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Confessions of a Normie

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | October 28, 2020

I use to be a normie.

But I’ve learned truth is rare, necessary for survival and hard to come by, so now I’m a collector of data points. I collect data points until a picture emerges which may point my way to truth.

I am of the age of the US-Vietnam conflict era. Too young to be drafted, but I did get a draft card near the end of the war. I remember being in high school and watching “the most trusted man in America” tell us “…And that’s the way it is,” at the end of each broadcast. The name of this trusted figure was Walter Cronkite. I later learned this man couldn’t be trusted at all. In fact Walter had a big secret to hide. See video. I remember the nightly body bag count and seeing black body bags and flag-draped metal coffins full of dead boys about my age being loaded into the back of large military planes for shipment back to the USA. Neither I nor any of my friends in high school knew why we were way over there fighting this bloody, unwinnable war in a land far, far away. We were told we were fighting against the Godless communists who desired to enslave us all, but something just didn’t seem to make sense to our young minds.

Image by Monica Volpin from Pixabay

I remember the Vietnam memorial –the wall of names– and I remember mothers going to that wall to see their son’s name and to make a trace of their memory.

I was nine when someone shot the president in the head in broad daylight. I still remember the horrible feelings I had that day. I remember the Warren Report and thinking something is just not right, but I accepted the official story and moved on with my life.

I remember the attacks on 9/11 and I remember the official story as told by the news media and by the 9/11 Commission thinking something is just not right about this story; so this time, I paused and started to observe and study. Yes, I did move on with my life, but I had enough data points to start asking questions about what I believed to be true. And I did. The answers were unexpected.

I read a lot of books, written mostly by very careful historians who do not make their statements lightly, or without the documentation to back them up. Some like Antony C. Sutton paid a price for their honesty. Among my favorite are:

Reading List:

Anglo-American Establishment by Carroll Quigley (June 1, 1981)
Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley (Jun 1, 1975)
Tragedy and Hope 101: The Illusion of Justice, Freedom, and Democracy by Joseph Plummer, Introduction by G. Edward Griffin (Apr 24, 2014)
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski (Sep 18, 1998)
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the… by Anthony C. Sutton (Jan 1, 2012)
Wall Street and FDR Hardcover March 1, 2007 by Antony C. Sutton
Wall Street & the Rise of Hitler Paperback – June, 1976 by Antony C. Sutton

What I learned

We were lied into the following wars by our government and by our media…

The Spanish American war
World War I
World War II
The Korean War
The Vietnam War
The Invasion of Iraq
The Invasion of Afghanistan
The attack and intervention in Libya
The intervention and civil war in Syria
The civil war in Ukraine

James Perloff does an excellent job summarizing many of these lies in his PowerPoint and lecture.

So today in the year 2020 as I sit here writing these words, I am no longer a normie. I don’t believe anything our government or our established media tell us. What they say is just another data point to consider; to collect and to compare with other data points — and observable facts, when available. What I do know, is that these lies cannot be a mistake; and are therefore used to control and enslave us — to herd us like livestock to be skinned and rendered– so long as we believe the lies. The cure is simple. Stop believing their lies and do it now. If you don’t want to be treated like livestock, stop acting like livestock.

The solution above was exposed some 500 years ago in an excellent book called ‘The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude’ by Etienne de la Boetie

Additional related topics:

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Defrauding America

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | November 18, 2019

On this Memorial Day, the nation honors the 58,000 dead American soldiers killed in the CIA initiated and directed Vietnam War. The mass media says virtually nothing about the ugly side of that war, in which GI’s were cannon-fodder, and used to protect and escalate the drug trafficking into the United States.

Flag-draped coffins of eight American Servicemen killed in attacks on U.S. military installations in South Vietnam, on February 7, are placed in transport plane at Saigon, February 9, 1965, for return flight to the United States. Funeral services were held at the Saigon Airport with U.S. Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor and Vietnamese officials attending. # AP

Even in the death GI’s were used by the CIA. An officer heading a group of investigators from the army’s Criminal Investigation Division uncovered a large-scale heroin smuggling scheme. The group filed reports with the Pentagon, describing how the bodies of the dead GI’s were gutted, and filled with sacks of heroin. Approximately fifty pounds of heroin with a multi-million dollar street value were stuffed into each body…Document’s accompanying the drug-filled corpses were coded so that people at Air Force Bases in the United States, including at Travis and Norton air-force bases, could remove the drugs upon arrival in California.

In typical fashion, the military hierarchy reacted to the report by disbanding the investigative team. Other reports plus those given to me by my CIA contacts, provide further confirmation of this sordid practice. This coverup made possible the continued drug smuggling and constituted criminal coverup.

Crates returning to the U.S from Vietnam on military aircraft often contained bags of heroin, and the coded labels false indicated the contents were military supplies. The coverup by the military, the CIA,and the Justice Department, were part of the overall epidemic.

These aspects of the CIA-initiated and directed Vietnam War, and the debauchery of American GI’s, were never addressed at Memorial Day ceremonies. Instead the American public was led to believe that the hundreds of thousands of dead, maimed, and injured Americans suffered for an honorable cause, protecting the United States.

Even the heads of veteran organization, including the Veteran Foreign Wars and the American Legion, withheld this information from their members.

This is not to discredit those brave men and women who were ordered into battle and who endured such terrible fear, injury and death. But the American public must wake up, to realize that the extreme losses in human life and dignity were a farce perpetrated upon them.

Rodney Stitch –
From his book, “Defrauding America”.

Additional reading:

The CIA Drug Connection Is as Old as the Agency
By Larry Collins, International Herald Tribune
Dec. 3, 1993

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On the matter of the Vietnam War…

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | November 17, 2019

Vietnam was an ugly, pointless war based on a US Government lie called the ‘Gulf of Tonkin Incident’. This undeclared war in Southeast Asia brutally slaughtered and maimed millions of innocent men, women and children, including our young American boys: 58,315 KIA; 153,303 WIA; 1,618 MIA; & 778 POWs. It changed this country forever; enriching only the defense contractors, the MIC and those who financed this war effort. Though many of my fellows in high school had been sent off to Vietnam –only to return in body bags– I was too young to go; but I watched the slaughter and the returning body bags on TV every night from the safety and comfort of my home. The Vietnam War brought us the anti-war movement, psychedelic drugs (aided and promoted by the CIA), eastern religions, free love, increased state domestic power and surveillance, huge debts owed to the central bankers and changed American culture forever.

Later, my college biology teacher told me he had served in Vietnam. He was a fit, small guy with a wily, dry sense of humor, and a pure white shock of hair jetting out of his hairline; and he was a good teacher. He served in the ground infantry and said he enjoyed his stay there so much he re-enlisted three times. I asked him what he learned in Vietnam and he said how to survive. Later when I was running my own business I hired several Vietnam veterans. Most would never speak a word about their time there, but two confided in me. One made me swear that I would never tell his wife he served in Vietnam since he had never told her. I found this to be very strange if not implausible. Another broke down and cried in my office for all the bad things he had done. He had even been ordered to kill US POWs since they represented a threat to the US negotiations. Another Vietnam veteran told me that all their ammo was locked up in a bunker and they couldn’t return fire, until they received approval from headquarters. My father-in-law also served in Vietnam, but never speaks of his time there.

Since WWII, the US has not declared one single war, yet since that time our war efforts have increased exponentially as well as our debt to those who finance these undeclared wars; and if we choose to look over the walled garden in which we live, we will discover that every single one of these wars are based on lies similar to the lie which brought us Vietnam. And so it goes.

Americans killed by US made weapons in the Korea and the Vietnam War

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from Antony C. Sutton…

Antony C. Sutton By Claritablue – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,

“In Korea we have direct killing of Americans with Soviet weapons. The American casualty roll in the Korean War was 33,730 killed and 103,284 wounded… The 130,000-man North Korean Army, which crossed the South Korean border in June 1950, was trained, supported, and equipped by the Soviet Union, and included a brigade of Soviet T-34 medium tanks (with U.S. Christie suspensions). The artillery tractors were direct metric copies of Caterpillar tractors. The trucks came from the Henry Ford-Gorki plant or the ZIL plant. The North Korean Air Force has 180 Yak planes built in plants with U.S. Lend-Lease equipment. These Yaks were later replaced by MiG-15s powered by Russian copies of Rolls-Royce jet engines sold to the Soviet Union in 1947.”

“By using data of Russian origin it is possible to make an accurate analysis of the origins of this equipment. It was found that all the main diesel and steam-turbine propulsion systems of the ninety-six Soviet ships on the Haiphong supply run that could be identified (i.e., eighty-four out of the ninety-six) originated in design or construction outside the USSR. We can conclude, therefore, that if the State and Commerce Departments, in the 1950s and 1960s, had consistently enforced the legislation passed by Congress in 1949, the Soviets would not have had the ability to supply the Vietnamese War – and 50,000 more Americans and countless Vietnamese would be alive today.”

“Who were the government officials responsible for this transfer of known military technology? The concept originally came from National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, who reportedly sold President Nixon on the idea that giving military technology to the Soviets would temper their global territorial ambitions. How Henry arrived at this gigantic non sequitur is not known. Sufficient to state that he aroused considerable concern over his motivations. Not least that Henry had been a paid family employee of the Rockefellers since 1958 and has served as International Advisory Committee Chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, a Rockefeller concern.”

“Some years ago research strongly suggested that the Soviets had no indigenous military transport technology: neither motor vehicles nor marine diesel engines. Yet about 80 percent of the weapons and supplies for the North Vietnamese were transported by some means from the Soviet Union. The greater part of these Soviet weapons went to Vietnam by Soviet freighter and then along the Ho Chi Minh trail on Soviet-built trucks…

“Clearly, the Nixon Administration at the highest levels produced more than a normal number of deaf mutes – those officials who knew the story of our assistance to the Soviets but for their own reasons were willing to push forward a policy that could only work to the long run advantage of the United States.

It is paradoxical that an Administration that was noisy in its public anti-communist stance, and quick to point out the human cost of the Soviet system, was also an Administration that gave a gigantic boost to Soviet military truck capacity.”

Remembering Vietnam

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | June 15, 2015

‘Napalm girl’ photographer returns to place he took this iconic image of the Vietnam War exactly 43 years later

Huynh Cong “Nick” Ut’s iconic photo of South Vietnamese forces following behind terrified children, including nine-year-old Kim Phuc, centre, as they run down Route 1 near Trang Bang after an aerial napalm attack. Photo: AP

Your U.S. tax dollars at work, and for what benefit? Did the U.S. spread democracy to Vietnam? Nope. You can’t spread what you don’t have. BTW, the war in Vietnam was based on a U.S. lie (as requested by LBJ) of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident which never, ever happened. After 1.5 to 3.6 million innocent men, women and children were brutally murdered by the United States of America and 58,209 young Americans lost their lives, the U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara later admitted the Gulf of Tonkin incident never happened. Oops. So sorry. Who benefited? Not you, not me and not the Vietnamese. The banksters and the defense contractors did pretty darned well. Yachts and multiple homes, fat bank accounts and the appearance of legitimacy for all. War is good business. Had JFK not been assassinated, would he have been obliged to create such a lie as LBJ? Doubtful, but we will never know. This one instance should give anyone with an I.Q. above a stalk of broccoli a taste of who the psychopathic mobsters are who actually run this country. See Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Ukraine for more examples of the same. All based on lies supported by the existing power structure and their bought and paid for mainstream media talking heads. Get a clue.

The false flag Gulf of Tonkin Incident Vietnam

Robert McNamara admits Gulf of Tonkin attack did not happen

Additional NFO:

The History you never knew

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America: The Greatest Force for Good?

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by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | March 29, 2015

I use to believe that despite America’s many mistakes, that fundamentally she was a good country. I use to believe the history I learned in America’s state controlled class rooms. I use to believe that our armed forces were fighting to protect us and to spread democracy. But then 9/11 happened and the war on terror was launched to protect Americans from these very evil and bad people… so I started paying attention. I noticed that despite our war on terror, the US Federal government encouraged open borders and didn’t seem to care to discover who came or who left the country. Could another terrorist get in? I then discovered that 15 of the 19 so called hijackers were from America’s ally Saudi Arabia, yet we attacked Iraq and Afghanistan neither of whom attacked us. I was told that an evil group called Al-Qaeda were behind the attack on 9/11, but then I discovered that Al-Qaeda was created by our own CIA and that we gave $3 billion to its leader Osama bin Laden to fight the Russians in Afghanistan. The more I read, the more I double and triple-checked my fact-checking of the information of the official 9/11 story. The more I fact-checked and read, the more I realized that the official story was not even physically possible; yet the official story was told over and over again in our media. So I continued to read and I discovered that the 9/11 story wasn’t the first time our government and media lied to us. They lied to get us into the Vietnam War which cost the lives of over 58,000 of my fellow Americans and over 3 million innocent men, woman and children in the countries we bombed and sprayed with Agent Orange. All of this was based on lies by the US Government and supported by the establishment media which owned the TV content I dutifully watched every day to stay informed.

Since these more innocent times, I have discovered an even bigger story. That not only does the government and the media routinely lie to the American people, they are controlled and managed by a handful of corporations who have interlocking board of directors who also benefit financially from the many wars and resultant human tragedies this institutionalized murder and mayhem produce. I discovered that America and the grand ideals America represented in my mind has been captured by a small group of individuals and is used not to spread goodness and democracy but rather the opposite. This is not an opinion, but a demonstrable fact.

So here I sit today, realizing the sad truth that America is not the greatest force for good in the world but rather the greatest force for evil.

“The September 11 attack on America was planned, coordinated, and carried out under the watchful eyes and with the helpful assistance of top officials in the FBI, CIA, and Bush Administration–officials who did everything in their power to insure that the operation would be a spectacular triumph unequaled in the world of terrorism and political opportunism.” — R. Joseph, PhD