Comet Boy

After a long, loooong interval comes the next installment of Dreamscapes and Night Terrors: Comet Boy.

There's another coming soon and a number kicking around in my head so ... hopefully I'll be able to keep up a higher pace.

Get Ready ... Here Come the New Patriots

I could've titled this 'Here Come the New Truthers' just as well, but I've always had a soft spot for the Truth movement and the thing about it is, it's main concern is, well, truth. Sure, it started as 9/11 Truth but its members became just plain old truthers real quick and that's fitting because we all know, now, that it's so very much bigger than just 9/11 anyway. At any rate, the last several years there's been a lot of overlap between the so-called patriot movement and the truth movement, but I think that's starting to change now because, as the title implies, the new patriots are on their way.

These aren't principled defenders of constitutional freedoms, clear-eyed standard-bearers of truth in the face of masses of denialists who refuse to see the obvious and publicly mock those who do, no, theirs is a softer mettle. Or is it a softer head? Or, perhaps, a soft metal plate in the head, the better to pick up the transmissions for all the television they watch. They are the type that drinks beer, watches sports, and cheers when they see a terrorist get pasted by a smart-bomb on Fox. They were about to vote for McCain, thought Palin was cute, and if they've got anything against the new guy it's only the color of his skin. They are the herd, the mob, and brace yourself for it, folks, because they're coming right at us.

The kicker of it is, while they're charging towards us they're actually going to think that they're with us.

Have you noticed Fox News getting all paranoid, lately? It's shills and mockingbirds and other wildlife having been singing about the conspiracy theorists being right, oh lawd have mercy! And they're just seeing the light now? Please. No, this is calculated. It's meant to lead to exactly the sort of situation as this Poplawski fellow, a paranoid right wing not job who grabbed his gun and shot some random cops in a futile little temper tantrum against the police state that just made it clamp down that little bit harder on the rest of us. Here are two stories from SOTT on this affair, one emphasizing Glenn Beck's contribution, another Alex Jones' (and if you follow the second you'll find that 'Tom Paine' played a part in this sordid production, too.)

Alex Jones is a fine example of how deep the game might be. At the bottom is one of those rare actual comment threads at SOTT, taking the form though it does of a few defenders being shouted down by a flaming choir of 'He's COINTELPRO!' The reasoning is this: Alex's role is to tell the truth about everything, but to emphasize the scary stuff and talk a lot about guns, even while always (always) declaring himself to be against violence and for a peaceful resistance. At the last moment, so their theory goes, he will exhort his legions of followers (and yes, they number in the millions) to go forth with their hunting rifles and take on the US military.

Now, I'm not saying I agree with the them, though I am tending more in their direction given his many recent appearances on Fox ... "I've never seen such a big awakening." Sure, buddy. And I still haven't seen an 'awakening' that big, yet. Because all those people watching Fox, they're not awake, they're just angry and scared and liable to do any dumb old thing to make the bad feelings go away. Like, say, riot in the streets on a mass scale, thus paving the way for a declaration of martial law in which (conveniently enough) the primary targets will be those few dangerous ones who can think, who figured out the Inside Job, the Scam, and maybe even the Package Deal, and who have been trying to wake up those around them before ... something bad happens.

And at the end of it all? Those exhausted cattle that have managed to survive being caught in the crossfire will make all the more pliant slaves, thanks to the trauma; the real dissidents will have been rounded up and either executed on the spot or exported off for torture and/or experimentation at sites around the world; and, off in the distance, with the only buildings left standing surrounded by rings of soldiers and piles of skulls, humanity's new masters, the eternal aristocrats of the New World Order.

Or rather, the Old World Order. Because as with everything else that slithers out of their mouths the word 'new' is of course a lie. The 'New World Order' is what they are trying to prevent, so that their 'Old World' order will become so total as to guarantee them overlordship of the planet for perpetuity ... of course it will be a dead planet, eating its own bones, but, I hear they prefer it that way.

Well, they've got lots of things planned between getting here and there and I hear not everything's going to go according to plan for them because, sadly, nothing ever goes entirely according to plan, for anybody, no matter how powerful they may think they are. That's not just homespun commen sense, it's physical law, written into Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and the wave-like nature of matter. Chaos will always intervene, and the thing about chaos is, it can be turned to anyone's advantage ... and if we keep our eyes open, and remember that we're looking for truth, we'll see some true opportunities along the way.

Speaking of What the Real Revolution Will Look Like....

Check out this anonymous message posted at nostate: A Declaration of Separation.

We do not seek to overthrow anything. We do not seek to control anything. We merely wish to be left alone.

All we ever wanted was to live in peace with our friends and neighbors. For a long, long time we bore insults to our liberty; we took blows, we did what we could to avoid injury and we worked through the system to get the offenses to stop. That has now changed.

....

Just in case you were feeling lonely....

The Detroit Public School Supply Building

There's a fierce, grim beauty to this piece. I found myself tearing up a bit at the end, due to a whole complex range of emotions that can't be well described but that, I think, you'll certainly experience if you take the time to watch it.



Found via Cryptogon.

Think Or Be Eaten

Yeah, I know, I know, I've got a link blog. Why aren't I using it? Frankly, it's exhausting, and probably discontinued.

You know what isn't exhausting? Think Or Be Eaten. She rants like an angel possessed with the righteous fire of a resurrected Christ, the consuming passion of a Thomas Paine, the rapier-like wit of a .... ah, you get the idea. She's fantastically talented and yes, of course she Gets It or I wouldn't be linking her now would I? Now shoo on over there and read her latest, The Coup Will Not Be Televised.

A Food Rant

If you're reading this blog, obscure as it is (or is it just that the readership is a select group?) then it won't have escaped your attention that one of the major issues we have to deal with in this multifaceted struggle for our lives, souls, and planetary destiny, is food. For some of you this is a side-issue, for some one among many, and for others its become the defining aspect of their mission. Well, this is for all of you.

On the one hand there's food, as it's always been, though it's becoming more expensive and more difficult to find by the day (especially for those of you unfortunate enough to be experiencing this adventure south of the border.) On the other there is Food®, which of course isn't food at all but an adulterated cocktail full of various poisons, toxins, pollutants, and god knows what else. I won't go into the whole litany, as no doubt you're already all too aware of what becomes of rats fed GMO corn, for instance, or what aspartame does to the immune system, or ... you get the idea. New things pop up almost every day: food irradiation, for instance, not just for killing bacteria anymore. You probably also know that the right to even so much as grow your own organic vegetables - not for sale, just for your family - is also about to get taken away, and I'm not sure what to tell you about that, except ... don't expect Congress to listen.

Recently I was walking around a university campus, and something struck me about the kids I saw around me. You see, they weren't very good looking. For the most part their facial features were, shall we say, imperfect, their bodies less than healthy, the proportions ... off. I don't remember it always being this way, and maybe I'm remembering the past through rose-colored glasses, but ... I'm only in my twenties and my own university days aren't so far behind me. Thinking back on some of the girls I knew, I remember a far better proportion of beauties to dogs, and many of those who weren't beautiful were at least pleasant-looking. Now, I'm lucky if I get to see a young lady who's appearance is merely nice.

Well, those are my own observations, and maybe yours are different, and maybe they're not, but either way ... why might this be the case? I think you see where I'm going with this.

Things are well past the point of having to worry about any one pollutant or any given chemical or any individual processing technique. Take a step back and look at all of them. Think about it. Think about the effect its having on our health ... on our minds ... on our souls. The interesting question is no longer how these things attack our health - the number of ways boggle the mind - but why our health is under attack. You might say negligence and you might say greed, and no doubt those reasons explain the actions of some but, they cannot explain the sum of the actions, because sometimes it actually costs more to process food the toxic way.

The plan is, first, to depopulate the world. They want to kill off as many people as possible - billions of us, with a B - in order to thin out our numbers down to a manageable size. War and plague are of course two ways of doing this, and those are being explored and ramped up even as we speak. Famine, however, is another, but what's coming for us is to be a very special famine indeed. We're used to thinking of famine as being an absence of food, and in that respect nothing has changed, but ... there will still be plenty to eat.

It's just that if you partake of what's on the table, you'll cripple your health, incur brain damage, and likely suffer epigenetic changes that will cause even worse imbalances in your children. And their children - those who survive, at least - will be even more messed up.

You have to admit there's a diabolical genius to this. Kill off the majority through war, malnutrition, and disease (of course malnutrition leaves you susceptible to disease....) Meanwhile those who survive are twisted, deformed, and stunted mutants straight out of a post-apocalyptic movie (no accident there, as we are after all talking about the post-apocalypse.) They won't be good for much in terms of advancing humanity but, boy, will they ever make perfect slaves.

So where does that leave us now? Well, I'm not sure. Write your congressmen, sure, shout yourself hoarse to keep HR 875 from getting passed. And if they don't listen (and they probably won't) well, it becomes time to start taking food even more seriously than you have before. Because, you see, any society that will make one plant illegal will not shrink from making other plants illegal ... and how many of you have experience aquiring illegal plants? If the law doesn't stop you from having fun in your own way, don't let it stop you from eating properly.

And hey, when the inspectors come to make sure you're spraying your government approved RoundupReady crops with the appropriate amount of herbicide, well, maybe you can bribe them with some non-poisonous produce from the part of your garden you really eat out of. Because we all know money isn't going to be worth much in the days ahead, and even the inspectors will eventually figure things out when their kids are getting ulcers at the age of 5....

The Real Revolution

There comes a time in any creeping fascist takeover where the masses, long lulled into slumber with songs of sex and fear, begin to get restive. The shackles start to chafe, the chains become heavier, the lash of the whip stings a little more each time and at some point, dull eyes start to stir and shouts of anger start to resound throughout the mob.

And what a very large mob it is. Chains or no, should the slaves awaken en masse they would crush their masters like so many bugs. The slave-masters are not stupid. They know this moment must come, that, at some point, their oppression must become so severe that they will rebel. And so, they plan. For the most part their plans are ways of putting down revolts and putting out insurrections, and they have at their disposal a vast - and very expensive - arsenal of tools with which to do so. It's large enough that I don't need to go into it in any detail, for if you cannot bring to mind a hundred such yourself you've obviously been paying so little attention these past several years as to qualify for clinical brain-death.

However, there comes a time when all the tools at your disposal are of no use in putting out the fires.

But don't despair, because there's a plan for that too. If you cannot extinguish the fire, perhaps its time to switch metaphors and think about channeling a river swelling with an ongoing deluge. The large, dumb herd are, after all, still easily controlled, not because its members are individually stupid but because they have not had time to really take a good look around them. They're panicked and bleary-eyed, and, unused to ordering their own lives, still looking for someone, anyone, to tell them what to do.

It's happened in every revolution throughout history. The people's rage grows too great, and they revolt ... but since they're not paying attention to the direction of their rage, they inevitably succeed in little more but clearing away those last few pathetic bastions of protection they had left and, when the energy is expended and the water, as it were, once more returned to the sea, they find their servitude infinitely worse.

That's the pattern, you see, an archetypal tragedy that repeats itself throughout history. You can look on it as a test that will be admistered to humanity until humanity passes it. We only get one more try at it or we flunk the semester entirely, so, we'd best get it right this time.

Well. All the pieces are in place, aren't they? The intelligent, handsome, young and charismatic leader is in place, with his legions of devoted fans who will do absolutely anything he says without ever pausing to reflect on what, precisely, he is saying. I'm sure it hasn't escaped your attention that Fox News has been dropping hints of rioting in the streets, with notables such as Glen Beck even beginning to mutter darkly about revolt.

It's a word that's getting tossed about a lot, these days, but as I've been trying to emphasize throughout in this little essay it's very important to pay close attention to who's using it, and if they're not (shall we say) a trustworthy sort maybe you'd best have a close listen to all the words they throw in to fill up the space between 'revolution'.

And that brings me to this.



This is such a transparent attempt to do what I've just been talking about I'm almost embarrased to go into the details because it will feel like I'm insulting your intelligence. But what the heck, I'll proceed just for the sheer fun of ripping into it, and we'll just hope it's a fun ride.

So first we have the Founding Father getup, together with the props and the Constitution in the background. Really fantastic production values for a youtube video, too, aren't they? And so very appropriate, given the audience they're trying to manipulate, triggering archetypes that resound strongly within the imaginations of, I think it's fair to say, a fair number of the people who are seething mad at what's been done to their country these last few years (or is it only these past few weeks? Everyone wakes up at a different pace, you know.)

He talks a lot about illegal immigrants stealing tax-paying Americans' entitlements and foreigners stealing hardworking Americans' jobs, and sure, these are terrible things but ... those are about the only grievances he really addresses. Not exactly appealing to our better natures, is he?

On the strength of this, he then goes on to call for a three million man march on Washington, one that will close down the government, sweep in, and what was it? Oh yes, "Throw out of office every congressman and woman who didn't bother to read the biggest spending bill in history before voting for it." And how many of those congresscritters are left in office then, hmm? How long until elections?

Right.

Still, so far you might still be able to cut the guy some slack. I mean, I'm no fan of Congress, and would in truth not be displeased to see it unseated in a popular uprising (well, I'm a Canadian so it's not directly treasonous of me to say that but let me add that I extend this low opinion to most every legislative body on the planet.) The question, of course, it's not so much the desiribility of eliminating the one but what, precisely, is to come after it and it is at this point that, beside our would-be anonymous Founding Father, the talking-point BRING BACK UNIVERSAL SERVICE. "Ask not what your country can do for you..." appears and we all know whose platform that is.

Fancy you'll look good in a uniform? I hear there's positions in the work brigades. Just get on the bus with the soldiers and they'll take you out to the camp. Word is you get a whole five hundred calories a day. Oh, did we mention one way or another, you've gotta fulfil the new universal service requirment?

Right.

Have I completely skewered the credibility of this evil clown for you yet? Because if you haven't noticed that is the intent of this little commentary. I want that credibility torn to shreds, its stinking corpse tossed on the growing mountain of the mainstream corprorate media, just one more casualty of the infowar. But make no mistake, a more pernicious one than most.

He's already done some damage. His Stimulus Package has been up a week and it's gotten a million views, and while I'm sure a lot of those viewers thought exactly the same thing I did when they saw it I'm sure there were a few who didn't, who just weren't awake enough to notice and are thinking, hey, yeah, maybe that's a good idea....

And a couple of months down the line, when the temperatures and tempers are both running hot, and this poison pill of a video gets out to ten million rather than one, well....

I'm sure you see where this is going.

That's why I want this thing dead. I'm sure I'm not the only one who sees this, and if others are writing the same thing I am now than good. Let a hue and cry be raised that gets heard by every single person who's seen this video, so that rather than the seed of a new failed revolution it becomes just one more ruined plot, an interesting footnote of internet history that we'll look back on, four years from now, and chuckle over, as just one more example of our oppressor's grand foolishness.

I'll confess I have yet to watch the whole video. Lazy of me, I know, but then this creep was giving me an awful feeling right from the moment I laid eyes on him. Reflecting on why, precisely, I was experiencing this strong, instinctive and visceral hostility didn't take very long, though. Pretty much up to the point that the 'universal service' part arrives, at which point I decided to make it my personal mission to crush this bug.

However, in the interests of completeness, I shall go and finish it now, and if you have not yet done so feel free to do the same.

Back?

Great. Though I confess I have very little to add. Oh, he talks about not starting wars you're not willing to finish (thus priming the pump for a truly bullheaded attempt to force the world's hands through arms) . Talks a lot about the military in fact, a lot of very militaristic messages including the penultimate admonition to go out and get a gun. But then, we already knew that was the sort of thing this sick fascist plant is about, don't we? Greed and violence, it's how they rule, after all, so those are the buttons they're trying to push.

Well, I've said my piece here. At this point you either agree with me or you don't but if you do, you no doubt want to crush this thing as badly as I do. So if you see this video get linked at another blog, link this essay, too. Or write your own denunciation (I'm sure you could find dozens of things to go after that I've left untouched), post it in the comments section of another blog or make it a blog-post yourself. Make video responses that expose this thing, tell your friends and family, get into the comment strings on youtube of anyone who's got this up as a favorite, do whatever it is you do or can do and if we all shout this thing down loudly enough, we might just be able to neutralize it. Sure, that's a lot of effort and maybe it seems silly to get worked up over a silly youtube video but ... I like silly. I'd prefer it stayed that way. And if we all just keep on laughing at it, it will.

That, my friends, is how the real Second Revolution will proceed. This is just one battle amongst many, but it's one we can win.

Note: yeah, yeah, I know, you already read this. I wanted to republish so the URL wouldn't be a dead giveaway. Live 'n' learn....