Biden is a one-trick pony in a party of well-meaning morons.
No President has ever been hated so much…
…by the establishment.
Ironic.
It took one of their own to bring them to their knees.
And now the establishment has come up with an exceptionally-pathetic excuse for a candidate:
Joe Biden.
Republicans tried to elect a showroom dummy once (recently).
Mitt Romney.
Had the looks.
What could go wrong?
He came off as cold.
Plastic.
And so all the genius, conniving minds of the Democrat Party have gotten behind the person they think can Trojan their specious ideas into the realm of policy.
It is quite obvious.
Joe Biden didn’t get a big enough shot in the ass of ginkgo biloba to really stay in the ring 12 rounds with Trump.
Joe needs to be mainlining that shit by now.
If Joe Biden ate nothing but onions and drank nothing but tea, his brain would still be like a hunk of Swiss cheese.
Trump, fresh off recovering from the plague of the century (once-in-a-100-years) was cogent and articulate.
Look around.
If every media outlet, every source of information, every sports star, every celebrity is against Trump, what does that make Trump?
Anti-establishment.
So, go ahead.
Vote for Joe.
Joe couldn’t last five minutes playing Tropico (much less five minutes actually running the USA).
And he will not be running the USA (if elected).
Swiss-cheese-brain Biden has actually bought and believed the syrupy propaganda of his own party.
Which makes sense.
Because his brain has become (and will rapidly accelerate towards being) childlike.
Which doesn’t excuse Biden of being a nakedly-corrupt politician par excellence.
Joe would bring the old gang back together.
Hillary would have a chance to get her pay-to-play Clinton Foundation back up and running.
Hell, why not make her Secretary of State again?
She will be emboldened to shred every law because, even though she got caught, she paid no price (except for the nosedive in Clinton Foundation contributions).
You would have “bonesmen” like Austan Goolsbee.
[a pale imitation of an actually-competent individual (Mnuchin)]
Hell, bring ’em all back.
Comey at FBI.
Brennan at CIA.
Lynch on the Supreme Court.
Bring back Eric “Fast and Furious” Holder.
Put Bernie’s great economic theories to work at the Department of Labor.
[another guy who would crap out at Tropico within minutes]
Because it’s all one big gang.
It’s all one big, compromised gang.
And it’s all about making money OFF the people (rather than making money FOR the people).
Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters…
“Liberals”.
Limousine liberals (as they say).
Their respective personal worth always MAGICALLY balloons in their years of “service” to the USA.
It doesn’t take a genius to make money that way.
It takes a scumbag.
Trump didn’t need the money.
Hell, he gives away his Presidential salary checks.
But there is something.
He is GOOD AT MAKING MONEY.
So, yeah…
He didn’t fight in Vietnam.
[it’s also quite likely he never disparaged the military]
“Anonymous sources”…
Joe Biden disparaged the military ON TAPE, but never a hardball question about that:
[6’10” —> “clap for that, you stupid bastards”]
on tape.
Joe Biden has a problem with being caught on tape.
Here bragging about getting a Ukrainian prosecutor fired (while using American taxpayer dollars as leverage). Hmmm, why would he want a UKRAINIAN prosecutor (?!?) fired? Why would he brag about it? What was this prosecutor investigating? Why would we interfere in the judicial system of the Ukraine (by way of Joe Biden)? Seems like his son Hunter had some dealings in Ukraine. Hmmm… Could it be, that this prosecutor was investigating his son Hunter???
But Joe Biden also has, how can I put this tactfully, other “problems” on tape. It’s not just the hair of women he is sniffing:
Wouldn’t be so bad (?) if it was an isolated incident. Maybe it was taken out of context?
You don’t need to watch all 17 minutes of the above clip to get the gist. Â Joe Biden takes liberties with children…knowingly…on C-SPAN, etc. Â What does he do behind closed doors? Â The footage we’ve seen is shocking enough.
Joe Biden makes women and children (particularly Chris Coons’ daughter) feel uncomfortable. Â You can see it in the body language. Â Biden whispers in their ears. Â And the young Coons daughter pulls away from the kiss. Â Cre-epy!
But in this debate (the final of the 2020 season), Donald Trump made Joe Biden feel uncomfortable…especially when Trump brought up the “laptop from hell”. Â You could see it in Joe’s body language. Â
“It’s all lies,” said Joe repeatedly throughout the two debates.
Pull his string: Â “It’s all lies.”
“Come on, man!”
Sometimes it’s funny.
Like the moronic George W. Bush who was part and parcel of the cabal that brought down the Twin Towers.
Bush was funny.
But scary.
Because he was so dumb.
But Joe Biden is not so completely ravaged by senile dementia not to feel the fear at even the mention of “the laptop from hell”.
But let’s hit some key points.
Joe Biden cannot consistently get his train of thought from point A to point B. Â Witness this gem:
“And I don’t look at this in terms of the way he does, blue states and red states. They’re all the United States. And look at the states that are having such a spike in the coronavirus. They’re the red states, they’re the states in the Midwest, they’re the states in the upper Midwest. “
Trump knows his opponent is mentally-compromised.
But Trump also knows that his opponent is a textbook corrupt politician:
“Joe, you have raised a lot of money, tremendous amounts of money. And every time you raise money deals are made, Joe. I could raise so much more money. As President, and as somebody that knows most of those people, I could call the heads of Wall Street, the heads of every company in America. I would blow away every record. But I don’t want to do that because it puts me in a bad position.“
Like with the kids, Joe just couldn’t help himself (even against the obvious preparation where his advisors explicitly told him to, under no circumstances, broach this topic) #LaptopFromHell:
“His own National Security Advisor told him that what is happening with his buddy… Well, I shouldn’t… Well, I will. His buddy Rudy Giuliani. He’s being used as a Russian pawn.”
Joe fucked up. Â As Trump explains:
“Well, let me respond to the first part, as Joe answered. Joe got $3.5 million from Russia and it came through Putin, because he was very friendly with the former mayor of Moscow and it was the mayor of Moscow’s wife. And you got $3.5 million. Your family got $3.5 million. And someday you’re going to have to explain, why did you get three and a half? I never got any money from Russia. I don’t get money from Russia.”
“But now, with what came out today, it’s even worse. All of the emails, the emails, the horrible emails of the kind of money that you were raking in, you and your family. And Joe, you were vice-president when some of this was happening, and it should have never happened. And I think you owe an explanation to the American people. Why is it, somebody just had a news conference a little while ago who was essentially supposed to work with you and your family, but what he said was damning. And regardless of me, I think you have to clean it up and talk to the American people. Maybe you can do it right now.”
“…I don’t make money from China. You do. I don’t make money from Ukraine. You do. I don’t make money from Russia. You made $3.5 million, Joe, and your son gave you, they even have a statement that we have to give 10% to the big man. You’re the big man, I think. I don’t know, maybe you’re not, but you’re the big man, I think.”
#TheBigGuy.
AKA #TheBigMan.
Truth:
“I was put through a phony witch hunt for three years. It started before I even got elected. They spied of my campaign. No president should ever have to go through what I went through. Let me just say this, Mueller and 18 angry Democrats and FBI agents all over the place spent $48 million. They went through everything I had, including my tax returns, and they found absolutely no collusion and nothing wrong. $48 million. I guarantee you, if I spent $1 million on you, Joe, I could find plenty wrong because the kind of things that you’ve done and the kind of monies that your family has taken, I mean, your brother made money in Iraq…millions of dollars. Your other brother made a fortune, and it’s all through you, Joe. And they say you get some of it. And you do live very well, you have houses all over the place. You live very well.”
Fire when ready:
“His son didn’t have a job for a long time, was, sadly, no longer in the military service, I won’t get into that, and he didn’t have a job. As soon as he became vice-president, Burisma, not the best reputation in the world, I hear they paid him $183,000 a month, listen to this, $183,000, and they gave him a $3 million upfront payment, and he had no energy experience. That’s 100% dishonest.”
Trump did this same thing to Hillary.
Blew holes in her metaphorical hull.
Torpedoes.
“He is the vice-president of the United States and his son, his brother, and his other brother are getting rich. They’re like a vacuum cleaner. They’re sucking up money…”
Incoming:
“His son walked out with a billion and a half dollars from China to…after spending 10 minutes in office and being in Air Force Two. Number one. Number two, there’s a very strong email talking about your family wanting to make $10 million a year for introductions.”
Joe Biden does not understand international finance.
He does not understand the implications of Chinese currency devaluations.
He doesn’t even understand the mechanism.
Joe Biden is a (renovated) showroom dummy:
“My response is, look, there’s a reason why he’s bringing up all this malarkey. There’s a reason for it. He doesn’t want to talk about the substantive issues. It’s not about his family and my family. It’s about your family, and your family’s hurting badly. If you’re a middle-class family, you’re getting hurt badly right now. You’re sitting at the kitchen table this morning deciding, ‘Well, we can’t get new tires. They’re bald, because we have to wait another month or so.’ Or, ‘Are we going to be able to pay the mortgage?’ Or, ‘Who’s going to tell her she can’t go back to community college?’ They’re the decisions you’re making, and the middle-class families like I grew up in Scranton and Claymont, they’re in trouble. We should be talking about your families, but that’s the last thing he wants to talk about.”
Bill Clinton was persuasive when he was peddling this same shit.
Joe Biden isn’t.
And Trump calls it out:
“That is a typical statement.
[…]
That’s a typical political statement. Let’s get off this China thing, and then he looks, ‘The family around the table, everything.’ Just a typical politician when I see that. I’m not a typical politician.
[…]
That’s why I got elected. Let’s get off the subject of China. Let’s talk about sitting around the table. Come on, Joe. You could do better.”
Joe Biden only has one “dollar word” left in his intellectual quiver:
“The public option is an option that says that if you in fact do not have the wherewithal, if you qualify for Medicaid and you do not have the wherewithal in your state to get Medicaid, you automatically are enrolled, providing competition for insurance companies.”
Twice in the same sentence?!?
Come on, man!!
Joe’s (and the Democrats’) answer for everything is “bailout”…as Trump begins to delineate:
“The bill that was passed in the House was a bailout of badly run, high crime, Democrat, all run by Democrat cities and states. It was a way of getting a lot of money, billions and billions of dollars, to these guys. It was also a way of getting a lot of money from our people’s pockets to people that come into our country illegally. We were going to take care of everything for them. And I’d love to do that. I’d love to help them. But what that does, everybody all over the world will start pouring into our country. We can’t do it. This was a way of taking care of them. This was a way of spending on things that had nothing to do with COVID, as per your question. But it was really a big bailout for badly run Democrat cities and states.”
Joe wants a planned economy (like Uncle Joe Stalin had). Â Price ceilings. Â Price floors. Â Arbitrary values for labor (a major factor in production). Â It doesn’t work.
Trump defeats this backwards economic chestnut in one sentence:
“How are you helping your small businesses when you’re forcing wages?”
Watch the price of eggs.
That’s how you will see the free market (as opposed to a planned economy) assert itself.
Supply and demand.
As simple as that.
Don’t toy with it.
Don’t stifle it.
Let it create value.
For everyone.
It may be trite, but “a rising tide lifts all ships” (as it is said).
The stock market is equivalent to the vital signs of a medical patient.
Joe may or may not understand that.
Again, he seems to have bought the “black propaganda” (total disinformation) of his own party.
What little brain Joe has left has been thoroughly washed of all real-world, economic logic.
As good as Kristen Welker was (and she was quite good [compared to the atrociously-partisan Chris Wallace]), she is still part of a profession that, when it comes to Democrat interviewees, almost always shirks its duty:
“Who built the cages? I’d love you to ask him that. Who built the cages, Joe?”
The U.S. immigration system is broken (on purpose). Â And Joe should know that. Â But he still blithely opines otherwise. Â Trump truth:
“And then you say they come back. Less than 1% of the people come back. We have to send ICE out and Border Patrol out to find them. We would say, ‘Come back in two years, three years. We’re going to give you a court case. You did Perry Mason. We’re going to give you a court case.’ When you say they come back, they don’t come back, Joe. They never come back. Only the really… I hate to say this, but those with the lowest IQ, they might come back, but there are very, very few.”
Sure.
Trump is rough around the edges.
But he is no bullshit.
And there are a few opinion leaders (Johnny Rotten) who understand and appreciate this.
Joe steps in it again:
“My daughter is a social worker and she’s written a lot about this. She has her graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in social work.”
Doesn’t take a fucking genius to see that Sleepy Joe is actually Creepy Joe.
MOAB:
“You know Joe, I ran because of you. I ran because of Barack Obama, because you did a poor job. If I thought you did a good job, I would’ve never run. I would’ve never run. I ran because of you. I’m looking at you now, you’re a politician, I ran because of you.”
And again (for good measure):
“If this stuff is true about Russia, Ukraine, China, other countries, Iraq. If this is true, then he’s a corrupt politician. So don’t give me the stuff about how you’re this innocent baby. Joe, they’re calling you a corrupt politician…They’re calling it the laptop from hell.”
Emphasis mine.
No cap:
“But, why didn’t he get it done? See, it’s all talk, no action with these politicians, why didn’t he get it? ‘That’s what I’m going to do when I become president.’ You were vice president along with Obama as your president, your leader, for eight years, why didn’t you get it done? You had eight years to get it done, now you’re saying you’re going to get it done because you’re all talking and no action, Joe.”
#AllTalkNoAction
Biden: Â “I don’t know where he comes from. Â I don’t know where he comes up with these numbers.”
First, I owe a deep apology to my fellow bloggers who have continued to follow and support me. I have been swamped with work and embroiled in the current US election. Thank you so much for your kindness! I look forward to graduating with a master’s degree in about a month and hope to “get back on the wagon” of following each and every one of your amazing blogs.
Second, my conscience requires that I addend my previous takes on two very controversial figures: Marina Abramović and Edward Snowden.
As I have continued my research on Ms. Abramović, I am more and more convinced that her dabblings in the occult are not mere innocent instances of artistic expression. I still do not know what role she plays in the increasingly lurid child sex ring which is leaking from NYPD and FBI sources, but her buddies the Podestas (John Podesta, Hillary’s campaign chairman, and his brother Tony) seem more and more solidly “in the tank” as regards genuine sexual abuse of minors, child trafficking, and (even more shocking) ritualistic murder of these same kidnapped children.
I am not saying that the Podestas are guilty of these crimes. I am, however, pointing out that mounting evidence suggests they are part of something which bears this general outline. Also involved is the (likely) Saudi spy Huma Abedin. But the kingpins seem to be the Clintons themselves.
I was a bit dismissive of hysteria when I defended Marina Abramović’s artistic merits. I do still think she is an incredibly gifted artist. But no amount of genius excuses child rape and ritualistic murder of young people. [We shall be discussing here a similarly “brilliant” psychopath: Lex Luthor.]
Quite frankly, Hillary Clinton seems to be a witch in the most literal sense.
Lexi Luthor?
Lexus Luthor?
It was my imperfect knowledge which caused my failure to grasp the bigger picture in the Abramović case (“spirit cooking”, in which the Podesta brothers and John’s wife Mary engaged in presumably a dinner with artist Marina Abramović which likely involved ingesting breast milk, semen, urine, and blood).
But there is more to “spirit cooking”…and more to Marina Abramović.
First, it has been suggested that the TRUEST (most genuine) “spirit cooking” would be, essentially, cannibalism:Â eating the flesh or organs of spirits (dead children) who are cooked.
Second, Abramović’s references are not anodyne. I cannot get into the details of “spirit cooking’s” connections to Aleister Crowley and Thelema because I am not conversant in such esoteric knowledge. But I can confirm that child sacrifice is an obsession of the ruling elites in at least the US and UK (as evidenced by the opening ceremonies of Bohemian Club meetings near San Francisco which are documented to include a “mock” child sacrifice called “the cremation of care”).
My conclusion that Hillary Clinton truly practices illegal manifestations of magic is partly due to the words of former Clinton family employee Larry Nichols who is on record as saying that Bill Clinton told him that Hillary Clinton would make monthly (at least) treks to California to participate in a witches’ coven. You can bet she wasn’t playing second fiddle at these shindigs!
And so what my readers must understand is that, for these perverse elites, black magic is very real. At the very least, it appears that they are engaged in illegal activities pursuant to these ritualistic leanings. And thus, as stated, my take on Marina Abramović was both uninformed and naïve insofar as occult context goes.
Hillary Luthor.
vs. Superman.
I must make a further confession. I may have done injustice to Edward Snowden to be so skeptical of his aims. The same goes for my suspicion of Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras.
And I’ll tell you why.
The majority of real news we are getting in the USA is thanks to WikiLeaks.
Edward Snowden has certainly been lumped in with Julian Assange.
To my satisfaction, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have proven themselves to be a credible (and priceless) asset for world freedom.
And so perhaps I was too harsh on Snowden.
One thing is certain:Â we must remember that the eyes are the most easily-fooled of our senses.
So for me to proclaim, as an amateur film critic, that I know the score of Snowden’s veracity should not be taken as gospel truth.
Superman.
Is Edward Snowden the Superman in this whole thing?
Is Assange?
Actually, I would make the case that it is (rather) Donald Trump who is the true Superman on the world stage at the moment.
And it is indeed germane that he be facing off against Hillary Luthor.
And so we have a brilliant movie.
From director Richard Donner.
This is what superhero movies should be like.
Back when CGI didn’t suck (and the Clinton Global Initiative was yet to exist).
Superman brings hope.
To the deepest, darkest, most depressed and forgotten corners of America.
Not insignificant, Superman is a journalist by day.
The names here are blockbuster.
Marlon Brando as Superman’s biological father.
Perhaps James Comey is like Brando’s character Jor-El (who pronounces judgment against insurrectionists but then must acquiesce to the fate of death for he and his wife).
Which is to say, maybe James Comey of the US FBI is an honorable man.
Sure doesn’t seem like it.
But from surrender, a child is borne upon the seas of outer space.
Glenn Ford is excellent as Superman’s adoptive father.
Phyllis Thaxter is wonderful as Superman’s adoptive mother.
Jeff East is very good as the teenage Clark Kent.
Superman is all about the outcast getting his revenge on society…BY DOING GOOD!
Are you an outcast?
Yes.
Me too.
And we all know pain.
The pain of discrimination. Not fitting in. Being the odd man out. The ugly duckling.
We can feel that the world (our little world) doesn’t want us.
And it is tremendously traumatic.
But Superman is a bit like Saint Jude the Apostle:Â patron saint of lost causes.
Superman speaks to the most lowly among us.
Schizophrenics. Shut-ins. Impoverished. Living in squalor.
Superman lets us dream.
We may have nothing but a VCR. We have never gone on a date, much less had a girlfriend.
The world has forgotten about us.
But Superman gives us hope.
That someone or some thing is going to come along and lift us out of our misery.
The Trump connection is strong.
Doesn’t drink. Doesn’t smoke.
Superman.
The World Trade Center (still standing) in the background (1978).
As Christopher Reeve zips through the New York City sky.
Mr. Reeve is astonishingly good as an actor in this film.
Enter Lois Lane.
Margot Kidder is so charming in this film 🙂
Her skinny little frame never stops moving as she tries to get the latest scoop in her job as a reporter.
But what else does Superman represent?
He represents the good cops who dive into the abyss each night to patrol the unpredictability of our streets.
He represents the good FBI who “damn the torpedoes” and go after the bad guys (and gals) [whomever they turn out to be].
Superman fights crime.
He never lies.
Superman is a protector.
Like the brave Secret Service agents who did a wonderful job shielding Mr. Trump two days ago in Reno from what could have been imminent gunfire.
Supermen are willing human shields.
Defenders.
Like our military.
And Superman does not suffer the deviance of pencil pushers who would try and leverage their brilliance to harm people.
If I was a Hillary supporter, I would compare Trump to Lex Luthor (realtors both).
But sometimes history offers us a counterintuitive option.
Donald Trump, while a realtor, is not out to screw the American public.
He has enough money.
He’s not a sycophant like Hillary.
The famous red “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat does not feature Trump’s name on it.
It’s not about him.
It’s about America.
Hillary’s campaign always comes back to her…in a self-serving way.
Neither of Hillary’s taglines (including “Stronger Together”) ring true.
Mostly because SHE doesn’t ring true. In anything. At all. Ever.
But Superman is for real teamwork.
Superman has humility.
But he also has immense confidence. Pride, not arrogance.
And not least, Superman has a wry sense of humor.
With Luthor’s “staffer” Otis (Ned Beatty), there are a plethora of possible parallels to the iniquitous (and, frankly, incompetent) team of ass-kissers with whom Hillary has surrounded herself.
While John Podesta may very well be categorically evil, he’s no evil genius.
What kind of idiot forgoes the advice to encrypt?
But Hillary is really her own Otis.
Only Otis would be so dumb as to use a personal email server and (among other things) let her Filipino maid print out classified documents while Hillary was at Foggy Bottom.
Which makes Hillary the foggy bottom-feeder. Always. Forever.
Good attracts evil.
Good can change evil (and vice versa).
But be good…and you will reap the rewards of goodness.
Perhaps Valerie Perrine will rescue you from a swimming pool 🙂
We must save our mothers in Hackensack.
If you’re on the side of evil, it’s time to switch teams.
Good is merciful.
Do not wait until it’s too late.
Hillary has poisoned her own well just like Lex Luthor.
She is coming down.
It’s not a question of if, but rather of when.
However, those who have the opportunity to expose her misdeeds and yet stay silent must bear upon their consciences their accessory roles as silent partners to the evil destruction of America.
There may not be another chance.
So many people are tied to Hillary’s ring of corruption.
If they retain power, they will use all means necessary to purge the country of dissenters.
Perhaps we could count Gaumont as a television player (they deserve thanks regardless).
Likewise, there was the French CNC.
What the fuck does any of this have to do with Twin Peaks?
It’s the red drapes. The big rig. The details.
The myna bird. The poker chip. The cuckoo clock.
Birds in general.
[meant in all possible ways]
Two eyelids? Per side? Red light was my baby? Blue light was my mind?
BBC 1? BBC 2?
Television can’t possibly get any better than this.
Episode 5. Season 1.
We talk about David Lynch.
And we should.
He’s the big gun.
But we don’t mention Mark Frost.
Genius needs organization.
Who’s who?
And who reeled it in (fishy coffee)?
A:Â Lesli Linka Glatter.
Director.
We’re all Icelanders.
“Ich bin ein Berliner.” [with Addison’s disease]
And just as he reaches for the jelly donut (lots of donuts [my favorite])…no, a strudel. No. A sort of maple syrup concoction. Brisk? Bisque? Bris?
Long John! [I was way off]
Just as he reaches…no-look…opening the cabinet…a little secret altar…all with secret places…false bottoms (and real fronts).-
We see the joy of mental activity.
Of solving a puzzle.
Of feeling the brain cells (all two in my case) rub up against one another.
Many problems we have.
This would be a good point to end. Poorly.
Ms. Glatter’s fine direction brings authorship (in the auteurist sense) into question.
Was Lynch too busy?
Was he deemed unqualified for network work? Work.
I can’t answer all that.
Not right now.
Gather and interpret.
Orlando looks as fake as a three-dollar bill.
“reality erupts within the spectacle”
“and the spectacle is real”
There’s more than one way to pretend to skin a cat.
And the same venal studio system. The same generally repugnant mass media.
Which pipes digital air (pollution) into your home.
When we dig into history we must wade through many boring reams of paper.
If, for instance, your FOIA request is granted, you might be inundated with a fecundity of information which makes comprehension initially prohibitive.
But we dig anyway…because we are human.
Once in awhile, a decent man or woman will tell us we have the right to know the truth.
If we find their ethics convincing, we might respect them for such a statement.
And so such is the milieu surrounding the story conveyed in Francesco Rosi’s Salvatore Giuliano.
I was tired.
And so I watched and watched and watched…and things became slower.
Nothing seemed to be happening.
It was like a particularly painful silent film.
But the sound eventually makes itself indispensable.
It is the sound of strange relationships.
Like the Mafia and the CIA.
Like the Cubans and the CIA.
Like the Mafia and the Vatican.
Like the P2 Masonic lodge and Operation Gladio.
These strange relationships.
What can we prove?
Should we cower forever beneath the hulking torts of libel and slander?
What balance of justice is there between the free speech of the impoverished and defamation?
I have nothing worth taking.
There’s a reason Palsgraf sued the Long Island Railroad Co. and not the man with the newspaper-wrapped box of fireworks.
Money.
Seeking a remedy at law (as opposed to a remedy in equity).
Such a strange language.
We don’t speak this way other than in legal circumstances.
Today, when Scalia strangely bites the dust…we remember his own supposed connection to the Propaganda Due lodge.
Strange bedfellows.
Blowback.
And Salvatore Giuliano. A real personage.
It all seems so reminiscent of the “strategy of tension”…Operation Gladio…the “anni di piombo” (Years of Lead)…
And I’m sorry to say that Wikipedia seems pruned and poised to mislead on these subjects. While the contributors have made certain that Daniele Ganser is profusely maligned, I find Mr. Ganser’s research and writing on the above subjects far superior to the damage-control tone of Wikipedia.
It is the same sort of failure (this damage-control tone) which pervades the potentially groundbreaking Wikipedia page on “9/11 conspiracy theories”. Some very important (rich) people have much at stake in keeping the (false) narrative constrained to a very tight frame.
Compare, for instance, the Wikipedia articles on “9/11 conspiracy theories” (don’t even bother reading the whitewashed main article on 9/11) and “flat earth”. There is no urgency to conceal in the flat earth article. The same, sadly, cannot be said for the “9/11 conspiracy theories” travesty.
And what does all of this have to do with Salvatore Giuliano?
Well, my friends, sometimes our enemies have very colorful histories.
Consider, for instance, Osama bin Laden.
The U.S. Republican presidential candidates (particularly the deplorably daft Marco Rubio) are (while no worse than their opposing party) willfully ignorant concerning 9/11.
Rubio and company (the six remaining Republican presidential candidates) have bought hook-line-and-sinker every bit of repugnant narrative which has emanated from the U.S. federal government since day one:Â 9/11/01.
How closely did we work with Osama during Operation Cyclone?
Charlie Wilson’s War doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface.
And what was the nature of the relationship between the CIA and the Pakistani ISI?
The much-maligned Michael Ruppert seems to have been right on the money in describing a confluence of oil, drugs (opium), and geopolitical chess when tracing the cui bono of 9/11 to the bonanza of Afghanistan. Of course, Iraq would soon follow.
And so what of Thierry Meyssan’s claims regarding the translation of the words al-Qaeda from the Arabic to the English as “the base” or “the database”? Such a translation seems entirely plausible when considering Osama’s coursework of business administration at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia. It is, therefore, a strange mesh of false jihad (for show) and organizational acumen. It seems that the billions (before adjusting for inflation) which flowed from the CIA to the mujahideen were, at least to some significant extent, used to fund Osama’s organization in Afghanistan during the Soviet war (1979-1989).
This is usually the place at which the spin doctors attempt to interpolate the concept of blowback. The idea that we “abandoned” Osama after we were done with him. But I don’t buy that for a second. He was too valuable. He was, literally, an investment.
Michael Ruppert said in his excellent tome Crossing the Rubicon that (to paraphrase) “the CIA is Wall Street”.
Ah, but I keep leaving Salvatore Giuliano in the dust.
Mostly because I don’t want to spoil it.
This is an essential film, but it is a lot of work for the piece of meat.
I can’t say on first viewing that it is little.
To truly appreciate this film one would need a significant knowledge of Italian history in the 20th century. I barely caught the Garibaldi reference (and he died in 1882).
Strange alliances. Corruption. Italy. Sicily.
And the Communists who peacefully organized on May Day to petition the government for assistance with running water and electricity (in 1947). (!)
The century would go badly for socialists in Italy. And that was no accident. They have NATO to thank for many problems. But they also have their own security services to blame as well.
Such a fear of communism. Like today. Such a fear of Islam.
And sadly, covert operations done in the coldly-utilitarian spirit of “the ends justify the means”…
But pay particular attention to the effort needed by the police (or was it the carbinieri?) to place the body (habeas corpus) in a convincing sprawl for a chalk outline. Yeah…whoops! Once again, the “death” of bin Laden is instructive.
It takes great lengths to hold no one accountable for internal weaknesses in such massive crimes.
And so perhaps with Salvatore Giuliano, the more apt metaphor is Lee Harvey Oswald (or, closer still, Jack Ruby).
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