The end of your relevance is nigh!

When we start bombing Iran it will be official that we are now living in an authoritarian system.

Prior to this it was debatable whether or not this was indeed the case. When we started bombing Iraq roughly half of America supported the idea. That number fluctuated from day to day, but the case could be made that a majority of Americans, however misinformed they were, at least extended paltry support to the bombing campaign and the soldiers involved.

Now, after four years and with 700,000 Iraqis dead due to the war, the occupation and its effects, virtually nobody supports the war. Most Americans realize they were blatantly lied to about the perceived need for the war. Alongside the support for the war, support for the President has nose dived to a record low, where it is likely to stay barring some superhuman feat on his behalf.

Nonetheless, we're about to start bombing another country, according to, amongst others, a Russian journalist with inside sources.

Once the million-dollar bombs start falling, the Americans who support neither the war on terror nor the president can recognize one thing. You don't matter. Even though you are the majority, even though you've openly expressed your dislike of the nation's current trajectory in your voting last fall, in your letters to the editor, in your blogs and in chat rooms, none of that matters. Iran will be bombed anyway. And it will be bombed in your name.

Think for a minute what this means. It means that politically (politics being the distribution of resources and power) you now have no control, no hand in, your fate.

Also recognize that you are not alone.

Congress and the Senate are also irrelevant. They've penned and passed resolutions expressing their dislike for the handling of the war and have set a timetable for withdrawal of the occupying forces of Iraq. All to no avail. For what the Democrat-controlled legislature has accomplished in reeling in the illegal and fraudulant war on terror it might as well be disbanded, which is to say that, like you, it is irrelevant.

In the same basket and on the same highway is the Establishment Media, henceforth EM. The EM failed to sufficiently investigate the rigged 2000 election. It failed to sufficiently investigate 9/11 to keep us out of a “war that won’t end in our lifetime.” Similarly it failed to properly investigate the junta’s treasonous, treacherous and outright false assertions about Iraq so that we might avoid a “long, hard (and illegal) slog” there. And it failed to investigate the rigged 2004 election. Now it is failing to properly investigate the buildup to our soon-to-be illegal bombing of Iran, reported earlier this week to be slated for the end of next week.

As the fifth estate, the EM has recently proven itself to be worse than a dismal failure. In many cases it has become an echo chamber for the state and has gone from laying down on the job to doing an outright disservice to the public for which it was supposed to be a watch dog. This is to say that it, like you and your legislative government, has been either tamed or written off, meaning that it is effectively irrelevant as a political force, again politics being, instead of a horse race between an elephant and a donkey, the mostly peaceful distribution of resources and power.

Politically, there is now only one relevant force in America. It is the executive branch, which now effectively enjoys absolute authoritarian control. Of course the executive branch, meaning the President and his administration, is populated mostly by figureheads, puppets and technocrats that serve strictly illuminated elite world bankers at the Fed and elsewhere.

So when the bombs fall on Tehran, mark your calendar. A lot will be happening that day. We could be, amongst other things, killing thousands upon thousands of innocent Iranians, women and children. On that day we might exchange some nukes with Russia, China or France. We will likely also be taking a developing nation with a growing middle class and effectively driving it back to the Stone Age.

All of this will have been done, superficially at least, in your name. And herein resides the irony. Because on that day we will have also entered an era where the executive branch now rules with open absolute authoritarian control. All other checks and balances will have been effectively rendered irrelevant, including you.

Welcome to the New World Order.

France is blackmailing our shadow government

The wait continues.

Of course there's nothing suspicious about France's apparent inability to, in the course of two days, find a server that can handle heavy traffic to file 50 years worth of secret government UFO research files, supposedly including photos and movies. (Washington Post Article, Overwhelmed official French government UFO site)

Speaking of secrecy, we're approaching a noteworthy mile marker here in the land of the consumer and the home of the employee. Three major things happened in quick succession almost exactly 60 years ago.

It all began with a documented UFO siting in Washington state. A fisherman, who turns out was working for a man who would go on to be a CIA agent who Jim Garrison determined was connected to the JFK assassination conspiracy, saw and photographed a couple of UFOs as they swooped over his boat. One blew up and he gnabbed some of the debris, which was later taken from him by military intelligence personnel who would mysteriously die in a plane crash with the wreckage aboard days later. The photos were confiscated by a man in black and that was mostly the end of it, except, of course, for the frenzy of professional skeptics who henceforth worked rigorously to muddy the water on this incident.

Incident number two was the UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. Scores of people witnessed the crash, the aftermath and the subsequent cover-up. Many of these people were either in law enforcement or in the military. Most were threatened into silence and the alien ship and its occupants, described as small men with big heads and eyes, leathery, reptilian skin, and otherwise were physiologically like insects of this world, were spirited away to somewhere likely under tight control by the military.

Likely as a result of these two incidents, we have our third supremely noteworthy event of 1947: The passage of legislation that created the secret agencies of the security state. To clarify, in 1947 we had two incredibly close encounters with beings from another world. The government confiscated everything having anything to do with these events, silenced eyewitnesses and then created the CIA, NSA and other secret organizations that could do whatever they wanted without public disclosure or government oversight. Henceforth, any serious historian has had to dig to find the dried droppings of these secretive organizations and agencies and try to reconstitute those droppings to arrive at any sort of coherent picture that conveys the reality of the machinations of true power and the reality of the human condition.

Since then, international and domestic politics, or the distribution of power and resources, more than ever before, has been defined by espionage, clandestine and black ops. This reality has been glossed over by a shiny thick veneer created by the corporate media, which gives us partisan politics and Disney History.

Finally it appears these machinations of power are backfiring and breaking down, thanks likely to Peak Oil.

Many major players within the heights of government have rattled off extensively about what Peak Oil will bring us. They say things like to contend with Peak Oil, which happened in 2005 when Saudi Arabia's Ghawar gave up the ghost, the true power brokers of the planet, the illuminated world bankers at the Fed and elsewhere, will implode the economy. There is no other option.

Now it is no secret that your most basic factory farming necessities are petrochemical-based. Fertilizer, insecticide and basic irrigation infrastructure are all made from, amongst other things, petrochemicals. Have no doubt that with however-many-billion of us are out there to feed, large-scale farms are mandatory. And when those farms run out of insecticide, fertilizer and replacement parts for their irrigation systems, we're going to run out of food. Ergo, Peak Oil is a food issue as much as it is a transportation issue.

Knowing what Peak Oil meant, the U.S. played its sole card, military supremacy, and cornered the global oil market when it took Iraq. Thus, if the military can continue to hold Iraq, Americans, already mostly obese and amongst the dumbest of the Western world, will be the last to starve.

Therefore, for France and the rest of the world, Peak Oil is now also a justice issue.

Unfortunately, if you are France and you are trying to figure out how you are going to feed your population, you realize you only have so many cards you can play.

You can't play the war card. Nobody can stand up to the U.S. military, take it on head-on and defeat it. That's a fact.

You can't play the export-economics card because as soon as you do and knock, China will lay down its hand.

Nope, France, it would seem, has to play the only card it has, a card it has been keeping up its sleeve until the right moment, which is now, the immediate post-Peak Oil era.

A cursory review of recent history reveals that France has openly toyed with the idea of joining Hugo Chavez's international investigation into 9/11, which will likely reveal the truth, that 9/11 was an inside job. Apparently France, like so many countries, warned our benevolent protectors in D.C. about the supposed attacks long before they happened. What has yet to be exposed is the specificity of the warnings and the extent to which the French intelligence establishment was aware of what really happened on 9/11. Now, it is safe to say, the French elites are, in the least, in a position to blackmail the Anglo/American elites at the Fed and elsewhere with the truth about 9/11.

Turns out, they can also blackmail the U.S. government with the threat to release a half-century's worth of secret government UFO research.

That threat is pretty potent. To say the least, there is a reason why Wackenhut soldiers are authorized to use lethal force in keeping law-abiding Americans out of Area 51, where the military tests its new toys and from where untold scores of UFOs reportedly fly quite regularly.

Bob Lazar, a former physicist with Los Alamos National Labs who worked at "Dreamland," an extension of Area 51, has given us a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg with his tales of his work on the veritable fleet of alien space vessels in the possession of the military. Lazar has said that the military, through contact with certain aliens, was privy to insight into the fact that humans are the end result of a 16-phase genetic modification regime and that we are basically, in the translated terms of the aliens, "containers." One might presume that we are "containers" for what we call our souls. The aliens said they gave us religion to keep us from destroying our "containers." Unfortunately for professional skeptics Lazar passed a series of lie-detector tests and his credentials are legit.

And unfortunately for the U.S. government, France and other countries have the ability to breathe some life into the skeletons in the closets of our 60-year-old secret security and intelligence agencies. The question now becomes, what will the U.S. government pay to keep the doors to those closets hermetically sealed.

This is not to say that the French government hasn't been fully engaged in illegal clandestine ops over the last half century. History reveals that quite the opposite is true. But with Peak Oil waiting in the wings, perhaps the French elites have decided that they have little to lose and quite a bit to gain through ending governmental secrecy worldwide. The U.S. government on the other hand depends on secrecy to remain afloat.

So, while behind the scenes deals are made to keep the lid on the genie bottle, real historians must wait, and wait, and wait.

Eating meat and the grand pecking order

Forest’s memory went back to the last time he had seen his older brother, Caleb. He had been in the first grade; it was late in the afternoon of a weekday in mid May. He could smell the honeysuckle in the air. Forest was crouched Indian style in the driveway with a barbeque lighter in his right hand. Passing in a crooked undulating stream in front of him, an army of ants crept along parallel to a crack in the cement. Forest would lean forward and, with the lighters flame turned up to maximum capacity, incinerate a hole in the stream. The ant bodies would curl up instantly and the survivors would flee at an accelerated pace. The stream behind where the flamethrower had laid waste to their order would adjust its course and eventually catch up with the rest of the horde. At this point, Forest would hit them again, bringing about flaming death as if he were God. He felt omnipotent over the ants and their meaningless plight and the ants, moving about robotically with little or no apparent reasoning to back their actions seemed too stupid to figure out what was happening and change their course.

Caleb, tall and with eyes that radiated intelligence, emerged from the garage. He had confiscated two full-blooded bulldog puppies, obviously somebody’s recently acquired pets, which had been randomly passing through his yard one afternoon. He had them locked up in the garage until he could sell them. He was careful in shutting the door not to smash little paws. Caleb strode forward slowly in heavy boots, exhaling cigarette smoke with every step towards where Forest was seated. Forest was about to incinerate another point in the trail when Caleb, realizing exactly what Forest was doing, reached forward and grabbed Forest’s wrist.

“What are you doing? Don’t kill. Bugs have their place. The world, nature, is comprised of a delicate balance, a series of compromises. Who are you to offset this balance? Let the ants be ants. You would not want this type of undeserved interference and destruction in your life if you were to have to at some point play a role similar to that of the ants you are killing.” Caleb said this mechanically without emotion. This was a matter of fact to him. “Do you receive joy in killing?” Caleb asked with a condescending tone.

“Do you enjoy stealing?” Forest retorted haughtily.

Caleb flicked his cigarette away forcefully. “Look me in the eyes, Forest. Look me in the eyes. Those dogs are full-blooded animals. Someone had so much money that they could afford to be that selective. There are thousands of pets destroyed daily in shelters. Thousands, Forest. Pets that would love homes, pets that are free. Are those two animals in that garage that much better than the thousands of pets that are destroyed daily? For the price of those two dogs, you could save the lives of fifty or sixty other non full-blooded animals. The people who bought those dogs felt that they were too good, that their perfectly miserable flaming existences were absolutely too precious to have anything other than the most expensive of possessions. Life is not a possession. We, you and I, are not full blooded, Forest.” Caleb released Forest’s wrist. Forest was rattled and looked shamefully down at the black and red patches of incinerated ants on the concrete. “Give me the lighter,” Caleb said.

--taken from the unpublished novel "Hanging Mate," (2002) by George Hayduke

Remember the first time you ate meat?

Probably not. It was fed to you when you were so small you likely didn't know what it was you were eating and eating was something you at times had to be told to do. It might even be the case that your first bites of meat were put into your mouth by your mother, who had to tell you to open your mouth, to close it, to chew and to swallow if you didn't want to be in trouble.

Later at some point certainly you asked why it was you were eating dead animal and chances are high that this question rose after you first saw an example, either in a photograph or in real life, of the beasties from which meat comes.

And we all know what the answer was. "Animals are lesser than humans. They are lower on the food chain. We are higher on the food chain. Therefore it is only natural that we eat meat." These may have not been the exact words used, but the idea that we are somehow superior to animals was most certainly conveyed.

At the basis of this explanation is an idea of a supposedly universally accepted pecking order. That pecking order transcends our mindset on our diets and enters almost every aspect of our daily lives. It is used to rationalize starvation, strife and disease in both faraway lands and at home. It is used to perpetuate oppression of workers, women and minorities. And it is a mindset without factual basis.

Anybody who has lived long enough to own multiple pets has lived long enough to watch some of them die and to replace them. Nobody will ever suggest that two cats have the same personality. In fact, many people will claim to "know" that each cat is different, both physiologically and psychologically, from every other cat. In other words, each cat is an individual in so many ways.

Going further, many people recognize what translates into human emotions in their pets. A dog wags its tail, smiles even and dances around when it is reunited with its owner after he or she has been away at work for the day, which by the way translates to seven dog days, no small span of time if you are a canine. Conversely, the tail goes between the legs and whimpers are emitted when a dog expresses what translates to the human emotion of sadness.

Based on our behaviors and the way we treat some animals, it would seem that it is universally "known" that dogs and cats have, to be anthropomorphic, "personalities" and identities.

Yet, strangely enough, we turn around and treat the animals whose body parts we consume as if they were living robots, void of individuality, who are to be managed and slaughtered and cooked to keep our bellies full. We rationalize raising these animals in the worst of conditions in factory farms because that is naturally what happens to beings ranked lower than us on the grand pecking order.

This, my friends, is a prime example of Orwellian "doublethink." In truth it is either one way or the other. Either animals are individuals, each with tell-tale traits and behaviors so similar to humans that many have a place in our heart of hearts, or they are robots, void of identity and worthy only of being turned into meat for consumption.

This doublethink is then applied to our fellow humans. We explain away homelessness, poverty, hunger and strife as something that afflicts lesser-humans, the ones who are naturally simply filling their deserved lowly roles in the pecking order. We say to ourselves the reason why ubercompetitor and money-cult priest Bill Gates has what he has is because he embodies qualities that put him higher on the grand pecking order and allow him to lead a life of incredible decadence while the Vietnamese child working 20-hour days in a sweat shop cranking out running shoes for export to America is in such a miserable predicament because that is where her place in the grand pecking order lands her.

Contrary to what some might believe, there is no universal pecking order based on competition. Evidences suggests that instead there a system of relations based mostly on cooperation. For the sake of brevity, we'll look at only one example of this system of relations.

Lions are carnivores, no doubt about it. Their various parts include sharp incisors, claws and a short digestive track built to quickly emit undigested meat before it goes bad within them. Lions also lead lives that often appear to be dominated by a struggle against starvation. They will go days on end without eating. When stalking prey, they take their time, no matter how hungry they are. They slowly inch up on the impala, every muscle poised for strike at any moment, yet the entire beast seemingly locked in a meditative mindset that allows them to arrive at the exact right instant and distance to make a successful kill. Their success rate varies. This sort of approach to feeding oneself implies great respect for that which eventually becomes food. Through its behavior, the lion, when it hunts the impala, expresses an awareness of the individuality of its prey. Also, it is universally recognized that lions typically make off with the weak, the sick and the old. Few lions are foolish enough to attempt to take down the mightiest and smartest of the impalas.

What this reflects is a degree of cooperation. The lion species weeds out the sickest, oldest and weakest of whatever populations it feeds on and fulfilling such a role comes at no small cost to the lion population: not infrequent starvation.

Similarly, human relations are much more given to cooperation than to competition. Were Bill Gates really worth the money he has, then certainly he could repair his own car without issue, feed himself, maintain his own property and teach his own kids. Of course this is anything but the case. Yet it is somehow within the communal conscious rationalized that he lives a life of endless opulence while the high school-educated mother of three works two jobs flipping burgers making pittance pay and leads a life dominated by the strife of the environs within which she is forced to live due to her incredibly low income.

Imagine for once what would happen to Bill Gates if all the restaurant and food service workers of the world, including his own private team of cooks and chefs, suddenly put down their spatulas and decided to never work again. Mr. Gates might not starve, but his life would become radically complicated almost immediately. And if at the same time all the mechanics, who also make a pittance pay in comparison to Mr. Gates, suddenly stopped working, then the plot would definitely thicken.

The point should now be obvious. Bill Gates is what he is not because of his own personal traits and characteristics alone, but because of a world of human cooperation that lends him the opportunity to achieve what he has achieved, if we are to call what he has done, becoming an all-out master of Machiavellian dominance in his field, an achievement.

Similarly the human species is not the lord of a planet of robots and resources to be consumed but a cooperating participant in the world ecosystem. Nonetheless, it is important to those who hope to perpetuate the myth of the grand pecking order that we continue to engage in dangerous doublethink about animals and our fellow humans. Until we break from this doublethink, war, strife, inequity and oppression will be the norm as it has been since the dawn of civilization. Start today to break from this pattern by giving up flesh foods.

Consume meat not at all or only on a limited basis. It may well change the way you see the world.

--George Hayduke

The rush to Baghdad was about time travel

Does man have a right know his own history?

The money-cult of corporate fundamentalists that have hijacked the world doesn’t think so and it conducted the Iraq wars in a manner that ensured some crucial historical factoids may never hit the marketplace of ideas.

Abandoning previously successful military strategy the U.S. armed forces basically ignored the majority of Iraq and hustled straight to Baghdad with one unspoken primary objective that manifested with the late April looting of the museum there. In what has been called an “inside job” by investigating U.S. military personnel, some 50,000 priceless artifacts, some dating back 7,000 years, were lifted from Iraq’s national museum.

Reports Jim Marrs in his latest book, The Terror Conspiracy, “In an interview published in the January/February issue of Archeology, Col. Bogdanos was asked what is still missing from the Iraqi National Museum. He replied ‘You have the public gallery from which originally 40 exhibits were taken. We recovered 11. Turning to the storage rooms, there were about 3,150 pieces taken from those, and that’s almost certainly by random indiscriminant looters. Of those, we’ve recovered 2,700. About 400 of these pieces remain missing. The final group is from the basement. The basement is what we’ve been calling the inside job. And I will say it forever like a mantra: it is inconceivable to me that the basement was breached and the items stolen without an intimate insider’s knowledge of the museum. From there about 10,000 pieces were taken. We’ve recovered 650, approximately.”

Many of these artifacts were from 2002 and 2003 digs spearheaded by French and German archeologists. They had reportedly unearthed goodies from the tomb of Gilgamesh, “the ancient Mesopotamian king who claimed to be two-thirds god and only one-third human.” Clay tablets in the tomb, more than 2,000-years-old, reportedly documented the king’s quest for immortality. Using hypermodern technology, archaeologists discovered the tomb in the middle of the Euphrates river. It was said to contain “astonishing” artifacts.

Reports Marrs, “Recent scientific studies into heretofore unknown monatomic (single atom) elements have linked these discoveries to ancient writings from Mesopotamia and Egypt. Some scientists claim such elements may hold the key to unlocking the secrets of anti-gravity, longevity, limitless free energy, faster than light propulstion systems, teleportation and even the possibility of inter-dimensional and time travel.”

Marrs holds that establishment press reports depict what clearly was a well-orchestrated and organized scheme to heist Gilgamesh’s goods.

“According to an Associated Press report, the thieves had keys to the museum and its vaults,” Marrs reports. “McGuire Gibson (of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and president of the American Association for Research in Baghdad) said what appeared to be random looting actually was a carefully planned theft. ‘It looks as if part of the theft was a very, very deliberate, planned action,’ he said. ‘They were able to obtain keys from somewhere for the vaults and were able to take out the very important, the very best material. I have a suspicion it was organized outside the country. In fact, I’m pretty sure it was.’”

Display cases were emptied without being broken and artifacts of such mass they each required a forklift to be moved were spirited away.

Marines were called in to thwart the looting while it was happening and reportedly made a superficial, cursory effort before being ordered to return to their primary assignment, protecting the Ministry of Oil.

Outraged that their warnings that such an event could transpire went unheeded, three members of the White House Cultural Property Advisory Committee promptly resigned.

The destruction wrought during the first Iraq war and the economic sanctions that followed it ensured that the museum was closed to the public throughout the decade between the wars. This means that the archaeologists involved in museum projects, such as the exploration of Gilgamesh’s tomb, effectively operated largely in secret.

The stolen artifacts may or may not essentially be keys to understanding human existence and much more. If they are, that understanding could well be forever relegated to the inner circle of one of the many secret societies that form the money-cult that now rules the world.

That cult knows exactly what it is doing, that he who controls the past, controls the future.

--George Hayduke