The Red Herring

I’ve been warning that the so-called “Epstein Files” were a “red herring” since 2024:

“A red herring is a rhetorical device or logical fallacy that distracts from the main issue or argument by introducing an irrelevant topic. It’s often used in debates, discussions, or writing to mislead or divert attention away from the original point. The term derives from the practice of using a strong-smelling fish to throw hounds off a scent during a hunt, metaphorically representing a misleading clue.” — from AI query

Recall that Donald Trump used his first day in office to task his hand-picked lackeys in the “Justice” Department to assign 1,000 FBI agents to purge his name (and presumably, the names of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Peter Theil) from files used in the criminal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein. This fact was so widely reported at the time by mainstream media that it’s inconceivable the media seems to have amnesia as they race to create a new media event about the release of whatever crumbs are left after a full year of redacting, shredding, and losing records. Can there be anything left for the public to see? I doubt it. What Trump wants to hide is the Russia connection to the potential blackmail the files might contain. His cry to release the files is a “red herring” the media will use to sell hope that justice will be done.

There is only one important story worthy of headlines, and you can rest assured it won’t appear in the legacy news: The takeover of America by a cabal of evil billionaires backed by adversarial foreign governments, particularly Russia, in a bloodless coup. Any other story is a red herring to distract you.

America: Land of the Addicted Consumer

America: Land of the Addicted Consumer

Let’s face this simple fact about Americans: We are a nation addicts:

“Addiction is a chronic medical disease characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding behaviors or substance use despite harmful consequences. It involves complex interactions among brain circuits, genetics, environmental factors, and individual life experiences, leading to changes in brain function and behavior control.” – National Institutes of Health

So here we are, addicted to smartphones, social media, sugar and fat, video games, and pornography — to name but a few. To understand the story of how we got here, we need to understand something of the story of organized crime in America. From the Prohibition era onward, Lucky Luciano and his childhood friend and “business associate,” Meyer Lansky, knew addiction very, very well. Luciano’s businesses were heroin and prostitution, and Lansky invented the modern casino. These men knew nothing of the languages of neuroscience or brain chemistry, but they knew how to manipulate both from their direct observation of addiction.

The original purposes of the casinos were three fold:
1. To generate a flow of untraceable cash
2. To launder money from the heroin trade
3. To create a venue for gangsters to mix and mingle with Hollywood stars    Continue reading “America: Land of the Addicted Consumer” →

Workplace Freedom of Speech

I’m using this post to explain how you are losing your right to free speech in America, and I’m pretty sure it isn’t the reason you’re thinking. Also note that when I say “you” lost your free speech, I don’t mean the media lost their ability to spin tall tales. The corporate media can say anything they all agree on. They present “both sides” of whatever they decide the issue de jour is, and throw a pundit or two on your screen. Naturally, they withhold or minimize any information they don’t want you to know about. Let’s step back in time for a brief back-story, then return to the dilemma:

When personal computing was but a glimmer in a nerd’s eye, an early word processor, called WordPerfect, was a miracle. Forty years later, it is still a textbook example of a well-made application: The developers actually debugged the program before they sold it to you! WordPerfect? You probably only know about Microsoft Word. Word was released in 1983, and was crap by comparison. Very few people bought Word because it was so inferior to WordPerfect; however, you already know, that wasn’t the end of the Word story. While Word didn’t sell well and no one liked using it, that’s where the genius of sociopath and rumored pedophile Bill Gates came into play. Continue reading “Orwell Nailed This One!” →

The World’s Cop

At one time, in an earlier age called the “Space Age,” it was common to hear American Republicans complain that America was being used as the World’s Policeman. As usual, the Republicans were being disingenuous; but  we weren’t being used by other nations; rather, the rest of the world came to us for guidance. They came to us because they looked to America for leadership — but the real question is this: Do the nations of the world really need a policeman? In a world that sprouts dictators from any crack in the sidewalk, the current crop of world dictators is a veritable Rogues Gallery of Bond villains. Do they bring enough mass murder, genocide, anguish and terror to the field to warrant a policeman? Well yes, they do.

We need an honest broker to promote and defend democracy. The feeling here is, “Yes, but just not us.” But if not us, then who?

Our relatively egalitarian, relatively idealistic society was once well thought of by many other nations whose citizens liked our liberal democracy concept and looked to us to provide direction, a moral compass, and leadership. In the post-war world, most Americans were pretty good people. That’s how we became the “World’s Policeman,” and it worked fairly well. A politically stable two-party America took the job seriously until our “military industrial complex” caught up with our tolerance for greedy, corrupt people. We started policing the wrong people in the wrong places, and for the wrong reasons. We went from the “World’s Policeman” to the “World’s Hypocrite.” Now we need to work our way back because, damn, do we ever need an honest World’s Policeman.