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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/22/michael-hastings-email_n_3484118.html

This circumstances of his death seem supicious.

Don't fool yourself into thinking you know what's going on in this world. The first duty of power is to perpetuate itself, and we don't even know who the actual powerful people are. Truman started the whole American tradition of secrecy after WWII, with Project Paperclip, in which the CIA put captured Nazi scientists to work on America's nuclear arsenal, the space program, and all this "otherworldly" technology they'd come across. (And you know what I mean.) Then they got Truman to create the super-secret Majestic 12 committee to oversee Project Paperclip, not to mention other weird stuff the government wanted hidden. They ran the whole thing, and they've been running it for years, but nobody knows who "they" are. But I'm pretty sure they're all Freemasons.

The whole Kennedy thing is so huge because it's at the center of so many other covert shadow-government operations. Kennedy himself was the smallest part of it, because it was actually a power play between Dulles' CIA, the anti-Castro military, LBJ, the Giancana Mafia, and a bunch of other dirty players. Oswald was a patsy, sure, but he put a gun on Jack. Of course, so did other test-mules from Dulles' MK-Ultra LSD-mind-control experiments. Zapruder was in on it, too: He was a KGB mole from way back. And the whole thing had ripple effects, like Jonestown, which was an assassin training camp that got found out. As for the Warren Commission, that thing was a joke—Dulles himself was on it, and there was only one person on the whole commission who wasn't on the CIA payroll and suspected Oswald didn't act alone. He died in a plane crash, after a young congressional aide named Bill Clinton drove him to the airport. It's all true, but nobody wants to admit it. Nobody.

Now, Roswell, that's a bunch of crap. The Air Force was in possession of captured alien technology years before that. In '43, they started reverse-engineering a torus-shaped craft that came down in Arizona, and the next thing you know, America has The Bomb, supersonic aircraft, and a space program. Glenn saw stuff up there, flying lights. You can look it up. You know what I think? I think that skirt-chaser Kennedy wanted to spill the beans about our alien friends, so they killed him. He told his girlfriend Marilyn Monroe, and they killed her, too. No doubt, you're wondering, "Who are 'they'?" Well, I think the numbers speak for themselves: The Trinity site, where the first A-bomb was detonated; Dealey Plaza, where Kennedy bought the farm; and Area 51 are all on the 33rd parallel. And what other significance does the number 33 happen to have? It's the highest rank of the Masonic order. Wheels within wheels, my friend. Wheels within wheels.

Let's just end the thread there.

That was pure artistry.

The Onion is a hell of a drug.

Mr. Seaward, it is rare that I am awed these days.

You sir, have done so. That was pure majesty.

Bravo.

I can't take credit for it.

 Seaward wrote:
I can't take credit for it.

Maybe not... but you realise that one post put your IP address on about 600 different watchlists, right...?

 Crablezworth wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/22/michael-hastings-email_n_3484118.html

This circumstances of his death seem supicious.

Tell me more.

I don't think that's very constructive. Hasting's death seems suspicious to me, when I was originally informed about the crash I had heard about it through a friend and was wrongfully informed that it was a rush hour collision. I had only found out about the actual circumstances after the revelation that he was under investigation.

If you find my suspicion unfounded, perhaps you could at least say why, you're trolling here, there is zero content in your post.

 Crablezworth wrote:
I don't think that's very constructive.

Indiscriminate correlation/causation leaps aren't very constructive either.

 Crablezworth wrote:
I don't think that's very constructive. Hasting's death seems suspicious to me, when I was originally informed about the crash I had heard about it through a friend and was wrongfully informed that it was a rush hour collision. I had only found out about the actual circumstances after the revelation that he was under investigation.

If you find my suspicion unfounded, perhaps you could at least say why, you're trolling here, there is zero content in your post.

I think there's a lot of unspoken content in my post. I don't imagine I'm alone in seeing this. As Ahtman aptly (as always) pointed out, you're making a pretty spectacular leap of logic with a pretty serious lack of evidence.

I will say, however, that posting a link alongside a one-liner insinuating a harebrained conspiracy theory is rather devoid on content in and of itself.

Why do I think your suspicion is unfounded? You're the one making the claim. Simply showing up and claiming that the [INSERT GOVERNMENT AGENCY HERE] is [DOING SOMETHING UNPLEASANT] with absolutely zero evidence is going to make you look like a wing nut. I'm simply providing you with the service of pointing that out.

 Crablezworth wrote:
I don't think that's very constructive. Hasting's death seems suspicious to me, when I was originally informed about the crash I had heard about it through a friend and was wrongfully informed that it was a rush hour collision. I had only found out about the actual circumstances after the revelation that he was under investigation.

If you find my suspicion unfounded, perhaps you could at least say why, you're trolling here, there is zero content in your post.

I'm not really sure what you're after, to be honest. Hastings in 2010 writes an article about how a small number of SOF guys in McChrystal's orbit dislike Obama - hardly a revelation or even a rare opinion in the officer community as a whole and NSW in particular - that ends up with the general getting canned. Three years later, they FINALLY GOT REVENGE!!!!!11oneeleventyeleven!! Meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald's free to run around the country publishing classified information gotten via massive breaches of national security, but no, it's Hastings, who hasn't been particularly relevant for a while, that the administration (he helped out immensely) goes after?

Not buying it.

 Super Ready wrote:

 Seaward wrote:
I can't take credit for it.

Maybe not... but you realise that one post put your IP address on about 600 different watchlists, right...?

Seaward is part of the government, he is just trying to misdirect us and throw us of their track.

If you don't believe me just look at the first two numbers of his post count!

The accident happened at 4 am. Probably, and sadly fell asleep at the wheel.

We're all going in the NSA databank for sure now... Room for everyone.. and their kids.. and their kids... and their kids... and their kids...

Seaward is part of the government, he is just trying to misdirect us and throw us of their track.

Need to start worrying when Snowden gets smoke...well....after we torture him.....wait....enhance interrogation....wait....Some Latin American country will get the "Honor" of questioning him to see how much he knows and what exactly he leaked

Why a Latin American country I say....well the USA is new to physical torture compare to Latin American countries and we're amateurs to physical torture to dang near all ME countries...SE Asia....Russia....Africa....

Three generations of punishment!

The lesson to be learned here: if you want to make your death memorable make sure your suicide note mentions a vast conspiracy.

 Peregrine wrote:
The lesson to be learned here: if you want to make your death memorable make sure your suicide note mentions a vast conspiracy.

Screw suicide note. I'm leaving a letter with my will marked "Only to be opened in the event of my death". Something along the lines of:

If you are reading this it means that "they" have finally caught up with me... Then off on a massive conspiracy with lots of random photos and the like "proving" my case.

I'm also tempted to do what Arthur Conan Doyle and send letters to a load of people just saying "We are discovered. Flee now." to see what they do. (Although apparently it is a myth).

 d-usa wrote:


Seaward is part of the government, he is just trying to misdirect us and throw us of their track.

If you don't believe me just look at the first two numbers of his post count!

Nicely done.

Ok, this isn't some unkown blogger, this is Richard Clarke talking about the Hastings incident directly.

 Steve steveson wrote:

 Peregrine wrote:
The lesson to be learned here: if you want to make your death memorable make sure your suicide note mentions a vast conspiracy.

I'm also tempted to do what Arthur Conan Doyle and send letters to a load of people just saying "We are discovered. Flee now." to see what they do. (Although apparently it is a myth).

I am doing this. Wait... can you send letters snail mail any more? XD