The Noble Lie

Polly gets credit for introducing me to this, too.

Before Art Bell and George Noory, before X-Files and "the truth is out there," there was Long John Nebel. Nebel was a radio personality from the 1950s, known as the "father of para-talk radio," whose controversial late-night radio talk show dealt with topics such as UFOs, conspiracies, parapsychology, hypnosis and the paranormal. Long John Nebel married model Candy Jones, a woman who claims to have spent time as a MK-ULTRA mind-control slave. Her story is documented in Donald Bain's biography, "The [CIA] Control of Candy Jones."

Hank Hayes (who now podcasts) was a New York pirate radio operator with a penchant for hilarious prank calls. He would regularly call up Nebel and Jones to harass them on the air. Though the prank calls definitely get heated, I have a feeling Hayes had a soft spot for Jones and Nebel and it was loving mockery. His prank calls to dumbass Larry King were just brutal.

Enjoy, and ponder the Nine.

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One prediction I forgot to make: all of these imprecise chemical means of altering people's moods and behavior will be replaced with electronic means. Electrical stimulation can do just about everything drugs do, but better, more directly, and more reliably. Recently I have been thinking about the enormous potential for abuse this technology presents, and was listening to an Alan Watt blurb where he reads from an old Life Magazine series called "The Control of Life" and gives his critical analysis.

In his talk, Alan specifically mentions Jose Delgado and the work many scientists were doing to wire into the central nervous system via electrodes in either the brain or the spine. I've covered Jose Delgado and brain pacemakers in an earlier post. The same day I listened to this blurb, Mark Baard of Timenauts / Boston Globe found and shared this interesting news bit with his readers about a spinal pacemaker. I can't deny the potential usefulness of this technology, nor can I ignore the horrible potential for abuse. Are you a Clockwork Orange?

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• Alan Watt - Psychopathic Scientists and the Control Factor Pt 1 (December 1, 2006) [Transcript]
• Alan Watt - Psychopathic Scientists and the Control Factor Pt 2 (December 6, 2006) [Transcript]

There's a different aversion to electrical stimulation that some people have pointed to that I should mention, the notion that we will become addicted "stimulation junkies" that will happily sit there zapping our brain's pleasure center over and over while we starve and deprive ourselves of sleep. The term for those who indulge in this hypothetical pastime is "Wirehead." Watching how some of us play video games, maybe this is the thing I should be most afraid of.

UPDATE This New Scientist article states that brain chips will one day be able to overcome paralysis.

KHAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN

Yesterday marked the passing of a famous actor, Ricardo Montalban of Fantasy Island, whom Trekkies know and love as Khan. He is most well-known to me (besides being Khan) as being the peddler of Chrysler's phony marketing term, "Corinthian Leather."

It is probably for this reason that Negativland included his sample in their anti-commercial epic, Dispepsi. I'm afraid this is the closest thing I have to a tribute or a memorial to offer from my archives.

A Most Successful Formula

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"Hi, I'm me, and I'm using this to sell you this."
- Michael J Fox

The audio is originally from TUC Radio in San Francisco. Please listen to the outro for information on how to support them. Here is the blurb from TUC's site.

Ilan Pappe, a highly respected intellectual, teacher and historian, is very clear and outspoken. Born and raised in Israel, he is concerned that Israel will create disaster for itself and the Middle East unless it changes its current policies towards the Palestinians.

He is calling for a boycott of Israel and an end to the ethnically defined Jewish State. He asks for international help in ending the Apartheid system in Israel.

I thought I posted this a long time ago. It couldn't be more relevant considering current events. If you do not have a background on the events of Israel and Palestine's conflict, listen up.

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This show is from the Global Research News Hour on RBN (Republic Broadcasting Network) and includes Naomi Wolf and Howard Zinn. In a brief plug to RBN, it is the home of Steve Lendman and Michel Chossudovsky of GlobalResearch.ca, Alan Watt of cuttingthroughthematrix.com, John Stadtmiller, and many other alternative, liberty-loving voices.

Naomi Wolf is a well-known establishment liberal and feminist. In the last few years, she has very bravely stepped forward and spoken out on the fascism that she is seeing emerging in the American mind. I am not cutting on Naomi Wolf, and I salute her contribution to this struggle.

It is so wise to follow her up with Howard Zinn, author of People's History of the United States (an awakening book) and all-around great thinker. He provides the historical perspective that is so important. NOTHING that is happening now is new. NOTHING.

I apologize for the commercials... maybe one of these days I'll edit them out. I don't stress on this site that i have a day job (god help the world if I were to devote 24/7 to The Noble Lie and to, god forbid, REAL activism...) and that I keep myself very, very busy. Besides, RBN needs to get paid, and I guess at the moment that incldues hucking questionable products.

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"Competition is a sin."
- John D. Rockefeller

This is another wonderful talk on the Federal Reserve system, by a man considered by many to be the leading authority on the dark underbelly of the FED. I was particularly inspired by the end of his talk (the last 15 minutes or so). Notes forthcoming, so much of this is Déjà vu of what is happening now.

Thanks to everybody who commented, I will be getting back to all comments soon.

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When the Republicans failed to pass the first attempt at a Federal Reserve system, the Aldridge bill, the big banking institutions made the following changes to their strategy. Does any of this ring a bell?

1. They shuffled some of the terminology around and re-introduced it.
2. They found some Democrats to sponsor it, because the common man felt at the time that Republicans supported the big banks and Democrats supported the common man.
3. They came out and vehemently opposed the Democratic bill, saying it will destroy the banking industry, even though it was simply a re-worded version of the bill they had already tried (and failed) to pass.
4. They started many well-funded phony grass roots organizations to push for this bill, publishing and passing around propaganda material. They LOVE this technique, and we fall for it pretty easily.
5. They put big money into universities and founded economics departments to get professors and scholars to endorse this new system and spread it among the intellectual class, as well as train the next generation into their system.
6. They added some provisions which would temporary restrict the power of the Fed, only to yank the provisions once the system was up and running.

Some wonderful quotes, from near the end of his speech:

"Ideology means nothing to them. Socialism, communism, capitalism, fascism… What does it matter? Where's the money?"

"Not only has this transfer of wealth from America to the third world [to set up police states] not raised their standard of living, but it has helped to lower ours, and that too was part of the plan... A strong nation is not a candidate to surrender its sovereignty but a weak nation is. If American can be brought to her knees, if she can be hungry, if she can be filled with despair, if there can be riots in her streets, if she doesn't know where to turn, then she perhaps will willingly accept totalitarian measures from a UN peacekeeping force… or rescued with an international monetary unit that has purchasing power for a while."

"The name of the game is not wealth. It is power."

"We do need an informed electorate out there. It's not going to happen unless people know about these issues and education is our necessity. It sounds kind of boring. Wouldn't it be nice if we could just jump right into politics? But people aren't going to know what we are talking about unless people understand the issues. We need an educational army out there, and it's time to enlist."

In IMF documents, the privatization of essential resources naturally leads to what is called the "IMF Riot," which they count on, to bring on more repressive measures and also to collapse the market value of anything they have left, so the banks and private corps can gobble it up for pennies on the dollar. Loans are "forgiven" on the acceptance of "conditionalities," agreeing to cede total control of the government's infrastructure to international corporations. And, of course, we in this country end up paying the "forgiven" debt of the other countries who just lost what was left of their freedom.

Another good book to look into on this topic is John Perkins - Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

• Greg Palast on the "IMF Riot"

The Rockefeller family were major architects of the UN system, and the League of Nations before it. The Rockefellers are the family who donated the land on which the UN building sits, and were notorious for using their financial control over South American countries to get UN votes. International bankers would not set up a power system they could not hold onto, and they never voluntarily give away power.

Alan Watt live on RBN - Sept. 26, 2008

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-- "Quietly Unveiled by the U.S. Army, 90-Page Army Modernization Strategy, Which Foresees War on Burgeoning Youth, Demanding Rights Idealistically so Uncouth, A New Target Enemy of Operations, Soldiers Deployed Amidst Whole Populations, New Kinds of War, They Have Said So, True to Ordo Ab Chao, Hang on, Here We Go" -- Banking Crisis, Senator Goldwater, Trilateral Commission - Depressions, Looting - Psychopaths, Con Men, Sharks. UK DOD Think Tank, 90 Page Document - Television, Media, Marketing - U.S. Military, Continuous War, Ideology, Terrorism - Troops alongside Police - Enemy of the State, Expanding Populations. Total War - World War II, Bombing in Germany - Killing Fields - Sterilization for Poor - "Outbreeding their Betters" - Foundations, Real Government. Eugenics - Materialism - Emotive Topics to Debate - Abortions for Medical Reasons, Surviving Babies - Hospital Dramas, Alteration of Perceptions - Killing Children - "Just Too Many of Us". Degraded Society, Easy Targets - Euthanasia. Olympians - Symbols - British Lords - Treaty of Paris, Elite and Aristocracy - U.S.-Britain "Special Relationship". Use of Religion and Science - Public Disbelief, Managed Existence - Holographs, UFOs. (Articles: ["US generals planning for resource wars" by Tom Clonan (irishtimes.com) - Sept. 22, 2008.] ["The 2008 Army Modernization Strategy" (army.mil).] ["One baby in 30 left alive after medical termination" by Fiona Macrae (dailymail.co.uk) - April 20, 2007.] ["Metairie legislator proposes sterilization for poor women" Associated Press (wwltv.com).]) *Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Sept. 26, 2008 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

The audio is originally from TUC Radio in San Francisco. Please listen to the outro for information on how to support them. Here is the blurb from TUC's site.

Robert Fisk, foreign correspondent for the London Independent, received an exuberant welcome when he came to the Bay Area in December 2006. He spoke on civil war in Iraq and Lebanon and the ongoing denial of the genocide of one and a half million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks in 1915.

Even though he consistently criticizes the New York Times they described him as "probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain" He has over thirty years of experience in international reporting. His best-selling books, based on his field notes and recordings, offer strong criticisms of Middle Eastern governments as well as British and United States government foreign policy. He spoke on December 14, 2006, in Oakland, CA.

Relevant to today, Fisk briefly covers the assault of Lebanon by Israel in 2006.

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This talk is very fascinating. One of the most eminent voices in the scientific establishment expresses some of the strangeness in science, ideas like quantum physics, evolution, and atomism, which defy intuition.

What Dawkins doesn't mention, but definitely knows, is that some of these ideas were not discovered by modern science but are as old as ancient Greece. The notion that all solid matter is mostly empty space, made up of building blocks called atoms, came from the philosopher Democritus.

One day, I will line out the progression from the Royal Society (the science club of Dawkins, Darwin, and all of the big British establishment scientists) to the secret society they claim as their predecessors, the "Invisible College" of the Rosicrucians.

It's also interesting that Dawkins uses the metaphor "middle world" because both "Middle World" and "Middle Earth" are esoteric references to very old notions about our world - hanging by a thread between Heaven and Hell, between perfect Order and swirling Chaos, where Spirit and Matter collide.

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Links

• Democritus [Wikipedia]

This is FDR's first fireside chat. He gave this speech at a turning point in the American economy, as the banks had been run on and their fractional reserves could not meet the demand for cash as all faith in the banking system had collapsed.

Roosevelt presided over a time of massive centralization of wealth. He told a number of noble lies to the public to restore their faith in the banking system, as our money system runs on faith alone. In a similar time, during a similar crisis, the noble lies are being trotted out again. Some of this might be deja-vu.

Notice the clever use of words. FDR was a master orator. This is a banking holiday and holidays are good fun times, right? Notice too, he'll meet every need, except the hysterical demands of hoarders, which of course will be anybody who holds him to his claim. If not allowing the banks to loan out many times over and collect interest on your [their?] money is a hysterical demand, then call me a hoarder.

Remember too that this is the gentleman who confiscated America's gold and shipped it overseas.

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