The Dark Side

Just after 9/11, Vice President Dick Cheney on “Meet the Press,” said the nation would engage its “dark side” to find the attackers. “We’ve got to spend time in the shadows,” Mr. Cheney said. “It’s going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective.”

So just what is this "dark side" that Cheney talked about? I don't know, and if anybody does know about it, they are not talking. What I do know is that over five million people are employed in top secret projects in the USA. In 2008 the "black budget" came to over fifty billion dollars. The money is given with no questions asked. Senators and Congressmen are not in on the secret. They know as much about it as you and I do. The President is in the know, but whether he knows it all is open for discussion. The top secret projects continue no matter who is president.

As such, some thing is obviously going on that they don't want us to know about. It exists in the shadows, and apparently it can use "any means" at its disposal, basically, to achieve its objective.”

We know it's there. But what is its objective?

The principle of Ockams Razor as it is most commonly understood is, “The simplest explanation for a phenomenon is most likely the correct explanation. " So what is the simplest explanation for all the secrecy? Is it simply to keep our enemy from finding out about our new weapons?

The whole thing started with the Manhatten Project. The development of the atomic bomb was kept secret from Congress, and when Senator Harry Truman got angry about the huge expenses he demanded to know what was going on. He was denied any explanation. He only found out what it was all about when he became president. And the meaning for the secrecy was to keep our enemies from finding out about the Atom Bomb.

It continued after the war, and when we found a new enemy in the Soviet Union, the secrecy thing grew even larger. The obvious reason for the secrecy was to ensure that the Soviets didn't find about our new weapons. And the soviets did the same thing.

At the end of the cold war we no longer had an enemy; so we no longer had a valid reason for the secrecy. But it still went on, and it even grew much larger. The simplest explanation for the secrecy is: even though we no longer have an enemy, we are still developing secret weapons because we know that we will, some day, have a new enemy.

However, there's more to it than just protecting the knowledge of secret weapons falling into the hands of potential enemies. It's also about control and manipulation. Secret government organizations in America have been known to manipulate elections, revolutions, and even assasinations in other countries. They can only do this by acting in secret. And they only do it so as to preserve our freedoms, like.

Yes we have a huge secret thing going on, and it costs a lot of money, but we are assured that it's for our own good. Some one has to be top dog, and for us to continue being it, we'd best keep some things secret. Don't even let the right hand know what the left hand is doing.

The problem with the big secrecy thing is that hardly anyone knows what is really going on. And some things look like they come under the heading of control and manipulation, but not of other countries; it looks, to some people, that the control and manipulation is now aimed at our own country. And, of course, it is. It always has been. Even before the big secrecy thing, the government, or entities outside of the government, have succesfully controlled and manipulated the population of any given country. Nowadays, it is suspected that the United States is under the control of big corporations. Eisenhower warned us about the weapons industry, and it's the weapons industry that is gaining most from all the top secret weapons. And to keep getting orders for their weapons we need to have a war now and then. Failing that, we need to at least have a percieved enemy so as to scare people into believing that we need the weapons.

Cheney and Bush were, very much, pro-corporate America. I didn't like them. But free elections were held, and they won twice; then when they left they did the right thing and handed over power to Obama. I believe Obama to be a pro-people president; and he's about as much of a socialist as this country can handle right now.

Bush and Cheney were capitalists, and they did what they believed to be the right thing for the country. But to do it they had to use a lot of mis-information. They lied about a lot of things when it comes to corporate America, and we don't know, and we'll never know, what they did in regards to keeping our country safe from another terrorist attack, but they did spend time in the shadows, and it's most likely that they employed the dark side; and the dark side, as dark sides tend to do, responded with ruthless efficiency.

And that's life at the top folks.

And as for the lies, well, the truth is that lies are a part of life, and they most probably are part of truth tee boot.

We begin life by being lied to, Santa Clause and the tooth fairy, like, and even before we suss those lies we begin to realize that we'd be much better off to lie than tell the truth. It's in our basic human nature, and we have to be taught not to lie. An unfortunate few children never get it, and recent studies reveal that they are brain damaged. But even so, nature plays its role, and the kids that always tell the truth are soon ostracised and ridiculed. The rest of us play the game, and we become highly skilled liars. But we keep it to ourselves, like; we live in our own secret world, and we come to think that we are the only ones doing it.

Nah, we are all doing it. And the ones doing it the best are in charge. We elect the best liars, and we get what we elect.

Sophistication means, according to an on line dictionary:

"To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly.
2. To make impure; adulterate.
3. To make more complex or inclusive; refine."

Ah yis: Less naive. It's a slightly painful journey, but it's well worth the effort. And I think I'm sophisticated enough to know that my life is being manipulated by those even more sophisticated than I am. But with the help of Obama, I could see, a mere chance, like, of a slightly possible chance of a mere glimpse of the truth.

Ah but it's not meant to be, and that's why I'm gutted.

But its okay, I can live with it, because, as luck will have it, and all things arising, like, just a few hours ago, I found out that my doctor has renewed my prescription for Vicodin.

Hope yet!

Your man in America:

Walter

Going to the potty.

"The BBC documentary 'The Power of Nightmares' examines how politicians have used our fears to increase their power and control over society. It looks at the American neo-conservative movement and its depiction of the threat first from the Soviet Union and then from radical Islamists."
http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/programmes/ 4016713.stm

I hope they put it out on DVD because I'd like to see it.

The BBC documentary says Al-Qaeda never existed.

One alternative news source jumped all over the revelation with this comment:

"You have heard before that "Al-Qaeda" roughly translates into "the base," but were you aware that "Ana raicha Al Qaeda" is arabic colloquial for "I'm going to the toilet"?
Would hardened terrorists hell bent on the destruction of the west name their organization after a euphemism for taking a shit?"
http://www.propagan damatrix. com/articles/ october2006/ 061006alqaedacra p.htm

I didn't believe in Al-Qaeda from the git go. It sounded far to much like something dreamed up for a James Bond movie. In fact, I almost cringed in embarrassment for the news reader every time I heard the name mentioned on the telly. If a politician used it, I instantly knew that he was a phony. Either that or he was stupid.

I'm no longer a conspiracy buff. There's a time for every season, and my conspiracy season has passed and gone. It served its purpose. I emerged out of ignorance by false means, but even so, I still managed to emerge out of ignorance, and I became aware of some things that I wouldn't have become aware of if I hadn't searched for the truth behind the so called truth. As such, I take the link above with a grain of salt. And I wouldn't vouch for the fact that "Ana raicha Al Qaeda" is arabic colloquial for "I'm going to the toilet" either.

I'm still quite certain that the name Al-Qaeda was dreamed up, but I'm not at all sure that we are all going to crap.

Politicians have used our fears to increase their powers and to gain control over society since the beginning of recorded time. The left wing do it, and the right wing does it. And the way I see it is that maybe we are not going to crap, but, instead, we could well be, finally, emerging out of it.

Judging by the responce to the Swine flu scare, maybe I'm not the only one that has emerged out of ignorance, and maybe, just maybe, the age of ignorance, as a whole, is coming to an end.

We are in a time of great change. The act of communicating has took a quantum leap, and they can't get away with the same old bullshit any more. Maybe we have grown up a wee bit, and tales of the bogey man no longer scare us. Maybe, metaphorically speaking, we have begun to question the reality of Santa and the tooth fairy.

And it could well be that instead of going to the potty, we are, actually, just getting off it.

Walter

The recent pandemic scare is made even more scary due to fact that most intelligent people do not believe a word of it.

A very strange part of it all was when Vice President Joe Biden said that he would not recommend taking any commercial flight or riding in a subway car “at this point” because swine flu virus can spread “in confined places.” A little more than one hour later, Biden rushed out a statement backing off.

Joe Biden was giving good advice and talking common sense, but apparently he had made a huge mistake. He had to back off from his statement. Then to show his sincerity and his change of mind he took a well publicized train trip his home outside of Washington DC.

I tell yer, these are strange times. And lies are in huge abundance.
I decided to do a wee bit of research on it all. I found these two sites about lies, and it is obvious that one site has plagiarized the other site. Check them out:
http://www.corporatenarc.com/FamousLies.php
http://www.healthdiaries.com/famous-liars.htm

If plagiarism is a lie, and I think it is because one is pretending to be the writer of some one Else's work; then one of these sites is actually lying while telling about lies!

The truth is very hard to come by, as such conspiracy theories are abundant, and is it any wonder that most of the world still think 9/11 was an inside job? Check out this recent article from, what I assume to be, an Indian newspaper:
http://rense.com/general85/osamm.htm

What we want is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help us God.

However: "The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth." Alfred Alder

A few hours ago I watched the movie: "Mountains of the Moon". It's about Richard Burton and John Speke's adventures while trying to find the source of the Nile.

A publisher had Jack Speke on contract, and when Speke arrived home before Burton he told Speke a lie about how Burton had lied about Speke in a report. Speke believed the lie, and he then betrayed the agreement that Burton and he had made about speaking together at the National Geographical Society. As such Speke got all the glory, and the publisher sold the books.

Years later, just before a debate between Speke and Burton, the truth was revealed. Speke found out that it was the publisher that had lied, and Burton had stuck to the truth.

Just before the debate, Speke met the publisher on the way into the auditorium where the debate was to be held.

Speke said: "You lied to me about Burton".

The publisher tried to laugh it off and said: "I always lie on my way to the truth."

The debate thing was supposed to last about three days, with Burton putting forward his thoughts on the first day. Instead of sticking around to listen to Burton's rendition, Speke decided to go hunting instead. While hunting, he died from what is well accepted as a self inflicted gun shot wound. The official record, however, says it was an accident while hunting.

Was it the lie that caused his death? Or was it the truth?

Also, only a small matter, tee be sure, but the movie portrays Richard Burton as being Irish, and he has a broad Irish accent. But he was actually born in Torquay, Devon. His father was Anglo Irish. His mother was full Irish and came from a very well off family. As such, Richard Burton was of Irish descent, but it is very doubtful that he would have had an Irish accent. And as far as I can gather, the man never even set foot in the place

Ah but, then again, there is such a thing as poetic license, and I'm all for it. A good story, or a good lie, sometimes, does, indeed, lead the way to a hidden truth.

And it is well known that one thing cannot exhist without the other.

Lies lead to truth, and truth leads to lies.

Reality is mix of both.

And if we actually find the whole truth, then the whole game will be over.