“We Are In Control”? Are We, Satan?

Such an American word, “We”. We the People of the United States? We the trans-Atlantic fascist juntas, we the genocidal criminals, we the U.S. Presidential avatar of Death, the Destroyer of Worlds

“Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds”

I hereby re-post a conversation I had on Facebook on the morning of July 13, 2024. I have withheld the name of my friend. I believed then, a short year ago, that if only Donald Trump were elected he would be willing and able to stop the warfare and mayhem in Ukraine and Palestine as he was loudly promising. My comments sound terribly naive in retrospect, I am heartbroken to say.

When I wrote what I wrote in response to my Facebook friend reproduced below it was morning in my town, Vancouver BC. I had not yet heard what had happened mere minutes previously at Trump’s campaign rally at Butler PA.

July 13, 2024 on Facebook:

[A Facebook friend, a veteran of the US Army]:

My younger daughter wants to join the Army, following in my footstep, my dads and many generations prior. Not sure how I feel about it though.

Jim Shepard:

If you urged her not to join you'd be doing the same as many multi-generational US military families today. So I have heard. The last 23 years of unnecessary, futile and debilitating war has (like the Vietnam War of my day!) fractured society and fractured and exhausted the US army and the COVID, and lockdown era has crowned that debacle with deep and bitter feelings of betrayal. This came out a few years ago when the US army asked veterans to write letters about their experience of their service. Hundreds of bitter letters were published. I recall and can roughly paraphrase a few.

– Angry all the time. If I met Dick Cheney on the street I'd go to prison for a long time.

– friend of mine killed himself. I drink too much. Constant feeling of being duped.

I have this book

<< The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq Paperback – Dec 31 2007

by Joshua Key (Author), Lawrence Hill

<< “Destined to become part of the literature of the Iraq war . . . A substantial contribution to history.”—Los Angeles Times

<< Now in paperback, The Deserter’s Tale is the first memoir from a soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, and a vivid and damning indictment of the American military campaign. In spring 2003, young Oklahoman Joshua Key was sent to Ramadi as part of a combat engineer company. It was not the campaign against terrorists and evildoers he had expected. Key saw Iraqi civilians beaten, shot, and killed, or maimed for little or no provocation. After seven months in Iraq, Key was home on leave and knew he could not return. So he took his family and went underground in the United States, finally seeking asylum in Canada after fourteen months in hiding. Detailing the grinding horrors of life as part of an occupying force, The Deserter’s Tale is the story of a conservative-minded family man and patriot who went to war believing unquestioningly in his government’s commitment to integrity and justice, and how what he saw in Iraq transformed him into someone who could no longer serve his country.>>

Jim Shepard:

I knew and befriended a man of my same age who was a Vietnam War vet who when I knew him in the 1980s had been a Long Range Recon Specialist, an assassin and after that a mercenary and when I knew him he was recovering from that life. He was troubled by many things. He gave me vivid accounts of his experiences in that war. I'll never forget our friendship and the many valuable insights he provided for me to colour and vivify my knowledge of our era and that war.

[My friend]:

Jim Shepard one of the old timers who was in my Army unit told me about his Vietnam War experience. His unit went into an enemy territory village. The company commander told him to line up the men and boys in the village and shoot them. Some were children. They were farmers and no weapons were found though they might have been hidden in the woods. He refused to follow those orders. He got a reprimand on his record (could have been executed for disobeying orders). Another guy in his unit proceeded to shoot all the male villagers and he watched it happen as the women wailed.

I do not know how anyone could process that. I’d lose my mind.

Jim Shepard:

I had a huge paperback called "The Nam" which was a collection of first hand accounts. One was a very similar tale to what your pal told you. I'll never forget the horrors that some of the tellers saw and some even perpetrated. A Vietnamese vet once recently commented that his side did a lot of war crimes too, so that caused him to be forgiving of the Americans' crimes.

But that's for the ordinary soldiers on both sides. And your friend is one who at least did keep his honour as best he could. Same thing with my old friend.

The other side of it is that the CIA ran the war. That resulted in the school for psychopathic monsters they called Operation Phoenix. It has been said that the epidemic of serial killers in the USA after the war was basically the CIA vets of Operation Phoenix come home to roost.

See "Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder" by the late Dave McGowan [and don't miss his, "Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laural Canyon, Covert Ops and the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream"]. It's NOT for the faint of heart. I had to skip the more gruesome parts. Dave intimates, as best one can, the connection between the CIA and possible – indeed, probable to near certainty – drug and mind control creation of serial killers to be patsies if not perpetrators. All to experiment with ways to stun and terrorize the public for the purposes of mass mind control.

[Another US vet comments]

Have her delay until we get someone that backs the troops in! Shouldnt be long...no way id enlist under this admin! Glad i was in early 80s!

[My friend]

I did tell her to definitely NOT go in if Biden’s handlers are running things.

Jim Shepard

You mean you don't go along with transgender officers and Critical Race Theory classes?

Somewhere on my messy desktop I saved an article that reported on Lloyd Austen suspending all US military operations in order to weed out officers who had "white supremacy/pro-Trump disorder". This was right after Jan 20 when all the National Guard troops turned their backs on Biden's motorcade and refused to salute him as Commander in Chief.

Jim Shepard: “Can’t Be Reversed”

This is an experienced dedicated officer of decades' service. She says the USA is on a doomed path and cannot reverse. The corruption’s gone too far, done too much damage.

LtCOL: Karen Kwiatkowski, [2024]: Behind the Facade: The Real Price of U.S. Militarism - YouTube

The sickness of Washington cannot be corrected, in her opinion. It’s gone too far to be reversed. “We’ve corrupted our economy and our politics so far it can’t be corrected… it almost has to fail and we must start again, hopefully with the same ideals we started with. It can’t be reversed… the average American person has no way to change or even influence the policies at the top… ”

Scott Ritter Exposed [2024]: Israel HUMILIATED - Iran, Houthi, Hezbollah & Gaza Forces Will Crush The IDF - YouTube

"Israel has no legitimacy. It has no right to exist.” – Scott Ritter

Jim Shepard, today, June 19, 2025:

There is a crowning irony here in that on that day, July 13, 2024, Donald Trump survived an assassins rifle bullet.He survived accidentally because he happened to be moving his head unpredictably, so that the bullet grazed his head so closely that a fleshy edge of his right ear was clipped.

I didn’t ask myself then what would have happened if Trump had been killed. Who would have been blamed? Isn’t that obvious? Iran would have been blamed and immediately attacked by both Israel and the US Military.

My post on Facebook July 14, 2024:

Donald Trump was very nearly murdered by a high power, high velocity rifle bullet yesterday. This was my off-the-bat response I composed last evening:

Witness describes seeing Trump shooter - YouTube

The witness saw the shooter crawling up to the roof with a rifle. He yelled at the police. The man spent two or three minutes loudly trying to warn the police who were on the ground. They did not respond. All the time the shooter was moving and the man was trying loudly to alert the police and Secret Service he could also see Secret Service men looking at him with binoculars. The roof of that building was not occupied by a Secret Service man, the witness asks why not.

That is the best question yet!

There was a Secret Service sniper on the roof behind where Trump was speaking. You can clearly see him in the footage taken while Trump was removed from the stage. That sniper or another or both must have been the ones who shot the shooter and killed him – with a head shot.

It is extremely suspicious. There were few high vantage spots, few roofs that could have offered a vantage point. This roof about 130 yards to the right of the podium was one of the few possibilities.

WHY WERE THERE NO SECRET SERVICE MEN ON THAT ROOF?

If anybody were to ask me if there was some involvement by some of these Secret Service agents in allowing this shooter to get in position I would say it would not be the first time Secret Service agents were involved with facilitating the assassination of a president – in this case a presidential candidate [ Oh, wait! There was Bobby Kennedy Sr! I almost forgot, silly me]

Given the suspicious details, the laxity of the Secret Service is already arousing comment. Could there have been collusion by some people within the Secret Service? It is far from impossible.

Trump has been in the CIA and FBI gun sights for years. President Joe Biden said on July 8, “It’s time to put a bull’s eye on Trump.” I’m sure he was speaking metaphorically but there’s a lot of vitriol behind it, all through that administration. What could possibly be plainer? Was the mass violence of 2020 summer by Antifa and BLM some sort of accident?

If Trump had not turned his head more to the right just a split second before that shot was fired that bullet would have blown off the right side of his skull. As it was, the bullet crazed his cheek and went through the top of his ear (I saw a close photo of the wound) and that bullet went on. There is a lucky photograph that actually catches the bullet in flight about a yard beyond Trump’s head as Trump has not even had time to put his right hand up to feel the wounded ear and then drop down to the floor. An instant later that bullet (or one of the others the shooter fired) went straight on and blew the brains out of a man who was in the stands behind Trump.

This was a high power rifle bullet.

Barely two inches to the left and Trump would be dead. Two inches or less deviation from 130 yards. That sounds like a pro. And the Secret Service sure shut his mouth good and tight. No trial, no interrogation.

If I were Trump’s people I would stop trusting the Secret Service.

The time for any Lee-Harvey-Oswald naivety is LONG past.

There is a record of a conversation between two members of the Warren Commission during its investigation of JFK’s assassination.

I have it somewhere in one of my books on the topic.

From memory it went something like:

– “They would not have been unhappy if he had died.”

– “Right.”

Comment:

Published the day before a rifleman came within a twitch of blowing Donald Trump's brains out:

<< The Financial Times, July 12, 2024: Democrats in disarray over Biden: ‘We’re totally, totally screwed’

<< After the president’s disastrous debate performance, the party has been plunged into a crisis over whether to force him out

James Politi, Steff Chávez and Alex Rogers in Washington July 12, 2024

<< Joe Biden is fighting on.

<< With his party in disarray over the question of the president’s age and political viability, Biden insisted at a press conference on Thursday evening that he was not stepping back...

<< “Every single Democrat that I’ve talked to, and I’ve talked to about 1,000 in the past week, every single one thinks the same thing, which is we’re totally, totally screwed,” says one person close to the White House. “There’s no way [Biden] can win this election, there’s no way he can prosecute the case against Trump. If it turned into a referendum on Biden, we were always going to lose. And that’s what’s happening,” the person adds.

<< To many Democrats, the insularity of the White House and Biden’s inner circle of advisers keeping him in the race and clinging to power is overwhelmingly to blame. “I feel like I’m screaming into the void. We are willingly walking into a bear den,” says one party strategist. “We have a team in the presidential space here that has looked at all the options and decided that murder-suicide is the way to go. And it’s pretty terrifying.” One of the biggest problems for Democrats about the crisis engulfing their nominee is that it is drawing attention away from Trump’s weaknesses. “The opportunity cost of every minute the Democrats are not attacking Trump is huge,” says Paul Begala, the veteran party strategist… >>

“WE HAVE A TEAM IN THE PRESIDENTIAL SPACE HERE THAT HAS LOOKED AT ALL THE OPTIONS AND DECIDED THAT MURDER-SUICIDE IS THE WAY TO GO…”

Excuse me, just what exactly is that supposed to mean? It was published in the Financial Times one day before a rifle bullet missed Donald Trump’s head by about 2 centimetres. It was said by a man describing the mood of the people surrounding President Joe "Missing-Mentally-and-Morally” Biden. Can the Secret Service have been unaware of this mood? How about the CIA?

Financial Times, July 12, 2024: Democrats in disarray over Biden: ‘We’re totally, totally screwed’

https://www.ft.com/content/7104f221-da21-492b-be5f-2cb3bedefe6f

Hello. We’re definitely back here in June 19, 2024.

I’m sad and sick to be here. I wish I were in some happier time past or to come.

And, looking over what happened a year ago, as I recorded it, and considering that Donald Trump, in whom I had such great hopes, is now almost certain to order the US military to attack Iran – considering all that, my suspicions regarding who tried to kill Trump have flipped over to the opposite frame.

I never thought I could think as dirty as this:

I think it was the “Intelligence Community” who tried to kill Trump. And the lead elements of the Intelligence Community are 2/3rds foreign, that is MI6 and Mossad. I believe Mossad and MI6 and CIA tried to kill candidate Trump on the orders of Bibi Netanyahu. I’ll explain why I think that.

Having examined and re-examined the video footage and all the overhead photos available publicly I remain convinced that the assassination attempt of July 13/24 was real, not faked. If you doubt that I urge you to review the footage that was broadcast live which shows that a hydraulic cylinder of the crane boom holding up one end of the giant American flag to the stage-left side of the bleachers behind Trump was pierced by a real rifle bullet and sprayed out its hydraulic fluid as the camera rolled and Secret Service agents hustled Trump off the stage. So real bullets narrowly missed Trump, of that there can be no reasonable doubt.

Up to that date Trump had loudly proclaimed himself to be a colossal bulldozer of Peace and Justice coming to “drain the swamp”. Like Hercules flushing the stables of the tyrant, Trump would flush all the corrupt FBI and CIA and Biden crime family who had made his first term a misery and send all of these malefactors into prison. And the Democratic Party and the FBI and CIA and Secret Service and both sides of Congress were convinced that Trump would be elected by a landslide that no fraudulence would be able to counteract.

I posted this on Facebook on June 6/24 and just about one month later Trump was nearly killed. So the CIA/FBI had motive. Since Trump was campaigning as a peace advocate Mossad also had motive:

<< Recently Andrew McCabe said that many of his colleagues are worried that if Donald Trump is elected they may (Shocking!! Outrageous!!!!) be thrown in jail. Some FBI and CIA people are wondering if they should flee the country.

<< “RT reports: FBI agents fear being jailed by Trump – ex-deputy director

<< “Andrew McCabe has suggested that former intel and law enforcement officials may have to flee the country”

<< Jun 6, 2024 23:35

<< Let's calm down, fellas. I'm sure we must know some guys who know some guys who can, ah, solve that wee problem? >>

Mossad and CIA have one count of murder to answer for already. There is no “statute of limitations” on the murder by a team of snipers from CIA and Mossad of US President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. President Kennedy was standing in the way of Israeli Prime Minister [and Zionist terrorist bomber and killer, retired] David Ben-Gurion’s efforts to enrich enough plutonium at the Dimona, Israel, reactor to create Israel’s still unacknowledged arsenal of nuclear weapons.

That’s the arsenal which successive Israeli Prime Ministers, beginning with retired terrorist Golda Meir in the 1970s, have threatened to blow up the whole world if Israel is stopped from conquering the entire Middle East and exterminating all the non-Zionist native inhabitants of the ruins of used-to-be-Palestine, stinking of unburied corpses.

Those 80 to 300 nuclear warheads are why anybody in the world is still tolerating the genocidal, lunatic State of Israel.

It’s morning in Vancouver on June 19, 2025. And I have no real guarantee that global nuclear war will not begin within days or even hours. Nobody in the world has that guarantee because Israel still has nuclear weapons, and a ruling junta who have vowed to use them for half a century. And now there is a President of the USA who has told the 17 million citizens of Tehran to evacuate their city because “We”, he used that damnable American word, “have control of the skies …”. This is a president of the USA who has control of the United States nuclear arsenal but he does not evince rational, adult control over his own mouth. He’s calling the USA and Israel “We”. He’s calling himself and Bibi Netanyahu, a genocidal war criminal “we”.

I am 78 years old. I go to my window and I look out upon the green trees lining my street and I listen to the happy day-care kiddies playing in the yard below my window and I hope there is a heaven where the ghost of what was this good green earth may have a refuge.