Moderates United

It seriously pissed me off to read that Petraeus came out in support of this monkey’s ass of a mission in Syria, which will do nothing constructive, except salve a few large egos.

Here is what occurred to me immediately: this asshole ran the CIA when Benghazi happened.  As far as we can tell Doherty and Woods worked for him, and Sean Smith likely reported in some fashion to him.  So too did virtually all the several dozen other people who were there, who were attacked, some of whom were wounded, and NONE of whom has spoken to Congress as far as I know.

Here is a simple thesis: Petraeus backed the Syrian false flag operation personally, as well as as a result of orders.  His mission was to get second rate Libyan chemical weapons in the hands of Syrian jihadists, and train them in their use, so that Obama could pursue a strategic objective of destabilizing Syria, and eventually toppling Assad.  He now continues to support that policy, likely due to ego involvement.

He let those people die, because spooks exist in a realm of plausible deniability, and sometimes you let agents die for some murky greater good.  We have all seen spy movies. Spies and soldiers are treated with a different morality.

On a related note,I have never in my lifetime seen the pervasiveness of the propaganda apparatus which exists in this country shown in such stark relief.  Even though some of the columns on his site are in my view nuts, much of what Alex Jones has been saying for years now appears plausible to me.

As far as the cult members, the headless ones, the indoctrinated ones, take the example of Ed Asner: even though he theoretically opposes war in the abstract, Obama’s ethnicity is quite literally the only criteria that matters.

I have argued often that the Left MUST be understood not just a different understanding of the facts, but a fundamentally different mode of being, one characterized not by principle-based engagement with reality with a goal to improving the world; but one characterized by the submergence of the duty of perceiving things as a sovereign entity, a sovereign intellect and self, to the duty of conformity.  Whatever you are told to do, you do.  Your captivity is your freedom.

Thus we see left wingers using virtually the same rhetoric right wingers used in the lead-up to the war with Iraq, with the important difference that the war with Iraq was at least plausibly in our national interest, and the war with Syria is categorically CONTRARY to our national interests.  We are intervening on behalf of our enemies, risking a more general war, all for NOTHING.  The killing will not stop, and to the extent the weapons appear to have been used by the “rebels”, WE ARE ATTACKING THE WRONG SIDE.

Everything is upside down.  Rational discussion is out the window, and this fact is on prominent display.

Oi.  Rant over for now.  I will likely return.

This looks quite interesting.  Somewhere in here is a link to a course on the evidence for the survival of consciousness upon physical death.   That course is discussed here.  It was put together by a “Scottish-Italian” doctor.

As I do from time to time, I would like to reiterate that “the human condition” can be improved through the actual application of intelligence.  All the problems we face–of war, of poverty, of sadness and isolation, of a sense of futility–can be solved through the application of intelligence.

To be clear, greed is the outcome of failing to know how to live.  It is a failure to understand how to generate deep, authentic connections with important parts of our selves, which in turn enable fruitful, fulfilling connections with others.  It is a failure to learn the lesson that objects cannot gain you what you crave most of all if you are honest.

Likewise, religious dogmatism is a failure to open up belief to experience.  Everything that is REAL about religion is as available today as it was 2,000 or 4,000 years ago.  We can investigate prayer.  We can investigate life after death.  We can learn to understand moralities–and I personally would argue there should be as many of them as there are people, within certain bounds–as systems for self fulfillment, and social harmony.  They are not commands.  God does not punish us.  We fail to seek God.  That is our punishment.

I will add to that as well that I have come to realize that the concept of “sin” is meaningless as used in religious contexts.  Why would an infinite being CARE about what we do?  We exist within that being.  We are that being, or more properly He is us.

This being consists in infinite love, in my view, and no loving being would condemn or hurt us for our ignorance; and sin is always ignorance–not in the sense that you were never told the rule, but in the sense that if you commit a “sin” you only do so because you do not understand why that rule exists.  Rules, like “be kind to others”, exist for our own benefit.  If we are kind, we are happier, and if everyone follows that rule, our world is a more happy place.

In my view, the conceptions both of sin, and eternal damnation for minor misreadings of texts written in another language thousands of years ago, exist for SECULAR purposes, for command and control purposes, for political purposes.  Take excommunication: this power of the Pope was considered quite considerable for a very long time, and kept many would-be rebels in check.

A great many of the griefs currently darkening human lives around the world could be ameliorated if we replaced religion with scientific knowledge about how the after-life actually worked.

Bringing–not these ideas, but this mountain of EVIDENCE–into the mainstream of science would revolutionize human life in many powerful and positive ways.

Leftism, as a death cult, exists mainly as a strong psychic reaction to the notion of death as eternal dissolution, and the social order as the only possible mechanism of immortality.  Given that leftism is currently the most pernicious force in the world, the force which creates the most suffering, bringing this evidence into the light would be greatly beneficial for many suffering souls.

Few thoughts.

Obama is the Commander in Chief, correct?  In that capacity, he is a member of the military.  As such, he is required only to give lawful orders.  If Congress specifically repudiates his war with Syria–as a proxy, apparently, for Saudi Arabia–then giving the order to fire cruise missiles is illegal.  Given this, is not the penalty for breaking the law being arrested and put on trial?  Could the military arrest him, after disregarding his illegal orders, for the same reason that Lt. Calley was arrested?

It would take some stones to do that, but if we are going to get our nation back on track, these sorts of ideas should not be disregarded out of hand.  Obama is getting people killed for political reasons, and he is doing it in patent violations of the law.  Who stops him?  At what point do we start valuing the laws of our land, after considering that all of them were put in place for reasons which are just as valid today, if not more, than they were 200 years ago?

I wrote that near the end of a 12 hour day, thinking erroneously I was about to have a big problem.  It did not materialize, and now that I have had a couple good nights sleep, it seems to me that I was partially right, but largely wrong.  Certainly, I think the combination of intelligence and sociopathy would be helpful in most corporate environments–and the political realm–but it is less common than I made it sound.  I think better terms might be that climbing the ladder can make people mean, cold, and calculating–or in any event to select for these traits.  I have heard over the years any number of stories from the inner circles of the elite, and most CEO’s are not very likeable people, once you really know them well.

The book “What Would Machiavelli Do?” discusses these things at length.  It is intended mainly as satire, but when I first read it I worked at a very large telecommunications company, and it was simply too true to laugh at.  I lived it daily.

I will add that I have a great many things to post, but it doesn’t feel right at the moment.  I have been doing a lot of Kum Nye, and it has really opened up some energies and emotions that were quite locked up.

So I’m a chick lately.  I’m feeling.  The other, intellectual, me will resurface sooner or later.

I have watched several people I knew reasonably well turn from decent human beings to self aggrandising, scheming, backstabbing assholes within corporations characterized by relentless stress, and constant power struggles. The one I know best more or less throws new recruits to the wolves, then rewards survivors with respect.

What I would contend–and this would be an interedting study to do–is that vast bulk of them are becoming functional sociopaths–context dependent sociopsths to be sure–but people within which an ACTUAL moral sense has largely been eroded in constant fights for survival.

They mask this by launching recycling campaigns and posting pictures of happy people everywhere, along with motivational slogans. In my observation, the more smiling faces you see on the wall, the more nasty the place is likely to be.

Such corporations wield a huge amount of power. I will not agree with Leftists that the solution is centrslizing power with government sociopaths, but I will repeat my view that corporations should be both tax exempt–which should lessen the struggle for survival and corresponding nastiness–and prohibited from making political contributions.

Is it worth risking a regional war in order to launch an ineffective strike against an enemy who is likely innocent, in pursuit of non-existent US security interests?

This fact has been scrubbed by our domestic propaganda apparatus, but it is my understanding Russia has threatened a strike against Saudi Arabia if we hit Syria. And why not? The Saudis have apparently threatened to deploy Chechen terrorists they claim to control, and seem to have provided the nerve gas in what we can all agree WAS a nerve gas attack. Thing is, they gave them to the “rebels”.

It occurs to me that our military leaders would be well within their rights to refuse an order to start a war with Syria. Their oath is to protect and defend the rule of law as embodied in the Constitution.  The geniuses who wrote our Constitution CLEARLY, beyond any hint of ambiguity, as a matter of principle, and as a result of having studied history, placed the responsibility for declaring war in the hands of Congress.  They KNEW that with that power vested in the hands of a small cabal the temptation to make war for personal or political gain would be too great to avoid unnecessary and costly conflicts which did not benefit the American people.

PARTICULARLY since we risk war with Russia–which almost certainly views Obama as a pussy, and which has already begun the process of preparing for conflict–this requirement makes a mountain of sense.

I have been disappointed at the seeming lack of courage and principle among our top military leaders on a number of topics and occasions, but perhaps this is one case where they grow some balls, and stop allowing the Executive to trample on the Constitution.  Our military has never refused orders before, but it has also never been commanded by someone who fundamentally did not like America, value our accomplishments, or give a rat’s ass about the sacrifices he is asking of our men and women in uniform.

You know, if your leaders still possess sufficient integrity to balk at the notion of granting aspiring totalitarians a perfect surveillance system–one in which, for example, NSA capabilities could be used to spy on political enemies for partisan political purposes–then you could yourselves approach Congress and ASK to be more heavily regulated, that more privacy protections be put in place.

This of course runs contrary to your organizational bent, but I ask again: what are you protecting?  If it is freedom, as codified in our national law in the Constitution, then you are going in the wrong direction.  You all know that 2 levels of contact is sufficient for almost all purposes.

You should also be intelligent enough to realize that 47 story skyscrapers do not collapse at the rate of gravity because the furniture caught on fire (somehow) and burned for 8 hours furiously.

Right after my last post I got this strong image of it being analyzed for hidden messages.  Do you do this?  Look for analogue, old school codes?  I suspect you do. You have superpowerful software algorithyms for this, no?

Let me ask this: who are you?  What do you believe?  If fanaticism is “a redoubling of effort, having lost sight of the original goal”, have you not become fanatics of national security?  What are you protecting?  Freedom?  You are destroying it.  You are creating an apparatus of repression of a scale and sophistication that it makes simple phone tapping almost virtuous.  Even if you personally have good ethics, you can be fired, can you not?  You report to the President, do you not, who can sculpt your agency in any way he pleases?

I ask again: would the chaos of a nuclear detonation or mass biological attack not still be preferable to a perfect autocratic regime, in which the thirst for personal growth, for wholeness, for Goodness will go entirely unsatisfied?  In which we live like the automatons of the Thing’s realm in “A Wrinkle in Time”?

You can “cure” cancer with bubonic plague.  You can prevent the replication of cancer cells by destroying the host.  But you cannot create life with death, and you cannot create freedom with tyranny.

Think carefully about the consequences of what you are doing.  What you did today, what you plan to do tomorrow.  What sort of world do you want your children–nieces, nephews–to live in?

I spent perhaps half an hour over the weekend reading what I could on allegations by Wayne Madsen that both Obama and Rahm-bo (the macho twinkle fairy) were members of  Man’s Country, a gay club in Chicago.  Here is a link, typical of what you will find: http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/mom-of-murdered-obama-gay-lover-speaks-up/

Yes, it is the Globe.  Yes, of course it is from a conspiracy website.  No, none of this is compelling in any way, if we don’t grant the primary witnesses the sort of credibility needed.

What I will say though is that as I was reading this, I kept hearing in my mind radio transmissions from Benghazi: “WE ARE IN HEAVY CONTACT.  REQUEST IMMEDIATE FIRE SUPPORT.  DO YOU COPY?”  I heard the machine gun fire, and RPG’s.  And then I saw someone muting the microphone, switching to a video feed, and doing absolutely nothing.  These transmissions were treated with the coldness of Det. Hoffman of Saw watching one of his victims die in agony and fear.

Clearly, two gay men from Obama’s church were killed in “execution style”.  This is not disputed by anyone.  A third died of apparent illness within the short time window in which the other two died.

Let me ask a simple question: given how little we otherwise know about Obama, why couldn’t he be someone who gets gay sex on the “down low” as they say?  More disturbingly, why couldn’t he have people in his circle who are capable of arranging murders?  I have always thought it odd that his grandmother died on the day of his election.  Why not go there, and wonder if her death was murder?  Why not allow ourselves, at least in principle, to believe the very worst of Obama?  Do you think ordinary Germans were capable of imagining the horrors of Auschwitz?  They had nothing like it in their history.  No one did, although the Soviets came close in the worst of their camps.

When you look at the treatment of Obama’s patently falsified birth certificate by the complicit media, and REALLY contemplate it, it seems we are already living in an Orwellian state.  Yes, there is opposition, but it is largely irrelevant.  In fact, to the extent that we provide an object of hatred, we are USEFUL for the people who otherwise control the entire narrative–the whole worldview, sense of truth–for the majority of Americans.  They need a focal point to distract people not just from their blatant and on-going failures, but from their aggressive efforts to end the role of the Constitution outright, to implement massive, blanket propaganda in favor of tyranny.  As Commander in Chief, Obama is already on all accounts trying to indoctrinate our soldiers to believe that people who talk about human rights are somehow the descendants not of the people who created the most just nation in the history of the Earth, but rather of Southern Democrats who hated black people and burned crosses and lynched them to create compliance with their own agenda.

I will say this: if the full power of the American government is turned on the American people, it will be hard to resist.  They have nearly perfect informational efficiency, they have detailed social maps, they have names and addresses.  They can track cell phones.  There are cameras everywhere.  All freeways are monitored.

Our future depends upon those WITHIN the system who retain a commitment to freedom, and to the rule of law which enables it.  We depend on military leaders and police leaders, who perhaps out of political necessity offer lip service support to Obama’s totalitarian agenda, but who fully intend the opposite of compliance when asked to attack American citizens.  We depend on people within our spy agencies who retain an actual sense of patriotism, who actually believe in freedom.

We need people with unusual skills, like former Special Operations personnel, to have plans, and networks.  OF COURSE you are being watched.  This is a logistical problem solved with low tech means.

And who watches the watchers?  Imagine the logistical demands political paranoia places on those who fear all dissent and resistance.  They have to watch the people watching the people watching the people, and until a patently illegal or immoral order is given, they can’t know who will comply with certainty.  That is perhaps the only reason we still have our freedom.

Don’t you wonder if FBI or NSA agents asked to monitor people for clearly political reasons sometimes ask themselves how on earth their integrity became so compromised?  They are acting like the Gestapo, even if they are not yet arresting people purely for political dissent.

I would encourage anyone who has not seen it to watch the German movie “The Lives of Others”.

This is a time when it is appropriate to be afraid, but there remain many people loyal to the American Dream.  Many have simply been duped by Obama.  The people we need to worry about constitute in my view much less than 10% of the populace, and likely less than 1%.  Still, the capacity for centralized command and control by a small elite has never been greater.

Stay on your toes.