I'm spending some time diddling and reflecting. Want to come along for the ride? I got caught up in this mode checking replies and rereading yesterdays post. And making a reply at Consortium News.

I'm quite mentally wasted on the constant repetition of the same type of news that's been going on for ? 2 months now. The same divisional tribalism going on within this election cycle, which is indicating that we as a collective are no where near having any success in drawing the herd stuck inside the establishment farm to the outside where free thinkers actually fight for them each day. Whether that be people like myself, dissenting commentating writers, investigative journalist, or reporters who actually deliver us real factual news and views.

My post aren't getting many hits at all, so I feel I'm pretty much wasting my time. And some replies indicate this much also.

I seem to still be on a Robert Parry endeavor. I wish I could somehow implant the importance of his message to us within others. The world could be so much better.

A comment @ Consortium News after Robert Parry's death By Robert Frost goes

Robert Frost
February 11, 2018 at 08:41
In honor of Bob’s memory, I wanted to present this:
He had mentioned in a speech called “Fooling America” one of the defining moments during the 1980’s when he realized that the MSM was thoroughly corrupted. He realized that the politicians and his editors were meeting together to “get the story straight”.
Bob, you got through to me and a lot of other people in this country. Rest in Peace, We will not let your memory die,

Fooling America: A talk by Robert Parry (Excerpt)
Given in Santa Monica on March 28, 1993

“I came out of AP (Associated Press) which is kind of a working class/working man’s kind of news organization so I wasn’t used to this. And we had as our guest that evening Brent Scowcroft, who had been on the Tower Board, and Dick Cheney, who was then – who was going to be the ranking minority figure on the house Iran-Contra Committee, and we’re going through this little delightful dinner, and at one point Brent Scowcroft says, he says “Well, I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but if I were advising Admirable Poindexter, and he HAD told the President about the diversion, I’d advise him to say that he hadn’t.” And being new to this whole, sort of game, I stopped eating, and looked across the table and said “General! You’re not suggesting that the Admiral should commit perjury, are you?” And there was kind of like an embarrassed little silence at the table, and the editor of Newsweek, who was sitting next to me, says – I HOPE partly jokingly but I don’t know – he says, “Sometimes we have to do what’s good for the country.”

Fooling America --- [amazon.com]

Given the clear indications of the political alienation of a broad spectrum of the American public, Parry's well-documented and fascinating book could be one of the most important in this national election year. "Conventional wisdom" is defined as "the collective judgment of that community of insiders--what the Washington-New York elites in government, journalism, academia and business think . . . is true about any number of hot topics." And to assure the validity of such CW, Parry says, the public is lied to over and over again. The author documents his charges by taking the reader through the machinations of the Iran-contra scandal, the 1988 presidential election, the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill Supreme Court hearings, and the use by the federal government of what is euphemistically called "public diplomacy," i.e., illegal domestic governmental propaganda supported by taxpayer dollars. Parry's muscular closing chapter on America's future outlines 14 ways the public can act to "demand an end to Washington's antidemocratic elitism." Highly recommended for all libraries. --From Library Journal, Chet Hagan, Berks Cty. P.L. System, Pa., Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

How could the Washington press corps miss, or report tardily on, the savings-and-loan debacle, Iran-Contra abuses, Saddam Hussein's Western-backed military buildup and nearly every other major scandal of the 1980s? Parry, a former reporter for Newsweek and the Associated Press, faults the major news media for cozying up to the political elite and suppressing stories that go beyond the conventional wisdom dictated by the Washington/New York government, business and journalistic establishments. Crucial reading for citizens who want to be informed of the news behind the news, this compelling report is replete with examples of media cowardice and kowtowing to power. Parry delivers a damning account of the media's selling of the CIA-funded Contra army to the American public, the demonization of longtime CIA employee Manuel Noreiga, the Reagan administration's propaganda apparatus (operating out of the National Security Council) to create a pro-interventionist mindset, President Bush's professed ignorance of Iran-Contra abuses, and the press's failure to cover CIA terrorist campaigns abroad under Bush, its former director. --From Publishers Weekly, Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The highlighted above in bold write again indicates the power structure I occasionally refer to here. In which I also correlate occasionally with the power structure of our Mother country. Within the power structure of the Little City of London. These 3 places much like the Vatican who benefit from having made it possible to avoid the laws forced upon us living in their own isolated shelters under their own laws rule over the world unjustly.

Robert Frost once wrote: “Nature within her inmost self divides/To trouble men with having to take sides.” True as far as it goes, but now the fission-power of the stars, which our scientists unlocked in the New Mexican desert in 1945 and unleashed on Hiroshima, challenges our inmost selves to move beyond taking sides and end our dangerous rhetorical games of nuclear chicken.