syrian false flag gas attack

in this 22 minute clip, jimmy dore does it again, exposing 'western' corporate media as the corrupt, deceitful propaganda arm of the establishment, this time in it's 'reporting' on syria, with great gusto. towards the end of this video is a clip of one of america's greatest radical peace activists, medea benjamin, disrupting an establishment war mongering news conference, and getting manhandled off the stage by 'security'. jimmy and his fellow comedians pay her warm tribute. worth seeing!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH3xlWWae6Q

cancer cure!?

this should be of interest to everyone, considering how widespread and deadly cancer is in modern industrial societies.

before doing this research, i had been ignorant of some surprising facts, such as that cancer is mostly a modern phenomenon, and that there's still places in the world today where it's rare. i found out diet is related to it. and i learned, much to my non-surprise as a 'conspiracy theorist', that the medical establishment, including the AMA, the NCI, and of course big pharma, have all conspired to suppress alternative treatments which cost less, have fewer bad side effects, and in some cases seem to be more efficacious. it seems whenever there's big money to be made from something, corruption and greed come to the fore, even in matters of life and death!

below are links to a documentary and a related book regarding the suppression of one such promising alternative treatment. i've yet to read the book, but look forward to it since the reviews are so good. i have watched the documentary, so i can give an informed recommendation to check it out!

https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/hoxsey-how-healing-becomes-a-crime/

https://www.amazon.com/When-Healing-Becomes-Crime-Alternative/dp/0892819251/ref=pd_sbs_14_1/147-0608104-9491051?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0892819251&pd_rd_r=0580364e-d9e8-4029-8668-a4ca97094b42&pd_rd_w=D0bjP&pd_rd_wg=zWEKf&pf_rd_p=5873ae95-9063-4a23-9b7e-eafa738c2269&pf_rd_r=FPZQQ3XY1P8337B8RDGB&psc=1&refRID=FPZQQ3XY1P8337B8RDGB

g. edward griffin did some phenomenal research on the fishy 'federal' reserve, a private bankster cartel which has been in control of the usa money supply since 1913. wrote a book and has given numerous lengthy, engaging talks on the matter available on youtube, both of which have many mostly favorable comments which affirm his views. this was 25 years ago.

20 years before that, he wrote another controversial book and made a documentary which is available on youtube titled 'world without cancer', in which he asserts that cancer, like scurvy, is a disease related to a particular vitamin deficiency. again, the book reviews as well as the reviews in the comment section of the documentary are overwhelmingly favorable, leading me to believe there may be something to this claim. this vitamin, 'b17', is abundant in fruit seeds, among other sources, with apricots said to be the best, followed by peach and apple seeds.

i've begun eating the seeds with my apples. they chew up easily, and much to my surprise and delight i find their taste delicious (similar to pistachios)! perhaps my taste buds are rejoicing at the addition of an essential nutrient to my diet. anyway, if curious, check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPADSv3XAv0

https://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Cancer-Story-Vitamin/dp/0912986506/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=g+edward+griffin&qid=1576441509&s=books&sr=1-2

civilized to death

good conversation between jimmy dore and christopher ryan about ryan's new book, CIVILIZED TO DEATH:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtrmseTvgMc

i bought this book via amazon in regular book form a few months ago. oddly now, it seems to be available only in audio book form from amazon, but anyway, if interested, u can read the reviews here:

https://www.amazon.com/Civilized-Death-Price-Progress/dp/B07QGH3TDF/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BGRC0THLJIXH&keywords=civilized+to+death&qid=1575120758&s=books&sprefix=civilized%2Cstripbooks%2C173&sr=1-1

the men who killed kennedy

tomorrow is the 56th anniversary of the jfk coup d'etat. it was from independent research into this deep political event that i and countless other 'conspiracy theorists' first learned the surREAL truth as to the existence of a deep state, puppet masters, false flag attacks, and of cia control of corporate mass media (operation mockingbird). it was the first deep rabbit hole i ever delved into, lost my cherry there, my 'innocence', naivete, illusionment. the world of civilized humans, of 'sheeple', is full of deceit and delusion. liars and dupes.

the history channel produced a very good documentary series on the 25th anniversary of this event titled the men who killed kennedy. thankfully it's still available on the internet, hasn't been censored yet, as of this writing. if u've never seen it and have several hours to spare, u might learn a thing or 2 from it. then maybe u'll check out some books on this subject and surREALLY lose your cherry too. swallow the red pill, if u dare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2agPurqFJk&list=PLy4tRfNwO8cxuDX65cpj_qJ-9m2jzC7pn

distrust 'authority'!

only fools and the naive (of which there's legions of both) trust american 'authorities':

https://truthout.org/articles/lying-is-a-fundamental-part-of-american-police-culture/


BET cable tv channel has a show titled COPWATCH: AMERICA on wednesdays at 11pm:

https://www.bet.com/news/national/2019/10/23/bet-copwatch-what-happens-after-recording-police.html


this book documents in excruciating detail how n.y. state police committed mass murder at attica prison in 1971, lied about it, and got away with it:

https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Water-Attica-Prison-Uprising/dp/1400078245/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2E6WEG42GVJ4Y&keywords=blood+in+the+water&qid=1573739727&s=books&sprefix=blood+in%2Cstripbooks%2C199&sr=1-1

it's a savage, cruel world

there's a large daddy long legs spider residing in my cooking range hood. has a web, a piss poor one, covering a relatively large area, but very poor, seemingly haphazard construction. no discernable pattern to it, and not enough, not by a long shot, silk lines. i was just watching a couple of flies, one a common modestly sized housefly, the other tiny in comparison, has the size and look of a mosquito, but not the distinctive whine/buzz of it's wings (btw, mosquito means small fly in espanol/spanish. check it out on wikipedia. according to their article, by transmitting disease, mosquitos could have effectively killed 1/2 of the people who have ever lived!)

i digress. back to my spider pal. as i was saying before getting sidetracked, i just watched a fly and something that looked but didn't sound like a biting mosquito fly about it's raggedy and quite useless web. the fly flew in and out with impunity, sometimes flying right smack into a strand of web, appearing to burst threw it or slide easily by it, i'm not sure which, as i noticed no broken strands when i looked closely. the strands are just too far apart to snare prey. the poor spider (which appears healthy with a large abdomen, alert and vigorous and purposeful in movement) obviously perceived the fly as it sometimes buzzed about just above the spider, which agitatedly moved as if to perhaps shake and push it's sad little web toward the fly in an attempt to ensnare it. it didn't work. but it was very evident that the fly's close proximity had alerted the spider and brought out it's predator. it wanted to catch that fly! kill it, and eat it, eventually if not immediately.

i removed some cobwebs from it's/my home range a couple/few weeks ago, but i didn't remove all, or nearly all of it. it had become so spread out i was sometimes brushing against it. i removed the offending parts and a bit more, but mindful of my roommate, i hoped to leave enough web for it not to go hungry. the stuff i removed appeared much like i left alone. no pattern, and not dense enough to be very effective.

i guess that's how that species of spider does webs. i think i have several, if not many, residing with me. their webs have no obvious pattern. perhaps i disturb them too often, but i doubt it, as i tend to be tolerant of these harmless (to me!) arachnids, more tolerant than most. as long as their silk is spun in out of the way corners and ceilings, i tend to leave them alone.

i even feel a little bad for that spider now. i don't see how it can catch anything in that sorry excuse of a web, but i guess they do, or they wouldn't survive.

anyway, my point is we live in a world of predation. i watched some of a nature tv program the other day. it was about a wildlife reserve in africa, replete with lions, gazelles, elephants, the whole 9 yards, or what remains of such rare bits and pieces of remaining habitat. much of it was swamp land, mostly inundated during the wet season, which no doubt explains the relative absence of humans, allowing these increasingly rare and threatened with extinction species to cling to wild living in today's human dominated world. civilization/agriculture has spread to virtually every inhabitable (by humans) part of earth. with modern technology and infrastructure, we've even taken over large swaths of desert.

back to the point. the narrator of this show described this natural environment of large prey and predatory animals as one of tension or stress or something similar. many scenes were shown of predators stalking, chasing, attacking, and killing prey, making the point.

i think relatively large complex animals are a lot more like us than most of us imagine them to be. they're generally more intelligent and sentient than we give them credit for. like us, they have emotions and vulnerability to pain and suffering. they want to live. they want freedom, need habitat.

it seems civilized humans, or sheeple as i like to refer to my kind, have culturally evolved to have little if any regard for nonhuman life. we've lost touch with the natural world. it has traditionally been something to 'conquer'. In order to turn wild land into economically productive real estate, a whole lot of ecological destruction must occur. forests cut down or burned. prairies put under the plow. swamps drained, deserts made to artificially bloom, all at the cost of millions of wild species.

i saw a news report of baby wild elephants being kidnapped, taken from their mothers to be sold. it showed footage of one such incident, with much apparent cruelty on the part of the humans to the elephant, i guess to subdue and control it. i find such footage sickening, makes me hate my own kind, but then i think of what a privileged life i have. i live off the fat of industrial civilization, and although i generally conscientiously try to live very frugally by my society/culture's standards, i know i'm still a consumer, still part of the problem. perhaps if i'd been raised in extreme poverty and/or deprivation in a place like africa, and i was ambitious, i too could be involved in such activity. as it is, i'm still a very small part of a much more cruel and destructive thing: modern industrial civilization.

i've referred before to civilization, likened it to ecological cancer. humanity progressively appropriating earth, destroying wilderness and wildlife without compunction. we've come to view ourselves as special, unique, precious, sacred, and other  beings, other species as not any of those things. we've even created creation myths and gods who have anointed us with this exalted status. we have 'souls', they don't! we're intelligent, sentient beings, they're dumb, instinctive beasts.

but surreally, we're not that different, just another branch on the biological tree of life, related to all the rest, if my understanding is correct. all come from a common ancestor, a simple single cell. whatever mysterious miracles were contained in that humble beginning have been manifested in the amazing and surreal variety of species that have evolved over eons of time. we're not the only species with impressive abilities and characteristics. we're not the only species whose lives matter or have value. we seem to have forgotten this.

i think our primitive 'savage' ancestors hadn't forgotten it. but they hadn't yet adopted a way of life that requires such a worldview. they were foragers, not farmers. they belonged to the land, not vice versa.

i digress further. back on point: civilization is the greatest and by far the most deadly and destructive predator earth has ever known. it's brought about the deaths of more beings, the extinction of more species. sheeple generally don't kill their prey, they pay somebody else to do it, and then to process it into tidy clean little packages for our purchase and consumption. removed from the killing, the suffering of factory farmed animals, the suffering of fellow humans, impoverished and exploited, who fill jobs in the industry, for privileged sheeple like me and perhaps u, dear reader.

even if u're vegan, unless u're living primitively, unlike a vast majority of sheeple, u're part of the cancer that is civilization, as am i. sheeple are responsible for the recently recognized and currently ongoing 6th great mass extinction in earth's history. responsible for disappearing forests, vanishing wilderness, desecrating and trashing the planet, and now initiating a climate disruption which might easily bring about our own near term extinction.

what kind of compassionate loving god would create life that feeds off itself? a world of eat or be eaten. a world of suffering and pain, horror and ugliness, as well as pleasure, beauty, and awe? an awesome awful world. what kind of god???!!!

if there is no god, if this is all a bizarre cosmic accident, how can life have ultimate meaning or value? if there is no god, how is that better than having a weird inscrutable god who doesn't love us, that has no problem with pain, suffering, horror? either way, we're screwed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae

bullshit and 'russian propaganda'

lee camp is an american dissident comic who does a show on the russian financed RT. in the clip below, he explains why. in america, if one wishes to try to divulge news stories, events, facts, or opinions that are openly opposed to oligarchical rule, the military industrial complex, foreign wars and sanctions based on lies, the utterly corrupt and rotten 'war on drugs', cia involvement in drug trafficking, police brutality, prosecutorial misconduct, mass incarceration, how both big corporate financed and friendly american political parties are full of shit, and so on... this can't be done on corporate mass media. it's not allowed. the only platforms are alternative ones, with alternative funding, including sometimes from foreign governments. establishment sources do their best to discredit such reporting with smears such as it's 'russian propaganda', but bullshit is bullshit, and truth is truth, regardless of who's paying the bills. for all i know, russian citizens also have to rely on news funded and brought to them from outside the russian establishment for their truth. perhaps it's the same, more or less, everywhere. anyway, listen to mr. camp, and judge for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IG3mTTI_RY

debussy and de pianist

when jim valvano was dying of cancer he famously said there's 3 things one should do every day: laugh, cry, and think. an episode of FAMILY GUY a day will certainly take care of that first requirement. in this little clip they manage to pack more double entendres in 30 seconds than one would think possible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y906Bfl1Kk4

handing horrible hillary her head

much as i hate 'conservatives', 'centrist' democrats are a very deplorable alternative. in this clip, comic political pundit jimmy dore and a few friends share a few choice words re. hillary clinton and the 'fake news' corporate media. (i know, this almost makes me sound like a trump supporter, or a 'russian asset', which i'm definitely NOT. the truth is american corporate news is full of shit propaganda, regardless of whether it's liberal like cnn or conservative like fox ['faux'] news. it's all agenda driven, promoting status quo oligarchic capitalism, ceaseless wars and war and fear mongering in the name of 'democracy', 'freedom', 'human rights', and 'national security'. the deceit and hypocrisy is thicker than january molasses. it's sickening!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6juT2B5xtc

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Corporate_media

the authoritarians

bob altemayer wrote a great book summarizing his work as an academic researcher studying authoritarianism, specifically the personality of authoritarian followers, those who are most happy to fall in line behind a 'strong' leader who will tell them what to believe and how to act, and persecute dissidents. if one wishes to understand our modern world, this subject is of primary importance. the writing is informal, engaging, and charming. the introduction and closing chapters are particularly strong.

https://theauthoritarians.org/Downloads/TheAuthoritarians.pdf

youth indoctrination centers

i love to learn, and after only a few years of it i learned to hate having to go to school!

granted, early on they do a good job of teaching kids to learn to read and write, along with basic math skills. but after that, forget about it!

'public schools' are elitist controlled institutions. the curriculum taught is determined by deep state controlled institutions and sheeple. 'teachers' have little to no say in the matter. venture too far afield from what the curriculum says, and they can be disciplined or lose their jobs. they don't get to teach what they consider to be most important, if it clashes with the hidden agenda or purpose of schooling, which will be discussed much further in links provided below.

unless one is home schooled, an option few parents choose, from 5 years old until at least the age of 16, youth are required to get up far too early in many cases in order to attend mind numbing classes for about 1/2 of their waking hours, then saddled with further mind numbing homework later. like their teachers, they have little to no choice regarding what they get to learn about. this effectively discourages and prevents independent inquiry and learning, which is a big part of that hidden agenda.

i read part of a biography of albert einstein some years ago. couldn't finish it, as it was too dry and boring to me (like the vast majority of what i 'learned' in school!). but a book by another great scientist, carl sagan, BROCA'S BRAIN, contains a chapter that's a very concise and engaging mini bio of einstein that i think captured the essence of his mind and worldview, which captured my rapt attention.

perhaps u recall as i do being taught in school that einstein was a poor student who dropped out of school. of course what they didn't teach was why. they didn't teach that einstein hated schooling for the same reason so many do: because of it's authoritarian nature, designed to fit the needs of the state, not the student. in sagan's book, this is spelled out in exquisite detail. below are a few quotes attributed to einstein taken from it:


it is little short of a miracle that modern schooling hasn't already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry -from page 25

through the reading of popular science books i soon reached the conviction that much of the bible was false. the consequence was a positively fanatical free thinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state: it was a crushing impression. suspicion of every kind of authority grew out of this experience. -p.29

my passionate interest in social justice and responsibility has always been in curious contrast to a marked lack of desire for direct association with men and women... i have never belonged wholeheartedly to a nation or state or to my circle of friends or family. these ties have always been accompanied by a vague aloofness, and the wish to withdraw into myself increases with age. such isolation is sometimes bitter, but i do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of others. i lose something by it, to be sure, but i am compensated by being rendered independent of their customs, opinions, and prejudices. i am not tempted to rest my peace of mind on such shifting foundations. -p.34

nationalism is an infantile disease. it is the measles of mankind... our schoolbooks glorify war and hide it's horrors. they inculcate hatred in the veins of children. i would teach peace rather than war. i would inculcate love rather than hate. -p.37


i feel in great company knowing einstein felt the same way about school and 'authority' in general.

another brilliant thinker, george carlin, who chose an entirely different field of occupation, comedy, also had some biting things to say about schooling, in a couple of links below.

finally, perhaps the best concise source on this topic comes from wikispooks. i highly recommend u check it out, especially the video link contained towards the end of it under the heading 'alternatives', which is a great discussion featuring a woman who has chosen to home school her children named laurette lynn. the work of john taylor gatto also is mentioned in this article. he's a former ny state teacher of the year who quit his job in disgust and proceeded to write a couple of books explaining why he did so, one of which is mentioned in this article. the one not mentioned is shorter and i actually liked it better. it's titled DUMBING US DOWN.

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/School

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsL6mKxtOlQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo-QIY7ys-k

imagine

yesterday (beatles song) would have been john lennon's 79th birthday. imagine if he was still alive, all the great music he could have made since his assassination 39 years ago. for all u 'crazy conspiracy theorists', check out the wikispooks article on that. spooky, indeed. happy birthday, john. i miss u!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkgkThdzX-8

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/John_Lennon

the jimmy dore show

jimmy dore's an american comic who does a show with great alternative political analysis and discussion, with an occasional joke thrown in, mainly pointing out the corruption of both corporate political partys and the deep state controlled corporate mass media. the link below is of one of his lengthier recent clips, dealing with the current impeachment proceedings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1BsWtp1d6w

civilization isn't all that it's cracked up to be

truth can be a very unwieldy, complex, multi faceted thing, not easily or quickly articulated or understood. yet it's what i hope to help my readers discover here with this blog. call it a lazy human's guide to enlightenment. well, lazy in the sense of how much time and effort i'm putting into it. the surreal time and effort involved is in the in depth independent reading and research behind it, that i ask my readers to partake for themselves.

regarding civilization, i'm going to try to make the case, backed only by a few excellent references, that it is in fact a very bad thing. bad for humanity. bad for life in general. civilization is ecological cancer. it keeps growing and growing, destroying ecosystems in the process. civilized sheeple are for the most part out of touch with nature, including our own human nature. civilized social structures, based on the imposition of hierarchical patriarchal repression, private property, and nuclear families, goes against the grain of human evolution. it's artificial, not natural, and not conducive to achieving contentment or fulfillment.

i may return to and expand upon these bare boned ideas and assertions in many later posts. for now i'll just mention a couple of books which will get u started down the path to this worldview.

first there's AGAINST THE GRAIN by richard manning. subtitled: HOW AGRICULTURE HAS HIJACKED CIVILIZATION (which is stupid considering agriculture forms the very basis of civilization, but let's not get hung up on that). this book's not very long, and except for one chapter, i think the 2nd one, not particularly noteworthy. don't get me wrong, the whole book is very well conceived and written, and worth reading imo, but it is that one chapter in particular that paints a very revelatory picture of civilization's ecocidal roots that makes me highly recommend it.

the 2nd book is SEX AT DAWN by christopher ryan and cacilda jetha. it is a somewhat lengthy scientific exploration of the evolution of human sexuality and family structures, making a strong case in favor of the idea that we are by nature non monagamous free lovers evolved to be egalitarian communitarians, with families that extend far beyond the suffocating limitations of the exclusive, isolated, 2 parent nuclear families we're all familiar with and raised to think of as not only 'normal', but morally superior to any other way of being. that in fact children are much better off being raised in communities in which parenting is a communal responsibility. this should be obvious to anyone who ponders it with an open mind. unfortunately, pondering (thinking) and being open minded in a rational way, isn't very common among sheeple raised to be dogmatic.

https://www.amazon.com/Against-Grain-Agriculture-Hijacked-Civilization/dp/0865477132/ref=sr_1_10?crid=2F9IJBX7WFR1W&keywords=against+the+grain&qid=1570170885&s=books&sprefix=against%2Cstripbooks%2C174&sr=1-10

https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Dawn-Stray-Modern-Relationships/dp/0061707813/ref=pd_sbs_14_1/147-0608104-9491051?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0061707813&pd_rd_r=92e47a59-1fee-43fb-8955-1f867a72b29b&pd_rd_w=FLP6z&pd_rd_wg=IJh0H&pf_rd_p=d66372fe-68a6-48a3-90ec-41d7f64212be&pf_rd_r=H1XTFFFA36E7EZHQMB4H&psc=1&refRID=H1XTFFFA36E7EZHQMB4H

arithmetic, population, and energy

among 'doomers' the name of al bartlett has long been revered thanks to a talk he began giving 50 years ago this month on the unsustainability of exponential growth on a finite planet. it's informative, interesting, provocative, and only a little over an hour long. the link below breaks it up conveniently into 8 short segments. watch it and see for yourself how quickly even small exponential growth leads to disaster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9znsuCphHUU&list=PLEF69FF82BB41F088

'3 chords and the truth'

the great ray charles is reported to have said that the appeal of american country music is the stories contained in it's songs. This too is what made me fall in love with this music, once i caught on to it. As far as i know, no other genre of music is so based in telling stories, particularly stories relating to the most meaningful aspects of life, stories about love, loss, family, death, etc.. Stories that are deeply emotional. Plus there's the great melodies and unbelievable singers and musicians.

if u can, check out the lengthy ken burns documentary on country music which just aired on pbs. No doubt it will be aired several more times in the next year or 2. Like all of burns films, it's a gem. Use the link below to listen to one of the most iconic songs in country music history, by one of it's most iconic artists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WXYjm74WFI

greta

6 days ago there was a very large and noteworthy global protest featuring mostly very young sheeple trying to raise awareness for the urgent need to address the climate crisis. the leader of this growing movement is a 16 year old swedish 'girl' named greta thunberg. i haven't written about her until now because she puts me to shame. i feel as though i should be doing what she is, and i am not. i've felt this way for years.

i love the way greta speaks in public, her intensity, her no nonsense approach. watching her one can sense the deep boiling passion inside her, as she attempts to take on the herculean task of 'saving the planet', 'changing the world'. i feel for her. such a burden to be placed upon such a 'little girl', but what choice does she have? she didn't choose to be born into such an insane world, in which her own future well being is placed in severe doubt. (sigh)

in my own ongoing struggle to address this, like i just wrote, i am put to shame. even though i understand the futility, because i understand the futility of trying to convince tens of millions of idiotic scientifically illiterate americans that this crisis is surreal and urgently needs addressing if there is to be any hope whatsoever for greta's and future generations to be able to have somewhat secure and stable lives, i am paralyzed into inactivity. i harbor no hope, no illusions regarding the possibility of 'saving the planet' in the face of such overwhelming odds/opposition.

in her ted talk linked below, towards the end greta states that hope can only come through action. i wonder if this is true. well, of course it is, but it takes more than the actions of a few million deeply concerned 'kids' around the globe to bring about such hope.

it's so easy to rationalize inaction in the face of despair when in the present moment the crisis doesn't feel urgent. it's not like a fire burning down your house, or a man pointing a gun in your face.

i've tried with some individuals i'm well acquainted with to explain to them how humans are changing the climate, how resources are finite and how infinite 'growth' is what cancer does, which leads to death. might as well talk to a wall. many sheeple are just too stupid (or maybe crazy) to understand. this has led me to the conclusion that sheeple in general will only believe what suits them, what will allow them to go on leading their comfortable, relatively untroubled lives. upon such reflection, i see how this applies to me as well, for believing the situation is hopeless allows me to do nothing about it as well, beyond the personal changes i made long ago to reduce my own 'carbon footprint', conserve resources, and contribute no further to human population overshoot.

i'm so appreciative of the movement greta's leading, even though i harbor no hope for it's ultimate success. it's good to know not everyone in the world is fucking stupid and/or crazy, and that some sheeple still care enough to try to do the right thing and 'save the planet'. i say there's no hope, but thanks to them, maybe there is just a flicker of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAmmUIEsN9A

wikispooks

from time to time i expect to post links to wikispooks articles on dystopian and doomed. hopefully readers will be able to access them. in recent years they have frequently been mysteriously unaccessable, i assume due to internet censorship, but lately i've been able to download them again. in the future, who knows? the quantity of information they provide often leaves much to be desired, but the quality is off the charts. below is a link explaining what wikispooks is about, and why it's needed.

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Wikispooks:Site_Rationale

good drug war news

it seems the legalization of hemp is throwing a major monkey wrench into marijuana prohibition enforcement.

https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2019/aug/28/hemp_impeding_marijuana_prosecutions?emci=15cdef63-c1c5-e911-bcd0-281878391efb&emdi=6ec1eaa4-18d0-e911-bcd0-2818784d4349&ceid=1579124

american 'justice'

'when charged with a crime in america, it's better to be rich and guilty than to be poor and innocent' -bryan stevenson  (perhaps a little paraphrased, reciting from memory)

now is a particularly good time to bring this topic up with a hollywood movie set to come out later this year (on christmas day) titled JUST MERCY, same as the book upon which it's based, written by a heroic selfless lawyer who's been representing poor clients on death row for many years now named bryan stevenson. There's buzz the movie may be academy award worthy and it stars a couple of the most prominent black actors in america today, michael b. jordan and jamie foxx.

i've read at least 1/2 dozen very good and very shocking nonfiction books which lay bare just how fucked up american criminal (in)'justice' is. If u're interested in the subject, u could do a lot worse than get started on it by reading JUST MERCY. a few others i can recall offhand include SOLITARY, THE SUN DOES SHINE, ACTUAL INNOCENCE, FALSE JUSTICE, and MEAN JUSTICE.

it's well known that american police very often get away with murder and other egregious abuses of their 'authority', particularly when dealing with poor black sheeple. Less well known is how american prosecutors and sometimes judges also abuse power with almost total impunity. In fact, it's currently settled law that prosecutors can conceal or falsify evidence, coerce testimony, solicit and suborn (pay a bribe for) perjured testimony, and use illegally seized evidence at trial, all with complete immunity from both criminal prosecution and civil liability for themselves. The rationale allowing such atrocious prosecutorial behavior is, as u might surmise, utter bullshit, but that's american 'justice' for u. Don't believe me? U can find out more about it in the books mentioned above, or more immediately, from a link posted below of a very brief and to the point essay which advocates ending prosecutorial immunity.

imo the american 'justice' system, with such perverse practices sanctioned by law, is inherently corrupt. It's designed to facilitate the framing of innocent defendents in order to railroad them into america's bloated prison population. In case u didn't know it, america, 'land of the free', leads all other nations in both total incarcerated and per capita incarceration, by quite a wide margin. In fact, compared to many other 'advanced' industrialized nations, america's incarceration rate is higher by a factor of about 10 or more!

talk about orwellian! Land of the free, indeed! More like land of the incarcerated. I guess the freedom lies in the ability of powerful 'authorities' to get away with just about anything when it comes to criminal (in)'justice'.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/13/let-s-put-an-end-to-prosecutorial-immunity

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20342617-just-mercy

9/11 2019: some last words

b4 getting started here, i must totally clarify something. i prefer the term 'sheeple' over people. i've even invented a word for the singular form of sheeple: sherson. i mean absolutely no disrespect by these terms. in fact, i regularly think of and refer to myself as a sherson. i consider all civilized humans to be sheeple, and what i mean by this is that we're all domesticated, like livestock. in fact, this is the best way to understand the relationship between rulers (or 'authorities') and ruled.

agriculture is what defines civilization, and agriculture is all about the taming of the land, and particularly the taming of species, both plant and animal, that we eat. we tame them so that they may be more easily controlled, and ultimately exploited. this process of domestication has been the basis of all 'wealth' creation. the creation of wealth, or excess, in turn has led to social stratification and hierarchy, with the end result that civilized human societies have come to mirror the civilized human relationship to nature, in that the wealthy or powerful have learned they must control and exploit the masses below them. all civilized institutions, particularly civilized religions, have developed with this dynamic in mind. even the wealthy and powerful are to a large extent tamed too. this is necessary for that vaunted social order which 'conservatives' especially seem to have a great affinity for, 'law and order', to prevail. everyone must be taught to assume their role in society in accordance with their class, gender, etc.. so what we end up with is a society in which natural human proclivities, especially the hard wired instincts like sex, become very regulated. this is all done to maintain the status quo, which of course pleases 'authority' to no end, as it facilitates the retention of their exalted status and privilege.

so please don't get bent all out of shape and think i'm disrespecting u or others when i employ the term 'sheeple'. i'm simply being matter-of-fact and keeping in mind and hopefully reminding my readers that the price of being born into civilization, or captivity as it were, is universal domestication.

ok, so hopefully that's out of the way for now. let's proceed to the meaning of 9/11/2001.

again, as i wrote in an earlier post yesterday, to those uninitiated in the extremely deceptive and diabolical ways of the deep state, it's virtually impossible to imagine that 9/11 could have been a false flag, 'inside job' terrorist attack. we're all taught in school a lesson which is constantly being reinforced by the deep state controlled corporate mass media, as well as consensus public opinion/trance, that here in america we have a government that is 'of, by, and for the people'/(sheeple). we're led to believe that ours is an 'exceptional' nation, and that our government, though not perfect, is the best there is, characterized by good intentions, and motivated primarily to promote public virtue and high minded values such as democracy, freedom, and human rights. we're led to believe that american foreign policy is about spreading these virtues across the globe to others less fortunate and enlightened.

well, as i also wrote more or less yesterday, it turns out that none of this is true. it's all bullshit, all propaganda, designed to pacify, deceive, and facilitate control and manipulation of the masses, to maintain a status quo of incredible wealth inequality and injustice.

those who are particularly inclined to dogmatism (mainly 'conservatives'), and thus disinclined to independent and critical thought, imo have virtually no chance under this regime of breaking free from such conditioning. my writing is thus directed towards others, particularly those with past experience as freethinkers and autodidacts (self teachers). if u have the time and the curiosity and the rationality to discern the difference between scientific facts and dogmatic bullshit, u have the potential to uncover the truth. u have the potential for disillusionment, which arguably, is a mixed bag. certainly, as the guru of psychedelic exploration of inner consciousness, terrence mckenna, noted:

'the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation'.

actually, a pretty damned high level of alienation, if u ask me.

at any rate, if u're like me and u prefer knowledge, no matter how unsettling or 'inconvenient', over ignorance, go ahead and see for yourself if u have the time and ability. depending on your psychological starting point and aptitude, it may take a very short or a very long while before u see where i'm coming from, but if and when u get there, there's no turning back, and u will look upon your former self as u will now perceive the masses, and wonder how u could have been and how they can be so deceived. so 'stupid'. i mean, it's just so obvious. it's just a matter of breaking free from prior conditioning/indoctrination.

9/11 truth is very powerful life changing stuff. u will never look the same way at america, at 'authority', at the claims of the cia controlled corporate media, or 'intelligence' operatives, ever again.

https://www.ae911truth.org/

'patriot' joe biden

it had been months since i'd last listened to the richard dolan 9/11 talk on youtube which i posted a link to in my earlier post today, so i only recalled generally it's contents. i was just watching it again and strongly reminded why i was so moved to highly recommend it. dolan comes across as extremely articulate and knowledgeable regarding many events surrounding 9/11.

about 40 minutes into this video, while discussing various details regarding the police state law known as 'the patriot act' that was rushed through congress in the wake of 9/11 and the almost simultaneous high profile anthrax letter attacks directed at certain high ranking u.s. government officials (also discussed by dolan in this video)... dolan makes a very interesting claim regarding the current democratic party front runner for president, joe biden (trump likes to call him 'sleepy joe' which i find odd, since 'sloppy joe' would be catchier considering the popularity of sloppy joe sandwiches... i digress). he reports that biden authored a crime bill in 1995, 7 years before the patriot act, which contained many provisions which were very similar if not identical to those found in the patriot act. hmmm..., very interesting. from such tidbits of information one can get a much clearer picture of such a man. he's clearly a creature of the establishment, in favor of vastly increased government power over individuals, vastly increased government surveillance and vastly decreased individual 'rights' (i like to put that word in quotations because i agree with george carlin that 'rights' are nothing more than abstract concepts or government guarantees that can be summarily revoked anytime in case of 'national emergency', as occurred in the case of the infamous internment of japanese americans during ww2). iow, biden's an asshole, a typical elite democratic party politician, in bed with the powers that be: corruption, big business, crony capitalism, dogmatic puritanical religion...

of course, this is obvious from other well known biden facts. he's long been a committed drug war hawk, for example.

u know, i actually don't know or rather can't recall many other specific details regarding sloppy joe's public record at this time. i may have forgotten many specifics but the core lesson learned regarding this pillar of the establishment hasn't been forgotten (more digression called for here: i don't think it's possible to be a high profile high ranking political pillar of the american establishment and not be an asshole. doesn't matter which party they're from, from clinton to reagan, the most successful american pols are very charming charismatic assholes who favor rotten evil policies like the infamous drug war)...

i'm not at all surprised that 'patriot' joe biden is a media darling and favorite among many liberals, touted as the best candidate to beat trump next year. he's someone the surreal powers that be, the shadowy puppet masters of the 'deep state', can feel very comfortable with. someone who can be trusted to not go rogue on them (a habit of trump's which obviously has him out of favor with those powers that be, as witnessed by how the whole 'liberal' media (not counting faux/fox news, obviously) has been unleashed to criticize and attempt to rein him in)... 'patriot' joe, like 'slick willy' and killary clinton and barack obomb'em, is an establishment wet dream.

while biden promises to be an upgrade over the moronic donald trump, i see very little reason to rejoice at the prospect of a president biden. nothing of greatest importance will change much. i'm inclined to agree again with my dead man carlin who once observed (slightly paraphrasing) 'forget the politicians. they're there to give u the illusion of choice. u have no choice. u have owners...'

the fact that we live under oppressive orwellian regimes that tout 'democracy', 'freedom', and 'rights' while presuming to have the right to make laws that harshly infringe upon individual sovereinty (the right to control one's own body, one's sexuality, what one ingests, etc.)... or in other words which act as though individuals are the property of the state/(government), is another topic worthy of much greater attention. i intend to try to give it just that in the future on this blog. living under the boot heel of oppressive, dogmatic, puritanical 'authority' has long been a severe pet peeve of mine. it's the very sort of authoritarianism the 'patriot' joe bidens of our world embody and promote.

i'm now going to try to listen to the rest of richard dolan's brilliant 9/11 talk. i hope some of u will check it out too if u haven't already, as it's so informative and interesting. for your convenience, here again is the link to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aXVzLMVdWM

9/11: the ultimate in cynicism and disillusionment

i'm not going to expend much time or effort here trying to back up the assertion that the 9/11 terror attacks were a false flag event, an inside job, as many have already done so. particularly good is the case made by architects and engineers for 9/11 truth. steel skyscrapers don't collapse due to fire, never have, and if they did, they would not do so in the manner witnessed that day. the 3 towers, including #7, all fell at free fall speed. the only way that happens is by carefully pre-planned, controlled, set up demolition by explosives and cutting of steel girders ahead of time. of course the only way this could have been done, and covered up later as it was, was if it was what i and other 'truthers' claim.

i know it's hard to wrap one's head around this, as it just seems too incredible. it helps a lot if one is already familiar with the fact that official conspiracies on a very grand and seemingly incredible scale have happened in the past, perhaps most notably with the jfk assassination. to learn these things takes a great deal of independent investigation, time, and effort, as the evidence surrounding such events is very voluminous and complex. most sheeple lack the time or curiosity for such independent inquiry.

the most striking thing i come away with from 9/11 is the sheer brazenness and cynicism of the perpetrators, and the extreme disillusionment that comes from the surrealization that they got away with it as they certainly knew they would. they knew that sheeple in general are very easily misled by 'authority', as they have been so very often throughout history. they (the perpetrators) obviously also hold human life in general as totally expendable for the purpose of achieving some larger agenda.

the link below will take u to the best discussion of 9/11 in retrospect and the (not so) hidden agenda that it facilitated that i've ever come across. please check it out.

a few years ago i tried to persuade some fellow local progressives to hold a public meeting on the topic of 9/11 truth. sadly, there was no support for the proposal. as the great comic carlin observed in relation to certain 'inconvenient truths', 'nobody seems to notice. nobody seems to care'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aXVzLMVdWM

a 9/11 appetizer: ani, get your guts out

ani difranco, the famously successful feminist indy singer-musician from buffalo has a recently published memoir. i've read the first 48 or 9 pages, it's very good, opening with a poem she wrote titled 'self evident', which contains many references to the 9/11 terrorist attacks as well as to other political opinions and observations of that time, in verse and rhyme. it's a hell of a poem imo.

here's a youtube video of an impassioned public performance of this poem by ms. difranco in front of a very enthusiastic and appreciative audience. part spoken, part sung, part a capella, part accompanied by jazzy jazz music. it's pretty cool imo (shame there's no video of the performance, tho. Just still pictures, along with the words of the poem displayed). a 9/11 appetizer, with a much meatier full course meal to follow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTY8sCzHTNc

the right to alter one's consciousness

i've finally begun my own blog as anticipated for some time now. new to this and not very technologically knowledgable or savvy, hopefully the idiot-proof nature of the technology will afford smooth sailing for both i and my readers, of whom i hope to have eventually quite a few.

i've been struggling with trying to compose a good opening mission statement for this blog, unsuccessfully for a few days now. perhaps soon i'll come up with one. it's difficult to try to encompass all the thinking behind my perception/assertion that we're living in a dystopian and doomed world (doomed in the sense that our culture is grossly unsustainable, ecologically and environmentally destructive and almost certainly destined for catastrophic failure), and frankly, when trying to do so i tend to become overwhelmed and have to quit...

i anticipate posting regularly and quite frequently, depending on my moods and reader response. perhaps if no one seems to be reading or caring, i'll become discouraged and do so not so frequently...

i'm also struggling with how much self censorship i ought to exercise. ideally there would be none, but of course this isn't an ideal world and when one's views clash as vehemently as mine do with vulgar dogmas and convention, when one hates established institutions and 'conservatism' as much as i'm inclined to, when one's view of the intelligence and sanity of humanity has taken a beating so that one is inclined to very blunt criticism of many individuals and society as a whole, when one sees there can be serious consequences and blowback for indulging too freely in 'free speech'...

anyway, dystopian and doomed is finally a surreality. since my own abilities and knowledge leave much to be desired, i'll frequently be relying on pasting in links to videos, documentaries, articles, essays, quotes, other blogs, etc. to make my point(s). here's a very concise video expressing views which mirror my own regarding one of the biggest unacknowledged reasons behind the so called 'war on drugs', the fight to control individual consciousness, and the oppression of governments which presume to have the right to control how we may choose to alter our own consciousness. i hope u'll enjoy it and come back for more...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47ElVv3RG2M