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Showing posts with label Joseph P. Farrell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joseph P. Farrell. Show all posts

15.12.17

Cryptocurrencies A Globalist Trap?

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#JosephPFarrell presents compelling evidence that the #Cryptocurreny #Bitcoin #Ethereum rush is actually manufactured by nefarious players in order to rob the world of wealth and replace it with completely transparent tools for tracking and tracing every transaction, as well as instituting an automatic taxation system that amounts to neo-feudalism.

It is vital that everyone listen to and consider this information before jumping on the crypto bandwagon.

https://youtu.be/5kemcxj0j08

30.6.16

The Mandela Effect, Part 2

In Part 1, I described an experience that I have shared with a couple of other people, in which we have very distinct memories of B. B. King dying in May of 2005, yet it was reported in May of 2015, that B.B. had died again, at least as far as we were concerned.

Just last week, I learned purely by accident that this phenomenon has been dubbed the Mandela Effect, and apparently a great many people have experienced it.  In particular, folks are convinced that a celebrity has died who is still alive (Kirk Douglas for instance), while others have clear memories of a celebrity dying more than once.  Even stranger is the fact that many people, who are complete strangers, share the same memories in great detail.

Across the internet, much of the discussion seems focused on movie lines or titles.  I dismiss this as either remembering a popular impression of a character's scene or just complete bunk trying to cash in on the interest.

One prime example is the plethora of videos about Interview with a/the Vampire.  A quick trip to Wikipedia shows the title as using "the." But even if later issues have changed to "a," it doesn't matter since the author can confirm the original title and there must be thousands of original copies of both the book and movie in circulation.

I call this discussion the "Play it again, Sam" theory, and it includes the Snow White "mirror mirror" and Empire Strikes Back "I am your father" branches of the Mandela Effect hype.

I wanted the reactions of people I knew were level-headed and tended to research things a bit more deeply than Google and hashtags.

Of the people I wanted a reaction from was Joseph Farrell, the well-known author and researcher whom we've interviewed a couple of times on Radio Far Side.  I sent him a note asking if he had ever heard of the Mandela Effect.  The response was nearly immediate and he wanted to discuss my experiences.

It turns out that it is a topic of great interest to Farrell and his subscribers, who have discussed it at length in member vid-chats.  According to his members, this phenomenon is global and seems to have two common factors - celebrities and a period of roughly 10 years.

I was genuinely stunned.  After learning of the name Mandela Effect, I started looking around the net for references.  It wasn't hard.  There are around 511,000 returns on Google, covering websites, blogs and videos.  From what I see, about 50% of the data centers around people misremembering movie lines.  As I said previously, I find this highly unreliable, since a lot of folks remember the line, "Play it again, Sam," from Casablanca, but that line has never existed, at least in the film itself.

The rest of the data focuses on celebrity deaths.  Farrell has specific memories of Helen Thomas, the veteran political reporter, dying during the Clinton Administration and listening to Bill Clinton deliver a eulogy at that time.  Yet, any reference to her will mention her death in 2013.

Joseph also mentioned Kirk Douglas being alive, and that caught my attention.  I distinctly remember watching an interview with his son Michael talking about his father on the occasion of his death.  Yet, according to Wikipedia, Kirk is still alive.

At this point, we discussed reasons for this phenomenon.   I wouldn't feel comfortable trying to express his thoughts, but suffice it to say that he thinks it may be an experiment in social engineering that involves manipulating quantum forces and correlating the effects with massive databases to see what has changed.  The analogy he used was overlapping multiverses with leaks between them.

I was fascinated with the possibilities, though a bit horrified to think that anyone could be mucking around with timelines and peoples' memories on a mass scale.  However, my own theories more or less have the same thing happening, but in a different way.

The Mandela Effect reminds me a lot of several different stories, both fictional and real.

The first is a book that I was enthralled with as a child.  It was "A Sound of Thunder," which introduced the concept of 'the butterfly effect' into common culture.  In the book, time-travelling hunters from 2055 go back to the Jurassic Age to hunt dinosaurs.  An accident leads to a butterfly getting crushed in the past and causes hundreds of large and small changes back in the current time, as the effects of the butterfly's demise ripple through millions of years.

Another favorite book was Robert Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast."  Here, a mathematics professor invents a "continua" device that allows the main characters to shift through six dimension of time and space (leading to the reference of 666).  The characters are deceived by telepathic overlays on reality during their journey through alternate universes.

Finally, the story of John Titor comes to mind.  This may be a bit of an obscure reference, but John Titor was a supposed time traveler who appeared on the internet in various chat rooms around 2000 and 2001.  He was supposedly from 2036, and was on a mission to the 1970s to obtain an IBM 5100 computer to help in decoding a number of old machine languages to avoid some Y2K-like problem in the future.  He described time as a cone shape extending into the past and future that allowed access to multiple timelines, which could vary greatly or very subtly from our own.

All three stories are worth reading, so do make use of the links, but the salient point is that they all involve time travel and in some way mirror the Mandela Effect.  My operating theory is that our timeline has been changed in some way, either in a single event, or in several, and may be ongoing.  I suspect that easiest way to do that would be to manipulate very small and discrete parts of the past to change something in the future.  The double death/not yet dead phenomenon may be an incidental or intentional result for whatever purpose(s).

And yes, I know this sounds far out.  And I do have a much more mundane, though nefarious means of achieving the same result: Winston Smith.  If you recall in "Nineteen Eighty-Four," the protagonist's job is to literally rewrite history.  He spends his days at MiniTrue making people appear and disappear in history, changing narratives and making sure that the past matches the official party line du jour.

It's not an easy choice, and any of them require a very large departure from what we fondly refer to as "reality."  Whether it's Farrell's multiverse leaks, Bradbury's ancient accidents, Heinlein's continua machine, Titor's military time missions, or Orwell's MiniTrue, something is causing an actual phenomenon in which a large number of people "misremember" historic events, but do so in a way that complete strangers "misremember" with exactly the same details.

There is no natural phenomenon that can explain this, and it has only come into the public consciousness with the past two decades.  Most of the reports that I find credible more or less occur between the mid-1990s and today.  Nor can I find any reference in older texts to similar documented phenomena in the past, so this seems to be something completely new.

If you have experienced it, then you know the very strange and other-worldly feeling you get when it happens.  It can literally leave you vexed and paralyzed for a few moments as you try to process the discontinuity in your clear memories.

Either we are all being manipulated somehow (real or perceived), or accidents are occurring (likely in the past) that are changing our current timeline.  No matter how you slice this, the implications are truly unsettling.

One way to find out is to bring the topic to wide public attention.  By making it a major item of conversation, perhaps we can at least stop it from happening, and perhaps even discover why it's happening.  I suspect we will not like the answers behind the Mandela Effect.

There is no reason in physics that time travel is impossible.  When we peer into the Universe, we are travelling backwards in time, as we see the Universe only as it was anywhere from minutes to billions of years ago.  It is also quite possible that aspects of physics that allow time travel have been hidden from the general public for just the sort of reason we are discussing here.

What is most disturbing, and implied by the Mandela Effect, is that we may be unaware of just how much our lives have been changed.

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

Part 3

9.4.16

INTERVIEW: Joseph P. Farrell on Radio Far Side

Among the writers and researchers studying what is euphemistically called "alternative history" (which means don't look any further because we don't want you to know the truth), Dr. Joseph P. Farrell is one of the stand-outs.  His books are meticulously researched and footnoted, and unlike many people in this realm, he lets you know when he is delivering facts, and when he is speculating upon them.

Dr. Farrell has published over two dozen books that span the last 3.2 million years of human history and the nature and composition of the Universe, as well as humanity's attempts to contain and control Nature - for better or worse.  Armed with a Doctorate in Patristics from the University of Oxford, Dr. Farrell applies a wide range of knowledge and disciplines to the questions of who and what our species is.

In this interview, we explore Dr. Farrell's concept of the Topological Metaphor, a way of describing philosophical concepts in mathematical terms.  This Metaphor affects our notions of the Universe and its construction, music theory, esoteric and occult practices, and even banking and finance.  It is a wide ranging conversation exploring the primal link between our past and our future.



For additional information:

Giza Death Star: http://gizadeathstar.com/
Trinity Origins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity
Richard Casarro Triptych: http://www.richardcassaro.com/tag/tri...
The Number 3: http://mysticalnumbers.com/number-3/

12.1.14

Blinders Off

At the beginning of the film 2010, Roy Scheider's character is told to have a look at the ship Discovery's orbit.  When Scheider does so, he begins to chuckle with a conspiratorial tone and his eyes widen as he realizes just what it is he is looking at.

Such was the scene when I began reading Zero Hedge's article on German gold and the Federal Reserve.  I've been firmly in the conspiracy camp since the early 80s, when I first began to catch a glimmer of the huge steaming pile of secrets behind the world as it is today.

More and more people are swallowing the red pill and seeing, as Morpheus put it, the world that's been pulled over our eyes.  More and more people are feeling that incredibly profound sense of helplessness that first confronts those of us who have seen the Matrix for what it is.  And more and more people are scrambling around trying to find the silver bullet that will kill the blood suckers on the neck of humanity (can I mix a metaphor, or can't I?).

The aware mind will see in the ZH article exactly what I did...that the silver bullet is actually gold.

All the power, all the security states, all the devastation of culture, all the answers are summed up in one tiny word - gold.  If We The People want to bring down the entire system of evil that is turning our world into a vast pit of moral and ethical morass, then all we have to do is demand, with unceasing voices, the complete and transparent audit of all gold holdings in the sovereign treasuries.

That's it.

So simple, and yet so complex.  That one act would expose the entire system from stem to stern: all the secret alliances, all the covert operations, all the dirty laundry mouldering in the dark corners of history.  It would reveal just who runs things and how.  It would expose the ways and means of control.  It would open the doors on all the secret programs and black budgets that have defined the last 100 years.  We would know precisely who to boycott and target for litigation.  We would have the untarnished proof of when and how our current mess was designed and implemented.  It would, in fact, unravel the Matrix.

As Joseph Farrell aptly put it, gold is Ariadne's Thread, and a consistent tug on it will unravel the whole mess - quickly, if not painlessly.  For to unravel this mess will expose many dark secrets that many people are not ready or willing to know - not because they won't understand them, but because they adamantly and vehemently don't want to know them.  To know the unvarnished truth is a frightening and foundation-shaking thing for a great number of humans.

Most humans spend their lifetimes constructing a world around themselves with which they are comfortable.  They eliminate truths that expose holes in the fabric of their worlds and will fight to keep those truths out.  They are happy in their delusions because they don't have to think.  They follow their suburban routines and willingly automate themselves in order to quiet the naggings of conscience.  To know Truth is to require Action, and for a great majority, that is too much effort.

Now, however, enough people have pulled the thread for enough years using such fantastic tools as the one you are using this very moment, that the stench of reality is infesting even the most ardent denier of fact.  Losing jobs, getting anally probed on roadsides, having our personal dark secrets revealed by and to the security state - it's all too much for an expanding number of people.  Part of what made the magic work was that the PTB didn't intrude too much into the fantasy.  Any more, it's like watching a show where the stagehands have taken over and destroyed the carefully crafted illusion on stage.  We are now confronted with the mechanics of our illusion and the magic no longer works.

Which leads us back to gold.

An increasing number of people want their comfortable illusions returned undamaged.  That won't happen in our lifetime's, sorry to say.  However, we can ensure that our progeny at some point will enjoy a modicum of normalcy without the intrusion of the stagehands.  We can not go back, but we can go forward.  To do this requires lancing the boil and releasing the poison that has bespoilt our lives.  The needle by which we lance is none other than gold.

To be clear, I am not advocating return to a gold standard.  That would be asinine and counter-productive, given that not even the stagehands know how much real gold there is.

Rather, I am advocating a worldwide push to audit centuries of gold dealings and to open the results to everyone via the internet, and to list without blinking the entire apparatus of the command and control structure.

It will be very painful because none of us is innocent.  Either by action or omission, we are all culpable, but we can atone by being the vehicles of remediation.

This will have a profound effect on us.  For those wanting to know the truth about UFOs, here's the means.  For those wishing for economic and social equality, here's the path.  For those longing to right the wrongs of history, here's the lance and shield.  For those desiring to release the choke-hold of corporate fascism, here's the key.  For those who simply hunger for truth, you shall receive it in spades.

Like the HAL 9000 computer in 2010, there is only one logical conclusion when confronted with the imperative to hide the truth - you must kill everyone who can expose it.  Therefore, it stands to reason that to continue to hide the huge sins of centuries of social manipulation, the PTB must in fact slaughter all of humanity, or risk being exposed.  It is simply a matter of self-preservation that we all begin to pull this thread and not give up until the truth is out.  If we don't, then we will all be victims of our own desire for normalcy.

Secrecy = Death
Truth = Life

A simple formula.

4.7.13

The Game's A Foot (sic)

Attribution: Green Economy Coalition
www.greeneconomycoalition.org
It's been very interesting to watch the Snowden case.  As I've mentioned before, I don't buy the MSM fairy tale about what's going on and suspect there is a much deeper story to all this.  Apparently, so do a number of other folks, such as Max Keiser, bless his ranting soul.

For those who keep up with the alternative researchers, and a worthy effort it is, then you know about Joseph Farrell's and Tom Dolan's theories about Break-Away Civilizations and Alternative Financial Systems.  Farrell recently posted a vlog on topic.

Here's the scenario: after WW2, the US (and it's empire mentor the UK) has been using captured Axis loot and booty to set up and operate a shadow economy.  In effect, Wall Street heavies have been using the loot to create piles and oodles of derivatives and a host of other financial instruments that have turned the Nazi gold into a vast system of finance that is completely off the books.  This hidden system is run, at least in part, by the Bilderberg group and it's ilk.

Bother Dolan and Farrell speculate, with reason, that the hidden system amounts to trillions of dollars in virtual transactions that are funding all sorts of projects that are so black, not even the black operators know about them.  Dolan sees a secret space program, among other things.  Farrell sees all sorts of things, such as GMO research and weather wars, with a transhumanist agenda.  (See interview with Farrell and de Hart on Radio Far Side)

One thing is certain, a huge pile of confiscated Nazi and Japanese gold and other loot has never been adequately accounted for and the idea of a hidden system of finance certainly makes a lot of dots suddenly fit together.

Now suppose you were the Rest of the World (RoW) and you were watching this US empire grow to overshadow just about everything you can see, much less imagine.  Suppose you were Russia, China or Germany, all very powerful economies in their own rights, but you were unable to expand because there was this 400-pound gorilla sitting on top of the global financial system.  Especially imagine yourself as Germany.  All this loot came from you and you have been beaten down with it for the past 70-odd years.  Throw Japan in there, as well, since they've only prospered as a lapdog for Uncle Sugar, and when they started making noises about cutting loose, a Big A$$ Earthquake came and gutted your economy.

Now, with that scenario firmly in mind, do you really think Germany is so shocked and surprised by all the surveillance they've been under?  Don't bet on it.  Nor are Russia and China surprised.  They've all known about this, and the BRICSA nations have been after a chink in the US armor for a long time, trying to bust out.

Now suppose you were one of the second dogs mentioned above and you found a guy who worked for a major NSA contractor who was approachable and who had access to a lot of secrets...AND who could get out the door and draw attention away from your real operatives inside.

You get your insiders to feed information to this weak link, and then give the weak link (who's an idealist, by the way) a game plan.  Tell him to run to Hong Kong and then to Moscow.  He'll be covered there while the dust settles.  Have your diplomatic types run around telling other countries not to give him asylum, because you need him to stay in some form of limbo within your control.  Can you say "transit lounge of the Moscow airport"?  At the same time, you keep your hands clean.  "Hey!  He didn't cross our line, so we really can't touch him."

Meantime, you carefully orchestrate and series of bombshell revelations while at the same time, you are telling the US via back channels to back off the RoW or you'll blow the whole damn lid off this can of worms.  Just as a teaser, you let out some of the "less" harmful information - stuff that doesn't surprise those who are paying attention - but it's also enough to let the US know that you have some real goodies in your trick-or-treat bag.

Suddenly, markets start gyrating wildly up and down.  Volatility skyrockets.  Gold plummets.  Market indexs jump up 4% one day, and drop like a rock the next.  Politicians start jumping up and down about "traitors" and POTUS suddenly becomes very quiet and changes the subject to ObamaCare for the first time in a year.    All the top people at the Vatican Bank run for the exits.  And all the US players have beads of sweat on their upper lips and foreheads as they start to see their dreams of empire melt.

Basically, the cat is out of the bag.  No, not with us "little" people, but the top dogs sure know what the game is.  You can see it all over the markets and MSM.  They are shittin' bullets, to put it in Texanese.

So, where do things go from here?  Well, we can assume from all the market swings that someone is battling it out right in front of our faces.  One day Asia is in the dumps, the next Wall Street.  Back and forth.  Perhaps the Egyptian junta is part of the distraction gambit.  Keep us rubes looking the wrong way.  Whatever is going on, it has kicked Syria right off the front page for the moment.

So how about a little future gazing?

Whatever Snowden brought to the Chinese and Russians, it's dynamite.  They've got enough goods to scare the hell out of the WallFleeters.  There is likely a major cyberwar going on, as well, though I don't have the right tools to see it, but I sure feel it in terms of net speed and various other irritations.  In fact, Beijing's new world's-faster supercomputer is probably battling New York's former world's-faster supercomputer in high-speed trading that would make scenes from The Lawnmower Man look positively tame.

At the same time, Moscow is faxing various bits and pieces of their loot to Washington, teasing them with all the goods they have on that bunch of Bozos.

Meantime, Germany is putting up its Big Act of Being Offended (BABO) so that it can, a) leverage its gold out of the Federal (coff coff) Reserve, and b) have a graceful exit from the EU and NATO and all the other strings that the US has tied Gulliver down all these years.

Oh, and don't forget Japan tossing in a freak heatwave over the western US to show they can play WeatherWars, too.

Conclusion?  By Christmas, this could be an entirely different world.  If the US empire is mortally damaged, then that takes the oppressive weight off of Germany, Russia and China.  Japan and Brazil will join the fun.  South Africa will certainly go along for the ride, putting its gold and diamond trade up for grabs.  The Western markets will crash big time.  Israel will turn into a power black hole, leaving the Middle East in shambles.  Russia and China will make their plays, and *POOF*, the world will change over night.

You can take what you will from this, but I'm betting I'm right...or at least damn close.  I'm inviting interested readers to throw in their comments at luap.jkt at gmail dot com.  Let us know what you think about this scenario and maybe help us flesh it out a bit.

Damn!  This crystal ball stuff is fun, ain't it?

16.1.13

INTERVIEW: Farrell & de Hart on Radio Far Side


On today’s program…Is humanity undergoing an alchemical process to reverse the Fall of Man?  Has literature been warning us since at least the 19th century?  Is Frankenstein an allegory for the Illuminati?  Are GMOs being used to experiment on mass humanity to perfect transhuman technology for a select few?  All this and much more on today’s program.  Stay tuned.

Today, we are speaking with two remarkable gentlemen.  They both hold Ph.Ds from the University of Oxford, and they have written nearly two dozen books, together and separately, on topics that literally span the past 3.2 million years.  In the field of alternative research and thought, their scholarship is impeccable, and they bring considerable resources, in terms of education and research, to bear on topics that are vital to understanding the global situation today.

Dr. Joseph P. Farrell joins us from North Dakota, USA, where he devotes himself exclusively to writing and research on topics as diverse as the Great Pyramid, post-war Nazi influence, ancient myths and legends, the origins of our financial system, and the development and current state of physics.







Dr. Scott D. de Hart joins from California, USA, where he is a professor of philosophy, theology, humanities, and English literature.  His writings explore sacred spaces and places, theology, ancient and modern technology, and how literature plays an intimate part in the Grand Scheme of history.
This program promises to be mind-blowing.





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Giza Death Star - Dr. Farrell
Shelley Unbound - Dr. de Hart
Frankenstein - Mary/Percy Shelley
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Summa Theologica Part I - Thomas Aquinas
Aurora Consurgens - attributed to Thomas Aquinas
The Inferno - Dante Alighieri (from The Divine Comedy)
E-books by Joseph P. Farrell

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14.11.11

Yikes Icke!

Jesse Ventura
Have to say, I'm a bit disappointed in David Icke.    I mean sure, Jesse Ventura is a bit of a bull in a china shop, and yes, the whole Navy Seal thing gets old, but c'mon!  We're all supposed to be on the same side.

The problem here is something I've seen dozens of times, and it's the reason the Bad Guys keep going, even with millions of folks waking up to their shenanegans.  In fact, so-called patriots, Constitutionalists, researchers, and what-evers always end up fighting each other instead of going after the real problem.  What generally happens is that egos get bruised, feelings get hurt, and then people start calling each other feds, or agents provacateur, or CIA plants, or Mossad, or name your poison.  To our credit, we usually save "Nazi" for whoever is in the White House.

So what set this off?  Well, Jesse is hot on the trail of reptilians, and he wanted to interview Icke, Mr. Reptilian.  Jesse barged in like the bull-headed ex-Navy, All-American bone-head that he is famous for, and Icke got his panties in a bunch and proceeded to dice the Jes-ter into little bits.  Then, to finish the job, Icke published the biting article linked at the top

David Icke
OK, so Jesse didn't do his homework, and yes, his interview style has all the depth of a crepe pan, but give the guy some morsels and let him run off and wake some more people up.  At least he's got a popular TeeVee show that gives some credibility to conspiracy theorists, and for a lot of folks, this is the first time they're hearing any of this stuff.

Jesse has his style: ex-Navy Seal, ex-wrestler, ex-governor of Minnesota, and now Mr. I Won't Stand Again.  Sure, his TeeVee show is, hmmm, sophmoric, but so are the minds that are attracted to it.  The jumpy camera  and editing, the choppy pace and melodramatic music, and the growling, grimacing Jesse at the helm.  OK, so it's not up to Limey standards, but so what?  It's having an effect in the right direction.

I mean, c'mon Icke.  You're the one who started all this reptilian stuff based on a couple of mystical experiences, and you harp on your TeeVee star background just as much as Jesse does his Seal bit.

To paraphrase Monty Python, Icke asks people to listen to him because some watery tart threw a sword at him during a farcical aquatic ceremony.  OK, so it wasn't wet swords and slimy women, but it WAS a mystical trance standing on a mound in South America for an hour.  And yes, we know your were a TeeVee star.  Told us many times.

Cuts both ways Icke.

Alex Jones
Icke goes around making 9-hour, extemporaneous speeches to packed houses while pitching his books and videos, while talking about reptilian aliens, talking crystals and Vicky's bloomers.  Ventura goes around blasting his way into things with all the subtety of a rutting ram and yelling, "The Seals are coming!"  Joseph Farrell sits in a darkened room quiety reading and assimilating thousands of years of texts and legends, and writing elegant books with fantastic and painfully footnoted claims.  Alex Jones has been causing ear-drums to bleed for two decades, telling us we're all stupid because we don't get it, and even if we do get it, it's not exactly the way HE sees it.  Jones has shot down many a good effort all because HE didn't agree with the medium of the message, but count him as one of Jesse's starry-eyed groupies.  Rense, Paul, Rockwell, Red Ice Creations, Azmon, Gunderson, Pike, etc. etc. etc. ad nauseum.

Fact is, there are hundreds, maybe thousands of people trying to wake up others in their own way.  We are all blind men trying to describe an elephant.  We each are right, in our own way, but we haven't put the Big Picture together yet.  Everyone is trying to get a handle on this...whatever this is.  We are all proselytizing about how sure we are about our piece of it.  But just because I'm right doesn't make you wrong.

We've got to get past all the bickering and back-biting.  We're all in that part of the map that says, "Here Thar Be Monsters!"  Some people follow the mystics, others the charging bulls, still others the quiet cerebralists.  No one is wrong if the message brings people to the Light.

I used to the be the bull type, which pissed off a lot of folks, especially at a time when no one was ready to hear the message.  Even before Icke was dodging watery tarts throwing swords.  Now I prefer the quiet cerebral approach, partly from what I've found, and partly from what's found me.

the point here is, David ease up on Jesse.  Jesse, ease up on everyone.  Alex, we know you're right, don't need to keep beating us with it.  Ron, keep running.  Maybe one day you'll get a full TWO minutes to talk.

Ron Paul
We're all in this together.  We're all seeking and trying to make sense of the Biggest Picture any of us has ever seen, much less contrmplated.  A thousand roads lead to Rome, but they all end up at the Forum.

I remember one particular experience.  I was tootling around Europe in a rental car with some friends, and we were approaching Aachen, wanting to see Charlemagne's throne.  I was driving and my ex was barking out directions from the map, but what the map didn't readily show was that old European towns are laid out like labyrinth   You have to know just the right place to start turning and you'll end up at the square every time.

So we made three approaches and every time ended up loster 'n' a teenager on prom night.  Finally, I told everyone to be quiet and I put on some soothing music and took us back out to the edge of town.  This time a went purely on feeling, and in 10 minutes we were literally sitting in the parking lot outside the museum.

The point being, some like maps, others ask for directions, and still others go on hunches.  Doesn't matter which you prefer, as long as it works for you.  And no one is stuck in one mode.  You can change any time you like.

I like Icke.  I've gotten lots of good information and leads from his work.  His talks can be very interesting, even after 9 hours.  I like Jesse.  I like that he barges in where others fear to tread, and usually catches folks with their pants down.  Haven't really gotten anything new from him, but I appreciate that he's gotton through to a lot of folks where no one else has.  I like Alex.  Been listening for decades, and I support any fellow Texan on the right track.  Just like Ron.  I'm really hot on Farrell right now.  The man is an ace researcher and first-class intellect.

The point is, inspiration comes in many forms.  For Archemides, it was slipping into a warm bath.  For Hunter Thompson, it was phychotic breaks induced by over-consuption of booze and hallucinogens.  Martin Luther (not King), Newton, Euripedes, Pliny the Elder.  Everyone has something to add, if they are on the right road.

I get so tired of watching people, all supposedly trying to get at the truth, start tearing each other to shreds because of ego.  "If a clod be washed away by the sea, is Europe not the less."  So what if Jesse is a bone-headed Seal?  There are a lot of people who will listen because that gives him credibility.  So what if Icke sees reptiles in human disguise and got his mission in life from doing a Scully in South America.  There are people who will have their minds opened by that.

Joseph P. Farrell
Why do the white hats keep shooting at each other when there's plenty of Rot-shills, Nutty-yahoos, Bammy-bots, and Burn-bankies out there?  I think it's safe to say none of us have all the answers, but we're getting closer if we can stop kicking each other off the May Pole for 10 minutes.

I've got a lot of respect for Hoagland, but if he twists off on another hyper-dimensional whirly-gig in the sky, I'm going to stop listening.  But I sure won't stop others from getting his message and hopefully opening their eyes just a tad bit more.

Honestly, if we can't get along, then why are we trying to wake anyone up?  

1.9.11

To PTB Or Not To PTB

Dr. Joseph P. Farrell
It's becoming obvious that Earth's history is far more complex and interesting than most folks have dared to consider.  In fact, if one follows the logical progression of events in today's headlines, both back and forward into time, one comes to the inescapable conclusion that there is a group of people who have knowledge of secret history and that they are panicked by something related to that hidden history.

One of the most fascinating researchers around today is a fellow named Dr. Joseph P. Farrell, or we call him around here, "Dr. Brain Bomb".  Many readers here may already be familiar with his work, which is impeccable in its scholarly presentation backed up with penetrating study and copious references to ancient and modern texts.  We highly recommend listening to this 3-part interview centered around his latest book, "Grid of the Gods".

Previous articles here have speculated that the PTB are in panic mode.  That seems to be a rational conclusion based on the brazen actions they have taken in recent years.  There is no escaping the observation that a frenetic effort has been undertaken since roughly the turn of the 20th century, and reaching a fever pitch with the rise of the Third Reich.  Subsequent to the appearance of the Nazis, there has been an obvious rush to reach the Moon and planets, as well as secure certain spots on Earth related to great antiquity.

To begin our exploration, it is instructive to read "Flatland".  Wikipedia tells us, "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as "A Square..."  Though the novel works on several levels, we are interested in the thought-experiment of being two-dimensional characters trying to perceive the 3-dimensional Universe.

The reason this helps us is that we will be required to envision a 4-dimensional Universe, in which objects have additional spacial features that exceed heighth, width and breadth.  Though we can describe the fourth dimension mathmatically and test it experimentally, we can not perceive it directly because we are limited to our 3-D brains.

Next, we must study Richard C. Hoagland & Erol Torun's Hyperdimensional model, based on hypothetical mathmatical constants embedded in various landmarks in a region called Cydonia, on Mars.  Though this may cause many readers' eyes to glaze over, it is important to have some idea of the underpinnings for these radically new ideas.

Why is all this important, you might be asking about now.  Because the invasions of Middle Eastern countries and the rush to investigate Mars and Saturn could be symptomatic of an occult (hidden) agenda seeking both unspeakable power, and to protect the ruling elite from...something.

All this seems to begin around the beginning of the 20th century with a literal creative explosion in the realm of physics, focused on a generation of German scientists and mathematicians.  It was further encouraged by the Nazi rejection of General Relativity, because (simply) Albert Einstein was Jewish.  The Nazis pumped massive amounts of money into reconstructing ancient science and seem to have found copious clues to 'rediscover' an ancient physics that imparted great power to the possessor.

How great is this power?  Well, it involves endless free energy, anti-gravity propulsion, the ability to manipulate the physical realm and the capability to engineer space-time itself.  In a nutshell, it imparts god-like power to the person abile to harness it.

A 4-D Cube rendered in 3-D
It is hard to deny that the activities of the Nazis have sparked an explostion in technologies that we take for granted today.  Everything from Hermann Porches' Volkswagen to modern rocketry had their genesis in laboratories and factories in Nazi Germany.

That era also sparked a massive race to the Moon, and it is hard to imagine that the whole effort on the part of two major powers to land on the Moon was based only on the desire to grab some rocks and dust.  We must assume that there was some knowledge to be had there, perhaps a key element that brought the new physics to life.  The only logical explanation for the sudden end of the Apollo program, despite having trained crews and fabricated equipment for another two or three landings, was the successful recovery of some key knowledge.

Where all this ties into today's headlines is that the various countries that have been invaded on the least provocation by the one country that landed on the Moon.  A study of unedited ancient history and some extrapolation leads us to the conclusion that there is additional information, and possibly technology, to be found in the ruins of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Babylon.

There is an apparent pattern of libraries and museums being raided during the various invasions and 'revolutions'.  This occurred both in Iraq and Egypt, with the primary targets being various texts and tablets, since those aret he only items that are never returned and, in fact, mysteriously disappear.

In keeping with this pattern is a place called Nabta Playa, which straddles the border of Lybia and Egypt.  It is approximately 17,000 years old and very mysterious.  It appears to have astronomical data and quantum physical mathematics embedded and encoded in its structure.  That most people have never heard of it makes it even more mysterious.

That all the nations invaded by the US in the past 10 years contain ancient sites and information argues loudly for a search for ancient knowledge whose possession and existence is so sensitive that it must be covered with the fog of war to obscure the hand of those who seek it.

It is axiomatic that when someone goes to extreme effort to distract our attention from something, there must be value in the place we are not to look.  That the Bible spends excessive effort to forbid us to look into the occult sciences, while espousing occult sciences itself, tells us there is something worth knowing there.

It's like any magician.  They go to elaborate legnths to focus our attention on a certain spot in order to hide their manipulations and make us marvel at what we didn't see.

There is no doubt that a multi-layered, multi-contextual game is being played out far above our day-to-day existence.  We can see the pieces being moved in a thousand different ways.  But it is not until we stand back a ways that we can see the game board, even though the rules of the game are still somewhat obscured from our sight.  Even though we are well aware the magician has performed a trick, and we plainly see the results, we are still mystified by the mechanism by which it was achieved.

However, once we know that a trick has been performed, and we see how it was set up and what the result was, we can reverse-engineer the means to achieve the trick.

We can assume that the PTB are panicked, though why is still hidden.  We can say fairly confidently that they are seeking some knowledge that is hidden in ancient texts and monuments, and they are desperate to be the first to possess these things.  They are manipulating the masses through the use of fear, and their power is weakening such that they must employ greater and greater means to instill the fear.  Finally, they are in need of mass human sacrifice in order to maintain and increase their power.  Thus the ongoing slaughter of thousands, even millions of lives in pointless and non-defensive and immoral wars.

We can only speculate what has spooked the PTB.  That they have turned their focus to the Heavens in the past century means that some threat exists out there for which they are preparing.  The only weapon sufficient for their needs is an ancient science and technology that would grant them supreme power.  Controlling the Earth and all its people is insufficient motivation to explain the Herculean effort they have put forth.

Circled area shows Nabta Playa location
Certainly, if they already possessed it, they would not be going to such lengths to ridicule and denegrate and shame anyone who gets close to the Truth.  The ongoing effort to distract us from inquiry into certain areas of study, and the almost maniacal effort to trample researchers who step on the hidden secrets belies a deep-seated fear on the part of the PTB.  They can't affort to have the masses awaken before their work is finished.

The problem we face is the more panicked the PTB become, the bloodier and more maniacal their efforts will become to protect their perceived turf.  We are all in a race against time, thought we have a slight disadvantage.  We must first catch up to them before we can surpass them.  They must find whatever it is they are destroying the Earth to find before we wake up en masse.  And what is the deadline that has made the PTB so wreckless and willing to show so many cards up their sleeve?  Should we all be worried about it, or just them?

And where does all this lead?  That's the truly amazing part of the whole investigation.  As Farrell speculates, the thousands of momuments across the globe appear to be an attempt on the part of the ancients to turn the Earth itself into a machine.  For what purpose is a mystery, but the summation of all the inquires into these massive works and the various energies surrounding them point to the conclusion that someone attempted, and may have succeeded in 'tuning' the Earth.

The ultimate goal is not some New Age voodoo, but rather extreme Old Age science.  Thinking people owe it to themselves and their future to ponder these investigations and seriously consider them as real and very important activities.  It only takes one person to have the spark that will determine the course of future events.  That there is a group among us who would use this information to continue our enslavement in ignorance is without doubt.

If the lack of this knowledge is the cause of our enslavement, then the key to our freedon, and nothing less than a new era of Enlightenment is within our grasp.

It's only a matter of us wanting to be free more than THEY want to enslave us.  We certainly outnumber THEM millions to one.  The scale is tipped with nothing more than study and the willingness to follow where our reason leads us. 

16.8.11

As Above, So Below

Today's one of those days when I let other people do the talking.  Warning, the information coming from the first video, a guy called Santos Bonacci, will blow your socks off, if you're not up to speed on the way things really work in this world.  The other stuff is yet another one of those little confirmations in life that tell me I'm on the right track.  Be very alert.  Behavioral templates are being broadcast all over the place.  We're being softened up for the Main Event, coming to a planet to you.

First, a letter from one of our faithful readers round-abouts Pennsylvania.  If you haven't read Dog Days of August, you might want to give it a once over real quick before going on here.  Enjoy!

Last night my Grandson,aged 22,insisted that I watch a show called "Curiosity". It was all about "what would happen if there was a space invasion". They are getting ready to scare the hell out of people, pounding the airwaves with all kinds of alien crap.  I noticed that they use "invasion". I asked my Grandson what he thought would happen if aliens showed up.  I told him that if I was an alien I wouldn't want to come to the Earth because they kill their own, so they would surely kill any other being. I then told him if he was interested in what was going on that he should look up Illuminati symbols and he would get a whole new outlook on life on this planet.  It will be intersting to hear what he has to say after he does it.  I also gave him my telescope so he could see the night sky.



Next, the MSM brings us...SPACE INVASION!  (I'm not lyin' about this stuff!)



I have a feeling that this 'anti-proton ring' just discovered around Earth figures into the whole plot.  Somehow, it will become a threat to our existence, or at least it will be made to look that way.  I haven't seen any data that proves its existence.  Just a bunch of anonymous 'white coats' talking, so far.

To finish blowing your gaskets completely out, finish off with this five-part series with Joseph P. Farrell on the Byte Show.  It's a lot of listening and even more information, but it should rightly put a little perspective on things.



Tomorrow's Independence Day here in Indonesia, so I'll focus a little attention on my adopted home.  It's really a fascinating place.

Drop us a line after your mind pops...

And now for the parting shot...

4.2.11

BOOK REVIEW: The Cosmic War

TITLE: "The Cosmic War," by Joseph P. Farrell
SUBTITLE: "Interplanetary Warfare, Modern Physics and Acient Texts"
ISBN: 978-1-931882-75-0
PUBLISHER: Adventures Unlimited Press
420ppg., footnotes, bibliography, photos, illustrations
AVAILABLE: Far Side Store, link in side bar

Both the American and Russian space programs, and presumably other nascient programs in other countries, have all performed various tests to study humans in isolation. The tests involve sealing humans and other life forms off from all temporal markers, such as the Sun and Moon cycle, clocks, etc. When that happens, most lifeo n Earth maintain a biological time clock of 24 hours, but humans shift to a 25-hour cycle. The only plents in the Solar System with a 25-hour day is Mars.

Dr. Joseph Farrell, an Oxford-educated professor, who has turned to writing books on rather challenging subjects, has turned his attention to the subject of ancient texts and hyperdimensional physics. If it weren't for the fact given at the opening of this review, this might all be purely academic. However, there is empirical evidence, and strongly suggestive circumstantial evidence, to suggest that Humanity's history is far more complex than our current textbooks would have us believe.

Farrell's jumping off point is to ask, "If the ancient texts of Babylon, Sumeria, Egypt, India, China, Pre-Columbian America, and the Greco-Roman traditions are true, then how does one set out to prove this point? Can we, in fact, find sufficient evidence that the ancient gods and interplanetary war and legends and myths are actual, literal facts?

It turns out that Dr. Farrell can build a rather compelling arguement to that effect. He proceeds to build a framework for further study that includes: timeslines, geneologies, archaeolgies, astronomical observations, physics, and testable hypotheses.

To build his argument, he relies on mainstream translations, testable theories and actual artifacts. His conclusions are no less than astaounding. The implications are that the wars in Iraq and the Middle East, the current events in Egypt, the American (and possibly other) space program, and many other historical events are driven by a desire on the part of 'someone' to locate and possess ancient technology, whose locations and powers are encoded in ancient texts that nearly every major culture has.

While the possibilities are staggaring, they are no less dismissable. Farrell carefully builds his arguement, relying on mainstream research and translations, as well as alternative (but no less compelling) theories from well-known researchers. He relies on Nobel lauriates, peer-reviewed research and established cultural heritages to establish certain facts. Then he proceeds to connect-the-dots, so that the reader can form a bigger picture and begin to consider contexts that heretofore might have seemed too outrageous to contemplate.

The book is divided into three parts: Part One examines the background, Part Two looks at who, what, where, why, when, and how, and Part Three surveys far-flung evidence that begins to prove the case.

In Part One, Farrell takes the ancient myths of many different cultures and looks for overlapping images and narratives, such as a Great Flood, or a Tower of Babel, or Stone Tablets. He pieces together a three-dimensional puzzle to create a unified tapestry with a single picture of ancient warfare, gods decending to Earth and the willful destruction of Earth to squelch rebellion.

Farrell takes in Pre-Columbian American, Hindu, Babylonian, Sumerian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman myths and texts, finding significant overlap in a surprising number of places. Some, such as the Great Flood, might be familiar to the reader, but others, such as the titles and planets associated with certain gods, might not.

The general description of the war and the weapons used to fight it, as well as the outcome, also have significant correlations throughout all the ancient myths and traditions. The reader discovers that the imagry, descriptions and timelines all line up in a remarkably similar way. For instance, ancient American petroglyphs and Babylonian/Egyptian texts seem to show or describe similar events. Stone tablets re-occur in numerous citations throughout multiple traditions. Floods and towers are common themes across many traditions, supposedly unconnected.

In Part Two, Farrell takes the ancient images and asks, 'Can they be explained with modern technology and research?' He then takes the reader on a coherent and well-documented survey of modern science and technology, with an eye to explaining and understanding the ancient in the light of the contemporary.

Here, the reader is given a brief but understandable education in things like hyperdimsional physics, orbital mechanics, scalar weaponry, and other exotic topics. Farrell's talent is that he is able to explain such things in a way that is accessable to the lay-person, while not talking down to the reader. If not fully versed, the reader at least feels comfortable with subjects like Kepler's Law, Zero-Point Energy, Scalar Physics, and Quantum Potential. It's enough that we grasp the concepts without having to learn the depths of the math to understand the connections and the implications.

What's truly earth-shaking in Part Two is not what Farrell discovers, that has all been done, but the connections he draws between seemingling disperate subjects and research, and how he is able to relate it to a single narrative of ancient war and conflict. Furthermore, that humans, or 'someone' was here on Earth to witness these events and record them in our global cultural heritage.

By the end of Part Two, the reader is left reeling, wondering how it is that all these things have been hidden. If all of the postulates that Farrell makes, and his arguements are sound, then why is it we don't know these things and study them in high school?

In Part Three, Farrell asks the question, 'If these things are true, then do we see evidence of them in our Solar System?' The answer, it turns out, is staring us in the face, every night.

The Moon has perplexed thinkers and mathmeticians for centuries. Newton declared that he could explain the physical Universe in every detail but one, the Moon. Once Farrell has completed the catalogue of anomolies concerning the Earth's Moon, the reader is left amazed that these things are not openly discussed.

The problem gets even more complex when Farrell surveys the tremendous number of anomolies on Mars and surrounding Saturn. Even the asteroid belt, normally mentioned only as a source of possible threats to Earth, becomes an open mystery, possibly indicating the existance of a former planet that is now nothing more than rubble.

Farrell goes on to look for evidence that a weaponized technology, capable of destroying planets, could have existed. Here we find things like Valles Marineris on Mars, which fits with a varied and remarkably similar tradition of the 'scarred warrior' in so many ancient legends. He finds evidence of civilizations on other planets capable of not only building highly advanced weaponry, but also spacecraft the size of moons.

Finally, Farrell asks, if there was an advanced civilization that spanned multiple planets in our Solar System, and we see evidence for that, then what has been found on Earth that could back up such a stance? It turns out that there are numerous examples of ancient advanced technolgy that have been, at least, ignored, and at worst, hidden from the general public. These things, usually called 'ooparts,' are simply dismissed as flukes, yet many are indisputable, and in eras before evolutionary theory became dogmatic, they were studied and published in well-regarded literature.

By the conclusion, the reader is way ahead of Farrell. He doesn't explicitely verbalize the obvious, but the reader can draw the strings together without help, at this point. If there was an advanced civilization, which spanned the Solar System (at least) at one point, and it had science and technology that we are only just now rediscovering, and that technology is scattered across the Solar System, and secret societies have maintained some deeper knowledge and undertanding of the myths and legends most of us dismiss in the modern era, then what does it mean for the individual?

If, as the reader has seen throughout the book, the myths are true, then key pieces of the technology would be hidden in places like Egypt, Iraq, the near side of the Moon, and certain regions of Mars. If someone believes that the myths are true, then do we see evidence of that today? How about wars in the Middle East, Apollo missions to the Moon, and the floatilla of craft that have been aimed at Mars?

By the end of the book, the reader can clearly see a grand design to so many events, escalating since the beginning of the 20th century. There is suddenly a strong thread of history that appears focused on recovering what most of us assume is nothing more than legend and allegory.

We are even able to believe that Yahweh has a family tree, that Lucifer tells the tale of a real being, that stone tablets contained software and targeting information, and that every major secret society has been trying to recover the weapons in the myths for centuries, at least as far back as the Crusades. Indeed, even the freakish weather of the past few years could be explained, under Farrell's theory, as evidence that someone found parts of the technology, and have made it work again.

At the close of the book, one is left with the impression that we have too long ignored these topics at our own peril. If someone in our contemporary society believes these things exist, and is actively pursuing the remnants of the technology using our tax money, our resources and our planetary survival in the process, then we must quickly start to look in the right places. Failure to do so is at our collective risk.

The technology could be sufficient to destroy entire planets and confer 'universal hegimony' on those who possess it. From all appearences, someone is using our lives and our wealth to regain those technologies, whether we believe in them or not. Furthermore, if they really exist, as Farrell's arguement presents, then we have a duty to ensure that no one person or group controls that kind of power, and that its existance be openly and honestly debated.

Though Farrell presents the matter dispassionately and in the highest scholarly fashion, the implications are clear and the urgency manifest. He has done a remarkable job in outlining the debate and building a roadmap for further research.

It is clearly up to the reader to use the information to effect change in society. How many wars could have been averted? How many ?lives spared? What agendas would we all be privvy to at this point?

Farrell makes it quite clear that the time for global dialogue has come and that the first order of business is Truth. It is our collective heritage and it is time to put it all on the table.

15.1.11

Malam Minggu

Just flew in from Singapore, and boy are my arms tired!

It's Malam Minggu (Saturday night) in the Big Durien (hey, if New York can be the Big Apple, then Jakarta is the Big Durien) and I spent the whole day in S'pore meeting with some associates. I like to think of S'pore as the model Benign Fascist State. If you stay within the boundaries, life is pretty smooth and efficient, but if you step even one centemeter over The Line, watch out!

One advantage of going out is that I can hit the Duty Free, even though Indonesia's limits are a bit draconian. I can only bring in one liter of alcohol (liquor or wine, beer doesn't count) and 200 grams of tobacco, which means one carton of smokes, 50 cigars or 200 grams of cut leaf. Of course, I couldn't buy cigs any cheaper than Indonesia, even in North Carolina, so forget that. But I did manage a few Cubanos (eat your heart out Americans) and a liter of fine Scotch Whiskey. Altogether, my imports can't exceed US$250.

Now I haven't had a good bottle of Scotch Whiskey since I got here three years ago. When I got home, the wife couldn't sleep, even though she had a rough day at the rat races. So, I fixed her a traditional Irish lullabye: a good dram of whiskey, some sugar, some milk, and a couple of rocks. She's out like a light now. Indonesians are cheap dates. Takes about one shot of high octane to knock 'em out.

I'm going straight with two diamonds. It's good sippin' stuff, so I'm nursing it along with my cigar on the front porch.

The plane was about half full, which is unusual, but it's post-New Year and not yet Imlec (Chinese New Year), so things are quiet.

The Indonesian government recently released its people. For the longest time, there was a $100 tax by sea and a $250 tax if by air for a citizen to leave the country, if they didn't have an NPWP, which is the Indo version of the Social Security number. As of January 1st, the tax was repealed. Combined with a metric ton of cheap air fares, there's about to be a bunch of Indos flooding the global tourism offices.

The wife went down to renew her passport the other day and the mob was, well, a mob. This has basically taken the reigns off the Indo middle class. After all, the tax raised the price of a trip to S'pore 200% for the average Indo, who didn't have an NPWP.

Now, you might ask why good little citizens don't have tax numbers. Well, most Indo don't have a Social Security number. Most don't earn enough to pay tax, anyway. The few who do, earn enough to pay for all the rest. Such is an oligarchy.

The tax was designed to rip off foreigners who were exporting Indo maids, which is a global pasttime, even if you don't know about it. US tax laws prevent Americans from enjoying the luxuries that most of the rest of the world takes for granted. Kasihan deh loe.

The tax was penalizing the middle class, though, who don't have NPWP either. Recent developments, over the past ten years, have created a very properous middle class here in Indonesia, and they want to go out and see so world, too.

Anyway, the wife and I are taking advantage of the cheap airfares and her new-found freedom, to plan a trip to Hong Kong in April. We want to visit Kowloon Island and Macau Island. The package deal, with hotel, is $200/person, airfare and 4/3 in a four-star hotel. Could be worse.

I can get more of less the same deal to Phuket, Bangkok, Singapore, Ho Chi Min, Kuala Lumpur, and Taipei. For Bali, it's even cheaper, as in rediculous.

For you folks playing at home, you may want to check out AirAsiago.com, and see if you can't combine a package to get a cheap Asian vacation to exotic locations.

Damn! Just dipped my cigar in whiskey and a cool breeze kicked up. The neighborhood kids are in the park with their guitars wooing their pacar.

The house cat, Jeruk/Orange, slung a litter of milk-suckers Monday night. Give of them to be exact. Three greys, named Kerakatau, Merapi and Bromo (local volcanoes), a calico names Campur (mix), and another orange that I call JJ (Jeruk Juga, or orange also).

God is in His Heaven and all is right with the world.

Or is it?

Just to the south of me, in Queensland, they are having the test by fire, only with water. Brazil is under water. A good part of the States stand to me inundated when the thaw comes. Europe too. The economy is tanking. The world is flying apart at the seams. For some of us, it's the calm before the storm. For others, the storm hath arrived. For yet even others, the storm hath passed. What remains is the question of the hour.

My colleague Clif High, at HalfPastHuman.com has posted a recent article that we Asian dwellers would do well to read.

The cigar and whiskey are working their magic. The mind is open and the tongue is loose.

And so, the words and whiskey begin to flow. Who knows what will pop out next. A word of shameless promotion: if you need a writer with award-winning skills in multiple formats, drop a line to luap.jkt@gmail.com. Whether it's articles, scripts, copy, tech manuals, or really anything written, I promise to spell check before sending along. Word-smithing ain't just a job, it's a living!

And so, with that, I bid adieu. I'm going to finish my straight-two-diamonds and a fine cigar. And I'll leave you with this thought:

Cowboys are FROM Texas, but they ain't necessarily IN Texas.

Teaser: coming soon-review of "The Cosmic War," by Joseph P. Farrell, and an interview with webbot cowboys. Jack in, tune out and let the bits byte.

And while you're planning your home garden, don't forget the medicinal herbs.