Jon we know from his red pilled journalism and particularly for his focus on epidemics, disease and pandemics long before Certificate of Vaccination ID [covid].
Gerry I only discovered this evening as I did a catch up on what Jay Weidner has been up to lately. Jay was the guy who took Kubrick mainstream (worldwide) in the research community with his Alchemical Kubrick post. Gerry reminds me of a time travelling Isaac Asimov. Great questions and responses in both conversations, but this one is a zinger.
I came back to credit Jay with a link to his original post but he's removed it from his website so here's an archive link if you wish.
I just tried to use Microsoft Citations. It didn't work as hoped and I'm too weary to verify the quote, but just in case you're unsurprised that chat.openai.com claims Ronald Reagan wrote it, let me share you this.
Ronald and Nancy commissioned Edmund Morris to be the official Ronnie Reagan biographer, and they didn't like what he wrote, so they fired him and he still published with Random House.
The book is called Dutch, and Morris makes it clear that Reagan went into every meeting with cue cards, even if only one or two other people were present. This suggests that the article he wrote for HUAC hearings might have a been scripted but I'm open to any fact checkers on the entire topic.
It's a Doozy
Embarrassing update. I vaguely recalled that Buckley claimed to be Catholic so, I checked it out and he was so technically Buckley was not a WASP.
Illegally sold arms to Iranian mullahs Funded death squads in Central America Ignored the AIDS crisis because it was only gay men & Africans dying Repeatedly railed against "welfare queens" with "Cadillacs" Supported apartheid South Africa & called Mandela a "terrorist" https://t.co/Hin5FssGfd
John Judge was the heir to Mae Brussell's research collection. I don't know why he doesn't do much presenting any more but there are gold nuggets of information scattered through the recorded work he has done. Much of this video was made prior to people knowing where the internet was going.
I particularly like the background information on the Reagan assassination attempt including the power struggle and the use of a flechette bullet that the FBI quietly confiscated and lost. I also like the idea of the Bush and Reagan camps arguing it out between each other and Hague and Bush taking over while putting Reagan out to grass.
Good to see popular culture namecheck the ground zero of United States corruption because it's a pet topic of mine that history and the corporate are not allowed to spend too much time on. Reagan was by all accounts a super nice guy who was told what to say and didn't spend much time thinking of the genocides he sponsored. Iran Contra is easily twenty times bigger than Watergate but Watergate was the power elite bringing down a Republican so they gave it the spinmeister treatment. Reality is a bit more complex than what you're told.
Brent Scowcroft confirms my view that he's not instrumental in some kind of CIA Mormon Mafia and that he's not as smart as his reputation might suggest in this video conversation. That doesn't mean he's not interesting. Aside from having a solid gold elite career as a Trilateralist, National Security Advisor, Kissinger Associates and of course Council on Foreign relations his reputation is good. He fought with the really bad elements of the Bush administration (and eventually fell out with Bush Father and Son over a WSJ Op-Ed advising no Iraq invasion) so his well respected reputation is in some respects deserved and interestingly he was chosen by Obama to choose his national security team, a classic Obama bipartisan move. I'd say Scowcroft is like Jimmy Carter; half unwitting shoe-in, half intelligent and half decent. In the scheme of US politics this is as good as it gets.
His marbles are reasonably well together for his age. He is fairly coherent and has a good recall of his time in office during this interview despite being 80ish. He is pictured above in front of Gerald Ford and with Kissinger. This was when all the Neocons moved into the Whitehouse and was a fascinating time for ponerology or the study of evil.
I was doing some research on Reagan and Iran Contra. One thing led to another and, well, you know how it is. The video uploader writes:
I directed this spot with Tom, Patti Deutsch, Teri Garr and Penny Marshall. This was Tom's first and he was so terrific, I gave him the wardrobe. He told me many years later that it was his only suit and he wore it for every casting interview.
Patti, Teri and Penny had done very little work at this early point in their careers. It was a pleasure directing all of them. This commercial was written by Jackie End, a creative force at Wells, Rich, Greene in NY. She was a favorite client then and happily for me, she is still a dear friend today.
Robert Parry is the journalist who broke the Iran Contra scandal. The corporate media prefer to lionize Naval Intelligence insider Bob Woodward over the far more trivial Watergate because the last thing the elites need is people taking a closer look at the ground zero of American corruption Guns for drugs for cash for more guns, more drugs and more cash and the cycle continued. If there's any chunk of history that has given me an A-Ha moment it's hanging around the Iran Contra evidence because it links to everything. Particularly the Bush crime dynasty.
You just can't go wrong researching it. The names you need to know pop up like mushrooms on meth.
Mae Brussels spent 12 hours a day piecing together history from small stories tucked in the back pages of newspapers. She looked at who was having lunch with whom, who was photographed with who, where were people employed and when, what companies were connected to what societies and so on and so forth. We owe her such a debt of gratitude for piecing together who the power elite's executive class are.
This series of three broadcasts is as usual densely packed with information that will overwhelm many but the seasoned researcher will start to see familiar patterns that emerge over and over again. It''s very satisfying to move from the world of theory and conjecture to one of growing certainty. In this respect it is me who claims Bush is involved with Reagan's assassination attempt because of additional information that has come to light since Mae's passing away.
Once again Poppy Bush is the greatest criminal mind ever. Period.
Conspiracy Theories: The Shooting Of Ronald Reagan
On March 30, 1981, a deranged young man attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Just another gun nut, acting on his own? Or was there something more to Reagan’s shooting?
The official story is that John Hinckley Jr, then 25 years old, shot Reagan as the President walked to his limousine after delivering a speech at a Washington, D.C. hotel. Hinckley fired several shots, one of them ricocheting off the limousine and hitting Reagan in the chest. Reagan was wounded but made a quick recovery, with the would-be-killer sent to an institution for the criminally insane. Hinckley claimed he attempted to kill the President to get the attention of actress Jodie Foster, who Hinckley was obsessed with.
But some have suggested Hinckley could have been a mind-controlled fall guy for the CIA. The Agency, conspiracy theorists suggest, wanted their former boss—and Reagan’s own Vice-President—George Herbert Walker Bush, father of the current President, George W. Bush—in the White House instead of the “The Gipper,” as Reagan was fondly known to many.
George Bush worked in an official capacity for the CIA as its Director in 1976-77, but Bush’s association with the Agency stretches back long before that time.
Bush, like his son, was and is a member of the ultra-secretive Skull and Bones Society of Yale. What is known about this Society is that its initiation rituals for new members involve lying naked in a coffin and providing fellow members information they could use for blackmail against them, ensuring their loyalty to the creepy but powerful club. It is also known that Skull and Bones tends to be a place where the equally-creepy CIA recruits many of its high-ranking members.
There is evidence to suggest Bush worked for the CIA as early as 1961. Bush, then a wealthy Texas oilman in his late 30s, visited oil rigs around the world. Was this the perfect cover for a CIA spy? Bush’s oil company was named Zapata—also the codename for the CIA’s ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Castro’s Cuba in 1961. Two of the U.S. Navy ships that were repainted to look like civilian ships for the invasion were named “Barbara” and “Houston,” the name of Bush’s wife and adopted hometown.
The U.S. government released 100,000 pages of old documents related to the President John F. Kennedy assassination in 1978. A memo in that mountain of information was sent by the State Department to “George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency.” The memo wrote of the possibility of another attempted invasion of Cuba following JFK’s death in 1963. Conspiracy buffs point to this as another link in the chain of Bush’s involvement with the CIA long before he was officially the Agency’s Director.
“Must have been another George Bush,” a Bush presidential campaign team member lamely replied when questioned about this in 1980.
There was indeed a George William Bush who worked for the CIA, but only for a few months as a low-ranking office worker in 1964. When tracked down by an investigative journalist about the memo, the former Agency employee replied he was never consulted in any way by the State Department , the FBI or any other government body regarding an invasion of Cuba. “You must mean President Bush,” he said.
George de Mohrenschildt, a Russian-born wealthy Texas oilman who had links to alleged JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, was called to appear before the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978 regarding the JFK killing and his ties to Oswald.
The oilman never made it.
He was found dead after an apparent suicide (?), and in his personal address book investigators found the name “Bush, George H. W. 1412 W. Ohio also Zapata Petroleum Midland.”
To return to the Reagan shooting, could it be that the CIA, with whom George Bush may have had a close association long before becoming its Director, wanted their man—Vice-President George Bush-- in the White House instead of Reagan and used the pathetic Hinckley to do the job? The CIA, conspiracy theorists claim, played a part in the assassination of Kennedy and the removal of Nixon from the White House, so why not try it again?
Consider this.
John Hinckley had flown from Nebraska to Nashville in October 1980 with plans to assassinate President Jimmy Carter, but Nashville airport officials detained him when it was found he had three guns in his luggage. Amazingly, he was released with a fine after a mere five hours in detention, in a city where President Carter was expected. Hinckley also had links with the American Nazi Party and the Islamic Guerilla Army. A member of the latter group apparently warned the Secret Service of Hinckley’s plan to shoot Reagan two months before the shooting, but did nothing about it.
Even more amazingly, the Bush and Hinckley families were old friends. Both families had made a fortune in the Texas oil industry. Bush’s son Neil even had plans to meet with Hinckley’s brother Scott the same evening Reagan was shot.
Was the CIA indeed behind the Reagan shooting?
If so, did George Bush know about it?
Or was the shooting the actions of one violent, mentally-ill young man, who was willing to do anything to get Jodie Foster’s attention?
Ironically, if any ‘good’ came out of the shooting, it was for Jodie Foster.
The unwanted publicity she received as a result of Hinckley’s actions doubtlessly helped her career, and on March 30, 1991, ten years to the day after the Reagan shooting, Foster won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a government agent in “The Silence Of The Lambs.”
Former CIA case officer, former member of National Security Council (NSC) and former CIA Angola Task Force Commander John R. "Bob" Stockwell provides an analysis of the Reagan Revolution. He discusses the fundamental restructuring of the economy and foreign policy, and how Reagan accomplished this. Stockwell scrutinizes Reaganomics and shows how it has weakened the U.S. economically while carrying out an enormous transfer of wealth from the poor and middle classes to the rich. He also criticizes the Reagan record on civil liberties and the interventionist foreign policy. Finally, John proposes alternatives to Reaganism.
Recorded July, 1987 News: June 24, 1987; April 14, 1987
This movie is part of the collection: Alternative Views
Mae Brussell's work is invaluable to the researcher. She was smart, ground breaking and totally plugged into what was going on back in the 70's. In her last broadcast her life was being threatened by the powers deletes and she suffered one of those CIA heart attacks a week or two later.
Her work was not in vain and along with Dave Emory and other researchers her legacy to the United States may be the difference between making it and not making it. Superb stuff.
Update: Mae was Jewish so it's normal that she spotted the Nazi connections we missed. However it goes up the hierarchy chain considerably more. Original video deleted. Replacement found on Youtube. You know why?
I keep going on how Nixon is a smokescreen for the real Presidential criminal (Bob Woodward was Naval Intelligence and never busted another story after Nixon). The controlled media hardly ever focus on Iran Contra but Iran Contra is a festering gangrenous leg ulcer compared to a Nixonian teen pimple. It's that fucking basic folks. Anyhow don't take my word for it because you can watch Ollie North telling us straight that he dealt in guns for cash for drugs for more guns for more cash and you get the picture right? There's loads of very telling moments in this. Just following orders sir. Just following orders.
But what you have to do your homework on to appreciate is that he's admitting to the stuff he can get away with. The real crimes were interrogated by the Iran-Contra hearings sub rosa and experience tells me that if I give it to you straight you wont be able to process it, so do the work and figure out how the world really spins if reality interests you. I'm helping you by pointing you to the meat the corporate media are silent over while jumping up and down at the latest narrative to distract the people.
To be fair it's Bush who was the mastermind. Reagan was an actor. Chosen for the role.
This is a wonderful documentary into the Iran Contra cover-up. It bleeds open threads into all manner of stories including Bush family secrets, Reagan's well delivered lies and the entire military, drug and arms for terrorists clusterfuck that punctuated the 80's in a way that was so extensive nobody quite realised the full spectrum of evil running the United States at the time.Very few still do today. Bless their cotton socks.
I'm reading Alan Bullocks' Ernest Bevin at the moment. It's certainly the most comprehensive biography on Ernie Bevin, but its in some ways a disappointing book. So far I've read one sentence on his marriage and one on his daughter after 300 pages, which is a poor show. We're all a product of the people around us, and I feel that his depth has been stripped by focusing on Bevin's ascent from Trades Union Leader to Minister of Labour, by Churchill's invitation in the coalition government during the second world war. No, its not a great political history book and frankly the British never do quite get it right when trying to paint a picture of our politicians. Its generally either overblown puff pieces or pedestrian led tours of duty-to-detail like the late Roy Jenkins biography on Churchill.
Our cousins in the United States however seem to excel in this department. Maybe its because they have a bigger stage like say in Caro's biographical trilogy of LBJ or for a real left field choice, Edmund Morris' biography on Reagan: 'Dutch'. But for the real master of writing history there probably is no greater insight into power corruption and lies, than by writing your own history, as Kissinger memorably did with his autobiographical trilogy, peaking in the craft of non fiction writing with his second book (for his doctoral dissertation) 'Years of Upheaval' which saw shuttle diplomacy invented, not to mention Vietnam, oil shocks and China to mention a few.
That isn't to say the Bevin biography doesn't shine in parts. In the passage below, we find that he is under pressure in the artificial (for him) habitat as a socialist minister in the house of commons, with criticism all round when the Conservative Churchill steps up and soaks up the punishment in his defence from his own 'side' so to speak.
"To abuse the minister of Labour. He is a working man, a trade union leader. He is taunted with being an unskilled labourer representing an unskilled union. I daresay he gives offence in some quarters; he has his own methods of speech and action. He has a frightful load to carry; he has a job to do which none would envy. He makes mistakes, like I do, though not so many or so serious - he has not got the same opportunities. At any rate he is producing, at this moment, though perhaps on rather expensive terms, a vast and steady volume of faithful effort, the like of which has not been seen before. And if you tell me that the results he produces do not compare with those of totalitarian systems of government and society, I reply by saying 'We shall know more about that when we get to the end of the story'
Time and again Bevin struggles to persuade people that the British worker is motivated most when free to choose their own destiny and less commited when compelled. Only Bevin understood this and fought tooth and nail to gain their permission for anything he subsequently requested from them. This is a logic that totalitarianism never grasps.
