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Is Everything in the Mainstream Media Fake? – 6 Examples of Media Manipulation







The world of television and modern media has become a tool of de-evolution, propaganda and social control. Since the reign of Edward Bernays and the rise of the Tavistock Institute in the early 20th century, nearly unlimited resources have been applied to understanding how to manipulate the human psychethrough television and other forms of mass media. What we have today is an increasingly sophisticated full-spectrum assault on free will and psychological well-being, and we have come to a point where it is no longer even necessary for media institutions to attempt to hide their blatant work of manipulating public opinion, manufacturing consent, and creating winners and losers in the minds of the already brain-washed public.
Here are 6 examples where truth reveals that the impression the media is conveying to a dumbed-down, unsuspecting public differs greatly from what is actually happening behind the scenes. By looking at these examples in a single location, it is easy to see how the mainstream media is pushes ulterior motives on the public, and how important it is to be vigilant when consuming consumer info.
NEWS MEDIA LIES, SCRIPTING, OMISSIONS AND OBFUSCATIONS

1. Time Magazine sanitizes their covers for American consumption – Time Magazine is considered a leader in national news, yet they consistently portray a dumbed-down, frivolous image of life in America while presenting an entirely different message to the rest of the world. In the two examples below, their magazine covers feature a different cover story for Americans while sending different messages to the rest of the world.




2. CNN is the leader in fake war new coverage - Here are just 2 examples of how CNN has scripted and staged live war coverage to create a sense of drama and danger around people who were not in harm’s way.
Anderson Cooper fakes Syria war footage by dubbing in sound effects and playing chaotic video next to a Syrian correspondent. In the video you can see how in one tape the correspondent is a safe environment, then you see the footage aired by CNN with dubbed in theatrical effects:
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In this CNN clip of coverage of the first Gulf War in the 1990′s, anchorman Charles Jaco makes a joke of war coverage in Saudia Arabia and demonstrates how the news is overly sensationalized for American audiences, and how hosts pretend to be in danger when they are not. At 7:00 in this clip Jaco quickly puts on a ridiculous gas mask for obvious theatrics while talking to a guest:
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MANUFACTURED ‘REALITY’ TV

3. The Biggest Loser – Americans should by now already know that ‘reality shows’ are staged. The popular TV show, Biggest Loser, where overweight people compete to lose the most weight for the entertainment benefit of the rest of the world, lies about the circumstances of the training and weighing regimen of their contestants while using underhanded methods to generate phony emotional responses from their contestants.
“They want the drama, the tears, the fights, the tears, the triumphs and the tears. Producers would push you to cry because that’s what makes good TV. They continually asked questions like “Do you miss your kids?” Needless to say, I broke down more than once…
Have you ever wondered how the contestants manage to lose a staggering 12 kilos in a single week? We don’t. In my series a weekly weigh-in was NEVER filmed after just one week of working out. In fact the longest gap from one weigh-in to the next was three and a half weeks. That’s 25 days between weigh-ins, not seven.” -Andrew ’Cosi’ Costello, former contestant
Source: Courier Mail
It turns out that many of the so-called ‘reality’ shows are actually scripted theatrical presentations that count on the viewer’s suspension of disbelief to garner ratings. More info on the many fake ‘reality’ shows can be found here, and here.
4. Nationally scripted local ‘news’ – The comedian and talk show host Conan O’Brien has done a service for America by compiling overtly ridiculous cases of local ‘news’ broadcasts that were simultaneously repeated verbatim in dozens of markets nationwide. This is proof that you simply cannot trust the authenticity of what you are seeing on news broadcasts. Watch these stunning and blatant examples of this in the following videos:
[video=youtube;TM8L7bdwVaA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TM8L7bdwVaA[/video]

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DIGITAL IMAGE MANIPULATION IS UBIQUITOUS IN THE MEDIA

5. Manipulating Images as War Propaganda - There are many examples of how newspapers around the world photoshop images of war in order to influence public opinion. All sides in a conflict will do this as propaganda, so it is important to remember this when consuming news on international conflicts and to be alert for phonies. The images below of the recent conflict in Syria show how easily images are manipulated for the purposes of propaganda:
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6. Advertising Industry ‘Touches Up’ Images of People – The practice of digitally ‘touching up’ actors and models in images and videos is an overt industry standard. Yet most people, whether they’re aware of image manipulation or not, still process television and print images on the sub-conscious level as if they were, primarily because everyone is doing it, and our bias for ‘normal’ has been socially reconstructed to adopt advertising lies as normal.
This process is demonstrated in the following video where an ordinary looking woman is transformed into a lusty beauty queen for the purposes of selling more products to consumers.
 
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By: Barry Lando Saturday March 8, 2014 11:24 am

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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (then Crown Prince) with George W. Bush (then President), 2002

In October 12, 2012, I speculated there was a strong likelihood that Saudi Arabia was bankrolling Israel’s Mossad. Those funds paid for, among other things, the assassinations of several of Iran’s top nuclear experts over the past couple of years. That cooperation was, I wrote, the latest bizarre development in a clandestine alliance between the Zionist State of Israel and Saudi Arabia, guardian of Islam’s most holy site. The Huffington Post refused to run that blog because I only had one source, which I was not allowed to name. Instead, I posted it on my own and other sites.
That blog went viral, particularly in Israel, Iran and Saudi Arabia, where it was picked up by several news agencies. Now that claim has received new backing from a reputable Israeli source. But before getting to that, here is my original blog.
A friend, with good sources in the Israeli government, claims that the head of Israel’s Mossad has made several trips to deal with his counterparts in Saudi Arabia—one of the results: an agreement that the Saudis would bankroll the series of assassinations of several of Iran’s top nuclear experts that have occurred over the past couple of years. The amount involved, my friend claims, was $1 billion dollars. A sum, he says, the Saudis considered cheap for the damage done to Iran’s nuclear program.
At first blush, the tale sounds preposterous. On the other hand. it makes eminent sense. The murky swamp of Middle East politics has nothing to do with the easy slogans and 30 second sound bites of presidential debates.
After all, nowhere more than in the Middle East does the maxim hold true: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And both Israel and the Saudis have always detested Iran’s Shiite fundamentalist leaders. The feeling is mutual. Tehran has long been accused of stirring up trouble among Saudi’s restless Shiites.
Israeli and Saudi leaders particularly fear Iran’s attempts to develop nuclear weapons. Thus, it would only be natural that (along with the U.S.) they would back a coordinated program to at least slow up, if not permanently cripple, Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
It also makes perfect sense, that, in retaliation for the cyber attacks on their centrifuges, the Iranians reportedly launched their own cyber attack on a Saudi state-owned target: Saudi Aramco, the world’s most valuable company. Last August 15[SUP]th[/SUP], someone with privileged access to Aramco’s computers was able to unleash a virus that wreaked havoc with the company’s systems. U.S. intelligence experts point their finger at Tehran.
Indeed, a report earlier this year by Tel Aviv University cites Saudi Arabia as the last hope and defense line for Israel. With most of Israel’s traditional allies in the region sent packing or undermined by the Arab Spring, the Saudis are the Jewish State’s last chance to protect its political interests in the Arab world.

Now comes further confirmation of that strange alliance, from Richard Silverstein’s excellent blog Tikun Olam. Silverstein gets many of his scoops from Israeli reporters, often confiding information they’re not allowed to report in Israel. Silverstein also closely monitors the Israeli media.
He has been following the close cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia in targeting Syria and Iran. In his latest log he reports,
Shalom Yerushalmi, writing in Maariv, dropped an even more amazing bombshell.
Saudi Arabia isn’t just coordinating its own intelligence efforts with Israel. It’s actually financing a good deal of Israel’s very expensive campaign against Iran. As you know, this has involved massive sabotage against IRG missile bases, the assassination of five nuclear scientists, the creation of a series of computer cyber weapons like Stuxnet and Flame. It may also conceivably involve an entire class of electronic and conventional weapons that could be used in a full-scale attack on Iran. Who knows, this might even include the sorts of bunker buster bombs only the U.S. currently has access to, which could penetrate the Fordo facility. It might include scores more super-tankers which could provide the fuel necessary for Israeli planes to make it to Iran and return. All of this is expensive. Very expensive.

As background to his story, Yerushalmi, cited a recent speech by Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Nethanyahu, referring to the possibility that Arab states, which privately maintain better relations with Israel today than does the European Union, would do so publicly if peace were to break out.
“Nethanyahu,” wrote the Israeli reporter, “referred almost certainly to Saudi Arabia which finances the expenses of the enormous campaign which we are conducting against Iran.”
“The question” Silverstein writes in his blog, “is how far is Saudi Arabia willing to go. If Bibi ever decided to launch an attack, would the Sunni nation fund that as well? The answer seems clearly to be yes.
The next question is, given there is airtight military censorship in Israel, why did the censor allow Maariv to publish this? Either someone was asleep at the switch or the IDF and Israel’s political and intelligence officials want the world to know of the Saudi-Israeli effort. Who specifically do they want to know? Obama, of course. In the event the nuclear talks go south, Bibi wants Obama to know there’s a new Sugar Daddy in town. No longer will Israel have only the U.S. to rely on if it decides to go to war. Saudi Arabia will be standing right behind….
I don’t think this news substantially alters the military calculus. Israel, even with unlimited funding, still can’t muster the weapons and armaments it would need to do the job properly. That will take time. But Israel isn’t going to war tomorrow. This news reported in Maariv is presumably Bibi playing one card from his hand. It’s an attempt to warn the president that the U.S. is no longer the only game in town. Personally, it’s the sort of huffing and puffing that I can’t imagine plays well in Washington. But it’s the way Bibi plays the game.

Barry Lando has just written a mystery, The Watchman’s File, about an American reporter attempting to unravel Israel’s most closely guarded secret. (It’s not the bomb). Available on Amazon in soft-cover and Kindle format.
 
Get your money out of the banks and in hard cash or even better gold, silver or other hard assets, the bank bail-ins are on the way

http://investmentwatchblog.com/eu-agrees-banking-union-bail-ins-cometh/

EU Agrees Banking Union – Bail-Ins Cometh …
Early this morning European Union politicians struck a deal on legislation to create a single agency to handle failing banks and bail-ins in the Eurozone after another all night negotiating marathon ahead of a summit of EU leaders starting in Brussels today.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was drawn into the talks around 0530 GMT as the negotiations dragged on into the night. The politicians emerged around 0715 GMT with the deal, which now will need formal approval by the European Parliament and by national governments.
Negotiators persuaded nations that had been opposed to the proposed Single Resolution Mechanism and the legislation for bail-ins to agree.
Insolvent banks will be treated equally regardless of the country they are based in. Failed banks creditors, both bond holders and depositors, will be subject to bail-ins in the same way in all countries.
“It’s a very good agreement,” European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said before the meeting of EU leaders in the Belgian capital. The banking union was shaped in part by Draghi and he hailed the compromise plan as “great progress for a better banking union. Two pillars are now in place.”
Plans for a single banking union were put together two years ago due to fears for the euro and the EU’s 6,000 banks. Countries wanted to break the link between sovereigns and insolvent banks to ensure taxpayers were not forced to bail out insolvent banks and to prevent contagion and a systemic crisis.
It had already been agreed that shareholders and importantly now depositors will be bailed in before the single resolution fund can be tapped. About 100 banks plus transnationals and those already bailed out will come under the direct supervision of the ECB from January.
While most of the coverage is on the European Union member states and the European Parliament agreeing the final details of a single resolution mechanism (SRM) to wind up failing banks, there is little coverage of the developing bail-in regimes and the heightened risk that depositors in the Eurozone now face.
Banks in the Eurozone remain extremely vulnerable. Our research on
bail-ins and the developing bail-in regimes clearly shows how banks remain very vulnerable and it is now the case that in the event of bank failure, your deposits could be confiscated as happened in Cyprus.
It is important to realise that not just the EU but also the UK, the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and most G20 nations all have plans for bail-ins in the event that banks and other large financial institutions get into difficulty.
The coming bail-ins will pose real challenges and risks to investors and of course depositors – both household and corporate. Return of capital, rather than return on capital will assume greater importance.
Evaluating counterparty risk and only using the safest banks, investment providers and financial institutions will become essential in order to protect and grow wealth.
It is important that one owns physical coins and bars, legally in your name, outside the banking system. Paper or electronic forms of gold investment should be avoided as they along with cash deposits could be subject to bail-ins.
Educate yourself about this emerging threat to your livelihood by reading:
Bail-In Guide: Protecting your Savings In The Coming Bail-In Era (10 pages)
Bail-In Research: From Bail-Outs to Bail-Ins: Risks and Ramifications (50 pages)


Read more at http://investmentwatchblog.com/eu-agrees-banking-union-bail-ins-cometh/#vIvr0FPlxWcAf10C.99

EU Agrees Banking Union – Bail-Ins Cometh …
Read more at http://investmentwatchblog.com/eu-agrees-banking-union-bail-ins-cometh/#vIvr0FPlxWcAf10C.99

 

A disturbing monument!

Built from granite to withstand some sort of catastrophe. Not only do they have their instructions written in many languages to communicate with whatever people then stumble across them but they also contain a sundial so that people can re-calibrate time

They were paid for by a mysterious RC Christian which is clearly code for Rosecrucians

There is also a seed bank on Svalbard paid for by the likes of the rockefellers and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation

The airport in Denver was built at great expense away from the city and has tunnels carved underneath and a kevlar roof; it also contains masonic symbols and murals of global catastrophes...almost as if it has been built to receive certain people in the event of a crisis

Mythologically speaking the world is periodically destroyed by water, fire, wind and so on. Everyone knows about the flood story for example from the epic of gilgamsesh and retold in the bible; then we know there was an extinction event that took out the dinosaurs

Could solar flares be responsible for a global conflagoration (if not nuclear war!)?

The el-ites have been building many tunnelled complexes under the US and FEMA have bunker systems that contain control centres with desks for each governmental department...in effect the infrastructure for a shadow government to run the country from underground in the event of some sort of disaster

So what do the builders of the guidestones foresee? Floods? Firestorms? Nuclear war? Break down of society as resources dwindle? Radiation poisoning? A pole flip? Biblical revelations or the predictions of the kolbrin bible? The eruption of the yellowstone super volcano? Metoer strike? lol etc

Pretty grim stuff! All the more reason why people should wake up and start tackling these lunatics so that disaster can be averted!
 


World Bank Whistleblower Karen Hudes Reveals How The Global Elite Rule The World




Karen Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in the legal department of the World Bank for more than 20 years. In fact, when she was fired for blowing the whistle on corruption inside the World Bank, she held the position of Senior Counsel. She was in a unique position to see exactly how the global elite rule the world, and the information that she is now revealing to the public is absolutely stunning. According to Hudes, the elite use a very tight core of financial institutions and mega-corporations to dominate the planet. The goal is control. They want all of us enslaved to debt, they want all of our governments enslaved to debt, and they want all of our politicians addicted to the huge financial contributions that they funnel into their campaigns. Since the elite also own all of the big media companies, the mainstream media never lets us in on the secret that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way that our system works.

Remember, this is not some “conspiracy theorist” that is saying these things. This is a Yale-educated attorney that worked inside the World Bank for more than two decades. The following summary of her credentials comes directly from her website
Karen Hudes studied law at Yale Law School and economics at the University of Amsterdam. She worked in the US Export Import Bank of the US from 1980-1985 and in the Legal Department of the World Bank from 1986-2007. She established the Non Governmental Organization Committee of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association and the Committee on Multilateralism and the Accountability of International Organizations of the American Branch of the International Law Association.
Today, Hudes is trying very hard to expose the corrupt financial system that the global elite are using to control the wealth of the world. During an interview with the New American, she discussed how we are willingly allowing this group of elitists to totally dominate the resources of the planet…
A former insider at the World Bank, ex-Senior Counsel Karen Hudes, says the global financial system is dominated by a small group of corrupt, power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve. The network has seized control of the media to cover up its crimes, too, she explained. In an interview with The New American, Hudes said that when she tried to blow the whistle on multiple problems at the World Bank, she was fired for her efforts. Now, along with a network of fellow whistleblowers, Hudes is determined to expose and end the corruption. And she is confident of success.
Citing an explosive 2011 Swiss study published in the PLOS ONE journal on the “network of global corporate control,” Hudes pointed out that a small group of entities — mostly financial institutions and especially central banks — exert a massive amount of influence over the international economy from behind the scenes. “What is really going on is that the world’s resources are being dominated by this group,” she explained, adding that the “corrupt power grabbers” have managed to dominate the media as well. “They’re being allowed to do it.”


Previously, I have written about the Swiss study that Hudes mentioned. It was conducted by a team of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. They studied the relationships between 37 million companies and investors worldwide, and what they discovered is that there is a “super-entity” of just 147 very tightly knit mega-corporations that controls 40 percent of the entire global economy
When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a “super-entity” of 147 even more tightly knit companies – all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity – that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. “In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network,” says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.
But the global elite don’t just control these mega-corporations. According to Hudes, they also dominate the unelected, unaccountable organizations that control the finances of virtually every nation on the face of the planet. The World Bank, the IMF and central banks such as the Federal Reserve literally control the creation and the flow of money worldwide.
At the apex of this system is the Bank for International Settlements. It is the central bank of central banks, and posted below is a video where you can watch Hudes tell Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com the following…
“We don’t have to wait for anybody to fire the Fed or Bank for International Settlements . . . some states have already started to recognize silver and gold, the precious metals, as currency”

[video=youtube;gHVgRgYdCsQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gHVgRgYdCsQ[/video]

Most people have never even heard of the Bank for International Settlements, but it is an extremely important organization. In a previous article, I described how this “central bank of the world” is literally immune to the laws of all national governments…
An immensely powerful international organization that most people have never even heard of secretly controls the money supply of the entire globe. It is called the Bank for International Settlements, and it is the central bank of central banks. It is located in Basel, Switzerland, but it also has branches in Hong Kong and Mexico City. It is essentially an unelected, unaccountable central bank of the world that has complete immunity from taxation and from national laws. Even Wikipedia admits that “ it is not accountable to any single national government.“ The Bank for International Settlements was used to launder money for the Nazis during World War II, but these days the main purpose of the BIS is to guide and direct the centrally-planned global financial system. Today, 58 global central banks belong to the BIS, and it has far more power over how the U.S. economy (or any other economy for that matter) will perform over the course of the next year than any politician does. Every two months, the central bankers of the world gather in Basel for another “Global Economy Meeting”. During those meetings, decisions are made which affect every man, woman and child on the planet, and yet none of us have any say in what goes on. The Bank for International Settlements is an organization that was founded by the global elite and it operates for the benefit of the global elite, and it is intended to be one of the key cornerstones of the emerging one world economic system.
This system did not come into being by accident. In fact, the global elite have been developing this system for a very long time. In a previous article entitled “Who Runs The World? Solid Proof That A Core Group Of Wealthy Elitists Is Pulling The Strings“, I included a quote from Georgetown University history professor Carroll Quigley from a book that he authored all the way back in 1966 in which he discussed the big plans that the elite had for the Bank for International Settlements…

[T]he powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations.
And that is exactly what we have today.
We have a system of “neo-feudalism” in which all of us and our national governments are enslaved to debt. This system is governed by the central banks and by the Bank for International Settlements, and it systematically transfers the wealth of the world out of our hands and into the hands of the global elite.
But most people have no idea that any of this is happening because the global elite also control what we see, hear and think about. Today, there are just six giant media corporations that control more than 90 percent of the news and entertainment that you watch on your television in the United States.
This is the insidious system that Karen Hudes is seeking to expose. For much more, you can listen to Joyce Riley of the Power Hour interview her for an entire hour right here.


 
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Yeah the US is actually one of the worst for censorship. Sure, other countries will flat out not allow you to have certain things at all. However the US sanitizes and Americanizes just about everything. They treat the public like goldfish and try to make everything appeal to "American" cultural sensibilities (the way the media perceives such anyway)

If they Americanize something as innocuous as Macross into a completely different story called Robotech because they believe it will sit better with Americans, if they photoshop cigarettes out of celebrities hands, you can be sure that they're going to get rid of anything else that doesn't jive with what they envision to be American sensibilities.
 
The thing about the multiple and overlapping conspiracies about cohering and organised elites is how do you tell the real from the misinformation or disinformation and psych-ops?

Perhaps the whole thing is something cooked up COINTELPRO style to take up peoples time and energy and sidetrack them from less interesting, more mundane but significant everyday social or political struggles?
 
The thing about the multiple and overlapping conspiracies about cohering and organised elites is how do you tell the real from the misinformation or disinformation and psych-ops?

Perhaps the whole thing is something cooked up COINTELPRO style to take up peoples time and energy and sidetrack them from less interesting, more mundane but significant everyday social or political struggles?

You follow the money
 
You follow the money

Yeah but as you have said yourself, money is usually a means but its the psychopathy and amorality which is the cause, wealthy people accumulate and defend their wealth, that's one thing, that's "ordinary" class struggle but the sorts of things which illuminati conspiracies focus upon, occult ritual, torture, murder, kidnap, slavery, war, deliberate corruption of social institutions, engineered chaos etc. those things arent simply class struggles, in fact some of them are diversions from the same.
 
Yeah but as you have said yourself, money is usually a means but its the psychopathy and amorality which is the cause, wealthy people accumulate and defend their wealth, that's one thing, that's "ordinary" class struggle but the sorts of things which illuminati conspiracies focus upon, occult ritual, torture, murder, kidnap, slavery, war, deliberate corruption of social institutions, engineered chaos etc. those things arent simply class struggles, in fact some of them are diversions from the same.

So follow the means to find the players

The things you've mentioned ARE usually linked to class struggle

Secret societies are used to maintain a cohesive social class identity
 
So follow the means to find the players

The things you've mentioned ARE usually linked to class struggle

Secret societies are used to maintain a cohesive social class identity

Yeah but I think that while people are chasing bilderbergers, seven foot blood drinking and owl god worshipping lizards, jews or masons they're missing the less inconspicuous actions of the G7, world bank, IMF and the banks.
 
Yeah but I think that while people are chasing bilderbergers, seven foot blood drinking and owl god worshipping lizards, jews or masons they're missing the less inconspicuous actions of the G7, world bank, IMF and the banks.

Only if they are being stupid

is there a commentator that you have in mind when you say that because the ones i listen to look at every level from the concrete right up to the abstract?

So for example on the mundane material plane they will look at the role of the IMF and the freemasons and then on a more abstract level they will look at the occult side of things which is to stray into the realms of psychology and also even into science as understanding the nature of reality then allows a greater understanding of the whole

Only a fool is going to research single mindedly into giant lizards without wanting to know the role of the IMF

Concerning the IMF the australian journalist John Pilger made a good documentary that looks into the role the IMF plays called 'war by other means' using indonesia as a case study

Concerning the lizard angle to the whole thing you can really read that on a number of levels

The human brain has a 'reptillian' part of the brain which is the oldest part of the brain; this part of the brain is responsible for territorial and aggressive behaviours. Then overlaying this came the 'mammalian' part of the brain which nurtured its young and is capable of compassion

So if you were a psychopath and you wanted to create a 'god' for yourself that you could draw totemic strength from in order to channel your energies with specific intent then you could create a blood sucking reptile god as that would encapsulate your own spirit as it were and would form a magickal symbol of your own intent in this world, which is to say: to feed off the misery of others

So around the world we find reptilian symbology. Reptiles are known for laying eggs rather than nurturing young and they are known often for aggression and territorial behaviours; it is not a stretch to imagine psychopaths feeling a sympathy towards reptiles and in turn carrying out sympathetic magick

Even in common speech people often use reptilian terms to descibe someone exhibiting psychopathic triats for example calling someone a 'snake' or a 'reptile'

In popular culture the reptile is often used to symbolise a slippery kind of character for example the house of slitherin in harry potter or gordon gheko in the film 'wallstreet'

So you can look into the mechanics of how the IMF works to steal money and wellbeing from people and you can gather information regarding masonic malfeasance but at some point inevitably you ask yourself 'but why are they doing this?'

You could then say 'well its class struggle isn't it?'

But then that doesn't answer why a person would want to maintain a class dominance over others

So then using the socratic method you could again ask 'ok but why would a person want to maintain an unequal society which leads to poverty for many people?'

And then you could say something like: 'well they are culturally brainwashed to think that way' or you could say: 'they are psychopathic' and so on

But then this just leads to more questions for example 'who is doing the cultural brainwashing' or 'what is psychopathy'

And before you know it you have left the comfortable world of money, facts, figures, names, dates and other data and are into the opaque world of the abstract...where some are more comfortable than others
 
Only if they are being stupid

is there a commentator that you have in mind when you say that because the ones i listen to look at every level from the concrete right up to the abstract?

So for example on the mundane material plane they will look at the role of the IMF and the freemasons and then on a more abstract level they will look at the occult side of things which is to stray into the realms of psychology and also even into science as understanding the nature of reality then allows a greater understanding of the whole

Only a fool is going to research single mindedly into giant lizards without wanting to know the role of the IMF

Concerning the IMF the australian journalist John Pilger made a good documentary that looks into the role the IMF plays called 'war by other means' using indonesia as a case study

Concerning the lizard angle to the whole thing you can really read that on a number of levels

The human brain has a 'reptillian' part of the brain which is the oldest part of the brain; this part of the brain is responsible for territorial and aggressive behaviours. Then overlaying this came the 'mammalian' part of the brain which nurtured its young and is capable of compassion

So if you were a psychopath and you wanted to create a 'god' for yourself that you could draw totemic strength from in order to channel your energies with specific intent then you could create a blood sucking reptile god as that would encapsulate your own spirit as it were and would form a magickal symbol of your own intent in this world, which is to say: to feed off the misery of others

So around the world we find reptilian symbology. Reptiles are known for laying eggs rather than nurturing young and they are known often for aggression and territorial behaviours; it is not a stretch to imagine psychopaths feeling a sympathy towards reptiles and in turn carrying out sympathetic magick

Even in common speech people often use reptilian terms to descibe someone exhibiting psychopathic triats for example calling someone a 'snake' or a 'reptile'

In popular culture the reptile is often used to symbolise a slippery kind of character for example the house of slitherin in harry potter or gordon gheko in the film 'wallstreet'

So you can look into the mechanics of how the IMF works to steal money and wellbeing from people and you can gather information regarding masonic malfeasance but at some point inevitably you ask yourself 'but why are they doing this?'

You could then say 'well its class struggle isn't it?'

But then that doesn't answer why a person would want to maintain a class dominance over others

So then using the socratic method you could again ask 'ok but why would a person want to maintain an unequal society which leads to poverty for many people?'

And then you could say something like: 'well they are culturally brainwashed to think that way' or you could say: 'they are psychopathic' and so on

But then this just leads to more questions for example 'who is doing the cultural brainwashing' or 'what is psychopathy'

And before you know it you have left the comfortable world of money, facts, figures, names, dates and other data and are into the opaque world of the abstract...where some are more comfortable than others

I think the establish a class dominance for material reasons, mainly, maybe we're in a post-scarity society which has discovered the sorts of maximal production or superabundance Marx thought would only come with the advent of an alternative to capitalism and maybe we've not but I dont think people have changed since then and I dont think its because of a self-reproducing elect or elite of lizards, whether you treat that literally or metaphorically.

The more or less amoral or psychopathic nature of individual rulers, even rulers as a class (whether they are conscious of about it or not), is a case of fortune or misfortune but what's important is the class struggle or social structure which permits it all.

You know while everyone is watching Game of Thrones and speculating about who will end up ruling from the Iron Throne, is this one or that one more psychopathic or twisted or cruel, no one is asking whether there ought to be an Iron Throne to begin with, you know?
 
Incidentially did you ever see a movie called The Conspiracy in which a bunch of bankers or social elites stab a guy dressed as a bull to death in the finish? Its a good movie, that might seem like a spoiler but its not really, if you watch it you'll see what I mean.
 
I think the establish a class dominance for material reasons, mainly, maybe we're in a post-scarity society which has discovered the sorts of maximal production or superabundance Marx thought would only come with the advent of an alternative to capitalism and maybe we've not but I dont think people have changed since then and I dont think its because of a self-reproducing elect or elite of lizards, whether you treat that literally or metaphorically.

That's not taking into account the antiquity of the bloodlines and secret societies that are controlling society; they've been playing the same game long before all the modern talk of scarcity

The more or less amoral or psychopathic nature of individual rulers, even rulers as a class (whether they are conscious of about it or not), is a case of fortune or misfortune but what's important is the class struggle or social structure which permits it all.

No the systems are the product of the mindset

They believe in a pyramidal parasitical society so they create and maintain one

You know while everyone is watching Game of Thrones and speculating about who will end up ruling from the Iron Throne, is this one or that one more psychopathic or twisted or cruel, no one is asking whether there ought to be an Iron Throne to begin with, you know?

Yeah i'm with you on that

'here in the north we bow to no king' pretty much sums up my viewpoint on that
 
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Incidentially did you ever see a movie called The Conspiracy in which a bunch of bankers or social elites stab a guy dressed as a bull to death in the finish? Its a good movie, that might seem like a spoiler but its not really, if you watch it you'll see what I mean.

Killing the fatted calf

There are astrological implications as well as mythological for example mithras but bodily fluids in magickal terms are suppsoed to draw certain energies towards them. Blood and semen are seen to be particularaly potent for that purpose:

Aleister Crowley Book 4:

CHAPTER XII
OF THE BLOODY SACRIFICE: AND MATTERS COGNATE
It is necessary for us to consider carefully the problems connected with the bloody sacrifice, for this question is indeed traditionally important in Magick. Nigh all ancient Magick revolves around this matter. In particular all the Osirian religions — the rites of the Dying God — refer to this. The slaying of Osiris and Adonis; the mutilation of Attis; the cults of Mexico and Peru; the story of Hercules or Melcarth; the legends of Dionysus and of Mithra, are all connected with this one idea. In the Hebrew religion we find the same thing inculcated. The first ethical lesson in the Bible is that the only sacrifice pleasing to the Lord is the sacrifice of blood; Abel, who made this, finding favour with the Lord, while Cain, who offered cabbages, was rather naturally considered a cheap sport. The idea recurs again and again. We have the sacrifice of the Passover, following on the story of Abraham’s being commanded to sacrifice his firstborn son, with the idea of the substitution of animal for human life. The annual ceremony of the two goats carries out this in perpetuity. And we see again the domination of this idea in the romance of Esther, where Haman and Mordecai are the two goats or gods; and ultimately in the presentation of the rite of Purim in Palestine, where Jesus and Barabbas happened to be the Goats in that particular year of which we hear so much, without agreement on the date.
This subject must be studied in the “Golden Bough”, where it is most learnedly set forth by Dr. J. G. Frazer.
Enough has now been said to show that the bloody sacrifice has from time immemorial been the most considered part of Magick. {92} The ethics of the thing appear to have concerned no one; nor, to tell the truth, need they do so. As St. Paul says, “Without shedding of blood there is no remission”; and who are we to argue with St. Paul? But, after all that, it is open to any one to have any opinion that he likes upon the subject, or any other subject, thank God! At the same time, it is most necessary to study the business, whatever we may be going to do about it; for our ethics themselves will naturally depend upon our theory of the universe. If we were quite certain, for example, that everybody went to heaven when he died, there could be no serious objection to murder or suicide, as it is generally conceded — by those who know neither — that earth is not such a pleasant place as heaven. However, there is a mystery concealed in this theory of the bloody sacrifice which is of great importance to the student, and we therefore make no further apology, We should not have made even this apology for an apology, had it not been for the solicitude of a pious young friend of great austerity of character who insisted that the part of this chapter which now follows — the part which was originally written — might cause us to be misunderstood. This must not be.
The blood is the life. This simple statement is explained by the Hindus by saying that the blood is the principal vehicle of vital Prana. There is some ground for the belief that there is a definite substance , not isolated as yet, whose presence makes all {93} the difference between live and dead matter. We pass by with deserved contempt the pseudoscientific experiments of American charlatans who claim to have established that weight is lost at the moment of death, and the unsupported statements of alleged clairvoyants that they have seen the soul issuing like a vapour from the mouth of persons “in articulo mortis”; but his experiences as an explorer have convinced the Master Therion that meat loses a notable portion of its nutritive value within a very few minutes after the death of the animal, and that this loss proceeds with everdiminishing rapidity as time goes on. It is further generally conceded that live food, such as oysters, is the most rapidly assimilable and most concentrated form of energy. Laboratory experiments in food-values seem to be almost worthless, for reasons which we cannot here enter into; the general testimony of mankind appears a safer guide.
It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of those savages who tear the heart and liver from an adversary, and devour them while yet warm. In any case it was the theory of {94} the ancient Magicians, that any living being is a storehouse of energy varying in quantity according to the size and health of the animal, and in quality according to its mental and moral character. At the death of the animal this energy is liberated suddenly.
The animal should therefore be killed within the Circle, or the Triangle, as the case may be, so that its energy cannot escape. An animal should be selected whose nature accords with that of the ceremony — thus, by sacrificing a female lamb one would not obtain any appreciate quantity of the fierce energy useful to a Magician who was invoking Mars. In such a case a ram would be more suitable. And this ram should be virgin — the whole potential of its original total energy should not have been diminished in any way. For the highest spiritual working one must accordingly choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force. A male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory and suitable victim. {95} For evocations it would be more convenient to place the blood of the victim in the Triangle — the idea being that the spirit might obtain from the blood this subtle but physical substance which was the quintessence of its life in such a manner as to enable it to take on a visible and tangible shape.
Those magicians who object to the use of blood have endeavored to replace it with incense. For such a purpose the incense of Abramelin may be burnt in large quantities. Dittany of Crete is also a valuable medium. Both these incenses are very catholic in their nature, and suitable for almost any materialization. But the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious; and for nearly all purposes human sacrifice is the best. The truly great Magician will be able to use his own blood, or possibly that of a disciple, and that without sacrificing the physical life irrevocably. An example of this sacrifice is given in Chapter 44 of Liber 333. This Mass may be recommended generally for daily practice.
One last word on this subject. There is a Magical operation of maximum importance: the Initiation of a New Aeon. When it becomes necessary to utter a Word, the whole Planet must be bathed in blood. Before man is ready to accept the Law of Thelema, the Great War must be fought. This Bloody Sacrifice is the critical point of the World-{96}Ceremony of the Proclamation of Horus, the Crowned and conquering Child, as Lord of the Aeon.
This whole matter is prophesied in the Book of the Law itself; let the student take note, and enter the ranks of the Host of the Sun.
II There is another sacrifice with regard to which the Adepts have always maintained the most profound secrecy. It is the supreme mystery of practical Magick. Its name is the Formula of the Rosy Cross. In this case the victim is always — in a certain sense — the Magician himself, and the sacrifice must coincide with the utterance of the most sublime and secret name of the God whom he wishes to invoke.
Properly performed, it never fails of its effect. But it is difficult for the beginner to do it satisfactorily, because it is a great effort for the mind to remain concentrated upon the purpose of the ceremony. The overcoming of this difficulty lends most powerful aid to the Magician.
It is unwise for him to attempt it until he has received regular initiation in the true Order of the Rosy Cross, {97} and he must have taken the vows with the fullest comprehension and experience of their meaning. It is also extremely desirable that he should have attained an absolute degree of moral emancipation, and that purity of spirit which results from a perfect understanding both of the differences and harmonies of the planes upon the Tree of Life.
For this reason FRATER PERDURABO has never dared to use this formula in a fully ceremonial manner, save once only, on an occasion of tremendous import, when, indeed, it was not He that made the offering, but ONE in Him. For he perceived a grave defect in his moral character which he has been able to overcome on the intellectual plane, but not hitherto upon higher planes. Before the conclusion of writing this book he will have done so.
The practical details of the Bloody Sacrifice may be studied in various ethnological manuals, but the general conclusions are summed up in Frazer’s “Golden Bough”, which is strongly recommended to the reader. Actual ceremonial details likewise may be left to experiment. The method of killing is practically uniform. The animal should be stabbed to the heart, or its throat severed, in either case by the knife. All other methods of killing are less efficacious; even in the case of Crucifixion death is given by stabbing. One may remark that warm-blooded animals only are used as victims: with two principal exceptions. The first is the serpent, which is only used in a very special Ritual; the second the magical beetles of Liber Legis. (See Part IV.) {98}
One word of warning is perhaps necessary for the beginner. The victim must be in perfect health — or its energy may be as it were poisoned. It must also not be too large: the amount of energy disengaged is almost unimaginably great, and out of all anticipated proportion to the strength of the animal. Consequently, the Magician may easily be overwhelmed and obsessed by the force which he has let loose; it will then probably manifest itself in its lowest and most objectionable form. The most intense spirituality of purpose is absolutely essential to safety. In evocations the danger is not so great, as the Circle forms a protection; but the circle in such a case must be protected, not only by the names of God and the Invocations used at the same time, but by a long habit of successful defence. If you are easily disturbed or alarmed, or if you have not yet overcome the tendency of the mind to wander, it is not advisable for you to perform {99} the “Bloody Sacrifice”. Yet it should not be forgotten that this, and that other art at which we have dared darkly to hint, are the supreme formulae of Practical Magick.
You are also likely to get into trouble over this chapter unless you truly comprehend its meaning.
 
I think we are encouraged to speak about the big issues. They may be hidden or just partially hidden, but no one is stopping us from discussing what we know or think we know.

Considering that at least in my experience 'spreading awareness' is as far as people get (I've never met a person who was enacting change in the system beyond trying to become an isolationist) the elite have nothing to worry about. Conspiracy theorists are all talk.
 
I think we are encouraged to speak about the big issues. They may be hidden or just partially hidden, but no one is stopping us from discussing what we know or think we know.

Considering that at least in my experience 'spreading awareness' is as far as people get (I've never met a person who was enacting change in the system beyond trying to become an isolationist) the elite have nothing to worry about. Conspiracy theorists are all talk.

No conspiracy theorists are not all talk

If you look at the facts that many 'conspiracy theorists' put forward then you can see that they are basing their views on factual evidence

If you don't look at the evidence they are presenting then you will never understand what they are talking about and why they are saying what they are saying

Here's a recent story about how the FBI is covering up a plot to murder leaders of the occupy movement. The occupy movement could be said to contain many 'conspiracy theorists' as they say there is a conspiracy by the 1% against the 99% yet they are trying to effect change that has nothing to do with isolationism:

[video=youtube;Z5vEByuv0oQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5vEByuv0oQ#t=198[/video]

Also spreading awareness IS effecting change because physical actions are preceded by thoughts

So to clarify what goes on in a persons head then determines how they act and how they act then shapes the world....extrapolate that out to millions of people globally

This will affect how people vote, how they spend and who or what they give support to
 
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