THE ANTITHESIS OF FEAR--THE ESSENCE OF JOY

Cubby Bear in "Croon Crazy" (1933). I love it!

TARPLEY PUTS THE "BUNK" IN KENNEBUNKPORT

I'm sick of being told to hide under the bed by The Boy Who Cried Wolfowitz. Webster Tarpley wrote a great book about 9/11, but his continued tactics to hold us in a state of nattering dread have reached a new low in this "Kennebunkport Warning" business.

I guess the new ploy is to get celebrities to sign a piece of paper, photoshop their signatures onto your screed of choice, and call them "liars" and "wretched individuals" if they say they didn't endorse the hot document. This makes 9/11 Truth look real good, guys.

We need to keep the 9/11 Truth stuff to the laws of physics and the such like, and stop pulling this Nostradamus crap. "Chicken Little" Tarpley has been predicting a "false-flag terror event" for ages now--which is one of the reasons I stopped listening to his show. I can't live in perpetual crisis mode.

Fuck being afraid. Life is too short, and there's too much good music out there.

UTICANS TOUR DE FORCE ON VYZYGOTH!

Herb and I recorded a two-hour program for Vyzygoth's "From the Grassy Knoll" that is now available for download HERE. In it we deconstruct "Zeitgeist," debunk the History Channel 911 hit-piece, and demolish Professional (anti) Skeptic Michael Shirmer.

WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH "ZEITGEIST?"

Whatever nuggets of truth one may happen to extract from this semi-literate, ill-researched production should be checked thoroughly. It is about the sloppiest job of filmmaking I have ever seen.

The filmmaker confuses "adorn" with "adore," calls William Jennings Bryan "William Jennings," and incorporates the whole Jesus/Horus parallel from the totally-discredited writings of Gerald Massey, who seems to have created such analogies in order to "liberate the mind from the dwarfing and blighting effect of pagan and Christian mythology."

Though it occasionally says some good things (and quotes Bill Hicks), "Zeitgeist" is a stinker.

The History Channel is Bunk

After fortifying my nerves with a few Saranac Pilseners, I went upstairs with my DVD-R of the History Channel 911 piece to watch it on the jumbotron in our bedroom. Despite my chemically-induced serenity, I started shouting at the screen within minutes, especially since they brought out that faggoty weasel Shirmer as an "expert," along with Hearst gayboys Miegs and his high-cheekboned protege. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) Miegs couldn't build a crystal radio. And if Shirmer is a skeptic, I'm David Hume.

Perhaps because I watch so little television, my sensitivity was heightened to tbe semantic devices used in the Crockumentary. Anyone "they" said was an "expert" was, by definition, an "expert." And anyone with an alternate theory of events, was, by definition, NOT an expert and therefore a "Conspiracist." Call me anti-Semantic (but smile when you say that) I thought that their cheap verbal tricks (the "experts" "debunked" the "Conspiracists"--entirely because THEY SAID SO, case closed) heightened the aroma of this magnificent steaming turd.

And all the "experts" felt sorry for the "Conspiracists" because of their pathetic need to believe this stuff. Horseshit! I'd LOVE to believe that our Government was on the level, and that it had our best interest at heart. The more I look at this crap, the LESS I believe. Every day I have more questions and fewer answers. I'm not a Christian, I'm not a Patriot, and I'm an American only because my parents fucked here. The only thing I believe in right now is Louis Armstrong. And my allegiances are not to some amorphous "movement" but to my wife and friends and the plot of ground I live on in Utica, NY.

The History-is-Bunk Channel LIED about Bldg 7--it was built like a brick shithouse (steel reinforced). And showing the LC boys dithering and backpedalling on their new edition of the movie was pathetic. Between Dylan Avery's Prince Hamlet tapdancing and Alex Jones' steamroller certainty, as well as all the other sideshow freaks they put up for us to gawk at, there were more straw men here than in a Ray Bolger look-alike contest.

So anyone who doubts History Channel certainty is pathetic? Fuck it. Pass me that Saranac Pilsener, and turn up the Satch while you're at it.

MARK BODE AND VAUGHN BODE ON YOUTUBE

This has nothing to do with 9/11, thank God. Just my friend Mark Bode talking about his art and his father Vaughn, and a rare video of Vaughn Bode from 1974. Enjoy!




And here's a "Cheech Wizard" animation that Mark did the voices and played the accordion for:

9/11 MANTRA -- by Bazra from Oz

The Last 911 Podcast You'll Ever Need

A lot of people won't like this, but it's all stuff I've been thinking about, and I felt it was time to say it.

The Subversive Lecture of the Tinfoil Hat Lady

Salubrious levity and satire from Beata Van Berkom.



Beata's interview with Vyzygoth may be downloaded HERE.

Beata talks about the Tinfoil Hat Lady here:

THIS IS AN ORANGE

It's NOT Called "The Bill of Privileges"

This is why we're in trouble. The former Unitarian minister in these parts spouted this hooey in response to a letter (that appeared in another publication) in the Utica area. No wonder we're on a slippery slope to totalitarian Hell:

Responsible language will safeguard free speech

Free speech in our country or any country is a privilege to be cherished.

It is best protected for the present and future when our politicians' rhetoric is truthful and not partisan, our courts speak justice and not favoritism, our news reporting is accurate and not biased, our pulpits are healing and not divisive, our conversations are factual and not slanderous, our advertising is honest and not misleading, our entertainment language is wholesome and not vulgar.

It is a wise people that nurture responsible use of their language.

It ensures that freedom of speech will continue in all segments of society as a noble quality that those before graciously bestowed upon us through their devotion and sacrifice, including for some, their very lives.

TIMOTHY HUME BEHRENDT
Cold Brook

And why is it always parroted that some poor fish who got his legs shot off in Iraq (or elsewhere) is someone we should "thank" for our free speech? Saddam Hussein, Ho Chi Minh, Hitler, or the Kaiser were never any threat to our freedom of expression. The only people I've ever seen try to take it away from us have been AMERICANS. The people who have been injured or killed fighting the bankers' wars deserve our most profound sympathy and gratitude, but free speech is an inalienable right. It's a given. No one can abrogate it unless we give them leave to do so.

For my further reflections on the First Amendment, read below for my response to the same letter as Timmy answered (to be printed this week in The Life & Times of Utica):

I respectfully disagree with Mr. Joseph J. Jacob, who asserts that the First Amendment needs to be tailored to "permit restrictions in the interest of morals and the protection of the reputation[s] and rights of others." It would be a grave error to tamper with what which has so long protected our public discourse from being dictated by civil authority. It is especially perilous to do so based on current fashions in Political Correctness--or on what offends you or me personally.

We need to consider that the history of this nation, when not viewed through the filmy gauze of nostalgia, is replete with bad morals, bad manners, insults, name-calling, ethnic slurs, and gleeful slander. People did not speak in mottoes. Public speech was highly rambunctious--and sensitivity to the feelings of others was seldom a consideration. Yet the Republic did not perish. Society regulated those who (in its view) crossed certain boundaries of common decency. An aggrieved party would show up at the Editor's Office with a horsewhip. There was also the quaint custon of tarring and feathering the malefactor, and riding him out of town on a rail. The Feds, what there were of them, looked the other way.

We are actually living in more polite times now than ever. A century ago, every piano bench and home phonograph was amply stocked with "coon songs," some written by African American composers. Ethnic humor was the norm, and clotted the vaudeville stages. Regarding some of these cultural artifacts fills us with a vague sense of guilt, as if we shouldn't even be polluting our enlightened minds with such images. The refined people of that day--our immediate ancestors--delighted in blackface turns and ethnic jokes, some of which were quite mean.

We are so sensitive now that we react to the mildest slur. The examples of offensive speech cited by Mr. Jacob are shocking anomalies, publicized and repeated endlessly. That they have been amplified in our minds through endless repetition should not make our Politically Correct knees twitch toward ruining the Bill of Rights. We are too quick to demand a law--or an Amendment--to remedy every problem in society. Flaws of character should not be subject to micromanagement by the Federal government. Someone who spouts vicious hate speech should be slapped in the face, ignored, laughed at, or socially ostracized, depending on the circumstance.

The measure that Mr. Jacob advocates to solve the problem of "vulgar" expression is likely to boomerang and curtail his (and everybody else's) free speech. When a law exists, it can be used by a functionary to wield petty authority to suit any agenda. When the authority is Federal, the word "Orwellian" comes to mind.

The primary unit of government is the individual--and we have to be self-disciplined enough to regulate our own speech and behavior. That certain public commentators lack the sense or sensitivity to avoid giving unnecessary offense is no reason to override our personal sovereignty with more oppressive laws. As a broadcaster, I never turn on the microphone without considering this quote of Oscar Wilde: "A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."

UTICANS ON VYZYGOTH THIS WEEK

Herb and I spent an hour with Vyz on the Grassy Knoll this week with levity and a few brickbats thrown for good measure. The show is up and running and may be downloaded HERE.

DAVE EMORY REDUX

God help me, I just had to have another go at this guy. Download the soundfile HERE.

JOE DEROSA ON VYZYGOTH!!!

UPDATE (6/25/07): Joe introduces his friend Ian Tabbott for another hour with Vyz on the Grassy Knoll. Ian discusses the state-of-the-art weaponry he encountered in his Army experiences. Download this amazing program HERE.

Our friend Joe DeRosa, author of THE REALIZATION, appears this week with Vyz on "The Grassy Knoll" to discuss the essay, the experiences and reflections that inspired it, and many other observations occasioned by nearly two decades in prison. This unprecedented interview is available for listening or download HERE.

Joe would enjoy receiving your correspondence (USPS only) at:

Joseph DeRosa 89-C-0182
3622 Wende Road, P.O.Box 1187
Alden, New York 14004-1187

See also our dedicated FREE JOE DEROSA blog.

WHAT HAVE WE HERE?

UPDATE (from Dave of 911 Blimp):

Thanks for making me aware of that. Neat video. Probably too neat, by about half? Not exactly positive proof...

I'm unaware of any reasonable hypothesis for why, if the 2nd WTC aerial impact was mere virtual-aircraft video fakery, was there also a flash-frame, just very much muted compared to the first. Why video-fake that (or the apparent partial exit of something)?

I don't rule out [some serious kind/level of] video fakery but, as with thermite, I do not believe that it can account for all the evidence, particularly the flash frames, nor some eyewitnesses who said they saw smaller-than-Boeing aircraft.

As always, we can chase our tails endlessly wondering what 9/11 was, long after we're able to prove that it was not what we were told.

That the video will cause some people to think is good. That it could then prove to be otherwise-explainable would be bad (though the script they were both reading from, in practical harmony, is not easily dismissed by those of us who've given up on being coincidence theorists). But since the dots have already been connected on the use of exotic weaponry at Ground Zero, I think it makes sense to be wary of hypotheses which help keep people from considering the use of exotic/secret weapons systems, the (possible multiple) use of which on 9/11 I am about as certain of as I can be. (For all the recent chatter about "directed energy weapons", AFAIC, IMHO, the best indication there is of their use on 9/11 is the flash frames.)

So I wonder about the fact that video fakery hypotheses tend to do for the anomalous-looking aspects of the WTC impact[s] what Barrie
Zwicker's lies do for Bush's repeated voluntary incriminating 9/11 witness statements -- get them disregarded.



My further reflections:

At this late date, I am loath to jump on any bandwagons. I'm sure Herb feels the same way. And my skin crawls when I look at some of the truly strange bedfellows given a shout-out at the end of that video. This video fakery crew, whatever the merits of their arguments, have that "either you're with us or against us" mentality that (in this case) makes for a pocket-sized mini-dialectic. And some, like Nico, take an infantile delight in playing with feces.

In the scheme of things, "video fakery" is moot. It might have been all part of the high-tech magic show, but it's not integral to the way the buildings were destroyed. It's a distraction, proving only that (surprise, surprise!) the Media are rotten. It's also true that many of the people saying the Media are rotten are themselves rotten.

There are additional comments forthcoming, and there are more comprehensive "video fakery" videos I may post soon. Watch this space.

SEPTEMBER CLUES

"TV fakery" videos that offer a seemingly more sober case (with my commentary to be added later):

SEPTEMBER CLUES part1

SEPTEMBER CLUES part2

Note how, at 2:22 from the end of Part 2, the "missile" seems to grow a tail and a right wing as it hits the building! Who's faking here?

SEPTEMBER CLUES part3

SEPTEMBER CLUES part4

SEPTEMBER CLUES part5

DAVE FROM 911 BLIMP ON VYZYGOTH!

Dave (who operates the 911 Blimp site) appeared on Vyzygoth's "From the Grassy Knoll" last week with a discussion of the physics of 9/11 and the plausibility of exotic means of bringing down the WTC buildings that we highly commend to your attention. No dogma, hyperbole, or jumping to conclusions here, but after hearing Dave the thermate-only hypothesis begins to smell like a limited hangout. Download the program HERE.

RUDY'S GOONS ARREST REPORTER

So, Rudy admits he has foreknowledge of the collapse of the WTC towers, and doesn't get word to the police and firefighters in the buildings--and when someone tries to call him on it, this happens:

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They're all scum. Every single damn politician is filthy dirty. Right, left, or what-have-you. And don't tell me Ron Paul is going to save us. He's already speaking out of both sides of his mouth with regard to the events of 9/11/01. (To be fair, any politician who doesn't have at least two faces is not equipped for the job.)

The only way to save America is to turn the power pyramid on its head and decentralize everything to the hilt. But that's not about to happen, of course.

It's a train wreck, people. Who brought the popcorn?

NICO HAUPT KICKED MY PUPPY

Or so it would appear. He'd better be able to substantiate these claims, or he's in for a world of pain and litigation.

Let's Kill Some More--That'll Learn 'Em

There must be something in the water in Arkansas.

Scroll way down to read what the head of the Republican Party in Ark. has to say about how to drum up support for Bush. Here's the quote:

He said he's "150 percent" behind Bush on the war in Iraq.

"At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001], and the naysayers will come around very quickly to appreciate not only the commitment for President Bush, but the sacrifice that has been made by men and women to protect this country," Milligan said.

Somewhere, Orwell is smiling.