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UPDATE: This program may be downloaded HERE.

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NANO-THERMITE!

(It tastes just like regular thermite, but with fewer calories.)

NWO "ROMARABIC" WATCHES AVAILABLE ON EBAY

UPDATE (April 9, 2009): Buy your Romarabic pocket watch HERE. (Also available in black and beige.)


BERNE, SWITZERLAND (DUI) The International Council on Numeration has voted unanimously to institute the new "Romarabic" system of numbering to be phased in over the next two years. Council Chair Claus Hess said the change in numbering was long overdue because "Roman numerals are very hard, you know, with all those letters and things--while Arabic numerals are too easy and logical. Here we seek to level the playing field so that it will again be as much of a challenge to do basic multiplication as to read the cornerstone on some old building."

Math historian James Murray Staunton of NYU had mixed feelings about the change. "It's an exciting era to be living in, but the new system makes both the old Roman numerals and the standard Arabic numerals obsolete. Now everyone will have to go out and buy new clocks and watches to stay in compliance. And then there are house numbers. I just bought nice new brass house numbers, and I'm not ready to junk them. "

And Dale Wayne Marks, host of Patriot Radio Network's "My Cold Dead Hand," is suspicious of the move. "This is just the NWO at work again, trying to reduce us to a mass of slobbering ignoramuses. Fine. Take away our analog TV sets and force us to buy our Bourbon in metric bottles. What did you expect? This is just another insult from the Illuminist serpents in their ploy to render us subject to their Luciferian One-World rule."

Romarabic watches are now freely available on eBay and from other sources. Mr. Hess has published a guide to Romarabic numeration in Esperanto, Urdu, and Inuit. "It's a very elegant system once you get the hang of it," he said. Numeric conversion should be fully implemented by early MMX2.

WITH ALL DUE RESPECT . . .

. . . I find it difficult to agree with or even get along with anyone at the moment.

I think Nellie McKay says it best.

. . . BUT NOT THAT LONELY

UPDATE 4/6/2009: The Ministry of Truth is now officially up and running again!

This brief note, dated March 22, on Gordon Comstock's Ministry of Truth site:

There's been chatter. The Ministry might be about to reconvene. Stay tuned.

PROFESSOR IRWIN COREY

Here's the World's Foremost Authority at 93. (Check out what he says at about 3:50.)




And why do I get the impression that Lyndon LaRouche is cribbing from him?

FUSION WITHOUT FISSION?

Yep.

(Video here.)

STATEMENT FROM VYZYGOTH

I appreciate the kind words that were posted on this site.

I would also like to set the record straight.

The information that the program shared was meant to reveal the nature of the real conspiracy against not only Americans but all peoples of the world.

That information did not paint a pretty picture, but it was an accurate representation of the way things have been, are, and will be.

It’s simple, really. It’s always been about the money and mercantilism. Nations were created to open new markets, not to shelter huddled masses yearning to be free.

Despite the number of Christians who came to the New World, the United States was not God-breathed, nor was there any special providential dispensation granted this nation.

But that fairy tale was necessary to get Americans to believe we won the revolution, that our “framers” were really good guys, that the Constitution was for our protection.

That fairy tale also made it easier for us to accept the misinformation about the real forces behind the internecine slaughter known as the Civil War, the genocide of aboriginal peoples, and our twentieth-century role as the global hitman for corporations.

At this point in our history, it should be clear that government is irredeemably corrupt. There were honest representatives even into the last century, but they were thwarted and, finally, weeded out. What we have now are whores who have rented themselves out to the forces that will turn this nation into not only a socialist but, ultimately, a totalitarian state.

We never had our country to take it back. The Constitution was never meant to provide us with protection from the Federal government, yet paytriots still cannot get it through their heads as those who try to use the Constitution as a legal tool get threatened with contempt by judges, who, though reprehensible in their own right, are doing what is legally mandated.

When will the dumbass paytriots ever learn that the framers framed all of us a long time ago?

The show was not my day job, though it became the equivalent of such with regard to the time and energy expended and the seriousness with which I undertook it. But, unlike a real job, this endeavor sucked thousands of dollars from our personal finances across seven years, which is why I incorporated to write the losses off against our tax liability. The dollar drain is something I never complained about nor begged money for. That was a decision and sacrifice Lady Vyz and I chose to make.

All of you have issues, physical or otherwise, that arise in your lives. We do, too, to the point where, given our age, we don’t take tomorrow for granted. And it’s clear to us that it’s time to lighten the load, shift gears, and slow things down. We’re not passing this way again. And we cannot change the shape of things to come. But we do want to enjoy what we can while we can.

I can’t run a race of endurance or play a game of attrition with the paytriot networks. I’m outmanned and out-resourced and outlawed by them. But, understand this fully, the networks are not your allies. You know the mainstream and PBS/NPR broadcast outlets are full of shit, but the paytriot networks are just playing the other side of the street, because, in the end, money does change everything and the first casualty is the always truth, especially in paytriot broadcasting.

From here on in, I hope you will avail yourselves of the audio to be posted at http://thinkorbeeaten.com/theknoll. At the pace of a volume a month, it will take over four years to air them all.

The Inside the Knoll e-zine will be out shortly on the TOBE site.

That e-zine will reveal some of the workings behind the scenes and also provide an insight to some of my frequent guests who have contributed to this work.

I ain’t going anywhere, just putting the brakes on. Hope you’ll stick around.

And thank you all again.

KEITH HANSEN

NEW HOME FOR THE KNOLL ARCHIVES

Ang, of Think or Be Eaten, will soon host the complete archives of From The Grassy Knoll and Beyond the Grassy Knoll at THIS LINK. At the moment, there's this message:

The bad news: Regular listeners to Vyzygoth's Beyond The Grassy Knoll were stunned earlier this month when learning of the end of Beyond The Grassy Knoll broadcasts.

The good news: Think Or Be Eaten will be carrying on the legacy of The Grassy Knoll.

Specifics are still to be determined, but at this time here is what we know. The Grassy Knoll archives, spanning seven years of many diverse interviews, will be accessible here. The re-broadcasting of his entire archive, A to Z, will be made available one month at a time.

Bookmark this page because this will be the new permanent place on the web to access all Grassy Knoll audio archives and other related Knoll materials. TOBE has offered to make this space available to Vyz in whatever way he wants to utilize it and he has accepted that offer.

Exactly when this transition will occur is not yet known but tune in here for further information and updates, we will keep you apprised. As we get more information we will pass it on to you.

IT'S GETTING LONELY OUT HERE . . .

It's with much sadness we report that our friend Vyzygoth has discontinued his excellent program:

The reasons for my withdrawing the program, the closing down of my e-mail addresses, and the subsequent shutting down of the websites are predicated on nothing other than a desire to regain my privacy and time. A one-time, free e-zine is due out shortly, but I will not be involved in any other show or engage in any e-mail correspondences. This e-zine project and perhaps others, though, will be affixed to another website because, at the end of March, this site will be pulled down. If you want to save the 2008-09 audio archives, do it as soon as possible.

It's sad but also quite understandable that Vyz would walk away at the top of his game. He'd been increasingly frustrated by the amount of crap and half-crap that was circulated as valid news by people who should have known better. He had also made it a point to answer every email sent to him--and wound up on every CC list of forwarded rumor and inane ranting imaginable. In his most recent "These Days" installment addressing this surfeit of dreck, he sounds stressed--and tired.

In a conversation I had with him last Friday after he had decided to retire, he sounded much happier. No one should ever make himself a human sacrifice to the alternative media Play-Doh Fun Factory of feces. The world is much wider and richer than the 17-inch monitor in front of you, and certainly these words have much less significance than the concerns and enjoyments teeming just outside the range of its tunnel vision.

By all means download Vyz's programs while you still have the opportunity. There's good stuff there--you won't hear any better. Save the shows, back them up on DVD-R or your external hard drive, and take them out and listen to them when the universe of crap starts to close in on you. You'll feel a bit less lonely in so doing--and God knows it's getting lonely out here.

MALARKEY!

malarkey, n. Slang. Exaggerated or foolish talk, usually intended to deceive

As it's St. Paddy's Day and I'll soon be boiling my corned beef and cabbage (with carrots, potatoes, and onions) there's probably no better time to deal with the distracting and inane malarkey of that malevolent leprechaun, Fintan Dunne.

Most recently and most regrettably, Dunne has exerted his underwhelming knowledge of basic physics, deployed his Fort Apache array of straw men on the battlements, and cheerfully ignored all salient facts that do not agree with his revised theory of How The Twin Towers Came Down--a hypothesis which bears more than a passing resemblance to an early draft of the NIST report. As such, he merits an F in 8th grade science, an A in basket-weaving, and a B+ in tap-dancing.

First of all, forget about WTC 7. Dunne doesn't know how it was done, so ignore it. Sure, it looks like a controlled demolition and it fell at about free-fall speed--but that's just impossible. And when Dan Rather said it reminded him of a controlled demolition, pay him no heed because he was told to say that by the powers that be. Rather was instructed to plant the notion that explosives were used (as was Peter Jennings).

(Dunne is particularly adept at picking out fakes like Rather and Jennings. In fact, he's managed to prove that everybody is a fake except for Fintan Dunne. Imagine that.)

Dunne also believes that if explosives were used and the perpetrators wanted to cover it up they wouldn't bring in Controlled Demolition Inc., especially given their role in the cover-up of the OKC bombing. This from a guy that said the anomalies in the Nick Berg beheading video were placed there deliberately to bust the chops of the people that get it. Dunne could also add the naming of the disaster scene "Ground Zero" and the "terrorist hate your for your freedoms" line while they passed the Patriot Act. Controlled Demolition's presence on the scene was a show of arrogance and a necessity.

When Dunne attempts to explain the collapse of the towers he reveals just how stunningly ignorant he is--and how crafty. Before he serves up his plate of warmed over pancake theory (with rancid butter and adulterated syrup), he defines the opposition to his irrefutable logic as espousing thermite/thermate, cutter charges, or space beams. He pooh-poohs pyroclastic flow. And he completely ignores other credible theories (such as the deployment of tactical mini-nukes) to explain how the buildings disintegrated from the top down and pulverized themselves to dust following the path of maximal resistance.

He asserts (contrary to supposed popular belief) that there was plenty of steel lying about for NIST and others to examine--and so why didn't NIST (or others) find signatures of explosives? Well, NIST never felt the need to analyze the steel for signs of explosives, being in the employ of the perpetrators and otherwise following the Official Story: planes brought down the buildings, and explosives (of whatever sort) did not compute.

When confronted with the long-lasting molten steel, Dunne responds with an explanation that would have made Guinness come out my nose: friction! Apparently, in Dunne's physical universe, there was such friction when the towers came down (in less than 15 seconds through the path of maximal resistance) that the resulting heat melted steel and caused it to stay molten for three months. (By the same token, if I put on corduroy pants and walked around the block three times I'd burst into flames.)

And those lovely squibs: Fintan says they were just air being forced out of windows as the floors pancaked. The forced-air hypothesis also explains how steel beams were ejected hundreds of feet. The air, Dunne claims, was being compressed so that it escaped at something like six hundred miles per hour--enough to throw around girders like Tinkertoys. Uh-huh.

Dunne also conveniently forgets (or never knew) the difference between "heat" and "temperature." He avers that the steel got so hot (as a result of the jet-fuel and office fires) that it began to distort and buckle within 20 minutes. Forgetting for the moment that steel conducts heat and would have distributed it through the steel framework of the buildings, 20 minutes isn't long enough to bake a pizza. But while there was some heat from the fires, the actual temperature wouldn't have been high enough to compromise the steel.

Fintan Dunne is an occasionally-charming rogue who has obviously played tonsil-hockey with the Blarney Stone. With this series on the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, it's clear he's jumped whatever shark may dwell in the Irish Sea. Not that he's as tender and savory as the corned beef we'll enjoy today--if you stick a fork in him you'll find he's Dunne.

JEFF LONG ON VYZYGOTH!

Jeff Long of DC911Truth and The Rock Creek Free Press appeared with Vyzygoth this week on Beyond the Grassy Knoll. This is one of the best programs I've heard on the 9/11 Truth "movement" since stepping aboard this bus. It's very informative, with lots of fun gossip about all the usual suspects.

Also Jeff reveals that activism isn't about having meetings and forming committees. (But you already knew that.)

Download this excellent program HERE.

THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH PULLS THE PLUG

It's sad to note that one of the Good Guys is discontinuing his invaluable and genial program: Gordon Comstock is shutting down the Ministry of Truth for at least the foreseeable future. Here is his statement:

Due to the hardships of feudal serfdom, the Ministry has adjourned. There was always a thin window in my week when I could pull off a show; there is no such window right now for me and mine to keep up with website maintenance. The tech stuff finally did me in. I have no idea when or even if this thing will return. God knows; I don't know. I'm tired; my wife's tireder. Score two for the Robber Barons. Lord, have mercy; give us rest. --Gordon

Herb Smith and I had a very enjoyable time doing his show late last year--Gordon is very easy to talk to and has a deep and true knowledge of literature, history, and the current state of world affairs. More than that, in listening to him one gathers the accurate impression that he is simply a great guy.

His sane and sensible voice will be missed in this realm where shrill fear-mongering and rabid fulminating would seem to hold sway. We sincerely hope he will return with more excellent interviews and cogent analysis once he is able to do so.

FINTAN DUNNE: PLANES, FIRES BROUGHT DOWN TOWERS

Dunne veers into 9/11 debunkery HERE. What--no Controlled Demolition? No "near free-fall collapse?" No long-lasting subterranean pools of molten steel? In Dunne's view, issues about structural integrity trump physics.

It's worth listening to both segments (Part 1 and Part 2), if only to elevate one's blood pressure. Herb and I will respond to this material shortly.

BILL COOPER VS. ALEX JONES

A classic snippet from Bill Cooper's radio program--lest we forget:

UPDATE: This video seems to have been removed, but you can download the hour-long program segment from which the video was made from THIS PAGE.

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE . . .

Some lynx-eyed satire from Jon Stewart:

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Changefest '09 - Obama's Inaugural Speech

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

(Of course, Obama says it much prettier.)

Conspiracy to Kill MLK

Here's a letter I recently submitted to the Observer Dispatch. Unfortunately I received no response.

The Conspiracy to Kill Martin Luther King

In 1999, Memphis bar owner Loyd Jowers and co-conspirators were brought to trial in a wrongful death civil suit on behalf of members of the King family. Proceedings lasted one month during which attorney William Pepper called 70 witnesses and detailed a plot to murder Martin Luther King that - with Jowers as a go-between- involved J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, Richard Helms and the CIA, the U.S. military, Memphis police and organized crime figures from New Orleans and Memphis. Alleged motives were King's public opposition to the Vietnam War and plans for the encampment of 500,000 of the nation's poor in Washington D.C.

Jurors took one hour to decide in favor of the King family. The verdict read that Jowers had participated in a conspiracy to harm Martin Luther King and that others, including government agencies, were party to this conspiracy.

The plaintiffs were awarded their requested amount of $100 in damages. The judge apportioned liability at 30% to Jowers and 70% to all other co-conspirators.

Pepper chronicled the trial in his book "An Act of State." Transcripts of the entire trial are available at thekingcenter.org via the News and Information link.

RELIEF FOR TELEVISION ADDICTS

Not that I watch the lousy thing, but I'm compelled by familial and matrimonial loyalty to aid those who jones for broadcast video. Here's a solution to the DTV reception problem, at the best possible price: FREE. I'll be building one of these for my aunt this week, and one for my wife shortly thereafter.

UPDATE: Here's the antenna I constructed, without much trouble or expense. Now I just have to see if it will work!
UPDATE (1/24): I installed this monster today, and it receives the four local digital channels available in the Utica, NY area. The difference between WKTV Channel 2 analog and WKTV 2-1 digital is dramatic. Channel 2 had always been plagued with interference and ghosting. (Perhaps this whole "digital" thing isn't just a bag of rocks, after all.) The rabbit ears worked all right (and were installed on the kitchen TV at my aunt's house) but the coat-hanger contraption is far superior, and draws UHF stations beautifully as well. Signal strength was quite good. Now--if only the actual programming were better!

UPDATE (2/5) I've built two more of these things, trying one in the attic and one in the window of our bedroom. I've discovered that they're somewhat directional, especially for the reception of standard UHF signals. The one in the bedroom window is the one in use at the moment, since it may be more easily repositioned. Signal strength is good, but there are still only four digital channels available here even using an amplified splitter. Also, there is some interference on the PBS translator station--possibly from digital (or other) sources. I'm guessing the Syracuse PBS giant isn't going to spring for a digital relay in Utica. And we cannot receive CBS in Utica without cable, period. So much for the Digital Revolution.

HIGH ROLLERS IN THE BIG CASINO

My aunt gave my wife and I a subscription to Newsweek this year, and the first issue arrived today. Normally I would have ignored it, but the theme of the issue and the names on the cover are very telling--and the imagery of the photo illustration (complete with roulette wheel) leaves no doubt. Newsweek is giving us the list of patrons in the Big Casino--though some names are missing, some mentioned here are playing quarter slots, and others, like Osama Bin Laden, cashed in their chips some time ago. And who's the Croupier? (Click on the image for a detailed view.)

SPEAKING OF STARS . . .

Here's a great video by Angie Riedel:

WATCHING THE STARS WINK OUT

They're dimming the lights at the Limited Hangout, and it's last call at the Cointelpro Cafe. Apparently, The Dynamic Duo (the Fetzer-Barrett tag-team show on GCN) is ending its current run. As the curtain rings down, Fetz is still mired deep in the "no-plane" distraction, Kevin Barrett is still giving everyone the benefit of the doubt, and Morgan Reynolds and Judy Wood continue their low-key, bizarro improv.

It's all reminiscent of a Beckett play. You know that the characters are trapped in their scripts, and must repeat their lines endlessly without growth or epiphanies. Godot is never going to appear with the key piece of evidence that will Prove Conclusively How It Was Done So Let's Move On With Our Lives Already. If you haven't heard it from us yet, here it is: The 9/11 Truth Movement is the last and best manifestation of The Theatre of The Absurd.

And this: The 9/11 Truth Movement doesn't actually move. You can be certain the Fetzer-Barrett-Reynolds Endgame on GCN will continue as concentric ripples into outer space, forever.

THE UTICANS ON THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH!

Last Sunday evening, Herb and I spoke with Gordon Comstock of the Ministry of Truth. We recorded almost two hours with Gordon, but we were on the phone for three. It was fun. The time, as they say, just flew. The program is now posted on the website, and is available for download at this link.

We left no turncoat unstoned here, so all those who feel their particular ox has been gored may send their hate mail to the usual address.

UPDATE: Here is the infamous John Judge interview. (Thanks to Jeff!)

A Kick in Our Crystal Balls

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice. -- Ambrose Bierce

Okay. We admit it. We were wrong, wrong, wrong. But so were all those other dime-store Nostradamuses who proclaimed that Hillary Clinton would be the next President of the United States. We figured that They always get the one in office that They want; that the matter of the Presidential selection is foreordained many years in advance--and that the logical and symmetrical progression that They favored was Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton. The late Kent Daniel Bentkowski heard this from some Illuminati insider in the 1990s, and Victor Thorn cheerfully stated that it was a foregone conclusion. And, like dogs barking idiotically in the night (to borrow a phrase from H.L. Mencken), we picked up the news and told anyone who would listen: It's gotta be Hillary in '08.

Boy, did we feel brilliant with an inside scoop like this. It was just going to happen, that's all. Why? Because. Because They have so decreed.

But predicting the future is always a mug's game.

Boy, were we wrong. El wrongo. Wrongalicious. Wrongkonkoma, New York.

So, yeah, we feel like idiots here. But in a more profound sense it's truly liberating knowing that nobody has an inside track on the future. In other words, whenever you hear dire predictions of an apocalyptic sort (and a Hillary win sure seemed apocalyptic to us), it's just crap. It may set your adrenals a-tingle, but the little-league Edgar Cayce who's selling that stuff (and likely gold and MREs besides) hasn't a bloody clue.

(This observation also applies to a certain Mr. Tarpley who has stated that we should all be soiling our knickers about now because Obama is undoubtedly the next Mussolini. Naturally, the same Mr. Tarpley has two prolix books to sell on the topic.)

(Be very afraid--but stop by Amazon.com on your way to the bomb shelter.)

We here resolve never to speak with certainty on anything that has not yet happened. It cannot be done.

If you ever catch us again trying to divine future events in tea leaves or in the entrails of sheep, please slap us.

Que sera sera, Baby.

WE ARE SO SCREWED: A Short Primer on the Federal Reserve

This seemingly says it all, and very tersely. (It's from "Zeitgeist," so chew carefully.)

911 BLIMP DAVE: THINK NUKES

UPDATE: Dave discusses his hypotheses with Vyzygoth in an interview (recorded September 30) available at this link.

One of the most daring and most credible theorists regarding the events of September 11, 2001 is our compatriot 911 Blimp Dave, much of whose most compelling research is hosted at his 911 University site.

His newest musings regarding the possibility of the use of multiple mini-nukes at the World Trade Center towers may be viewed HERE. This is his abstract of that section, titled "'Ground Zero' Energy Surplus":

Having first recognized the vast energy surplus accompanying the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11, and having then connected the dots on the evidence that points to widespread molecular dissociation at "Ground Zero", we now consider the possibility of the simplest and thus most likely potential source of the form of energy capable of accomplishing that feat: fissionless fusion energy, released from multiple very-low-yield thermonuclear devices.

THE WRINGER: Pete Bianco Interviews David Kennedy

Pete Bianco, our good friend (and my colleague at WHCL) has begun uploading some of his excellent interviews to a-infos radio including this recent program with anti-Fluoridation activist David Kennedy. Listen live to The Wringer from 8-10 AM Wednesdays on WHCL 88.7 FM, Clinton, NY, with streaming HERE.

WE NEVER GET TIRED OF WTC 7

Was the collapse of Building Seven a blunder or a distraction? Whatever the case, it doesn't hurt to remember that this couldn't possibly have happened except by controlled demolition.

And here's some hard science, as opposed to what NIST has been offering up lately:

(Thanks to Lynne!)

PUTTING DIANE REHM ON AN ICE FLOE

Aside from the fact that John Zogby is from my hometown, I consider that John's new book The Way We'll Be is one of the best non-fiction books I've read in years. John Zogby goes way beyond the current election, and offers a truly hopeful message about the resiliency and resourcefulness of Americans, reaffirming our independence of thought and our basic common sense and common decency. From a purely social standpoint, there is no Apocalypse waiting in the wings here. There may be a crisis or two ahead, but we'll make it.

So I really looked forward to John's appearance on The Diane Rehm Show today (as part of his book tour). John was scheduled for the second hour, which is usually the province of "features"--i.e., lots of books about diseases. A discussion with John Zogby about the positive conclusions reached in The Way We'll Be would have been a relief from all the usual cancer talk. Of course, the Rehm people had other ideas. Not satisfied with a positive show that would have actually made people feel better, they had to turn it into an ambush. They brought in a "con" guest (David Moore, who has a book of his own "debunking" polls) and there was absolutely no discussion of John's book. Nor was there much discussion of anything but the current election, and how polling relates to elections, specifically. (John handled this discussion in stride, naturally.)

My only conclusion is that the types at The Diane Rehm Show want to keep the discussion narrow and divisive--and depressing. Hence the parade of the walking wounded Diane Rehm interviews on a daily basis. There is no joy or hope offered either in so-called Public Radio or in the partisan ranting that dominates commercial radio. It's all about keeping people edgy, if not downright angry. In fact, there are very few decent talk hosts I can think of working today, particularly my friends Pete Bianco, a colleague at WHCL-FM, and Vyzygoth. Pete lets his guests speak, and does not attempt to railroad the discussion, a la Rehm. Vyz is without peer in the realm of internet radio.

The shame is, John Zogby wrote a genuinely good, valuable, and upbeat book in The Way We'll Be--and was not permitted to discuss it on national radio. I'd be willing to sign a petition to have Diane Rehm put on an ice floe, though chances are she'd be replaced by someone just as bad (or worse).

And we should send Rush Limbaugh a nice cerebral hemorrhage, just for balance.

"Good 'n' Plenty--A Holocaust of Flavor?" Not quite.

UPDATE (9/24/2008): The ad copy reads, "Realize Your Sweet Dreams. Collect Elite Packages and Fly To America." Just who is doing the dreaming here? (Thanks again to Vyz.)

UPDATE (9/22/2008): This Israeli magazine ad for Elite Candy Bars actually falls into the category of "predictive programming" (or at the very least "unsettling coincidence") since it appeared between 1997 and 2000. (Thanks to Vyz for this image--and for the update.)

UTICANS ON VYZYGOTH!

This past Wednesday Herb Smith and I spent nearly two hours talking with Vyzygoth. This interview is now available for listening or download HERE.

AW, SHUCKS

It never would have occurred to either Herb or me to say this about ourselves, let alone emblazon it on a bumper sticker--but we're grateful for and moved by this tribute from Jeff and Lynne of DC 9/11 Truth.

UTICANS ON WHCL TOMORROW AT 10 AM!!

UPDATE: This interview is now available for download HERE.

Herb Smith and I are honored to be guests of Pete Bianco (host of Ja Da Qua) Wednesday, August 20, at 10 AM on WHCL-FM 88.7 in Clinton, NY. Pete's unique and excellent public affairs program begins at about 9 AM, with streaming at this link. Those wishing to add to the discussion may call in to the program at (315) 859-4200.

I'll be uploading the interview to a-infos radio shortly after the broadcast.

AN OLDIE BUT A GOODIE: "THE COUP"

"The Coup's" 2001's pre-911 "Party Music" album Cover.
The original album cover art depicted group members Pam the Funkstress and Riley standing in front of the twin towers of the World Trade Center as they are destroyed by huge explosions; Riley is pushing the button on a guitar tuner. The album's planned release date was just after the events of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the cover art was withdrawn hastily. The cover art was finished in June 2001; there was no connection between the band and the attacks. The album release was held back as alternative cover art was prepared. (Wiki, The Coup) (Thanks to Jeff of DC 9/11 Truth)

TRIVIA QUESTION: IN "THE MATRIX" (1999), WHEN DID NEO'S PASSPORT EXPIRE?

One guess.

MARY HARRIS JONES TURNS IN HER GRAVE

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MORE PREDICTIVE PROGRAMMING?

Herb found this startling image here.

"IS THERE LIFE BEYOND THE BOOM?"

While cleaning out the upstairs office, my wife found this New York magazine from March 12, 2001. Predictive programming, or just a ghastly coincidence?


8/11/2008 UPDATE: Last night, I felt like attempting the Guardian crossword in this magazine, and discovered another very odd coincidence. Why all the "elevens?"

KENTROVERSY IS DEAD

We have just learned that Kent Daniel Bentkowski (aka "Kentroversy") died on July 30. Our deepest sympathies go out to his friends and family. He suffered various illnesses (all complications of Hemophilia and its treatment) but maintained his researches and his activism as long as he could. God grant him peace.

Kent's podcasts are available for download HERE.

PARIS RAISES THE BAR IN THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

And still has time to work on her tan. Amazing.

FLIGHT 93: CELL PHONE CALL EXPOSED

Here's something to chew on. (Thanks to Vyz.)

NO MORE ANONYMOUS COMMENTS

I changed the settings so that anyone wishing to tell us we're going to Hell has to take responsibility for such assertions. I'm not deleting any previous such comments (nor my own tart responses) but from today forward the rules change.

A few more things that should be stated:

1. Just because we post a link, an essay, or a video doesn't mean we endorse it or endorse the philosophy/agenda/religion/psychosis of the originator. There are many things worth taking a look at, posted here on the assumption that you'll make up your own mind as to their validity.

2. Corollary to #1: Just because we like someone doesn't mean we share their views on every issue. In fact, we're always questioning our own assumptions and observations, because that's part of the whole "truth" deal.

3. What we actually believe about anything is none of anyone's Goddamned business. (Not that you asked.)

4. Not everything is a conspiracy, and not everyone is a plant. Take a few deep breaths. Try a walk around the block. There, isn't that better?

JUST CHECKING IN; HEGELIAN HOO-HAH

I haven't even looked at this site since I last posted. Today I deleted all the interminable strings of carping and sniping emails involving planes vs. no planes, Rick vs. Sophia, jew stuff, etc. It felt good. If someone writes me personally, I can take it, but I don't want to be ringside at any more digital middle-school food-fights. I've blocked the worst offenders. Senders with whom I've established a personal correspondence are exempted from this interdict.

I sent the letter below to the O-D a couple of weeks ago--and re-sent it, but the brain-constipated editor refuses even to acknowledge it. To hell with the Observer-Dispatch. Why read newspapers, watch television, and listen to radio when you can achieve a much pleasanter state of unreality by drinking beer and listening to good music? You can live in your own denial and I'll live in mine.

I couldn't help but listen to the battle royal between Profs Fetzer and Barrett available for download from this page. There are no heroes here. Fetz was supposed to stifle the talk of TV Fakery and allied topics while Kevin Barrett was running for Congress, so as not to taint the latter's campaign. But Fetz, being Fetz, couldn't contain his enthusiasm for this new 9/11 tinkertoy. Harsh words ensued. Toward the end of this program, Morgan Reynolds quotes Ayn Rand: "There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil." But what about when one side is marked by intellectual bullying and posturing, and the other is compromised by a personal political agenda? Somewhere, Hegel is smiling.

The TV Fakery faction may have a point, in that everything on TV is certainly fake, but their no-planes-at-the-WTC fundamentalism wearies me. (All fundamentalism wearies me, actually.) Supposing you have a credible witness who actually saw an aircraft of some type strike the second tower (or what seemed to be an aircraft--in other words, a technologically advanced hologram), this somewhat damages the position that TV Fakery equals no planes. I know of such a witness, and I am for the moment willing to accept his testimony at face value. Going way out on a limb here, if a hologram were that good, wouldn't it appear on television? Even assuming all the major TV networks were on board with this pageant of destruction, if what appeared to be a plane hitting the second tower were visible to those on the scene, this obviates the need for TV fakery, if not the actual no-plane argument.

All we can be certain of is that the people who planned this event had the technology to get just the sort of effect they wanted, including the creation of a 9/11 Truth Movement that continually discredits itself with infighting, nefarious outside agendas, and brain-constipated fundamentalism. It winds up as a tangled mess of crap that would give anyone but Rain Man a headache.

HIATUS

I'm taking a break from this site for a while. I don't retract or repudiate anything I've said here, but I'm tired of all the political/personal/religious crap, and I'm absolutely out of patience. I need to recharge my batteries and replenish my electrolytes.

I've been getting a ton of emails, mostly on two subjects: (1) Jew bashing and (2) TV Fakery. The Jew stuff is the same crap that's been going around for decades, and it makes me yawn. I don't even look at it. I have more sympathy for the TV Fakery crowd, since everything on TV is fake. The only things I really like to watch on TV are old Betty Boop cartoons and the occasional 1930s comedy. (I highly recommend "International House" and "Million Dollar Legs.") And now certain religious types are telling me I'm going to Hell. Whatever. I'm just weary as Hell.

Research into the events of Sept. 11, 2001 has always been Herb's passion more than mine, and he needs to write and post more. I feel I've written enough, for the time being.

Starrbooty's Revenge [911 Emergency Mix]: The Plot Thickens

Starrbooty's Revenge [911 Emergency MIX]

OUR NEXT LETTER TO THE O-D

The following is a true collaborative effort between Herb Smith and me. It will bear my signature for the Utica Observer-Dispatch, and be co-signed for other publications:

Ya gotta love semantics. Rush Limbaugh is being paid $50 million a year through 2016 mainly for services rendered in making "liberal" the dirtiest word in the English language. Democrats in Congress are so fearful of the epithet that they've taken on the protective coloration of Republicans. Only those specially trained can tell them apart.

Likewise, when one suggests that the buildings at the World Trade Center were brought down by controlled demolition, he is immediately labeled a "conspiracy theorist," a term meant to evoke tinfoil hats and lapses in medication. By the same token, you might as well call Isaac Newton a "gravity theorist."

The controlled demolition hypothesis is a scientific argument which states that the use of pre-positioned explosives is the only possible explanation for the manner in which the buildings fell and for the amount of energy released in their destruction. There's no "theory" here about the identities of any possible "conspirators."

In scientific terms, the argument for pre-positioned explosives is perfectly rational. The collapses exhibited features seen exclusively in controlled demolitions. No additional theories are required to explain the relevant evidence.

Actually, it is the official explanation of a fire-induced gravitational collapse which violates known laws of physics. Whether one adheres to it depends on how much stock one is willing to invest in the wild-eyed rantings of Mr. Newton and the hallucinations of that other nutjob, Galileo.

WE APOLOGIZE

After over a year of inactivity, I've lately received some requests for free DVDs of "Loose Change: Second Edition" offered back in April 2006. The DVD file is no longer on my computer from which to make duplicates, and therefore I am no longer able to honor this offer. I deeply apologize for any inconvenience.

KNOLLAPALOOZA!!

On Saturday, July 5, Vyzygoth will host a 12-hour continuous live internet broadcast conference, Knollapalooza. Unlike other such conventions, you can dress as you like (or not at all), avoid high concession prices, and recline with a beer in front of your own air-conditioner as you attend the various symposia. Streaming this all-day event is only ten dollars; phone calls and emails from subscribers are most welcome. And, if you are having internet problems and miss programming as a result, an mp3 CD of the full event will be provided to you free of charge.

And Herb and I will be on the guest roster. What more could you ask?

(If you really, really need a T-shirt, Vyz might be able to come up with something.)

THINKING ABOUT 9-11, THE TRUTH, AND THE OFFICIAL MOVEMENT by CATHY GARGER

This essay says it all, and says it without reservation. (Just so you know, we don't need no stinkin' T-shirts.) Our only (minor) caveat would be that she links here to Dr. Wood, about whom we have mixed feelings. There are no mixed feelings about the message of this piece--it is spot on. (Thanks to Baz.)


Thinking About 9-11, the Truth, and the Official Movement
By Cathy Garger
Jun 26, 2008, 12:31

At the Radford Conference last month, despite the fact I was there to speak on radioactive weapons (Depleted Uranium) and moderate a War Crimes/Indictment Panel, I was followed around by Official 9-11 Truth men-on-a-mission. These creepy individuals, wearing standard-issue-black 9-11 Truth T-shirts as identifying “uniforms,” followed me, sat next to me, and made me gag during mealtimes.

Apparently, I was part of the weekend “agenda” for these dedicated defenders of Empire.

In this group I shall include one certain over-confident writer seated next to me one night at dinner. The author was incredulous I had not read his novel, roughly based on Official 9-11 Truth Movement doctrine. It appears I managed to say something to piss off the writer sufficiently - enough to cause him to leave the table before dessert! I suspect his departure - without as much as a “good bye”- had something to do with my sharing that I’d studied 9-11 for years, had heard of his book, but expressed no intention of reading it.

He also appeared incredulous I had the audacity to suggest the Twin Towers were, in all likelihood, not felled by the same method as was building 7. But mostly, I suspect the author was disturbed I did not swoon sufficiently in his direction – in what clearly was an over-inflated self image as a celebrated Official 9-11 movement “celebrity.”

Like I said, his book is a novel – i.e., pure fiction. And with the world falling down around us, tell me who has the time – or stomach - for such nonsense? Actually, when you rip off the outer core or “shell” of the issue, it’s all but a “game” being played on Americans - whereby outright lies about what happened on September 11 are being pawned off as Official “Truth.”

The other 9-11 black-shirt dudes knew who I was – but apparently had no idea I was “on to” them. I sat expressionless and even nodded politely throughout their lectures, not arguing too strenuously when expressing viewpoints that did not exactly “jive” with their Official 911-Truth Gospel.

I’ve got to admit, it was rather exciting to watch obvious agents of the Empire sweat. (Okay, we all get our kicks in different ways, I guess!) But I deemed it only fair, after all, that during their weekend spent “working” the likes of me, they should, by all rights, be kept busy “earning their keep”. After all, my tax dollars were clearly hard at work! Thus, I was eager to listen with fascinated bemusement to their multitude of canned and memorized “talking points” – as all good 9-11 Movement leaders do - regurgitating upon non-suspecting poor souls facts learned, no doubt, back in 9-11 Official Truth Training School.

I’m not sure where 9-11 Official Truth Training is held (some say Spook Central is located in Miami). But one thing’s for dang certain, the program is well-run and turns out personable, articulate, semi-intelligent robots capable of running their mouths like a broken record, operating a DVD player, directing groups to hold signs and hand out fliers on city street corners, and all the other myriad logistical details required to run a 9-11 Official Truth Movement operation in a major city. And to their credit, these individuals apparently study quite hard, as they are all quite adept at spitting back the latest currently featured stories - including slick propaganda weaved into professional quality videos on the 9-11 Official Truth website.

During the lectures that May weekend, I heard the usual stuff these “movement” leaders lamely offer, such as stock “put options,” and the tired story of a Maintenance hero named William R. who reportedly found bombs (i.e., explosives) in stairwells. I was also subject to listening (for the ten thousandth time) about hijackers taking flight lessons in Florida and Silverstein admitting to “pulling” WTC7, via controlled demolition.

Now and then I would playfully insert a comment to increase their heart rate and provoke their visible excitement (yeah, I told you I get off on this stuff!) … while I was seriously cautioned to never verbalize out loud the lack of any substantial proof or credible evidence (the kind that can’t be doctored or fudged) that commercial passenger jet planes ever actually hit the towers. Nor should we ever, I was sternly admonished, discuss missiles nor Directed Energy Weapons such as the Airborne Laser - even if we do find these topics interesting - because then, as the Official 9-11 catechism teaching goes, that would scare people off, make them think we are lunatics, and “discredit the movement” for all those still new to exploring the so-called “Truth.”

God help me, I swear I heard the word “movement” with regard to 9-11 more times that weekend than I heard the words “war” and “peace” out of the mouths of graying, former hippies who flew out from San Francisco to attend the Virginia conference. These “brown shirts” (okay, their 9-11 shirts were black, but you get the point) did not appreciate my simple question, one I asked many times, namely, “Uh….What about the actual Truth?” I was told repeatedly that people cannot handle the truth, so we should, therefore, stick only to whatever safe, easy to understand facts could potentially “help the movement,” being sure not to take any risks by discussing things people might find difficult to believe, understand, or digest.

Ah, I see … 9-11 Pablum for the masses was their deal! Let’s not give Americans the actual Truth, but rather be all-concerned with presenting only a few easy-to-swallow tidbits so we don’t have to stretch their incompetent minds to deal with science … science, that is, that might very well lead to a wee bit too much Truth for those in power to be able to handle! Yes, at the Radford Conference of the World Prout Assembly this May, 2008, the mission of the national guarders-of-Truth was absolutely confirmed!

I kept wondering precisely what “movement” there is if we are not encouraged to get to the bottom of things and research the science for ourselves to figure out what happened. I mean, do these guys not realize how doggone obvious they are, forcing upon people only certain pre-established issues and pre-determined conclusions, deemed to be safe for the “movement?” Did they not comprehend that the very fact they are so adamant that we all stick so narrowly to their pre-fabricated agenda, with absolutely zero tolerance for inquisitive pondering, is a blatantly obvious indication to anyone with even half a brain that these men in black had been specifically trained and “tasked” with a specific mission?

I tried to keep a straight face as I was also informed (as if religious dogma) that we should only listen to the work of one particular scientist. Strategically positioned as the quiet, religious, “choir boy” expert as close to god as the world will ever find, this federally-trained scientist has been widely heralded in 9-11 Official Truth Movement circles as the solitary guru who possesses the *only* scientific theory worth considering.

No matter that the scientist in question worked for a major national DOE weapons laboratory in the field of advanced energy projects research. Followers of Official 9-11 Truth doctrine are not concerned with such petty details like the curious past of their movement’s savior and the other conspicuously religious, “patriot” military dude who used to command the laser weapons programs used by the US military in our skies above.

Very interesting “Truth” indeed! When discussing how the towers were obliterated into tons of fine, powdery dust before our very eyes, there is no room, no tolerance for discussion. Try to make a point for anything other than “Super Thermate” and one can absolutely count on being slammed without opportunity for comment in a Ground Zero minute!

No matter the US military is the only entity capable of using high energy weapons technology to obliterate 110-story skyscrapers into mere dust! With the Official 9-11 Movement, it’s always case closed, no room for any alternative theory that might put a one-of-a-kind identifying fingerprint uniquely, squarely on the supremely powerful red, white, and blue… and its private military force that does not even answer to the Pentagon.

The mission of the controlled Official 9-11 Truth Movement is both blatantly obvious and absolutely understandable. One can certainly see the perpetrators’ unquestionably critical need to direct away from such, um, inconvenient little details. It’s quite elementary, actually, when we comprehend the necessity of sticking to any story that prevents the dirty deeds from being able to be attributed to the only perps capable of possessing a certain particularly distinguishable technology.

For truly all hell would break loose if Ma and Pa in the heartland were to realize that “terr’ist” hijackers could not possibly have flown commercial passenger airliners into the Twin Towers nor planted explosives high up in the towers – even though our Fearless Leader did tell the world this is precisely what happened.

I sat and listened more than once that weekend in Virginia to the Official 9-11 canned spiel, allowing these defenders of Empire to think they were actually winning me, a critical thinker and seasoned Associate Member of Scholars for 9-11 Truth, over into 9-11 Official Truth Movement Group-Think. I was able to look them straight in the eye and catch every word of their well-researched speeches, all the while asking myself if agents paid to lead 9-11 Official Truth Groups in major cities ‘round the world were, in reality, not even a mite bit smarter than little ol’ me?

Apparently not.

Listen up guys, if you’re reading (and I’m quite certain you are). I’ve been studying 9-11 for years before you even went to spook school. Don’t waste any more time on me, as I gave up your god and Official Group-Think doctrine years back. I have done my homework, I know who you answer to, and I am well aware of your mission. Been there, heard that so many times before. So next time fellas, please go find some other sucka to goon upon!

And to the rest of you good-hearted, smart folks? I suggest you join me in questioning the existence of a national, highly structured, organized group with a central home base, slick websites, professional videos of the caliber only highly trained propaganda experts could produce, and enough funding to pay an extremely highly skilled staff.

I invite you to think long and hard about this zealous group, with decisions handed down for them on high from “Headquarters” (their term, not mine) with regard to what to tell the masses and how to spin it all together quite neatly into a tight little package – efficiently melding Official 9-11 “Truth” followers into the “peace and justice” and impeachment movements.

When the former head of the Star Wars Weapons program (think Directed Energy Weapons) tells us, “It is time for everyone in the peace and justice movement to set aside our differences and work together as a single united force”, this is the cue for all of us who possess functioning brains to look long and hard at the motives and tactics being used to corral well-meaning progressives into one easy-to-lead “movement” with controlled actions and feel-good events orchestrated and backed by none other than the very perps themselves.

For discerning minds that actually appreciate independent thinking and actions, below are two good resources which make us think outside the 9-11 Official Truth Movement box. These articles discuss what Disinformation is – and how it is used regularly in brilliant psy ops efforts, the likes of which most Americans do not even realize exist.

Isn’t it time we started thinking for ourselves? For whatever is being pushed on us by a massive, nationally run and highly organized, controlled effort with a consistent message—and the means to broadcast it into major cities all throughout the world—must be carefully examined. What they are pushing—en masse—must be investigated, even if no reason other than it is quite conspicuously, pervasively, and persuasively being shoved down the international community’s throats for massive, mindless consumption.

The Official 9/11 Truth Movement is a “movement” alright. But if we are truly in search of real, honest-to-goodness Truth—as in what actually, really happened—then we are all going to need to quickly develop inquisitive, questioning minds of our own in order to come up with some legitimate answers.

In other words, we have been given brains and it is imperative we each now begin to think long and hard about these things – all by ourselves. We need to be extremely wary of large, controlled-from-the-top organizations that tell us what to think, do, and say in order to truly restore “peace and justice” to our nation and find ways to remove and “bring to justice” the multitude of sociopaths running the show.

If you are a free and independent thinker, you’ll be interested in reading about Disinformation – a collection designed to teach us such strategies that are employed upon us, the general public, in clever psychological campaigns designed to obscure the truth and carefully direct (or rather, mis-direct) our attentions and efforts.

Another must-read piece for those who enjoy thinking these things all the way through is Alternate Propaganda Conspiracy Theory used by government plants and the media.

My rule of thumb, when reading theories of scientific research, is to ask myself what is everyone in the leadership of Official 9/11 Truth “movement” saying? For it is only after I determine what they want me to think can I then go out and explore all other possible alternative theories. For whatever they want us *most* to believe is the very place we must begin to conduct our own search for other answers.

Those who perpetrated 9-11 have the bucks, the paid personnel, and the driving motive to make absolutely certain the vast majority of Americans never get too close to what actually happened on that horrid September day. And thus, the criminals responsible for the heinous crimes have manufactured an entire “movement” they are now merging with other movements to create a fail proof method of ensuring they are never exposed nor tried in a court of law for perpetrating the attacks, the very justification they created to enable the US to wage wars everlasting upon the rest of the resources-rich world.

As I recall, hippies used to advise us, back in the 60’s and early 70’s, to “Question Authority.” Now, a few decades later and far more “hip” to the masterfully clever methods used by the Empire to control the thinking and actions of Americans around the subject of 9-11, our motto should be, “Question large, organized groups that orchestrate national action campaigns around a pre-set, controlled agenda while discouraging people from thinking for themselves.”

It is imperative we research for ourselves what happened on 9-11. If we are then convinced we have not been told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but, we must begin to take legal action, as several courageous, private citizens have already done.

We do not need an international organization to tell us their version of what went down at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. What we do need, however, are bright and confident individuals who know the truth is out there – and who realize they have minds capable of figuring out these things for themselves.

What we also need are people who can work independently to find ways to expose controlled opposition groups infinitely more concerned with showing videos and carrying signs than they are in pursuing legal recourse to bring all of the criminals to justice for a multitude of high level crimes, including the committing of war crimes, crimes against humanity, environmental crimes, violations of basic human rights, genocide, and treason.

And that’s just for starters.

In the beginning of our search for “Truth,” the Official 9-11 Truth “Movement” captures the attention, interest, and dedication of so many of us looking for answers. Once we realize their agenda and purpose for their existence, however, it is incumbent upon us to keep looking in new – and perhaps opposite - directions.

While not one to push any particular theory on anyone because it is never one’s place to tell others what to believe, I invite all of you to open your eyes open a bit wider – as I have done – and realize that all that is pushed hard down our throats as the undeniable “Truth” is, quite often, anything but.


Cathy Garger is a regular guest contributor to Axis of Logic. She is a freelance writer, public speaker, activist, and a certified personal coach who specializes in Uranium weapons. Living in the shadow of the national District of Crime, Cathy is constantly nauseated by the stench emanating from the nation's capital during the Washington, DC, federal work week. Cathy may be contacted at savorsuccesslady3@yahoo.com

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Video Mash-Up: The 9/11 Untruth Movement [Scary Mix]

The latest video from Nico Haupt. It's creative stuff, with reference to all the usual suspects running "the Movement": BBC/MI5, Bechtel, CIA, Club of Rome, CNN/TIME Warner, Ford Foundation, FOX, General Dynamics, Adnan Kashoggi/John Grey, LAPD, LaRouche, Los Alamos, MSNBC/General Electric, NSA/SAIC, PBS, Scientology, Jonathan + George Soros, Tavistock Institute, Unity Church, Urantia. Throw in a dash of "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and "Mary Poppins" for good measure.

And even David Ray Griffin is playing footsie with the Ford Foundation. Is no one above reproach? (We think we are, but then we don't get out of the house much.)

FAREWELL, GEORGE CARLIN

I saw George Carlin at the Stanley Theater in Utica twice. George got it--and we can ill afford to spare anyone who gets it. His misanthropy in this video is bracing and salubrious. (It contains the "it's a big club--and you're not in it" riff.) The language is pure Carlin, so view at your own discretion.

SO, SHOOT ME!

(And put us both out of my misery.)

THINKIN' TO THE OLDIES: 911'S A LIE

God, this takes me back--too far back! See the lyrics HERE. (Thanks to Ang!)

WHY NOT JUST STICK YOUR HEAD IN THE MICROWAVE?

Need dumbing down? If aspartame won't do it, the cell phone must. (Thanks to Bob.)

UPDATE: Here's a future citizen of the Republic, gently microwaving his noodle.