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Entry: Blacklisted By NR Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/blacklisted_by_inr_i#15407 Post contents: Ian, In the days following the Hiroshima bombing in 1945, communiqués between Tokyo and inspection personnel at the scene referenced “the New Mexico bomb”; obviously the Manhattan Project was not THAT well-kept a secret. In fact, from the material in any library in the world, we can learn that among the world’s intelligence “community” there are very few “top secrets”. Clandestine operations are kept quiet on a you-scratch-my-back-and-I-your’s basis and by “hardening” plots - surrounding them with numerous phony, decoy operations. Meanwhile, someone, somewhere is always selling out. It has been almost a half-century since Dallas, and still there is no evidence of a conspiracy. None. Conspiracy/cover-up aficionados are reduced to poring over minutiae of the case, and sifting obsessively through coincidences – real and imagined. That intelligence files remain closed signifies nothing; the files simply may reference agents still alive and still operative, or paid-off stooges still employed overseas. At some point, even with the most compelling of tales we have apply two standards. First, from Carl Sagan: Extraordinary claims REQUIRE extraordinary proof. And, from Albert Einstein, “it’s good to have an open mind, but not so open that our brains fall out.” There are real, sinister conspiracies out there. But mostly, they occur right in front of us, as we gape on dumbfounded. Everyone knows we were trapped in the Iraq War by lies and corruption – just ask Michael Sheuer and Sibel Edmonds. But no one in the mainstream makes a big deal about it. We have, after all, “Dancing with the Stars” to stupefy us. If a bomb falls in a desert village, and nobody gives a damn – is it a crime? Sent at: 2009 01 08