If you’ve been off the main internet drag, you will have noticed that there are now two CIA links to the Boston Marathon bombers. You will note that the Benghazi and “AP” scandals also involve the CIA.

The CIA plays a game that its employees in the media follow faithfully. When there’s a possibility that the pubic is about to put things together someone in the CIA does something stupid and the public laughs and says stuff like, “The U.S. thinks this is state of art spycraft.”

No, the CIA doesn’t think this is so much spycraft as CYA, and the media and public seem to fall for it every time. The dude with the wig gets sent packing and gets a desk job at Langley for his troubles.

Look to Graham Fuller and Uncle Ruslan. Fuller goes back to Iran-contra.

To be fair to the guy, I think he calls himself the Third Eagle, I saw another video by him where he said that Obama was NOT the Anti-Christ.

Err, I meant to say the surplus wasn’t that big and didn’t last that long.

First off, the surpluses were bipartisan. As someone said somewhere on the internet in the last 24 hours the Democrats are the tax collectors of our country.

The deficit wasn’t that big and it didn’t last that long, but certainly it could have been used to better purposes.

What has destroyed the economy is that too much wealth is being taken out of the economy, sitting in the pockets of the rich. No one invests in business expansion if there is no market to sell things.

Which leads me to Republican economics. The grand strategy behind the trickle-down was never to make the middle-class rich. It was an intentional fraud in order to permanently restructure America to an economy of the ultra-rich and the rest of us servants.

Now, the organization that they belong to is passing laws in direct contradiction to the Constitution. Laws meant to keep the shootings and the illegal cell phone scrambling from drawing public ire.

As I understand it, what BART did was cut off the signal boosters that enable cell phone signals to be strong enough to receive underground in BART stations and tunnels. That is, they turned off a service. That’s certainly not scrambling, and I don’t think there’s anything in the Constitution which requires everyone to supply cell phone service. Otherwise, AT&T would be in federal court every day.

There seems to be a paragraph fail in the posting program. All the paragraphs run together no matter what I try to do.

A public protest is sticky business. The protesters generally are trying to bring attention to a problem or bring change to a policy. Part of that strategy is to engage the public and gain support.

BART’s problems started with what looked to the world to be the execution murder of Oscar Grant at the Fruitvale Station in Oakland. There was what could be called a riot in Oakland. The Oakland DA did prosecute the cop responsible, Johannes Mehserle, charging him with murder. The venue was changed to LA and placed in front of a judge who had a history of being very sympathetic towards police. He blocked some very important evidence. Nevertheless, Mehserle was convicted of a lesser manslaughter charge and accompanying gun charges. The judge threw out the gun charges and Mehserle spent a minimal amount of time in prison.

The instant case involved a homeless man, apparently intoxicated and with a history of mental illness, who apparently threw a bottle and knife at police. From what is seen in the video it appears that something less than lethal force could have subdued this man.

Long short, the BART police certainly have demonstrated bad, even murderous judgment and as an organization needs to be thoroughly investigated, retrained, etc.

The question is how blocking BART and inconveniencing commuters helps to gain the public’s support for this. It seems that this is exactly the worst way of gaining support. It’s not even clear, at least from reporting, exactly how the demonstrations would bring about any messages.

If anything, the demonstrations have alienated the public and pushed many to support BART and demand even more severe police tactics.

When I was young, in the 1960s, I protested the Vietnam War. In every anti-war group there were agent provocateurs, from the police, the CIA, DIA, the FBI, whatever. They were the ones who’d want to throw a brick through a window at a candlelight vigil. If anything it appears like the budget for provocateurs has expanded greatly since the sixties.

Brilliant!

It’s not just the independents switching. I was looking at the returns from Wisconsin. There appears to be a half million voters from 2008 missing by 2010. When Democratic politicians don’t do what their constituency wants people stay home.

In the early 70s I discovered the Bert Jansch/Mary Hopkin version of this song. Fascinating how it started as a folk song, then Roberta Flack made it her own, and how Jansch’s arrangement changes it back. Not sure but I’m guessing that that’s Danny Thompson from Pentangle on the acoustic bass with that loping line.

Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RBRWWZdq98

There are many good books which touch on the coup of 1963, to include The Man Who Knew Too Much, Family Of Secrets and others.

An out-of-print book which goes into incredible detail is Harvey And Lee, which documents what many people reported soon after the assassination, that there appeared to be numerous Lee Oswalds.

In fact, having several people use the same identity is an old intelligence trick (Castro had identical twins working for his intelligence unit). While one agent does something the other can appear publicly at another place to provide an alibi. In the Oswald case it appears to be the opposite. While one Oswald was put into place to take the blame another flamboyantly behaved to incriminate the fall guy. That’s why while Oswald (who didn’t have a driver’s license) worked at his job at the book depository another Oswald went to a car dealership during the first Oswald’s working hours, drove a test car crazily, talked about how great Soviet cars were and how he was going to come into a lot of money very soon.

Among many other incidents.

In fact, the CIA had a picture of a man who looked nothing like Oswald impersonating Oswald in Mexico City the same time that another Oswald was around Alice Springs, TX and still a third Oswald, the one arrested for the assassination, was in the Dallas area. Why would anyone impersonate a nobody in front of a camera in Mexico City six weeks before the assassination?

A remarkable book. Good luck in finding a copy.

There is an interesting essay in the book The Assassinations, edited by Pease and DiEugenio, about the second “assassination of JFK.

In the early years after JFK’s death Americans almost unanimously held Kennedy in high regard. They also did not trust the Warren Commission’s version of events in Dealy Plaza.

A number of anti-JFK books and news accounts began circulating, and continue to this day. They have all been largely unsubstantiated or demonstrably false. They also come from sources that have connections to the American intelligence services.

What is the motive? Well, if JFK were a no-good, womanizing, violent, diseased lout who was going to die anyway, why care about him and how he died?

The essay is an excellent summary of how the Mighty Wurlitzer has promoted this propaganda. Here’s the Amazon link:

http://www.amazon.com/Assassinations-Probe-Magazine-JFK-Malcolm/dp/0922915822/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1301492682&sr=1-1

True, California didn’t legalize marijuana, but it has reduced possession of small amounts to a ticket, which I think is also around $100.

The next question to ask is what is the more powerful constituency that trumps the will of the voters. For ex, which corporations are more patriotic and realize the importance of bringing democracy to Afghanistan? Heh heh heh heh. And what is the nature of their power? Back in the sixties and seventies there were politicians who ran against Vietnam War. Why, there was Bobby Kennedy who ran for President against the war. Why aren’t there politicians like him now? Heh heh heh.

Back in 1972 Lucianne Goldberg worked as a spy on the McGovern campaign, using a CIA journalist cover (NANA) to find out any dirt on people in the campaign. Goldberg then went on to be Mark Fuhrman’s literary agent and give birth to her son Jonah, who rewrote the history of WWII and fascism to scapegoat liberals for what reactionaries did. Heh heh heh.