Well. . , you are partly correct in several of your points. --For instance, Peer Pressure is an old system, yes. But peer pressure derives from the group punishing the individual for acting out of synch with what the group considers correct behavior. And I certainly do think that the media directs a lot of behavior, that it is not simply following trends. The simplest way of putting it is that corporations would not spend the billions of dollars they do in advertising if advertising wasn't effective.
The problem is that these lines of questioning, when followed back and forth long enough, always tend to resolve to, "Well, okay, but it's stupid to think the actions of the media are deliberately trying to de-stabalize society. Who would do that and why? And moreover, how? The people I know in the media are not part of some great conspiracy. They're just people doing their jobs."
The answers to this, and there certainly are answers, are hard ones to give, because they cross several boundaries which most people are simply not ready to cross.
There is a lot more going on these days than people are willing to look at or accept. But denial does not make them go away, and it certainly makes them nearly impossible to protect oneself against.
There are crop circles, and UFO's, and Cattle Mutilations, and all manner of strange powers at work in the world today, and if one truly examines the situation, it becomes quite clear that the James Randi, (and similar), system of skeptical denial doesn't work at all in dispelling them. All of this stuff fits together in a way which makes sense if one is willing to look and listen. Nothing in this world sits in its own little compartment, separate from everything else. The shape and direction of the world today is directly influenced by factors which do not derive from human origin.
This is not to say that your own actions and efforts are locked into place. You are absolutely doing yourself a favor in believing that we can make a huge difference through how hard we work and fight against the forces opposing us in life! --But to live in the belief that there are no forces actively working against us limits the degree to which our struggles can be effective. Because, those forces are definitely there, though due to the way the system works, it is unsafe for people to share in public forum how they know that this is so. --Do your own looking and asking, and within time you will begin to understand exactly why this is.
These are very pivitol times. Where each of us ends up in the food chain is currently being determined, yet most people do not even recognize that there is a battle at hand. Quite simply, the more information one allows oneself, the more ability one has to deal.
I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here. It seems you are saying that because it's possible to squeek out from under the weight of an extraordinarily messed up system, that people who complain about it being messed up are whining. --That any attempts to fix it or even point out its faults should be shouted down because it still sort of works. (Well, until the day when it collapses.)
Correct me if I'm wrong here.
I also find it rather interesting that you believe a military career is a 'way out', but that you don't seem to think that there is any manipulation going on. --The military has been designed to be not just a way out, but the only way for many, like the tens of thousands of Mexican illegals who have been offered citizezship in return for becoming the next wave of American front-line murderers. The system was designed this way for a reason! Blood for money, Jack. That's sick, and that's the root of the problem with America. --Rape Iraq for it's oil and lucrative infrastructure re-building contracts, rape Afghanistan for oil pipe-line land from the Caspian sea. --And of course, to get heroin production back up to the highest it's ever been after the fundamentalists got control of things and burned all the poppys, devastating one of Wall Streets biggest money-makers. I'm sorry if it sounds callous, and I don't mean to upset you, but your father's paychecks were coming at the expense of entire countries being de-stabalized by American corporate/military might, specifically to make money and to make sure America stays on top of the money/power game.
But you probably don't see it that way. The thought of regular, poor people being tricked into killing in order to make other men rich is probably not something you want to consider too closely. You seem to think that I don't understand the world, 'Slavery'. --Let me put it to you this way; The most insidious type of power is that which the victims don't even realize is held over them. They blithly work to kill, and call it, "Realizing the American Dream".
Wake the hell up.
Just think. . . In my country, (Canada), there isn't regular gunfire in any neighborhood. There are better ways to run a society, and it has been demonstrated. Hard work is a good thing, certainly, but there is boundless room for improvement in America. And to begin that improvement, the people need to recognize the many, many ways in which industry and the wealthy elite actively try to keep the common people locked in violent, poverty-stricken, ignorant patterns. I doubt very much that this will happen in time.
You mention peer pressure as being one of the active sources of stress among ghetto youth. This is true, but peer pressure doesn't just happen. It's a step in a deliberate process, and it isn't the first step. Young minds are largely directed by the media. And who owns the media?
That's not a rhetorical question. Honestly. Look into this stuff; into just how profitable it is to create broken social systems. It'll blow your mind.
I do tend to agree that limiting wealth with automatic caps goes against certain logic, (though it's a dumb argument to get into, since it won't EVER happen.)
However. ..
If you believe that wealth does not beget wealth, or that the current system does not strive to keep most people firmly locked in positions of slavery, eyes shut, minds filled with garbage, and bodies filled with food and drugs designed to keep them dumb, sick and weak. . , why, then you are fooling yourself.
Yes, when one learns that there is indeed a system which is full of traps, (all leading to slavery), then one can begin to avoid them and even start to climb up the mountain towards wealth and prosperity. --Although, it is much, much less likely to happen to those who don't start with certain advantages. (Bill's rich uncle has been mentioned already by others.)
And while it is still potentially possible for even an under-educated, mal-nourished black kid from the 'hood with crack-head parents to make it big without putting out a Rap album. . , (just as it is possible for that infinite number of monkeys to type out some Shakespear), it all leaves out one big, ugly point:
Being willing to act like a psychopath is the number #1 best method for getting ahead in the US, and holding slaves is and always will be, dark and nasty, no matter how you dress it up.
--Although, you will find that people who don't have a moral compass, (Gates would be an example,) tend to be rewarded by others who have already reached the top. So long as Bill plays ball and helps in the grand work of keeping 99% of America locked in the 9 to 5, debt-ridden grind, then he'll be allowed to stay and attend the fun parties at the Bohemian Club.
There is, I think, more than enough legitimate reason to complain.
The whole, "It's people's own fault if they don't make it," is getting less and less true every day. And it's a damned fairy tale already! --If you had grown up in a black ghetto, I wonder if would you be making smarmy comments on Slashdot, or walking around with a 'cool' pretend limp and a Nike logo shaved on the side of your head.
Metaphor is an extremely powerful tool, because it can be far more than just a thought experiment. Patterns of all kinds are reflected all over the place, all throughout reality. In fact, this is one of the best ways to stay on top of the 8-ball in any number of situations. I wouldn't call it 'predicting' the future, but it certainly gives you a type of information normally overlooked. --And when trying to solve tough problems, all dimensions of information are welcome.
Very simply. . . Look at a host of similarly functioning structures, familiarize yourself with the common behaviors, and then map over to the pattern with which you are directly involved. Then just plot ahead of where you are to find out where you will be. (Or to get an educated guess of where, at any rate.)
Metaphor is not the only tool, but a useful one. It will give you more of an edge than the unobservant will have whenever things come to a crunch.
Luckily, it is very difficult to stop private citizens of the Earth from looking up. That's one source, and it is the one, (with some modifiers), we ought to be listening to.
The other wants us to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. (Partly to keep the slave-driven pyramid scheme which is the industrialized world from breaking the feeding cycle, but largely because they would prefer not to think too much about these kinds of impossible to solve problems themselves.)
To paraphrase one rather lyrical source. ..
"It will be like rain. First a drop here and a drop there. And then a whole bunch of drops. And then a short pause which makes you wonder if it has stopped, and then the downpour."
"First there will be a small hit. And then another. And then another. And another. Then a big one."
Here's to star-gazing and to hoping that the Shadow Government's mountain retreat gets it full on the chin! (Built for nukes, my ass! When the Shadow Government runs the entire world show, why the hell would it build bomb shelters? It's not going to nuke itself!)
As far as that "pompous air of knowledge" I'd take the Popeye approach. I am what I am. As far as fulfillment goes I've always been pretty self actualized. I always seem to have a bunch of ongoing projects though.
All blow-hards have ongoing projects. Keeps 'em distracted.
I've traveled the globe as well, and the hostels were filled with idiots. Strangely, most of them were also Americans.
Have bubble, will travel.
But seriously, about two thirds of your points were semi-accurate, albeit in an over-simple and callous sounding manner, (which is, to be fair, far better than most can claim)! The other third, however, was just plain under-informed, blustering stupidity. You really ought to do more reading. And while you do, be sure to pay more attention than when you were out 'seeing' the world.
This is an old, if not the first, argument in defense against those who claim Cell phone EM to be a health hazzard. That of "Non-Ionizing radiation causes no physical harm."
The problem is not entirely one of cell damage or destruction due to powerful EM. The problem is that cells, particularly those of the nervous system are able/designed to react to vanishingly small quantities of EM signal. --People argue that Sunlight puts out more radiation than a cell phone. True, but cell phones modulate their signal on frequencies which are close to or within the range that the brain is most susceptible.
There are demonstrated mechanics (Cyclotronic Resonance) through which non-ionizing radiation can deliver a signal to a cell. --I have posted a page regarding this which goes into that process in finer detail.
Everything from accelerated tumor growth to narcotic effect in subjects has been very clearly demonstrated to result directly from low-power modulated EM radiation.
It is important to note that, with a few exceptions, it's often not any single vector through which the 'civilized' human is subjugated. However, when one adds up the dozens of draining and damaging methods and poisons and such which have been inflicted upon us, one begins to understand why the phrase, "Knowledge protects, Ignorance endangers," makes a lot of sense.
This is an old, if not the first, argument in defense against those who claim Cell phone EM to be a health hazzard. That of "Non-Ionizing radiation causes no physical harm."
The problem is not entirely one of cell damage or destruction due to powerful EM. The problem is that cells, particularly those of the nervous system are able/designed to react to vanishingly small quantities of EM signal. --People argue that Sunlight puts out more radiation than a cell phone. True, but cell phones modulate their signal on frequencies which are close to or within the range that the brain is most susceptible.
There are demonstrated mechanics (Cyclotronic Resonance) through which non-ionizing radiation can deliver a signal to a cell. --I have posted a page regarding this which goes into that process in finer detail.
Everything from accelerated tumor growth to narcotic effect in subjects has been very clearly demonstrated to result directly from low-power modulated EM radiation.
It is important to note that, with a few exceptions, it's often not any single vector through which the 'civilized' human is subjugated. However, when one adds up the dozens of draining and damaging methods and poisons and such which have been inflicted upon us, one begins to understand why the phrase, "Knowledge protects, Ignorance endangers," makes a lot of sense.
It sure sounds warm and cozy in that little bubble universe of yours.
You might want to poke your head out and expand your range of knowledge beyond the boundary of orthodox data so that you know when you sound like an ape.
I know a dozen guys like you; they're all the same, carrying themselves with a pompous air of knowledge but who are deathly afraid of crossing the lines beyond what TeeVee says is real.
Amazingly, despite all their smarts, none of them were able to position themselves in life so that they actually feel fulfilled. Curious, that.
They didn't get traction. The storys don't matter. There was no censorship.
And how do you measure, 'Traction'? CNN and Foxnews don't poll for each story in order to measure what is and what is not popular enough to keep hammering the public with.
Indeed, that with which you keep hammering the public becomes the popular story! --And the defacto 'truth'.
For instance. . , why is it that so many people believe that Iraq had something to do with 9/11? There was NO connection EVER established. Period. And yet, somehow the belief persists. --And this is done through the big media, by its actions and its inactions. And no, you can't call the overall process 'censorship', exactly, (although it certainly plays a part). A better term might be 'Mind Control'.
As for the whole, Democrat v.s. Republican thing; give it a rest. It's just another dumb trap designed to keep people so wound up worrying over group-identification and ridiculous debate over meaningless issues that they fail to think for themselves and see the whole picture.
It's just an article picked from the ether, so it can be whatever it wants. You want the Neocon view represented? Then stop complaining and present it already.
The Neocons who complain about socialism, (and when exactly did having awareness of what's really going on in the world become, 'socialist'?), have never really been able to show any real arguments for hate and violence which held up logically or factually to the light of day.
In the end, after debating for a while, it usually turns out that the Neocon is either woefully under-informed; laboring under a structure of ignorance, denial and wishful thinking, or is a real Neocon; that is, driven by selfishness and greed and not much else.
If somebody can give me a good and sane reason for extending complete control over the people of the world, mass murder, and generally burning the world to a cinder, then I'd love to hear it. --Because all I've heard so far are stupid lies and bad logic designed to make massively selfish behavior sound reasonable.
The good guys have the decks EXTREMELY stacked against them at this point. Trying to mobilize a resistance from within in this kind of heavy control environment would be most difficult, I think. It is useful to study Nazi Germany during WWII in order to gain some insight into how it will all, (and currently is), going down.
That is. . , America won't fall until it is attacked by the rest of the world. (Without any changes to America's current direction, it will only be a matter of time before countries start to strike pre-emptively.) --Though I think it is safe to expect to see some heavy damage from natural disasters before then. One way or the other, it's going to be a ripe old mess before the really big stuff happens! Wouldn't want to be a human now, boy! (Er. . . Rats.)
Prediction: This gets modded down immediately, and one person will have read it.
Hum. --I like to think of myself as a single synapse in a large mind. If I do not fire when called upon by necessity and appropriateness, then it is one more step towards brain death. Remember, for every one of you, there are many others who are either sleeping, (dead weight & gun fodder), or who are aware and are actively working in the opposite direction. Every last one of us on the path toward our higher selves needs to fight just to maintain the balance.
Stay alert, stay informed, act on your knowledge, and always think for yourself. In the end, this stuff counts large.
Terrorists are animals, but let's not turn the tag into an easy way to lump a whole people into an easy-to-nuke corral.
Oh, but that's the whole point!
September 11 today, marks the anniversary of the day when a small group undertook a campaign of terror against a democratic government. When it was over, thousands were dead or arrested, repressive measures were in place, a fascist, military-controlled government was in place, and Salvador Allende, the democratically elected President of Chile, lay murdered.
The military coup in Chile thirty years ago today was financed and coordinated by the Nixon government.
The more recent 9/11 was engineered by several of the very men who worked under Nixon. Some say, the 2001 attacks were executed on the September date so as to give a gift of respect to their mentor, Tricky Dick.
And why Allende?
This analyst has made the point that Allende was viewed as a danger by Kissinger precisely because he was a committed "democrat": Kissinger set the CIA against Allende, not to preserve democracy or to counter a Soviet puppet in Latin America, but to prevent a charismatic socialist from providing a democratic alternative to American policy. "Henry thought that Allende might lead an anti-United States movement in Latin America more effectively than Castro, just because it was the democratic path to power," commented an ex-staff aide. In fact, it was precisely because Allende was widely regarded as a believer in democratic institutions that there was so much shock connected to his overthrow, especially in the Third World and southern Europe. What Kissinger was saying-and backing up with covert American power-was that adherence to democracy wasn't enough; that countries would not be allowed to switch over to a socialist way of running their economies even democratically. The message of Chile was: no matter how unjust or corrupt the alternative, the United States would not allow meaningful economic or social change, at least with a Marxist label, and a willingness to have good relations with Cuba, China, and the Soviet Union.
And freekin' Bush actually tried to hire on Kissinger, but the American public was not quite asleep enough to let that one slip by. Oh well. I'm sure there will be an office for him in another couple of years when public opinion will no longer make a lick of difference.
I mean, who comes up with this stuff? What's wrong with just ordinary evidence? Why is it that when new ideas threaten the status quo that normal evidence must be overturned and ignored regardless of its value? (This is a rhetorical question, of course.)
Modern scientific 'methodology', which from what I have witnessed, and from what has been reported to me by the many professionals I have met who work in the sciences, consists largely of white papers peer reviewed by a scientific community riddled with ego-driven old-boy-clubbers terrified of losing respect and the ability to earn their next grant, corrupt science journals, and corporately sponsored labs with massive conflicts of interest, is a at its very best a limiting, but somewhat useful tool, and at its worst, a system, (designed or not), which has the peculiar ability to slow scientific advancement to a mis-directioned crawl or in many cases, a complete stop.
I don't recall Galileo, Tesla or Darwin getting any help from the respected research structures available in their times. --And I seriously doubt that they would have been aided today were they to come up with valid ideas which went against either the popular or the big-money grain.
Many of us lived through the times when Cold Fusion graced the scene. And I distinctly recall an overpowering negative bias which drowned out the signal. The idea was written off, and worse, it achieved the fine status of 'uncool' so that no 'real' scientists would lend their time to further examination of the idea, and no government would grant its money.
--And there was signal. There was also repressed signal in the case of MIT hot fusion people deliberately fudging their results.
Yes. There is a lot of kook science out there. But there is a stark, and what I would have thought to be an extremely obvious, difference between what happened, (some researchers getting the experiment to work, some not, some even losing their lives when a cell exploded, destroying an entire lab. --A military lab, as it happened. All this stuff went down within the first sixty days of the initial announcement.) --There is a big, big difference between this and, 'timecubes'.
But rather than the scientific community saying, "Hm. We didn't quite get it right the first time, but there is certainly something interesting going on here!" They scorned and feared and acted like a bunch of jr. high students. Female jr. high students, at that.
If science only worked within the narrow parameters of today's fear and greed driven model of acceptable research, then humans would still be living in mud huts.
This is a pathetic attempt to defend the outright ridicule, rejection and general guffaws Cold Fusion received some 14 years ago. You're embarrassed that you had no spine or enough curiosity to go against the flow and explore the issue beyond the popular media's bullshit coverage? Well, boo-hoo.
In truth, 95% of so-called smart people who should have known better, instead demonstrated themselves to be first-class chumps who bought the lines, "Hoax", "Fraud", and "Quack Science", without a second thought. Skeptics can be such incredible twits! They seem to think that just because many non-orthodox claims are invalid, that ALL non-orthodox claims are invalid. Talk about a logical falacy! (All cows are animals, therefore all animals are cows). This is why we were given brains! -To sort this stuff out, not put up walls to everything except what corrupt corporations and politicians want us to think is real.
I sputtered in stunned amazement at the 95% back then, (I was in my late teens at the time and actually believed it impossible that everybody could be so bloody stupid,) and today I simply shake my head in jaded aquiescence. Nothing changes. --We were all taught many stories about this in school, where heros were time and again outcast by a small-minded populace, but even when this lesson is directly described, (Galileo, Tesla, Darwin), still virtually everybody goes out and fails the real test when it actually counts.
And yes, they say: "But those guys were eventually proven right."
Yeah. So? This only happened after years of fighting. --14 years before people start to admit that maybe there's something there after all to Cold Fusion, is pretty much in keeping with this pattern. It would be much, much faster if people weren't generally so incredibly cruel and dumb.
Sadly, I think that people truly deserve this burning world they have invested in. Let the blood spill. Learning is usually quite effective when it hurts like hell.
Just because you want something bad enough doesn't make it real.
Indeed. And that can be extended to, "Just because the media tells you something which you are too lazy to investigate more deeply on your own, doesn't make popular concensus true either."
Hell, popular concensus is never particularly reliable.
Zionist. Only 2 kinds of people use that word. Both are so full of hate their ideas are not with the passing of gas let alone the time to read.
I disagree. I don't hate anybody. Hate is a really dumb emotion. I'm just trying to point at an area in the big picture.
I sort of understand what you're getting at, though. Many terms regarding the Jewish 'problem' are loaded to the point where people would often rather not think about them at all. But to gain a true understanding of the current events playing out in the world, one must be able to call a horse a horse.
'Zionist' is the best term to describe the political group fathered by Theodor Herzl which embodies and fights to establish Zionist goals. --And since not all Jews are Zionists, I can't refer to the group as being the, 'Jews'; as that would be both inaccurate and racist. And I can't call the intiative 'Israeli' either, for the very same reasons.
I use the term no differently than I do the terms, 'Neoconservative', 'Liberal', or 'Trekkie'.
If you are interested in the fascinating history of Zionism and how it currently relates to current world events, you might want to look at this cool essay on the subject. It's quite a stirring read, actually.
Google is no longer completely controled by the good guys.
Honestly. ..
Who here really believes that THE #1 gateway website of the entire WORLD hasn't been targetted? As we've seen thus far, if you are a Scientologist lunatic, or a Zionist anti-defamationist lunatic, or an RIAA lunatic, then you can make the Google boys jump.
Any guesses as to what a government "We'll cut your fingers off and dump your body" secret service spook can make a Google boy do?
Right now, the jerks on the switch need to be very careful; if they remove pages, they need to do it in such a way as to make sure it doesn't raise world ire to combustion levels. At the moment, it's all about a little here, a little there, warm up that pot bit by bit.
What can you going to do about it?
Stay aware. Bitch loudly. Seek out and re-post 'offensive' material. If somebody doesn't want something read, then make damned sure it gets read.
-FL
--Everybody dies. Why not do it with honor? It's going to suck either way.
How long does everybody give the web before the Big Lockdown?
All they have to do is keep on punching the 'Fear' button. The general public doesn't see the Adrian Lamo case through the same lense that Slashdotters do. They see "Hacker" "FBI" "House Surrounded".
Even if there is a rational understanding of the situation, those key 'fear' words still sink into the subconscious. The campaign against the web by 'SOMEBODY' has been reaching a fever pitch of late; security holes and viruses and large scale spam blasts. ..
This train isn't going to stop until finally the general public cries out for Big Brother to protect them. --And guess what? The big company which connects all the cute little www.name.coms into to all the right I.P. numbers is owned by. ..
Ex-spooks take over Internet domain name registration, (1999)
The press recently reported that the National Science Foundation has turned over Internet Domain Name registration to Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI) of Herndon, VA. The press failed to note some interesting connections.
NSI was purchased in May by Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of San Diego. SAIC is a $2 billion company indicted by the Justice Department on ten felony counts for fraud in managing a Superfund toxic cleanup site (SAIC pleaded guilty) and sued by the Justice Department for civil fraud on an F-15 fighter contract.
SAIC's board members include Admiral Bobby Inman, former NSA head and deputy director of the CIA; Melvin Laird, Nixon's defense secretary; and retired General Max Thurman, commander of the Panama Invasion. Recently departed board members include Robert Gates, former CIA director; William Perry, current Secretary of Defense; and John Deutch, the current CIA director. Current SAIC government contracts include re-engineering information systems at the Pentagon, automation of the FBI's computerized fingerprint identification system, and building a national criminal history information system.
"At the very time the Internet community is struggling with the issues of encryption and privacy, I'm more than a little uneasy to find this bunch of ex-spooks sitting at the very entry point of the Net," says Jim Warren (a leading activist in making government records accessible) in the article, which was written by investigative journalist Stephen Pizzo, Web Review Senior Editor and co-author of the book Inside Job, an expose on the savings & loan looting.
Who do we think is perpetrating all of this horseshit? Do we really believe that Windows was made this vulnerable and shoddy by accident? Like all those bombings by the Palestinians which do NOTHING for their cause, and only give the Zionists more reason to bulldoze people's houses in their ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign. Go look at the news archives; right when the 'Road Map' or whatever fake peace initiative is about to gain some ground, right at the worst possible moment, that's when a 'suicide bomber' goes off. Look at the actions; Who do they benefit, time and time again? Certainly not the Palestinians. And in the case of the internet, all this virus nonsense and fear mongering. . . That only serves those who have a vested interest in placing draconian controls on the web, one of the few true sources of real, global news and communication.
Remember; Bill Gates is now working with Homeland Security. The lockdown will use Microsoft solutions, Bill will gain even more money and personal security via gratitude from the 'winning side', and we will all get screwed. (Bill has certainly proven himself to be the most Machavellian asshole in every twist and turn of Microsoft's life right from conception. This is exactly in line with how that bastard thinks. Just another damned sociopath).
Can't afford to have the web up and running when America makes the BIG grab. What can you do? For starters, learn as much as you can NOW while there is still free flowing information. Develop personal connections and methods, because face to face communications are going to be the only reliable ways to resist when the time comes. Learn about energy. Learn about the sorts of forces you're going to be faced with.
is in how blazingly immediate the three websites got the 'officialdom' knocked out of them in this little exercise; when you come at them from such a different perspective. --I've never approached a website from such an angle as this one before, looking for recurrning stock photos rather than lazily checking out services and driver archives.
I mean, what the hell does an image of a guy leaning against some computer stuff have to do with anything on any of these sites? It's silly! Dumb, even. Why the heck is it there? Is it like a fridge magnet or something? Is it holding up a grocery list? --And yet, when you don't think about it; when the average surfer arrives in a haze of predetermined, unoriginal behavior, such images DO hold power. Lots of it. --Perhaps more power than any other element of any of the three pages.
Advertising works for a reason.
But when you look at the guy, and wonder if he got paid for each usage of the photo, or if you realize that he's a model who probably may not even own a computer. . . Hell, just having the graphic formula made plain causes the haze of 'officialdom' achieved so effectively by the graphic artists' parallel lines and colored boxes and their officy-'very important' fonts, gets neatly blown away in the sudden wind of one's mind upon waking up for a moment. This is an example of the real power of the mind; a power very much feared by advertisers and the powers that be. This is why, in part, they like to augment the process with the introduction of anti-depressants, fluoride and various Monsanto additives to the population.
I meant to have them back by Monday, but I woke up late. . , and then on Tuesday, my sister had a doctor's appointment which was moved up and I was supposed to drive her to. And then on. .,
-Well, you know how it goes.
I'll try to have them back tomorrow. Are you open Saturdays?
You need to go back to history class, friend. Only two nuclear weapons have ever been used in war, both in 1945, both by the United States against Japan. [...] you're an idiot.
No. An idiot is the one who cannot recognize that 'history class' promotes the version of reality as directed by the politicans, who are in turn directed by big business/military-industrial concerns. Which is to say, if you observe the prescribed channels, you are only ever going to see what somebody else wants you to see. To think otherwise is childish.
Go out and find some Dyncorp people, (or similar), and ask them to show you their version of reality. There are more wonders in the earth than you have yet imagined.
Most people live in self-willed dreams where they think they know all the answers because television told them so. --But you know that. It has all been said a thousand times before. If at this late juncture you cannot bring yourself to listen even once, then there is a very great danger that your life will have been spent entirely blind, dumb and deaf, -and much shorter than you expect.
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The problem is that these lines of questioning, when followed back and forth long enough, always tend to resolve to, "Well, okay, but it's stupid to think the actions of the media are deliberately trying to de-stabalize society. Who would do that and why? And moreover, how? The people I know in the media are not part of some great conspiracy. They're just people doing their jobs."
The answers to this, and there certainly are answers, are hard ones to give, because they cross several boundaries which most people are simply not ready to cross.
There is a lot more going on these days than people are willing to look at or accept. But denial does not make them go away, and it certainly makes them nearly impossible to protect oneself against.
There are crop circles, and UFO's, and Cattle Mutilations, and all manner of strange powers at work in the world today, and if one truly examines the situation, it becomes quite clear that the James Randi, (and similar), system of skeptical denial doesn't work at all in dispelling them. All of this stuff fits together in a way which makes sense if one is willing to look and listen. Nothing in this world sits in its own little compartment, separate from everything else. The shape and direction of the world today is directly influenced by factors which do not derive from human origin.
This is not to say that your own actions and efforts are locked into place. You are absolutely doing yourself a favor in believing that we can make a huge difference through how hard we work and fight against the forces opposing us in life! --But to live in the belief that there are no forces actively working against us limits the degree to which our struggles can be effective. Because, those forces are definitely there, though due to the way the system works, it is unsafe for people to share in public forum how they know that this is so. --Do your own looking and asking, and within time you will begin to understand exactly why this is.
These are very pivitol times. Where each of us ends up in the food chain is currently being determined, yet most people do not even recognize that there is a battle at hand. Quite simply, the more information one allows oneself, the more ability one has to deal.
Take that as you will, and good luck to you.
-FL
Correct me if I'm wrong here.
I also find it rather interesting that you believe a military career is a 'way out', but that you don't seem to think that there is any manipulation going on. --The military has been designed to be not just a way out, but the only way for many, like the tens of thousands of Mexican illegals who have been offered citizezship in return for becoming the next wave of American front-line murderers. The system was designed this way for a reason! Blood for money, Jack. That's sick, and that's the root of the problem with America. --Rape Iraq for it's oil and lucrative infrastructure re-building contracts, rape Afghanistan for oil pipe-line land from the Caspian sea. --And of course, to get heroin production back up to the highest it's ever been after the fundamentalists got control of things and burned all the poppys, devastating one of Wall Streets biggest money-makers. I'm sorry if it sounds callous, and I don't mean to upset you, but your father's paychecks were coming at the expense of entire countries being de-stabalized by American corporate/military might, specifically to make money and to make sure America stays on top of the money/power game.
But you probably don't see it that way. The thought of regular, poor people being tricked into killing in order to make other men rich is probably not something you want to consider too closely. You seem to think that I don't understand the world, 'Slavery'. --Let me put it to you this way; The most insidious type of power is that which the victims don't even realize is held over them. They blithly work to kill, and call it, "Realizing the American Dream".
Wake the hell up.
Just think. . . In my country, (Canada), there isn't regular gunfire in any neighborhood. There are better ways to run a society, and it has been demonstrated. Hard work is a good thing, certainly, but there is boundless room for improvement in America. And to begin that improvement, the people need to recognize the many, many ways in which industry and the wealthy elite actively try to keep the common people locked in violent, poverty-stricken, ignorant patterns. I doubt very much that this will happen in time.
You mention peer pressure as being one of the active sources of stress among ghetto youth. This is true, but peer pressure doesn't just happen. It's a step in a deliberate process, and it isn't the first step. Young minds are largely directed by the media. And who owns the media?
That's not a rhetorical question. Honestly. Look into this stuff; into just how profitable it is to create broken social systems. It'll blow your mind.
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However. .
If you believe that wealth does not beget wealth, or that the current system does not strive to keep most people firmly locked in positions of slavery, eyes shut, minds filled with garbage, and bodies filled with food and drugs designed to keep them dumb, sick and weak. . , why, then you are fooling yourself.
Yes, when one learns that there is indeed a system which is full of traps, (all leading to slavery), then one can begin to avoid them and even start to climb up the mountain towards wealth and prosperity. --Although, it is much, much less likely to happen to those who don't start with certain advantages. (Bill's rich uncle has been mentioned already by others.)
And while it is still potentially possible for even an under-educated, mal-nourished black kid from the 'hood with crack-head parents to make it big without putting out a Rap album. . , (just as it is possible for that infinite number of monkeys to type out some Shakespear), it all leaves out one big, ugly point:
Being willing to act like a psychopath is the number #1 best method for getting ahead in the US, and holding slaves is and always will be, dark and nasty, no matter how you dress it up.
--Although, you will find that people who don't have a moral compass, (Gates would be an example,) tend to be rewarded by others who have already reached the top. So long as Bill plays ball and helps in the grand work of keeping 99% of America locked in the 9 to 5, debt-ridden grind, then he'll be allowed to stay and attend the fun parties at the Bohemian Club.
There is, I think, more than enough legitimate reason to complain.
The whole, "It's people's own fault if they don't make it," is getting less and less true every day. And it's a damned fairy tale already! --If you had grown up in a black ghetto, I wonder if would you be making smarmy comments on Slashdot, or walking around with a 'cool' pretend limp and a Nike logo shaved on the side of your head.
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Very simply. . . Look at a host of similarly functioning structures, familiarize yourself with the common behaviors, and then map over to the pattern with which you are directly involved. Then just plot ahead of where you are to find out where you will be. (Or to get an educated guess of where, at any rate.)
Metaphor is not the only tool, but a useful one. It will give you more of an edge than the unobservant will have whenever things come to a crunch.
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"Empire has one purpose; to serve its highest masters. All else is expendable."
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Luckily, it is very difficult to stop private citizens of the Earth from looking up. That's one source, and it is the one, (with some modifiers), we ought to be listening to.
The other wants us to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. (Partly to keep the slave-driven pyramid scheme which is the industrialized world from breaking the feeding cycle, but largely because they would prefer not to think too much about these kinds of impossible to solve problems themselves.)
To paraphrase one rather lyrical source. .
Here's to star-gazing and to hoping that the Shadow Government's mountain retreat gets it full on the chin! (Built for nukes, my ass! When the Shadow Government runs the entire world show, why the hell would it build bomb shelters? It's not going to nuke itself!)
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All blow-hards have ongoing projects. Keeps 'em distracted.
I've traveled the globe as well, and the hostels were filled with idiots. Strangely, most of them were also Americans.
Have bubble, will travel.
But seriously, about two thirds of your points were semi-accurate, albeit in an over-simple and callous sounding manner, (which is, to be fair, far better than most can claim)! The other third, however, was just plain under-informed, blustering stupidity. You really ought to do more reading. And while you do, be sure to pay more attention than when you were out 'seeing' the world.
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The problem is not entirely one of cell damage or destruction due to powerful EM. The problem is that cells, particularly those of the nervous system are able/designed to react to vanishingly small quantities of EM signal. --People argue that Sunlight puts out more radiation than a cell phone. True, but cell phones modulate their signal on frequencies which are close to or within the range that the brain is most susceptible.
There are demonstrated mechanics (Cyclotronic Resonance) through which non-ionizing radiation can deliver a signal to a cell. --I have posted a page regarding this which goes into that process in finer detail.
Everything from accelerated tumor growth to narcotic effect in subjects has been very clearly demonstrated to result directly from low-power modulated EM radiation.
It is important to note that, with a few exceptions, it's often not any single vector through which the 'civilized' human is subjugated. However, when one adds up the dozens of draining and damaging methods and poisons and such which have been inflicted upon us, one begins to understand why the phrase, "Knowledge protects, Ignorance endangers," makes a lot of sense.
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The problem is not entirely one of cell damage or destruction due to powerful EM. The problem is that cells, particularly those of the nervous system are able/designed to react to vanishingly small quantities of EM signal. --People argue that Sunlight puts out more radiation than a cell phone. True, but cell phones modulate their signal on frequencies which are close to or within the range that the brain is most susceptible.
There are demonstrated mechanics (Cyclotronic Resonance) through which non-ionizing radiation can deliver a signal to a cell. --I have posted a page regarding this which goes into that process in finer detail.
Everything from accelerated tumor growth to narcotic effect in subjects has been very clearly demonstrated to result directly from low-power modulated EM radiation.
It is important to note that, with a few exceptions, it's often not any single vector through which the 'civilized' human is subjugated. However, when one adds up the dozens of draining and damaging methods and poisons and such which have been inflicted upon us, one begins to understand why the phrase, "Knowledge protects, Ignorance endangers," makes a lot of sense.
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You might want to poke your head out and expand your range of knowledge beyond the boundary of orthodox data so that you know when you sound like an ape.
I know a dozen guys like you; they're all the same, carrying themselves with a pompous air of knowledge but who are deathly afraid of crossing the lines beyond what TeeVee says is real.
Amazingly, despite all their smarts, none of them were able to position themselves in life so that they actually feel fulfilled. Curious, that.
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And how do you measure, 'Traction'? CNN and Foxnews don't poll for each story in order to measure what is and what is not popular enough to keep hammering the public with.
Indeed, that with which you keep hammering the public becomes the popular story! --And the defacto 'truth'.
For instance. . , why is it that so many people believe that Iraq had something to do with 9/11? There was NO connection EVER established. Period. And yet, somehow the belief persists. --And this is done through the big media, by its actions and its inactions. And no, you can't call the overall process 'censorship', exactly, (although it certainly plays a part). A better term might be 'Mind Control'.
As for the whole, Democrat v.s. Republican thing; give it a rest. It's just another dumb trap designed to keep people so wound up worrying over group-identification and ridiculous debate over meaningless issues that they fail to think for themselves and see the whole picture.
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It's just an article picked from the ether, so it can be whatever it wants. You want the Neocon view represented? Then stop complaining and present it already.
The Neocons who complain about socialism, (and when exactly did having awareness of what's really going on in the world become, 'socialist'?), have never really been able to show any real arguments for hate and violence which held up logically or factually to the light of day.
In the end, after debating for a while, it usually turns out that the Neocon is either woefully under-informed; laboring under a structure of ignorance, denial and wishful thinking, or is a real Neocon; that is, driven by selfishness and greed and not much else.
If somebody can give me a good and sane reason for extending complete control over the people of the world, mass murder, and generally burning the world to a cinder, then I'd love to hear it. --Because all I've heard so far are stupid lies and bad logic designed to make massively selfish behavior sound reasonable.
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I don't think so.
The good guys have the decks EXTREMELY stacked against them at this point. Trying to mobilize a resistance from within in this kind of heavy control environment would be most difficult, I think. It is useful to study Nazi Germany during WWII in order to gain some insight into how it will all, (and currently is), going down.
That is. . , America won't fall until it is attacked by the rest of the world. (Without any changes to America's current direction, it will only be a matter of time before countries start to strike pre-emptively.) --Though I think it is safe to expect to see some heavy damage from natural disasters before then. One way or the other, it's going to be a ripe old mess before the really big stuff happens! Wouldn't want to be a human now, boy! (Er. . . Rats.)
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Hum. --I like to think of myself as a single synapse in a large mind. If I do not fire when called upon by necessity and appropriateness, then it is one more step towards brain death. Remember, for every one of you, there are many others who are either sleeping, (dead weight & gun fodder), or who are aware and are actively working in the opposite direction. Every last one of us on the path toward our higher selves needs to fight just to maintain the balance.
Stay alert, stay informed, act on your knowledge, and always think for yourself. In the end, this stuff counts large.
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Oh, but that's the whole point!
The more recent 9/11 was engineered by several of the very men who worked under Nixon. Some say, the 2001 attacks were executed on the September date so as to give a gift of respect to their mentor, Tricky Dick.
And why Allende?
And freekin' Bush actually tried to hire on Kissinger, but the American public was not quite asleep enough to let that one slip by. Oh well. I'm sure there will be an office for him in another couple of years when public opinion will no longer make a lick of difference.
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What!? And actively hinder the 'Fight Against Terrorism' by choosing to avoid American-made products specially designed to stop the bad guys!?
Better watch your back! They got a list, you know, and they don't check it twice. They just start at the top.
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And that's the problem right there.
I mean, who comes up with this stuff? What's wrong with just ordinary evidence? Why is it that when new ideas threaten the status quo that normal evidence must be overturned and ignored regardless of its value? (This is a rhetorical question, of course.)
Modern scientific 'methodology', which from what I have witnessed, and from what has been reported to me by the many professionals I have met who work in the sciences, consists largely of white papers peer reviewed by a scientific community riddled with ego-driven old-boy-clubbers terrified of losing respect and the ability to earn their next grant, corrupt science journals, and corporately sponsored labs with massive conflicts of interest, is a at its very best a limiting, but somewhat useful tool, and at its worst, a system, (designed or not), which has the peculiar ability to slow scientific advancement to a mis-directioned crawl or in many cases, a complete stop.
I don't recall Galileo, Tesla or Darwin getting any help from the respected research structures available in their times. --And I seriously doubt that they would have been aided today were they to come up with valid ideas which went against either the popular or the big-money grain.
Many of us lived through the times when Cold Fusion graced the scene. And I distinctly recall an overpowering negative bias which drowned out the signal. The idea was written off, and worse, it achieved the fine status of 'uncool' so that no 'real' scientists would lend their time to further examination of the idea, and no government would grant its money.
--And there was signal. There was also repressed signal in the case of MIT hot fusion people deliberately fudging their results.
Yes. There is a lot of kook science out there. But there is a stark, and what I would have thought to be an extremely obvious, difference between what happened, (some researchers getting the experiment to work, some not, some even losing their lives when a cell exploded, destroying an entire lab. --A military lab, as it happened. All this stuff went down within the first sixty days of the initial announcement.) --There is a big, big difference between this and, 'timecubes'.
But rather than the scientific community saying, "Hm. We didn't quite get it right the first time, but there is certainly something interesting going on here!" They scorned and feared and acted like a bunch of jr. high students. Female jr. high students, at that.
If science only worked within the narrow parameters of today's fear and greed driven model of acceptable research, then humans would still be living in mud huts.
Oh wait. A few billion of us still do. Hmmm.
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In truth, 95% of so-called smart people who should have known better, instead demonstrated themselves to be first-class chumps who bought the lines, "Hoax", "Fraud", and "Quack Science", without a second thought. Skeptics can be such incredible twits! They seem to think that just because many non-orthodox claims are invalid, that ALL non-orthodox claims are invalid. Talk about a logical falacy! (All cows are animals, therefore all animals are cows). This is why we were given brains! -To sort this stuff out, not put up walls to everything except what corrupt corporations and politicians want us to think is real.
I sputtered in stunned amazement at the 95% back then, (I was in my late teens at the time and actually believed it impossible that everybody could be so bloody stupid,) and today I simply shake my head in jaded aquiescence. Nothing changes. --We were all taught many stories about this in school, where heros were time and again outcast by a small-minded populace, but even when this lesson is directly described, (Galileo, Tesla, Darwin), still virtually everybody goes out and fails the real test when it actually counts.
And yes, they say: "But those guys were eventually proven right."
Yeah. So? This only happened after years of fighting. --14 years before people start to admit that maybe there's something there after all to Cold Fusion, is pretty much in keeping with this pattern. It would be much, much faster if people weren't generally so incredibly cruel and dumb.
Sadly, I think that people truly deserve this burning world they have invested in. Let the blood spill. Learning is usually quite effective when it hurts like hell.
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Indeed. And that can be extended to, "Just because the media tells you something which you are too lazy to investigate more deeply on your own, doesn't make popular concensus true either."
Hell, popular concensus is never particularly reliable.
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Both are so full of hate their ideas are not with the passing of gas let alone the time to read.
I disagree. I don't hate anybody. Hate is a really dumb emotion. I'm just trying to point at an area in the big picture.
I sort of understand what you're getting at, though. Many terms regarding the Jewish 'problem' are loaded to the point where people would often rather not think about them at all. But to gain a true understanding of the current events playing out in the world, one must be able to call a horse a horse.
'Zionist' is the best term to describe the political group fathered by Theodor Herzl which embodies and fights to establish Zionist goals. --And since not all Jews are Zionists, I can't refer to the group as being the, 'Jews'; as that would be both inaccurate and racist. And I can't call the intiative 'Israeli' either, for the very same reasons.
I use the term no differently than I do the terms, 'Neoconservative', 'Liberal', or 'Trekkie'.
If you are interested in the fascinating history of Zionism and how it currently relates to current world events, you might want to look at this cool essay on the subject. It's quite a stirring read, actually.
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Honestly. .
Who here really believes that THE #1 gateway website of the entire WORLD hasn't been targetted? As we've seen thus far, if you are a Scientologist lunatic, or a Zionist anti-defamationist lunatic, or an RIAA lunatic, then you can make the Google boys jump.
Any guesses as to what a government "We'll cut your fingers off and dump your body" secret service spook can make a Google boy do?
Right now, the jerks on the switch need to be very careful; if they remove pages, they need to do it in such a way as to make sure it doesn't raise world ire to combustion levels. At the moment, it's all about a little here, a little there, warm up that pot bit by bit.
What can you going to do about it?
Stay aware. Bitch loudly. Seek out and re-post 'offensive' material. If somebody doesn't want something read, then make damned sure it gets read.
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All they have to do is keep on punching the 'Fear' button. The general public doesn't see the Adrian Lamo case through the same lense that Slashdotters do. They see "Hacker" "FBI" "House Surrounded".
Even if there is a rational understanding of the situation, those key 'fear' words still sink into the subconscious. The campaign against the web by 'SOMEBODY' has been reaching a fever pitch of late; security holes and viruses and large scale spam blasts. .
This train isn't going to stop until finally the general public cries out for Big Brother to protect them. --And guess what? The big company which connects all the cute little www.name.coms into to all the right I.P. numbers is owned by. .
Who do we think is perpetrating all of this horseshit? Do we really believe that Windows was made this vulnerable and shoddy by accident? Like all those bombings by the Palestinians which do NOTHING for their cause, and only give the Zionists more reason to bulldoze people's houses in their ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign. Go look at the news archives; right when the 'Road Map' or whatever fake peace initiative is about to gain some ground, right at the worst possible moment, that's when a 'suicide bomber' goes off. Look at the actions; Who do they benefit, time and time again? Certainly not the Palestinians. And in the case of the internet, all this virus nonsense and fear mongering. . . That only serves those who have a vested interest in placing draconian controls on the web, one of the few true sources of real, global news and communication.
Remember; Bill Gates is now working with Homeland Security. The lockdown will use Microsoft solutions, Bill will gain even more money and personal security via gratitude from the 'winning side', and we will all get screwed. (Bill has certainly proven himself to be the most Machavellian asshole in every twist and turn of Microsoft's life right from conception. This is exactly in line with how that bastard thinks. Just another damned sociopath).
Can't afford to have the web up and running when America makes the BIG grab. What can you do? For starters, learn as much as you can NOW while there is still free flowing information. Develop personal connections and methods, because face to face communications are going to be the only reliable ways to resist when the time comes. Learn about energy. Learn about the sorts of forces you're going to be faced with.
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I mean, what the hell does an image of a guy leaning against some computer stuff have to do with anything on any of these sites? It's silly! Dumb, even. Why the heck is it there? Is it like a fridge magnet or something? Is it holding up a grocery list? --And yet, when you don't think about it; when the average surfer arrives in a haze of predetermined, unoriginal behavior, such images DO hold power. Lots of it. --Perhaps more power than any other element of any of the three pages.
Advertising works for a reason.
But when you look at the guy, and wonder if he got paid for each usage of the photo, or if you realize that he's a model who probably may not even own a computer. . . Hell, just having the graphic formula made plain causes the haze of 'officialdom' achieved so effectively by the graphic artists' parallel lines and colored boxes and their officy-'very important' fonts, gets neatly blown away in the sudden wind of one's mind upon waking up for a moment. This is an example of the real power of the mind; a power very much feared by advertisers and the powers that be. This is why, in part, they like to augment the process with the introduction of anti-depressants, fluoride and various Monsanto additives to the population.
Deconstruction is always fun!
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-Well, you know how it goes.
I'll try to have them back tomorrow. Are you open Saturdays?
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No. An idiot is the one who cannot recognize that 'history class' promotes the version of reality as directed by the politicans, who are in turn directed by big business/military-industrial concerns. Which is to say, if you observe the prescribed channels, you are only ever going to see what somebody else wants you to see. To think otherwise is childish.
Go out and find some Dyncorp people, (or similar), and ask them to show you their version of reality. There are more wonders in the earth than you have yet imagined.
Most people live in self-willed dreams where they think they know all the answers because television told them so. --But you know that. It has all been said a thousand times before. If at this late juncture you cannot bring yourself to listen even once, then there is a very great danger that your life will have been spent entirely blind, dumb and deaf, -and much shorter than you expect.
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