The Noble Lie

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.

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.

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.

If George Carlin was one inspiration for this site, this man was the other.

I love this bit of Bill Hicks especially because it reminds me of the moment in my own life when I said, as in the clip, “Oh my GOD!!! It’s a totalitarian government which rules the world via the airwaves, partitioning information to the masses!!!” I consider it my First Awakening.

The bit about Jesus is unforgettable, too. “Get Pilate to release the fuckin’ files! Quit washing your hands and release the files! Who else was on that Grassy Golgotha that day? Oh yeah, the three Roman peasants with the $100 sandals…”

Another good Parenti talk, in this one he gets into the incestuous relationship between church and state. He makes a great point about how the term “materialism” is abused by religious organizations.

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

This is a lecture given by a powerful member of an elite family to an elite university (UC Berkeley). Describes the ultimate dictatorship powers available to the ruling class today thanks to technology, psychology, and a physiological understanding of the human brain. Reveals that the majority of people are very suggestible via simple hypnosis techniques, and gives some examples. A fascinating glimpse into the world of the elite.

Remember “ultimate” means “last.” The technotronic revolution is meant to be the final revolution, after which revolution will no longer be possible because our brains will not be capable of forming such concepts as resistance or revolution.

Former Assistant Housing Secretary of HUD for George Bush Sr. speaks out about government drug running, enormous-scale financial fraud, S&L scandal, a HUD scandal, the “negative return on investment economy,” (AKA the tapeworm economy or disaster capitalism) and foreshadows today’s financial crisises.

Fitts is a very intelligent and economically-minded woman. Michael Ruppert of From the Wilderness credits this woman (who was a former investment fund manager before serving, and subsequently becoming a target of, the Bush I administration) as his mentor.

The lingo in here gets pretty thick, but plow through it and look up any terms that you don’t understand. It is definitely worth it. You will start to understand the way our economy really works. She is also one of the VERY few people who have offered (or tried to offer) economic solutions to the crippling economic problems that we face. The problem is, her solutions are more complicated than many people would bother to try to comprehend, and would require large-scale, decentralized cooperation among people.

She also spells out a warning for today’s time — a great-depression like bust is the optimistic scenario for the US. The more likely scenario is that Wall Street and the investment class will be protected by sucking all the assets out of the middle class (directly or indirectly through inflation), protecting the big institutions, and quelling dissent with an internal police state. This is called corporate feudalism, and it is the United Nations Agenda 21 sanctioned model for the future — where international corporations and NGOs replace the feudal lords and barons of the past. This is the scenario we’re watching with the bailouts of the big banks and investment funds, and the liquidation of real estate companies by these same banks.

Author and researcher Joan Mellen discusses her study into Jim Garrison, the District Attorney who tried to dig into the Kennedy assassination, and new information of Oswald.

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Michael Parenti is a respected progressive scholar. In this talk, he speaks out passionately against the Mafia-like thugs who run the national security apparatus of the United States and other nations, killing or conspiring against any who pose an obstacle to their agendas.

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