The CIA was Actually Hoping to get False Confessions of 9 - 11

It used to be back in August of 1969 or the spring of 1971 and you wanted to bribe the President for a special favor, such as Herb Kalambach did with fixing milk prices, you would walk in with a brief case into the president’s office and plop it down and show him a million dollars or two.  They don’t need to do it that way any more.  Now you just give a half a billion to a campaign and get a 760 fold return on your money “investment”.  The other person knows that - - - you pretty much OWN them.  Now they have increased the legal amount an individual may give to a politician by ten fold as part of this “grand bargain” that Boehner and the President finally managed to arrive at.  It’s just like a prostitute and a john arguing over the price, and the President finally stooped low enough that Boehner would bite.  (No sexual implication intended)  But another horrible provision of this Omnibus budget deal is the whole thing about patently ignoring IRS rules about “primarily political based organizations” built right into the legal books as not being allowed to get a 501 C-3 category exemption.  It doesn’t matter WHAT politics you have.  But people know political organizations when they see them, and to take such scrutiny suddenly “off the table” is to arbitrarily rewrite IRS laws.  But now of course pensions are the other problem.  People give up their pay raises for future pensions, and now those pensions are stolen, and now it’s expressly permitted by law - - written into law by these Republicans- - that you can go on and just steal pensions, the same way it’s written into the legal code that Banks can be just as reckless with their investments as they wish and they will continue to be bailed out regardless of Dodd Frank.  And today that British guy on the Mc Laughlin group, and the others just raked Dodd Frank over the coals.  They even claimed it disadvantaged lower income people but offered no example of how this would ever be the case.  That’s because they don’t have one.  The Republicans have hated Dodd Frank, or any other bill safeguarding investor’s funds.

Then we have this whole idea that the CIA senate report will undermine our national security.  You’ll recall that they WERE saying there would be some terrorist event soon after the report was released and of course there were none.  It was just some sort of sick wishful thinking on the part of these tea party Republicans.  But the Mc Laughlin group provided an endless chain of remarks about- - - how traumatic the release of this report would be in the Court of World Oppinion.  But Pat Buchannon also said the exact opposite.  “This is all old news.  It’s all stuff that was known?’  Well which is it?  Just some tired rehash of old facts, or some new blockbuster revelation that will destabilize things?   But to hear them talk- - even the Gulags when they were in force, must have been a good thing even if there was mistreatment of prisoners because after all “You can’t pay too high of a price for national security”.  I mean there are “enemies of the state” everywhere, don’t you know.  But Thom Hartman raised the important point that the CIA was never “LOOKING for the Truth”.  What they wanted was to obtain some false confession that Saddam Hussein was behind 911.  This is why the CIA kept at it for fervently with the torture program.  They were hoping for a FALSE confession, just like the tyrants of hundreds of years ago in the European monarchies did.  Once they obtained a “confession” they themselves KNEW wasn’t true- - they could exploit it for their own propaganda purposes.  Then you have this bit about how various European countries don’t want to spend so much as two percent of their gross national product on Defense, as NATO requires.  And there was talk about now weak European economies are.  I wonder why they kept dwelling on this situation in Europe.  Then it dawned on me that- - it’s a slap against “the welfare mentality” and now the European people are fat and lazy and spoiled with all these government programs.  Eleanor Clift kept saying “Austerity hasn’t worked in Europe”.  But somehow it’s these welfare freeloaders, that are responsible for NATO going down.  And Pat sings his tired, sad rapsidy about how “The power of the Western Nations is declining”.  But of course Pat had to put in his weekly plug for Putin.  Putin feels hemmed in in part because he can’t use his Oil Reserves to exploit his political bully power over other nations, like he was able to do a year ago.  But I’m wondering whether Putin, like Japan before WW II came to our shores- - feels economically so “threatened” or “backed into a corner” that he’ll do something really rash on the world scene.  “Hummm?”

 I had the computer on for the majority of the afternoon.  I watched ‘Justice Now” march in Washington DC with a vast majority of Black faces.  There was one man, then one woman, than that Al Green House rep guy from Houston I heard speaking from the House floor the other day.  Then for the highlight of the day it was the Rev Al Sharpton.   I also had some internet talk panel thing on- but got bored in the not that relevant minutia of it.  Then there was this conservative “Bratt” guy from Virginia (?) who is this conservative House member who preaches that the secret to our economic success is belief in Adam Smith and belief in God (in that order) and how we are a Christian nation and that somehow “free enterprise” was something either invented or “discovered” and when the world “discovered” the principle, prosperity broke out everywhere, with the very unsound implication that more laze fair economics would be a panacea.

It's probably part of human nature for people to believe in something inherently false- - or we would call it 'Magical'.   Nobody wants to consider talk of God of Heaven as "Magical" because that has become such a tainted word.  Certainly the psychologist's phrase of "Magical thinking' is a condemnation of whoever it is they are using the phrase on.  There is of course there could be an Objective (as in 'I am an Objectivist') realm that can't be proven- - like what we referred to as "psychic triggering events" by crossing some imagined or real "string".  And if you could run Time in reverse and crossed that same string the OTHER way, the Reverse of said event would occur.  The event would undo itself.  There is a philosophical question that could be raised about - - psychological or some would say psychic realities such as these "triggering events" or even "images" actually exist on their own as Independant entities and DON'T NEED the Real World to exist- - or whether they are inexerably Connected with THIS WORLD in some way.  But what my theory has in common with religion and even fairy tales is that we both assume there is some PART of what we call human beings- - call it the psyche or the soul or what have you- - that somehow - - transcends what we regard as reality.  That has to be the most dreaded phrase of an Emperical scientist.  Because an Empericist believes above all that "There is a tight limit on the material that is Known and Knowable.  We know where we need to look for it, and if it isn't where we are Looking- - then it simply does and cannot exist.  This is how an Empericists reasons.  And there is a logical possibility they could be Right.  On the other hand it's just as possible- - from a logical point of view- - - that these empericists are Wrong.  My side is butressed by - - going back to the Flat Earth believers or as far back as the philosophy of Ancient Egypt, mankind has repeatedly fallen into the trap of "We are fully aware of all the knowledge that's knowable".