Queenpin©® Ascendant

In yet another now-predictable upset, Hillary Clinton - and husband Bill - have dodged legal bullet.  Frankly, these have got to be the luckiest (or most corrupt) couple in the history of /American "jurisprudence."  Not even O.J. Simpson could have hoped for this.

In case you slept through the news, on the day after US Independence Day, Hillary was cleared of criminal charges in the on-going email scandal.  Apparently, American freedom now only extends far enough to cover certain privileged few.

Edward Snowden take heart.  You may now have precedence to claim a blanket pardon.

I am not the least bit surprised nor shocked.  In fact, I predicted that Hillary would skate some time back.  Hey, if hubby could dodge impeachment while at the same time blatantly committing perjury, it was only logical (in this white-is-black universe) that Hillary could not only be cleared of mishandling state secrets, but possible espionage and treason to boot.

As far as the rest of the world is concerned, the US no longer has any credibility when it comes to moral or ethical leadership.  Not that this was a singular event, but a long list of usurpations extending decades back have finally come to a head.

The clentchers were Bill meeting Loretta Lynch in private, and the following declaration by Hillary that Lynch had a job for life, at least if the Queen is elected.  And for all intents and purposes, it appears the US election is a done deal, as well.  Sorry, but even Trump doesn't have this kind of stroke.

I continue to believe that Hillary set up a private server and disabled all security options because her job was to feed insider information to a cabal of banksters and investors who needed to know key decisions before they became public in order to beat the market.  Hillary's exorbitant "speaking" fees have been nothing more than her cut of the proceeds.  Her biggest reward, though, will be getting crowned the American Queenpin©®.

If nothing else, maybe we'll get a new Marvel villain out of it.

There is one advantage here, at least for me.  You see, Indonesians have been under the impression that the US political system is a paragon of virtue compared to their blatantly corrupt system.  I've tried for years to disabuse them of this concept by saying it only looks virtuous because the scale is so vast.

Along comes the Queenpin©® and it is as if a fully-sighted man came across five blind men trying to describe an elephant.  All the pieces have suddenly fallen into place.

If the O. J. Simpson case showed that American justice could be bought, then Hillary has shown that all the rest of it is on the block, as well.  In some ways, it's a comforting thing.  Corruption is easier to deal with when it is plain and undeniable.  At least no one can labor under a false impression without willful ignorance.  How appropriate that the announcement came just after "Independence" Day.

Turmp may have money, but he has rules - porous and undecipherable though they may be.  Hillary has no rules and is focused like a laser on the one thing she wants more than any other: power at all costs.

I predict, therefore, that Hillary will be the next president of the US - and quite possibly the last, because her election will almost guarantee the secessionists will be loaded for bear.

Some Random Thoughts On Politics

• Perhaps if Ben Carson changed his slogan to "Doctor Who," he might get a lot more attention.
• Donald Trump is the ultimate expression of US culture: he is a walking corporate brand; he is the embodiment of all that is saccharine with that country.
• The Bush/Clinton dynasties have pretty much plumbed the depths of talent in their gene pools; voters have decided they no longer need comic relief, and so Jeb! is dying on the vine; Hillary, on the other hand, is the manifestation of Democratic ideals of slavery, socialism and just pure ornery meanness.
• Cruz is nothing more than the vanguard of the Canadian invasion of America; it is a long-simmering war between the two countries, based primarily on the fact that Canada got more coastline from the Indians, but America got the prime tourist beaches.
• I still think Marco Rubio will be a 'dark horse' compromise nominee and will ultimately be POTUS, I base this on the fact that his name kind of sounds like Marco Polo, and so folks think of him as adventurous, and able to introduce pasta, coal and asbestos to Western civilization.
• Edward Snowden had to seek political asaylum in Russia from prosecution as a traitor, while Hillary Clinton will likely be the Democratic party nominee, yet they are both guilty of the same crime of letting secrets out. As Mel Brooks says, "It's good to be da king."
• I have only voted for POTUS one time, and that was for Ross Perot, who was the template for Donald Trump, but with a much funnier voice.
• Barak Obama's legacy appears to be that he was such a bad president, the anti-establishment candidate finally won (not since Reconstruction has that happened); That's a long way down; Remember when he was first elected, he was nearly canonized at the same time.
• Pope Francis I lives in a walled city with an immigration policy that only allows passports to be given to Nazis fleeing persecution, and with probably the single largest Treasury on Earth; yet, he dares to comment on US immigration policy and how folks need to give to the poor?  'Let not your right hand know what your left doeth' has gone too far.  Someone please get control of that left hand and quick!
• Does anyone else get the feeling that the UK is like a prom date who keeps teasing with "yes, no, maybe" when it comes to copping a feel at the end of the night?  This Brexit thing has gone on for years and is just completely pointless, unless to tease the EU a bit and show a little power play.
• Indonesia is playing the same game as the UK over TPP, only it has its hand out to China and the US to see who will offer the richest purse for a peek at the goodies; reminds me of the famous quip generally attributed to Churchill, "We have already determined what you are, Madame, we are now haggling over price."
• Have you ever noticed how China operates?  It makes a few incendiary remarks, and then sits back while everyone else fights about it.  Classic divide and conquer strategy, or more appropriately: 分而治之
• The only country on Earth that has a tax system as evil and insidious as the US is Eritrea, and until just recently, the US condemned it for its tax system; a classic case of "do as we say."  Eritrea is near Sudan and Ethiopia in East Africa; Says to me that the US tax code has Third World status.
• Since the world is into wall-building right now, I say we put a wall around the entire Middle East, pull out all foreign militaries and interests, and let them sort things out;  This shit has gone on for far too long and has sucked up far too many of the world's resources over something as meaningless as whose religious books are more nonsensical; when they've finished beating, battering and beheading each other and have got things all sorted out, they can come out to play with the rest of us again.
• In 1969, NASA landed two men on the Moon with equipment less sophisticated than your microwave oven, yet in 50 years the world hasn't been back?  Yup, either the Moon landings were bullshit, or the reasons for not going back are bullshit.  Either way, someone has shoveled an enormous pile of bullshit on the world and guess who gets to clean it all up?
• The US supreme Court (under Article III of the US Constitution) was only supposed to have six justices.  President FDR added three more to overcome the Court's resistance to his New Deal legislation; Justice Scalia's death is a first step in correcting this problem, as long as a new justice is not nominated.
• The US Congress doesn't even trust itself; In the 1960s, the Senate passed a rule that no justices, supreme or otherwise, could be selected in an election year, since politicians are far more untrustworthy at that time than in non-election years.
• It is said that for a hunter to be truly successful, he must become the hunted; thus, Russia has become the global savior and the US has become the dreaded evil empire.
• Suppose there were no countries, just a global collection of home towns and the only international law was that no one could become leader or ruler except in their home town; the towns could all compete for immigrants based on the standard of living and amount of personal freedom each offered; hell, entrepreneurial types could custom design home towns down to the laws of the community and sell property based on how cool it would be to live there; oh, and media outlets in each home town could only be owned by people who lived there, so there would be no global mega-media conglomerates competing to brain-wash folks - propaganda would be limited to each town and wouldn't have much hope of manipulating masses of people.
• Economics is not a science; it is a natural function, just like an individual's bathroom habits; what is a science is how the few manipulate economics to impoverish the many.
• Rulers, leaders, charlatans, and magicians all depend on the ignorance and gullibility of their audience; this means that being educated is the best protection again these kinds of trickery; being educated does NOT mean being an "expert" - those are what we call one-trick ponies; remember Rain Man?  Dustin Hoffman's character was a one-trick pony.
• Al Sharpton announced he would "flee the country" if Donald Trump was elected; it would be worth a Trump presidency to see that happen; I might even move back if Sharpton was gone.

The Game's A Foot (sic)

Attribution: Green Economy Coalition
www.greeneconomycoalition.org

It's been very interesting to watch the Snowden case.  As I've mentioned before, I don't buy the MSM fairy tale about what's going on and suspect there is a much deeper story to all this.  Apparently, so do a number of other folks, such as Max Keiser, bless his ranting soul.

For those who keep up with the alternative researchers, and a worthy effort it is, then you know about Joseph Farrell's and Tom Dolan's theories about Break-Away Civilizations and Alternative Financial Systems.  Farrell recently posted a vlog on topic.

Here's the scenario: after WW2, the US (and it's empire mentor the UK) has been using captured Axis loot and booty to set up and operate a shadow economy.  In effect, Wall Street heavies have been using the loot to create piles and oodles of derivatives and a host of other financial instruments that have turned the Nazi gold into a vast system of finance that is completely off the books.  This hidden system is run, at least in part, by the Bilderberg group and it's ilk.

Bother Dolan and Farrell speculate, with reason, that the hidden system amounts to trillions of dollars in virtual transactions that are funding all sorts of projects that are so black, not even the black operators know about them.  Dolan sees a secret space program, among other things.  Farrell sees all sorts of things, such as GMO research and weather wars, with a transhumanist agenda.  (See interview with Farrell and de Hart on Radio Far Side)

One thing is certain, a huge pile of confiscated Nazi and Japanese gold and other loot has never been adequately accounted for and the idea of a hidden system of finance certainly makes a lot of dots suddenly fit together.

Now suppose you were the Rest of the World (RoW) and you were watching this US empire grow to overshadow just about everything you can see, much less imagine.  Suppose you were Russia, China or Germany, all very powerful economies in their own rights, but you were unable to expand because there was this 400-pound gorilla sitting on top of the global financial system.  Especially imagine yourself as Germany.  All this loot came from you and you have been beaten down with it for the past 70-odd years.  Throw Japan in there, as well, since they've only prospered as a lapdog for Uncle Sugar, and when they started making noises about cutting loose, a Big A$$ Earthquake came and gutted your economy.

Now, with that scenario firmly in mind, do you really think Germany is so shocked and surprised by all the surveillance they've been under?  Don't bet on it.  Nor are Russia and China surprised.  They've all known about this, and the BRICSA nations have been after a chink in the US armor for a long time, trying to bust out.

Now suppose you were one of the second dogs mentioned above and you found a guy who worked for a major NSA contractor who was approachable and who had access to a lot of secrets...AND who could get out the door and draw attention away from your real operatives inside.

You get your insiders to feed information to this weak link, and then give the weak link (who's an idealist, by the way) a game plan.  Tell him to run to Hong Kong and then to Moscow.  He'll be covered there while the dust settles.  Have your diplomatic types run around telling other countries not to give him asylum, because you need him to stay in some form of limbo within your control.  Can you say "transit lounge of the Moscow airport"?  At the same time, you keep your hands clean.  "Hey!  He didn't cross our line, so we really can't touch him."

Meantime, you carefully orchestrate and series of bombshell revelations while at the same time, you are telling the US via back channels to back off the RoW or you'll blow the whole damn lid off this can of worms.  Just as a teaser, you let out some of the "less" harmful information - stuff that doesn't surprise those who are paying attention - but it's also enough to let the US know that you have some real goodies in your trick-or-treat bag.

Suddenly, markets start gyrating wildly up and down.  Volatility skyrockets.  Gold plummets.  Market indexs jump up 4% one day, and drop like a rock the next.  Politicians start jumping up and down about "traitors" and POTUS suddenly becomes very quiet and changes the subject to ObamaCare for the first time in a year.    All the top people at the Vatican Bank run for the exits.  And all the US players have beads of sweat on their upper lips and foreheads as they start to see their dreams of empire melt.

Basically, the cat is out of the bag.  No, not with us "little" people, but the top dogs sure know what the game is.  You can see it all over the markets and MSM.  They are shittin' bullets, to put it in Texanese.

So, where do things go from here?  Well, we can assume from all the market swings that someone is battling it out right in front of our faces.  One day Asia is in the dumps, the next Wall Street.  Back and forth.  Perhaps the Egyptian junta is part of the distraction gambit.  Keep us rubes looking the wrong way.  Whatever is going on, it has kicked Syria right off the front page for the moment.

So how about a little future gazing?

Whatever Snowden brought to the Chinese and Russians, it's dynamite.  They've got enough goods to scare the hell out of the WallFleeters.  There is likely a major cyberwar going on, as well, though I don't have the right tools to see it, but I sure feel it in terms of net speed and various other irritations.  In fact, Beijing's new world's-faster supercomputer is probably battling New York's former world's-faster supercomputer in high-speed trading that would make scenes from The Lawnmower Man look positively tame.

At the same time, Moscow is faxing various bits and pieces of their loot to Washington, teasing them with all the goods they have on that bunch of Bozos.

Meantime, Germany is putting up its Big Act of Being Offended (BABO) so that it can, a) leverage its gold out of the Federal (coff coff) Reserve, and b) have a graceful exit from the EU and NATO and all the other strings that the US has tied Gulliver down all these years.

Oh, and don't forget Japan tossing in a freak heatwave over the western US to show they can play WeatherWars, too.

Conclusion?  By Christmas, this could be an entirely different world.  If the US empire is mortally damaged, then that takes the oppressive weight off of Germany, Russia and China.  Japan and Brazil will join the fun.  South Africa will certainly go along for the ride, putting its gold and diamond trade up for grabs.  The Western markets will crash big time.  Israel will turn into a power black hole, leaving the Middle East in shambles.  Russia and China will make their plays, and *POOF*, the world will change over night.

You can take what you will from this, but I'm betting I'm right...or at least damn close.  I'm inviting interested readers to throw in their comments at luap.jkt at gmail dot com.  Let us know what you think about this scenario and maybe help us flesh it out a bit.

Damn!  This crystal ball stuff is fun, ain't it?

Resistance Is Futile

There are so many things going on right now that it's hard to focus on any given issue.  Of course, the US o' A is all over the news, barking orders and whatnot.  Certainly giving Putin plenty of room to show off.  The more I see of him, the more respect I have for him, though I wouldn't trust him with my wallet.

As for the whole Snowden thing, every single day just brings confirmation that we are being treated to a slight of hand.

For one thing, he says he smuggled all the docs out of the CIA (or NSA or whatever is was he was doing) on a thumb-drive.  Don't know if you've ever worked for a paranoid multi-national corporation, but if you stick a thumb-drive into any computer, it is automatically encrypted and will not work in any computer outside the company.  Even if the drive is formatted, the encryption remains.  Nope, don't buy it.

Now Snowden is being cast as Tom Hanks in The Terminal.  Yes, that's right, Ed is holed up in the transit area of the Moscow airport.  Can't leave, can't jump the next flight out.  He's in diplomatic limbo.  I suppose now he'll start building fountains or programming the Russian air traffic control grid or something.  I hope they've improved that airport.  When I was there 30 years ago, I didn't want to spend more time than I absolutely had to in there.  The least he could have done is flee to Singapore.  The airport there is like a 5-star hotel, it's right next door to Hong Kong and it has lots of cool places to hide out.

For that matter, he could have run to the transit area of the Ronald Reagan airport outside Washington D.C., and had all the benefits of being in diplomatic limbo there, as well.  So I don't buy that one either.

In fact, the whole story smacks of a movie plot in which the bad-guy whistleblower exposes the security grid allowing a bunch of cave dwellers from Afghanistan (or would it be Syria now) to blow up the Statue of Liberty (wouldn't that be poetic) and then the whole thing can be blamed on the Borg drone who developed self identity and didn't support the hive.  Moral of the story?  Get back in line, slave.  See what happens when you don't follow the rules?

All this talk of Fascism leads me to another funny story.  "Dengue Scare Sweeps Southeast Asia"  Hahahahahahahahaha!  Gag.  Gasp!  Coff!  That's one of the richest bits of fear-mongering I've heard since Alex Jones glommed onto the Ed Snowden story.

Now, if you didn't live in Southeast Asia, as I do, you might read this story and think that we are all dropping dead of dengue over here.  Well, I live right in the heart of SE Asia, in the largest and richest member nation of ASEAN, and I'm here to tell ya not one single person I know has mentioned the word 'dengue' in months.

The story focuses on Singapore, which if you don't know, is the most powerful Asian fascist nation, despite being nothing more than an insignificant island off the coast of Malaysia.  Like all fascist nations (read US/UK here), it thrives on its citizens living in fear.  After all, when good little slaves get scared, they always run to Uncle Sugar for protection from the mean, nasty world.

The fact is, I just spent the last five days with folks from all over SE Asia, and not one mentioned dengue fever.  The article says that June 15th was "Dengue Day" to raise awareness all over SE Asia about the virus.  That was news to me, as not one single media outlet in Indonesia said a single word about 'dengue awareness'.

Finally, dengue fever is a fact of life around these parts, just like earthquakes and volcanoes.  Everyone I know, except me (knock on wood) has had it at least once.  And there are many cures for it, which is why everyone runs to the hospital to get it - unless you are me and then you chew guava leaves and drink guava juice, which is what folks around here have been doing for centuries to prevent and cure dengue.

It helps if you spray for mosquitoes before going to bed, too - though I'm not sure which is worse...dengue or horfing insecticide.

I have certainly not heard about "war rooms" and "free cans of bug spray" and all the other fearful crap in this article.  It is true that this year's monsoon has been longer and wetter than most, but that is part of a cycle that goes around every five years or so, according to the locals, so even the bit about 'climate change' in the article is complete bullshit, though I admit that the extra rain has probably aided and abetted the mosquito breeding efforts.

These two stories are why I try not to expose myself to MainStreamMedia.  It is all bullshit and fear-mongoring.  It serves only one purpose, and that is to make people afraid and run to Uncle Sugar.  The conditioning evident in these two items is so obvious as to be laughable, except that so many people buy into it.

I've said it a thousand times before, but it bears repeating - TURN OFF THE F**KING TEEVEE!

The only thing it is good for is turning your higher reasoning center to mush.  And that goes for movies, too.  Doesn't anyone else see that all these superhero movies are to condition us to be passive victims and wait for Uncle Sugar (Superman, Batman, Spiderman, the Avengers, et al.) to come to our rescue?  Complete, utter, without exception, B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T.

If you have to watch a movie, go download David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983).  That should put the proper conditioning in your head.

I have found over the years, after a long and glorious career producing propaganda, that the less media you consume, the better.  You'd be amazed at how little you miss.  The really important stories will get through, and the rest of it becomes nothing but noise after a while.  In fact, you'll start feeling like Kevin McCarthy in the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) we he learns the awful truth and sees his friends and neighbors in a completely different light.

As for the moment, you are Borg and you need to jack back into the Collective before you start thinking again.  Hurry!  Your programming needs updating or you'll turn into...GASP!...an individual!

One thing is absolutely certain.  If you are told to be afraid of something by the media, ignore it completely.  That is not what you should be afraid of.  The things you really need to worry about are the things they won't talk about, or even worse, the stuff they go out of their way to get you to ignore.  That's why I think the whole Snowden thing is a send-up, since they are casting so much light on it.

Make no mistake, the media work for the gummint, or more precisely, the corporate interests that own the gummint.

Like I always say, the reason they put so much effort into telling you cigarettes are bad is because the nicotine protects you from hypnotic suggestion.

So, get back to your puffing, slave!

Oh, and the petition to rescind Obama's Nobel "Peace" Prize?  Faithful reader Linda sent us the link.  Thanks Linda!

UPDATE: Linda popped up right on cue after I hit print with one possible reason that dengue is in the headlines: money!

If you really want a good laugh, Sanofi Dengue Building is the latest development here in our township. Sanofi has a large  pharaceutical plant here and when I read your story this morning I had to get this off to you.A whole new building especially for a cure for dengue.

You're Watching The Wrong Hand

I hate to piss in everyone's Wheaties here, but I'm just not buying the whole Edward Snowden thing.

Back in the Stone Age, when I didn't mind working 18-hour days, sleeping on a bus and using a calendar instead of a map to figure where I was, I toured with a magician named Doug Henning.  While working on that gig, I learned a thing or two about misdirection.  People's eyes will automatically look at something flashy, allowing other things to pass unnoticed if they are subtle enough.

Sure, this Snowden guy is in the grand tradition of Daniel Ellsberg and Julian Assange, but something just doesn't smell right here.  A 29-year-old man with top secret credentials who worked at the CIA and the NSA and once applied to the Special Forces runs off to Hong Kong before dropping a paper bomb on his former employers.  Nope, don't buy it.  Either his conditioning didn't take, or he was 'allowed' to do what he did, which we remember is blowing the lid off of the most massive and sophisticated spy and surveillance operation in history.

And here I thought they had machines to read people's minds and manipulate their dreams.  Yet, Snowden waltzed out the door with a pile of top secret papers, which we assume he copied and didn't take the originals.

Oh sure, I'm overjoyed that the spooks had their pants yanked down.  Way too much power piled up in one place, as far as I'm concerned.  But my spidey-sense is tingling.  I feel like I do when I watch great magicians - suspicious of what I just saw, or thought I did.

There's an agenda at play here, and not just that of a hero exposing the evil government sneaking into our lives.  It feels like some level higher even than government has put a plan into play.  That it happened at the same time as the Bilderberger meeting only further tweaks my hackles.  There's a bigger picture here.

Some questions: What are the Chinese allowing him to stay in Hong Kong?  Why did the Russians so quickly offer asylum when they couldn't have bothered with Assange?  And why Hong Kong?  I know places in Wyoming where even satellites, bloodhounds and the LA police couldn't find him.  Yet, he runs to one of the most densely populated islands in the world while his photo is being plastered all over global TeeVee?

As Assange noted, I hope he has a backup plan, because so far he's looking a little sloppy.

All of this adds up to side-show to distract the rubes while the real trick is taking place.  After all, why is anyone surprised?  Didn't they read the Patriot Act?  Didn't they read the NDAA?  Didn't they know that spying on citizens was authorized?  Stands to reason, since killing citizens without trial was authorized.  Spying is quite a bit lower on that totem pole.

Even more to the point, doesn't anyone read history - even fairly recent history?  What about J. Edgar Hoover?  What about Nixon's enemies list?  Did we already forget about that?  And what about the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798?  Or Lincoln's General Order 100 or the suspension of Writ of Habeas Corpus?  In fact, Lincoln did more to undermine the Constitution than any president since, and he's a HERO!

So all this hubbub and surprise is really unwarranted.  None of this is new or even surprising.  Both the spying and the laws that authorized it have been around for a while.  Bush and Obama have both said that they would do as much and trotted out their Attorneys General to read off the justifications to bleary eyed press and public.

All this commotion over Snowden can only be distraction.  There is no other explanation.  We should all be looking in every direction but Snowden trying to find the 'trick', because I guarantee while we've been watching him, something has changed that is far more important and subversive.

Now's our chance to start the shunning campaign I have long advocated.  We should all completely ignore the whole Snowden matter, turn off the babbling heads and start digging deep into whatever the other hand was doing while all this went on.  If we refuse to be led down the path by manufactured news stories such as this and doggedly keep looking the other way, it will have a devastating effect on those who deign to rule us. By following this story, we only feed into the insanity which is the uberklassen.

Turn off the TeeVee.  Don't click on any Snowden stories.  Avoid the topic of domestic spying altogether.  And for God's sake, make Congress do some work instead of sitting around like a bunch of nellies gasping and feigning for the cameras (that includes Rand Paul).

This is a great chance for we the people to set the agenda and take that role back from the "press" and the "pols".  It's the perfect issue, the perfect time and the perfect demonstration of our collective power to change things.

I'm all googly and giddy for Snowden, but don't let the messenger steal the message.  You have work to do. You have laws to repeal, pols to throw in jail and a country to take back.  Sounds like your plate is rather full.

So why are you still sitting there?

By the way, have you noticed that every single photo of Snowden is from the left side?  Doesn't that strike you as a bit odd?  Even famous movie stars can't control things that much.