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See "Q" ("E") in Kryptos Matrix Reflection -- It's E-ZZ as A-B-C

  

Can you see anything?  "Q" 

That was the question-- and the answer -- James Sanborn posed in K3 of Kryptos.

To find "Q"  look for the "Double U -W."

"I know what the Big "W" is.  I'm the only one and I wasn't even looking."

That was Dorothy Provine telling  Spencer Tracy in my favorite movie, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World" (11-7-63) by William Rose,  she suddenly sees the Big "W" ( Double U) in Santa Rosita State Park, just south of Dago.   SuddenLY I SEE A Double U -  That's how I found clues to solve James Sanborn's KRYPTOS E-nigmatic sculpture at the CIA.

As Howard Carter discovered in searching for King Tut's tomb, the secret of Kryptos, which J.S. says is a message to allow an agent to find his way home (read: ORIGIN), emerged from M-I-S-T, and, as the Mad World crew discovered, you have to DIG DEEP and at the RIGHT ANGLE (L).  (nb. Mad World CIA spymeister James ANGLEton called the world of spies a "wilderness of mirrors.") 

J.S. Reflecting on K4 - "There are encoding systems which use pattern, light and shadow, which is like a mirror, and it's those kinds of systems that I was most interested in using, because I'm an artist... and I chose not to use, in at least what's been deciphered already.  I like to use spatial systems of encoding and decoding. It's also well-known that I did use some matrix codes."

KRYPTOS is divided into four messages: K1 and K2 used polyalphabetic substitution and K3 used transposition.  There are intentional repeats and misspellings. For X-ample: 

DESPARATLY -- Correct spelling is "desperately."  Subbed an A for E between P and R. Letter between P and R is Q;  READ:  Q = E.     Note: E is missing between T and L.  "E" is hidden at intersection of the coordinates.

UNDERGRUUND -- Correct spelling is "underground."   Subbed U for O.  Letters S-T are between R+U and there is a Double U in ground.   READ: STATE (ST) R-U and "W" in ground.

IQLUSION -- Correct spelling is "illusion."  Subbed Q for L in center of I - L.  Letters J-K are between I-L.   READ: Q @ J-K (Center). 

Kryptos Morse Code

e e v i r t u a l l y e	e e e e e e i n v i s i b l e
d i g e   t a l e e e	i n t e r p r e t a t i   u
e e s h a d o w e e	f o r c e s e e e e e
l u c i d e e e	m e m o r y e
t   i s y o u r	p o s i t i o n
s o s
r q

 K1 -  Keywords PALIMPSEST  and KRYPTOS  

"BETWEEN SUBTLE SHADING AND THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT LIES THE NUANCE OF IQLUSION"

 

 K2 - Keywords ABSCISSA and KRYPTOS  

IT WAS TOTALLY INVISIBLE HOWS THAT POSSIBLE ? THEY USED THE EARTHS MAGNETIC FIELD X THE INFORMATION WAS GATHERED AND TRANSMITTED UNDERGRUUND TO AN UNKNOWN LOCATION X  DOES LANGLEY KNOW ABOUT THIS ?  THEY SHOULD ITS BURIED OUT THERE SOMEWHERE X   WHO KNOWS THE EXACT LOCATION ?  ONLY WW   THIS WAS HIS LAST MESSAGE X  THIRTY EIGHT DEGREES FIFTY SEVEN MINUTES SIX POINT FIVE SECONDS NORTH SEVENTY SEVEN DEGREES EIGHT MINUTES FORTY FOUR SECONDS WEST X LAYER TWO

Anagram of Palimpsest + Abscissa = PS: It's as simple (read: E-Z) as A-B-C .

K3  - Keywords KRYPTOS=0362514 (nb. ref. letters C-F-B-E-A-D transposition  = A-B-C + F-E-D)  

"SLOWLY DESPARATLY SLOWLY THE REMAINS OF PASSAGE DEBRIS THAT ENCUMBERED THE LOWER PART OF THE DOORWAY WAS REMOVED WITH TREMBLING HANDS I MADE A TINY BREACH IN THE UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER AND THEN WIDENING THE HOLE A LITTLE I INSERTED THE CANDLE AND PEERED IN THE HOT AIR ESCAPING FROM THE CHAMBER CAUSED THE FLAME TO FLICKER BUT PRESENTLY DETAILS OF THE ROOM WITHIN EMERGED FROM THE MIST X CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING Q ?

K4 -

OBKRUOXOGHULBSOLIFBBWFLRVQQPRNGKSSOTWTQSJQSSEKZZ 

WATJKLUDIAWINFBNYPVTTMZFPKWGDKZXTJCDIGKUHUAUEKCAR

J.S. -  "K4 is the apex of the pyramid."  LAYER TWO could indicate K4 has two levels of code: transposition and substitution.  (Note: ZZ midpoint of K4 and double  letters TT, BB, QQ and SS.)

"BETWEEN SUBTLE SHADING AND THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT LIES THE NUANCE OF IQLUSION"  may  refer to Kryptos Morse Code "SHADOW FORCES"  and  "It was totally INVISIBLE."    Note Sanborn's sculpture "INVISIBLE Forces" has a ZIGZAG design.

Deciphering K4 is E-ZZ using polyalpha "SHADOW" substitution and "ZIGZAG" transposition.

 The ORIGINS of the CIA HQ Langley (L) (Q = E) can be found in the Kryptos Morse code and shadow zigzag coordinates in Sanborn's COMPASS ROSE MATRIX .  (source: Dan Ankuda)

 

 

 

 

K4 is split in Kryptos matrix in T-WO. 

There is only one Q in the deciphered text  in place of L in Illusion in ZigZag formation and next to the hidden E.

In Compass Rose,  U-V (absence of light - black light) is next to Q.

 

 

 Directions from the Mall to the Wall

The Compass Rose Matrix corresponds favorably to the map of the National Mall:  "U-U" (read: "W") on the X Abscissa is in the approximate position of the Washington Monument;  "A-B-E" and  "E-B-A" (Abe's reflection) are in the approximate position of the Lincoln Memorial at the Reflecting Pool.    

Significance of the Ls -- With the exceptions of letters R and Q,  an "L" borders the rays of the Compass Rose Matrix from (T) the ORIGIN.  Assuming  L = Angle of X-Y coordinates,  then E-E-E-E in L formation above T (ORIGIN) approximates "Q" location,  the E-shaped original HQ of the CIA-L (LANGLEY)at the Potomac Annex of the State Department (ST) between C and D streets (CQD).       

"Details of the rooms emerged from the M-I-ST" --   Letters J-K-L are between I - M.     J-K-L denotes OSS-CIA temporary buildings located near the Reflecting Pool during WWII. (Only W-W(2) knows) 

Message X Marks the Spot:  Plot the 38th, 57th, 77th, 8th, and 44th letters of K4 and character at 6.5 (OPQRS:6.5:TUVWX) = "S"   results in:  T38 I57 S6.5 D77 O8 S44  -  "T IS DOS."  Given  "T IS YOUR POSITION - E"  from the Kryptos Morse Code strata message, substituting T= DOS,  then  "DOS IS YOUR POSITION - E."   DOS is abbreviation for the Department of State.  Message reads: Department of State is your position - E.

OBKR 
UO(S)XOGHULBSOLIFBBWFLRVQQPRNGKSSO 
TWTQSJQSSEKZZWATJKLUDIAWINFBNYP 
VTTMZFPKWGDKZXTJCDIGKUHUAUEKCAR

 

 "PASSAGE IN WEST CORNER " (Q  T W T  O S S  K G N R  RP  QQ) is  location of "Q". 

 "C  ON  D S  W E ST" - the E-shaped building on Potomac Annex located between C and D streets. 

 

String on X Abscissa -  Coordinates R, Q meet at "SEE"  at ZIGZAG  angles. 

"T X  N-D OSS -Y."   (Read: From T (Lincoln Memorial) are X-Y Coordinates - North to D (Street) to OSS.)

RQ: Intersection of X axis WEST R coordinate and Y axis North Q coordinate is "SEE", which connects with "OSS,"  the ORIGIN of the CIA.  

Extending a line through the center of Kryptos Double U and the granite outcroppings next to the reflecting pond in the CIA courtyard intersects with the Big W, the Washington Monument, on the Mall. 

 A line extending from the Washington Monument through the "Hydra" (Big "W") tree at 225 degrees on the Mall intersects with the John Paul Jones, "father" of the US Navy (SOS) statue.  Navy Hill at the Potomac Annex  "R Q", the original building of the OSS-CIA, is located between C and D streets (CQD- SOS).

From T (T is your position), go five points on X axis to U-U ( Big W - Washington Monument), and then five points on Y axis to "ST" (read: State Dept) at E.  "Q",  the E- shaped building,  represents the "simple past" of the CIA-OSS. "Q"  is hidden from street view at 25th + E Street  on the Potomac Annex  (PA) of the State Department, which is next to the J. Kennedy Center.  (NB. 25 extra Es in the Kryptos Morse Code.)

Kryptos Morse Code SOS and R Q - A variant of the CQ call, CQD, was the first code used as a distress signal. It was adopted in 1904, but was replaced between 1906 and 1908 by the SOS code. SOS RQ CQD point to Navy Hill and "Q" hidden from street view between C and D streets on the Potomac Annex of the State Department.

 

KRYPTOS "Hidden Area E"

   Big W: The BERLIN WALL

J.S. said that he wanted to reveal a clue to mark the 20th anniversary of the sculpture’s dedication at CIA headquarters in 1990. He said it would be a “significant clue” and hinted that it would “globalize” the sculpture. Asked if this meant it would take the sculpture off CIA grounds and out of the United States, he conceded it would.  Then the  ‘Berlin’ clue makes a lot of sense, in historical context of the Berlin Wall coming down that year.  The Berlin Wall came tumbling down in Nov. 1989, almost exactly a year before the dedication of the Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters, and would have been on Sanborn’s mind.

The National Mall's  Reflecting Pool, the Kryptos reflective pool, K1, K2, K3, and K4 have spatial interconnections with the  BERLIN tunnel aka the WONDERFUL Tunnel aka PBJOINTLY aka  PROJECT REGAL aka OPERATION GOLD.  (Note misspellings in Matrix  A and U (AU - gold) equally spaced from T on the X axis total 11 spaces.   J.S. indicated the positions of the misspellings were "important."    The Berlin Tunnel and the Reflection Pool are approximately the same length - 1476 feet.   K1 tunnel reference - "absence of light."  K2 tunnel plaintext reference -  "The information was gathered and transmitted undergruund to an unknown location. It's buried out there somewhere."  Telegraphic and other material went each week to Washington, where it was studied at the “Hosiery Mill,” in one of the temporary buildings set up along the Reflecting Pool during World War II.    K3 tunnel reference - X Can you see anything Q?"  Carter  replied, "Yes, Wonderful things.  Everywhere the glint of GOLD."    K4 references -  SILENT keyword rotational transpositions include BERLIN,WATCH, DIG KH THE KING. (source: Monet)  (Note: William King Harvey was the BERLIN CIA STATION CHIEF in charge of Berlin Tunnel Op for 11 months and 11 days.)

KRYPTOS Matrix 11-Strings (Note: 11 characters in each axis of the Kryptos matrix)  

String T - ABE - C- D T-L-E  HQ.  (Read: From T  A-B-E (Lincoln Memorial) in Q1 are coordinates (ORIGIN) at C, D and E Streets to  HQ of the OSS).   

String T - From T note opposite reflection of  "A-B-E"  is E-B-A-A-D-R in Q2

BETWEEN SUBTLE SHADING...

String T - L U S U Y E R L Y L.   T (Lincoln Memorial), Angle of S (Double U)  U - U (Washington Monument),  and Y axis - E is at coordinates R, L to"SEE OSS"  

String T - A T C E  A N  E   T E M P --  At T (DOS) "C" and  "E" (streets) an "E" temp building (Q and B)

 String in Q2 -  M-E- D- U- B  - N-H-L  (L pattern) borderd by Es.  NB: Navy's Bureau of Medicine (BUMED) on Navy Hill.   Note String Q3 - THE SAIL LAB  (above DOOR).   BUMED

String in Q3 on Y Axis -  D E A T (Right Angle) H - A B E - L-L  (read: Lincoln Memorial)

String  X Abscissa String  "TX R U"    - ZZ Top (apex) aka The Little Band from TX

 ...AND THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT

                                                           MIRROR MIRROR ON THE MALL 

 

J.S.- As an artist I work with light and shadow, smoke and mirrors, and all that stuff.

ANTIPODES, a Kryptos clone, is located at the Hirshhorn Museum.  J.S. - "ANTIPODES is an appropriate name." (KRYPTOS is in the opposite direction of ANTIPODES on the National Mall.) 

J.S.  mentioned the K4 message contained abbreviations and letters with connotations. 

In Kryptos Matrix reflection C Q in K4 - E-Z as A-B-C: 

E:  Find K4 letters in the Kryptos Matrix and substitute the reflected letters connected with Es and Ls in L formation to find the location of "E" = "Q", the ORIGIN of the OSS/CIA.

 X-ample: NYPVTT = BERLIN 

 "N" K4  =   B      Note three N-B mirror reflections in K1 connected to Es and Ls in L formation 

 "Y" K4   =   E      Note four Y-E mirror reflections  in Q2 connected to Es and Ls in L formation 

 "P" K4    =  R      Note three P-R mirror reflections in Q2 (@ pt  "A" ="E") Q3 (P-E-R) + E connections 

"V"  K4  =    L      Note two V- L mirror reflections @ Y axis + "L" and Q4  + E connections

 "T" is your position:

"T" K4   =    I       T-I mirror reflections at T (ORIGIN), Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 + E connections

"T" K4  =     N      T-N mirror reflections Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 + E connections

The Big W: WHY did Sanborn provide a "BERLIN" clue? 

Z:  If WALL is code for FENCE, use rail fence ZigZag (ZZ top) transposition to decipher K4.

          R       U       C        G        T(N)        F        U         Z        J        S        Q            B         B         O
          A       H       J        W        T(I)         N(B)  L       Z        S        S         Q            B         L         U
          C       U       T(I)   K         V(L)       I         K        K        Q        K        V(L)      F        U        R 
          K       K       X       P(R)     P(R)     W        J         E        T        G        R            I         H         K
          E       G       Z         F         Y(E)       A        T         S        W       N(B)   L           L       G         B
          U       I        K        Z          N(B)       I         A         S        T        R         F            O        O         O
          A       D       D        M          B           D        W        Q        O        P        W            S        X

 

The Big W: WHAT is Kryptos?  

Scheidt indicated Kryptos was a pictorial representation:  Kryptos whirlpool (black hole = "absence of light") is the Reflecting Pool,  the "subtle shading" of the Lincoln profile red slate represents the Lincoln Memorial, the A-B-C F-E-D Triangle Rock borders 23rd Street,  the 11 ft petrified wood symbolizes the Museum of Natural History, which is located behind the "Big Double U" (W), Washington Monument,  and the adjacent red block of stone with the blue and white "round-tunda" symbol with the letter J represents the Jefferson Memorial. 

 

 

 

 

Jefferson's Cipher Wheel -   Jefferson cipher wheel, invented by Thomas Jefferson, was introduced in 1922, the year of the opening of Tut's tomb, and was used by the Army, Coast Guard, and Radio Intelligence Division of the Federal Communications Commission until early in World War II.  Note the parallels of CIA, Morse Code, SOS + RQ, and "Only WW knows", as well as the rest of the Sec. 2 secret message.  Interestingly, there are (2) "TJ" ("Thomas Jefferson") strings next to each other in Sec. 4. 

The Big "W": WHY did Sanborn create Kryptos? 

As K3 was a reference to Carter's discovery of King Tut's tomb in the Valley of Kings, Kryptos points to the "tombs" of the American "kings" - Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln - on the National Mall.  

K2 references another KING - Martin Luther King:  Q1 String  M-L-K  NU (read: "knew"  or "and you") A-L (Abe Lincoln)  located between A - D ("address") and two WWs  (WW II  - "only WW knows")  "This was his last message (at) X"  - and null cipher clues DESPAIR, ATLAS may refer to  "Valley of Despair" and "free at last."  Dream speech alludes to King's Lincoln Memorial address in 1963, which alludes to Lincoln's Gettysburg address in 1863.  Curiously, there are 63 letters in K1.

"Details of the rooms emerged from the M(JKL)I-ST"

Buried in the "simple past" - during WW II - were JKL intelligence buildings temporarily stationed  on the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, the Reflecting Pool  and the State Dept (I M ST- ate), the site of "Q". (note: J-K-L string on bottom row of the Matrix Y axis @LIFT) 

Because there is no monument to "Q" ("E") and "JKL"  - the origins of the  "SILENT SERVICE (SS)" on the National Mall -  J.S. created Kryptos as a monument of the National Mall at CIA (L) Langley.  

 

 

 

 

  

 

                                  

                                                            The Big "W"

 

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Logline:  Code-cracking prodigy tracks a serial killer who returns after seven years to terrorize his hometown.  Download DRAGON_STAR_-_Final[1]

Tagline: You can go Holmes again.

 “MIDNIGHT RIDE” 

Logline:  Garage band cruises a small Pennsylvania town on a stormy night that changes the course of rock music.  

Tagline: “She loves you and you and you, yeah, yeah, yeah.” 

 

"DIVE"

Logline: An American naval officer is forced to pilot a Colombian cartel submarine loaded with cocaine past US naval defenses, pirates, and corrupt DEA agents into San Diego harbor. But there's something else on board.

  

 ""COLUMBIA ROADS" 

Logline:  US embassy investigator discovers an occult  prophecy that threatens civil war in the US.

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 “FACESPACE” 

 Logline: A conspiracy writer discovers a  mind control plan using social network websites. 

Tagline: Who is like FACESPACE and who can defeat it?    

 

 "Spyder and the Fly"

Logline: A Black Op team gets caught in its web of deceit.

Tagline:  "Come into my parlor said the Spyder to the Fly"

 

 " The 11 o'clock News" 

Logline:  Two State Department employees get in way-over-their-head trouble.

Tagline:  It's later than you think.

 

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Mad Men Say TV Viewers Can't Skip Commercials

And I thought reality TV was the lowest form of entertainment:

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Broadcasters Fox, NBC and CBS sued Dish Network Corp. on Thursday over a service that offers commercial-free TV.

Dish, the nation's second-largest satellite TV provider, filed a suit of its own seeking a judicial all-clear for its "AutoHop" ad-skipping technology. Dish said the unique service it launched this month doesn't violate copyrights and that it is seeing a "groundswell of support from consumers."

The fight is over a subtle but key question: Whether TV distributors can cut out commercials on consumers' behalf, or if consumers hold that power alone with their fingers on the remote.

Since May 10, Dish has been advertising a digital video recorder service called "Primetime Anytime" that gives consumers access to the last eight days of prime-time programming from the four major broadcast networks — ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox — with the commercials stripped out. The service, available to Dish's top-tier subscribers, uses technology called "AutoHop" to deliver the programming ad-free.

In a suit filed Thursday in a Los Angeles federal court, News Corp.'s Fox says Dish's service is unauthorized and violates a licensing agreement between the two companies.

It says the service is a form of unlicensed video-on-demand because the recordings are kept on a portion of the DVR's hard drive that is controlled by Dish. Fox only licenses its regular programs to Dish for playback on VOD on the condition that fast-forwarding of commercials is disabled.

If the service isn't stopped, it "will ultimately destroy the advertising-supported ecosystem" that underpins TV shows, Fox said.

Dish maintains that the service is "user-enabled" and that it is fundamentally no different from how consumers use DVRs today. It filed its suit in a New York federal court.

"Viewers have been skipping commercials since the advent of the remote control," said Dish's senior vice president of programming, David Shull, in a statement. "We are giving them a feature they want and that gives them more control."

Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal and CBS Corp. also filed suits against Dish on similar grounds on Thursday.

"Dish simply does not have the authority to tamper with the ads from broadcast replays on a wholesale basis for its own economic and commercial advantage," NBCUniversal said in a statement.

CBS said in a statement: "This service takes existing network content and modifies it in a manner that is unauthorized and illegal. We believe this is a clear violation of copyright law and we intend to stop it."

A spokeswoman for The Walt Disney Co.'s ABC declined to comment.

About 40 percent of the 115 million television households in the U.S. have a DVR. Watching programs recorded on a DVR accounted for about 8.4 percent of all TV viewing among adults aged 18 to 34 last year, up from about 7.9 percent in 2010, according to TV ratings and research provider The Nielsen Co.

Romney's American Idol - Dick Cheney

Mitt-wit Romney says Dick Cheney is his American Idol VP.   Returning the favor Dick Cheney will host a July fund-raiser for Mitt Romney at their home in Jackson Hole, Wyo., according to a save-the-date e-mail from the Romney campaign. The two reportedly are also going bird-hunting. Cheney is a crack shot and Mitt is ...well, cracked.

Killing two birdbrains with one stoned

We Are All Anonymous (Sources)

Proposed legislation  would require New York-based websites and newspapers, to “remove any comments posted on his or her website by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post.”

Sen. Thomas O’Mara, a Republican who is also sponsoring the measure, said it would “help lend some accountability to the internet age.”  The Senate and Assembly measures, which are identical, cover messages on social networks, blogs, message boards or “any other discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.”

Of course, this legislation would put every major media outlet effectively out of business, as reporters would have to divulge their "high-level official" anonymous sources.

"Too Many Notes"

Emptywheel wonders what the Gov is hiding in those notes:

"As Ali Soufan has been making the rounds rebutting Jose Rodriguez’ self-serving lies, he has said something, repeatedly, that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention. Soufan has notes that prove Rodriguez is lying.

In early 2008, in a conference room that is referred to as a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF), I gave a classified briefing on Abu Zubaydah to staffers of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The staffers present were shocked. What I told them contradicted everything they had been told by Bush administration and CIA officials.

When the discussion turned to whether I could prove everything I was saying, I told them, “Remember, an FBI agent always keep his notes.” Locked in a secure safe in the FBI New York office are my hand-written notes of everything that happened with Abu Zubaydah [redacted] (434-435; my emphasis)

He mentions them again later in the book, almost begging someone to go get them.

It was apparent from the [torture] memos that the introduction of EITs was based on lies. The proof resides in my notes–locked, as noted earlier, in FBI vaults. (526)

Soufan repeated this emphasis on his notes in a piece explaining why Jose Rodriguez’ lies might help Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri in his military commission.

Nonetheless, the government has my investigative notes, as well as daily reports, and the inspector general also found instances where Rodriguez’s team went far beyond what they had approval for and the legal guidelines set forth by the George W. Bush administration, including holding a drill to Nashiri’s head. [my emphasis]

And in the Q&A with Amy Davidson, Soufan again mentions that documentary proof that Rodriguez is lying.

The claim about waterboarding leading to unmasking of K.S.M. as the mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks is similarly false. We got that information in April, 2002, before the contractors hired by the C.I.A. Counterterrorism Center even arrived at the site. One by one, the successes claimed by E.I.T. proponents have been shown to be false.

I went before the Senate Judiciary Committee and under oath recounted what happened. And, as I note in “The Black Banners,” I sent daily reports from the secret interrogation location, to Washington, recording what happened, which the U.S. Government has in its possession.

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The tapes also contained our interrogations, done with traditional techniques. The tapes would have shown under which circumstances Abu Zubaydah coöperated and when he stopped coöperating. But while the tapes were destroyed, our daily reports from the location are luckily safe and still in the government’s possession. [my empahsis]

Notes, notes, notes and daily reports, daily reports, daily reports.

You think maybe this guy wants us to know that there is documentary proof, as yet unreleased, that Rodriguez’ book is based on a pack of lies? You think maybe he’d like these notes released before Rodriguez makes a mint off these lies?

So journalists keep reporting that Soufan has these notes that prove Rodriguez’ lies (and, probably, that Rodriguez’ torturers did far more than legally approved in the Bybee memo, including, at a minimum, use a coffin to simulate live burial, the only thing John Yoo said was illegal). While the repeated reporting on these notes has not yet reached a clamor, clearly they are newsworthy (and for some legally suspect reason, subjected to a higher degree of privacy than Rodriguez’ lies are).

Ali Soufan says there is documentary evidence that proves Rodriguez’ entire PR campaign is based on lies. So why won’t the Administration release that evidence?

"There are too many notes."

 

The Mentalist - "Crimson Hat"

The Mentalist - "Crimson Hat"

-  John Scott

"The Mentalist" in a nutshell: After Patrick Jane hits the rocks in Sin City and ostensibly doubts the moral difference between right and wrong (white hat v. black hat), siren Lorelei, the bird in the scarlet red dress, spreads her wings and tempts him to the dark side of  RED JOHN in the "Crimson Hat."
 

"Crimson Hat" is old-hat: The series' cliffhanger involves yet another mole in the FBI, another CBI "number 1" gets  the boot,  and RJ gets away Scott-free again like Keyser Söze. It's "The Usual Suspects," and like Jane's hidden coin trick, "First he's there, and like that he's gone."  Either Bruno thinks the viewers have the memory span of a fruit fly or he's trying to make a point: Jane, like Verbal Kint aka Keyser Söze, is just making this story up as he goes. For example:

Anybody think it coincidental that Citroen, the model car Jane drives, just happens to be the name of the gang member (Citrone) suspected in the death of the nameless and faceless shotgun victim, which conveniently provided Jane the Rigsby body double?  Anybody troubled by Jane telling Lisbon to pinky-swear not to tell ANYONE about his fake breakdown, and then the CBI scoobs are suddenly in on the great deception?   In the end Lorelei on Keston almost performs a "Verbal Kint" makeover on Jane's left hand,  crippling him for life. Well, call me Cho-bayashi.

Jane (to Lorelei): I know it’s hard to believe now, but you’re gonna talk to us. You’re gonna break down, and you’re gonna tell us everything you know about Red John. You’re gonna sing like a bird.

           A Scarlet Tanager 
 

(NB "Tanager" was the name of the ship in the "Usual Suspects" -- just coincidental)

The clever long con of  "Usual Suspects" is Keyser Söze's identity. (Fast fact: Kevin Spacey revealed that Bryan Singer managed to convince every one of the major actors that they were Keyser Soze. When first screened for the company of actors, Gabriel Byrne (Keaton) was so stunned when he found that he wasn’t Keyser Soze that he stormed off into the parking lot and argued with Bryan for a half hour.) The clever long con of  "The Mentalist" is Red John's identity.  As in the "Usual Suspects"  the answer was right in front of us the whole time: Jane was Red John, his imaginary nemesis.

Total Recall: Jane appears to be a Sherlock Homes super-sleuth character but in reality is a mental patient who suffers from paranoid delusions due to feelings of extreme guilt in the deaths of his wife and child who were burned as he was (CBI = intensive burn care?)  in a horrific car accident when he failed to stop at a RED LIGHT - hence the RJ symbol - while he was driving intoxicated and spends his days watching TV shows, which generate his ideas for the delusional episodes.

Burning clues: "Tiger, Tiger burning bright, they were "Au-burned."  In the "Red Mile" episode Jane arrives at a crime scene outside Auburn, California.  Shouts from Alabama football fans of "Roll Tide" first appeared during the Alabama-Auburn Tiger game in 1907. 

Red John is Jane's imaginary alter-ego,  the Wicked Which Professor Moriarty-type character in a "Tommy Westphall " imaginary world like "St. Elsewhere" and "Life on Mars" that is the dream state of  Jane.

Jane: Perhaps we can see each other again.
Lorelei: That’s not up to me.
Jane: Oh, you have no say in it?
Lorelei: None at all. It’s very "Westphall."
Jane: I don’t follow you.
Lorelei: I do what Red John tells me to do.


Curiously, the fake Jane character in "Red Moon" where another corpse was found in a burned car was named Ellis Mars.  Curiously, another corpse was found in a burned car in "Ruby Slipper."  Curiously, RF Victor could refer to Red Faction  which takes place on Mars in the late 21st century.  The player controls a miner named Parker who helps lead a rebellion against the Ultor Corporation. Curiously, the Mars rover Curiosity will land on the RED planet this year.

The characters of Rigsby, Cho, Van Pelt and Lisbon are also Jane's creations ala the "Wizard of Oz;"  the Tin Man, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, and Dorothy - in reality are the assistants and doctors at the mental hospital and the RJ minions are Jane's fellow mental patients.  In the final scene Jane confronts "Red John" - himself - an homage to the ending of  "The Prisoner," and in an homage to "OZ" "awakens" from his dream state to realize the true identities of Lisbon et al.  Like the rest of us, Jane can't sleep in his dreams. NB. In"Crimson Hat" Jane is spotted reading Carl Jung's "Modern Man in Search of a Soul."  Dream along with me...

In the End the Mentalist was on the mental list. Of course, this ending is going to piss the legions of fans who have been burned by other "Hey, we're just making this up as we go" shows like LOST.   Et tu, Bruno? Let's ask him:

EW: There’s this smart line near the start of the third act of Seven, where the audience is warned that when we meet the film’s serial killer (KEVIN SPACEY), there’s no way he’s going to live up to our expectations. He’s just a man. Has that concerned you, building up the villain for so long that it can’t top expectations?

Bruno:  Sure, if season 5 we just opened a door and said “tah-dah!” and it was some mid-range actor, that would be disappointing. The trick is going to be — and this is coming — bringing the audience along and making them second guess themselves and ask, “Is that him? Is that him?” Red John ultimately is just a man — whenever you see the great criminals reduced to the flesh it’s sort of disappointing.





"First he's there,"

EW: Will you cast Red John next season?
Bruno: Will I cast him? He might already have been cast. You might already have seen him.

 

Seven come 11:  "And like that he's gone."

Here's my mental list of scripts so you can dream along with me:


“Q”
Logline: A disgraced ex-Intelligence analyst sets out to win $1,000,000 by solving the "Q" enigma but discovers a greater secret.

"DRAGON STAR" ("Who is Paulie Bauer, and Why is he saying these crazy things about me?")
Logline:  Code-cracking prodigy tracks a serial killer who returns after seven years to terrorize his hometown.
Tagline: You can go Holmes again
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 “MIDNIGHT RIDE”
Logline: Garage band cruises a small Pennsylvania town on a stormy night that changes the course of rock music.
Tagline: “She loves you and you and you, yeah, yeah, yeah.”

"DIVE"
Logline: An American naval officer is forced to pilot a Colombian cartel submarine loaded with cocaine past US naval defenses, pirates, and corrupt DEA agents into San Diego harbor. But there's something else on board.

"COLUMBIA ROADS"
Logline:  US embassy investigator discovers an occult  prophecy that threatens civil war in the US.
Tagline: All Roads lead to Columbia.
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 “FACESPACE”
 Logline: A conspiracy writer discovers a  mind control plan using social network websites.
Tagline: Who is like FACESPACE and who can defeat it?

"Spyder and the Fly"
Logline: A Black Op team gets caught in its web of deceit.
Tagline:  "Come into my parlor said the Spyder to the Fly"

 "The 11 o'clock News"
Logline:  Two State Department employees get in way-over-their-head trouble.
Tagline:  It's later than you think.

 

Ex- Patriot Act Targets Tax Dodgers

Ex-patriot Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook, got screwed by Marc Zuckerburg and now it's our turn.

Sparked by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s renouncement of citizenship, two U.S. Senators are planning to unveil a new plan focused on preventing the super rich from dodging taxes.

Saverin has been taking quite a bit of heat over dropping his citizenship, which was announced coincidentally just weeks before Facebook goes public.  I will  save an estimated $100 million on taxes.

Sens. Charles Schumer, (D-NY) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) plan, called the “Ex-PATRIOT Act” (Expatriation Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives for Offshore Tenancy Act), seeks to bar people like Saverin from reentering the U.S. once they’ve renounced their citizenship to avoid heavy taxation. While I understand how it could be upsetting that some people don’t value their citizenship despite everything the U.S. offers, but deciding to block them from ever visiting the country is just asinine. The goal is to compel the super rich to continue paying taxes, not excommunicate them.

Under the proposed bill, expatriates with either a net worth of $2 million or an average income tax liability of at least $148,000 (over the last five years) will be presumed to have renounced their citizenship for tax avoidance purposes. Any person that fits this description does have a chance to appeal to the IRS to prove why they aren’t dodging taxes.

Anyone that the IRS determines was indeed dodging taxes by renouncing citizenship will be slapped with a new tax on all future investment gains — no matter where he or she resides. The senators said this stipulation would eliminate any tax benefit/financial incentive associated with renouncing one’s citizenship. Also, the rate of the new capital gains tax will be 30 percent, which is consistent with the current rate applied on non-resident aliens for dividends and interest earnings.

Official statements from Schumer and Casey pasted below:

“Mr. Saverin has decided to ‘defriend’ the United States of America just to avoid paying his taxes. We aren’t going to let him get away with it so easily,” Schumer said. “It’s infuriating to see someone sell out the country that welcomed him and kept him safe, educated him and helped him become a billionaire. This is a great American success story gone horribly wrong. We plan to put a stop to this tax avoidance scheme. There should be no financial gain from renouncing your country.”

”We simply cannot allow the ultra-wealthy to write their own rules,” said Senator Casey. “Mr. Saverin has benefited greatly from being a citizen of the United States but he has chosen to cast it aside and leave U.S. taxpayers with the bill. Renouncing citizenship to simply avoid paying your fair share is an insult to middle class Americans and we will not accept it.”

Saverin is not unique. The number of Americans renouncing their citizenship grew from 238 in 2008 to 1,534 in 2010. This sixfold increase no doubt includes a hefty portion of super-rich cosmopolitans. Citizens of Davos-land, they can look with disdain upon the struggling 99.9 percent who believe that a commitment to their country is a lifetime affair.

Their number will increase. Current law reserves 10,000 green cards annually for foreign entrepreneurs willing to invest at least $500,000 in a business that will create or preserve 10 full-time jobs. Once they become citizens, some will make it into the big time and say goodbye to the country that made their success possible.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/17/3614918/payback-for-a-facebook-tax-refugee.html#storylink=cpy

Brain-dead Lancaster PA Congressman Sees Brain-dead Politicians

Joe Pitts, the brain-dead Lancaster PA congressman, sees dead and brain-dead politicians as the answer to our Mid-East problems.

Replying to a constituent's email regarding Middle East tensions,  Pitts  wrote on April 20 that "it is now incumbent on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat" to hunker down at the negotiating table.

Problem is, Arafat died in 2004. And Sharon has lain in a coma-like state since a massive stroke in 2006.

No problem.  Pitts has been brain-dead for years but the brain-dead Lancaster voters still see him as the answer to their problems.

American Psycho

by John Feffer

Everybody loves Dexter. He’s handsome. He’s helpful. He works at the Miami Metro Police Department, and he’s very good at his job as a blood-splatter analyst. Oh, did I mention that he moonlights as a serial killer? Don’t worry: he only kills bad guys. That’s part of the code that Dexter’s adoptive father, himself a police officer, passed down to his son. As a child who had watched his mother die a horrendous death, Dexter couldn’t overcome the murderous impulses that surged within him. His father, channeling those impulses in the only constructive way he could think of, created a better monster of his son’s nature: a serial killer of serial killers.

The other essential rule of Dexter’s code: don’t get caught. He is very precise in the way he dispatches his victims, and he will do almost anything to evade detection. Dexter works for the law, but his second job is most definitely above the law.

During its six seasons on Showtime, the show has asked a vexing moral question: can a person do good by doing bad? Let’s throw in one more twist. Sometimes Dexter makes mistakes and kills people who don’t fit his definition of Really Bad. He must then wrestle with his (rudimentary) conscience and, more importantly, try to resolve the paradoxes of his father’s code. One last painful element of the Dexter story: his efforts to wipe out bad guys occasionally endanger and even lead to the death of his own nearest and dearest. Dexter has a serious problem, in other words, with blowback.

By this point, you’ve probably figured out my theory. Dexter is all about U.S. foreign policy and the moral calculus of a superpower. Our government has likewise been on a killing streak for a long time, and there’s no end in sight. But we are also, as a country, conflicted about this propensity toward murder. We try to tell ourselves that we only kill bad guys like Osama bin Laden and his ilk. We maintain that we intervene in the affairs of other countries for only the best and purest of reasons. But we also suspect that we have deviated from our code — many times and with devastating consequences.

The Sharks Smell Blood in the Water of the JP White Whale

Well, call me fishmeal.

JP Morgan's great white whale is bleeding and the hedge fund sharks are circling for the kill.

Days after disclosing a massive derivatives trading loss, JPMorgan Chase was hit with three shareholder lawsuits accusing company executives — and its CEO Jamie Dimon — of misleading investors about the extent of the blunder. The flurry of legal paper came as news emerged that the losses at the nation’s largest bank have grown by 50% to $3 billion — just days after the debacle was disclosed. Now that JPMorgan’s bad position is known, hedge funds have been betting against it, driving up the bank’s losses and raising questions about how it intends to extricate itself.

The three lawsuits are the first of what could be a flurry of legal actions against the bank over the botched trade, which has wiped out nearly $20 billion in JPMorgan shareholder equity and renewed calls for more aggressive regulation of Wall Street. One of the complaints, filed in New York federal court on behalf of investment firm Saratoga Advantage Trust, a JPMorgan shareholder, alleges that bank executives misled investors into thinking that its traders were pursuing deals designed to reduce risk, when in fact they were geared to producing profits.

“Defendants issued materially false and misleading statements regarding the losses and risk of loss to the Company arising from massive bets on derivative contracts related to credit indexes reflecting interest rates on corporate bonds,” the complaint charges. “These derivative bets went horribly wrong, resulting in billions of dollars in lost capital for the Company and billions more in lost market capitalization for JPMorgan shareholders.

Last Thursday, JPMorgan’s CEO Dimon said the firm’s in-house investment office had lost $2 billion on a portfolio of complex financial derivatives initially designed as a “hedge” to balance out potential losses elsewhere on the bank’s books. Dimon said the bank could face $1 billion in further losses by the end of the year. But in only a matter of days, the position has worsened, costing the bank an additional $1 billion in losses, according to The New York Times. Several hedge funds now betting against the bank know its position is compromised and are smelling blood.“They were caught short,” the paper quotes one credit trader as saying. “This is a very hard trade to get out of because it’s so big.”

Better late than never

Meanwhile, FBI Director Robert Mueller confirmed on Wednesday that the feds have launched an initial probe into JPMorgan’s bungled trade.” The Securities and Exchange Commission is also examining the matter. Financial reform advocates have seized the incident as proof that stronger bank regulation is needed. Dimon has been Wall Street’s most vocal opponent of the Volcker Rule, a central part of the Dodd-Frank financial package aimed at preventing banks that can collect government-insured deposits from making risky, so-called “proprietary” bets.

 "But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep."  -- Little Jamie "Ahab" Dimon"

Al Qaeda Downsizing Plan: Send in the Drones

Forbes Thought Of The Day

“ We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. ” — Aesop

 

Gone are the days of the grandiose delusions of terrorists like deceased AQ CEO Bin Hidin, the Donald Trump of terror kingpins, who was more concerned about his hair color and pleasing his harem with Viagra than executing his grand scheme to crash the US economy.  Al Qaeda has not been immune to the economic downturn and has also been downsizing to survive.  Instead of attacking US with our own technology of Dreamliners, AQ is going small and planning to use drones to give US a bigger nightmare.

Bizarrely, the Homeland Security folks who think draconian measures like spying on its own citizens and implementing strip searchs to board airplanes are okay  are pulling a NSA Condi Rice ignorance-is-a defense non-reaction to the threat that AQ poses by using our technology against US. 

In the event these official fools are called to testify in the next 9-11 commision and dare to act like Dufus Condi Rice  "no one could forsee such a threat"  you have been warned - 

Our drone technology can be used against us and carries with it the seeds of our own destruction:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140173/Poison-drones-new-Olympic-threat-warns-Colonel-charge-keeping-London-calm.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/02/25/defending-against-drones.html

Jim Tuttle, the Department of Homeland Security official responsible for safeguarding America against nonnuclear weapons, downplays the idea that drones could be used against us. “What terrorist is going to have a Predator?” he scoffed at a conference last winter.  Note: Tuttle the turtle hiding in his shell of a brain is a finalist for this year’s Blind Cassandra award, which SecState (then NSA dufus) Rice won four times for her statement, “I don’t think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile … even in retrospect there was nothing to suggest that.”

http://www.justiceblind.com/airplanes.html

Current long-range drones are able to travel hundreds of miles. there’s speculation that Syria manufactures its own drones, though they are thought to be based on Iranian design. Israel pioneered the field, and is a major player in the global market for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Not only do the Israelis make a full range of drones for their own military and security purposes, they sell their pilotless aircraft far and wide. Israeli clients range from Azerbaijan to the United States, which has used Israeli-made surveillance drones along the border with Mexico.

Washington isn’t against selling drones either, even the armed ones. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the Obama Administration is pushing to sell US-made armed drones to NATO allies like Turkey and Italy. Britain has already purchased some. Some in Congress object to spreading the lethal technology around. But the reality is that several countries, including Iran and China, are thought to be developing their own armed drones.

This proliferation of drones is evident closer to home too. Many of our neighbors in the Western Hemisphere have them. Brazil uses both locally-designed aircraft, and ones imported from Israel.

Then there’s Mexico. The United States has been flying surveillance drones south of the border, too, as part of its efforts to help the Mexican government’s war against the narcos. But Mexico has also bought its own drones from Israel in the past, and there’s speculation that it’s about to get some more (bigger ones, perhaps). I suspect officials will have to spend an increasing amount of time coordinating the unmanned flight patterns near the US-Mexico border.

Israel isn’t the only country eyeing the Latin American drone market. Apparently, so is Iran. US Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser recently told reporters in Washington that Iran is planning to help build drones in Venezuela.

What comes next is even more worrisome. This is a global arms race that’s been going on quietly in the background for some time now. It could get much louder, if armed drones become more widespread. We Americans may have grown used to our government using remote-controlled aircraft to kill suspected terrorists. That’s meant to make us feel safer. But I suspect the world is going to feel less safe as more countries acquire that same capability.

There's really no dispute that it is a question of when and not if drones will get in the hands of terrorists. The day will come when such drones are available to almost anyone who wants them badly enough. In fact, there is ample evidence that terrorist groups have already experimented with drones.

But the Homeland Security folks are clueless and defenseless about the threat posed by drones. By what logic do we prevent airline passengers from taking plastic water bottles through security checkpoints, while permitting anyone who so desires to operate a 50-pound, video-guided drone, no questions asked?

Given the realities of the world we live in, it doesn't seem unreasonable for US to spy on drone manufacturers and operators of drones capable of carrying a significant payload.

Our current defense plan is akin to the French Maginot line: always fighting the last war.  With drones capable of flying many miles terrorists never have to set foot in the US to attack US; they can pull up to Nuevo Laredo, TJ or settle by boat off any major city and send in the drones and cause afflictions of many kinds.

It's August 2001 all over again and the same clowns are oblivious to the threat we have created. 

Isn't it RICH? Are we a pair?

Me here at last on the ground you in mid air

Send in the clowns

Isn't it bliss? Don't you approve?

One who keeps tearing around one who can't move

Where are the clowns? Send in the clowns

Don't you love farce? My fault i fear

I thought that you'd want what i want, sorry my dear

But where are the clowns? Quick send in the clowns

Don't bother they're here.