The Noble Lie

Jack Ruby footage on who killed Kennedy.

Ayn was a prolific author and woman of controversy. Much of what she says is disgusting, but much of it is thought-provoking and requires reflection. Is there room for humanity and decency in a world of reason?

Ayn Rand Part 1

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I’m going to post a few old Mike Wallace interviews with famous minds of the previous generation. So much of where this is headed comes out in these talks, including the increasing use of “shock doctrine” to put us in a state of desperation and heightened suggestibility. Discussion of these techniques were more frank and open when they were less actively used on the population.

In case I haven’t mentioned it lately, the blue-blooded Huxley family includes “Darwin’s Bulldog” Thomas Henry Huxley as well as the first head of UNESCO and Eugenics proponent Julian Huxley.

“All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, these are the things that really matter.”
- Aldous Huxley, “Enemies of Freedom”

Aldous Huxley Part 1

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Powell: “I would start with talking to the American people and talking to the world and conveying a new image of American leadership, a new image of America’s role in the world. The problems will always be there and there’s going to be a crisis come along on the 21st or the 22nd of January that we don’t even know about right now. So I think what the president has to do is start using the power of the oval office and the power of his personality to convince the American people and convince the world that America is solid.”

Powell’s statements mirror very similar statements by Joe Biden, that a generated crisis is coming, that the government response will be incredibly unpopular, and that Obama supporters will need to use all their influence to make sure it goes smoothly.

“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

“I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate,” Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. “And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you - not financially to help him - we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”

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“I’ve forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know, so I’m not being falsely humble with you. I think I can be value added, but this guy has it,” the Senate Foreign Relations chairman said of Obama. “This guy has it. But he’s gonna need your help. Because I promise you, you all are gonna be sitting here a year from now going, ‘Oh my God, why are they there in the polls? Why is the polling so down? Why is this thing so tough?’ We’re gonna have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. So I’m asking you now, I’m asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you’re going to have to reinforce us.”

“There are gonna be a lot of you who want to go, ‘Whoa, wait a minute, yo, whoa, whoa, I don’t know about that decision’,” Biden continued. “Because if you think the decision is sound when they’re made, which I believe you will when they’re made, they’re not likely to be as popular as they are sound. Because if they’re popular, they’re probably not sound.”

What is this crisis? How is it that the people affected are not being warned? How is it they already know when it’s going to happen? How is it that they already know how the government is going to react to this crisis? How do they already know how unpopular the response is going to be? How is it that our officials can just come out and tell us stuff like this, and not elaborate on the threat?

NORTHCOM came home for active duty at the beginning of this month. Many have feared a coup is imminent. What if it’s a perfectly orderly, legal, authorized preparation for what’s coming?

Biden says he could come up with 4-5 scenarios.. I think he can do better than that. If anybody in Congress knows what’s coming down the pike, it’s him. He’s been Biden his time for decades, to have his day at the helm.

Flying through a dark prismatic tunnel on a carousel
The earth is turning and you know it very well
Your mind is reeling like ten helicopters wheeling
And you’re gonna hit the ceiling like a mallet on a bell

Hey blenderhead, they’re starting to ask questions
Your transgressions are a danger flashing sign
Challenge conventions and radiate your splendor
And feel those flywheels churn your blenderhead

Tally up the gleaming tender ventured on a wishing well
Each shining trinket has a story it can tell
Your moments pining like those tales all intertwining
Can become the rusted lining of a deep neglected shell

Hey blenderhead, you ask so many questions
Your confusion’s a life-affirming sign
Break from tradition and carry on with valor
And feel those flywheels churn your blenderhead

An oft-covered classic, in this video played beautifully by Jose Feliciano.

Round, like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that’s turning
Running rings around the moon

Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on it’s face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Like a tunnel that you follow
To a tunnel of it’s own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving
In a half forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble
Someone tosses in a stream

A 1942 film from the Department of Agriculture about perhaps the most historically important non-edible plant to the human species. You heard right, too, if you caught that the word canvas got its name from the Scythian word cannabis.

We are at war with Sativa; we have always been at war with Sativa.

This is not a political discourse or an endorsement of either candidate. If (big IF) I vote for anybody, it will be Cynthia McKinney, because I think she has integrity. I’m chiefly interested in language and invoked symbols in this post. McCain is powerless but Sarah Palin is not. As far as I’m concerned, this race is between Obama and Palin.

Thanks to UV Garden again for this first clip. Here is a pretty disgusting video of some Sarah Palin supporters.. and Sarah being blessed by people standing around her speaking in tongues. This video is just disgusting, especially the person who is screaming about the MURDERERS who take birth control pills.

Here is a video of Louis Farakhan preaching to his people to consider Obama as an ambassador from God. Hard times and struggling people need a hero to worship, and Obama is being offered up for that role. He is trying to make Obama sound like something more than human, like he comes from a special womb, or a magical place.

A lot of people on the web freaked out claiming Farakhan called Obama the Messiah, but if you listen he didn’t really do that. He called Obama the Herald of the Messiah, and I think he mentions how careful he has to be about what he says. In Bible terms, this would cast Obama in the role of John the Baptist. The herald of the messiah, in the case of John the Baptist, prepares the world for the messiah’s coming, anoints the messiah, and is killed.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.

Now this was John’s testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was. He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, ‘I am not the Christ.’ They asked him, ‘Then who are you? Are you Elijah?’ He said, ‘I am not.’ ‘Are you the Prophet?’ He answered, ‘No.’ Finally they said, ‘Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?’ John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, ‘I am the voice of one calling in the desert,”Make straight the way for the Lord.”‘

Book of John

The Herald of the Messiah is also the dawn or morning star which heralds the “new sun rising.”

“A light will shine down from somewhere. It will light upon you. You will experience an epiphany. And you will say to yourself, I have to vote for Barack. I have to do it.”
-Barack Obama

A lot of people are riding on their candidate, on both sides, so that they can reshape America in their own image. Besides the messianic overtones, both of these clips also mention a need or desire to transform America. And we will be transformed, by hook or by crook.

I know I am not the only person who gets the chills pondering Kennedy’s very liberal sentiment, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

Messianic links

• John The Baptist, The Herald of the Messiah’s Coming
• Gospel of Barnabas (didn’t make the Bible cut)

EDIT: I meant to include this, here’s a great article (from somebody who would think I’m a loon, no doubt, but it’s still a great article) on the the power of image over issues in politics.

Dear god, don’t know if you noticed but
Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book
Us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look
And all the people that you made in your image
Still believing that junk is true
Well I know it ain’t, and so do you

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The hurt I see helps to compound
That the father, son and holy ghost
Is just somebody’s unholy hoax
And if you’re up there you’ll perceive
That my heart’s here upon my sleeve
If there’s one thing I don’t believe in… it’s you.