Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Government Manipulation of Our Discorse of Crucial Issues


I was going to write on a somewhat different topic than this which I may get to later in this posting if I remember, but clearly we have a major problem here, that's a lot worse than I ever dreamed.  The government not only listens in but plants stories and sabotages credibility of good reporters reporting relivent news- - and spreads lies and plants "false victim" stories about people they don't like.  Below is just a sampling of the stuff anybody can look up in George Washington's blog.  Clearly there are enough links right here to keep you busy for a long time. But I just want to say this.  Who is the person who is MOST responsible for the existance of the Tea Party we've suffered with these past five years.  President Obama.  Second place isn't even close.  Without President Obama this "peculiarly qualified man" the Tea Party would not have had nearly the Drive and Energy it's had these past five years.  If we turn the proposition around - - what is by far the BIGGEST accomplishment or Deed of the Obama Administration- - - it's bringing into existance, NOT Obama Care, but bringing into existance the Tea Party.  For me the trade off is a no brainer.  I would gladly get rid of President Obama if we also could get rid of the Tea Party.  It's kind of the same effect we see with our presence in Iraq for eight years and the rise of Al Qaeda.  Al Qaeda was far less a Cause than an Effect, a Reaction to 120,000 dead Iraquis killed by US Armed Forces.  The thing that President Obama has MOST working against him is that Powers - - are attributed to him that he doesn't have.  I heard today on the Rush Limbaugh show that "President Obama's long term goal is to drive the Health Insurance companies out of business".  Giving them scads of Free additional business- - mandated by law, in fact, is a strange way to drive them out of Business.  But people on the right don't take the least thought of things they are told.  Remember the right goes on Feelings.  We claim that women are illogical and "go too much on feelings" (a proposition I don't agree with) but the minions of the tea party right - - the fodder on the front lines and the first to be mowed down- - THESE are the people given to hopeless "fits of Illogical thinking".

One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It’s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents.  Over the last several weeks, I worked with NBC News to publish a series of articles about “dirty trick” tactics used by GCHQ’s previously secret unit, JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group). These were based on four classified GCHQ documents presented to the NSA and the other three partners in the English-speaking “Five Eyes” alliance. Today, we at the Intercept are publishing another new JTRIG document, in full, entitled “The Art of Deception: Training for Online Covert Operations.”
By publishing these stories one by one, our NBC reporting highlighted some of the key, discrete revelations: the monitoring of YouTube and Blogger, the targeting of Anonymous with the very same DDoS attacks they accuse “hacktivists” of using, the use of “honey traps” (luring people into compromising situations using sex) and destructive viruses. But, here, I want to focus and elaborate on the overarching point revealed by all of these documents: namely, that these agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself.  Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable. To see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of using to achieve those ends: “false flag operations” (posting material to the internet and falsely attributing it to someone else), fake victim blog posts (pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to destroy), and posting “negative information” on various forums. Here is one illustrative list of tactics from the latest GCHQ document we’re publishing today:


You know that the NSA and other government agencies are spying on all Americans.
But is the government just passively spying on us like some giant peeping Tom? Or doing something with that information?

Favoring “Friends”

U.S. intelligence agencies have given information gained through spying to a handful of giant corporations for many years. This trend is accelerating.

Harassing “Enemies”

While the NSA is the best-known spy agency at the moment, the IRS, FBI, and many other agencies also conduct their own mass spying on AmericansReuters recently broke the story that information gained through spying on Americans is funneled through a special unit within the Drug Enforcement Agency, and then distributed to federal, state and local agencies nationwide.  The agencies are instructed to “launder” the information by pretending that they got it from normal gumshoe investigations, and not spying.
Reuters notes that laundered information gained through spying is being used to prosecute petty crimes, including taxes and drugs … and neither the defense attorneys or even the judges are being told the real source of the information   Top NSA whistleblower William Binney – the former head of the National Security Agency’s global digital data gathering program, and a 32-year veteran of that agency who was a “legend” among NSA workers – says that the NSA database is used to harass and even frame anyone the government doesn’t like.  Another high-level NSA whistleblower (Russell Tice, who worked on satellite spying for the agency for two decades) says that (and see this; and this PBS interview).  Indeed, because government spying has always focused on crushing dissent, it is safe to assume that the government will use the information it gathers.

I wanted to talk just a little here with my own thoughts about some of the other Eleven Dimensions - or Twelve if you can't one I don't think it's possible "to get to from here".   Just to insert in a remark right here one could say that certain aspects of Karma are "A-Moral".  It's not always that "goodness" is karmic strength and "evil" is karmic weakness.  We call these evil but strong entities "Demonic" because often they come out of nowhere and strike.  Our prayer is that we retreat from wherever they came - - just to get them off our backs.  By the way- - the whole "talking backwards" and all that stuff- - is not wholly wrong.  What I didn't say on the first draft of this paragraph is that "technically' time runs backwards in what we'll call "the upper world" as opposed to "this world".  We'll explain more in a minute.  We talked about "Karmic weight" and said that Karmic gravity was a bad thing.  What either Karmic Weight or Karmic Gravity really IS - - is (we've said this before) the karmic price we pay for our own Existance.  That is "The Flesh" or sometimes in the bible the word "Psyche" is used- - - is kind of a greedy, self demanding thing that pulls us all down from what we otherwise might be, much as I or anybody may not like that whole notion.  Actually karmic "energy" or "force" nurtured and developed by one's Own Will actually works constructively in a football or chess analogy with weight, which works for us the same way a powerful lineman with "gravitas" can get his own way.  Neither Free Will nor Desire are sins of themselves.  In fact, (and I said this way back in my book in 1980) that Free Will is actually the Enemy of Sin.  They won't tell you this in Sunday school.  Indeed the Apostle Paul said "The things I would not do - - these I do and the things I would do, I do not do".  (Selah)  This is true obviously in the "here and now" material world- - but also in the "karmic realm".   Remember we spoke of karmic space and things like psychic "reach", which are also things in the material world.  It was in a posting in this very "Soap Opera" blog early October of 2012 that we talked about this karmic vortex hour glass- (though you may prefer the more exacting image of a giant funnel) - where the top half spins around one way - - probably counter clockwise (viewed from the top of the hour glass) and in the lower portion spins around clockwise (when viewed from the top)  Viewed from the bottom this would be reversed, of course. Yeah, kind of like atmospheric weather systems.  But - -  only in the top of "Cause" aspect of this karmic hour glass is "lightness" or "upwardness" at a premium.  The "faster" you are (in terms of your own Free Will karmic energy) the more "Cause Gravitas" you have, ironically.  In the "lower world' of the here and now - - you see this "Karmic energy" as Material Force.  I'm sensing I'm not making myself clear and since I've already discussed it before we'll move on to one more thing I wanted to bring up.  Time.  People in a shall we say "Lower level karmic playing field" the element of Time is more apparent.  This is because "things just take longer to happen".  And as such - - things can be more easily Organized.  Things are Simpler like a level one Playing Game as opposed to Level Ten, which is much more difficult.  So just superimpose all this on top of everything else we've said about Karma.  More of immidiate short term importance is the particular Feng Chue you encounter this day.  The vibes are much more auspicious on some days than on other days.  But just as Roller Coasters use tighter turns - - as the energy winds down to achieve the same effects as earlier in the ride - - so there is a way (if you can pull it off) to "give yourself a boost in effective energy without having to "develop any more karmic muscles".   Sounds pretty neat.  Some call it "psychic down-shifting" but I'm not sure one has control over it.  Really of more importance if how much "Karmic Space" you control.  But this element of Time struck me- - - because in terms of time you exert on each individual "challenge" Time - (because their fewer of them to worry about) - as an almost (even actual) material substance - - the densness of the Gravitons- - the closer you get to the Karmic Wall or Ether Wall or whatever we're calling it these days.  (Oddly the Scientology term for it is - - Death)  People with more Time usually make better decisions.  You just seem to have less Time in a difficult Arcade Video Game than in you do in an easier one of easier difficulty.  Psychic "Reach" is also important- - pertaining to how much karmic space you control.  And also if you are in the Psychic Reach of a Demon - - particularly one who has psychically down-shifted- - you are in heap big trouble.   Well, now you know why I didn't spend the whole posting with the general topics of this paragraph.  That would make the whole posting appear unreadable.

The Great National Stupor



How do you like this as a great opening topic sentence?  In excess of thirty years our nation has been in a Great National Stupor.  I watched that “Deep State” interview on the GW blog video last night- - muting the Jeopardy sound - - and what struck me is “There is nothing new here.  We know all this stuff.  We know that our government is “broken” but constitutional government is “no longer necessary” in today’s corporaticracy.  We live by the executive order and the back door deal like that “dollars instead of voters” ad they show on the Stephanie Miller show where the dollars little by little supplant the ranks of American voters.    We are in a great national stupor because it’s like people smoking opium in days of old- - - they seem to have shall we say “lost interest” in things like justice and democracy, that used to be very important to them.  It started all the way back in 1978 with the Howard Jarvis tax payer’s revolt - - and continued with William Casey making that deal with Iran not to release the hostages till Reagan took office.  It continued through the Revolution of 1994 because whatever problems we faced before we were always protected to a degree “back-stopped” with a Democratic House.  Now this was gone and we pass things like the Communacations Act of 1996, and frankly, I’ve always had my doubts, even at the time, whether the “Defense of Marriage Act” was even constitutional.  We know the interplay between the treasury and Wall Street and the NSA and what Ike called the whole “Military Industrial Complex” that engages in war not for principle, to defend anybody or defend democracy or liberty- - but for these people it’s the bottom line.  If there is profit to be made by going to War we’ll do it- - and who cares how many brave fighting men are killed or maimed for life.  None of this is new knowledge.  We know about Iran Contra, and we know that “money was being filtered into Iraq- - right after 9 – 11 and I was one Republican who was really puzzled as to why”.  This is the guy who did the GW video.

 But now we come to Vladimir Putin- - and I think I’ve had one of those light bulb experiences.  I’m sure you’ve always wondered how or why Adolph Hitler got away with taking pieces of Europe one by one without firing a shot.  Now we know.  Nobody cared.  We were all to stupurous to even know or care what was happening before our eyes or the perils we were setting ourselves up for.  It’s funny how the media is now switching sides, just like the Trayvon Martin case.  At first they were normal people who “knew what was going on here”.  But now- - as this opium like hypnosis takes over we are increasingly hearing stuff like how Putin is fully justified in taking over Crimea and the West won’t do anything about it because Russia’s military is a lot bigger than the Ukraine, and might makes right and all.  And of course the cry goes out “Don’t fight and don’t resist because it will only make Putin mad”.   And Putin won’t guarantee that this is the final move on his part.  He wanted the whole country of Ukraine, and now he’s taking Crimea as a consolation prize.  Putin wants it known that “This is not necessarily over” and that’s the most unsetteling fact of all.  Nothing is decided.  The world is saying in essence “Whatever Putin wants, Putin gets” because nobody, even today in the 21st Century - - has the will to stop him.  Kerry can call it a “Nineteenth Century tactic” and talk about how he has an economic price to pay.  But others say “Putin has taken all of this into consideration and decided it was worth it”.  In other words- - Putin has placed himself above NATO and the EEC and the UN and this country- - and whoever else who might at this point enter a feeble protest.  And in this year of 2014 is that all we’ll hear from the American electorate this year as a “feeble protest”?   The funny thing is - - think about this - - the Tea Party can only GAIN in congress this year if this “Outrage against Obama” or whoever EXCEEDS that of 2010.  Because think about it.  If this outrage against “The left” is equal to what it was in 2010 then- - the Same Percentage of right wingers will get elected as we got from 2010.   And yet democrats are scared spitless that now the Democrats won’t even hold the US Senate.  But as I said a minute ago- - the House is the thing that will make or break progressivism.

Can I just say this about Stephanie and the gang’s endless mocking of that one caller who kept talking about his floppy disk in the commodore 64 and dialing up Compu-Serve?  Sometimes it’s true that a caller takes too LONG to make a point.  Other people like me- - who’s brains work much more quickly- - are often too QUICK to come to the Point.  You know like High School geometry- - the idea of laying it out “how you got from here to there” struck me is kindergarten type exercises.  I’d like to harken back to this whole idea of “What is Time itself” in terms of how it came into existence and all.   You all know the “Starburst” version of the origen of all Creation - - the ENTIRE “Big Bang” so to speak.  But a couple of years ago I took the liberty to modify this Starburst theory - - all the straight lines going out like an asterisk - - and decided to introduce a 3 D element to it, which thus makes a “Tulip” formation, which has nothing to do with John Calvin.  This so called “third dimension” is what I call “Event time”.  Because - - - like the Egyptian balance scales of old- - with each side having weights of evidence place on it- - - Cause is on one side and Effect is on the other.  But the “fulcrum” of this whole thing is “The Event”.  The Event- - (s) is what according to this theory - - signals the progression of Time.  The Event- - is thus singularly IN time neither as a Cause or Effect but it’s just THERE.  Time moves neither forward nor backward with The Event.  We call Engrams “Events”.  They are “Events” in the Mind.  We also used the idea of the “Tulip” formation - - in terms of a single “petal” so to speak as a metaphor for a single life.  When you are every young you don’t “learn” from one Event to the next.  When you are older you conceptualize- - and organize your Events- - and hopefully see causes and effects for Events in your life.  We have said that - - Causes - - are what we call this “Lighter than Ether” force- - and that like the bathroom scale at fifteen pounds per square inch of PRESSURE of the atmosphere- - the thing still registers as Zero.  We thus label this reading a “false zero”.  It’s the Zero we reference in our own minds.  The “fulcrum” in nature thus is not really “Zero” but rather this “Ether Wall” as we have referred to it.  You have Cause on one side of the Ether Wall and Effect – on the other, as the other side of the equation and nature dictates both sides of the equation must balance.


The media at large, and NATO and the UN and people on conservative and liberal call in shows alike are all united against Vladimir Putin’s military invasion of the Crimea and taking over all the bases there.  However George Washington’s blog is another of those rare bird “apologists” for Putin.  He likens our meddling there as the same as “fighting the Iraq War all to keep oil supplies open”.  Like I say if that was our goal it was a major failure because oil prices tripled during this period.  First I clicked on the Bush and the “oil supply” justification for the Iraq war, and then clicked on Bush’s 2005 speech itself.  Someone said on FOX news that “Iran wants to take over Syria and Lebanon and Iraq”.   Back in those days we were really afraid of Iran, which we aren’t now, even though the danger is much more apparent now than then.  Perhaps I should post these sentaments as a counter-point to George Washington’s blog, since I know that blog is widely read.   MY POINT IS AS FOLLOWS  Maybe I'm the only one but the United States seems to have never actually gone against the nation of Iran but always seems to have handled them with kid gloves.  We didn't protest their election of 2009.  We never attempted any real invasion of Iran when they took our hostages in 1979.  We sold TOW missiles to them in the mid 1980s.  And we put in a Shiite government in the nation of Iraq more friendly to Iran, and now we "trust" Iran to get rid of their centrafuges and other uranium enrichment activities so they don't build an Atomic Bomb to drive Israel into the Sea, which is what they have been contually threatening up until VERY recently.  Think about it

DEMONS ARE CAUSES - AND THE TARGETED PEOPLE FEEL THE EFFECTS.

I read the files “nevertheless” and “Kar-mageddon” from late September of 2012 and noted a similar era in a blog I read earlier.  At late as late September of 2012 it seems as I were just trying to “fill space with a topic” with little of heartfelt passion on the subject.   There is nothing wrong with these “let’s just talk about a topic for the heck of it” blogs.  Indeed, it’s all some people ever do with Sunday sermons.  That first encounter with Jim in the halls is an event I never seem to have reported that took place late Saturday afternoon on the 29th.   Jim had on these old jeans and a wide brimmed hat and sun glasses and long grayish white hair and kind of walked with a swagger down the hall.  And I greeted him as I approached- and then realized it wasn’t Terry.  And the look the guy gave me was something like “Don’t you dare say anything to me like that again!”   I never stopped being on the defensive about Jim from that moment on till the Monday morning he left and kind of leered at me as he left his room for the last time.  I noted though that somebody- - in audio range but out of visual range said “Here comes that nut case” as I approached three people.   That “Ron” guy hasn’t been here in a long time.  There is reference made to a “Gloria” but I thought the Gloria we know had long since left.  Then there is a reference made to a “Mark” who lends money (?).  Nora is here right now.  It’s interesting to see the changing case of characters around here.  It’s after three right now.  I just had another idea for a new posting called  
“Cause and effects are such nasty words”.  It’s along the lines that Causes have natural Effects- - as a natural course of things, and this should not be seen the least big unusual of “deviant”.  People fancy themselves as “Causes” when so much of the time they are either beneficiaries of victims of “effects” that isn’t talked about enough.

  The soap opera featured Sonny talking tough with Nick Fallon.  Yes, you can really be a thug and also a faggot.  There is such a misplaced case of moral priorities among Sonny and Will and Samantha.  They seem to think Nick is “doing something to them” when in reality- - Nick just wants to blend in and be a normal person.  But if Samantha or Sonny wants to go to the police and claim somehow they feel threatened by Nick even being in the same room, they can just explain the whole thing to Roman Brady about “what Nick has put them all through” even those months he was believed dead.  I’m sure Roman will understand.  I wonder why Samantha doesn’t do that.  (He says in jest) 

Monday, March 03, 2014

Randomness verses Order

There are certain basic things I'd like to talk about with the Universe- - This Universe - not any other Universe, just to narrow the topic down for you people right off the bat.  First of all Randomness does not mean lack of mental discipline.  On the contrary Mathemeticians employ a great ammount of discipline when discussing random occurances.  Some would say that the Conservative assumes Order as an a priority reality, whereas the Liberal assumes randomness as an a priori reality.  I guess by that definition I'm a liberal.  Back when I was around six and we were still l living in Westchester,  I had one of these toy xylophone thing with keys the colors of the rainbow.  Then we got a bigger xylophone that was bigger with sharps and flats and all and my brother pointed out to me that the notes were compatable and that a note on one was the same as a note on the other.  This came as a surprise to me, and obviously it came as a surprise to my brother.  My Dad went on to explain how all of the orchestral instruments used the same Key pitch system and that an E on one instrument was the same as an E on any other instrument.  This is something I had to unlearn to a degree in the summer of 1961 when I first became exposed to band instruments and discovered that so many of them were pitched in B flat.  But when I was a kid I was naturally a believer in the steady state theory.  I believed that the Universe "went on forever" both in time and in space.  Because the minute you assume any START or STOP to the Universe you assume some outside Force somehow imposing Order on it.  Likewise in space- - the minute you assume there is some sort of Shape to the universe- this supposes Limits and Boundaries-- hence some kind of imposed Order.  I naturally assumed that none of the Stars were fixed but that all were migrating around randomly in a chaotic miandering.  Then around mid 1965 Nana, our grandmother broached the subject of astrology collums in the newspaper and that various signs like Taurus the bull were in things called signs or constelations.  Needless to say I had to research this and found that most ALL the stars in the universe were in relatively FIXED positions.  This was a major revelation to me and in my oppinion made the study of the Stars a whole lot simpler.  We assume that events are random.  For instance- - if suddenly there was a big Power Ball winner exactly every five days throughout the Country rain or shine, to me this would be suspicious.  In like manner if there were some geometric pattern to the winning Cities- - - like forming a gigantic "crop circle" accross the Map of the United States, to me this would be most curious.  In like manner- - what flagged my attention in Astrology was that it DID seem to predict Events.  Prior to this I assumed that the stars had no control but when I began seeing related coralations between planetary allignments and events- - this got my attention.  A psychologist would looking at me would say that "I continued with Astrology because I kept getting a positive Pay Off - - psychologically.  Of course Neil of KFI singles out astrology as "The one psychic science where there is the LEAST indication there is anything to it.  I would not have stuck with astrology all these years is doing so didn't contain some sort of "Pay Off".  This is in contravention to other pursuits such as- - the study of foreign languages- - or Religion.

We're taking a topic break right now to talk about discussion of the Russian invasion of Ukraine- - where Stephanie has taken to attacking Lindsey Graham and other patriots who believe in democracy and the sovreignty of governments.  I'm not really down with Vladimir Putin "apologists".   Actually if anybody wants to criticize President Obama for mushiness on this issue- - I'd line up right behind them because if the President can have these hour or longer phone conversations with Vladimir Putin for over an hour and the NEXT thing Putin does is invade a sovreign country- - I'd call the President soft, too.  Kerry and Hillary are people who stick up for the United States.  I get the idea that Kerry is not entirely happy serving this sponge-bob resolve of a President like Obama is on so many issues.

This next paragraph is largely "Problems with the Big Bang Theory".   Of course - - - some people, and I was among them can get really "messed up" by adopting a theory too quickly.  Some believe in this soap bubble version of the Universe like "Well of course it has no beginning and no end like the surface of a soap bubble but it gets bigger and bigger expanding "through" Time itself.  I have written many things on this myself like in the spring of 1997.   I came up with my Christmas ornament theory way back in September of 1976.  Then there is the "kite string' theory about light propigation.  In other words the reason why we never see the "edge" of the Universe is because like a roll of kite string it lays in on itself and just gets wrapped around in circles.  The problem with this thinking is- - that even IF it's true that light bends a little in its path over Great Distances - - - there should still be SOME direction in which you can travel to reach that perverbial "Edge" of the Universe.  Then if we skip up to 2007 I come up with my "cascading fountain" theory of the universe- - or what you could call "The perpetual falling machine' theory where-  - so this theory goes- - Black Holes suck up nearby matter so therefore it's only logical that if they do this - - then in time they will suck up all of the matter in THAT universe- - and other Black Holes will occurr in these black holes, which in turn will in time suck up all the material in Those Universes.   The problem of course is then I discovered what Greater Minds than I already knew about Einstein- - that- - Black Holes are not even a Theoretical Possability under Einstinian Math when it comes to the speed of light.  Take my word for it.  There is one Besetting Problem with the whole Big Bang Theory.  This is true even though it's part of my "theological system".  (The Stewart Sutcliffe "starburst" theological system)  Many are worried about the idea that the Universe is expanding more rapidly now than it used to, but as I have pointed out before and will again right now- - in the overall scheme of things- - the expansion rate of the Universe is of an infinitessable rate.  It's like watching paint dry or concrete expand on a hot day would be more exciting.  In some ways the Big Bang theory has this "neat and tidy package".  They can look back in time a billion years through their telescopes and see "infant galaxies that aren't yet maturely formed" like a visual documentation of the creation process.  They say "Well- - if a few Billion years ago (back) stars are receding at the speed of one third that of light- - then at 12 Billion years if we could see that- - we should reach the speed of light".   Right off the bat we have a problem if you're Neil of KFI and believe that the Universe can NEVER exceed the speed of light.  Because if the speed of light is fixed, and this assumes of course we are the ONLY point in the Whole Universe that is Perfectly Stationary- - and of course we are in the Exact Center of the Entire Universe- - - obviously the Universe CANNOT be expanding at a Greater Rate than it was because there is that self imposed Speed Limit to expansion, and needless to say that light travels at the speed of a slug or snail or something- - in the overall scheme of things- - as far as traversing space in the Universe.  HERE IS THE BIG PROBLEM   If you look over here in This portion of the sky according to the big bang theory  you can see "Where it all started" and those infant galaxies being formed- - but you can look over There or over There- - - or a dozen other places in the heavens- - and see the Same Thing.  You can see the "starting point where it all began".  Obviously the Universe could not have originated in ALL of those places.  So this imposes a problem if just why do you think one particular place you happen to be looking at through your Telescope at the time having RANDOMLY picked that spot-- - what makes you think "That Spot' and that spot along is "Where the Universe Began".  Nobody has ever satisfactorally explained this to me.

The Mc Laughlin group did have the Vladimir Putin invasion into Crimea in a major way.  Never has Pet Buchannon been more solidly emotionally identifying with Putin.  The same “wonderful” attributes of Putin could also be said of another despot, Adolph Hitler.  I mean “He’s trying to Christianize the country and bring it back to its former glory.  He has cleaned out all the homosexuals and bolstered security.  He has been a boost to the national economy with a skyrocketing Gross National Product,  and hopes to bring back Russia to its glory days when its territory was much larger.  He wants to include the Russian populations living in other nations under the Russian flag.  He doesn’t trust the United States or the rest of Europe and feels “encircled” and wants to establish “buffer zones”.   Again, so much of this sounds so much like Hitler with his jack booted thugs bashing homosexuals and other people who don’t fit in to his vision of Russia.   Mort Zuckerman is this perennial sour puss when it comes to the US economy and of course is against any increase in the minimum wage, calling it a jobs killer.  Nobody cares that a minimum wage hike is popular in the opinion polls.  The other topic they discussed was the action of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer.   If you wrote down the predictions each one routinely makes at the end of the program would have five fresh predictions every week to scrutinize in weeks and months hence.  Then it was Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.  I got on the computer and watched some of “The Following” and I had the option of watching the whole thing but the plot was too complicated.   I watched two Yahoo music videos.  One was an elaborate Egyptian thing, and the other was this sexy babe on the beach with the waves lapping her, in black and white, and this other Black guy joining her after a while. 

I watched Meet the Press.  John Kerry was on first and breakfast was so delayed I actually tuned in late.  John Kerry is at least concerned about our national interests and the interests of NATO and now Putin is walking all over us now, thinking he controls everything.  Then Marco Rubio was on next and echoed and amplified on a lot of Kerry’s sentaments.  There were times when I felt David Gregory was trying to make some point almost goading one of the other guests “Does this mean we’re going to put boots on the ground there next week?” or something.  Then they had the round table.  People were saying that like Dad, Obama is just inherently afraid of any conflict, or what they used to call “getting your hands dirty”.  In fact President Obama is “gifted” with this almost ethereal aloofness when any really major comes along to just ignore it.  Jerry Brown was on later in the program and warned there would “be too many pot heads” if California ever totally legalized marijuana, and talked about fiscal tightness.  They said that “Twelve Years a Slave” has a two to five chance of taking Best Picture.  These are inverted odds meaning is you plunk down five dollars, you end up winning two.   I think the Hollywood community has always been valuable and instrumental in alerting the American people to social problems.   Breakfast with the Beatles was nothing out of the ordinary except they played this “The River Rhine” song from the Get Back sessions.  This included Billy Preston but was lacking John Lennon and George did all the jazz riff guitar work.  Paul sang lead.