Saturday, July 28, 2007

Frank Zappa on Crossfire (1986)

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Thursday, July 26, 2007

September Clues


Do the TV news networks manipulate "reality" on the television? Is the news truly "live?" Would you be able to tell the difference? Check this out!

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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Black Helicopters


Eight years after reading Black Helicopters II : The End Game Strategy, by the late Jim Keith, I may have witnessed one first hand.

Saturday, July 14th, at 7:15 PM, my wife and I were driving home from a friend's house south of Chicago. We were traveling northbound on Lake Shore Drive, which runs along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. We were about to pass the Michigan Avenue exit ramp when I looked out over the lake and saw what appeared to be a solid black helicopter about 300 feet away. It was hovering very close to the water, perhaps 20-30 feet above.

The black helicopter did not appear to be a commercial or Coast Guard(bright orange) aircraft, but rather something the military would employ. It was long, suggesting multiple passengers, had a somewhat pointed front end, and as far as I could tell it was completely unmarked. The nose cone had some kind of device(s) emanating from it.

By the time the wife retrieved the digital camera from her purse we were too far away to take a photograph. I considered turning the car around and going back, but decided not to assuming that the chopper would be long gone by then.

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Monday, July 23, 2007

Symbol in NYC building a history mystery


via Yahoo! News

NEW YORK - A final thrust of the crowbar cracked the wooden crate open, and the architect, the anthropologist and the mortar expert leaned in to look at the oddity that had drawn them to an out-of-the-way warehouse.

It was a 3-foot-by-10-foot section of timeworn brick wall, its predictable rows abruptly interrupted by three distinct, deliberate-looking triangular shapes. Once part of a warehouse, it now does nothing but raise questions.Full Article

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Saturday, July 21, 2007

Fun Food Additive of the Day -- EDTA!

While investigating the ingredients contained within a can of Lipton® Iced Brisk - Iced Lemon Tea, I found this tasty gem -- calcium disodium EDTA.

Wikipedia description:

EDTA is a widely-used acronym for the chemical compound ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (and many other names, see table). EDTA refers to the chelating agent with the formula (HO2CCH2)2NCH2CH2N(CH2CO2H)2. This amino acid is widely used to sequester di- and trivalent metal ions. EDTA binds to metals via four carboxylate and two amine groups. EDTA forms specially strong complexes with Mn(II), Cu(II), Fe(III), and Co(III).[1]


According to the dubious nutrition list on the can, the job of EDTA is "to protect freshness," but the Wikipedia page explains it's use in soft drinks(among other things) a bit more throughly:

Soft drinks containing ascorbic acid and sodium benzoate, to mitigate formation of benzene (a carcinogen)

Why would you want to drink anything that could possibly create benzene in the first place? Never mind anything else that is added to prevent it.

Benzene in Soft Drinks

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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Pyramidal Daft Punk

















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Sunday, July 15, 2007

Theosophy and Platonic Solids















Last weekend, I visited the national center of the Theosophical Society in America, specifically to check-out (pun intended) the Henry S. Olcott Memorial Library and Quest Book Shop. I was a bit surprised to find out that I have been living about 30 minutes away from this place for the last several years.

While taking pictures of the main entrance gate, I noticed that the two pillars were topped with a Platonic solid. I found this to be quite interesting. The left pillar was capped with a icosahedron and on the right pillar a dodecahedron.

Two days later while reading Bob Frissell's Something in This Book Is True..., I happened upon this paragraph:
"There is a new grid around Earth that is enabling this consciousness to come forth. More than 83,000 sacred sites around the planet, built in very specific places, were used by the ascended masters to create this grid. The process began 13,000 years ago and was completed on February 4, 1989. The grid is electromagnetic in nature, it is located about sixty miles above Earth, and its geometry is based on the pentagon, as well as a relationship between the dodecahedron and the icosahedron." -page 218
The T.S. website briefly explains the use of the Platonic solids on the pillars:
"...the gate's pillars are capped by two of the five Platonic solids, symbolizing the order inherent in the universe."
For me, the Olcott Memorial Library was awe-inspiring and for only $30 annually, visitors may borrow books and videos. I was stunned by the volume and selection of books offered there. Quest Book Shop was also impressive to me. Shit, you can even buy a hardcover version of Manly P. Hall's Secret Teachings of All Ages there.

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Friday, July 13, 2007

Triskaidekaphobia

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Cartoon banned by the Mormon church

I found this to be VERY entertaining; especially the bit about "negros."

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Saturday, July 07, 2007

Phil Donahue on Scientology

"5/14/95 - Scientology figurehead president Heber Jenztsch spars with Phil Donahue in a live show from 1995. Heber has since been put out to pasture."

Part 1 of 6


Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6

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Thursday, July 05, 2007

Anger towards Mickey Mouse

Over at Sabrina’s Journey, the association between independent filmmaker Kenneth Anger and Mickey Mouse were brought forth. I was reading Fritz Springmeier’s article titled "The Disney Bloodline" at the time, which suggests that an individual with a strong connection to Mickey Mouse as a child would exhibit an attachment towards the cartoon character throughout their life (e.g., shirts, watches, etc.). In jest, I asked, “Is Kenneth Anger the product of Disney mind control?” in the comments section.

A day later while continuing to read the Disney Bloodline article I was synchronistically surprised by the following section:
Kenneth Anger (he choose[sic] the last name Anger) was raised on the Wizard of Oz books. His biographer Bill Ladis writes that the Oz books “laid the groundwork for Ken’s attraction to Crowley, the occultist who would rework Rosicrucian thought into his own magical system.” Ken was obsessed with Crowley’s life & magic. As a child, Ken had danced with Shirley Temple in competition after she became a child star. Ken Anger loved the OTO’s solar phallic religion, and was also obsessed with Mickey Mouse. He spent part of his time studying his friend’s Mickey Mouse collection. Ken Anger did his casting for his film “Lucifer Rising” by telling occult friends & acquaintances that they could live out their goddess and god power-trip fantasies by acting for him. The British government’s National Film Finance Corp. fronted 15,000£ for Lucifer Rising’s production. Famous occult musician Jimmy Page did the sound track gratis. Ken Anger acted as the film’s Magus and made his Magus role resemble Mickey Mouse in the film Fantasia. (The role Fantasia plays in mind-control programming will follow as the last part of this chapter.) “Lucifer Rising” also starts with Fantasia-type volcanoes.
Page 55 – 56, The Disney Bloodline
Kenneth Anger was so obsessed that he made a short film “Mouse Heaven,” based on the iconic power of the Mickey Mouse and the merchandise made in it’s image. Here is a clip from an interview with Anger discussing Mouse Heaven:

Dnyl: You’re currently working on a film, “Mouse Heaven”?

Kenneth Anger: Yes I’m finishing a film I’ve already shot. It’s a study of animated toys of a rare nature. These are collectables of early Walt Disney toys. I’ve always loved Mickey Mouse since I was a little boy and I’m outraged about the current Disney company’s attitude to Mickey Mouse. I mean they think they own it but all the children of the world own Mickey Mouse. And I have devised a way to star Mickey Mouse in a film that the current Disney company can’t legally object to, by filming antique toy collection of early Disney toys, And it’s just a coincidence all those toys happen to be Mickey Mouse. I’m actually being very respectful of early Mickey Mouse. I hate later Mickey Mouse, because from “Fantasia” on the Disney people decided to humanize the mouse, remove his tail- which is kind of castration- and in turn him into a little boy who is a sort of a goody-two-shoes. And he’s no longer the mischievous sadistic mouse that he was in the beginning. He used to do nasty little tricks like twist the udders of cows and things like that. And that’s the only mouse I’m interested in, I mean this kind of demon ‘fetish’ figure.

I had the pleasure of meeting Kenneth Anger a few years ago at at the Gene Siskel Film Center during a screening presentation of his works . For those who have seen it, he wore the same tacky planetary sweatshirt that he wore to the Disinfo.Con. What a character. I left the screening with a signed "Lucifer Rising" poster which is proudly displayed in my apartment.

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Wednesday, July 04, 2007

The Illusion of Independence