tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57772382709262710802024-02-08T10:57:36.622-08:00Truth for Childrendid you exchange a walk-on part in a war
for a lead role in a cage?Mark 16:16http://www.blogger.com/profile/10318136105507111662noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777238270926271080.post-48999897431492420332008-01-16T21:37:00.000-08:002008-01-16T21:38:48.120-08:00our favorite illusion (BEGINNING)<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-Pq5AlU5s_c&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-Pq5AlU5s_c&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Mark 16:16http://www.blogger.com/profile/10318136105507111662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777238270926271080.post-17162269827078760522008-01-16T21:36:00.000-08:002008-01-16T21:39:13.463-08:00our favorite illusion (ENDING)<object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5IitQdTsL5E&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5IitQdTsL5E&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object>Mark 16:16http://www.blogger.com/profile/10318136105507111662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777238270926271080.post-49988112982443549212007-10-14T14:40:00.000-07:002007-10-14T14:44:03.902-07:00Insurgents or Freedom Fighters?<object height="350" width="425"> question: what would you do if the armed soldiers of another country were patrolling the streets of our cities after an preemptive invasion for which there was never any real evidence of cause? would you sit there and accept a bayonet in your face, on your soil? in your own home?<br /><br />or would you do what any warm-blooded human being would do, what our forefathers did against the British?<br /><br /><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MMqSKBjDS8k"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MMqSKBjDS8k" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350" width="425"></embed> <span style="font-family:arial;"></span></object>Mark 16:16http://www.blogger.com/profile/10318136105507111662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777238270926271080.post-35185755086406495712007-09-12T20:45:00.000-07:002007-09-12T21:34:24.904-07:00the Line in the Sand<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_-Rm60ZeynK0/Ruivgd-wz_I/AAAAAAAAABw/Ad8JDBrP0Tc/s1600-h/kristalnacht.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_-Rm60ZeynK0/Ruivgd-wz_I/AAAAAAAAABw/Ad8JDBrP0Tc/s200/kristalnacht.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109526749590376434" border="0" /></a>got fear?<br /><br /><object height="350" width="425">unless you've been living under a worn copy of the Constitution or inside the West Wing you no doubt are aware of a national seismic shift, the distant scent of sulfur in the air. from the <a href="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread302187/pg1">grim prospect of a 'broken arrow'</a> to the eerily-quiet (yet consistent) <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296450,00.html">war drum dance towards iran</a>, it's clear the U.S. is on the eve of some game-changing event, something overly-dramatic yet tightly-controlled a la that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwRD3dWQjY8">one sunny tuesday</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwRD3dWQjY8"> </a>in 2001.<br /><br />of course we all have our theories as to what, if anything will happen over these next few weeks. but money doth make the mare go, and for those die-hard bottom-liners out there, you can simply follow the <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/270807_market_crash.htm">unusual volume of put and call options in the stock market lately</a>. now compare that to <a href="http://911research.wtc7.net/sept11/stockputs.html">similar activity in the weeks prior to 9/11</a>. it's called arithmetic. do it.<br /><br />and for extra credit, for those eager to graduate on to higher learning (if indeed they dont suspend classes) try to understand the summer's events in the context of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht">the Kristallnacht, or 'Night of Broken Glass'</a> in pre-war Nazi Germany. imagine if you can a whole nation of merchants and citizens, their lives busted out like a mob bar burnt to the ground for insurance money. Jewish homes were ransacked, along with thousands of stores being destroyed by civilians and Stormtroopers alike - it was the Rodney King riots in reverse, as if Darryl Gates himself came down and firebombed the fuck outta Inglewood.<br /><br />So now here comes this criminal Administration - <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4481092.stm">for that is what they have already been tried as</a> in the international arena - essentially leaking this the most recent mishap in what has been (at the absolute minimum) a tragic string of gross negligence in the last 6 years, and in doing so using our 4th Branch to once again put Americans on notice: now the threat is not only over there, it's not just in our big cities, it's here on our own military bases, it's inside our schools and universities, at our places of business, anywhere anyone might wish to live out the daily routine of their lives. The message is, has been and will continue to be: DO AS YOURE TOLD OR YOU COULD BE KILLED.<br /><br />look maybe there were 10 million jews and maybe there were only a tenth that many killed in the Holocaust; in truth, a much smaller fraction than that number is too bleak to even think about, and the 2,974 killed in the mass murders of sept. 11 2001 pales in comparison. but the underlying principle at work here is a climate of fear cultivated with a sophistication not seen since the days of the pogrom. and now this White House stands with its seven heads lurched forward, talons clenched, ready to devour Mesopotamia and liberate it with Wolfo-wisdom.<br /><br />'so what?' I can almost hear the echoed replies of a Nintendo latch-key generation. 'we cant do anything to change it so why wallow in it?'<br /><br />because you are here and now. because it is your lifetime. because whether you like it or not, or even whether you believe it now or not, these events are shaping the course of the rest of your time on this planet. its as though our very soul is up for grabs. as an american - hell as a living breathing organism - there can be no higher calling.<br /><br />and we can sit here and read and write blog after blog, entry after entry, enough words to fill a zillion search engines - but if all we garner from this world wide web is a little more information, and we just sit back and allow our way of life to disintegrate in front of our very eyes, what's to stop the trains from indeed running on time?<br /><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TbNIU2KEz4g"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TbNIU2KEz4g" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="425"></embed></object>Mark 16:16http://www.blogger.com/profile/10318136105507111662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777238270926271080.post-75255720087579953582007-08-09T21:07:00.000-07:002007-09-12T18:46:27.143-07:00a Womb with a View<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_-Rm60ZeynK0/RuiWWd-wz-I/AAAAAAAAABo/zaE4a5VF2EE/s1600-h/snapshot.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_-Rm60ZeynK0/RuiWWd-wz-I/AAAAAAAAABo/zaE4a5VF2EE/s400/snapshot.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109499090000990178" /></a><br /><br />what if you lived your minutes aware and cognizant of the fact that one day - maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next year, but one day - you are going to die? what if all the machinations of your life, all the blood sweat and tears, all the labor, all the love, what if all of it were directed towards that bulls-eye instead of running away from it with bloomingdale's bags in your hands or some poor sucker's money in your pocket? what if you could see an abridged version of your life and where it was ultimately headed? <br /><br />would you change anything? would you do it all again? or would you let go of your fears and your loose change and try to abolish all fallacy and illusion in your perception of the world around you?<br /><br />now what if i told you these and other changes were already in progress?.....<br /><br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oWkJtF0bKe4"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oWkJtF0bKe4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>Mark 16:16http://www.blogger.com/profile/10318136105507111662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777238270926271080.post-2715268523291005562007-08-05T10:52:00.000-07:002007-08-07T21:41:06.280-07:00none dare call it Conspiracy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_-Rm60ZeynK0/RrlJVU-M3EI/AAAAAAAAABQ/Soj4MflafwY/s1600-h/smoke-filled.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_-Rm60ZeynK0/RrlJVU-M3EI/AAAAAAAAABQ/Soj4MflafwY/s200/smoke-filled.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5096185084102106178" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="me"><br /><br />con·spir·a·cy</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="pronset"> <span class="show_ipapr" style="display: none;"><span class="prondelim">/</span><span class="pron">kənˈspɪr<img class="luna-Img" src="http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png" alt="" border="0" />ə<img class="luna-Img" src="http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/graphics/luna/thinsp.png" alt="" border="0" />si</span><span class="prondelim">/</span> <a class="pronlink" onclick="pk = window.open('/help/luna/IPA_pron_key.html', 'PronunciationKey','height=700,width=560,left=0,top=0,resizable,scrollbars');if(pk){pk.focus();}" onmouseout="status='';return true;" onmouseover="status='Click for pronunciation key';return true;" title="Click for pronunciation key">Pronunciation Key</a><span class="pron_toggle" style="display: inline;"><span class="prondelim"> - </span><a class="pronlink" onclick="javascript:show_sp()" onmouseout="status='';return true;" onmouseover="status='Click to toggle pronunciation';return true;" title="Click to show spelled pronunciation">Show Spelled Pronunciation</a></span></span><span class="show_spellpr" style="display: inline;"><span class="prondelim">[</span><span class="pron">k<i>uh</i>n-<b>spir</b>-<i>uh</i>-see</span><span class="prondelim">]</span> </span></span><span class="secondary-bf"> </span></span><table class="luna-Ent"><tbody><tr><td class="dn" valign="top"><span style="font-size:78%;">1.</span></td><td valign="top"><span style="font-size:78%;">the act of conspiring. </span></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="luna-Ent"><tbody><tr><td class="dn" valign="top"><span style="font-size:78%;">2.</span></td><td valign="top"><span style="font-size:78%;">an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot. </span></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="luna-Ent"><tbody><tr><td class="dn" valign="top"><span style="font-size:78%;">3.</span></td><td valign="top"><span style="font-size:78%;">a combination of persons for a secret, unlawful, or evil purpose: <span class="ital-inline">He joined the conspiracy to overthrow the government. </span></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="luna-Ent"><tbody><tr><td class="dn" valign="top"><span style="font-size:78%;">4.</span></td><td valign="top"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span class="labset"><span class="ital-inline">Law</span>. </span>an agreement by two or more persons to commit a crime, fraud, or other wrongful act. </span></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="luna-Ent"><tbody><tr><td class="dn" valign="top"><span style="font-size:100%;">5.</span></td><td style="font-weight: bold;" valign="top"><span style="font-size:100%;">any concurrence in action; combination in bringing about a given result.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />got thirst?<br /><br />go ahead, sell your watered-down lemonade for quarters and pray the Fall is near, because you all know what the next few weeks hold: august dog days, leaves browning over, hang-around preteens plotting their next 7-11 something-for-nothing scheme, more empty promises from flip-flop 'presidential' candidates offering cures for what ails ya, more ex-homeowners swallowed whole by the cold reality of (gasp) apartment living, and - as if it needs to even be said - the all-consuming 'grave & gathering' threat of Islamofascism. maybe just maybe they'll indulge us and finally bump up the Death-o-Meter to the tampax-soaked color we deserve.<br /><br />remember way back when cheney wasn't yet king, months after <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04vWNqhHTfQ">one sunny Tuesday</a> when former chief of staff andrew card glibly said, 'from a marketing standpoint, you don't introduce new products in august?' he was onto something, that guy - how'd a megawatt like that get stuck working for Junior Boy Dim? i mean for a white house insider to slip and offer the public a window into how this country's most secretive administration makes decisions on how to terrorize us further, one must infer that there is a real ongoing effort that, whether orange, green or in between, our fearmongers are keenly aware of how these alerts can affect us.<br /><br />i mean, seriously - yellow alert? does anyone even buy this anymore? 'holy shit! i cant go to work today! what if today's the day CIAl Qaida decides to hate me for my freedom?!?'<br /><br />what we need to start doing is changing the language we use to analyze and question what the Fourth Estate is feeding us, to stop dismissing out-of-hand the idea that there are powerful forces at work in this world collaborating, conceptualizing, and YES conspiring to profit from this american culture of fear.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >from cnn to the new york times to paramount pictures to bantam fucking books is it really that outrageous to consider that this war of terror isn't (at least in large part) the work of market forces conspiring to shape popular opinion for political & economic gain?</span> exactly what part of that theory is unsubstantiated? who says all capitalist endeavors don't utilize grand deception as part of their marketing campaign?<br /><br />forget for a moment the zeitgeist, the theories, all of it and just ask yourself this: what is the most common charge in criminal courts? it's when two or more people work together in the planning stages of a crime. it's what you do when you mutter about starting a softball team or a labor union, it's what you do when you enlist the aid of one or more people in a common goal. hell, it's how this country spilled the first blood on its hands, by paul revere town-crying, whispers among patriots towards insurrection - my fellow americans, <span style="font-style: italic;">that </span>is called conspiracy.<br /><br />now nobody's said anything about bilderberg smoke-filled backrooms (though <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3773019.stm">we know they exist</a>), not one time have i suggested our elected leaders are engineering foreign policy in secret forums and among lobbyists unaccountable to the electorate (though our system relies heavily on this very process), and no one is ordering you to obey and conform and accept the prevailing Fables spun by this and practically every other administration (<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html">though your president has just signed off on an executive order criminalizing those who refuse to do so</a>) - <span style="font-weight: bold;">but </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >perhaps its time to reconsider the simplistic and potentially naive assumption that opportunities for exploitation and control aren't pursued by those in positions of power.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>some of us who aren't yet willing or able to pay attention to the man behind the curtain should at least concede that yes virginia, there is a man, there is a curtain, and what goes on behind it is likely something not borne of coincidence.Mark 16:16http://www.blogger.com/profile/10318136105507111662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777238270926271080.post-40987562228251429212007-08-04T17:41:00.000-07:002007-08-09T20:39:55.292-07:00the Day they told Us to Stop Thinking<object height="350" width="375"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hDg1WclMAfI"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hDg1WclMAfI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="350" width="375"></embed></object>Mark 16:16http://www.blogger.com/profile/10318136105507111662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777238270926271080.post-90797336628663343932007-08-04T17:26:00.000-07:002007-08-04T17:27:29.454-07:00Year of the Suspicious Package<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3796/884/1600/CCTV.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3796/884/400/CCTV.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />like the pockfaced teenager who has yet to venture beyond his unscrambled porn, october surprises came early this year. there are so many of them now we've lost count. one at the port, one at the federal building, another near the courthouse, seven planted all along wilshire. usually they end up to be nothing more than leftover vagrant droppings, a trail of sandwich crusts scattered among banana peels and whatever else comedians use as a prop. when will the constituents get a chance to breathe, to peruse their trusty voting guides (postage paid by Sacramento), to exercise that freedom our Decider's always hollering about? when will he put down that goddamn megaphone and let the hardhats get a word in edgewise?<br /><br />of course the MSM calls these <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,213388,00.html">packages suspicious</a> minutes before they deem them hoaxes -- but long enough for commuters and dock workers and overtime parents to have agonized over the quickest side streets to their kids. and so it goes with this administration's through-the-looking-glass doublespeak. "9/11" as its affectionately referred to (and who WOULDN'T want their Day of Infamy to be named after an emergency phone call?) was in the end an overt command to obey the color-coded nuances of our every darkest fear, plumes of pulverized WTC steel clouding our reason, the gloom of ash-laden street corners shrinking into almost no memory. it was not just the PNAC blank check we've all come to know and loathe, but even more sinister in the events of 2001 is its indisputable absoluteness; there is no argument against pandora's box. one either heeds history's omen or one opens her flaps and pays the price of civilization.<br /><br />so blow your whistles and keep us running scared msnbcnnbcbs pant, pant, don't stop panting you network news monkeys about how we are 45 days and counting until those all-important midterm elections where diebold cranks out another squeaker ("how DID this country become so polarized??") and we all cheer hooray for democracy and democrats who will allegedly save the day because i dont know i guess they too have the letters D-E-M-O- in their party affiliation and that can't be all bad right? they wouldn't possibly change horses in midstream of this grand experiment we call the American Spelling Bee and finish those letters off with a N would they? seriously it's nothing but a coincidence that the pentagon shares its shape, symbol and topography with the Mark of the Beast -- the same sorta plum bad luck that has plagued the current administration literally from Hour One all the way up to the present day. and so fuck it if we've been on yellow or red or orange or whatever color screams danger the loudest alert, who cares? steel skyscraper collapse, providence flight 77, anthrax, shoe bombs, duct tape, bird flu, short-selling, florida, ohio, new orleans, dollar, euro, dick, rummy, condi, y'know, like, whatever.<br /><br />pay no attention voters to the suspicious box near your neighborhood post office or downstairs in the lobby or outside your apartment window, don't give that tick tick tick tick tick tick another thought just turn up the volume on your kick-ass 80-inch plasma directTV hit fast forward and skip past the ads for Tide and life insurance because the mailman should be coming soon an unmarked box tucked under yet another fake publishers clearinghouse check and with it the chance if only for the brief blur of light between work and sleep to dream of something altogether less random.Mark 16:16http://www.blogger.com/profile/10318136105507111662noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5777238270926271080.post-63891876919496169262007-07-08T17:36:00.000-07:002007-08-09T20:52:57.732-07:00Duped!<object height="300" width="375"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XwRD3dWQjY8"> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XwRD3dWQjY8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="300" width="375"></embed> </object>Mark 16:16http://www.blogger.com/profile/10318136105507111662noreply@blogger.com0