If you know the Hansel and Gretel fairy-tale you'll know that as the two children are led into the woods by their parents who plan to abandon them, the children drop breadcrumbs along the path as a means of finding their way out again. As it turns out the crumbs get eaten by birds so they get lost and end up at the witch's house. Yet I believe the crumbs served an important purpose. The act of leaving them behind gave Hansel and Gretel the courage to go on. And so it is in this spirit that I write these blog entries. These are my breadcrumbs.
But I'm not going into the woods. To borrow from another fairy-tale -- Alice in Wonderland -- I'm going down the rabbit hole. I have one foot in now and the further in I go the more I see that leads me further and further in.
It all began with a single event, albeit a cataclysmic one. The attack on the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001. Almost from the very moment I witnessed that event I knew something wasn't right. I spoke to friends about it at dinner parties and kept saying I felt the George W. Bush government was complicit somehow, though I didn't know how or why. It was just a very strong gut feeling. My friends thought I was a little crazy and politely changed the subject.
That was 12 years ago and perhaps it should just be a faded memory for me now like it seems to be for so many other people. But it isn't. Instead, I continue to feel compelled to do research and to watch videos of the buildings burning, people jumping, and then all three buildings sliding straight down into the ground. When I watch these things I get enraged all over again. It's like a wound that won't heal. I didn't know anyone who got killed that day. So why should I care?
I am not a political animal by nature. I am a writer, an artist and a musician. I have survived the usual litany of challenges faced by many white middle-class North American females born in the early 1950s: the insular life of a white-washed suburb, an oppressive male-dominated culture, a half-baked Christian education, a dysfunctional family, women's liberation, early marriage and motherhood. It took me years of mis-steps, therapy and self-examination to extricate myself from the low self-esteem that constantly blocked my efforts at self-realization. Now, at the brink of 60, I find I am sufficiently well-off to consider my life a success. I am not poor, disenfranchised or suffering from any physical or mental illness. There is absolutely no reason for me to join a bunch of Conspiracy Theorists in an unpopular movement to have the official 9/11 story re-examined. And yet, that is where I find myself today.
If you are reading this blog then I suggest you begin by viewing the video made by an organization called Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth. You can use this link to visit their website:
www.ae911truth.org
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Saturday, December 14, 2013
First stop on the way: The "Thrive Movement"
I have a girlfriend who's in her mid-60s. She was born in the U.S. and lived there for a good part of her life before immigrating to Canada. She's a kick-ass artist with a wicked sense of humour who loves beautiful things and knows bullshit when she smells it. I adore her so much I even named a major character in my novel ("Weaverworld: Grimsnipe's Revenge") after her.
So we were having coffee the other day and I was telling her how my suspicions about the official 9/11 story are born out by the Artists and Engineers for 9/11 Truth group. She then told me about a movie she had recently viewed called "Thrive: What Will It Take?". She sent me the link and when I got a chance (it's around 2 hours long) I watched it.
This movie is a synthesis of several different ideas. Some of them make a lot of sense and others not so much. But the prevailing message is that the world is ruled by three families: the Rothchilds, the Rockefellers and the Morgans. These three families are, as they say, richer than God. There is an implication that these families are the Illuminati or Elite Freemasons who together are dictating what actually goes on in this world.
According to the film-makers, what is actually going on in this world has nothing to do with what you and I think is going on. That's because the world as we know it (our current paradigm) is organized like a pyramid scheme. Only the top knows what's going on in all the levels below it because it is creating the agenda. The bottom (which is where the rest of us reside), are the drones carrying out that agenda, without any real knowledge of what it is. The agenda is, in fact, to make more money for the guys at the top in order to ensure they remain forever at the top and we remain forever at the bottom. I don't think anyone can deny that this part is true and that the gap is widening all the time.
This film was created by Foster Gamble who is the grandson of the Gamble of the Proctor and Gamble empire. He claims to have gone his own way, though he doesn't say he renounced his legacy in order to spend his time and money busting the rich. I don't know what I think of him. He and his wife (who produced the film) seem like nice people. She talks about the fact that non-patentable natural cures for dread diseases like cancer are being quashed in order to protect the big pharmaceutical companies. This I believe, by the way.
An important component of the film is the idea that everything on earth is based on an energy regenerating system called a torus. An example is the magnetic field that encircles the earth, with the energy going out at the top, coming down around the sides and coming back in at the bottom. Foster Gamble contends that 'free energy' systems with this geometry have been experimented with in the past and each time they rear their heads they are quashed by those keen to protect their oil fortunes. I don't find this the least bit hard to believe. After all, there was an electric car on the market in California decades ago that got quashed.
There's a lot of other stuff in this movie. Watch it and see what you think. If you're like me, you'll want to investigate their claims further on your own. I think the most important thing to do when you're in the Rabbit Hole is to keep a firm grip on your intuition. Make that your compass.
Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEV5AFFcZ-s
So we were having coffee the other day and I was telling her how my suspicions about the official 9/11 story are born out by the Artists and Engineers for 9/11 Truth group. She then told me about a movie she had recently viewed called "Thrive: What Will It Take?". She sent me the link and when I got a chance (it's around 2 hours long) I watched it.
This movie is a synthesis of several different ideas. Some of them make a lot of sense and others not so much. But the prevailing message is that the world is ruled by three families: the Rothchilds, the Rockefellers and the Morgans. These three families are, as they say, richer than God. There is an implication that these families are the Illuminati or Elite Freemasons who together are dictating what actually goes on in this world.
According to the film-makers, what is actually going on in this world has nothing to do with what you and I think is going on. That's because the world as we know it (our current paradigm) is organized like a pyramid scheme. Only the top knows what's going on in all the levels below it because it is creating the agenda. The bottom (which is where the rest of us reside), are the drones carrying out that agenda, without any real knowledge of what it is. The agenda is, in fact, to make more money for the guys at the top in order to ensure they remain forever at the top and we remain forever at the bottom. I don't think anyone can deny that this part is true and that the gap is widening all the time.
This film was created by Foster Gamble who is the grandson of the Gamble of the Proctor and Gamble empire. He claims to have gone his own way, though he doesn't say he renounced his legacy in order to spend his time and money busting the rich. I don't know what I think of him. He and his wife (who produced the film) seem like nice people. She talks about the fact that non-patentable natural cures for dread diseases like cancer are being quashed in order to protect the big pharmaceutical companies. This I believe, by the way.
An important component of the film is the idea that everything on earth is based on an energy regenerating system called a torus. An example is the magnetic field that encircles the earth, with the energy going out at the top, coming down around the sides and coming back in at the bottom. Foster Gamble contends that 'free energy' systems with this geometry have been experimented with in the past and each time they rear their heads they are quashed by those keen to protect their oil fortunes. I don't find this the least bit hard to believe. After all, there was an electric car on the market in California decades ago that got quashed.
There's a lot of other stuff in this movie. Watch it and see what you think. If you're like me, you'll want to investigate their claims further on your own. I think the most important thing to do when you're in the Rabbit Hole is to keep a firm grip on your intuition. Make that your compass.
Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEV5AFFcZ-s
Friday, December 13, 2013
Second Stop: The Rabbit Leads the Way
The rabbit has a sense of urgency. He's always looking at his watch, telling me there's no time to lose. I feel that too. But in order to proceed I need to know where I AM. So let's start here:
1. ECONOMY: There seems to be something dreadfully wrong with the U.S. economy. The U.S. is one of the richest countries in the world, with a mostly literate population and plentiful natural resources. Yet the middle class is losing ground while the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.
Why is the economy on the brink of collapse? Is it possible that it is (and has been) mis-managed? I ask this because I believe it has implications for Canada. Though we are separated by a border, have a Prime Minister and a parliamentary system, we are really 'owned' by the U.S. I mean this in the sense that a schoolyard bully demands your lunch money in payment for his protection services. He demands your loyalty and if you don't give it there could be consequences.
So my question is: Who owns the banks in the U.S. and Canada? What is the role of the Federal Reserve in our current situation? Is the Bank of Canada vulnerable?
2. WAR: We (including Canada) are still fighting wars in foreign countries. Even if we are only involved in so-called 'peaceful' activities, we are on someone else's soil and as often as not we have not been invited there. Our citizens are trained to fight in these wars and are being killed, maimed and traumatized in large numbers.
So my questions are: Who profits from war? Is what we are being told about 'our enemies' the truth? Or are there other ways of looking at these interventions? And why do our young people continue to volunteer to fight wars, be it for 'our' side or theirs? Who really wins?
3. ENVIRONMENT: Despite the fact that we are witnessing (with our own eyes) the destruction of the planet, very little is being done to stop it.
Everyone I know loves animals and thinks they're worth saving. Everyone I know thinks it's a good idea to preserve forests so the planet can breathe. Everyone I know thinks it's a good idea to keep the oceans clean and not fill them with floating oil slicks and garbage. Everyone I know thinks sucking oil out of the planet for short-term gain is a bad idea. Everyone I know is aware that global warming, if left unchecked will lead to disasters that will kill millions of people. And yet, this behaviour goes on and on and on.
So my question is: Who profits from exploiting the environment?
4. EDUCATION and UNEMPLOYMENT: While we should be the MOST literate people in the world considering the fact that most of us have enough to eat and a place to sleep, we are not. More kids are being crammed into factory-type institutions, bullying is rampant, cut-backs in education mean that curriculum is bare-bones and boring for most kids and teacher satisfaction is low. One gets the feeling that if education weren't compulsory no kid would willingly waste his or her time there. More and more lucky kids are being home-schooled, but I understand that that's not a great option either as it doesn't prepare a kid for being out in the world and dealing with the challenges posed by other human beings.
Kids who aren't interested in math or science have always suffered, myself among them. In my generation the education system was grooming kids for jobs in the technology sector. So those of us who were better at writing, art and music were considered artsy losers not to be taken seriously. This attitude eroded my self-esteem. For years I actually believed I was an idiot at math because I kept failing it in high school. Then in my late 30s I enrolled in a distance-education course in high-school math and aced it. In university one of my favourite subjects was philosophy. I especially enjoyed and excelled at Logic, which has a kind of mathematical flavour to it. So there was nothing wrong with me after all. It was the educational system that failed, not me.
So my question is: Why is public education still failing?
5. MEDIA and ADVERTISING: On the news just yesterday I saw that the U.S. National Debt is so high (well into the trillions and steadily rising) that the debt clock has to be expanded to accomodate the astronomical size of the number. Meanwhile TV commercials are still hawking luxury cars, flat screen TVs, coffee we can make at home using little pre-packaged cups, and a host of other products we don't need. This would lead some people to believe that there's nothing to worry about.
So my questions are: Who owns the media, and what are the roles of media and advertising in manipulating human behaviour and maintaining the status quo?
IN SUMMARY: There are probably many other issues that could be added to this list, but these are the ones that seem most urgent to me. So as I proceed down the rabbit hole I am taking these questions and looking for answers to them. I am not doing this to hurt or blame anyone in particular. Though the focus of my research centres on the U.S. powers-that-be, I want it on record that I think the American people are amazing in their vitality, ingenuity and potential to do good for this world. I am especially in awe of the talents of their artists, writers, musicians and movie-makers, many of whom are probing these same questions every day in their own ways.
What I want is to explore an alternative world paradigm by looking at many different sources of information, not just the mainstream news. The Internet offers that option (at least for the moment) but it may not always be so. There's that sense of urgency again!
I get the feeling I have been living in a fog of misinformation, a fog that is slightly drugged so it makes me sleepy and that smells nice so I find it pleasurable. But what happened on 9/11 shocked me out of my sleep for a split second and I thought I saw "the man behind the curtain". This is a Wizard of Oz reference, by the way. Interestingly, there is a whole theory of the economy based on this story, but I'm getting ahead of myself. If you are still reading this, then watch this video of George Carlin's summary of the situation. (Disclaimer: This video contains some swear words. If you can't take the heat then you should get out of the kitchen now.) http://youtu.be/FeLLR3LWtv4
1. ECONOMY: There seems to be something dreadfully wrong with the U.S. economy. The U.S. is one of the richest countries in the world, with a mostly literate population and plentiful natural resources. Yet the middle class is losing ground while the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.
Why is the economy on the brink of collapse? Is it possible that it is (and has been) mis-managed? I ask this because I believe it has implications for Canada. Though we are separated by a border, have a Prime Minister and a parliamentary system, we are really 'owned' by the U.S. I mean this in the sense that a schoolyard bully demands your lunch money in payment for his protection services. He demands your loyalty and if you don't give it there could be consequences.
So my question is: Who owns the banks in the U.S. and Canada? What is the role of the Federal Reserve in our current situation? Is the Bank of Canada vulnerable?
2. WAR: We (including Canada) are still fighting wars in foreign countries. Even if we are only involved in so-called 'peaceful' activities, we are on someone else's soil and as often as not we have not been invited there. Our citizens are trained to fight in these wars and are being killed, maimed and traumatized in large numbers.
So my questions are: Who profits from war? Is what we are being told about 'our enemies' the truth? Or are there other ways of looking at these interventions? And why do our young people continue to volunteer to fight wars, be it for 'our' side or theirs? Who really wins?
3. ENVIRONMENT: Despite the fact that we are witnessing (with our own eyes) the destruction of the planet, very little is being done to stop it.
Everyone I know loves animals and thinks they're worth saving. Everyone I know thinks it's a good idea to preserve forests so the planet can breathe. Everyone I know thinks it's a good idea to keep the oceans clean and not fill them with floating oil slicks and garbage. Everyone I know thinks sucking oil out of the planet for short-term gain is a bad idea. Everyone I know is aware that global warming, if left unchecked will lead to disasters that will kill millions of people. And yet, this behaviour goes on and on and on.
So my question is: Who profits from exploiting the environment?
4. EDUCATION and UNEMPLOYMENT: While we should be the MOST literate people in the world considering the fact that most of us have enough to eat and a place to sleep, we are not. More kids are being crammed into factory-type institutions, bullying is rampant, cut-backs in education mean that curriculum is bare-bones and boring for most kids and teacher satisfaction is low. One gets the feeling that if education weren't compulsory no kid would willingly waste his or her time there. More and more lucky kids are being home-schooled, but I understand that that's not a great option either as it doesn't prepare a kid for being out in the world and dealing with the challenges posed by other human beings.
Kids who aren't interested in math or science have always suffered, myself among them. In my generation the education system was grooming kids for jobs in the technology sector. So those of us who were better at writing, art and music were considered artsy losers not to be taken seriously. This attitude eroded my self-esteem. For years I actually believed I was an idiot at math because I kept failing it in high school. Then in my late 30s I enrolled in a distance-education course in high-school math and aced it. In university one of my favourite subjects was philosophy. I especially enjoyed and excelled at Logic, which has a kind of mathematical flavour to it. So there was nothing wrong with me after all. It was the educational system that failed, not me.
So my question is: Why is public education still failing?
5. MEDIA and ADVERTISING: On the news just yesterday I saw that the U.S. National Debt is so high (well into the trillions and steadily rising) that the debt clock has to be expanded to accomodate the astronomical size of the number. Meanwhile TV commercials are still hawking luxury cars, flat screen TVs, coffee we can make at home using little pre-packaged cups, and a host of other products we don't need. This would lead some people to believe that there's nothing to worry about.
So my questions are: Who owns the media, and what are the roles of media and advertising in manipulating human behaviour and maintaining the status quo?
IN SUMMARY: There are probably many other issues that could be added to this list, but these are the ones that seem most urgent to me. So as I proceed down the rabbit hole I am taking these questions and looking for answers to them. I am not doing this to hurt or blame anyone in particular. Though the focus of my research centres on the U.S. powers-that-be, I want it on record that I think the American people are amazing in their vitality, ingenuity and potential to do good for this world. I am especially in awe of the talents of their artists, writers, musicians and movie-makers, many of whom are probing these same questions every day in their own ways.
What I want is to explore an alternative world paradigm by looking at many different sources of information, not just the mainstream news. The Internet offers that option (at least for the moment) but it may not always be so. There's that sense of urgency again!
I get the feeling I have been living in a fog of misinformation, a fog that is slightly drugged so it makes me sleepy and that smells nice so I find it pleasurable. But what happened on 9/11 shocked me out of my sleep for a split second and I thought I saw "the man behind the curtain". This is a Wizard of Oz reference, by the way. Interestingly, there is a whole theory of the economy based on this story, but I'm getting ahead of myself. If you are still reading this, then watch this video of George Carlin's summary of the situation. (Disclaimer: This video contains some swear words. If you can't take the heat then you should get out of the kitchen now.) http://youtu.be/FeLLR3LWtv4
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