Stories are sometimes contrived as messages. Example: Globe, March 21,
93: Stuffed Panda Alive with Reptiles. Miami airport finds a squirming
five foot panda on a conveyer belt. They open it to find thirteen
reptiles: three Indian star, two hingeback, a yellow foot, a red foot
and an elonpted in the tortoises; three regular monitor and three Nile
monitor in the lizards. Man checking them in Mexico City did not board.
A contrived message about China. Look also for what is missing. That in
and of itself may be a contrived message. About a week before the panda
story there was a Times piece on the old China silk route. The story
described a trip around the time of Christ to Rome by a messenger of the
Chinese emperor Wu Tui (a Han). It was stated that this messenger from
China was on a secret mission. The word secret was set in italics.
Nowhere in the article does it state what this secret was! Pay careful
attention to what is not said. The article had a map with it. The map
was very simple. Rome was on one side and China was on the other and
there was a line between them. That was it. If you were taught to read
maps you would understand what this secret was right away. The enemy of
my enemy is my friend. What would obviously be the best posture for
these two empires on opposite sides of this ball? Yes, Kind Sir, yes
Dear Lady, it is nice to see that you are attentive: of course; pretend
at being enemies while being very secret friends. This way, between you,
at the top and only at the top, would you always be in The know and in
control of everything. This is not just some interesting history. If so
Mr. Sultsberger might have deemed fit to let you in on his secret. Later
in this document you will see how the Roman side of the above equation
lead to Mr. Sultsberger and his associates. How many people walked into
the New York Times offices on 43rd Street and complained: "Hey, this is
silly. If you are saying that the messenger is carrying a secret then
you must know the secret. What is it? I represent the throngs of people
outside waiting to know." Not one solitary person I am sure. And how
many took 40 seconds to pen and stamp
A note.  Out of millions? None I am sure either. Mr. Sultsberger is a
responsible publisher doing his job. This publisher has my interests at
heart. If a particular piece of information would serve the public good
then this publisher, Mr. Sultsberger would surely see fit to let me
know. Well, Kind Sir - Dear Lady, irrefutable logic is now in the way of
those deep felt conclusions you had formed. Mr. Sultsberger is secretly
emotionally bonded to an "enemy" which he makes you the real enemy of.
This publisher is your enemy's friend. If perhaps you were one of a few,
because of some position that had allowed you "ruler perspective", who
did see this publishers secret; then you would reason that talking to
him or penning a note would do no good. He wouldn't waste a sneer. I
have, Dear Lady - Kind Sir, seen fit, for what I am sure you will agree
is your good, to reverse sequence of the two examples in this paragraph.
The second example occurred prior to the first by about a week.
Nurturing food for a reread.
The biggest secrets are not in government archives but public libraries.
The key is the broader outlines of the "big picture" that you have been
too close to the tapestry to see. Oliver North was quite right to worry
that people might start seeing what he called "mosaics" in the
libraries. A jigsaw puzzle is easier when you have a rough outline. I
write you, dear reader, to lead you to think: singing, ink, ink,
indelible ink; if the devil 's your master - your pen is your fink.
Study war.
Do, as war is a vast subject, take my Father's advice and concentrate
first on the Crimean. In this particular sacrifice the plot is
uncomplicated local issues. It was at that time too that the
international press first stepped into power, not just as an instrument
of war, but as the essential mind that moved the chess pieces in this
vulgarly named "Great Game". If, as it is strongly suggested by the
erstwhile travels of Wu Tui's sycophant, a regular pattern of war would
serve this elite: then it cheerlessly follows that the publishers
preoccupation with this perpetual sacrifice would be strongest in times
of peace; arranging for private sales of spoils beforehand, testing and
preparing the emotions of the masses, placing boarders on the playing
fields, until, after starting a little fire, some fuel could be added to
it with the excuse that the added fuel was really being used to put the
fire out, by which another clearing house, a really big one would be on
the hook. Again.
We live far from the road and many silent nights I fell asleep with only
the sound of my Father's hand tracing, as he did through the years,
shorelines for this battle or that campaign in one or another war. I too
would trace the shorelines in my dreams and snap into other real-as-this
worlds as a blond youth holding a new light carbine and newly trained
steed watching the stone banks and seven hills of Istanbul with their
tall thin towers slip past the troopship in the evening mist as we
slipped into the Black Sea and we slipped into a landing at Sevastopol
and we slipped into a senseless charge in a forgotten valley and I
slipped into a casualty and slipped into a Blacker Sea and a deeper
sleep again. I would awake on frozen nights and know in every minute
detail, as if I had done this a thousand times, exactly how to pad and
tie and blind a war horse to be lifted over the gunnels of a trireme
using the oars as both ramp and lever. I have been in dreams so varied,
that with cinquedea, spear or Garand, I have almost believed that I have
in arms assaulted Sicily's dappled shores with the morning sun at my
right, my left and my back: that I may have even, hauling at a line with
black bleeding feet, been a breath from Hannibal's father.

So often at the dinner table the mapmaker of Time would read an article,
point to the country in the atlas, and point So often at the dinner
table the mapmaker of Time would read an article, point to the country
in the atlas, and point outside of the country to its "capital". He
never spoke. He just pointed and we knew. A few times he made this into
a game for me. The editors think in terms of large international banking
interests and couch the news in terms of national interests. They do not
feel national ties but very much want to foster this bonding in you.
This in itself makes the ingestion of real news almost impossible:
ceaseless hammered jabs which you must again bob and weave and block.
No single factor so distorts our planet's history as much as secret
banking. Most people still think that Time Magazine, and Warner
Brothers, with their vast subsidiaries such as HBO and their other cable
networks they watch are American companies. They are not! They are
Belgian. The New York Times Company now has vast publishing concerns in
the former Soviet Union. They do not want you to focus on that. Secret
banking and the secret trusts they contain are the bottles of the lizard
vintage.
 Jeremiah would point to big headlines
 and make a little "small" sign with a space between his forefinger and
thumb. He would point to little headlines, or small back pages and place
his hands wide apart for "big". Generally speaking, the facts are
usuallu correct. It is by emphasis that the information is skewed in
your mind. In some cases, however, they simply lie, and lie in unison.
Look at the forces in Somalia. We had two divisions there: a Marine
division, and the Army's Tenth Mountain Division. (We now have only the
Marine- there has been no information regarding the whereabouts of the
other!) A division is 20,00 men. 20,000!! That means that we had 40,000
combat troops deployed to do what 500 men should be able to do! The
media misleads by saying we have 40,000 combat troops deployed, (the
truth) instead of saying, WHAT ARE WE DOING ON THE HORN OF AFRICA WITH A
FORCE ALMOST AS LARGE AS PATTON HIT MOROCCO WITH? 500 MEN COULD DO THE
JOB THEY ARE PURPORTED TO BE THER TO DO. WHAT IS GOING ON? -(a truer
truth). They lie with the truth.

Read editorial headlines again as separate from the editorial. They
often are.
Ask yourself, for every letter to the editor, why out of so many this
was chosen. Many are chosen to make a point or say to another
"principle" or editor, "See?" or "I told you so!". In most cases, and
this is humbling, you should be saying to yourself, "Gee, don't see,
with all ping on, just what was so special about this.' An indication of
how much we miss. It is a never ending daily shock: to see how very
little I understand in the paper, watching others thinking they
understand it all!

In the Chronicles section of the Times (or older Washington Briefs)
almost in every case there is a joke to the story. If you don't laugh it
means you don't get it. Again very humbling as I, again, get very few of
the jokes.

Headlines impact. Why is one story featured and not another? Try to feel
the editor's motives for every move he makes.


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