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It's your boy BOBBEE BEE "THE HATER" aka the trouble maker from the "city of brotherly love" I am an obnoxious, opinionated, third grader whose ego is bigger than T.O.! I am an "odd"combination of Terrell Owens, KOBE Bryant, Rasheed Wallace, and Allen Iverson!
by Eric D. Graham #TheRapProfessor. If you like what you are learning ($JeffreyBarnes)
"The Saudis are the biggest funders of Terrorism"-Donald Trump
A DOUBLE DOSE OF THE DEVIL: Beware of the Pale Arab!!!
Because, the Saud Family signed a deal with the United States in 1945, which basically stated, "We (The Saudis) will give you (America) our oil at a cheap price, if you protect us against our enemies and allow us to purchase your military weaponry.
Therefore, we shouldn't have ...been surprised to learn that Donald Trump had announced a $110bn arms deal with the Saudis on Saturday.
Please understand this- there are two factions of Islamists residing in Saudi Arabia. One, who works for the CIA. And, the other, in the form Wahhabism, which is Saudi Arabia's dominant faith, who works totally against America and American Imperialism. This form of Islam, in fact, is more extreme than Isis, Al Qeda and Taliban, except it is supported by the Euro and the US through oil money.
Let's not forget, Saudi Arabia produced Osama bin Laden as well as 15 of the 19 "alleged" hijackers in 9/11.
Even though, many people still believe the Israeli Mossad were the "masterminds" behind the entire event.
For this very reason, William McCants, a Brookings Institution scholar, says that the Saudis are both the arsonists and the firefighters.
With that said, I suggest you watch PBS's Frontline Documentary The House Of Saud in order to get a better understanding of what is currently taking place in that region of the world.
As a result, we can become intelligent students of international affairs instead of emotional news watchers, whose political insight comes from 20 second soundbite on CNN, MSNBC or FOX NEWS.
"Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar:-(Ezekiel 13:10)
PREPARING FOR WAR- By Mikhail Gorbachev
The world today is overwhelmed with problems. Policymakers seem to be confused and at a loss. But no problem is more urgent today than the militarization of politics and the new arms race.
Stopping and reversing this ruinous race must be our top priority.
The current situation is too dangerous.
More troops, tanks and armored personnel carriers are being brought to Europe. NATO and Russian forces and weapons that used to be deployed at a distance are now placed closer to each other, as if to shoot point-blank.
While state budgets are struggling to fund people’s essential social needs, military spending is growing.
Money is easily found for sophisticated weapons whose destructive power is comparable to that of the weapons of mass destruction; for submarines whose single salvo is capable of devastating half a continent; for missile defense systems that undermine strategic stability.
Politicians and military leaders sound increasingly belligerent and defense doctrines more dangerous. Commentators and TV personalities are joining the bellicose chorus.
It all looks as if the world is preparing for war. I urge the Members of the U.N Security Council-the body that bears primary responsibilty for international PEACE and security to take the first step.
Specifically, I propose that the Security Council meeting at the level of heads of state adopt a resolution stating that nuclear war is unacceptable and must never be fought.
I think the the initiative to adopt such a resolution come from Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin-the Presidents of two nations that hold over 90% of the world's nuclear arsenals and therefore bear a special responsibility.- (Mikhail Gorbachev:The New Russia)
BALL UP OR SHUT UP-Congratulations!!! to Levar Ball for "trying" to be Black & Independent, while trying to develop his own brand -without being branded- by the same multi-billion dollar shoe companies, who have exploited athletes year after year- by making shoes for 10 cents and selling them for $60 to $120 a pair.
Despite, the price of his son's shoe, which is $495 (now), Ball has created another paradigm shift-if not, in conversation (only) in the way that athletes may conduct shoe deals in the future.
This, however, is no different than Stephon Marbury, when he decided to launch his own shoe apparel in September 2006 in China, which he sold for only $14.95.
Therefore, let's get this clear, Nike's co-founder Phil Knight once sold shoes out of the back of his green Plymouth Valiant. But, today, his company has grown into a worldwide powerhouse: In fiscal 2012, Nike, Inc. raked in more than $24 billion in global revenue.
So, while the media, wants to call Ball crazy-at least-he's offering another alternative-to an old system, which continues to exploit us.
With that said, maybe some of these other million-dollar athletes, instead of complaining, mocking, and criticizing him, should jump on board to assist him in order to make this business venture successful instead of being "loyal" to brands like Nike, Reebok, Adidas, and UnderArmour.
If this takes place, he can make his shoes affordable for all children-making him the "New" king of sneakers.
Where.....strife is, there is.....every evil work."-James 3:16
The apostle Paul writes: "Agree with each others, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside and help others get ahead. Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand." (Php 2:2-24).
Because, strife wreaks havoc in relationships. It often stems from an inflated ego and leads to comparing, competing, and condemning.
James points that out: "Where....strife is, there is...every evil work. So be a strife-spotter!
The moment it rears its ugly head-uproot it! Look after each other so that none of you fail....Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many. (Heb. 12:15). Try to live in harmony...Because, those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness (Jas 3:17-18)..In other words, avoid strife-(Source: Word For You Today)
According to the DSM-6,(The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Six Edition) Narcissistic Personality Disorder-is defined as "a pervasive pattern, of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior) need for admiration, and lack of empathy beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of context." A diagnosis would also require five or more of these issues.
1. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., "Nobody builds a wall better than me." "There's nobody that respects women more than I do." There's nobody who's done so much for equality as I have." 2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty or ideal love ("I alone can fix it"; "It's very hard for them to attack me on looks, because I'm so good-looking"). 3. Believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people or institutions ("Part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich"). 4. Requires excessive admiration ("They said it was the biggest standing ovation since Peyton Manning had won the Super Bowl"). 5. Has a sense of entitlement ("When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the p...#$").
6. Is interpersonally exploitative (see above). 7. Lacks empathy, is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others ("He's not a war hero . . . he was captured. I like people that weren't captured"). 8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her ("I'm the president, and you're not"). 9. Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes ("I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters"). (Source: RollingStone)
by Eric D. Graham Over the past couple of years, the ACC has made some "difficult financial" decisions to "kick-out" the University of Maryland, while adding Pittsburgh, Norte Dame, Syracuse, Boston College, Va.Tech, Miami, and Louisville to its ever-expanding conference. With all of those additions, however, one must ask the question-while addressing the GIANT (Greenville) purple elephant in the room? Seriously!!! Why? in the hell, hasn't ECU, who, seems to be, the state's ugly step-sister, (NOT) been invited to participate in the party. I mean, really, how can the ACC overlook East Carolina-and select it's archrival Va.Tech instead. It doesn't make any (cents). But, I know it makes dollars.
Honestly, the Pirates are probably the best football program in the state and have proven it (time and time) again in head-to-head competition against ACC schools. Matter of fact, they had a six game winning streak last year until losing to Va. Tech (17-54). That's right, even with a disappointing record of (3-9) under rookie head coach Scottie Montogomery, they still managed to defeat NC State 33-30. With that said, local sports fans will still have to rely on Google Map in order to manuever through the geographical mixed up jigglesaw puzzle-now-known-as the Atlantic Coast Conference, while continuing to wonder why a school only 85 miles from Raleigh isn't good enough to be in it.-www.bobbeethehater.blogspot.com
by Eric D. Graham-While in Georgia, I had an opportunity to meet Atlanta's own "motivational speaker, entertainer and entrepreneur" (Big Mouth) Ben aka Benjamin Graham, who went to the University of Georgia, but found himself fighting some undiagnosed mental health issues and an "alleged" 17 year "monstrous" $18,000 a month drug habit, which led him to become homeless and sleeping under a bridge for 7 years.
Despite being at the lowest point of his life, while fighting depression and suicidal tendencies, Graham, who is originally from Hamlet, NC, had a spiritual awakening, after hours of prayer, which propelled him to seek drug treatment and counseling that eventually led to his recovery.
Amazingly, now, due to his faith, self-determination and internal drive, he owns his own convenience store 3 blocks from where he once slept under a bridge.
BIGMOUTH BEN'S CONVENIENCE STORE, in fact, is located in downtown ATL, on Auburn Avenue near Jackson Street in an area that was once known as the “commercial, cultural, and spiritual center of African American life prior to the civil rights movement”
To learn about Benjamin Graham contact him at benjamingraham221@yahoo.com -For Bookings/Speaking Engagement Contact Number: 1-404-951-1062 www.bigmouthben.com
BRONZE GODZ & COPPER CHRISTZ-We relied on Ghetto Prophets and Street Scholars, who hung out in front of liquor stores, barber shops and pool halls in order to learn things that the public school system wouldn't teach us after it was integrated.
These cornerstones, which the world rejected, in fact, gave us street sermons and scriptural brakedowns that most "sophisticated" preachers, who had made a career out of "pimpin' the people" couldn't comprehend.
Yes, these poor righteous teachers, taught us that Jesus was Black. His mother-Mary was Black...and that we built the pyramids. They told us, openly, without fear, that we were the original people of the earth and our history was written in the stars.
See, even though, many people cursed them-we knew that they were divine. Because, they came from a generation, who survived the Middle Passage, slavery, Reconstruction, the Great Depression, the KKK, lynching, World War I, World War 2, Jim Crow segregation, Racism, Zionism, the Tuskegee experiment, assassination attempts, Co-Intel Pro, the Vietnam War, Police Terrorism, South African apartheid, Heroin, Ronald Wilson Reagan, Crack Cocaine, the Prison Industrial Complex, Desert Storm, Hurricane Katrina, George Bush 1 and 2. And even, 9/11, when the Twin Towers came crumbling down to the ground-Why? Because, they were (Bronze Godz and Copper Christz) "angels" in disguise-
From the "new" album-The Evolution of an MC-by eric d.graham
The wounds of war can go far beyond what meets the eye. From mental health issues to pain and illness that persist long after they've left the battlefield, veterans face a multitude of health troubles either unique to their service or more frequent among them than the general population.
"Folks returning from combat have a constellation of health concerns, including physical issues, psychological issues and psychosocial issues concerning things like work and family," said Dr. Stephen Hunt, national director of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Post Deployment Integrative Care Initiative.
"This is a population that has unique health care needs that need to be addressed," added Hunt, who is based in Seattle. "It's something that really needs to be done by a team. We can't do it without the collaboration of other providers, and the knowledge and presence of the community."
HERE ARE 8 HEALTH FACTORS:
1. Musculoskeletal injuries and pain
Just over half of all veterans' post-deployment health visits address lingering pain in their backs, necks, knees or shoulders. According to the Journal of Pain about 100,000 veterans of the Gulf War nearly 20 years ago have reported chronic muscle pain.
2. Mental health issues
While post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among soldiers has been well publicized, other mental woes can also result from the trauma of war. A June study in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry found that one in 10 Iraq war vets develop serious mental problems, including violent behavior, depression and alcohol abuse. PTSD in vets is also associated with a greater risk of developing dementia, according to a June study in Archives of General Psychiatry.
3. Chemical exposure
Research by the American Heart Association found that exposure to nerve agents such as sarin — which can trigger convulsions and death on the battlefield— may cause long-term heart damage in Gulf War veterans.
The damage can include an enlarged left ventricle, heart rhythm abnormalities or a reduction in the pumping strength of the heart.
4. Infectious diseases
As a rule, all military personnel are given routine vaccinations before deployment. Yet veterans suffer disproportionately from certain infections that civilians almost never experience for which vaccines are not available, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
They include bacterial infections such as brucellosis, which may persist for years; campylobacter jejuni, which causes abdominal pain, fever and diarrhea; and Coxiella burnetii, which in chronic cases can inflame the heart. Leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease caused by the bite of a sand fly native to the Middle East, is a particularly brutal condition veterans experience.
Those infected suffer weight loss, fevers, headaches, muscle pain and weakness, anemia, and enlargement of the spleen and liver. It can be fatal if untreated, according to the VA.
5. Noise and vibration exposure
Hearing loss and impairment — including persistent ringing and buzzing in the ears — are common effects of harmful noise from gunfire, heavy weapons, noisy engine rooms and aircraft, Hunt said.
Additionally, vets who regularly worked with machinery can suffer vibration exposure, which can prompt irreversible lower back pain or numbness and pain in the hands and fingers, according to the VA.
6. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
TBI, often brought on by a blow or jolt to the head, disrupts brain function and has been called the signature wound of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the National Academy of Sciences.
Blast exposures and other combat-related activities put service members at greater risk for sustaining a TBI compared to their civilian counterparts, according to the Defense and Veterans
7. Brain Injury Center.
Common effects of TBIs include cognitive issues such as shorter attention span, language disabilities, and an inability to process information. Vets can also suffer from lack of motivation, irritability, anxiety and depression, headaches, memory loss and PTSD.
8. Urologic injuries
Penetrating injuries to the groin area during battle such as injuries to the bladder, ureters, kidneys and genitalia usually require complex surgery.
ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE-Jeremiah 48:(14-17)"You cannot say, "We are warriors! We are brave men in battle! The destroyer of MOAB and her town has arrived. Her best young men will be killed! says the King (President)! The end of MOAB is near, and she will soon be destroyed. All you who live around Moab, all you who know her, cry for her. Say, The ruler's power is broken. MOAB's power and glory are gone."
On April 13, the USA dropped The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB, ... commonly known as the Mother of All Bombs) against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants in Afghanistan., which was touted as the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in the American arsenal. However, did government officials name the bomb MOAB, after reading the Book of Jeremiah Chapter 48. You decide after you read it for yourself.
Remember, I am not a rapper...I just pretend to be one on Facebook.
With that said, the Easter Bunny is not Real-So, let's stop playing Church. But, Don't be Mad at Me. This is just the Evolution of an MC.-
Why? Because, Babylon (America) is Falling? Matter of fact, according to The Book of Jeremiah, which reveals the inner struggles of a prophet of God. He prophesizes in-(Jeremiah 51:46-49)-to the tribe of Judah to " not lose courage;-(because) rumors will spread through the land, but don’t be afraid. One rumor comes this year, another comes next year .
There will be rumors of terrible fighting in the country, of rulers fighting against rulers. For the time will surely come when I will punish the idols of Babylon (America); her whole land will be disgraced. There will be many dead people lying all around.
Then heaven and earth and all that is in will shout for JOY over Babylon (America), for out of the north destroyers will attack her,”declares the Lord.
“Babylon must fall because she killed people from Israel (Indigenous people). She (The American-British Empire) killed people from everywhere on the earth.
The pejorative term, conspiracy theory is getting plenty of traction in the early days of the Trump presidency. It seems like every day a new article or televised segment pops up in regards to the latest conspiracy inspired statements issuing from 45’s Twitter feed. It’s been quite astonishing to observe.
From his campaign sound bite that Ted Cruz’s father may have been an associate of Lee Harvey Oswald, to insinuating that immigrants and refugees are slipping into the country as part of a choreographed plot, to his claim of mass voter fraud conspiracy. Wherever Trump and his Twitter account go, a conspiracy is sure to follow.
While conspiracy theories are historically embedded into the DNA of the American psyche and politics, I can’t say I’m aware of a president being so outwardly associated with promoting them.
This phenomena coming on the heels of the memes of fake news, alternative facts and post-truth are turning the media upside down, as both mainstream stalwarts and independent outfits are under attack and fighting back from the ropes.
It doesn’t matter if you identify as conservative or progressive, conspiracies are flying from all directions as paranoia and anger reach a fevered boiling point.
That Trump’s presidency has brought this issue into the spotlight is not really surprising considering his background.
Prior to his official entry into politics, Donald Trump elbowed his way into the Obama birther conspiracy that questioned the authenticity of the former presidents birth certificate and asserting he was born in Kenya, not the United States.
He went as far as to send a team of investigators to Hawaii to collect the damning dirt that would vindicate his assertions.
Rather than proving his claim, Trump presently claims he is actually responsible for clearing up the whole controversy.
If the conspiracy helps to discredit or hurt his enemies, Trump can’t get enough of them. When one is directed against him, like the claim he colluded with Russia on an election hack, he dismisses it as fake news.
To that point, plenty of anti-Trump media sites like The Intercept and Counterpunch very much classify the new Red Scare narrative as yet another conspiracy created in an effort to discredit the election results.
The volleying between Trump’s conspiracies and his opponents helps to spin the public’s head while a slew of other policy actions go underreported.
As someone who pays attention to historical and contemporary conspiracy culture, this is both interesting and disturbing all at once. In a way it’s quite surreal – the individual seated in the most powerful chair of global politics (symbolically anyway) not only paying attention to conspiracies but using them to buttress his policy ambitions.
That he is a known frequenter of InfoWars and Breitbart News is very telling. For one thing it illustrates that he is seated directly in the stream of the far-right branch of conspiracy narratives. Conspiracies with political implications tend to be developed with a particular lensing that carries a clear moral point of view.
There are conspiracy theories that play to a broad audience like the UFO question, but a great number have ties to an ultimate, grand unifying theory. The all-encompassing hypothesis collects all the dark threats to democracy under a monolithic banner of evil. Unifying theories tend to exist on the extreme ends of political poles.
Everything that Alex Jones shouts across the airwaves is merely a carrying forward of previously issued tracts on the alleged secrets and origins of international power. Jones will be the first one to admit to his paradigm framing influences starting with the John Birch Society and Gary Allen’s 1971 manifesto, None Dare Call it a Conspiracy.
Alex Jones and his favorite book
Conservative patriots regard Allen’s work as groundbreaking for exposing an international (Jewish) banking scheme to enslave the globe under a one-world, communist government. This concept underpins all of right-wing conspiracy theory – a slowly encroaching satanic/communist threat to American freedom will eventually need to be met by private armed resistance.
Because the far-right is largely Christian, its not just politicians but secret societies and practitioners of occult or esoteric spirituality who all supposedly work together subverting their religion and “American values.”
The left has their unifying theories as well. Radical leftist reporter, Chris Hedges, writes extensively about the dire threat of the “ruling corporate elite” that threatens to destroy modern culture through extreme greed and fascistic totalitarian impulses. Hedges has plenty of evidence both current and historical to support his claims but it doesn’t change the fact that it describes from another perspective, a situation in which powerful factions of the world actively collaborate from the shadows to subject their will upon a unwitting public. He’s just pointing to different sets of cabals than right-
wing pundits do.
At any given moment there are thousands of competing theories flying around in our culture. Everyone feels that society is being influenced and controlled by nefarious forces, even though they can’t agree on just who is at the helm and what the true endgame is.
To be clear, from my own limited estimation, most of what constitutes as conspiracy theory out there can easily be categorized as flat-out junk. It’s an embarrassment to legitimate conspiracy research.
David Icke’s reptilian alien overlord theory belongs in an annual of bad science-fiction. I believe in alien life and the strong likelihood that the government is hiding key information related to it but YouTube videos analyzing the Queen of England’s face for reptilian scales is clearly a leap into a realm of hyper-speculation.
Hyper-speculation can be a form of harmless entertainment, or it can be quite harmful when swimming in the minds of mentally unstable individuals with real issues of paranoid schizophrenia. Fritz Springmeier’s weakly supported claims that a hidden satanic cabal reigns over a worldwide pyramid of infiltrated governments and NGOs, are quite dangerous and carry the threat of severe psychological and personal damage for those who live under the strain of such a belief.
(I say Springmeier’s claims are weak because to me, personal sources that wish to remain anonymous are not enough to support such an extraordinary claim.) He has formulated complex charts detailing all the interlocking elements of a massive structure of demonic influence groups. There may even be bits of truth mixed into his wild speculations. Yes, mind control is real.
Sex trafficking and abuse is real. The reality of a multitude of sick and twisted projects or individual aberrations create a temptation in the human mind to want to organize it all together to create a seamless cohesion of systematic abuse.
The Satanic Panicof the 1980’s however, shows the flaw of projecting and forcing connections that fit a premeditated conclusion. The result is a witch hunt and demonizing of benign activities or organizations.
So-called eyewitnesses or victims of mind control plots that Springmeier substitutes for evidence don’t bring anything but tall-tales and unsubstantiated campfire tales to the table. They sound incredible, tantalizing and tawdry and therefore interesting.
They are easy to dismiss unless your religious training has conditioned you to the certainty of satanic forces playing out a pre-determined drama. Apocalyptic sects of Christianity are forever on the lookout for the coming antichrist and the general signs of Christian values slipping away due to satanic influence. These individuals make up the bulk of Springmeier’s fringe audience and are easy marks for his con game.
Pop culture conspiracies waste our time trying to convince us that Hollywood has a hidden agenda to turn men and woman androgynous and therefor undermine the traditional family structure. It sounds very, very familiar if you know your conspiracy history.
According to the very popular sites that focus on the entertainment industry, the herd is being systematically weakened through music videos, film and television in order to create a docile citizenry unable to fight off coming internment in FEMA detention camps.
When you cut through the hysteria it’s clear that what these researchers really have a problem with homosexuality and anything that appears to threaten their narrow, heteronormative morality. They feel a culture war is being waged on patriarchal/heterosexual/Caucasian Christianity and have picked the tool of conspiracy to fight back. Never mind the incredibly small percentage of non-heteronormative identifiers among the population.
Ironically enough, Catholics themselves have historically faced the brunt of a large number of conspiracy theories themselves. The pattern of using conspiracy as a weapon against outgroups has been wielded against Native Americans, communists, African Americans and Freemasons to name just a few. It’s a flexible template that can be applied and finessed to target whatever group is the threat of the day.
“You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don’t already believe it.” – Robert Anton Wilson, Everything is Under Control
Conspiracy culture can be a dangerous place if you don’t have your wits about you. If you go far enough down the wrong rabbit hole, you may never come back. Yet at the same time, to ignore historical and potential conspiracy comes with its own serious risks. We know enough about the past to identify their existence but not quite enough to recognize them as they play out in real time in a way that prevents them. The same basic conspiracies seem to cycle on a loop, repeating the same patterns over and over.
The reason I pay attention to and have a deep interest in conspiracies is that for all the totally delusional or xenophobic agendas out there, there’s more than a handful that are very plausible or that can be tied to documentable events. This is the maddening and tricky part of deciding to wade through the dangerous seas of conspiracy.
Most likely, it’s the reason the majority of the population would rather see them all lumped under one heading, under the new term – fake news. It’s much harder to grapple with each conspiracy on it’s own merits. It takes a certain amount of commitment and almost always presents a threat to the belief system of the person considering it. To entertain conspiracies places one in a position of strong professional and personal ridicule. Your intellectual judgment is thought to be suspect.
Deluges of op-eds are currently being penned equating conspiracy theory with “untruths” or “lies,” as if such terms are synonymous. This contradicts the whole notion of what a theory represents in the first place. A theory is a theory, not a fact. Handled responsibly, conspiracy theories are presented not as truths but as possible truths or a hypothesis.
If there was never a conspiracy theory that turned out to be true or provable, then maybe there’s good reason to dismiss them out of hand. But that’s absolutely not what history shows us.
The conspiracies that really intrigue me are the ones that have valid sources tied to documentation. The now under threat, Freedom of Information Act, signed in 1966, as well as insider source leaks have exposed the public to unthinkable conspiracies carried out by various branches of government or corporations.
If you’re reading this and you are dismissive of the possibility of conspiracies, look into any one of the above items. They are documented events that expose abuse and scandal carried out in covert fashion. Once you come to understand how those in power think and what they’re historically willing to do to advance their agenda, it’s only natural to speculate about more recent or current events. It takes decades for documentation to surface that vindicates suspicions. With accountability and punishment for abuse largely absent, why wouldn’t these tactics continue? Don’t try to tell me politicians are any more ethical now compared to the past.
History shows, most glaringly in the last century, that conspiracies are part and parcel of government and bureaucratic operations. A conspiracy by definition is a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful. They can also be thought of in similar terms with schemes, plans, plots or subterfuge. Those words just about clearly align with the CIA’s day-to-day procedural manual. To deny they take place is beyond naïve. It’s inexcusable considering our ability to access information. “Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.” – Robert Anton Wilson, The I in the Triangle
I’m with Wilson – conspiracies take place all the time. It’s a staple of human behavior. We should know this all too well by now. Bernie Madoff was convicted for carrying out a sprawling financial ponzi scheme conspiracy. Enron execs conspired to commit massive insider frauds to the tune of millions. Members of the Bush administration conspired to convince the American public that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction in order to instigate the longest-running military engagement in US history. These are all events from recent memory and yet most people refuse to acknowledge conspiracy as anything other than “crazy” or the work of fevered imagination.
The mainstream media also seems to have general amnesia disorder when it comes to government corruption as a constant. Instead in the media conspiracy is used as a way to embarrass, insult or undermine. And wouldn’t you know, that in itself is a CIA operation at work.
Anyone who has researched the origin of the term ‘conspiracy theory’ has discovered that the CIA itself defined the term in a 1967 dispatch on psychological operations for the purpose of discrediting the thousands of citizens who called the single-shooter theory of John F. Kennedy’s murder into question.
“In other words, the CIA’s clandestine services unit created the arguments for attacking conspiracy theories as unreliable in the 1960s as part of its psychological warfare operations.” – Zero Hedge
This dispatch only came to light due to, you guessed it, a FOIA request. It’s not as if the government wants the public to find out about their secret ops. In fact last year the outgoing Obama administration spent a record $36 million fighting FOIA requests in court.
Only 77% of requests were answered from 2016. What we do eventually get is often heavily redacted.
Conspiratorial thinking directed at hierarchical institutions like governments and multi-national enterprises is a wholly different endeavor than fear-mongering against unconventional lifestyle or minority groups.
So, yes, there are in fact qualitative differences among conspiracy theories. There is ludicrous click-bait pushed out to support a fringe agenda. On the other hand, there are well-researched and vetted hypothesis supported by either physical documentation or enough circumstantial evidence to deserve reasonable consideration. They are not all created equal. The public needs to better understand that and refuse to be gaslit by lazy naysayers or factions that benefit from the suppression of open investigations of claims.
As Robert Anton Wilson said in the Illuminati Papers, “Anyone in the United States today who isn’t paranoid must be crazy.” If you’re paying any attention, that is. A sober-minded, critical thinker should be allowed to consider possible answers to a range of open questions without immediate social condemnation. Social pressure to conform to the acceptable consensus is exactly what the CIA hoped for by introducing the pejorative.
People are literally afraid to call government claims into question for fear of reprisal… whentheir Party is in office. When the opposing Party takes the throne, that very same person jumps right into the mud-slinging mix, ready to accept all sorts of sordid secret actions. We end up seeing a great deal of inconsistency from individuals and their proclivities to either embrace or reject a conspiracy. The cognitive dissonance can be cut with a knife.
All that being said, when it comes to Trump, there is good reason to be very skeptical about the branch of conspiracy he picks from. It’s the worst branch of the tree – one lined with the fruits of xenophobia, nationalism and classism. Without a genuine bone in his body, he uses conspiracy not as a truth weapon against the systems of corrupt power but against the weak, the vulnerable or to cheaply cause harm to a political opponent.
A conspiracy should always be examined for hidden agendas. Does it support the narrative of apocalyptic Christian sects? Does it create fear of external threats in order to lay ground for a hawkish imperialism? Does it target racial, ethnic and sexual minorities? These are not the conspiracies I give the time of day to any longer. Religious extremism, nationalism and militarism are not agendas that I’m willing to foolishly carry water for.
Despite the fact that it always goes on even if unrecognized as such, conspiracy theorizing hasn’t really been a part of the acceptable discourse since the original X-Files days. There’s some good reason for that. In the Internet era, the most sensational and outrageous conspiracies have come to define the field. Moving forward, if conspiracy is going to be defined by the prejudiced, fact-free, fear-mongering class of right-wing fanatics like Steve Bannon and Alex Jones, there’s not much hope for the legitimate claims to be given their due.
This essay is sure to make me many enemies. That’s perfectly fine. I’ve looked l
ong enough at what I reject to be comfortable rejecting it. What I disavow is unfounded bullshit pandering behind a phony veil of Truth in order to push some extremist political or religious ideology. If this makes that crowd angry, so be it. Only by being critical of bad conspiracy theory can the plausible theories ever return to the levels of public consideration they achieved in the post-Watergate era. A good portion of the public does harbor suspicions and questions. Bad conspiracies push them into the closet for fear of harsh ridicule.
Credibility is a core issue. I would think that any serious researcher would want the public at large to consider their work in a way that elevates it out of a small underground of followers.
This won’t happen as long as Donald Trump and his allies become the new mascots of conspiracy theory. Those he peddles distortions for are not the allies of truth or the well-being of the common citizen. This will only become more abundantly clear as his administration advances.
Then again, maybe I’m a disinfo agent spreading misinformation. Perhaps, I’m really working for them. In that case, I hope the check is in the mail.
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By Jonas E. Alexis If you haven’t realized that the Israeli regime and its puppets in the United States want to start World War III, then you need to wake up from your dogmatic slumber. The Neocons and flaming Zionists are already gloating because Trump is currently doing their bidding.[1]
Fareed Zakaria, a staunch critic of Trump (he once said that Trump is a “cancer of American democracy”), is now saying that “I think Donald Trump became president of the United States. I think this was actually a big moment because candidate Trump had said that he would never get involved in the Syrian civil war, he told President Obama you cannot do this without the authorization of Congress, he seemed unconcerned with global norms. President Trump recognized that the president of the United States does have to act to enforce international norms, does have to have this broader moral and political purpose.
“I think what’s interesting is the way in which he justified his actions. For the first time as president, he talked about international norms, international rules, America’s role in enforcing justice in the world. It’s the kind of rhetoric we’ve come to expect from American presidents since Harry Truman. There’s been an interesting morphing and a kind of education of Donald Trump.”
MSNBC host Brian Williams called US missiles in Syria “beautiful.” He said: “We see these beautiful pictures at night from the decks of these two U.S. Navy vessels in the eastern Mediterranean. I am tempted to quote the great Leonard Cohen: ‘I am guided by the beauty of our weapons.’”
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof declared: “Trump is right to make Syria pay a price for war crimes, and taking out airfields is the best approach.”
Jewish Neocon Elliott Abrams has just written that
“This strike will save lives—in Syria, by preventing Assad from daring to use chemical weapons again, and in unknown future conflicts where the losing side will be tempted to employ chemical weapons, and will think twice and not do it. Trump saved more lives in Syria by his action this week than Obama did in all his years in office….
“Vladimir Putin will think again about his relations with the United States, and will realize that the Obama years of passivity are truly over. Allies and friends will be cheered, while enemies will realize times have changed. When next the Iranians consider swarming around an American ship in the Gulf, they may think again.
“Of course this was an easy lift militarily: a few dozen missiles, one air base as a target. Yet our previous president refused to do it; this one acted. He did not let worries about the possible Russian reaction scare him off. He understood that this would not end the war in Syria, but he did it anyway. He was willing to act alone, without demanding a UN Security Council meeting or congressional vote.”[2]
Abrams has just taken the Zionist cat out of the bag here.
What he is implicitly saying is that the Trump administration is Israel’s puppet—at least when it comes to foreign policy. Trump is a phony precisely because he told his supporters that he was going to take America out of perpetual wars in the Middle East, and now he is doing the exact opposite. Last year, Trump once tweeted that Obama needed to use caution when it came to attacking Syria. He wasn’t kidding:
“The President must get Congressional approval before attacking Syria-big mistake if he does not! What I am saying is stay out of Syria. If Obama attacks Syria and innocent civilians are hurt and killed, he and the U.S. will look very bad!”
There is more—and the capitalizations are all his:
Trump continued to tweet:
“President Obama, do not attack Syria. There is no upside and tremendous downside. Save your ‘powder’ for another (and more important) day! Why do we keep broadcasting when we are going to attack Syria.
“Why can’t we just be quiet and, if we attack at all, catch them by surprise? No, dopey, I would not go into Syria, but if I did it would be by surprise and not blurted all over the media like fools. If we are going to continue to be stupid and go into Syria (watch Russia), as they say in the movies, SHOOT FIRST AND TALK LATER!”[3]
Who is being stupid now?
Trump is obviously acting like a fool and a complete idiot who hasn’t realized that his previous statements have been recorded.[4] As Gordon Duff has recently pointed out, “there is no history of Syria using chemical weapons against its own people, never happened.” And using colossal lies and blatant fabrications to attack Syria, Trump has just fallen into the able hands of the Israeli regime, which vowed to remove the Assad government from power in the first place.
“Yisrael Katz, Israel’s intelligence minister and a member of the Cabinet’s defense forum, said in a Friday interview that US defense officials ‘updated Israel in real time’ about the strike. Israel was a vocal proponent for military action in response to the alleged gas attack in province on Tuesday.”
I am inclined to believe (though I do not have evidence to support this) that Trump has observed the essentially diabolical power of Israeli Lobby and the Neocon power in Washington and that it is too strong for him, and therefore he cave in to the Neocons’ perpetual wars.
As I said in a previous article, Trump is just another Woodrow Wilson, who knew what to do when it came to foreign policy but had to surrender to the Powers That Be. Wilson lamented:
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something.
“They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”[5]
Wilson, like Bush and even Obama after him, was obviously being used like a puppet in an ideological experiment. And here Wilson perceived that the oligarchs always end up ruling the majority. So, who was ruling Wilson? Who was he working for?
Wilson was basically working for Paul Warburg and Jacob Schiff. Schiff in particular always looked for fresh blood and always wanted to ignite wars. He was wealthiest Jewish banker in the world at the time and hated the Tsarist government. He called Russia “the enemy of all mankind,”[6] and even financed plots against them.
Schiff “was hostile to Russia until 1917. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, Schiff ‘belonged to the most important creditors of both his own and many foreign governments, part of which was the 200 million dollars which he lent to Japan during the Russo-Japanese war in 1904-5.’”
Schiff also financially supported both Trotsky and Lenin and subversive movements in Russia. As G. Edward Griffin documents in his book The Creature from Jekyll Island:
“The Bolshevik Revolution actually was financed by wealthy financiers in London and New York. Lenin and Trotsky were on the closest of terms with these moneyed interests both before and after the Revolution….
“One of the greatest myths of contemporary history is that the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was a popular uprising of the downtrodden masses against the hated ruling class of the Tsars. However, the planning, the leadership and especially the financing came entirely from outside Russia, mostly from financiers in Germany, Britain and the United States…
“Jacob Schiff was head of the New York investment firm Kuhn, Loeb and Co. He was one of the principal backers of the Bolshevik revolution and personally financed Trotsky’s trip from New York to Russia. He was a major contributor to Woodrow Wilson’s presidential campaign and an advocate for passage of the Federal Reserve Act.”
As the saying goes, those who don’t know the past are doomed to repeat it.
And Trump is just repeating history by deliberately conniving with the Israeli regime and the Neocons in America.
His so-called “America First” was just a pipe dream.
And if Trump is willing to dump those who have voted for him within the first three months of his candidacy,[9] what will happen within a year? Will he continue to kill Israel’s enemies in the Middle East? Will he help Israel create World War III?
