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Originally posted by Skjord
I guess just enjoy the ride while it lasts? Heh, how incredibly depressing all this crap is. It's like watching a train slowly crash and there's nothing you can do.
It really makes you wonder if America's revolution was planned in advance and this country was set up to be the very thing we have today, Rome 2.0
Dick's hypothesis that history had been stopped in the 1st century AD., and that "the Empire never ended". He saw Rome as the pinnacle of materialism and despotism, which, after forcing the Gnostics underground, had kept the population of Earth enslaved to worldly possessions. Dick believed that VALIS had communicated with him, and anonymous others, to induce the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon, whom Dick believed to be the current Emperor of Rome incarnate.
Originally posted by Octave
My father was a simple man who worked as a welder in a factory, just trying to raise his family. He loved Muhammad Ali and watching National Geographic on TV and he was a wise man.
Originally posted by The GUT::
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You do the Math
Paul Waldman lays out a list of significant U.S. military actions over the past 50 years, and it adds up to 15 separate episodes, ranging from full-scale wars (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan) to smaller incursions (Grenada, Haiti, Panama). For those of you who are math challenged, this means we've launched a significant overseas assault every 40 months since 1963.
Unfortunately, most folks who seek public office are of a certain personality type that breeds a certain hypocrisy between private and public actions... the MSM's frantic pursuit of lurid, easy stories helps nothing, either.
I have long wavered between the picture painted by the mainstream news sources and wondering if there were deep, darker secrets because of the obvious strain on our leaders as they lead. I know there are things that remain secret that are scary but a more reasonable part of me suggests it can't be so bad or removed from the main narrative. Could it? (The UFO "situation" creeps to mind)
But would every single blackmail victim remain silent? One would think the victim would appeal to the masses, spilling all about a black government that has subverted our rule and let their predilection for whipping underage prostitutes be known... damn the torpedoes.
Of course we are. Is that not what the total surveillance by the NSA and what Edward Snowden leaked, really means? We are clueless, and in many cases, happy to be so, bc we can do nothing about it but be subverted and distracted by our shiny new Apple and smartphone, and otherwise, toys...... What else can anyone do, when confronted with a veil so thick there is no penetration and to try to do so spells out total disenfranchisement from the system we "need" to survive, at least, we think so.....and having read about those who have suffered that, I tend to believe and respect that point of view.....
So it's either close to what we are told (close but definitely not point for point) or so far removed that black is white and we informed citizens are Trumans in our own show and completely clueless.
The latter view is the road to madness and all signs point that it isn't that bad... however, time will tell if the machinations at the top would stun Machiavelli and make Phillip Dick seem sane.
There is the sinking feeling that with a black apparatus so vast, trusting a periodical four year oversight by strangers would be... clunky. The people involved are only sure of their own prowess and might be of the opinion that our country would fall should someone else take the helm.
When our country was formed such tech was not imagined or taken into consideration. A steady crew of people running things behind the scenes is to be expected, and with such power and erosion of "da Constuushion" a small compartmentalized "real government" isn't far fetched... at all. Yup, military industrial complex... we love ya... really...
Originally posted by Baddogma
First off, apologies to any unanswered posts... I work from my home and "real life" barges in all too often, taking my attention away from the truly important matters... an obvious control mechanism built into our "system" btw... so I hope any silence doesn't translate to lack of immense respect for the grey matter punching keys at your keyboard.
I tend to think that it is very possible that "things" are just as you suggest, but don't know... so my nature is to remain as uncertain as the zombie cat in that famous box. The deep end of conspiracy theory doesn't have a bottom and the edges of the pool are slippery and sloped ... to use a terrible and trite metaphor.
But where are these whistle-blowers? I have heard a zillion, but not in regards to this specific subject .... at least I can't remember off hand... heh, aside from a president or two. Shadow govs are a fact and pockets of true believers have acted and been sort-of caught before (Reagan/North) but as far as this specific instance of NSA using intel to leverage policy... though it makes sense, I personally can't recall credible testimony and await correction in 3-2-1...
Edit...man you think and type fast... ok reading... okay, and again it goes to verifiable and probable... I'm not one to draw out Occam's cutting edge as a first resort and with what I have experienced in my life, it's a wonder I can keep a foot in the mainstream at all, but I have to have my snout rubbed in the excrement of this cabal to truly believe there are folks this precise and removed from human pursuits.
And again, if there are folks working toward a more cohesive human family, I can't automatically believe it's evil because that level of dedication usually goes with benevolence...
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reply to post by tetra50
But where are these whistle-blowers? I have heard a zillion, but not in regards to this specific subject .... at least I can't remember off hand... heh, aside from a president or two. Shadow govs are a fact and pockets of true believers have acted and been sort-of caught before (Reagan/North) but as far as this specific instance of NSA using intel to leverage policy... though it makes sense, I personally can't recall credible testimony and await correction in 3-2-1...