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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

The US Government was Found Guilty of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassination

The Deep State was Found Guilty of Martin Luther King's Assassination in 1999
The Deep State Murdered MLK, Jr.
On December 8, 1999, a Memphis, TN jury took 30 minutes to return a Guilty verdict regarding the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.  Not only did the four week trial prove that the US government assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968, it proved that James Earl Ray was not the shooter.

While full transcripts of this under-reported civil case are available online, the FBI, local police, CIA, and general US military -- aka, "The Deep State" -- were all found to have had a hand in the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, TN.  James Earl Ray, on the other hand, was all but posthumously acquitted by the findings (he conveniently died in prison the year before).

Yet, to this day, mainstream propaganda outlets claim Ray, an escaped convict from Missouri, was a lone wolf with ties to White Supremacists who flew under the radar.

Seriously.

Less well-noted is the fact that he visited Los Angeles months before he was routed to Memphis.  While in L.A., James Earl Ray saw a $20 hypnotist named Reverend Xavier Von Koss... once.  He was also seeing a clinical psychologist named Dr. Mark Freeman, who also specialized in Hypnotism.  Actually, Ray (then using the name, Eric Galt) saw a slew of psychiatrists and hypnotists from the Los Angeles area in the months prior to Dr. King's assassination.

Again: Three months to the day before Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot, the alleged lone wolf shooter, James Earl Ray (as Eric Galt), was briefly under the care of a hypnotist in Los Angeles, CA, named Rev. X, and was reportedly involved with the Church of Scientology.

(Deniers from The Church of Scientology dispute this, of course.)

This is typical of of cases involving the CIA and "Manchurian Candidates:" The "unofficial" report is muddied with allegations of sexual deviance, involvement in counter-culture organizations, Anti-American movements, cults and the Occult, and so forth.  These allegations are used to discredit the lone wolf actor, and the trail of breadcrumbs is meant to confound investigators.

This is the CIA's Modus Operandi: Baffle them with Bullshit.

It should be noted that the bullet recovered from the scene of the crime did not match the gun Ray provided following his arrest in London, and the FBI had directly attempted to blackmail King into committing suicide!  But this was all covered-up by Prosecutors who persuaded Ray to plead Guilty so he could avoid a jury trial which carried the possibility of the Death Penalty.  Ray quickly recanted, however.

In all, the 1999 trial provided a wealth of evidence that conclusively proves the US government assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr., and exonerates James Earl Ray, yet no Criminal proceedings have taken place in the 20 years since the trial was held.

Fifty-one years after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, his surviving relatives, along with the surviving relatives of both President John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy -- both of whom were also assassinated by US government agencies known colloquially as "The Deep State" -- called for new probes into the deaths of MLK, JFK, and RFK.

© The Weirding, 2019

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Crisis Intervention, Inc.: The UMBRELLA Conspiracy (DHS/CPS)

The UMBRELLA Conspiracy

as attributed
as attributed
The DHS is best known as the acronym for the terrorist military giant, the Department of Homeland Security. However, the intentionally impoverished know it better as the Department of Human Services.  One of its branches is the CPS, or Child Protection Services -- a front for pedophiles and human traffickers protected by powerful entities in all sectors, specifically business, government, and media.  In Tennessee, one of the first states to adopt a statewide system of socialized healthcare, CPS is also a drug-testing company which runs the majority of pain management clinics throughout the surrounding area.

THE WHISPER CURE


Originally installed to detect Soviet atomic tests, America is covered by omnidirectional microphones reflected off "weather" balloons, satellites, and large, airborne vehicles that pick-up even the slightest breath and broadcast on a wide spectrum of frequencies.  This forms an UMBRELLA of surveillance beneath which not even angels can fart unheard.  In fact, these parabolic arrays are often used by Law Enforcement to pinpoint gunshots, especially in larger cities.

Operatives can arrive on-scene in moments to escalate very minor situations -- forcing murders, illegal kidnappings (private prison industry), and medical institutionalization.  This is known as gangstalking targeted individuals.  While rinky-dink operations usually resort to bolder methodologies, the most sophisticated use whispering voices only targeted individuals can hear... and accomplices and co-conspirators readily ignore.

These "voices" are also broadcast on TV and radio by agents and operatives working in the US Coalition media syndicate (Press Corps), as well as over computers and Internet-connected devices.  This form of gangstalking is meant to silence, intimidate, and escalate situations -- preying upon the Targeted Individual by exploiting feelings of shame, fear, unworthiness, and general despair.  In this scenario, the Targeted Individual is either driven to suicide, crime, drug addiction, or an institution.  In the latter scenario, the Targeted Individual is maliciously dosed with psychotropic medications developed by the Nazi CIA in the 1940s for use in "enhanced interrogation."

This is colloquially referred to as "Paranoid Schizophrenia" by the criminal underworld: An UMBRELLA term for the murderous SIGINT Operation, formerly known as Project: CHATTER (AnnA).

Infrasound is used to induce paranoia and fear, but also such medical maladies as Muscular Dystrophy, Parkinson's Disease, and similar (often paralytic) medical issues.  Paralyzed "units" -- cruelly referred to as "potatoes" -- are abused, but kept alive to collect their benefits.  They are used for sadistic, "experimental," medical testing, and can sometimes be seen in hardcore, pornographic, sadomasochistic films featuring military units.  Some of these are filmed in Flagstaff, AZ -- near the La Huacha Army Base -- others in Nevada, Texas, and overseas (mainly in the UK), but all are financed by the US Pentagon.

These "potatoes" are considered War Trophies.

CRISIS INTERVENTION, INC.


Filth, known as daesh in some countries and languages, include "defense contractors" fronting as medical organizations and religious institutions.  Many of these NGOs receive donations illegally that are re-routed into political elections as "Dark Money," as well as far Blacker Operations.  Some, such as the Church of Scientology, offer rehabilitation and community outreach programs to those in need (Narconon), only to lure them into highly dangerous cults that have tendrils running deep into all areas of Human Life, worldwide (and beyond) -- including the Legal, political, and corporate (all Commercial) sectors, as well as military Black Ops.  Some of these programs are referred to as "Crisis Acts."  Like the Children of God, the Church of Scientology also employs sex and sexuality, or "the honeypot," as a means of recruitment.

Similar organizations, such as extremist Christian-based NGOs, proffer similar programs using similar methodologies (all of these operations are the same, and run by the same conspirators) -- such as "Pray the Gay Away" concentration camps.  Streetgangs run work camps called group homes, while large medical corporations operate retirement centers and in-home hospice care through smaller front companies.  All of these are designed to enlist the victims in unnecessary insurance programs and rob them of their benefits -- especially their Disability and Social Security Insurance (SSI).  Forced prostitution is the name of the Game; G.O.D. suffers not a fool, or so the saying goes.

The NSA, NSC, and similar surveillance programs are rife with members of these, and many other, "religious" paramilitary organizations -- including Streetgangs, the members of which are known colloquially as "gangbangers."  But the deadliest are the corporations, most of which are non-taxable NGO that are media (crisis actors) and medical -based.  The Nazi DOJ (owners of theweirding.com, transferred from China -- unaffiliated with our little dog and pony show here) runs the private prison industry throughout America, and creates havoc in communities such as Charleston in order to make arrests that either fill prisons or the military's ranks.

Surveillance methods (FISA) also "allow" these evil, paramilitary organizations to illegally capture compromising images, film, and recordings of innocent civilians that are then used to extort, discredit, and defame those "They" determine to be unworthy of G.O.D.'s love.  "They" decide who deserves to be imprisoned, who deserves to be rehabilitated, and who deserves to be murdered.

High rates of Recidivism are ensured by releasing the worst offenders first.  Thus, society remains terrorized by these career criminals and their Law Enforcement conspirators, making it easier to drum-up support for harsher sentencing laws, more prisons, more police, and higher budgets to cover the ever-rising costs.

This scheme is known as "The Perfect Circle."

WHITE GENOCIDE


In retaliation for unemployed white males who refuse to take what they erroneously consider "welfare" (Social Security is paid into, which is why the NAZI government steals it back -- or "repatriates" it), countless unemployed white males have been silently murdered in what the media syndicate (Press Corps) continually misrepresents as an "opioid epidemic."  In reality, several of these deaths were not related to opioids at all; many were related to benzos, others to street drugs (mostly heroin and amphetamines), and most remain unsolved (stuck).

The "opioid crisis" is related to a long-standing demand for opioids by the MIC and professional sports clubs, which consume massive amounts both medically and recreationally.  This is why "we" Americans fight unwinnable wars (Occupation) in Afghanistan -- one of the few places on earth amenable to poppy cultivation.

Much of this necessary (to some people) medication is shipped to Baltimore (2018) for street usage, but a lot of it is used by professional and college-level athletic clubs.  The US military and medical sector stockpiles the rest.  Don't forget that chronic pain sufferers fought for decades to have this medication made available in the first place!  Many suffered indescribably, and died unnecessarily in abject pain, before this happened.

Many of these chronic pain and anxiety patients can be compromised simply by withholding their medication, or forcing them to take unnecessary medications in order to receive the medications they need.  This writer has personally experienced the latter, as Nurse Practitioners decided I needed experimental medications -- and refused me the doctor-prescribed meds they were supposed to dispense -- unless I agreed to take the former in conjunction.  Their excuse was that they did not "feel comfortable" dispensing the medication as prescribed.

The combination lead to easily foreseen contraindications that forced me into the Emergency Room, leading me to believe this second-guessing was intentional.  And Malicious.

POISON POND


In many institutional facilities, urine samples are collected from clean patients and prisoners, then substituted for those of dopefiends' -- primarily professional athletes, but also military personnel, favored prisoners, Law Enforcement agents, and others.

These clean samples are known in the criminal underworld as "water."

CPS routinely compromises drug abusers and legitimate, controlled medication patients alike by threatening the removal of their children.  In most cases, these victims agree to participate in "ongoing investigations" concocted by "Law Enforcement" agencies working in tandem with welfare agencies and streetgangs -- this is specific to the FBI (this is the FBI's modus operandi).  No progress is ever made in these alleged investigations.  They simply drag on and on for years, then it is decades later before heavily redacted confessions are released by these same agencies in an attempt to allay public concern.

Defense and Security personnel continue to fail as "lone" wolves (that's the plural) "fly under their radar," and crime escalates, allowing the former the opportunity to cry for more defense spending and greater funding... despite the fact that, were they competent in the first place, it follows that terrorist organizations, drug use, and crime would be on the decline.

Defense contractors (Special Security Office) use single sign-on (SSO) services to access databases of records compiled by the SSO (Social Security Office) to target individuals.  Gangstalking techniques railroad these otherwise innocuous people into compromising situations that allow these criminal elements to assume control of Benefits payments (SSI, Disability checks), or otherwise force the beneficiaries into situations in which they never would have been involved.

The FBI and State Police are two of the worst offenders in regards to this particular conspiracy, but they are far from alone.

The UMBRELLA Conspiracy


The DHS -- an acronym for both the Department of Human Services (Welfare) and the Department of Homeland Security (Defense) -- uses the pain management company, CPS, as a front for the forced trafficking and prostitution of children, the Disabled, and the unemployed.  CPS is also the acronym of Child Protection Services, which falls under the auspices of the DHS (the Department of Homeland Security/Human Services).  That these acronyms are synonymous is no coincidence; this allows the criminals to claim they legally "disclosed" their identity (they absolutely did not; this is known as Fraud -- it would be Identity Theft, were they individuals, but that's... another Conspiracy post [same conspiracy, too!]).  This leads to what is known as "manufactured consent."

And no one cares -- because this is largely run by the Black Mafia Family (BMF), FBI, and similarly-aligned organizations, and primarily preys upon impoverished Southerners and disenfranchised minorities in urban areas.

That is the DHS/CPS (Clarksville, TN) UMBRELLA Conspiracy, comprising the alleged "Opioid Epidemic," the all-too real "Panda Express" (Pizzagate), and far worse.  It really is all related, far from theoretical, and all leads back to the same Federal Department:

The Department of Defense under the Pentagon.

© The Weirding, 2018

Monday, January 8, 2018

PHOTO: Coronado Naval Base

Coronado Naval Base
Coronado Naval Base

The Coronado Naval Base in California, evidencing the true aims of the Military Industrial Complex (MIC).

© The Weirding, 2018

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

San Bernadino December 2, 2015 Massacre ft. Solutions Group International

SGI - San Bernadino, Dec. 2, 2015
SGI - San Bernadino, Dec. 2, 2015
On December 2nd, 2015, Solutions Group International may have murdered 14 people in San Bernadino -- several of whom were complainants in an insurance grievance against the Inland Regional Center filed two years earlier (no longer available online) -- when an "active shooter drill" suddenly "went live" as all American news outlets just so happened to be on-scene in one of the greatest coincidences in the history of media.

Solutions Group International, or SGI, is funded by the US Federal Government, possibly contracted by the Department of Defense (DoD).  They may also work under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) banner, and may have done extensive work for the Bureau of Land Management (#BLM) as well.  Given the double-crossing and subterfuge of Intelligence work, it is certainly possible that foreign or domestically hostile agents infiltrated the firm or its training program, leaving them to hold the bag.  But their ineffectiveness at stopping (or even pursuing) such alleged perpetrators has not slowed their lucrative operations.

San Bernadino had the highest number of "Active Shooter Drills" in the country in 2015.  Many Right-Wing outlets used this information to assume the attack a "false flag" event staged by the media for political gain, but the FBI designated the San Bernadino December 2, 2015 Massacre an act of Terrorism.

© The Weirding, 2017

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Chemtrails Tic-Tac-Toe - California, 2015

Chemtrails Tic-Tac-Toe
Chemtrails Tic-Tac-Toe
Chemtrails photographed in California, 2015.  Source unknown.

© The Weirding, 2017

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Death Valley's Moving Rocks Slide on Ice

Two scientists researching the mystery of Death Valley's moving rocks say they have discovered the secret: Light winds blow the rocks on sheets of ice left by rare rainfalls.

For years, scientists and armchair investigators have wondered how rocks in Death Valley (located in the US states of Nevada and California) moved across the desert, seemingly of their own accord, leaving zig-zagging trails in the sands.

After receiving permission from park officials, two scientists setup cameras to film the rocks. After nights of sub-freezing temperatures, they determined that rare rainfalls left ice sheets on the desert floor and light winds blew the rocks - some weighing hundreds of pounds - across the muddy desert floor. Because rains are rare in the region, the phenomenon is as well.

The question remains as to why this phenomenon seems localized to Death Valley National Park.

The Weirding, 2014

Saturday, July 14, 2012

The Goat is the Word

Two goats are wowing California beachgoers with their surfing skills since owner Dana McGregor taught them the skill. Goatee and Pismo surfed together and separately for onlookers at California's San Onofre State Beach a few days ago. You can see pictures of the goats in action here.

McGregor says he originally got Goatee, a nanny goat, to eat unwanted plants from his property. He began taking her to the beach and teaching her to surf. He then taught Pismo, Goatee's billy, shortly after he was born.

© C Harris Lynn, 2012

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Meteor Over California?

A loud explosion rattled windows and even knocked one eyewitness off her feet as a bright light streaked through the California sky Sunday morning. Experts say it is likely a meteor entered the Earth's atmosphere, though others are still uncertain as to what, exactly, caused the blast.

Authorities say the meteor was a "fireball," a particular type of meteor that is often visible to people on the ground but rarely explodes or makes a noise. For that to have happened, the fireball must have stayed intact well beyond the point where most break apart.

© C Harris Lynn, 2012

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Ghost Adventures - Amargosa Opera House

Ghost Adventures
The Ghost Adventurers
The Amargosa Opera House is located in the middle of a very tiny town in Death Valley, California -- one of the most barren locations in the United States.  The huge structure sets on a defunct, 280-acre, borax mining complex and has played host to countless accidents, suicides, and deaths.

Guests struggle to stay the whole night at the hotel thanks to what is not just a paranormal presence, but a paranormal infestation.  The employees strongly believe there are a number of guests who "never checked out."  One of the main reasons the Ghost Adventures crew made the decision to come to the opera house is the un-renovated section called "Spooky Hollow."

Within this area are said to be several individual spirits with distinct personalities.  One of these spirits is known as "Boss Man" and, true to his name, he likes to pick on men -- specifically, big, macho men. 

The Amargosa Opera House should be the exact type of location Zak, Nick, and Aaron like to investigate.

© C Harris Lynn, 2010

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Another California Beauty Queen Wants Gays Put to Death

Lauren Ashley, set to represent Beverly Hills in the upcoming Miss California pageant, told a reporter "The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman... [and] 'If a man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman... [he] shall surely be put to death,'" quoting Leviticus. "The Bible is pretty black and white," the retard California beauty queen said.

Carrie Prejean, also a former California beauty queen turned amateur porn starlet and Christian spokesperson, didn't exactly expect homosexuals to be put to death, but echoed similarly retarded statements at the Miss USA beauty pageant last year. Prejean claimed her "personal views" on homosexuality and religion cost her the title.

Beauty queens are not known for their education, wisdom, intelligence, or empathy, but should be careful when quoting The Bible, as it clearly allows for one to offer his wife or daughter in lieu of payment - even sell them into slavery! Leviticus in particular also says the smell of burning bulls is pleasing unto the Lord and so bulls should be burned alive... to please the Hebrew God.

Christians favor homosexual sex with male children. But they won't marry them.

© C Harris Lynn, 2010

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

San Diego Squirrel Plagued by... the Plague!

A San Diego squirrel has tested positive for the plague, prompting local officials to post signs and publicly ask people not to setup their tents and camping areas near burrows. They also warned area residents not to feed the squirrels and to warn their children to avoid them.

The plague can be passed from squirrel to human through flea bites. While there have been no cases reported in San Diego residents so far, officials warn residents to be cautious.

© C Harris Lynn, 2009

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Korea Claims First Dog Clones... Again

A firm in South Korea claims to be the first to successfully clone canines.

An American from California ponied-up $50,000 to have her dead dog cloned.  The clones were unveiled at a press conference in Seoul today.  One of the scientists involved was also on the team which claimed to have cloned the very first dog in 2005.

While cloning canines is possible, the process is known to be difficult and risky.

© C Harris Lynn, 2008

UPDATE:  This story has been tampered with; some text, and the links were removed.  Link was replaced, though it may not match the original intent of the article. - 2018

Saturday, July 5, 2008

LAist Reports Continued UFO Sightings

I found this article a while back, while researching the UFO chase over Cardiff I brought you a few weeks back and earmarked to follow, but since little else has emerged since that time, I decided to go on and bring it to you.

The LAist, a local Los Angeles magazine, notes continued reports from residents concerning strange lights in the skies over LA. The article mentions similar sightings going back to 2005, continuing to present day.

One commenter adds that the area is close to known military bases which are thought to engage in experimental aircraft, weaponry, and other technology, suggesting we Americans may have some "new toys."

© C Harris Lynn, 2008

Saturday, May 10, 2008

More Manson Murders?

Starting May 20th, investigators will begin digging on the infamous Manson Family Ranch in California, looking for more victims of the Manson Family.

Charles Manson was convicted in 1969 of killing seven people, including actress, Sharon Tate, even though he never actually murdered anyone himself. Over the years, he and other members of the cult have suggested there were more victims buried at the ranch where they lived. Initial investigations proved inconclusive, so investigators decided a dig was necessary.

We will keep you apprised of developments.

© C Harris Lynn, 2008

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Issues

Well, as you can clearly see, I am making some progress. However, Blogger has gone down several times the past couple days, which is unusual. In the 2+ years I have been using the service, I have never known the servers to get overloaded -- and it has happened at least 4-5 times since yesterday.

Of course, much of what I am doing requires me to go through old posts, change a few tags, then republish them. Since it sometimes takes 3-4 minutes or longer for it to publish via FTP, I kept putting it off. I moved the blog back onto the BlogSpot servers to circumvent that. I hope I am not the one breaking Blogger, but if I am... you know. 


Fuck them.

God knows I have sat around for days on-end, waiting for posts to go through FTP! Besides, Google is the online Microsoft and that drives me nuts -- it isn't like they're hurting for money, for fuck's sake! If you offer a free service like Blogger, then you should have your ducks in a row! Don't tell me Google can't afford servers!

Maybe if they cleared out all the search histories they keep, we wouldn't be experiencing outages? Just a thought.

Anyway, still working on the tags -- I'm about 3/4 of the way through. After that, it's back to the design itself. I will republish the blog to the site tonight, but you may still be redirected to BlogSpot occasionally over the next few weeks [This was in 2008 - ed.], as I continue to tweak things. All I am doing with the tags right now is streamlining them; once the list is down to a manageable size, I will eventually go back through and work on assigning them properly so that it is easier to find posts.

© C Harris Lynn, 2008

Monday, February 11, 2008

Four in US Accused of Spying for Chinese

Four people have been arrested on charges of selling classified and delicate information to the Chinese.

One is a 72-year old man who used to work for Boeing and was said to have sold details regarding the space shuttle; the other three were charged together for passing along US Defense Department (DoD) information the US held on Taiwan. A United States spokesperson deemed the acts serious breaches of national security.

Dongfan Chung of California, originally from China, faces a slew of charges related to spying, including eight counts of espionage, conspiracy, and lying to FBI investigators. The 72-year old engineer worked in the aerospace industry for 30 years. Part of that time, he worked for the space shuttle program. He is said to have received instructions from the Chinese as early as 1979, and to have sent them nearly 25 manuals on programs including the C-17 aircraft, the B-1 bomber, and more. He is also said to have ties to fellow Chinese-born engineer, Chi Mak, who was found guilty of conspiring to export similar information last year.

In an unrelated (and much more spy-riffic) case, two men and a woman are said to have conspired to export highly-classified documents concerning Taiwan to the Chinese government. Gregg Bergersen, a weapons system policy analyst within the Defense Department (DoD/Google), is charged with conspiracy to deliver classified information to people "not entitled to receive it." His co-conspirators, Tai Shen Kuo and Yu Xin Kang, are charged with "conspiracy to disclose national defense information to a foreign government." It is said that Ms. Kang was the liaison between the two men, passing documents from one to the other -- no further details were available at the time of this post.

If found guilty, Chung faces 100 years in prison; Bergersen, 10; and Kang and Kuo face life.

©C Harris Lynn, 2008

Thursday, October 25, 2007

A (Possible) Retraction

Yesterday (or maybe the day before - the electricity went off last night and stayed off for a long time and I was right in the middle of putting an entry together when it happened, so I got off-track), I was pretty hard on the American media for reporting - sketchily - on supposed arsons in the California area.

You have to understand, as I feel certain many who are interested in the subjects we cover here do, that the media - and particularly the American media - are just as corrupt as the Decatur County, TN legal system (and that's damnably corrupt!) and they literally ignore stories which are truly newsworthy in favor of lurid and scandalous rumors whenever possible. It's all a ratings game to them and I smelled a rat(ings booster).

But FNC - and I generally consider FNC's actual news coverage to be fairly accurate (though I freely admit their op/ed shows can get downright creepy in their rhetoric) - is reporting today that California police have made several arrests of possible arsons, and even managed to kill one.

I'm pretty sure the one that was killed was in or near L.A. Just... putting that out there.

Now, we here to The Weirding are completely unlike any other "media outlet" you have ever encountered in that we freely admit when we are wrong. And not in some buried, little sidebar somewhere on page 98.

At this point and time, though nothing has been confirmed, it does appear that at least some of the California wildfires may very well have been the result of arson and we are sorry to hear that is the case.

But we were wrong (we think) and we wanted you to know!

The OddBlog: where honesty comes to die.

UPDATE:  Links were changed and re-routed, entire posts found to have been removed relating to the corruption stemming from Decatur County, TN. - 2018

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Wildfires in the Media

The California wildfires are still burning. News reports are indicating that this is the biggest evacuation in California's history and the largest in the US since Hurricane Katrina. Nearly 1 million people have been evacuated. Over 1500 homes and structures have been destroyed. Many people lost everything - their homes, their pets, their memories, their possessions. At least five people have lost their lives. And the fires are still burning.

Now reports are coming in that witnesses claim to have seen a white man setting at least one fire before getting back into his car.

Maybe it is just the Human Condition which makes us search for someone to blame when situations we cannot control occur. Obviously these fires had some source - they started somehow, somewhere - but does that mean that someone started them? Fires start spontaneously all the time and much of the United States has been gripped by one of the worst droughts in nearly a century.

Many of these fires start spontaneously when decomposing matter is left in the sun. A chemical change occurs within these piles and they slowly begin to smoke. When this smoke reaches its way to the fresher dead material at the top - material that isn't wettened and corroded by the natural process of decomposition - and the smoke hits fresh air, it bursts into flame. This happens all the time in haystacks and could very well happen in the middle of all that forest and brush they have there.

Of course, this is nothing more than speculation and I am not qualified in any field; I'm just telling you what I know. And admonishing you as to the media's wild speculations.

This is obviously a huge story and our hearts and prayers go out to everyone who has been affected by this event, as well as their friends and families, but the media has made this more than just a "major" story - they haven't reported on anything else in three days! And now they are putting out nebulous stories about "white men" in "cars" who are jetting about the California countryside, "setting spot fires." By the time they admit that these stories are insubstantial and have absolutely no bearing on the matter, the damage will have been done.

And the US media, like the US government, like US corporations, never, ever take responsibility for their actions!

Monday, October 22, 2007

REPENT! REPENT!

Some pretty wild weather here I thought I would mention, seeing as how the past year or few have been marked by such.

Where I live, we just went through one of the worst droughts in something like 100 years. It broke a week or so back with spectacular thunderstorms and 46 tornadoes which literally encircled the terrible county in which I live.

FNC reported that New Orleans has received 8-9" of rain and has closed the City Hall, canceled school, and is taking other measures. More rain is expected tonight and tornado- and hurricane-force winds are expected in the area.

While slightly above them and below me, Atlanta, GA is saying that millions could lose water within 3 months! Their reservoir is so far below the normal level that the governor has declared a state of emergency and has asked for federal help.

MEANWHILE (elsewhere), tornadic winds are pushing wildfires across the great state of California with the number of houses and structures lost expected to hit the thousands! At least two landmarks have already been engulfed and the fires may possibly reach the sea...

Wild, wild weather phenomena or the end of the world?

REPENT, BITCHES!

I, er, ah sorry...

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Whales in Sacramento

Perhaps you've been keeping up with the plight of the stranded whales in the Sacramento River that's been going on for nearly two weeks now. It's been hard no to hear about it, as it's been plastered across all the news channels and broadcasts since it was discovered.

A mother whale and her calf swam upstream, into the river, last week and scientists and others have been working to reroute them back into the sea since then. The whales are injured, apparently from a boat's propeller, and the saltwater would be better for them. Reports are now saying the wounds are showing signs of infection. By banging on pipes and using boats, they managed to get the whales closer to the sea, but once they reached a busy bridge, they began swimming in circles and refuse to continue their journey back into the ocean. They believe the whales are frightened by the traffic.

Here's an ingenious thought - and it's just a thought, but I believe it deserves at least slight consideration - why not close the damned bridge for a day and reroute traffic long enough to get the animals back into the ocean? I know, I know, it's a stretch - everybody's gotta make that money and not only would it bother working "citizens" (it's California, after all), it would also end the news story long before the networks have gotten their chunk of change out of the mess - but what do you all think?