It's a rainy Saturday morning and I was sitting at the computer reading, drinking my morning cup of coffee when I came across this interesting (kinda creeped me out) article about the possibility of space-based weapons involved in the 9/11 destruction of the twin towers.
More food for thought, if you have the courage to read through this article. Best place to read it would be on the author's web blog. There she has graphs, pictures that link up with her list of "9 pieces of evidence"................but, here's her blog:
http://laura-knight-jadczyk.blogspot.com/2007/09/ultra-terrestrials-and-911.html
Date: 15 September 2007
Title: Ultra-terrestrials and 9/11
Among the many things being argued by the 9/11 “Truthers” is the question of whether or not advanced, secret, “Space Based Weapons” could have been utilized to disintegrate the World Trade Center Towers. This discussion is, of course, going on in spite of the silly propaganda nonsense recently put out by the tabloid BBC which reported on the “findings” of Cambridge Don, Keith Seffen.
All I can say to Keith is: Thinking that a steel framed building could collapse at freefall speed from the impact of even a jetliner loaded with fuel is absurd. In order to collapse at free fall speed, the underlying floors need to be removed before the floors above. It's something called Conservation of Momentum, and anyone not familiar with this should get educated before making a fool of themselves as Seffen has done.
The footage of the collapse of the 1,300ft WTC towers has been played and replayed ad nauseum and is etched in all of our minds. If by some miracle you have not seen the footage, it is freely available on the various memorial DVDs of the 9/11 attacks. It is also available for download from our web site. I strongly suggest that you avail yourself of a copy and study the collapse of both towers.
What you will see is that from the start point of the collapse until there is nothing but air where the towers used to be, about 10 seconds elapse. An object in `free fall´ i.e. falling through thin air, will take a specific amount of time to reach the ground. The laws of gravity dictate that a 5 ton SUV, for example, and a 1lb rock, given that their relative densities are so much higher than the resistance presented by the surrounding air, will take approximately the same time to reach the ground when dropped from the same height.
The time t required for an object to fall from a height h (in a vacuum) is given by the formula t = sqrt(2h/g), where g is the acceleration due to gravity. Thus an object falling from the top of one of the towers (taking h = 1306 feet and g = 32.174 ft/sec2) would take 9.01 seconds to hit the ground.
Of course, this is in a vacuum, with no air present. It's basic physics. I guess Seffen skipped that lecture.
Allowing for the resistance of the air we would have to add on a few seconds, yet according to the government´s 9/11 Commission report , the south tower collapsed in 10 seconds flat. But, as we all saw, the collapse of the south tower `pancaked´ through the 75 lower floors of the tower.
Those undamaged floors below the impact zone would have offered resistance that is thousands of times greater than air. What time might we allow for the section above the impact point that collapsed to pass through each floor? 1 second each floor? If so, then the collapse should have taken 75 + 10 seconds, or over 1 minute and 20 seconds.
For the sake of discussion, let´s allow just a half second delay in the collapse provided by each `pancaked´ floor. In this case it should have taken 37.5 + 10 seconds. But let´s be really charitable and suggest that each floor below the impact point offered just 1/10th of a second resistance to the section that first began to `pancake´ on the lower floors. In this case the collapse should have taken 7.5 + 10 seconds for a total of 17.5 seconds. Yet this is not what happened. As the official 9/11 report states and as we all saw, the towers collapsed in just 10 seconds! How can this be possible? (Seffen's silliness notwithstanding). The only explanation is that the floors below the impact point offered no resistance whatsoever allowing the building to fall in `free fall´ with only air as resistance. The only way that this could have occurred is if the support offered by the steel core beams was in some way undermined. The most obvious way to undermine the steel core beams of the WTC tower would seem to be via the techniques employed by demolition experts to take down buildings and have them fall into their own `footprint´ - which is exactly what happened to the WTC towers. However, in the case of the WTC towers there are several factors that point to something other than standard technology being used to demolish towers.
This is what is being hotly contested among 9/11 researchers. In an email I received this morning, a 9/11 researcher wrote:
If Tarpley is embracing the "space beam theory", he's hurting the Truth Movement. The ptb are trying desperately to keep the Peace Movement and Truth Movement from joining forces. So far, they've been successful, but i don't think they'll be able to keep these natural allies apart much longer.
To which another researcher replied:
Surely all it would take is a qualified physicist to explain to Tarpley the physical impossibility of such weaponry?
My husband IS a physicist and he spent some time working for a DOD contractor in the U.S. before 9/11 subsequent to which we decided to leave the U.S. He has looked long and carefully at all the evidence and has some thoughts about it. Let me tell you what he proposed as an appropriate way to approach this subject in our book 9/11: The Ultimate Truth.
"Most investigators point to evidence of "explosives" and "squibs" in video footage of the collapse of the two towers, yet to effect the complete destruction of so much concrete and office material, a massive quantity of explosives would surely have been required, and such a quantity is simply not evident in the available footage. As has been suggested by Professor Jones, an advanced and publicly unknown form of "superthermite" was probably used to cut the steel core beams of the WTC towers, which leaves open the possibility that other similarly advanced and publicly unknown technology was used to disintegrate the concrete that constituted the body of the towers. In this case, it would not be responsible or wise for me to theorize about what specific device or technique was used to turn the towers to dust, however, I will say that `sound´ and `light´ weapons have been developed in the past 20 years by the U.S. and Israeli military that are capable of `invisibly´ destroying hardened targets. To that I will add that part of the prepping of the WTC towers could have included the planting of `conductors´ to effect the propagation of such an induced wave throughout the buildings and thereby causing the vaporization of concrete and human bodies alike."
That's the short version. Now, let's look at that paragraph in a broader context.
Controlled demolitions at the WTC has been scientifically proven long ago since the government's version defies basic laws of physics (not to mention an amazing series of coincidences all over the place on that day.). At this point it's just a matter of figuring out what method was used for the demolition.
NINE PIECES OF EVIDENCE FOR SPACE-BASED WEAPONS ON 9/11:
1. Seismic readings too low to account for two 500,000 ton towers
(On Dec 14, 2006, a NIST scientist said "...the collapse of the towers were not of any magnitude that was seismically significant...")
2. Concrete pulverized to powder in a way that cannot be accounted in a standard controlled demolition. (i.e. more than 50% of samples under 100 microns)
3. Steel spire turns to dust and trickles down in news videos.
4. Photographs of Ground Zero lacking enough concrete and steel to account for two 110 story towers.
5. Toasted cars over half a mile from Ground Zero.
6. Large sections of buildings "vanish"
Round holes in WTC 5 roof
Large vertical chunks "missing" from WTC 3
and WTC 6
7. Downtown Manhattan not flooded. If one million tons of towers collapsed on the slurry wall / bathtub at freefall speed, it would have broken through and flooded New York.
8. All airplanes ordered to land about fifteen minutes before the South Tower is destroyed. Right after the North Tower goes, government allows military aircraft back up.
9. Evidence for existence of Space-based weapons. (Let's remember, the government is always at least 15-20 years ahead in technology from where they publicly admit.)
Introducing the Particle-Beam Weapon by Dr. Richard M. Roberds; published in Air University Review, July-August 1984
Millimeter-wave energy to be used in a weapon by Peter Clarke; published in EE Times June 6, 2001
US hails airborne laser as weapons milestone, ABC News, October 29, 2006
So, ask yourself... what can explain ALL the anomalies listed above?
First of all, my husband, as a physicist, knows for a fact that there are weapons and technology that are already being used that are not known to the public. He developed certain technology himself that has never yet seen the light of day because it was buried in black projects. Sure, word eventually gets out after some years; but often that "word" is disinfo to distract away from what is really being done. Sometimes, it is announced as a "new discovery" because people are noticing strange things going on and the PTB have to do damage control.
This brings me to the topic of the day: Ultra-terrestrials and 9/11.
The whole "alien abduction" thing is a case study of what is being done within the 9/11 Truth Movement. Let me explain a bit:
Based on my experience as a hypnotherapist working with several alleged "alien abductees", I think it is highly probable that there is a "secret government" program that "fakes" alien abductions. However, the question must be asked "why?"
To get a complete picture of the problem, let´s look at what Richard Dolan has reported in his book "UFOs and the National Security State". He writes:
The UFO problem has involved military personnel around the world for more than fifty years, and is wrapped in secrecy. [...] Because this subject is so widely ridiculed, it is important to stress why it is worthy of serious attention.[...]
Stories of strange objects in the sky go far back into time, but the problem received little attention until the Second World War. [...]
During the UFO wave of 1947, American military and intelligence organizations conducted multiple, simultaneous investigations of these sightings. [...]
By the end of 1947, a contingent of analysts at the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base believed that UFOs were extraterrestrial.
By the summer of 1948, this team prepared an "Estimate of the Situation." [...] As the story goes, Air Force Commander Hoyt Vandenberg rejected [this conclusion.] [...]
In the summer of 1952... UFO sightings were so frequent and often of such high quality that some in the air force actually wondered whether an invasion was under way. With some help from the secret CIA sponsored Robertson Panel of January 1953, the air force improved censorship over the problem. Still, it never quite went away. Civilian organizations began to collect and analyze interesting UFO reports. [...]
Then came the great UFO wave of 1965 and 1966, when the air force could no longer hide behind weather balloons and swamp gas, nor withstand public scrutiny. [...]
Let us pause to assess the situation. By the mid-1940s, America´s intelligence apparatus had reason to believe that there were artifacts in the skies that did not originate from America, Russia, Germany, or any other country. These objects violated some highly sensitive military airspace, and did not appear to be natural phenomena. One may presume that the affected national security authorities made it an immediate obsession to determine the nature and purpose of these objects, and we may infer that the issue probably became a deep secret by 1946, or 1947 at the latest. (Dolan, Richard, UFOs and the National Security State, (Charlottesville: Hampton Roads 2002) Introduction p. xix.)
It was at this precise moment in time that the Human Potential movement was "born." Do we think that this was a coincidence? By the mid-50s, it was becoming obvious that things were getting out of control and coincidentally, in August of 1956, the FBI began its COINTELPRO operation.
When traditional modes of repression (exposure, blatant harassment, and prosecution for political crimes) failed to counter the growing insurgency, and even helped to fuel it, the Bureau took the law into its own hands. Its methods ranged far beyond surveillance, and amounted to a domestic version of the covert action for which the CIA has become infamous throughout the world.
Usually, when we think of COINTELPRO, we think of the most well known and typical activities which include sending anonymous or fictitious letters designed to start rumors, among other things, publishing false defamatory or threatening information, forging signatures on fake documents, introducing disruptive and subversive members into organizations to destroy them from within, and so on. Blackmailing insiders in any group to force them to spread false rumors, or to foment factionalism was also common.
What a lot of people don´t keep in mind is the fact that COINTELPRO also concentrated on creating bogus organizations. These bogus groups (or alleged "experts") could serve many functions which might include attacking and/or disrupting bona fide groups, or even just simply creating a diversion with clever propaganda in order to attract members away so as to involve them with time-wasting activity designed to prevent them from doing anything useful. COINTELPRO was also famous for instigation of hostile actions through "independent" third parties.
According to investigators, these FBI programs were noteworthy because all documents relating to them were stamped "do not file." This meant that they were never filed in the system, and for all intents and purposes, did not exist. This cover was blown after activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania in 1971. The possibility of finding evidence for any of it, after that event, is about zero. To spell it out in Dolan´s words:
Regarding matters connected with "national security," there appears to be a wealth of information that does not exist officially. Thus, a request to find such documents through a Freedom of Information Act request would be in vain. Add to this the likelihood that perhaps the most sensitive information regarding UFOs may not even exist in document form ("the first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper," Richard Helms), and one can appreciate the difficulty that an honest UFO researcher or 9/11 researcher has in ferreting out the truth.
Now, let us take a few logical steps. The UFO problem emerged into the national consciousness in 1947, or thereabouts. Not long afterward, a lot of people began asking a lot of questions. The government wasn´t answering, and so the people began to band together to find out the answers for themselves.
Sounds a lot like 9'11, yes?
They started forming groups. And this is where things get just a bit curious. The thing that was most threatened by the UFO/alien issue seems to have been the Standard Monotheistic Religions. Religion seems to be a necessary component of political control. Social control - that is the mainstay of religion - was most definitely under threat. In fact, what seems to be true is that it is not even clear that religions - as we know them - would have survived a full disclosure. So the logical conclusion is that part of the main reason for the cover-up was to "protect the religious status quo."
As things stood at the time, protecting the religious status quo - mainly the social controls that stem from religion - was iffy at best. After a century of scholarly investigation into many religious texts, and the raising of many questions about the "old time religion," there were a lot of people in society who were most definitely turning away from religious dogma. It´s fairly simple to take the next logical step and see that a combining of the questions of those who were disenchanted with religion, politics, government, with the questions of those who wanted to know just what the heck was going on in terms of possible "extraterrestrials," was seen as a dangerous and explosive mixture. Something had to be done.
The activities of COINTELPRO in attempting to neutralize political opposition have been pretty well exposed. But we are now considering the fact that, in addition to political activists, it seems that COINTELPRO has particularly targeted groups that are seeking the truth about the interactions between the US government and Ultra Terrestrials, or so-called "aliens." That a long-time cover-up of these matters has been in effect is certainly evident to any careful researcher.
The COINTELPRO files show the U.S. Government targeted a very broad range of religious, labor and community groups opposed to any of its agendas, and it is only logical to assume that the same type of operation would be created to cover up the "alien agenda." Such a theoretical COINTELPRO operation also goes far in explaining why, when the sincere researcher of UFO phenomena enters this field, he or she discovers only lies, lies, and more lies; confusion and disinformation. That is most definitely the signature of COINTELPRO.
[It is definitely what one finds when trying to discover the truth about 9/11, or the JFK and RFK assassinations, and a whole host of other clandestine activities.]
Considering all of this, would anybody care to suggest that it did not also occur to the Powers that Be that the chief means of diverting attention and covering up the truth would be to literally fund and create the "New Age" and "Human Potential movement" so that it would follow their agenda of keeping secrets?
The same is probably true regarding the 9/11 Truth Movement. If nobody has really thought of this, better think again! Probably most of it IS COINTELPRO!
In other words, it is extremely likely that the most successful and popular of Metaphysical Mavens and New Age Impresarios are COINTELPRO agents - either conscious or dupes of those who are. And the same is the true of the 9/11 Truth Movement and even the Alternative Media.
The main objective seems to be to attack and "neutralize" those who are seeking the answers. Those who are sincere, who do bona fide research and seek to explicate the truth, are infiltrated, attacked, and marginalized according to standard COINTELPRO procedures.
What all of this seems to suggest is that the Powers That Be (PTB) have developed COINTELPRO to an all new level of Social Shaping, Cultural Brainwashing, and the main targets of this activity would include virtually anyone who is seeking the truth about the shifting realities of our world.
The cases of COINTELPRO activities against political groups must be no more than the tip of the iceberg, given that the great bulk of COINTELPRO-type operations remain secret until long after their damage has been done. By all indications, domestic covert operations have become a permanent feature of U.S. politics and Social Programming, and it is hardly likely, considering the evidence, that the New Age and Human Potential fields are exempt.
Or the 9/11 Truth Movement or the Alternative Media.
The implications of this are truly alarming. Those who manage to get close to the truth of these matters, despite the many obstacles in their path, face National covert campaigns to discredit and disrupt their research and reputations. Clearly, COINTELPRO and similar operations under other names also work to distort academic and popular perceptions of the problems facing our world.
This is glaringly obvious in the 9/11 Truth Movement.
They have done enormous damage to the search for the Truth.
"Terrorism is changing. New adversaries, new motivations and new rationales have surfaced in recent years to challenge much of the conventional wisdom..." wrote Dr. Bruce Hoffman, Director of RAND. And he was right. The only problem is, the reader is largely unaware of the definition of "new adversaries" that might be implied in his remarks. A careful reading of Richard Dolan´s book will immediately reveal what Dr. Hoffman really meant in his remarks about "terrorism." He was talking about citizens wanting to know the Truth about their world and what happens within it. Based on the documents assembled by Dolan, it is obvious that the governments of the world do indeed see the UFO problem as a very, very serious matter. In the course of assembling the documents and reporting the events, Dolan came to the inescapable conclusion that there exists an "Above Top Secret" group with access to all available UFO data, and that this group "straddled" the worlds of government, military, and industry. The evidence proves that the military created a complete fiction for public consumption designed to convince the masses that the UFO problem was "nonexistent." They were assisted in pulling the wool over the eyes of the public by "heavy handed official media and culture," and they were obviously under orders to consistently and repeatedly "debunk" the idea that aliens were ensconced in our world. What seems to be true is that most of our elected officials are as much victims of the debunking as anybody else. And the same is true about mainstream science.
Dolan writes:
Next to the bureau, the military intelligence services became the most important component of the domestic intelligence scene. Army intelligence had nearly unlimited funds, extensive manpower, specialized personnel, deep planning and training resources, and the most sophisticated communications and data processing capability. [...]
The army´s intelligence surveillance did not focus on tactical and reconnaissance data, but on political and ideological intelligence within the United States. (This was wholly illegal.) [...]
Then there was the CIA. By the late 1960s, there were more spies than diplomats in the State Department, or employees in the Department of Labor. [...]
When the Weather Underground, a radical splinter of the SDS, had an "acid test" to detect agent´s provocateurs, they had no idea that the CIA had been tripping on LSD throughout the 1950s, creating a special caste of "enlightened agents" for precisely these occasions.
Based on this, we wonder about "agents provocateur" in the New Age and UFO community who are "specially trained" as "UFO experts"? And what about the "experts" in the 9/11 Truth Movement?
The agency continued its work on mind control. Following the work of Dr. Jose Delgado [experiments in] Electrical Stimulation of the Brain [were conducted.] This involves implanting electrodes into the brain and body, with the result that the subject´s memory, impulses, and feelings could all be controlled. Moreover, ESB could evoke hallucinations, as well as fear and pleasure. "It could literally manipulate the human will at will," [said Dr. Robert Keefe, a neurosurgeon at Tulane University.]
In 1968, George Estabrooks, another spook scientist, spoke indiscreetly to a reporter for the Providence Evening Bulletin. "The key to creating an effective spy or assassin, rests in creating a multiple personality with the aid of hypnosis," a procedure which he described as "child´s play."
By early 1969, teams within the CIA were running a number of bizarre experiments in mind control under the name Operation Often. In addition to the normal assortment of chemists, biologists, and conventional scientists, the operation employed psychics and experts in demonology. (!!!)
Over at the NSA, all one can say with certainty is that its budget dwarfed all others within the intelligence community.
Dolan documents how the intelligence organizations of the United States - and very likely other countries who are working in concert with them, though outwardly they may pretend to be oppositional - have conducted terminal mind- control experiments, biological spraying of American cities, human plutonium and syphilis injections, illegal communications interception, and nationwide domestic surveillance of private citizens, political assassinations and coups, ongoing media manipulation and outright public lying on a continual basis, most especially in regards to UFOs. The above organizations, via any and all means available, made sure that, to the public at large, UFOs and aliens were a "dead issue."
Scientist and UFO disclosure advocate James McDonald said in 1969: "I am enough of a realist to sense that, unless this AAAS symposium succeeds in making the scientific community aware of the seriousness of the UFO problem, little response to any call for new investigations is likely to appear."
McDonald presented a brilliant paper entitled "Science in Default: Twenty- two Years of Inadequate UFO Investigations." Dolan comments that it was "perhaps the most damning statement about UFO research ever made." Speaking before the convention at Boston´s Sheraton Plaza Hotel, McDonald came down hard on everyone: Condon, Menzel, Hynek, and finally the scientific establishment itself. He said:
No scientifically adequate investigation of the UFO problem has been carried out during the entire twenty-two years that have now passed since the first extensive wave of sightings of unidentified aerial objects in the summer of 1947.
...In my opinion, the UFO problem, far from being the nonsense problem that many scientists have often labeled it, constitutes a problem of extraordinary scientific interest.
The grave difficulty with essentially all past UFO studies had been that they were either devoid of any substantial scientific content, or else have lost their way amidst the relatively large noise content that tends to obscure the real signal in the UFO reports.
This high noise to signal ratio is, based on the evidence, the direct product of the frenzied activities of the "National Security State" in their promulgation of the New Age/Human Potential smoke and mirrors magic show.
What is also clearly evident is that this noise is the fundament of the prevailing scientific doctrine. What we see is that the Scientific Community - though they claim to be seekers of advanced scientific truth - have been as easily duped as Joe Sixpack and Shirley Seeker of Truth. The former is interested in little more than his truck, his dog, and his weekend football game, while the latter is generally looking for a lifestyle of higher "experiences." What I also suspect is that even the lower echelons of the intelligence and military organizations must be included in this rather large grouping of the duped and deceived sheep.
An example of this duping of those investigating the matter from the "bottom up," is Andrew Tully who wrote The Super Spies, supposedly an early report on the NSA. He, and many who have followed him, suggest that the UFO is an "intelligence" device and that it evolved out of Nazi Secrets brought to the US under Project Paperclip.
Dolan lays out the evidence and disabuses us of the notion that the UFO activity could be human, technological breakthroughs as such naive conspiracy theorists propose. As he says, "all of the indicators point to a definitive NO." He then points out that, every single person who actually studies the UFO problem [yours truly included - who began as a flaming skeptic] - becomes convinced that it IS a problem of Alien invasion of our planet. Every official study of UFOs persuaded the researchers that aliens were the explanation for the data. But that data has been denied, and when denial no longer worked, it was obscured by the noise, the smoke and mirrors that prevail today in UFO research and the New Age and Human Potential movements. Do we think that this is coincidence?
Another evident production of "noise" is the nonsense that passes today as "channeling" or "alien contacts". Indeed, my own work involves what can certainly be called inspirational material, but as we have noted repeatedly, it is not your usual "channeled" info, nor do we treat it as such. For us, a controlled channeling experiment is the 10% inspiration that must be matched by the 90% perspiration of real research.
With a broad historical awareness of the facts, a firm grounding in the realization that most of what is out there is deliberate disinformation, the individual who surveys the plethora of "alternative information" in books and on the internet, can easily recognize the "noise" factor produced by the Secret State. Dolan tells us:
By the early 1970s, there were already means available to alter the moods of unsuspecting persons. A pocket-sized transmitter generating electromagnetic energy at less than 100 milliwatts could do the job. This is no pie-in-the- sky theory. In 1972, Dr. Gordon J.F. McDonald testified before the House Subcommittee on Oceans and International Environment on the issue of electromagnetic weapons used for mind control and mental disruption. He stated:
"[T]he basic notion was to create, between the electrically charged ionosphere in the higher part of the atmosphere and conducting layers of the surface of the Earth, this neutral cavity, to create waves, electrical waves that would be tuned to the brain waves. ...About ten cycles per second.
"...You can produce changes in behavioral patterns or in responses."
The following year, Dr. Joseph C. Sharp, at Walter Reed Hospital, while in a soundproof room, was able to hear spoken words broadcast by `pulsed microwave audiogram.´ These words were broadcast to him without any implanted electronic translation device. Rather, they reached him by direct transmission to the brain.
Consider the above "neutral cavity in the ionosphere" in terms of so-called "chemtrails."
Consider the bizarre fact that the entire American populace appears to be brainwashed so that they cannot even see that they are being herded to their own destruction. Obviously, a lot more is being done with this technology than creating faux "alien abductions."
Notice the dates in the above quote from Dolan´s book telling us that in the early 70s certain technologies were being developed that could "broadcast" "mind control" signals over the entire nation. We certainly suspect that this technology was developed further in the subsequent years. The question is: what did they do with it? Better yet, what ARE they doing with it?
And this is where we come to the COINTELPRO function of creating bogus organizations to attack or disrupt bona fide groups seeking truth.
We have already noted the fact that research in Electrical Stimulation of the brain could produce hallucinations. If you put hallucinations together with words, you can produce just about anything that you want in the way of "noise" to obscure the truth - including the "shape-shifting reptoids-as- humans," or a "gray dude in the bathroom," or a "Guardian Alliance," or a "Nibiruan Council," or an "Ashtar Command," or talking whales and dolphins, or belief in the Official Conspiracy Theory of 9/11. You name it - they can produce it via voices in the head and hallucinations and transmissions of frequencies that produce ecstatic states, healings, or whatever.
And so it is that the human element of the Cosmic COINTELPRO operation manages their many "agents" of disinformation - pied pipers leading the masses of Truth seekers - so that whatever the real truth is remains their secret. And that´s exactly the way they want it.
What strikes me as an essential turning point in this COINTELPRO operation was the beginning of the "expose" of two particular items that hold sway in certain "conspiracy" circles to this very day: Alien Abduction and Satanic Ritual Abuse.
The Gray alien scenario was "leaked" by Budd Hopkins. Whitley Strieber´s alien abduction books, including Communion, followed a few years after. Prior to the publication of these books, the ubiquitous "Gray aliens" had never been seen before. In fact, a review of the history of "contact" cases show that the type and variety and behavior of "aliens" around the world are quite different across the board. But, along came Budd, followed by Whitley and his glaring alien on the cover, and suddenly the Grays were everywhere.
In respect of Whitley and his Grays, allow me to emphasize one of Dolan´s comments quoted above: "By early 1969, teams within the CIA were running a number of bizarre experiments in mind control under the name Operation Often. In addition to the normal assortment of chemists, biologists, and conventional scientists, the operation employed psychics and experts in demonology." This, of course, brings us to the parallel event of that period of time: Satanic ritual abuse. SRA is the name given to the allegedly systematic abuse of children (and others) by Satanists.
As it happens, keeping our timeline in mind, it was in the mid to late 1970s that the allegations of the existence of a "well-organized intergenerational satanic cult whose members sexually molest, torture and murder children across the United States" began to emerge in America. There was a panic regarding SRA triggered by a fictional book called "Michelle Remembers". The book was published as fact but has subsequently been shown by at least three independent investigators to be a hoax. No hard evidence of Satanic Ritual Abuse in North America has ever been found, just as no hard evidence of abductions by Gray aliens has ever been found.
Nevertheless, the allegations were widely publicized on radio and television talk shows, including Geraldo Rivera´s show.
And note that Geraldo is deep in the 9/11 Coverup!
Religious fundamentalists promoted the hysteria and, just as during the Inquisitions, endless self-proclaimed "moral entrepreneurs" both fed the fires of prosecution and earned a good living from it. Most of the early accusations of satanic ritual abuse were aimed at working-class people with limited resources, and with a few exceptions, the media and other groups that are ordinarily skeptical either remained silent or joined in the feeding frenzy of accusations. The few professionals who spoke out against the hysteria were systematically attacked and discredited by government agencies and private organizations.
The same system of mass manipulation is evident in the 9/11 Truth Movement.
The question has to be asked: If there are thousands of baseless accusations of SRA and thousands upon thousands of cases of unverifiable alien abductions, how do they originate?
Most of the SRA cases are said to originate with children. Since there is a widespread belief that children wouldn´t make up stories of eating other children or being forced to have sex with giraffes after flying in an airplane while they were supposed to be in day care, the stories are often taken at face value by naive prosecutors, therapists, police officers and parents. Researchers have found that children are unlikely to invent stories of satanic ritual abuse on their own. So, where do the stories come from? Accusing the therapists, district attorneys, police and parents of inducing such stories from children doesn´t seem to be a very productive answer. Yes, it may happen in some cases, but certainly doesn´t seem likely in the vast number of cases.
Now, let´s go back and think about our timeline. As it happens, "Michelle Remembers" was published in 1980, co-written by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder, M.D. Budd Hopkins finished "Missing Time" in December of 1980, with an "afterward" by Aphrodite Clamar, Ph.D.
Set this side by side with the potential for broadcasting mass mind-control signals over the entire country, and it´s looking pretty "coincidental" from where I sit.
Consider this capability in terms of the 9/11 Cover-up also.
What occurs to me - putting the pieces of the puzzle together - is that there is some general kind of imagery being widely broadcast in the "neutral cavity" described above, and that it depends a lot on the individual and their cultural programming how it "takes." When we consider the fact that "Operation Often" employed "the normal assortment of chemists, biologists, and conventional scientists" and "psychics and experts in demonology," we begin to think that electronic COINTELPRO includes a whole supermarket of new "beliefs" - Gray aliens and "alien contacts" for the New Age crowd and a whole range of "sexual/ritual abuse scenarios" for those who are not open to the alien shtick; and we can't forget political persuasions and belief in Islamic terrorists.
Just think of the potential such technology possesses for convincing the public that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by 19 Arab terrorists who took down the defenses of the planet's "superpower" not to mention all the other patently absurd official explanations about that day, not to mention everything that has happened since.
Is the whole thing beamed out as some sort of "free-formal imaging," and, based on the conscious acceptance of one or another version, it takes on its individual characteristics in the minds of the millions of recipients? In other words, is it picked up by the subconscious in alpha states or in sleep, perceived as traumatic in a general scenario that can then be interpreted by the individual belief systems in terms of either being examined and or sexually manipulated by aliens on a table or "raped on an altar" by Satanists, or threatened by terrorists? Are the public productions - books by Hopkins, Strieber, and the SRA scandals, the Right Wing pundits, just variations on the "closing of the circuit" by the conscious mind accepting or creating some scenario as the explanation for the constant bombardment of such signals as described in Dolan´s book? Is it the job of COINTELPRO to create "bogus organizations" that produce various "explanations" to close the circuit and "make it real" in the person´s mind?
One has to wonder about the name of the program: Operation Often in terms of the claims of abductees - victims of repeated and "often" abductions - as well as the claims of those who suggest the SRA explanation. In either case, the believer is being "herded" into a "response camp" of either faith in alien saviors, or faith in Jesus to save them from the demonic/satanic Illuminati, Jews, Pagans; or George Bush, Israel, or War that will save them from Islamic terrorism - take your pick.
Let me make it clear that I am in no way suggesting that "abductions" or some whacked out satanic rituals do not ever take place somewhere, under some circumstances. What I am suggesting is that the Gray Alien and SRA phenomenon most certainly was not restricted in any way by COINTELPRO, and may indeed be the smoke and mirrors that hides a far more insidious state of affairs.
And the 9/11 Truth Movement itself along with much of the Alternative Media, may also be a complete Smoke and Mirrors show.
In essence, Dolan´s book shows us the history of how the many levels of society have been duped and deceived - or directly controlled - from the average citizen, to the seeker of higher truths, to the scions of science and industry, to the hallowed halls of government. Each "type" has been targeted in the way most likely to "manage" them best. Those who cannot be "managed" generally die, as scientist James McDonald - and others - did. But all the while, the UFOs kept coming, and people kept seeing them, and they kept asking questions.
In April 1971, an engineering research magazine, Industrial Research, published the results of a poll in which 80 percent of its members rejected the Condon Report; 76 percent believed that the government was concealing UFO facts; 32 percent believed that UFOs were extraterrestrial. Poll or no poll, the CIA continued to lie about its UFO interests. [...]
The worst story of 1971 was the demise of James McDonald. [Atmospheric physicist from the University of Arizona.] As far as anyone could tell, McDonald was fine all through 1970 and into 1971. On March 2, 1971, he testified as an expert in atmospheric physics at the House committee on Appropriations regarding the supersonic transport (SST) and its potentially harmful atmospheric effects. McDonald´s opponents questioned his credentials and ridiculed him as someone who believed in "little men flying around the sky." Laughter broke out several times.
Shortly after this incident, McDonald shot himself in the head and became blind. He was committed to the psychiatric ward of the VA medical Center in Tucson. In June, he signed himself out. On Sunday morning, June 13, a woman in south Tucson, identifying herself as a doctor, said a deranged blind man had taken a cab to the area. She wanted to know where the driver had dropped him off, and she made several calls. Meanwhile, a married couple and their children, walking along a shallow creek, found McDonald´s body under a bridge at 11:40 a.m. A .38 caliber revolver was in the sand, near his head. A brief note attributed his suicide to marriage and family problems. [...]
We know that many intelligence agencies were skilled in "creating" suicides. But, one might ask, wasn´t McDonald´s mental condition already deteriorating? Jerome Clark stated that McDonald was ready to "crack" in the aftermath of the SST hearings. But what caused this? Embarrassment at the SST hearings? His marriage? Perhaps, one supposes, but both of these explanations feel flimsy. Without exception, those who knew McDonald described him as possessing great integrity and courage. Was he really the type of person to commit suicide?
McDonald had been described as a man who was "afraid of nothing." What seems to be so is that this was why he was destroyed. Hynek had written that McDonald was considered by the Air Force to be an "outstanding nuisance." With the mind control arsenal that has been described at their disposal, we have a good idea of what "they" can do to the mind. Even the strongest. Courage and integrity, it seems, are no protection. We would like to note another curious death - that of Edward Ruppelt. After years as an advocate of disclosure, he suddenly did an about face - re-wrote his book recanting his belief that UFOs were extraterrestrial craft, and was dead within a year at a very young age.
It looks to me as though, if you are important enough to make a difference in the way people think and they can´t corrupt you, they kill you, and if they can corrupt you, they still kill you so you won´t have a chance to change your mind and recant your recantation like Jacques de Molay did when the Templars were destroyed. Those who get close to the belly of the beast are generally subjected to a variety of treatments it seems.
Many important and influential people have attested to the reality of the UFO phenomenon as an "alien reality." Within the military organizations, those who affirm the "alien hypothesis" are widespread and numerous. But, as Dolan shows us, they cannot discuss those views without risking the penalties of imprisonment and stiff fines.
In the present day, we have Steven Greer´s "Disclosure Project." Based on the mail I get, it seems that many in the New Age/UFO community think that this is a great and novel idea. However, history shows that it has been tried before. The one thing about Greer´s effort that suggests it is just more and better COINTELPRO is his attachment to the "aliens are here to help us" idea which is directly contradicted by history, though widely promoted by most "contactees." Even Linda Howe, for a long time the most reputable of careful researchers - and no stranger to the machinations of the Secret State - seems to have fallen for this one - or COINTELPRO. It is also now being promoted in "Fate Magazine" by Rosemary Guiley, who has the odor of COINTELPRO about her with her notable connections to military "agents." Jerome Clark is also a regular contributor to Fate.
Let me make it clear at this point that I am convinced that a lot of honest, sincere, hard-working individuals are being duped and/or controlled without being fully aware of it. But, not being aware of how your own mind is being used against you doesn't lessen the problem; in fact, it makes it all that much more tragic.
Dolan documents the failure of civilian groups in their efforts to really "end UFO secrecy." NICAP had prominent and active members, connections to Congress and the military, and their effort continued for over ten years. NICAP fought diligently for congressional hearings, and yet every time they got "close" to bringing it to the table for public consideration, the congressional sponsorship "backed off" and reversed their support.
What kind of group is it that can control our government officials in this way? An even deeper question might be: What kind of group is it that can control the media, the military, the CIA, the FBI, NSA, and even the President? What do they do to intimidate and dominate ethical and substantial persons in positions of authority? (Assuming there are any ethical persons left in any positions of authority!)
Whatever it is, we would certainly like to know because it suggests that they are hiding something so significant that even hints of it behind closed doors can send the most powerful congressmen running with their tails tucked between their legs.
This brings us back to the problem of the Secret State and its agenda. Some people believe that this secrecy is absolutely essential. They say that the public simply could not handle the truth about aliens. They say that there is no reason to spoil people´s lives with the truth because there is nothing that the average person could do about it anyway.
Is that really true? Would there be so much effort to conceal the alien agenda if disclosure of the truth wasn´t harmful to that agenda?
Dolan´s chronological history of the actual interaction between UFOs and the public and the corresponding behavior of the military, the intelligence community, the media, the scientific community in its interaction with the public, make this abundantly clear. Dolan writes:
Some believe this is, as it ought to be. Can the public really handle the truth about aliens? If the presence of others constitutes a threat to humanity, for example, what could the average person even do about it? There are those who believe that secrecy about UFOs is in the public´s best interest.
What is clearly evident, and most especially so in the past year or two, is that the "public interest" is not the concern of those making these decisions. As Dolan rightly says, secrecy is being utilized not to protect the public, but to protect those keeping the secrets - the "Above Top Secret" group - and very likely even the aliens themselves - who are not really aliens, but rather denizens of hyperdimensional realities. See:
Laura Knight-Jadczyk Interview on BBC Radio
When we consider the modus operandi of the intelligence community, in its historical perspective, what we see is that, at every level, right up to the very top, there is control and manipulation. This leads me to suggest that even those at the top level of the human Consortium are being duped and deceived and are as unable and/or unwilling to consider that possibility as those at the lower levels.
It seems obvious from the documentary evidence as well as the behavior of the military in response to UFOs and the "alien matter," that the aliens do have an agenda, and that - at some level in the layers of secrecy - there are those who know - at least on a "need to know" basis - what that agenda is. It seems abundantly evident that the secrecy has been enjoined on this group by the aliens themselves. What is more, a careful assessment of the evidence does not suggest a benevolent agenda.
As a result of the manipulations of this "Consortium," the majority of Americans are inculcated into the fiction of a representative government - a democracy - and that our scientists and representatives are "taking care of business" for us, and even if they are sometimes corrupt, they aren´t as bad as a totalitarian regime.
It has become most definitely obvious in the past couple of years that this is not the case - and probably never was. We don´t even really elect our representatives. It´s all a sham. But the fiction propagated by the media has clouded the ability of the American people to see their society and government for what it really is: an oligarchy that pretends to be a democracy to placate and deceive the public.
And one must not ever forget those "mass mind control signals" that are probably flooding the air-waves, even carried on cell phone signals.
To those who suggest that it doesn´t really matter since it is an efficient way to organize and manage millions of people, let us suggest that it is suicidal to think that an oligarchy is not primarily interested in maintaining its own position to the exclusion of all other considerations.
When we consider the evidence, we see that the groups in question have never acted in the best interests of the public. If you doubt this, spend some time reading about non-consensual human experimentation. And so, logically speaking, there is no reason to even suggest that the secrecy surrounding the "alien reality" is any different.
Dolan notes that, as a result of the concerted "debunking" of UFOs perpetrated on a populace that has been mind manipulated and dumbed down by public "education" for a very long time, our society has become extraordinarily schizophrenic about UFOs. At the level of "officialdom," as in academia, mainstream media, government and so forth, UFOs are either ignored or treated as a joke. You won´t find UFOs or Aliens - or their repeated invasion of sensitive airspace - discussed on the nightly news. You won´t find Ted Koppel analyzing them as a threat to National Security. And this state of affairs is totally bizarre because it is abundantly - overwhelmingly - clear and evident that our military and intelligence organizations consider them to be so important that information about them is classified "Above Top Secret."
However, being classified "Above Top Secret" does not seem to matter to the aliens. They arrogantly do as they please and leave the "clean up" to their human lackeys the same way some media personalities have been reported to destroy hotel rooms, and then have their accountants write checks to cover the damages, while their agents give press releases that deny any such thing ever happened.
This brings us back to the efforts of COINTELPRO. Since the military is in the position of dealing with beings of such arrogance that their checks don´t cover the damage they do, the "press releases" are issued in the form of diversion and division. UFOs and the "alien reality" are promoted in ways that simply do not relate to the documentary evidence or the factual data.
UFOs and aliens are given cachet in the New Age and metaphysical communities, and groups studying them or "channeling" them are "managed" so that the possibility of exposure of the Truth is completely minimized in the plethora of conflicting, generated "beliefs." At the same time, there are organizations that are set up to operate as "professional debunkers" and disinformation artists. Smoke and mirrors and endless confusion.
What is evident from the documents and statements of those "in on the secret," is that the current "popularity" of aliens and New Age presentations of the subject are the direct result of deliberate infiltration by intelligence personnel who are continually "spinning the wheel" of lies and distortion.
UFOs have national security implications for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that they have involved military and industrial personnel of many nations around the globe. This situation has existed for over fifty years. In fact, a careful study of history shows an intersection between UFOs and the military for hundreds, if not thousands of years! Unauthorized airspace violations continue to occur; attempted interceptions repeatedly take place; and the secrecy orders are more severe now than ever.
We have to ask ourselves why this is so?
If the military organizations are as interested in UFOs and Aliens as we know them to be based on the evidence, and if they are in the dark about them, as the evidence also suggests, would they not be utilizing the many claimed "alien contacts" among the New Age community as resources if there was the possibility that such sources really were in contact with the "real aliens" in and about the planet as they claim? There are certainly many of these contactees that claim "extreme military interest" in their work.
However, based on the facts of the operations of the National Security State, we can pretty well objectively assess that if this were true, such contactees would not be out there promulgating their information. That they often operate unmolested, and even achieve great popularity is compelling evidence that their "information" is useless to the military, if not created by it. What seems to be true is that most contactees and channelers are dupes of the military cover-up - victims of COINTELPRO - created to generate the noise that hides the signal of the true Alien Reality. In short, the majority of claims of channelers, contactees, new age gurus, UFO researchers, and the like, both in books and on the internet, about the "alien reality," is COINTELPRO at its finest.
Take that to the bank.
And the same is true of the 9/11 Truth Movement.
One thing is clear: the UFOs themselves are not under the control of the military - or anybody else. But that the Consortium continues to debunk and cover it up - in the face of its violations of their own airspace - suggests to us again the analogy of arrogant and powerful Masters of Reality, aided and abetted by their military and intelligence organization servants who, all the while they are obeying the powerful overlords, which very well may include the 9/11 Attacks and war with Iraq, Iran, and God knows who else, seek to keep everything quiet while they try desperately to discover the secrets of power so as to arrogate it to themselves. And it seems evident that, in the present time, the game is afoot in the citadels of Power and Secrets. We don't know - and cannot know at present - whether some super secret beam weapon was used to take down the Twin Towers on 9/11; but it is possible. And frankly, it is the one explanation that seems to cover all the anomalies.
Bottom line is: Something is happening, there is a schedule, and the servants of the alien masters are pushing an agenda that few of us understand. They are trying to cement controls, to solidify their power base, because Something Wicked This Way Comes.
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Long article. But, if you're just an ordinary citizen like myself, (not a scientist, not a researcher) it does give you a totally new perspective. Gotta get another cup of coffee
and do some more reading.
~ The Mediator
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
A VERY ORDINARY THING TO HAPPEN ! ?
Morning all,
I was looking at another blog I like to check from time to time. So, my recommendation would be to check her blog out if you are so inclined.
http://shar131.blogspot.com/
Anyway, found this on her blog. It's her latest post, which is a reprint of an article about 911. And, whether I want to admit it or not, I find myself constantly questioning those major trauma's to our psyche - things that happen in our world - where the official answers do not make any sense to me. And, as many others have stated, 911 has never made much sense to me. What does stand out in this article, for me, is that the scientists states that the collapse of the Twin Towers was "A very ordinary thing to happen." Ordinary.....ordinary??? But anyway, read on ........ comments and all ! ..................
******
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Unhappy Annivaersary
Well, we can't let the "anniversary" pass without a little bit of reading material from the "Signs Of The Times"! see below:
9-11 Anniversary Propaganda Special!: Demolition theory challenged by Cambridge University engineer
Comment: Well, an anniversary wouldn't be an anniversary without something a little special to mark the occasion, to let you know that folks are still thinking for you, oops, of you! Today is no exception, with the BBC kindly sending this reminder of why everything is just great and why we should all go back to sleep.
Demolition theory challenged
An analysis of the World Trade Center collapse has challenged a conspiracy theory surrounding the 9/11 attacks.
The study by a Cambridge University engineer demonstrates that once the collapse of the twin towers began, it was destined to be rapid and total.
Comment: Above we have a few key words to frame the article for the reader: analysis; study; engineer; and demonstrates. This sets up the expectation that one is reading new and useful information, data to shed light on the Twin Towers collapse from a credible source, Cambridge no less, the renowned MI5 recruiting ground.
But that aside, here at Signs of the Times, we are all for useful data and information, lets see if we can find any...
One of many conspiracy theories proposes that the buildings came down in a manner consistent with a "controlled demolition".
Comment: Indeed, lets hope the good Dr. can solve the mystery of how these steel framed buildings collapsed at near free fall speed due to fire when no other buildings have have suffered similar fates after far more extreme blazes. How steel girders were cut cleanly by fires not hot enough to melt them. How molten steel amassed in the rubble and burned on for weeks, of how steel beams were ejected hundreds of feet laterally from the towers.
The new data shows this is not needed to explain the way the towers fell.
Comment: New data? So far lots of words, but nope, no DATA. Maybe that's further on..?
Over 2,800 people were killed in the devastating attacks on New York.
Comment: At last some information! Sadly this does not help us to better understand the collapse, but useful perhaps only as an emotional anchor point to remind the reader, lest any doubt creep in.
After reviewing television footage of the Trade Center's destruction, engineers had proposed the idea of "progressive collapse" to explain the way the twin towers disintegrated on 11 September 2001.
Comment: Oh, so "analysis" and "study" are in fact "reviewing television footage". Lets hope they had some good clear shots to work with, with all the pulverized concrete dust clouds in the way.
This mode of structural failure describes the way the building fell straight down rather than toppling, with each successive floor crushing the one beneath (an effect called "pancaking").
Comment: And completely collapsing at near free fall speed? - Billiard Balls!
Resistance to collapse
DrKeith Seffen set out to test mathematically whether this chain reaction really could explain what happened in Lower Manhattan six years ago. The findings are published in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics.
Comment: Well, still no data. But hey, why not pay a visit to the Journal of Engineering Mechanics to read the good Dr's. findings? Here's the link as posted by the BBC, can you find Dr. Seffen's work? No, neither can we. LOTS of words going on the page here but, still no DATA.
Previous studies have tended to focus on the initial stages of collapse, showing that there was an initial, localised failure around the aircraft impact zones, and that this probably led to the progressive collapse of both structures.
In other words, the damaged parts of the tower were bound to fall down, but it was not clear why the undamaged building should have offered little resistance to these falling parts.
Comment: So what then led to the collapse of Building 7, that was not hit by a plane and suffered only minor fires yet still collapsed into its own footprint at free fall speed?
"The initiation part has been quantified by many people; but no one had put numbers on the progressive collapse,"
Dr Seffen told the BBC News website.Dr Seffen was able to calculate the "residual capacity" of the undamaged building: that is, simply speaking, the ability of the undamaged structure to resist or comply with collapse.
His calculations suggest the residual capacity of the north and south towers was limited, and that once the collapse was set in motion, it would take only nine seconds for the building to go down.
Comment: And do the calculations provide any clue as to how each floor's reinforced concrete managed to pulverize itself into dust, erupting like a volcano? Do we find evidence of a stack of 'pancaked' floors at ground zero?
This is just a little longer than a free-falling coin, dropped from the top of either tower, would take to reach the ground.
Comment: A free falling coin dropped from where on the tower? The top, the middle, the point of impact? Where is the DATA? Billiard Balls!
'Fair assumption'
The University of Cambridge engineer said his results therefore suggested progressive collapse was "a fair assumption in terms of how the building fell".
"One thing that confounded engineers was how falling parts of the structure ploughed through undamaged building beneath and brought the towers down so quickly," said Dr Seffen.
Comment: Apparently the good Dr. is not at all confounded by the miraculous collapse of Building 7. No need to even mention it. What a pity the BBC did not have comments open for this article so that informed readers might put the question.
He added that his calculations showed this was a "very ordinary thing to happen" and that no other intervention, such as explosive charges laid inside the building, was needed to explain the behaviour of the buildings.
Comment: A "very ordinary thing to happen", aside that is from three steel framed buildings never having collapsed into their own footprint such a way before, ever.
The controlled detonation idea, espoused on several internet websites, asserts that the manner of collapse is consistent with synchronised rows of explosives going off inside the World Trade Center.
This would have generated a demolition wave that explained the speed, uniformity and similarity between the collapses of both towers.
Comment: Correction: the similarity between the collapses of all THREE towers.
Conspiracy theorists assert that these explosive "squibs" can actually be seen going off in photos and video footage of the collapse. These appear as ejections of gas and debris from the sides of the building, well below the descending rubble.
Other observers say this could be explained by debris falling down lift shafts and impacting on lower floors during the collapse.
Comment: Miraculous! Debris falls faster inside a building than it does free-falling on the outside!
Dr Seffen's research could help inform future building design.
Comment: Indeed it may. If he were ever to provide any useful DATA for analysis and peer review that is.
......now you can go to the original article here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6987965.stm
or you can read the article and lots of other interesting articles that you'll never find in your local papers or on the nightly news:
http://www.sott.net
So, as as always say to my children when ending our phone call (as we live a distance away from each other - and besides telling them that I love them - ):
Be Safe.
~ The Mediator
I was looking at another blog I like to check from time to time. So, my recommendation would be to check her blog out if you are so inclined.
http://shar131.blogspot.com/
Anyway, found this on her blog. It's her latest post, which is a reprint of an article about 911. And, whether I want to admit it or not, I find myself constantly questioning those major trauma's to our psyche - things that happen in our world - where the official answers do not make any sense to me. And, as many others have stated, 911 has never made much sense to me. What does stand out in this article, for me, is that the scientists states that the collapse of the Twin Towers was "A very ordinary thing to happen." Ordinary.....ordinary??? But anyway, read on ........ comments and all ! ..................
******
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Unhappy Annivaersary
Well, we can't let the "anniversary" pass without a little bit of reading material from the "Signs Of The Times"! see below:
9-11 Anniversary Propaganda Special!: Demolition theory challenged by Cambridge University engineer
Comment: Well, an anniversary wouldn't be an anniversary without something a little special to mark the occasion, to let you know that folks are still thinking for you, oops, of you! Today is no exception, with the BBC kindly sending this reminder of why everything is just great and why we should all go back to sleep.
Demolition theory challenged
An analysis of the World Trade Center collapse has challenged a conspiracy theory surrounding the 9/11 attacks.
The study by a Cambridge University engineer demonstrates that once the collapse of the twin towers began, it was destined to be rapid and total.
Comment: Above we have a few key words to frame the article for the reader: analysis; study; engineer; and demonstrates. This sets up the expectation that one is reading new and useful information, data to shed light on the Twin Towers collapse from a credible source, Cambridge no less, the renowned MI5 recruiting ground.
But that aside, here at Signs of the Times, we are all for useful data and information, lets see if we can find any...
One of many conspiracy theories proposes that the buildings came down in a manner consistent with a "controlled demolition".
Comment: Indeed, lets hope the good Dr. can solve the mystery of how these steel framed buildings collapsed at near free fall speed due to fire when no other buildings have have suffered similar fates after far more extreme blazes. How steel girders were cut cleanly by fires not hot enough to melt them. How molten steel amassed in the rubble and burned on for weeks, of how steel beams were ejected hundreds of feet laterally from the towers.
The new data shows this is not needed to explain the way the towers fell.
Comment: New data? So far lots of words, but nope, no DATA. Maybe that's further on..?
Over 2,800 people were killed in the devastating attacks on New York.
Comment: At last some information! Sadly this does not help us to better understand the collapse, but useful perhaps only as an emotional anchor point to remind the reader, lest any doubt creep in.
After reviewing television footage of the Trade Center's destruction, engineers had proposed the idea of "progressive collapse" to explain the way the twin towers disintegrated on 11 September 2001.
Comment: Oh, so "analysis" and "study" are in fact "reviewing television footage". Lets hope they had some good clear shots to work with, with all the pulverized concrete dust clouds in the way.
This mode of structural failure describes the way the building fell straight down rather than toppling, with each successive floor crushing the one beneath (an effect called "pancaking").
Comment: And completely collapsing at near free fall speed? - Billiard Balls!
Resistance to collapse
DrKeith Seffen set out to test mathematically whether this chain reaction really could explain what happened in Lower Manhattan six years ago. The findings are published in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics.
Comment: Well, still no data. But hey, why not pay a visit to the Journal of Engineering Mechanics to read the good Dr's. findings? Here's the link as posted by the BBC, can you find Dr. Seffen's work? No, neither can we. LOTS of words going on the page here but, still no DATA.
Previous studies have tended to focus on the initial stages of collapse, showing that there was an initial, localised failure around the aircraft impact zones, and that this probably led to the progressive collapse of both structures.
In other words, the damaged parts of the tower were bound to fall down, but it was not clear why the undamaged building should have offered little resistance to these falling parts.
Comment: So what then led to the collapse of Building 7, that was not hit by a plane and suffered only minor fires yet still collapsed into its own footprint at free fall speed?
"The initiation part has been quantified by many people; but no one had put numbers on the progressive collapse,"
Dr Seffen told the BBC News website.Dr Seffen was able to calculate the "residual capacity" of the undamaged building: that is, simply speaking, the ability of the undamaged structure to resist or comply with collapse.
His calculations suggest the residual capacity of the north and south towers was limited, and that once the collapse was set in motion, it would take only nine seconds for the building to go down.
Comment: And do the calculations provide any clue as to how each floor's reinforced concrete managed to pulverize itself into dust, erupting like a volcano? Do we find evidence of a stack of 'pancaked' floors at ground zero?
This is just a little longer than a free-falling coin, dropped from the top of either tower, would take to reach the ground.
Comment: A free falling coin dropped from where on the tower? The top, the middle, the point of impact? Where is the DATA? Billiard Balls!
'Fair assumption'
The University of Cambridge engineer said his results therefore suggested progressive collapse was "a fair assumption in terms of how the building fell".
"One thing that confounded engineers was how falling parts of the structure ploughed through undamaged building beneath and brought the towers down so quickly," said Dr Seffen.
Comment: Apparently the good Dr. is not at all confounded by the miraculous collapse of Building 7. No need to even mention it. What a pity the BBC did not have comments open for this article so that informed readers might put the question.
He added that his calculations showed this was a "very ordinary thing to happen" and that no other intervention, such as explosive charges laid inside the building, was needed to explain the behaviour of the buildings.
Comment: A "very ordinary thing to happen", aside that is from three steel framed buildings never having collapsed into their own footprint such a way before, ever.
The controlled detonation idea, espoused on several internet websites, asserts that the manner of collapse is consistent with synchronised rows of explosives going off inside the World Trade Center.
This would have generated a demolition wave that explained the speed, uniformity and similarity between the collapses of both towers.
Comment: Correction: the similarity between the collapses of all THREE towers.
Conspiracy theorists assert that these explosive "squibs" can actually be seen going off in photos and video footage of the collapse. These appear as ejections of gas and debris from the sides of the building, well below the descending rubble.
Other observers say this could be explained by debris falling down lift shafts and impacting on lower floors during the collapse.
Comment: Miraculous! Debris falls faster inside a building than it does free-falling on the outside!
Dr Seffen's research could help inform future building design.
Comment: Indeed it may. If he were ever to provide any useful DATA for analysis and peer review that is.
......now you can go to the original article here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6987965.stm
or you can read the article and lots of other interesting articles that you'll never find in your local papers or on the nightly news:
http://www.sott.net
So, as as always say to my children when ending our phone call (as we live a distance away from each other - and besides telling them that I love them - ):
Be Safe.
~ The Mediator
Monday, September 10, 2007
Smoking: Good or Bad
Thought I would write some comments about smoking.
Both my parents smoked. My mom recently passed away at age 83. She had her mental faculties intact, but her body was unwilling to continue on. Mom began smoking at the age of 15. Up until recently, she smoked two packs a day, claiming that during the last three years of her life, she did not inhale.
My dad, started smoking at age 13 on the advice of his doctor (M.D.). My dad suffered from asthma and the doctor told him that smoking would help him to breathe better and have less asthma attacks. Apparently this worked for my dad, because he enlisted in WW2 and was stationed overseas for a few years.
The only time my dad had an asthma attack (during his time in the military) was when he was shipped back to the states. I wish that I had questioned him more thoroughly on his smoking, but in our conversations his asthma attacks only occurred when there was some type of acute emotional trauma. All I can say is that this does seem to be true, from our limited conversations.
But, there is a growing body of evidence that smoking, er...nicotine..., may be quite helpful to the human condition. Now I am in no way encouraging smoking, but you cannot wonder why there is such a concerted push to END smoking.
Personally, I think that all the additives that have been added to TOBACCO are the root cause of most of the illness caused from smoking. But, who am I, certainly I am no scientist. Just someone who logically can connect the dots.
If interested, you can read the following article, in part, which I read over here:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/138489-Brain+cells+work+differently+than+previously+thought%3A+Nicotine+helps+to+spark+creativity
Brain cells work differently than previously thought: Nicotine helps to spark creativity
University of California - Irvine
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:38 EDT
Scientists know that information travels between brain cells along hairlike extensions called axons. For the first time, researchers have found that axons don't just transmit information - they can turn the signal up or down with the right stimulation.
This finding may help scientists develop treatments for psychiatric disorders such as depression and schizophrenia in which it is thought that different parts of the brain do not communicate correctly with each other.
"Until now, scientists have thought that in the brain's cortex -- where most cognitive processes occur -- information was only processed in the cell body," said Raju Metherate, author of the study, associate professor of neurobiology and behavior, and director of the Center for Hearing Research at UC Irvine. "The result of our study suggests that we must consider the axons as sites of information processing - and of potential problems when things go wrong."
This study appears online Aug. 19 in Nature Neuroscience.
Increasingly, studies are beginning to show that complex information processing, and perhaps consciousness itself, may result from coordinated activity among many parts of the brain connected by bundles of long axons. Cognitive problems may occur when these areas don't communicate properly with each other.
Cognitive function occurs when millions of brain cells communicate with each other at the same time. A brain cell has a network of branches called dendrites through which it receives and processes information from other cells. The body of the cell then relays the processed information along an axon to a terminal that links to another cell's dendrites. At the terminal, chemicals called neurotransmitters are released, allowing the information to enter the receiving cell. Until now, scientists believed axons were just the wires between point A and point B.
(...end snip...)
Not being a smoker myself, the article gives pause as to why the Government is demanding that no one smoke EVER. Kinda makes you think that eventually there will be no place where you can legally smoke ~ except in Congress ! !
But wait, there's another article with 'tons' of links about smoking and it's possible benefits with much more to research and read about. If you are a smoker, or think that smokers are getting a bum-rap, just follow your nose:
http://sott.net/articles/show/139304+Let%27s+All+Light+Up%21
~ The Mediator
Both my parents smoked. My mom recently passed away at age 83. She had her mental faculties intact, but her body was unwilling to continue on. Mom began smoking at the age of 15. Up until recently, she smoked two packs a day, claiming that during the last three years of her life, she did not inhale.
My dad, started smoking at age 13 on the advice of his doctor (M.D.). My dad suffered from asthma and the doctor told him that smoking would help him to breathe better and have less asthma attacks. Apparently this worked for my dad, because he enlisted in WW2 and was stationed overseas for a few years.
The only time my dad had an asthma attack (during his time in the military) was when he was shipped back to the states. I wish that I had questioned him more thoroughly on his smoking, but in our conversations his asthma attacks only occurred when there was some type of acute emotional trauma. All I can say is that this does seem to be true, from our limited conversations.
But, there is a growing body of evidence that smoking, er...nicotine..., may be quite helpful to the human condition. Now I am in no way encouraging smoking, but you cannot wonder why there is such a concerted push to END smoking.
Personally, I think that all the additives that have been added to TOBACCO are the root cause of most of the illness caused from smoking. But, who am I, certainly I am no scientist. Just someone who logically can connect the dots.
If interested, you can read the following article, in part, which I read over here:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/138489-Brain+cells+work+differently+than+previously+thought%3A+Nicotine+helps+to+spark+creativity
Brain cells work differently than previously thought: Nicotine helps to spark creativity
University of California - Irvine
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:38 EDT
Scientists know that information travels between brain cells along hairlike extensions called axons. For the first time, researchers have found that axons don't just transmit information - they can turn the signal up or down with the right stimulation.
This finding may help scientists develop treatments for psychiatric disorders such as depression and schizophrenia in which it is thought that different parts of the brain do not communicate correctly with each other.
"Until now, scientists have thought that in the brain's cortex -- where most cognitive processes occur -- information was only processed in the cell body," said Raju Metherate, author of the study, associate professor of neurobiology and behavior, and director of the Center for Hearing Research at UC Irvine. "The result of our study suggests that we must consider the axons as sites of information processing - and of potential problems when things go wrong."
This study appears online Aug. 19 in Nature Neuroscience.
Increasingly, studies are beginning to show that complex information processing, and perhaps consciousness itself, may result from coordinated activity among many parts of the brain connected by bundles of long axons. Cognitive problems may occur when these areas don't communicate properly with each other.
Cognitive function occurs when millions of brain cells communicate with each other at the same time. A brain cell has a network of branches called dendrites through which it receives and processes information from other cells. The body of the cell then relays the processed information along an axon to a terminal that links to another cell's dendrites. At the terminal, chemicals called neurotransmitters are released, allowing the information to enter the receiving cell. Until now, scientists believed axons were just the wires between point A and point B.
(...end snip...)
Not being a smoker myself, the article gives pause as to why the Government is demanding that no one smoke EVER. Kinda makes you think that eventually there will be no place where you can legally smoke ~ except in Congress ! !
But wait, there's another article with 'tons' of links about smoking and it's possible benefits with much more to research and read about. If you are a smoker, or think that smokers are getting a bum-rap, just follow your nose:
http://sott.net/articles/show/139304+Let%27s+All+Light+Up%21
~ The Mediator
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
DARK SECRETS
Somebody wake me up. Came across this article entitled:
"America's Darkest Secret: The Nine Stages of American
Autogenocide"
author is Martha Rose Crowe
http://hiddenmurder.blogspot.com/
I have never ever heard the word autogenocide before. Wish I hadn't. But, now that I have, and don't see it in any of the main stream media news, I thought I would post part of the article below so I don't forget about this man-made horror. The portion of the article that I posted seems to sum up what autogenocide is. But I suggest reading the entire article for FULL IMPACT either at Martha Crowe's blog or at Signs-of-the-Times website.
http://www.sott.net/signs/articles/show124948-America%27s+Darkest+Secret%3A+The+Nine+Stages+of+American+Autogenocide
(snipped)......American Autogenocide Told From An Eye Witness:
It was a Minnesota State Representative who told me about autogenocide. This happened in August of 1998. I called him at his home. Many times, I'd call him about news reports I had seen on television announcing that the "government" reported a surplus of jobs and a shortage of workers. This was almost the daily news in the late 1990's. Chronically under-employed, I wanted to know where these jobs were. Nobody ever seemed to know. When I'd call the television station or Job Service and actually talked with a live being on the other end of the phone (most of the time I would be forwarded to an answering machine), someone would promise to call back and never did.
Almost ten years later, most people know that it was all propaganda. The abundance of jobs that the government and media constantly told the village about didn't exist.
When I called the politician this time, I was worried about the upcoming vote to continuance of the end of welfare. The state government was forcing the most poorest and helpless women in the village to work, when work was almost impossible to find and when it was found, it paid minimum-wage, was part-time and offered no fringe benefits. Armed with research I had been doing, I told him there was not enough work for all the workers in the village.
"How are these women and their children supposed to survive on part-time work and no welfare?" I asked. "Don't you know that many women and children are going to die if you do this?"
I could hear his frustration with me as the tone of his voice changed on the other end of the phone line. Exasperated, he told me, "Okay, Martha, I am going to tell you something off the record. If you ever tell anyone, I will deny it." I listened carefully as he proceeded to tell me something that shocked me all the way to the core of my being.
First, he asked me, "What do you know about farming?"
I replied, "What does farming have to do with women not getting work?"
He replied, "A lot and I'll get to that in a moment." Then he told me that economists, industry and politicians knew that the 'flush' economy was going to last until around the year 2000 (he was right), and then 'welfare reform' would have to be shelved because the more privileged people in society would demand all the remaining jobs of a slagging economy. This didn't happen because the Will of the Elite became too powerful and entrenched, plus the virtual war on "terror" that sucks all the money out of the treasury and spent on the new police state instead of citizens who are going to die from governmental neglect.
The local politician told me that in the interim, someone, namely women and children, had to be sacrificed. Yes, he said, politicians knew that some innocent people were going to die, but 'welfare reform' was a 'red button' political issue that 'had to be addressed' because the middle-class and the upper-classes did not want to pay taxes to support disadvantaged people.
Therefore, some of the most powerless people had been targeted for elimination from society.
"It is no big deal," he told me, "Every society does it. Think of it in these terms: Farmers don't keep animals that cost more than they produce. People in power have to make those same decisions regarding people just like farmers have to make the same decisions regarding livestock. Someone has to control the size of the herd. Unlike animals, it is the powerless, not the sick or lame, that are selected to be removed.
Politicians have to make difficult, executive decisions for their constituents, even if it seems unfair. That's what they are elected for and they are giving the voters what they really want. If politicians refuse to make these decisions, they won't get reelected. There are lots of people willing to run for office and make those executive decisions if the current politicians won't do it. These choices are natural and a fact of life, Martha. I told you, every society does it."
Surprised and confused, I replied, "Wait a minute, are you telling me that our society intentionally kills our own people, even women and children, only because the wealthy don't want to share? That these deaths are intentionally planned? Don't the wealthy know that poverty is one of the 'natural' byproducts of capitalism, that capitalism depends on an official 'average' five percent unemployed to hold it up? Are you telling me that all politicians, local ones to national ones, not only know about this murder but willingly participate in it?"
"All of them know about it, Martha," he told me. "Now you do, too. Don't ever call me again and don't ever quote me. I'll deny I ever told you this."
"Wait!" I said, "How you can be a part of this and live with your conscience?"
He hung up on me. I tried to call him several times after that and he would never talk to me.
Putting Flesh and Blood On the Surreal:
Any kind of a murder is surreal. It is a symbol of power: Someone has taken someone else's life. It is a symbol of evil, of the dark side of the human existence/experience. The first book of the Bible, Genesis, gives murder (particularly murder of your brother) not only the symbol of ultimate evil, but its parable is a warning to all humans.
Murder always creates a surreal atmosphere. Its name and dynamics are psychological "redbuttons" that the psyche (subconscious) recognizes before the conscious. Murder is always dark and it hides in the darkest places that people don't want to peer into because of many reasons including the fact that it might affect their conscience and make them depressed.
Only the perpetrators, researchers and real thirsters of justice will look inside these dark places. You have to have courage to do this because these dark places are rabidly shielded and watched by guards of the elite. Like any murderer, the persons who caused the murder will do everything to keep the evidence hidden. In the case of Silent Autogenocides like the one that is happening in America, the truth of it will remain hidden until all the players have long since left life's arena. More, few ever mourn for the loss of weakest members of society.
(end snip)........
"America's Darkest Secret: The Nine Stages of American
Autogenocide"
author is Martha Rose Crowe
http://hiddenmurder.blogspot.com/
I have never ever heard the word autogenocide before. Wish I hadn't. But, now that I have, and don't see it in any of the main stream media news, I thought I would post part of the article below so I don't forget about this man-made horror. The portion of the article that I posted seems to sum up what autogenocide is. But I suggest reading the entire article for FULL IMPACT either at Martha Crowe's blog or at Signs-of-the-Times website.
http://www.sott.net/signs/articles/show124948-America%27s+Darkest+Secret%3A+The+Nine+Stages+of+American+Autogenocide
(snipped)......American Autogenocide Told From An Eye Witness:
It was a Minnesota State Representative who told me about autogenocide. This happened in August of 1998. I called him at his home. Many times, I'd call him about news reports I had seen on television announcing that the "government" reported a surplus of jobs and a shortage of workers. This was almost the daily news in the late 1990's. Chronically under-employed, I wanted to know where these jobs were. Nobody ever seemed to know. When I'd call the television station or Job Service and actually talked with a live being on the other end of the phone (most of the time I would be forwarded to an answering machine), someone would promise to call back and never did.
Almost ten years later, most people know that it was all propaganda. The abundance of jobs that the government and media constantly told the village about didn't exist.
When I called the politician this time, I was worried about the upcoming vote to continuance of the end of welfare. The state government was forcing the most poorest and helpless women in the village to work, when work was almost impossible to find and when it was found, it paid minimum-wage, was part-time and offered no fringe benefits. Armed with research I had been doing, I told him there was not enough work for all the workers in the village.
"How are these women and their children supposed to survive on part-time work and no welfare?" I asked. "Don't you know that many women and children are going to die if you do this?"
I could hear his frustration with me as the tone of his voice changed on the other end of the phone line. Exasperated, he told me, "Okay, Martha, I am going to tell you something off the record. If you ever tell anyone, I will deny it." I listened carefully as he proceeded to tell me something that shocked me all the way to the core of my being.
First, he asked me, "What do you know about farming?"
I replied, "What does farming have to do with women not getting work?"
He replied, "A lot and I'll get to that in a moment." Then he told me that economists, industry and politicians knew that the 'flush' economy was going to last until around the year 2000 (he was right), and then 'welfare reform' would have to be shelved because the more privileged people in society would demand all the remaining jobs of a slagging economy. This didn't happen because the Will of the Elite became too powerful and entrenched, plus the virtual war on "terror" that sucks all the money out of the treasury and spent on the new police state instead of citizens who are going to die from governmental neglect.
The local politician told me that in the interim, someone, namely women and children, had to be sacrificed. Yes, he said, politicians knew that some innocent people were going to die, but 'welfare reform' was a 'red button' political issue that 'had to be addressed' because the middle-class and the upper-classes did not want to pay taxes to support disadvantaged people.
Therefore, some of the most powerless people had been targeted for elimination from society.
"It is no big deal," he told me, "Every society does it. Think of it in these terms: Farmers don't keep animals that cost more than they produce. People in power have to make those same decisions regarding people just like farmers have to make the same decisions regarding livestock. Someone has to control the size of the herd. Unlike animals, it is the powerless, not the sick or lame, that are selected to be removed.
Politicians have to make difficult, executive decisions for their constituents, even if it seems unfair. That's what they are elected for and they are giving the voters what they really want. If politicians refuse to make these decisions, they won't get reelected. There are lots of people willing to run for office and make those executive decisions if the current politicians won't do it. These choices are natural and a fact of life, Martha. I told you, every society does it."
Surprised and confused, I replied, "Wait a minute, are you telling me that our society intentionally kills our own people, even women and children, only because the wealthy don't want to share? That these deaths are intentionally planned? Don't the wealthy know that poverty is one of the 'natural' byproducts of capitalism, that capitalism depends on an official 'average' five percent unemployed to hold it up? Are you telling me that all politicians, local ones to national ones, not only know about this murder but willingly participate in it?"
"All of them know about it, Martha," he told me. "Now you do, too. Don't ever call me again and don't ever quote me. I'll deny I ever told you this."
"Wait!" I said, "How you can be a part of this and live with your conscience?"
He hung up on me. I tried to call him several times after that and he would never talk to me.
Putting Flesh and Blood On the Surreal:
Any kind of a murder is surreal. It is a symbol of power: Someone has taken someone else's life. It is a symbol of evil, of the dark side of the human existence/experience. The first book of the Bible, Genesis, gives murder (particularly murder of your brother) not only the symbol of ultimate evil, but its parable is a warning to all humans.
Murder always creates a surreal atmosphere. Its name and dynamics are psychological "redbuttons" that the psyche (subconscious) recognizes before the conscious. Murder is always dark and it hides in the darkest places that people don't want to peer into because of many reasons including the fact that it might affect their conscience and make them depressed.
Only the perpetrators, researchers and real thirsters of justice will look inside these dark places. You have to have courage to do this because these dark places are rabidly shielded and watched by guards of the elite. Like any murderer, the persons who caused the murder will do everything to keep the evidence hidden. In the case of Silent Autogenocides like the one that is happening in America, the truth of it will remain hidden until all the players have long since left life's arena. More, few ever mourn for the loss of weakest members of society.
(end snip)........
So, what's up with this ??
I never thought I would read words like the above. If you have the courage to read the entire article, it will leave you feeling hopeless, helpless. But then STOP for a moment, take a deep breath and you may realize you are now better equipped to deal with LIFE.
Knowledge is power. Remember that. What you do with the information you gain in reading (and sharing) is up to you. You may now know a new truth. How can that be bad?
You also can visit:
http://ponerology.blogspot.com/
or read the book "Political Ponerology" by Andrew Lobaczewski for additional information on what's happening in our world today.
Just visit www.redpillpress.com/ to order the book.
~The Mediator
Monday, August 06, 2007
V FOR VENDETTA ... the movie (or is it)
, last night I was searching for something to watch. TV is soooo lacking in entertainment, so I went through my movies and decided to watch the movie "V for Vendetta" again.
Although I loved the movie when I first watched it, it was simply entertainment. But, as I re-watched this movie, I could not help making so many connections between what was going on in the movie "V" and what is going on within the government of the (US)A - my government.
In my younger days, I 'believed' that the gov''t was: 'For', 'By' and 'Of the People'. Now, as I am a bit older, I've changed my belief. I NOW believe that the gov''t: 'Uses', 'Takes' and 'Screws the People' ........ the people the gov''t is supposed to protect.
And to quote from the movie "V for Vendetta": " THE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE AFRAID OF THEIR GOVERNMENT ........ THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE AFRAID OF THE PEOPLE."
Katrina, the hurricane, really did make it totally clear to all americans that we are not to rely on our gov''t for help in any way - when disaster strikes. For it just may be that they are responsible for the disaster. Maybe it's a game to see how different types of disasters are played out. Like watching a movie, wondering how it will end, we-the-people are the government's "movie". Who knows........
Here are a couple of articles in part:
http://harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000742
The Boot is Descending
by Scott Horton
(snip)...
This weekend something of tremendous consequence happened. The attitude of the Bush Administration will likely be mirrored by that of the Democratic leadership: this is nothing, tend to your own work, just move along. The media will dish up some more Paris Hilton prolefeed (let’s call it by its proper, Orwellian name). But what happened was very important–another massive sledgehammer blow was taken to the foundations of our democratic institutions. And it was a thoroughly bi-partisan effort.
Here’s what occurred. The Bush Administration sought an amendment of FISA to overcome roadblocks that the FISA court threw in its way. It put its case to Congress in secret and sent its national intelligence czar to negotiate a deal. When he concluded an agreement, Bush rejected it. The White House replied with threats, essentially stating that as soon as another terrorist attack occurs, we will pin the blame on Democrats in Congress because of their failure to amend FISA to give us what we want.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
and then there is this article
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/137727-Bush+signs+new+Wiretapping+Law%2C+no+warrants+needed
Bush Signs New Wiretapping Law - No Warrants Needed
by James Risen of the NY Times, Sunday, August 5, 2007
President Bush signed into law on Sunday legislation that broadly expanded the government's authority to eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail messages of American citizens without warrants.
Congressional aides and others familiar with the details of the law said that its impact went far beyond the small fixes that administration officials had said were needed to gather information about foreign terrorists. They said seemingly subtle changes in legislative language would sharply alter the legal limits on the government's ability to monitor millions of phone calls and e-mail messages going in and out of the United States.
Comment: As evidenced by this new legislation, and once again by Gonzales' verbal squirming in recent Senate testimony, this administration and its minions hide their actions and true intentions behind a web of deceit. For lack of truth, governments develop the language of ambiguity, the interpretation of which is constantly altered to fit the end.
Truth has no need for crafty words and deceit.
They also said that the new law for the first time provided a legal framework for much of the surveillance without warrants that was being conducted in secret by the National Security Agency and outside the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 1978 law that is supposed to regulate the way the government can listen to the private communications of American citizens.
"This more or less legalizes the N.S.A. program," said Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies in Washington, who has studied the new legislation.
Previously, the government needed search warrants approved by a special intelligence court to eavesdrop on telephone conversations, e-mail messages and other electronic communications between individuals inside the United States and people overseas, if the government conducted the surveillance inside the United States.
Today, most international telephone conversations to and from the United States are conducted over fiber-optic cables, and the most efficient way for the government to eavesdrop on them is to latch on to giant telecommunications switches located in the United States.
By changing the legal definition of what is considered "electronic surveillance," the new law allows the government to eavesdrop on those conversations without warrants - latching on to those giant switches - as long as the target of the government's surveillance is "reasonably believed" to be overseas.
For example, if a person in Indianapolis calls someone in London, the National Security Agency can eavesdrop on that conversation without a warrant, as long as the N.S.A.'s target is the person in London.......................
you can read the rest at the website.
So, when you are on the telephone, don't make an 'oopsie' and say the wrong word. That word can be taken out of context and used against you. Think I'm paranoid. Well, yes, I guess now I am.
Can you feel the 'boot' coming down on your head (or does it start with your wallet?).
~ The Mediator
Although I loved the movie when I first watched it, it was simply entertainment. But, as I re-watched this movie, I could not help making so many connections between what was going on in the movie "V" and what is going on within the government of the (US)A - my government.
In my younger days, I 'believed' that the gov''t was: 'For', 'By' and 'Of the People'. Now, as I am a bit older, I've changed my belief. I NOW believe that the gov''t: 'Uses', 'Takes' and 'Screws the People' ........ the people the gov''t is supposed to protect.
And to quote from the movie "V for Vendetta": " THE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE AFRAID OF THEIR GOVERNMENT ........ THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE AFRAID OF THE PEOPLE."
Katrina, the hurricane, really did make it totally clear to all americans that we are not to rely on our gov''t for help in any way - when disaster strikes. For it just may be that they are responsible for the disaster. Maybe it's a game to see how different types of disasters are played out. Like watching a movie, wondering how it will end, we-the-people are the government's "movie". Who knows........
Here are a couple of articles in part:
http://harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000742
The Boot is Descending
by Scott Horton
(snip)...
This weekend something of tremendous consequence happened. The attitude of the Bush Administration will likely be mirrored by that of the Democratic leadership: this is nothing, tend to your own work, just move along. The media will dish up some more Paris Hilton prolefeed (let’s call it by its proper, Orwellian name). But what happened was very important–another massive sledgehammer blow was taken to the foundations of our democratic institutions. And it was a thoroughly bi-partisan effort.
Here’s what occurred. The Bush Administration sought an amendment of FISA to overcome roadblocks that the FISA court threw in its way. It put its case to Congress in secret and sent its national intelligence czar to negotiate a deal. When he concluded an agreement, Bush rejected it. The White House replied with threats, essentially stating that as soon as another terrorist attack occurs, we will pin the blame on Democrats in Congress because of their failure to amend FISA to give us what we want.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
and then there is this article
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/137727-Bush+signs+new+Wiretapping+Law%2C+no+warrants+needed
Bush Signs New Wiretapping Law - No Warrants Needed
by James Risen of the NY Times, Sunday, August 5, 2007
President Bush signed into law on Sunday legislation that broadly expanded the government's authority to eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail messages of American citizens without warrants.
Congressional aides and others familiar with the details of the law said that its impact went far beyond the small fixes that administration officials had said were needed to gather information about foreign terrorists. They said seemingly subtle changes in legislative language would sharply alter the legal limits on the government's ability to monitor millions of phone calls and e-mail messages going in and out of the United States.
Comment: As evidenced by this new legislation, and once again by Gonzales' verbal squirming in recent Senate testimony, this administration and its minions hide their actions and true intentions behind a web of deceit. For lack of truth, governments develop the language of ambiguity, the interpretation of which is constantly altered to fit the end.
Truth has no need for crafty words and deceit.
They also said that the new law for the first time provided a legal framework for much of the surveillance without warrants that was being conducted in secret by the National Security Agency and outside the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 1978 law that is supposed to regulate the way the government can listen to the private communications of American citizens.
"This more or less legalizes the N.S.A. program," said Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies in Washington, who has studied the new legislation.
Previously, the government needed search warrants approved by a special intelligence court to eavesdrop on telephone conversations, e-mail messages and other electronic communications between individuals inside the United States and people overseas, if the government conducted the surveillance inside the United States.
Today, most international telephone conversations to and from the United States are conducted over fiber-optic cables, and the most efficient way for the government to eavesdrop on them is to latch on to giant telecommunications switches located in the United States.
By changing the legal definition of what is considered "electronic surveillance," the new law allows the government to eavesdrop on those conversations without warrants - latching on to those giant switches - as long as the target of the government's surveillance is "reasonably believed" to be overseas.
For example, if a person in Indianapolis calls someone in London, the National Security Agency can eavesdrop on that conversation without a warrant, as long as the N.S.A.'s target is the person in London.......................
you can read the rest at the website.
So, when you are on the telephone, don't make an 'oopsie' and say the wrong word. That word can be taken out of context and used against you. Think I'm paranoid. Well, yes, I guess now I am.
Can you feel the 'boot' coming down on your head (or does it start with your wallet?).
~ The Mediator
Thursday, August 02, 2007
THE SUNSHINE FACTOR
So, it's August. And, it's been a while since I posted to my blog. It's just that time has been passing by an incredible (to me, anyway) speed. It seems that I get up from a good night's sleep and it's time for lunch !
Having a new job (doing elder care) and as a single mom with a disabled child a-n-d an elderly mother to keep tabs on, the 24 hour day just doesn't work for me.
I've tried sleeping less (bad idea) and eating less (better idea) to make more time for those things that simply need-to-be-done each day. One thing I have made time for is walking. I'm going out and doing a lovely 2 mile face-paced walk twice a day.......once with my son and later on I'll walk either by myself or with a friend.
We have a lovely bike path and since apartment living is new to me, this walk makes for a wonderful change-of-pace and helps with the SUNSHINE FACTOR, which I have been reading much about lately. Seems alot of humanity's ills could be cured by spending more time outside. Vitamin D is absolutely essential for good health.
By the way, whoever started the rumor that the sun was bad for us??? Read this article and maybe, if you've been avoiding the sun (you know, with lots of suncreen and sunglasses) you'll let your skin, the largest organ on your body, get what it needs and deserves. Anyway.......................here's one article from Dr. Mercola's sight:
www.mercola.com/
"VALUABLE INSIGHTS INTO THE IMPORTANCE
OF VITAMIN D AND SUN"
Vitamin D deficiency is a major problem in the United States but many Americans are not aware that they may be lacking this important nutrient. Although word is beginning to leak out even among the traditional medical community, testing for vitamin D will not skyrocket like cholesterol or other testing because there is no expensive drug to push, thus making the public more aware.
It is essential to understand that in order to know how much vitamin D you should be taking, you should get your blood level checked. Unfortunately, very few doctors do the blood test for vitamin D. You can't rely on the media to expose the issue. If and when they do, it will be too late for most of you and you will have suffered decreased bone density and an increased risk of many cancers. But you don't have to wait for the media.
You can read my article on vitamin D testing and get up-to-date on this important topic before it is too late. Unless you are getting significant sun exposure on large amounts of your skin, in fact, I would advise reading the article right now.
Vitamin D is such an important topic that we recently conducted an exclusive interview with one of the top vitamin D researchers in the world, William B. Grant, Ph.D. Here you will get the insights of someone who is on the cutting edge of vitamin D research and knowledgeable about the importance of sun exposure for health. Taking a few minutes to read through the information below will broaden your understanding of this important issue to help you reach higher levels of health.
also, you can go to this article:
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/137333-Sunshine+%27protective%27+against+ms
or this article:
http://www.mercola.com/2005/jul/5/sunshine_vitamin_d_htm
and this:
http://www.mercola.com/2005/jun/7/sun_vitamind.htm
which says in part:
"CRITICS NOW ACCEPT THE SUN AS YOUR HEALTHIEST
SOURCE OF VITAMIN D"
Evidence continues to mount in support of the obvious link between vitamin D and getting the right amount of sunshine so the body can naturally produce it. And unlike other medical fads that boomed and bombed, this evidence is strong and keeps growing.
In fact, the concept questions the longstanding conventional belief that people need to coat themselves with sunscreen whenever they're in the sun.
The "Sunshine Vitamin"
Vitamin D bears the nickname the "sunshine vitamin" because the skin produces it from ultraviolet rays. Researchers believe slapping on sunscreen may actually contribute to far more cancer deaths than it prevents as doing so blocks this vital vitamin production.
Thus, while dermatologists and health agencies have long touted that such lotions are needed to prevent skin cancer, some scientists are now challenging that advice. Their main argument: Vitamin D is important for preventing and treating many types of cancer; studies have found it helped protect against lymphoma, as well as cancers of the:
Prostate
Lung
Skin
Colon
In fact, one Harvard professor offered such compelling evidence in a recent study -- vitamin D may prevent 30 deaths for each one caused by skin cancer -- that the American Cancer Society is now reconsidering its own sun guidelines.................
So, if you've read this far, hopefully your interest has been stirred up a bit to check out more on sunshine and vitamin d.
And, here's to your good health.
~ The Mediator
Having a new job (doing elder care) and as a single mom with a disabled child a-n-d an elderly mother to keep tabs on, the 24 hour day just doesn't work for me.
I've tried sleeping less (bad idea) and eating less (better idea) to make more time for those things that simply need-to-be-done each day. One thing I have made time for is walking. I'm going out and doing a lovely 2 mile face-paced walk twice a day.......once with my son and later on I'll walk either by myself or with a friend.
We have a lovely bike path and since apartment living is new to me, this walk makes for a wonderful change-of-pace and helps with the SUNSHINE FACTOR, which I have been reading much about lately. Seems alot of humanity's ills could be cured by spending more time outside. Vitamin D is absolutely essential for good health.
By the way, whoever started the rumor that the sun was bad for us??? Read this article and maybe, if you've been avoiding the sun (you know, with lots of suncreen and sunglasses) you'll let your skin, the largest organ on your body, get what it needs and deserves. Anyway.......................here's one article from Dr. Mercola's sight:
www.mercola.com/
"VALUABLE INSIGHTS INTO THE IMPORTANCE
OF VITAMIN D AND SUN"
Vitamin D deficiency is a major problem in the United States but many Americans are not aware that they may be lacking this important nutrient. Although word is beginning to leak out even among the traditional medical community, testing for vitamin D will not skyrocket like cholesterol or other testing because there is no expensive drug to push, thus making the public more aware.
It is essential to understand that in order to know how much vitamin D you should be taking, you should get your blood level checked. Unfortunately, very few doctors do the blood test for vitamin D. You can't rely on the media to expose the issue. If and when they do, it will be too late for most of you and you will have suffered decreased bone density and an increased risk of many cancers. But you don't have to wait for the media.
You can read my article on vitamin D testing and get up-to-date on this important topic before it is too late. Unless you are getting significant sun exposure on large amounts of your skin, in fact, I would advise reading the article right now.
Vitamin D is such an important topic that we recently conducted an exclusive interview with one of the top vitamin D researchers in the world, William B. Grant, Ph.D. Here you will get the insights of someone who is on the cutting edge of vitamin D research and knowledgeable about the importance of sun exposure for health. Taking a few minutes to read through the information below will broaden your understanding of this important issue to help you reach higher levels of health.
also, you can go to this article:
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/137333-Sunshine+%27protective%27+against+ms
or this article:
http://www.mercola.com/2005/jul/5/sunshine_vitamin_d_htm
and this:
http://www.mercola.com/2005/jun/7/sun_vitamind.htm
which says in part:
"CRITICS NOW ACCEPT THE SUN AS YOUR HEALTHIEST
SOURCE OF VITAMIN D"
Evidence continues to mount in support of the obvious link between vitamin D and getting the right amount of sunshine so the body can naturally produce it. And unlike other medical fads that boomed and bombed, this evidence is strong and keeps growing.
In fact, the concept questions the longstanding conventional belief that people need to coat themselves with sunscreen whenever they're in the sun.
The "Sunshine Vitamin"
Vitamin D bears the nickname the "sunshine vitamin" because the skin produces it from ultraviolet rays. Researchers believe slapping on sunscreen may actually contribute to far more cancer deaths than it prevents as doing so blocks this vital vitamin production.
Thus, while dermatologists and health agencies have long touted that such lotions are needed to prevent skin cancer, some scientists are now challenging that advice. Their main argument: Vitamin D is important for preventing and treating many types of cancer; studies have found it helped protect against lymphoma, as well as cancers of the:
Prostate
Lung
Skin
Colon
In fact, one Harvard professor offered such compelling evidence in a recent study -- vitamin D may prevent 30 deaths for each one caused by skin cancer -- that the American Cancer Society is now reconsidering its own sun guidelines.................
So, if you've read this far, hopefully your interest has been stirred up a bit to check out more on sunshine and vitamin d.
And, here's to your good health.
~ The Mediator
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA
Next year I'll be 60 years old. I'm healthy, look younger than my age, have great work experience and for the first time in my life - I'm unemployed. I've been sending out resume's with 'no responses' to any of them. Just last night, I saw an old friend, we were both talking about the difficulties of becoming part of the 'senior' (whatever that means) generation. She offered me one good bit of advice that I had not thought of..............eliminate the DATES on your resume. Just list your work experiences. That's how she got her job.
Considering that most manufacturing has left the USofA and most other jobs are easily outsourced overseas and with immigrants offering up their services for less than us 'merican workers..............jobs are getting harder and harder to come by. And I don't think it all has to do solely with my a.g.e.
So read the following article. It can be read in it's entirety here:
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06252007.html
And to Its Fabled Economy
Goodbye to the City on the Hill
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
America is being destroyed. Many Americans are unaware, others are indifferent, and some intend it.
The destruction is across the board: the political and constitutional system, the economy, social institutions including the family itself, citizenship, and the character and morality of the American people.
Those who rely on the Internet for information are aware that the Bush regime has successfully assaulted the separation of powers and civil liberty. Both Bush and Cheney claim that they are not bound by laws that impinge on their freedom of action or that interfere with their ideas of the power of their offices. Bush has issued presidential directives that permit him to make himself a dictator by declaring a national emergency. Cheney asserts that his handling of secret documents is not subject to oversight or investigation or bound by a presidential order governing the protection of classified information.
The foundation of social organization--marriage, family, and parental control over children--is disintegrating.
Mass unassimilated and illegal immigration has destroyed the meaning of American citizenship and forced large numbers of Americans into unemployment. For example, Steve Camarota at the Center for Immigration Studies reported on June 20 that state employment data show that in the first six years of the 21st century 218,000 high school graduates in the state of Georgia have been employment-displaced by immigrants. Moreover, wages have stagnated, putting the lie to the claim that there is a shortage of workers. If there were a labor shortage, wages would be bid up and rising.
Many Americans are unconcerned that the US government in behalf of an undeclared agenda has invaded two countries, killed hundreds of thousands of foreign civilians, produced 4 million Iraqi refugees, rejected the Geneva Conventions and reverted to medieval torture dungeons. It does not trouble them that their government blocked ceasefires and UN resolutions so that Israel could bomb and murder Lebanese civilians and destroy the country's infrastructure.
Americans, whose ethical behavior toward others was once reinforced by having to look oneself in the mirror, now have a different ethos. Many cannot look themselves in the mirror unless they have pulled a fast one and advanced themselves at someone else's expense. It is not only crooked prosecutors, such as Michael Nifong, who get their jollies from destroying their fellow citizens.
A google search will call up enough information to make the case for these points many times over. However, the destruction of the US economy, though far advanced, is still largely unknown. It is to this subject that we turn.
For a number of years Charles McMillion of MBG Information Services and I have documented from BLS nonfarm payroll jobs data that the US economy in the 21st century no longer creates net new jobs in tradable goods and services. In the 21st century, job growth in "the world's only superpower" has a definite third world flavor. US job growth has been limited to domestic services that cannot be moved offshore, such as waitresses and bartenders and health and social services.
These are not jobs that comprise ladders of upward mobility. Income inequality is worsening, and education is no longer the answer.
The problem is that middle class jobs, both in manufacturing and in professional occupations such as engineering, are being offshored as corporations replace their American workforces with foreigners. I have called jobs offshoring "virtual immigration."
The latest bombshell is that even those professional jobs that remain located in America are not safe. There is a vast industry of immigration law firms that enable American corporations to replace their American workers with foreigners brought in on work visas............................
~ The Mediator
Considering that most manufacturing has left the USofA and most other jobs are easily outsourced overseas and with immigrants offering up their services for less than us 'merican workers..............jobs are getting harder and harder to come by. And I don't think it all has to do solely with my a.g.e.
So read the following article. It can be read in it's entirety here:
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06252007.html
And to Its Fabled Economy
Goodbye to the City on the Hill
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
America is being destroyed. Many Americans are unaware, others are indifferent, and some intend it.
The destruction is across the board: the political and constitutional system, the economy, social institutions including the family itself, citizenship, and the character and morality of the American people.
Those who rely on the Internet for information are aware that the Bush regime has successfully assaulted the separation of powers and civil liberty. Both Bush and Cheney claim that they are not bound by laws that impinge on their freedom of action or that interfere with their ideas of the power of their offices. Bush has issued presidential directives that permit him to make himself a dictator by declaring a national emergency. Cheney asserts that his handling of secret documents is not subject to oversight or investigation or bound by a presidential order governing the protection of classified information.
The foundation of social organization--marriage, family, and parental control over children--is disintegrating.
Mass unassimilated and illegal immigration has destroyed the meaning of American citizenship and forced large numbers of Americans into unemployment. For example, Steve Camarota at the Center for Immigration Studies reported on June 20 that state employment data show that in the first six years of the 21st century 218,000 high school graduates in the state of Georgia have been employment-displaced by immigrants. Moreover, wages have stagnated, putting the lie to the claim that there is a shortage of workers. If there were a labor shortage, wages would be bid up and rising.
Many Americans are unconcerned that the US government in behalf of an undeclared agenda has invaded two countries, killed hundreds of thousands of foreign civilians, produced 4 million Iraqi refugees, rejected the Geneva Conventions and reverted to medieval torture dungeons. It does not trouble them that their government blocked ceasefires and UN resolutions so that Israel could bomb and murder Lebanese civilians and destroy the country's infrastructure.
Americans, whose ethical behavior toward others was once reinforced by having to look oneself in the mirror, now have a different ethos. Many cannot look themselves in the mirror unless they have pulled a fast one and advanced themselves at someone else's expense. It is not only crooked prosecutors, such as Michael Nifong, who get their jollies from destroying their fellow citizens.
A google search will call up enough information to make the case for these points many times over. However, the destruction of the US economy, though far advanced, is still largely unknown. It is to this subject that we turn.
For a number of years Charles McMillion of MBG Information Services and I have documented from BLS nonfarm payroll jobs data that the US economy in the 21st century no longer creates net new jobs in tradable goods and services. In the 21st century, job growth in "the world's only superpower" has a definite third world flavor. US job growth has been limited to domestic services that cannot be moved offshore, such as waitresses and bartenders and health and social services.
These are not jobs that comprise ladders of upward mobility. Income inequality is worsening, and education is no longer the answer.
The problem is that middle class jobs, both in manufacturing and in professional occupations such as engineering, are being offshored as corporations replace their American workforces with foreigners. I have called jobs offshoring "virtual immigration."
The latest bombshell is that even those professional jobs that remain located in America are not safe. There is a vast industry of immigration law firms that enable American corporations to replace their American workers with foreigners brought in on work visas............................
~ The Mediator
Monday, June 25, 2007
GREAT ANALOGY OF 'WHAT IS A SOCIOPATH'
Sometimes I find it difficult to explain OR introduce a new concept to people about that "other species" we share this planet with: sociopaths/psychopaths.
The article below gives a great visual for anyone wanting to get a better grip on understanding what humanity is up against. Think of it as the 'end-times' games that are being played out by a group of so-called people who have NO CONscience.
Now I have also read this wonderful book: The Sociopath Next Door, by Martha Stout. And would highly recommend this book to anyone - and to your children before they start dating, go off to college, or if you just want to prepare your family for the inevitable: YOU WILL, AT SOME POINT (IF NOT ALREADY) INTERACT WITH 'THESE PEOPLE' who make up at least 6 percent of our population.
This article below, "If The Sociopath Is Next Door - Move Upstairs" is reproduced in it's entirety. But, for a more rounded education on sociopathic behavior/psychopathic behavior, you can visit this well informed website:
http://www.sott.org/
But now..............read on:
If The Sociopath Is Next Door - Move Upstairs
by Keit,
SOTT editor
Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:22 EDT
I recently finished reading "The Sociopath Next Door" by Martha Stout Ph.D. and wanted to share with you some realizations. I hope they are helpful.
Before reading the final pages of the book, I was sure that the idea that psychopaths are NOT like most of other people was pretty much "accepted" in my mind. I was sure that I "understood" it intellectually, even if I did not "believe" it 100% yet. Well, somehow, those few final pages organized everything in my mind, and the realization is profound and shocking: psychopaths ARE different. I'll try to explain what I've understood.
First, some words from Laura Knight-Jadczyk about the importance of "believing":
"Today it came to me: The biggest problem most of us have (yours truly included) is BELIEVING that there can be human looking beings that are simply not human inside, or are deviant from normal humans, or cannot be fixed, or whatever.
We keep wanting to try this or that or the other thing because in our heart of hearts, we do not WANT to believe it. We do not want to acknowledge that our reality is that cruel, that human beings are not at the top of the food chain, that there ARE different sub-species of human beings that prey on other sub-species.
It's just too damn far out.
And that is because we have been taught something entirely different from infancy, and so we can't BELIEVE it.
What is so important about understanding it this way?
What I notice is that many of you still do not "believe" it and you have not reached that point where you have nothing to lose to try a different hypothesis of reality. You continue on every day in low-level interactions with teensy tinesy petty tyrants and don't really believe that quite a number of them could, just possibly, be intra-species predators... It's all theoretical and interesting and all that, but not really real. It is not part of your BELIEF.
And your belief about reality which is shaped by psychopaths seeking to conceal their existence and reality and control is still a LIE. And as long as you continue to believe a lie, you are blocked from the cascade of events that can transpire if the "truth" binds to your psychic receptors.
When I first read the above comments, I hadn't yet read the book, and I have to admit that my understanding of psychopaths being "different" was mainly theoretical, even if I had lot of opportunities to observe their nature and experience it in the flesh. But it didn't "click" until I finished "The Sociopath Next Door".
Here is a quote from the book that made all the difference. It is a story about Tillie - the female psychopath next door. Notice her thinking processes.
Fred takes the light out of his pocket, holds it close to the ground, and turns it on. After a few moments, they find the melon-size rock, somewhat more easily than they could have hoped, because the rock is smooth and white and the surrounding earth is dark. Catherine exhales and pushes a loose strand of hair behind her left ear. She and Fred bend down and lift the rock together, revealing a surprisingly small hole in the ground, considering it is used by a fat little groundhog.
Catherine has an impulse to shine the penlight into the hole to check on its occupant. But then she realizes that she will not see much and that she may scare the animal.
Arm in arm, whispering and containing their laughter, she and Fred stumble home.
Tillie does not see them. As they return from their mission, she has already been drinking and sulking for several hours, as usual. She sits on a sofa in her living room and pours herself glasses of Glenlivet, trying to drown out the monotony of her life and the idiots she continually has to deal with. The only thing that makes this evening different from any other is the accumulation of packing boxes now stacked around her.
Inside her drunken fog, she congratulates herself on her brilliant idea not to put up a "FOR SALE" sign this time. She thinks, "I'll take those cretins by surprise. Their stupid mouths will gape."
The good-for-nothing real estate agent keeps telling her that not using a sign is shooting herself in the foot, and that he really thinks she should wait for a higher offer. This buyer came in under her price. But Tillie cannot wait. She has never liked waiting. She will have her moment, and her moment will be tomorrow morning. And then everyone in this whole horrible neighborhood will be in complete shock about her move. She is sure of it. The agent does not understand why secrecy matters, but he is a fool, so why listen to him? She has taken losses before when she wanted to get out of the house fast. "It's all in the game", she thinks to herself, "All in the game. You can't stay in a place where people won't listen to you. And giving them a parting shot is extremely important."
Nothing is very interesting, really. Suffocating the rodent [by placing a rock over the burrow opening] was okay for a few minutes, and she hopes Catherine was watching. Catherine would have a stroke. But then that project was over, and there was nothing else to do. She cannot imagine what these absurd people on all sides of her do that seems to occupy them so completely as they scurry about their little lives. They must have brains the size of peas.
In the house up the hill, Greta has the weekend off, and she and Jerry sleep late. When they slowly rouse themselves and go out to the sunroom to drink their coffee, they notice a big moving truck in Tillie's driveway.
"Does that mean what I think it means?" Jerry asks, staring at the truck. "Or are we in bed, dreaming?" "Got to be dreaming," says Greta, also staring. "I never saw a sign. Did you ever see a sign over there?" "Nope"
Just now, two men wearing canvas coveralls come out of Tillie's house, each carrying one end of a sofa. Greta and Jerry look at each other and begin to laugh. Jerry laughs so hard, he spills some of his coffee.
Greta asks him, "Why do you suppose she kept it a secret?" "Why does she do anything? But it doesn't matter anymore, does it? Unbelievable."
Greta is thoughtful for a moment, and then says, "How old do you suppose she is?" "I don't know. Not young." "I wonder whether she ever had any children. Oh wow. Can you imagine being one of her children?" "Worse yet, can you imagine being her?" "So do you think we should feel sorry for her?" Greta asks.
Jerry grins and waves his hand dismissively at the furniture-moving scene in the distance, "Well, I am not sure sweetheart. But if we're going to feel sorry for her, let's do it over breakfast, okay? Remember that strudel?"
"Yes!" says Greta, smacking her lips. She picks up both coffee mugs, and they abandon the view from the sunroom, for the pastry in the kitchen.
Since they are in the house next door to Tillie's, Catherine and Fred also notice the activities of the men from the moving truck, and wonder why they never saw a FOR SALE sign or heard from Tillie that she was moving. Fred rolls his eyes again, and Catherine shakes her head. But then they are distracted by another phone call, this one from their daughter and son-in-law, who say that in two weeks they and four-year-old Katie are flying out for another visit. Catherine is beside herself with excitement, and Tillie's moving day, still in progress outside is forgotten.
As Tillie said: it is "all in the game". All thinking capabilities are busy observing and calculating the outcome. There are no disruptions from those silly and foreign "things" called emotions. Tillie saw emotions as buffers, interferences, something her stupid neighbors didn't know how to get rid off. Tillie's thinking process is so drastically different from her neighbors, the only thing they can do afterwards is shake their heads while witnessing such absurdity.
But for Tillie this thinking is not absurd. It is crystal clear and obvious. She sees everything around her as a game, chess maybe. And all the people are chess pieces, and her life goal is to win the game and gain the maximum power she can gain. There is nothing above this goal.
And there is this boredom. Tillie must be so frustrated that those stupid neighbors don't "dance" to her tune, and she gets only short pleasure from time to time.
But what does she do, and how does she see it?
Imagine a very strange and lazy person sitting near an ant hill. He has been sitting there for a very long time and is extremely bored (too lazy to get up and go somewhere else). He takes a small tree branch and sticks it into the middle of the ant hill and thinks: "Oh, cool! Those tiny creatures started to move. Not boring! Lets see what will happen if I do this", and he disrupts the hill structure a little bit more. "Oh, this is just great! All this action, and I am the one who controls it. Definitely not boring. What a great way to spend time". And he continues to play with the ants, each time inventing new ways to torture them and entertain himself. After a while all the ants are either dead or have left the place. It is boring again.
Luckily for this person, some tourists just happen to be in the area, and this strange person decides to see if he can play with them as with the ants. Apparently it is so easy, they don't have a clue! Not boring again.
So from Tillie's point of view it was very important that Catherine would watch Tillie throwing the stone onto the groundhogs burrow door, without it there is no fun, only boredom.
Catherine's strong reaction is fun, because Tillie is the one who makes her squirm and feel this emotional chaos inside. "Oh, this is so invigorating!" It is the game, and Tillie is the master player. She knows exactly what makes people tick. This is easy for her, and she cannot understand how stupid others can be for not getting it. The thrill of winning is all that counts.
So after realizing this, it is very easy to understand why she decided to keep her moving as a secret.
She wanted to poke the human ant hill one last time. She wanted to make them run frantically, with confusion in their minds. And Tillie as a "game master" is the reason for this chaos. She introduced this unexpected event into their lives, and now she will enjoy seeing them coping with the consequences.
If Tillie was less lazy, she could be some municipal clerk, making decisions on who will get registration papers and who will not. Oh, it could be a thrill. To see people crying after telling them that their papers are lost and the date for appeal is expired! What chaos, what fun! She could hold the control keys to their lives in her hands. She could do even so much more if she could be president.
And this in fact is what is happening. We are those ants, at the mercy of strange bored creatures, who are not able to grasp the thing called "emotion" or "conscience" or "empathy". This is who they are - soulless game masters. We cannot outsmart them in direct confrontation, because all their thinking capabilities go into calculating and analyzing our natures - we just will make them more thrilled from an opportunity to play the game with engaging ants. But we can fight them still, by learning their natures and avoiding being their "ants" - learning not to play the game. We must learn how to be above the game, a concept that they simply cannot grasp.
Maybe that is why psychopaths have an ability to "sense" wounded souls, people who were hurt in childhood and are generally more susceptible to manipulation. They are much more fun than "healthy" ants! Every tiny suggestion creates chaos in a wounded mind, they can be shaped so easily - a rich source of "fun".
All of this reminded me of a dialog from a great movie "The Fifth Element", between the psychopathic character of Zorg, and the Priest:
Zorg: It's nice to see you again, Father.
Priest Vito Cornelius: Ah, I remember you now. The so-called art dealer.
Zorg: I'm glad you got your memory back. Because you're gonna need it.
[directs his men out of the office]
Zorg: Where are the stones?
Priest Vito Cornelius: I don't know. And even if I did know, I wouldn't tell somebody like you.
Zorg: Why? What's wrong with me?
Priest Vito Cornelius: I try to serve life. But you only... seem to want to destroy it.
Zorg: Oh, Father, you're so wrong. Let me explain.
[closes office door, places an empty glass on desk]
Zorg: Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Take this empty glass. Here it is, peaceful, serene and boring. But if it is...
[pushes glass off table]
Zorg: destroyed...
[robot cleaners move to clean broken glass]
Zorg: Look at all these little things. So busy now. Notice how each one is useful. What a lovely ballet ensues so full of form and color. Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people who'll be able to feed their children tonight so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny weeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain... of life.
[Desk prepares a glass of water and a bowl of fruit]
Zorg: You see, Father, by creating a little destruction, I'm actually encouraging life. In reality, you and I are in the same business. Cheers.
[drinks water with cherry, only to choke on cherry stuck in throat. Zorg frantically presses all buttons on his desk in an attempt to get something to clear his throat]
Priest Vito Cornelius: Where's the robot to pat you in the back? Or the engineer? Or their children, maybe?
[Desk brings out Zorg's pet Picasso; Zorg motions it to try and help him]
Priest Vito Cornelius: There, you see how all your so-called power counts for absolutely nothing? How your entire empire of destruction comes crashing down. All because of one little... cherry.
[Slaps Zorg in the back, causing him to spit the cherry at Picasso]
Zorg: [opens doors, throws Cornelius to guards] You saved my life, and in return, I'll spare yours... for now.
Priest Vito Cornelius: You're a monster, Zorg.
Zorg: I know.
[directs guards to take Cornelius away]
Zorg: [snaps fingers] Torture who you have to. The President, I don't care. Just bring me those stones. You have one hour.
The article below gives a great visual for anyone wanting to get a better grip on understanding what humanity is up against. Think of it as the 'end-times' games that are being played out by a group of so-called people who have NO CONscience.
Now I have also read this wonderful book: The Sociopath Next Door, by Martha Stout. And would highly recommend this book to anyone - and to your children before they start dating, go off to college, or if you just want to prepare your family for the inevitable: YOU WILL, AT SOME POINT (IF NOT ALREADY) INTERACT WITH 'THESE PEOPLE' who make up at least 6 percent of our population.
This article below, "If The Sociopath Is Next Door - Move Upstairs" is reproduced in it's entirety. But, for a more rounded education on sociopathic behavior/psychopathic behavior, you can visit this well informed website:
http://www.sott.org/
But now..............read on:
If The Sociopath Is Next Door - Move Upstairs
by Keit,
SOTT editor
Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:22 EDT
I recently finished reading "The Sociopath Next Door" by Martha Stout Ph.D. and wanted to share with you some realizations. I hope they are helpful.
Before reading the final pages of the book, I was sure that the idea that psychopaths are NOT like most of other people was pretty much "accepted" in my mind. I was sure that I "understood" it intellectually, even if I did not "believe" it 100% yet. Well, somehow, those few final pages organized everything in my mind, and the realization is profound and shocking: psychopaths ARE different. I'll try to explain what I've understood.
First, some words from Laura Knight-Jadczyk about the importance of "believing":
"Today it came to me: The biggest problem most of us have (yours truly included) is BELIEVING that there can be human looking beings that are simply not human inside, or are deviant from normal humans, or cannot be fixed, or whatever.
We keep wanting to try this or that or the other thing because in our heart of hearts, we do not WANT to believe it. We do not want to acknowledge that our reality is that cruel, that human beings are not at the top of the food chain, that there ARE different sub-species of human beings that prey on other sub-species.
It's just too damn far out.
And that is because we have been taught something entirely different from infancy, and so we can't BELIEVE it.
What is so important about understanding it this way?
What I notice is that many of you still do not "believe" it and you have not reached that point where you have nothing to lose to try a different hypothesis of reality. You continue on every day in low-level interactions with teensy tinesy petty tyrants and don't really believe that quite a number of them could, just possibly, be intra-species predators... It's all theoretical and interesting and all that, but not really real. It is not part of your BELIEF.
And your belief about reality which is shaped by psychopaths seeking to conceal their existence and reality and control is still a LIE. And as long as you continue to believe a lie, you are blocked from the cascade of events that can transpire if the "truth" binds to your psychic receptors.
When I first read the above comments, I hadn't yet read the book, and I have to admit that my understanding of psychopaths being "different" was mainly theoretical, even if I had lot of opportunities to observe their nature and experience it in the flesh. But it didn't "click" until I finished "The Sociopath Next Door".
Here is a quote from the book that made all the difference. It is a story about Tillie - the female psychopath next door. Notice her thinking processes.
Fred takes the light out of his pocket, holds it close to the ground, and turns it on. After a few moments, they find the melon-size rock, somewhat more easily than they could have hoped, because the rock is smooth and white and the surrounding earth is dark. Catherine exhales and pushes a loose strand of hair behind her left ear. She and Fred bend down and lift the rock together, revealing a surprisingly small hole in the ground, considering it is used by a fat little groundhog.
Catherine has an impulse to shine the penlight into the hole to check on its occupant. But then she realizes that she will not see much and that she may scare the animal.
Arm in arm, whispering and containing their laughter, she and Fred stumble home.
Tillie does not see them. As they return from their mission, she has already been drinking and sulking for several hours, as usual. She sits on a sofa in her living room and pours herself glasses of Glenlivet, trying to drown out the monotony of her life and the idiots she continually has to deal with. The only thing that makes this evening different from any other is the accumulation of packing boxes now stacked around her.
Inside her drunken fog, she congratulates herself on her brilliant idea not to put up a "FOR SALE" sign this time. She thinks, "I'll take those cretins by surprise. Their stupid mouths will gape."
The good-for-nothing real estate agent keeps telling her that not using a sign is shooting herself in the foot, and that he really thinks she should wait for a higher offer. This buyer came in under her price. But Tillie cannot wait. She has never liked waiting. She will have her moment, and her moment will be tomorrow morning. And then everyone in this whole horrible neighborhood will be in complete shock about her move. She is sure of it. The agent does not understand why secrecy matters, but he is a fool, so why listen to him? She has taken losses before when she wanted to get out of the house fast. "It's all in the game", she thinks to herself, "All in the game. You can't stay in a place where people won't listen to you. And giving them a parting shot is extremely important."
Nothing is very interesting, really. Suffocating the rodent [by placing a rock over the burrow opening] was okay for a few minutes, and she hopes Catherine was watching. Catherine would have a stroke. But then that project was over, and there was nothing else to do. She cannot imagine what these absurd people on all sides of her do that seems to occupy them so completely as they scurry about their little lives. They must have brains the size of peas.
In the house up the hill, Greta has the weekend off, and she and Jerry sleep late. When they slowly rouse themselves and go out to the sunroom to drink their coffee, they notice a big moving truck in Tillie's driveway.
"Does that mean what I think it means?" Jerry asks, staring at the truck. "Or are we in bed, dreaming?" "Got to be dreaming," says Greta, also staring. "I never saw a sign. Did you ever see a sign over there?" "Nope"
Just now, two men wearing canvas coveralls come out of Tillie's house, each carrying one end of a sofa. Greta and Jerry look at each other and begin to laugh. Jerry laughs so hard, he spills some of his coffee.
Greta asks him, "Why do you suppose she kept it a secret?" "Why does she do anything? But it doesn't matter anymore, does it? Unbelievable."
Greta is thoughtful for a moment, and then says, "How old do you suppose she is?" "I don't know. Not young." "I wonder whether she ever had any children. Oh wow. Can you imagine being one of her children?" "Worse yet, can you imagine being her?" "So do you think we should feel sorry for her?" Greta asks.
Jerry grins and waves his hand dismissively at the furniture-moving scene in the distance, "Well, I am not sure sweetheart. But if we're going to feel sorry for her, let's do it over breakfast, okay? Remember that strudel?"
"Yes!" says Greta, smacking her lips. She picks up both coffee mugs, and they abandon the view from the sunroom, for the pastry in the kitchen.
Since they are in the house next door to Tillie's, Catherine and Fred also notice the activities of the men from the moving truck, and wonder why they never saw a FOR SALE sign or heard from Tillie that she was moving. Fred rolls his eyes again, and Catherine shakes her head. But then they are distracted by another phone call, this one from their daughter and son-in-law, who say that in two weeks they and four-year-old Katie are flying out for another visit. Catherine is beside herself with excitement, and Tillie's moving day, still in progress outside is forgotten.
As Tillie said: it is "all in the game". All thinking capabilities are busy observing and calculating the outcome. There are no disruptions from those silly and foreign "things" called emotions. Tillie saw emotions as buffers, interferences, something her stupid neighbors didn't know how to get rid off. Tillie's thinking process is so drastically different from her neighbors, the only thing they can do afterwards is shake their heads while witnessing such absurdity.
But for Tillie this thinking is not absurd. It is crystal clear and obvious. She sees everything around her as a game, chess maybe. And all the people are chess pieces, and her life goal is to win the game and gain the maximum power she can gain. There is nothing above this goal.
And there is this boredom. Tillie must be so frustrated that those stupid neighbors don't "dance" to her tune, and she gets only short pleasure from time to time.
But what does she do, and how does she see it?
Imagine a very strange and lazy person sitting near an ant hill. He has been sitting there for a very long time and is extremely bored (too lazy to get up and go somewhere else). He takes a small tree branch and sticks it into the middle of the ant hill and thinks: "Oh, cool! Those tiny creatures started to move. Not boring! Lets see what will happen if I do this", and he disrupts the hill structure a little bit more. "Oh, this is just great! All this action, and I am the one who controls it. Definitely not boring. What a great way to spend time". And he continues to play with the ants, each time inventing new ways to torture them and entertain himself. After a while all the ants are either dead or have left the place. It is boring again.
Luckily for this person, some tourists just happen to be in the area, and this strange person decides to see if he can play with them as with the ants. Apparently it is so easy, they don't have a clue! Not boring again.
So from Tillie's point of view it was very important that Catherine would watch Tillie throwing the stone onto the groundhogs burrow door, without it there is no fun, only boredom.
Catherine's strong reaction is fun, because Tillie is the one who makes her squirm and feel this emotional chaos inside. "Oh, this is so invigorating!" It is the game, and Tillie is the master player. She knows exactly what makes people tick. This is easy for her, and she cannot understand how stupid others can be for not getting it. The thrill of winning is all that counts.
So after realizing this, it is very easy to understand why she decided to keep her moving as a secret.
She wanted to poke the human ant hill one last time. She wanted to make them run frantically, with confusion in their minds. And Tillie as a "game master" is the reason for this chaos. She introduced this unexpected event into their lives, and now she will enjoy seeing them coping with the consequences.
If Tillie was less lazy, she could be some municipal clerk, making decisions on who will get registration papers and who will not. Oh, it could be a thrill. To see people crying after telling them that their papers are lost and the date for appeal is expired! What chaos, what fun! She could hold the control keys to their lives in her hands. She could do even so much more if she could be president.
And this in fact is what is happening. We are those ants, at the mercy of strange bored creatures, who are not able to grasp the thing called "emotion" or "conscience" or "empathy". This is who they are - soulless game masters. We cannot outsmart them in direct confrontation, because all their thinking capabilities go into calculating and analyzing our natures - we just will make them more thrilled from an opportunity to play the game with engaging ants. But we can fight them still, by learning their natures and avoiding being their "ants" - learning not to play the game. We must learn how to be above the game, a concept that they simply cannot grasp.
Maybe that is why psychopaths have an ability to "sense" wounded souls, people who were hurt in childhood and are generally more susceptible to manipulation. They are much more fun than "healthy" ants! Every tiny suggestion creates chaos in a wounded mind, they can be shaped so easily - a rich source of "fun".
All of this reminded me of a dialog from a great movie "The Fifth Element", between the psychopathic character of Zorg, and the Priest:
Zorg: It's nice to see you again, Father.
Priest Vito Cornelius: Ah, I remember you now. The so-called art dealer.
Zorg: I'm glad you got your memory back. Because you're gonna need it.
[directs his men out of the office]
Zorg: Where are the stones?
Priest Vito Cornelius: I don't know. And even if I did know, I wouldn't tell somebody like you.
Zorg: Why? What's wrong with me?
Priest Vito Cornelius: I try to serve life. But you only... seem to want to destroy it.
Zorg: Oh, Father, you're so wrong. Let me explain.
[closes office door, places an empty glass on desk]
Zorg: Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Take this empty glass. Here it is, peaceful, serene and boring. But if it is...
[pushes glass off table]
Zorg: destroyed...
[robot cleaners move to clean broken glass]
Zorg: Look at all these little things. So busy now. Notice how each one is useful. What a lovely ballet ensues so full of form and color. Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people who'll be able to feed their children tonight so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny weeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain... of life.
[Desk prepares a glass of water and a bowl of fruit]
Zorg: You see, Father, by creating a little destruction, I'm actually encouraging life. In reality, you and I are in the same business. Cheers.
[drinks water with cherry, only to choke on cherry stuck in throat. Zorg frantically presses all buttons on his desk in an attempt to get something to clear his throat]
Priest Vito Cornelius: Where's the robot to pat you in the back? Or the engineer? Or their children, maybe?
[Desk brings out Zorg's pet Picasso; Zorg motions it to try and help him]
Priest Vito Cornelius: There, you see how all your so-called power counts for absolutely nothing? How your entire empire of destruction comes crashing down. All because of one little... cherry.
[Slaps Zorg in the back, causing him to spit the cherry at Picasso]
Zorg: [opens doors, throws Cornelius to guards] You saved my life, and in return, I'll spare yours... for now.
Priest Vito Cornelius: You're a monster, Zorg.
Zorg: I know.
[directs guards to take Cornelius away]
Zorg: [snaps fingers] Torture who you have to. The President, I don't care. Just bring me those stones. You have one hour.
Monday, June 04, 2007
JUST A LITTLE VENTING.....IN A BACKWARDS UNIVERSE
I have a new job. I work in a Group Home for the physically and mentally challenged. I've come to enjoy the ladies I work with and the residents of the home I am working at. For the last few months that I've been working there, the job has provided me with some 'eye opening' information.
Part of me hoped that working for a non-profit organization would, in and of itself, be satisfying to my personality type. But sadly, it has proven to be an experience in total frustration. Here's why.
-The non-profit expects it's staff to integrate the individuals
into the community.
-The non-profit expects it's staff to find activities for the
individuals they work with.
-The non-profit expects it's staff to help the individuals they
work with to lose weight.
Now since I've had a good five months to observe how the organization runs, and have been told what is expected from me in the position I hold, let me tell you how I CANNOT SUCCEED AT MY JOB:
-Each individual I work with has a different level of functioning. Their verbal skills are still a challenge to me, never mind someone who has met them for the first time. Therefore when you live in a small city, with absolutely limited activities, where do you integrate 40, 50, and 60 year old people??? I have talked with my supervisor and mentioned that it would be so nice to have the non-profit rent, buy, a hall where these ladies and gentlemen can get together with their friends from work. How exciting for these individuals to be able to get out of the homes and visit in the evenings, on weekends with those that they are MOST comfortable with - their FRIENDS. But no, the non-profit says that is not their goal for these individuals........some of whom were raised in institutions. The goal of the non-profit is to integrate.
The individuals I work with constantly ask if they can see their friends, who also live in Group Homes owned and run by the same non-profit, but we are supposed to take those we are caring for and drag (sorry for my choice of words) them through Wal Mart, Mc'Donalds, etc.
One week, I found an Art Exhibit in our city that was free. I took the ladies there. We were all so out-of-place. But, the non-profit was happy that these individuals got to look at pictures and eat a cookie.
How would you like to spend your time after work, your weekends, with people you have NOTHING IN COMMON WITH ??? What if after work, after saying bye to your friends, you went home and staff said, we're going out tonight to spend time with people who only speak Pig-Latin. How much fun do you think these individuals have doing this week after week???
I know, only because I have a son with a disability. It has been hard to find places to integrate him into. And, my son is lucky because he has found a small nitch in our community where he is happy. But I don't think that a Group Home would be a safe and nurturing place for him.
Of course, the individuals I work with have the 'option' of NOT going out into the community. And, most of the time, they opt to stay home. They do not want to go somewhere just for the sake of 'going somewhere'.
-Next is the issue of 'loosing weight'. The individuals that I work with are older, they are ladies going or have already gone through menopause. They are overweight. They all visit the doctor twice a year for weight checks. At their last visit, they all put on two to four pounds. The manager of the house is upset, asking staff to make sure they discourage the ladies from eating between meals and no eating after supper. But ....... the key, in my humble opinion, is the meals they get. Most of the time, lunches are bologna sandwiches, sometimes tuna, and egg salad. Breakfast is always toast with artificial butter or generic cereals. And supper is rice-a-roni, noodles in boxes with cheese sauces, and a meat and a vegetable. That's it. Oh, they do get their fruit, it comes in little cans.
Now these ladies do not have desserts. They sometimes have granola bars for a snack in their lunches but that's about it. On rainy Saturdays I will bake cookies with the ladies, but that has been discouraged by the house manager, saying that we don't want to get them into any bad habits. I look for recipies that are low in fats & calories, but tasty. But I'm totally discouraged.
The ladies do not exercise. On weekends, we will take them for walks, but most of them will walk 50 feet and cry that their knees hurt, or are just tired and won't walk anymore. It is an exercise in frustration only.
So, what do I do. I have ideas, I present ideas to the appropriate people, the ideas are always po-poo'd as those in charge say they know better. They (those in charge) keep coming up with more and more rules.....more and more paperwork/documentation.
Like the title of this blog says, I'm venting. I left a job that was being overrun with narcissistic managers/bosses. And here I find myself faced with the same thing again - just different.
Sooooooooo, I just heard about this book, "Snakes in Suits", and I'm going down to the bookstore to get it pronto. I wanna know what it is I'm up against in this backwards world of ours ..... a world run by psychopaths.
~ The Mediator
Part of me hoped that working for a non-profit organization would, in and of itself, be satisfying to my personality type. But sadly, it has proven to be an experience in total frustration. Here's why.
-The non-profit expects it's staff to integrate the individuals
into the community.
-The non-profit expects it's staff to find activities for the
individuals they work with.
-The non-profit expects it's staff to help the individuals they
work with to lose weight.
Now since I've had a good five months to observe how the organization runs, and have been told what is expected from me in the position I hold, let me tell you how I CANNOT SUCCEED AT MY JOB:
-Each individual I work with has a different level of functioning. Their verbal skills are still a challenge to me, never mind someone who has met them for the first time. Therefore when you live in a small city, with absolutely limited activities, where do you integrate 40, 50, and 60 year old people??? I have talked with my supervisor and mentioned that it would be so nice to have the non-profit rent, buy, a hall where these ladies and gentlemen can get together with their friends from work. How exciting for these individuals to be able to get out of the homes and visit in the evenings, on weekends with those that they are MOST comfortable with - their FRIENDS. But no, the non-profit says that is not their goal for these individuals........some of whom were raised in institutions. The goal of the non-profit is to integrate.
The individuals I work with constantly ask if they can see their friends, who also live in Group Homes owned and run by the same non-profit, but we are supposed to take those we are caring for and drag (sorry for my choice of words) them through Wal Mart, Mc'Donalds, etc.
One week, I found an Art Exhibit in our city that was free. I took the ladies there. We were all so out-of-place. But, the non-profit was happy that these individuals got to look at pictures and eat a cookie.
How would you like to spend your time after work, your weekends, with people you have NOTHING IN COMMON WITH ??? What if after work, after saying bye to your friends, you went home and staff said, we're going out tonight to spend time with people who only speak Pig-Latin. How much fun do you think these individuals have doing this week after week???
I know, only because I have a son with a disability. It has been hard to find places to integrate him into. And, my son is lucky because he has found a small nitch in our community where he is happy. But I don't think that a Group Home would be a safe and nurturing place for him.
Of course, the individuals I work with have the 'option' of NOT going out into the community. And, most of the time, they opt to stay home. They do not want to go somewhere just for the sake of 'going somewhere'.
-Next is the issue of 'loosing weight'. The individuals that I work with are older, they are ladies going or have already gone through menopause. They are overweight. They all visit the doctor twice a year for weight checks. At their last visit, they all put on two to four pounds. The manager of the house is upset, asking staff to make sure they discourage the ladies from eating between meals and no eating after supper. But ....... the key, in my humble opinion, is the meals they get. Most of the time, lunches are bologna sandwiches, sometimes tuna, and egg salad. Breakfast is always toast with artificial butter or generic cereals. And supper is rice-a-roni, noodles in boxes with cheese sauces, and a meat and a vegetable. That's it. Oh, they do get their fruit, it comes in little cans.
Now these ladies do not have desserts. They sometimes have granola bars for a snack in their lunches but that's about it. On rainy Saturdays I will bake cookies with the ladies, but that has been discouraged by the house manager, saying that we don't want to get them into any bad habits. I look for recipies that are low in fats & calories, but tasty. But I'm totally discouraged.
The ladies do not exercise. On weekends, we will take them for walks, but most of them will walk 50 feet and cry that their knees hurt, or are just tired and won't walk anymore. It is an exercise in frustration only.
So, what do I do. I have ideas, I present ideas to the appropriate people, the ideas are always po-poo'd as those in charge say they know better. They (those in charge) keep coming up with more and more rules.....more and more paperwork/documentation.
Like the title of this blog says, I'm venting. I left a job that was being overrun with narcissistic managers/bosses. And here I find myself faced with the same thing again - just different.
Sooooooooo, I just heard about this book, "Snakes in Suits", and I'm going down to the bookstore to get it pronto. I wanna know what it is I'm up against in this backwards world of ours ..... a world run by psychopaths.
~ The Mediator
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
NIGHTMARE 101.....
In my book, it's official....we're living in full 3D Nightmare 101. Don't need no stinkin 'reality tv' to entertain you, cause not too long from now, you'll be freakin living in all to real-reality.
Imagine you're working. Life seems good. Don't wanna rock the boat. Don't wanna get noticed. Keep quiet, keep your opinions to yourself. Be careful what you say, what you write, who you say it to, where you surf the net, what magazines you subscribe to, and what organizations you donate money to. EVERYTHING IS A SET-UP FOR FAILURE.
The World is being run amuck by psychopaths. If you want to understand more about how they have come to RUN_THE_WORLD, ya gotta read to the end of this article.
Guess I'm just feeling frustrated because of the following article I read at:
http://pressesc.com/01180202266_eevs also at:
http://www.sott.net/
(article (#1 below)
No jobs for US citizens without Homeland Security approval
Canada IFPMon, 28 May 2007 07:12 EDT
US citizens who apply for a job will need prior approval from Department of Homeland Security under the terms immigration bill passed by the Senate this week.
American Civil Liberties Union pointed out that the DHS's Employment Eligibility Verification System (EEVS) is error plagued and if the department makes a mistake in determining work eligibility, there will be virtually no way to challenge the error or recover lost wages due to the bill's prohibitions on judicial review.
Even current employees will need to obtain eligibility approval from the DHS Within 60 days of the Immigration Reform Act of 2006 becoming law.
"EEVS would be a financial and bureaucratic nightmare for both businesses and workers," said Timothy Sparapani, ACLU Legislative Counsel. "Under this already flawed program no one would be able to work in the U.S. without DHS approval - creating a 'No Work List' similar to the government's 'No Fly List.' We need immigration reform, but not at this cost."
The act allocates US$400 million for the implementation of the EEVS, but the Congressional Budgeting Office estimates the system to cost in excess of a billion dollars......................
What are you going to do when your name 'inadvertently' get on the NO WORK LIST??? How will you survive?? How will you support yourself and your family/children?? If you remember, it is almost impossible to get your name removed from the NO FLY LIST - nevermind the NO WORK LIST. That, my friends, will be IMPOSSIBLE.
And then I heard this on the radio this morning ... a story about three critically ill people who are doing a reality tv show in the Netherlands. They are competing for a terminally ill person's KIDNEY. You can find the entire article here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18918794/#storyContinued
(article # 2 below)
Dutch Show Has Kidney Donation Contest
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch reality show that claims to be trying to draw attention to a shortage of organ donors said Tuesday it would go ahead with a program in which a terminally ill woman will choose a contestant to receive one of her kidneys.
The program, "Big Donor Show," has been attacked as unethical and tasteless. One member of the Dutch parliament suggested the government should block Friday's broadcast.
"We know that this program is super controversial and some people will think it's tasteless, but we think the reality is even more shocking and tasteless: waiting for an organ is just like playing the lottery," Laurens Drillich, chairman of the BNN network, said in a statement...................
Well, for further research on 'Ponerology' you can order the book "Political Ponerology by Andrew Lobaczewski published by Red Pill Press or check out:
http://ponerology.blogspot.com/
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/political_ponerology_lobaczewski.htm
http://www.sott.net/
~ The Mediator
Imagine you're working. Life seems good. Don't wanna rock the boat. Don't wanna get noticed. Keep quiet, keep your opinions to yourself. Be careful what you say, what you write, who you say it to, where you surf the net, what magazines you subscribe to, and what organizations you donate money to. EVERYTHING IS A SET-UP FOR FAILURE.
The World is being run amuck by psychopaths. If you want to understand more about how they have come to RUN_THE_WORLD, ya gotta read to the end of this article.
Guess I'm just feeling frustrated because of the following article I read at:
http://pressesc.com/01180202266_eevs also at:
http://www.sott.net/
(article (#1 below)
No jobs for US citizens without Homeland Security approval
Canada IFPMon, 28 May 2007 07:12 EDT
US citizens who apply for a job will need prior approval from Department of Homeland Security under the terms immigration bill passed by the Senate this week.
American Civil Liberties Union pointed out that the DHS's Employment Eligibility Verification System (EEVS) is error plagued and if the department makes a mistake in determining work eligibility, there will be virtually no way to challenge the error or recover lost wages due to the bill's prohibitions on judicial review.
Even current employees will need to obtain eligibility approval from the DHS Within 60 days of the Immigration Reform Act of 2006 becoming law.
"EEVS would be a financial and bureaucratic nightmare for both businesses and workers," said Timothy Sparapani, ACLU Legislative Counsel. "Under this already flawed program no one would be able to work in the U.S. without DHS approval - creating a 'No Work List' similar to the government's 'No Fly List.' We need immigration reform, but not at this cost."
The act allocates US$400 million for the implementation of the EEVS, but the Congressional Budgeting Office estimates the system to cost in excess of a billion dollars......................
What are you going to do when your name 'inadvertently' get on the NO WORK LIST??? How will you survive?? How will you support yourself and your family/children?? If you remember, it is almost impossible to get your name removed from the NO FLY LIST - nevermind the NO WORK LIST. That, my friends, will be IMPOSSIBLE.
And then I heard this on the radio this morning ... a story about three critically ill people who are doing a reality tv show in the Netherlands. They are competing for a terminally ill person's KIDNEY. You can find the entire article here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18918794/#storyContinued
(article # 2 below)
Dutch Show Has Kidney Donation Contest
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch reality show that claims to be trying to draw attention to a shortage of organ donors said Tuesday it would go ahead with a program in which a terminally ill woman will choose a contestant to receive one of her kidneys.
The program, "Big Donor Show," has been attacked as unethical and tasteless. One member of the Dutch parliament suggested the government should block Friday's broadcast.
"We know that this program is super controversial and some people will think it's tasteless, but we think the reality is even more shocking and tasteless: waiting for an organ is just like playing the lottery," Laurens Drillich, chairman of the BNN network, said in a statement...................
Well, for further research on 'Ponerology' you can order the book "Political Ponerology by Andrew Lobaczewski published by Red Pill Press or check out:
http://ponerology.blogspot.com/
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/political_ponerology_lobaczewski.htm
http://www.sott.net/
~ The Mediator
Monday, May 21, 2007
A SIMPLE TRUTH
There is a video I came across (always these things happen by accident - but there are no accidents !) which helped to brighten my day.
Not trying to be overly mushy about this one, but the one minute movie is called "The Simple Truths of Service" and is based on a true story of a young man who was born with Down's Syndrome. His job is a bagger for a grocery store and by his inspiration, transformed the way business was done where he worked.
As I have a son who was born with Down's Syndrome AND who is a bagger in a grocery store, I remind him every day - and this is something I have been doing since he was a child - that he is an Ambassador for all people who were born with Down's Syndrome, that his actions speak volumes and he must always be aware of how he conducts himself........with the utmost respect and responsibility.
Hope you will view this video and find the ability within to transform something about your life that you want to change. No act goes unnoticed.
http://www.stservicemovie.com/
~ The Mediator
Not trying to be overly mushy about this one, but the one minute movie is called "The Simple Truths of Service" and is based on a true story of a young man who was born with Down's Syndrome. His job is a bagger for a grocery store and by his inspiration, transformed the way business was done where he worked.
As I have a son who was born with Down's Syndrome AND who is a bagger in a grocery store, I remind him every day - and this is something I have been doing since he was a child - that he is an Ambassador for all people who were born with Down's Syndrome, that his actions speak volumes and he must always be aware of how he conducts himself........with the utmost respect and responsibility.
Hope you will view this video and find the ability within to transform something about your life that you want to change. No act goes unnoticed.
http://www.stservicemovie.com/
~ The Mediator
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Wake Up, Wake Up
Below is a great, great article. I am posting it here, because I want to read and re-read this again and again........to remind myself to WAKE UP.
Published on Friday, May 4, 2007
by CommonDreams.org
ONE DAY YOU'RE GONNA WAKE UP
by David Michael Green
One day you’re gonna wake up, America.
And, like every other one since last you can remember, it’s gonna be an ugly morning.
One day you’re gonna wake up and go to your lousy job with its lousy salary and non-existent benefits. You might even remember the good job you once had. Or that the government you once supported gave tax breaks to companies like the one that exported that good job of yours to the Third World (which is what they’re now starting to call your country). Or that that same government undermined the labor unions which fought to get you your good wages and benefits.
One day you’re gonna wake up and be furious at the monstrous tax burden you are carrying, a tab which accounts for fifty of the seventy hours you must work each week just to eke by. You might even figure out why your tax bill is so high. You might remember that the government you once supported shifted the tax burden from the rich onto people like you, and from the taxpayers of the time onto those of today. And that they borrowed money in astonishing quantities to fund their sleight-of-hand, so that you work thirty hours a week just to pay the interest on a mountain of money borrowed decades ago.
One day you’re gonna wake up in anger at the absurdly poor education your children are receiving. You’re gonna remember that it wasn’t always that way, that even after the military’s voracious appetite was temporarily sated, your country still managed to find a few bucks to at least educate a workforce. No more. And you’re gonna remember how you applauded when your educational system was twisted in to a test taking industry that is careful, above all, not to teach children how to think.
One day you’re gonna wake up literally sick and tired. You’re gonna want treatment for your maladies but you won’t be able to touch the cost. You’re gonna wonder what you were thinking when believed your country had the best healthcare system in the world, even though it was the only advanced democracy in the world that didn’t provide universal care, even though it devoted fifty percent more of its economy than those other countries to pay for a system that left fifty million people uninsured, and even though there were massive layers of unnecessary and harmful private sector bureaucracy skimming hundreds of billions of dollars of profits out of the system in the name of free enterprise.
One day you’re gonna wake up too tired to go to work anymore. You’re gonna want to retire in dignity but will be left instead to laugh bitterly at the cruelty of that joke. And you’re gonna wonder what in the world you had been thinking voting for a president who’s primary goal was to allow Wall Street to raid Social Security, destroying what had once been considered the most successful domestic program in human history.
One day you’re gonna wake up and wish that it wasn’t so bloody hot, and that there weren’t so many diseases and species eradications and violent storms lashing the planet. And maybe you’ll even remember that you once supported a government that lied about the very existence of global warming - back when it might have been curtailed - a government that scuttled the barest remedy for the problem in order to protect oil company profits.
One day you’re gonna wake up and wish you had a government that could simply and competently do the basic things it was designed for. A government that could protect you from foreign attack, that could come to your rescue after a devastating hurricane, that could properly manage a new program or other people’s security. An administration that didn’t pervert the purpose of every agency within the government to its opposite, using civil rights lawyers to fight civil rights, for example, or the EPA to protect polluters.
One day you’re gonna wake up and cry out for simple justice, blindly applied without bias. And perhaps you’ll remember when that principle died. When your country stood by and watched the politicization of its judicial system for purposes of partisanship, and said nothing. When it stood by and watched its highest law enforcement officials in the land lie about their failing memory of events and pretended to believe that was acceptable.
One day you’re gonna wake up and wish that you weren’t being drafted to go fight wars you don’t believe in. You’ll remember how soldiers were sent to their deaths for lies. You’ll remember how badly they were treated when they came home maimed and twisted. You’ll remember how real, patriotic, former soldiers were mocked and humiliated by dress-up, unpatriotic, former non-soldiers. And suddenly you’ll understand why no one would volunteer for the military anymore, and why people like you had to be drafted.
One day you’re gonna wake up and want very badly to run outside and scream in anger about a government that long ago stopped serving your interests in favor of the narrow interests of a tiny oligarchy. But instead you’ll stay inside and keep your scream tucked safely in your belly. Because you’ll know that in your country dissent has long since been outlawed, on pain of torture and death. You’ll remember concepts like due process, limitations on government search, seizure and wiretapping, habeas corpus, trial by peers, legal representation and prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment as historical artifacts no longer even taught in schools.
On day you’re gonna wake up and want so badly to change governments. You’re gonna treasure the concept of democracy like no Soviet dissident ever did. You’re gonna crave the opportunity to own your own government, to make your own societal choices, to make a change of direction never before so desperately necessary. And you’re gonna wonder why you didn’t speak up as you watched first-hand the dismantling of the democracy you had been handed by previous generations of patriots. You’re gonna wish you had been patriotic enough yourself to demand, above all else, free and fair elections, and you’re gonna shake your head in puzzlement at how you stood by watching in silence those that patently were not.
One day you’re gonna wake up and want to get the hell out of your rotting, repressive country. You’re gonna remember a time when that wasn’t true. But, oddly enough, you’ll find that other countries remember too. They’ll remember your country’s arrogance, its unilateralism, its walls, its racism, and its politicized abuse of immigrants. And they’ll remember how your government undermined and violently replaced theirs whenever corporations from your country had their profits threatened. You’re gonna want to leave, but there will be nowhere you’ll be welcome. You’re gonna find out that walls can face both directions.
READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE AT:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/04/962/
or you can go to:
http://www.sott.net
and read this, and additional fascinating topics from round the globe.
~ The Mediator
Published on Friday, May 4, 2007
by CommonDreams.org
ONE DAY YOU'RE GONNA WAKE UP
by David Michael Green
One day you’re gonna wake up, America.
And, like every other one since last you can remember, it’s gonna be an ugly morning.
One day you’re gonna wake up and go to your lousy job with its lousy salary and non-existent benefits. You might even remember the good job you once had. Or that the government you once supported gave tax breaks to companies like the one that exported that good job of yours to the Third World (which is what they’re now starting to call your country). Or that that same government undermined the labor unions which fought to get you your good wages and benefits.
One day you’re gonna wake up and be furious at the monstrous tax burden you are carrying, a tab which accounts for fifty of the seventy hours you must work each week just to eke by. You might even figure out why your tax bill is so high. You might remember that the government you once supported shifted the tax burden from the rich onto people like you, and from the taxpayers of the time onto those of today. And that they borrowed money in astonishing quantities to fund their sleight-of-hand, so that you work thirty hours a week just to pay the interest on a mountain of money borrowed decades ago.
One day you’re gonna wake up in anger at the absurdly poor education your children are receiving. You’re gonna remember that it wasn’t always that way, that even after the military’s voracious appetite was temporarily sated, your country still managed to find a few bucks to at least educate a workforce. No more. And you’re gonna remember how you applauded when your educational system was twisted in to a test taking industry that is careful, above all, not to teach children how to think.
One day you’re gonna wake up literally sick and tired. You’re gonna want treatment for your maladies but you won’t be able to touch the cost. You’re gonna wonder what you were thinking when believed your country had the best healthcare system in the world, even though it was the only advanced democracy in the world that didn’t provide universal care, even though it devoted fifty percent more of its economy than those other countries to pay for a system that left fifty million people uninsured, and even though there were massive layers of unnecessary and harmful private sector bureaucracy skimming hundreds of billions of dollars of profits out of the system in the name of free enterprise.
One day you’re gonna wake up too tired to go to work anymore. You’re gonna want to retire in dignity but will be left instead to laugh bitterly at the cruelty of that joke. And you’re gonna wonder what in the world you had been thinking voting for a president who’s primary goal was to allow Wall Street to raid Social Security, destroying what had once been considered the most successful domestic program in human history.
One day you’re gonna wake up and wish that it wasn’t so bloody hot, and that there weren’t so many diseases and species eradications and violent storms lashing the planet. And maybe you’ll even remember that you once supported a government that lied about the very existence of global warming - back when it might have been curtailed - a government that scuttled the barest remedy for the problem in order to protect oil company profits.
One day you’re gonna wake up and wish you had a government that could simply and competently do the basic things it was designed for. A government that could protect you from foreign attack, that could come to your rescue after a devastating hurricane, that could properly manage a new program or other people’s security. An administration that didn’t pervert the purpose of every agency within the government to its opposite, using civil rights lawyers to fight civil rights, for example, or the EPA to protect polluters.
One day you’re gonna wake up and cry out for simple justice, blindly applied without bias. And perhaps you’ll remember when that principle died. When your country stood by and watched the politicization of its judicial system for purposes of partisanship, and said nothing. When it stood by and watched its highest law enforcement officials in the land lie about their failing memory of events and pretended to believe that was acceptable.
One day you’re gonna wake up and wish that you weren’t being drafted to go fight wars you don’t believe in. You’ll remember how soldiers were sent to their deaths for lies. You’ll remember how badly they were treated when they came home maimed and twisted. You’ll remember how real, patriotic, former soldiers were mocked and humiliated by dress-up, unpatriotic, former non-soldiers. And suddenly you’ll understand why no one would volunteer for the military anymore, and why people like you had to be drafted.
One day you’re gonna wake up and want very badly to run outside and scream in anger about a government that long ago stopped serving your interests in favor of the narrow interests of a tiny oligarchy. But instead you’ll stay inside and keep your scream tucked safely in your belly. Because you’ll know that in your country dissent has long since been outlawed, on pain of torture and death. You’ll remember concepts like due process, limitations on government search, seizure and wiretapping, habeas corpus, trial by peers, legal representation and prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment as historical artifacts no longer even taught in schools.
On day you’re gonna wake up and want so badly to change governments. You’re gonna treasure the concept of democracy like no Soviet dissident ever did. You’re gonna crave the opportunity to own your own government, to make your own societal choices, to make a change of direction never before so desperately necessary. And you’re gonna wonder why you didn’t speak up as you watched first-hand the dismantling of the democracy you had been handed by previous generations of patriots. You’re gonna wish you had been patriotic enough yourself to demand, above all else, free and fair elections, and you’re gonna shake your head in puzzlement at how you stood by watching in silence those that patently were not.
One day you’re gonna wake up and want to get the hell out of your rotting, repressive country. You’re gonna remember a time when that wasn’t true. But, oddly enough, you’ll find that other countries remember too. They’ll remember your country’s arrogance, its unilateralism, its walls, its racism, and its politicized abuse of immigrants. And they’ll remember how your government undermined and violently replaced theirs whenever corporations from your country had their profits threatened. You’re gonna want to leave, but there will be nowhere you’ll be welcome. You’re gonna find out that walls can face both directions.
READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE AT:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/04/962/
or you can go to:
http://www.sott.net
and read this, and additional fascinating topics from round the globe.
~ The Mediator
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