sent 6/30/15 1. "15 styles of Distorted Thinking"; 2. Sunday morning June 21, 2015

1. "15 styles of Distorted Thinking," http://www.surrenderworks.com/library/imports/distortedthinking.html

I subscribe to a wonderful free service called Stumbleupon.  Once in awhile as part of their service they send me an email--probably an option that I chose--with links to a few of the web pages that people in my areas of interest have indicated are well worth seeing.  That is where that one came from.  I definitely found it well worth seeing. :-)
(P.S. Early in my college education in Psychology back when I was very young, my class was warned to avoid the temptation to take personally all of the problems we'd be reading about.  It may be that very young psychology students have a shared tendency to identify every problem they read about as their own when they haven't read and observed all that much and are themselves searching for answers.  I pass those words on for whatever they might be worth to you.)

2. We of the wonderful little choir with which I've been singing lately on Sunday mornings did our last performance for the season on Sunday, June 21st, nine days ago now.  I would love for you to hear our performances of that day, most especially the later one.  The later one was joint with the great bell choir that blesses this particular congregation, so to speak, with the bell choir conductor Kelly conducting both choirs for that performance.  You can watch it and listen to it at:
https://vimeo.com/131408193
Do please start by listening to the very beginning.  That is not some routine beginning.  It was special.  Brian did that.  The particular bell choir and voice choir performance whereof I speak is from 13 min 35 seconds to 17 min 44 sec.  I give you permission to cry during the performance.  You can see me at the usual spot to the upper right, but you cannot hear me as plainly, which is a good thing.  There was another big bass there by special invitation Sunday, so the bass section sound is a blend, a better sound.  There were good tenors also, even though our regular lead tenor did not sing  because he was playing in the bell choir right then.

Brian's sermon came later.  I loved it.  Heavily paraphrased: "We have no idea what is going to happen next.  Some"--or maybe he said "much"--"of it is going to be hard, most likely.  Whatever is going to happen, keep the feeling of being led."

OR in the voice of Larry Scott, if you can imagine--I am a bass you know: "KEEP THE FAITH, BABY!--WHATEVER happens next!" 

love to all,
Larry
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sent 6/12/15 "The Virus of Faith"; Dr. Avijit Roy slaughtered in Bangladesh

This is pretty amazing.  It is as though Dr. Avijit Roy foresaw his death.  I have known of him but only today received a copy of what apparently was his last article, "The Virus of Faith."  That article is only four pages long and can be directly read here (link), OR here is an instant download link.  I urge you to read it and think.   Dr. Roy was an engineer, a scientist, and a famous thinker and book author who mostly lived in the United States with his wife. 

Note that the article begins part way down the first page after the end of another article.

As you read, please think not only about Dr. Roy's thesis, which seems to be that terrorism might be driven away by spreading atheism as the antidote for what is called "religious extremism."  Please be thinking also the "religious extremism" parallels in Christianity, among the people we pay through taxes to act the same way or worse while proclaiming themselves "Christians."  And who is anyone to say that "our" paid terrorists are not Christians?

Religion as a killer virus that needs to be wiped out?  I do not care to go that far.  My particular religion does not, in theory, support killing--especially not with the idea of having an improved afterlife.  But I do say that what is good for the goose might be considered to be good for the gander.  If we want them to stop being killers filled with bad religion then is it not plain obvious that we who believe IS/ISIS/ISIL members should stop slaughtering people should also do our best to stop paying American Christian killers who are also filled with bad religion and who act the same way or worse?  And should we not first physically get into the way of what "our" slaughterers do and try to calm them down whenever we have the opportunity to do so?  Some of them might live closer than IS members when they're home and be more convenient to reach.  I was not even talking right there about the ones who kill millions from greater distances in a business-like way.

This from the BBC February 27, 2015 is about Dr. Roy's death.  Note that the U.S. government official quoted seems to be in a fantasy land.

Larry
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sent 6/11/15 for your consideration: "ISIL and the tactics of death"

"....The development of the Iraqi army will be fundamentally flawed unless the national vision that they fight for is one they consider worth dying for......

"The famous British World War I poet Wilfred Owen wrote with bitter irony that "it is sweet and right to die for your country". The impressive 63-strong coalition lined up against ISIL is prepared to do the killing but not the dying; this begs the question as to who is displaying greater legitimacy to their respective constituencies." [emphasis added--LAS]

for your consideration:
"ISIL and the tactics of death," by James Deneslow, ALJAZEERA, June 11, 2015

Here you will find links to major messages I have sent you that are relevant to understanding things that are left out of the picture that is being presented to us most often, of "Us good, Muslims bad. Ugh.":

sent 3/6/15 2, both major: 1. Terrorism poses no existential threat to America. We must stop pretending otherwise [link]

sent 5/17/15 From "8 Essential Lessons We Learned From the Vietnam Antiwar Movement" to Sy Hersh on Saudi Arabia [link]

sent 5/22/15 "How the Saudis Wag the Dog" [link]

Larry
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sent 6/11/15 evil

Our friend Brian the 34+year UCC minister generally has not thought about evil much, he said on Sunday, June 7th.  That day he spoke on the topic of evil for the first time in his long career.  He said he might have to do one or two more sermons on the topic, because, try as he might, he had not yet been able to put a definition to the word "evil," contrary to what had been his firm intention when he started.

At the end of the sermon, I went up and said, "Thank you."  I hope that you may take time to listen to what Brian said, putting aside as best you can any thoughts you might have about God, the Devil, and/or evil from whatever other denominations, social connections, and personal beliefs that you may have.  I think it most likely that Brian has inspirations that are worth hearing for anyone who is able to follow along with his words.  There is rather a lot more that comes after the part about the word "evil" being the word "live" spelled backward. :-7  Please, if you're going to listen, listen hard.

One of many things he said was--paraphrasing, listen for the original--there are a lot of lying news organizations these days.  It is important that we look hard and learn what is real.  And in another part he sounded suspiciously like he was saying once again, in the familiar words of the Quakers, "Look for that of God in everyone, [even in strange people far away]."

It is 26 minutes out of this video of the entire Sunday service, from 26:39 to 56:14 including the Bible passage reading lead-in by someone else.  Or I have put a clip of just the 26 minutes for instant download, in an mp4 file that you can play locally, here.  I left in the lead-in Bible passage reading by someone else just ahead the the sermon despite its having being a bit startling to me.  Brian later referred to it, so it is needed for context.

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I called my House Representative this morning again.  He has not changed his position, opposing fast-tracking.  I reiterated my support for him in holding to that position.

Larry
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sent 6/10/15 Survey: Obama's Trade Proposal a Tough Sell for Most Americans Re: (please help, because it's major, it matters) Michigan looks like an exemplar of what lives of most will be like under the TPP +

Below are updates to "sent 6/9/15 (please help, because it's major, it matters) Michigan looks like an exemplar of what lives of most will be like under the TPP and other global agreements that will come after the TPP if fast-tracking passes the House." [link]

Please call your House Representative early and often until this is over.  Because this matters.  The ones opposing fast-tracking need continuous appreciation, support, and reinforcement.
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From NBCNews.com: "Survey: Obama's Trade Proposal a Tough Sell for Most Americans," June 9, 2015
".....Two-thirds of Americans say protecting American industries and jobs by limiting imports is more important than allowing free trade so they can buy products at lower prices from any country, according to the most recent NBC News online survey conducted by SurveyMonkey from June 3-5....."

From Politico: "The vote to grant Obama fast-track authority to negotiate a massive trade deal will be extremely tight by all accounts," updated June 10, 2015
"...Behind the scenes, Boehner and Ryan are consulting with Pelosi, the White House and other senior Democrats to avoid capping Medicare spending to pay for financial assistance to workers who lose their jobs to free trade, aid formally known as Trade Adjustment Assistance...."

"Most of the TPP is NOT even about 'Trade,'" DailyKos, May 30, 2015
Paul Krugman: [.....]"For this is not a trade agreement. It’s about intellectual property and dispute settlement; the big beneficiaries are likely to be pharma companies and firms that want to sue governments."[.....]

Dave Johnson, Moyers & Co.: [.....]"Stop calling the TPP a 'trade' agreement. TPP is a corporate/investor rights agreement, not a trade agreement. Trade is a good thing; TPP is not. Every time you use the word trade in association with the TPP, you are helping the other side.
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"TPP extends patents, copyrights and other monopolies so investors can collect 'rents.'

"TPP elevates corporations and corporate profits to and above the level of governments. TPP lets corporations sue governments for laws and regulations that cause them to be less profitable. Enabling tobacco companies to sue governments because anti-smoking campaigns limit profits has nothing to do with trade. Enabling corporations to sue states that try to regulate fracking has nothing to do with trade."

On 6/9/2015 12:44 PM, Larry Scott wrote:

Subject: (please help, because it's major, it matters) Michigan looks like an exemplar of what lives of most will be like under the TPP and other global agreements that will come after the TPP if fast-tracking passes the House. [link]

[note 6/10/2015 Please click the above subject to read the original text that was here in what I sent yesterday.]

Larry
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One way or another, raise yourself up I say; do not be afraid.  If you are not doing it you can do it.  Other people are doing it.  We can learn from them, I find.

sent 6/9/2015 (please help, because it's major, it matters) Michigan looks like an exemplar of what lives of most will be like under the TPP +

Subject: (please help, because it's major, it matters) Michigan looks like an exemplar of what lives of most will be like under the TPP and other global agreements that will come after the TPP if fast-tracking passes the House.

Please take this message viral to any and all who will not kill you for doing so.  Anyone can figure out some way to help influence House Representatives.  This is on the edge, meaning it could go either way.   You can find out here the Representatives who are on or leaning toward which side lately.

"Magical Mystery Tour of American Austerity: How One State Is Destroying Democracy and Poisoning Its People: Magical Mystery Tour of American Austerity: How One State Is Destroying Democracy and Poisoning Its People," by journalists Laura Gottesdiener and Laura Gottesdiener, Alternet, June 9, 2015.

Please study that one hard.  Then please review this that came a few days ago from Catherine Austin Fitts, "The TPP Agreement and Trade Promotion : Solari.com."  As you read, consider how that big hope and plan by global businesspeople conjoins with the article about what is happening right now in Michigan and is spreading from there. 

See how the proposed trade agreements could be intended by some to produce the situation that is already growing bigger and bigger in Michigan and more so, just as an inference from the provisions that we know about and that you are reading about from the Trans-Pacific Partnership proposed agreement.  For all I know President Obama could be getting fooled.  I do not know what it is with him.

Then please spend a few minutes of your time on the phone reinforcing your Representative if he or she is OPPOSING fast-tracking so-called "trade agreements," as mine is, or yelling at your Representative's phone representative if your Representative is on the "I'm doing what's good for my own pocket" side, i.e., in favor of giving all the power about trade agreements into one man or one woman, a President.  Or send money if you have it to the various organizers of opposition to fast-tracking who are coming at it from very different angles.  See a list of major actors in "...because it matters: PLEASE HELP *NOW* OPPOSE THE TPP FAST TRACKING AND TAKE THIS VIRAL *PLEASE*," April 23, 2015.  On Wednesday, June 3, 2015, those actors delivered to Congress two million signatures opposing fast-tracking.

You might want to keep it in mind as I sent a couple of weeks or so ago, that winning in America is still possible sometimes. (A win for clean air.)

Larry
P.S. By the way, I should mention that new science has just shown that there has been no hiatus in the increase in climate change in the 2000's as had been previously suggested.  In other words, the curve did not go flat.  I do not know, not yet anyway, how the new science might affect the best predictions of last year that I sent you.

P.P.S. Please call some Congressperson or other to OPPOSE FAST-TRACKING.
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sent 5/29/15 (ACTION NOW PLEASE) from CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS "The TPP Agreement and Trade Promotion : Solari.com"

Subject: (ACTION NOW PLEASE) from CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS "The TPP Agreement and Trade Promotion : Solari.com"  [and PLEASE, I ask you, take this one viral to all who will not kill you for doing so.]
 

The name Catherine Austin Fitts might ring a bell with you even if you've never gotten around to subscribing to emails from Scoops.nz.  I think that it was from her that I got the news of the announcement from the Royal Bank of Scotland that the Great Recession, as it is now called, was about to begin even before that news item appeared on television in the United States.  The background that Catherine Austin Fitts has is heavy. (Wikipedia link)  Scoop.nz has been her main forum for awhile now.  I see just now that it has been rearranged since I last looked.  This looks like a great page: http://www.scoop.co.nz/news/scoops.html
This link goes to some past things I have written asking for your help in fighting the attempt to "fast-track" trade agreements through Congress for this and the next President.  There is help in finding whom to contact if you need it.  Now this has gone into the House of Representatives where there is the best chance that we can stop it.  Those for it have the very hugest money, but most people from all over the spectrum are against it for good and sufficient reasons; that even includes some people who are not blinded by having a fair amount of money themselves.  This is exactly where people power has a likelihood of making a difference.  That makes it top priority action for you.  If you have already contacted your Representative about this it is now time to do it again, because this is hot in the House NOW.

Larry
P.S. Please study this like you really mean it.  Then call your Congressperson.  Thank you:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1505/S00147/tpp-101-a-trans-pacific-partnership-agreement-primer-for-an-american-audience.htm

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sent 5/26/15 (update on the President's speech) PLEASE *never ever* lose sight of this: Remember This on Memorial Day: They Didn't Fall, They Were Pushed

 later update, adding, on the President's speech: "US ‘perception management’ deceives public on foreign policy"
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I am reminded of another thing that I know from a few years back: The U.S. military maintains a specific unit whose job is to create careful disinformation for use by public figures.  That is old news.  Support for such a thing means that one favors a military government over a civilian government.  Some do support the military government over the civilian government.  I do not, need I say.  No, not even with global corporations taking power from local and national state governments.  Especially not then.

This audio from Ross Caputi, a former U.S. Marine, complements the reading below that I sent earlier.  The transcript comes first, with the play button toward the bottom of the page.  It's about lies that President Obama told in his Memorial Day speech yesterday.  I did not happen to hear that speech.  Perhaps you did hear the President's speech yesterday.
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original Subject: PLEASE never ever lose sight of this: Remember This on Memorial Day: They Didn't Fall, They Were Pushed
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Reading this was a personal reminder to me of what happened in Iraq starting in 2003.  I know all this, I was aware of all this, I remember all of this, but the memory can get faded in the face of craziness.  Remember what really happened.  PLEASE.  I think it will help you keep from getting crazier over ISIS/ISIL/IS.  The reading does not exactly say this: Really, we, meaning Americans, should not be present in the Middle East at all, at least not if the idea were really to help calm things down.  We are at least as evil a factor as any in the Middle East situation currently and by far the most evil over all of Middle Eastern history. 

Mainly what we are doing in the Middle East besides trying to maintain various financial interests is we are making large numbers of new enemies for ourselves each and every day.  We have not paid much for that yet, but the payback might come one way or another even if most of our enemies, having no money, just plain do not have the means to travel this far. 

I do not know whether or not we will have to pay more for making enemies and for having made huge numbers of enemies than we are already paying what with all the fear that we are either enduring or standing up against and what with more and more tax money going for the making of more enemies in the place of going for such things as some reasonable minimum of honest public education, at least for children.  You know, like "2 + 2 = 4" and the value of a dictionary as an important tool for less ambiguous communication.

Please also remember the facts in this one:
sent 5/22/15 "How the Saudis Wag the Dog"
It presents a broader overview that very much needs keeping in mind also.

love to all,
Larry
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sent 5/23/15 Winning in America is still possible sometimes: A win for clean air

Subject: Winning in America is still possible sometimes: A win for clean air

"WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the closure of major Clean Air Act loopholes that allowed industrial polluters in 36 states to release massive amounts of dangerous air pollution into nearby communities during their startups, shutdowns, and malfunctions (SSM)."

"Sierra Club Celebrates Environmental Justice Victory with Closure of Major Polluter Loopholes," (link)  release, May 22, 2015 or (print-friendly link)

[Of course you know it has been pointed out numerous times that this win might disappear into thin air if and when such a thing as the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement were to get finalized by the secret negotiators and then to go into effect in the participant countries.  (LINK)  This EPA action sounds great, but President Obama might be ready to give up jurisdiction over such things as clean air and water regulation to the tender mercies of new international corporate courts.  Just to mention, the newly won (from the FCC) Internet freedom and neutrality is at that same risk. (LINK)]

Larry
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sent 5/22/15 "How the Saudis Wag the Dog"

I don't think there is anything bigger in the news than this new clarity (link) about the relationship between the United States, the Saudi kings, and the Pakistan military that journalist Seymour (Sy) Hersh uncovered and published the other day (link).  I told you something of it toward the bottom of this message (link).

The "new clarity" is in "How the Saudis Wag the Dog," by Professor Andrew Levine, Real News, May 22, 2015.

Seriously.  And yes there's lots of big news, like the United States Senate being about to pass the fast-tracking of that horrible thing, the TPP.  I assume you've done your best with your Senators.  Hillary Clinton did raise an objection to it, finally.  We have a much better chance with the House.  I understand it will be in the House soon. 

Nothing has changed much today with the United States, with Israel, or with the Saudi kings.  Their/our so-called "elites" are all out to gobble up as much of the world and as much wealth and power over masses of people as can possibly be done, together or separately. But yet, the vision available to us now has changed quite a bit to conform more to facts and reality in a big way.  "The United States government administration doesn't like Sy Hersh now any more than they like Edward Snowden," so the article says, or words to that effect.  So you might want to adjust yourself again to the new reality.  By "adjust" I mean only, "take it into account in your thinking."  You may find that the article will help with that.

Larry
P.S. Britain having resigned as a world power might have just a slight bit to do with things (link).
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sent 5/21/15 (video) Cornel West, Eddie Conway and Rev. Sekou: Being both realistic and spiritual, what are the real hopes these days?

Subject: Being both realistic and spiritual, what are the real hopes these days?

Cornel West, Eddie Conway and Rev. Sekou on Building a Mass Movement, May 18, 2015.

These are three of the smartest people on the planet, in the opinions of rather high numbers of people.  Dr. West and Mr. Eddie Conway are 61 and 69 years of age respectively but still active.  Rev. Sekou is younger and is extremely active.  They are in general agreement on the biggest things that are happening.  They have different perspectives, naturally, because of their very different life experiences.  I will not attempt to presume to summarize this video beyond that the four people in it discuss and address the question: "Being both realistic and spiritual, what are the real hopes these days?"

That is my assessment of what the discussion is about.  You will not find those words either in the video or in its description on the TRRN site.

You might remember Dr. Cornel West from his participation in an intense two-way debate that took place in the Friends Meetinghouse at Swarthmore College on February 14th of last year.  If you don't remember it, the video of that is easily found (link).

Love to all for this weekend.  It looks as though some family and I will be having a great time.  I trust that you can manage to find yourself something fun to do. :-) 

Larry
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sent 5/20/15 please help as you might notice--typos, editing errors, and inadvertent ambiguities

Please help as you might notice them, with pointing out typos, editing errors, and inadvertent ambiguities in things you get from me. 

In the process of posting to the archive the message I sent you earlier today in the wee hours, "1. ... and now finally a short review on Iraq (with...); 2. comment and reply Re: From '8 Essential Lessons We Learned From the Vietnam Antiwar Movement' to Sy Hersh on Saudi Arabia" (new archive link), I found an appalling number of things to be fixed and clarified.

In the normal course, I have been historically unable to do as good a job with editing as I would like unless I take time to print out drafts onto actual paper and go over them with an actual pen in hand.

I am asking you to provide any help as you may be inspired to do, because I can then be more likely to be able incorporate improvements into the archived versions of things.

Thank you,
Larry

sent 5/20/15 1. ... and now finally a short review on Iraq (with...); 2. comment and reply Re: From "8 Essential Lessons We Learned From the Vietnam Antiwar Movement" to Sy Hersh on Saudi Arabia

Subject: 1. ... and now finally a short review on Iraq (with James Risen, Ray McGovern, and my own personal records);
2. comment and reply Re: From "8 Essential Lessons We Learned From the Vietnam Antiwar Movement" to Sy Hersh on Saudi Arabia

1. The old guard at the CIA may never recover from what CIA Director George Tenet did to them before Congress went along with the decision to attack Iraq.  "The intelligence was wrong; but it was not mistaken; it was out-and-out fraud."  The "intelligence" was made-up fraud on the part of George Tenet as part of a little team with those who gave him the idea to do it, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and some of their associates.  You may recall that both Richard Cheney and  Donald Rumsfeld were part of the infamous Project for a New American Century, the 25 totally shameless and greedy* highly influential guys who got together to plan the reshaping of U.S. foreign policy starting in 1997.  (Wikipedia link)  I am quite sure that you will recall having heard of at least some of the others as well. 

Part of the result of that effort, those little closed planning sessions, can be read here (link) or downloaded directly as a pdf file from here (link) (77 pages) to use your familiar pdf reader.  I put that out there for you for in case it should somehow disappear from the web otherwise. 

Mr. Cheney and Mr. Rumsfeld of the PNAC seem still to be proud of themselves though, despite not quite yet having gotten control of oil production for American companies in the area known as Iraq as they planned on at least as a secondary goal to building an American Empire to cover the planet.  They haven't quite got that one yet either, but they are making huge bucks from us in those efforts besides adding a bit to American employment numbers.**  

While you're at it you might want to note at the upper left of the page numbered 51 in the pdf, the suggestion that what was needed to get Americans on board with the program was something like another Pearl Harbor.  That report of theirs was finalized a year before 9/11.  They managed to use 9/11 to get Americans on board with them.  Their fraud after 9/11 certainly helped with that.

See also Project for a New American Century - Startpage Web Search

The book by 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner James Risen, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration (2006), sets forth in its first third much about George Tenet, how he went about developing his personal relationships with those guys*** in the years prior to his betrayal of his clear duty as recently appointed CIA Director, and about the internal effects of his fraud on those who had been with the CIA for a long time.  To make it short, the dedicated employees and associates of the former CIA could no longer keep their heads up as high as they had previously.  They had always thought that the CIA was really special, that their jobs were supposed be to report information with the utmost accuracy, to be above politics and political influence.  George Tenet's action lost the CIA its reputation among those who knew and/or learned later of the complete fraud that he helped those guys from the 1997 PNAC to perpetrate on America and upon everyone else who might have believed anything they said about al-Qaeda being involved in Iraq or about any existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.  Again, those were not mistakes, those were outright made-up frauds that were personally created and led by George Tenet and the other few guys I have mentioned here. 

You can easily find on that PNAC Wikipedia page the names of others of the 25 members of the original PNAC who came in as big government officials in the 2000 election.  I mention that in passing just because I feel it reasonable to assume that they were all of them in on everything, in on all of the now-known-and-proven big picture re-creations, in on all the frauds that were committed by any of them against law, duty, and us.  We do not have to imagine anything.  Information just keeps on coming out.

Just to note for those who might care about someone who was not part of the plot, Colin Powell, who was highly respected for truth-telling, was their innocent dupe when he famously spoke at the UN, misleading his listeners unbeknownst to him.  He said later that he had been careless in believing what those guys had fed him.

I included a bit about James Risen's book when I wrote you the more major piece a couple of days ago that started with Vietnam and then went on to the essences of our wars in Afghanistan and Yemen and of the killing (murder, really, it now appears) of Saddam Hussein (link).

Now please let 27-year CIA veteran Ray McGovern fill in what I have been telling.  He is utterly clear and concise, I think.  He speaks with authority.
"The Phony ‘Bad Intel’ Defense on Iraq: Jeb Bush’s stumbling start to his presidential bid has refocused attention on Official Washington’s favorite excuse for the illegal, aggressive and disastrous war in Iraq" (link) (or printfriendly link), May 16, 2015.  Note that the original publication is said to have been at Consortium News.

2. I received a comment to my message of three days ago,  "From '8 Essential Lessons We Learned From the Vietnam Antiwar Movement' to Sy Hersh on Saudi Arabia," from one of my few old and wise friends--referring to those few wise people I am privileged to call friend who are in their 80's and have learned a lot.  It was much longer than I'm showing you here.  I am sharing this part of it as an introduction to the response of mine that follows.  There is some repetition.  I think repetition is a bit unusual for me.  Please forgive me for it just this once. 

Anon497: ...... WHY did we abandon Afghanistan and start a SECOND war [in Iraq]?  Saddam Hussein was doing nothing to initiate this urgency of a second war, and there was a lot to lose in Afghanistan by deserting them - pulling out all we could and leaving a few people in Afghanistan....

LS: Having read carefully what you wrote (about some of the effects of U.S. activities in the Middle East], I think you have things pretty straight based on what I know.  The one big thing I would add is that the major U.S. foreign policy leaders had their sights on finding some excuse to attack Iraq specifically even before 9/11.  Remember the 25 totally shameless and greedy* highly influential guys who worked on the Project for a New American Century starting in 1997.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

Project for a New American Century - Startpage Web Search

You might recall that The Weekly Standard (Wikipedia link) was the main mouthpiece or one of the main mouthpieces for the Project for a New American Century, with William Kristol (Wikipedia link) a big servant to the PNAC guys from 1997 in addition to his role as major author for articles in his paper, with much republication in other outlets that are read mostly by propagandized Republicans, more in some parts of of the U.S. than in others.  Please excuse the R-word.  The point is not party politics here, really.  There are propagandized people in various groupings.

Anyway, that's where attacking Iraq came from.  As far as I know that particular choice was mostly about the oil, though American oil companies taking control of the oil did not end up working out as planned.

I guess the fact that the concept of Americans getting control of the oil production in Iraq did not work out as planned is what in retrospect ended up making the whole thing a "big mistake" in the eyes of many.

Larry
* "totally shameless and greedy"--I am not sure that those 25 individuals who comprise or comprised the PNAC have described themselves that way, but that is certainly a not unreasonable short version of how they come across. 
** Please review here about the benefits to the U.S. economy, just to help keep your head together perhaps.
*** James Risen describes George Tenet as having been pretty much a public and private back-slapping sycophant of Mr. Cheney, Mr. Rumsfeld, and especially Mr. G.W. Bush, totally obedient to their influences.
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sent 5/18/15 I am so ashamed. It's just not right. "U.S. Hosts Arms Bazaar at White House Arab Summit"

I am so ashamed. It's just not right.  "U.S. Hosts Arms Bazaar at White House Arab Summit [LINK]" or (print-friendly link) .  That's about our President's summit meeting with Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders at Camp David this week and about huge quantities of new arms sales to those people.  Or is it all ok if all that we Americans have to do is watch them kill each other and encourage them a bit, like the playing of video games.  I know Americans in some places are forced to do more than just watch from afar--including some of those Americans who live in Baltimore and some other places.  But for some reason what we and our allies do in the Middle East bothers me even more than what we do in Baltimore.  Perhaps it's because the police in Baltimore haven't dropped bombs on city residents.  Yet.  That matters I suppose just because the number of victims of greed and tribalism is much lower in Baltimore than in the Middle East, to make a vast understatement.  But just look at how much money we make, and where would we be without that income?  I have no idea, but I am still ashamed.  Seriously.  Even though I am not myself an investor.  Some investors might disinvest on principle, those who have principles similar to mine that is, what I happen to think of as Christian principles.  But I think there are just too many investors with no principles other than simple greed.  So if I am helpless perhaps all I can do is talk about my shame and leave you on your own.  Some say simple greed with no deference whatsoever to the concept of fairness is just A-ok.  Really they do. 

We certainly deal with that domestically on many fronts, people who seem not to defer to any concept of fairness nor to see any benefit to fairness as long as no one is forcing fairness upon them, seeing no damage to themselves in creating we/they separations. 

I do want to avoid wasting my time and everyone's time with just saying "Ain't It Awful," one of the mind games famously identified by Eric Berne in Games People Play (1964).  Here (link) is one place I've spoken about that before.  So maybe I'll shut up about wanton killing for economic benefit.  Or maybe not.  After all, I include myself as a beneficiary of others' savagery--an ashamed beneficiary, but a beneficiary.  And yet I do still say to myself emphatically, "I like myself unconditionally" (link).   How does that work?  I do what I can, I guess, sorting out truth from lies for one thing.

Let me just remind you of my direct download link for the 58 min "Bush and Obama--Age of Terror" video.  It is unlikely that the visuals have changed much since I put that out there on ge.tt a couple of years ago.

The beautiful starry night is not totally ruined.  It was great when I was out in it a bit ago, you know, on my rural road here with just the stars and a little flashlight.  It is still out there.

love,
Larry
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sent 5/17/15 From "8 Essential Lessons We Learned From the Vietnam Antiwar Movement" to Sy Hersh on Saudi Arabia

Subject: From "8 Essential Lessons We Learned From the Vietnam Antiwar Movement" to the great Seymour (Sy) Hersh on Saudi Arabia

"8 Essential Lessons We Learned From the Vietnam Antiwar Movement," by David Cortright, Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute of Notre Dame University, May 10, 2015

....2. The paradigm of the Cold War was wrong: Vietnam was not an arm of the Soviet Union, China and the ‘international communist conspiracy.’  It was a communist-led nationalist revolutionary movement with deep popular roots. The same error is made today when the generals and media speak of stopping ‘international terrorism.’ The violence in Iraq and other countries springs at first from local and national grievances against corrupt oligarchs, many of whom are supported by the US and multinational corporations. US intervention cannot prevent these insurgencies and may even add fuel to their flames.....

I and some of my best friends have known these things because we were awake and aware at that time.  I told you a bit about that rather recently.  If you were not there and awake in the 60's and 70's, then please please learn these things and get them memorized, because that might protect you against some of the war and fossil fuels industries propaganda of today, twisting history upside down for the benefit of the biggest global businesses of today, as they do.

I've got another deep and pithy summary coming on the war in Iraq.  It goes along with a great book I've been reading, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration (2006), by James Risen.  James Risen refused to admit who gave him any of his information, but CIA agent Jeffery Sterling (ExposeFacts article) was just sentenced to 42 months in prison for having given James Risen some of his information (Nation article).  State of War is a truly great book, with lots of stuff I did not know, on top of lots of stuff that I did know and told you some of as it all went along.  So CIA agent Jeffery Sterling is a hero in my eyes along with our other historic brave heroes who did important things.  Please please read and learn these things and get them memorized, because that might protect you against some of the war industry propaganda of today, twisting history upside down for the benefit of the biggest global businesses of today, as they do.

Why would you want to protect yourself against war industry propaganda?  Well, if you are going to support leaders who are simple savages and who know that they are simple savages and if you're going to support simple savagery on the parts of members of your tribe, all for the sake what you perceive as important for your lifestyle, then you want to know what it is exactly that you are advocating for, right?  It is greed, very clearly, plain and simple, given the facts, facts like 2 + 2 =.  I am assuming that the correct answer to that equation is the same for all or almost all the popular philosophies, or at least for those with the intelligence to solve it.  Any "redeeming social value" in any of these things is created by business people just as Hollywood movies are created, just to try to encourage you to feel better (and also to shop more, of course).  But we don't any of us want to be hypocrites, now do we?  Do we?  Yes I do keep warm and use the Internet too.  And I like myself most of the time.  Unconditionally.  So make sense of that.  I guess it means that I too am a savage even though I've never hurt anybody physically.

No I am not being judgmental.  The state of your soul is completely your own concern, if you think you have a soul.  I make no claim to knowing what is best for you.  I am pretty sure that you believing and repeating lies is bad for me, because people lying makes my life more difficult.  I don't even have to hear about it directly for lying to have that effect.

While you are learning facts about wars, please memorize the facts about the U.S. record in Afghanistan and Yemen as they are set forth in some Real News videos that I linked you to on May 3rd.  They have it correct and will also protect you from U.S. and global corporation propaganda designed to make you feel better about savage destruction and thievery for the sake of our American lifestyles.

Finally, Seymour Hersh lays bare some facts about the killing of Osama bin Laden (May 21, 2015 London Review of Books article link) and about why the true facts have been kept so secret.  It seems that part of it has to do with our buddies the Pakistanis having been paid by the our friends Saudis not to let Osama bin Laden embarrass our "friends" the Saudis by talking about their activities with al-Qaida.   "Because the last thing they want is to have the Americans go interrogate Osama bin Laden about who was giving him money back in '01 when he took down New York and Washington" (TRRN video and article link).  You do know that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11, right?  That review, about the war on Iraq, is coming soon, as I said.  Attacking Iraq and supporting Saudi Arabia are all about the simple savages of the U.S. and global war and fossil fuels industries wanting to pump and sell as much as they possibly can in the shortest possible term--not to mention their desires and the desires of their friends to gain from stealing the land of people who have fewer and much smaller weapons, for other things in addition to oil, gas, and coal, such as water and agriculture.

Here is a recent one month search on "Seymour Hersh."  As you can see from the results there has been a lot of controversy about that May 21, 2015 London Review of Books article, and he is sticking by his story.  Seymour Hersh became famous and won a Pulitzer prize for reporting on the Mai Lai massacre during the Vietnam war (Wikipedia link).

I think we might at least stop expecting our victims to appreciate us.  And now that women are equal, women are equally responsible, as beautiful as they are, for the direction in which our policies take us--even if they too play ostrich and believe the lies of the big global business people about what is going on and why.  Right???

Me?  I'm mostly retired these days except for spending time giving you facts just in case you might want to do more than I am able to do otherwise.

Larry
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"There's No Such Thing as a Slut" [at least not if she's got the money] well that's what it says :-) - The Atlantic LINK  And no I am not implying anything about anybody, believe me!!!  I believe in equality as concerns dressing as one likes whether it's "the same as everyone else" or the same as no one else.  Just do please try not to get killed by people who would like to control you or compete with you, at least not by accident.  :-)

sent 5/17/15 in Berlin: "Courage Is Contagious: Manning, Snowden, Assange Stand Up for Freedom"

The “Anything to Say?” project by Italian artist Davide Dormino at the Alexander Square in Berlin, Germany, Friday, May 1, 2015.

"Courage Is Contagious: Manning, Snowden, Assange Stand Up for Freedom," by Abbey Zimmet, staff writer, Common Dreams, May 11, 2015

love,
Larry
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"There's No Such Thing as a Slut" [at least not if she's got the money] well that's what it says :-) - The Atlantic LINK  And no I am not implying anything about anybody, believe me!!!  I believe in equality as concerns dressing as one likes whether it's "the same as everyone else" or the same as no one else.  Just do please try not to get killed by people who would like to control you or compete with you, at least not by accident.  :-)

sent 5/17/15 (video) The great Miley Cyrus in Beatles classic "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

"You’ve never heard Miley Cyrus sing until you’ve heard her take on this Beatles classic, [VIDEO]" posted at rare.us May 8, 2015. 

and a direct download link (mp4 video file)

The song performance is of the Beatles classic "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."  This performance was in Manchester, England at the 2014 Billboard Awards.  For me it was most recently the great Carrie Underwood.  Now it seems it's Miley.  lol  <I guess the laugh is from happiness.  It's not a joke.> :-))  Here's the link to the Rolling Stone piece about that performance, dated May 18, 2014

Thank you to the friend who sent me that rare.us link above.

You might want to note there's a new tagline.

love,
Larry
P.S. See also Miley Cyrus Backyard Sessions on YouTube
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"There's No Such Thing as a Slut" [at least not if she's got the money] well that's what it says :-) - The Atlantic LINK  And no I am not implying anything about anybody, believe me!!!  I believe in equality as concerns dressing as one likes whether it's "the same as everyone else" or the same as no one else.  Just do please try not to get killed by people who would like to control you or compete with you, at least not by accident.  :-)

sent 5/17/15 Patti Page The Tennessee Waltz on YouTube-- a beautiful old home week plus a download link

Patti Page The Tennessee Waltz on YouTube -- a beautiful old home week 

and a direct download link (mp4 video file)

I remember hearing Patti Page (Wikipedia) and some of the others in the video just yesterday on the radio in 1950, when I was a kid growing up.  She died in 2013.  This is a lovely video, 14 min, 52 sec.

You might want to note there's a new tagline.

love,
Larry
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"There's No Such Thing as a Slut" [at least not if she's got the money] well that's what it says :-) - The Atlantic LINK  And no I am not implying anything about anybody, believe me!!!  I believe in equality as concerns dressing as one likes whether it's "the same as everyone else" or the same as no one else.  Just do try not to get killed.  :-)

sent 4/6/14 so fascinating to observe "Profiting from Climate Change"

5/17/15 note: I am posting this now over a year later because I want to refer to it in a new message that I'm just writing.
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Subject: so fascinating to observe "Profiting from Climate Change"

I keep thinking all's been said that there is to say and keep finding out I was mistaken.  This one is about some of those who are making big profits or are planning to make big profits from global warming. 

More than once over a period of five years I have mentioned the game "Ain't it Awful."  The game was named and described by Dr. Eric Berne in his 1964 classic, Games People Play.  An excellent piece on the subject of that game and the accompanying damage to the human spirit by the playing of it, aside from it's being a waste of time, is this church sermon by Rev. Sam Trumbore May 28th, 1995.  1. One thing Rev. Trumbore said is, "What matters tremendously now is not that we have the answers, because we don't, but rather that we be part of the answer by being willing to engage with the problems of today as much as possible, given each of our limits and resources." 2. Then he described the "Ain't it Awful" game--using my words now--as being about people having conversations among each other in a particular way, a way that tends to create a "we/they separation" in the course of complaining, like one member saying something along the lines of, "Oh how terrible is that other [person or group], not present."  Then the other players of the group playing the game chime in "Oh yes, ain't it awful," or something like that agreeing that another person or group is just horrible, or maybe that the whole world is horrible.  Needless to say, we now have Internet groups, which had not grown as large as of 1995, much less 1964.  3.  Near the end of his sermon Rev. Trumbore said,  "The ain't-it-awful game doesn't help in this growth of the soul, rather it shrivels the heart into a little dry nut. For judgment without love and compassion is meaningless."

So do see whether you can read about these people without hating them. :-)  I do not think that hatred will help with doing whatever you might want to do to try get in their way, if anything, or with trying to encourage others to help get in their way, even if you think killing them one by one would help.  No that is NOT a suggestion.  It is for clarification of what it is that I am saying here.  One can be cold-blooded and act without wasting time and energy with hatred.  Supposedly that can even lead to better decision-making.

Profiting from Climate Change, by Professor Gary Olsen, CommonDreams.org March 31, 2014.

love,

Larry

sent 5/12/15 time sensitive TPP vote is Tuesday take viral NOW please--because it matters

According to this Alternet article, "The big vote on TPP in the US Senate is on Tuesday."
Because I have had an operation today and because of days spent preparing for the operation today,  I have only just now encountered the above information.

Hillary Clinton seems not to have declared herself.  I obtained her contact information from her campaign website.  It is telephone 646-854-1432 and email info@hillaryclinton.com .  I have just used both of the above.  There are also Facebook and Twitter links which you might use if you choose to do so. 

I cannot take time now to tell you what I said on the phone, but the email that I just sent her is next below.  Please read that email and compose your own message and send it asap.

Next please review sent 4/23/15 because it matters: PLEASE HELP *NOW* OPPOSE THE TPP FAST TRACKING AND TAKE THIS VIRAL *PLEASE* [LINK] with  five (5) action links collected and all working, act on those if you have not done so, and PLEASE REPEAT THOSE ACTIONS IF YOU DID SO PREVIOUSLY.  BECAUSE THIS IS IMPORTANT AND THE FIGHT IS BIG ENOUGH THAT WE MIGHT ACTUALLY WIN IF WE REALLY TRY.

Thank you.

-------- Original Message to Hillary Clinton May 12, 2015--------

Subject:	please oppose TPP with all your might: potential viral constituency says no to fast-tracking Trans-Pacific Pipeline agreement proposal
Date:	Tue, 12 May 2015 01:56:41 -0400
From:	Larry A. Scott, Esq.
To:	Hon. Hillary Clinton <info@hillaryclinton.com>

Subject: please oppose TPP with all your might: potential viral constituency says no to fast-tracking Trans-Pacific Pipeline agreement proposal

Dear Honorable Hillary Clinton:

Please oppose the fast-tracking of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement proposal with all your might.

It is impossible that you are unaware that those who propose that Congress favor the fast-tracking of the Trans-Pacific Pipeline agreement proposal have no respect whatsoever for America or for the United States Constitution.  I am an attorney also.  Some of us old--and more and more embarrassed--American Patriots DO still have some respect for the U.S. Constitution and would have great difficulty in voting for a President who so blatantly had such disrespect for our country and its traditions as to have favored the fast-tracking of the TPP no matter what secret arguments there might be for such a thing.

For your information, you will find me nonexistent on Facebook, Twitter, and Google.  However, I do nonetheless have 300 direct listeners who tend to take my messages viral by every means at their disposal when I ask them to do so.  I say this because I am aware that you seem to have some interest in the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

Respectfully,

(signed) Larry A. Scott, Esq.

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Thank you, and love to all,
Larry
P.S. Please take some valuable time and act every which way possible on this, because we might win.  And whether or not you already understand or have time to study and understand if you don't already, what remains of America really is at stake in this.

P.P.S. .. and, to remind you, please do take this message viral to everyone in your address book who will not kill you for doing so. Thanks again, Larry.
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sent 5/3/15 A. 5 clear and understandable 10 minute videos at The Real News Network; B. Baltimore and prosecuting criminal police officers

Subject: A. 5 clear and understandable 10 minute videos at The Real News Network; B. Baltimore and prosecuting criminal police officers

A. The Real News Network has been on my list of sources, down the right side of the page there, but I have been neglecting TRRN just because it it is less familiar.  I think that is going to change, because Real News is a serious resource, serious and different from anywhere else that I have seen.

Last night I watched several 10 minute videos that I selected somewhat arbitrarily from the big collection at the bottom of this page, way at the bottom of the page, among the text only titles: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php

I strongly recommend these that I watched, the only ones I've watched so far:

1. This lays it out, short and clear, and there is just enough authoritative detail that you will understand and believe:
Why Saudis Derailed Imminent Yemen Deal with Airstrikes
(It's because the Saudis just cannot stand having democracies anywhere near them.  It is very little to do with Iran even though you might have heard otherwise.  To me it is sad that we still need the Saudis as much as we do.)

We totally screwed up, and now it's a big mess in Afghanistan.  This lays it out, short and clear, and there is just enough authoritative detail that you will understand and believe:
2. No End in Sight for Americas Longest War
3. US Policy in Afghanistan Created Hundreds of Little Dictators
The only thing to do, as I have been saying based on the wisdom of others, is to get out.  But I don't think that is going to happen.  There are too many who believe we are properly the world's policemen and that everyone else can be cowed if enough pressure is applied.

4. Yes.  You do want to know, and you do not know it all already.
Yanis Varoufakis, Greek Finance Minister and Economist Joseph Stiglitz on Disruptions in the Eurozone
5. What is Behind the Collapse of the Centre Left Parties in Europe
The EU is having a rough time keeping it together.

If downloading and local play is better for you and you do not have a Fast Video Download plugin on your browser let me know and I can put mp4 files up at ge.tt to make it easier for you.

B. You will note that there is at The Real News Network, along with everywhere else, a lot of coverage of the situation in Baltimore.  I think The Real News Network is located in Baltimore. 

I have little to say on inequality except to refer you to Senator Elizabeth Warren, as I have done. 

As to the nation's police, there is no question in my mind that we need to remove their special protections so that criminals are treated as criminals.  That seems about as tough as getting rapists among members of the American military prosecuted.  That situation has improved some. 

Not all of the more or less civilian police around the country are criminals by any means.  But there is a strong tendency for them to get pushed toward criminality by those among them who really are criminals, if only by the pressure upon them to lie to protect their criminal coworkers.  With enough pressure, I think the practice of protecting criminals among the police could change, just as the uprising of women in America and in the world has led to rape by military members and football players being reported and prosecuted more often.

love,
Larry
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