Conversations With John Judge - Part One

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but it does allow me to assess the quality of a man's thinking. Last night I listened to a mid eighties John Judge talk on Iran Contra and time after time after time he was not only way ahead of the pack but bang on the money. 

John Judge's mother worked in the Pentagon for DoD at a very senior level and has a great understanding of how the owners run the United States. I only disagreed with him on two points. My information tells me the 47000 deaths in the Vietnam war was adjusted to fit the projections his mother made. I also think he's inexplicably erroneous on whatever hit the Pentagon on 9/11. It was not a human guided plane. 

Other than that he's a very clever and shrewd observer of how things work.

Like me John thinks political parties have wrecked the democratic process.

Cold War 02/24 - Iron Curtain 1945-1947

These are very good. I learn the occasional useful piece of information from this series on the cold war. They interview quality characters from history like John Kenneth Galbraith and General Jaruzelski in this episode. Mostly I find it useful to test my own theories and narratives. Do they stand up? Am I right about Winston. Have I misunderstood where the power lay. Do I underestimate the Soviet threat? In this way I'm constantly reformulating or tweaking the narrative of history but the overall direction still stands. 20th century wars were unnecessary and stimulated by parties other than nations or their leaders. The bankers and the financiers. The Rothschilds and the Rockefellers and so forth.

This point still stands but the complexity of the characters adds dimensions that are a little more complex, less binary and more human. In this way I'm getting value out of this series.

47 Years Ago Today - Shea Stadium Beatles Rock Was Born

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I remember my client and later my best friend telling me about cycling to see The Beatles play at Shea Stadium against his Dad's wishes. What a chunk of history. I still don't understand how they generated the hysteria before they even arrived in the U.S.