“You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant and you surely cannot produce a complex intelligence report in less than 24 hours by assembling 200 analysts” -Ludwig De Braekeleer
An introduction to this site’s author or philosophical primer and critique of European (especially ‘five eyes’) mentality, pointing to the futility of our world’s neocolonial direction; A 6,000 words or 30 minutes careful read, it is my underlying political philosophy:
This next is a thumbnail, non-Western world-view illustration, underlying the preceding. In effect, a short explanation of the fundamental mistake or misapprehension of reality by modern thought. If you’re from the culture that came up with virgin birth, Santa Claus & the Tooth Fairy, it should be easy enough to understand when your own advances in quantum mechanics call bullshit on everything you were taught is reality, including the Western Cartesian-Platonic based science:
Link to my story of exile:
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office” -Aesop
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Most read intelligence assessment:
Black Boxes, Dark Arts & Geopolitics
Ones to Covert you to a Conspiracy Theorist:
“The extension of the empire has meant the growth of private fortunes. This is nothing new, indeed it is in keeping with the most ancient history” -Gaius Asinius Gallus (from Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome)
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Turkey’s MIT gassed the Syrians & German intelligence knows it
^ Send a letter demanding German parliament investigate a war crime
ronaldthomaswest.com:
In any democracy, ethics, self restraint, tolerance and honesty will always take a second seat to narcissism, avarice, bigotry & persecution, if only because people who play by the rules in any democracy are at a disadvantage to those who easily subvert the rules to their own advantage (Ronald’s Maxim)
A Sociopaths & Democracy Project
“By the end of 1962 this nation had gone so far down the line following the Agency, the new Special Forces doctrine, the MAP, and the new U.S. philosophy as outlined in the President’s Committee report, that it was saying openly it was well on its way to carrying out as top national policy a major clandestine operation so big in fact that the entire government would be involved. Obviously, it could not be really clandestine in the sense that it would be kept secret from our enemies; on the contrary, it was a new kind of “clandestine”, so it would be kept secret from all Americans” –L. Fletcher Prouty, Pentagon liaison to the CIA
Ideologue corporate board personalities, fused with organized crime, media & intelligence agency veterans, maintain a customized parallel perception of reality, operated for them by stooges, where 99% of people in the western democracies dwell. At this site, you will discover insights into that ‘other’ reality dedicated to controlling your reality
Ronald Thomas West:
Satirist & unprejudiced hater of neo-liberal and neo-conservative alike
small print: former military special operations intelligence professional
Home of the Free Speech Clown
“I am of that force which always the evil will, and yet creates the good”
-Mephistopheles (Goethe, Faust I)
My social and political lampoons are best explained this way: The devil on the one shoulder and the angel on my other shoulder climb into my head to make love and a satire is born .. having little to do with morality and much to do with ethics. As a writer there is no fear, no guilt, no shame in my approach, only accountability demanded of the public personas who presume to lead with lies as our world burns around us .. and making people laugh at the hypocrisies of western culture in a way steals the power of those lies and reduces their influence.
“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief” -Frantz Fannon
don’t miss these:
How Dumb is the CIA (all episodes)
Don’t care for the CIA’s friend, google, setting filters to prevent certain sites and/or results showing up? Here is Russia’s top search engine, Yandex, which does not mind at all if you search in the Roman alphabet using the English language:
Yandex
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Recommended reading on Russia (external links)
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“The post August 1991 leaderships of Soviet and then Russian intelligence bodies made several attempts to establish limited cooperation with the USA. Lieutenant-General Vadim Kirpichenko, the head of a group of consultants of the SVR, said that there was a need to set up contacts between the SVR and the CIA. The Russians wanted both sides to reject coercive recruitment and the use of psychotropic means. The Americans were not impressed” -Gordon Bennett, Conflict Studies Research Centre (UK Ministry of Defence)
“The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” — former CIA Director William Colby
“You could get a [Washington Post] journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month.” -CIA operative cited in “Katherine The Great” by Deborah Davis
“…the [Central Intelligence] Agency has a whole stable of writers, its favorite magazines and newspapers, its publishing houses, and its “backgrounders” ready to go at all times” – former Pentagon liaison to the CIA Colonel L Fletcher Prouty
“There is quite an incredible spread of relationships. You don’t need to manipulate Time magazine, for example, because there are [Central Intelligence] Agency people at the management level.” -William B. Bader, former CIA intelligence officer
“During the 1976 investigation of the CIA by the Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by Senator Frank Church, the dimensions of the Agency’s involvement with the press became apparent to several members of the panel, as well as to two or three investigators on the staff. But top officials of the CIA, including former directors William Colby and George Bush, persuaded the committee to restrict its inquiry into the matter and to deliberately misrepresent the actual scope of the activities in its final report”
“Contrary to the notion that the CIA insidiously infiltrated the journalistic community, there is ample evidence that America’s leading publishers and news executives allowed themselves and their organizations to become handmaidens to the intelligence services”
“The Agency’s relationship with [The New York] Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. [It was] general Times policy … to provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible.”
Preceding quotes from ‘CIA and the Media’ by Carl Bernstein
“Propaganda experts in the CIA station in Kinshasa busily planted articles in the Kinshasa newspapers, Elimo and Salongo. These were recopied into agency cables and sent on to European, Asian, and South American stations, where they were secretly passed to recruited journalists representing major news services who saw to it that many were replayed in the world press. Similarly, the Lusaka station placed a steady flow of stories in Zambian newspapers and then relayed them to major European newspapers
“During a staff meeting I voiced my concern to —-, were we on safe ground, paying agents to propagandize the New York press? The agency had recently been warned against running operations inside the United States and propagandizing the American public. —- seemed unconcerned. We were safe enough, he said, as long as we could plausibly claim that our intent was to propagandize foreigners at the United Nations
“The task force worked out the details by cabling New York, Lusaka, Kinshasa, and key European stations. Each delegation opened a bank account in Europe to which European-based CIA finance officers could make regular deposits. Thereafter the CIA could plausibly deny that it had funded anyone’s propagandists in the United States. It would be extremely difficult for any investigators to prove differently
“Director Colby testified before the House Select Committee on Intelligence, saying: “We have taken particular caution to ensure that our operations are focused abroad and not at the United States to influence the opinion of the American people about things from the CIA point of view.” A remarkable statement in view of what we had been doing in the task force” (footnoted: “Director Colby received copies of all [relevant] cables and memoranda.”)
Preceding quotes from ‘In Search of Enemies‘ by CIA officer John Stockton
“PAO (Public Affairs Office) now has relationships with reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly and television network in the nation. This has helped us turn some “intelligence failure” stories into “intelligence success” stories, and it has contributed to the accuracy [?] of countless others. In many instances, we have persuaded reporters to postpone, change, hold, or even scrap stories that could have adversely affected national security interests or jeopardized sources and methods.” -Robert Gates, CIA internal memo (1991)
“Professional standards require intelligence professionals to lie, hide information, or use covert tactics to protect their “cover,” access, sources, and responsibilities. The Central Intelligence Agency expects, teaches, encourages, and controls these tactics so that the lies are consistent and supported (“backstopped”). The CIA expects intelligence officers to teach others to lie, deceive, steal, launder money, and perform a variety of other activities that would certainly be illegal if practiced in the United States. They call these tactics “tradecraft,” and intelligence officers practice them in all the world’s intelligence services” -Hulnick & Mattausch, “Ethics and Morality in U.S. Secret Intelligence”
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A former Sergeant of Operations and Intelligence for Special Forces, Ronald Thomas West is a retired investigator (living in exile) whose work focus had been anti-corruption. Ronald is published in International Law as a layman (The Mueller-Wilson Report, co-authored with Dr Mark D Cole) and has been adjunct professor of American Constitutional Law at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany (for English credit, summer semester 2008.) Ronald’s formal educational background (no degree) is social psychology. His therapeutic device is satire.
Contact: penucquemspeaks@googlemail.com
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Collected stories, folklore and anecdotes concerning my many years life with Blackfeet Indians and traversing Native American territories –
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All original work and art (c) copyright by Ronald Thomas West; for profit and mass paper media redistribution prohibited
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“The More Important Blessing is the time and respect you invest in being beautiful and loving to those you share your space intimately with; To live in a Beautiful Way is to make the time for loving them, often” -Ronald Thomas West
“The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state” -William J. Brennan
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” – Seneca the Younger
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn” -Alvin Toffler
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it” -Albert Einstein
“You can’t convince a chimpanzee to give you a banana with the promise it will get 20 more bananas in chimpanzee heaven. It won’t do it. But humans will” -Yuval Noah Harari
“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness” -Banksy
“All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final” -Hypatia of Alexandria
“Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child’s mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them” -Hypatia of Alexandria
“Experience witnesses that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and virtue of religion, have had a contrary operation. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution” -James Madison
“The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite” -Thomas Jefferson
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself” -Mark Twain
“The ones who complain and talk the most about giving away Medicine Secrets, are always those who know the least” -Frank Fools Crow, Lakota
”The ’scientific view’ is inadequate to explain … how man is to find and know a road along which he wishes and chooses to make this said progress, unless Manitoo by his spirit, guides the mind of man, keeping human beings just and generous and hospitable” -Rising Sun, Chippewa
“The knowledge and use of any or all the powers of the objects on Earth around us is as liable to lead a man wrong as to lead him right. It is merely power, with no way of knowing how to use it correctly … unless Spirit is with a man’s spirit for the light” -Red Tomahawk, Sioux
“The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment” -Bernard d’Espagnat, Theoretical Physicist
“The women are right in their way of breaking the rules, because men made them without asking women” -Montaigne
“The history of the great events of this world are scarcely more than the history of crime” -Voltaire
“It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime” -Thomas Paine
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office” -Aesop
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which” -George Orwell
“The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion” –Eleanor Roosevelt
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable” – H.L. Mencke
“Their judgment was based more upon blind wishing than upon any sound pre-vision; for it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not fancy” -Thucydides
“Is it not absurd when a human being tries to find happiness somewhere outside himself, and thinks that wealth and birth and the influence of friends is of the utmost importance?” -Emperor Julian (the apostate)
“As long as one person acts with noble spirit, even if they act alone, we are all blessed. Be thou that one” –Emperor Julian (the apostate)
“Love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit” -Alexander Dumas
“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves” -Buddha
“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood” -Berkely Breathed
“To be beautiful is to be grateful” (for this life) -Ancient Native American philosophy of many tribes
“It is a lot of hard work to be complicated and unhappy. I’m opposed to hard work” -Ronald Thomas West
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A note for the NSA: I have assumed for a very long time you have everything I have ever entered in to my laptop and and I am fully aware some of that information (my location) has at times been passed to some of the nastiest personalities in existence. So, here’s a big UP YOUR’s with the attending message anyone reading here can take to heart; I have kept information between my ears, never put through any keyboard or any mobile device, information your NSA minion/morons would give up a testicle for. And you’ll never ‘get it’, because you just don’t.
Ronald Thomas West 