinder, or whatever else people use? Women would KNOW that not all men were guilty, and in fact that only ONE was likely guilty. But why chance it?
This is a logical sentiment. It takes training to get around it. I believe in Liberalism, but I don’t approve of the abuse of Liberal ideals in support of idiocy.