Work Hard on the Whodunit with a Fresh Eye; It's the Only Effective Way to Prevent Senile/Juvenile Dementia
Left: This picture illustrates what happened in the Yellow Sea in March 2010
Right: Reichstag fire in February 1933
I have never been a conspiracy theorist myself.
Yet, I share with these "truth-seekers" the same skepticism about official announcements and reports. This is why I feel much more kinship with them than I do with mainstream "social scientists" and "analysts." I have practically nothing in common with these guys who take everything for granted wherever the pieces of information at hand came from an authoritative source and can serve their ideological purposes.
They always shrug off my heresies presumably because I am a nobody. That's quite OK with me, but don't take me wrong; I am not deprecating myself. On the contrary I'm so proud of my nobodyness. That I remain uninstitutionalized means I have absolutely nothing to lose, let alone gain, whether or not my theories prove wrong at the end of the day. Nothing prohibits me from telling what I believe is true.
Actually these mainstreamers have good reason to brush aside my thoughts. They say the premises on which I base my seemingly far-fetched arguments are unsubstantiated.
But I think anyone, heretic or not, has the right to talk about his take on an issue without full knowledge of the facts concerning it. It's unrealistic to expect him to fully substantiate his hypotheses before expressing his opinion - unless he is a CIA agent, that is.
I know that most of the time I can substitute my commonsense or business sense for proven facts.
Another thing mainstream analysts should keep in mind is that their orthodox arguments, too, remain unsubstantiated all the time.
By comparison, the predominantly Japanese members of a local discussion group I participate in take me a little more seriously. And yet, I'm often inclined to play devil's advocate in our weekly session because otherwise no one would wake up. To that end I often emulate conspiracy theorists who shed light on the unfamiliar side of things - because who said it's the reverse side?
For that reason, most group members frown at this argumentative old man all the time.
They are too brainwashed to question widely accepted premises that war should be avoided at any cost, job security should always be ensured, the higher the population growth rate, the better off the nation, American marines are deployed here to defend the Japanese at the cost of their own lives, and so on.
Every time I ask them what's wrong with war, what's wrong with unemployment, or what's wrong with the shrinking and aging population, they are at a loss over what I am getting at. They quizzically look at me as if I'm saying, "The sun rises in the west."
These are basically why I always side with heretics and throw provocative words at "ordinary" people.
But this is not to say there isn't an unbridgeable chasm between conspiracy theorists and me.
Actually I have always distanced myself from truth-seekers despite the sense of affinity I feel toward them. I have never wanted to join in the lucrative conspiracy-mongering business.
In fact, their business is really prospering these days with millions of cultist-like dupes flocking around them. Today, if you make a Yahoo! search using [9-11 conspiracy] as keywords, you will see more than 95 million URLs coming up. Ironically enough, this is something that discredits self-proclaimed truth-seekers.
It's a shame, for my part, that according to the statistics page of my Geeklog, the 10 most viewed posts include 3 stories dealing with Benjamin Fulford, prominent C-theorist based in Tokyo. Even among my 63 YouTube videos, the top 3 videos have his name in their titles.
They may still refuse to accept a proposition just because "everyone says so," but now they side with a huge crowd of gullible people who instantly bite at anything from a conspiracy theorist just because "he says so."
Actually I haven't been in touch with Fulford since November 2007.
In the meantime I think his list of malicious schemes plotted by the likes of the Jewish cabal headed by David Rockefeller has grown longer very quickly.
He started off his conspiracy revealing business with 9-11, which he theorizes was a hoax, and computer viruses which he believes are created and spread all over the world by anti-virus software vendors such as McAfee. But now he is talking about many other things including the earthquakes in Niigata (July 2007) and Sichuan (May 2008.) According to Fulford, these calamities were artificially caused by the cutting edge technology called HAARP. (HAARP stands for High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program.)
Mine has also been growing longer. It started with the "selective genocide" abetted by Ruth Benedict, the 1955 System artfully designed by Dwight Eisenhower and CIA, and the revision of the U.S.-Japanese security treaty signed between Eisenhower and his henchman Nobusuke Kishi.
Recent additions include the Moscow subway bombings (March 2010) which I think may have been instigated by former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, and the sharp plunge in stock markets (May 2010) which I suspect was possibly caused by something else than an erroneous transaction by a "fat-fingered" trader from the Citigroup. And there is the "global warming swindle".
But among other things, I find the March 26 sinking of the South Korean naval vessel Cheonan most intriguing. It seems to me that other possibilities than what the May 20 investigative report has indicated cannot be totally ruled out.
On Sunday Japan's prime minister Yukio Hatoyama made his second trip to Okinawa. Japan's last colony.
Okinawans had been prepared to see him resolutely handing down the plan for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' "helicopter" unit to Henoko, Nago City, because the day before his boss Clinton had given a tentative green light to it during her 3-hour stopover in Tokyo on her way to China.
In fact, though, they saw Hatoyama stand upright in front of the sitting governor of Okinawa, keep bowing over and over again and bleatingly whine out blanket apologies "from the bottom of his heart."
As usual the prime minister sounded apologetic to everyone he talked to there for his total inability to lead the way out of the perpetual crisis, but particularly on that day, he looked totally wiped out. He was almost shedding tears.
In the last six months he had been torn between his American bosses, Okinawa citizens and the Social Democratic Party, a minor coalition partner of his administration. Besides, even his de facto boss Ichiro Ozawa has become increasingly critical of him these days for his breach of the campaign pledge to relocate the air station to somewhere outside of Okinawa.
Needless to say, the relocation site Ozawa still has in mind is Tokunoshima island of Kagoshima Prefecture where he has invested in real estate an undisclosed amount from the tax-allowable "political funds," at best, or influence-buying money from a construction company, at worst.
What made Hatoyama's meeting with Okinawa governor Hirokazu Nakaima look even more farcical is the fact that unlike the Nago mayor, Nakaima has been receptive of the 2006 accord, which is basically identical to Hatoyama's plan. It's just that he was now in an awkward position to gloss over his honne before the press corps. As usual the governor kept mumbling something like, "The Okinawa citizenry won't forgive me if I soften my words." Actually he is not alone. Who could refrain from salivating for 480 billion yen ($5.3 billion) already earmarked for the relocation project?
The only thing Hatoyama told them audibly was: "In the wake of the heightening of tensions in the Korean Peninsula, I must beg you on my knees to understand the U.S. military presence here is essential for the stability of this region." It looked as though Clinton had coached him to deliver the killer line so matter-of-factly.
It's funny, but looking at the loopy as well as weepy Hatoyama, I thought it is highly probable that someone else than North Koreans torpedoed the Cheonan.
I sent a mail to Fulford, for the first time in three years, to ask about his take on the incident.
He replied in a matter of three minutes.
 | Fulford wrote: "Take a look at the barnacle-encrusted relic they have produced as evidence (photo). Obviously it has been under water for many years. The Feds sank the ship." I don't know whether or not he is mistaken. But I don't really care because "whodunit" does not matter that much. The single most important thing is that we should not take anything for granted. In 1933 Hitler ordered his men to set the Reichstag building on fire. In 2001 Bush may have recruited Arab fanatics to destroy the WTC and the Pentagon. And earlier this year, Putin may have staged the terrorist attacks at the Moscow subway stations in the neighborhood of the FSK building. |
On the contrary, it has never occurred to the Japanese rulers to set up a trap on their own subjects. From one generation to the next, the Japanese have become more and more used to being deceived by their leaders. Now it does not take a fullfledged conspiracy to silence dissidents.
No one has ever pointed this out, but the very foundation of their country was a big conspiracy in itself.
Over time all this has resulted in an irreparable immunodeficiency. That is why the Japanese have time and again fallen victim to foreign conspirators. Deep inside, however, they know they - not the perpetrators - should take the blame for the consequences. Certainly they deserve all these sufferings and will remain so for many more decades.
In the meantime all they can do in the face of a crisis is acting like a spider in thanatosis.
Hatoyama's loopiness and weepiness are a telling evidence of this trait. ·