Grzegorz Ochman
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What scares me the most is that we seem to know less over time, rather than more. This video initially seems interesting, but it falls short compared to older materials. For example, I highly recommend this lecture from 1993 by Michael Parenti, which offers insights that are ten times better than the new video:
Just compare the first video, which barely scratches the surface, to Parenti’s lecture, where he explains everything much more effectively.
I love Parenti for his ability to acknowledge and laugh at the absurdity of the naive world we live in. Here’s a fragment from his lecture:
12:56
“So, truth or not, truth has nothing to do with it. The question is institutional legitimacy. Parenti understands the heart of the matter: a full revelation about the murder would be a serious attack on the legitimacy of the dominant institutions of state and class, with the press being a faithful servant of the system. New York Times writers defend the system while addressing mass audiences.
The movie JFK did not identify a cabal of malevolent perpetrators; instead, it pointed to the National Security State itself as the murderer.
Damage control: Back in 1978, the House Select Committee reported that there was more than one assassin involved in shooting Kennedy, indicating a conspiracy. In response, The Washington Post editorialized:
“Could it have been some other malcontent whom Mr. Oswald met casually?”
It gets better. Could not as many as three or four societal outcasts, with no ties to any one organization, have spontaneously developed a common determination to express their alienation by killing President Kennedy? Is it possible that two persons, acting independently, attempted to shoot the president simultaneously?
Foreign Laughter
Likely so. Sometimes, those who deny conspiracies create the most convoluted fantasies. David Garrow, who wrote a biography of Martin Luther King Jr., patronizingly observes that evidence pointing to a conspiracy in King’s assassination is now well-known. A large majority of Americans believe in assassination conspiracies, attributing large, mysterious causes to events rather than small, idiosyncratic ones.
I would argue that The Washington Post has the most mysterious cause of all. Earlier, they liked the idea of large causes. However, the question of conspiracy must be decided through an investigation of evidence, not through patronizing presumptions about public perception. The evidence in King’s assassination involves immediate realities, not grand mysterious causes. Investigators like Peter Dale Scott, Harold Weisberg, and Mark Lane were driven by questions of evidence that didn’t make sense, which drew them into the matter more deeply. Those who refuse to engage with the evidence can easily fabricate their own theories.”
Parenti is one of the greatest because he can laugh off the absurdity of the naive beliefs held by many and expose the absurdity of the narratives we are fed.
Here’s another excerpt that illustrates his style:
50:27
“So brilliant, the New York Times people—they must be because they think so themselves. I want to read this brilliant passage from the New York Times. They’re from New York, don’t forget. Hey, I’m from New York, but I’m really not brilliant. If I were, I’d be writing for the New York Times.
Mosovich, as a youth, was a pudgy loner.
Now, being a loner in the American political lexicon is obvious evidence of psychopathology—you’re an assassin, obviously. You know, Lee Harvey Oswald was a loner. He may have been a loner, but he was no assassin. Timothy McVeigh and the kid who shot Ronald Reagan—what was his name? Hinkley?—also fit that description. They all call them loners, but they had friends and family. They’re labeled loners, but Mosovich was a very special case because he was a pudgy loner.
Now, pudginess is un-American. I mean, I don’t think so. I actually think pudginess isn’t bad at all. But according to the narrative, if Mosovich had been a lean loner, that would’ve been bad too. So it’s best not to be either pudgy or lean.
Let me summarize: As a youth, Mr. Mosovich was a pudgy loner—that’s two strikes. Pudgy. Loner. Who shunned sports—that’s strike three. And wrote poetry—that’s strike four.
Does anyone need any further proof that here was a psychotic killer nerd? The Times goes on: Today, Mosovich is often described in Serbian profiles as reclusive and moody. His country is being bombed, and he’s moody?
With few friends—well, many of them are dead. In public appearances and interviews, he can be as effusive and happy as a door-to-door salesman. Fascinating, isn’t it?
So we have an effusive, reclusive salesman type. Even the managing editor of Foreign Affairs—the most establishment of journals—notes: Mosovich, who rules an impoverished country that has not attacked its neighbors, is no Adolf Hitler. He is not even Saddam Hussein. And it’s pretty bad when Foreign Affairs starts sounding good, you know? It really makes you realize where our media—no, they’re not our media—they’re their media.”
“Damage control: Back in 1978, the House Select Committee reported that there was more than one assassin involved in shooting Kennedy, indicating a conspiracy. In response, The Washington Post editorialized:
“Could it have been some other malcontent whom Mr. Oswald met casually?”
It gets better. Could not as many as three or four societal outcasts, with no ties to any one organization, have spontaneously developed a common determination to express their alienation by killing President Kennedy?”
This sounds eerily familiar, doesn’t it?
Could not as many as three or four societal outcasts, with no ties to any one organization, have spontaneously developed a common determination to express their alienation by blowing up Nord Stream?
“States and nations that base their political thought on lies, on denying the truth, are heading for ruin.” — Józef Piłsudski
“There is no better breeding ground for the bacteria of falsehood and legend than the fear of truth and a lack of will.” — Józef Piłsudski
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Do you have faith in the system?
Do you not want to know what the truth is?
Do you lack the will to face the fear of the truth?
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The cry of “Give me television and hamburgers, but don’t bother me with the responsibilities of liberty,” may give place, under altered circumstances, to the cry of “Give me liberty or give me death.” If such a revolution takes place, it will be due in part to the operation of forces over which even the most powerful rulers have very little control, in part to the incompetence of those rulers, their inability to make effective use of the mind-manipulating instruments with which science and technology have supplied, and will go on supplying, the would-be tyrant.
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
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How to not laugh from absurdity on it. Here’s fragment from Michael Parenti – The JFK Assassination and the Gangster Nature of the State: 17:45 “He was a bright guy, a quick learner. Oswald spent most of his adult life not as a lonely drifter but directly linked to the U.S. intelligence community. At the age of 18, in the U.S. Marines, he had secret security clearance and was working at Marine air control in Atsugi, Japan. Atsugi was a top-secret base where the CIA launched some of its U2 flights and conducted covert operations in China. The next year,… Read more »
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I like Michael Parenti. He is hilarious. I say that even though he is a leftist and I am a rightest. But I am a lean rightest, not a pudgy rightest, so I’m clearly not eating all of the food which the poorer classes can’t afford.
And yes, anyone who believes the JFK assassination was achieved by the efforts of Lee Harvey Oswald and his magic bullet definitely needs to put their name on the list for a brain transplant when that procedure becomes operative.
Years ago I was antiwar, pro free speech, mistrustful of big government and Wall Street, and called “far left”. Now I am antiwar, in favour of free speech, mistrustful of big government and Wall Street, and now called “far right”.
AARON & JEFF: ALL CIA [et-al] DOCUMENTS WILL BE RECOVERED BYE THEE ANGELS-! ~ NOTHING IS OUTSIDE OF THEIR JURISDICTION-!
I don’t think the first video is indicative of a downward spiral in parapolitical research. Sometimes there are great strides with bombshell revelations and sometimes it involves going back to dot the i’s and cross the t’s. The two go hand in hand. It doesn’t mean previous knowledge is lost. It does get more academic and dusty over time, but that is the nature of history.
Having said that, MIchael Parenti is truly brilliant.
Allende was a naive fool. You can’t fight them politically, they understand only violence. “Military coup in Chile. Three commanders-in-chief formed a junta. They bombed the presidential palace and commenced a military assault. The junta declared martial law, restricted people from leaving their houses and bearing arms. Government radio stations have been ordered to go silent; there were crackdowns on anyone who did not obey. This is the language of counterrevolution. Allende’s revolution just talked, persuaded, and made loud declamations. This, of course, is a fundamental defeat of modern revolution in general. It is practically a fatal blow to the… Read more »
Their power lies in hiding in the shadows, while our power lies in shining light on those shadows where they hide. They are able to exist because their existence remains concealed. If you can’t fight them, then why did they do what they did to heroes like Michael Parenti, Gary Webb, and Julian Assange? They tried to destroy them, which means you can fight—and they are afraid.
Don;t forget Danny Casolaro. Casolaro was on the verge of exposing the entire filthy rotten core at heart of the US surveillance state / federal Deep State, when he was murdered. The west is just plain evil, largely driven by Wall Street and its crooked banks. Anyone who “invests” in Wall Street or mutual funds is aiding the trillionaire vermin who own and operate the failed/former United States, and its dirty tricks “allies” like “Israel” and Country-404.
“Meanwhile there is still some freedom left in the world. Many young people, it is true, do not seem to value freedom. But some of us still believe that, without freedom, human beings cannot become fully human and that freedom is therefore supremely valuable. Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for very long. It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
Yes and re the debate between Orwell and Huxley — where Huxley argued Elites would favour a stupid and dumbed-down / poisoned populace over Orwell’s politically energized one – it’s clear that Huxley has won.
The simple fact that a corrupt / highly criminalized US federal government still refuses to release all the documents relating to the JFK assassination — which implicates the CIA in his murder — indicts the entire federal Deep State structure. Fact is, the documents cannot be released because proof that JFK’s murder was orchestrated by a Deep State coup would invalidate the US as founded both legally and historically, since the date 22 NOV 1963. Where the entire corrupt shooting match that the former United States is now, would have to be legally dissolved, as being invalid. Which it is.