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I’m not against giving people some general health advice, since I’ve been asked to do this again. I’m fine with sharing information that will help people. I would recommend, for example, that people not eat sushi and bacon all the time. The sticky rice that’s included in sushi isn’t a good thing for a person’s digestive system. Moreover, when you’re eating foods such as sushi or pizza, which are not easy to digest, it’s naturally best to drink unsweetened liquids. I’ve checked what sweetened liquids leave behind after they evaporate on a solid surface. So, don’t drink liquids such as soft drinks or tea with sugar when you’re eating pizza. Bacon is another food that’s best to avoid eating all the time, at least the bacon that’s sold in stores because it contains preservatives and additives. Preservatives especially can cause harm to a person’s digestive system. For those people that are already allergic to plant foods, and to plant-based foods and drinks such as coffee, cheese, chocolate, and teas, I’d first recommend avoiding to eat such foods and drinking such liquids if you don’t want to walk around with a stuffed nose for several hours. Boiling fruits and vegetables doesn’t help. You have to avoid eating fruits and vegetables altogether most of the time. Eating meats and cooked potatoes is allowed. What can help to soften, or even to eliminate, an allergic reaction to fruits and vegetables are probiotics. But probiotics have to be consumed at the same time as when you’re eating the food that you’re allergic to. Moreover, you can’t consume probiotics all the time because they’re costly. Most of the time, it’s best to simply avoid eating whatever you’re allergic to. And not all probiotics are helpful. My mother is the one who told me about some of this because she’s the only person that I know who knows a lot about such problems. She orders her probiotics, which actually do work, in capsule form by mail from the Russian Federation.

Since I was recently reminded of the fact that Dark Souls (2011) has some good locations where one can sit and look at the bonfire and to listen to its sound and the music that plays, I began to feel glad that I have a PlayStation 3 copy of this video game. As it turns out, the remaster of this game that got released in 2018 is quite flawed. I did make the mistake of buying the remaster on Steam at the end of 2021 because I didn’t know about its flaws when I bought it. Fortunately, I bought it when it was on sale, and now I know that it’s not really worth playing. I can’t comfortably play the remaster on my laptop anyway because the RAM of my laptop (Samsung Notebook 7 Spin) is 8 GB. The remaster runs quite slowly on my laptop because of this. By the way, I now have two Notebook 7 Spin laptops in my possession. When my first Notebook 7 Spin ceased to work at the beginning of 2022, I first reacted to this problem by buying another Notebook 7 Spin on eBay in used condition. At that time, I thought that I’d simply take the broken laptop’s 224 GB solid-state drive out and then put it in the replacement laptop that I bought on eBay. It’s because many of my useful and favorite files were stored on the broken laptop’s drive. The replacement laptop cost me about $430, but my first Notebook 7 Spin cost me about $1,000 in new condition. However, before the replacement laptop arrived by mail, I realized that my Notebook 7 Spin probably ceased to work because its motherboard broke down. Therefore, I then ordered a replacement motherboard on eBay for about $120. When I replaced the broken motherboard with the one that arrived by mail, my Notebook 7 Spin began to work again. Still, I already had a second Notebook 7 Spin by then. This second laptop was in very good condition, but a few of the keys on its keyboard didn’t work. I suppose that this was the reason why the previous owner decided to sell it and why the laptop didn’t cost all that much. However, the previous owner didn’t mention that the keyboard malfunctioned. Still, I wasn’t all that upset after the replacement laptop arrived by mail because I managed to fix my first Notebook 7 Spin without much trouble soon after. What’s interesting is that several months later the replacement motherboard of my first Notebook 7 Spin also broke down. I then ordered a second replacement motherboard on eBay. While I was waiting for this motherboard to arrive by mail, I took the working motherboard out of my second Notebook 7 Spin and put it in my first Notebook 7 Spin so that it would work again. When the second replacement motherboard arrived by mail, I put it in my second Notebook 7 Spin. After I did this, the laptop obviously began to work, but its keyboard also began to work properly again. Therefore, a slightly malfunctioning motherboard was also the thing that was causing my second Notebook 7 Spin to not work perfectly. Well, this is how I ended up with two Notebook 7 Spin laptops. I’m not complaining. It’s not a bad thing to have two good working laptops on my table. Anyway, I generally dislike remakes and remasters of video games, but they can be good on rare occasions. For example, Nintendo manages to release good remakes most of the time, or at least this used to be the case. I think that Metroid: Zero Mission (2004) is a good remake of Metroid (1986). Metroid: Zero Mission is an excellent, though somewhat difficult, video game for the Game Boy Advance that I finished playing in the second half of 2022. I finished playing its excellent sister game, Metroid Fusion (2002), at the beginning of 2021. Metroid Fusion is actually the game that made me appreciate side-scrolling action-adventure games because it’s one of the most memorable video games that I’ve played. It has excellent graphics and designs for a Game Boy Advance game, it has a good music score by Minako Hamano & Akira Fujiwara, and it has enjoyable and memorable boss battles like Nightmare, Serris, Security Robot B.O.X., Yakuza, Nettori, and Neo-Ridley. Moreover, it’s one of the most story-driven Metroid games in existence. However, Metroid Prime (2002) is the game that got me interested in the Metroid franchise. I finished playing it on my Wii U before I began playing Metroid Fusion. I wouldn’t call Metroid Prime one of my favorite games, but it’s undeniably one of the greatest video games of all time. Like Metroid Fusion, it’s also a very memorable gaming experience. Metroid Prime features a well-designed, desolate, and often beautiful-looking world. The only downside to playing Metroid Prime was that I had to play it with a Wii Remote on my Wii U. I’m not at all a fan of playing video games with the Wii Remote. Motion sensing controllers are generally a hassle to use, and the Wii Remote is one of several reasons why I don’t think favorably of Nintendo. For example, Super Mario Galaxy (2007) is one of the very best video games that I’ve played. The different galaxies in this game are incredible, and reading Rosalina’s storybooks was another highlight. But I had to play this game with a Wii Remote, and doing this was often discomforting. Some of the best video games of all time got released for the Wii console, but they can only be played with a Wii Remote, and I just hate Nintendo for creating this hassle. Sure, one can say that the Wii was a successful home video game console, and that Nintendo games are made mostly for children, but this doesn’t mean that I can’t point out the negatives that Nintendo has created. The Wii Remote is the only reason why I don’t look forward to playing Wii games. If the Wii Remote hadn’t existed, I would have been playing Wii games a lot more often. Damn it. Simply thinking about the Wii Remote makes me angry and puts me in a bad mood. I’ll have to stop typing and go and do something else because I feel irritated now. Well, I’m back. So, as much as I enjoyed playing video games like Metroid Prime, Super Mario Galaxy, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, I have to say that these gaming experiences were still somewhat hampered by the fact that I had to use a Wii Remote. Fortunately, I didn’t have to use a Wii Remote when I was playing The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker because I played the HD version on my Wii U. Although the original game for the GameCube is great, The Wind Waker HD is perhaps my second favorite Zelda game, after The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. There was a time a few years ago when I tried to finish playing every Zelda video game that I could get my hands on. Because of this, at that time, I managed to complete Skyward Sword, Twilight Princess, The Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass, A Link Between Worlds, The Minish Cap, and Ocarina of Time before I stopped and began playing other video games. When I was playing these games, I sometimes got help by watching video walkthroughs by ZeldaMaster on YouTube. I haven’t played all of the Zelda games yet, but I enjoyed playing all of the ones that I’ve listed. It’s possible that Twilight Princess would have been my second favorite Zelda game if I hadn’t had to use a Wii Remote when I was playing it. I can say that the HD version of The Wind Waker on the Wii U looks beautiful. Some of the bosses in the game, such as Molgera, Gohdan, and Gohma, are unforgettable. I had a good time traversing the Great Sea and discovering the secrets of the game’s world and looking for treasure and useful items. Since I’ve become a pro at playing Breath of the Wild, I can give some advice to players. First of all, get the Stealth Set, which can be bought in Kakariko Village, as soon as possible. While wearing the Stealth Set, Link can walk up to lizards and insects and easily catch them. Just don’t run while wearing the Stealth Set if you want to catch something. Otherwise, if Link doesn’t wear the Stealth Set, he has to crouch in order to catch anything. The Stealth Set provides little defense for Link, but, if it gets upgraded to the max at a fairy fountain, it becomes useful even in battle. Second of all, elixirs are often more important than food, especially at the beginning of the game, when Link’s stats are low. In order to make an elixir, you have to mix insects or lizards with monster parts when cooking something. Elixirs can help Link regain his stamina, boost his speed, raise his temperature, and do other useful things. If you have a variety of elixirs in your inventory, you don’t even have to change armor sets. You can always wear the Stealth Set, which is made by the advanced Sheikah tribe, and use elixirs when they are needed. Third of all, the abilities of the guardians are very useful in the game. The only problem is that you first have to take back control of the divine beasts before you can use them. Daruk’s Protection can be very useful in battles against guardians because it provides Link with an impregnable shield. If a moving guardian fires its laser three times while Link is using Daruk’s Protection, that guardian is toast. Urbosa’s Fury is very useful in any battle, but you first have to charge a spin attack in order to use it. Fourth of all, it’s best to first activate all of the Sheikah towers in Hyrule in order to have the ability to fast travel to any region. In addition, I can mention another place in the game where it’s nice to stay and listen to the music and the sounds. This place is the cave where Noya Neha Shrine is located, in Hyrule Field. You can stay there, look at the entrance of the cave, and listen to the music that plays. By the way, the landscape of Breath of the Wild was partially designed by Monolith Soft, which is the studio that made Xenoblade Chronicles X (2015) for the Wii U. Xenoblade Chronicles X is actually another good reason to own a Wii U, and it’s a pity that this game hasn’t been made available on the Switch. The massive open world of this game if filled with incredible sights. A player can use transformable Skell mechs to get around and to battle, and this is one of the biggest attractions of Xenoblade Chronicles X because the Skells look great and they allow a player greater mobility when they become available. The only big downside to the game is that its battle system is not at all easy to master. I’ve managed to finish the game a few years ago, but I still haven’t mastered the battle system, and I haven’t defeated any of the huge, powerful, and frightening creatures that are scattered across Mira. So, although the game’s open world is often a joy and a wonder to explore, the many creatures that inhabit it are not at all easy to beat.

Another good remake is Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen for the Game Boy Advance. Pokemon Red and Blue are great games that, with the aid of the first season of the Pokemon anime series, turned the Pokemon franchise into a sensation and brought enjoyment to many children after they got released. I even played Pokemon Red and Blue again, for the first time since I was a teenager, in the summer of 2021 in order to experience these games again. As in other great video games, some parts of these games are unforgettable, like when I explored Lavender Town and the haunted tower there, when I explored Cinnabar Island and the abandoned mansion there, when I finally reached Viridian City after going through Viridian Forest, when I explored the Team Rocket Hideout in Celadon City, and when I battled against the Elite Four on Indigo Plateau. Pokemon Red and Blue are actually full of memorable moments, and I’ve got to say that these games aren’t all that easy to finish. I’m a pro at playing Pokemon games because I’ve played them all (except the ones that got made for the Nintendo Switch). But beating the Elite Four in Red and Blue, for example, wasn’t all that easy. I couldn’t simply sleepwalk through these battles. As much as I enjoyed playing Red and Blue again, I’ve got to say that I prefer playing FireRed and LeafGreen more. I must admit that playing Red and Blue felt clunky for me. For example, you can’t store a large amount of items in these games. There’s a limit, and, if you want to store more items, you have to drop some of the items that you’re carrying in your inventory. It’s also worth mentioning that Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver are great remakes of Pokemon Gold and Silver. In fact, the graphics and designs in these games can even be called beautiful, and I think that HeartGold and SoulSilver are my favorite Pokemon games. HeartGold and SoulSilver are perhaps the last good remakes of Pokemon games that Game Freak has made. I’ve got to say that I wasn’t all that impressed by Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire for the Nintendo 3DS, although I like Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire very much, and I don’t even want to play Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl for the Switch. By the way, the magazine Retro Gamer released two issues (#135 and #161) that feature big articles about the Pokemon franchise. I have both of these issues in my possession. Anyway, my opinion is that most remakes are bad. Why this is the case is simple. Almost all remakes and remasters are of old and great video games. These old games are great because they were made by certain people at a certain time. The “magic” that these games produce can rarely be replicated by different people decades later in remakes. It’s not the graphics that make a good video game. It’s the art style and the craftsmanship. If these are combined with memorable music, sounds, and gameplay, a great video game emerges. Simply creating newer, more detailed graphics won’t improve the experience but will only make it worse most of the time if the art style and the craftsmanship are different or if they’re worse. Therefore, Shadow of the Colossus (2018) and Demon’s Souls (2020) are bad remakes because, although their graphics are newer and more detailed than in the originals, the art style and the craftsmanship are worse. These remakes are poor imitations of great originals. I’m glad that I looked a the gameplay footage from these remakes on the internet before considering to buy them. So, when it comes to video games, remakes and remasters are almost always a big no no for me.

Hey, I need a glass of CAVEMAN.

The centennial of Ronald Reagan has just gone by. The former President is highly praised in the media, but in reality there is much evidence that Ronald Wilson Reagan did far more to harm the people of this country and this world than to better their conditions. Both at home and abroad, his legacy is one of gross economic injustice and interventionist foreign policy that led to widespread human rights abuses and mass murder. Reagan’s indifference to and the aiding and abetting of foreign atrocities committed in the name of anti-communism place a shadow of doubt on his “democratic” character as well as the methods he used to supposedly win the Cold War. During the presidency of Ronald Reagan, United States support for anti-democratic regimes abroad reached an all-time high, culminating in massacres and even genocide.

The United States government, with President Reagan’s blessing, gave hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to dictatorial and fascist regimes in Latin America. Military governments and death squads received weapons, training and financing for decades even as they committed horrid atrocities.

“The death toll [resulting from US/CIA funding] was staggering — an estimated 70,000 or more political killings in El Salvador, possibly 20,000 slain from the contra war in Nicaragua, about 200 political ‘disappearances’ in Honduras and some [200,000] people eliminated during a resurgence of political violence in Guatemala” (Parry).

In Guatemala particularly, there was an internationally-recognized genocide of Maya inhabitants, who were seen as collectively subversive supporters of leftist guerrillas. “The one consistent element in these slaughters [in Central America] was the overarching Cold War rationalization, emanating in large part from Ronald Reagan’s White House” (Parry). All of these movements’ activities were well-known, and yet the Reagan administration’s policy remained unchanged.

The social effects of Reagan’s free market economic policies are rarely discussed in any serious manner in the mainstream media. Praise of the economic miracle that supposedly happened during his presidency is lavish. However, there is much evidence that Reagan’s policies only contributed to the well-being of a small percentage of the population of the United States. “While the richest one percent of the U.S. population saw its financial wealth grow 109 percent from 1983 to 2001, the bottom two-fifths watched as its wealth fell 46 percent” (Smith). In addition, “between 1983 and 1998 the average household net worth of the poorest 40% in the U.S. declined 76%” (Smith). In the eyes of many scholars in economics, Reagan’s presidency was marked by “a mean-spirited, economically unsound, and socially destructive policy agenda” (Miller).

Many praise Reagan’s tax cuts as creating an economic boom, but in fact “most low-income taxpayers missed out on the Reagan tax cuts […] [f]or the richest 1%, on the other hand, the Reagan tax cuts were pure elixir” (Miller). Any serious study of economic data from the period indicates that “Reaganomics” failed to achieve its stated economic boom. “When mainstream economists, such as Barry Bosworth and Gary Burtless of the Brookings Institution, checked out the effects of the 1981 tax cut, they found […] men didn’t work much more at all; although women did work longer hours, their earnings failed to improve” (Miller). While the voodoo economics of the Reagan era certainly helped out those who were already well off, the “economic boom” wasn’t felt so much by working people.

Most will also remember the greatly increased military spending of the Reagan era, including CIA operations worth billions of dollars. In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Soon after, “[d]uring the tenure of President Ronald Reagan, military aid to the [Afghan] mujahideen was greatly expanded and included various sophisticated munitions including advanced Stinger anti-aircraft missiles” (Lansford 3). Under the rule of Islamic fundamentalism brought about with Reagan’s help, Afghanistan has seen little improvement since, has legalized rape and supplies 80% of the world’s heroin trade.

This aggressive and interventionist foreign policy was pursued by the Reagan administration from its very beginning—in 1983, the Reagan White House invaded the small country of Grenada, an act which was condemned by the U.N. General Assembly as a violation of international law.

That same year, the Reagan administration bombed Libya and funneled huge sums of money to the Nicaraguan Contras, anti-communist death squads responsible for well-known atrocities in the Nicaraguan Civil War. Reagan was also a hard-line supporter of Israel and approved of its aggressive war against Lebanon.

Clearly, Reagan’s foreign and domestic policy cannot be reconciled with his media portrayal as a purveyor of human rights, justice and freedom. In fact, “[f]rom his eight years in the White House, [….] there are grounds to regard Reagan as the single worst purveyor of mass atrocity in the western hemisphere during the twentieth century. Very little of this surfaced in the nauseating encomiums to Reagan in the US media following his death in 2004” (Jones 146-147).

Reagan, who was allowed to die peacefully in his bed, could easily be counted as one of the greatest criminals of the 20th century, and certainly did not deserve the mantle of a fighter for democracy.

My thoughts on Soviet films and what led me to discover these films.

For more than four nerve-racking minutes, he was a tiny white speck against a dark sky, hurtling from 24.5 miles above the Earth at up to 834mph.

Then his parachute opened and five minutes later, to the relief of the millions watching, ‘Fearless Felix’ Baumgartner was back on solid ground – having made the highest and fastest skydive in history.

In the process, the 43-year-old Austrian became the first freefall diver to break the sound barrier, and also broke the record for the highest-ever manned balloon ascent.

He made his death-defying jump from a tiny capsule that took him up to the edge of space.

After days of delays due to bad weather, it took the professional daredevil around two-and-a-half hours to reach 128,177ft above the New Mexico desert – and less than ten minutes to plummet down.

He landed on his feet despite moments during the descent that had silenced his mission control as he appeared to lose control and plunge into a head-over-heels spin.

Falling to his knees, he punched the air in triumph as the control room, packed with scientific experts and family including his teary-eyed mother, Eva, erupted into roars of applause.

Speaking afterwards he said: ‘Trust me, when you stand up there on top of the world, you become so humble.

‘It’s not about breaking records any more. It’s not about getting scientific data. The only thing you want is to come back alive.’

During the first part of Baumgartner’s free fall, anxious onlookers at the command centre held their breath as he appeared to spin uncontrollably.

‘When I was spinning the first 10, 20 seconds, I never thought I was going to lose my life but I was disappointed because I’m going to lose my record. I put seven years of my life into this,’ he said.

He added: ‘In that situation, when you spin around, it’s like hell and you don’t know if you can get out of that spin or not. Of course it was terrifying. I was fighting all the way down because I knew that there must be a moment where I can handle it.’

The extreme sportsman has skydived or base-jumped off statues and skyscrapers around the world, but yesterday’s multi-million pound feat – sponsored by energy drink maker Red Bull, who are refusing to reveal how much they contributed to the final cost – was easily the biggest challenge of his career.

Nobody could be quite sure about the physical effects of breaking the sound barrier in freefall, and if Baumgartner’s pressurised spacesuit and helmet had been damaged it could have been catastrophic.

Can you ever recapture the magic of that first descent into Rapture? It’s the one question that Bioshock Infinite struggles to answer.

The wonder of the original Bioshock was that it took us somewhere completely new then delivered a story-led experience the likes of which we’d never seen before. Here was a miraculous city beneath the waves, crammed with art deco architecture and period atmosphere, and here was a story that shocked, surprised and made you think. It’s not that Bioshock’s elements had never been combined before, but they’d never been combined in such a way, with such power and with such intelligent, deliberate intent.

Bioshock Infinite doesn’t have this advantage. As stunning as its new setting is, it’s made of much the same stuff of Bioshock. Sure, the old power-giving Plasmids are now Vigors while the city’s in the sky, not in the sea, but while Bioshock Infinite is by turns magnificent, awe-inspiring, all-absorbing and every other superlative you might care to throw at it, it never quite feels so strange, fresh and new.

The question is, can it find its own identity, or is this one of those sequels doomed to live in the shadow of a ground-breaking original?

Within a few hours of play, the answer becomes clear: Bioshock Infinite is more than simply Bioshock in the skies. While it might share common DNA with its illustrious forbear, and feel very similar in the moment to moment gameplay, it’s a different experience. In a way, it’s the gaming equivalent of The Godfather Part 2.

While both The Godfather and its sequel concern gangsters, corruption, family and the corrosive lure of power, and both involve scenes of drama punctuated by sudden bursts of violence, there’s no way you could call the second part a retread. The same holds true here. Bioshock Infinite is a continuation, but one that takes the ideas and aesthetics of its predecessor in a new direction.

Spoilers are a problem in any review, but with Bioshock Infinite the story is the key to the whole experience. The less you know when you load the game up, the better.

All you ought to know is that it’s 1912, that you play a Pinkerton private eye with a shady past, and that you’ve been sent by unknown agencies to the floating sky city of Columbia to retrieve a girl. It turns out that the girl, Elizabeth, has mysterious powers, and that getting her out won’t be as easy as you thought. In fact, it’s going to be very hard indeed.

Columbia is not Rapture Mark 2. Where Rapture was in the midst of both a moral and physical collapse, Columbia appears to be a city in full working order.

Admittedly, with its religious fundamentalism, barely-concealed racism and totalitarian leanings it’s not a city you’d want to spend too much time in, but where Bioshock’s motifs were art deco beauty, rust and leaking water, Infinite starts off with sunshine, 1900s American and colonial splendour, before a rapid descent into darkness, anarchy and horror. It’s Disneyland Main Street with a dark side.

Where Rapture had gangs of Plasmid-wielding mutants, Columbia has well-armed police and military forces, backed up by steampunk mechs and psionic freaks. Less obviously but more importantly, Rapture was a city of fairly small spaces, with even its grander areas quite compact. Columbia is a city of large civic spaces and towering buildings, where multiple levels are connected by rollercoaster skyrails. In Rapture the tommy gun and the shotgun were generally the tools of choice, but in Columbia you’ll find yourself reaching for the carbine and the sniper rifle.

Bioshock lived and died on its sumptuous visual design and smog-thick atmosphere, made up not just of its period aesthetic, but of the sound design, the music and the exceptional use of light and colour.

Bioshock Infinite repeats the same tricks, and the graphics are even more dazzling. It’s a stunning game on console, but on the PC with detail levels and textures set to maximum it looks incredible – not photorealistic in the style of Crysis 3 but painterly, like a moving work of art. Pay attention to the music, too. We don’t want to spoil anything, but there’s a genius in the way the game takes the familiar somewhere strange and new.

In terms of combat, the basic feel will be very familiar. Columbia has its own version of Plasmids in its Vigors; liquors that, when drunk, reveal new psychic energies, allowing you to throw fireballs, send out trails of vicious crows at your enemies or suck in and discharge hostile fire.

Most have a secondary fire mode, enabling traps or alternative attacks, and they’re fuelled by vials and bottles of salts, meaning there’s no moral choice involved in getting more. Meanwhile items of clothing take the place of Bioshock’s passive tonics, increasing your resistance to damage, adding ammo capacity or hitting incoming melee attackers with a dose of their own medicine.

Is Glenn Greenwald willingly setting the stage for the passage of the highly unpopular CISPA by helping to create this new “crisis” at this critical time? Is “the conversation” everyone is talking about us having, actually going to center around the passage of “Big Brother’s Friend” CISPA? I believe it is…

“The primary problem (with CISPA), according to Meeks, is that it tries to kill a flea with a baseball bat: Any alleged security the bill offers against potential hackers “comes at the expense of unfettered government access to our personal information, which is then likely to be sucked into the secretive black hole of the spying complex known as the National Security Agency.” Bob Adlemann, April 23, 2012

800 companies spent $68 million dollars lobbying congress to pass CISPA this past year. The first hurdle was the House of Representatives on April 18th of 2013. Glenn Greenwald was contacted on May 1st by Edward Snowden. Suddenly the talk is about “having the conversation” about privacy and security, the EXACT conversation that would be required in order to push something like CISPA into becoming a law.

That is, after the right crisis is created and the MSM hype it enough.

You think that’s a coincidence? That all of this is happening in a non-election year right before the bill is to go to the senate and eventually to Obama for him to sign? I don’t think so.

As many of you know, my ongoing research into the Edward Snowden psyop has been pretty extensive. As soon as the story broke, I started with one theory as to why they would stage this leak which naturally evolved into another as I learned more and more information became available.

But since the beginning, I have understood that this was and is a staged operation.

I looked at the timing of the leak along with various inconsistencies in Edward’s story and then at how the story itself was being crafted by the media. But I didn’t see that one thing that tied it all together, the one thing that will eventually bring the those on the left and the right of the artificial divide back together as per the “fix” to the crisis.

Today I found it.

As is usually the case with propaganda, though you often can determine immediately that something is propaganda, you can’t always see the forest for the trees until you put a little time and space between the event and your vantage point.

I’ve been saying for a week now that the point of this psyop was stated by the ops themselves along with President Obama when they say we have to have “the discussion” about where we go from here to manage this problem between “100% security and 100% privacy“

Obama has said several times already that private sector companies would be involved in the solution.

Yes, they have a plan in mind to fix the problem with the current spying program and yes, the timing of it all is very curious.

Jon Rappoport wrote an article yesterday in which he concludes that the Edward Snowden leak was planned, but according to him, it was planned by the CIA as the result of some kind of Spy vs Spy game between the NSA and the CIA.

He makes a number of good arguments in support of his case, the same ones many of us have been making which go to establishing the fact that Edward Snowden isn’t actually what he appears to be.

Rappoport suggests, based on what Snowden actually says, that it appears as if he’s ridiculing the process and the structure of the NSA more than the legality of the process. In other words, if you take out the ability for one high school flunkie to be able to access the president’s recorded phone calls and everyone else’s on a whim, it might not be that bad.

Rappoport concluded the only reason to make the NSA look bad in this regard must have something to do with Snowden’s history with the CIA. He figures it’s payback from the CIA for the NSA making them look bad after 9/11 and trying to overreach in the globalism spying game. Basically a turf war.

Though his evaluation of Snowden’s statements is right on the money, Rappoport misses the bigger picture.

In fact, his theory almost sounds like a reworking of the old propaganda that we all heard right after 9/11… that the reason all those “terrorists” slipped through the cracks was because of a lack of communication or competition between intelligence agencies. A turf war, in short.

You will recall, it was that particular bit of blanket propaganda that got us the Department of Homeland Security.

Except for his conclusion, I concur with much of what Rappoport says in his well documented article.

However, the conclusion is a big part of it all and in fact, Mr. Rappoport’s conclusion bolsters what I believe to be the real reason for this little sideshow stage play of a leak.

The idea that what we have is a turf-war between agencies plays right into the hands of those who I think wrote it in the first place. Might explain why Mr. Rappoport’s article is featured on Di$info’s site right now.

Let’s look at how this crisis is being addressed.

There are many people out there starting to question the legitimacy of the Edward Snowden story. Even people who supported him right off the bat with no questions at all are starting to back away a bit, one such writer has even said he doesn’t care at all about Snowden, all he cares about is the information he leaked and what we do about it now.

The “what we do about it” theme is everywhere. No doubt what we do is something to think about.

Here’s what we do… it’s illegal and against our constitutional rights to allow the spying agencies access to our personal data as a broad sweeping generality AND it’s certainly against our constitutional rights to have them recording everything we say for future use or blackmail. So how about this: we boycott the companies involved until it stops? How about we take the batteries out of our phones and our vehicle mapping computers, use cash for our purchases where ever possible and we figure out an online access provider who will stand with the constitution and make them into a trillion dollar company? Hows that sound?

If you don’t think that will change the game plan for the big telecoms you don’t know what share-holders can do til you drop the value of their stock holdings by 30% in a week. You would be surprised what they can do once that happens.

Notice none of the “alternative” sites are promoting or even talking about that because the focus has been on the NSA’s government program (Big Guberment?) and not the companies themselves like it was during the FISA retroactive immunity scandal back in 2008.

Notice, everyone out there feigning some big plan to end this process are talking about one form of a “new Church Committee” or another.

That’s the “big plan”… congress fixes it after another 9/11 Commission Report or Warren Commission Report. Our bought and paid for congress, that is. Our congress that currently enjoys about an 8% approval rating. Our congress (the House of Representatives) which just recently passed the new CISPA bill. Our congress that has been paid $68 million dollars by the corporation who want CISPA.

That’s the big plan? Get congress to investigate and fix it? With what? CISPA?

Let’s look at what is currently going on. The other day, the NSA’s director, Gen. Keith Alexander, spoke to the members of the House Intelligence Committee (many of the same people who would naturally be involved in “a new Church Committee” hearing on intelligence gathering procedures and limits.

“The National Security Agency is reviewing whether to stop collecting a vast stockpile of records of Americans’ telephone calls — the most controversial component of its surveillance programs— by allowing telecommunications companies to retain the data until U.S. intelligence officials have a specific reason to review it for possible connections to terror plots, U.S. officials said Tuesday. The NSA’s director, Gen. Keith Alexander, disclosed the review during a hearing before the House Intelligence Committee, saying the agency and the FBI are jointly re-examining “how we actually do this program.” Asked by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., if the records of phone calls – known as metadata — could be left in the hands of telecommunications firms and then reviewed only when there is a suspicion “of a foreign terrorist connection,” Alexander replied: “I do think that that’s something that we’ve agreed to look at and that we’ll do. It’s just going to take some time. We want to do it right.” NBC News

So what is the procedure here? The proposed process would involve the big telecoms themselves recording everything you say and do and handing it over to the various agencies when they request it or handing it over to other companies when they buy it. Basically, what we are talking about is allowing the telecommunications companies to turn your private information into a marketable commodity.

If you look back at Snowden’s statements, they play right into this.

His accusation was that the NSA was so slack, anyone could grab anything they wanted, a CEO’s private communications about business matters or Hillary Clinton’s hairdresser gossiping about something Hillary told her the day before. That accusation when you think about it is less a condemnation of the COLLECTION of material and more about HOW and WHO had ready access to it.

You will also notice a growing meme in the MSM discussion about all of this: it’s less about “protecting us from the terrorists” and more about how access to this illegally recorded information is handled.

For more specifics on Snowden’s real message with his leak, I recommend Rappoport’s article.

Well, how does that lead to CISPA?

Let’s start with the obvious… the timing.

April 15th, 2013… right before this whole thing kicked off and Glenn Greenwald was contacted by Edward Snowden, 200 senior IBM executives hit D.C. like a plague of locusts to push them to pass the new CISPA bill.

“The message we’re going to give [lawmakers] is going to be a very simple, clear message: support the passage of CISPA,” he later added. The Hill

IBM is not the only megacorp pressing congress to pass this bill. In fact, when you start looking at the proponents of it, you will find SEVERAL of the companies directly linked to the Edward Snowden psyop.

“CISPA had garnered favor from corporations and lobbying groups such as Microsoft, Facebook, AT&T, IBM, Apple Inc. , Intel, Oracle Corporation, Symantec, and Verizon and the United States Chamber of Commerce, which look on it as a simple and effective means of sharing important cyber threat information with the government. Google has not taken a public position on the bill but has shown previous support for it…” List of companies who have sent letters of support for CISPA since 2012

You will also find major players like the Business Roundtable in support of CISPA as well as:

• The Financial Services Roundtable
• Lockheed Martin
• Boeing
• Cyber, Space and Intelligence Association
• Internet Security Alliance

In all, with the aligned companies that make up the various Roundtables and alliances, there are 800 corporations that support the passage of CISPA.

800 corporations, Business Roundtable, Financial Roundtable, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, the Military Industrial Complex in general all standing for something the general public is strongly against.

Back in Aug of 2012, after CISPA and SOPA failed to garner enough support to become the law of the land, long after PIPA also failed, the groundwork was already being laid for the House vote on CISPA scheduled for April 23rd of this year. It passed the House last year but public outcry against it was such

That brings me back to the quote I teased you with at the opening of this article from Bob Adelmann in an article he wrote in 2012 titled “CISPA is Big Brother’s Friend“

The primary problem, according to Meeks, is that it tries to kill a flea with a baseball bat: Any alleged security the bill offers against potential hackers “comes at the expense of unfettered government access to our personal information, which is then likely to be sucked into the secretive black hole of the spying complex known as the National Security Agency.” Despite some window dressing by Mssrs. Rogers and Ruppersberger, the bill still has major problems. First it has “an overly broad, almost unlimited definition of the information [that] can be shared [by private Internet companies] with government agencies.” It overrides existing federal or state privacy laws with its language that says information between private and public agencies is shared “notwithstanding any other provision of law.” In addition, the bill would create a “backdoor wiretap program” because the information being shared isn’t limited specifically to issues of cybersecurity but could be used for any other purpose as well. The language is unclear about what would trigger a CISPA investigation: “efforts to degrade, disrupt or destroy” a network. Would that apply to someone innocently downloading a large file — a movie, perhaps — that is perceived, under the bill, to be an “effort to degrade, disrupt or destroy” a network? Bob Adelmann, April 2012

This is basically the wet dream of the fascist state which is why 800 corporations support it and spent $68 million dollars last year lobbying congress to push it through this year.

With CISPA they can do anything with the data, your personal data; they can trade it, sell it, use it for marketing, make derivatives off it for all I know which is probably one reason the Financial Services Roundtable and all their globalist banking members want it so bad.

But back in 2012 when they were trying to get it pushed through, way too many people across the net were screaming bloody murder about it:

• “CISPA Is The New SOPA: Help Kill It”
• “Draconian cyber security bill could lead to Internet surveillance and censorship”
• “Voices of Opposition Against CISPA”
• “CISPA is the new SOPA”
• “An Open Letter From Security Experts, Academics and Engineers to the U.S. Congress: Stop Bad Cybersecurity Bills”

And that’s just a very small sampling of the general mood of the nation about this bill. Remember, April 2012 was right before a major election. Nobody wanted to vote for the extremely unpopular “draconian CISPA” bill at that time. It was political suicide.

But here we are today, 2 years from even a mid-term election, and suddenly we are being told by everyone we have to “have the conversation” about how to fix this spying program crisis.

A sudden, blind rush to fix the problem, the problem thrust into the forefront of our public discourse by the NSA and various MSM corporations which by and large support the passage of CISPA.

The head of the NSA, the agency which I think actually ran the Edward Snowden psyop, just came out and said we have to get the private sector companies to store this data and share it with the government agencies and others as needed. That’s CISPA folks.

Keep in mind that the Federal Government stepped-up their prosecution of Aaron Schwartz, the leading defender of online privacy rights and open access to educational materials, on Sept. 12th 2012. They wanted him silenced and out of the way when the new CISPA was being ramrodded through congress since he was so instrumental in killing it the first time as well as SOPA.

Schwartz was a consummate activist and he certainly didn’t run off to Hong Kong and hide at the CIA compound where Snowden probably is today.

He vowed to fight the 9 new felony charges they leveled at him in court and eventually they offered him a plea deal with only 60 days in jail but he refused to cut a deal and looked forward to beating them once and for all in public on this very critical issue.

On the evening of January 11, 2013, Swartz was found dead in his Crown Heights, Brooklyn apartment by his partner.[74][86][87] A spokeswoman for New York’s Medical Examiner reported that he had hanged himself.[86][87][88][89] No suicide note was found.[90]

Like I said about the Benghazi psyop and the 45 major corporations who got together in April of last year to decide how they are going to chop up the continent of Africa, when these major companies get together and come up with an agenda, no one’s safe, everything is “on the table” from staging the suicide of an effective and popular activist to killing a few State Department employees. The endgame represents far too much profit for these companies. No one is bigger than that.

That’s what happens in a fascist state. That’s why we don’t want to live in one. But we do.

The ground work has been done. The pieces of the narrative are all set.

We now have what was missing prior to last year’s effort to pass CISPA and SOPA… a crisis… a crisis which is being blasted across the MSM (the same MSM which to a company, supports CISPA) and the alternative sites across the board (most of those sites are supported by various foundations, all of which support CISPA)

The alternative view is that it’s infighting among the spy agencies.

Infighting and lack of communication between these same agencies prior to 9/11 supposedly required the creation of the Homeland Security Act.

We know that was bullshit.

The same story looks like it is going to be used to justify yet another congressional act, one that is and was highly unpopular.

NSA’s director, Gen. Keith Alexander says they’ve been “working” on this plan. Yes, they have.

The main activist thorn in their side is out of the way. The narrative of the out of control spying agency is in place. Even the liberals like Greenwald are out in the forefront drumming up outrage over the situation as it is, calling for some kind of congressional action.

And the whole time, this action has been sitting there waiting for just the right crisis environment to slip through the cracks in our sanity to become the law of the land.

The Shock Opera of the Snowden psyop has a final chapter written and directed by 800 major corporations.

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (Cispa) passed by a 288-127 vote, receiving support from 92 Democrats. It will move to the Senate and then to the president’s desk.

The bill allows private businesses to share customers’ personal information with any government entity, including the National Security Agency. Reintroduced in February after failing to pass Congress last year, the bill would afford legal protection to the government and businesses to share data with each other on cyber threats. Its co-author, Mike Rogers, the intelligence committee chairman and a Republican from Michigan, argues that cyberattacks and espionage, particularly from China, where a number of high profile attacks have originated recently, are a number one threat to US economic security. “We have a constitutional obligation to defend this nation,” said Rogers, on the House floor. “This is the answer to empower cyber information sharing to protect this nation, to allow those companies to protect themselves and move on to economic prosperity. If you want to take a shot across China’s bow, this is the answer.” Guardian April 18th 2013

Taking a shot across China’s bow?…. and where did Snowden go?

He went to China.

Schwartz was finally found dead with no suicide note in mid January, the new CISPA bill hit congress less than a month afterward.

It’s kinda hard to miss the thru-line at this point, wouldn’t you say?

When 800 corporations want something in a non-election year and they pay $68 million to congress to get it passed, there are literally no limits to what they and their intelligence agencies wont do to see it done.

That’s the missing piece of the Edward Snowden psyop. The motive. CISPA. And it’s just as plain as the nose on your face.