Deception At Every Level

After 40+ years in showbiz and marketing, I think I can say with all humility that I am an expert on making things look like what they are not.  Conversely, I have become equally suspicious that everything around me is not what it seems, and I am rarely wrong on that score - though the details can sometimes get muddled.

In both my career and my private life, I have seldom been caught off guard when I assume that someone is trying to deceive me.  I have gotten to the point where I generally think, "How would I pull that off if I were trying to fool someone?"  The truth generally falls within the scope of the options I come up with.

So it is when I look at Donald Trump.  I will ignore Hillary Clinton, since I think it is rather painfully clear that she is a walking deception, but Trump has swayed a great number of people to support him, so it is appropriate to examine him a bit closer.

Being the cynical and suspicious person I am, I begin by looking at his public persona.  He is a multi-billionaire real estate developer, business magnate and "reality" TeeVee star.  He is well practiced in the art of deception, since marketing is nothing more than the art of deception and misdirection.  He is media savvy and moves in circles that most of us can only imagine.  There is no doubt, at least in my mind, that he is capable of deceiving large numbers of people, since he has clearly done it for many years and been very successful at it.

The first question that comes to my mind is, how does he get away with claiming to be an outsider when he has clearly built a career on his relationships with Banksters, Politicians and other nefarious characters?

One does not build an empire without conspiring with the bureaucracy.  All the years he has spent getting permits and licenses, dealing with inspectors, lobbying for tax abatement, and crafting a public image of quality and luxury means, if nothing else, that he is a deep insider.  Politicians grovel for his handouts.  Celebrities attend his weddings.  Even nations come to him to develop attractions for their tourist trade.  This is not an outsider.  You and I are outsiders, and none of these things are part of our daily lives.

The second question I have is, why has the media given him so much free air when they have shown their ability to shut out people they don't support, such as Ron Paul?

Trump has been a media darling for decades.  He has appeared with every softball interviewer of note.  He has been cover art for every major magazine on the market.  He has published soe books.  He has had a successful TeeVee show for several years.  In fact, his affinity with media has been the prime factor in his success as a businessman.  Even his abortive 2012 campaign did not generate the bile and hate that he has gotten of late.  There is no way the media would turn on him after decades of fostering him.  This is a planned reaction, one carefully crafted in the Board Room of Trump Tower.

The media are perfectly aware of how much free attention they have given him.  He could not get such attention, even for all his histrionics if the media were not part of some game.  Ron Paul's campaign in 2012 is a perfect example.  If the media don't like you, you become an invisible man.  Full stop.

The third questions is, why has Hillary's campaign so suddenly and vividly collapsed right on cue?

Hillary is the darling of the unhinged left (which is to say most of the political left anymore).  She has moved in rarefied circles for most of the 40 years of her professional life.  Her major donors and supporters would be well aware of any health or other problems that might prevent her from fulfilling her "destiny" as president.  So why would they try to hide it?

I think this is a carefully planned meltdown, whether real or not, designed to throw critical support to Trump at just the right moment.  There is a reason that Hillary has not been tried and convicted for crimes against humanity and the State:she is fulfilling a vital role in getting the ultimate outside insider elected and release some of the pressure building towards outright revolution.

Don't worry, Hillary is being well compensated for taking one for the team, since at her level, there are no Republicans or Democrats, just power and no power.  Both she and Trump were planted long ago to do exactly what they are doing now - one taking the dive and throwing the election to the other, who will dissipate the growing angry mob rising against the PTB.

I thus conclude that there is a massive effort to deceive not just the American people, but the global population into thinking Trump is an outside reformer and populist.  I think that a masterful and subtle operation of reverse psychology is being used to channel the anger and disgust of the electorate into a harmless figure who can dissipate it while letting everyone think they have finally won the reformist battle.

It is clear to the Powers That Be from years past and constant polling that the American people are fed up with business as usual, and true reformers like Ron Paul keep getting closer and closer to the switches and levers of power.  The only way they can safely maintain their power is to put up a candidate carefully groomed to fill the roll of reformer and then use the feigned horror and revulsion of the media and gatekeepers to foster the image of insider fear, thus feeding the image and channeling support.

If the tactic fails, then the obvious insider - Hillary - wins and its business as usual.  If, however, the populist movement is strong enough to get Trump elected, the PTB are still protected, while at the same time appearing to have taken a deep blow.  Either way, they win, we lose.

Many readers here will disagree with me and defend the Trump phenomenon, and they are certainly welcome to do so, but I caution them to walk in with their eyes open.  Consider the possibility and see what your gut says when you apply your normal critical thinking to this situation.  It is at least better to know you are walking into a trap before it snares you.

One must, I think, allow the possibility that we are all the targets of a massive deception.  There are plenty of past examples of operations this size and complexity in the past 50 years.  And we know the system itself is more than capable of defending itself against true reform, so from the start we must assume that the system never allow a true revolutionary inside.  The only way to defeat the system is to tear it down from the outside.

Remember Oliver Stone's chilling film Wall Street, and the main character Gordon Gekko.  Imagine casting Gekko as an outsider in order to run him for president.  That's what I see when I look at Trump.

The point here is, vote for whomever you like, but do so being fully aware that you are likely being deceived.

Dude, Lighten Up

Alright, alright already!  Message received!

Readership took a nose-dive this week as I took a decidedly brooding and intellectual tone.  Sorry guys I just write what I think about, and sometimes my thoughts just aren't funny, or even vaguely humorous, or even darkly ironic.  Just happens, you know.

So on this Friday, as we stare down the end down the end of the ninth month, third fiscal quarter and history as we know it, let's try to lighten up a bit.

Back in the day, when I was a lowly acting student in the clutches of the legendary Cecil Pickett, I was taught that people are more or less a combination of dichotomies.  Some walk on their heels, while others walk on the balls of their feet.  Some are pelvic, while others are chest.  Some are head, others are heart.  And now, to these basic dichotomies, we can add Clintonite and Trumpian.

It seems the entire world has calcified itself into one of these two trenches, and like a WW1 re-enactment, the two sides are determined to take pot-shots at each other for the next six weeks with little forward progress.

The Clintonites believe that no amount of criminality, email scandal or nose-dives should deter the world from pursuing the status quo with complete abandon.  In fact, the globalist status quo has worked so well that the world needs at least three other Clinton look-alikes to ensure the agenda progresses unabated.  This is the "damn the supersonic Russian torpedoes, full speed ahead" school of thought.

The Trumpians, on the other hand, believe that the current course is Ultimate Evil incarnate and we need to do anything else, no matter how screwball, non-sensical or ad hoc it is.  This school of thought has adopted the Crazy Ivan tactic of unpredictable and erratic maneuvers in order to vex the enemy.

Like matter and anti-matter, these two worldviews cannot come in contact for fear the resulting implosion would annihilate Life, the Universe and Everything!

The whole world appears to be holding its collective breath waiting for the outcome of the US election.  Why, even the three other candidates have ordered a pitcher of margaritas and kicked up their heels to watch the show.

The world has decided there's no point in trying to get anything done right now, since a Clintonite win would almost assure WW3, pitting East versus West, while a Trumpian win would unleash a global chorus of economic Kumbaya.  Talk about your proverbial forks in the road, that's a lot of pressure to put on a geriatric basket case and whirling Dervish.

For those of us trying to make meaningful progress with our lives, this election season couldn't end fast enough, one way or the other.  If the Clintonites win, we need to quickly finish out the bomb shelter and get the quadraphonic shound system installed.  If the Trumpians win, we need to position ourselves to cash in on the entrepreneurial boom-bust certain to follow.  Either way, there's still a lot of work to do, and this constant rise and fall of a clear leader is wearing us out.  It's got us running back and forth between feverish digging and polishing up the five-year projections on investments.

In this global year of course-setting, the Brits decided they wanted to reverse course, the Germans decided Merkel wasn't doing it for them, and the Russians rather firmly decided they liked what Putin is doing.  One thing is rather glaringly clear: the world has decided globalism ain't giving the common man any warm, fuzzy feelings about the future.

Among the major global powers, the US is the last wild card still remaining, and the American people aren't making it easy on those trying to read the goat entrails.  In fact, the folks using "Islamic terror" to try and sway the public discourse are increasinly finding the tide turning the wrong direction.  Folks just aren't buying the official narrative, no matter who spins the tale.

If I had to call the US election and short-term aftermath, I would have to say the Trumpians by a landslide, followed immediately by a revenge market crash orchestrated by the Soros/Bankster/Military/Industrial/Religion/Freemason complex who, like spoiled children that don't get their way at Toys 'R' Us, hold their breath, throw a tantrum and stamp their feet in protest.

There are only two things wrong with this scenario: 1) Americans are the most controlled people on Earth, and 2) the Trumpster could open his mouth at any moment and completely ruin the festivities.

No matter what the outcome, can we just put this mess behind us and get on with the End of the World as We Know It?  I'm worried my bomb shelter will cave in while I'm seeing to my investments in the future.

HRC As FDR - A Rhyme

OK, OK, I get the message.  Write more, work less.  Right?

It's been a stressful month of putting together several projects at one time.  One of the banes of the freelancer is marketing one's self.  When one is busy, it is easy to forget selling for future projects.  But even worse is when one goes all out to bring in new projects and they all hit at once.

And thus it has happened, after a long dry spell in July and August, suddenly all the various bids and proposals I've floated out there are coming back to haunt me.  Any one of them would require my complete attention, but more than that would absolutely swamp me.  Thus, here I sit wondering how to juggle a couple of massive projects lasting several months to years, and trying to keep up with a rather vocal and persistent readership that insist on their daily abuse.

At any rate, I still have a minute or two a week to keep up with the absurd circus generally referred to as the US Election 2016.

A lot has been made of Hillary Clinton's perceived health issues and the somewhat obvious attempt by the media to bury the story.  A few writers and commentators out there have said that this is unprecedented in US political history.  This observation is completely incorrect.

A few decades back, there was a president called FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt).  Few people know or stop to think about the fact that his was the first case of political health cover-up that I am aware of in US history, and it is a whopper.

FDR was stricken by polio as a child and was left permanently crippled - unable to walk.  He wore heavy iron braces on his legs that could lock in place when he wanted to stand.  You need to look long and hard at the historical record to find photos of him in a wheelchair or being helped by attendants.  The famous photo of FDR, Churchill and Stalin at Potsdam shows all three seated to accommodate his handicap.

In fact, you would be hard pressed, even today, to find a photo of FDR where he isn't seated (think fireside chats) or behind a podium.  When he stood, he was subtly helped to his feet until his braces were locked in place.  He then would make a practiced move to the podium without waddling to speak.

Keep in mind that FDR was elected to four terms - unequaled in US history - and was president throughout the Great Depression and World War 2, for a total of just over 12 years.  He was arguably the most visible world leader in all of history, to that point.  He died one month after being inaugurated a fourth in 1945, which begs the question of his health issues during the final campaign.

Despite all this, FDR's handicap was nearly invisible, and the media were actively complicit in hiding it.  They knew about his infirm condition and yet refused on a voluntary and conspiratorial level to keep the facts a secret.

Whatever you think of FDR (I happen to think he was one of the worst things to ever happen to the US), you cannot deny the well-documented media cover-up of his health, which was clearly failing during his fourth and final campaign.  The media knowingly and actively hid pertinent facts from the masses, and proves conclusively that it not only can be done, but has been done, regardless of how you justify it.

Turning again to Clinton's perceived problems, we see much the same effort and possibly motivation to hide her health issues.  Despite what are rather obvious things, such as bulky clothing to hide devices, fresnel-lensed glasses, hand rails and handlers, coughing fits, seizures et cetera ad nauseum, the media not only ignore these things, but actively work to stifle any but the most fringe discussions of such.  They have even gone so far as to demand a retraction from Dr. Drew and label anyone bringing up the issue with the dreaded "conspiracy theorist" title.

Many folks, at this point, will ask what could motivate the media to do such a thing?  Thought you'd never ask.

Suppose Clinton's running mate, Tim Kaine, is truly the one the elite want in office, yet know he could never win, or at least his chances were minuscule compared to the field. Further suppose the elite wanted to grant Hillary's dying wish to be the first female president as a reward for many years of unquestioning service (servitude).  Would you, as a member of the 0.001%, pair Clinton with Kaine knowing that she would most likely be dead or incapacitated within the first year?  Would you plan, with your cronies who control 98% of the media, to hide, obfuscate and circumvent the health issue?  Would you keep your candidate out of the public eye and rig the elections to kill two birds with one stone?  Would you do anything - drugs, machines, trick photography - to keep your candidate moving long enough to make it past the Electoral College vote, if not the inauguration?

While this may seem preposterous to some, it has already been done with FDR.  It also fits the known facts and strong suspicions.  It would be relatively easy to achieve, if you owned the media and the electronic voting boxes.

In short, we see the means, motive and opportunity converging on Election 2016.  Whether one supports Clinton out of party, gender or ideological solidarity, one would do well to examine the health issue and take a much closer look at Tim Kaine, as he could likely be the actual next president of the US, after Hillary's ceremonial history-making month or two in office.

It is also worth a moment to re-examine FDR's presidency and the massive media complicity, when considering whether it is possible or not to pull off such a cover-up.

As I've stated a number of times this year, history is rhyming and on all kinds of levels.  In fact, one could even view Trump as Teddy Roosevelt and Clinton as Franklin Roosevelt when assessing their characters and public personas.

It's a remarkable year in so many ways.