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16.4.20

The Game Is Afoot

MIRANDA      Oh, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in ’t!
- The Tempest, Act 5 Scene 1, William Shakespeare

It is safe to say we are no longer in Kansas, Toto.  Sometime last October, the Central Communist Party of China robbed the world of its past and created a fork in the road to our future.  Whether that is for the better or worse is the question we must now address.

The China most of us have known our entire lives is finished.  Either by internal upheaval, or external shunning, or both, the Maoist regime is not long for this world.  This is certainly for the better.  China's fate is sealed and we need not waste too much time on it, but to say "good riddance."

Our primary issue now is the cause of this situation.  No, it's not a virus - that is just product of the Original Error.  No, the error we must address was committed by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in 1972, and perpetuated by the Bush Crime Family (BCF).

The Western corporate interests had cast their gaze upon Japan, and saw that it was good.  In the aftermath of World War 2, Japan was a smoking ruin barely out of its feudal age.  The geopolitical Chess Players saw an opportunity for cultural hegemony that would at once neutralize a powerful adversary, and offer a vast supply of cheap labor.

The Players set about building Japan in their own image.  At first, it was mini parasols for their Mai Tais on the beach, but slowly the manufacturing industry built up to cars and electronics.  In fact, the Players were so successful in rebuilding Japan that by the late 1960s, the country challenged the financial power of Western corporate elites.

Something had to be done.

The Players hatched a plan to move their operations to China.  A billion staving peasants led by a powerful and highly corrupt elite offered the perfect playground.  Here was an unending supply of cheap, mind-controlled labor and a leadership that could itself be led around by the nose with a little cash.  It also served as a buffer against the Soviet Union, and was a powerful influence in Asia.  One octopus, many tentacles.

Keep in mind that the Fascists and the Communists were mortal ideological enemies.  We should also note that China has evolved into a hybrid of Fascism and Communism.  The State owns all political and financial power, while fostering a racial superiority complex and fantasies of global domination.

After facing off against China in Korea and Vietnam, and seeing it cozy up more and more with Russia, the Players needed to control such a powerful force and sway it to their side - like a Master calling a dog to heel..

Kissinger, a crypto-fascist, was made National Security Adviser to Nixon in 1969.  In that position, he stage managed some of the most egregious violations of human rights of the 20th century across Southeast Asia and South America - no small feat in a century full of Hitlers and Stalins.  Having proved his usefulness and his complete lack of conscience to the Players, he was advanced to greater responsibility.

Nixon, a rabid anti-Communist and fresh off a re-election campaign that swept the nation out from under the Democrats, was easy to convince.  In 1972, he spent seven days touring prospective sites for new plants and discussing China's role in avoiding labor rights and workplace safety regulations that had made US products so expensive to produce.  Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai had no problem throwing his people under the bus, and even Mao Zedong gave his blessing to the rape of his nation, as long as he enjoyed plenty of perks for he and his cronies.

In the position of SecState, Kissinger was tasked with solidifying diplomatic relations with China, a country that had been virtually sealed off from the world since the Cultural Revolution in 1966.  He engineered the deals that would be consummated by the US Senate and would allow US corporations, then just emerging as global forces of their own, free rein to exploit Chinese workers with near-impunity and with almost no regulation.

And thus was born the Age of Globalism.

China's legendary corruption would allow the Players to use it as the global hub for manufacturing.  China, for its part, would farm out assembly work to Southeast Asia, while sucking up vast quantities of resources across the hemisphere.  The Players could deploy their financial tools all across the region and reap profits coming and going.

For their part, the US mega-corps would handle marketing and finance.  With innovations like Just-In-Time delivery, the products finished in China would essentially be inventoried in transit, eliminating the need for expensive warehousing, and creating an endless pipeline of gee-gaws and widgets to markets across the globe.

The US government sent out hordes of Economic Hitmen, who arranged dollar-denominated loans to emerging economies, which in turn would buy greater and greater quantities of gee-gaws and widgets, and service the debt with more dollars.  This effectively made the US dollar the global must-have currency and propelled US mega-corps into realms of profits unseen since the Dutch East Indies Company in the 1600s (exploiting the same region of the world too).

In the US, politicians became more and more corrupt themselves.  They found it expedient to sell America's research and development to China, since there were almost no labor or environmental restrictions.  The politicians grew fabulously wealthy and greedy.  Gangs like the BCF, the Clintons, the Obamas, the McCains, the Pelosis, and the Bidens fell all over themselves to sell secrets to China for a piece of the pie, while placing their spawn on boards of directors to ensure the correct amount of cash was being allocated.

They sent unsecured information to their private servers or GMail accounts, where it was easily passed off to Chinese interests.  Those interests in turn laundered profits, aid payments and grants through layers of Western banks and shell corporations, and then made sizable donations to various Foundations, where the money entered the waiting pockets of the Players.

We pause here to give credit where due.  It was the BCF who designed and implemented this intricate system, and was the reason Godfather GHW was first made CIA Director, then Vice President, then President, then head of a dynasty of presidents, governors and policy makers that would make a Kennedy green with envy.

The politicians received kick-backs from the vast piles of cash handed out in the form of aid and grants to "developing" nations.  Favored Central Party apparatchiks headed up corporations that secretly vacuumed up other companies, and themselves became fabulously wealthy.  The growing power, wealth and global influence excited the CCP elites and they pushed further and faster despite warnings from their Western Masters.

The corruption grew exponentially, and it started becoming obvious to anyone willing to look at it.  The Players used their media assets to create Conspiracy Theorists.  Anyone who saw through the thin veil covering these activities was labelled and marginalized to prevent the rubes from waking up.

At the same time, all of humanity was commoditized for the Players' amusement.  Our taxes were handed out as "aid" (USAID) and "grants" (science mega-projects like CERN and Global Warming).  Significant amounts of cash were kicked back to the Players.  Anyone useful who wanted to join the Players had to seal the deal with a heinous crime - say abusing children.  This ensured silence and allowed the Game to roll on unabated in spite of the increasingly visible corruption.

The ease with which the Players fleeced humanity, the effectiveness of their media tools and the strength of their internal bonds made them lower their guard.  They got sloppy and increasingly saw themselves as untouchable.  Their hubris made them weaker at the moment they perceived themselves to be at their peak of power.

The Players, though, needed an insurance policy against the masses.  They needed a means to hit the pause button if too many rubes started to smell the rot.  The most effective tool in the box was bioweapons, but global bans on such research made R&D problematic.  They were, however, easily transportable, almost undetectable, and if you had the cure, you were invulnerable.

So, they turned to China again.

The gross corruption and complete lack of regulation in China allowed the Players to operate bioweapon labs with impunity.  No oversight, a compliant and well-controlled population, and a national media that never asked questions presented the ideal environment to study, develop and weaponize viruses and bacteria.  Even the patents could be quietly filed and maintained without oversight, since the CCP would never bite the hand that feeds it.  China's well-established shipping and logistics as a manufacturing hub gave it nearly unlimited access to all regions of the globe.

then the unthinkable happened.

The Players lost control of the 2016 elections in the UK and US.  In the ensuing chaos, the established pecking order among the Players got tossed.  They panicked and each faction thought they had the most to lose and the best solution.  Competing crime families began jostling for greater power and control.  All the infighting led to hasty decisions and sloppy execution.  All efforts to subdue and destroy the competing factions were ineffective, and time was short.  The rubes were waking up.

The dominant Players decided it was time to hit the pause button.  A plague was distributed during the military games in southern China:
"The 2019 Military World Games, officially known as the 7th CISM Military World Games and commonly known as Wuhan 2019, was held from October 18–27, 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei, China."
During the Games, the various blocs would receive vials of the virus that could be easily stashed in all the gear they were shipping around with no customs interference.  The virus was to be released simultaneously throughout the world, thus obfuscating the source.

It appears to the keen observer that something went terribly wrong.  The virus was released too early and practically on the doorstep of the Wuhan Virology Lab.

Even worse, the world (us rubes) did not respond as expected.  A global population, increasingly distrustful of standard authority systems, and wary of the media mind-control, did not respond to the installed triggers.  No one panicked, and instead began questioning and researching.  The non-standard information outlets that had developed over the years became the trusted sources.

The early release in Wuhan and failed attempts to hide or dismiss it allowed the world to react quickly by shutting borders and setting up medical responses.

The infection pattern clearly implicated Wuhan as the epicenter and citizen journalists began digging before the cover-up could be effected.  The Players hastily triggered Iran, Italy and New York to deflect attention.  It was too late, though.  All the pieces weren't in place yet and the Plan was exposed.

And let's not forget that the US and other navies have been particularly hard hit, while the Chinese navy seems unscathed.  Seems the PLA ordered heavy doses of Vitamin C in the early going, knowing that the chemical is a strong anti-viral and is what brought the COVID-19 virus to the lab's attention in the first place.

Additionally, it appears that the use of hydroxychloroquine as a remedy, negating the need for expensive and protracted vaccine development, was not supposed to get out.  The cheap, tested and easily available drug was for the Players, not the rubes.  We were supposed to wait, pay and die while the Players lollygagged around "developing a vaccine."  Someone in the chain had let the cat out of the bag and the Players have been scrambling around trying to distract the rubes from this simple cure, but it's too late.  The honest doctors picked up on the cure and have been administering it with surprising success, given the way these things normally progress.  The cure went out in weeks, not years.

So here we are.  The Old World has passed away.  That was the intention all along - crash the global economy and cause the rubes to cling to authority out of sheer dread.  What has upset the apple cart is that there is at least one, possibly more, factions looking to use the chaos to take over the Family Business.

The power struggle within the ranks of the Players is a primary issue, but what complicates things is that the rubes aren't panicking - well, except for the toilet paper bandits.  We quietly retreated to our homes, pulled our kids out of the indoctrination centers, stopped listening to the Mockingbird Programming, and picked up some hydroxychloroquine on the way home.

The Weapon was triggered before the Plan had been fully implemented.  At that point, the Players were playing catch-up with the rubes, trying desperately to distract the rubes and get them back in the corral.  The Geezer Media has adopted a policy of contradicting everything.  They are recycling carefully staged video segments of death and destruction.  The Players are constantly hammering their "vaccine" cure.  They are constantly floating their "track and trace" programs.  Every conceiveable tool has been pressed into service to stuff the genie back in the bottle.

It's not working.

The world has two clear paths from here.  The end of globalism will lead either to a new cultural nationalism that rejects the Players and adheres to real community and self-reliance, or it will lead to a new feudalism of competing warlords and their herds of serfs.  The former seems very bright and promises what may be a new Golden Age, while the latter is dark and foreboding and dooms humanity to servitude for centuries.

Whither from here?

8.9.18

To Q Or Not To Q

We want to express our sincerest thanks to Jeff Rense and his team for their invaluable support.  If this topic interests you, please keep an eye on the Rense Radio Network for exclusive content and updates as we ferret out the Q.

Previous posts:
Deep Throat v, Q
Q The Conspiracy - A Phenomenon
The Gospel According To Q
A-Marketing We Will Q
The Name Of The Q
Q The LARP Carp
Spe-Q-lating On Q
In The Twilight Of The Q
Jonesing For Q
Analyzing Q-Analysis

Note that this article was posted on 8 September, or 8/9, or 8+9=17=Q.  Coincidence?

Just when I think I can get away from Q for a time and think about something else for a bit, Q starts dropping over a hundred new posts that require some attention, because it seems that Q is determined to put on a show for the masses.

First, there was some weird activity on this site, where there were thousands of hits in a regular pattern averaging roughly 300 an hour.  Was this an attempt to mount a DDoS attack?  Or was it a White Knight trying to drive up search engine visibility?  Maybe Q was sending me a message?

Secondly, Q twice posted a Google search for "Qanon," which showed 3.8 million hits.  Of course, the Q-vians crowed about the Rise of Q and the mythical public awareness growing.

Being the curious guy that I am, I did a search on "Bernard Grover," and guess what?  I got over 5 million hits.  I can only conclude that I am bigger than Q - at least for now; just putting some perspective on the matter.


I suspect that most of what we are seeing in the MSM (i.e. GeezerMedia) right now is all part of an elaborate multi-pronged trolling psy-op that includes Q's drops, Trump's histrionics and a number of humiliating events for the media boys in the Mockingbird press.

The media, the pundits, the Democrats and the masses are all being set up for what appears to be some enormous crescendo in October, just before the mid-term elections.  Q has alluded to this by referring to "Red October" (e.g. Q1957), in the sense of a wave of revelations beneficial to Republicans just prior to the polls opening.

Somewhat more interesting is that all of this seems to be heating up in the wake of John McCain's death, which Q strongly implies was forced on him - with the Q-vians suspecting everything from a mandatory suicide (the Rommel Option) to the death sentence from a secret military tribunal and court martial.

In fact, Q went silent a few days before McCain's exit, and then went absolutely ballistic immediately following, dropping over 200 posts in the past two weeks.  Read that as you will, but the Q-vians see it as McCain's death having removed some kind of block or hinderance allowing Q much greater latitude.

For more information on the whole McCain event, please see the bottom of my previous post, The Q Prophesy.  This includes a video clip of Governor John Kasich saying plainly that McCain was "put to death".  I take this with a grain of salts, as it may be part of the grand misdirection around the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings for the US Supreme Court - more on that in a moment.

What happened next is positively spectactular, or at least it would be if it were in any way verifiable and true.

Q claimed to have taken down several CIA servers, collectively called Snow White, and killed an entire fleet of CIA and MI-6 (British) spy satellites.  Snow White is an array of seven super-computers used by the CIA, each with the name of one of the Seven Dwarves from the fairy tale (Sleepy, Grumpy, Doc, etc.).

Q also claimed to have disabled the KH-9 HEXAGON satellite, also known as "Big Bird," as well as several of the Corona constellation.

See Q2008 - Q2018.

Q concludes the series of posts with the somewhat cryptic note (Q2021):








Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: d9f30e No.2807228









Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: d9f30e No.2807174

GCHQ Bude sent DISTRESS SIG 8:09 EST.
NSA NO MORE.
Q
>>2807174
Main frequency bands TERMINATED.
#Goodbye
Q
This is an extraordinary set of claims that, as Carl Sagan would say, requires extraordinary proof.  It may not shock readers here to know that "proof" is notably missing in this case.

There is no way for us lowly civilians to verify the incapacitation or destruction of CIA servers.  By definition, spook servers are not going to show up on global Net maps, nor is the CIA likely to put out a press release announcing that Q has shut down their Net operations.  Neither would GCHQ nor MI-6, for that matter.

Q simply states these things as true, and in keeping with the religious nature of the Q-vian Movement, they take the whole thing on faith and crow about how wonderful this all is, despite the fact that it would seem a significant part of national security has been compromised.

Then there's the issue of the satellites.  Aye, there's the rub.

Some Q-vians say that the satellites were literally destroyed.  Apparently, they have no clue about orbital dynamics and the careful navigation required to keep things from bumping into each other "up there".  Nor do they seem to consider that disabled/destroyed satellites pose a lethal danger to humans and other assets on orbit.  The reader may want to re-watch the film Gravity.

The Q-vians also seem not to realize that there are global networks of amateurs who spend unreasonable numbers of hours tracking and imaging spacecraft - especially spy satellites.  We won't even mention the foreign governments who also do this.

Refer to Q2008 to Q2021, from 5:30pm to 7:15pm 30 August 2018.  Please ignore the lack of proof.  The Q-vians certainly had no problem doing that.

If the reader is unaware, disabling a fleet of satellites, or worse, destroying them, would leave anywhere from tens to thousands of lethal projectiles in orbit that could easily destroy other valuable assets, or possibly pose a serious danger to manned flights centered around the space station.  I doubt seriously even Q wants that kind of mess on its hands, regardless of the marketing value it would bring.

I will not attempt to address the presumed list of felonies Q says it committed by hacking/disabling/destroying government intelligence assets.  Nor will I address the presumed act of war implied by attacking and disabling the intelligence network of another nation, but if anyone wanted to prosecute such acts, they are openly admitted..

At the risk of sounding crass and violating Family Hour rules, I'm going to call bullshit on this one.

Despite the obsessive nature of Q-vians listing "proofs" of Q's "reality" and actions, they glossed right over these extraordinary claims as gospel truth without a single commentator that I've heard addressing the issues critically.

Taken on its face, though, Q has now claimed intimate knowledge of a murder/suicide/execution a priori.  This may also imply having a hand in such a deed, though all of the evidence is completely circumstantial.  We have no way to independently verify whether John McCain had cancer, nor do we have an official autopsy report stating cause of death.  All of it is completely assumed by everyone at every level without some objective evidence.

We also have Q claiming to have disabled/destroyed the intelligence networks of both the US and the UK.  Again, we have no independent, objective evidence of these claims, though the implications are rather serious, both from a national security and international diplomacy standpoint.

Assuming they are true for the sake of argument, then the Q Psy-Op has reached a new level, having gone from the dissemination of information implicating public figures in serious crimes, to actual real-world activities that have taken at least one life and endangered millions more.

In my opinion, this hardly seems like the activities of a benign entity trying to expose corruption in the Deep State swamp.

If McCain was suidided/executed, then this amounts to murder, since he did not receive a public trial and the evidence against him was not presented to us for evaluation and verdict.  Any presumed trial was a secret military tribunal, and this worries the bejezuz out of me if no one else.  Secret military tribunals are not an acceptable feature of American jurisprudence.

In addition, disabling/destroying intelligence assets bought and paid for with tacpayer dollars ostensibly spent to keep the populace safe and secure implies a lack of regard for the people Q claims to be helping, not to mention that an attack on the assets of a foreign nation constitutes a clear and present danger to that nation, and thus an act of war.

Thus, the Q-vians - if they were using logic as commanded by Q - are in a conundrum.  If they reject the claims of Q in the absence of confirming evidence, then they risk calling their faith into question.  On the other hand, if they accept these actions as a true, necessary and justifiable course of action, then they are uncritically complicit in the implied crimes.

This is a bit of a tar baby for the Q Community that none of them are directly addressing.  Rather, they simply accept it on faith and move on to the next presumed event in their collective name.

To return to the issue of the Kavanaugh hearings mentioned above, it seems to me that all of these things tie in together.

The hearings began on a raucous note, with Democratic members of the committee doing everything in their power to disrupt and delay the proceedings almost from the moment the gavel struck.  Then there were the protesters in the Peanut Gallery (an apt term) chanting and yelling incoherently to also try and delay the proceedings.  This immediately made headlines all over the GeezerMedia.  The various outlets were falling all over themselves to cast the disrupters in a heroic light, trying to cash in on the spectacle for election value.

Now, if I were Q/Trump and I needed to shut down the news cycle - or at least usurp it - I might produce an anonymous op-ed for the New York Times full of sensational claims of chaos in the White House.  I might cast it as penned by a brave upper-level insider (maybe a cabinet member) and mention the 25th Amendement to get everyone chasing their tails.

And sure enough, the Kavanaugh hearings virtually vanished from the front pages and lead stories.  Suddenly, there was no story but the anonymous op-ed.

As a bonus, I might later reveal that it was a planted scam just to punk the GeezerMedia and create a huge cloud of doubt over anything they said or published.

Classic psy-op, achieving multiple beneficial goals with one simple action - a multi-layered nuanced operation of incredible simplicity that elevated the White Hats, shot huge holes in the Black Hats, and ensured the selection of the chosen nominee and electoral victory at the polls, while silencing an adversarial media.

In any event, Q seems to have entered a new and dangerous phase in which it is now acting in the real world on real people and things.  This is no longer an "educational" effort, but a true war in every sense of the word.

It is vital for the Q-vians to ask themselves critically whether they accept these premises on faith, or whether they will ask some serious and probing questions about the entity they are following so patriotically and blindly.

Whether empty claims or real, I am now moving solidly into the anti-Q camp on principle alone.  Either Q has committed real acts that demand objective evidence in support, or Q is outright lying in order to garner support among its followers.  In either case, I cannot justify or condone such things, as they are no better than the presumed actions of the Deep State actors Q claims to be fighting.

One cannot surrender one's principles and ethics in order to fight an enemy that supposedly lacks such principles and ethics.  Doing so puts both sides at fault without justification.

"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause."

=============================================
These beg for replies:

Pandava16.9.18
You are using lots of virtue signaling to dismiss Q. Must a satellite be destroyed physically to be 'destroyed'? Q talks a lot of things that we never heard before and that we cannot verify. Does that mean that they're lies? Q is another resource for patriots in their fight against the Deep State. That fight will go on with Q's help or without it. You are clearly not seeing that the focus is on the Patriots not Q. In a sense, we are all Q.

Morals are objective, not subjective as Progressive virtue signaling requires.  I have taken a moral stance and presented my reasoning.  That is far from the emotional rants that highlight virtue signaling.

Destroyed or inactivated, the satellites are uncontrollable and thus present a danger to orbiting humans and assets, as well as folks on the ground should they de-orbit.  Furthermore, presumably shutting down the satellites endangers millions because the intel is lost and the "bad guys" can't be tracked.

Maybe you have not heard of the things Q mentions, but they have been thoroughly researched by real people for decades, with hundreds of books and real evidence, and they have all been labeled as kooks and "conspiracy theorists" for their efforts.  

I have met Jim Marrs and talked with him face-to-face.  I have seen his evidence and read and listened to his arguments, and have concluded he was at least on the right track.  Q is (ahem) anonymous and neither you nor I have any clue what it is, and hundreds of links to articles and tweets does not evidence make.  There is no way to assess the veracity, integrity or sincerity of Q.  If given the choice to believe Jim Marrs or Q, I would choose Jim every time.

And who are the Patriots (besides a football team)?  Every commentator has a different operating definition.  I consider a patriot to be one who defends his home, family and possessions from ANY enemy, including and especially governments.

Anonymous16.9.18
300 hits to your website in an hour does not a DDoS make. Maybe 300/second is a low level DDoS.

Second, you are not more popular than Qanon in terms of google hits because your search was without double quotes, which means google returned results for "Brendan" or "Grover", to get the search hits on yourself, double quote the search term "Brendan Grover", comes out to 11,300.

I know what a DDoS attack is, which is why I dismissed that possibility.  In the interest, I list it as a possibility for the sake of completeness.

You apparently don't understand satire, but to reiterate, I know I am not more famous than Q.  However, the Q posts that listed the results did not specify double quotes, and so anyone following this without knowledge of Boolean search strings would be misled due to lack of clear information, which is one of my primary gripes against Q.  Also, "Bernard Grover" is not the only way I am listed across the internet, so who knows what the true count is?  I've never bothered to check.

As for those who say that Trump indeed signed an EO declassifying the FISA warrant, please provide a link to the publicly published text.  Cannot?  Coincidence?  All I have seen are excuses why it is still not released now 1 full week after the EO was supposedly issued.  Q predicted its release, and it hasn't been released.  Plain, simple observation and another fail for Q.

25.8.18

The Q Prophesy

We want to express our sincerest thanks to Jeff Rense and his team for their invaluable support.  If this topic interests you, please keep an eye on the Rense Radio Network for exclusive content and updates as we ferret out the Q.

Previous posts:
Deep Throat v, Q
Q The Conspiracy - A Phenomenon
The Gospel According To Q
A-Marketing We Will Q
The Name Of The Q
Q The LARP Carp
Spe-Q-lating On Q
In The Twilight Of The Q
Jonesing For Q
Analyzing Q-Analysis

27Aug2018 - IMPORTANT UPDATE AT END OF ARTICLE

After I post this article, I am tempted to vanish from the face of the internet, leaving folks to spend years speculating whether there is symbolism in the 13th article on Q Prophesy having some obscure relationship to the 13 Illuminati bloodlines, but alas - and much to the chagrin of the critics - my encodings are much more subtle than that.

Having peeled away a half-dozen layers of the Q Phenomenon, examining the nuts and bolts of how it works, and speculating on why it is being deployed, we turn now to the ever-morphing prophesies of Q.

This would be as simple as shooting fish in a barrel but that so many people have fallen for this simple trick - used by carnival "mind readers" for centuries.  I highly recommend Steve Martin's greatest film performance in Leap of Faith, co-starring fellow Texan Meat Loaf, as a primer for what follows.

As author and researcher Joseph P. Farrell has often said, when you control both the prophesy and its interpretation, it is easy to control its fulfillment, as well.

Keep in mind that my Q source is qanon.pub, the widely accepted resource for Q-vians, and that Q is allowed to speak for itself.  I have not edited or amended the Drops in any way on the screenshots, and only noted a grammatical error on the copied text.

Also please note that the Qanon.pub and SerialBrain2 sites attempted to extract potentially identifying information from my computer without the use of cookies (screen canvas information).  If the reader is concerned, you are advised to use VPN or TOR to access these sites.

Let's begin, as all good stories do, at the beginning.

Q first posted on 4chan on 28 October 2017, with some very specific "predictions":
Anonymous ID: gb953qGI No.147005381 
Oct 28 2017 14:33:50 (EST)
>>146981635
Hillary Clinton will be arrested between 7:45 AM - 8:30 AM EST on Monday - the morning on [sic] Oct 30, 2017.
>>147005381
HRC extradition already in motion effective yesterday with several countries in case of cross border run. Passport approved to be flagged effective 10/30 @ 12:01am. Expect massive riots organized in defiance and others fleeing the US to occur. US M’s will conduct the operation while NG activated. Proof check: Locate a [sic] NG member and ask if activated for duty 10/30 across most major cities. [Ed. - HRC is Hillary Rodham Clinton, NG is national guard, M is military, according to Q interpreters]

This post precedes Q taking on its current name, but subsequent "drops" have referred back to this and other early posts, so we can assume that this is the actual Q writing.

Every internet search, and I am fairly proficient at Boolean search strings, has turned up circular references to this drop.  There are exactly zero "mainstream" references to Clinton being arrested on 30 October 2017.  There are zero references to National Guard and military deployments at that time (though they were activated in the wake of Hurricane Maria).  There are zero references to rioting in the streets.  There are zero reports of Clinton's travel being restricted, and in fact she subsequently went to India and New Zealand, among others.

Both Q and its supporters will point to Clinton wearing a surgical boot in December of 2017, as proof that she was arrested and tagged to prevent flight.  They further point to Clinton wearing an arm cast in March of 2018, saying both these incidents show she was hiding a GPS tracking bracelet as part of her arrest and arraignment.

It could also be that the Q social network model (see The Silence of the Q) thought that this post would be the best way to gain attention quickly, then it could switch from 4chan to 8chan claiming to have been hacked, thus distancing itself from this early, and apparently wildly wrong prediction if it became a liability.

While I admit that Boot & Cast is a plausible scenario, it is much more likely that the US narrowly avoided electing a president who is quite sick and has trouble navigating independently.

I, for one, would be gratified to see Clinton arrested and tried for her crimes, but I am far more likely to believe court dockets and orange jumpsuits, than anonymous posters in usenet groups with unfounded speculation on medical devices.  We will call this one a FAIL for Q.

Q then moved to 8chan, or InfinityChan however you please, and began its meteoric rise through the internet Blab-o-sphere.  It has since made all sorts of claims and predictions (1,931 posts as of this writing), usually ex post facto, regarding a great number of events.

I call this the "shotgun approach," in which a carnie makes a slurry of predictions hoping one will hit something.  Generally, people will remember the hits and gloss over the misses because of the seemingly sensational nature of the hit.  There are numerous expositions of this technique at work, some of the best of which were done by Harry Houdini and James Randi.

Let's now turn to a recent "prediction" by Q.  Keep in mind that as of the moment I write this, Q has "dropped" an average of 214 messages per month, or roughly 7 per day, many of which contain explicit or implicit predictions about future events.  Like a carnie mind-reader, Q puts these "predictions" in the form of questions, allowing the reader to supply the answers

Q tells us that "future proves past," thus any occurrence that fits the parameters of the predictions can be said to "fulfill" them and so be a "proof" that Q has inside knowledge of events.  It's the same thing as a carnie saying, "My spirit guide tells me that someone lost a close relative in the past few months."  The woman leaping out of her chair yelling, "That's me!" becomes the "mark".

Most of the predictions, unlike the one we previously reviewed, do not contain specific dates and times, nor even specific details.  This is akin to me saying that on some day in the near future, the Sun will rise, and when it does I claim that it is proof of my paranormal ability to "see" future events.  The way I word predictions can lead the observer to infuse meaning into supposed fulfillment, which is a common technique used by Q.

Q Drop 1919
The reader will recall that on 16 August 2018, three, four or was it nine planes were forced to make emergency landings in South America due to bomb threats.

Immediately, we have a problem in that there are three different versions of the story, with three different counts of the number of flights affected (3, 4, 9).

The same day (16 Aug), Q drops #1919.  Q claims that it was four planes and the event happened within a week of it posting four "BOOM"s with the note [next week] (QDrop 1846, see below).

There was no mention of Russian media reporting nine, nor of Fox initially reporting four, but the next day dropping the count to three.

Furthermore, QDrop 1846 appears to be referencing the stolen Q-400 at Seattle's SeaTac airport and makes no mention of bomb threats, airplanes (other than a photo of the stolen craft) or South America.

The post says something about "next week," which could possibly be interpreted as a reference, though it was six days prior, not seven or more.  It was posted on Saturday, 11 August 2018, and Thursday, 16 August 2018, was technically "next week," though the word "boom" to me implies actual explosions and not threats.

Q Drop 1846
In addition, a ten-year-old with a voice synthesizer could phone in bomb threats, much less the NSA and Q.  If we suppose Q needed a "proof" at that particular moment in order to have the most impact on its network model, who's to say it wouldn't take care of the matter itself?  We have absolutely no idea what Q is capable of doing in order to achieve its ends, since we know absolutely nothing about Q outside of what we have been told by Q itself.

There was also no mention in subsequent Q Drops about the shifting number of planes affected, nor have any of the apologists made mention of this fact.  It was dutifully reported as a "proof" and everyone moved on.

This is generally referred to as "confirmation bias," and we all suffer from it to one degree or another.  If we believe that Q is an insider, then anything - no matter how vague - that confirms our belief is enough, especially if our peers also confirm this belief.

To be sure, there are no other Q Drops up to two weeks prior to the planes being forced to land that had four "BOOM"s in them, so we must assume that 1846 is the correct reference.  This is also the post that the Q-vian apologists referred to, so we have two confirmations - one from Q and one from the accolytes.

Therefore, we conclude that this, too, is a Q FAIL at best, and a self-fulfilling prophesy (MIHOP) at worst.

Our final example is also a recent one and is cited in comments on this blog, as well as the beginning of Q's foray into the realm of secret societies.  For background, the reader will want to brush up on the Skull & Bones society at Yale Univeristy, and note particularly the number 322 in the group's emblem.  We will also rely heavily on analysis by SerialBrain2, widely accepted as a leading decoder of Q Drops (Reddit is censored in Indonesia, and may be elsewhere; optional links are provided).

Skull & Bones is an actual secret society that has existed since 1832, at Yale.  A significant number of political and business leaders are/were members of this society.  These are facts and are not disputed by anyone, including the members.  What effect they have had on American history is a matter of volumes of research and speculation.  We will not concern ourselves with that in this article.

With all the qualifiers and disclaimers out of the way, let's take a look at the Trump Scotland Incident and the Q/SerialBrain2 interpretation of it.

On 13 July 2018, a 55-year-old man with reported connections to Greenpeace used a paraglider to fly over Trump's Turnberry resort in Scotland while Trump was there.  During the glide, the man unfurled a banner that read, "Trump well below par #resist."  The man was later arrested without further incident.

Two days later, Secret Service agent Nole E. Remagen died of a stroke while on Trump's security detail in Scotland.  This trip culminated in the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki, Finland.

These are the facts, now for the interpretation.

As noted in my previous article, "The Twilight of the Q," the number 23 plays heavily into Q Lore, showing up in mid-June in a Q Drop where "-23" was enigmatically inserted in the header of the post.  This number was the center of much speculation among the acolytes and watching any number of YouTube videos around mid-June will bring up discussion about 23.

Later, at the Helsinki summit, Q/SB2 noted the famous chess move called "American Beauty," in which an American master beat a Russian master after sacrificing his queen (Hillary Clinton) in the 23rd move.  It should also be noted that 23 is the reverse of 32, the first two numbers in the Skull & Bones logo above.

Note further that none of the Skull & Bones material showed up, with all the 23s, until just the past couple of weeks.  Q did not mention Skull & Bones until after the acolytes broached the subject.

Nor has anyone I've found noted that in gematria, the number 23=W, the common nickname of George W. Bush, 43rd president of the US and a notorious Bonesman.  I take sole credit for this one.

A link is made by Q/SB2 based solely on ages between the Greenpeace activist (55 years old) and Jeffrey Boyd (also 55 years old), a man from Oklahoma, USA, who was arrested in Pennsylvania 1 August 2018, for threatening to kill Trump and family.

Of course, Pennsylvania is abbreviated PA, which is 16+1=17, and 17 is Q.  It would seem to me, following the rules here, that Q was responsible for Boyd's actions and signed it with its gematria.

Q/SB2 label Boyd an MK Ultra victim without any evidence that I can find.

In an earlier post, Q/SB2 claim to have uncovered something called the "5D Network."  D, of course, is the 4th letter of the alphabet, so it can be read 54 Network, with 54 being the mirror of 45, and Trump is the 45th president of the US, thus the 5Ds oppose Trump (mirror).  I leave it to the reader to take this as one will.

Boyd was arrested with a .45 caliber handgun (4+5=9) and 2 rounds (1+1), thus this incident becomes an indicator towards something having to do with 9/11 being a false flag operation.  Again, the reader will do with this as one pleases.

Please note that I am reporting, not speculating - at least on my part.  What I am relating here is the "decoding" done by Q/SB2.

At this point in SB2's post, it goes into several torturous paragraphs where comments made by Trump are added, subtracted, ignored and re-arranged following some unspecified rules of "English Ordinal Gematria," to show how Trump is confirming he is in cahoots with Q through 2 minutes of seeming gibberish during a speech (shadow language).

Then back to the para-glider in Scotland...remember him?

Through the use of gematria, SB2 derives the number 322 from the para-glider's banner, "Trump well below par #resist."  This is, according the SB2, a reference - even signature - of Skull & Bones on the demonstration.

Furthermore, the death of the Secret Service agent is seen as a calling card, much like the horse head in The Godfather movie.  It should be noted that no proof of this is given, nor is there any speculation on Q/SB2's part how this was achieved.

Assuming that Trump's rambling remarks were coded communications, SB2 tells us that 322 can also be noted as 32, and that mirrored is 23, which ties back to chess games and summits.  If you add 23+32, you get 55, which were the ages of both the para-glider and Jeffrey Boyd.  So at this point, SB2 tells us, we are to assume a "war" between Q/Trump and the Skull & Bones society.

SB2 goes on to tell us that Hitler was a Skull & Bones product to create both a war to funnel money into their pockets, and a means to take over the world.  In other words, Bonesmen started, benefitted from and ultimately won World War Two, thus initiating the Cold War.

The proof for this claim is a fair amount of fidgeting with numbers and letters, and an economist named Anthony Sutton.  Please refer to SB2's post to understand this connection.

Q, Trump and the global nationalist movement are given as the result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the re-emergence of Orthodoxy in Russia and the election of Vladimir Putin, which brings us right back to the Helsinki summit and Russian collusion.

And finally, we come back to a Secret Service agent named Remagen who died of a stroke in Scotland.  The Battle of Remagen in March of 1945, was a key win for the Allies and allowed them to cross the Rhine river and advance on Berlin from the west n a pincer effect with Russia closing in on the east.  What are the chances?

A Greenpeace para-glider (green=money as in "no peace without our green"), an agent named Remagen (bridge to meet the Russians), a trip to meet Putin, and a dizzying amount of gematria.

The final piece is back to QDrop 1846 mentioned above.  Q/SB2 seem to imply that the theft and crash of a Horizon Airlines Q-400 is yet another threat/message to Q/Trump, or was it?

Maybe it was a response by Q/Trump and in fact there was no one on the plane.  The pilot mentions at one point having learned how to fly from "video games".  Could it be a codes reference to remotely flying the craft?  It all gets rather fuzzy after a while.

So why this long, convoluted trip through prophesies and gematria?

It is vital that the interested reader understand the vast amount of information flying around Q (pun intended).  With nearly 2,000 drops containing hundreds of explicit/implicit "predictions," Q is bound to "hit" something, and with the acolytes filling in the meaning and confirming the hits due to confirmation bias, Q can be said to have deep access to covert information and activities.

Basically, just about anything can be read into Q Drops and current events.  Throw in some gematria and shadow language for a hint of mystery, a few unfounded assumptions with scant evidence, some interesting coincidences interpreted as fulfillments, and cover it all with a blanket of religious symbolism and fervor and you end up with the Q Phenomenon.

Go to a roulette table, bet black/red, both greens and cover four corners on every number and you will hit something.

I am not here to judge the veracity of this information.  I present it as it appears in the Socio-sphere and note that there are several ways to view and achieve these results.  These are the things that have so many people flocking to the ranks of Q-vians.  Every good psy-op contains a large amount of truth, and certainly there is plenty in the Q Lore - more than enough to cover the outright lies and failures.

So many people have become so desperate to remove the boot of tyranny from their throats that they will follow anyone - or anything - that whispers hope in their ears.  We have seen this scenario played far too many times throughout history to not be alarmed when similar events take shape.

I have endeavored to peel away the layers of Q, back-engineer its inner workings and place it in an objective position to look critically at it.  David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty disappear, and even though our rational minds tell us it's still there, we are still amazed.

I cannot say where it goes from here, but I can ask the reader to take a breath and think for a moment about what is becoming a serious underground political movement that claims for itself that it is a war, and wars have a way of exceeding boundaries.

And now I have said my piece with a fitting nod to the 13 bloodlines of the Illuminati.  What will you do with this information?

While you consider your answer, remember that someone this very moment is working on the Anti-Q.

P.S. - on today's analytics, I noted with curiosity item number 5, "Unknown Region."  Never seen 
this before.




P.P.S. - New development 27Aug18.  This one is rather disturbing.  Please note all details that I have listed, as well as every detail in the "drops," including dates and times of postings.  
It should be noted that McCain announced his cancer almost as soon as Trump took office, and that he never displayed any of the usual signs of cancer treatment, such as hair and weight loss, sickened appearance or any medical devices (IV ports, etc.).  In fact, he looked and acted quite well up until the family announced he would stop all treatments the day before he died.

Q suggests that McCain committed suicide and makes several references that seem to indicate that this was known to Q at least a month prior, and that the exact date and time (ref. 30 and 0:28) when it would occur.

Here are some details to keep in mind:

  • John McCain was pronounced dead at 16:28 on 25 August 2018;
  • According to the rules of gematria used by Q/SB2, 18 can mirror as 81, McCain's age at death;
  • 26 August is National Dog Day and is presented as a tie-in with "every dog has its day";
  • McCain was notorious for jumping sides on key votes;
  • The confirmation vote for Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court comes next month and there was speculation in Washington, DC that McCain would block the confirmation;
  • Q referred to McCain as No Name because it is widely believed by veterans that McCain was a traitor while a POW in Vietnam;
  • Ted Kennedy and John McCain died precisely 9 years apart of the same brain cancer;
  • McCain never showed signs of hair or weight loss from chemo or radiation treatment, nor any sign of serious illness;
  • The Rommel Option is the term for the choice Field Marshall Rommel was given for his role in an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler - trial and hanging or suicide.
So?  Did McCain have a natural death, and if not, was it planned at least one month ago, and possibly one year ago?  And was Q aware of the details and perhaps involved?







9.1.17

Department Of Repeated Redundancies Department

I don't know what is more utterly amazing and laughable: is it the complete stupidity and incompetence of government, or the contempt with which government views its slaves?  Perhaps it is both.

Let's start with the headline that gobbled up the weekend news cycle - the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting.  A man, known to "authorities" to be unstable, transports a rifle and ammunition in his baggage from Alaska to Florida, but is apparently not registered on any flight arriving there.  He takes his baggage to the toilet, loads up and comes out shooting.  Then the "authorities" announce that they are questioning the suspect, which would seem like a logical thing to do.  Meantime, the entire government-controlled corporate media debate focuses on adding more of the same policies and procedures that have failed time and time again.

Either the government "authorities" are completely and utterly lobotomized (and let's include their mouthpieces as well), or they think the average American is.  I suspect it is a generous helping of both.

Next headline: Indonesia wants to boost its defense industry by making and exporting bombs that could potentially be thrown back at them.  Now, to a thinking person, you would want to make and store bombs for defense, not sell them to potential enemies.  Furthermore, the Indonesian government wants to boost its defense by continuing to disarm and distrust its own citizens/slaves.

If anyone asked me, which they obviously didn't, I wouldn't be selling my bombs and I would arm and train every able-bodied (and minded) citizen, so that an invader would have to fight door-to-door across thousands of islands in order to take over the country.

But that's just me thinking again.

How about this one: government wizards (a.k.a. "scientists") say they have witnessed a Black Hole tear apart a star and spit the pieces out into space.  In the same freaking article, they say Black Holes gobble up everything and not even light can escape.  Um...maybe I'm missing something here, but didn't you just tell me that this Black Hole is "spitting" pieces of a star out into space?

Maybe nobody reads this shit, because I seem to be the only one thinking these things are just a bit contradictory.

Trump says anyone who doesn't want better relations with Russia is a "fool" and "really stupid."  Pardon me, Mr. President-Elect, isn't that why folks elected you?  I mean, it's a bit redundant to keep telling us what we already know.  How about solutions?  What exactly are Tillerson and the Evil Mass-Murdering Bastard War Criminal Kissinger doing to alleviate the problem?

Next, we have the climate.  Yes, for some reason Al Gore and the Echoettes are sticking to the story that the Earth is suffering from man-made global warming, even though the world is cooling, there are record low temperatures and snowfall all over both hemispheres, polar ice is expanding, and rainfall patterns in both hemispheres are beginning to match perfectly with past solar Grand Minima.  And just to put a cherry on the ice cream, polar bear populations are at record highs.

Still not convinced we've fallen down the rabbit hole?

The Democrats in the US absolutely insist that the Russians hacked the election, even though Julian Assange says emphatically that WikiLeaks did not get the email from the Russians, Seth Rich - DNC IT specialist - was shot dead in the back in broad daylight and NOT robbed, none of the "intelligence" agencies can produce a shred of evidence, and the Russians have no objective motivation to do so that outweighs the risk of getting caught doing it.  Oh, and did we mention that the voting infrastructure of the US is not connected to the internet, and thus can't be hacked by typical means?

In the 1940s, the CIA was created out of some Nazi left-overs and General Galen's spook network in Europe and North Africa.  In the 1950s, the CIA took over the Corporate Media with Project Mockingbird.  In 1963, the CIA assassinated John Kennedy, who refused to follow the spook script and was preparing a full-on assault on their growing power and influence.  Since then, the CIA has virtually ruled the Executive Branch of the US government, and through organizations like USAID, have set up networks in dozens of countries to control and influence those governments, as well.

So convinced was the CIA that it could install its next-in-line lackey, Hillary Clinton, that they profoundly underestimated the amount of vote flipping and ballot stuffing needed to ensure Trump, whom they have assiduously painted as a buffoon, would not get in.  Perhaps they overestimated the somnolent effect they were having on the general public, or they grossly underestimated the number of people who were slowly but inexorably waking up from the 50-year hibernation of reason.

Even though the masses truly did elect Trump, and he is the first president that is not under the direct control of the CIA since 23 November 1961, he is nevertheless controlled by a competing faction of the Deep State, knowingly or not, though I think the former.

The US, and by extension the world, is slowly waking up from a decades-long trance that was achieved in part by the US victory and subsequent economic dominance in the world after World War 2, as well as the fact that so many US males were brainwashed by military service during that war into blind obedience to government and symbols.

The Grand Awakening is due to two primary factors: 1) the 50-year effort of independent researchers to undo the magic spell over the population, which used to be called the underground media, but which was emerged as the Alt Media (or Free Press as I prefer), and 2) the human mind can only take so much rewiring and layers of bullshit before it reboots.  We are in the reboot phase of history at this very moment.

It is also a particularly vulnerable point.  When the mind reboots, there is a time while the OS is loading that one can access the BIOS and change the system parameters.  This is what we see with the "Russian hacking" narrative.  The spooks are desperately trying to reinstall the "fear factor" before things get too far out of hand.

What makes all of this visible is the failure of the classic "black is white" operation that has gripped Western civilization for half a century.  When the flip-flop narrative becomes this obvious, then it is clear that the spell has failed and people are clearly not buying the brute-force attempt to make them believe things that are clearly in conflict with the senses and basic reason.

In so many ways, the institutions of control, such as religion and government, are losing their power over the masses.  The Big Three Monotheisms - Judaism, Christianity, Islam - which have enjoyed millennia of control, both directly and through their secular government counterparts, are falling apart.  All of the war mongering we see is these institutions attempting to drive everyone back into nationalistic, and by extension religious mindsets.  This is the real hegemony that has dominated the world for longer than any of us care to imagine.

The classic "black is white" narrative is nothing more than dressed-up "faith."  Religions have inspired fanatical loyalty by spinning fantastical tales that prevent people from thinking or acting independently by deferring everything to sometime after death when the evil-doers will get theirs, or by waiting futilely for a Messiah who will come to set everything right.  This deference is a poison that destroys critical thinking and creates bovine nose-to-tail herd behavior.

For three centuries now, the Enlightenment has sought to re-awaken the pre-frontal lobes of mass humanity by destroying the "black is white" narrative and the institutions that spin it.

The problem is that a part of the Enlightenment was corrupted and instead sought to take over the institutions of control.  The reasoning that led to the perversion is rather convoluted, but suffice it to say that they figured they could use the control structure to reprogram humanity in their own image.  This is where the Illuminati storyline comes from.

Fortunately, is seems that the true Enlightenment has survived underground and has been busily working to spark the Great Re-Awakening, a process that quite obviously the US Founding Fathers had hoped to achieve with their New Republic, the Shining City Upon The Hill.

Despite herculean efforts on the part of the ancient Controllers and the splinter group called the Illuminati, the Enlightenment has rooted and is just now starting to bear fruit.  But it is a dangerous time.  Entrenched and power-hungry organizations do not relinquish power without a fight, and that fight has only begun.

There is a covert war going on just out of sight, but it is increasingly visible to the masses.  Ultimately, it will become an all-out war in which the ensconced powers will win or leave nothing but scorched Earth behind. It is a war of profound ideologies whose prize is nothing short of an entire planet.  The one weakness of the Good Guys is that they want to prevent the scorched Earth and so are unwilling to go to the extremes that the Bad Guys are.

The next few years will be a true spectacle, even for all its gory destruction and waste.  The clash of two completely and utterly incompatible philosophies will be nothing less than cataclysmic, though it must be said that not all of it will be fought in the real world - most of it will be mental and spiritual.

If you want to see what the other side is capable of, just look at the post-election mayhem in the US.  Black teenagers streaming vile hate and complete lack of compassion on Farcebook.  Paid rioters looting and destroying neighborhoods and randomly killing passers-by.  This sociopathic violence and mindless destruction is only a tiny taste of what the Bad Guys will unleash to keep their privileged perches.

The Good Guys are neither mentally nor spiritually prepared for the hell that is coming.  Far too many people believe that electing a few representatives is enough to fix the problem, when it is in fact the very heart of the problem to begin with.

People like Trump are not the solution, though they are symptomatic of the correct instinct on the part of the masses.  He also represents to a great many people the power that they truly have, though when Trump fails - and he will - there is a terrible risk of despair and hopelessness on the part of the newly awakening masses.  At that point, they will be most susceptible to re-immersion into the control grid.

Both sides have now fired their first volleys, though the Bad Guys know how far they will go to protect their domain.  The Good Guys need to wise up fast and steel the mind and soul for the battle to come.  We have a brief moment for a little R&R, but it is dangerous to let one's guard down.

Black is White...War is Peace...Hate is Love.

3.10.16

For Laura Lee, Wherever You Are

When I was about 5 years old, I had a neighbor friend named Laura Lee.  I don't remember her sister's name, but we all played together often.

Laura Lee had a playhouse in the back yard that her dad built.  It wasn't more than a few sheets of plywood barely held together with 2x4s and some 10-penny nails, but it was a palace to us.

One afternoon, we had, for some long-forgotten reason, decided to put bricks on the roof of the playhouse.  Must have seemed like a good idea at the time.  Laura Lee was up top and I was handing the bricks up to her.  One slipped and caught me square on the left temple.  I was rushed a couple of blocks away to Dr. Bonin's office, who put three stitches on the wound.  To this moment, I have that scar and I often rub it and think about Laura Lee.  I don't remember her face, but I can tell you a lot about her up until she was 5 years old.

One day we were playing out in the street and her mother called her home.  There were two men at the door in Navy uniforms and mother looked upset.  Come to find out, Laura Lee's dad had been killed in action in Vietnam.  He was in the Navy, and I really never knew what happened, but not long after that, Laura Lee and her sister and mother moved away.  I never heard from them again.

My dad owned the house.  In fact, he owned all but one house on the block.  After they moved, I helped him clean out the house and tear down the playhouse in the back.  It was strange going in there.  All I could think of were the times we had played in various rooms, or the nifty scar I had on my temple from loading bricks on the playhouse.  I was terribly conflicted, thinking about the man I barely knew (he had been gone most of the time), a war I vaguely understood, a land I couldn't find on a map if you paid me, and my poor friend Laura Lee who would never see her dad again.  It was an incredible thought for a 5-year-old for whom the world never changed.

After that, I started noticing things.  A stop sign at the end of the block had been spray-painted so that it read, "STOP WAR."  I suddenly noticed Walter Cronkite talking about the men dying in someplace called Vietnam.  Dan Rather was showing me pictures of soldiers running through swamps or diving for cover in rice fields, and other pictures of strange Asian people jabbering in a mystical language with a serious, deep voice speaking English over them.

I heard about other dads in the neighborhood who would never be coming home.  I didn't know them like I knew Laura Lee's dad, but I knew what happened when they died: the families moved away and were never heard from again.

I started paying attention to the heated discussions among the political people my dad was around a lot.  Some were saying we needed to 'increase our presence,' while others were hard-line against it, and wanted to end the war before it 'tore this damn country apart.'  My dad was on the former side, saying if Vietnam fell, it would cause a 'domino effect of commie expansion.'

I thought all commies looked like Asians, because I had little experience with any other kind.  They must have been bad, though, because they killed Laura Lee's dad, and I spent a lot of time under my desk on Friday at noon, with air raid sirens going off.  It was just a drill, but I could only imagine what those Asian commies would do if Vietnam fell.  Just look at Laura Lee's dad.

Eventually, I came to understand that the Vietnam war was a proxy for the US and USSR.  Instead of fighting each other directly, they were using this poor Asian country to hash out their differences.  Even later, I learned that the only reason the US was there was because of a mutual defense treaty with France, who had gotten into the war in the first place.  It wasn't a war about political ideology, it was to protect France's colonial interests in Asia.

I realized that people like Laura Lee lost their dads because of bullshit.  People were just things to throw at imaginary enemies, with little or no regard to the children who would never know their dads.  Governments used people's lives to back up treaties and political ideologies and strategies.  I came to despise governments because of Laura Lee's dad.

No Vietnamese person had ever done anything to me or anyone I knew or anyone I even heard of, except that one of them killed Laura Lee's dad.  But he wasn't there to defend his home.  The Vietnamese weren't marching down the street taking pot shots at us.  In fact, I had never even seen a Vietnamese person except in Dan Rather's pictures.

It wasn't until years later that I finally met some Vietnamese people.  They were refugees that had been resettled in Houston, which was a major center for such things, due to the fact that many Vietnamese made livings growing rice and fishing, and Houston was a major rice center and just miles from the Gulf of Mexico.

When I finally met some Vietnamese, they seemed pretty normal.  They weren't ravenous commies or yellow devils, they were a bunch of Laura Lees with dads who had died in the war.

Governments, on the other hand, were evil faceless machines that sucked up dads and spit out bones, and if you were luck, you got a couple of guys in uniform at your door and maybe a check.  I always imagined that it was hardly compensation to Laura Lee, but I will likely never know for sure.

What makes me angry is that all these wars are not to protect Laura Lee, or me, or you.  They are economic and political.  They are just part of the standard tool box for a government, and all the Laura Lee dads are just tools inside it.

How gross.  How course.  How sad.

When I look at the Middle East, or Israel, or the Ukraine, or any of a number of other wars that people like George Soros and various government agencies have committed, I think of Laura Lee's dad.    When I see all the strife and anguish and refugees in the world, I think of Laura Lee's dad.

And it makes me really, really angry.

19.3.14

Ride A Wooden Horse

If you don't follow Chinese astrology, then you may not be aware that this is the Yang Wood Horse year.  If you are a Westerner, you probably have visions of carousels and those little nickel rides in front of the drugstore.  Of course, that assumes you are an old fart Westerner, I suppose, since visions like that don't exist any more.

It's not quite that simple.

The horse is a fire sign and wood obviously feeds fire.  Yang light casts a positive spin on things and enhances them, but things can get out of control.

This year is liable to see extreme weather (continuing) and lots of health problems, especially with the stomach and gut.  Look for outbreaks of stomach flu in general populations and bouts of indigestion on an individual basis.

The wood part implies strong and fast growth, which can be good for some things, like spiritual awakenings, but can be bad in socio-political situations (read Ukraine, etc.).  Explosive growth can also mean weak foundations and poor construction.  Trees that grow very fast tend to have shallow roots and fall over easily in storms.

And we are in for some storms.  Yang Wood Horse years are known for wars.  The last one in 1954, saw the defeat of France in Vietnam, which ultimately led to the US Vietnam War and the socio-political upheaval in the US commonly called the 60s. On the positive side, the 60s were known for bursts of creativity, but as we have seen, many of the movements that began in that era were shallow and have withered over time.

In this year of the Yang Wood Horse, efforts to expand one's spiritual life will see the return of immediate and rapid results.  The nobility of the Horse will tend to make these efforts positive and beneficial, but one should take care to ensure that things don't get out of hand and "lose the name of action".

What we can likely expect this year is:
  • late cold blasts in the northern hemisphere;
  • soggy, cool cummer in many places;
  • wars and conflicts;
  • a protracted and severe outbreak of intestinal flu;
  • a rapid spiritual awakening of large numbers of people;
  • greater efforts to live more harmoniously on a personal level.
 It's not going to be an easy year, but if folks are aware of the esoteric forces affecting the world around us, we can control and focus those forces in positive ways.  If not, then we are in for some nasty conflicts.

All in all, we can sum up the year as being one of having an energetic horse by the tail.  We can either learn to control and marshal the horse's strengths into positive focus, with the aid of a positive bias on our side, or we can let it get out of hand and end up with a stampede of events that will surely run us over.

Or it's all superstitious bullshit and we shouldn't pay it any mind.

I subscribe to the notion that astrology has some foundation in fact and science, though it's been covered over with hocus-pocus for a long time.  I tend to take the themes more seriously than the particulars, so I'm ready for some upheavals and health issues going forward.

Happy happy!