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Oh sure, a CIA-picked president is going to ditch the CIA![COLOR="red"]
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That's not what I wrote is it? Over and out.

Good but obsolete line of thinking. There will never again be a president the CIA disapproves of. They control the machines.[/QUOTE]
Sure, you set out the battle lines, but you prejudge the outcome...

Yes; but just look at today; it is worse than history repeating itself: the Nazis are ‘family’. The CIA brought them over after the war (Project Paperclip). Going from fiasco to fiasco, the CIA was...

Being a man of the left, I have no particular preference for Donald Trump, but I will say this: if, as the saying goes, you get the leaders you deserve or expect, then for too long expectations have...

America is a great country, but one area that could be improved is its excessive Manicheanism in the dictionary sense: the doctrine of the separate existence of good and evil. Excessive because it...

Just a thought. In 1944 the man who compiled the Daily Telegraph crossword puzzles was investigated because in the week before the Normandy D-Day landings there were a string of top secret codenames...

(4) USA today. By way of preamble, let me state that in the case of Donald Trump, grey is a pretty extreme version of black on the mainstream outside and white on the alternative inside. This would...

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(3) Britain today. As I suggested above, the timeless quality of Shakespeare’s approach to human endeavours makes earlier history prophetic of his own age, but also by extension of any other,...

In the CIA jargon of Robert T. Crowley (see Gregory Douglas, Conversations with the Crow), this would translate as 'they bought the farm'.

Impeachment? Followed by destitution. Trump reinstated/new elections.

Or not. The new majority prevails with or without impeachment. Foreign governments break off ties with the US. Political...

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(2.e.) Shakespeare’s response to this barbaric killing spree is truly revolutionary because it prones peaceful revolution instead of opposing violence with more violence. War in France brings...

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(2.b.) Although we are looking chiefly at the history plays here, we see a full spectrum of responses to the divine feminine, which serve as a kind of thermometer for everything else that is...

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(2) What came next for the Plantagenets was unfortunate. Henry V, who as the son of the last king (and an early Prince of Wales) was beginning a period of dynastic stability, died young, leaving...

Writing/playwrighting as a subversive activity. This BBC programme, which makes a decent case for Shakespeare being exactly as described on the tin, does what Shakespeare did with his history plays...

The boot is very much on the other foot. This is what the CIA were doing in the sixties notably in France, and also in the USA. Let’s hope the US government is not just crying foul because this time...

Cowardice and courage are both contagious, but cowardice is just that little bit easier, hence the misbehaviour and the guilty feelings and the need for secrecy. Courage is harder to come by, but it...

Well said.

To elaborate if I may, we all have our role to play. Even if it is indirect, at the very least each of us who has the ability to will themselves to focus on their desired intent as a...

I beg to differ. I am ill-qualified to speak to American politics, but here are a few observations from the outside. Since JFK, presidents have either toed the line or been made to toe the line. It...

I know some scientists who ‘ought to know’ ;) don’t believe black holes exist at all. Certainly, they are not the one-way system they were originally thought to be, since they leak Hawking radiation....

With Johnson's kipper tie, the Piscean age comes to an end with a whimper: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/24/net-gains-boris-points-up-his-ties-to-the-fishing-industries