Stef's Blog - a native London Southlander and unrepentant 'Conspiraloon™' who doesn't trust anyone, not even himself. Sometimes I take pictures. I also enjoy swearing immensely and think much faster than I can type, so each post comes guaranteed to include at last one confusing typo. OK?
In the UK, back in the days before the Internet, it was possible to make a fairly reliable estimation of an individual's political viewpoint based on the title of newspaper they had under their arm; The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Express, The Daily Sport and all the rest, each had a particular target demographic. The biases were unashamed and undenied
The priority for the readers of those newspapers was not the quality of research, or the writing, or the photography or any of that nonsense. Their top concern, first and foremost, was to read material which presented events in a way that was most pleasing to their pre-existing world view Curiously, apolitical readers of the back pages of newspapers often genuinely were interested in non-partisan, well-written, well researched articles, accompanied by decent photography. Which is why you could sometimes screw up guessing a person's politics by their choice of newspaper, if they'd only bought it for the sports coverage
The reason why I'm raising the subject of people prioritising their world-view ahead of their thirst for objectivity is that I've just finished reading Webster Tarpley's take on the recent massacre in Norway...
Washington DC, July 24, 2011 – The tragic terror attacks in Norway display a number of the telltale signs of a false flag provocation...
As I was reading the piece I was overcome with the same sense of frustrated tedium that I've been feeling recently as I plough through most of the 'alternative' news and commentary on the web. In that respect, I'm not singling Tarpley out. His article on Behring Breivik simply typifies the laziness that I think is corrupting alternative analyses of current events
What's my problem with Tarpley's piece?
For starters this 'number of telltale signs of false flag terror' stuff is way too reminiscent of the cliched 'all the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda' nonsense that mainstream commentators trot out five seconds after anything bad happens in the world
And the parallels with mainstream presstitution don't end there. Tarpley and countless other 'Truthers' started banging out their analyses of the massacre whilst the bodies were still warm. The result was not informed commentary but mounds of speculative verbiage - where the absence of facts and carefully thought out conclusions was compensated for by a pile of 'what ifs' and 'maybes'
And whilst I'm on the subject of carefully thought out conclusions, the last time I looked the whole purpose of a 'false flag op' was to create the appearance that it was carried out by another entity. So how does framing up reactionary white supremacist lunatics 'punish' the Norwegian state for refusing to bomb Libya or, as others are writing, for its friendly relations with Palestine?
If this were a false-flag op to punish Norway wouldn't the idea be to implicate Libya, or Palestine, or Muslims in general? Why would Zionist or other establisment gangs stage an atrocity which discredits an ideology they've worked like bastards to cultivate and which they need to maintain now more than ever?
The Muzzers are soooooo going to catch it for this one
There's no serious critical or original thought going on in Tarpley's piece; no more than in most of the other alternative commentary I've read. The writers are just simply filtering through the material as it becomes available and cherry-picking that which fits their pre-established narratives. The end result is a certainty of conclusion that is a 'characteristic hallmark' of the most blinkered, the most confirmation-bias afflicted and the most thoughtless
Whilst I was living in Christchurch (NZ) I was struck by how relatively blasé the locals were about living on the Ring of Fire.
Admittedly, procedures were in place in the event of a geological hiccup and low-rise building is very much the norm. However, a heck of a lot of that building was on top of cliffs, underneath cliffs or on soft, easily liquified ground. A couple of locals who visited my home were thoughtful enough to take the piss out of the month's supply of tinned food I had sitting in a cupboard.
The thing is, whilst tsunamis were seen as being very much on the cards, few people believed that Christchurch would ever be hit by a major earthquake - what with the nearest seismic fault being 80 or so miles away
Only, as it turns out, Christchurch sits directly, and I mean directly, on top of a major, previously dormant, fault and it hasn't stopped rumbling since it kicked off all of a sudden last September
Being a curious soul I've been wondering ever since how it is that a significant rupture in the Earth's crust would burst into life after being quiet for at least thousands of years?
The answer could have been, and still could be, a stochastic 'shit just happens' explanation and what happened to Christchurch is a localised one-off event with no systemic implications for anywhere else
However, some on-line Earthquake buffs (e.g.) have been suggesting that there is a spike in global seismic activity which has been building up over the last 2-3 years. The problem with knowing if they're onto something or not is the risk that these doom-sayers could be indulging in the kind of subjective, dot-joining based activities that veteran conspiraloons know and love
And then this chap posted this vaguely-frantic video a couple of days ago...
University College London Hospital. Hmmm, pointy...
If the City of London is the centre of the financial power of the British oligarchical elite, the area around University College is the heart of its psychological and pharmaceutical power.
The City is about fucking with your wallet. Bloombsury is about fucking with your brain and your body
Bloomsbury is home to a delightful mix of state run academia, big pharma and benevolent (sic.) charitable foundations, all fused into one big yummy, indistinguishable mass; which some people would describe as fascistic but I think is just plain scary
The local architecture is a bit of a give-away And one thing that continues to baffle me is, how when some of us point out that the oligarchical elite has a demonstrable fondness for fruity little clubs, rituals, symbolism and architecture, the sheer lunacy of the fruity little clubs, rituals, symbolism, and architecture is somehow laid at the door of the people doing the pointing out, not the people responsible for it all Did I mention that the Tavistock Institute was founded in Bloomsbury? .
In spite of mounds evidence that the world really might be manipulated by a loose confederation of elitist Luciferian psychopaths with fucked-up mental wiring I'd be the first to admit that it's such an insanely improbable notion you'd have to be a little insane yourself to buy into it
it certainly makes an interesting contrast with the new £20 note or, there again, maybe not
Would somebody please tell me this is a hoax. Coincidence I won't buy
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edit: Veteran Conspiraloons will need no explanation why I feel a strong compulsion to repost this intriguingly choreographed performance of Ray of Light by Madonna at Live Earth last year...
One of my grandads used to have a shirt that very same colour - but the family doesn't don't talk about it much
For a while towards the end of last year there was just the slightest possibility that people's attention would focus not on corrupt, and essentially expendable, politicians but the people and interests who do the corrupting
Well, it was only a slight possibility
So, instead, let's just sit back and watch the journo-political whores employed to fob us all off with bullcrap get stuck into some good old-fashioned 'Left' vs 'Right', false choice party politics whilst the serious business of running the country for the benefit of the deserving few carries on as usual
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And I wouldn't trust the supposedly anti-establishment bloggers who spearheaded the controlled demolition of Peter Hain for a second - they're very careful about what they say, and what they allow commentators to say, and are clearly aware that they can only go so far...
"Well John, it looks like were up to our ass in Limey terrorists all over again"
Anyone lucky enough to have caught Newsnight last night will have enjoyed its opening article about a Jihadist website which has reportedly declared the inauguration of Al Qaeda UK
Proof once again that the rigorously objective journalists at the BBC understand that the only material on the Internet worth relying on is the Jihadist stuff you find hosted on Langley/ Cheltenham/ Australian based/ controlled servers
Al Qaeda's Internet prowess is truly marvelous to behold - capable of setting up Western-based web sites and communicating directly with young asians working in chip shops in West Yorkshire but yet at the same time evading the best efforts of a multi-billion dollar transglobal counter-intelligence effort. Quite remarkable
Newsnight viewers were also treated to the sight and sound of that geriatric pin-up of the anti-terror/ risk management industry Dame Pauline Neville Jones doing her usual insane, ever so slightly senile, turn
"Woof! Woof! I'm a teapot..."
and as someone over at J7T pointed out there also was a nice littleDerren Brown moment during the Newsnight piece . . . background images of arabic text filled internet pages flitted over the screen, finally halting over the word "Blogger" . . . . blogger . . . terrorist . . . tax paying, law abiding citizen . . . ah . . . what's the difference?!? . . .
And some of us couldn't help joining the dots between a spate of apparently unconnected stories which have been spoon fed to the MSM over the last week or so. Stories such as...
...which starts in London tomorrow. The cast list makes fascinating reading
Over the last couple of years many of my non Conspiraloon chums who have had the decency to hear some of my ideas out have raised several reasonable objections to the particular world view I espouse. One of those objections is that they couldn't see how fear and paranoia that has been generated with regards to British Muslims could be expanded to encompass non Muslims.
I'm starting to think that 2008 might be the year in which they're going to find out
I'm unashamed about my interest in elitist symbolism hidden in plain view amongst us. I'll also be one of the first to admit that it's often virtually impossible to definitively prove that possible examples of elitist symbolism are deliberate and not just coincidental
though I do have some personal favourites, such as the pentagram-obsessed Washington street plan and some examples nearer to home in London, which I think are pretty hard to deny...
The umpteenth appearance of the Buckingham Pyramid in this blog...
The dollar bill is another example of a design so clearly laden with the symbolism associated with certain fruity little clubs that mainstream sources usually choose to ignore the issue altogether rather than pretend that the symbolism is not there
In comparison, British money has offered much less in the way of easy symbolic pickings which can be identified and decoded by the profane
but the times may be a-changing
A couple of days ago someone suggested that a few minutes spent looking closely at the new £20 note would cheer me up to no end...
£20 notes are a rare event in my back pocket but the other 1/2 happened to have one and, yes, I was entertained, even though she remembered to ask for it back after I'd finished with it...
I won't spoil the fun by drawing any lines, and it's much easier to see in the flesh on an actual note, but the Bank of England appears to have a provocative little something sticking out of its roof. Two things actually
Here's a clue to one of those things taken from the back of the dollar bill
edit: OK, three things if you count the sideways Star Fleet logo
but who's to say the Rothschilds don't control that too
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edit2: and whilst on the subject of fruity little elitist clubs and their symbolism, today is, of course, the 700th anniversary of the dissolution of the Knights Templar (or were they? mwuhaahaha!!). No doubt the modern day fruity little clubs which claim to trace their lineage back to this group of weirdo warrior bankers will be celebrating the anniversary, as well as the recent announcement by the Vatican that the the Templars probably weren't quite as naughty as they were made out to be at the time...
Am I really ill? That graphic of the exclusion zones showed a prick and ball in the middle.
The answer is, I think, no
I don't think that Apophenia, the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data, can be considered an illness as such. After all, who's to say that the data, certainly without further investigation, really is random or meaningless?
Take the work of twisted, and unfortunately psychotic, genius Luke Halder for example. He really was trying to paint a smiley face across America with pipe bombs...
...and if you had been an FBI agent clever enough to spot what Luke was up to you would have won a prize and not been considered mental at all
(PS you can track Lucas' whereabouts with the useful, if slightly disturbing, Federal Bureau of Prisons - 'Find an Inmate' service)
And returning to the example of DEFRA FMV Protection Zones, I too must confess that I was reminded of a picture of Michelin Man that adorned the common room in my old geology department which had been 'enhanced' by a bored Earth Sciences student armed with a bottle of Tippex...
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