Updated 11/06/09
This is the place where I analyze the ever-growing list of news stories that I come across which strike me as being very obvious in their agendas, and/or attempts to push certain attitudes and responses on us, with personal opinion summaries for readers’ consideration. It’s intended to be a sampling, not a comprehensive coverage of every obnoxious news headline out there. If that were the case, then I’d have to tend to this write up 24/7 due to the sheer number in existence. :D (The headline dissections themselves start after this introduction.)
Anybody who’s studied up on things realizes what a powerful tool the media is for shaping society’s collective opinions about any subject, as well as helping to steer the direction society is going through its various social engineering agendas. I’ve discussed this in the introduction to my movies section, up called “The Media.” as well as in my write up called The Media. Obivously the media is of interest to me. :D
News headlines serve multiple purposes besides merely retelling events. (And some of this will be a recap from my “Introduction to the Movies” section):
When it comes to the news, the more sordid and ghastly, the better to ensure you’ll click on the link, or sit through the commercial break waiting for the news program to resume. Throw in SEX and you’re guaranteed a winner of a story! As Don Henley’s song “Dirty Laundry” says, “People love it when you lose, they love dirty laundry.” This is very true. The public has been conditioned to cheer for people to fall on their face and screw up. Sex, drug and money scandals rule, along with celebs playing the role of the jokers and the clowns with their (staged, scripted) mishaps and foibles. Tragic accidents, murders, kidnappings, fires, and people just going all around bonkers fill the airwaves and internet. It makes the average viewer with the mundane life feel better about themselves.
And as mentioned in one of my old write ups, Alternative News Headlines – or, how to herd a very large group of people onto the worst probable future timeline, in my opinion, many of those gloom and doom “alternative” news websites seem as if they’re trying to deliberately steer people into having a very pessimistic, hopeless, fearful and disempowered mindsets. Always talking about everything that’s wrong and ugly in the world………..while never offering solutions. It winds the reader up, then leaves them hanging on the line feeling hopeless and frustrated, sometimes retreating into themselves or seeking out distractions and diversions because what can we do, right? It’s so much bigger than us, so beyond us. So this is another aspect of things to keep in mind.
I’m all for being informed, but as noted in various places around my site I think there’s a fine line between being informed and aware…….and then absorbing up mass amounts of useless information about things that have nothing to do with us and which we truly can do nothing about. There are many things we can do something about, in our own individual ways. But in my opinion, much of what we see in both the alternative “truth” websites and the mainstream “matrix” websites is stuff we truly can’t do anything about. So in that regard both types of news media are actually two sides of the same coin. I’m sorry, but I can’t stop what foreign governments are doing. That’s a bit beyond me. I can’t stop people from partaking in illegal activities involving the exploitation and abuse of humans and animals. I’m not Superwoman, who can fly around the planet and stop everybody from doing what I consider to be bad things before they have the chance to do them. However……
It doesn’t need to be that false two choice dichotomy of either A) burying one’s head in the sand in oblivious denial, the new age end of the spectrum who believe that you can never acknowledge anything negative, ever, or B) indiscriminately absorbing up mass amounts of information everyday under the mistaken belief that “Hey! I’m informed! I know what’s going on!”…..no matter how useless and redundant or beyond our control it may all be. There should ideally be that third choice middle ground. Awareness, coupled with knowledge. You’re aware of what’s going on out there in the world, you’re facing it and aren’t being oblivious, but…..you control your reactions to it, and selectively choose what you’re going to ingest, based on what you are able to do within the constraints of your personal life situation. Or to paraphrase what my boyfriend once said, once you’re awake you don’t keep carrying the alarm clock with you for the rest of the day. It’s a great analogy. Once you’re awake, you’re awake. You don’t need to keep having your alarm clock going off in your ear for the next 14 hours. You’re up! Now, shut it off and get moving! So once you become aware of what sort of stuff is really going on out there under the radar of the well oiled and controlled matrix society, then you know. And you can take action based on what you are personally able to do and handle within your own personal reality/realm….throwing the rest away.
Important note: A big part of my commentary/mindset stems from things I’ve talked about all around my site, in articles and in my book, and so the mentality that I describe may be a bit foreign to newbies who’ve never read my previous stuff. Timelines and probable futures, where we put our thoughts and mindset, empowerment, no fear – all things I’ve talked about, and things that will come into play in the following commentaries. So if you’re familiar with my other writings then you’ll understand where I’m coming from, you’ll probably have read some of my various anecdotal experiences that show that this particular mindset has validity. And it’s all just my opinion, as others may feel differently. Just food for thought in case people haven’t considered these points of view….
Fort Hood Shooting
The worst shooting on a military base in U.S. history, and the gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was born and raised in Virginia and went to Virginia Tech. He was of Middle Eastern descent, and a Muslim, with ongoing psychiatric problems. He shot 13 people. The media is claiming that he supposedly yelled “Allahu Akbar!” before opening fire.
The worst shooting on a school campus in U.S. history, took place at Virginia Tech and the gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, was raised primarily in Virginia, and went to Virginia Tech. He was of Korean descent, with ongoing psychiatric problems. 33 people were killed in that attack, including the gunman.
And on a minor level, another murder at Virginia Tech, on January 21, 2009 when Chinese national Haiyang Zhu decapitated his victim. [which ties into the July 2008 incident in Canada, when Chinese immigrant Vince Li stabbed and decapitated a fellow Greyhound bus passenger for no apparent reason.]
Noticing a pattern?
Expanding outwards we flash back to the Beltway Snipers. From Wikipedia: “The Beltway sniper attacks took place during three weeks in October 2002 in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Ten people were killed and three others critically injured [13 total victims shot] in various locations throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area and along Interstate 95 in Virginia.” The suspects? John Allen Muhammed, a converted Muslim, and John Lee Malvo, an immigrant from Jamaica. Their territory in Virginia included Spotsylvania County, Fredericksburg, Prince William County near Manassas, Falls Church, and Ashland.
“A series of trial exhibits indicated that Malvo and Muhammad were motivated by an affinity for Islamic Jihad.27
“Exhibit 65-006: A self-portrait of Malvo in the cross hairs of a gun scope shouting, ‘ALLAH AKBAR!’
And on a minor level, there was the I-64 shootings, here where I live near Charlottesville, Virginia back in March of 2008. Nobody was seriously hurt or killed.
I’m wondering (rhetorically…) if something funny is being done to people in this state….??? !!! It’s just so amazing and coincidental that the Virginia Tech massacre saw exactly 33 people killed, (key Masonic number) and that the Beltway snipers managed to shoot exactly 13 people while the Fort Hood massacre killed exactly 13, along with all these links to Virginia, and Virginia Tech in particular, and immigrants, AND Muslims! Wow! Just amazing.
The point of all this is to always look closer at any of these news headlines. Yes, we live in a crazy world, and there are crazy people who will always be doing crazy things, including shooting, stabbing, beating, even decapitating other people. But there’s what I would consider to be “normal” crime, like robberies, muggings, car jackings, rapes, etc., the sort of opportunistic crime where somebody takes advantage of another for either their own personal gain or gratification and which occurs in any urban area around the world. And then there are those incidents that are “something else.” Incidents deserve a closer look when there’s unusual aspects to the incident(s), and when patterns appear in the chaos. When the number of victims just so happens to equal some occult or Masonic number, when a series of specific types of crimes happen in the same general region, when the perpetrators have things in common with their locations, backgrounds, and/or methods of operations, maybe even saying the same things as they go off, etc. In those cases you may not be looking at some random kook going crazy for no good reason, as the media would have everybody believe. “Oh, he was mentally ill.” “He was a religious nut.” etc. Yes, obviously they were mentally off to be doing what they did, and if they did it in the name of their religion then they would be considered a religious nut. However……you might be looking at a mind control target being triggered/set off, responding to programming.
A potential good example to illustrate this would be the time period of the I-64 shootings mentioned earlier. I have internet news story print outs in one of my binders showing three other unusual shooting situations happening in other parts of the country on the same day:
March 27, 2008, Virginia: “Manhunt launched for Va. Highway Shooter” – Gunfire struck several vehicles along an 11-mile stretch of Interstate 64 early Thursday, injuring two people and forcing police to shut down a portion of the road for nearly six hours….”
March 27, 2008, New Jersey: “Walt Whitman Bridge Closed” – “A man with a gun has forced police to close the Walt Whitman Bridge in both directions….”
March 27, 2008, Georgia: “Four shot at Doctors Hospital; Three Dead” – “….Police tell us the shooting began on the fifth floor of the hospital where Johnston opened fire. His shooting rampage ended in the parking deck located on the hospital’s campus just off Hamilton Road. […] The parking lot of Doctor’s Hospital is under lockdown…”
March 27, 2008, Kentucky: “Police Investigating Fatal Double Shooting” – “Two children were found shot to death Thursday in a home in Okolona. Police said the slayings are tied to an incident Thursday morning in which a woman with a gun was stopped on University of Louisville campus. Around 9:15 a.m. Thursday, officials from the University of Louisville issued a safety alert when a woman held a counselor at gunpoint in a health services building…”
And these were just the ones that I happened to notice in the headlines. there could have been more that day, I don’t know. But the first two have parallels in that it “forced police to close” something, be it a bridge or a stretch of highway. The third and fourth have parallels in that in each instance somebody inside a building mentally lost it and started whipping the gun around, and people died, either there in the building or off site. Each incident taken individually can be dismissed as being yet another example of the crazy world we live in (do a search on “March 27, 2008 shooting” and other random, but much smaller stories pop up in the news archives for that day around the country, and I’m sure that collectively there are dozens of petty crime shooting stories 365 days a year) but there is that unusual element to each of these stories going above and beyond those small petty crime random shooting incidents that one would expect in an urban area, and again, they all happened on the same day. So, I took notice and printed them all out and filed it away, just in case.
It ties into the whole “lone gunman” thing, and the mind controlled patsies who do the bidding of their programmers. In my opinion any of the big time incidents, be it bombs or shootings or whatnot are all mind controlled pawns, fulfulling somebody else’s purpose or agenda. Whatever that may be.
For anybody who’s interested in the idea of patterns in the chaos when it comes to news headlines, check out this blog entry from Celtic Rebel, entitled 3,000 Bells Are Ringing. After reading it you may wonder as I did why you never noticed all those instances of the number 3,000 appearing in headlines. I’ll let the reader draw their own conclusion about what’s going on there. But as I wrote in the comment section, maybe it really is like a computer program that just picks a number by default, and 3,000 was it. o_O
The world’s gone mad
“You mean…..you only just noticed now?” ;D Well, it’s been obvious for awhile. But something about recent headlines has me shaking my head. Marge Simpson, the cartoon mom of The Simpsons is posing for Playboy? Uhhhh…okay. When I saw the Marge Simpson thing being discussed A) like actual newsworthy news, and B) like it’s actually real, my first deadpan humor thought was “We really are in the end times.” ;D
“Marge Simpson has done something that Homer might not like but will make Bart the proudest kid in his school: She’s posed for Playboy magazine.
“After more than a half century featuring women like Marilyn Monroe, Cindy Crawford and the Girls of Hooters on its cover, Playboy has for the first time given the spot to a cartoon character.
“And the magazine is giving the star of “The Simpsons” the star treatment, complete with a data sheet, an interview and a 2-page centerfold.”
o_O Whatever. Talk about “dream logic.” Dream logic is the logic one encounters in a dream, where things seem to make perfect sense…until you wake up. Then you realize it really makes no sense at all. (“Drug logic” would be another good way to put it. Where things make sense so long as one is tripping on hallucinogenics and other mind altering substances, or some mischievous or daredevil act seems like a good idea at the time but only because the person in question was totally drunk. Etc.) Our world has devolved into dream logic madness. Hence, you have Marge Simpson, a very unattractive cartoon character…“posing for Playboy.” ?! And it’s all over the news to boot, with people weighing in on her attractiveness. There is no longer a clear line between respectable news, and tabloid journalism and entertainment. The celeb/tabloid culture IS now the mainstream news, served with a hefty side of dream logic.
Then you have NASA spending $79 million dollars to bomb the moon. In order to……………..find water?
“NASA had encouraged everyone around the country to host “impact parties,” saying the plume of dust generated by the lunar impact would be visible through “mid-sized backyard” telescopes 10 inches or larger. It said the chances of seeing the plume were greater for people living in areas that were still dark.
“The space agency even posted an interactive map on its Web site so people could find “a public event near you.”
I know I’m not the only person out there scratching my head about this one. Nothing about it makes any sense. What’s interesting is the fact that NASA – an American agency mind you – was “allowed” to do this without any sort of protest or policing from any other countries in the world. As if the moon belongs to the U.S., and isn’t a satellite of you know, the entire planet. o_O Interesting too that the big plume and the impact that was supposed to be so visible to everybody with 10 inch scopes and dark, clear skies didn’t manifest.
The alien-oriented fringe conspiracy theorists who believe that there are alien bases on the moon are saying that this was a cover fascade for bombing one of those bases. I’m not knocking conspiracy theorists, as I’m one of them ;) but I can’t say that I buy that idea. I don’t know what the deal is, but I just know that I’m not taking this story at face value. The problem with stories like this is when you can find discrepancies and plot holes in other major related stories over the years, it makes it so that one finds it impossible to just automatically believe anything anymore. Everything becomes a suspicious “yeah, right,” to the annoyance and chagrain of the sensible types who follow along with mainstream version of events. ;) When it comes to the situation of the space program, whether or not there are aliens, and Man’s place in the cosmos, research (and personal firsthand experience) has shown me that nothing is what it seems to be. So why would I believe this story, you know? I can’t. I want to. Because it makes life easier and simpler. But I can’t.
Then you have the total madness that is……balloon boy. Do I really need to recap this one? For those who don’t know, Friday of last week the world sat on the edge of its seat as a six year old boy supposedly floated 8,000+ feet above Denver Colorado in a homemade “balloon” thing that his family had been putting together. His older brother claimed to the police that he saw the boy climb into the box that was attached to the underside of the balloon – a silver mylar balloon designed in the shape of a UFO, mind you – and it had somehow come untethered and he just……floated away. Everybody panicked, helicopters and the National Guard were deployed, updates stated that the balloon could fly up to 10,000 feet, and a deputy even claimed that he saw something fall out of the balloon. o_O The prognosis wasn’t good. If the balloon could somehow land, there’s no way the boy would survive the impact. And that’s if he hadn’t already fallen out to his death, thousands of feet below. Every media outlet was tracking this story, with internet news sites giving updates every few minutes.
And to make a long story short….the boy was never in the balloon, in fact the balloon wouldn’t have been able to carry him aloft even if he had been, he was actually hiding away somewhere while his family knowingly concocted the entire scheme supposedly because of wanting to be reality TV show fame whores….and something about the father being a hot tempered nut who may or not have been involved in a domestic violence dispute with his wife, and who is obsesesed with Roswell, 2012 and the end times. o_O If you’re confused, don’t worry, you’re not alone. !! And there you have it.
I actually don’t believe whatever we’re being told about this family’s motivations and what actually transpired here. All I know is that once again, something in the mainstream world turned out to be smoke and mirrors, with endless hearsay and he-said, she-said. That’s all that ultimately matters to me. As I just recently posted on a messageboard, the media’s gotten absolutely wackadoodle. A total circus. Like I’m going to believe anything they’re saying about this family after all that. ;D
Then on a minor note you have the story of the gun toting soccer mom who was killed by her gun toting husband. The picture featured in that article is the one taken last year, when the mom, Meleanie Hain, brought her fully loaded Glock to her kid’s soccer game in Lebanon Pennsylvania. For no apparent reason. Just because. And a year later, her husband shoots her dead with his own gun, then kills himself.
Something about this story is so over the top “coincidental” that of course I’m wondering whether these people were programmed to do what they did. You always hear about the “problem-reaction-solution” (david icke term) scenario in relation to gun control, where a bunch of supposed “nutters” are set off to shoot people and blow shit up, then stricter gun enforcement and assorted laws can be put into place as a result. I definitely believe in programmed people when it comes to the larger scale events (Columbine, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma City, etc.) of which usually involve the death of other innocent bystanders, but when it’s on a small individualzed scale, I don’t know. I can see how it could merely be a case of irony at its best – two crazy gun toters wind up dead from their own guns. Yet….something about this headline is way too coincidental and pointed. In particular the way Ms. Hain went out of her way last year to wear a loaded Glock to a kid’s soccer game, belted into a holster that was fully visible to everybody, apparently scaring a lot of people. It’s not like they kept their gun love a private matter, as most people would. The Hains flaunted it in inappropriate situations. And that’s what makes this story more than just a simple case of irony. It’s almost like something wanted these people to make a spectacle of themselves, then wanted them to be the victim of their own spectacle. For what ultimate purpose, one can only guess. Just my thoughts…..
“ACORN”
I only just came across this story over the past couple of days. Finally caved in and clicked on one of the stories featured on Rense.com because I was bored at work and desperate. I scanned the various stories featuring “ACORN” in the list of headline titles and finally chose the most sensationalistic one I could find, because I wanted the maximum amount of entertainment for my mouse click. CA ACORN Worker Confesses to Murder on Video. You don’t get any more sensationalistic than that. !! From the article (bolded words are my own emphasis):
“On Glenn Beck’s radio program this morning, Beck played new audio clips from a fourth incident that had also been taped under-cover. This tape comes from San Bernadino, California. Once again James and Hannah pose as a prostitute “Eden” and a pimp and are speaking with an employee named Theresa.
“Upon their arrival, Theresa asks them if they are familiar with ACORN, the actors state they are, and Theresa goes on to tell them that “We say we are non-partisan.” Which implies that they are in fact, not. Like we didn’t know that already.
“When James and Hannah reveal their “professions,” Theresa divulges that she herself used to run an escort service and seemingly thinks that Hannah’s job as a prostitute is great. Even better, Theresa says “Heidi Fleiss is my hero.”
“James and Hannah additionally reveal they are planning on smuggling El Salvadorian underage girls into the United States to fund future political campaigns, to which the ACORN worker voices no objection what-so-ever.
“10:54am: As the audio continues, James divulges his aspirations to run for an elected office someday. In enthusiastic response, Theresa says she speaks with Congressman and Senators every day. She names Senator Barbara Boxer and Senator McCleod, and 62nd district Assemblywoman Wilmer Amina Carter. Theresa says that “Eden’s” prostitution money would be an asset to him in his quest to become a Senator or Representative.
[….] “11:15am: Theresa discloses that her ex-husband abused her and “beat the hell out of” her. She then continues to confess, “I killed him . . . . I shot him.” She notes that she had laid some “groundwork” beforehand. When James and Hannah question her as to whether he was abusing her when she killed him, she says that he was not at that moment, but she knew he was going to, she said, “I knew it was coming.”
The only thing I can say after reading this is…………Do people really believe this?
Call me paranoid fringe conspiracy theorist, but my first reaction to reading this was, It’s a farce. And “Theresa”? Can you say, plant? That was my impression, and others may disagree. But nobody’s going to just casually divulge that they killed somebody, or give the thumb’s up to smuggling in underage girls from Central America, or proclaim that Heidi Fleiss is their “hero.” It’s so over the top to the point of total ridiculousness. I haven’t read the transcript of the previous four interviews yet but I imagine that if they also contain over-the-top conveniently sensationalistic material then they’re probably plants too.
So if Theresa is a farce/plant then how do we explain James and Hannah who just so happened to conveniently land in her office of all offices, getting her to say all this craziness? It means they’d have to be a farce as well. Actors. Not just in their attempt to pretend they’re a prostitute and pimp to supposedly unsuspecting ACORN offices, but pretending to be undercover reporters in the first place. In my opinion. The whole thing would be a set up from top to bottom.
For what purpose then, people may be wondering. Could be a number of reasons. And I’m not a supporter of Obama (as anybody who’s read the rest of my stuff can tell, I’m definitely the “conspiracy theorist” who’s on the sidelines, purposely not even registered to vote) but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that there are many people who don’t like the idea of Obama being the president, and since ACORN is linked to him then possibly it’s an attempt to disgrace him. (and again, not that I care, because I’m not a supporter. This entry is strictly to point out the farcical nature of the story itself that lures people into distraction drama.) But there are many ways one can go after their perceived enemy, and causing somebody’s downfall through scandals and disgrace is definitely one of them. Playing dirty, basically. If that’s the case then I’m sure there will be more of these stories surfacing in the future. I have to roll my eyes when they expect us to take the nonsense at face value. Although…..looking at comment #20 that appears underneath the article: “James and Hannah deserve the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for 1: Public Service; 2: Breaking News Reporting: 3: Investigative Reporting by an individual or team; 4: National Reporting; 5: Breaking News Photography… This is the “BIGGEST” – “BEST” NEWS story I have seen in years! This is bigger than the Nixon- Watergate invesagation! What a story!” Many do believe this apparently, getting all into the big fake soap opera. o_O Scary.
“Obama Killed a Fly” overkill (no pun intended)
So last week I kept seeing the headlines all over the internet going on and on about how Obama killed a fly in the middle of an interview. Like most things in the media, it was like complete overkill saturation. After work I was on the computer and saw the vid featured on the main page of YouTube, and so reluctantly caved in to the psy-ops experiment. So yes, I admit, I succumbed to the programming. o_0 eek (That’s something important to note, the mass bombardment of certain news headlines – most times which are petty, pointless, stupid stories – on all the news outlets, all day long, sometimes for several days straight. Seems to be a particular tactic that’s employed.) So after caving in and then viewing the footage I found myself clicking play again, to repeat it…..then again after that. Why? Because something about it wasn’t right. The fly on the floor was huge, just big and black and lying there all perfectly dead, way bigger than whatever was supposedly buzzing around Obama’s head. That thing could not have possibly been on his sleeve, nor in the air around his face, because you would have seen it. And in the video you can’t actually see anything in the air, around his face, on his sleeve. And you don’t see anything when he supposedly flicks the fly onto the floor. Not only that, but had he slapped the thing we saw lying on the ground with as much force as he’s shown in the vid, then it would have been a little messy I’d imagine. !! I wouldn’t even slap a small fly for that reason. Instead, the fly is just lying there all big and black and unsquished. It wasn’t right, and so I found myself repeating the vid several times in a row. It totally looked to me like a big fake fly that had been put on the floor, staged.
But yet, I didn’t ponder on it after that, didn’t think “conspiracy” or anything, or take the idea of “fake fly” seriously because really……………..why would anybody stage a dead fly, right? Just seems really ludicrous. Even for me. :D Who goes out of their way for something that petty, right? Yet…there was no denying the complete overkill coverage of the subject in the media, for something not worth talking about at all, which in itself indicates something suspicious about this story. So then today I was visiting the David Icke forum (of chaos and mayhem ;) as I call it,) and saw people discussing it over there, questioning the legitimacy of the vid, so I realized I wasn’t the only one out there thinking something was off about it all. Nobody had yet mentioned what I said here, instead it was other observations that they thought didn’t add up, but pool it together and it’s saying that the vid just plain old doesn’t add up. One poster (post #17) went as far as to think about various phrases having to do with the word fly, and their possible secondary symbolism in this situation, which I thought was interesting. “He wouldn’t hurt a fly”…..oh, but he did. “No fly zone” (and the bruhaha several months ago concerning the Air Force One illegal fly-by in the No Fly Zone when Obama was visiting NYC....) “like flies on shit,” and best of all, the one about “dropping like flies,” in light of the possible upcoming swine flu mutation pandemic. The one about “no fly zone” is the best though. What are the odds. Bruhaha over Air Force One in a No Fly Zone. Obama giving an interview on camera and not tolerating the fly in his zone.
Anyway, it’s another case of media overkill on random pettiness, as usual. Only this time there might be possible secondary symbolism intended, who knows. But that leads to the greater “hmmm” realization, that if they faked a petty, silly fly kill situation, then…..why? Why go to such great lengths to do that, and then saturate the media with it? Again, it just seems so ludicrious (to the point where I worry about sounding schizophrenic for even talking about it) which is why I didn’t immediately think “conspiracy” when seeing it…..even though something about the vid wasn’t right, and caused me to replay it several times in a row. Then that leads to the realization of, what else are they faking if they’re going to fake something as small as that? ;)
Spate of “Natural Remedies and Supplements Debunking” in the Media
I was already contemplating whether to mention what I perceived to be a possible assault on natural cures/remedies going on in the media recently, and then my (mainstream, non-woo woo) coworker brought yet another aspect of it to my attention, which convinced me to add it here. But this morning my coworker mentioned that she had seen on TV these “tickers” running on the bottom of the screen that were advertising a program or something debunking natural supplements. She wanted to see what I thought about that since she knows I’m interested in natural healing stuff. I don’t actually normally talk much about my alternative beliefs with her, but I have mentioned just enough in passing (because I can see she has the potential, and does respond to “seed planting”) that she rememebered, and thought to run this by me.
My take on it was this: “Coincidentally” this past week in our local paper (The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Virginia) they ran a three part series by the Associated Press covering the subject of natural supplements. From what I skimmed of part 2, (the only part I saw) the focus was on people who had turned towards natural supplements for cancer in lieu of traditional Big Pharma…..and died, paying the price. It irked me so much (the reason why coming up in a short bit) that I couldn’t even read the whole article in full, so admittedly I’m not sure if they played fair and showed the other side of the story. But just before that we had the Newsweek cover story making fun of Oprah, and criticizing all the supposed wackos she has on her show who advocate various supplements and treatments and New Age beliefs such as “The Secret,” also in lieu of traditional medicine. I don’t even read the newspaper and don’t pay attention to Newsweek, so interestingly enough the only reason I became aware of either of these stories was because of my job, where they put the daily newspaper in the main lobby/waiting area of our office as well as a subscription to Newsweek. Same deal with TV, I don’t even own one so my coworker had to bring it to my attention.
The AP article and Newsweek cover were already enough of something being that they happened so close together, but factor in TV tickers on top of it and in my opinion, we’re looking at an attempt at discouraging the public from thinking along the lines of natural healing, supplements and “new age” therapies.
Why?
Good question. You always have to ask why. What’s going on, right now, that would warrant a sudden burst of “anti natural healing” campaigns? Oprah is old news. She’s been doing her thing for years, so why has she only now just gotten on Newsweek’s radar for giving people a platform to talk about alternative medicine? Why the sudden need to try to steer as many people as possible towards Big Pharma, right now?
Swine Flu.
Again, just my opinion, but as I said to my coworker it’s such an amazing “coincidence” that swine flu has been officially declared a pandemic, the first one in 40 years, at the same time this anti-natural healing campaign is in full swing, on TV tickers and in the print media. It’s not a coincidence, in my opinion. It’s by design, and I explained that to her. (And as I’m typing this I just remembered another fairly recent mainstream media mention that I came across in my travels trying, once again, to debunk colloidal silver. We’ll get back to colloidal silver in a moment.) What I also went on to mention was that these stories will take the one person who died while taking natural supplements…..while ignoring the thousands who have cured themselves. It’s biased, one sided reporting. They turn everything into a black/white, polarized, false two choice dictotemy/‘throwing babies out with the bathwater’ extravaganza that it’s a little irksome. Either all supplements are hokey hooey snake oil, promoted by charlatans who are out to rip you off and prey on your desperation and naivete, or, it’s all completely legit. When in fact the truth lies somewhere in the middle. I told my coworker that yes indeed, many supplements are “snake oil,” and do rip off a lot of people………but this doesn’t mean they all are. It doesn’t mean you reject the entire shebang because a few are not legitimate. My coworker interjected the wee bit of knowledge she had learned about the subject, which was that it turns out many of these natural supplements are actually produced by big name companies. I said Yup, that’s definitely true….but many aren’t. They’re manufactured by small Mom ‘n Pop independent companies, and many of them are things you can grow and produce yourself.
My coworker knows the story of the woman I met back in 1994 who had been given a cancer death sentence in the late 1960’s. Her cancer had apparently spread so far that the doctors wouldn’t even waste their time or energy administering chemo. They said it was pointless, told her she had six months to live, maximum, and sent her home to die. Buh bye. And 25 years later she was sitting in the passenger seat of the hotel shuttle van that I was driving, telling me this story. So what happened?
Natural healing is what happened, that’s what. Being told to “go home and die” was so alarming that it triggered something in her, as she described to me. Her reaction was a mental push back, an “I don’t want to die!” And overnight she completely changed her lifestyle. Eliminated all wheat, dairy, processed sugar, caffeine, alcohol and junky non-whole food from her diet, began eating only all natural, whole foods as well as doing vegetable juicing, and 25 years later, there she was. Cancer free. Still alive. And very healthy. Healthier than me, who was then 20. To say her story made an impact on me is putting it mildly. She was living proof that you don’t need chemo to recover from cancer, even if it’s progressed so far that the docs refuse to even “waste” chemo on you. So, “go home and die”? I don’t think so. Where is her story in these mainstream debunking agendas? She, and the many more like her, are conveniently overlooked and stepped over. That AP article from what I do remember went as far as to claim that nobody has ever been cured by any of these natural healing remedies. That is a lie. I know more than one who has, the most extraordinary one being the woman just mentioned. But they don’t want you to know about them. They want you to be convinced that there is only one route to go with your body, and that’s to “entrust” it to the mainstream medical establishment. And most importantly, to always be giving your money to Big Pharma, and not these other natural healing companies.
And so with the swine flu picking up steam, here we are. Tickers on the TV scrolling along convincing you that natural supplements are crazy, “Newsweek” headlines talking about Oprah’s wackadoodle natural healing and New Age guests, anonymously written multi-part AP articles “investigating” natural healing’s failure in curing cancer. Etc. Etc. Etc. From what I’ve read of who has been on Oprah, I don’t agree with some of what she’s apparently been promoting. But again, always keep in mind the “babies with the bathwater” concept. And for all we know, those wackadoodle guests may actually be a part of the conspiracy to make natural healing look bad. Feature the flakey types, but avoid the ones who really do know what they are talking about. You kind of have to think in those ways when it comes to dissecting agendas in the media. It’s usually a little more convoluted than meets the eye.
Earlier I mentioned the colloidal silver issue in passing. What you typically hear with colloidal silver debunking is the couple of sensationalistic times when somebody turned blue from using the silver. But what they fail to tell people is that there’s a right way and a wrong way to make colloidal silver. Colloidal silver, made the correct way, does not turn you blue. The mainstream media of course only shows you the couple of people who did it wrong. But where are the thousands who use correctly made colloidal silver, get healed, and don’t turn blue? They don’t exist as far as the mainstream media is concerned. They don’t want you to know.
The swine flu is going to make Big Pharma a lot of money, both in hospital costs and vaccination expenses. They don’t want you to consider anything other than what they tell you. They don’t want you to know just how much wheat, dairy and processed sugar compromises your immune system, or what anti-microbial herbs or colloidal silver you can take to combat little invasive body beasties. Or that a thing like “mind over body” actually does have validity. Because the woman I mentioned earlier who was told to just go home and die was saved just as much by her determined mental state as she was by anything physical she did, in my opinion.
If this entry interests you then check out Montalk’s write up Flu Pandemic 2009-2010 – Boost Your Immune System. Montalk noticed that in fall 2009 as well as 2010, there will be astrological alignments taking place that match up to the 1918-1919 and 1968 flu pandemics, and discusses what we can do to make our bodies stronger, both physically and mentally for what may lie ahead. There’s also my health piece, Sickness – It’s All in the Head.
Fake stories, ghost writers, scripts, paid trolls, actors and actresses – Shocking stories that most likely aren’t even true to begin with.
Over at Henry Makow’s site there’s an entry regarding a Times UK article concerning some woman’s supposed long term incestuous relationship with her brother. (scroll down until you get to the entry.) The column involves a story supposedly relayed to the writer from a woman who is never named, mind you, and has people all in a tizzy. You have people who are grossed out and morally up in arms over it, the conspiracy researchers who are convinced it’s the next step in the “Illuminati’s” agenda to normalize deviant sexual behavior, and then the defenders, nonchalantly laughing at the hysterics and saying, Hey, it’s all good!
To all of them I put out the theory that stories like this aren’t even real to begin with. In the same way the “Jerry Springer Show” and all of its clones were scripted and fake, so we must keep in mind that the same goes for much of what is being presented in the mainstream media. Just because it’s “mainstream” and being labeled as “news” doesn’t mean it’s actually real. The incestuous woman in question is never named by word or photograph. It means anybody could be saying anything, spinning wild yarns, and who could prove otherwise? You can’t. You’re expected to just take the author of the article’s word for it that somebody really actually relayed this to her. Uh, sure they did. I guess that’s why the language of the write up reads like a third rate sex/romance novel. You know, ‘cause it’s just so real and legit like that. :D
These attention grabbing sensationalistic stories are there to: 1. Divert your attention off of things that actually matter; 2) Generate advertising $$$ revenue and 3) Serve various conspiratorial agendas. In this case as mentioned, it involves normalizing behaviors that previously were considered taboo and using whatever faked means they can pull out of thin air in order to accomplish that.
And people fall for it, guaranteed. That whole “Oh no she didn’t!” shocked response, followed by the gossip tsk tsk’ing as people discuss the story with their friends, family or coworkers, all worked up about it, choosing a polarized side, being distracted and diverted by the crazy and extreme entertainment aspect of it. It’s all entertainment. Bread and circuses.
Who is the author of the article? Is she even real? Maybe not. Who is the woman she interviewed? I don’t believe she actually exists. Especially considering how the whole sordid tale reads like a cheap sex novel. Who are the nonchalant defenders, making sure to post supportive comments about it all? Probably paid trolls, serving the agenda. Not real either, at least, in the way that people think they are. (The ability for the average everyday ‘net reader to post their personal commentary has sprung up all over the ‘net, from personal blogs and social networking sites, on up to major news websites, but the mistake that many people make is thinking that these commentators are regular people, like themselves, who should A) Be acknowledged in the first place and B) can be reasoned with in some way. When in fact they may be assigned to be there, posting what they post. Which means, they can’t be reasoned with, so, don’t even get involved in an exchange with them. Just something to keep in mind when you keep coming across obnoxious and bizarro comments on the ‘net.)
Most awakening people and “conspiracy” researchers are at least aware of the way in which the media spins stories and reports from a place of bias, maybe even fudging a few details from time to time, but I’m just at a place where I believe that most of what we’re seeing in the media isn’t real. At least, not in the way that we may naively believe it is. You have “reporters” and writers who are probably ghost writers using aliases and who maybe don’t even exist at all, people grinning in photographs of some sensationalistic distraction entertainment diversion who are just paid actors playing a role. It’s not real.
There are the stories about the latest plane crash or train derailment or school shooting or weather catastrophe which are in fact real, since real people actually died or were hurt who can be traced, but it’s mixed up with a whole lot of stuff that…………isn’t. Filler. Nonsense. Distraction. Agendas. Revenue generators. Always keep that in mind before getting sucked into the craziness and choosing a polarized side. And when you hear others around you getting sucked into various dramas presented to us in the news, maybe remind them too, “Things aren’t what they seem to be…….”
The Jon Stewart misdirected blame game.
By now, most people have heard of the Jon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer showdown on ‘The Daily Show,’ I only even just recently learned who Jim Cramer is, since I don’t watch TV, but he’s apparently the host of some financial show. But Jon Stewart had Jim Cramer on his show and put the spotlight on him, trying to back him into a corner and hold him responsible for not warning the public ahead of time about the financial crisis happening in the world right now. Even better, he’s claiming that Jim Cramer and his buddies at CNBC knew what was going on well in advance, and chose not to let the public know. Maybe so, but the only thing I can think of as I watched an excerpt of the interview on YouTube was that the rabbit hole goes a lot deeper than just Jim Cramer and CNBC. But they sure make a convenient scapegoat, don’t they? ;) Right now the mentality seems to be one of heads need to roll! and somebody has to be held accountable for what’s gone on! Problem is, the true people (or rather, “people,” whoever and whatever they really are) who run this planet will never be held accountable for the things that go on. Be it false, manipulated and senseless wars in the name of lies, manipulated financial meltdowns, environmental destruction, you name it. They will always remain behind the scenes, while fall guys get sacrificed or blamed on the front stage show. That’s just what it is. But much of the public doesn’t know or understand this yet, and believes the mainstream version of the world as it’s been presented to us. And so a drama like Jon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer really makes them feel like “something is being done!” and “somebody’s being held accountable!” You know…..a head is rolling! Woohoo!!!! Roll head, roll!!!! It’s a great distraction tactic for the powers that be. The media LOVES a feud, and anybody fighting in the media winds up all over the headlines, with the drama exaggerated and amped up in this desperate attempt to lure you in to watch, hoping you’ll pick a polarized side and get all riled up. It’s gotten so transparent.
Jon Stewart is laying into Jim Cramer about supposed prior knowledge of the financial meltdown, when maybe he really needs to be addressing the fact that the meltdown was manipulated to begin with. And if it was manipulated to begin with, then……..who is behind it? Funny you should ask! Maybe he could address that too! And while he’s at it, maybe he could tackle some real financial issues, such as the IRS. The Federal Reserve. The fact that our money is backed by nothing. Who’s really running the show in this country. And so on.
He won’t, of course. Because despite appearing as if he’s this hero voice of the people, the fact is, he has a show and is in the position of power that he’s in precisely because he’s not exposing anything real and not pointing the finger at the real culprits behind the curtain. :) If he wasn’t in line with things on some level, playing the game and knowing what lines not to cross, then nobody would even know who he is.
Only missing/dead white women and children matter
Totally forgot about this one, and I know I’m not the only one who’s noticed it, but the mainstream news media goes bonkers anytime there’s a story regarding a missing pretty white woman or child, or when a white woman or child turns up dead. (right after posting this I decided to try an internet search on “missing white girls” and came up with a Wikipedia entry all about Missing White Woman Syndrome.) Lacy Peterson, Natalee Holloway, JonBenet Ramsey, Chandra Levy, Polly Klaas, Elizabeth Smart, Madeleine McCann, Caley Anthony, Riley Ann Sawyers (aka “Baby Grace”), Sandra Cantu, Hayleigh Cummings, Somer Thompson, and the many other white female women and children that have been kidnapped or murdered over the past 15 years and who received ample media coverage. (Including the two white girls, ages 11 and 13 who were shot in Oklahoma in 2008.)
A good example to illustrate the stark contrast of the world would be this excerpt from a CNN headline concerning the African American serial rapist/killer in Ohio:
“The first six bodies found last week were all African-American women and five of them had been strangled, McGrath said.
“I can imagine how families feel who have reported a missing person, and the anxiety that they are going through,” Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said. “And we want to assure them as soon as we know something they will be the first to know.”
None of the missing African American women who turned up dead in the house and yard were ever reported in the mainstream news, or received any of the sort of coverage that missing white women and children did. It’s like they didn’t exist. Conversely, anybody who reads or watches the news knows the names and stories of the missing/murdered white women and children mentioned above, whether they want to or not, only because it’s complete media saturation. Yet, how many non-white children turn up dead every day, all over the country, victims of either child abuse, neglect or senseless murder? We never hear about them, period. They don’t exist to the world.
Another great example would be the latest media frenzy involving Morgan Harrington, the – pretty, blonde, blue eyed, white – female who disappeared at the Metallica concert here in Charlottesville, Virginia in October of 2009. It has received huge, nationwide attention, including CNN’s Nancy Grace getting in on it. Conversely, another woman named Cassandra Morton went missing in the region during the same week of October and nobody here heard about it, until her body was discovered in Harrisonberg this week. (December 2009) I heard about it secondhand from a woman at work who came in this morning (12/2/09) infuriated over the way the story was handled on NBC 29. It was announced as “Good news….the body found (insert specific location) was not Morgan Harrington.” !!! “Good news”? o_O Talk about holy shit. The woman relaying the story to me never mentioned the issue of race or bias, but in listening to the treatment of the story I just knew….she must be black. That’s why it’s “good news” that it wasn’t Morgan. That it was “just” Cassandra Morton. Did an internet search on her name afterwards and sure enough…she was black. No surprise. But that’s the world we live in. As eyebrow raising as this might sound to some, I don’t really think the people announcing the news are human half the time. Because how is it good news that somebody turned up dead, especially when they are a mom, like Cassandra?
Which leads to the other important point – It’s not just that the white women and children receive coverage while others are overlooked, it’s the completely overboard media saturation of it all. Every magazine and tabloid cover for months on end, non-stop TV coverage for months on end, non-stop internet headline updates for months on end. And in some of these cases……..years on end. The public is bombarded with these white women and children’s faces and stories, like a sordid soap opera of distraction and drama that TPTB just love. It’s like they’re rubbing their hands together in giddy glee over it all, can’t get enough, anything to get you to buy that magazine or tune into that entertainment tabloid TV show to hear the latest updates. What suspects if any were named, what arrest warrants have been issued and what suspects are now missing or on the lam, what forensics evidence turned up, whatever new twists and turns in the soap opera have emerged, and what sordid details can be revealed to “GASP! SHOCK!” the audience, the more grisly and shocking, the better. It all plays out like a movie, the plot with the mystery that needs to be solved, the colorful cast of characters, sometimes an exotic location, or money and high class intrigue, and of course you can’t forget the plot twist. Have to have some sort of twist, where stuff isn’t what it seems to be. And all of which keeps the audience riveted. And conveniently distracted.
Even worse are the books that are spawned by it all. A glance over the True Crime section of your local major bookstore is pretty eye opening. And that’s not even counting the made-for-TV movies they also spawn. These stories have become an actual industry. It singlehandedly keeps many tabloid mag writers, true crime novel writers, teleplay writers, screenplay writers, actors, actresses, producers, directors and entire film crews employed.
“The subtle negative message about homeschooling.“
This is kind of an older one, from the end of last year but I only just remembered about it today (October 27th). It’ll be a verbatim re-post from something I posted to a message board forum last year, to save me the time. But the post in question had to do with the Colorado school shootings that occurred around December 9, 2007, and how I noticed that it was mentioned not once, but twice in the article that the shooter was homeschooled, as if trying to convey a not-so-subtle message about homeschooled kids:
“An interesting tidbit with the Colorado shooting………in the Yahoo news story I just found, where they reveal the supposed identity of the shooter of at least one of the churches, they emphasize not once, but two times in the article that he was home schooled in a strict Christian family. It’s interesting because they’re obviously trying to establish a link between home schooled kids being unstable loonies that just might flip out and go shoot things up.
“Now, here’s the connection…..maybe about two weeks ago or so I was reading an article on Rense.com I believe, talking about how many conservative Christian parents in California are pulling their kids out of public schools and home schooling them in light of new legislation to push gay/lesbian studies, stuff that would make it mandatory to teach kids to accept homosexuality, something that many parents believe has no business being on the curriculum in a public school, and all that jazz. The article went on to say that these Christian churches are handing out how-to instructions to teach parents how to go about home schooling their kids in protest of the homosexuality curriculum. The article made it seem like kids were being pulled out of school en masse, enough so that it’s going to hurt the schools financially and put up flags.
“I read that and had the distinct thought, “I wonder how long the powers that be are going to allow home schooling to be legal.” ‘Cause you know that’s the next thing to go – parents having options in terms of how their children are being raised and taught. If their aim is to turn this world into something akin to “1984,” then home schooling where parents are in charge of what’s going into their kids’ minds……..and bodies………(ie, vaccinations, etc.) is going to have to go, I mean, you can see this one coming…..”
The link to the original article no longer works, although I copied and pasted the article text into the above post, so I’ll excerpt the relevent parts of the story here:
“COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The gunman believed to have killed four people at a megachurch and a missionary training school had been thrown out of the school a few years ago and had been sending it hate mail, police said in court papers Monday.
“The gunman was identified as Matthew Murray, 24, who was home-schooled in what a friend said was a deeply religious Christian household. Murray’s father is a neurologist and a leading multiple-sclerosis researcher.
[…..] “Authorities searched the Murray house on a quiet street in Englewood on Monday for guns, ammunition and computers. No one was home when a reporter visited the split-level brick home early Monday. Murray’s father, Ronald S. Murray, is chief executive of the Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center in Englewood. Matthew Murray lived there along with a brother, Christopher, 21, a student at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla. A neighbor, Cody Askeland, 19, said the brothers were home-schooled, describing the whole family as “very, very religious.”
So, you can see the link to the homeschooling thing. If it was mentioned just once, okay, that’s fine. But twice made me raise my eyebrows, especially in light of my other thoughts at the time about homeschooling becoming a target down the line. Something to keep an eye on in news stories, see if it keeps coming up.
AMPED UP DRAMA! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! And “gut punch” words
This pertains to the way in which the U.S. media in general typically amps everything up into HIGH DRAMA!!!! using “gut punch” words designed to provoke emotional reactions within the reader. (you know, instead of reporting on events in a neutral, professional, journalistic way, the way things used to be done.) A good example would be this Yahoo article regarding hurricane Ike which tries to squeeze in as many “!!!” high action gut punch verbs and adjectives as possible within the title and first paragraph:
“Deadly Ike rakes Cuba, could hit Havana head-on
CAMAGUEY, Cuba – Hurricane Ike roared across Cuba on Monday, tearing off roofs and sending waves crashing into buildings. Ike made landfall as a fearsome Category-3 hurricane late Sunday night after raking the Bahamas and worsening floods in Haiti that have already killed 319 people. It has since been downgraded to a category 2 storm with 105 mile-per-hour winds.
It is expected to tear across almost the entire length of Cuba, then enter the Gulf of Mexico with Texas and Louisiana among the likely targets.”
Deadly, rakes, hit, head-on, roared, tearing, crashing, fearsome, tear, targets………come on now. And this follow up Yahoo headline:
CAMAGUEY, Cuba – Deadly Hurricane Ike roared across Cuba on Monday, blowing homes to rubble and sending waves crashing over apartment buildings. Some 900,000 Cubans evacuated, and forecasters said it could hit Louisiana or Texas later this week.”
Deadly, smashes, roared, blowing, rubble, crashing.
Even me who knows better felt my stomach clench up when I read this, succumbing to alarm. It would be one thing if they’re describing a category 5 hurricane like those in the past that have truly wreaked some havoc, but we’re talking about a category 2 storm at the time. It’s an average hurricane, basically, during the peak of hurricane season, in the Caribbean, which is exactly the normal spot where hurricanes hit. [The thing these stories are not mentioning is that the reason the last few storms have been so devastating to Haiti in particular is because Haiti clear cut away 99% of its trees. !!! So they don’t have enough trees left to hold their soil in place, which has resulted in mudslides and flooding that would otherwise not have happened.] But for the uninformed reader, they’re going to come away from these articles thinking that the reason for all this high drama devastation is due to the storms themselves. When you chop down literally almost all of your tree cover, destroying what was once an island paradise, then yeah, when even a tropical storm comes along (never mind a hurricane) you’re going to be in some serious trouble.
I’m seeing these gut-punch words in all the various news stories on Yahoo lately (who I take it get their stories from Reuters and the Associated Press), and pertaining to a variety of subjects, not just weather. Other popular gut-punch words that I’ve seen are “slam,” “pound” and “blast”, which seem quite popular in relation to describing various people’s responses to other people or happenings. “So-and-so BLASTS such-and-such!” or “So-and-so SLAMS what’s his name!”….when a mere “responds to” would have sufficed. Or “Winter storm POUNDS the northeast!” when it’s just totally average, regular winter weather, nothing abnormal. (And speaking of weather headlines, another really annoying oft-used word that I’m seeing lately is “march.” Some storm “marches southeast” or something. I didn’t know storms “marched,” like soldiers in formation. That’s news to me. Totally annoying word choice.)
In Michael Moore’s documentary “Bowling for Columbine,” there’s a segment concerning his visit to Windsor, Ontario Canada. Windsor is across the lake from Detroit, so both cities face each other, and yet apparently they may as well be on different planets. The city of Windsor was clean and neat, crime was low, there were practically no shootings, unlike Detroit, and life was calm and relaxed. People left their front doors unlocked, everybody was mellow and friendly (they appeared to be in the movie, anyway, you never know though with Michael Moore and his selective reporting! ;D) and most importantly, while visiting a pub, Michael Moore noted the stark contrast between the Canadian news playing on the TV there versus the U.S.‘s televised news. If I’m remembering the movie correctly, he even featured a montage of U.S. news clips to illustrate the “AMPED UP!” negativity that tries to get everybody in this country in a fearful, tense state. His conclusion was that because Canada’s news media doesn’t behave in the same way, people there are calmer, and crime is therefore lower. I don’t know if that correlation is the reason for their reduced-crime cities (I suspect it’s just one of several contributing factors), but, there’s no doubt that the U.S. media is just ridiculous. I’ve relayed stories around my site though of my experiences with dealing with the TV/news here, and how I can’t even stand to hear it going in the background, let alone actually own a TV and actively watch that stuff, so, I won’t retread over all that here. Just wanted to bring up this point to keep in mind for all those who still watch the U.S. news.
From Fox News – Bigfoot may have been found.
Update: Turns out it was indeed a hoax/ploy. Not surprising. At the time we were watching the Fox News vid, I told my boyfriend that the guy speaking to the camera was talking in a very strange way. Speaking too slowly, with too many pauses between words, and WAY too much eye blinking going on, like he’s lying. (People who are confident in what they’re relaying tend to speak with conviction. Slow, paused speech can typically indicate somebody who’s trying to concoct their next statement……stalling, and buying time basically. The frequent eye blinking ties into the way that people who are lying often times don’t want to make direct, sustained eye contact.) My boyfriend agreed, and was suspicious as well, but pointed out that sometimes people are nervous when speaking on camera. Which is very true, I mean, I wouldn’t exactly be an ace speaker on camera in front of millions. So, it was a case of “wait and see.” Well, turns out body language never lies. ;D
Nothing beats some sordid soap opera-y level drama that people can cluck cluck and gossip about, right? ;) Latest case in point: John Edwards having to admit publicly this week (august 2008) that he had an affair. After he had already supposedly confessed to his family….two years ago. There are several things going on with this story. On a minor surface level it’s open season for moralizing and tsk’ing and clucking and gossiping about it all, typical soap opera drama distraction that the public seems to relish. Anything to take their minds off real things that matter to the welfare of the planet. (You see this “tsk tsk!” moralizing finger pointing going on with celebs too. Our media is out of control with tailing celebrities’ every move and being right there in their faces every time they screw up in some way, putting it on all the magazine covers, internet blogs and news sites so everybody can sit back and go “tsk tsk!” and criticize. A way to feel superior. An average person with a boring life and low self esteem needs a punching bag to make themselves feel better about their own life.) But then there’s the conspiracy angle to this John Edwards story, which I’ll get to in a moment.
On the one hand I’m sitting here thinking, Who cares?? This should never have been made public, especially if his family already knows and they’ve all resolved it and moved on. Why is this now our business?? But on the other hand I realize that a lot of people feel that this should be our business because these guys are running for public office, presenting themselves a certain way, so, it should be exposed if they’re liars and cheats.
Um, call me weird, but, I naturally assume that ANY mainstream politician is anything but what the public believes they are. “Liar” isn’t even the half of it. How about, this reality and the mainstream people in charge of it may not be real, at least, not in the way people believe it is? It’s all a farce, in more ways than people can begin to imagine. Anybody who’s read the rest of my site knows my views on the political system and voting. (to say I’m a conspiracy theorist is an understatement! ;D I’m the fringe of the fringe.) But, I guess this is all a different story for a different write up.
It’s very interesting though that the woman in question waited until two years later, when John Edwards was maneuvering himself politically, to come forward and blow the lid on their past affair. After she’d already moved on to another dude whom she had a baby with. Says to me that the whole thing was intended as a future insurance black mail set up from the get-go, a card up the sleeve….just in case. Which leads to the other aspect of this headline, and those like them….secondary read-between-the-lines intrigue indicating that certain “stuff” is in charge, and dictates who gets to move where on the big chessboard.
Breaking news! emergencies that really aren’t (just trying to desperately yank your attention all around onto random stuff)
Osama bin Laden’s former driver found guilty of terror!
Kind of ties into two upcoming items on this list: pointless brain clutter, and international randomness. But this headline was given an actual red white and black breaking news “banner” across the entire top of CNN’s website, the equivelant of screaming from the rooftops you could say. A military jury in Guatanamo Bay finds bin Laden’s former driver guilty of terrorism conspiracy? Call me ignorant, but to this story I say………………….who cares?!! This impacts my life….how exactly?? This doesn’t deserve a huge breaking news, screaming from the rooftops banner. Come on now. But you the reader will see the big bold headline and feel the “urgency!” behind the large letters and words trying to yank your attention around onto stuff that they’re telling you is sooooo important….and meanwhile, lose a little bit o’ loosh energy in the process.
Okay, maybe some people are going to take issue with this, but I’m just not getting the point of stories which chronicle random catastrophes and happenings around the world that don’t directly affect anybody elsewhere. Something like the tsunami, for instance? That was a big deal. That’s international happenings worth reporting, because it killed about a half million people in nine countries, with a wave that went around the globe twice caused by an earthquake so powerful it may have knocked the planet slightly off kilter. But villagers in India stampeding each other because somebody thought there was a mudslide? No. A rock slide killing people in a shantytown in Cairo? No. But, that’s just my opinion.
And the irony is, the mainstream media loves to bombard the public with all these brain cluttering “minutia” stories of pointless randomness, yet fails to report on the real stuff that’s going on in this reality. ;)
In the days before the connected news media, everybody lived their day-to-day lives just fine without knowing about every random detail happening on the other side of the planet. Yes, it’s great that our world is so connected nowadays, and I’ve talked about how I think the internet is probably the greatest modern invention in terms of its impact on the planet, but no, it doesn’t mean we actually need to know every little thing happening all around the world. And the reason I focus on the India stampede story in particular is because you have the million dollar shots of piles of dead bodies, screaming and wailing people mourning the loss of their loved ones, and I’m just left going, um…..why? Again, this doesn’t affect most anybody anywhere else, but they really want us to see these pics of dead bodies piled up and crying and screaming people anyway. And it’s all over the media too. More of that bombardment thing mentioned earlier in this write up, where headlines are featured on every news outlet, for an entire day, or even several days straight. But pretty much everybody who looks at that story is going to go, “uh, okay, wow, uh, that really sucks for them.” And that’s it. They’ll move on. There’s really no point, other than to add one more bit of negative clutter to your brain. (And another story I found today receiving prominent headline treatment, concerning a relative of a coach in China who was killed. Just more international randomness that they really want us to focus on, but which has no relevance to anything. “Somebody died on the other side of the planet! Oh my god!”)
This all ties back into an earlier point, about all the random pointless bits and blurbs that comprise most news stories, all under the guise of “being aware.” I know, it’s politically incorrect, and some reading this may think that I’m advocating having no empathy. That’s not the case at all….but I am of the opinion at this point in my life that our news media acts as an extension of the hyperdimensional stuff that runs the world, and uses these countless local/national/international tragedies to feed on the energy/loosh that is generated by all the people who read it and watch it. We benefit from a planet that’s connected up like never before, and so do “they,” in a different way……
CNN: “Featuring disturbing videos, headlines, and the worst that humanity has to offer!”
I first noticed this during the Katrina disaster in August of 2005, since that’s when I first started looking at cnn.com. CNN was running continual updates on their website of what was going on in New Orleans. And sandwiched in the middle of all the articles would be these descriptions of some horrible something or other……….then “Click here to see video!” o_0 What reminded me about it was another CNN video link this morning, “Bear attacks moose calf near helpless mom” – with a link to click on the vid. Uhhh…no, I think I’ll pass on clicking on that vid. o_0 Really. Or this gem from today, 8/7/08: “Owners cuddle, dress pets….then fry them.” !! Why would I want to watch something like that? Even if it turns out to not be what they’re making it sound like, I’m not going to take that chance. But that’s CNN for you. [And another from today, 7/8/09: “Old lady finds fawn, beats it with a shovel.” Again…..why would anybody want to click on that vid?? That particular headline was so over the top I admit, I let out a small “air through the nose chuckle” when I first read it only because it’s just so ludicrous. Like they’re slipping in the most ridiculous sounding headline they could find. Anything that includes “old lady” and “beats with a shovel” in the same sentence just sounds comical, like it’s made up. Although the reality of beating a baby animal isn’t funny at all to me, to be clear.] CNN just has the most ridiculous headlines in general, stuff concerning the most horrendous atrocities being done to people and animals by various crazy people……stuff you can do nothing about, because it’s already happened…….and all these yucky vids that you the viewer are supposed to watch. For no apparent reason. Just because. It’s all very unbalanced because there are some amazing people out there in the world doing great things, every day, but you never hear about it. For sites like CNN it’s almost a mission of sorts to constantly report on the worst that humanity has to offer. Stories involving cannibalistic killings, dead bodies found stuffed in various places, severe child abuse/molestation/murder, animal torture, people locked away in dungeons and home prison cells, etc etc. The long list goes on and on of what I’ve seen the past few years. I think this is an agenda, to get us thinking shitty about ourselves as a species and only focused on depravity. To what ends? I don’t know, but I could certainly speculate. (this is why, despite its flaws, I’ll at least give “People” magazine kudos for regularly featuring stories of everyday people doing amazing things to help other people, animals or the world, balancing their banal celeb coverage and murder-mystery-of-the-week stories with feel-good inspiring stories that try to restore some faith in humanity.)
Hot dog eating contest results….and other bizarre distraction nonsense that makes it to the front page of all the major news media outlets.
Last year (2007) for several days straight the mainstream internet media kept featuring headlines chronicling what of all things but…..some hot dog eating contest results, and how the winner puked.
?!?!?
The first time I saw the headline I frowned to myself, like Okay, whatever. Who cares. Gross. Moving on. Then I saw it again. And again and again and again and again. !! For some really odd reason, the media thought it imperative that we the public keep hearing about this “news” for days on end. It’s important stuff I guess, covering the exploits of people who cram as many hot dogs into themselves as possible before throwing up. :S You know, especially when half the world is starving. So, why were they pushing this story on the news then? Distraction is one guess. Take our minds off news that does actually impact many people directly, such as the never ending illegal Iraq war, various NWO/police state laws being passed by Congress, etc. and so on. “Look over here at the hot dogs! Not over there at that other stuff!” Sometimes I do wonder though about these ludicrous stories that receive prominent attention on the front page headlines. It’s made me wonder if something is just testing to see who out there is even paying attention anymore. You know, a case of “um……is this really real?? just wondering……!”
(or this one in today’s internet news about moving KFC’s “secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices” from their corporate office to a new location, and the security measures and stress/tension that’s involved. I could only think after reading the opening paragraph….“You’re kidding, right?” I thought that whole “Colonel Saunder’s Secret Recipe” thing was just gimmicky nonsense to make the public believe something about a product that’s not true so they’ll develop brand loyalty, and other marketing schemes they teach in Advertising 101. I mean, I’ve had KFC chicken. It tasted like greasy fast food to me. Seriously, what “11 herbs and spices”?)
And the big edge of your seat update on the status of the secret recipe. I’m reading this just shaking my head, like, Hanh?? In the meantime you have various states apparently declaring their sovereignty from the Federal Government but, this is what’s being reported instead. Okey dokey.
Something I’ve talked about in various places is called “dream logic.” You know how things can sometimes make perfect sense in a dream, until you awaken and realize it makes no sense at all. Two different realms, each with its own logic and assemblage point. Well, there’s sublevels within the land of the waking world as well. And the more aware and awake one becomes to this matrix reality, the more nonsensical one realizes everything is, until even the land of the waking world seems like a nonsensical dream. And so to that end we have front page news headlines excitedly pummeling us with blow by blow accounts of hot dog eating contests and their gross aftermath, and the “edge of your seat” stories concerning KFC’s secret recipe bein’ on the move. :/ Asleep in the waking world, indeed……….
(^^^^ above link is just one of a bezillion out there….) On the one hand I’m interested in these stories as it seems we’re witnessing the beginning stages of what may turn into a massive domino effect, leading to the downfall of the U.S. The mortgage/home foreclosure crisis, huge rise in homelessness and tent cities, gasoline at over $4 a gallon, oil at highest per barrell cost ever, supposed food/grain shortage crisis, companies shutting down and unemployment rising, etc. etc. etc. Lots of – manufactured and planned – elements converging and conspiring to take down the way of life that everybody’s accustomed to. But on the other hand I realize……………….what happens to others isn’t what has to happen to me. I’ve already proven that for myself in a previous article when it comes to jobs and the job market, but the same goes for everything we’re surrounded by in life. Yes, these things are happening, and it’s “real”……..for others. But what happens to others is not what has to happen to us. It really can’t be emphasized enough! You’ll notice that manifestation, personal frequency and all the rest are never discussed in these news headlines. Of course not. That’s fringe spirituality and metaphysics, which doesn’t mix with the mainstream Powers That Be and the media they control. They have a version of reality they want you to believe and adhere to…..and it does not involve waking up and becoming aware and empowered. Manifestation, being in the flow, being flexible, personal frequency and all the rest means that things will continually work out for you as you consistently draw to yourself exactly what you need, you’ll be in the right places at the right time, and always a step ahead of things, so that your set of personal experiences will be vastly different from others’. In my opinion the events we see converging at this time to throw society into a downward spiral has all been manfuctured, and it’s running on a planned schedule. And the more they try to push their manufactured agenda on us, the more awake we need to become.
Add-on: May 13, 2009. And I realize this is going to rub some people the wrong way, but so be it. But continuing with the idea that “what happens to other people doesn’t have to happen to us” is something that’s been on my mind for awhile. But sometimes I’ve been wondering…………who are these people that we see in all the mainstream news stories supposedly losing their homes, standing in unemployment and job fair lines, food bank lines, and camping out in tent cities? What made me really think about this was when I was looking at a photo essay in the news showing the worldwide trickledown effects of the global financial meltdown. There was one photo that featured people in a job fair or unemployment line, and the woman in the foreground was standing there with her big sunglasses on, her fashion scarf cinched around her neck, black skirt, black tights and high heeled power boots, and a haughty look on her face. She didn’t look very nice, that’s all I can say, and I showed the photo to my boyfriend who agreed. So I realized…….you know, who are these people, really? And I thought back to the nasty bully people I knew growing up as a kid in Connecticut, which I reference in my “Gangstalking…” write up, the ones who acted like they were possessed half the time. Just some of the nastiest, shocking “people” I’ve ever met, to this day. And so I realized….we can’t know who these people really are, where they’ve been, and what they may have done in their time. How do we know that many of these adults we now see in the news who have everything hitting the fan weren’t the same types of nasty people that many of us have encountered at some point in our life? And I’m not talking about karmic justice either, to be clear. I’m just talking about how I’ve come to see that the spiritually aware, higher up people don’t typically seem to find themselves in these boats the way others in society do. Things seem to work out for them, they seem to have protection.
Sure, many of the people we see in these news story photo ops may be legitimately nice people…….but many may not. They may very well be those nasties who tormented people growing up, with no empathy, no remourse, no sense of right or wrong. They may also be currently involved with unsavory activities in their personal lives, something you the reader wouldn’t have any way of knowing. Looking all nice and normal and polished on the outside, but anything but on the inside. And that’s something to always keep in mind anytime you come across these photos. We don’t know who these people really are to be finding themselves in these sorts of situations that others amazingly don’t.
And you know how we keep hearing about the surge in pet abandonment as a result of the financial meltdown? And I’m not talking about the pets that were at least “lucky” enough to be dumped off at the local animal shelter, I’m talking the horror stories of pets who were left behind in their owners’ foreclosed homes, to die long, painful, drawn out starvation/dehydration/exposure-to-the-elements deaths, because their owners didn’t have the decency/common sense to make sure their pets had someplace else to go. Well, what kind of person would do something like that to their own pet? Seeming to have no empathy, no conscience? Well, apparently the same type of person who would also find themselves having their home foreclosed, losing all their money and in dire straits in the first place. Hmmmmm. Now there’s something to ponder on.
Like I said, I know this will probably rub some people the wrong way, but so be it. Some may think I have no empathy and am being mean. I don’t mean it that way. I just tend to have observations that kind of cut through b.s. and social programming. And I do realize that what I’ve observed isn’t going to apply to everybody across the board. But I think it applies to enough that it needs to be said, however “politically incorrect” it may be.
From Yahoo News, August 3, 2008: Is another Bruce Ivins lurking in a biolab?
“WASHINGTON – There could be another Bruce Ivins lurking in a biodefense laboratory anywhere in America….”
I’m rolling my eyes and shaking my head from just the headline alone. Total fear mongering “What if” scenario. “What if” scenarios are the worst, especially when they concern something that’s completely out of your control, because they’re the most pointless. Deal with life as it comes…..don’t fret about a bunch of potential things that you actually have no control over. And you know what? There probably is another Bruce Ivins. In fact, there’s probably hundreds of them, a whole army of programmed sleeper agents just waiting to be triggered. mwwwaaahahahahahahaha! But you know what? I don’t care! There’s nothing I can do about it. I don’t have control over what others do. I can only control what I do and where my life is headed. And so what I can do is intend that in the event that something like this happens in the future, it won’t affect me. And do so with the full 100% confident knowing that my intent and lack of fear works, as it always has in the past. And if I’m meant to go down in a biowarfare attack, then so be it. I’ll be where I’m supposed to be when I finally do actually die. Stories like this though play on the general population’s fear/denial of death, and the pervasive victim mentality that has most convinced that they’re at the mercy of scary forces with no control over their own existence.
More to come!
“Dirty Laundry” – Don Henley
c. 1982, from “I Can’t Stand Still”
I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something, something I can use
People love it when you lose
They love dirty laundry
Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here
I just have to look good, I don’t have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry
Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em when they’re down
Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em when they’re down
Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em when they’re down
Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em all around
We got the bubble-headed bleach blonde
who comes on at five
She can tell you bout the plane crash
With a gleam in her eye
It’s interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry
Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
You know the boys in the newsroom
Got a running bet
Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry
You don’t really need to find out whats going on
You don’t really want to know just how far its gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry
Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em when they’re down
Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em when they’re down
Kick ‘em when they’re up
Kick ‘em when they’re down
Kick ‘em when they’re stiff
Kick ‘em all around
Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybody’s pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry
We can do the innuendo
We can dance and sing
When its said and done we haven’t told you a thing
We all know that crap is king
Give us dirty laundry!