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Conspiracy is Merely Unreleased Classified Information.

... or travesty yet to be uncovered!
French nuclear tests 'showered vast area of Polynesia with radioactivity'
Declassified papers show extent of plutonium fallout from South Pacific tests of 60s and 70s was kept hidden...

I used to bridle when the cool aid drinkers would chide me for suspecting foul intention behind foul deeds... or when inexplicable and often tragic failed implementations of science, technology, financial or legislation transpired.

It never ceased to amaze me how wide eyed and earnest these folks are about defending their naivete, "Sure things happen," they say... but not intentionally. I am admonished to be more "trusting", more "accepting" and encouraged not to wonder beyond the obvious.

Honestly, I wish I could! I wish even more I didn't need to!

One problem I cannot reconcile is this, if our brightest and best are in charge of things, why then does "horrendous" always seem to trump "beneficial?" Not even in an isolated way... but with dull monotonous regularity, else things like 24 hour "news" services would be blank sheets.

I am either surrounded by village idiots... or surrounded by genius with extremely poor judgement or worse, self-serving agendas with very bad blow back for others.

Either affliction becomes irrelevant... if you are caught in the spatter.

Surely our brightest and best are capable of understanding the ramifications of their actions, both tactically and strategically when they formulate and implement their contributions into society for our societal well-being. When I look around, I see scant evidence of intelligent governance, I do see endless corruption, ill-advised this's and reckless that's.

After a while surely one has to wonder-no?

I will grant these self anointed geniuses the benefit of their claimed intelligence and education, unfortunately this makes things worse, it suggests either these people are in reality mentally unbalanced or they delight in creating havoc and fear, or they are so selfish we become meaningless to them.

Besides... for me "Conspiracy" is about conspiring.

No one disputes individuals and even groups do conspire, the purpose is exclusive to their personal benefit and gain. Through the decades one is apt to look at certain contrived eventualities, and like the RCMP, suspect foul play when trauma by knives and bullets is evidenced on a corpse.

Personally, I have always discounted happenstance and coincidence in the matter of manifested travesty, especially when the "players" were or are judged most competent. One could think some sort of ulterior motive had been achieved under those circumstances. In those cases, what you get, is not necessarily what you have been provided to see.

Occasionally, and more frequently the "real story" does emerge, but does not seem to faze the slumbering who seem content to remain in the "ignorance is bliss state." That is OK with me because it is a personal choice and as such commands my utter and due respect.

However, for the rest of us, validation of suspected concerns is both informative and interesting.
French nuclear tests in the South Pacific in the 1960s and 1970s were far more toxic than has been previously acknowledged and hit a vast swath of Polynesia with radioactive fallout, according to newly declassified ministry of defence documents which have angered veterans and civilians' groups.
The papers, seen by the French paper Le Parisien, reportedly reveal that plutonium fallout hit the whole of French Polynesia, a much broader area than France had previously admitted. Tahiti, above, the most populated island, was exposed to 500 times the maximum accepted levels of radiation. The impact spread as far as the tourist island, Bora Bora.
Thousands of veterans, families and civilians still fighting for compensation over health issues have insisted France now reveals the full truth about the notorious tests whose impact was kept secret for decades. Read more at link...
Now... I am not singling out this particular confession in particular, I can almost stab my finger at the screen when I view world events... and pick at random. I could write to infinity gathering up "case in point" material but have never needed to at this point.

If there is a take way from this it is... It is what it is! What that is... is a personal perspective.

I will remain as is, healthily skeptical of almost everything that stinks.



Stay tuned...









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