Anyone DUMB enough to want to be in the military should be allowed in… end of fucking story!
From the book’s jacket:
What is human consciousness, where did it come from, and what is its place in the material world? These are the questions that have puzzled mankind for centuries, and here presented in an entirely new, yet still soberly scientific way to look at human nature – one that demands a revolutionary reinterpretation of human history and human behavior.
Base on recent laboratory studies of the brain and a close reading of the archaeological evidence, psychologist Julian Jaynes shows us how ancient peoples from Mesopotamia to Peru could not “think” as we do today, and were therefore not conscious. Unable to introspect, theu experienced auditory hallucinations – voices of gods, actually heard as in the Old Testament or the Iliad – which, coming from the brain’s right hemisphere, told a person what to do in circumstances of novelty or stress. This ancient mentality is called the bicameral mind.
Only catastrophe and cataclysm forced mankind to learn consciousness, and that happened only 3,000 years ago.
Not a product of animal evolution, but of human history and culture, consciousness is ultimately grounded in the physiology of the brain’s right and left hemispheres.
Julian Jaynes examines three forms of human awareness – the bicameral or god-run man; the modern or problem-solving man; and contemporary forms of throwbacks to bicamerality: hypnotism, schizophrenia, poetic and religious frenzy, among other phenomena.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind – Julian Jaynes
We certainly don’t need to go back to the moon ~ Obama administration official (source)
President Obama’s soon to be released budget proposal will withdraw funding for manned space missions to the Moon. The Constellation Program, designed to “return” astronauts to the Moon by the year 2020 was announced by Obama’s villianous predecessor, George W. Bush. In place of the Constellation program, NASA will focus on the more realistic ten year goal of using “heavy-lift” rockets to explore low Earth orbit.
Obama’s decision to kill the Constellation program is most likely due to mounting public disbelief regarding the Apollo Program and the infeasibility of landing a man on the Moon, even with today’s technology. Recent news reports exposing rampant cocaine abuse at the Kennedy Space Center undermined Americans’ faith in NASA mission capability. These critical factors, along with tax replacement revenue streams in the form of higher than expected yields from CIA Afghan opium harvesting operations and projected oil profits from future Haiti drilling efforts also likely aided in President Obama’s decision to gut the funding.
NASA space missions have been a reliable cash cow for decades for the purpose of funding clandestine black budget programs. These parallel programs focusing on advanced weaponry and space militarization are bankrolled using billions of dollars funneled out of the official space program. The NASA space program is merely window dressing to justify the forcible extraction of huge sums from the American people in the name of space exploration. The military black projects financed through NASA are in direct contravention to the agency’s stated public mission to “Improve life here, To Extend life to there, and To find life beyond.”
American citizens have been increasingly skeptical about the Apollo Mission Cold-War psy-op. In 1962, John F. Kennedy made a bold commitment to land a man on the Moon by the end of the decade. Miraculously, within a span of only seven years, this incredible scientific feat was ostensibly accomplished. In 2004, George W. Bush announced 2020 as the target date for a return manned Moon mission. Here, a nimble application of Occam’s razor is in order. Are we to believe that 40 years after the original Moon landing it would take more than twice as long (16 years) to recreate this achievement? Given Moore’s Law, RAW’s Jumping Jesus Phenomenon, and the 15+ billion dollars dedicated to the effort annually, it is inconceivable that the Luna reunion would take so long.
Our noble leader is not willing to deceive the American people with the false promise of a future manned Moon missions. Nor is he willing to fund the black budget by pillaging the citizens under the pretext of faked space exploration adventures. George W. Bush’s disingenuous con, the Constellation Program, preyed on our national aspiration to reach the stars and beyond. The inauguration of President Obama marked an emerging era of transparency and open government. Please pray for our leader to fulfill his campaign promises and to restore faith in the American exceptionalism model.
Recommended reading:
How Stanley Kubrick Faked the Apollo Moon Landings: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lies by Jay Wiedner
Wagging the Moondoggie by Dave McGowan
21
Jan
10
NoH8, Yes Pillz!
WASHINGTON – Cindy McCain, the wife of 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, has posed for an ad endorsing pro-gay marriage forces in California.
The photo shows Mrs. McCain with silver duct tape across her mouth and “NOH8” written on one cheek. NOH8 is a gay rights group challenging Proposition 8 passed by California voters in 2008 banning same sex marriage.
John McCain’s office issued a statement saying the Arizona senator respects the views of members of his family but remains opposed to gay marriage. It says McCain believes “marriage is only defined as between one man and one woman.”
This from an unrelated, yet equally comical article:
Not quite a year ago, Cindy McCain was traveling overseas when a bottle of perfume broke in her bag. She barely had time to unzip the bag when the aroma knocked her “down hard.”
“I’ve never gone down that hard overseas,” said McCain, 55, referring to the migraine headache [pill overdose] she had. “I didn’t know anyone. I had to turn around and come back.”
McCain, wife of Sen. John McCain, is speaking out publicly for the first time about her migraines [dope addiction] – a medical condition she refers to as a “disability.” For many years, while she lived in Phoenix with her kids and her husband was commuting to and from Washington, D.C., she kept her migraines [pill jonez] a secret, fearing she’d ruin the time they had together.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
~ Alduous Huxley
THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH
The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
To ensure survival, oppressive governments purposefully shape, distort, and conceal potentially damaging information. Public perception must be craftily managed, lest the house of cards collapse due to the implosive effect of exposure. The free-flow of information, particularly the sort divulging deep-seated political corruption and large-scale government illegality, would spark intense moral outrage leading to pesky legislative hearings, lost elections, criminal trials, impeachment proceedings, etc.
An oppressive government wishing to obscure its anti-democratic hubris, must taint the jury pool to avoid conviction in the court of public opinion. The following article is demonstrative of the methods and tactics employed by rogue governmental factions of the mistakenly labeled freest country on the face of the Earth to co-opt and marginalize information that is deemed too dangerous for public consumption.
From the Raw Story article “Obama staffer wants ‘cognitive infiltration of 9/11 conspiracy groups”:
President Barack Obama’s appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs advocated “cognitive infiltration” of groups that advocate “conspiracy theories” like the ones surrounding 9/11. Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor, co-wrote an academic article entitled “Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures,” in which he argued that the government should stealthily infiltrate groups that pose alternative theories on historical events via “chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine” those groups.
Sunstein’s article, published in the Journal of Political Philosphy in 2008 and recently uncovered by blogger Marc Estrin, states that “our primary claim is that conspiracy theories typically stem not from irrationality or mental illness of any kind but from a ‘crippled epistemology,’ in the form of a sharply limited number of (relevant) informational sources.”
In Cass Sunstein’s view, those who have a healthy functioning epistemology obtain their news and information from government-approved mainstream media sources. Surely Sunstein is aware of the U.S. government’s long history of co-opting journalists and infiltrating news organizations to ensure favorable reporting (see Carl Bernstein’s 1977 Rolling Stone article The CIA and the Media and Alex Constantine’s article Mockingbird: The Subversion of the Free Press by the CIA). Former CIA Director William Colby boasted that “The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” The Pentagon pundit scandal (also referred to as “psy-ops on steroids”) is a recent example of the U.S. government shaping public perception through the recruitment of active and retired members of the military to sell the Iraq war to the American people through the MSM.
Those suffering from Sunstein’s diagnosis of “crippled epistemology” are merely individuals who obtain news and information from sources outside of the government’s long arm of control. From the government’s perspective, there is a risk that increasing numbers of citizens will resort to unapproved news outlets to feather their reality nests. When a critical mass of those who reject the state-engineered MSM corporate propaganda is reached, the state’s fragile body of lies is placed under heightened scrutiny.
Sunstein, whose article focuses largely on the 9/11 conspiracy theories, suggests that the government “enlist nongovernmental officials in the effort to rebut the theories. It might ensure that credible independent experts offer the rebuttal, rather than government officials themselves. There is a tradeoff between credibility and control, however. The price of credibility is that government cannot be seen to control the independent experts.” [see Pentagon pundit scandal (also referred to as "psy-ops on steroids."]
Sunstein argued that “government might undertake (legal) tactics for breaking up the tight cognitive clusters of extremist theories.” He suggested that “government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action.”
Truth has a remarkably tenacious nature, and as a result, is quite difficult to suppress. Therefore, the malefactors promoting the deception must employ a variety of obfuscation tactics to derail attempts to bring their activities into the light. Through the use of agent provocateurs, the limited hang-out, ad hominem attacks, mis-info and dis-info campaigns, appeals to authority, and other deceptive tactics, the typical citizen is unlikely to question the architecture of his externally designed reality tunnel.
The controllers are well aware that perceptions are malleable. Deference to authority is deeply ingrained through social conditioning and the subconscious desire for a strong unyielding leader. In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler expressed the propaganda power of the “big lie”:
[T]he broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.
The “big lie” is inconceivable to the average bloke whose daily life is rife with the telling of little white lies. Due to their ubiquity, these falsehoods of little import merely grease the wheels of social interaction, and as a result, are bandied about with minimal contemplation. The “big lie” requires not only more devious preparation, but also acts as a guilt-filled anchor continually punishing its purveyor. Governments and psychopaths have a distinct advantage in that they possess no conscience in need of assuagement.
Sunstein “wants to hold blogs and web hosting services accountable for the remarks of commenters on websites while altering libel laws to make it easier to sue for spreading ‘rumors,’” wrote Ed Lasky at American Thinker.
In other words, if your conspiracy-busting, divide-and-conquer, dis-info strategy fails to stem the flow of damaging information, you can always wage war against the First Amendment. Advocating an end-run around the First Amendment through legislative and/or judicial modification of defamation law would surely obtain the intended chilling effect on free speech, but at what cost? As a Constitutional law professor, surely Cass Sunstein understands the sanctity and the necessity of free speech in a democratic society. But then again, if we are to take him at his word, his allegiance must surely lie elsewhere.
If you don’t have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught ~ Judge Harold R. Medina
From Space.Com
NASA has launched an extensive investigation to determine how a small amount of cocaine ended up in a space shuttle hangar at the agency’s Florida spaceport. A bag containing a small amount of white powder residue that was later confirmed to be cocaine was discovered in the space shuttle Discovery’s hangar at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
The cocaine was discovered Tuesday when a shuttle worker spotted it outside a bathroom and reported it to NASA security. An on-site test of the bag stated it was cocaine, and subsequent follow-up tests confirmed it was the drug, he said.
The consequences of such actions are severe, NASA officials added.”NASA, as well as all of our contractors, has a zero-tolerance policy for illegal drug use,” Beutel said. “This is being taken very seriously.”
NASA’s security officials are actively investigating the cocaine find on two fronts. They are investigating the drug itself, as well as any clues as to how it ended up in the shuttle hangar.
This is not the first time agency personnel have come under fire over reports of substance abuse.
In 2007, the space agency launched a different investigation after receiving two anecdotal accounts suggesting that astronauts were drunk just before their spaceflights. The investigation ultimately found no evidence of any pre-flight drunkenness among its astronaut corps.
“People know how serious this is and how serious people take it,” Beutel said. “And it’s not acceptable. That’s the bottom line.”
She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Zero hour nine a.m.
And I’m gonna be high as a kite by then
“Rocket Man” – Elton John
I cleaned the gutters, washed the car, and did the dishes. Will there be anything else?
Excerpted from Sexbots Will Give Us Longevity Orgasm:
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Just in time for Christmas, The U.S. Defense Department says the first of the additional 30,000 troops (and up to 56,000 military contractors) ordered to Afghanistan by President Barack Obama have begun to arrive in the country. I cannot think of a more fitting gesture to usher in the Prince of Peace’s birthday. The WWJB (Who Would Jesus Bomb) bracelet and sticker brigade is surely rejoicing.
Dear readers, I wish to remind you of a quote from Obama’s October 2, 2002 Iraq war speech. “I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.” In Obama-speak, a “dumb war” is a war that does not materially benefit the military-industrial complex, fund the black budget through opium trafficking, or secure trans-national oil pipelines. Energy, dope, and war-profiteering is the name of the game in the nasty business of geo-politics. For the common folk, these are politically unpalatable justifications for maiming, killing, and destroying other people’s stuff. Our handlers know that we can’t handle the truth. Therefore, the ulterior purposes are conveniently concealed under the endlessly recycled “threat to national security” rationale.
Many on the Left (progressives and left-leaning moderates alike) feel utterly betrayed by Obama’s war escalation strategy. As the luster rapidly wears off Obama’s thin coat of veneer, increasing numbers of his former supporters are agonizing over his George W. Bush emulation antics (In fairness to Obama and W, the November 22, 1963 coup d’état in Dallas foreclosed the ability of one man to steer the course of the nation unimpeded). I know exactly how they feel. As a former card-carrying Republican I proudly voted for George W. Bush in 2004. I let my country down when it needed me the most, and for that, I am deeply ashamed. Please accept my apology America.
War is over, if you want it ~ John Lennon
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