Summer’s End

This is the last long weekend: Summer’s end. This is your last long weekend to make your summers as memorable as they were when you were children! I am going to follow my own advice and head to the Jersey Shore for Labor Day weekend, but I will be coming home early for some last minute Home Depot shopping spree.

(Source: Scientific American)

A shopping spree for WHAT? Don’t I have everything I need by now? A duct tape and toilet paper run, perhaps. Maybe not. As I type this many of you have also called off your Labor Day plans and are wrapped up in your disaster preparedness and evacuation activities. I live on the Jersey shore so Hurricane Gustav (and Hannah, etc.) will take awhile to affect me personally, but it will. It will affect you even if you live in Minnesota! You will see. We’re in the middle of The Perfect Storm, on SO many levels. I’m out of disaster preparedness money - and by that I mean I’m BROKE.

I’ve been the Survivalist Shopaholic since last autumn. What’s coming down the pike can no longer be prevented, so do I just say “fuck it?” and go into further hock for those solar panels and marine batteries? I might have to, for my own peace of mind, and while I still have a functioning VISA card.

Let me e’splain. When we open for business on Tuesday 2nd September, US banks will be unable to handle business with European, Japanese and other foreign correspondent banks if they are not solvent in accordance with the Basel II standards. Basel II is an international agreement whereby banks agree to manage their risk by keeping X % of their assets in reserve. Unfortunately many, possibly most major U.S. banks are insolvent.

Of course, in accordance with Murphy’s law it’s worse than banks just being “in the red.”  The U.S. financial community, and our government, are in default to their creditors. After a series of reprieves, extensions and betrayals the international community is at wits end. Another extension of the time for U.S. banks to comply is unlikely.

THE BUSH/CLINTON CRIME FAMILY STIFFED THE WORLD

The timing couldn’t be more precious: The fiscal year for the U.S. Government ends on September 30th. How will it be able to fund its operations after October 1st, if no one wants to buy U.S. Government bonds? The only way out of this is to cancel or further delay the Basel II reforms, which is unlikely to happen. Like I’ve said before, it will take a freaking miracle to save this country now.

I’ve been preparing for this moment, both mentally and physically, for about two years. I’ve told everyone whom I love what is coming: The U.S. is literally bankrupt. We are in foreclosure. WE are the collateral, and Repo Man is in town. They don’t believe me. They think I’m worried over nothing, that it’s just a “recession” and that we’ll bounce back. I’m one of the smartest, most well-read and observant people they know and they still don’t believe me, that barring some miracle THIS IS THE BIG ONE . And even though I’m psychic I seem unable to get into their heads and figure out WHAT, exactly, is making them, and everybody around me, so STUPID, as if they were a bunch of zombies or mind-controlled drones.

Do I have to scream it out? OK then, here it is all screamy like:

OUR LABOR AND OUR MORTGAGED PROPERTIES ARE THE COLLATERAL FOR THE BAD DEBTS OF A BUNCH OF CRIMINALS.

Was that screamy and succinct enough? Sigh. Maybe some of you out there in the blogosphere are still awake though, so this one is for you, after the jump.

Pigs at the Trough

(Look! Politicians! And their political appointee buddies!)

“You can’t use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!”

Henry B. Adams

Are feds stockpiling survival food?

These circumstances certainly raise red flags

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Posted: July 25, 2008
12:30 am Eastern © 2008 WorldNetDailyA Wall Street Journal columnist has advised people to “start stockpiling food” and an ABC News Report says “there are worrying signs appearing in the United States where some … locals are beginning to hoard supplies.” Now there’s concern that the U.S. government may be competing with consumers for stocks of storable food.”We’re told that the feds bought the entire container of canned butter when it hit the California docks. (Something’s up!),” said officials at Best Prices Storable Foods in an advisory to customers . . .”The government just came in and said they’re buying it. They did pay for it,” he told WND about the summertime shipment of long-term storage butter. “They took it and no one else could have it. We don’t know why.”

So let me tell you why I’m 99% certain this story is for real: I know this company. I do business with this company. I’m on an email basis with the family who runs it. I also have a whole case of the aforementioned butter taking up shelf space in my kitchen.

I also know that a can of creamery butter from New Zealand only qualifies as “survival food” when one is planning ahead. Once in survival mode the last thing you’re gonna care about is whether or not your toast is buttered! You’ll just be happy you have bread.

So apparently the Feds are planning ahead. But which Feds? I’ll tell you now that it’s NOT the military, and it’s NOT FEMA. Soldiers and disaster victims don’t rate cans of creamery butter from New Zealand: The cans are too heavy, and they’re much too expensive to be passing out to the plebes. No, this butter is for the elites: Elected officials and political appointees who will be eating escargots on toast points while you scrounge for whatever . . . unless you take the hint and start making some plans, pronto. You think our politicians and political appointees might know something you don’t? DUH! They’re absconding with whole boatloads of canned butter! What do you think?

And here’s the hardest kick in the shorts: They are using YOUR TAX MONEY to pay for it. “How does THAT make you feel?” Too late now, suckas! They’re taking your money and running with it, the way politicians and political appointees have been doing since the beginning of politics itself. That’s what you get for voting in “Big Government,” folks: Big, fat greedy pigs at the trough eating your food. Enjoy the visual, and welcome to disaster apartheid.

Panic in the American Controlled Media: “Pull the plug! Pull the $#%@ Plug!”

Fox News is Run By Douchebags 101

Watch this Fox News reporter trying to run his mouth over this girl from San Diego who was trying to tell her story about her ordeal in South Ossetia. She was telling the TRUTH and this douchebag cut her off!

Fox News cut them off right in the middle of the account of Georgian aggression, even though Fox had just come from a commercial break! Here is the Russian version of the story:

Isn’t it ironic that RUSSIAN media, long controlled by the Communist Party, is pointing fingers at the US Media? One is as bad as the other!!!

Condi the Yapping Poodle in Georgia

THIS is what Americans were allowed to see of the straightforward question to Condoleeza Rice during her trip to Georgia. Condi had been sent overseas to yap at Russia about its so called “aggression” against South Ossetia. What a hypocritical joke! Mind you: Every professional media outlet has backup connections so that if one fails there is another to back it up. Because of this you can feel free to conclude that the cutting of the connection to the U.S. viewership was deliberate.

This is what the rest of the world got to see:

The Politics of the Undead

It is likely that a Democrat will be president come January 2009, and one of our options is definitely better than the other: Obama’s Corporatist Descent to Communism would be about 5 degrees warmer and fuzzier than either McCain’s or Clinton’s. Barack is slightly less of a warmonger, and nowhere near as mean and vindictive as Hillary. So yes, if someone held a gun to my head and told me I couldn’t write in Ron Paul’s name on the Presidential ballot I’d probably vote for Barack Obama.

Still, I feel bad for those people who are convinced that Obama is the answer to prosperity and peace in the new millenium. Folks, that is just plain too much to ask for. Our corporatist overlords have other plans, and these plans involve war and poverty and debt slavery for us, and unlimited war profiteering for themselves.

WHY in GODS NAME are the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Bilderberg Group pushing this ECONOMY-KILLING agenda when the American people want none of it? Easy, my dears: Our corporatist overlords are Fabian Socialists who view the United States as a “problem child.” So long as America is prosperous and independent Americans can tell the socialists to fuck off. The middle class has to hit rock bottom before our the Bilderbergers and the CFR can impose a control freak socialist “solution” to our national woes. We’re not in bad enough shape, nyet, for them to be able to pull it off. That uppity American middle class needs to be put in its place first.

“You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you’ll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.”

- Nikita Kruschev, to Dwight Eisenhower’s Secretary of Agriculture

Hyperinflation and a collapsed currency, ~25% unemployment, a military draft and a few crop failures might just do the trick in America. I hope I am wrong. Unfortunately my instincts are usually dead-on.

So! You think Barack Obama will at least bring the troops home so that we can enjoy a little peace for once? Dream ON. Remember, Zbigniew Brzezinski, cofounder with Rockefeller of the Trilateral Commission, is a member of Obama’s cabinet. Think of him like another Henry Kissinger, as if we needed another hyper-rich war criminal, but trust me: Brzezinski has been around forever; it’s just that most of you have never heard of him. Ziggy’s had designs on the Caspian Sea Basin energy resources for DECADES. The Brzezinski cabal has already taken over from the NeoCons, who can do nothing but flail and whine and make pointless demands (”Bomb Iran! Bomb Iran!”). Forget it NeoCons: The Obama faction has already redirected its war efforts to the Caspian Sea Basin where it was during the first Clinton administration.

Unless a dedicated peace movement can stop the saber-rattling America is in for WAR IN THE CAUCASUS for the next four years, nevermind the fact that Putin’s already handed Brzezinski’s ass back to him on a platter for his first gambit into Georgia. The bottom line is that behind the hopey exterior Barack Obama’s foreign policy will be as hawkish as McCain’s. Unfortunately Hillary Clinton would be worse. The last thing we need is for warmongering NeoCon Hillary to be talking about “annihilating” other countries.

(If only America would wake up and understand tat there is one PEACE candidate still in the race: Ron Paul.)

This latest development, Hillary’s being put on the role call at the Democratic National Convention, is extremely disturbing to me because the monsters behind the Clinton Machine will grab a mile for every inch that Obama gives in. There is NO WAY that woman will ever give up, because the stakes are too high: Either she ends up in the White House, or she runs the risk of ending up in JAIL.

Seriously. This is not hyperbole. JAIL. Without a Clinton in the White House to stall or squash Justice Department investigations she and her cronies run the risk of being indicted for jail able offenses. The Clinton Machine is an organized crime syndicate, plain and simple. Only money, power and the fate of their clan-based syndicate matter to them. They fully intend to control the world and everyone in it, and they don’t care who has to die in order for them to achieve their ends.

I really worry about what Clinton might do to screw Obama’s chances at winning the nomination. If Obama is not careful might even end up dead. The Obama campaign can’t afford to pussyfoot around, and the sooner the Trilateralists can shut down the Bush/McCain/Clinton Crime Machine the better.

Conspiracy Schoolhouse Rock: Mediaopoly

Where have these things been all my life? LOL this one’s for you, Jen!

(a tip of the hat to my new pen pal!)

A Failed “Strategery”

(There is a Russian adage that dates back to the times of Napoleon`s invasion, that goes: “Father, I’ve caught a bear!” – “Then bring him here.” – “But he won’t let me go.” Click here to learn more about the Russian perspective on East-West affairs)

UPDATE: Everything leading up to the war in Georgia points to an instigation financed by the West, especially given the US/Israel “war games” in the region that neatly - and suspiciously - ended on July 31. At least one American mercenary has reportedly been captured by Russian forces. Although the Western media is portraying Russia as the aggressor, stating that Russian bombs are being dropped on civilian populations, other reports state that it’s Georgian bombs that are falling on civilian neighborhoods and that Russian forces are protecting the civilian population. Russians point a finger at instigating Western/proxy powers (US/EU/UK/Turkey/Ukraine/Israel), and claim the Georgian government is engaging in “ethnic cleansing,” although what ethnicity is being targeted is unclear to me. This site, reportedly coming out of Odessia, says it’s the “aboriginal population” that’s being targeted. Russia says it’s not at war with Georgia and that it’s only there to protect the noncombatants. Since a sizeable percentage of Odessia residents hold Russian passports and ran towards Russia for protection I am more inclined to believe the Russian and civilian reports. First hand reports from civilians tend to be more believable in any case.

Meanwhile the U.S. prepares to blockade Iran, a de facto declaration of war, especially given the fact that Iran has done NOTHING to deserve it. Russia will be obliged to react on Iran’s behalf, with predictably devastating results. Now here’s a scary question: If/when WWIII begins, what percentage of Americans will even notice we’re at war, let alone understand that this time we’re the Bad Guys?

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(Compared to Russians, Westerners suck at strategy)

US Carriers Head for the Gulf; Kuwait Prepares “Emergency War Plan”
(U.S. financed) Georgian Army Moves to Re-Take South Ossetia
Russian Army Battles (U.S. Financed) Georgian Troops
U.S. backs Georgia territory integrity; sends envoy
Israel Threatens to Neutralize Russian Air Defense if Iran Sales Continue
Rice: US Can’t Stop Israeli Decision to Attack Iran

Hey, Western War Machine: When are you going to get it through your thick stupid heads that Russians are the best strategists in the world? JEEZ-US CHRIST ALMIGHTY you’re about to get your ASSES handed to you.

Russia and Georgia are at war. The U.S. and Georgia have a treaty that commits U.S. troops to this war.

So “who started it?” Here’s your answer: Whoever shot the ten Russian peace keepers. It looks as though the UK/US/Israeli financed and controlled Georgia fired the first shot, but let’s see how long it takes for the truth to come out. No matter what the mainstream media tells you, please understand that the situation is “nuanced.” There may be no good guys in this battle, besides the dead civilians.

It’s unlikely the average American could locate Georgia on a map if his life depended on it. This is because ever since the Federal Government took over the U.S. education system we’ve gotten progressively dumber about history and geography. Consequently, to understand the gravity of today’s military situation a little geopolitical geography lesson is in order, so here ya go:

(Image from China Briefing article on Caspian sea energy resources)

1. The Caspian Sea sits on the borders of five countries: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Russia and Iran.

2. These states are prominent for the simple reason that energy power often trumps military might, and the Caspian is the next important oil and natural gas exporter of the world.

(Right click on the map and click on “view” to enlarge the map)

3. Georgia borders the Black Sea between Turkey and Russia. Georgia, “in green” directly south of Russia on the above map, was controlled by Moscow for most of the two centuries preceding the breakup of the Soviet Union.

4. Georgia, heavily financed by the West, has declared “independence” and is seeking NATO membership. What this really means is that the Georgian government has become a “client state” of Western interests. That’s a nice way of saying “puppet regime.”

The whole Georgian Independence fiasco is a baldfaced attempt by US/UK/Israeli interests to snatch-and-grab Caspian Sea energy resources away from Russia. As you may imagine, Russia does not care much for this plan. I have SO much to say about this, but the Olympics are on and I’m busy assembling wire shelves for my Apocalypse Pantry. Suffice it to say that my upcoming essay on the Western struggle for Caspian Sea oil and gas, and Russian efforts to prevent it, will probably be titled something along the lines of IT’S FUCKING CHECK MATE YOU STUPID MORONS.

Watch and learn: Here is a list of the Top 10 chess players in the world (2007). Do you see a single American among them? Take the hint, Bushpunks: GIVE IT THE FUCK UP. Why don’t you save a few lives for once instead of destroying them. That’s not your gas. That’s not your oil. Stop trying to take what isn’t yours. It’s OVER. FINIS. CHECK MATE.

1 Anand, Viswanathan IND 2801
2 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2787
3 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2785
4 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2769
5 Leko, Peter g HUN 2755
6 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2755
7 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2752
8 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2742
9 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2741
10 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2739

Sources: Chess data from Susan Polgar Chess and Information Blog. The “Bush Plays Hopscotch image is from Culture of Life News)

(Go ahead: Make his day.)

The Caspian / Caucasus gambit should have been dead when the Russians kicked British Petroleum out of the region. Now it looks like the Anglo-American-Israeli axis is going to try once more to entrench itself in the Caspian AND make a move on Iran. The Russians apparently elected to preempt by moving in South Ossetia. This pre-emption allows the Russians to slice Georgia in half which would effectively destroy any toehold and /or justification the West could have in the region.

And ordinary civilians are dying en masse because of it. Fucking brilliant, MORONS.

Half Nekkid Thursday: Pass the Torch

(My hand is half-nekkid!)

Eight is an auspicious number to the Chinese. The word for “eight” in Chinese (Pinyin: bā) sounds similar to the word which means “prosper” or “wealth” (Pinyin: fā). In regional dialects the words for “eight” and “fortune” are also similar, eg Cantonese “baat” and “faat”. There is also a resemblance between two digits, “88″, and the shuang xi (’double joy’), a popular decorative design composed of two stylized characters 喜 (xi, ‘joy’, ‘happiness’).

Friday is 08-08-08, which means the opening ceremony at the Olympics will be an especially proud moment for the Chinese people. Years from now people will look to this date and remember it as China’s Coming Out Party. Friday, August 8 2008, may also go down in history as the official kickoff of the New World Order, Chinese Style. America, you had your 200 year lucky run, and now it’s time to pass the torch to the next runner. You’re getting tired and slow, and China itching to go go go! Don’t be bitter! Insist your children learn Mandarin instead!

A reactionary kind of American pride rear it’s angry head in the coming months and it will be interesting to witness just how it manifests. Will the results be positive or negative? Listen: We can’t get all elitist and snooty like the French, who never let anyone forget that France once dominated the world. We can’t turn up our noses like the French because we aren’t chic enough to pull it off! We just need to suck it up and let another world power have it’s turn. The Chinese work hard, rather like we used to, before we got all flabby and decadent and spoiled. As the Chinese grow in prosperity they will become more free, while as America becomes poorer we will become less so. Certainly you’ve noticed that’s how these things work, yes? Scarcity, real or perceived, brings out the authoritarians! Soon we’ll have nothing to brag about except our gumption and our long lost pioneering spirit . . . That is, if we can find these qualities buried under our layers of whiny entitlement. My suggestion: START NOW.

CHINESE DRAGON
Protector of Buddhist Law
Symbol of Imperial Power
Guardian of the Eastern Direction
Controller of Rain & Tempests
Bringer of Wealth & Fortune
Magical Shape Shifter

The Dragon is also lucky in Asian cultures. A mythological animal of Chinese origin, and a member of the NAGA (Sanskrit) family of serpentine creatures who protect Buddhism. The mortal enemy of the dragon is the Phoenix, as well as the bird-man creature known as Karura. Western mythology portrays dragons as malevolent, but Asian dragons are rarely depicted as such. Chinese dragons are fearsome and powerful, but they are equally considered just, benevolent, and the bringers of wealth and good fortune.

Friday is an Eight Dragons Day. The Chinese have much to be happy about: If they are not the most prosperous country in the world they soon will be. My Magic 8 Ball tells me so. See?

Turdblossom on the Lam UPDATE

(See the rest at 23/6)

Weren’t they going to hold this doughboy in contempt? What happened? He’s back in the country, but why isn’t he in front of Congress? HM? Inquiring minds want to know. Meanwhile, the Lang Report continues it’s Karl Rove Watch vigil.

Synthetic Armageddon: The Ultimate Trump Card

(The audience always cheers during this part of the movie!)

“Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government.”

Henry Kissinger in address to the Bilderberg Group
Evian, France, May 21, 1992

Have you noticed how UFOs are all over the news these days? Not just here in the USA but internationally! UFOs have been a major topic on Larry King for a few weeks now, and the UK is all abuzz with it’s frequent UFO and crop circle sightings (one of the latest as of this post: This one to the right, found at Martinsell Hill in Wiltshire near the end of July 2008). A new UFO museum is opening in Roswell, New Mexico. More people are going to UFO festivals than every before. A Google search for “UFOs in the news” came up looking like this:

News results for ufos in the news

Times Online

UFO-chaser extradited for mother of all military hacks - Jul 30, 2008 By Raphael G. Satter Gary McKinnon is accused of hacking US military computers - he says he was looking for UFO evidence online. … New Zealand Herald - 994 related articles » Police flooded with UFO sightings - BBC News - 82 related articles » Astronaut’s alien claims fall short, says UFO researcher - ABC Online - 12 related articles »

YouTube - UFOs - FOX News - Mexican Air Force - CNN News 05/11/04 - Associated Press — AP — MEXICO CITY - Mexican … 7 min -

The first time I noticed UFO talk had gone mainstream was during one of the Democratic Party debates when Dennis Kucinich was asked what most of us thought was an impolite and inappropriate question: “Have you ever seen a UFO?” Within days all sorts of politicians and military personnel were talking up their UFO experiences and calling for a new investigation of the phenomena. Even past presidents admitted to having seen UFOs before. The media took it all very seriously. Weeks later a mainstream news article even described how firefighters in Colorado are being trained to fight UFOs!

All this media activity has caused my inner “antennae” to go up. The red light in my brain is flashing, my Bullshit Buzzer is going off, and a voice is coming out of the invisible loudspeaker in my head:

“The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”

- William Colby, former CIA director

OK, like most people I think UFO talk is pretty crazy, but why would I mention the CIA in connection with them? It’s so easy to explain I can do it in two words: Operation Mockingbird. The media tells you exactly what it is ordered to tell you. Just because the media is reporting a phenomenon doesn’t mean it’s happening any more often than it was before; it just means the phenomenon is getting more press. Anyway, just trust me on this: All this UFO buzz in the media today Is planted there on purpose, especially if it comes from ABC News, IMHO the worst CIA controlled news outlet of all. In fact they’re so bad that if ABC tells you it’s raining, look outdoors just to make sure. There is always an agenda, and this one in particular could get interesting. UFOs, eh?

(Levitron anti-gravity globe available at 7 Gadgets)

As a long-term Defense employee I can confirm, without spilling anything classified, that the U.S. military is pushing the envelope with some mind-boggling futuristic electromagnetic and anti-gravity technologies. I would not be surprised that other government and wealthy private entities are doing things that would look very Star-Trekkish to you if you encountered them.

(Here the U.S. Navy takes out the Big Guns)

The testimony of hundreds of credible and/or authoritative government, military and corporate insiders have confirmed that UFOs are real. But are they from other planets? I doubt it. They are probably all secret and shadowy government projects. As for alien beings, some UFO experts say there are extraterrestrials here on earth while others insist the stories about the “greys” and other aliens are just disinfo spewed by various intel agencies to make the civilian snoops sound crazy. Either way the existence of flying saucers is a government kept secret, and the technology behind the UFO phenomenon will continued to be withheld from the public until the “right time.”

And what would that “right time” be, pray tell? Soon, if the mainstream media is any indication. But why did the government work so hard for so many years to suppress this wild and crazy new technology? Two reasons, the first being free energy: Our governments are controlled by corporate interests that profit mightily from the traditional energy sectors (gas, electricity, nuclear, etc.). If all of humanity could access a different kind of energy for cheap (or even free!) not only would corporate profits dry up, but so would the corporate and government means by which to control us.

The other reason is batshit crazy.

(War of the Worlds)

. . . As immense as that game is, there is a bigger one: Control through fear. As Werner Von Braun related to Dr. Carol Rosin, his spokesperson for the last 4 years of his life, a maniacal machine - the military, industrial, intelligence, laboratory complex - would go from Cold War, to Rogue Nations, to Global Terrorism (the stage we find ourselves at today) to the ultimate trump card: A hoaxed threat from space.

Steven M. Greer MD
Director, The Disclosure Project
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/cosmicdeception04apr03.shtml
Original Posting: June 2002

Well, I don’t know about you but I’m intrigued. But why would anyone embark upon such a harebrained scheme? Control, baby, control. Clearly, our corporatist overlords have psychiatric issues, especially if they think the world would actually fall for a staged alien invasion. Are we that gullible and unsophisticated?

(The Approach, by Bruce at HSI Bryce Realm)

Despite the fact that millions of people have seen UFOs that look an awful lot like flying saucers and spaceships, the official Government Stance is that there are no starships flying for the military or even at NASA for that matter. There are no flying saucers, no UFOs, none of that crap, because those things still belong in the realm of the imagination. UFOs are a complete fantasy. Maybe in a hundred years we’ll be that advanced.

Maybe. Someday. Righhhhht.

But what the heck is THIS? Good question. Notice the captions, if you can read them, are in German, and the paper is old, circa WWII-ish. The answer will keep you sane in the near future, so pay attention: You’ll be needing some reassurance, just in case our demented New World Order controllers decide to give their faked alien invasion a shot.

(Mmmmm, yeah: So what if the Cabal threw an alien invasion and nobody panicked? Wouldn’t that be funny?)

Thank Nicolai Tesla, German aeronautical engineers and the NSA/CIA/DoD for your UFO encounters. Tesla was a genius inventor from the 1940’s era who specialized in electronics and electromagnetics and had 700 patents for his inventions. He also believed there was life on other planets and that humans would be able to interact with extraterrestrials someday. The Foo Fighter legends may have been among the first physical manifestations of Tesla’s theories, though there may be no way for us to know for sure.

There are several legends about Tesla’s inventions and the Nazis who wanted to steal them. Apparently many Nazis were fascinated by the idea of space travel, and a few flying saucers were designed and built based upon Tesla’s anti-gravity theories. No word on whether or not they actually flew.

It is said that when Tesla died his designs were seized by the FBI and classified as Top Secret. Another legend has it that one or more of Tesla’s Nazi associates stole his most advanced designs and escaped to the U.S. to develop Tesla (electrical and electromagnetic) technologies under the protective wings of public and private interests connected to the CIA. Both stories might be true: When the Third Reich fell thousands of Nazi SS officers and scientists “went missing.” Henry Kissinger, dual citizen and no doubt a double- or even triple-agent, brought them into the U.S. Government under Operation Paperclip to research and develop secret technologies. Today our intelligence agencies guard some of the world’s most advanced scientific discoveries and inventions, some even rumored to be not in accordance with Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, yet somehow still functional.

Still, a few “anti-gravity” inventions operating within the realm of current scientific understanding have reached the public’s general awareness. Here is a photo of the Malton flying saucer from Ontario, Canada built in the 1950’s by AVRO, an aviation research company. AVRO developed the rudiments of Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL). VTOL is the basis of the success of the V-22 Osprey, the British Harrier Jump Jet and the new Joint Strike Fighter Program in the U.S.

The AVRO disc was also the prototype for the lunar module pictured here. Unfortunately for the AVRO itself the craft was ponderous and unstable, so the investors (thought to be the U.S. Air Force) cut off its funding.

During the 1990’s the CIA began to reveal some of its secrets:

The Central Intelligence Agency says it has finally come clean about UFOs. To absolutely no one’s surprise, it knew more than it ever let on.

“Over half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s were accounted for by manned reconnaissance flights,” says Gerald K. Haines, a historian for the National Reconnaissance Office who studied secret CIA UFO files for an internal CIA study that examined the spy agency’s involvement in UFOS through the 1990s.

-Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics 11/97

But what about the other half of those reports? Were THEY UFOs? Of course, because they were unidentified. Look at this spooky bird:

Air Force B2 Bomber

Imagine yourself in the 1970’s, in your paisley caftan, sandals and long hair, smoking your doobie and looking up to the sky and seeing THAT.

THAT, my dears, was a UFO once. Unidentified Flying Object. It was simply unidentified, which didn’t necessarily mean the saucer was from outer space. We had stealth, GPS, and supersonic technologies well before the public knew about them. The SR-71 Blackbird set speed and altitude records before it officially existed in the public mind: It was so fast that it could outrun the surface-to-air missiles of it’s day.

(Icy SR-71 found at Kowabunga)

From what UFO watchers can ascertain, the photo on the left is of the replacement for the SR-71, called the tactical reconnaissance TR-3B, or Astra (?). It was built under the superduper doublsecret Aurora Program in the 80’s and its virgin flight was in the early ’90s. Whole fleets of these have (reportedly) been spotted in Europe and  California. The Astra is nuclear powered and is rumored to be able to do some very weird things, including “disrupt” the forces of Newtonian physics (as we nobodies currently understand them) and even make itself look like something else.

Here is my take on the whole UFO-alien mystery: I am 99% certain the early UFO sightings and documented crashes were of intelligence, NASA or military origin. I am 99% certain that none of today’s spacecraft are from other solar systems. Most are government owned, some have been developed via public/private partnerships, and some might even be privately owned by members of the hyper-billionaire class, many so rich you’ve never heard of them.

(You may have heard of Sir Richard Branson’s new spaceship company)

I do believe in aliens, but I’m 99% sure they are “earth aliens,” whether from this dimension or any other. The word ALIEN means “different, unusual, not from these parts,” which is why caucasian xenophobes call Mexicans “illegal aliens” but refer to Canadians as “visitors” or “immigrants.” I would not be surprised if there were a new subrace of humans in existence today, developed by way of creepy banned genetic research. These humanoids, if they indeed exist, might not be registered with any government or even belong to any country in particular, and thus owe no nation any allegiance. I would not be surprised if these human specimens, many undoubtedly pretty unfortunate-looking, are very well-trained and live underground or in orbiting space stations. Does this sound far-fetched to you? It’s not as far-fetched as little green men from Mars!

(Go check out Robot Pegasys for more alien art!)

So what is the end game of all this mainstream media publicity about UFOs and aliens? I do not know. It could turn into the stuff of nightmares, or pave the way to a whole new way of experiencing the world. Then again, perhaps all the media hoopla about flying saucers is nothing more than a tail-wags-dog distraction from the ongoing attempts to impeach the NeoCons and NeoLibs on their way out of public office. I can imagine worst and best outcomes of a staged alien visitation, however, if they are in fact crazy enough to attempt one:

(”Salad,” by Till Nowick)

1) Worst outcome: The corporatist overlords stage a worldwide alien invasion that wipes out 2/3 of humanity and enslaves the remainder in some hellhole of a postmodern dystopia. Then Hollywood makes a movie about it (think Alien, or maybe Mad Max with martians). There are so many rich white Malthusians out there who genuinely believe 1) the “white race” is threatened; 2) the world is overpopulated; 3) there are too many “brown” people “breeding” themselves to literal death, and that 4) if “we” (they) don’t “do” something about it (cull the population like livestock) the world will become so overpopulated with “inferiors” that they will turn to cannibalism to survive. Modern Malthusians are small minded people who accept the myth of scarcity without question. “This doctrine is of the family of the devils who are distinguished for their obstinancy,” says some social sciences dude named Ravenstone whose bona fides hide behind the JSTOR firewall. Modern Malthusians may be insane, and also racist and mean, but they are also rich and powerful. They can afford space ships and futuristic weaponry, while the rest of us can barely afford pop guns.

2) Best outcome: The genetically modified earth aliens, called Pleaidans or Nordics in UFOlogy, sick of being slave-driven by their creators, use their genetic gifts to throw off their shackles and kill off the Illuminati overlords, also known as our “Shadow Government” of rich control freaks. A Galactic Declaration of Independence if you will (just take another hit at that bong and everything will make perfect sense). Think of some combination of the James Bond movie Moonraker, the Stargate-1 Eurodans, the X-files series about the Herrenvolk, only this time the Master Race buys some morals and a clue, then scuttles all genocidal plans for world dominance. The result of this “War in Heaven” will be the entire Universe joining hands and singing Kum Ba Yah, after which a New Age of peace and spirituality will reign . . . with the genetically superior Nordic aliens in charge. Uh, wait: Wasn’t that the original plan? For the charred remainders of the earth to be ruled by Whitey? Don’t think about it too much, you’ll hurt your brain. Hey: For all we know all the aliens want to do is walk on the earth’s surface and feel the sunshine, in which case I say that we let them. We can give them all green cards!

(Aliens’ Border)

Pharmageddon

The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker is turning her attentions to natural healing. I have been a “kitchen witch” for decades. I still have all the books, and still mix my own potions. Now that I finally have my own garden I’m even growing my own medicines. As you can see from the bottom photo they all need haircuts! My purple basil looks especially happy today.

As people become less and less able to afford more and more expensive health care they will need reliable access to alternative medicines such as herbs, tinctures and food supplements. Contrary to what modern medicine would have us believe many of these affordable alternatives DO WORK. From willow bark to St. Johns wort to raspberry leaf to oregano oil, nearly all have a place in the natural healer’s medicine cabinet. However, there are storm clouds on the alternative health care horizon, and it behooves the rest of us to take notice.

The pharmaceutical industry, also known as “Big Pharma,” has been using it’s vast financial powers of persuasion to aggressively interfere with YOUR ability to access vitamins, herbs and natural cures. That is, until it finds a way to bioengineer it’s own, branded “natural” cures using genetic engineering, also called “biopharmaceuticals,” at which point it can near-guarantee itself a lock on the alternative health market.

In other words, it’s Pharmageddon time. Big Pharma has done very little to earn our trust (examples abound), which makes this power grab all the more ironic and insulting.

Greed is banal. Big Pharma wants you to take it’s drugs so it can get richer. The sicker you are, the more drugs you’ll need, see? It’s elementary, my dears. If Big Pharma can’t stop you from taking your vitamins or reaching for natural cures, Big Pharma will find a way to control the content and dissemination of food supplements so that your small town herbalist goes out of business, leaving you with nowhere to go but to Big Pharma for your vitamins. With a prescription from a doctor, that is.

(You almost thought this was a new drug, didn’t you? See how the modern art community is drawing attention to modern “disease mongering.” Be sure to take the Havidol quiz!!! Are you sad sometimes? )

Right now the pharmaceutical industry in Canada is attempting to shut down the alternative health competition by trying to get Canada to reclassify vitamins and your herbal teas as drugs under Codex Alimentarius. Clever, eh? The Canadian Prime Minister is heavily invested in the pharmaceutical industry, surprise surprise! Health freedom activists recently got some of the most egregious language taken out of the proposed law, proof that you can make a difference if you get involved.

Two most potentially dangerous prospects of Codex are:

1) These standards are being devised as international rules intended for world-wide adoption, and

2) Codex Alimentarius has classified nutrients as toxins.

And why should the rest of America, i.e., Mexico and the U.S., care what Canada does? Because under NAFTA, the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SSP) and eventually the North American Union (NAU), we will ALL be subject to the same regulations. Big Pharma is hoping that you remain ignorant of the implications, because the planned elimination of Mexico, Canada and the United States as sovereign countries is a secret, shhh!

To keep up with the state of the NAU as it relates to your health and freedoms, you may want to join the Health Freedom Movement, and add the Globe and Mail and Global Research to your daily news diet.

Synthetic Armageddon Part Whatever: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Read one of my previous Synthetic Armageddon posts, The Big Lie. Then write your own post, applying Hegelian Theory to the Killer Tomato Panic of Summer 2008. Come on, it’s fun! And it’s so easy!

The Bad News is the Good News is the Bad News is the . . . Wait, What?

Few in the financial reporting business are willing to turn over the rocks that are Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, but they’re more than willing to whisper about them:

“Nothing in the insanity of the US mortgage morass epitomizes better the recklessness, risk acceptance, and criminality than Fannie Mae. It is also the object of intense, pervasive, systematic, and very deep crime syndicate activity, some linked to US Govt agencies. In my opinion, few have given serious consideration that Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (F&F) must be bailed out, or else a large cast of ugly dangerous people will be exposed for two decades and hundreds of billion$ of fraud, theft, corruption, and crime syndicate activity. More can be said on this point, perhaps even touching past presidents. F&F cannot be liquidated with full disclosure and resolution of colossal criminal fraud.”

- Freebuck, via The Hat Trick Newsletter, via Gold Eagle Magazine

How interesting. World Reports says the exact same thing and worse, but I fear that if I even so much as link to the website that lays it all out I’ll put my blog in danger. Shortly after Buzzflash linked to the news of the bribes and death threats and the EMPTY retirement accounts at Freddy Mac, the site crashed. When Buzzflash was restored the link had disappeared, and I couldn’t even find it in the archives! All over the financial sectors of the internet there is buzz about fraud, but without much offered in the way of specifics. NOBODY IS TOUCHING THE STORY OF THE CENTURY.

Not that it matters: The blogosphere will ensure that matters take their due course. You can dig up the sordid details yourselves using some clever Boolean logic: Start with the author of this book. Add shadow banking terminology such s offshore, off balance sheet, ENRON, Freddie and Fannie, pension funds. Then, throw in a few terms typically associated with the Mafia (death threats, extortion, fraud), terms associated with espionage (global, intelligence, analysis) and the name of a certain media mogul.

OR, you can just assume that the F&F situation is ENRON Redux, only worse because the criminal betrayals are at INTERNATIONAL level this time. If you have friends or relatives who work at Freddie Mac you might want to clean out your guest rooms. Their retirement funds have all been stolen, and there is no point in trying to chase down the thieves: They are probably already drinking Mai Tais with Karl Rove and Ken Lay.

OKAY! The ROUNDUP!

The Bad News: We’re fucked.

The Good News: All this talk of bailing out Fannie and Freddie is probably all just empty rhetoric designed to prop up the markets.

The Bad News: Fannie and Freddie WILL fail, taking hundreds of failing banks with it.

The Good News: They were going to fail anyway, and at least our tax dollars weren’t wasted to buy time for a bunch of criminals.

The Bad News: We’re all fucked anyway.

How to Get the Government to Pay Off Your VISA

(Yup, that’s me and my bags about two years ago!)

It’s so funny, because it’s so true . . .

Remember that when the government comes calling. If they say they want to help and they only offer you $290 billion or some bullcrap number like that, you stand proud and tell the government, “I didn’t work my ass off behaving so irresponsibly as to bring our nation’s economy to the brink of disaster just so you could call me a slut!” The government will apologize and it will let you know how much you mean to it by offering you another $10 billion. “You’re worth it,” the government will say, brushing a tear from your cheek. “You’ve always been worth that much to me.”

Smacking Fanny

(Jag-U-Are, Rich Bitch Collection)

Hey Guys! I need you to do a little creative visualization for a moment!

Imagine you have a wife who cheats on you constantly, steals all your stuff, won’t let you touch her, and then has the gall to demand maintenance pay. Wait! There’s more! You don’t even get to divorce the bitch. You have to stay married to her and continue to give her money while she continues to shag the pool boy, rob you blind and fuck you over. WHY? Because she’s become “accustomed to the lifestyle,” and the government treats your money as if a significant portion of it were hers.

How would that make you feel? Kinda bad, yes?

Ladies, you do the same, plugging in whatever gender works for you. I actually know a woman whose unemployed husband demanded a huge chunk of her 401K when they divorced. They got married, he quit his job, and then left the marriage a year and a half later with a significant portion of her stuff, because she made more money than he did, because the whole time he was watching soap operas at home. She’s a little bitter about that.

The present plan to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac? Yeah, it’s like THAT.

“A capitalist in need is a socialist indeed.”

Most of us are under the mistaken assumption that the United States of America is a capitalist democracy. Well, it’s not. It’s a corporate oligarchy, with capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich. How does it work? Oh that’s easy:

When we - you and I - fuck up our business and our finances, the bankers and the corporations take our stuff.

BUT . . .

When BANKERS and CORPORATIONS fuck up THEIR businesses and THEIR finances, the bankers and the corporations still take our stuff!

It’s a great system, if you’re a central banker or a corporatist multi-billionaire. Remember the S&L Crisis? The Bush family made a whole pile of money with that scam. This is how the wealth transfer (from us to them) is to work, AGAIN, with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: The U.S. Government plans to buy a huge interest in these failing banks using OUR MONEY. Our parents’ money. Our children’s money. Our grandchildren’s money.

Imagine that they raided your bank accounts and used it to buy stock in ENRON a month before the company’s systemic collapse. Then Talking Heads on the boob tube said “ENRON is critical to the stability of our energy supply. It’s too big to fail.” You would have stormed the ENRON corporate offices to kick some corporatist ass. Am I right, or am I right?

Today we get some anti-bailout fussing from the smart people who know they’re about to get fleeced, AGAIN. Then George Bush insults us further by saying “This is not a bailout.”

[squinting] “You see, [muffled snicker] it’s not a bail-out, [inappropriate smirk] because although the public will assume their debt, [momentary confusion] they’ll remain private corporations. It’s a sell-out! [giddy pride] [poked in back] I mean, it’s definitely not a bail-out. [satisfied nod] Now watch this drive.”

I say let them ALL fail. These are privately owned banks. They made bad business decisions, so they deserve to fail. Their stock prices NEED to go down. The banks NEED to restructure, and the banking executives NEED to be punished for being a bunch of greedy criminals. THAT’s capitalism. THAT’S the “free market economy.” Perhaps the U.S. ought to try it sometime.

In the mean time, we get to support their lifestyles, and we don’t even get to divorce the bitches.

Turdblossom On the Lam

The notorious asshole Karl Rove, also known as “Bush’s Brain,” has been under pressure to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee. Not surprisingly, he disappeared on the 10th for an unannounced “vacation.” He’s been located in Crimea, which has no extradition treaty with the U.S.

It figures. This is how they’ll all get away with it: Unannounced “vacations” to countries that don’t extradite. The Bush/Cheney henchmen were counting on pardons, but if Bush is impeached he won’t be able to issue any. The only way the U.S. will be able to keep the NeoCONS on campus, so to speak, is to ground all outgoing international flights until every last suspected war criminal is rounded up and “detained” in an “undisclosed location.” And we know THAT won’t happen.

I suppose the Bush/Cheney juntas have made SO many enemies that it’s only a matter of time before a family member of a tortured Abu Grahib “detainee” hunts ‘em down and shoots ‘em. I won’t cry.

H/T: The Zoo

UPDATE: The Lang Report has set up a “Karl Watch” vigil.