Progress: A commentary on the technological view

I am inspired to do this post by Christopher Knowles and his blog post on progress as myth, reality, and as a subverted ideal.

America serves as the cauldron in which all of the many forms of "progress" that Chris has outlined in his blog post linked above.  Here is one example of "American Progress" as seen in more genteel times...

Notice that even in this painting we have some very disturbing images of "progress".  The Native Americans are pushed out, so robbing the natives of their land is "progress".  The march of technology and the means to mold and shape the Earth are seen as "progress".  There is much more, and this in a supposed gentler time.

Today progress is often seen in the light of technological advance and that will be the focus of this post.  Chris has touched upon the idea of transhumanism and the notion that humanity will one day move beyond human.  It seems like an oxymoron to me.  Is this what awaits people in the future?

Progress has been more and more seen within the idea of scientific progress and technological advance.  The end result is that humanity moves more and more away from being human.  Computers allow us to communicate, as alternate identities, with others, that are doing the same and we have no need to get out of bed to do so, let alone leave the house.
The idea of technological advance tends to isolate people and simulate reality.  TV's move from standard to digital to High Definition to 3D.  Communication means that people need not interact on a personal, face to face, way.
This is the reality of the future to many...

From the movie "Surrogates" which allow you to "inhabit" a machine that will go about the business of your normal life while you lay in a recliner hooked up to machines.
In recent months I have come across the work of John Lamb Lash.  He is the author of the book "Not in His Image" and has a website worthy of a look here.

John's work presents a radical view of Gnosticism and their teachings.  His work has illustrated to me that progress for humanity is void if we do not progress along with our world, our bodies, our minds, and our "spirit".  Progress should be holistic.

The march of progress toward a technological singularity has been commented upon by many.  One may ask what appeal there may be to transhumanism and the technological replacement of our bodies/minds and the acceptance of simulated reality over the real thing.  To be sure there are some things that appeal like extended "life", freedom from disease, etc.  But the unreality of the result is so far removed from what is natural that it is still hard to imagine why people would become cyborgs, willingly.
One result of the transhumanist agenda is that diseases are not cured, just managed (and even that is questionable) by medication.  Why waste time curing the body if we will one day embody a robot?  Of course there is also a monetary and power angle to this as well while we occupy this time of economic rape and pillage.
There is also the willingness by many to utilize the resources of the Earth without limit or regard.  Witness the lunacy of the current candidates for the office of President.

She wants to do away with the EPA.  Corporations, of course, would NEVER just dump toxic waste and poison us and the environment, so why worry...

Oh I forgot about Love Canal.  And others...

We should not go the radical Earth First agenda but need to be mindful that the Earth provides for us and should be protected to some extent from the ravages that man can visit upon it.

John Lamb Lash in his work has an explanation for this apparent desire by many to accept a simulated reality and the transhuman agenda of a cyborg future where technology is king.  That explanation involves the Gnostic Archons.
In his view the Archons are inorganic beings that cannot exist in our organic biological environment, except for short periods.

Which does have a relation to the so-called "Grey Aliens" and the "alien agenda" which seems to serve no purpose and has no rational solution.
The Archons do not operate in the same way that we do, they do not have the same thought process and as such they cannot be understood fully by our reasoning.  The Gnostics, according to Lash, warned quite explicitly of this during their time.  This is why they called the Demiurge insane.
I have went a little ways here but a proper background is necessary for you to fully grasp the idea and appeal of this "march of progress" and salvation by technology.
The Archons are masters of simulation and being inorganic they are something like a machine intelligence, an AI if you will.  Technology has offered a doorway to this influence that has never before been seen.  The Archons seek to corrupt humanity and the link between humanity and our own home, Earth.  Technology and transhumanism offers them a robust way of doing this.
I have had several conversations with people on my radio show which talk about the influence upon the Earth and humanity of a machine like intelligence, but the most explicit was with Richard Sauder...

I don't want to attempt to summarize the work of Lash any further but will encourage you to read his book and check out his website for further information.
What he does present is a reasonable solution to the lunacy we see in our world today, the drive for technological "transcendence" and the capitulation to corporate domination.
I will have John Lamb Lash on my radio show on December 23, 2011, in a recorded interview in which we discussed many of these issues.  I encourage you to listen.  It is food for thought, if nothing else.

Pedophilia: A secret terror rears it's head in Penn State (UPDATED)

Let us be very clear here.  My thoughts on pedophiles is that they are incurable and have a compulsion to do what they do.  And if there is a question as to something happening between a person and a child I will always be inclined to believe the child because to NOT do so is to utterly fail to protect the innocence of youth.
I would like to apologize for being absent for some time here.  Like all of you I have a lot of things to do and there are only so many hours in the day.  I hope to be more regular with the blog in the future and thank you all for checking in from time to time.

State College Pennsylvania.  Located in a place referred to as "happy valley" and by others as "creepy valley".  Both of these names have a certain resonance, the same resonance.  The happiness is Stepford Wives-like.  In light of the predatory pedophilia accusations against Jerry Sandusky and the subsequent actions of the Board of Trustees in firing "legendary" coach Joe Paterno and the university president for failing to lead and take responsibility for what was happening under their watch the campus erupted into chaos and violence as students rioted in support of "JoPa".  "Forgive them Father they know not what they do."

Can it be that the youth of the school are so brain dead to the idea of defending a doddering old fool who whiffed on his responsibility and then whiffed on stepping up and taking responsibility by not resigning as soon as this story broke?  Can they merely be thinking of football for God's sake?  I'm afraid so.
And we still have the EYEWITNESS of a CHILD RAPE who when faced with the spectacle of what he saw...called his dad for advice, still on the job.  Mike McQueary, saw a child rape in a shower at Penn State and called his dad for advice on what to do.  He didn't go into the shower and beat the living hell out of the perpetrator, he didn't try to stop it, and he didn't even call the police.  He called his dad and his dad told him to tell Joe Paterno, not to call the police or go back and break the arms of the predator.
Let us look at this whole spectacle.

Penn State has some connection to the Military Industrial Complex as here.  And Penn State has a connection to the rather infamous MKULTRA mind control program of the CIA as revealed here under sub-project 118.  One need look no further than the horrid unsolved rape murder of Jonbenet Ramsey and her father's connection to the defense industry to see that this issue is relevant.

Jonbenet Ramsey's father headed a firm called Access Graphics which had ties to the defense department.  For the absolutely best article written on the case please see here and chapter 7 here.

On the surface the area would seem to be rather mundane but it might be important to note that this area is listed as one of the least stressful areas in the Wiki article here.  That is the source of the term "happy valley" apparently.

But it is also a relatively isolated and insular community as well and I have personal knowledge of a very creepy "vibe" being present there.  One may indeed wonder if the "happy valley" idea is one that is imposed by some type of mind control of the MKULTRA program...but that would be crazy wouldn't it?

It should also be noted that the issue of molestation and pedophilia has been around at least since 1998, with the same alleged perpetrator one Jerry Sandusky.  The DA in charge of that case was Ray Gricar.  Who has since disappeared and been declared legally dead.  The case of his disappearance is rather curious since he did internet searches on how to destroy data on a hard drive and how to damage a laptop computer with water.  His laptop was found in a river with the hard drive removed.  The hard drive was found a bit later, close by, in the water and no information was able to be obtained from it.

What happened to Ray Gricar?

The activities uncovered at Penn State are just indicative of a wider and more terrible reality of widespread secret pedophilia activities going on around the country and around the world.  This is one issue that is ignored as much as possible and downplayed to a great degree.

We should perhaps keep in mind that the allegations against Sandusky are allegations and there is a presumption of innocence, at least for public consumption.

This story also reminds me of the McMartin Preschool case read the "official" version here.  One of the salient points in the allegations of the students was that they had traversed tunnels under the school.  That seemingly absurd claim was used to push the idea of a hoax.  But there is evidence of a tunnel and underground room as you can read here.

It should be noted that in light of McMartin and the final assumption that it was a hoax resulted in the rise of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, which believes that it is easy to make people think that something happened even when it didn't.  Their website is here.  It should be noted that the FMSF was founded by people originally accused of child sexual abuse.  False Memory Syndrome is a fringe theory at best.  The Foundation itself is rumored to be a CIA front or otherwise used by or connected to the intelligence community.  That is enough to call the whole idea of "hoax" a questionable conclusion.  My own no-holds-barred take on the issue can be seen in this video.

Not for the feint of heart.

The final conclusion according to me is that this issue is routinely covered up in schools and other places like churches all the time.  It is a bigger and more insidious problem than anyone is willing to consider.  It is a scourge and an incredible tragedy and I can only hope that people will stop to think about that.  Most especially the stupid people that will riot in support of someone who failed to do all that was MORALLY required to protect the innocence of children that was being taken under his watch.

Where are the people who support the children?

I am forced to add some additional material that is just as disturbing if not more so than that which has already been discussed.  Jerry was affiliated with a youth advocacy group called "The Second Mile", their website is here.  Apparently the foundation was used as a means for the "alleged" pedophile perpetrator to have access to kids for him to target and to abuse.  Another rumor circulating has it that Jerry was pimping the children out to wealthy donors.

This now has a great deal in common with the Franklin child sexual abuse allegations.  Another supposed hoax.

This case involved a notorious character who at the time was a prominent member of the Republican party and also ran the Franklin Credit Union.  This case involved child sexual abuse, pimping of children, interstate transport of children for sexual activity and Boy's Town a charity much like "The Second Mile".

Larry King, served time for financial crimes in connection with the Franklin Credit Union but never faced any charges about child sex abuse that were alleged by several young people.

And what do you know?  There is also an investigator that died under mysterious circumstances, one Gary Caradori.  

Shades of the missing, presumed dead, DA Gricar noted earlier.

This is a nationwide immensely sick problem that has tentacles into schools, charities, and countless other institutions including law enforcement and the government.

Will we see the same thing in this current case?  We already have the seeds of a long cover up.  For those who might be inclined to stick up for Joe Paterno please read the indictment which has McQueary telling Paterno IN DETAIL of what he observed.  McQueary needs to go immediately and should take the opportunity to resign for his failure to take all the action he should have.  Now is Paterno lying or is he a doddering old fool who can't remember that one of HIS BEST FRIENDS WAS WITNESSED RAPING A CHILD?  Either way he needed to go.

Some commentary on the Mothman Festival

I had made plans to attend the festival this year, come hell or high water.  Well it worked out well for me.  Andy Colvin (author and blogger/researcher whom I have interviewed here, here, and here) had arranged to stay with a friend of his in Point Pleasant and was kind enough to include me in his plans.  The Mothman Festival happens every year and this year was the 10th.
I had an interview with the organizer Jeff Wamsley and had the opportunity to meet him even though he was running around nonstop the whole time trying to keep things moving smoothly.
I met some very incredible people and was pleasantly surprised to find a receptive audience to some of the more Earthly explanations for things like UFOs.  Though there was some of the new agey ideas as well.  It was a treat to meet Rosemary Ellen Guiley who is a sincere investigator and has a lot of credibility in the field.  She gave a talk on the Djinn.
Andy's talk focused on the probable human origin for much of the UFO phenomena as well as conspiratorial aspects of the research.

That's Andy with his notes.

Susan Sheppard was next to speak.

There were vendors in a little bazaar area and of course many great and interesting things to buy.  It is a good thing I think that people have a real interest in the byways like the paranormal and UFOlogy.

Here's Andy hawking his wares:

A shot of Rosemary:

I had several highlights on the trip. One of course was a visit to the notorious "TNT" area where Mothman first appeared.

Noxious looking water in the "TNT" area.  This area was used for munitions storage in what are called "igloos" which are concrete bunkers.  We visited the so-called "haunted igloo" purported to have been lived in by a homeless man that had killed some people at one time.

There's Andy at the entrance to the haunted igloo.  Inside looks exactly like an igloo with sloping walls in a half sphere shape.

There's a hole in the roof at the apex presumably for ventilation and to allow for gas escape in the event of an explosion or fire inside.  One of these bunkers exploded a while back and closed off the area for a time.  Some of this land is still in use for "reclamation" and storage of chemicals and presumably explosives.

In our explorations in the area Andy led the way to the Defense Logistics Plant in Point Pleasant which is closing and recently had an auction for some of it's surplus material.

A sign for the auction:

Andy has put together a rather complex web of corporate/intelligence/military money and people that surrounds the whole Mothman phenomenon and UFOlogy.
Working on a hunch Andy led us to an abandoned plant or factory of some kind which was completely gutted with random holes in the walls but was completely accessible with no fences or even signs to keep people out.  There was what appeared to be an oven or furnace inside which had what looked like asbestos just hanging out of the area around it.
A couple of strange things were observed inside.

I captured a lot of "orbs" in this photo, which was not reproduced in a subsequent photo of the same room which was the only one I photographed twice.
A creepy drawing on the wall in the abandoned facility:

BEFORE we went into the building Andy predicted that orbs would be seen.  I have never had orbs on any of my photos before that I am aware of.

After the event I attended a picnic with Andy at the home of one of his relatives.  We road a quad and took a roll on a steep hill, shot my .45 pistol, visited a private graveyard on the top of a mound like hill and had some great food with some fine folk.

The end is nigh...or maybe not

It is quite easy to draw conclusions and to predict events that support various theories that one might have regarding the state of affairs in the world.  I do it myself so I should know.
We've been living in a time of upheaval and momentous change and this fact alone serves to fuel the desire to "put things in context" and this usually leads to making pronouncements of doom.

Optimism and pessimism are dead.  It's time for realism.  What do we make of the signs and portents in the wake of realism?  One could make the claim that we are living in the last days of your religion of choice.  In reality what we are seeing today largely has occurred many times in the past.  We have a short memory indeed.

Looking at the violent riots occurring around the world one might think that this is really IT.

But we have seen this all before:

French Revolution:

Plug riots:

Philadelphia riots:

New York draft riots:

I could go on and on.  There is a strong undercurrent in the world today of a fervent desire to change things for the better and we have been let down time and time again in hopes of making the world a better place for all of us.

We have also had a belly full of economic problems but history is filled with such things.  The point is that there is nothing about today to mark it as special or any reason to think that we will see an end to the continued march of the human race into the future.
The only thing that we can really say is that we have seen the trends of history and they have indicated to us that where we might be headed as a people may not be such a nice place to live in.

We have always been at war with (insert name of country or countries here).

So what can be gleaned from the tea leaves of today?  Since we have been here before?
I think that like all times that we have seen momentous change as a possibility we have a choice.  We can try to achieve that change and carry it through to make something better for all of us.  We can try.  We may fail as we have many times before, but we may succeed.
It's time to grasp the bull by the horns and seize the day.
Do we have the ability to do what our forebears did and TRY?
Apathy is deadly.

Saturn devours it's children

How does one go about making a statement that has meaning or substance when one is observing the phenomena of the breakdown of Western civilization? What we have happening in society around the world is a total breakdown.  
There is a conspiratorial nature to history that would have it that all of the various things that are going on are the result of cabals acting behind the scenes.  I agree with the conspiratorial nature of history.


Franklin D. Roosevelt: "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."


Benjamin Disraeli: "The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans."


It seems to me the closer we look at the current breakdown of Western civilization we see that the nature of it is outside the control of even the most powerful secret societies.

                            Bilderberg Group

                                  Bohemian Grove


Some of these groups are very powerful but I think they are limited in their ability to act in such a way that can explain the complete collapse of the world economy which seems to be on the brink of occurring. 


To add to this mix we have all kinds of apocalyptic scenarios peppering us.  There is a mythology surrounding the comet "Elenin".  A photo circulating around the Internet is being used to support the idea of spacecraft following the comet in a replay of "Heaven's Gate".  

The Sun too is acting up.  We are supposed to be going through a Solar maximum and the Sun has not been cooperating.  Astronomers take note of the fact that when we have a delay in Solar cycles the Sun has a way of catching up by becoming suddenly more active.  We are starting to see this now.

The weather and actions of the Earth are both also seemingly out of whack too.  The Fukushima disaster stems from an earthquake and tsunami.

We have had a series of devastating tornadoes in the USA as well as massive ongoing flooding.  Joplin was almost completely destroyed.

We are seeing a rock rolling downhill and like physics it is gathering steam and getting faster and faster.  This brings in mind the idea of the ages that man and civilization goes through in time and this brings me to the title of this post.  According to various traditions man is now in the Iron Age and that is soon to collapse bringing on a period of chaos that will ultimately lead to a new Golden Age.  The king of the Golden Age is Saturn.  I was privileged to talk with Jay Weidner and we touched upon some of this in relation to time.

I also talked with Tracy R. Twyman who had a lot to say on the idea of Saturn and the ages of man.

In looking at this I have come to a conclusion.  That is we have had numerous conspiracies in history and that are going on today which have attempted and are attempting to shape the future of this world and of humanity in general.  But these competing interests have precipitated a kind of collapse that is now out of their power to control.
And this can be seen by the nature of politics today and the surrealistic nature of what is being proposed.  It is almost as if the veil of reality has been lifted to show us what is REALLY real.
What can be done?  Do we stand a chance of getting through this mess and achieving a future?  I have no answers but if we are going through ages and are approaching the new Golden Age we need to prepare for a period of chaos and change unlike any we have seen before.  And there are a lot of things that we can do to be prepared for that coming period.
Of course this is all speculation.  There is the meme of doomsday and 2012 as well which I put no stock in whatsoever but the timing of a lot we are seeing leads me to believe that plans had been laid to take advantage of that meme in order for certain elite factions to enact plans of global control and enslavement.  The good thing that we can take from the rock rolling relentlessly downhill is that it will flatten these elitist plans along with everything else.  In other words we have a "golden" opportunity to start over and it is only something that will be limited by the ability of people to imagine and implement that which is good and sustainable for the future of us and our world. 

Independence Day

It's July 4th, Independence Day in the good old US of A.  It is a terrible tragedy that there are many people who do not know the history of our country at all.  There is unfortunately an ever more terrible tragedy in that there are a lot of people that THINK they know the history of this country.
Before you go out and watch the fireworks perhaps you should take a moment to consider the history of this nation and the nature of the founding and the founding fathers of this "republic".
First there is the Declaration of Independence.  Basically it is an indictment of King George III and his failure to address the grievances of the people who wrote and signed the document.  This purported to represent the will of the people.  They had no authority to do this.  In any event this nation purports to be a nation that allows it's people a redress of it's grievances but in fact it does not allow for this at all.  In the Medicare slashing of Paul Ryan we have seen a total disregard for the constituency as here:

and here:

One could easily write up a list of grievances very similar to that which is in the Declaration, but against our supposed great government of, by and for the people.

The constitution is meaningless as a document because the government, supposedly constrained by it, routinely ignores it and have done so since this country was supposedly founded.   Today we have a manifest disregard for the 4th Amendment with the TSA searching people with no probable cause as here:

and here:

Little girls are presumed to be carrying bombs in their Underoos.  Guilty until groped.

The fact of the matter is that the "founding fathers" were rich white men that owned land.  There was a strong impulse for rich landowners to protect their interests but to do so with some cover.  The "we the people" and reference to "us" and "our" are only for the rich and powerful but because they also have another meaning people think those provisions apply to them.  They do not and never did.

The Whiskey Rebellion was a perfect and early example of the ignorance of grievances by the government just barely born.

Hey how about this.  I am a colony of a hated tyrannical King.  I declare independence from that kingdom.  So in setting up my country I want to have a distinctive flag to show my new status.  I am not going to use any of the devices of the hated tyrannical kingdom I just fought with for independence?  Right?

First US Flag:

"Betsy Ross" supposed flag:

British flag:

Variant:

One of the chief corporate oligarchical controllers of the British Empire was the East India Company and this was it's flag:

Seems like there was no desire to draw a clear distinction from the tyranny by the "blessed" founding fathers, which should be rather telling, no?

Food for thought on the idea of independence and whether or not we ever had it at all.

My 4th of July video for 2011:

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Surrealism in the world; do you sense some imminent "event"?

It has really become apparent to me that there is a certain level of surrealism in the world that, at first, I attributed to some more mundane activities by people for rather mundane and all too human feelings and motives.  I am now starting to wonder if that is all there is to it.  I am betting that anyone that is reading this is feeling something similar to what I am feeling.  Here is my video that I just did on this topic last night:

This is not a "psychic" or "predictive prophecy" of any kind.  It is more along the lines of "normal" human intuition and "reading" the signs and symbols around us.
This surrealism is most apparent to me in politics and economics and that is where the idea first started to trickle into my consciousness.  I have looked at the Republican candidates for office and have just shaken my head at the ludicrous nature of them and their policies and platforms.  You only have to look at the news to see the cartoonish aspects of the campaign.
There also was the idea of President Obama and his lack of a past and his overt attempts to obfuscate about it.  He also has gone to great lengths to betray all of the things that he supposedly stood for in running for office.  Something I picked up on really early on.

That video was done in February of 2008.

Then we had the release of Obama's birth certificate, the legendary "long form" that he fought to keep out of public consciousness.

This was apparently as a result of supposed candidate for office Donald Trump and his constant media attention to the matter.  It is my belief that Trump was actually working FOR Obama in some capacity, whether wittingly or not.
We quickly had a thorough debunking of the document as an obvious fake and fraud.  The surrealism is that people just accept it and the media has absolutely nothing to say on the matter.
Then we had very shortly after this the supposed killing of Osama Bin Laden at the direction of President Obama.  Something that I also had intuited when I made a video saying that the release of the certificate was a "signal" for something major to come.

The fake death of Osama Bin Laden was only part of the major event to come and that is what I have been feeling.  There is much more to this than simply politics or economics.  It may be an Earth wide sort of thing or even bigger than that.
Do you feel this?
Of course my view had been tempered by the fact that I tend to focus on the political and economic world because that is what I do with my videos on youtube.  But we have also seen some amazing things happening in other areas as well.  We have had tremendous solar flares disrupting the Earth's magnetic sphere from a largely dormant Sun that may becoming more active, or maybe not.

I say that the Sun may not act up much because of recent scientific claims.  And also speculation of a new Ice Age.  Because of a phenomenon similar to that experienced during the Maunder Minimum.  We have seen devastating tornadoes and Earthquakes.  We have also seen a nuclear disaster slowly turning into an apocalyptic scenario in Fukushima,

 which may just be the beginning as there is evidence of problems at other plants, here, and here and here.
The Earthquake in Japan had some anomalous heating of the atmosphere that some have equated with the use of HAARP.  I do not believe this explanation since there have been reports of unusual weather patterns associated with Earthquakes before HAARP.
It is a conglomeration of events, most of which I have commented upon individually before.  Some others of note include the "killing" of Bin Laden on Beltane, which I covered in the following video:

Which happened to coincide with the marriage of Prince William and Kate in England on the newly "rediscovered" Cosmati Pavement...

As well as the beatification of Pope John Paul II.

We have seen a lot of things like this over the years to be sure, none of it is new, per se, but it does seem to be happening at a more rapid pace and much more blatantly now.  Do you sense something?  Or am I just crazy?