The Name of the Game

I'm not so sure that bumming a ride on the gravy train was such a good idea after all. With Miss Penelope holding the stick, and a dead roadrunner working the Egyptian brake-pedal, it does start to seem like a transport of delirium. Thank Heaven for the dead man's handle!

Pink Floyd - Have a Cigar

But this is closer to what it feels like! 😂

It is a long haul, and there a lot of crossed wires. But that's comms!

We don't know how many times we've been through this though. But children could know, if we let them play.

And Nature is a computer, so Nature can callculate Her own past.

And that past is The Garden

And this is what I mean by public investigations.

Google+ is closed!

Dear Google+ people. As far as I know, which, it has to be said, is not so very far at all, Google+ combined with YouTube, is the only social media platform that ever actually worked, for me. And that is something for which I will be grateful to you for the rest of my life. Thank you!

With Love, Ian.

CIA hacking Senate Intelligence Committee computers in 2010

This refers to a post on Google+ https://plus.google.com/+IanGrant

Note that in the news item that broke the story, Feinstein reports that the report of the CIA's own internal investigation into torture was also deleted, and the blame was passed from CIA Director John Brennan to the CIA's "IT guys" and thence to the White House, before being picked up by Brennan in his drafted, but never actually sent, apology to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Then what is even more bizarre is that the CIA went to the Justice Department, suggesting that someone on the Senate Intelligence Committee had committed a crime by accessing the CIA's internal reoort, which contained evidence of the CIA's knowledge of "significant wrongdoing"!

So somebody at the CIA was apparently hacking the CIA's systems too. So not only do we have a civil war going on within the Armed Forces of the United States, we have one going on within the Federal Government as well. And I think this might explain how it is that when the White House National Security Committee wish to make a foreign policy clarification, they find themselves in the utterly absurd position of having to leak it to Reuters!

Now let that be a reminder to reporters, that whenever you report "what the CIA did" you need to think, precisely which faction within the CIA did what?

(Now though I have a blue "post" link at the foot of the edit panel in Google+, nothing happens when I press it. I feel like I am being censored, but all I am doing is drawing what I consider to be fairly reasonable and obvious inferences from publicly broadcast news reports). I am now attempting to post the link on my blog.

https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/11/politics/senate-cia/index.html

https://youtu.be/_rPi3PfA-o0

Cut Off

I have been cut off. It looks like I've offended the great and the good. In particular, Jeff Bezos(Amazon), William Gates II (Microsoft), Betty and Gordon Moore (Intel), Larry Ellison (Oracle), C.A.R. Hoare (University of Cambridge), the senior members of the Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) and NASA (Wallop Island, VA). These people are a degenerate subspecies of Human Being. This whole world you idiots have made is crumbling. You are about to discover that you cannot rule the world when the only thing you know how to do really well is fucking shit up!

Twitter and FaceBook and InstaGram and Google and Blogger and YouTube and ProtonMail and ProtonVPN and Signal and Telegram and WhatsApp are all a useless sham. So are Samsung and Apple. Great job guys! You really know how to screw up.

So I am going offline until some women in Bolivia find the courage to organise themselves to the point that they can provide me with the resources I need to be able to work on secure communications.

On Scientific Knowledge

This was an attempt to explain to the British diplomatic corps how to handle an international disagreement concerning scientific results.

I sent it to a member of staff at the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office on 18 March 2018.

The Russian Embassy in London do not seem to be behaving on Twitter in the same way the Russian government seem to behave on YouTube. Make of that what you will. [referring to the Russian Embassy tweet suggesting that Hercule Poirot was needed in Salisbury, implying that Sherlock Holmes wasn't up to the job, perhaps?]

Mind you, to accuse the head of state [Putin] of personally ordering people be killed, without saying how or why you know is probably absence of evidence, so they are within their rights to joke. The British government has the resources to do an analysis, and they should say why they won't let a Russian laboratory do one. It's science. Does the UK have a chief scientific officer anymore? There used to be a post like that, usually a well-apointed and internationally recognised (and respected) scientist.

The government's chief scientist should be liaising with a Russian counterpart with the aim of understanding all the different ways in which the results of the respective analyses disagreed. Then the scientific report should be fed to a group of ministers who talk to some similar group in Russia and share data, again with the aim of being avble to satisfactorily explain all differences of opinion between the two. And you go on like this, giving regular press conferences (probably daily) and tell the country what's going on.

Of course that's a complete waste of time if you know you're guilty as hell and are all going to spend the rest of your miserable lives in the Maize, so you don't do that. Instead you do what they're doing and try to start a 3rd world war before anyone notices! 😃

The Plurinational Vegetative State of Bolivia

I'm stuck here. The corruption is so total that nobody knows anything. I can't even contact the Swiss Embassy in La Paz, because someone seems to have paid-off the honorary consulate here not to help me. That would be A Good Thing: her testimony might be very useful in a week or two.

I don't get any e-mails from anyone I would want to hear from, unless they are sent under duress. But I get lots of other messages. Unfortunately their senders do not want to identify themselves, so I have no idea what the messages are about. They are delivered by people like Edward Snowden on CNN Latin America the other night, or the waiter at the 24/7 sushi cafe on the Prado in Cochabamba. "Code talk" just desn't work when you don't know who it's from.

T-shirts sometimes  seem more clear. For example there was one that said just

FUCKING HOSTILE

in big white letters. I hope the wearer charged danger money for that. He didn't seem to want to be within 20 yards of me while he was wearing it. I think I know who sent that message.

Imagine that Lt. Col. John Rimbaud has just "armed up" and he's standing there with half a dozen grenades pinned to his vest, and his RPG on his back, holding a huge machine gun and with thousands of rounds of ammunition in belts draped around his neck. And this stuff is so fucking heavy that it´s making the veins stand out on his biceps and his forehead.  And you go up to him and say "You know, you're fucking hostile! You have a bunch of issues that you still need to deal with."  And he'd look at you with his big droopy-doggy eyes for a bit, ... And what do you think he´d reply just before he turned and walked off to find someone more interesting and intelligent to talk to?

So can someone make me a T-shirt that is black, in good quality un-bleached cotton, in women's sizes, that says on the front, in big white letters that can be read from at least 20 yards distance "FUCKING RIGHT" and on the back "FUCKING PRICK". And sell them in the USA, and give the money to Hilary Clinton for her campaign fund. Then maybe she could fly Roger Schell and Scott Owens to Cochabamba so we can get a private e-mail connection running, and contract access to it to the NSA. If I could communicate then I could share some ideas with her about how to make the presidential debates an awful lot more interesting they are currently promising to be.

And if someone could make me a reply to a telling T-shirt, that says just "I'm going!" Then that would be lovely.

This is all part of a reality TV show called Latin American Law. Reality TV is like a soap opera, but where all the stuff turns out to actually have happened!

Well, no-one expected extracting agents after a 7 year black op would be easy ... "Play hard and Have fun!" As the T-shirt said. Yes marm!