The Clintons, Bush & CIA Drug Smuggling

One of the reasons I have no time for the fake left right divide cheerleaders is they're too busy waving the team colours to do the grown up homework and figure out that at an elite level they're all in it together in business and crime. The Clintons were savvy enough to get into bed with the CIA and Bush senior to smuggle drugs using an Arkansas airport called Mena while on the road to the presidency. They were also smart enough not to get involved with the money but to use the favours they granted (and the killings they covered up) to gain political influence. That's how it works folks. Waving a flag for your team or getting into a spitting contest with the other side is for infants. Don't take my word for it. Do the work and make your own conclusion. But the work isn't a quick skim. It's the books, the interviews, the FOIA documents and the thinking it through.

Don't expect the corporate media to spend time on reality. There's no money in it, and if you think that through, that's a good idea in the long run otherwise we'd do the right thing for the wrong reasons.

Black Swan

Natalie Portman in Black Swan is extraordinary. The rest of the cast are flawless too including the protagonist Vincent Cassel of Irreversible; another great movie. I've had this post in drafts for some time so I I don't feel like writing too much about it except to say I enjoyed that I found Natalie Portman's character annoying about half way and started to root for her to fall apart. I know that sounds bizarre but I like the change of emphasis from rooting for her in the first half to wishing her downfall on in the second half. She's still an extraordinary actor and one of the finest female artists of her generation. I'm impressed and her ballet skill was not negligible in this film. She excelled.

John R. Stockwell - CIA Whistleblower

Only a handful of brave individuals have had the patriotism and courage to tell the American people what they don't want to know. John Stockwell is thoughtful, caring and candid enough to admit he stayed in the CIA for too long because he enjoyed being a feudal lord in a foreign country. In this instance he was station chief in Angola when things were kicking off there in the 70's. This is an excellent couple of hours research into the CIA, Africa, political corruption and the lowest end of the espionage business where thousands or even millions of deaths is just business for the United States of Holocaust deniers.