Masopher's Mind

The middle of 2010 got very exciting for the news monkeys. The chattering was almost deafening about not 1 or 2 but 11 whole spies caught by the diligent Federal Bureau of Investigations. The Russians, Peruvians and various non Americans were not charged with spying but of not registering as spies, a hereto unknown and still largely unreported crime.

Even the now “pay-walled” Times online had lots to say, but one set of people had little or nothing to say: The think-tanks. The Gulf Oil, Israel, Pakistan, Central Asia, Iran, Africa, Journalism, Football: the policy groups had so much to say about other topics but about the spies, the silence was telling. CFR, CSIS, Chatham, Brookings, Wilson’s, RAND, RUSI…not a peep from the men and women who know the most about spies. Many of the members of these institutions are former spies and government agent officials themselves. If anyone could give insight on what these people were doing, one would think the think tanks could. It was rightly noted by the spy museum curator Peter Earnest that these spies were apparently searching for things that they could find out by simply browsing the right websites or showing up to a few meetings.  The policy makers have ignored the story simply because that’s all it is, a story. It’s a bit of media munchies which has embarrassed Russia. These aren’t Soviet spies, these are Russian spies. Every country has spies, some are registered, others are not registered, some are simple and amateurs, some are complex and professional. Over the years, Russia has ejected several British and American “spies” to much less fanfare, staunch denials and accusations of conspiracy theory. Iran and North Korea have captured several “hikers” and “reporters” straying over the border too with more denials. America has recently caught and dealt with Israeli and Korean spies without incident. Spies exist. There isn’t a lot of sexiness in being a spy and a lot of danger. James Bond doesn’t happen. The sensationalizing of these people coincides with the release of Angelina Jolies movie “Salt”.  The sexy Russian spy pics have already created a great buzz for the Hollywood fiction. Colombia pictures couldn’t have paid for this kind of publicity.

Anna Chapman while moving in and out of the British and Americans getting married to a lovable English boy and getting to know a few big wigs did nothing special or sinister at all, like many post Soviet Eastern Europeans she secured herself a visa and sought to make connections while keeping the home fires warm. She just had a verbal contract to tell an intelligence officer any tidbits that came her way, tidbits that may or may not be more relevant than what can be found on wikileaks or wikipedia.

Israel has always been shrouded not with mystery but with mis-history. During early 20^th century a very detailed and ultimately antisemetic lie cropped up and was propagated by The Times. It was a very convincing and powerful lie that turned the affluent equivalent of gypsies into transdimentional intergalactic superhumans capable of communicating with both the devil and God. It was all lies. But even before then, false stories about Jews were rife; magical powers, consorting with the devil, ritual murder. Come to think of it, the iconic witch has a very Jewish nose…

The clannish, secluded, brilliant, non Christians were accused of a lot of things for thousands of years aside from killing Jesus. But “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” put a nice (yellow) cap on it. This semi-plagiarized book was about Zionists who are completely connected and powerful and planning to destabilize and take over the world. It is very vague and uses what is called “coldreading” but on a global scale, sort of like the works of Nostradamus. Financial disasters, centralization, war, strife, plagues, greed, money, failing governments, depravity, taking over the world: All the age old buzzwords that have been trotted out since the beginning of time were compiled together and attributed to Jews.

Soon after this became widely published, Europe decided to try a newly discovered atrocity on “the problem” of the Jews which were seen as a threat. This is an example of black propaganda at its most illustrious. A badly written manuscript mobilized a continent to commit genocide. Germany lead the way followed closely by other states. As a result of this, the heavily influenced British government and the Jewish leadership established Israel right on top of the Palestinian people much to many people’s chagrin, most of all the evicted Arabs.

But bearing in mind the lie that killed several million people, why would Jews feel the slight hesitation to cultivate one, two or a thousand lies to keep their race alive. Organizations like the Jewish Defense League, and Mossad use the slogan “never again” when promoting their activities. The JDL while eluding the official “terrorist” moniker pursue Semitic safety by any and all means possible. Evicting people that have lived there for generations, cheating, threatening, blockading, interning and starving millions, killing… so why not lie? Could the actual numbers of the holocaust be slightly exaggerated? I would never deign to say they were, but in order to prevent a similar tragedy against my family let alone race I would double count as many bodies as I could. Could it be that despite doing everything possible to steal French and American nuclear technology, actually having an untested weapon hidden away is more trouble than just being very vague and planting newspaper stories about having one? Israel’s Phantom nukes are everywhere and nowhere at the same time, being attached to planes, boats and rockets as the imagination sees fit. Even Iran’s nuclear arsenal is somewhat created by Jewish intelligence. Despite America’s own intelligence estimates, Israel insists just as it did with Iraq that Iran has weapons of mass destruction. Disinformation is just another tool to promote the safety and interests of Israel and the Jewish State. A threatening Iran is good news for those that feel threatened not by these fallacious fissions but those threatened by Iran’s natural size and posture in the Gulf.

Time and time again The Times has published the “nefarious plans” of the Jews. Initially it was world domination then it was nuclear detonation and lately it has released questionable stories about planes flying over Saudi Arabia and submarines sailing through the suez canal to bomb Iran. Where do the lies end and the truth start?

The submarine “story”.

The planes “story”.

I was watching a movie the other day, before that I saw an ad for Vodafone. A grey haired man is in the middle of a celebratory dinner when he receives a call from a distraught daughter. She has had a fight with her husband and he stormed out, for good this time, he doesn’t care anymore. He can’t stand fighting with her. Now she’s sobbing to the other man in her life. The dad  leaves the dinner and heads away from Canary Wharf in a black cab to where she has emotionally broken down, all the while comforting her via his Vodafone Blackberry. “I was just emptying the dishwasher”, he comforts her. My achievements mean less than your shambolic life.

Is this what Vodafone sees as life in England? Is that what this existence has come to? Grey haired men finally getting somewhere and realizing that it didn’t matter and broken relationships because men realize that it doesn’t matter? Women gabbing on the phone? That matters. The fight was probably over a very high phone bill. The father took this long to get anywhere in life because he kept having to duck out of his duties to mend his daughters sad existence together.

There is some debate as to exactly which 19^th century scientist invented the telephone. Was it Graham Bell, the Scotsman in Canada with connections and power? Was it Antonio Meucci, the Italian/American the prolific inventor. Was it any of the other scientists who mounted challenges? The debates rage on, as American and Canadian lawmakers go out of their way to make legislate the “truth” into peoples heads. The Sopranos and Mario Puzo have weighed in as well, propagating Meucci as the true inventor.

Both inventions were independent, like many independent explorations in the 19^th Century, Tesla and Edison, Ford and Benz, a lot of men were working on similar things. Men were fulfilling needs based on existing and commonly available technology. No matter who it was, it was a man: Men were doing what they do best, tinker and explore. But man’s inventions are being used to destroy man. It seems we cannot help but engineer our own destruction. There is only so much tinkering and exploring that can be done before someone (usually a non-tinkerer/non-explorer) uses whatever we achieve to subjugate us.  And men bear the brunt of this subjugation, we are the ones cowed and emasculated into servitude and slavery, and that is the time that women fill in as consumers.

Once upon a time men filled a space in consumer culture. We bought cars, clothes, cigarettes drinks and phones to impress women, but let’s face it guys; women can get their own now. And now “we” consume for the sake of consumption, gone (thank god) are the songs of Jesus but so too are songs of struggle achievement or real love, now its about video phones, and blaming it on the alcohol…the two biggest most widely spread and profitable commodities on the globe.

So maybe Vodafone is right…men are growing old and quitting relationships, women are bawling away that men can’t be the super heroes that their dads were and at the same time bleeding men dry of their dignity and achievements…thanks Vodafone.

Every call that matters to weepy women and greying men is money for their provider, and that matters to a phone company.