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Friday, March 27, 2020

The State of the World -- A Bernie Bro's Perspective

I planned on having professionals repair the computers but got sick, then everyone got sick, so.  I'm going to lay-out some shit regarding the current state of affairs below, but need to get a few things out of the way first:
  • Everything the Nazis did was "legal."
  • Organized Crime (including State-Sponsored actors), as well as small-fry hackers, absolutely love the wiseguy-named "EARN IT" bill which criminalizes the very act of securing your own privacy online, and protecting your personal information and data.  Organized Crime loves everything Florida Senator, Marco Rubio, and US Attorney General, William Barr, do.
  • Speaking of AG Barr, I'd like to speak directly to AG William Barr: No matter how quickly you commit War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, they remain War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity.
  • There is little difference between the two political parties: Both serve corporations (Big Business), ISrael (Big Oil), and the Rich (Big Donors).  That one party commits Sedition "For God and Country" while the other commits Treason "For the Children" makes no difference.
  • They are both absolutely Wrong about literally everything, all the time:

    They banned cartoon tigers, cookie wizards, and magically delicious leprechauns from selling sugar-laden cereals to children -- and forced those companies to lower the sugar content in those cereals -- then, suddenly, all the children became so obese that we are being told to give-up our civil liberties "For the (fat, fucking, not my) Children."  How does that even happen?

    They took all the effective, over-the-counter cold/flu and sinus medications off the market to enrich the insurance companies keep your porky, little bastards from robo-tripping and cooking-up dope (which they're still doing), and now we're facing a global, viral pandemic in the midst of both an opioid epidemic and a nationwide meth epidemic.

    We are now fighting a "War" on a viral infection (For God and Country) brought upon in part by a decades-long "War on Drugs" (For the Children) -- both of which we're losing, just like every other War they've forced upon us and others.

    The only real War these monsters are engaged in is a War on We, the People.
  • The plural of virus is viri.  If you don't know that, you aren't qualified to give medical advice nor discuss the subject.
  • The financial markets -- aka, Wall Street -- are not The Economy, Stupid *.  Catering to shareholders at the expense of end-users, customers, and labor is why they needed a Coronavirus to blame for the economic crash everyone knew was coming.  More on this below.
  • The helicopter money they are "giving" us is not only money they stole in the first place, it's going to pay bills and buy essential needs: They aren't "bailing-out Main Street," they're bailing-out our creditors, landlords, and retail outlets.  The responsible, rational, approach would be Debt Forgiveness, not further devaluing the Dollar by printing more money just for the sake of going through the motions.  More on this below.
  • The Supreme Court's decision to nullify the Insanity Defense is to be ignored; none of those (alleged) "people" are doctors, so none of them are qualified to make such decisions.  In fact, it's illegal to pose as a doctor and dispense medical advice, so they can all be held (indefinitely and without bail) and charged accordingly.

    This just in: Under the "Who Needs a Trial" law, they have been found Guilty and received the maximum sentence.  They are bonafide dipshits, as I lay out in longform below (someone please read this to them) and (hopefully) in future posts.
  • The state governors who forbade abortions during this crisis are Guilty of spreading the COVID-19 virus and, thus, Terrorism, as decreed by the DOJ.  Women who need abortions will simply travel to neighboring states that abide by The Rule of Law to get them, possibly infecting others and/or contracting the virus themselves along the way.  Arrest and detain those "public servants" immediately, and indefinitely.
With that out of the way, let's get down to brass tacks:

I blame the Democratic National Committee for both the 2020 financial crisis and the US' COVID-19 pandemic.  The DNC's Malfeasance and High Treason in fixing the 2016 Presidential Election (and blaming it on Russia, and toxic masculinity, and White Nationalists, and Wikileaks, and...) robbed us of a Bernie Sanders Presidency which would have resulted in the bolstering of the very infrastructure we have so desperately required for so long and now, in the time of our greatest need, lack.

Despite his many missteps, a President Clinton/Biden would have done almost everything Trump has.  The only difference is that Big Media would have covered it up for Clinton/Biden  -- the way they are covering-up the illegal detainment, torture, and attempted murder of Julian Assange and his associates.

The DNC is Guilty -- who needs a trial? -- of these, and many other, High Crimes and Misdemeanors and that's that.

Bernie Sander's platform contained literally every, single thing the corporate shareholders government is being forced to do now:

  • Provide Americans healthcare, not health insurance, and enough funding to ensure medical outlets are open, accessible, and prepared -- as well as giving some consideration to the continued improvement of the care provided.  This benefits the health and welfare of the common citizen on Main Street and "trickles-up" to higher-class citizens.  This also contributes to National Security in many ways, as we are seeing now.

    The COVID-19 outbreak perfectly illustrates how privatizing medicine and health services -- specifically on behalf of the insurance and pharmaceutical companies -- is a detriment to our society and Economy Stupid, as well as one of the greatest risks to our National Security.  You win wars not by killing but by injuring, thus not only removing units from the battlefield but also overwhelming the opposition's medical staff and depleting their resources and reserves.  It's difficult to believe that these masters in the Art of War would be unaware of this basic, ancient, and time-tested tactic.

    Denying us access to affordable healthcare and medical supplies is akin to sending soldiers to the battlefield without ammo or armor -- something these nitwits have done several times before, I'll note -- and leaves great swaths of citizens vulnerable to pestilence and disease.  A viral, fungal, or bacterial outbreak of the magnitude COVID-19 appears to be can literally destroy our nation in no time, despite the fact that it is almost entirely preventable.
  • Secure, repair, and maintain the roadways, networks, and government structures -- including private industries and holdings that contribute to the health, security, well-being, and advancement of the nation.  This is the "But Mah Roads" clause Tea-Partiers and similar, Far-Right-wing hardliners oppose so vehemently (preferring privatized, toll roadways maintained by private companies -- if they want to maintain them -- which could deny travelers access, perform search and seizures, and do whatever else they want, without legal recourse).  This includes the Internet, in that "Information Superhighway" sense, as well as public transportation.

    People have a right to access basic goods and services needed to not only survive, but to reach our potential.  And reaching our individual potential strengthens the collective in countless ways, as does being capable of taking "personal responsibility" for our individual health, wealth, and security.

    I have a lot to say on "personal responsibility" -- that cynical, wiseguy expression these cretinous leeches throw around so casually (their use of which is ironic as shit) -- but it's too much to include in this document.  Suffice to say it is a textbook example of gaslighting.

    However, as to the point above, the dirty hippy saying, "Imagine if they started a War and no one showed up," can become literal truth if we lack access to affordable and reliable transportation and communications.
  • Raise the minimum wage to a Living Wage so the Commoner Man can afford to buy rent a house neglected shed on Main Street, eat over-processed food, drink polluted water, and consume energy created by fossil fuels for no other reason than to enrich coal barons, oil barons, and shareholders the US government.

    This contributes to the security of the nation by eliminating high-risk situations, such as homelessness, starvation, and poverty, which are breeding grounds for populism, extremism, infection and disease, and social strife -- especially between economic classes.  These situations can quickly lead to mass unrest, conflict, plague, and uprisings.
  • Raise Federal Taxes on corporations, the rich, and the ultra-rich, which is literally just the abolition of "Corporate Welfare."  With all of the propaganda linking COVID-19 to WWII these days, let's remember the rate at which these social classes "heroes" were taxed back then.  "We're all in this together," remember?  If you hate Socialism so much, pay your fucking taxes!
  • Establish, and maintain, peaceful Diplomatic ties with foreign countries.  (This is the one what gets people like us murdered.)  This reinforces National Security by promoting friendly relations instead of inviting War, Terrorist attacks, and antagonistic political strife.  It also promotes a healthy Economy, Stupid.
  • Abolish Globalist Industrial schemes such as the TPP and NAFTA.  This helps to secure the nation by forcing corporations to pay employees a Living Wage and provide benefits such as medical insurance, and boosts the Economy Stupid by both providing jobs to US citizens and keeping the manufacturing and distribution sectors in our country alive.
  • Enforce Anti-Trust laws, and [re-]enact and enforce regulations on banks, telecoms, and other industries that are necessary to our country, and that have clearly abused their positions thanks to deregulation and lack of oversight.
  • Separation of Church and State.  Because God does not speak to these people nor do they speak for God.  Not to mention the fact that all religious texts clearly and openly oppose these warmongers' every, continued action -- most of which are covered in the Top Ten Biggest Sins on Earth (which is not a BuzzFeed listicle)!
  • Fuck ISrael.  Because ISrael is a War Crime.
  • Fuck Saudi Arabia.  Because the Saudis are War Criminals and despots.
Okay, so some of those may have been paraphrased or... whatever, but those are largely Bernie's tenets as set forth in his original, 2016 campaign.  Of course, had he been elected President (he was -- who needs an "Election?"), he wouldn't have been able to enact everything he campaigned on -- no politician ever does, and the Establishment is determined to sabotage Sanders' Presidency just as they did Carter's, just as they sabotaged Sanders' campaigns -- but, had even a few of those things happened, we would be better prepared for the "Perfect Storm" of crises we face today.

And, although these crises were inevitable over the course of time, we face them today, concurrently, as the direct result of these peoples' reckless, irresponsible, and criminal behavior:
  • The rampant corruption of corporate welfare and deregulation.
  • The embezzlement of every tax dollar by the Military Industrial Security Complex.
  • The defunding of necessary medical services, Arts and Cultural programs, and other social outreach services.
  • The replacement of facts with "feelings," like social identity and religious faith.
  • The privatization of everything to circumvent the Law.
  • The Pavlovian pandering to corporations and the rich.
  • Forcing billions of people, worldwide, into austerity and hundreds of millions to flee their homes (also an ancient War tactic, by the way)...
I could go on and on, and hope to in future posts (if this blog is still here, my account hasn't been terminated, and/or I haven't been institutionalized, detained indefinitely, or murdered), but I've made my point.

These things are necessary to the Commonwealth, and not just for some hazy, "Greater Good" which never seems to materialize no matter how much We, the People, sacrifice.  Progress is a synonym for Advancement, and our progress as a collective, as well as individuals, is being intentionally impeded -- mostly for the political, financial, and material gains of monopolistic corporations, but also to make it easier
for these special interests, not to properly govern us (they're incapable) but, to contain us and prevent us from organizing effectively to demand both Liberty and accountability.

National Security is not only about putting WMD in the hands of violent, unrepentant psychopaths and calling them "heroes" and "freedom fighters;" a healthy, financially stable, well-educated populace with access to affordable goods and services to which every human is entitled is better prepared to weather the storms, both literal and figurative, life throws our way.

This also empowers us to pursue greater things, resulting in greater contributions to society, humanity, and the world, and fosters pride in ourselves and our communities, which motivates us without devolving into mindless Nationalism, Populism, and religious and sociopolitical extremism.

None of this is good for career politicians or War Criminals, I freely grant, but, at this moment -- and in the coming weeks and months (and possibly, though hopefully not, years) -- our nation and way of life is directly threatened by assailants and factors that cannot be combated by kinetic means or direct confrontation

We are not just dead in the water due to internal crises, we are sitting ducks for the myriad enemies these moronic, militaristic, fundamentalist fucks have created of our every neighbor -- friend and foe, alike -- as well as any other natural disaster that may, and will, occur.  And we will be told that the only way out of this complete, systemic failure is to rely on the State (see below).  Talk about grim!

We don't need government intervention -- including "socialist programs" like welfare and Social Security -- when we are capable of defending, and providing for, ourselves.  And, were these [s]elected officials to do their jobs and enforce laws and legislation already on the books, these special interest groups -- including monopolistic corporations and quasi-governmental agencies, such as the Military Industrial Security Complex (MISC, as they are referred to in $6tn "relief" bills) -- would not be able to prevent us from doing so.

This is how Nationalized Socialism operates: Using violence and terrorism (including sweeping surveillance and "Lawfare"), the military controls all of the holdings (monopoly) -- the Capital, the Labor, and all resulting goods and services -- and dispenses needs to the populace as it decrees.  The [Police] State controls all communications, all transportation and roadways, all labor (all of which is forced) -- everything -- and only those who kowtow to the State's demands are allowed to go about their way (which is also heavily monitored and limited). 


No matter who pulls the strings -- billionaires/elites, corporations, governmental/military agencies, dictators, et. al. -- no matter the poli-sci label applied -- Communism, Marxism, Authoritarianism, et. al. -- this is how Nationalized Socialism operates.

With a full $0.90 of every tax dollar going to the blasphemy known as the Military Industrial Security Complex, such an abject failure in National Security as we are experiencing is only ironic to the uninformed. 

It's so complete a failure in National Security which just so happens to coincide with a long-predicted economic crash (due to well-reported High Crimes and Malfeasance in the Political and Financial sectors), and the DOJ and Republican state Governors moved so quickly to take advantage of it while moving so slowly to stop it, that it's no surprise misinformation and "conspiracy theories" have arisen. 

After all, stationing active military units in civilian quadrants and imbuing them with law enforcement powers is very literally the very literal definition of "Martial Law;" that's literally what Martial Law literally is. 

Literally.

Our "leaders" are failures in every sense of the word: Morally repugnant, politically ignorant, mentally deficient, ethically bankrupt, socially repulsive, dangerous, violent, greedy, petty, petulant, narcissistic, criminal.  Their policies are disastrous, their every thought an affront to any worthy god, their every word an innocent's epitaph.

Personal responsibility starts with them and they must lead by example, not by empty rhetoric, propaganda, force, or force majeure.


There is all but nothing they can do at this point to right their innumerable wrongs, and they deserve absolutely no credit for the last-minute Band-Aids they're slapping on the sucking chest wounds they've inflicted on their constituents, their allies, this nation, and those who refuse to lick their jack boots.

They deserve only contempt.  And a raft of Criminal charges.

But no trials. 

Who needs them?

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* "It's the Economy, Stupid" is a phrase thrown about by those in the financial sector to explain and excuse basically everything, but especially bad things for "Main Street," such as Austerity measures.

© The Weirding, 2020

Monday, September 23, 2019

Neptune, Vulcan, and Planet X

Neptune composite by NASA, 1989
Neptune
Neptune was discovered on this day in 1846 though it is said that Galileo's calculations pinpointed it as early as the 17th-Century.  Using the same methodology, scientists theorized another planet existed, as well, and named it "Vulcan."  While Vulcan's existence has never been confirmed, some still insist that it is hidden behind the Sun.

This "hidden planet" theory has since mutated into "Planet X," or "Planet 9," and features prominently in Doomsday scenarios, Flat-Earth MISOs (23/Isis), and books by Zecharia Sitchin.

© The Weirding, 2018-2019

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Alexander Weygers' Flying Discopter


Alexander Weyger patented his Discopter in 1944 (US2377835), though he began designing a flying disc vehicle some 20 years earlier.  Although some of the materials linked to in this article heap esteem on him for his many laudable achievements, Weyger was not the first to design a flying disc vehicle, nor was he the first to patent one.

In fact, the Discopter is exactly what its name implies: A disc-shaped helicopter.  It is certainly possible that even trained airmen could have mistaken the Discopter for a classic, "flying saucer" UFO, especially at a distance.  It is also probable that some, authentic photos may be pictures of an actual Discopter in flight.

However, rotating blades make more than a slight hum (trust me) and helicopters do not leave residual traces of radiation, nor do they change color; reach speeds in excess of... well, helicopters; morph into various shapes; or exhibit any other signs of genuinely, unexplained aerial phenomena.  Besides, the Discopter was never mass produced and, even if the military had a fleet of them, you can see a helicopter's rotary blades with the naked eye, as well as in most videos and photos.

Still, Alexander Weyger's contributions to the fields of engineering and ufology, in general -- as well as many others -- are respectable.  And he, himself, quite fascinating!

© The Weirding, 2019

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Noon, November 22, 1963 - Dallas, TX

TX Book Depository - JFK Conspiracy
The Only Time Dubs Ever Visited a Library
It's The OddBlog, you guyses, back again with more of our Got-damned, hare-brainsed, conspiracy theory nonsense (because we dearly love us some juicy goss, hot or not).  This time, it's about everyone's favorite, Officially answered (of course), Question:  

Who shot JFK?

Well, that's a much bigger question -- but, we'd like to point out a few things.  First, the only person involved in the entire fiasco who has "never" been questioned (nor even identified -- could be anybody, y'all) was the "Babushka Woman."  So, we know them dirty Russkies did it!

And, B: that is George Herbert Walker Bush standing outside the Texas School Book Depository the very day before the 35th President of the United States was assassinated in the first leg of a military coup which continues to this day.  That's significant in no small part because he was "reading" a book to schoolchildren the day he was informed of 9/11... upside-down (according to some pictures).  You'd think, what with all the time he spent outside of libraries, he would have known better.

The aforementioned oil baron would go on to become, not only the 11th Director of the CIA, but also the 42nd President who was -- so long and thanks for all the fish -- also the presiding comptroller of The Company during Operation: Able Danger.

Now, there is literally no doubt that GWB was a patsy, so don't go getting your panties in a twist.  Operation: Able Danger was a military exercise funded under the Clinton Administration which tested the tensile strength of concrete barriers against airplane impacts on the off-hand chance a terrorist organization would hijack some and use them as weapons.  And one did.

The meaning of the Operation is self-evident, but even the Clintons (no less Innocent, mind you) were patsies to the Military Industrial Security Complex, or MISC, as it is known on its Tax Returns and Budget Proposals.

There was a Cuban Connection which resolved neatly on the front porch of the CIA (50 years later, mind you) -- where it belongs -- but it involves a 'zine and Lee Harvey Oswald, and it is known as a "signature."

This is The OddBlog and, before I started this catalogue, I did not know that; I thought that "The Magic Bullet" theory was called an "M.O."  Dem digits, doh.

© The Weirding, 2019

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

The Streetcar Conspiracy

The Streetcar Conspiracy
The Streetcar Conspiracy
Removing the streetcar rail lines systems from major US cities was a conspiracy to force American consumers to purchase personal automobiles and local governments to switch to gas-powered buses as public transportation.

The concept of selling vehicles as "personal freedom devices" came about in the 1950s, following the effectiveness of the aforementioned corporate conspiracy.  It was only then that most ("nuclear") American families had cars they would allow their children to drive, as they were older models.

As an aside, I guess "nuclear family" just rolls off the tongue more easily than "Big Oil" family...  Speaking of, why is the logo for British Petroleum, or BP, an image of the sun and not a fucking dinosaur?

ANYwho, it was not until the 1980s that having more than one car per household became an American Standard (ahem) when both nuclear family parents were forced to hold down jobs due to stagnating wages and rising inflation -- caused by yet another fiscal conspiracy:

Nixon's 1971 decision to drop The Gold Standard.  The majority of Americans' Real Wages (wages after adjusting for inflation) have not increased since before 1980.

That's the thing about "conspiracy theories:"

Only Guilty Parties call them that.

© The Weirding, 2019

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

5 Cults from the 1960s and 1970s

Jim Jones - By Nancy Wong - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44405530
By Nancy Wong - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44405530
America, and the Western World in general, underwent a Spiritual Revival in the late 1960s and early '70s which experts largely attribute to a drop in organized religion and rise in Agnosticism and Atheism.  The "Free Love" vibe of 1960s America gave rise to numerous cults, several of which originated in California and charmed Hollywood.

This Spiritual Revival spawned numerous, pseudo-religious cults and generated widespread interest in them, but also later did them in.  The backlash from traditional, and far more organized, religious believers was so strong that it evolved into an Evangelical Revival in the late 1970s which then metastasized (Stateside) into Televangelism the following decade. 

The original belief systems espoused by these 1960s sects owe much to Theosophy, a religious movement founded by Madame Blavatsky during America's first massive Spiritual Revival at the turn of the 20th-Century, following the end of the Civil War.  
That American interest in Spirituality should peak following major wars with massive casualties is no coincidence -- neither is the omnipresence of Theosophy with Judaeo-Christian overtones, the militarization of the more successful cults, nor the media hype surrounding them.  While most were either fueled entirely by sex and drugs or later exposed as con games, they were harmless... some cults, however, were more sinister -- and it can be difficult to tell the two apart, even today.
Introduction to, and induction into, most cults is passive at first: Many start as open religious constructs or social movements, just like modern "political" groups, becoming progressively less communal as one rises in the ranks.  They are uniformly hierarchal, and ultra-secretive at the top.

In fact, the formulation of several, modern, American protest groups is directly patterned after the emergence of cults in the 1960s, some of which were manipulated by clandestine agencies using intelligence gathered from the first American Spiritualism Revival, refitted for the era (Feminism, Civil Rights, Irony as anti-Establishmentarianism, et. al.) for recruiting efforts.

Almost all of these cults are based on slivers of numerous religions and bits of science, with heavy Theosophical, Eastern, and Judaeo-Christian influences; most revolve around one or two central, Messianic figures (usually the founder[s]), generally thought to be somehow mystical; and larger sects uniformly exhibit paramilitary organization.  The latter tend to be "Doomsday" cults, but only as a generality.  Most were largely innocuous (all things considered), and many former members went on to live fulfilling lives in mainstream society.

Other similarities are contextual, as mentioned previously, reflecting the era in which the cults were spawned.  For example, many ironically adopted Satanic, and vaguely Nazi, emblems and dress early-on -- primarily for recruitment purposes.  Originally regarded as an act of defiance, such fashion quickly became counter-culture kitsch and rightfully recognized as a cry for attention.  Several cults also had (drug) ties to motorcycle gangs that used similar imagery, fueling the mystery surrounding them.

That is, until the Tate-LaBianca murders.  
  • Anton LaVey (d. 1997) established The Church of Satan in Los Angeles in 1967.  After his The Satanic Bible sold over one million copies worldwide, LaVey appeared as The Devil in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968), and on the album covers of both The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour and The Eagles' Hotel California.  He claimed responsibility for several high-profile deaths to which he had no connection, such as that of Jayne Mansfield (a former member), which landed LaVey and his "Church" in hot water following the Tate-LaBianca Murders.  While sensational in its time, LaVey's Church of Satan languished in obscurity until the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, when it was resurrected by well-coifed talk show hosts.  LaVey had previously worked as a lion-tamer, carnival worker, and police photographer.
  • The Church of Scientology was founded in 1953 by writer, L. Ron Hubbard, and survives to this day, boasting many famous members from the Hollywood community.  Hubbard's best-selling book, Dianetics, serves as the introductory foundation, but there are at least eight levels of Scientology (not including the legendary Level 9, which only Hubbard himself is said to have reached), and members spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to reach each one.  A lot of cults -- a lot, many -- were splinters of Scientology, and many cult members came from, or went on to, other cults... some of which are very questionable.  The Church of Scientology itself has increasingly come under scrutiny in the last few years for its checkered legal past and reported malfeasances, but members say they are being persecuted.
  • The Process Church of the Final Judgement was established in 1966 by Mary Ann McClean and Robert DeGrimston, who met at the London branch of the L. Ron Hubbard Institute of Scientology.  The two developed their own system of auditing called "The Process," and formed Compulsions Analysis, which was later renamed.  The Process Church found some small renown in the 1960s, eventually establishing churches across the United States.  Processeans dabbled in Nazi-chic and Satanic imagery and hob-knobbed with rock stars, but after Ed Sanders' 1971 book, The Family, directly implicated The Process Church of the Final Judgement as the real "Family" in the Charles Manson case, they revamped their image and beliefs and changed their name to the Foundation Church.  But the Process Church was directly tied to the founders' relationship (and also sex and drugs), and it fell apart once that ended.  Despite its former, considerable stature, it is almost entirely forgotten today.
  • Heaven's Gate was founded by two people but is said to have sprung originally from Marshall Applewhite's inability to deal with his homosexuality.  During "Class," the cult held deep, philosophical discussions on many things, culminating in a shared belief that death -- "leaving one's vehicle [body]" -- was just another step on the path to Immortality, and mass suicide was the means by which they would all make that journey together.  Following the discovery of the Hale-Bop Comet in 1995, 39 Heaven's Gate followers donned brand new Nike sneakers, ate an applesauce tincture, then climbed into their compound bunks and died, believing a spaceship in the comet's tail would carry them onto that next stage of Immortality.
  • The Source Family was the most akin to The Manson Family, although it had far more Hollywood cachet and only half as many murders.  While its public facade espoused the usual Hippie notions about returning to the Earth and Nature and rejecting societal norms and mores, The Source Family was mostly about sex and drugs... and a rock n roll band fronted by their Messianic leader, Father Yod.  Father Yod's real name was Jim Baker, and Jim Baker was almost certainly CIA (although that cannot be confirmed, it cannot be denied).  Whilst The Source Family outlasted the Manson Family, it eventually imploded due to its excesses, and disbanded after Baker leapt to his death in Hawaii on a homemade hang glider.
No rundown on 1960s cults would be replete without mentioning the Manson Family, in case I haven't, whose series of grisly murders brought the hippie movement to a brutal end, along with most of the cults and communes it had inspired.  While most of them died-down or dissolved entirely after the chilling Tate-LaBianca Murders, a few cults from the 1960s and '70s straggled on -- some exist, even today!  

The cult craze swept Japan a decade earlier, thanks to Operation: Golden Lily.

* Please pardon all the formatting and clerical errors.  I've been sitting on this for over a year now.  Thanks! 

© The Weirding, 2018-2019

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Measure 1. Project: ISIS, the KGB, and 23

The KGB's Project: Isis
Project: Isis
We do so love our conspiracy theories here to The OddBlog, and this one's got it all: Russian black ops, UFOs, alien mummies, hidden planets, Egyptian tombs, and the KGB!

This one's a grand-daddy, so strap yourselves in for Project: ISIS (23).

Every year or so, some asshole predicts the entire world is going to end on April 23rd!  It's always some halfwit doomsday cultist passing himself off as an Evangelical -- but, if you stop and think it through, what's the difference?  These doomsday Evangelicals are to 23 what the Church of Scientology is to Plan 9.


Friday, April 19, 2019

Operation: All Clear - The Oklahoma City Bombing

Oklahoma City Bombing
Oklahoma City Bombing
The Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995 was alleged to have been carried-out by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols (alone).  It was reported to be a "White Supremacist" -inspired plot to exact revenge on the ATF and US Law Enforcement for Waco and Ruby Ridge -- but that cover story is even more implausible than the one for 9/11!

In fact, there were at least five truckloads of explosive materials later discovered at the site of the blast, which destroyed (or damaged) over 320 other buildings in a 16 block radius.

US Law Enforcement agents terrorized and murdered witnesses and their family members for years following, and McVeigh was put to death in June of 2001 before he could finish his Final Words (a poem entitled Undefeated).

McVeigh wasn't a very good White Supremacist, either: Adolph Hitler's birthday is April 20th, not the 19th.

April 19th is, though, important in military history: It bears significance in both the American Revolution and the Civil War.  And we were warned about the Military-Industrial Complex, and its penchant for Insurgency.  Those girls do love their dates.  Timothy McVeigh did have a military past, and was directly involved in the OK City Bombing -- no one's trying to exonerate him here!  Actually, some sources suggest he was a MIC "legend" long before all of this played out.

While innumerable discrepancies in the "official story" exist, the best one is the severed leg, clad in a military boot, which was discovered at the scene... and belonged to no one known to be present in the vicinity at the time of the Oklahoma City Bombing, deceased or otherwise -- despite (allegedly) extensive DNA tests.

To this day, no one has... ahem, stepped forward to claim the limb.

© The Weirding, 2019

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

STS-48 - UFO Dodges Attack - NASA OVNI (VIDEO)



This is the STS-48 NASA video footage of a UFO which appears to dodge an unknown object possibly fired from, or close to, Earth.

© The Weirding, 2019

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Joe Rogan, Dave Foley, and Paul Greenberg Discuss the Unexplained

Joe Rogan's Lunch with Erich von Daniken

While you may not be a fan of Joe Rogan, or The Joe Rogan Experience, this brief clip from his podcast featuring Dave Foley and Paul Greenberg delves into many of the topics we explore here to The OddBlog.  Rogan's interest in these subjects is well-known -- he even hosted a SyFy show entitled Joe Rogan Questions Everything in which he explored them.

Rogan's healthy interest is tempered by an equally healthy skepticism, particularly toward the more outlandish.  The clip's title is perhaps misleading, as von Daniken is hardly mentioned during a wide-ranging discussion covering Bigfoot, UFOlogy, lost civilizations, and more.

The Joe Rogan Experience broadcasts live on YouTube irregularly, and features a range of guests covering a wide variety of subjects, including the Unexplained.  He and Dave Foley co-starred in the 1990's TV show, NewsRadio.

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Tuesday, December 25, 2018

The First Christmas Card - J.C. Horsley, 1843

First Christmas Card - J.C. Horsley, 1843
First Christmas Card - J.C. Horsley, 1843

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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Richard Clarke's 9/11 Commission Testimony

Richard Clarke - 9/11 Commission

An edited video of Richard Clarke's 9/11 Commission testimony.  His full testimony, along with other statements and interviews Richard Clarke gave regarding 9/11 and the CIA's role, under the order of President George W. Bush, in the NYC false flag attack on September 11, 2001 can be found online.

Richard Clarke also wrote a book on the events surrounding the 9/11/2001 attack.

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Monday, August 13, 2018

PHOTO: Phoenix Lights, 1997

Phoenix Lights -August 13, 1997
Phoenix Lights -August 13, 1997
Phoenix, Arizona - August 13, 1997.  (Series.)

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Monday, August 6, 2018

Las Lomas' UFO OVNI Over Mexico City - August 6, 1997

UFO OVNI Over Mexico City - August 6, 1997
UFO OVNI Over Mexico City - August 6, 1997
This is a still image from one home video of a UFO OVNI over Mexico City on August 6, 1997. This is known as the Las Lomas' UFO video.  While many claimed to have seen the craft that day, some military-backed "experts" say it may have been a hoax.

Exactly one week later, the famous Phoenix Lights event occurred. This case is sometimes called The Phoenix Incident, although the lights were seen as far away as Sonora, Mexico, and Nevada.

Were there one or more physical crafts flying around Mexico City and Phoenix, Arizona during the week of August 6 to August 13, 1997?  If so, were they manmade?  And, if not, where did these unexplained aerial phenomena (UFO) come from -- and where have these OVNI gone?

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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Project: GRUDGE (Pt. 2)

Project: Grudge Borne
Project: Grudge Borne

Project: Grudge Borne, Declassified.

Project: Bluebook.

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Tuesday, July 24, 2018

US Patent 2,949,550 - T Townsend Brown's Electrokinetic Apparatus

US2949550 - T Townsend Brown's Electrokinetic Apparatus
US2949550
Thomas Townsend Brown, better known as T. Townsend Brown, filed to patent his Electrokinetic Apparatus in 1957.  Patent US2,949,550 was granted in 1960.  Brown's saucer-shaped Electrokinetic Apparatus was an anti-gravity device containing no moving parts which was capable of amazing speeds.

In 1963, a corporation named Raytheon -- best known for its multitudinous War Crimes -- patented a similar device (US3114517A).

Brown held several patents related to energy and gravity, and worked on a number of US military projects throughout his lifetime, mostly as a consultant.

Thomas Townsend Brown died in 1985.

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Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Dr. Zippermeyer's Windkanone

Windkanone
Windkanone
Dr. Zippermeyer's WWII Windkanone, or Whirlwind Cannon, was meant to be used as an anti-aircraft device, but failed to work at high altitudes for unreported, or unknown, reasons.

The Whirlwind Cannon generates explosions in the combustion chamber, then directs the force through the oddly designed nozzle, apparently (judging from the name) creating whirlwinds.

Smaller models reportedly worked well against wooden planks at short ranges, but only the larger model Windkanone was found on the Artillery Proving Ground at Hillersleben in April, 1945.  Dr. Zippermeyer's Whirlwind Cannon, at least the bulk of it, had been left to rust after development was abandoned.

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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Regulations Governing Mountain Climbing Expeditions in Nepal — Relating to Yeti

Regulations Governing Mountain Climbing Expeditions in Nepal — Relating to Yeti
Regulations Governing Mountain Climbing Expeditions in Nepal - Relating to Yeti
In 1959, the US Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal issued a one-pager entitled Regulations Governing Mountain Climbing Expeditions in Nepal — Relating to Yeti.  In the memo, pictured here, the US Embassy demanded $77 for expeditions meant to prove or disprove the existence of the elusive cryptid (known in North America as Bigfoot).

However, the document clearly states that any and all evidence of the Yeti's existence must be immediately surrendered to the Nepalese government, and not reported to journalists or media outlets.  Presumably, any definitive evidence might torpedo the region's tourism industry (which remains a booming trade to this day) -- but it could also endanger the Yeti.

Though this document was released several years back, and reported on by both Slate and Time, it was brought to our attention by peers who shall remain anonymous (but are welcome to comment).  We would like to thank them for the Regulations Governing Mountain Climbing Expeditions in Nepal — Relating to Yeti!

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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

The CIA Hit List (THE SPOTLIGHT - 1993)

This CIA Hit List is reprinted with permission and with little modification, save formatting, grammatical errors, and inclusion of hyperlinks pertinent (to today):

THE CIA HIT LIST, 1993
THE CIA HIT LIST, 1993

                           THE CIA HIT LIST

The following story was found on the LogoPlex BBS.  It is originally from The SPOTLIGHT newsweekly. - Joe Gaut

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  [ Edited, for spacing and linebreaks only, by Roy B. Scherer, 23 SEP 93 ]

EXCLUSIVE TO THE SPOTLIGHT 

By Lawrence Wilmot

Murder on a major or minor scale -- whether it involved "terminating" an individual target or decimating an unruly population -- is a routine tactic of the CIA.  Although theoretically prohibited by law from killing anyone, the CIA may well have been responsible directly and indirectly for more violent deaths over the past 45 years than the U.S. Army, cold-war historians suggest.  One former CIA officer, John Stockwell, claims the agency's worldwide covert actions have cost "millions of lives." An updated roster of the CIA's victims would fill hundreds of pages, a SPOTLIGHT reporter exploring the subject discovered recently.  Among the agency's best-known assassination targets:

- In June, 1959, Col. Ahmad Bukkiting, an Indonesian officer, was waylaid and murdered in his car in Central Sumatra.  He was reportedly suspected of trying to drop out of a CIA-organized military coup against Indonesia's Sukarno government.

- On January 17, 1961, Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba of the Congo (now Zaire) was murdered by indigenous forces paid and armed by the CIA.  The official explanation: Lumumba was "a Soviet pawn."  The real reason: A financial consortium controlled by David Rockefeller had set its sights on the region's rich mineral resources.  A compliant and utterly corrupt leader was installed, Mobutu Sese Seko, whose legendary skimming of foreign aid has turned him into one of the world's wealthiest men.

- In May, 1961, Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the long-ruling strongman of the Dominican Republic known as a pro-U.S. nationalist, was shot to death in his chauffeur-driven limousine by a hit team of local officials recruited and armed by the CIA.  The official explanation: Trujillo was a "human rights" offender who tended to "terminate" his rivals.  The real reason: One of the enemies liquidated by Trujillo, Dr. Jesus Galindez, was a key CIA undercover agent.

- In 1961-62, the CIA organized several strikes against Dr. Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Haiti's sinister dictator.  He survived, but a hit team headed by Clement Barbot, who had been a Haitian presidential bodyguard before he went to work for the CIA, managed to kill one of Duvalier's daughters and members of his staff.  The reason: White House feared that Duvalier was a dangerous madman.

- South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated along with his brother, Ngo Dinh Ngu, by the CIA in 1963, reportedly on direct orders from the White House.

- On November 22, 1963, during a visit to Dallas, President John F. Kennedy came under the guns of a hit team whose trail has been traced to the CIA.  The same day, the CIA's chief of clandestine services, Desmond FitzGerald, held a secret meeting in a Paris hotel room to hand a Cuban contact a poison-tipped ball-point pen designed to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro.  Kennedy died; the communist dictator survived the CIA's assassination attempt.

- In March, 1965, a French inspection team headed by Col. Roger de Tassigny traveled through Laos and Vietnam gathering evidence on the booming narcotics trade supervised and protected by CIA agents.  Departing Saigon in a U.S. helicopter, they were killed in a mid-air explosion.  The official explanation: an accident.  The real reason: The CIA saw the investigation as a threat and an attempt to sabotage its covert networks throughout Indochina.

- Salvador Allende, president of Chile, was overthrown and killed during a CIA-engineered coup in [September 111973, in which the intelligence agency conspired with Chilean military officers to murder the president and install a military junta.

- In June, 1973, Rodolfo "El Cojo" Cisneros and Mario Avila, the reputed leaders of a Mexican marijuana gang, were shot to death in Panama.  Their murders were part of a top-secret CIA operation code named "Deacon II," designed to "eliminate narcotics kingpins beyond the reach of conventional U.S. law enforcement," in which more than a dozen drug suspects were reportedly killed.

- Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier, in exile from his country after the coup for his criticism of the CIA's takeover, was killed in a 1976 car bombing in Washington.  All signs point to a CIA hit in the heart of the nation's capital.

- In January, 1978, a team of CIA operatives smuggled a bomb aboard a Cuban airliner making a refueling stop in Barbados.  The plane exploded shortly after takeoff, killing all 83 aboard.  The official explanation: The bomb was supposed to go off while the airliner was still on the ground, causing heavy damage but no loss of life, but accidentally went off late.  The truth: The explosives detonated on schedule.  The CIA had no regrets for Cuban casualties.

- On January 26, 1980, Francis John Nugan, chairman of the Nugan Hand Bank, was found shot to death in his Mercedes limousine in Lithgow, Australia.  Nugan's murder -- he was found to have been a clandestine CIA money broker and arms smuggler -- is now attributed to the CIA by Australian authorities.

- In retaliation for what it assumed to be Iranian support for the resurgence of militant Moslems [Muslims] -- particularly in Lebanon, where American hostages included William Buckley, the local station chief of the agency -- the CIA waged a sustained campaign of terrorism and assassination against Iran from 1981 through 1990.  At least 14 key members and religious leaders of Iran's fundamentalist government were killed or gravely injured.  The agency denied involvement.

- As part of this campaign mentioned above, the CIA tried to kill Sheik Mohammed Fadlallah, spiritual leader of a faction suspected of kidnapping Americans, in 1986 with a massive carbomb.  The sheik escaped, but 80 bystanders were killed.

- In October, 1987, Rolando Maferrer, an exiled Cuban arms dealer and right-wing militant, was killed by a car bomb in Miami.  After years of investigation, his murder has now been linked to the CIA.

- On August 11, 1988, Malcolm McHugh, a Canadian arms dealer, was killed by a gunshot in his Brussels apartment.  He had reportedly surprised a team of CIA burglars going through his files in search of evidence of illicit trade with Cuba.

- On August 17, 1988, Gen. Zia ul-Haq, Pakistan's president and military strongman, died in a mid-air explosion of his aircraft.  His death came after a sharp dispute between his government and the CIA over conduct of the civil war in Afghanistan bogged down in a bitter deadlock, and is now generally ascribed to the agency by Pakistani investigators.

- In October, 1989, Whitman Conte, an American pilot, was killed in South Africa by a bomb hidden in the luggage compartment of his small plane.  Long involved in CIA-sponsored diamond-smuggling flights, Conte was reportedly preparing to sell his story to the media when he was silenced.

- In September, 1990, an exiled Egyptian teacher, Maloof Haddad, was murdered in Paris for alleged terrorist activities involving U.S. diplomats and the 1975 slaying of Saudi Arabia's oil minister.

- Derek Swanepool, a British journalist, made repeated visits last year to the Philippines collecting evidence on reported payoffs received by U.S. officials and CIA agents who helped overthrow the government of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.  In February, 1993, he was found shot to death in his hotel room. Swanepool had reportedly turned up pay-dirt that would have led to high-level indictments among the Washington national security bureaucrats who ousted Marcos.  Sources familiar with CIA tactics and motives say it was an agency hit.

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The story above is taken from The SPOTLIGHT newspaper, published weekly in
Washington, D.C. by Liberty Lobby. Subscriptions, $36/year. Contact, The
SPOTLIGHT, 300 Independence Ave., SE, Washington, D.C. 20003, or call
(202) 546-5611.

MAY BE RE-POSTED IF SOURCE AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION ARE INCLUDED

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Monday, April 30, 2018

PHOTO: Nazca Lines Hummingbird

Provided by COETAIL.com
Nazca Hummingbird
An aerial image of the Hummingbird Nazca Lines in Peru, courtesy of COETAIL.com.

NOTE:  Shortly after this post was drafted (not published), some piece of blue-collar shit working in, or with, the Intelligence Community (IS) destroyed part of the monument.

The following (infected) link was later discovered in my Bookmarks:
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/high-winds-expose-previously-unknown-nazca-geoglyphs-001935( )#!bvGw9W

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