The Revenge of the Illusionists at the Whim of the Deluded

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

 

“Our impulses are being redirected. We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep… The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled into a trance. They have made us indifferent to ourselves…, to others…, we are focused only on our own gain. Please understand they are safe as long as they are not discovered. That is their primary method of survival: To keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated.”

– “They Live” (1988), John Carpenter, Universal Pictures, Release date: November 4, 1988

 

John Carpenter’s cult classic film “They Live” foreshadowed our current time in so many ways. The story told of disguised freaks appearing human while consolidating control over the upper echelons of society. To do this, they lulled the masses to sleep via advertising and materialism. The electronic media acted as a hypnotist’s watch on lethargic plebeians as they were cajoled into a dreamlike state, treated like puppets, and surveilled – by flying drones no less.

Given our current circumstances today the movie would be considered non-fiction; except with the truth-tellers on the still-free internet acting as the good guy media hackers distributing the sunglasses in the film that allowed the freaks to be seen in all their loathsome hideousness.

In “They Live”, the media hackers and sunglasses allowed the public to see behind the curtain, so to speak, which is a phrase taken from another film, “The Wizard of Oz”. It was when Dorothy and friends could see the wizard after a curtain fell and revealing him to be just a man operating technological buttons, levers, and a microphone in order to cast illusions upon the inhabitants of Oz.

And here’s the point of these cinematic parables:  The grotesque freaks from “They Live” and the wizard from the “Wizard of Oz” knew what they were doing as they purposefully deceived the citizens in their respective worlds; and the deceiving con artists did this so as to consolidate power and maintain control over whom they perceived to be dupes.

Sound familiar?

Because whenever we hear elected officials, talking heads in the media, and former and current high-ranking officials in the government pontificating regarding Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on FISA abuse as having found no evidence of political bias, we just know it’s a pack of lies.

They know what they are doing. And they know what they have done.

Although Horowitz gave the wizards and freaks the talking points they desired, the report was damning, to say the least, and it validated what we red-pilled denizens on the still-free internet understand happened during the 2016 Presidential Election as well as the ensuing treachery that later became the Mueller investigation.

And just as former FBI Director James Comey took to Twitter and The Washington Post to announce his vindication, both Attorney General Bill Barr and his “hand-picked US Attorney, John Durham, issued statements disagreeing with the IG’s conclusions”:

The Inspector General’s report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken…

– U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr – December 9, 2019

 

I have the utmost respect for the mission of the Office of Inspector General and the comprehensive work that went into the report prepared by Mr. Horowitz and his staff.  However, our investigation is not limited to developing information from within component parts of the Justice Department.  Our investigation has included developing information from other persons and entities, both in the U.S. and outside of the U.S.  Based on the evidence collected to date, and while our investigation is ongoing, last month we advised the Inspector General that we do not agree with some of the report’s conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened.

– U.S. Attorney John Durham – December 9, 2019

In a later NBC interview, Attorney General Barr further clarified his views on Horowitz’s consistent predilections toward blind, deaf, and dumb justice:

But Barr argued that Horowitz didn’t look very hard, and that the inspector general accepted the FBI’s explanations at face value.

“All he said was, people gave me an explanation and I didn’t find anything to contradict it … he hasn’t decided the issue of improper motive,” Barr said. “I think we have to wait until the full investigation is done.”

Barr said he stood by his assertion that the Trump campaign was spied on, noting that the FBI used confidential informants who recorded conversations with Trump campaign officials.

In his December 11, 2019 testimony tightrope act before the U.S. Senate, Horowitz said he preferred the term “surveillance” over “spying” and, to his credit, retroactively annulled former FBI Director Comey’s self-vindication with this statement:

I think the activities we found here don’t vindicate anybody who touched this FISA.

Even so, 17 violations identified in the Horowitz report of which reporter John Solomon had added some further clarification:

The Appendix identifies a total of 51 Woods procedure violations from the FISA application the FBI submitted to the court authorizing surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page starting in October 2016.

A whopping nine of those violations fell into the category called: “Supporting document shows that the factual assertion is inaccurate.”

For those who don’t speak IG parlance, it means the FBI made nine false assertions to the FISA court. In short, what the bureau said was contradicted by the evidence in its official file.

To put that in perspective, former Trump aides Mike Flynn and George Papadopoulos were convicted of making single false statements to the bureau. One went to jail already, and the other awaits sentencing.

The FBI made nine false statements to the court.

And, of course, all of the errors and omissions were made against Team Trump.  Does that seem random to you?  What were the odds?

But no political bias. Right. Got it.

To be sure, the Wizards of Obama engaged in third world tactics and the unseen freaks in the highest levels of The Establishment planned to consolidate their power under Hillary.

In describing the current narrative of this sordid tale, it would appear that Donald Trump was elected to chew bubble-gum and kick ass.  And the president is out of bubble-gum.

The films “They Live” and “The Wizard of Oz” are constructive lens by which to view what’s happening in the ongoing reality TV show of American politics because they distill any psyops and narratives down to true versus false as opposed to Republican versus Democrat; even if the movies are fiction.

Is everything we are now witnessing in American politics occurring naturally? Or is there something else going on?

Regardless, like true versus false, or life versus death, perhaps conservative versus Marxist is also a valid ideological construct upon which we can depend.

To the Hive Mind, politics is survival. It’s why it so passionately politicizes everything from NFL football, to Hollywood, to the weather, to education, to pre-school children’s library readings hosted by gender-fluid freaks.

Maybe this also explains why the Marxists so often win politically in their efforts to repeatedly establish their vision of utopia on this blue orb – because they can’t afford to lose. It is, in fact, the root of Trump Derangement Syndrome, on being “triggered”, and explains snowflakedom: Their worldview is all or nothing; even if only based on delusions, color, and genitals.

It is the new religion. Or, perhaps, even an old one.

Regardless, as of now, if you look into the eyes of Pelosi, Maddow, Biden, Nadler, Schiff and crew you will see hints of desperation. And fear. It’s why Pelosi had her recent meltdown when someone asked if she hated Trump. It’s also why Biden lost it when a guy in New Hampton Iowa recently asked him about Ukraine. It’s why media activist Chuck Todd went nuclear on Senator Ted Cruz over Ukraine. And why the head of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee has invalidated one possible outcome of the next presidential election.

These freaks know exactly what they are doing. And they know exactly what they have done. But they would be powerless if not for the dupes.

Indeed.  The recently announced articles of impeachment by congressional Democrats, the complete collapse of the corporate mainstream media into Fake News, and the cries of vindication over the Horowitz Report – all represent the revenge of the illusionists by the whim of the deluded. It’s like watching a clown car fueled by the vapid dreams of fools driving over a cliff.

A reader of my blog e-mailed me an article whereby the author phrased it thusly:

While some are waking up to this reality the vast swath of those self-described progressives and liberals are oblivious.  Thus, the socialist radicals have power far beyond their numbers.

In other words, those in power and their minions know full well what they are doing and the rest of America is a bunch of f*cking idiots.

Therefore the Kavanaugh-ification of American politics will continue.  And, as the nation further declines. Those on the Political Left have progressively politicized, polarized, and pulverized every institution in the United States.

And everything they touch sours.

As Horowitz has proven in his report, the DoJ and FBI were weaponized against a presidential candidate and the FISA process was undermined completely.

Of course John Durham will demonstrate that the U.S. Intelligence agencies utilized foreign agents to undermine a domestic election and, later, a U.S. president.  According to Attorney General Barr, we won’t know the exact results of Durham’s investigation until late spring or early summer 2020.

The Democrats in the U.S. House have not only raped the whistleblower statute and protections, but it has turned presidential impeachment into a common political ploy.

We now know the Ukraine whistleblower was a CIA spy named Eric Ciaramella, and he was…

– an outspoken critic of Trump

– a registered Democrat

– who worked for CIA Director John Brennan

– who worked for Obama

– who worked for Joe Biden

– And one who helped to start the Russia “collusion” hoax

Yet this is the guy the wizards in the U.S. House used as the reason to launch a bogus and patently unfair impeachment charade and to “embrace the exact surveillance tactics they used to warn about”:

Today, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff not only employs the power of the surveillance state to smear his colleagues and press his political agenda, he has set a number of dangerous precedents by “unmasking” his political rivals in an effort to smear them with innuendo.

With the release of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment report this week, we learned that Rudolph Giuliani and his corrupt Ukrainian pal Lev Parnas, whose metadata Schiff had legally subpoenaed, were also exchanging calls with former The Hill columnist John Solomon, ranking Intelligence Republican Devin Nunes and the president’s personal attorney Jay Sekulow.

All the while, the mainstream media spouts lie after lie after lie; U.S. elections have been undermined by falsehoods and f*ckery; and as tech giants censor and spin in ways that would cause Orwell to blush in his grave – if only because Epstein didn’t kill himself.

The freaks hide behind electronic spells as the wizards push buttons and pull levers from behind their curtains.  Crossfire Hurricane, the Russian election hacking psyop, the Mueller Report, and now the 2019 Ukrainegate Impeach-a-palooza are illusions sold by wizards who know what they are doing to the dolts who have provided them with power.

It could be that history will reveal the election of President Donald J. Trump as the “bleeding of the brake lines before the big stop”.  And, it doesn’t matter if he is real, being used unwittingly, or is a wizard himself because either…

1.) The U.S. economy will crash before November 3, 2020 and whatever Leftist Loon inhabits the white house will soon deliver socialist hell

Or

2.) Trump will win and the economy will implode followed by a dollar crash and the remainder of his second term will be devastated by economic hell, war, and societal breakdown.

In either scenario, the Land of Oz will be begging for a new global order, and even more powerful wizardry, by 2024.

Order out of chaos.

America is an empire of debt and slavery is rooted in economics. And the collapse of the everything bubble (i.e USD) is when the real magic will begin.

Until then, however, the technocracy thrives, convenience is monopolized and sold, and power is consolidated.

The wizards are real. They live.

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Author: Uncola

I am one who has found the road less traveled while remaining a whiskered, whispering witness to the world. I hope what you just considered was worth the price and time spent. www.TheTollOnline.com

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ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
December 12, 2019 6:49 am

Your stuff is always top shelf, Uncola.

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/12/is-the-government-hiding-advanced-technology-5000-inventions-held-under-secrecy-orders-at-the-us-patent-office.html

I dropped this anonly a couple days ago to T4C. A buddy of mine had sent it to me, it has to do with the Qt:

Einstein/Rosen bridge….

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—-== It's all been planned

Anonymous
Anonymous
  ordo ab chao
December 12, 2019 7:16 am

about the patents, ordie? yes

Suds
Suds
  Anonymous
December 12, 2019 12:05 pm

I wondered who posted that, on the heels of T4Cs comment in a diff thread about a week back, Ordo.
Lot to unpack in that vid for some. Was / is interesting.
How many will be open minded enough to understand? Hmm.

Gave you a hat tip of sorts, mentioning a couple clues to it, on the Time mag thread, in comment about pigtails Grant.
Looking Glass. One hit wonder?
Pour me a shot of brandy, barrtender. Grazie.

Anyway, kudos for feeding us the vid.

Doug, this post today is lean, mean, and as sharp as Jim Jordan going rapid fire, speaking about all the skullduggery.
Exceptionally worthy to be seen by many more eyeballs belonging to people who really need to know the score.

Around here, most do.
It needs to be distributed far and wide, off the platform.
Hope Gore reposts to SLL, too.
Cheers.

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  Suds
December 12, 2019 3:39 pm

Suds…

I saw that post about pigtail Grant, and thought the reference was intentional….great pic BTW…

I have long considered, and still do, that Q is a massive psyop to keep the lemmings following along……IDK

What I do know-there is more to this ole world than what meets the eye.
Psyop or not, the info in that video is like so many other Coinky Dinks I keep running into.

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum

https://www.christiannewsnetwork.net/december-12-2019-at-1212-am-another-sign-and-warning-to-all-inhibiters-of-earth/

James
James
  ordo ab chao
December 12, 2019 8:49 am

Ordo,there is zero doubt about hidden tech,my uncle in the 70’s put up some solar panels on his home in the sticks.They had just become avaliable as British Petroleum had the patent but did nothing to develop them,they lost the court case forcing them to either give up patent right or develop the panels,they gave up the right.

I will say with the net ect. there is hope a lot of the tech will slip out,then,the govt. will have to literally attack folks using the tech on a worldwide basis,that will get interesting.The plans and discoveries will leak out and or be rediscovered,be ready to be a shade tree tech maker!

Nobody
Nobody
  ordo ab chao
December 12, 2019 7:49 pm

Top shelf? Really? Why do I need a shovel to get to the top shelf?

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  Nobody
December 14, 2019 4:27 am

IDK, Nobody….

maybe for the same reason you have to drop your britches to take your hat off?

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum

MTD
MTD
December 12, 2019 6:51 am

“Brother, life’s a bitch… and she’s back in heat.” RIP Rowdy Roddy. One of the all time greats.

ottomatik
ottomatik
  MTD
December 12, 2019 9:34 pm

As good as the chewin bublegum quote, easily. Funny in that it reminds me of a Bertolt Brecht quote:
“Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the bastard is dead, the bitch that bore him is again in heat.”
That would be a tag team Rowdy and Bertolt.

Anonymous
Anonymous
December 12, 2019 6:52 am

As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world’s a stage]

William Shakespeare – 1564-1616

Jaques to Duke Senior

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

M G
M G
  Anonymous
December 12, 2019 10:19 am

What happens after Act VII?

Stucky
Stucky
  M G
December 12, 2019 10:58 am

Act VIII ?

Subwo
Subwo
  M G
December 12, 2019 12:42 pm

Ages=1000 years.

subwo
subwo
  Subwo
December 12, 2019 5:21 pm

Corrected above.

subwo
subwo
  M G
December 12, 2019 5:15 pm

MG, I was wrong on age. An age in the zodiac is 2160 years, so the 12 signs of the zodiac are each that length. Some say the story of Jesus is related to the zodiac and when he tells his followers in Mathew 28:20 he will be with them to the end of the age it is the age of Pisces.” …lo, I am with you always even to the end of the age.”
The zeitgiest part one on youtube explains this with Jesus.

credit
credit
December 12, 2019 7:42 am

any analysis like this should point out the totality of this as a “jew coup.” it started with failed articles of impeachment by Brad Sherman and then Steve Cohen. it was picked up and run with by Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler and attorney Damiel Sachs Goldman, Judiciary Committee “constitutional scholar” witnesses Karlan and Feldman, EU Ambassador Sondland and fabulist witness Lt. Col. Vinland as well as IG Horowitz. all Jewish. how many more in the unseen portion of this Jewish iceberg?

yahsure
yahsure
  credit
December 12, 2019 8:25 am

I can always count on something here about the Jews.

RogerP
RogerP
  yahsure
December 12, 2019 8:41 am

Was Credit wrong in his statement? Maybe people would be less hostile to you people if you were less hostile to them. “Do unto others…”. Oh, wait. You missed that whole Christianity thing.

The Cold Backhand of God
The Cold Backhand of God
  RogerP
December 12, 2019 11:17 am

… but, but … the Joooos made him do it.

Wyatt
Wyatt
  RogerP
December 12, 2019 1:00 pm

“You people”, has always spoken to narrow mindedness, and only serves to collectively group one aggregate as entirely the same. Wise up.

Timmy75
Timmy75
  Wyatt
December 12, 2019 2:42 pm

You people are always accusing others of doing that. What the hell is wrong with you people?

credit
credit
  yahsure
December 12, 2019 9:31 am

please argue with facts instead of childish innuendo.

gman
gman
  credit
December 12, 2019 3:26 pm

“argue with facts instead of childish innuendo”

but they’d lose.

and anyway to them we’re just talking animals. to them, arguing with us would be like arguing with a dog. us talking is like a dog growling. us arguing is like a dog barking. us winning an argument is like a dog biting, call animal control. and to them that’s all we ever are. because they are the humans and the rest of us are not. so they coo and cluck (“childish innuendo”), because they’re so superior to us.

Panzerlied
Panzerlied
  yahsure
December 12, 2019 11:22 am

Standing near a duck pond, I curiously pointed to a creature swimming in the water and stated that it swims just like a duck, looks alot like a duck, and I even heard it quack like a duck. When it reached the shore, sure enough it even walked like a duck. I wonder if it is indeed a duck. The fellow standing next to me seemed a little miffed and without giving it any thought blurted out ” I can always count on somthing here about ducks.”
It’s really a shame that some that have eyes will never be able to perceive and will spend the remainder of their lives, treading water while they steadfastly remain willfully ignorant and blissfully clueless in that fabled Egyptian river: denial. BTW, I suspect that Horowitz may be another duck.

Timmy75
Timmy75
  Panzerlied
December 12, 2019 2:44 pm

Now what kinda quackery is THAT?

Timmy75
Timmy75
  yahsure
December 12, 2019 2:40 pm

And I can always count on some intellectually disingenuous schlub crying about it.

LJB
LJB
  credit
December 12, 2019 9:23 am

Satan is the enemy …. no matter what “tool” he uses.

grace country pastor
grace country pastor
  LJB
December 12, 2019 11:23 am

Indeed LBJ… his is a very large toolbox.

Uncola concludes… “The wizards are real. They live.”

Alive and thriving I might add; the head wizard currently appearing as an angel of light (2 Cor 11:14).

2 Thes 2:8-10… “And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.”

Lars
Lars
  LJB
December 12, 2019 1:56 pm

Of course, but Satan’s tools need to be called out for what they are. Far too long they have been protected, coddled, privileged beyond measure, and outright worshipped by those whom they exploit and abuse beyond measure. .

Timmy75
Timmy75
  Lars
December 12, 2019 2:46 pm

I’m going to pray for Satan. Oh wait…. never mind.

LJB
LJB
  Lars
December 13, 2019 10:29 am

Yeah I get it… the whole “synagogue of satan” thing. Ashkenazi, Kaballah, their magical hexagram, the lies about Jesus in the talmud….

I was going to say they don’t have a monopoly on evil, but I’m not making a good case am I? Ok here’s one …. Is Obama or John Kerry a jew?

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  LJB
December 13, 2019 7:24 pm

Kerry’s grandfather was. Obama was spawned by fuqueing communists. Both are Democrat assholes first and foremost.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  LJB
December 12, 2019 4:59 pm

That is the fact, and will “win” for a short time very soon. Look up your redemption draweth nigh.

Uncola
Uncola
  credit
December 12, 2019 9:40 am

@ Credit,

Also interesting how the fictional nemesis to Orwell’s Big Brother was named Goldstein. And yet it was Epstein who didn’t kill himself.

Trump signs executive order combatting anti-Semitism at Hanukkah event

Correlation? Causation? Perhaps we should read between the lines. Maybe. Maybe not. Some might say it’s in the eye of the beholder. I don’t know. Until then, I will, however, report the news. Stay tuned.

credit
credit
  Uncola
December 12, 2019 9:56 am

yes, i guess college students can now not boycott israel or speak against one particular system of ethnic collusion. for me, correlation became laughable as a rational explanation years ago, and any room between the lines disappeared. it all seems very clear.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  Uncola
December 12, 2019 10:17 am

Someone needs to challenge that in court.

Btw, did you see the clip of Trump saying “We have to get the people to love Israel more”?

Plato_Plubius
Plato_Plubius
  Uncola
December 12, 2019 2:25 pm

Uncola, M.C. et al,

From the article link you provided, guess who was also at the White House to praise Trump’s flick of his pen, executive order that bypasses our legislative branch and becomes law!

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz also spoke at the event on Wednesday night, hailing the order as “one of the most important events” in the battle against anti-Semitism.

One of Epstein’s attorneys, none other than Alan Dershowitz! I’m sure this is a coincidence and there is nothing to see here! After all Epstein hanged himself!

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  Plato_Plubius
December 12, 2019 3:53 pm

Plato..

After Trump’s landslide victory in 2020, as the collapse begins and massive violence erupts after the ‘s’election, our benevolent leader will be forced to enact a national identification system. And since the ‘rule of law’ has been destroyed in Murika, Trump will need to establish the Noahide law…..

Sounds plausible to me…..

But, then again, so does an ‘alien’ invasion from outside our universe:

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum- on the eve of a new order for the ages

Uncola
Uncola
  ordo ab chao
December 12, 2019 4:28 pm

RE: Ronnie Raygun and “We’re from Outer Space. We’re here to help”.

And if it ever did happen, that is, for sure, when some real magic would begin. Imagine. All that excitement and hope.

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  Uncola
December 12, 2019 9:31 pm

“All that excitement and hope”

Haha, did you ever see the mini series: At Childhood’s End ?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4146128/

I’ve got an older (and bigger) brother who is of the “Ancient Alien” persuasion. We were raised in the same house, but I chose to see what the book (KJV) we were raised on might have to say about it….and I am of the Fallen Angels theory.

My wife and I go visit him and his stage 5 Alzheimer wife every week. At least now, with the onset of O.L.D. symptoms, we discuss our differences instead of fisticuffs

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  ordo ab chao
December 13, 2019 7:27 pm

St. John Paul II said he believed so called aliens were actually demons.

Mister Anderson
Mister Anderson
  Uncola
December 12, 2019 10:34 pm

I really hope you don’t mean “excitement and hope” if Aliens showed up.

GCP stopped too soon.

2 Thes 2: 10-11
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

Alien ships appearing in the skies around the world = Strong Delusion.

Uncola
Uncola
  Mister Anderson
December 12, 2019 10:54 pm

Yes. Hope in aliens = delusion.

M G
M G
  Uncola
December 13, 2019 7:58 am

All that intrigue as world leaders try to leverage the situation.

I’m reminded of the final chapter of Battlefield Earth, Scientology’s founder’s SciFi contribution to literature, when Johnie Goodboy, the new President of Earth signs the note for the Galactic Banker, whose only worry was where the gold was held: aka money.

It’s a weird book about a race of people who breathe nitrogen, I think.

It was part of the Science Fiction publishing explosion of the 80s. (a reaction to the people’s willingness to suspend belief regarding Watergate) So, the magazine industry flourished, as we “wrote it on a napkin” authors and got published in Reader’s Digest know. The Women’s movement created a whole new “industry.” A really big and influential industry with access to kids, who were encouraged to read, read, read.

Sorry, back to the point. Battlefield Earth. Bankers.

Space Opera and Pulp Fiction got married and had a big ugly alien named Terl. (That’s for EC)

I was a teenage know it all (EC)
I was a teenage know it all (EC)
  M G
December 13, 2019 1:41 pm

I got out of Basic on 12-13!

M G
M G
  I was a teenage know it all (EC)
December 13, 2019 1:55 pm

I was at Keesler by that time of year. I got frostbite on my face marching troops to class.

I was a teenage know it all (EC)
I was a teenage know it all (EC)
  ordo ab chao
December 12, 2019 10:13 pm

Georgie Bush adopted Uncle Ronnie’s soft husky voice when he became president. People should have known then that he was blowing smoke up their ass.

Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut
  ordo ab chao
December 12, 2019 10:35 pm

The soon coming rapture will be the biggest black swan event likely explained away as a major simultaneous worldwide alien abduction before the 7 year reign of the Antichrist or satanically empowered Man of Sin.

Outwithlibs
Outwithlibs
  Eyes Wide Shut
December 14, 2019 8:36 am

No where in the bible is the word rapture used. That is a belief started by John Darby in early 1800’s.

think
think
  ordo ab chao
December 13, 2019 12:21 pm

“our benevolent leader will be forced to enact a national identification system.”

Um, … there already is one. Many/most states now; all states within a year.

Just got fingerprinted and a facial recognition capable photo in order to drive. A fingerprint and face scan to continue doing what I’ve been doing for over 30 years. Because travel isn’t a right subject to the restriction that you do it safely (for sensible reasons); it is a “privilege” that your betters grant to you if you please them and keep your mouth shut — if you don’t, you can’t use “public” roads … but you will still pay for them.

Any “conservatives” talking about it? Republicans? Anyone at all?

Let’s talk about the impeachment instead (democrats bad, republicans good … MAGA! Trump himself made this about meaningless quid pro quo or no quid pro quo — i.e. it’s been scripted by both sides to suck all oxygen from paying attention to anything of actual importance)

It’s over, we’ve lost. Prove me wrong (please, please, prove me wrong).

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  think
December 13, 2019 1:27 pm

The nat’l ID you mention is known as Real ID:

“The new cards are valid for no more than eight years. A REAL ID will be your license or your ID. You are not issued separate cards. Either you will hold a REAL ID license, REAL ID ID (no driving privileges), standard license that says “Not for Federal Identification,” or a standard ID (no driving privileges)…”

I’m thinking about something more:

From 5 yrs ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ7XnZz4yx8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5JTal7I_-8

“It’s over, we’ve lost. Prove me wrong (please, please, prove me wrong).”

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  Plato_Plubius
December 13, 2019 9:54 am

I noticed something weird in the video of that event at the White House. Everyone was smiling ahd clapping except Melania. She seemed very unhappy, at least what portion I saw. She wasn’t smiling or clapping.

M G
M G
  Mary Christine
December 13, 2019 1:57 pm

There was a strange video posted here about melania being MK ultra or something. I tried to watch it but it had a lot of applying makeup footage, which lost my interest.

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  M G
December 14, 2019 4:25 am

MG…..

I posted that vid anonly the same morning I posted the ‘thru the looking glass’ video…

It had been a couple of years since I watched it, so I just finished watching it again. The video is 10:17 minutes long, and there is LESS THAN 15 SECONDS of her applying makeup……(and I gave your post a downvote for the first time)

At about 1:30 to 1:40 in, she puts makeup on while riding in the car, then at the end there is maybe a three second shot repeating that same scene…..

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—-== right under our noses !

gman
gman
  credit
December 12, 2019 3:21 pm

“jew coup”

some of these movie plots leave you wondering, “now where did they get that idea?” ….

James
James
December 12, 2019 8:44 am

I really feel Carpenter had a pulse on what was happening in the US and the world when he did the movie “They Live”,I believe more folks daily putting on the glasses and seeing what’s happening and starting to wonder what to do about it.I really like the phrase”It is too late to work with the system and too early to shoot the bastards”,feel perhaps we are at the no too early moments or will be very soon.

I will say while not choreographed like a classic martial arts flick with say Mr. Lee the outright brawl in they live was one of cinemas best fight scenes,along with the classic line”Put on the fucking glasses”.

Uncola
Uncola
  James
December 12, 2019 9:50 am

@ James,

Somewhere I read that Rowdy Roddy Piper said that “They Live” was not about the Jews controlling the world, but, rather, the film was a response to the Ronald Reagan era – morning in America, Reaganomics, and Yuppies.

Agreed on quips and one-liners in the film and the alley fight scene. Epic, indeed.

zagonostra
zagonostra
December 12, 2019 8:48 am

Good article I agree on almost all points, though I take issue with the shibboleth “socialist hell.”

Capitalism creates it’s own hell. Nothing wrong with seeking M4A, free public college education, and not allowing our children to become indentured debt slaves.

All you have to do is read the Afghanistan papers and see the trillions wasted abroad, trillions that should have been used to build our crumpling infra-structure and improve the life of the citizenry, to understand that it is not “socialism” that is the threat, but a ruling elite/oligarchy that has become un-tethered from its own country, they are trans-supra nationalist that seek only more and more that will eventually lead to society’s collapse.

credit
credit
  zagonostra
December 12, 2019 9:29 am

unchecked corruption creates its own hell, no matter the political/economic system. if you think what’s going on now, with lobbyists, government unions, corporations as persons, monopolies, regulatory capture, unbacked fiat currency, revolving door public service and constitutional debasement fits the definition of good and proper capitalism, then look again. let’s have a try at real capitalism just once before we give in o the collectivist hive that squashes individuality and humanity.

Not Fragile
Not Fragile
  zagonostra
December 12, 2019 9:42 am

Great comment, all this bullshit coverage about the “investigation” is designed to obfuscate the recent report of horrendous corruption, waste, fraud, and graft that was part and parcel of the great “war on terror”.

As soon as the light gets focused on the true corruption, they immediately change the spot light to ensure no one will pay much attention to the business of the state, which is to enrich the oligarchy, and keep the sheep quietly munching in the fields.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  zagonostra
December 12, 2019 10:18 am

They needed to keep the poppy field production up.

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  Mary Christine
December 12, 2019 9:40 pm

MC…

Just a little backup to your comment:

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  ordo ab chao
December 14, 2019 4:33 am

Two anchors on this FOX-in-the-henhouse network both now work for the Clinton News Network…..just revolving door script readers…

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum

Uncola
Uncola
  zagonostra
December 12, 2019 10:24 am

@ Zagonostra,

Been thinking about your comment and I’ll just say I value the individual within
Capitalism (as opposed to the Collective and group think). Furthermore, as a general rule, I don’t believe in free lunches.

That said, I do agree with Credit’s comment regarding “unchecked corruption”, and I favor Main Street over Wall Street and Norman Rockwell over Gordon Gekko.

brewer55
brewer55
December 12, 2019 8:50 am

Well said, as always, Doug. Like you, and Brandon Smith, I believe the collapse will take place under Trump, whether in what remains of this term or, when he is elected to the 2nd term. Time is short. Until then, I will continue to live as best as I can, to enjoy the day, to plant my spring garden, to replace my old chickens in the spring, and to tune out more of the propaganda and enjoy more music. And, as a Christian man, I will attempt to bring more people to Faith, appropriately, as best as this once barbarian can! Sigh, I’m tired, and we are still at just the tip of the iceberg for what is coming down the road.

grace country pastor
grace country pastor
  brewer55
December 12, 2019 11:24 am

+1,000

anarchyst
anarchyst
December 12, 2019 8:58 am

it’s the JEWS…it’s ALWAYS the JEWS

anarchyst
anarchyst
December 12, 2019 9:07 am

“They Live” was about jewish control

anarchyst
anarchyst
December 12, 2019 9:10 am

trying to post a picture without success. HELP!

Austrian Peter
Austrian Peter
December 12, 2019 9:15 am

America is not alone in all this. Here in UK we have similar cabals and corruptions, they are just much more subtle about it. The British empire didn’t fall, it transmogrified into the Anglo/American empire: Worth viewing:

Steve C.
Steve C.
December 12, 2019 9:16 am

Politicians and the talking heads in what passes for a news media in this country calling on Doug ‘Uncola’ at home.

You know that you’ve really made it when you get your own ‘Farside’ cartoon…

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Uncola
Uncola
  Steve C.
December 12, 2019 9:52 am

Lol. How could I forget that one? My kids used to give me Far Side books as presents for birthdays and Christmas. I still have them.

Steve C.
Steve C.
  Uncola
December 12, 2019 9:58 am

As you might have guessed, I have the whole collection.

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niebo
niebo
  Steve C.
December 12, 2019 10:08 am

Maybe true, maybe rumor . . . but recent speculation is that Larson is returning:

Gary Larson’s THE FAR SIDE Cartoon Coming Back

Steve C.
Steve C.
December 12, 2019 9:38 am

Doug – In the two movies that you referenced the overall premise is a two layered ‘us versus them’ scenario.

In most psyops, there are multiple cover stories already in place in the event that the first one fails to convince. Like the layers of an onion the next ‘story’ is already there and like the rows of teeth in a sharks jaw are ready to move up to the front row as needed.

How many people today even remember that the official ‘story’ of the events of 911 is the fourth or fifth ‘story’ that the government and the talking heads in what passes for a news media told to us back then? We kept being told something different until something stuck.

The actual deep state is probably much like their cover operatives. It is multi-layered.

It’s kind of amusing that the people that push their agenda – and as you say they know exactly what they are doing – truly believe that ‘they’ will be among the chosen few when the whole shithouse burns down.

I don’t think so. In fact, I think that they will not only be expendable, I think their masters will likely see them as disposable. Useful idiots who have one last service to provide their masters.

When the masses finally realize the screwing that we have gotten they will be looking for blood. Who better for the next higher level to serve up to Boobus-Americanus than the assholes that we saw sell us out every day.

It will be hard to feel sorry for these bastards, but by going after them and probably tearing them to shreds; it allows their masters and their masters, and their masters, and so on, to get away.

It’s like the story of two guys coming across a hungry grizzly bear in the woods. You don’t have to outrun the bear. You just have to run faster than the other guy does.

The higher levels will run faster than the talking heads…

Just a Medic
Just a Medic
  Steve C.
December 12, 2019 11:49 am

@Steve C.

How many people today even remember that the official ‘story’ of the events of 911 is the fourth or fifth ‘story’ that the government and the talking heads in what passes for a news media told to us back then?

Remind us of the first three or four stories?

Nobody
Nobody
  Steve C.
December 12, 2019 9:32 pm

Why don’t we go after every damn one of them? Oh, that because Americans love their slavery too much actually do anything except be a slave. Instead of spending sustematically gathering and crowdsourcing DETAILEFD INTEL the reality is People are not going to do anything except walk right into the ovens. We are deep into the intelligence gathering phase but 99.9% of you guys have your head in the criminals’ narrative instead of spending your time building detailed dossiers on their movements and networks.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
December 12, 2019 10:36 am

Since Bea and Flea haven’t been around lately, I’ll just fill the gap without using the J word. Bloodlines.

I’ll have to watch that movie again. I haven’t seen it since it came out so many years ago. We’ve always been lied to by TPTB. It’s just that it’s never been more obvious than it is now. They don’t even try to hide it. They just tell the most outrageous lies and they don’t even care whether people believe it or not. The problem is too many people want to believe the lies they are told.

grace country pastor
grace country pastor
  Mary Christine
December 12, 2019 11:27 am

“The problem is too many people want to believe the lies they are told.”

Some lies are really nice to hear.

The Cold Backhand of God
The Cold Backhand of God
  Mary Christine
December 12, 2019 11:30 am

“Filling the gap” with the correct word that doesn’t start with a “J”, but an “N”.

It’s called nepotism.

mark
mark
  Mary Christine
December 12, 2019 5:04 pm

I’m favoring “L” for Luciferian

Not all Jews are Luciferian…but all Luciferians are Demonic.

Uncola
Uncola
  mark
December 12, 2019 11:15 pm

That’s kind of how I see it too, Mark. It’s easy to categorize and, in a war, there is an attraction to simplicity as percentages and fractions become a matter of expediency.

However, as for me, I will judge them by their actions.

I will say, though, that correlations do exist and it may be a matter of merely following the yellow brick road.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  mark
December 13, 2019 9:58 am

Mark, not all, or even most of the people in royal bloodlines are Jews. But yes, some of them are.

Robert Gore
Robert Gore
December 12, 2019 10:46 am

America is an empire of debt and slavery is rooted in economics. And the collapse of the everything bubble (i.e USD) is when the real magic will begin.

Until then, however, the technocracy thrives, convenience is monopolized and sold, and power is consolidated.

And that is why we must wait patiently for collapse, and then seize on it as the once-in-centuries’ opportunity it will be.

Good article, I’ll post it tonight.

Uncola
Uncola
  Robert Gore
December 12, 2019 4:31 pm

Thanks, Robert. I appreciate it.

niebo
niebo
December 12, 2019 11:04 am

Have been a fan of Carpenter since “Escape from New York”; of course, he is credited with starting the “slasher movie” genre with Halloween, and I think anyone who is a fan of actual horror films has “The Fog” on the short(ish) list, (not to mention “The Thing”, which makes my top five, easy) but I don’t know anyone at the time who thought that “They Live” was reality- cinema, although most of us recognize it as such now, for better or worse. Probably for worse, because, as you point out, THEY know exactly what they do and why, and how they have hypnotized, mesmerized,and spellbound so many to sleep, to complacency – panem et circenses – to contentment with . . . emptiness, this vacuous consumerism that devolves most to but locusts, swarming after talentless icons of pop culture, the latest tech, the “consensus” mob-politics that splices and divides each manner of sheeple into separate, desperate, disparate boxes where the differences are collated, summarized, permanized, and manipulated until each and all are rendered forever distinct by ideology, physiology, biology, cosmology, apart from which never twain shall meet. To each his own team, forever, red, blue, black, white, yellow, brown, native, migrant, upper-middle, lower, peasant, plebe, prole, straw-boss, master, gods, demigods, slaves . . . and, forever divided, conquered by those whom the boxes, the consumption, the emptiness serves. THEY, soul-less and hollow, rule a hollow, soul-less world.

It was an otherwise forgettable movie, but at the end of “Escape from LA”, Plissken makes a choice that redeems the entire previous 90 minutes of celluloid lucre: he activates the ultimate kill-switch and pulls the plug on the whole damn thing.

Brilliant. Perhaps, Carpenter at his finest.

just sayin’.

gman
gman
  niebo
December 12, 2019 3:30 pm

“just sayin'”

we hear ya.

Uncola
Uncola
  niebo
December 12, 2019 4:37 pm

I have never watched that movie in its entirety. Only bits and pieces through the years. So I just watched the clip. The “world code”, punched in by a guy named “Snake”, is 666. Then he lights up an American Spirit cigarette. lol

niebo
niebo
  Uncola
December 12, 2019 10:06 pm

Will not give you grief for that since, well, “Escape from NY” it ain’t. I mean, at one point, Plissken is surfing with Peter Fonda.

Really. Of course, maybe that scene was one you have seen . . . . “Big Trouble’ is supposed to be hokey. But “Escape”? Really?

Anyway, love the ending.

And, the wizards . . . what blows my mind about the last three years (distinct from the ten before that, frankly) is that we are truly at a time where good is called evil and evil is called good. Everything . . . else, otherwise, additional is just surreal, anymore, because to overturn the world is a helluva (and hellish) trick.

Love your work. And hate it a little, too. I hope you understand what I mean.

Panzerlied
Panzerlied
December 12, 2019 11:32 am

They Live has remained a cult classic and one of my favorites. The allegories are hard to miss; just slap a yarmulke on any of the bloodsucking aliens and it becomes so obvious a caveman can figure it out. “You, you’re alright, but you, formaldehyde face.” -from the movie. I love it.

Stucky
Stucky
December 12, 2019 11:43 am

Horowitz said he preferred the term “surveillance” over “spying”

And I prefer “choke the chicken” over “masturbation”. But, every human being in America knows it’s the SAME fucking thing.

I’m tempted to say that, likewise, every human being in America knows that this impeachment stuff is 100% politically based.

But, it’s not true. Yesterday I was watching Tucker Carlson. It just so happened that a nurse was in the room checking Ms Freud’s blood pressure. She looks at the TV, and then asks me “Do you think they will actually impeach Trump?”. I had zero interest in getting into a political discussion so I kept it very brief: “The House will obviously impeach but the Senate will not.” Then I quickly added … “So, how’s her blood pressure today?” Well, the dummy didn’t take the hint. She said, “You’re probably right. He’s gonna get away with it, this very evil man.” If she wasn’t Ms. Freud’s nurse I would have kicked her in the fuck.

In an era where it’s really pretty difficult to surprise me anymore I am, nevertheless, somewhat shocked and stunned how any thinking person can conclude this shitshow has no political bias. They are asking us to ignore three years of enormous and constant evidence in lieu of what? Because last week Pelosi said she prays for Trump daily? “See!! No bias!!!”. Wow …. it is almost literally the equivalent of telling me that all the evidence I have about the sky being blue is false: —- “Stucky, you ignorant fuck! The sky is GREEN!!!!”

Many Americans — literally millions of them — believe and follow the Gospel of CuNNt. Dumbfuks, one and all. Alas, this is why I dream of becoming an Isolationist.

Uncola
Uncola
  Stucky
December 12, 2019 2:39 pm

Lol good to see you Stuck. The nurse is just another reminder of what I commented to T4C above:

….never overestimate the American Sheeple.

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer
  Stucky
December 12, 2019 3:07 pm

You think The Emperor’s New Clothes is a story about sartorial concerns?

A lie, told effectively and backed up by authority has more power than a pure fact told by a single nobody. That’s just an observable reality. I had a brief discussion with my wife when I played a segment of Lindsay Graham outlining the malfeasance and criminal aspects of the Crossfire Hurricane segment in the IG report. He couldn’t have laid it out any clearer and Horowitz agreed, but as my wife pointed out, you think they’ll cover it on the news? No, I told her, but it is the truth.

If no one cares, she asked, what difference will it make?

It will be the truth, I responded. In the long run that has value.

Of course I could be completely mistaken.

Uncola
Uncola
  Hardscrabble Farmer
December 12, 2019 4:46 pm

@ Hardscrabble,

I didn’t see it in real-time, but my understanding is that CNN refused to air Graham’s opening statement as well as any of the Republican’s questions to Horowitz.

What is strange to me, is how no one on the Political Left currently cares to consider the historical view on their actions. It could be they are desperate as cornered animals. And it could be they know the victors write history. Or, perhaps, from their perspective, these are not mutually exclusive.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Uncola
December 13, 2019 7:55 pm

These networks like CNN and MSNBC have hired as pundits and commentators the very accused who are being investigated from the Obama regime, DOJ and FBI etc. They have given traitorous criminals a platform and broadcast their words as Gospel. Employing the liars while censoring the investigators is not a demonstration of good faith. They have lied to us every fuqueing day. Literally everything they have reported the past two plus years is a demonstrable lie, and they knew it from day one. They have knowingly gone all in with an attempted coup. Dig a trench and line ’em up.

gman
gman
  Stucky
December 12, 2019 3:41 pm

“shocked and stunned how any thinking person”

they don’t think. they feel. they feel what they’ve been taught to feel, and to reject – to reject absolutely immediately without recourse or thought or hesitation or reconsideration – anything different.

and they won’t change until something very very serious, like total grid collapse and abject hunger, happens to them and forces them to see the world differently. and even then they’ll try to blame us, saying that it’s our evil that has separated them from their beautiful dreams and righteous hopes, because we hate and envy their superior vision and wokeness.

RJ
RJ
December 12, 2019 12:03 pm

One of the best sayings to me is something along the line of “Bad things happen when good men do nothing”. The question will soon be when will we stand up and join in by saying “I’m here to chew bubble gum and kick some ass”? I’m afraid that most of us will wait with fear in our house until they come for us and a lot of us have no choice.
Good article.

L
L
  RJ
December 12, 2019 3:27 pm

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

RJ
RJ
  L
December 12, 2019 4:15 pm

Thank you!

Jdog
Jdog
December 12, 2019 12:26 pm

None of this is happening by accident. The polarization of the people is being done to instill hatred towards each other that will grow until it ends in mass violence. The powers that be have learned through several decades it is much easier to overthrow a country once it has been destabilized.

Plato_Plubius
Plato_Plubius
  Jdog
December 12, 2019 2:08 pm

@ JDOG

Nice observations. I agree!

The American DESTABILIZATION PROGRAM is ALL part of the “Power Elite” (true rulers and REAL ESTABLISHMENT) overall Global “Gleichschaltung” or “bringing into line” as the Nazi fascists called it!

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Jdog
December 12, 2019 5:10 pm

yes, living in a majority minority city will be a near death trap,living in the countryside afterwards may not be feasible, cities fall into mass violence, 5th columnist hit available targets. nuke plants melt down, then it could get real bad.
Sane men do not want this and won’t pull the trigger to start it.

James the Deplorable Wanderer
James the Deplorable Wanderer
  Anonymous
December 14, 2019 12:48 am

But sane men might pull many triggers to STOP it …

Plato_Plubius
Plato_Plubius
December 12, 2019 1:20 pm

Uncola said,

Those on the Political Left have progressively politicized, polarized, and pulverized every institution in the United States.

I think there is enough “politicization, polarization and pulverization” from BOTH SIDES to go around. Yes, in many ways, as you have described the “LEFT” (as a movement) has done much to get us to this point in history. But, if my memory serves me correctly, it was DRumpf who politicized the “kneeling” of one, Colin Kapernick as, an assault on the Flag, military and “American Way”! Which to me is complete horseshit! If someone wants to protest through non-violence by kneeling in protest during the national anthem because he believes an inordinate amount of blacks, minorities (American citizens by the way) are being gunned down by those who are supposedly tasked with “protecting and serving” us citizens, it is his GOD GIVEN RIGHT, protected by the Constitution to do so. It wasn’t until the Divider and Chief started his tweets about it being Un American to protest in this manner and it was disrespectful to the military is a load of shit! Most in the military you took their oath to protect the Constitution seriously would say that they might not agree with Cap’s stance but it was his RIGHT to do so.

EVERTHING HAS BEEN POLITICIZED! There isn’t one aspect of our lives that hasn’t been legislated in some manner and in turn, politicized! BANANA REPUBLIC INDEED! one need only put on the right set of lenses to see it!

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Plato_Plubius
December 12, 2019 2:34 pm

Obama threw gas on the racist fire with the Trayvon Martin narrative lies.
Kapernick bought into that, and every other incident where a black perp lost his fight against a white, or non black cop.
He then stoked more hatred and racial tension by taking his stand, then amping it up, in a totally inappropriate, maddeningly influential venue.
A venue where normally, blacks and whites can peacefully coexist for a little while, to be entertained within a sport competition.
Trump recognized that went against what most decent moral people want. A better country for all legal, productive, working stiffs pulling this gravy train.
Not more division and victimization claims.
I will concede there is plenty of corruption and blame to be assigned to the right and the left in this world, but
The fact you defend Kapernicks actions speaks volumes.
Fuck that guy.

Plato_Plubius
Plato_Plubius
  Anonymous
December 12, 2019 3:03 pm

Yes, I know…Obama was the bone thrown to the black community and most bought it hook line and sinker. The Drone President as some called him, Obama was a criminal just like Clinton, Bushes, and Trump. This destabilization plan has been years in the making. Of course the white nationalist Christian Truther demographic is who Trump catered to when he SAYS things (TALK IS CHEAP!) that resonate with them. And of course we, being white, felt that we couldn’t say shit for 8 years under Obama otherwise fear the reprisal of being labeled a racist or bigot like Trump undoubtedly is (from his own comments and actions, not my opinion); but this doesn’t mean that what Kap did wasn’t for genuine reasons such as the trend of police shooting people in the backs while running away or sitting in their cars while they reach for their registration….You don’t have to be black or Mexican for this to happen anymore. But at least Kap got a conversation going! It seems he has sold out to some extent with the NIKE deal but the fact of the matter hasn’t changed! POLICE are KILLING AMERICAN CITIZENS more and more at AN ALARMING RATE!

Soft Martial law is already here! This is why the police are being trained differently and, at least in my neck of the woods, the back of the police cars no longer say “To protect and Serve”….instead they say “Service, Safety and Security” TRIPLE SSSs!

Here’s a story from my neck of the woods:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Video-shows-Central-Valley-officer-firing-more-14882160.php

A police officer in the Stanislaus County city of Ceres jumped out of his patrol car following a high-speed chase last year and, without saying a word, fired more than a dozen shots at a 15-year-old boy as he ran away into an orchard, newly released police body-camera footage shows.

Only after Officer Ross Bays emptied his pistol’s ammunition magazine and reloaded did the K-9 officer yell to the teenager, “Get on the ground!” Carmen Spencer Mendez was gravely wounded, his body prone next to an almond sapling on the Central Valley farmland east of Ceres.

The video of the shooting on Aug. 18, 2018, was released Wednesday by Ceres police. The Stanislaus County district attorney’s office is investigating the incident, but has not decided whether to file criminal charges against Bays, the Modesto Bee reported. The city paid Mendez’s family $2.1 million in a civil settlement.

Less than a year before he killed Mendez, Bays was involved in another fatal shooting following a high-speed pursuit in October 2017. Bays and Sgt. Darren Venn fired upon Nicholas Pimentel, a 27-year-old Modesto resident, after the chase, killing him, the Bee reported. The district attorney’s office ruled that shooting justified.

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer
  Plato_Plubius
December 12, 2019 4:21 pm

No, the city id not pay $2.1 million to the Mendez family, the property owners in Ceres, California paid them.

Plato_Plubius
Plato_Plubius
  Hardscrabble Farmer
December 12, 2019 4:36 pm

HSF,

Excellent distinction. Those who run the City think the city is theirs anyways, at least they act like it when they defend the decisions of individuals employed by the city, but yes, property owners in Ceres will pay for this.

Meanwhile the city is having to make hard choices on whether to close the countless fire houses in the area due to ballooning pension costs! HAHAHA!
Anyone who suggests we need to close the fire houses due to the ballooning city deficit is met with outrage and Red lives matter flags!

Shit be fucked!

gman
gman
  Plato_Plubius
December 12, 2019 3:42 pm

“enough “politicization, polarization and pulverization” from BOTH SIDES”

“the fight started when he hit me back!”? actually, the right has only begun pointing out what the left has been doing outright for decades.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  gman
December 13, 2019 8:26 pm

Not just pointing it out as there has always been that. Doing something about it is more like it. We overthrew the GOPe and there is no going back. Trump showed the unconvinced that the world doesn’t end when a Republican puts a fist in Prog faces and “being the bigger man” is only for suckers in politics. Sure they hate us, but they used to hate us AND laugh at us. Not anymore. They are scared shitless as they should be.

Plato_Plubius
Plato_Plubius
December 12, 2019 1:27 pm

Uncola said,

Of course John Durham will demonstrate that the U.S. Intelligence agencies utilized foreign agents to undermine a domestic election and, later, a U.S. president.

This is why the 5-eyes intelligence apparatus was developed in the first place, to maneuver through the legal land mines of each respective country by delegating some of the intelligence gathering and monitoring to other countries’ intelligence agencies like MI6, the Mossad, CIA and others like Australia, New Zealand and Eurozone that might have been ruled “illegal” or “unconstitutional” by the respective countries’ courts. Another function of such pacts provides for limited liability and plausible deniability by those in power.

“The GAME IS RIGGED FOLKS, The TABLES ARE TILTED!” and it doesn’t matter who the figurehead of the Corporate States of America is, this isn’t going to change from any amount of novela watching on our part!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement

Thunderbird
Thunderbird
December 12, 2019 1:58 pm

Inspector General Michael Horowitz in his report concluded he found no evidence of political bias. As we understand our concept of political parties here in the United States I agree with him.

What is the real conclusion he has left up to those who have their eyes open to see the real reality laid out in his report.

The leaders of the democratic party that are pushing for the impeachment of our president are hard core Bolshevik. Their intent is to transform our government into a soviet style communist dictatorship with them in power. This is the culmination of a 70 year effort. Look at the agenda their presidential contenders are conveying to the public. Is this not soviet style government? McCarthy was right but the public having no knowledge of communism did not see what McCarthy saw.

Now comes President Trump who sees the direction these bolsheviks are leading us and wants to change course to save the country from the bolshevik trap. And they are livid. So the President is disrupting the status quo and that is causing them to come out of the woodwork in defending their long prepared agenda to change this country into a communist state.

The impeachment hearings are a sham. Anyone with critical thinking ability can see this clearly. However much of the american voting public that have very little knowledge of history and have grown up under our soviet style school system have no clue as to what is going on in this display of contempt for our system of government, and are in cognitive dissonance as to the meaning of these hearings.

The Democratic Party has been hijacked by these bolsheviks and is being used as a platform to carry out their sedition to transform this government into a soviet style communist dictatorship. This is what I see in their actions.

What I see is we are now at the point where the bolsheviks have commenced their second revolution 102 years after their first revolution in 1917. They won that revolution because the Mensheviks who opposed them at that time did not have the balls to challenge them head to head and push them back. They cowered and folded.

Today we are in the same situation. We have the bolshevik run democratic party running roughshod over our legal system to bring trumped up charges against our president. And what is the republican party doing? There are multiple government agency agents guilty of crimes. What is being done to bring them to justice? This we will see as time goes on. But one thing I know from past history is if the republican party let’s this corruption of our system go on then the bolsheviks will win this second revolution. And all of us rich & poor will be affected by the devastating changes that will take place.

Let me tell you a couple of things that will take place. This happened after the 1917 revolution. There was a housing crisis at that time so what the bolsheviks did was to nationalize all the housing; including the well to do folks housing, and assign rooms in those houses to the people with no place to live. Think of all the homeless today; that are also voters, who would go along with this plan. All you that own homes think of only being able to live in one room of your home and being subject to a government appointed supervisor of your house that runs the affairs there.

The other thing that happened is all private enterprise became government property and subject to government statutes regulating the operation of the business. This led to serious shortages of everything down to personal hygiene products. The result was rationing. And who got priority in this rationing? It was the government workers and friends who carried cards that proved their loyalty to the communist party. Not everyone got one of these cards.

The bolshevik revolution of 1917 turned into a bazaar situation that left people in a state of inanition; a lack of mental and spiritual vigor and enthusiasm. This resulted in the collapse of the economy. The same will happen here. Listen to what their presidential candidates are saying and realize these people are delusional and peddling their delusion to the people they want to vote for them.

The bolsheviks are atheists and they hate present day Russia because Russia is turning back toward Christianity, while the Untied States is heading toward an atheist base of young people who are vulnerable to the communist propaganda.

Bolshevism is the anti-thesis of personal growth. It promotes a bee hive collectivism of insect mentality that produce for the ruling class in the communist party.

The american way is the nourishment of personality as a mode of existence that can turn our self-hood into individuality.

Our system promotes personal growth.

Conclusion:

At this point in the impeachment process that the bolsheviks are pushing forward we do not yet know if all in the democratic party will vote for impeachment. I don’t think all democrats are of bolshevik mentality or are totally devoid of critical thinking or are plain old stupid. But we will see.

If impeachment is their outcome then it is the responsibility of the republicans in the congress and responsible people in our society to not only repudiate this outcome by acquittal but to remove those responsible for this sedition by whatever means possible.

ILuvCO2
ILuvCO2
  Thunderbird
December 12, 2019 9:01 pm

Comments like this is why I come here. Well put brother.

I was a teenage know it all (EC)
I was a teenage know it all (EC)
December 12, 2019 3:36 pm

I’m continually surprised at people who think the president is some sort of religious guru or royalty even. He is a politician. He negotiates fairly or unfairly, clean or dirty. Nobody is going to war because he is removed. If war is just an extension of diplomacy, impeachment is just an extension of negotiation. Stop hyperventilating. Get used to the idea that impeachment will become every new president’s rite of passage.

It’s more likely the chimps will chimp out if EBT is removed. There has to be an economic impact to the wallet for a civil war to break out. That’s what Lincoln provoked when he freed the slaves of the South. If Trump wants a civil war, he can shut off EBT and Social Security along with Medicare. That might be a counter force strategy in case of impeachment.

Thunderbird
Thunderbird
  I was a teenage know it all (EC)
December 12, 2019 5:42 pm

“He is a politician.”

The president is a business man who runs a hotel empire. Get your facts straight. You are completely out of touch with this thread. Your input is irreverent to this discussion.

I was a teenage know it all (EC)
I was a teenage know it all (EC)
  Thunderbird
December 12, 2019 10:24 pm

So solly, I shall purify myself before I dare comment on this article again, Praise Trump. However, Uncle Ronnie was an actor before he became a politico. Somebody asked him how he was so good at negotiation and he said he had been the president of SAG after all. So, how does Trump the pure know about negotiation if he wasn’t a businessman? What skill set better serves a politico if not the ability to negotiate? Your taking this too personal, Tokay.

M G
M G
  I was a teenage know it all (EC)
December 13, 2019 3:22 pm

An excellent piece of history made in 2008 while no one paid attention.

https://www.semissourian.com/story/2654659.html

They picked up the escaped criminal/suspect a mile from my house!

M G
M G
  M G
December 14, 2019 6:03 am

Both irreverent and irrelevant.

Plato_Plubius
Plato_Plubius
December 12, 2019 5:02 pm

Uncola,

Kudos! Zerohedge just picked up your article and posted it!

Uncola
Uncola
  Plato_Plubius
December 12, 2019 5:33 pm

Thanks Plato. Just checked it out. Somebody called “Storm-Clouds” wrote:

SIMPLY THE BEST ARTICLE POSTED ON ZERO HEDGE EVER !!!!!

KUDOS & PRAISE TO THE UNCOLA………….

LONG MAY YOU FIZZ!

No, EC, I won’t let get it go to my head. And, yes, I do prefer simply “Uncola” over “The Uncola”.

But, Storm-Clouds….?

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I was a teenage know it all (EC)
I was a teenage know it all (EC)
  Uncola
December 12, 2019 10:05 pm

Don’t go flat, bro!

I was a teenage know it all (EC)
I was a teenage know it all (EC)
  I was a teenage know it all (EC)
December 12, 2019 10:25 pm

Sorry for being irreverent.

M G
M G
  I was a teenage know it all (EC)
December 13, 2019 2:17 am

But never irrelevant!

Plato_Plubius
Plato_Plubius
  Uncola
December 13, 2019 10:52 am

Uncola,

I saw that comment on Zerohedge as well!

I followed a guy in YouTube that always put out excellent content . He went by the name “Storm Clouds Gathering”….If that is the same guy, the compliment should be appreciated even more!

Green Prisim
Green Prisim
December 12, 2019 5:13 pm

When people start to understand that AMERICA is a corporation that owns both parties and just gives you the impression you have a democratic process. It is not just AMERICA but many other countries as well. They control it all and they will decide when the plug will be pulled. The world is going to change dramatically and it will not bode well for the people. It is a great breath of fresh air to see someone that understands this and has the courage to express the truth.

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  Green Prisim
December 13, 2019 2:59 am

‘They control it all and they will decide when the plug will be pulled.’

The best description of who “they” are comes from that Nam vet named Mark: TLPTB- The Luciferian Powers That Be.

To your point, it’s one of the reasons I think Trump was Selected to be the POTUS….experience with bankruptcy and reorganization.

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—== The plan printed on paper !

Nobody
Nobody
December 12, 2019 7:41 pm

More deluded stupidness from the people who are suppose to be not stupid/deluded.

The criminals make the narrative and that’s what you morons write about. Who is deluded? The ones who discuss their narrative.

Out of all the accomplishments ever recorded by mankind how much value does discussing the criminal’s current narrative have? Exactly less than zero value.

How much value does forming an 50 million man army ro arrest every single criminal bureaucrat in America have? About 90% reduction in the cost of ALL goods.

Do you guys have any clue how dumb you look even spending your time on this? You look like a bunch of children (at best)- grown adults whom are incapable of upholding the pinnacle of all law in the history of man instead spending their time talking about what engineered by a criminal gang for you to talk about.

Welcome to trailer park daycare called America!

gman
gman
  Nobody
December 12, 2019 8:22 pm

“How much value does forming an 50 million man army ro arrest every single criminal bureaucrat in America have?”

so you’ll be the first to enlist?

Nobody
Nobody
  gman
December 12, 2019 9:43 pm

I started a long time ago.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Nobody
December 12, 2019 11:28 pm

Nobody said that.

I was a teenage know it all (EC)
I was a teenage know it all (EC)
December 12, 2019 11:37 pm

Snoop Doug, I wonder if you have any suggestions how we grassroots Americans can make the MSM our bitch? Isn’t there some federal agency with the authority to investigate the bullshittery that passes as news? I’m not talking about censorship, I’m talking about de-certifying propaganda mills that purport to serve the public when all they do is publish manipulative articles and collect a huge chunk of change from advertisers. We could sell t-shirts with the logos: FOX is my bitch, CNN is my bitch. with the subtext, stop the yellow press and a small TBP logo. The bullshit has to end, if they don’t clean up their act, we will turn them off.

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  I was a teenage know it all (EC)
December 13, 2019 2:51 am

EC…

When the new emperor started with the ‘fake news’ term, his next move, IMO, should have been to remove the Smith/Mundt Act, which had been ‘updated’ to include domestic propaganda. (I made a trip to the county seat and addressed the commission about it…….talk to a wall.) But to my knowledge, Pres. Donald Hussein Bush has never mentioned it:

“The U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (Public Law 80-402), popularly called the Smith–Mundt Act, is the basic legislative authorization for propaganda activities conducted by the U.S. Department of State, sometimes called “public diplomacy”. The act was first introduced by Congressman Karl E. Mundt (R-SD) in January 1945 in the 79th Congress. It was subsequently passed by the 80th Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman on January 27, 1948.
The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which was contained within the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (section 1078 (a)) amended the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987, allowing for materials produced by the State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to be available within the United States”

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum-

I was a teenage know it all (EC)
I was a teenage know it all (EC)
  ordo ab chao
December 14, 2019 12:59 am

Soylent News

Uncola
Uncola
  I was a teenage know it all (EC)
December 14, 2019 8:42 am

EC asked me,

I wonder if you have any suggestions how we grassroots Americans can make the MSM our bitch?

The best answer I can think of is this: By continuing to support sites like TBP.

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  Uncola
December 14, 2019 9:57 am

Uncola…

I’ve said it before, my personal experiences with the crescent lodge that runs this town/county proves to me the corruption, lies, and coverups of government. My personal life experience of mind/performance enhancing drugs shows me the use of drug induced trauma/reprogramming is not a far stretch.

I always endeavor to post honestly and politely, because those values are in short supply nowadays…..

I have stumbled on to bits and pieces over the past couple decades, this article seems to bring a great deal of those ‘bits n pieces’ together…..White Rabbit, Alice and the looking glass, Walt Disney and Epstein (who did not kill himself), pedophilia…….

Exposing The “Keys” to Disney’s Operations & Agenda

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—–==

Uncola
Uncola
  ordo ab chao
December 14, 2019 4:05 pm

That one pretty much hit all the bases, Ordo. Indeed. A long strange trip down the rabbit hole at the end of the yellow brick road.

Just out of curiosity, I vetted one of the claims from the article. This one:

What’s even more concerning is that between 2000 and 2014, nearly 200 passengers went missing from cruise ships and the maritime laws for passengers, particularly children, are shockingly lenient – offering no protection under the current law for any compensation for children who die due to the cruise ship’s negligence.

And there does appear to be some independent verification out there:

“GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER? Cruise ship killer fears after TWO HUNDRED passengers have vanished since 2000… now one Brit family are demanding answers”

AS many as 200 people have disappeared on cruise ships since the year 2000 — sparking fears that a killer could be targeting liners.

Yeah. Or something like that maybe?

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  Uncola
December 14, 2019 7:47 pm

Uncola..

I hit your link-it’s one of those “bits n pieces”, evidently from 2017 per the date stamp. The article was 6 yrs after her disappearance, wasn’t it? I noted her ties to employment with Disney Youth, the nanny assignment, the undisclosed settlement….

The ‘Sun’ out of the UK, real journalism or a spigot to drip as directed ?

This AJ of Texas maybe a similar spigot ? He is censored from utube, supposedly by algorithm to the point of even the very mention of his name (from his own lips). I literally have the knowledge to search, copy and paste, but it seems to me, given the volume of his work still to be found, that a censoring algorithm would catch it ?

Don’t know if you are familiar with his documentary work, I was on this one twenty years back, recalling at the time how TV news had spoken of the annual retreat:

Is something like this, with his name and store site link, just a matter of ‘slipping one by’?

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—-== directed by the unseen, and oft times carried out by unknowing vessels …….the New Order of the Ages is just ahead

Jack
Jack
  ordo ab chao
December 14, 2019 11:33 pm

Is that Alex Jones?

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao
  Jack
December 15, 2019 3:05 am

Yes it is, Jack

FWIW, I just went thru it again to refresh my memory a bit. I saw it shortly after it came out in 2000. The grove coverage begins at about 55 min in, then the cremation of care at about 1:20:00 in for about 30 min. I’ve followed the guy almost from the beginning, and have been suspect of him for several reasons; chief among them his Y2K new years eve panic broadcast, and this “undercover” video on the Luciferians at the Bohemian Grove

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—==

ordo ab chaoo
ordo ab chaoo
  ordo ab chao
December 15, 2019 3:27 am

Or, maybe it’s Bill Hicks…..IDK

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum

Jack
Jack
  ordo ab chaoo
December 15, 2019 1:45 pm

That’s the name I couldn’t remember. Bill Hicks. They could have been twins.

M G
M G
  ordo ab chao
December 15, 2019 4:15 pm

I followed all this for a while around 2010/11. If anyone has been taking longevity therapy, it is Henry Kissinger.

He’s like Methusaleh.

EC was a teenage spelling bee nerd (MG)
EC was a teenage spelling bee nerd (MG)
  M G
December 15, 2019 4:19 pm

…or that other really old guy who got Sarah knocked up at 90 years old and tried to pass her off as his sister.

Abe was a bit of a prevert.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  ordo ab chao
December 15, 2019 4:03 pm

Ordo, you always seem to come up with the most interesting links. I saw the reference to the 33rd parallel and Mt Hermon in the article. If you haven’t seen this lecture, or read the book Reversing Hermon, it will tie in Jesus’s mission to reverse the two rebellions against God that caused humanity to become so depraved listed in the Book of Genesis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggcDvZUG36c

M G
M G
  Mary Christine
December 15, 2019 4:32 pm

For those unfamiliar with the topic… a review of the work.

Michael S. Heiser,
Reversing Hermon: Enoch, The Watchers & the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ
. Crane, MO: Defender Publishing, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-9981426-3-0. $19.95.

Michael Heiser, Ph.D. in Hebrew and Sematic Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has taught at several schools and is an academic editor for Logos Bible Software.

Reversing Hermon claims to be groundbreaking because it makes assessable to the reader an increasing amount of recently scholarly work covering Jewish beliefs of the Second Temple period that included parts of the Pseudepigrapha book of 1 Enoch. This influence extends to the New Testament and early church fathers.

While Heiser does not
accept 1 Enoch as “inspired and canonical” (4) he does take the book as not “entirely inauthentic” (5) and does not regard the book as “wholly spurious” (5). Hence, he takes “the Watcher story seriously” and “necessary” (7) for interpreting some New Testament passages.

This seems completely based on the fact that it was a belief held by Jews and some biblical authors. He first shows this significant influence from 1 Enoch in Peter (2 Peter 2:1-10) and Jude (5-7) to the extent that it informed their thinking and “was part of their intellectual worldview” (14). In part one, Heiser argues for the angelic or “supernatural” view against the Sethite view of Genesis 6:1-4. That is, the Watchers (Sons of God) are “divine beings” that descended to Mount Hermon and impregnated women, whose offspring resulted in the Nephilim, and instructed men in all kinds of evil arts with forbidden knowledge. Thus, giving a second reasons, apart from the fall in Eden, for human depravity. He believes that 1 Enoch preserves the original Mesopotamian context of Genesis 6 and this is a primary reason it should be taken seriously.

Heiser says, “The point was to turn the Mesopotamian belief system on its head, to make
sure the Israelites and Jewish readers would know that what happened between the sons of God and the daughters of humankind was not something that bettered humanity. It was the opposite — a transgression of heaven and earth that would corrupt humankind and produce a lineage that would later be a threat to the very existence of Israel . . .” (50).

In part two, Heiser shows this influence on the Gospel writers. For the New Testament writers, the Messiah was not just about reversing sin and death brought by Adam, but it also concerned undoing the transgressions of the Watchers. This influence is revealed, not directly in the Gospel birth narratives, but in Paul’s use of Psalm 19 in Romans 10 and John’s use of Revelation 12 which through Astral prophecy points to a specific date for the Birth of Jesus on September 11, 3 B.C. within a 90 minute window (65) and sees Jupiter as the “best explanation” (65) for the star that guided the Magi . However, the Gospels do, according to Heiser, show direct thematic and textual influence in the genealogy of Jesus by including four sexually promiscuous Gentile women: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba. This is followed by events in the Gospels surrounding Jesus that were taken as indications of defiance against the Watchers, such as the Gates of Hell (Matt. 16), the transfiguration (Mark 9), and Jesus’ exorcism (Mark 5) all which took place near Mount Hermon.

Part three turns to the Epistles to show the reversing of the Watchers transgression. This includes the Law that was given according to Paul because of the cosmic significance of “transgressions” (Galatians 3-4) that is argued to show parallel in the subordination of the Mosaic Law in 1 Enoch 1-36. The sin of the Watchers is reflected in 1 Corinthians 11:10 where Paul directs women to have their head covered in church “because of the angels” who might otherwise tempt other Watchers to engage in “sexual violation” (135).

This is because female hair was believed to be a biological source of fertility.

The story of the Watchers is used to explain 1 Peter 3:14-22 where Christ proclaims to the
“spirits in prison” since the days of Noah, which are taken to be the Watchers.

Part four concludes with 1 Enoch’s influence on the book of Revelation by associating the Antichrist with the fallen Watchers, the Abyss (Revelation 9) that releases the Watchers, the sexual purity of the 144,000, Gog and Magog and the lake of fire (Revelation 19-20) all show that the defeat of the antichrist “signals the final victory over the Watchers and their spawn” (178).

Heiser adds a number of appendices. In part, they include material on 1 Enoch and the level of acceptance as inspired Scripture in the early church, manuscript evidence, and other New Testament illusions from 1 Enoch and other Pseudepigrapha works. The book clearly relies on and references a number of scholarly books, dissertations and professional journals. Heiser includes plenty of background information and analysis of biblical words. The degree of influence of 1 Enoch on the New Testament may be challengeable at some points, but it is clearly there especially Peter, Jude, and Revelation. Evangelical ministers should not ignore such influence.

Many of Heiser’s interpretations and connections with 1 Enoch are intriguing, to say the least. I offer a few points of general concern. First, Heiser does not show the limitations of 1 Enoch in terms of some teaching that clearly goes against Scripture. This, besides its clearly fictitious journeys and visions of Enoch and Noah, includes doctrinal issues such as its ignorance of the Satanic temptation and fall of Adam and Eve, the Mosaic law, its encrypted rejection of second temple Judaism, its purgatory and annihilationist like views of judgement in hell and Enoch’s depiction as the Messiah and the son of man which are not in agreement with the New Testament. Second, Heiser does not point out any criterion that keeps 1 Enoch out of the canon of inspired Scripture. Indeed, Heiser gives the reader the impression by saying “Jews of Jesus’ day”(53) and “many Jews” (105) that 1 Enoch and its stories were widely believed authentic.

Perhaps, but scholars do not know the level of acceptance. First Enoch was never accepted by mainstream Judaism as Scripture and even the few Jewish sects (we know of) who used it, it is unknown whether they accepted it as Scripture. Granted, this is different than containing prophesy, which at least Jude may imply, given his quotation (Jude 14-15), which is not from the Watchers story. A review of the reasons 1 Enoch is not in the canon would have balanced the treatment of its acceptance by some Jews and influence on the New Testament. His survey of early church father’s use and view of the book ceases with Origin, ignoring later fathers that ignored or rejected it as Scripture including Jerome and Augustine.

Finally, probably the weakest point of the book is delving into the worldview of the biblical author, which is helpful for arriving at an understanding of the biblical text in its original context, but never drawing a clear line or setting up any criterion (the degree) by which one can discern what in 1 Enoch is authentic vs. inauthentic. Heiser stays in the biblical author’s worldview (that is, the world of 1 Enoch as supported by scholars) never attempting to rise to the level of a systematic theology that incorporates general revelation (truth outside Scripture) to be integrated through retroduction with only what is affirmed as true in special revelation (Scripture). This would exclude any and all erroneous beliefs even of the biblical authors which are not affirmed in Scripture as true. This concern might be avoided if Heiser acknowledged the different subjects and methods, and said he was only doing biblical theology. Failure here leaves the reader in the sometimes-confusing worldview of Second Temple Judaism. How much of the Watcher story or Second temple Jewish worldview must be taken as authentic? Even Heiser must at points appeal to the “absolute nonsense” (132
-133) of some things in their worldview. As a result, many untrained in theology will not see these important distinctions. Despite these concerns Reversing Hermon does open the ground for Bible students to delve into the influence of 1 Enoch on the New Testament.Douglas E. Potter, D.Min., Assistant Professor of Apologetics and Theology, Southern Evangelical Seminary

https://www.academia.edu/38269854/Review_of_Reversing_Hermon_Enoch_The_Watchers_and_the_Forgotten_Mission_of_Jesus_Christ

You were a teenage know-nothing (MG)
You were a teenage know-nothing (MG)
  I was a teenage know it all (EC)
December 14, 2019 8:59 am

I’m not sure they care if we turn them off.

Guess what? I do not get a free hot tub with the big fat back paycheck. I got a phone call (which I ignored for a day) and a callback from a lady in Finance at the Veterans Administration in freaking Muskogee (how is that for freaking service?)

I was a teenage nobody (EC)
I was a teenage nobody (EC)
  You were a teenage know-nothing (MG)
December 14, 2019 4:43 pm

Sorry, Maggito

M G
M G
  I was a teenage nobody (EC)
December 15, 2019 2:05 pm

I’m not upset. I’m still getting a nice hot tub, but will, perhaps, forego any sex machines. The inversion table is quite nice and has both a back massage (rollers and vibrators) and lumbar heater and support, there ain’t nothing happening on that thing except inversion.

As for the back award? I am GLAD Dale was wrong. His reasoning makes sense, but am so glad that lady called me from the Financial settlement office (who knew there was one?) at the VA and actually chatted with me about the situation. I am due the 10% retroactive to the point the hernia reoccurred and that has been added to my compensation rating and is in my official record should a recurrence happen. The VA paid for every bit of it and then some. I’m not complaining.

That amount will be significantly less than 15K but makes a lot more sense, I think.

I don’t need the US taxpayer to buy me a hot tub.

Although one of my former Wing Commanders got one for his back problems due to the stress from piloting duties.

Edited to clarify for Donkasshane. The US taxpayer didn’t buy the inversion table nor was I counting on them to buy me a hot tub. I was just reporting/updating my status as a “disabled” veteran. The “total” disability rating is unchanged, though there was retroactive payment for being 100% disabled by the surgery until I was back up and running. Roughly, five months down. So, it is at least good to know there are some reasonable people working for the Veterans Administration who can actually read a letter and then call the Veteran for more information instead of just accepting or denying the claim. In all, the call probably took ten minutes and saved the Veterans Administration at least ten thousand dollars.

And, none of that money is really funded by anyone… just by a clause in a Defense Authorization bill. Like the one that just established a Space Force.

I was a teenage sex fiend (EC)
I was a teenage sex fiend (EC)
  M G
December 15, 2019 2:32 pm
flash
flash
December 13, 2019 9:35 am

Even the days of the week are an artificial construct used to organize and enslave the masses.

The Street That
Wasn’t There

by CLIFFORD D. SIMAK and CARL JACOBI

It was a simple book, really, dismissed by most authorities as merely the vagaries of an over-zealous mind.

Mr. Chambers took it down now, opened its cover and began thumbing slowly through the pages. For a moment the memory of happier days swept over him.

Then his eyes focused on the paragraph, a paragraph written so long ago the very words seemed strange and unreal:

Man himself, by the power of mass suggestion, holds the physical fate of this earth … yes, even the universe. Billions of minds seeing trees as trees, houses as houses, streets as streets … and not as something else. Minds that see things as they are and have kept things as they were…. Destroy those minds and the entire foundation of matter, robbed of its regenerative power, will crumple and slip away like a column of sand….

His eyes followed down the page:

Yet this would have nothing to do with matter itself … but only with matter’s form. For while the mind of man through long ages may have moulded an imagery of that space in which he lives, mind would have little conceivable influence upon the existence of that matter. What exists in our known universe shall exist always and can never be destroyed, only altered or transformed.

But in modern astrophysics and mathematics we gain an insight into the possibility … yes probability … that there are other dimensions, other brackets of time and space impinging on the one we occupy.

If a pin is thrust into a shadow, would that shadow have any knowledge of the pin? It would not, for in this case the shadow is two dimensional, the pin three dimensional. Yet both occupy the same space.

Granting then that the power of men’s minds alone holds this universe, or at least this world in its present form, may we not go farther and envision other minds in some other plane watching us, waiting, waiting craftily for the time they can take over the domination of matter? Such a concept is not impossible. It is a natural conclusion if we accept the double hypothesis: that mind does control the formation of all matter; and that other worlds lie in juxtaposition with ours.

Perhaps we shall come upon a day, far distant, when our plane, our world will dissolve beneath our feet and before our eyes as some stronger intelligence reaches out from the dimensional shadows of the very space we live in and wrests from us the matter which we know to be our own.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22218/22218-h/22218-h.htm

Thunderbird
Thunderbird
  flash
December 13, 2019 10:43 pm

@ flash
Matter does not have regenerative power. Only life has regenerative power. Life is vital energy and it is the only energy that defies the second law of thermal dynamics. Life is what will save the universe from running down.

A super intelligence in the universe created man in it’s own image; first to manage the earth, then to manage the solar system, then to assist this great intelligence in transforming the universe into a living system.

Man is a developing soul with sensitivity and consciousness. This is not an accident. The human brain is not a product of evolution. It is an instrument for the development of man.

While it seems that the powers of darkness are in control of the destiny of man what really is happening is man is learning to think like the intelligence that created him. Right now he thinks in naive dualism that cannot go beyond polarity. The next step is in relatedness or relationships where three independent factors are joined to make one.

And this brings us to the bolsheviks that are trying to impeach our president. These bolsheviks hate Russia; a country that is bringing Christianity back to Russia and promoting the family structure.

There is a higher intelligence that controls the order of the universe. This intelligence is what we learn about; and it’s patterns, through Christianity. The bolsheviks who are atheists are threatened by Christianity. So they have been working to crush the christian perspective.

Our president seems to threaten their plan for us so they will do anything to stop him. This is what the impeachment proceeding are all about.

But they have a problem in their own ranks. The new freshmen are having problems in their own conscience about the articles of impeachment based on sentiments that don’t agree with their own.

When the vote comes down in the house then we will see who are friends and who is the enemy of the republic.

flash
flash
  Thunderbird
December 15, 2019 7:58 am

OK, but The Street That Wasn’t There is still great science fiction.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
December 13, 2019 8:20 pm

This is Tennessee calling Oz, come in Llpoh! What do you think?

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Question, for sanity’s sake: Can Boerboels jump a 4 foot fence (reinforced with woven wire) with a wire running at 5 ft.?

angel
angel
December 13, 2019 8:32 pm

Perfection

Merry Christmas Uncola

May he rot in the hell he adavetised…

Karma = God kicking dumb asses asses

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gilberts
gilberts
December 14, 2019 1:27 am

Just want to say I’m proud of Virginia! Keep standing tall!

CCRider
CCRider
December 14, 2019 7:45 am

Wonderful article.

Anonymous
Anonymous
December 9, 2021 9:12 pm

Good write up except the ridiculous shit about our political puppets , trump etc.. .trying to legitimize them absurd!