The Noble Lie

Staring down the Russians - by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Here’s my contribution to the world of zany conspiracy theories. Did you notice how the Russia-Georgia war broke out right as gas prices were starting to drop? Cheaper gas is not something we’ve seen in a while, and probably won’t be seeing again anytime soon.

“Diane was right. The world is changing. Music is changing. Drugs are changing. Even men and women are changing. One thousand years from now, there’ll be no guys and no girls, just wankers. Sounds great to me.”
- Mark Renton, Trainspotting

Men on a slippery slide in future hermaphrodite world, according to Melbourne “bio-ethicist.” Remember that bio-ethicist is the new name for eugenicist.

Personally, I think it’s women who should be worried, though I’m sure statements like this will get some feminists on board. The boys clubs that rule the world and fund all this research aren’t too terribly fond of Eve/Pandora. If you haven’t noticed, they aren’t too fond of strong emotions or emotional outbursts either.

• What if China’s Orwellian Olympics Succeed?

To me, the best way to protest something is not to participate. I will not watch a second of the Olympic games. Truth be told, I wouldn’t anyway, because it doesn’t interest me in the slightest. I don’t plan to obsess over this China issue, but after yesterday’s write-up, I found a very good article on “security” in China. For the games, this includes:

• 300,000 cameras
• Every cab has a remote control microphone, GPS and lo-jack
• Remote control microphones in hotels and offices
• Ability to tap any phone, land or cellular
• Ability to hack any laptop, cell phone, PDA and perhaps digital camera
• A force of 600,000 “national security volunteers” (sort of like Obama called for) to snoop and report suspicious behavior
• Dissidents and protestors rounded up and detained before the games begin

I agree that, in a way, this is an experiment to see what the public reaction will be. It could be the stage for a world-engulfing psychodrama, too, but with this kind of security, I think we will know exactly whom to blame if that does happen.

It’s coming through a hole in the air
From those nights in Tiananmen Square
It’s coming from the feel that this ain’t exactly real
Or it’s real, but it ain’t exactly there
From the wars against disorder
From the sirens night and day
From the fires of the homeless
From the ashes of the gay
Democracy is coming to the USA

- Leonard Cohen, “Democracy”

• U.S. cyclists fly into China with face masks
• Bush rebukes China, torch feted in Tiananmen Square

Right or wrong, it shows to me what a focused PR effort is at work here. What is the reason to stack up expert after expert saying that wearing face masks in a polluted area should not be done? This may be the first time I’ve heard officials and authorities urge people who decide to take precautions not to take them.

Of course, what is at stake here (which I think is silly, but nonetheless) is the perceived reputation of China. China is being held up by many in the world as a model. One of the headlines below says Bush rebukes China, but the article mentions he’s going to the Olympics anyway.

An iconic moment too was the Olympic Torch’s passing through Tiananmen Square, with all that location represents. It’s also interesting to read about the history of Tiananmen Square. The location has always been a fixture of Chinese history as the entrance to the Forbidden City, but it became a (Masonic) square only after the communist revolution of 1949.

Of course, the Olympic Torch is not the most innocent symbol, either - it represents the fire of the gods (Olympians) brought down to man by Promethus (or Lucifer, take your pick). It is a solar reference, of the sun traveling the earth. There is a Vangelis song associated with the Olympics called “Chariots of Fire”, as the sun was once said to be driven through the sky on a chariot. It is the symbol of the eternal flame, a dedication to said god(s), much like the eternal flames that burn over the graves of Kennedy and others.

• Tiananmen Square [Wikipedia]

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2724774220080627

The United States Government pays out to the man at the heart of the anthrax letter controversy. The high-grade weaponized anthrax that was sent to some of the more uppity senators (Daschle, Leahy, Feingold) on the eve of their important Patriot Act votes was traced straight to the heart of the US bioweapons community.

The question remains whether this was “We’re sorry we invaded your privacy the way we callously do to all Americans,” or just a “Good job, here’s a little bonus.”

While on the topic of anthrax, check out this From the Wilderness article on the just plain bad luck of American progressives, with the unfortunate coincidences they stumble into. They must just be accident prone.

http://www.infowars.com/?p=2748

I wanted to share this article, and I was going to write an essay about this topic and about human perception, especially in a mass-media, consensus-reality society. Then I found a posting in the comments section for this article that basically summed up the point I was going to make in a lot fewer words, so I share it here:

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neon Says:
June 19th, 2008 at 9:18 am

lol my buddy who doesn’t “believe” in conspiracies says:

” okay neon, sure. That IS a helicopter, and it IS black. BUT IT’S NOT A FREAKIN’ BLACK HELICOPTER!”

hahaha, geeez.

There you go. What else needs to be said? In 1984, Winston Smith defined freedom as the ability to say that 2 + 2 = 4. When he was being tortured, he learned that the truly correct answer to “How many fingers am I holding up,” isn’t how many fingers he saw, but how many fingers the authority figure TOLD HIM that he saw.

This article makes a point that this is “martial law training” and I agree. However, I don’t think the training is for the military. They know very well how to operate in martial law environments, urban or otherwise. It’s their job. The training is for US, the public. We’re being trained that it’s normal to see guys with camo and M16s at our airports. We’re being trained that it’s normal to see military helicopters flying around our major cities. We’re being trained to become accustomed to military checkpoints with powers to search and detain. We’re being trained that mass house searches, and barricading people out of their own homes, in times of “emergency” (including natural disasters) is normal. We’re being trained that it’s alright to be strip-searched and behaviorally profiled for the privilege of air travel (coming soon to trains and busses near you). They’re also starting to train us that we need to be CHIPPED and TAGGED like livestock so that we can be easily tracked wherever we go and whatever we do, for our own safety you realize.

Television is teaching us that it is OK by cheerleading for it, or implicity by just not talking about it. Unfortunately, most people take their cues about what are real issues and how should we feel about them from the television.

WE are the ones getting our martial law training.

(Not a real Motherland Security document… yet)