http://www.spartacist.org/english/wv/945/madison.html

hey Bob,

Ian Flemming “had a riotous imagination utterly unsuited to serious intelligence collection and analysis. The offices of the British Admiralty often rang with laughter at his mad schemes. It was Fleming who suggested that British sailors be entombed in a giant lump of concrete off Dieppe, from which they could keep watch on Dieppe through periscopes. It was Fleming who proposed to send a cruiser into Nazi waters with a transmitter beamed to the German Navy’s wave-length which would, in his words, ‘keep up a torrent of abuse, challenging the German naval commanders by name to come out and do something about it. No sailor likes to be accused of cowardice, and Germans are always particularly touchy.’

Fortified by such boyish fantasies, the officers of OSS never wrought much damage to the foe, but, from Donovan and his subordinate Allen Dulles downwards, learned to exploit romantic public fantasies of what a secret service should be. Thus they ensured their survival, if not in the field then in the crucial bureaucratic battlegrounds of Washington.

In the spring of 1960 he was taken to dinner at the Washington home of Senator and Democratic presidential candidate-elect Jack Kennedy. The conversation turned to the problem of Castro. How should he be dealt with? Fleming’s imagination sprang into action. As Fleming’s biographer, John Pierson, reported the conversation, he told the assembled company, which included a CIA man called John Bross, that the United States should send planes over Cuba dropping pamphlets, with the compliments of the Soviet Union, to the effect that owing to American atom bomb tests the atmosphere over the island had become radioactive; that radioactivity is held longest in beards; and that radioactivity makes men impotent. As a consequence the Cubans would shave off their beards, and without bearded Cubans there would be no revolution.” http://www.counterpunch.org/bond1.html

If the police in pittsburg attached unrelated civilians in residential neighbourhoods, and if the constituional rights of americans are unrecognized … glib comments from guys like Bob aren’t going to provide any solutions.

What idiocy to complain that an article is ‘too long’ rather than actually offer a rebuttal.

We cannot eat your moronic insults, Bob, nor can we peacefully assemble around them, nor can we speak them freely. What good are they, then?

Sorry I don’t Twitter. But if that is how it works, I’m all for it.

Analysis…..? Your piece reads like cheap spy novel!

Real analysis requires actual thought, rationality, and discernment, not paranoid conspiracies, and half truths. Like picking stocks , it takes a thoughtful reading of the 10-K, 10-Q, and other various sourced publications, not the wild writings of some outsider, who doesn’t know his way around.

Bob.

PS. If we could some how communicate with Ian Flemming he’d be getting quite the laugh out of your piece.

My gosh your long winded! If you have something to say, say it in as few a words as possible. Most of what you write is gibberish.

Or can we create for ourselves in enough time societies governed by a new set of “rules,” a new way of organizing ourselves, a new way of living with the earth and with one another? Can we create a new way that we live as individuals, day-to-day, that builds upon the life examples and teachings of history’s great spiritual leaders, or the life examples of the tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, who have come before us who gave their lives struggling and sacrificing for a better world for their descendants? Ted Glick