Al Frankovich's Heart Attack In George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Texas

Al Frankovich made the Gladio documentary for BBC 2 I posted the other day and I was rewatching this interview with him earlier on his CIA documentary 'On Company Business' when I did a quick search and noticed he died of a heart attack in George Bush Intercontinental Airport of Texas. The irony of this happening to a man whose opening scene in 'On Company Business' is the heart attack gun of the George Bush run CIA revealed at the Church commission is a little too much so I'm posting it while I piece together his body of work. 

The Wikipedia entry for Al has been desecrated if anyone would like to provide information for it please use the comments below and I will rebuild it if I can. He did good work.

Brennan On Yemen At The Council On Foreign Relations

I've been wanting to check out US counter terrorism expert John Brennan for a while and this is the perfect environment as I got the impression he's a bit of a potato and that kind of pressure shows in the pseduo intellectual environment of the CFR.

In a nutshell he's so unsure of why the U.S. is in Yemen killing American citizens that he needs to read a prepared speech that glosses over where the money is going other than drone executions. He reads it too quick and too functionally stumbling over the odd word even though it's chock full of the usual bullshit platitudes such as 'partners with Yemen for success' and so forth.

There's some interesting insights into the Saudi, US axis of drone executions in the middle East relationship but ultimately the U.S. is run by people who haven't figured out that AQAP (Al Qaida) simply turn up wherever the US is. An interesting thought given the home game is falling apart.

In the previous documentary I posted there's more concrete information like Yemen troops shooting at a teenage girls' burial and the near mutiny of Yemen troops due to corruption in the military leadership. When will the US ever learn?

Too much ego to really absorb the lessons everyone else can see.

27 Million Russians Sacrificed in WWII - Cold War Documentary

The more I think it about it the more obvious it becomes to me that the reason the West won the cold war is because we paid better bribes. A better class of massacre if you will. Both ideologies are top down lizard hierarchy structures which just don't pan out for us humans but we'll learn that lesson in due course.

I started watching this series while researching cold war espionage documentaries and the first one is quite good so I'm posting it. I didn't learn too much but it did go into the formation of the United Nations in San Francisco and geopolitical manoeuvring between Stalin, Churchill and FDR.

It ends on that ugly fact. The USSR sacrificed 40 times more of its people than the UK and the U.S. combined in WWII. It's a staggering statistic and one we forget all too quickly.