Bring Back 'dupe'*

Bring Back 'dupe'

Gary Allen puts it in his 1971 classic, None Dare call It Conspiracy: "...pressure from above and pressure from below... The pressure from above comes from secret, ostensibly respectable Comrades in the government and [elite Globalist] Establishment, forming, with the radicalized mobs in the streets below, a giant pincer around middle-class society. The street rioters are pawns, shills, puppets, and dupes for an oligarchy of elitist conspirators working above to turn America's limited government into an unlimited government with total control over our lives and property."

"The American middle class is being squeezed to death by a vise. In the streets we have avowed revolutionary groups... Virtually all members of these groups sincerely believe that they are fighting the Establishment. In reality they are an indispensable ally of the Establishment in fastening Socialism on all of us. The naive radicals think that under Socialism the 'people' will run everything. Actually, it will be a clique of Insiders in total control, consolidating and controlling all wealth. That is why these schoolboy Lenins and teenage Trotskys are allowed to roam free and are practically never arrested or prosecuted. They are protected. If the Establishment wanted the revolutionaries stopped, how long do you think they would be tolerated?"

(Trotsky/Bronstein in Rockefeller Center)

The Passive Aggressive Prayer II*

Passive-Aggressive Prayer

I will listen and listen hard. I will formulate what I hear into a thoughtful response. I will not condemn, belittle, diminish, degrade or insult the speaker. I will say Please and Thank You with every statement. I will not encourage anger. I will not be confrontational. I will be confident in my bearing and foster confidence in others. I will develop a deeper understanding and a kinder spirit. My character will improve. My integrity will grow. I will stand taller.

Life's difficult situations demand a stronger internal fortitude. My personal survival is at stake. Surrounding myself with people of weak character will bring me down to their level. Bringing people up the scale is my reason for living. A lifetime of improvement is my future.

Learn from the least. Listen to the softest speaker. Be most kind to the most angry. I will accept the challenge.

Reprinted from March 10, 2010

FIVE MILE BLUES

FIVE MILE BLUES  

I GO BY THE  NAME OF FIVE MILE JOHNNIE

I GET THERE IN MY OWN TIME

MY NAME IS FIVE MILE JOHNNIE

I GET THERE IN MY OWN TIME

YES, I GET THERE IN MY OWN TIME

GETTING THERE SIX INCHES AT A TIME

RIGHT TURNS, LEFT TURNS, SUDDEN STOPS

I GET MY FIVE MILES BEFORE I POP

I DO MY DRIVING IN THE CONSENSUAL ZONE

NEVER TOO FAST, ALWAYS AT HOME

I GO BY THE  NAME OF FIVE MILE JOHNNIE

I GET THERE IN MY OWN TIME

I GO BY THE  NAME OF FIVE MILE JOHNNIE

I GET THERE IN MY OWN TIME

MY NAME IS FIVE MILE JOHNNIE

I GET THERE IN MY OWN TIME

YES, I GET THERE IN MY OWN TIME

GETTING THERE SIX INCHES AT A TIME

I START OUT SLOW, DON'T YOU KNOW

AND PICK UP SPEED AS I GO

PRIME ME, PUMP ME, TURN MY KEY

AND WE WILL GO ZERO TO SIX-TY.

I GO BY THE  NAME OF FIVE MILE JOHNNIE

I GET THERE IN MY OWN TIME

I GO BY THE  NAME OF FIVE MILE JOHNNIE

I GET THERE IN MY OWN TIME

MY NAME IS FIVE MILE JOHNNIE

I GET THERE IN MY OWN TIME

YES, I GET THERE IN MY OWN TIME

GETTING THERE SIX INCHES AT A TIME

Debt Slaves 101

Professor Doom chimes in on the student loan scam:

http://professorconfess.blogspot.com/

It really is demented how our country’s system creates money from nothing, and uses it to enslave, rather than help, the citizens. I sure look forward to a time when I’m not so alone in wondering why we have such an evil system.

*************

NARRATIVE FALLACY

NARRATIVE FALLACY

09/12/2016 Buffalo NY

On the day Physics forgot

As the buildings imploded

And common sense was left to rot

The propaganda exploded

Watch the emotional porn

Since the inside job was complete

National conscious torn

Walking undead, nonthinking meat

Non-people being non-shot

The television telling the tale

Temperature rising on the pot

Telling the truth lands you in jail

A continuing psy-op war

On our senses we passively let in

Your consent to the Bullshit story is needed

If the balloon isn't hit with a pin

*********

Exposing INFO WARS & ALEX JONES, Part I: Why Did the Big Tech Platforms REALLY Take Down Info Wars…?

https://theburningbloggerofbedlam.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/exposing-info-wars-alex-jones-part-i-why-did-the-big-tech-platforms-really-take-down-info-wars/

https://theburningbloggerofbedlam.wordpress.com/2018/08/18/exposing-info-wars-alex-jones-part-ii-the-mind-war-q-anon-cult-tactics-mind-architecture/

Maximum scepticism and maximum critical faculty is advised.

Wesley says... 06

1) Most of Americans problems can be traced to acute boredom. 

2) Motorcycles should be ridden to the grocery store and back. No more than that. 

3) It took 20 white men to die on the battlefield to "free" a single black slave, a good portion of the 20  Irish conscripted or indentured to the US Army. 

4) How many of the immigrant activists answered the front door, took in a homeless man and his family and paid for their guests health care, anyone? 

5) What LRH might call 'downtech': I have a flip phone, and no facebook friends. 

6) I'd rather have a professed 'Christian' (no matter what hue) as a friend than anyone identified with a strain of Satan worshipping belief. 

7) Can a single ethnic persuasion commit genocide on itself? Or is that considered a social suicide? Jonestown in Englewood, Chicago. 

8) Black Lives Matter seems to be Black Lives Flattered. 

9) In the War on the Beer Belly, the beer just has to go. Sadly. 

10) Don't gossip. 

Quotes... 02

1) “Power does what it wants. [...] Forget the politicians, they’re an irrelevancy.

 The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. 

You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything

.[...] they own this fucking place. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in ‘the big club.’”

 - George Carlin

2_ “Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. 

It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.

”~~ Albert Einstein, “My First Impression of the USA” (1921)

3) Nil carborundum bastardo -'Don't let the bastards wear your down" - ________

4)  Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience.

Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty.

Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem.

~ Howard Zinn

5) “The aim of public school is not to spread enlightenment at all;

 it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry , 

to put down dissent and originality.”

- HL Mencken

6) “Driving fast, drinking cheap beer and smashing windows isn’t rebellion. The best form of rebellion is individualism. Thinking for yourself.”
- Martin Roach, Dr Martens History

7) On alcohol:
“I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest:

 ‘Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was.'

 - George Carlin (When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops, 2005)

8) Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses

. --Plato

9) It is impossible to write fiction about the Mormans, for the reasons that Morman institutions and Morman society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.

  -  Wallace Stegner, Morman Country

10) "The question about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly? but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?'"- Philip Roth

It's A No-Brainer

I entertain no philosophy, no theology, no doctrine, no gospel, no dogma, no creed, no belief, no theory, no hypothesis, no school of thought, and no conclusion about life. I just live life using logic and reason to do my best to enjoy all that is this life here and now.

This life has enough to hold my interest and focus my attention without meandering into unprovable, unverifiable, unobjective conclusions about the possibilities of a before life, a purpose to this life, or an after-life (no one really knows if there was a before-life, if there is a purpose to this life, or if there will be an after-life).

You do not need to believe or have faith in the mysteries of life to enjoy all that is this life. In fact, if you hold beliefs and have faith about the meaning of life, it is more likely–because of your biases, prejudices, and judgements about people, places and things past, present and future–that your joy in this life is diminished and you make this life more problematic and difficult and thereby create now the very hell you believe in hereafter that you are trying to avoid.

Much of the hell created here is the result of belief and faith in the unknown. Why not focus on that which is known and knowable and leave the rest to prove itself, and be busy now, here, creating heaven on earth? Or at the least, create heaven within you by being pleasant no matter what people say or do, and no matter what happens to you.

There is more pleasure and joy when you are always pleasant and only pain and sorrow when you are unpleasant. So why be unpleasant? Unpleasantness has no value except to teach you that it has no value.

If you can be pleasant inside in the face of adversity outside you are well on the way to mastering your mind, body, emotions and life energy, and then, wherever you go (whether a heaven or a hell outside) inside, you will be heavenly.

Everyone can be at peace in a heaven where they get everything they want (that’s a no-brainer). Being at peace in a hell, now that’s an accomplishment worthy of human effort.

Earth-life can be hell, but you can be heaven while here, enjoying it all instead of deviling yourself into a miserable devil, that (if there is a heaven) they don’t want your miserable soul turning it into hell.

Remember, it’s a no-brainer: Everyone can be at peace and happy when life happens their way. The quest is to be at peace and happy when life doesn’t. nem

http://humansarenuts.blogspot.com/

Voice in the Wilderness*

Voice In The Wilderness

A group of men got together to start an organization. The biggest bully becomes second-in-command, the President has some brains and can be counted on to deliver respectability. The Board of Directors is made up of weak willed individuals kept in line with the illusion of holding secrets of perceived power overseen by the Chairman - the bully who actually runs the whole show.

The minions who dutifully show up to pay their dues, give support and browbeat any dissidence in the group always thirst for more - More Inner Secrets, More Prestige for the club, More Sense of Belonging. They follow without critical judgement and when contradictions occur they bray, "Four legs good, two legs bad." Once a member wanted to do "The Right Thing" and they looked at the bully-in-charge and saw a character to be assassinated. They did it gleefully, but some were concerned. Something didn't seem kosher.

The desert awaited, a lonely existence needing constant inner fortitude developed for the exile. He waited and although what was proposed was quickly registered as true, his original announcement was declared "personally ambitious" and the group decided all things. The club didn't worry about the one missing member.

Messages began to appear calling for help. The bully-in-charge and his weak willed followers were mistreating more members. Most left quietly, feigning fidelity backing out the door, but not participating. Bullies-in-waiting saw a chance for advancement. The weak willed followers were confused. Control of the money was questioned. The President churned out more ideas that went over the head of the club. He started to act like he was the Leader. The bully-in-charge saw what the problem was - subversion from the desert source. 

He didn't want to be bothered, continuing his meditations and study. The club struggled with declining membership and internal bickering. Every once in while, without his knowledge, his stand was reconsidered and put away again with derision. And each time he got another questioner of the power structure. While he went and stayed away, the nagging righteousness remained.

Charitable events run in the past became fishing tournaments. Camaraderie became drunken events. Gossip ruled the day and stories of missing members became more outrageous. The bully-in-charge took it all in, seeing all working fine, all problems external in nature. Recruitment was of the underachiever and misfit. The club reputation took a hit when the President left. His replacement was Minor bully-in-charge, disciple. No one respected him, but played like they did. Leaving the sense of belonging was too much for the loyal stalwarts and they would have followed anyone. 

Reactionary thinking was the only order of the day. Alternative thinking, challenging ideas were ridiculed. Respect was only for a certain few, ironically, the source of most of their problems was expected to be respected as well. It took work to think, it took physical appearance to dutifully follow, nothing more.

The Exiled One never returned. He learned the the political life is unrewarding, unappreciative and soul tormenting. Somewhere over the years his life meaning became more important than shoring up a system of recycled meanness. There were others that found him and learned the same message. There is no peace without internal, personal peace first. Secrets are only yours. Power is the ability to survive in a caring, loving way. Intelligence doesn't mean useful ability. The desert holds many mysteries.

DANCING IN THE PRISON CAMP

DANCING IN THE PRISON CAMP

Empty your pockets

I want to look in your bag

Take off your shoes

Got me singing the prison camp blues

People need jobs

So what do they do?

They peek into purses

And X-ray you

We are abductees

In the totalitarian security state

We show up early

To joyfully wait

Teach your children 

To obey without question

Don't make waves

Is the life lesson

A chicken lives a thousand days

The benevolent farmer gets them fat

No one is more surprised

Than the chicken that gets the axe

Trump Dump

Interesting choice of handshake.  Which way are you headed?

Yes, Benny... anytime.

Nice wall.  Sturdy. Cute hat.

Probably a fake, but not untrue.

Oh, yeah.  Better believe it.

Hills' and Bills' Stills

Some of my favorites.  Cannot be proved to be authentic.  Enjoyment purposes only.

Larry Duncan*

WARRIOR FOR THE WORKING CLASS (tho the working class doesn't want any warriors) 

Larry Duncan died.  He was 72 years old.  He was complicated, always focused on the task at hand.  Great integrity.  We worked together at Labor Beat for more than 20 years.  I can't say I ever got to know him as a friend.  His last words to me were cutting and personal, as all lefties do when they meet disagreement.  I let it go because I'm more familiar with the bigger man.

There used to be a labor movement in this country.  I got involved with video production inspired by Moore's "Roger and Me", the Rodney King beating and my own local's rank and file 1992 insurgency and paper ballot election clean sweep of officers.  The power of hand held video cameras, our own show slot and television studio and the backdrop of the Austin, MN meatpackers, the Peoria UAW Caterpillar, the Detroit Newspaper strike, and the Staley workers of Scabtown, IL (all sold out by their Internationals) made for compelling TV viewing, at least I thought so.  We covered them all, many in depth with the voices of those directly involved.  Chicago also had its Teamster dramas, Hotel workers shenanigans, and its SEIU company unionism to report on.  Plenty of material to work with.

In the late 90's, Wm. Jenkins and I were on a panel at some conference or another.  The labor officials present, some from Washington DC, were fawning over us wanting to know, "How do you guys do it?".  The fact is the phony SOB's never wanted to do it, and the only time labor officials are on television is in handcuffs from the courthouse to the car.  Labor Beat would get an annual donation from the local NABET Executive Board - National Assoc. of Broadcast Electrical Technicians - but they never made labor television unless it was their own picket line.  Labor Beat did a lot gratuitous work for these organizations and got very little support.  IBEW 1220 did have some technical classes for us and acted as our beard for appearances purposes.

At that same conference there were South Korean videographers that end up in jail for doing what Labor Beat was doing.  The video tape of the Korean General Strike of 1997 they smuggled out is still the most inspirational example of well organized labor resistance, rolling over their collaborative labor leadership, in recent times.  We were proud to broadcast it in Chicago.

We bridged the analog/digital tidal wave of change.  My fondest memories of editing with Larry was working on "Trainwreck of Ideologies", the 1996 government seal of approval of the Haymarket Anarchist's monument in Waldheim Cemetery.  We were in the editing suite under the stairs at CAN TV trying to mix the sound with knobs and needles as people were plodding up and down.  Larry, the perfectionist, would get so angry.  Later, CAN would give us the computer equipment  and software to edit in our own offices, but the old days taught us how to put a story together.

Orwell wrote about burning the books, Huxley about having so many books around nobody would read them.  Such is the case of Labor Beat and internet technology.  We couldn't wait for the day streaming video would come.  We were making You Tube videos before You Tube existed and were ready to pounce.  When the time arrived, we were swamped in a sea of cutesy cat videos.  Topical stories of the workplace went unwatched except by a few comrades (and the police).  Nobody watches Cable Access when they got Netflix.   Technologies, ex. Facebook, continues to be the new rope we hang ourselves with. 

Larry Duncan walked the walk as far as anti-war was concerned, and is still quite an inspiration to me to this day.  One day discussing the VA and Veterans benefits he said (as I remember), "What about my benefits?  I'm the one that did the right thing."  Larry was a Conscientious Objector in the Viet Nam war and suffered because of a correct moral decision.  In this military infused population mindset, it takes quite a bit of personal bravery and it's something I don't see at all in this country today. 

We were outraged when the Clinton Administration/NATO bombed a BelgradeTV station in the Kosovo war.  

Larry and Labor Beat's best work, in my opinion, was helping to organize and document the first  convention of US Labor Against the War at the Teamster 705 hall in 2001.  The work surrounding the Iraqi military aggression and continuing occupation was  the best on-the-ground reporting in the nation at that time.  The AFL-CIO convention of 2005 USLAW forced an antiwar resolution (watered down, of course, but nonetheless) and Labor Beat was there to record the brave delegates  state their  stance at the microphone.  It passed, the first of its kind in 100 years, and the AFL CIO quietly slipped into the shadows and has never been heard of since.  Organized Labor has not stopped one bullet from being manufactured, nor one missile shipped nor formed any alternative to the 'economic draft'.  The government war effort didn't miss a beat.  I'm proud of all Labor Beat's antiwar videos and the contributors and producers involved, all under Larry's leadership.

So now we have an American culture that needs constant entertainment, has no love of history or storytellers, and continues to blame everyone and everything for their own personal bad behavior.  Fixated on their genitals and confused as to why they don't match their feelings (it is all about them, after all). Holding Women's marches (for Solidarity, perhaps?) and then not being responsible for the 51% of lies told today. Slaves to their phones, slaves to the credit card company, slaves on the Corporate Plantation.The only acts of independent workplace action is to pack an AK47 with your lunch or melt down into a puddle tears and suffer from PTSD for the rest of your life through. The only unionism left, it seems, is the Chicago "Where's mine?" style.

Larry Duncan believed that change began in the workplace.  He fought very hard to empower working people.  But they weren't listening, and certainly not listening today.  His life's body of work will be housed in a dark closet in some university, as You Tube quietly deletes one video at a time with no one noticing, like Orwell's books one at at time on the bonfire.  The working class was hardly aware of Larry Duncan's contribution,  and they didn't support it when it was being done.  The institutions of labor and their quislings fought it.  A few of us are grateful and see quite a man behind it all.  He taught me a lot.  1) Struggle brings unhappiness  2) Learn to open your heart and love those closest to you.  It's the only thing that matters.

Reincarnation, too

Reincarnation Is Enslavement

by Greg Calise

http://nexusilluminati.blogspot.com/2015/08/reincarnation-is-enslavement.html

“Then she added a prophecy in which she foretold the approaching end of the Divine Age and the beginning of a new one, in which the summers would be flowerless, the cows milk less and women shameless and men strengthless, in which there will be trees without fruit and seas without fish, when old men would give false judgments and legislators make unjust laws, when warriors would betray one another and men would be thieves and there would be no more virtue in the world.” – (Prophesy of Badb, War Queen of Ireland)

Quotes... 01

1)   Abe, Seward, and Greeley, Chase, Beecher, and Co.,

      Made very loud pretensions to Freedom, you know;

      "Free men" and "Free speech," "Free homes," were 

           their cry!

      And now for every BLACK MAN freed twenty WHITE MEN  die.

- Democratic Party campaign ditty, 1864

2) Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.

—James Jesus Angleton

3) "You know what irks me the most?

    Not that they're lying;

lying can always be forgiven; lying is a fine thing, because it leads to the truth.

No, what irks me is that they lie

and then worship their own lies."  - Razumikhin - Crime and Punishment

4) To quote the British Historian David Irving:

"If the British soldiers on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 could look forward to the end of the century 

and see what England has become, they would not have bothered to advance another 40 yards up the beach."

5) Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.  

There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."   -- John Adams

5b) Democracy is the road to socialism."  -  Karl Marx

6) "If you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right." - Henry Ford

7) "The State itself is ultimate,

     There is no law higher than the State.

     And if there's no law higher than the State,

     Then there's is no appeal against it."

      - M. Stanton Evans

8) "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.

    Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth,"

- Marcus Aurelius

9) "The falsification of history has done more to mislead humans than any single thing known to mankind."  - Rousseau

10) "History is the lie commonly agreed upon." Voltaire