MSNBC

March 27th, 2009

Obama Unveils Afghanistan Plan

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Friday ordered 4,000 more military troops into Afghanistan, vowing to “disrupt, dismantle and defeat” the terrorist al-Qaida network in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan.

In a war that still has no end in sight, Obama said the fresh infusion of U.S. forces is designed to bolster the Afghan army and turn up the heat on terrorists that he said are plotting new attacks against Americans. The plan takes aim at terrorist havens in Pakistan and challenges the government there and in Afghanistan to show more results.

March 27th, 2009

Suicide attack on Pakistan mosque kills dozens

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suicide bomber demolished a mosque packed with hundreds of worshippers attending Friday prayers near the Afghan border, killing at least 48 people and injuring scores more, in the bloodiest attack in Pakistan this year. The bomber struck at the climax of the service, as the mosque leader was starting the communal prayer, witnesses said.

The blast in the fabled Khyber Pass came hours before President Barack Obama unveiled a revised strategy to "disrupt, defeat and dismantle" the al-Qaida terrorist organization and the Taliban operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan's northwest.

I can't be the only one questioning the conveniently fortuitous timing of both events; the "suicide bombing" of a mosque in Pakistan the same day (hours before) President Obama unveils his plans to send an additional 4,000 troops to Afghanistan to fight terrorists there and in neighboring Pakistan.

Both events being constantly broadcast throughout the day on all the major media outlets. Big news, better pay attention, better get my daily brainwashing.

First the bombing of a mosque, an Islamic place of worship. This causes the viewer to personally associate that tragedy with their own experiences and become horrified at the very idea of someone bombing a church! Those horrible, awful, heartless 'terrorists'!

After seeing the appalling images of the bombings aftermath, we the frightened viewers are presented with the new savior, President Obama unveiling his plans to infuse a fresh new batch of US troops into Afghanistan and vowing to defeat terrorists there and in neighboring Pakistan; which apparently is now a haven for terrorist operation.

He made promises to remove troops from Iraq during his presidential campaign... and perhaps he's keeping those promises... by moving troops into Afghanistan and likely into Pakistan.

I can't speak to the end goal of this 'programing' but I can see it for what it is. Maybe the bomb was detonated by a suicidal terrorist trying to send a message... maybe it was a CIA planted bomb detonated from long range... maybe it was neither - regardless, the horrific event is spun by the mainstream media to manipulate the viewer into supporting something they may not have supported without the prior hypnosis from the television; the increase of more troops overseas, sent using our tax dollars, to kill other people. Not for democracy, liberty, or freedom but for money, resources, and control.

Fear, ignorance, and apathy (generated by the MSM) are the reasons the blood of every innocent civilian and every fallen soldier is on all of our hands.

You can't wash it off by yourself; it's going to take an army of us.

Hoo-Ah soulja!

We Are The Power

A Certificate of Title I came across at work the other day listed "Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Alberta as Represented by the Minister of Environmental Protection" as an interest holder on that particular quarter-section of Alberta land.

Before I continue I would like to point out that ALL government (crown) land is owned by Her Majesty the Queen. Think about that; do you think Stephan Harper has the absolute final say on what is done with this land? Not a chance... it's owned by the Queen of England! The sad truth is that Canadian soil is not owned by Canadians, despite what we're led to believe.

Regardless, the work that I was doing required using the current name for that department and I was informed earlier from a credible source that I should double-check that because it may have changed; as is frequently the case with government departments such as this.

Upon investigation I discovered the name had indeed changed to "Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Alberta as Represented by the Minister of Sustainable Resource Development".

From Environmental Protection to Sustainable Resource Development.

Let's think about that for a moment; Environmental Protection is somewhat specific and conveys a relatively negative image, as in the environment is in danger and we need to protect it. Whereas Sustainable Resource Development is much softer, fairly vague, and casts a positive light on a government position that has not changed, except in name.

Personally, I see this as just one of the millions of ways our governments use slight-of-hand to constantly and consistantly deceive us into believing that they're working in the best interest of the people and the country itself.

The majority of those at the highest levels are not working in our countries best interest; they are in it for themselves. They are in it for money, power, and most of all, control. Our money, our power, and our control.

Remember: the government works FOR the people... the people do not work FOR the government; and this is the misconception relentlessly used to fool us into submission - as if we are powerless against the will of the state.

We are not powerless. Together, we ARE the power.

Ignorance is Strength

Just a couple of reasons highlighting my apprehension to use Wikipedia as a source for anything other than to find out the birth-dates of your favorite celebrity:

Wikipedia Scanner allegedly shows that workers on the agency's [CIA] computers made edits to the page of Iran's president.

The site also indicates that Vatican computers were used to remove content from a page about the leader of the Irish Republican party Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams.

Staff at the US Congress have also previously been exposed for editing and removing sensitive information about politicians.

BBC News website users contacted the corporation to point out that the tool also revealed that people inside the BBC had made edits to Wikipedia pages.

One in particular is Diebold, a company which supplies electronic voting machines in the US. In October 2005, a person using a Diebold computer removed paragraphs about Walden O'Dell, Chief Executive of the company, which revealed that he had been "a top fund-raiser" for George Bush.source

The result: A database of 34.4 million edits, performed by 2.6 million organizations or individuals ranging from the CIA to Microsoft to Congressional offices, now linked to the edits they or someone at their organization's net address has made.source  

With government intelligence agencies, self-interested political parties, religious organizations, and multi-national corporations editing entries, how can anyone trust anything on that site?

Big Brother is editing the entries. 

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Or is it?

The Emerald Tablets of Thoth

"For only in the Search for Truth could my Soul be stilled and the flame within be quenched." -Tablet I

I had never heard of the Emerald Tablets of Thoth before. The 5,600 year old tablets pre-date even the earliest versions of the Bible.

Despite being unaware of the Emerald Tablets, I was familiar with the Egyptian deity Thoth, who was considered among the most important of deities. He was the god of wisdom, inventor of writing, patron of scribes, and the divine mediator.

According to legend, "the ego of Thoth passed into the bodies of men in the manner described in the tablets. As such, he incarnated three times, in his last being known as Hermes, the thrice-born.

In this incarnation, he left the writings known to modern occultists as the Emerald Tablets, a later and far lesser exposition of the ancient mysteries."

So believe what you will; ancient text passed down from the most enlightened of gods, modern day hoax, or some adventurous tale in between... but know that there is still much that even the most astute of men do know yet know; and even more still that is not shared with those whom it is believed are not ready to be imparted with such wisdom.

"Wisdom is power and power is wisdom, one with each other, perfecting the whole." - Tablet III

Despite the antiquity of the text, I believe that much of what is inscribed on the tablets still rings true today. What follows is a collection of various verses that I have found to be of particular interest; if not purely for their eloquence then for the wisdom surely hidden within:

"All through the ages,
the light has been hidden.
Awake, O man, and be wise." -Tablet III

"List ye again, O man, to my wisdom,
that hearing, ye too, might live and be free.
Not of the earth are ye -- earthy,
but child of the Infinite Cosmic Light." -Tablet IV

"Banded together as in order,
BROTHERS OF DARKNESS,
they through the ages,
antagonist they to the children of men.

Walked they always secret and hidden,
found, yet not found by the children of man.
Forever, they walked and worked in darkness,
hiding from the light in the darkness of night.

Silently, secretly use they their power,
enslaving and binding the soul of men.
Unseen they come, and unseen they go.
Man, in his ignorance calls THEM from below.

Dark is the way of the DARK BROTHERS travel,
dark of the darkness not of the night,
traveling o'er Earth
they walk through man's dreams.

Power they have gained
from the darkness around them
to call other dwellers from out of their plane,
in ways that are dark and unseen by man.

Into man's mind-space reach the DARK BROTHERS.
Around it, they close the veil of their night.
There through it's lifetime
that soul dwells in bondage,
bound by the fetters of the VEIL of the night.
Mighty are they in the forbidden knowledge
forbidden because it is one with the night." -Tablet VI

One word: Illuminati. Any casual student of the occult can tell you this obviously points to the 'conspiracy' that so many today refuse to recognize and how the 'dark brothers' keep themselves and their malicious agendas veiled from the world through mind control.

"List ye, O man, to he who comes to you.
But weigh in the balance if his words be of LIGHT.
For many there are who walk in DARK BRIGHTNESS
and yet are not the children of LIGHT." -Tablet VI

"Even as exist among men the DARK BROTHERS,
so there exists the BROTHERS OF LIGHT.
Antagonists they of the BROTHERS OF DARKNESS,
seeking to free men from the night.
Powers have they, mighty and potent.
Knowing the LAW, the planets obey.
Work they ever in harmony and order,
freeing the man-soul from its bondage of night.

Secret and hidden, walk they also.
Known not are they to the children of men.
Ever have THEY fought the DARK BROTHERS,
conquered and conquering time without end.
Yet always LIGHT shall in the end be master,
driving away the darkness of night.
Aye, man, know ye this knowing:
always beside thee walk the Children of Light." -Tablet VI

"Thou, O man, art thy brother's helper.
Let him not lie in the bondage of night." -Tablet VI

"In the form of man they amongst us,
but only to sight were they as are men.
Serpent-headed when the glamour was lifted
but appearing to man as men among men.

Crept they into the Councils,
taking forms that were like unto men.
Slaying by their arts
the chiefs of the kingdoms,
taking their form and ruling o'er man.

Only by magic could they be discovered.
Only by sound could their faces be seen.
Sought they from the Kingdom of shadows
to destroy man and rule in his place." -Tablet VIII

"Know ye, man,
ye are the ultimate of all things.
Only the knowledge of this is forgotten,
lost when man was cast into bondage,
bound and fettered
by the chains of the darkness." -Tablet VIIII

"Know ye that throughout the space
that ye dwell in
are others as great as your own,
interlaced through the heart of your matter
yet separate in space of their own." -Tablet VIIII

This appears to bring some validation to many scientists theories about multiple universes simultaneously coexisting; the proverbial 'multi-verse'.

"Think not that man is earth-born,
though come from the earth he may be.
Man is light-born spirit.
But, without knowing, he can never be free.
Darkness surrounds the light-born.
Darkness fetters the Soul.
Only the one who is seeking
may ever hope to be free." -Tablet VIIII

"Time changes not,
but all things change in time.
For time is the force
that holds events separate,
each in its own proper place.
Time is not in motion,
but ye move through time
as your consciousness
moves from one event to another." -Tablet X

"Light is thine, O man, for the taking.
Cast off the fetters and thou shalt be free.
Know ye that they Soul is living in bondage
fettered by fears that hold ye in thrall." -Tablet X

"Know ye, O man,
that all of the future is an open book
to him who can read.
All effect shall bring forth its causes
as all effects grew from the first cause.

Know ye the future is not fixed or
stable but varies as cause brings forth an effect.
Look in the cause thou shalt bring into being,
and surely thou shalt see that all is effect." -Tablet XII

"Man can only read the future through
the causes that bring the effects.
Seek ye within the causation and
surely ye shall find the effects." -Tablet XII

"Then shall there come unto man the great warfare
that shall make the Earth tremble and shake in its course.
Aye, then shall the Dark Brothers
open the warfare between Light and the night.

When man again shall conquer the ocean and fly
in the air on wings like the birds;
when he has learned to harness the lightning,
then shall the time of warfare begin.

Great shall the battle be twixt the forces,
great the warfare of darkness and Light.
Nation shall rise against nation
using the dark forces to shatter the Earth.

Weapons of force shall wipe out the Earth-man
until half of the races of men shall be gone.
Then shall come forth the Sons of the Morning
and give their edict to the children of men, saying:
O men, cease from thy striving against thy brother.

Only thus can ye come to the Light.
Cease from thy unbelief, O my brother,
and follow the path and know ye are right.
Then shall men cease from their striving,
brother against brother and father against son.

Then shall the ancient home of my people rise
from its place beneath the dark ocean waves.
Then shall the Age of Light be unfolded
with all men seeking the Light of the goal.

Then shall the Brothers of Light rule the people.
Banished shall be the darkness of night." -Tablet XII

Believe me when I say that much has not been mentioned, even in this lengthy collection. There is no doubt in my mind that I will have to revisit the Emerald Tablets time and time again because it is quite obvious to me that very little can be absorbed from but a single reading.

The Darkness In The Light

Personally, I find the hit song Disturbia off the 2008 album Good Girl Gone Bad by Rihanna to be one of the most hypnotically haunting tracks I’ve heard in a long time, if not ever. Considering the title of the album, it should come as no surprise if some of the lyrics contain slightly ominous undertones.

While this song has a phenomenal beat and has been produced nearly to perfection, undoubtedly by nothing less than a skillfully educated squad of “pop experts”; the well scripted lyrics appear to hold a much darker meaning than what is presented for our superficial consumption. Precisely what it all represents is something that can be interpreted in many ways, depending on your particular perspective of the world but every time I hear those eerie words “Your mind is in DISTURBIA… it’s like the darkness in the light” it sends chills down my spine. “DISTURBIA… am I scarin’ you tonight?”

As the song begins we hear the tormented scream of an individual in anguish, followed by Rihanna asking to the beat “What’s wrong with me? Why do I feel like this?” before announcing “I’m goin’ crazy now!”

Again, these lyrics can probably be interpreted in a number of different ways based on one’s perspective, however anyone who thinks for themselves and can spare a moment’s reflection can see there’s surely a much deeper meaning hidden within... but hey, what’s the big deal? It’s just pop music, right? Yeah… right… and television is merely harmless entertainment.

“No more gas, in the red. Can’t even get it started.
Nothin’ heard, nothing said. Can’t even speak about it.
Out my life, out my head. Don’t want to think about it.
Feels like I’m goin’ insane, yeah.

It’s a thief in the night to come and grab you.
It can creep up inside you and consume you.
A disease of the mind, it can control you.
It’s too close for comfort.

Put on your brake lights, you're in the city of wonder.
Ain’t gon’ play nice. Watch out, you might just go under.
Better think twice. Your train of thought will be altered.
So if you must falter be wise…

Your mind is in…

DISTURBIA… it’s like the darkness in the light.
DISTURBIA… am I scarin’ you tonight?
DISTURBIA,.. ain’t used to what you like.
DISTURBIA… DISTURBIA.

Faded picturse on the wall, it’s like they talkin’ to me.
Diconnectin’ on calls, the phone don’t even ring.
I gotta get out or figure this shit out.
It’s too close for comfort.

It’s a thief in the night to come and grab you.
It can creep up inside you and consume you.
A disease of the mind, it can control you.
I feel like a monster.

Release me from this curse I’m in.
Tryin’ to maintain but I’m strugglin’.
If you can go oh oh oh oh oh…
I think I’m gonna ah ah ah ah ahhh!”

Perhaps taking into account one of the definitions of the word “Disturbia” provided by UrbanDictionary.com; “the feeling of dread or shock that comes with the realization that something that is normally considered normal and safe is in fact horribly dangerous and wrong.” is one of the keys to unlocking some of what may (or may not) be concealed within the cryptic lyrics - which obviously were not written by the lovely Rihanna.

Rolling Stone called Disturbia an "awesomely creepy synth-pop mindfunk".

I'll say.