Escaping The Matrix
Posted: Monday, April 9, 2012 - 08:55
By William Blum
The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO, and the European Union — or an approved segment thereof, can usually get what they want. They wanted Saddam Hussein out, and soon he was swinging from a rope. They wanted the Taliban ousted from power, and, using overwhelming force, that was achieved rather quickly. They wanted Moammar Gaddafi's rule to come to an end, and before very long he suffered a horrible death. Jean-Bertrand Aristide was democratically elected, but this black man who didn't know his place was sent into distant exile by the United States and France in 2004. Iraq and Libya were the two most modern, educated and secular states in the Middle East; now all four of these countries could qualify as failed...
Posted: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 11:52
The defining dramatic moment in the film The Matrix occurs just after Morpheus invites Neo to choose between a red pill and a blue pill. The red pill promises "the truth, nothing more." Neo takes the red pill and awakes to reality--something utterly different from anything Neo, or the audience, could have expected. What Neo had assumed to be reality turned out to be only a collective illusion, fabricated by the Matrix and fed to a population that is asleep, cocooned in grotesque embryonic pods. In Plato's famous parable about the shadows on the walls of the cave, true reality is at least reflected in perceived reality. In the Matrix world, true reality and perceived reality exist on entirely different planes.
The story is intended as...
Posted: Friday, February 3, 2012 - 08:27
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Environment
It's all really quite straightforward. There is very little you need to know. The starting point in studying climate, obviously, is to study the actual record of temperatures. Duh. When we look at that record, from a variety of sources such as ice-cores, we see strikingly regular wave patterns. Little waves within big waves. Waves that interfere with other waves, and waves that appear and disappear at intervals. An El Nino event would show up as a brief and minor fluctuation. The biggest regular wave is the one that keeps us down in an ice age most of the time, and every 100,000 years or so raises us up for about 10,000 years – an inter-glacial period.
These patterns have been going on for millions of years. They obviously reflect the...
Posted: Monday, January 23, 2012 - 10:00
People talk about the New World Order either as something that will happen in the future, or as something that will never happen, as it's only a paranoid delusion. The fact is that the New World Order, to a considerable extent, is already here.
In Ireland, for example, all important national decisions are now being made by an IMF administrator: the nation is under the direct rule of a personal agent of the bankster dynasty. As far as Ireland is concerned, a centralized bankster regime is already in effect. Same is true for Greece and Italy.
The NWO's global regime-change project, leading to the end of national sovereignty, is already well underway. The NWO project has of course other dimensions, in geopolitics, in control over energy and...
Posted: Monday, January 16, 2012 - 12:22
The EU, from the very beginning, has been a project to destroy democracy in Europe, and replace it with a bankster-controlled central regime. What is happening now is what was always intended. The collapse-bailout scenario was designed specifically to bring all EU nations/provinces into debt bondage (aka sovereign debt) to the banksters. Germany has been the most difficult target, but it too will fall, as it is dragged into assuming liability for EU sovereign debt generally. Once that happens, then – whenever the 'markets decide' – the next bubble will burst, including $600 trillion in worthless derivative instruments. Down will go Germany, EU and all.
The Irish State, via the major party apparatus, has surrendered its loyalty and...
Posted: Friday, January 13, 2012 - 08:17
In the previous posting I referred to some 'angry' responses re: questioning the wisdom of vaccines. And indeed that was the objection: to even question this sacrament was already a sin. That is, if I spread doubt in people's minds, they might make the 'wrong' decision (not get vaccinated), and that would be 'bad for them'. I would be 'hurting them' (and others around them) by telling them the 'wrong thing'.
Such observations reflect a particular underlying perspective: What 'people are told' must conform to 'what is correct', because most people cannot be trusted to think for themselves. It is an elitist perspective: We are the informed and educated class; the unwashed masses [Orwell's Proles] must be taught what to think and what to...
Posted: Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 14:44
Below is the latest video from the Zeitgeist folks. It's more sophisticated in its analysis, and more persuasive in its presentation, than their previous material.
The film is divided into two parts, with a very dramatic transition between them, around point 1:30:16. Part 1, prior to that point, is a radical critical analysis of the current socio-ecomic system, concluding that at its very root the system is flawed. Part 2 is along these lines: Let's assume we have a blank slate, that we can start all over, and let's design a better system, a sustainable system, a system that matches the realities of a finite and vulnerable physical environment, and a system that recognizes human needs.
That basic pattern – radical critique of the current...
Posted: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 08:23
There are many disempowering myths about national economies. Some of the most damaging myths are:
- The spending power of a government is determined by income from taxation.
- The currency needs to be backed by a commodity like gold or silver. - The value of a currency is measured by its external exchange value.
- The ability to import goods depends on the external exchange value of the currency.
- Unrestricted exports and imports are good for the economy.
- Economic health is measured by economic growth.
In contrast to these myths, here are some truths about a sensibly managed national economy:
- A government can simply print currency and spend it into the economy.
- The internal value of a currency depends on the quantity that is in...