10/31/08

The Deep Trench Octopus

From the Editor's Preface to Political Ponerology by Andrew Lobaczewski, p. 15-16.
Andrew Lobaczewski addresses the problem of the psychopath and their extremely significant contribution to our macrosocial evils, their ability to act as the eminence grise behind the very structure of our society. It is very important to keep in mind that this influence comes from a relatively small segment of humanity. The other 90-some percent of human beings are not psychopaths.

But that 90-some percent of normal people know that something is wrong! They just can't quite identify it; can't quite put their finger on it; and because they can't they tend to think that there is nothing they can do about it, or maybe it is just God punishing people.

What is actually the case is that when that 90-some percent of human beings fall into a certain state, as Lobaczewski will describe, the psychopaths, like a virulent pathogen in a body, strike at the weaknesses, and the entire society is plunged into conditions that always and inevitably lead to horror and tragedy on a very large scale.
This process takes time, but we have reached The End Stage. If you've ever been related to or involved with a psychopath or narcissist, you will understand this: (Lobaczewski, p. 18)
One thing we do know is this: many people who experience interactions with psychopaths and narcissists report feeling "drained" and confused and often subsequently experience deteriorating health. Does this mean that part of the dynamic, part of the explanation for why psychopaths will pursue "love relationships" and "friendships" that ostensibly can result in no observable material gain, is because there is an actual energy consumption?

We do not know the answer to this question. We observe, we theorize, we speculate and hypothesize. But in the end, only the individual victim can determine what they have lost in the dynamic - and it is often far more than material goods. In a certain sense, it seems that psychopaths are soul eaters or "psychophagic".
Spending time with one of these people is like having a quart of blood drained out of your arm. Similarly, people who follow current events closely experience waves of deep depression and hopelessness. If one looks at our country's decline, especially over the past decade, does it not reflect the same dynamic? The common wealth has been drained, and poisons have been injected.

This psychopathic group in power has also been described as an Octopus.

The Assassination State: The "Octopus" Siezes Control of America:
In my March 2001 article I warned of an imminent assassination of a US senator. I explicitly warned that the wreckage of any Senatorial plane crashes MUST NOT fall into the hands of the intelligence agencies. The chilling reality is that the evidence needn't go to the agency. In this Orwellian nightmare that America has become, the agency comes to the evidence - In the form of tentacular control of all the tendrils of the "Assassination State."

They are now vertically integrated into every facet of the assassination and oppression cycle. Now, the bodies go directly to coroners connected to this Octopus and the wreckage is promptly delivered to the highest air transportation investigation authority, also headed by another tentacle of the Octopus. It's everywhere!

The Octopus has grown to enormous size. But just like the giant creatures dwelling in the Marianas Trench, these things cannot survive after being hauled to the surface. Sadly for the Octopus, it has been caught in the fisherman's net.

(Now for the whole story on how that happened, the best advice I can give you is to print out the last few installments from Christopher Story and study them. This is literally like jumping into a soap opera that's been running for ten years, but if he's correct (God-willing), this is the most satisfying reading you might ever enjoy -- like eating all the best Halloween candy and not feeling sick or gaining an ounce. If he's wrong, you can go back to being totally depressed.)

In particular, note the reference to the Colin Powell remarks about the 'crisis' immediately after inauguration.

From Christopher Story's installment on 10/26/08, titled The Corrupt Octopus has been severely wounded:
Mention by Colin Powell and several other big figures of 'a crisis that the American people know nothing about occurring on 21st/22nd January' immediately following the new American President's Inauguration confirms (a) that the US élite are congratulating themselves for having covered up the endless corruption in high places from the general public through their control of the ‘mainstream media’ (Operation Mockingbird); and (b) that it is taken for granted that the new President will be obliged to trigger immediate action against the high-level perpetrators of these financial crimes: otherwise the new President will be personally implicated in these crimes.

I've read the other interpretations of Powell's and Biden's remarks, and I think they're wrong. I think the 'crisis,' which Story explains, is that everything we've been told to believe will be turned upside-down, which is to say right-side up, and that will be extremely disorienting for many people who have become accustomed to living in upside-down world. To wit:

Bush 41 & 43 will be hauled up in the net.
Hillary and Bill will be hauled up in the net.
Israel will be hauled up in the net.
And many, many more...

The Octopus is being hauled up from the dark and briny deep. It will not survive the decompression or the exposure to the sunlight and air. When people get a load of how enormous this creature is, and how disgusting, and how many its tentacles, they will be amazed.

10/30/08

What if.....

More curious statements from Joe Biden:
BIDEN: “First of all, we’re no where near there. We have 8 days to go. This is the most important election in the public’s life. They are looking at these races very closely. I think this is going to be much closer than everyone thinks it is. Second, with regard to the Democratic Party, this is a new Democratic Party not the party of the 70s and 80s. This is a party that has adjusted to the realities of a new world order.” He went on to say, “I think there is going to be a collaborative effort to make the 21st century an American century.”
Now what does that mean? Predictably, it will be ignored in corporate media while the internet buzzes with the worst-case interpretation: Zionist-controlled Obama/Biden tools ready to implement NWO agenda while corporate media slavishly protects Obama.

Now this could be true. A good case can be made for that. But in following this line of reasoning for months now, I have to say, I don't trust it. I don't trust the provenance of this argument. I'm not convinced that it's not psyops intended to peel away the highly engaged people who do independent research, making them distrust Obama. As anecdotal support, look at the juicy question given to 'Joe the Plumber' by a Jewish McCain supporter, Stan Chapman, the other day:
The Ohio plumber, who has no license and is actually named Samuel Wurzelbacher, spoke at a McCain campaign event in Columbus Monday. A McCain supporter asked if "a vote for Obama is a vote for the death of Israel." JTP hardly batted an eye.

"I'll go ahead and agree with you on that," Wurzelbacher said.
So who really fears Obama? Israel-firsters and fake 'Joe the Plumber.' I have nothing in common with these people, so why should I be afraid of Obama? As a matter of fact, it becomes harder and harder to deny that just about everyone in the world prefers Obama except some ignorant, pro-war, racist Americans and Israelis. In other words, except for the people who by all rights should be harshly marginalized -- all things being equal, which they aren't, and that's the problem.

Here's where the whole fear Obama thing falls apart in my mind. We know about ponerology and psychopaths. We know that the vast majority of people in the world are not psychopaths, but the psychopaths have ascended to positions of power due to their lack of conscience and their ability to lie without remorse. Due to their 'success,' the psychopaths have ordered the entire system to run on lies and corruption, because that's the game they excel at. We are all adversely affected.

Are all politicians thus forced to lie? Yes, I would say so. But that does not mean everyone likes it. That does not mean everyone accepts it. The system has been arranged to benefit people who have no consciences. These people, by their nature, cannot appreciate how utterly appalling their system appears to people with consciences. If you were an idealistic, conscienctious young person going into politics or corporate America, for instance, you would eventually either 1) be eaten alive and drop out or 2) become enured and succeed at the game. If 2), you might long for the day when you could dump these psychopathic bastards out with the garbage for making you compromise your integrity and hurting so many people along the way. But perhaps you stay in the game because you find ways to still accomplish some good. Why cede all power to the assholes? Maybe you are stubborn and tenacious. Maybe you have some faith.

Is Obama one of those people? I don't know. Maybe he is, and maybe he isn't. I know this comes down to a numbers game. I know that the people who keep trying to throw him under the bus are frequently the very same people who have supported psychopaths in the past. I know that if he is as dirty as they say, he's the best faker I've ever seen because he sure looks good on the top layers. I know if he's really as good as I hope, he's the best faker I've ever seen because he has taken some really bad positions. Nobody really knows what Obama might do, though we're pretty sure what McCain would do (start WW III, die, leave us with that crazy shrew). Do I hold this mystery against Obama? How could I? He didn't make the system, he's just working it like a master. That does not prove he's a psychopath.

As a matter of fact, you can look at Biden's comment this way:
"...this is a new Democratic Party not the party of the 70s and 80s. This is a party that has adjusted to the realities of a new world order."
Perhaps he's simply saying that this is a party that has experienced 1) and now does 2). It does not follow that everyone is happy about the NWO. It does not follow that everyone accepts it and wants it and can be bought off to make it happen. In order to believe that, you have to believe that everyone in politics has no conscience. The work on ponerology does not support that conclusion. Look at the numbers. Some of them must be compromised, but with conscience, and therefore seeking justice. Psychopaths would be deathly afraid of such people. That's what I'm seeing.

10/29/08

They're snapping like twigs

Don't you be worrying about black riots just yet, 'kay? You can worry about angry white McCain supporters.
After the rally, we witnessed a near-street riot involving the exiting McCain crowd and two Cuban-American Obama supporters. Tony Garcia, 63, and Raul Sorando, 31, were suddenly surrounded by an angry mob. There is a moment in a crowd when something goes from mere yelling to a feeling of danger, and that's what we witnessed. As photographers and police raced to the scene, the crowd elevated from stable to fast-moving scrum, and the two men were surrounded on all sides as we raced to the circle.
Nobody knows anger like 1) underachieving white people and 2) racist white people. Both groups make up John McCain's base (some overlap there...), and they will not take kindly to losing. It does not matter that they have GWB for eight years. That actually made things worse. Now they want a re-do.

10/28/08

Watch out for falling anvils

From Mike Allen's Playbook:
Gov. Palin, to Fox's SEAN HANNITY on "Hannity & Colmes": "I think it's very close, and I think there is a lot of enthusiasm. ... John and I have both been in that underdog position over and over again. And you know what? I, in my career, happen to take on the good old boy network more than once. Having the scars to prove it. Being in the underdog position, it motivates us. Makes us work harder. And I believe that yes, the wisdom of the people will prevail on Nov. 4.”
I see. And what wise 'people' are those, Sarah? The people who will pull off the voter fraud for you and John McCain?
WashPost Howard Kurtz, online this a.m.: "'If the mainstream media are wrong about Obama and the voters pull a Truman, that is going to be the end of whatever shred of credibility they have left,' says Tobe Berkovitz, associate dean of Boston University's College of Communication."
Oh, so it will be the voters who 'pull a Truman,' and destroy the credibility of the corporate -- sorry, "mainstream" -- media? I see.

OK. So this is the narrative backstory, apparently, as it looks to be shaping up:

We voters are like Wile E. Coyote. We bitch and piss and moan and beg and plead and call and write and beg and plead and pray to be delivered from GWB & Friends before they do us in completely. But we're a little inept, and somebody has an amazing political machine and secret ability to hypnotize us. That would be John McCain. But we don't know this, see? So, naturally, although we have made people around the world believe that we will elect Obama, and maybe we even believe it ourselves, at the very last minute, in the privacy of the voting booth, we shall en masse, you know, 'pull a Truman' -- which is the same as making a huge, life-threatening mistake such as holding a giant magnet, for instance, which will attract all sorts of powerful crushing objects directly onto us, and in our wisdom, we will elect John McCain and Sarah Palin instead.

Mm hmm. So that's what we're gonna do. And then the corporate media will lose all credibility for not having predicted this. Up to now? Totally credible.

Or....

They're just going to try to steal this thing, and they're working on the narrative for the morning of 11/5/08.

So remember. Evidently, you just never know what we'll do, no matter how many times we tell you! Can't you see Charlie Gibson shaking his head sardonically at the irony of McCain winning this against all odds?!? Seriously. The paid shills might actually break a sweat selling this lie. Thank goodness for high def tv.

10/27/08

TCFKAA*

Some data about the election:

Obama leads in 6 of 8 battleground states (Zogby).
McCain losing serious ground in his home state of AZ.
Obama leads 65-29 in NY (Marist).
Palin's hometown paper endorses Obama.
It's all but over, and Obama wins.

BUT:

Israelis like McCain over Obama, 48.6-31.5.
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110893.html

So....by applying the logarithmic scale of Israeli influence to John McCain's results, you can start to put things like this in perspective.
"I guarantee you that two weeks from now you'll see that this has been a very close race and I believe I'm going to win it." - John McCain
That's what the man thinks. Does it fly in the face of the other polls? You betcha. But so what? McCain has his own polls, and they say something totally different; and you didn't actually think that you could rely on any information rolled out so far....did you?....You. Did. Not! Whatsamatterwithyou?!?!?! Haven't you heard about all the voting machine problems?!?! You just put together your conflicting polls with your flaky voting machines with your crazy exit polling data and -- Voila! -- you can pull whatever result you want right outta your ass, and nobody will ever be able to prove a damn thing because it's all so fucked up. Hell-ooooo.

What? You got a problem with that? Hey, as GWB once said, "Who cares what you think?"

*The Country Formerly Known As America

10/25/08

Danger Will Robinson!



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How many times have you heard in the past few weeks that people need to prepare for 'black riots' if Obama loses? Even in Great Briton they must sound the alarm. It reminds me of the stories circulated after Katrina. Give me a break. People lived through absolute hell during and after Katrina; and on a national and international scale, peace-loving people have lived through hell with a GWB administration and a perfectly useless Democratic opposition for eight, count 'em eight!, fucking years.

But let's get real for a sec. Obama is way ahead. Obama should win this. Even the Republican operative inner sanctum sees the writing on the wall.
With despair rising even among many of John McCain’s own advisers, influential Republicans inside and outside his campaign are engaged in an intense round of blame-casting and rear-covering — much of it virtually conceding that an Election Day rout is likely.
Meanwhile, certain corners in the US just cannot accept this. It must be explained by: bad polls, the 'liberal media' (eyeroll), Obama's psyops ability to hypnotize people, Obama's secret ability to keep his real birth records hidden, Obama's nefarious Chicago connections, Obama's monster ACORN vote fraud machine, Obama's hidden desire to kill his 85-year old grandmother -- who mysteriously fell ill (narrowing eyes)!! -- before she spills the beans on her deathbed about his real father, Frank Marshall Davis, etc. etc. etc. You know, I do enjoy digging into conspiracies, and I have serious doubts about Obama, and I despise the current system; but I'm afraid the anti-Obama people are coming unglued in the home stretch. They cannot accept that the Republicans actually blew it with McCain/Palin, but that is the most pertinent Conspiracy Fact at this particular moment in time. Whatever may be said about the Bad Obama Conspiracy Litany, it is much more obvious that we have a truly shitty Republican ticket, exceedingly poorly executed on an irritated electorate, and coming on the heels of eight years of primarily Republican-sponsored hell on earth. Occam's Razor, people. Palin, in particular, was a high-risk gamble, and they knew it, and it's not working out. That's the way it goes.

At least we can say: That is how it appears right now, two weeks out.
Any sudden change would rightfully be regarded with extreme suspicion.

Believe me, it would be great if everybody actually researched things indepently and learned about the TLC/Bilderbergers/Illuminati/AIPAC, but they don't. And anyone who does do independent research, but who somehow only finds the conspiracies around one party while magically keeping the other centered in a halo of pristine democratic light, is no truth-monger to start with.

Now if Obama loses this election, that would be really strange. That would go against everything that most people -- people who don't traffic in conspiracies or hidden agendas from either party but rather rely on the corporate media -- have been led to expect up to this point. Will people riot? Who knows? They might. But if Obama wins, will people riot? Hey, who knows? They might. It would seem at least as likely to me given the precious suspicions actively traded about Obama among the right-wing base. Thus, to focus myopically on the likelihood of black people rioting in the increasingly unlikely event that Obama loses strikes me as...um....what's the word?.....racist?! Yes, that's it. Do I think ignorant, paranoid and racist white people will make a big stink when their lousy Republican ticket predictably comes up short? Oh, you betcha. And the stories predicting that are....where exactly? Aha.

10/24/08

Surviving the Exorcism

While wrestling our current situation into a brown paper bag to give as a take-home for a dear friend, it just occurs to me why this is such a difficult thing to do. You see, how can it be any other way when we battle in the world of ideas? The epic struggle only partially manifests in the walking around world...so far...but it has raged in full-blown color across the internet for years. This is essentially the battle for truth. Meanwhile, the enemy, deathly afraid of being exposed, fills the internet with one thousand million lies to obscure the truth. Only with perseverance does one eventually thread the needle and say, WTF? Well, at least this is how I experience it.

So to be engaged in this battle before it breaks fully out into the open is a certain type of calling. That nagging desire to know the truth, to dig and dig and sort through all sorts of ideas, from absolute garbage to slick and glittering disinformation, and everything in between, in order to find the choice bits and sew them together into some crazy quilt of truth...if only Dr. Seuss were still here. It's all so unbelievable and fantastical and yet, there's a real moral to the story. A solid, simple truth really does exist, and it boils down to this:
No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. Matthew 6:24
That's it. Every crazy thing happening in the world can be traced back to the sad fact that some people really hate God and love money. And when I say God, I'm not talking about this religion or that religion, because obviously, a lot of people use religions as yet another clever way to hate God and love money. I'm talking about the all-powerful God, who utterly transcends our puny abilities to apprehend him. Either you hate God or you love him. And if you love God, you will not be revolving your life around money.

It's really very, very simple. Money should rightfully be a means to an end -- serving God, rather than an end in and of itself -- amassing piles of money and screaming maniacally as you fling handfuls of gold coins over your head, "I'm RICH!! I Rule the WORLD!! Bwa ha ha ha ha!!" And I think it has become painfully obvious to everyone concerned, and that would be everyone, that some people really have turned into cartoonish and demented evil-doers worshiping money, and as an aside, we should pray for them to have some sort of near-death experience or whatever it takes to smarten them up before they die and rot in hell for eternity. But I digress...

So the battle of ideas has been engaged for some time, and now it has begun to really spill out onto the streets via the financial sector. Does this not seem totally appropriate? How could it be any other way? The good news is this: since they have forced everyone to play their sick little game where the winners and losers get determined by $, everyone will now pay attention. That's the risk to their end game -- that we pissed-off losers pay attention as we lose 'big time,' and the winners become fully exposed as the cheaters and liars they are before they've had enough time to consolidate and secure their control over us poor losers.

So what can we expect now?

In M. Scott Peck's book People of the Lie: The hope for healing human evil, he discusses two exorcisms he attended. To greatly oversimplify, first he describes how the pretense must be broken. After great turmoil comes the expulsion, followed by lots of threats.
Many skills were required in each of these battles with the demonic: analytic detachment, compassionate involvement, intellectual formulation, intuitive insight, spiritual discernment, deep understanding of theology, thorough knowledge of psychiatry, great experience with prayer, and others. No one person can possess all these skills...a true team approach was absolutely necessary. I also had a sense in both exorcisms that our weaknesses and mistakes were being used as well. (199)
We fast approach the breaking of the pretense, the dropping of the mask in public. When that happens, events will proceed very quickly. Thank God the work of exposing evil has been well underway for years on the internet, otherwise we might not survive the exorcism. But I believe we will.
The healing of evil - scientifically or otherwise - can be accomplished only by the love of individuals. A willing sacrifice is required. The individual healer must allow his or her own soul to become the battleground. He or she must sacrificially absorb the evil....I know that good people can deliberately allow themselves to be pierced by the evil of others - to be broken thereby yet somehow not broken - to even be killed in some sense and yet still survive and not succumb. Whenever this happens there is a slight shift in the balance of power in the world. (269)
I have begged people to please pay attention, to wake up, to look at pictures and read the painful evidence of evil. This is why. We must make certain sacrifices of our own comfort. Not just our physical comfort, though that is coming. We must sacrifice our intellectual comfort, our emotional comfort, and especially our pride if we will ever overcome evil on this earth. If you haven't shed bitter tears yet for the innocent children of Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Palestine -- children killed with our money -- you have not yet taken the spear of evil into your heart and absorbed your share. It's time. It's time to love God and forget about money.
When a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards. - CS Lewis

10/23/08

Senators Beaver and Wally Cleaver

Via George Washington's blog...a few of the honorable senators have decided to send a polite letter to Treasury politely suggesting that, well...gee whiz, they really should ensure that the banks restore lending activity, seeing as we gave them $700B and all. I mean, that doesn't seem exactly fair or anything, that we let the banks hoard the money like they're doin.

And I would just like to point out that something like 200 or so of our elected senators and representatives are trained lawyers. So when you see what a fine job they do representing the American people in contract negotiations, with language like this, just keep that in mind. I mean, I think they 'should' 'try', 'to some degree', 'if at all possible', to grow a pair. Because they might really 'regret' losing their cushy jobs, on account of them being such lousy elected representatives and lawyers and stuff, and have to go back to live in their districts with a bunch of pissed-off poverty-stricken former constituents. I mean, gee whiz, that would suck.

10/21/08

The Cryptic Predictions

Joe Biden has made some interesting remarks about upcoming challenges certain to face a new Obama administration.
"Mark my words," the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."

"I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate," Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. "And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."

Not only will the next administration have to deal with foreign affairs issues, Biden warned, but also with the current economic crisis.

"Gird your loins," Biden told the crowd. "We're gonna win with your help, God willing, we're gonna win, but this is not gonna be an easy ride. This president, the next president, is gonna be left with the most significant task. It's like cleaning the Augean stables, man. This is more than just, this is more than – think about it, literally, think about it – this is more than just a capital crisis, this is more than just markets. This is a systemic problem we have with this economy."
OK. So. I would really, really like to believe Obama is the real deal, but this has been made very difficult by his kowtowing to the usual suspects. Of course I realize the way the game works (where you have to say certain things to stay in the game); but I also realize that too many layers of subterfuge exist for any mere mortal to defend against. In the end, one cannot assume anything.

I mean, whose ass exactly is he blowing smoke into?

For instance, here someone assumes that Obama is definitely a NWO tool who cannot be trusted. They say he is blowing smoke up our asses. This is possible. One can easily find many arguments along these lines made by very intelligent people. On the other hand, many of the sites putting forth such arguments, although not all, are themselves credibly accused of being NWO-controlled sites, meaning they exist to blow smoke up asses. So take it from where it comes. It all gets very murky very quickly, and this is by design. God forbid people receive honest, clear information. They might make a good choice for themselves.

Maybe Obama is blowing smoke up their asses, making them think he will be the good little NWO puppet leader -- brainwashed, MK Ultra'd, whatever it takes. That remains a distinct possibility.

I respect Les Vis, who has always been brutally honest with readers, and he has this to say:
You can find the inauguration speech that I wrote for Obama in the archives or you can google it. Here’s the sticky wicket… here’s the catch 22 (I will actually conclude with this). Obama might be for real and he might not. I don’t know… do I? No… I don’t know but… there are a few things anyone who is for real has to do. Here are those things and if you don’t do them you are a whore. You are a nasty, nasty perversion because it’s not just you getting screwed but all the people who believed in you get screwed too. That’s what it is so let’s call it what it is. Let’s not mince words. Mince is for pies. ...

Here is what you have to do. You have to abolish the Federal Reserve. You have to cut Israel loose… period. Neither of these entities are your friends. In fact, they are your worst enemies and they are the same thing, so to speak. You have to double the taxes paid by the top ten per cent earners in America and you have to reduce the middle class taxes by the same degree. When I say ‘middle class’, I mean from 50 to a hundred and fifty thousand dollars…. No way have people making 250,000 got any breaks coming whatsoever. You have to put the death tax back in action. You have to tell the AMA-Pharmaceutical combine and the insurance industry to “fuck off!” and you have to grant Americans the same universal health coverage that much of the rest of the world has.

...I can understand why a candidate for the highest orifice would have to dissimulate or dissemble. You have to lie to get into office, that’s a given. However… once you get into office you are either, fearless and true or you are a whore. And if you are fearless and true it will get you shot. That is the Catch 22. Study your history and see if you can connect the dots on who got shot and why.
We all know some big things will happen in the immediate future. We know a lot of it will be bad. We do not know how much of it will be good, if any. We hope for the best.

As I read the language used by Biden, I can tell you what my heart wants to hear. Whether this is purely wishful thinking on my part or whether it touches upon some version of reality via the collective consciousness, that I cannot say. You've heard about the secret dog whistles that politicians use with the religious right? Biden's remarks pass through my consciousness this way:

"Mark my words, it will not be six months before the world [which Jesus Christ was not of. IMPORTANT - just saying Obama is on the side opposing 'the world', not that he is more special than other human beings] tests Barack Obama like they [the people of the world, who do not belong to Jesus Christ] did John Kennedy [the last American president who confronted the Zionist bankers, and who was assassinated for his insubordination. You can not love both God and money.]. The world is looking. [They see that they cannot easily derail or steal the election.] We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, [an artificial, manufactured crisis] to test the mettle of this guy."

"I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate... And he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him [Money, the tool of the Zionist bankers, is not the tool or weapon that counts for this battle. We have to use other powers. Powers of persuasion, powers that come from being a person of good standing in your community. Powers of integrity.] - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right." [People will be very confused, as they have been brainwashed into believing so much crap for so many years.]

"Gird your loins. [biblical allusion] We're gonna win with your help, God willing, we're gonna win, but this is not gonna be an easy ride. This president, the next president, is gonna be left with the most significant task. It's like cleaning the Augean stables, man. [Who refers to people as cattle? Who owns the most cattle? Who owns the American people and has left us to rot in filth? Just so. There is your answer.] This is more than just, this is more than – think about it, literally, think about it – this is more than just a capital crisis, this is more than just markets. This is a systemic problem we have with this economy."

"You literally can see what these kids are up against, our kids in that region. The place is crawling with al Qaeda. And it's real." [Al Qaeda = CIA; CIA = Wall St; Wall St = Zionist bankers]

"We do not have the military capacity, nor have we ever, quite frankly, in the last 20 years, to dictate outcomes. It's so much more important than that. It's so much more complicated than that. And Barack gets it."

[Do you get it?]

10/20/08

We are living through a hinge of history

It's hard to know what to say right now. Certainly there's plenty to read, but understanding and integrating it all gives me intellectual indigestion. On top of that, certain dogs have not been barking lately, and that has to be factored in the calculus somewhere, too.

My overall impression -- 100,000' view -- is that the forces of good are prevailing. However, I do not expect this to be obvious for some time. Something very important must happen first: the filthy infection of greed, selfishness, ignorance and the love of lies and liars must be radically expunged from our nation. Denial must end. Truth must be faced. People must feel shame, remorse, and contrition for what we have allowed to take place in our names. Some of us already feel this, but many still have that smug quality developed from years of professional scapegoating.

Yes, we have been lied to, stolen from, poisoned and abused, but we have also been complacent and greedy. And all our wounds, which we nurse and lick in misery, we've inflicted on innocent people around the world. Our country will continue to suffer until massive numbers (ie: 95%) of Americans face these facts and experience remorse.

Given the widespread inability to think and reason, the massive addiction to corporate media propaganda, and the rich veins of racism and anger currently being strip mined by McCain/Palin in particular; we're nowhere near turning this thing around. But it has begun, and that is something; and it cannot be stopped. We will suffer until we have suffered enough, until the last ignorant asshole in America finally realizes that this country no longer caters to ignorant assholes. It's going to take awhile, and it's going to really suck; but this will be worth it.

10/15/08

Something could be up with Dick

Dick Cheney has been absent lately, which may or may not mean anything. I have seen unconfirmed reports on deep conspiracy sites that he has been at death's door for several weeks now, but who knows?

Though, of course, if that were true, and if he was near death or actually dead, unbeknownst to the American people, at some point we would probably see stories like this preparing us for his 'sudden' demise.
"Vice President Dick Cheney, who was scheduled to make a fundraising appearance today in Homer Glen, has canceled, according to Andy Seré, spokesman for 11th Congressional district GOP candidate Marty Ozinga," the Chicago Tribune reported early Wednesday morning. ...According to the Tribune, Cheney was slated to attend a private, closed to the media fundraiser at Ozinga's house in Homer Glen in Illinois.
So what's next? Routine trip to George Washington University Hospital ends in tragedy as Dick Cheney's heart collapses into a gravity sucking black hole, pulling the entire hospital complex and thousands of unsuspecting citizens into a parallel universe?

Just Because

Over at UrbanSurvival.com they track linguistics on the web to make predictions. And the predictions have been really good. One thing they've been pointing out is the use of the term bailout, which we know the government no likey, and the strongly encouraged use of alternative terms like rescue plan. This would be your spin. The latest spin, a rare Quadruple Lutz, is to call the bailout a....wait for it....a buy-in!

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10/10/08

Ethically Rigorous

How we got here, and how we get out of here and to someplace new and better, depends on each person individually.

Imagine the scales of justice, and imagine yourself as a grain of sand. You have exactly two choices. You can place yourself on one side of the scale, let us call it Truth/Good, or you can place yourself on the other side of the scale, Lies/Evil. Every decision you make, regardless of its complexity and trade-offs, ultimately results in you placing yourself on exactly one side of the scales of justice. The fate of the world hangs in the balance.

Now what has happened here, over a long period of time, was that a great many people began to focus on the complexity and trade-offs of their decisions. Decisions became complicated because the world became complicated, and one thing led to another, and we lost our way. People began to excuse themselves from ending up on the Lies/Evil side of the scales of justice. After all, we each are only one grain of sand. What difference does it make what one person decides? God will forgive you anyway in his mercy, don't you suppose?, because he understands how complicated it has all gotten? I am going to pick on Sarah Palin for illustrative purposes, but this phenomenon is hardly limited to the Religious Right. It also finds expression in the teachings of the Talmud, and in the financial world, and in countless little ways throughout our daily lives. A corner cut here, a little shirking there...

Here it is writ large:
The Republican leadership and John McCain are counting on Palin's grass roots sincerity that most Republican leaders no longer have. Palin is a true believer. And true believers put the mission they sincerely believe in -- that God has "laid on their hearts" -- above mere details such as truth or honesty, let alone honor. They also speak with conviction.

Palin doesn't actually believe the rehearsed smears she's telling about Obama, but she does believe that she is morally right in lying.

If lies will help her win, Palin believes God's will is being done. McCain just wants to win an election. Palin has bigger fish to fry. Her "call" is to restore America to its "Christian heritage." In that sense Palin is the product of my late father Francis Schaeffer, who helped politicize the Evangelicals into the Religious Right through his incendiary books such as A Christian Manifesto (1980) wherein he called for the takeover of America in the name of Christ if, need be, by force if all else failed.
This is Machiavellian thinking -- the ends justifies the means, and it is an evil lie. The ends do NOT justify the means, and truth, honesty and honor are NOT mere details to be brushed aside when it seems convenient. What a travesty these people make of Christianity, and a mockery of God.

How does one possibly reconcile God's will with lying, especially on this scale, to hundreds of millions of Americans? How does one possibly, with a straight face, believe that God would be forced to rely on blatant liars to bring about his will on earth, in contravention of every valuable teaching in scripture, especially the teachings of Jesus Christ? Do we think God does not have better servants to pick from? I assure you he does. They may not be in politics, but that is only because too many people have given themselves far too many excuses to be selfish, and so we get the politicians we deserve, those who reflect our own mockery and rejection of God and his will in our burning desire to affirm our own wills, and to hang our sins and crimes on the necks of our chosen scapegoats.

Each individual person must begin to hold himself or herself to ethically rigorous standards. We must do the right thing simply because it is the right thing, and in spite of possibly negative personal consequences.

Truth is radical right now, but it becomes less so with each passing day. Why is that? It's because more and more people have placed themselves on the right side of the scales of justice, and as that shift takes place, the scales begin to move. And one of these days, one person will be the grain of sand that shifts the scales decisively in our favor. Will it be you?

Psalm 23
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

10/8/08

Think about it

Bush has struck down Posse Comitatus. He has gutted the US Constitution. He has stationed US military units on American soil. From Wayne Madsen:
WMR has learned from knowledgeable Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) sources that the Bush administration is putting the final touches on a plan that would see martial law declared in the United States with various scenarios anticipated as triggers. The triggers include a continuing economic collapse with massive social unrest, bank closures resulting in violence against financial institutions, and another fraudulent presidential election that would result in rioting in major cities and campuses around the country.
What can save us from this outcome? The military would have to disobey Bush's orders.

They would have to go against the Commander in Chief, in support of their oath to defend the US Constitution and in spite of Bush's many signing statements and other shenanigans designed to circumvent the US Constitution.

"Should Americans call on senior leaders in the Military to break publicly with this action and call on their own men and women to disobey these orders?"

"Every senior military officer's loyalty should ultimately be to the Constitution. Every officer should publicly break with any illegal order, even from the President."

"But if these are now legal. If they say, 'Don't obey the Commander in Chief,' what happens to the military?"

"Perhaps they would be arrested and prosecuted as those who refuse to participate in the current illegal war. That's what would be considered a coup."

"But it's a coup already."

"Yes."

Yes. Exactly. All the things that have happened already to dispose of the US Constitution, that annoying piece of paper, must be considered a coup. The Bush Regime has already overthrown the Republic, otherwise none of this would even be happening. As George Washington explains:

Remember that, for years, Congress has operated under "martial law" provisions which force Congress members to vote on legislation without having time to adequately read and review it.

Remember also that the U.S. has been in a declared state of national emergency for 7 years, and normal constitutional provisions were probably long ago superseded.

As University of California Berkeley Professor Emeritus Peter Dale Scott has warned:

"The systems of checks and balances established by the U.S. Constitution would seem to be failing.

To put it another way, if the White House is successful in frustrating [Congress' requests], then [the declared state of emergency] has arguably already superseded the Constitution as a higher authority."

And remember that U.S. troops are being stationed inside the U.S. to suppress "civil unrest".

Whether or not there is martial law in name, there is martial law in fact.
So this has become a game of semantics. Resisting a coup which has already occurred against the US Constitution, is simply resisting a coup. Resistance is an act of patriotism in defense of the US Constitution, which has been ruthlessly attacked. Again, the coup has already taken place by the Bush Administration and its Congressional and Judicial Enablers, Media Tools and Corporate Minions. They just didn't call it a coup. They are saving that very speficic, emotionally loaded term to use against the American People and People in the US Military Who May Decide to Uphold Their Oaths to Protect and Defend the US Constitution from All Enemies Foreign and Domestic once those enemies start attacking the American people In Earnest.

But we have seen this all before. In exactly the same way that racist Zionist supremacists loudly accuse anyone who confronts them of being anti-semites, the Bush government will loudly accuse anyone resisting its tyranny as tyrants and violent upstarts trying to overthrow the Government, and Democracy, and Western Civilization, and All that is Good and Just in Creation. Ha. Such propaganda.

10/7/08

The Release













As it appears (so far at least) that nothing really major, meaning no one big event like a terrorist attack, etc., triggered the language release discussed and predicted at Urban Survival. The day isn't done yet, but so far so good.

So what does it all mean? The release language has started, and the guys over there have a theory:
well, Igor informs me that we shifted over into release language sometime around 6:15 am UTC this morning. [go read the items]

...Our best guess as to scenario goes to a continuing, inexorable, grinding down of the global economy as a result of the dying of the usofa dollar. We expect that each day brings more release language, and more behavior alteration which begats even more release langauge as it all piles on...day after day after day for months. With a few exciting release gasps thrown in just as seasoning on the mix.
Yes. I think to be even more specific, what started happening today is that many people are being released from their mind-prisons. They are waking up. Suddenly their eyes begin to focus. Suddenly they begin to comprehend that we really are getting screwed, and that it actually does matter! Who knew?! All those people bitching and pissing and moaning...they were right!

Well Good Morning, People! Come have a cup of coffee. There's lots of work to do.

So...what shall happen next? I do not know, of course, but I predict that -- scary as all the frightening possibilities are with the police state, etc. -- that the suddenly awakened people will not walk like zombies into traps. In fact, I think people will create a relatively peaceful chaos as they attempt all sorts of things, independently and in small groups, to cope with the financial destruction. It shall be for the mighty powers lording it all over us like herding cats, as some people go this way, and others go that way.

You see, we are on our own. This is what has become and will increasingly become very obvious, even to those disinclined to believe such things. Bush doesn't care about us. The bankers don't care about us. Congress doesn't care about us. The presidential candidates don't care about us. Nobody with power cares about We the People, and nobody in power has any credibility whatsoever to tell us what to do. All they have is force, and should they be foolish and cruel enough to take that route, even that will fail.

Since nobody is leading, you are hereby released from following. Go in peace and find a way forward.

Naomi Wolfe: The Coup Began 10/1/08

10/3/08

Waiting to Exhale

What is really going on? I mean really. Under all the covers. Damned if I know. But perhaps we will find out this week.

The bailout or rescue or whatever the hell they want us to call it did not work, can not work, will not work. Bush, Paulson, Bernanke, et. al. used their last Get Out of Jail Free card to sell us this monstrosity. Any people thinking that this bailout fixed our problems will have a furrowed brow as the economy tanks. And since anyone who believed the bailout would work in the first place did not avail themselves of the alternative news universe, that simply means that the big lie will get mainstream exposure. Ruh roh, Shaggy.

The markets have done nothing but go down ever since we got "rescued." (Click to enlarge, original here.) Now whether or not this has been pre-arranged, and if so by who, and for what purposes exactly, that's where it all becomes very interesting. I have seen many theories and accusations, and I'm not sure which one to believe yet.














For instance, are the countries of the world united in desiring our comeuppance, as Mike Whitney suggests?
The US is about to join the family of nations and learn how to get along with its neighbors whether it wants to or not. There's simply no other choice; the dollar is falling, the deficits are soaring, and the financial markets are in a shambles. America will either learn to cooperate or become isolated in a world that is rapidly integrating. It's "get along or get out"; a message that Washington needs to learn quickly so it can adapt to a new power-paradigm.

Yes; plenty of money will still go into covert operations and CIA-sponsored dirty tricks just to keep alive the hope the Superpowerdom will be restored. That is to be expected. The well-heeled rogues in the British royal family still dream of rebuilding the Empire, too. But realists know that it's just a harmless fantasy. Nothing will come of it. Empire's have a short shelf-life and they're impossible to stitch-back together. They usually end on a corpse strewn battlefield or in a towering financial bonfire which leaves nothing behind but a pile of ashes and shards of broken glass. We can only hope that the yawning economic chasm ahead of us all, will involve less hardship than we anticipate. But when a nation sows dragon's teeth, it shouldn't expect a harvest of sweet plums.
No mention of Israel anywhere though...I mean, it would be really rude to point out Israel's profound influence over American foreign and domestic policy at a time like this (when it has all failed miserably), besides their power and ownership within the totally corrupt banking system (please don't mention their connection to that abysmal failure), and certainly, Israel has not been too much in the news lately, you know, as they've been at other times...with everything turning to shit and all over here. The focus seems to be strictly on the US. Is that appropriate? I don't know. It's just something I happen to notice.

But don't you worry. If Obama wins, he promises to increase US aid to Israel!
Obama would honor existing agreements concerning aid to Israel and would work toward "increasing aid to Israel to USD 30 billion over 10 years," a spokeswoman for Obama told Israeli business daily Globes.

In the vice presidential debate last week, Obama's running mate Senator Joe Biden said their administration would have to hold back on plans to double foreign aid in general, in light of the financial crisis in the US.

Most of US aid to Israel is in form of military aid and Israelis have received more US military assistance than any other nation. Since 1987, the US has provided an annual average of USD 1.8 billion in military assistance to Israel.
Right. Don't know where the hell we're gonna find that money to give to poor Israel, but if all else fails hopefully we can borrow it from the Chinese, like the $700 billion we borrowed to bail out the greedy speculators on Wall Street, and your great great grandchildren can pay that back by digging ditches with teaspoons or something.

But nevermind all that. The thing right now is to think positive thoughts. And I say that because in all seriousness, this entire situation has become so laughably out of control, and utterly unsustainable, that it cannot go on much longer. We must sink or swim, and we must do it now.

Well, I guess we're all set then?



Right?

They got their way. They got their billions and billions, and we were told this had to happen or else!

So now the threat has been lifted, right? Isn't that the deal?

Because surely we are all paying close attention from here on in. We just paid dearly for things to be put back in working order. And if things do not go directly to working order, then I'm pretty sure we're all going to notice. And that will be very problematic for the people who just promised to fix all the problems if only we paid them enough money.

Don't think of this as a liability on our balance sheet. Think of it as a liability on their balance sheet. It will be rather obvious when they screw us next week.

I'm suggesting that might be a good thing, as all pretenses will soon be finally and irrevocably discarded. The truth is going to come out for all to see, and the tables are going to turn. We have something very powerful on our side, and it's not money.

10/2/08

Hostages



I could be completely wrong, please understand. I am merely giving you my opinion, which has not been arrived at by any scientific process whatsoever. It would almost be fair to say I am pulling this out of my ass, except for the fact that before I did I ran around the interweb block 1000 times. In any event, I think we'll all find out soon enough.

I'm not going way out on a limb here to say that we have a criminal rogue government. Just recently some people met in Massachusetts to discuss ways to bring the criminal rouge government to justice for their war crimes, so this is hardly a groundbreaking development.

And the leaders of our rogue government at this point in time, namely Bush, Cheney, Paulson, Pelosi, Reid, etc., have some serious problems on their hands. Foreign investors are owed money, which apparently they feel was stolen, and they want to be paid, and they are running out of patience waiting. But our rogue government does not want to pay out of their own pockets, which are full of said stolen money, so they have bound and gagged and pushed forward the beleaguered American people to mollify the foreign investors. That's your Hank Paulson Bailout Plan, or "Rescue," as in we are supposed to rescue the rouge government from the consequences of their own stealing.

This tense situation could evolve in a couple of directions. People pushing the bailout think that the foreign investors will go away muttering under their breath and be somewhat satisfied to take a hunk out of each one of us and our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren. Supposedly that 'solves' the 'problem,' meaning they get away with their crimes. But if the bailout is rejected, either the foreign investors will pull the plug on the US financial system to get at the rogue government, OR, our rogue government will pull the plug on us to force us to pay the foreign investors under duress. They are clearly not above using a little torture to elicit the desired response from their captives. Or there may be some kind of false flag terrorist attack to provide cover. Basically, we are about to become human shields as they plan the biggest getaway of all time.

And should we let them get away with that? I think not.

10/1/08

Is the shoe really going to drop?

I believe in goodness, and I hope that good will prevail. Deep within this ironical and disappointed being of mine there is a child hidden -- a frank, sad, simple creature, who believes in the ideal, in love, in holiness, and all heavenly superstitions. A whole millennium of idylls sleeps in my heart; I am a pseudo-skeptic, a pseudo-scoffer. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Oh people, there are things afoot.

Urban Survival has predictions about next Tuesday, October 7th, and what you should be doing in the event that something big happens, such as:

Due to the proximity of the October 7 events, starting today I would suggest:

  • Printing off your bank and investment records onto a printer so you have a snapshot of all your financial records

  • Make offsite back-ups of all critical data on non-magnetic media (e.g. DVD's)

  • Have enough cash on hand to live an uninterrupted lifestyle for one week without a bank card working.

October 7th area events are not guaranteed, but if you do these things, you have no downside and only upside if the wheels come off the economy in this patch of time.

Meanwhile, Karl Denninger has a new post up explaining that the bailout actually takes care of the foreign investors, which, strangely enough, has been kept on the QT.

And if that isn't bad enough for you, the rush rush rush meme might have to do with something called Basel II agreements. An important deadline was missed last night.
Apparently a 90-day extension was given for U.S. banks to get their books in order. That extension expires on Sept. 30th so by Oct. 1st U.S. banks MUST be compliant or they CAN'T DO BUSINESS WITH COMPLIANT (more honest) BANKS.

I would guess that the REAL REASON for the sudden big PANIC and RUSH has to do with these deadlines. Nothing else makes sense. And the blaming of "bad mortgages" for the whole mess is totally disingenuous.

IT'S ABOUT THE CRIMINALITY, STUPID!

Basel-II has been a long time coming, and NOW is the due date.

If we consider C. Story's reports we realize that major U.S. banks have been involved for years in illegal off-the-books hanky panky involving vast sums (trillions) from various trusts. I think Basel-II would put an end to that.

Take a look at Story's report about this at:
http://www.worldreports.org/news/112_bush_criminal_operation_to_sabotage_basel_ii

BUSH CRIMINAL OPERATION TO SABOTAGE BASEL II

U.S. CRIMINAL OPERATION TO SABOTAGE BASEL II
The US Dark Forces led by Godfather Bush Sr., George Bush 43, Mk-Ultra ('Himmler') Cheney, the 'late' Henry M. Paulson, the late Robert M. Kimmitt, and their collaborators and partners in High Crimes and Misdemeanours, former President William Jefferson Clinton and Hillary Rodomski Clinton, have been desperately seeking, with the enthusiastic assistance of their co-conspirator Robert Rubin at Citibank, and the other US criminal financial institutions led by the CIA's Bank of America, to torpedo the implementation of Basel II, since it defangs their corruption at the source, causing the criminal kleptocracy immense problems for the future.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE OF STORY RE: BASEL-II

Summary: the panic of Paulson, Bernanke, Bush, Cheney is because their crimes are close to being exposed. Those congressmen who have been bribed to ignore these crimes are also in a panic.

I don't know about all of this, but if you click through these links you will surely get an eyefull. When one ponders the magnitude of current events, and the world-wide scope of the players involved, and their monstrous greed...well, one almost doesn't know what to say anymore.

But I will say this. I hope and pray that the good people in the world outnumber the bad people in the world, and that God is merciful and just, and He will give us courage to do the right thing at the appointed hour, which could be very soon. And if we expect foreign peoples to give a crap about our lives and our futures, perhaps we had best show them that we're worth saving.

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