Who Is Really In Charge -- Of What?

Uhhh.... guys...

T've heard rumblings that the "Health Care Rollout Cockup" was an act of sabotage deliberately staged by certain interests -- either in the government or in the contractor sector, or by both working hand in glove -- for some nefarious purpose, testing, perhaps, the levels of anxiety and endurance the public can be subjected to over basic matters like access to something.

In other words, how difficult/impossible can we make something a significant portion of the public will be compelled to do before they snap? I hate to use Nazi allusions, but this is was something the Nazis were masters at in their conquests of Europe. They would institute orders for compelled actions by selected populations that could not be obeyed rationally, but only in a kind of mindless stupor could part of an order be complied with. This had profound psychological effects that helped enable the mass murder to come. People went on command -- and essentially willingly -- into the ghettos, the cattle cars, the camps and the gas chambers, in part because they had been pre-conditioned to do irrational things and to follow irrational orders simply to survive. They believed sincerely that if they didn't do what they were told, or they unimaginably rose up against this madness, they wouldn't/couldn't survive for even a moment longer. At least they had a chance if they complied...

Well, yes, some did survive all of it. A handful.

During Occupy Wall Street actions in New York, I saw (via livestream) people herded onto the Brooklyn Bridge and corralled there, arrested, hundreds of them, maybe more than a thousand, and I saw how they willingly submitted themselves to the authorities who had basically tricked them and trapped them in this pen over the East River, and I was gobsmacked and horrified at what I was witnessing. It wasn't so much what the police had done -- though that was itself horrifying and inexcusable -- it was the immediate and instant compliance of the crowd. Oh. My. God. When I saw a handful of people escaping the trap by climbing up to a higher level of the bridge and slipping away, I was momentarily cheered. Some knew not to comply. But for most? Jesus. They should know deep in their bones where this sort of thing leads.

And thankfully, later, it was clear that many of them did know. And they weren't about to fall into this kind of mental trap and follow these sorts of orders and commands again.

So. Is the Rollout something of the same sort? Perhaps. I don't know. I have some knowledge of relatively huge government projects and how they go "live" and how badly they can be bolloxed initially. If there is sabotage involved, it appears to be the result of contractors (sometimes with the assistance of government functionaries) figuring out how to squeeze as much more money as possible out of the system before it either works or collapses. That's what this cock-up looks like to me from the outside. It wasn't ready, the hundreds of millions poured into it already were not nearly enough to satisfy the contractors who built it -- they want double the money, triple or more -- and so it will be "difficult" for as long as it takes to satisfy them, which could conceivably mean forever.

At least in Iraq they were shipping over pallets of hundred dollar bills, as well as seizing all the hundred dollar bills stashed away in the Republican Palace villas along the Tigris (said to be about a billion and change worth) for the grand par-tays being conducted by the military contractors, some of whom turned around and carried the loot home in sacks and suitcases.

We do these things a little differently in the Homeland, yes?

So from my view, the cockup is deliberate, but it's a money issue, not some nefarious scheme to pre-condition the population to OBEY. On the other hand, we've been immersed in that conditioning for generations, haven't we? We are being conditioned all the time, in addition to being spied on and exploited and everything else.

But then I saw part of the Sebelius hearing on "what went wrong" -- and it was so scripted, I thought, "Wait a minute, this is just for show and sound bites. We are finding out nothing, nothing at all from this hearing. It's just show business."

Oh. So something IS going on. OK. What?

The only thing I could come up with was that the Rollout occurred during the Shutdown, when much of the federal government that the People would ordinarily deal with -- like the parks and such -- was inaccessible (something made plain on the teevee at the monuments in the Mall). The Shutdown was something planned months in advance, a cooperative venture, not spontaneous at all, and I wondered... why?

The Rollout was planned, months (actually years) in advance to occur simultaneously. This was no accident.

It was a coordinated bollox. Was it intentionally planned and coordinated to show the government as useless, incompetent and ultimately "not there" in any case? Had somebody really been thinking things through like this? Oh please.

Who? Who is fucking in charge here, and what exactly are they in charge of?

During the Shutdown and the Rollout, the NSA stories seemed to go on hiatus. But as soon as the government reopened we were told that Glenn had found himself a billionaire and he would be leaving the Guardian to establish a new media venture that he would be in operational and editorial control of, funded by Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay. Oh. Well. Isn't that special. (My reservations about that are another story altogether...)

After all the hoo-hah in Yurp and particular parts of Latin America over spying on the people and the political leaders, we were treated to the information via the WaPo and a little pencil sketch that the personal/private information held by Google and Yahoo (one assumes others)  is accessible by the NSA (one assumes other agencies as well) through various "sekrit" means, and oh, my isn't it a terrible thing, though! And of course Google and the others had no idea, OMG! We are being spied upon!

Jesus. This is such complete bullshit.

The pencil sketch was the tell, if it wasn't for all the other signs that this was yet more "conditioning" to accept the previously unknown/unacceptable.

 Please.

 I'm sorry, if this is how Our Rulers are conducting their business, on the back of a napkin, then it's a wonder anything works at all, isn't it? Well, isn't it?

Who is in charge of this muddle? What are they really in charge of?

Not only are we pretty fully through the looking glass, we're deep in outer space without a pressure suit.

Wheels within wheels is putting it mildly.

Celestial Wheels

The Boston Marathon Thing Keeps Getting Stranger And Stranger

The story of the Boston Marathon Bombing has developed into a nearly incomprehensible mish-mash of action/reaction, yarn-spinning and story-telling... not to mention the death and dismemberment...

Each version of the story leads to ever more speculation about what is and was really going on.

Who are these people, and what are they doing to us?

Of course, all the many variations in the story of what happened, how, and who was involved quite naturally give rise to any number of conspiracy theories and theatrics, and I've long been under the impression that conspiracy theories are actually the point of all the many conflicting "official" stories that always seem to come from some Anonymous Official Familiar With the Case and which are breathlessly written down and sent on their merry way by credulous reporters who haven't a clue that they might be hearing blarney. Or that's the way it looks, but the situation could well be less naive than that; it could well be that the reporters and their editors, the Officials and the publications are all in on it, all well aware of the many levels of deceit going on, and that none of them really give a good gott-damb about what's really going on or the Truth in any rational sense.

As the Busheviks were proud to point out, "We're history's actors... you just study what we do..."

This was one of the cleverer aspects of the whole Soviet system of rule that never quite caught on in the West -- not until the Soviet Union collapsed at any rate, and then this sort of propaganda became all the rage in Western halls of power.

Yes, it is a propaganda tactic, as is the creation of false leads and fantasy conspiracy theories. They are  completely harmless to the apparat that create them while keeping would-be Exposers of Great Wrong on the trail of... nothing at all.

It works like a charm, especially on the Internet, where sleuthing and gaming are widespread user-hobbies if not outright obsessions. Fabricate some sort of Mystery or Conspiracy around a traumatic event and the Internet Gumshoes are on it like white on rice; it keeps them busy tracking down "leads" and "inconsistencies" and speculating and arguing endlessly on the "meaning" of this or that "clue."


Meanwhile, there's a whole other world (maybe Reality) that they're either never aware of at all, or that they only come to recognize after years and years of running down "clues" and "leads" that go nowhere.

The deaths and arrests of suspects in the Boston Marathon Thing have given the impression to some observers that something else entirely is going on than What We Are Told. The recent death in Orlando of someone who knew the dead suspect in Boston (at least we are to assume he is dead) is one of those things.

The Official Story of what happened in Orlando is frankly jibberish, a word salad of conflicting and mutually incompatible statements by Officials Familiar With the Case who are clearly not telling the truth to the media.

Friends and family, as in Boston regarding the prime suspects in the bombing, are offering a very different picture of the man who was killed in Orlando, and the Official Story has changed so many times by now ("He had a knife! He was going for a gun! He had a pole! He had a broomstick! He had a sword! He pushed a table! He was unarmed! He was SCARY!!!!1") nothing the Officials say is believable. But then, there is no other source of information about what happened, either. There are some other sources of information about what happened in Boston during the pursuit and capture of the surviving suspect, but there are no other sources of information after his capture, except for statements of his mother in Russia regarding her telephone conversation with him while he was recovering from his (apparently rather minor) wounds in a prison hospital.

"Wait," I said. He was on the phone with his mother in Russia? While in a prison hospital? How? I mean really. Something like this is not exactly protocol, as phone calls in and out of any sort of prison environment in the United States are so tightly regulated and monitored and so fiercely restricted that a call in from Russia or out to Russia is all but inconceivable.

But the gamers and amateur gumshoes don't even question it; they take it on faith that the call happened and that the suspect said what the mother is reported to have said he said ("I'm innocent!") 

Mkay.

The only way that something like this could have happened, in my view, is if the FBI or one of the other Agencies Involved set the call up as part of the investigation. But it's conceivable the call never happened at all.

It's been pointed out that at least part of this (ethnic) Chechen family -- including potentially the dead Boston suspect -- has all the earmarks of being Assets of some Agency or other in the Great Global Game. That being so, could the dead suspect in Orlando also be an Asset? Isn't there a Program to eliminate Assets Who Go Rogue? Is that what's taking place? Or part of it?

If that were the case, how, exactly, would "guilt" or "innocence" work under the circumstances?

Wheels within wheels.

Maybe in fifty years -- or maybe never -- something like the Real Truth will out. Until then, it's all just wheels spinning...