Showing posts with label cia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cia. Show all posts
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Circle William
I'm enjoying reading this superb thriller by Bill Harlow. I'm half way into the book and loving the characterizations. Schmidt brothers, one a White house press secretary in Washington, the other a maverick destroyer captain in the Mediterranean.. Terrorists and high tech. It's written in 1999. Ghaddafi is still alive and some of the background I didn't know about Libya comes clear in the novel. I really want to go to the south of France for a vacation now too. Capt. Bill Harlow was 25 years in the Navy and Chief of Public Affairs for the CIA. Now that makes a real kind of authority to attach to a decidedly talented writer. Enjoying Circle William so much I definitely plan to see if Bill Harlow has written anything more recent. I suspect his take on matters will keep the air of authenticity. I hope his characters continue too as other heros of the sea have like Richard Bolitho.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Julian Assange and the Honeypot
A honeypot is an obvious entrapment of a male by a female villain using sexual wiles. Right now Julian Assange has been charged with 'rape' in Sweden. Apparently a condom broke and he didn't shower after sex before leaving after her apartment that night. Also he may have forgotten to flush the toilet after he peed. No one is pregnant. No one has disease. The two women who sought sex with Assange apparently were trophy hunting. Assange is being compared to Mick Jagger but Mick never offended the CIA. Keith Richards did and so did John Lennon. In John Lennon's day it was the pot smoking and association with 'anarchists'.
Some of the audio tape that was removed from the Kennedy shooting was released today.We are still being told that the Kennedy killing was a one man job and that on Ossama bin Laden was involved one involved in 9-11. Does anyone think Assange would have a woman carrying around a broken condom for a week as 'proof' against Assange if Assange was nobody. Would this woman have slept with Assange were he nobody? And would this woman have conspired with another woman before coming forward and complaining.
All 'raped' women should petition on behalf of Assange if these women's cases are considered anything but a marvellous opportunity for the US to get Assange. It's one thing to grab him in England, quite another to grab him in Sweden. We must remember, we in the west are the good guys, so we don't jail our political foes openly as South Africa did. Here political prisoners are convicted of rape or drug trafficking if they're not simply called a 'terrorist'.
Nothing makes me want to be a good boy and brown nose and never question authority like the way I see Assange treated. I'm terrified of saying anything controversial for fear someone some time will be able to produce a broken condom or has kept a joint I shared with Clinton and Troudeau showing my DNA was on that joint making me complicit with their public drug abuse. Someday soon there will be a politically correct law saying that a controversial figure 'hogged' the joint and didn't use the tweezers to pass it with. On the bright side maybe one day a man will be able to complain that a woman didn't buy him dinner before she had her way with him.
I've been following the Julian Assange story because he's radically in favour of 'transparency', what the head of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverly McLaughlan stands for. Luckily for us no one was running about complaining of broken female condoms when she was teaching at UBC.
I don't know why Julian Assange doesn't sue the condom manufacturer. Was it Trojan or Sheik.
The Victorian area was considered perverse but future citizens on this globe will look back on the social dark ages of the last 50 years and consider this the greatest era of perversity since Caligula. At least Caligula and Cleopatra and their kin were seeking pleasure from pleasure. Todays government CIA Washington and such are psychopathically perverse so twisted that they encouraged dim witted women to discuss the sexual prowess of the enemies of the state while women and men are titillated with their tales of tails. Thank God for Naomi Wolf who wrote a masterful piece against such tripe. This is what women got the vote for? Wake up ladies. It's not all about the bedroom.
Pay attention to the big picture. What woman is presently doing anything as dangerous or courageous and as radical as Assange. Burning bras doesn't cut it by comparison. I'm wholly impressed by all the major women who are surrounding Assange but I am powerfully aware that Queen Elizabeth has not spoken up.
In a Canada of my dreams Queen Elizabeth would tell Obama and his minions to back off and keep Assange, this great Australian, protected from the fascist Swedes.
If Jesus appeared today he'd be accused of raping Betty Friedan, jailed in Quantanamo and no doubt accused of smoking BC Bud with none other than Elvis Presley. He would have had his 'house in heaven' mortgaged by Goldman Sachs too.
These are strange times. Strange and sexy times. Must be the season of the Witch!
Some of the audio tape that was removed from the Kennedy shooting was released today.We are still being told that the Kennedy killing was a one man job and that on Ossama bin Laden was involved one involved in 9-11. Does anyone think Assange would have a woman carrying around a broken condom for a week as 'proof' against Assange if Assange was nobody. Would this woman have slept with Assange were he nobody? And would this woman have conspired with another woman before coming forward and complaining.
All 'raped' women should petition on behalf of Assange if these women's cases are considered anything but a marvellous opportunity for the US to get Assange. It's one thing to grab him in England, quite another to grab him in Sweden. We must remember, we in the west are the good guys, so we don't jail our political foes openly as South Africa did. Here political prisoners are convicted of rape or drug trafficking if they're not simply called a 'terrorist'.
Nothing makes me want to be a good boy and brown nose and never question authority like the way I see Assange treated. I'm terrified of saying anything controversial for fear someone some time will be able to produce a broken condom or has kept a joint I shared with Clinton and Troudeau showing my DNA was on that joint making me complicit with their public drug abuse. Someday soon there will be a politically correct law saying that a controversial figure 'hogged' the joint and didn't use the tweezers to pass it with. On the bright side maybe one day a man will be able to complain that a woman didn't buy him dinner before she had her way with him.
I've been following the Julian Assange story because he's radically in favour of 'transparency', what the head of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverly McLaughlan stands for. Luckily for us no one was running about complaining of broken female condoms when she was teaching at UBC.
I don't know why Julian Assange doesn't sue the condom manufacturer. Was it Trojan or Sheik.
The Victorian area was considered perverse but future citizens on this globe will look back on the social dark ages of the last 50 years and consider this the greatest era of perversity since Caligula. At least Caligula and Cleopatra and their kin were seeking pleasure from pleasure. Todays government CIA Washington and such are psychopathically perverse so twisted that they encouraged dim witted women to discuss the sexual prowess of the enemies of the state while women and men are titillated with their tales of tails. Thank God for Naomi Wolf who wrote a masterful piece against such tripe. This is what women got the vote for? Wake up ladies. It's not all about the bedroom.
Pay attention to the big picture. What woman is presently doing anything as dangerous or courageous and as radical as Assange. Burning bras doesn't cut it by comparison. I'm wholly impressed by all the major women who are surrounding Assange but I am powerfully aware that Queen Elizabeth has not spoken up.
In a Canada of my dreams Queen Elizabeth would tell Obama and his minions to back off and keep Assange, this great Australian, protected from the fascist Swedes.
If Jesus appeared today he'd be accused of raping Betty Friedan, jailed in Quantanamo and no doubt accused of smoking BC Bud with none other than Elvis Presley. He would have had his 'house in heaven' mortgaged by Goldman Sachs too.
These are strange times. Strange and sexy times. Must be the season of the Witch!
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Fair Game Movie
Fair Game, the movie, is directed by Doug Liman, starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. It's a chilling political drama. I found myself checking the Wikipedia on Ipad as the movie progressed. Sure enough, Joe Wilson was the ambassador to Niger. His wife was Valerie Plame. They had 2 small children. The movie is based on Valerie Plames memoir, "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House."
Her husband Joe Wilson had been sent to investigate a story that Iraq had yellowcake. He returned to say they didn't. Apparently there was also a dubious Weapons of Mass Destruction suggestion that some aluminum pipes were for a weapons factory. When America invaded Iraq and based it's invasion on this information, Joe Wilson said it was a lie and wrote a 2003 article for the New York Times saying "what i did not find". It was a critique of the Bush Administrations manipulation of intelligence information to justify their invasion of Iraq.
To silence and discredit Joe Wilson, an ambassador who had been heralded as an American hero before this all began, Secretary of State Armitage 'leaked' his wife's name and position as a CIA spy. The movie states this resulted in countless deaths of her operatives in foregin countries. It also resulted in daily threats against her life and her childrens life. The CIA refused to offer her protection. Eventually lawyer "Scooter" Libby was found guilty of felony and disbarred. He was the adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney. In 2005 he was indicted by a federal grand jury for leaking the covert identity of Valerie Plame Wilson.
The movie speaks to the misinformation and deceit in high places in government. Joe Wilson argues that the Republic can survive if citizens continue to tell the truth. It is hard to consider such a sacrifice personally and professionally has to be made. In Canada a whisteblower is persecuted, villified, marginalized, and institutionalized. The democracy of America shines forth in the example of Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame. There justice is done. The cost is excruciating. .
But if a former ambassador and US Congressman of Joe Wilson's stature with a wife who is a senior CIA operative face this much persecution, how little democracy is left in America, the once great republc. There is no freedom in China. There is no freedom in Africa. There is no freedom in South America. What freedom is left in Europe. There is no freedom in the Middle East. Is there freedom in France yet, that country where once "J'Accuse' rang out for democracy? Is there in Britain which like Canada, Australia, and the other former countries of the great British Empire are strangled by beaurocracy, political correctness and the greivance society.
As we appear to devolve politically to feudalism and the reign of warlords and gangsters, I can't help but think that Caesar and Caligula didn't even bother explaining their invasion of other nations. They did it for individual profit. Certainly the Hillary Clinton's and Dick Cheney's gain immensely, But are Clinton and Bush complicit or duped?. Does Harper or Ignatieff know what's going on? Are we all at the mercy of the lawyer advisoers like Scooter Libby? Do special interest groups manipulate the media and other intelligence sources including the CIA to play us and our leaders like puppets?
I pray that democracy will flame from the coals that appeared in this movie. On a good day I think of Athens,Britain's Magna Carta, the French Revolution, the American Revolution and cheer for the young man in Teineman Square and those who fought Mubarek in Freedom's Square. Mostly I pray for Canada, that we might again be the "true north" and 'free'.
Fair Game is a great thought provoking, inspiring and moving movie.
Her husband Joe Wilson had been sent to investigate a story that Iraq had yellowcake. He returned to say they didn't. Apparently there was also a dubious Weapons of Mass Destruction suggestion that some aluminum pipes were for a weapons factory. When America invaded Iraq and based it's invasion on this information, Joe Wilson said it was a lie and wrote a 2003 article for the New York Times saying "what i did not find". It was a critique of the Bush Administrations manipulation of intelligence information to justify their invasion of Iraq.
To silence and discredit Joe Wilson, an ambassador who had been heralded as an American hero before this all began, Secretary of State Armitage 'leaked' his wife's name and position as a CIA spy. The movie states this resulted in countless deaths of her operatives in foregin countries. It also resulted in daily threats against her life and her childrens life. The CIA refused to offer her protection. Eventually lawyer "Scooter" Libby was found guilty of felony and disbarred. He was the adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney. In 2005 he was indicted by a federal grand jury for leaking the covert identity of Valerie Plame Wilson.
The movie speaks to the misinformation and deceit in high places in government. Joe Wilson argues that the Republic can survive if citizens continue to tell the truth. It is hard to consider such a sacrifice personally and professionally has to be made. In Canada a whisteblower is persecuted, villified, marginalized, and institutionalized. The democracy of America shines forth in the example of Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame. There justice is done. The cost is excruciating. .
But if a former ambassador and US Congressman of Joe Wilson's stature with a wife who is a senior CIA operative face this much persecution, how little democracy is left in America, the once great republc. There is no freedom in China. There is no freedom in Africa. There is no freedom in South America. What freedom is left in Europe. There is no freedom in the Middle East. Is there freedom in France yet, that country where once "J'Accuse' rang out for democracy? Is there in Britain which like Canada, Australia, and the other former countries of the great British Empire are strangled by beaurocracy, political correctness and the greivance society.
As we appear to devolve politically to feudalism and the reign of warlords and gangsters, I can't help but think that Caesar and Caligula didn't even bother explaining their invasion of other nations. They did it for individual profit. Certainly the Hillary Clinton's and Dick Cheney's gain immensely, But are Clinton and Bush complicit or duped?. Does Harper or Ignatieff know what's going on? Are we all at the mercy of the lawyer advisoers like Scooter Libby? Do special interest groups manipulate the media and other intelligence sources including the CIA to play us and our leaders like puppets?
I pray that democracy will flame from the coals that appeared in this movie. On a good day I think of Athens,Britain's Magna Carta, the French Revolution, the American Revolution and cheer for the young man in Teineman Square and those who fought Mubarek in Freedom's Square. Mostly I pray for Canada, that we might again be the "true north" and 'free'.
Fair Game is a great thought provoking, inspiring and moving movie.
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