Tuesday, 26 March 2019

([making up for having missed] Fat Tuesday!)



16:11 EDT
     No. I do not, nor have I ever followed Alex Jones. I don't follow Fox news, CNN, MSNBC, or any of them. Why? Because I've been through the looking glass.
     I now follow only the off-beat news reports. And Q. Why Q? Because it's real information. Anything else is just going to be based on second and third-hand information that they have to accept as authentic. James Corbett, for example, is quite good, but, ultimately, must make do with the same publicly available information the rest of us get. And I know how unreliable that information can be. The only service he provides is taking the time to find the stuff, and to analyze it.
     I used to regularly read all the news magazines. Time magazine offended me about 40 years ago with an unnecessarily graphic, and gratuitously placed description of gay sex in an article about the spread of HIV/AIDS. I've glanced around the odd copy once and a while since, but see no hint that their leftward swing is being corrected. I found U.S. News & World Report to be the most rational and balanced, but that was 30 years ago. Since then, I've seen it take the same leftward swing as the others. Fox's news programming is, for me, forever associated with the rest of the programming on that 'network', all of which I find abhorrent.
     To me, even the most cerebral-sounding reportage any of them foists upon us is just opinion disguised as fact, and partisan propoganda disguised as expert insight.
     To me, all of the news magazines and shows operate on the same level as Us and People, Rolling Stone and the Huffington Post. They're for the gullible, the dim of wit, shallow, and willfully confused.


     Now, how can I be so severe in my judgement of these 'news' organizations? How can I speak so disparagingly of their followers? Like I said before, because I've been on the other side.
     My curious life has has at least brought some blessings to balance the curses against, and the bulk of those blessings were to 'be there', to 'do that', to 'see for myself', to know better.
     I think I mention further down how enlightening my experience at Daimler-Benz was. But so was my own time in the Air Force, my own time living and working in Germany as a civilian. My own childhood in California, New York, Washington D.C., and ... Ft. George G. Meade, Maryland. ☻
     I knew things.
     I've seen Al Haig in one place when the news said he was in another.
     Unlike almost everyone else, I always knew that our beloved, asymmetrical encryption techniques, or, in fact, anything based on the backpack-trapdoor algorithm, were far from secure. How did I know this? A memo crossed my desk for distribution to all commercial entities not to rely on it because it was too easy to crack. Where did that memo come from? Well, let's just say it came from those who would know.
     So, why was the DoJ trying to act so wounded, so threatened by Phil Zimmermann? Disinformation. Propaganda. It was an act. They couldn't have criminals thinking that their communications were in any way less secure just because they were using open-source, free software. I think that's why they so readily backed down when Eben Moglen challenged them to prove their case (that PGP actually made it impossible to spy on ne'er-do-well communiqués).
     What else did I know? People, Arabs, who'd actually lived in Beirut, Lebanon before, during, and after the 1982 war. And it didn't happen anything like you heard in the news. It didn't even happen when you were told.
     And the same complete recasting of entire wars still goes on today.
     So, when I hear someone telling me that the news is fake, and everyone else mocks and scorns them for it... They, not their detractors, have my undivided attention.
     And, by the way, the so-called Palestinians have utterly no claim whatsoever. Just look up Black September. See those dates? They're lies. I still remember hearing on the news in 1968 how Jordan had suddenly, and inexplicably expelled the PLO from Jordan, and that they were now living on ships at sea while the UN negotiated a new home for them. Egypt offered them asylum, but they declined, citing love of homeland, and Egypt being too far away. Finally, somehow, Lebanon got coerced into taking them in. And that was the beginning of the end for Lebanon.
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12:56 EDT
     Betcha didn't know this!

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12:12 EDT
     I know! I know. Trust me; I haven't forgotten. I promised to tell you what I've dug up about human trafficking. And I have reduced it to some fairly recent videos, as well as some links to long-forgotten scandals, but I have a hard time with this stuff. My wife has actually forbidden me from doing any more research into it because of what it does to me, so I have to do it when she isn't looking. And that's not easy. (Her TV lounge is the other side of my office.) Abortion is troubling enough, but where this human trafficking thing goes is even darker. And, if you think I'm virtue-signalling, just wait till you see this stuff. You may hate me for opening your eyes to it. I mean it; your worst Hollywood horror nightmares pale by comparison, because this is all real, and it's happening here, and you, too, are probably unwittingly supporting it.
     The Book of Mormon gets frightfully explicit where this subject is concerned, and is one of the reasons I've come to believe the rumors are true, but even it limits the scope and depth of the subject, and precisely because this is so troubling. But it's very real. I'd heard rumors for forty years. But those were just rumors. Another author I know, Theodore Holden (whom I'll be referring to ocassionally), recently offered an excellent explanation for all this Satanism. And it is Satanism. But why? Well, I'll just give you his explanation.
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     They all thought they could become "cool" by being evolutionists...
     In forming a judgment of evolutionism, you must at some point consider the circumstances under which it arose and the most probable set of reasons for its rise to dominance.
     You've heard of the Medelin Cartel, El Pino, Pablo Escobar, the Pagans, and all of the other drug dealers of our times. The truth is, all together they probably don't add up to a hill of beans compared to the operations of the British empire in the 19'th century. At least one major eastern city was set up for no other reason than to serve as a conduit for Indian opium into China and an entire war was fought to protect the opium trade.
     Now, you don't need to be Albert Einstein to comprehend that for a supposedly Christian nation to be engaging in this sort of business must have created at least two problems on an organizational level. One was the question of motivating men to fight and die for such causes:
     "For God, Bonnie Queen Vickie, and the Opium Trade, CHARGE!!!!!!" probably wouldn't get it...
     The other problem which springs to mind immediately would be that which the CEO or chairman of the board of the East India Company must have faced in conducting board meetings. Picture it:
     "Gentlemen, I have some good news, and I have some bad news. The good news is that profits are up 73.2% on a volume of trade which has increased 27% over the same three-month period last year, and that all of our operations appear to be running smoothly. Indigenous peoples of India, Burma, China, and several other areas with a propensity to cause problems are now happily stoned out of their minds on our products, and are causing no further trouble."
     "The bad news is that we're all probably going to spend the next 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years roasting on a barbecue pit for this $@!&..."
     Now picture Chuck Darwin walking into this scene and telling all of these people that they're sitting around worrying over nothing, and that the only moral law in nature is "The Survival of the Fittest". Can you not see all of those peoples' eyes lighting up, their hair standing straight up, and somebody screaming "By Jove, I think he's got it?"
     I mean, it doesn't even matter what led Darwin to devise the theory of evolution. In any normal time or set of circumstances, he'd have either been laughed to scorn, hanged, or burned. He succeeded precisely because he solved several major problems for the Godfathers of 140 years ago.
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     This "cool", though, got out of hand, and one thing lead to another. Before long, their atheistic ways had attracted even more sinister types, like Cecil Rhodes, and it just went downhill from there, as these things are wont to do. Next thing you know, they're playing around with chicken sacrifice, blood rituals, and deeply disturbing induction rights.
     Now for, perhaps, the most troubling part: This is only the beginning. These monsters aren't going to go away. The Book of Mormon is clear enough about that. They just keep coming back. Satan is as real as God is, and he keeps revealing his dark doctrines to susceptible minds. But, as with all inspiration from the eternal realm, the recipients, unless they're diligently honest, will actually think they're thinking their own thoughts, not Satan's. But what recipient of Satan's poison was ever that honest? And that's the beginning of the deceit. "I am no devil, for there is none."
     It's not for nothing that Enoch blames the end of the world on the Sodomites.
     Give me a few days. I have to prepare myself for it.
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11:53 EDT
     Mark my words: Magnetism will yet prove to have been the clue to the secrets of the universe, dangling right there in front of our faces all along.
     You know, dont't you, that we don't really understand magnetism at all? Want proof? Just read the wikipedia article, being sure to follow all the links. All that amounts to an entire book. Notice anything missing? Other than a convenient dodge, calling magnetism a 'force', there is nothing explaining just what that 'force' is.
     It is what it is. It's a force. But how does it exert that force? In a field. What's that field? It's a force. AAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!


     Now, to be fair, at least the Quantum Mechanics guys appear, sometimes, to reject the magic of 'forces'. They believe that there must be some sort of physical connection, but, from that launch, they venture into some pretty strange territory, believing in particles which carry that magnetic force from one object to the other. And their explanations of all the other, related curiosities and phenomena get even goofier.
     As for me, I still believe in the aether, and that magnetism is a reflection of a certain frequency of light being propogated through that aether. In other words, ferro-magnetic materials are to the precursor of magnetism what a prism is to white light. I mean, we can actually see magnetic waves. What seems to escape everyone is that they really, actually are waves, and, moreover, that they're standing waves. If they'd start looking at it that way, they'd make a lot more progress. But, first, we have to get them to give up on this absurd dark matter fantasy, and get back to real, verifiable science. Until then, I'll keep butting heads with the Stanford post-grads insisting that magnetic lines are just a construct. Yeah? Mr. Construct? Then why is it that I can show you those lines in action?
     Of course, as always, I have to add the qualifier that one or more of the DoE labs probably has this all figured out already.
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11:06 EDT
     Scotty Kilmer is one of my favorite youtubers. My own experience tells me that he's honest and correct. He pretty much recommends Toyota/Lexus over everything else, and that matches my own experiences. (Says the guy who's bought seven miserable Chryslers in a row.)


     My own experience?! Well, yes. You see, for a 'white-collar'/executive, I actually have a huge amount of blue-collar, even unskilled labor working experience. I'm a lot like Scrooge McDuck, but without the money-bin. (Tragically) For example, I've worked as a paperboy, janitor (even a church janitor), busboy, cook, drywall hanger, cabinet maker, warehouse worker, mailroom worker, bicycle technician, ski tech, racquet stringer, model maker, digitizer, even an auto mechanic.
     I even worked for a year as a FORTRAN 77 programmer and data-set maker in the conglomerate automobile area of the engineering headquarters of Daimeler Benz AG in Untertükheim, Stuttgart, Germany.


     THAT was an eye-opener! That's where I learned the truth about our Japanese 'competitors' (deliberately built by Americans to thwart the UAW), and even 'public' transportation (a plot by the railway unions) (which are, themselves, a communist plot).
     Ever heard of Strike Season?
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~~ Marcus Aurelius ~~