David Ray Griffin, Kevin Ryan

'perhaps it is better to wake up afterall, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life' - kate chopin, taken from a youtube video put out by architects and engineers for 9/11 truth

david ray griffin died last month. he was among the most prominent critics of the false official narrative of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and american imperialism, wrote many books about these subjects, gave many speeches, inspired many others to get involved. below is a link to a compilation of tributes to his life taken from off-guardian, another off the beaten track alternative source of independent journalism seeking to counter the tsunami of disinformation and propaganda that spews 24-7-365 from western lamestream media:

https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/11/offgs-tribute-to-david-ray-griffin/

link to a cspan video produced 16 years ago, featuring mr. griffin, peter dale scott, kevin ryan, and peter phillips:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?194754-1/911-american-empire-intellectuals-speak-out

link to kevin ryan's blog, a treasure trove of 'conspiracy theory' information and speculation:

https://digwithin.net/

“Strategy Of Tension” And 9/11

long pdf article detailing how western government intelligence agencies led by the cia have systematically over decades been involved in false flag terrorist activities which have been used to smear left wing political parties and their supporters throughout much of europe and the u.s., via very secretive operations such as gladio and northwoods. these have also been carried out to create public support for foreign invasions such as those of afghanistan and iraq in the wake of 9/11, the most infamous of all such 'ops'. here is the beginning and conclusion of this article, followed by it's link:

Historians today and in the coming years face a challenging task: they must
write the history of the events of September 11, 2001. What they write will be

taught in history classes. But what will they write? Will they write that Osama Bin
Laden sent 19 Muslims to launch a surprise attack on the U.S.? Or will they write
that the administration of President George W. Bush was responsible for the attack,
either constructing it or deliberately permitting it in order to shock the U.S.
population and to create a pretext for increasing military spending and attacking
Afghanistan and Iraq?

“it is clear that deceiving the public and trumping up wars for Americans to fight and die in was standard, approved policy at the highest levels of the Pentagon.”

Conclusion

The two main arguments against the view that the attacks of 9/11 were
influenced by the US government and its military have been a priori arguments.
One of these is that civilized Western governments in general, and the US
government in particular, would never do such a heinous thing. The other main a
priori argument is that if the attacks of 9/11 were carried out by forces within
America’s own government, this fact could not have remained secret for this long.
The information in this article shows both of these arguments to be dubious at best.

http://www.journalof911studies.com/resources/2014GanserVol39May.pdf

Incentivizing Abusive Policing

another video exposing gross misdeeds of loveland colorado cops. in this case, they were incentivized to make false arrests by federal programs which dish out money to police departments contingent upon their arrest numbers being high enough. as is pointed out, as usual, the officers involved never face any consequences for their misconduct. their bosses defend them.

i read somewhere that an overwhelming majority of police, something like 90%, lean republican/conservative. they generally act like typical 'conservatives' who live by 'alternative facts' and don't have any ethics beyond myopic self interest. only in dystopia!

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

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid (Of American Police)

even though i've posted videos similar to this here very recently, i just keep coming across more and more unbelievable examples of how american police are far more dangerous, corrupt, and violent than any criminal gang. more sadistic, stupid, entitled, and protected from accountability for their own brutality and criminality when dealing with the public they purportedly 'serve and protect'. it's also an extremely sad commentary on the abject stupidity of the american sheeple that they don't en masse object to this state of affairs and demand radical reform. instead, thanks in no small part to a very biased and corrupt corporate media which is constantly pushing the mostly erroneous idea that crime is rampant and out of control and that police officers are these great selfless heroes who are worthy of our utmost trust and respect. it's absolutely sickening!

this video details 4 separate incidents over about a one year period in a relatively safe (except when police get involved!) and crime free american community wherein police officers in mostly routine encounters almost instantaneously resort to brutal or deadly violence. after watching enough of these and thanks to a few unpleasant encounters with police i've personally experienced, i must admit that i'm far more afraid of american police than i am of criminals who aren't police. it's hard to imagine any occupation that employs more violent, dangerous, and sadistic individuals. i doubt very much if any decent intelligent compassionate person could fit into american police culture, or be hired as an officer.

finally, at the end of this video i love the point taya graham makes regarding how american police routinely turn the idea of 'presumption of innocence' on it's head, and immediately treat much if not most of the public they are called on to deal with as though they are criminals, even those who shouldn't even be considered as criminal suspects, like the 'good samaritan' here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S593uFOWNPY

Abby Martin

just discovered to my surprise that i haven't mentioned Abby Martin in this blog previously. she's among the brightest and most outspoken radical critics of american militarism and imperialism to be found in journalism over the past decade. of course as such the corporate lamestream western media wouldn't touch her with a ten meter pole, so like others she had to resort to the only organizations that would hire her kind, in this case one funded by an 'enemy', russia.

here she is speaking with another veteran of russia today (RT), lee camp, about the corruption/bias of western media and the internet in favor of western establishment deceit, hypocrisy, war crimes, and such:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_RVMXZIrIM&t=458s

More Police State Shitfuckery

excellent videos from the real news network which highlight incidences of police misconduct and harassment based upon profiling, and goes on to discuss how ubiquitous this phenomenon is and how psychologically harmful it is to live in a police state in which police officers have essentially unfettered power to engage in this reprehensible behavior. i love how the reporter, taya graham, analyzes it all within the context of systemic social inequality and injustice, and how government abuses power to disempower it's citizens.

there's a lot more videos similar to these from this network (and of course others as well). as i wrote some time ago, there's probably enough videos now on youtube of american police bullying, abusing, and sometimes killing those they supposedly are here to 'serve and protect', that if one had nothing else to do one could watch such videos continuously for months or years. such is life in a police state which leads the world in mass incarceration (and many other negative issues). in such a state, routine encounters between police and citizens are often fraught with well justified anxiety and fear. yet a large proportion of the populace are so brainwashed (mostly by corporate media) that they still think of cops as 'the good guys' and support the police state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7SrKRgkkdA

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

9/11 Redux

i didn't post anything last year for the 20th anniversary of 9/11. the year before i posted 'september fool's day' which contained a couple of links to some excellent talks on the subject on youtube. i see now that one of them, by richard gage of architects and engineers for 911 truth, is no longer available (it's now a 'private video'). mr. gage was and perhaps still is one of the leading lights of that fine organization which still, after 21 years, is fighting to make the truth known. in that talk he presented a lot of evidence supporting the conclusion that the collapse of 3 steel frame towers on 9/11 was due to controlled demolitions. fortunately, there are other videos of a similar nature which are still available on youtube, some of which are also featured on ae911truth website, for which a link is provided below. i suggest u check it out after watching the other link i've posted previously to a 9/11 related youtube video, a talk given by richard dolan on it's 17th anniversary 4 years ago. it's a tour de force, a must see. if after viewing it u're curious to see a similar presentation of his on the anthrax letters which were mailed to some government officials a month after 9/11, u can find that link by doing a search for 'richard dolan' on this blog.

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

https://www.ae911truth.org/

Small Acts Of Sedition

Small Acts Of Sedition

the first 2 paragraphs of caitlin johnstone's latest post:

'It is not easy being someone who cares about the world and opposes the status quo. It’s a series of disheartening failures and crushing disappointments amid an endless deluge of information saying that everything is getting worse and worse.

The environment keeps degrading. Ruling power structures keep getting more and more controlling. Capitalism gets more and more imbalanced and exploitative. World powers get closer and closer to a mass military confrontation of unspeakable horror.'


she goes on to advocate committing small acts of sedition as a means of attempting to upset the status quo. much of what i've written over recent decades has been in the spirit of sedition. i did so hoping to receive positive feedback from readers encouraging me to do more, but that largely has failed to materialize. i can surreally relate to caitlin's first paragraph above. it truly seems most of the time that no one cares or wants to know how bad our world has become or how bad it's likely to become in the near future. perhaps it's too depressing. my worldview is particularly gloomy. unlike caitlin and many other doomers, i have no hope to offer. only horrific info to share with anyone able and willing to take it in and embrace it.

sedition- conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.

without putting forth hope that any such rebellion has any chance of success, i suppose my writing isn't quite seditious. perhaps that's why no one pays it any mind.

in a utopian (vs. a dystopian) world, sedition wouldn't be a crime. there would be no 'authorities' to rebel against.

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/08/24/cultivate-a-habit-of-small-acts-of-sedition/

SIX DEGREES

mark lynas book SIX DEGREES, originally published 15 years ago, was re-published a year ago. below is the chilling summary of it's contents as taken from it's amazon page. the 2nd paragraph sums up in a few sentences the gist of what u will learn from reading it:

We are living in a climate emergency. But how much worse could it get? Will civilisation collapse? Are we already past the point of no return? What kind of future can our children expect? Rigorously cataloguing the very latest climate science, Mark Lynas explores the course we have set for Earth over the next century and beyond. Degree by terrifying degree, he charts the likely consequences of global heating and the ensuing climate catastrophe. 

At one degree – the world we are already living in – vast wildfires scorch California and Australia, while monster hurricanes devastate coastal cities. At two degrees the Arctic ice cap melts away, and coral reefs disappear from the tropics. At three, the world begins to run out of food, threatening millions with starvation. At four, large areas of the globe are too hot for human habitation, erasing entire nations and turning billions into climate refugees. At five, the planet is warmer than for 55 million years, while at six degrees a mass extinction of unparalleled proportions sweeps the planet, even raising the threat of the end of all life on Earth.

These escalating consequences can still be avoided, but time is running out. We must largely stop burning fossil fuels within a decade if we are to save the coral reefs and the Arctic. If we fail, then we risk crossing tipping points that could push global climate chaos out of humanity’s control.

This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning.

https://www.amazon.com/Our-Final-Warning-Degrees-Emergency/dp/0008308578/ref=pd_rhf_d_dp_s_ci_mcx_mr_hp_d_sccl_1_2/134-7278809-1740269?pd_rd_w=p4x8l&content-id=amzn1.sym.0a853d15-c5a9-4695-90cd-fdc0b630b803&pf_rd_p=0a853d15-c5a9-4695-90cd-fdc0b630b803&pf_rd_r=AAQNFF1WA51BW4YT6V10&pd_rd_wg=5Ukew&pd_rd_r=73ba559e-f238-4ee7-92b8-699dc5c8ed1f&pd_rd_i=0008308578&psc=1

Extinction Acceptance Is A Tough Sell

the following passage in quotation marks i copied and pasted from the most recent post i received from the leader of the nearest EXTINCTION REBELLION group to me:


'A fellow stopped to talk with us last week. He said he was supportive of our message, but what good does it do? I didn’t think of it at the time, but I later realized that without the constant and widespread pressure for climate action, the recent climate legislation (IRA) would never have gotten through congress. It may be too little too late, but it is a first step. In order to take our second and third steps, and to walk a mile into a habitable future, we have to continue and escalate our demands.

Is it a lot of work? Yes.

Is it better than watching as a few rich people insist on ruining the environment so they can be even richer? Yes.'


i wasn't that fellow who stopped by to talk, but i could have been. those are my sentiments exactly, 'what good does it do?'

i'm not active in this chapter, mostly because it's 50 miles away from me and i have no transportation to get to their protests. but even if i lived nearby, i'm not sure i would be a regular participant, mainly because i see no point in it. i have no hope, and i think anyone who does simply doesn't know as much as i do, not just about climate change, but about the widespread and profound stupidity of sheeple when it comes to science, or anything for that matter which requires deep critical thinking. thus i see no hope whatsoever of public enlightenment.

besides his misguided hope, i take issue with the idea that the problem is only about a 'few greedy rich people'. in my experience, virtually everyone i'm acquainted with is seriously a part of the problem. they're all very ignorant and either unconcerned or insufficiently concerned, mostly the former. they're all contributing to the problem by heedless consumption, casual consumption of energy resources. as long as fossil fuels remain ridiculously cheap, they'll continue to heedlessly waste them, to avoid any slight inconvenience.

a couple of posts ago i referenced greta thunberg and posted a link to a 3 part tv program made for pbs in america about her activism titled 'greta thunberg: a year to change the world'  In the second installment of this series at one point greta breaks down into tears as she contemplates all the suffering and death that lie ahead of us from climate change. it's quite heartbreaking to see.

i've often contemplated the same thing but i don't think i've ever shed tears over it. truthfully, i'm more bothered by the social isolation i feel as one who has come to terms with the looming prospect of civilizational collapse and either a massive human die-back or nthe and has no one to share it with (along with having no one to share my full perceptions of living in a crazy dystopian society with). perhaps this shows me to be a rotten sherson, self centered. 

extinction acceptance is a tough sell not only because of widespread ignorance of how serious a threat climate change (and other factors relating to the growth of civilization) pose, but also because it's hard to say what good may come from depriving others of false hope, taking away their motivation to act in ways to try to 'save the world'. it seems a rather selfish thing to convince others of it simply to relieve my own loneliness.

i'm disheartened by the false hope i see manifested in other bloggers whose work i otherwise have the utmost respect for. a good example being caitlin johnstone, whose work i've enthusiastically endorsed, referenced and posted links to in several recent posts.

there remains one 'doomer' blog which is excellent and doesn't promote false hope at all. it's been around for 10 years now and could easily be titled the same as this blog. it's title is instead THE COLLAPSE OF INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION. it's posts were very frequent at first and focused mainly on the dystopian aspect of our predicament. in more recent years the posts have focused much more on making the case for impending doom, and have become quite infrequent, probably because it's author has become doom weary and has basically already said just about all there is to say on the subject. i'll post the link to it below. if by chance anyone ever reads this and decides to check it out, i recommend he or she check out the posts there both from the very beginning, and the most recent. i can't say i've read all his many posts, but i have read a good many of them, and every one of them has been of the highest quality (also check out the numerous links listed along the left hand margin of his blog, perhaps the greatest collection of dystopian and doom related material to be found anywhere on the internet):

https://collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/

Manufacturing Consent

manufacturing consent is a book written by Edward S. Herman and noam chomsky, published a few decades ago. it's quite extensive, exposing with sharp factual analysis the role big lamestream corporate media plays in propagandizing the american public, in order to sway their opinions and manufacture their consent for whatever agenda their corporate masters seek, be it support for military aggression in the guise of promoting 'democracy and freedom', support for capitalism, or whatever. i read a significant portion of it many years ago. it further educated me and strongly reinforced what i'd already begun to learn about this topic.

here's a link to a short (less than 5 minutes) animated video narrated by amy goodman about manufacturing consent and how it's basically done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M

i came across this link thanks to the caitlin johnstone blog, which i've become an avid follower of. it's writing reveals a very impressive base of knowledge, a very radical understanding of the role that western (mainly american) militarism, imperialism, and especially propaganda plays in world affairs, and an ability to put into the most eloquent if blunt and at times vulgar words things i and i suspect many others basically have learned, but have never articulated, in part because we couldn't do so nearly so well or effectively. i don't agree with every opinion expressed there, but i certainly share the overall worldview. link to the relevant article:

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/08/15/china-threatens-the-us-empire-not-the-us-itself-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix/

If I Ever Grow Up

if i ever grow up, i want to be like greta thunberg.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=greta+thunberg+a+year+to+change+the+world+watch+online&iflsig=AJiK0e8AAAAAYvXBR26RXwUqsBv6WwGN5iOzvdnVlmat&gbv=2&oq=greta+thunberg+a+year&gs_l=heirloom-hp.1.3.0i512l4j0i30i22l6.20493.27163.0.32823.21.12.0.9.9.0.222.1415.4j7j1.12.0....0...1ac.1.34.heirloom-hp..0.21.1618.O6CKlyUPOwE

CAESAR'S MESSIAH: The Roman Conspiracy To Invent Jesus

going back 30 years i've read free thought literature which examined and questioned the historicity of jesus christ and concluded that no such man ever existed. so i've long embraced the idea. this great documentary featuring joseph atwill and several other maverick historians on this subject comes to an even more provocative conclusion: that jesus and the christian religion his myth is based upon was an invention of a roman emperor working in cahoots with a turncoat jewish historian named josephus, for the purpose of pacifying a jewish rebellion against roman rule. these scholars seem to know their stuff and broadly agree with this thesis, presenting their arguments very cogently and backing them up by comparing josephus' other historical writings with the biblical gospels. i think they make a compelling case.

i thought i'd previously covered this in this blog, but apparently not. probably just mentioned part of another great documentary titled ZEITGEIST which merely makes the case that christianity and the figure of jesus christ were based on older religions which go back to sun worship. links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmEScIUcvz0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzMqlsAGL14

The Case For Doom

the year 2007 was a watershed in terms of productions which made a compelling case for the relatively imminent collapse of industrial civilization and likely near term human extinction (nthe). 3 notable works then all in their own way made a case for doom.

that year there were 2 books published which probably remain among the best regarding anthropogenic climate disruption. SIX DEGREES by mark lynas lays out in excruciating scientifically peer reviewed detail how each degree celsius of global climate warming, up to six, brought about by our consumption of fossil fuels, can be expected to adversely affect agriculture and eco-systems. it didn't really need to go past 6 since at that point nthe will be very much in play, if not sooner. UNDER A GREEN SKY is a more comprehensive look at the relationship between sudden climate change and our planet's chemistry and fitness for life as we know it. it makes clear a link between it and past mass extinction events. both of these books are highly recommended.

a 2007 documentary titled   What A Way To Go: Life at the end of Empire   is exceptionally well produced, 2 hours long, featuring many prominent 'doom' authors like william catton, richard heinberg, derrick jensen, richard manning, and daniel quinn. it's on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2em1x2j9-o

The United States, Cuba, And This Thing Called Democracy

more wit and wisdom from the late great william blum:

https://williamblum.org/essays/read/the-united-states-cuba-and-this-thing-called-democracy

William Blum

i just used this blog's search engine to search for william blum and was surprised to discover i've yet to mention him. i've long been acquainted with blum's great writings exposing the horrid role that american imperialism, militarism, and the cia have had in shaping our modern dystopian world (subverting democracy while claiming to support it, sponsoring countless political assassinations and coups around the world in favor of oligarchy and brutal right wing dictatorships and against progressive populism or socialism), and have certainly written about it previously in other venues, but it's been less than 3 years since i started dystopian and doomed, and apparently this will be my first mention of blum's work here.

anyway, anyone who wants to know the truth about these things should familiarize themselves with blum's books as well as his other writings and speeches. here's a sample:

https://williamblum.org/essays/read/building-a-new-world-conference-speech-radford-university

“Building A New World” conference speech, Radford University “Building A New World” conference speech, Radford University. By William Blum. What follows is the text of a speech delivered at the ”Building A New World” conference, Radford University, Virginia on May 23rd 2008. williamblum.org

note i'm pretty sure blum was being sarcastic and satirical when he offhandedly remarked that he hadn't spoken to (osama) bin laden in months, just as he was when he states further into this speech that 'george' (w. bush) (who was well known for his mangling of many words and phrases) 'almost' speaks english. also keep in mind this is from a 2008 speech, which is why it focuses a lot on the bush 43 administration and events of the first years of the 21st century in its remarks. (pasted below is the paragraph with the bin laden reference):

'A few people who called into the TV and radio programs I was on attacked me as if I and bin Laden were friends and I had asked him for the endorsement. I had to point out that he and I were not really friends; in fact, I hadn’t spoken to him in months.'

i also wish to note that as smart and extremely well informed blum generally was re. american foreign policy and propaganda, he apparently was clueless re. 9/11 truth (that it was an inside job, with the official narrative being a pack of lies, as i've mentioned previously and often in past posts, backed up by references), as evidenced by this sentence copied from the speech:

'The 9-11 hijackers, or alleged hijackers, were not a bunch of poor peasants; they were largely middle and upper class, and educated.'

Fox News For People Who Eat Organic Produce

years ago i read a fascinating book that was sort of a sideline story to the jfk assassination. it was about the life and death of mary meyer, one of jfk's lovers. according to some, she was very influential in opening his mind and heart to the idea of pursuing a path of peaceful coexistence and ending the cold war, which may well have been the precipitating factor leading to the decision by tptb that he had to go...

https://www.amazon.com/Marys-Mosaic-Conspiracy-Kennedy-Pinchot/dp/1510708928

it was from this book and other sources that i learned how 'intelligence' agencies like the cia go to great lengths to control liberals. mary meyer had been married to a prominent liberal who became a cia big shot and subsequently was very involved in the cia's efforts to control liberal thought by controlling liberal media.

this is critical to understanding how effectively propaganda is used to shape public opinion over a broad range of topics across the political spectrum, but especially regarding foreign affairs. it's critical to understanding, for example, how both american conservatives and liberals have been duped and continue to be duped over the role that the 'western' u.s. led alliance has played in the current war between russia and ukraine, and how particular countries and their leaders who are  deemed 'enemies' of this alliance have been consistently demonized by influential 'western' media for years or decades.

anyone who hasn't taken the time to deeply and independently look into certain notorious 'deep events' like the jfk assassination has virtually no idea how powerful so-called 'intelligence' agencies like the cia have become, nor how ruthlessly violent and deceitful they are, or the very chilling effect they have had on our supposedly 'free press'.

caitlin johnstone recently published a very good article related to this topic, focusing on one particularly very influential 'western' liberal newspaper, THE GUARDIAN. the last couple of paragraphs are especially cogent, closing with a zinger of a one liner which i used for the title of this post. her article also cited as a reference an article from another independent media source which has never grown influential enough to have been subjected to the chilling effect of 'intelligence' agency attention, and thus is still free to publish the truth, in this particular case regarding how THE GUARDIAN was 'neutralized' after it had begun publishing disturbing revelations from wikileaks.

https://declassifieduk.org/how-the-uk-security-services-neutralised-the-countrys-leading-liberal-newspaper/

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/06/19/the-guardian-churns-out-embarrassingly-awful-empire-propaganda/