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CM3-08-Seeing Is Beliving War In Heaven 2 Copyright © Charles Mingus 2009
From: anne m g To: C M III Subject: Blue eyed macaroni? Date: Nov 26, 2008 3:50 PM
Hi Charles: Looks like things are really coming together!
Q:What is the genesis of the blue eyed macaroni? I'm trying to wrap my head around it,
and don't get it.
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Anne,
I'm sending the "Artist's Statement" on behalf of Charles.
As for me, my statement, (as a spectator)
is...........Dead serious, funny as hell!
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"My anthropomorphic blue-eyed macaroni juxtapositions are an agitprop responseto Western iconic and mythical ploys
and propaganda tricks.
Like the blue-eyed Barbie, these high-fashion psychological-operations are the product of Madison Avenue scientific
hucksterism with military-spec-religiosity and Wall Street flimflam. This agglomeration masquerades as “civilization,”
yet enforces divergent personal identities and cultural schizophrenia."
CM3
"Magritte" Prognosticator Of The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse: 23 ½" x 26 ½ "
5."Terrorism Unveiled Colonialist Prognosticator of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypses"
6. Magritte Painting Behind Fence:
My parody of a MAGRITTE
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Christopher Columbus The Untold Story
Pope Gives the Americas to Spain Following Columbus'
"discovery", Pope Alexander VI issued a May 4, 1493,
papal bull granting official ownership of the New World
to Ferdinand and Isabella. To these monarchs, the
Pope declared:
"We of our own motion, and not at your solicitation,
do give, concede, and assign for ever to you and your
successors, all the islands, and main lands, discovered;
and which may hereafter, be discovered, towards the
west and south; whether they be situated towards India,
or towards any other part whatsoever, and give you
absolute power in them."
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Revoking the Bull Inter Caetera of May 4, 1493
Las Casas
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At the Parliament of World Religions in 1993, over sixty indigenous delegates drafted a Declaration of Vision, which was originally
"endorsed by resolution in a near unanimous vote" of the Parliament (Taliman 1994). It reads, in part:
We call upon the people of conscience in the Roman Catholic hierarchy to persuade Pope John II to formally revoke the Inter Cetera Bull of May 4, 1493, which will restore our fundamental human rights. That Papal document called for our Nations and Peoples to be subjugated so the Christian Empire nd its doctrines would be propagated. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling Johnson v. McIntosh 8 Wheat 543 (in 1823) adopted the same principle of subjugation expressed in the Inter Caetera bull. This Papal Bull has been, and continues to be, devastating to our religions, our cultures, and the survival of our populations.
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The first annual papal bulls burning took place on October 12, 1997 in front of the Catholic Diocese of Honolulu. Here, 'Ululani Po'ohina burns a papal bull. In the background, from left to right, Kanaka Maoli Hawaiian rights activists Eric Po'ohina, Kekuni Blaisdell, and Soli Niheu look on, while Tony Castanha reads from
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Pope Gives the Americas to Spain Following Columbus' "discovery",
Pope Alexander VI issued a May 4, 1493, papal bull granting official
ownership of the New World to Ferdinand and Isabella. To these
monarchs, the Pope declared: "We of our own motion, and not at
your solicitation, do give, concede, and assign for ever to you and
your successors, all the islands, and main lands, discovered; and
which may hereafter, be discovered, towards the west and south;
whether they be situated towards India,
or towards any other part whatsoever, and give you absolute
power in them."
[#9]
That is the geopolitical equivalent of the nazi's declaration that the
world and its population are there property, so does that make
Christopher Columbus and the Pope his paid accomplices Nazi
murders?
Its very interesting that they said that all the indigenous people they
killed had no souls because they were "pagan" when the so called
Classical social systems they were from also were pagan savages
who went daily to the Coliseums to watch humans be murdered as
entertainment...
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DIY Cruise Missile
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Hitech dreames and nightmars
http://chem11.proboards2.com/index.cgi?board=technosphere&action=print&thread=2023
hitech dreames and nightmars
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/fractals/collect/1999/
http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/03/
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/graphics/011109_hacking_your_brain/
Hack your brain
How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio
Text by Johan Lehrer, graphics by Javier Zarracina
DO YOU EVER want to change the way you see the world? Wouldn't it be fun to hallucinate on your lunch break?
Although we typically associate such phenomena with powerful drugs like LSD or mescaline, it's easy to fling open
the doors of perception without them: All it takes is a basic understanding of how the mind works.
The first thing to know is that the mind isn't a mirror, or even a passive observer of reality. Much of what we think
of as being out there actually comes from in here, and is a byproduct of how the brain processes sensation. In
recent years scientists have come up with a number of simple tricks that expose the artifice of our senses, so
that we end up perceiving what we know isn't real - tweaking the cortex to produce something uncannily like
hallucinations. Perhaps we hear the voice of someone who is no longer alive, or feel as if our nose is suddenly
3 feet long.
http://stevenkaplannewyork.blogspot.com/2009/01/robert-indiana-where-theres-love-theres.html
Acquavella Galleries http://www.acquavellagalleries.com
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_md_137A_1.html
Restrospective at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/rosenquist/
Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/rosenquist_james.html
Weather-global
http://firstpulseprojects.net/Strange-Weather-mt/global-warming/
Hitler/Jaeger File
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http://gyazo.cn/post/63644840/life-hitler-jaeger-file-hosted-by-google
This one looks really eclectic...
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Cubo Futurists
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http://uber.tv/envisioning/clippings/2005/03/
multivalent perception of reality2
http://souljerky.com/articles/ganesha-buddhism-tantra-nepal.html
multivalent perception of reality
http://www.souljerky.com/
Rosenquis
http://www.jimrosenquist-artist.com/?q=node/131
James Rosenquist - Links to Other Rosenquist Sites
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4. a very nice Art blog...
http://www.paulpincus.com/
http://momoarts.net/jp_art1.php
Did you try this self
promotion web site yet?
http://www.artbreak.com/
This one looks really eclectic...
http://stevenkaplannewyork.blogspot.com/2009/01/robert-indiana-where-theres-love-theres.html
Robert Indiana: Where there's LOVE there's HOPE
Robert Indiana's stainless steel sculpture HOPE (2008) will be unveiled at Jim Kempner
Fine Art in Chelsea on Thursday January 15, 2009 at 2:30 pm, just in time for the
inauguration of President Elect Barack Obama.
Everyone knows Indiana's iconic LOVE sculptures, graphics and paintings. The image
was first created for a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in 1964 and later
included on an eight-cent United States Postal Service stamp in 1973. (A moment of
silence, please, for when eight cents was enough to get a letter delivered).
Sculptural versions of the image have been installed at numerous American
and international locations, including the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 1977,
spelling out "Ahava" (Love) in Hebrew letters.
To coin a new wrinkle on an old saw, where there's LOVE there's (eventually) HOPE,
as described in a gallery press release.
Jim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to present HOPE, Pop artist Robert Indiana’s
follow up ... to his classic LOVE ... This six foot stainless steel HOPE had
its debut in front of the Democratic National Convention in Denver last August
under high security and was closed to the public; this will be the sculpture’s
first open to public viewing... HOPE was the subject of over [a billion]
Internet hits, was syndicated internationally with keynote appearances in the
Washington Post, USA Today and The Miami Herald and featured in Art In America.
The exhibit will also include variations of the HOPE image on canvas and on paper.
In gestation for over a decade, HOPE was brought to fruition to help elect
Barack Obama and raised over $500,000 for the Obama campaign. It was used
effectively as a visible tool in such important states as Pennsylvania [where a
LOVE sculpture presides over Philadelphia], Indiana, Denver, Virginia and Maine ...
As part of the Inaugural Hope Exhibition, a special performance entitled
HOPE: AMERICAN DREAMERS has been conceived and choreographed by
Teresa Smith. This short work is a piece of what will be a major work with
sets and costumes by Robert Indiana, music by Will I AM, a film by Kevin
Chapados and spoken word by various artists. A graphic in "patriotic" red, white and blue is also for sale.
There are obvious similarities between LOVE and HOPE, each based on a four
letter word, rendered all in serifed CAPS and stacked in two horizontal rows,
with an oblique "O" in the upper right and an "E" anchoring it just below.
Not to be a curmudgeon, but I seem to recall another slogan from the Obama
campaign, "Change", which might have presented Indiana with a whole New
Deal of six letters. One can only imagine what he might have made of it.
Would it be CHANGE we can believe in? Here's a quick mock up of one
possibility.
CHA
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Prosecute Cheney or Legalize Marijuana? Decide Today.
On December 15, Vice President Cheney admitted on national TV that he authorized torture, including
waterboarding. That shocking confession makes Cheney a war criminal . But apart from Keith Olbermann
and Rachel Maddow , the Corporate Media barely noticed.
Under the Geneva Conventions, the United States must prosecute Dick Cheney for war crimes. So we
submitted this question to President-elect Obama at Change.gov:
"Will you appoint a Special Prosecutor - ideally Patrick Fitzgerald - to independently investigate
the gravest crimes of the Bush Administration, including torture and warrantless wiretapping?"
-Bob Fertik, New York City
At the end of the first round on December 15, our Special Prosecutor question was #6 but Obama's
team only answered the first five , including one on the legalization of marijuana.
The second round began on 12/30 and ends at midnight on 12/31. Once again, marijuana legalization
is #1. We need your help to make our Special Prosecutor question #1!
- Sign in at http://change.gov/openforquestions
- Search for " Fitzgerald "
- This will display several similar questions, so look carefully for "Bob Fertik"
- Look right for the checkbox, mouseover it so it goes from white to dark, then click to cast your vote
As Ari Melber writes in The Nation,
With so few journalists directly asking the President-Elect about [torture and war crimes
prosecution], it is up to the rest of us to put accountability and the rule of law on the agenda.
Change.gov is a fine place to start.
Discuss this here:
http://www.democrats.com/encourage-obama-to-appoint-a-special-prosecutor
Thanks for all you do!
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January: Create Peace on Earth
David Swanson's New Year's resolution is to create peace on earth. This January, there
are things that you can do to get us off to the right start. Below is a calendar that includes
numerous events in Washington, D.C., and a few national events happening all over the
country. Please resolve to make this a month of major impact for the creation of peace on earth.
http://www.democrats.com/node/18668
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Urge Eric Holder to Appoint a Special Prosecutor for Bush War Crimes
 Last week three important Democrats - Rep. Jerrold Nadler , Sen.
Carl Levin , and VP-elect Joe Biden - independently urged the
Attorney General to investigate Dick Cheney's torture confession .
A growing chorus of newspapers ( NY Times ) and legal scholars
( John Dean , Glenn Greenwald ) agrees.
Prosecution of those responsible for torture is not optional - it is
required by our obligations under the Geneva Conventions .
So we've joined forces with buhdydharma and the Docudharma community
to petition Obama's AG nominee, Eric Holder, to appoint a Special Prosecutor.
Holder replied after receiving a few hundred emails: " Enough folks. I hear you ." That's a start,
but we've asked for a formal statement. And we're collecting additional signatures to deliver when
Holder goes before the Senate for confirmation hearings in January.
Please sign and spread the word!
http://democrats.com/special-prosecutor-for-bush-war-crimes
Forward this message to everyone you know!
To subscribe, create a free Democrats.com account here:
http://www.democrats.com/user/register
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Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 11:10:06 AM
Subject: Calvin & Hobbs explanation for Wall Street and Auto industry bailouts
Calvin's (of Calvin & Hobbs) explanation of his Lemonade Stand's business perspective
has a resonance to the American Auto industry's position in the economy.Remember
that this cartoon was drawn over 15 years ago!
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multivalent perception of reality2
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multivalent perception of reality
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hitech dreames and nightmars
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/fractals/collect/1999/
FUN STUFF
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http://www.trendhunter.com/tv/recycling-garbage-into-art-after-christmas-sales
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http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/edible-insects-tasty-scorpions-and-worms
Edible insects OF MEXICO
http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Best--Bugs-you-love-to-eat
http://www.whatsthatbug.com
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Did you try this self promotion web site yet?
http://www.artbreak.com/
This one looks really eclectic...
http://psychiclab.net/
multivalent perception of reality2
http://souljerky.com/articles/ganesha-buddhism-tantra-nepal.html
multivalent perception of reality
http://www.souljerky.com/
hitech dreames and nightmars
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/fractals/collect/1999/
http://www.janchipchase.com/blog/archives/2007/11/landscape_vs_po_1.html
http://www.janchipchase.com/
http://www.avivadirectory.com/photoshop/category/photo-manipulation/
http://momoarts.net/jp_art1.php
http://psychiclab.net/
Related subjects
What is a Papal Bull
View an online petition to revoke the papal bull of 1493
The Annual papal bull burning Legal Foundations of the
Spanish Claim on the New World
http://www.kwabs.com/bull_of_1493.html
http://www.kwabs.com/spanish_claim_.html
http://www.reformation.org/alonso-de-hojeda.html
South China Morning Post ... stories, award winning news and analysis
on Hong Kong and China visit SCMP.com. ... www.scmp.com
Or have your work painted
Wow! Any Image in Public Domain
well how good is the painting?
http://www.bestpriceart.com/?tc=abcgallery
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http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Others/Others-Doc-Economics&Finance/+Doc-Economics&Finance
-FederalReserve&Banksters/+++BOOK-SecretsOfTheFederalReserve-Mullins/SecretsOfTheFederalReserve-EustaceMullins.htm
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Prints
Olgas print gallery http://www.abcgallery.com/index.html
Concept of a paper clip
©1999
80" x 53" x 0.5"
wool pile/ cotton backing/ acid dyes tufted
with industrial punch gun; sheared;hand-dyed;
latex backed photo credit: the artist
http://www.flickr.com/photos/santafestudio/
MarthaDonovanOpdahl's photostream
check out Alex Itin
http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/
http://images.sub-studio.com/labels/illustration.html
Hanna Hoch collage
http://www.zazzle.com/hannahs_faux_collages_2008_calendar-158522701417838752
Hannah Höch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nov 8, 2008 ... Hannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through
the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919, collage
of pasted papers, ...
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Höch -
borrowing or appropriating the concept
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[Bob Thompson in studio on Clinton Street, NYC], 1960 / Charles Rotmil,
photographer. Photographic print : 1 : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. Bob Thompson
papers, 1955-2000. Archives of American Art.
http://www.aaa.si.edu/exhibits/recentacquisitions-spring2006/index.cfm/fuseaction/items.detailItem/ItemID/7486
Teaching Art Using Technology
http://www.talentteacher.com/teachart.html
Stick a fork in it its done...
RE:borrowing or appropriating the concept
http://www.alexalienart.com/schoolofbacon.htm
School of Francis Bacon
"The School of Francis Bacon opens up the valves of Sensationism. In the Beginning there was always
already only Sensation which was always always already before the construction of the conceptual, meaning
and narrative - (which are always already added after the event of Sensation). Abstract Art does not exist.
Conceptual Art does not exist. Contemporary Art does not exist. Sensation of the Image exists. Sensation
is Image. Sensation is Being. Being is Sensation. Truth is Sensation. Being Sensation. Truth Sensation."
Alex Alien Russell, School of Francis Bacon, London, 2003.
"Art negates the conceptualization foisted on the real world...The truth of works of art hinges on whether
or not they succeed, in accordance with their inner necessity, to absorb the non-conceptual and the contingent.
For their purposefulness requires the purposelessness, which is illusion... Aesthetics cannot hope to grasp
works of art if it treats them as hermeneutical objects. What at present needs to be grasped is their unintelligibility...
By its mere existence, every artwork, as alien artwork to what is alienated, conjures up the circus and yet is lost as
soon as it emulates it. Art becomes an image not directly by becoming an apparition but only through the
counter-tendency to it... The subject only becomes the essence of the artwork when it confronts it foreignly,
externally, and compensates for the foreigness by substituting itself for the work...Artworks win life only when
they renounce likeness to the human...Actually, only what does not fit into this world is true."
Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, The Athlone Press, 1997.
Alex Alien Russell, School of Francis Bacon, London, 2003.
"Art negates the conceptualization foisted on the real world...The truth of works of art hinges on whether
or not they succeed, in accordance with their inner necessity, to absorb the non-conceptual and the contingent.
For their purposefulness requires the purposelessness, which is illusion... Aesthetics cannot hope to grasp
works of art if it treats them as hermeneutical objects. What at present needs to be grasped is their unintelligibility...
By its mere existence, every artwork, as alien artwork to what is alienated, conjures up the circus and yet is lost as
soon as it emulates it. Art becomes an image not directly by becoming an apparition but only through the
counter-tendency to it... The subject only becomes the essence of the artwork when it confronts it foreignly,
externally, and compensates for the foreigness by substituting itself for the work...Artworks win life only when
they renounce likeness to the human...Actually, only what does not fit into this world is true."
Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, The Athlone Press, 1997.
http://www.alexalienart.com/schoolofbacon.htm
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a resource hub about climate change for artists, writers and activists
Main September 11, 2007
via Rhizome.org:
While scientists calculate the long-term prognostics for the health of the planet, artists continue to take the natural world–and
its fate–as both a medium and a subject in their work. The Natural World Museum and the United Nations Environment
Programme have gathered a group of 79 such examples in the volume Art in Action: Nature, Creativity, and Our Collective Future.
Representative projects range from the crowd-pleasing site-specific work of Christo and Jeanne Claude to Olafur Eliasson’s
immersive provocations–just in time for a recently-opened mid-career survey of his work at SFMOMA–and the book is separated
into sections that track artists rendering nature as everything from a fantasy Eden to a fallen wasteland of unchecked human
development. The title makes the book’s overall purpose clear. As much as it documents individual projects that engage with
and manipulate ecology, the intent is a cumulative attempt to draw awareness to the ever-more fragile state of the planet.
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Working with a paradox defining the elusive visualizing the invisible communicating the incommunicable not accepting
the limitations society has accepted seeing in new ways living for a fraction of a second and penetrating light years
using intellect and instinct to achieve intuition achieving total self-consciousness and self-awareness being creatively
obsessive questioning, reasoning, analyzing, dissecting and re-examining understanding the finitude of human existence
and still striving to create beauty and provocative reasoning finding new concepts, recognizing new patterns desiring to
know the importance or insignificance of existence seeing reality and still being able to dream persisting in the eternal
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Christopher Columbus The Untold Story
Pope Gives the Americas to Spain Following Columbus'
"discovery", Pope Alexander VI issued a May 4, 1493,
papal bull granting official ownership of the New World
to Ferdinand and Isabella. To these monarchs, the
Pope declared:
"We of our own motion, and not at your solicitation,
do give, concede, and assign for ever to you and your
successors, all the islands, and main lands, discovered;
and which may hereafter, be discovered, towards the
west and south; whether they be situated towards India,
or towards any other part whatsoever, and give you
absolute power in them."
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The Inter Caetera,
Papal Bull of May 4, 1493
by Alexander VI
What is a Papal Bull
View an online petition to revoke the papal bull of 1493
The Annual papal bull burning
Legal Foundations of the Spanish Claim on the New World http://www.kwabs.com/bull_of_1493.html
http://www.kwabs.com/spanish_claim_.html
http://www.reformation.org/alonso-de-hojeda.html
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Pope Alexander VI
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Historical context
The rivalry betwen Spain and Portugal for the possession of the newly discovered lands of the non christian world reached its highest point after the discorery of west indies by Columbus in 1492
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The key element of this struggle was the control of the trade with the eastern portions of the world. The Italian and the Arabs were in the early 1400's the providers of goods from Africa and the Eastern nations. However, the kingdoms of Portugal and Castille gradually became serious contenders as sea fearer nations and started to challenge each other for strategic control of the routes and the possession of territories along the African west coast. It is not by accident that Columbus, an Italien navigator, sought the financial and military backing for his expedition in Portugal first and, when he could not succeed, made the same proposition to the sovereign of Castille who accepted.
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Returning from his first voyage, Columbus landed on the Portuguese coast and was at once invited to Court. He reached Lisbon March 4, 1493, upon the invitation of the King of Portugal. On hearing his report, King John II claimed the newly discovered lands for Portugal by virtue of the Treaty of Alcacovas of 1479, sanctioned by the Bulls of Pope Sixtus IV, dated June 21, 1481. The text of the Treaty and the Bull contain some slight variations and thereby allow of different interpretations. It is difficult to decide, therefore, whether this claim of the Portuguese King was justified. Contemporary as well as modern historians have always differed widely in their opinions. It is generally believed that, with his famous message on his discoveries, Columbus dispatched to the Spanish Kings, who were at Barcelona, a report on the difficulties raised by the Portuguese King, but it is questioned whether this was sent from Lisbon by land or from Palos after having reached the latter port, March 14, 1493.
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King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain reported the great news at once to Pope Alexander VI. It is again doubtful whether this was done by a special messenger or by a courier sent to Cardinal Bernardin de Carvajal and to Ruiz de Medina, then Spanish ambassadors at the Holy See, and whether this was done in consequence of the Portuguese claims or according to a general custom of that period. Pope Alexander VI, himself a Spaniard, granted the request to confer the lately discovered lands on the Crown of Spain by three Bulls issued on May 3 and May 4 1493 (all much in favor of Spain, and depriving Portugal of nearly all privileges bestowed upon it by the Bulls of 1452 and 1454, issued by Nicholas V, and by that of 1481 of Sixtus IV and one of 1484 of Innocentius VIII). Some months later, on September 26, 1493, a fourth Bull was issued granting to Spain almost unlimited rights. But this act remained without consequence; for in the meantime, at the suggestion of the King of Spain, it was agreed that, to avoid complications already threatening, a conference should be held. Portuguese ambassadors were sent to Barcelona and, after many negotiations and some interruptions, a settlement was finally reached at the small Spanish town of Tordesillas and a treaty was signed on June 7, 1494. Obviously inspired by the corresponding passage in the second Bull "Inter caetera", but not referring to this or any other bulls or treaties, it was provided that there should be drawn a line running from North to South, 370 leagues west from Cape Verde Islands, and that everything west of this line should belong to Spain, everything east of it to Portugal.
The sanction, which by the terms of the Treaty was to be asked, was never given by Alexander VI and not before the 24th of January, 1506, was a Bull to such effect issued by Pope Julius II. Although much disputed and very differently interpreted, this Treaty remained in force until January 13, 1750, when the Treaty of Madrid annulled the boundary line. It would seem, however, that this boundary line, first provided for in the second Bull "Inter caetera" and later corrected in the Treaty of Tordesillas, decided what parts of the western hemisphere as well as which regions of the eastern hemisphere were discovered, possessed and civilized by Spain and by Portugal respectively, and which still speak the language and show the influence of the culture of their first discoverers.
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Comments on the content of the Bull Inter Caetera
Like the bull "Eximiae devotionis" of May 3, the bull "Inter caetera" of May 4 is a restatement of part of the bull "Inter caetera" of May 3. Taken together the two later bulls cover the same ground as the bull "Inter caetera" of May 3, for which they form a substitute. The changes introduced into the bull "Inter caetera" of May 4, are, however, of great importance, and highly favorable to Spain. Instead of merely granting to Castile the lands discovered by her envoys, and not under Christian rule, the revised bull draws a line of demarcation one hundred leagues west of any of the Azores or Cape Verde Islands, and assigns to Castile the exclusive right to acquire territorial possessions and to trade in all lands west of that line, which at Christmas, 1492, were not in the possession of any Christian prince. The general safeguard to the possible conflicting rights of Portugal is lacking. All persons are forbidden to approach the lands west of the line without special license from the rulers of Castile.
It is not probable that by this bull Alexander VI intended to secure to Portugal an eastern route to the Indies, as some writers have maintained. In the bulls of May 3, the earlier papal grants to Portugal are said to have given her rights in the region of Guinea and the Gold Mine, but the Indies are not mentioned. The bull of May 4 does not name Portugal and refers to her only in the clause which excepts from the donation any lands west of the demarcation line, which at Christmas, 1492, might be in the possession of any Christian prince. (end of ref 2)
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The English Translation of the Bull Inter Caetera
Alexander, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to the illustrious sovereigns, our very dear son in Christ, Ferdinand, king, and our very dear daughter in Christ, Isabella, queen of Castile, Leon, Aragon, Sicily, and Granada, health and apostolic benediction. Among other works well pleasing to the Divine Majesty and cherished of our heart, this assuredly ranks highest, that in our times especially the Catholic faith and the Christian religion be exalted and be everywhere increased and spread, that the health of souls be cared for and that barbarous nations be overthrown and brought to the faith itself. Wherefore inasmuch as by the favor of divine clemency, we, though of insufficient merits, have been called to this Holy See of Peter, recognizing that as true Catholic kings and princes, such as we have known you always to be, and as your illustrious deeds already known to almost the whole world declare, you not only eagerly desire but with every effort, zeal, and diligence, without regard to hardships, expenses, dangers, with the shedding even of your blood, are laboring to that end; recognizing also that you have long since dedicated to this purpose your whole soul and all your endeavors -- as witnessed in these times with so much glory to the Divine Name in your recovery of the kingdom of Granada from the yoke of the Saracens -- we therefore are rightly led, and hold it as our duty, to grant you even of our own accord and in your favor those things whereby with effort each day more hearty you may be enabled for the honor of God himself and the spread of the Christian rule to carry forward your holy and praiseworthy purpose so pleasing to immortal God. We have indeed learned that you, who for a long time had intended to seek out and discover certain islands and mainlands remote and unknown and not hitherto discovered by others, to the end that you might bring to the worship of our Redeemer and the profession of the Catholic faith their residents and inhabitants, having been up to the present time greatly engaged in the siege and recovery of the kingdom itself of Granada were unable to accomplish this holy and praiseworthy purpose; but the said kingdom having at length been regained, as was pleasing to the Lord, you, with the wish to fulfill your desire, chose our beloved son, Christopher Columbus, a man assuredly worthy and of the highest recommendations and fitted for so great an undertaking, whom you furnished with ships and men equipped for like designs, not without the greatest hardships, dangers, and expenses, to make diligent quest for these remote and unknown mainlands and islands through the sea, where hitherto no one had sailed; and they at length, with divine aid and with the utmost diligence sailing in the ocean sea, discovered certain very remote islands and even mainlands that hitherto had not been discovered by others; wherein dwell very many peoples living in peace, and, as reported, going unclothed, and not eating flesh. Moreover, as your aforesaid envoys are of opinion, these very peoples living in the said islands and countries believe in one God, the Creator in heaven, and seem sufficiently disposed to embrace the Catholic faith and be trained in good morals. And it is hoped that, were they instructed, the name of the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ, would easily be introduced into the said countries and islands. Also, on one of the chief of these aforesaid islands the said Christopher has already caused to be put together and built a fortress fairly equipped, wherein he has stationed as garrison certain Christians, companions of his, who are to make search for other remote and unknown islands and mainlands. In the islands and countries already discovered are found gold, spices, and very many other precious things of divers kinds and qualities. Wherefore, as becomes Catholic kings and princes, after earnest consideration of all matters, especially of the rise and spread of the Catholic faith, as was the fashion of your ancestors, kings of renowned memory, you have purposed with the favor of divine clemency to bring under your sway the said mainlands and islands with their residents and inhabitants and to bring them to the Catholic faith. Hence, heartily commending in the Lord this your holy and praiseworthy purpose, and desirous that it be duly accomplished, and that the name of our Savior be carried into those regions, we exhort you very earnestly in the Lord and by your reception of holy baptism, whereby you are bound to our apostolic commands, and by the bowels of the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, enjoin strictly, that inasmuch as with eager zeal for the true faith you design to equip and despatch this expedition, you purpose also, as is your duty, to lead the peoples dwelling in those islands and countries to embrace the Christian religion; nor at any time let dangers or hardships deter you therefrom, with the stout hope and trust in your hearts that Almighty God will further your undertakings. And, in order that you may enter upon so great an undertaking with greater readiness and heartiness endowed with the benefit of our apostolic favor, we, of our own accord, not at your instance nor the request of anyone else in your regard, but of our own sole largess and certain knowledge and out of the fullness of our apostolic power, by the authority of Almighty God conferred upon us in blessed Peter and of the vicarship of Jesus Christ, which we hold on earth, do by tenor of these presents, should any of said islands have been found by your envoys and captains, give, grant, and assign to you and your heirs and successors, kings of Castile and Leon, forever, together with all their dominions, cities, camps, places, and villages, and all rights, jurisdictions, and appurtenances, all islands and mainlands found and to be found, discovered and to be discovered towards the west and south, by drawing and establishing a line from the Arctic pole, namely the north, to the Antarctic pole, namely the south, no matter whether the said mainlands and islands are found and to be found in the direction of India or towards any other quarter, the said line to be distant one hundred leagues towards the west and south from any of the islands commonly known as the Azores and Cape Verde. With this proviso however that none of the islands and mainlands, found and to be found, discovered and to be discovered, beyond that said line towards the west and south, be in the actual possession of any Christian king or prince up to the birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ just past from which the present year one thousand four hundred and ninety-three begins. And we make, appoint, and depute you and your said heirs and successors lords of them with full and free power, authority, and jurisdiction of every kind; with this proviso however, that by this our gift, grant, and assignment no right acquired by any Christian prince, who may be in actual possession of said islands and mainlands prior to the said birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ, is hereby to be understood to be withdrawn or taken away. Moreover we command you in virtue of holy obedience that, employing all due diligence in the premises, as you also promise -- nor do we doubt your compliance therein in accordance with your loyalty and royal greatness of spirit -- you should appoint to the aforesaid mainlands and islands worthy, God-fearing, learned, skilled, and experienced men, in order to instruct the aforesaid inhabitants and residents in the Catholic faith and train them in good morals. Furthermore, under penalty of excommunication late sententie to be incurred ipso facto, should anyone thus contravene, we strictly forbid all persons of whatsoever rank, even imperial and royal, or of whatsoever estate, degree, order, or condition, to dare, without your special permit or that of your aforesaid heirs and successors, to go for the purpose of trade or any other reason to the islands or mainlands, found and to be found, discovered and to be discovered, towards the west and south, by drawing and establishing a line from the Arctic pole to the Antarctic pole, no matter whether the mainlands and islands, found and to be found, lie in the direction of India or toward any other quarter whatsoever, the said line to be distant one hundred leagues towards the west and south, as is aforesaid, from any of the islands commonly known as the Azores and Cape Verde; apostolic constitutions and ordinances and other decrees whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding. We trust in Him from whom empires and governments and all good things proceed, that, should you, with the Lord's guidance, pursue this holy and praiseworthy undertaking, in a short while your hardships and endeavors will attain the most felicitous result, to the happiness and glory of all Christendom. But inasmuch as it would be difficult to have these present letters sent to all places where desirable, we wish, and with similar accord and knowledge do decree, that to copies of them, signed by the hand of a public notary commissioned therefor, and sealed with the seal of any ecclesiastical officer or ecclesiastical court, the same respect is to be shown in court and outside as well as anywhere else as would be given to these presents should they thus be exhibited or shown. Let no one, therefore, infringe, or with rash boldness contravene, this our recommendation, exhortation, requisition, gift, grant, assignment, constitution, deputation, decree, mandate, prohibition, and will. Should anyone presume to attempt this, be it known to him that he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul. Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, in the year of the incarnation of our Lord one thousand four hundred and ninety-three, the fourth of May, and the first year of our pontificate.
Gratis by order of our most holy lord, the pope.
June. For the referendary, For J. Bufolinus,
A. de Mucciarellis. A. Santoseverino.
L. Podocatharus.
Source
Ref.1 : From Paul Gottschalk, "The Earliest Diplomatic Documents on America: The Papal Bulls of 1493 and the Treaty of Tordesillas Reproduced and Translated," Berlin, 1927.
Ref.2 : From Frances Gardiner Davenport, ed., "European Treaties bearing on the History of the United States and its Dependencies to 1648," Washington, D.C., 1917.
Ref.3 : The inter Caetera English translation is also from " European Treaties bearing on the History of the United States and its Dependencies to 1648",
Frances Gardiner Davenport, editor, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1917, Washington, D.C., at pp. 75-78. The original text in Latin is in the same volume, at pp. 72-75.
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This week Time Magazine's cover story is the "Great Wall of China." It purports to tell the story of the border fence. It does little to inform, and much to confuse.
It begins by telling of a group of people attempting to climb over the brand-new fence west of Naco, Arizona, a fence we said was "designed to climb." This just happens to be on the Ladd Ranch, where Ladd himself says the fence is a joke.
They described the fence as "the U.S. government's new $1 million-per-mile border-security fence." Where in the hell did they get this number? At a minimum, a properly designed fence will cost $3 million per mile. In fact, a flimsy fence at Sasabe cost $4.8 million per mile
Time goes on to ask; "If a billion-dollar barrier can't stop children and seniors in broad daylight, what's the point?" They say the truth is "complicated."
The truth isn't complicated. The truth is that the Department of Homeland Security does not want to stop illegal aliens from entering from Mexico so they design the system to fail.
Time discusses the issue within the presidential campaign, but fails to mention that McCain promised to make border security a priority, whereas Obama didn't. I find it strange that a Time cover story about the border fence fails to mention this important distinction. -- Click to continue reading |
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SIGHTINGS
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The Battle For Your Mind - Mass
Mind Control Techniques
In America
By Dick Sutphen
1-20-2000
- Persuasion and Brainwashing
Techniques Being Used On The Public Today - Reformatted for WWW display and distribution
by Dynamic Living Media Summary Of Contents
Introduction - The Birth of Conversion: Brainwashing in Christian Revivalism in 1735.
The Three Brain Phases:
The Pavlovian Explanation
How Revivalist Preachers Work The "Voice Roll" Technique The Build-up Process.: Inducing Altered States Assured Continuation: Fleecing the Flock Bonding by Fear and Suggestion Testimony: Creating Community
Spirit Miracles The Grey Area of Legitimacy A Game in Which the Rules Keep Changing - Six Conversion Techniques Isolation Intimidation, Deprivation and Indoctrination.
The "Sell It By Zealot" Technique.
Wearing Down Resistance Increasing Tension
Introducing Uncertainty About Identity
Jargon Lack of Humor: No Release, No Resistance Not Always a Bad Thing Cults:
A Captive Course in Stockholm Syndrome
The Only Hope of Immunity
The US Marines as a Brainwashing Cult Steps in the Decognition Process
Alertness reduction Programmed Confusion Thought Stopping
Thought-Stopping Techniques Marching Meditation Chanting
True believers and mass movements. - Persuasion techniques: "Yes Set" Embedded Commands The Power of NLP Interspersal Technique Practical Examples Shock and Confusion
Subliminal Programming - Does Subliminal Programming Work? Mass Misuse of Subliminal Programming Vibrato Extra-low Frequency Vibrations (ELFs) The Neurophone Technological Tools for Mass Manipulation In Closing...
- Introduction
- I'm Dick Sutphen and this tape is a studio-recorded, expanded version of a talk I delivered at the World Congress of Professional Hypnotists Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. Although the tape carries a copyright to protect it from unlawful duplication for sale by other companies, in this case, I invite individuals to make copies and give them to friends or anyone in a position to communicate this information.
- Although I've been interviewed about the subject on many local and regional radio and TV talk shows, large-scale mass communication appears to be blocked, since it could result in suspicion or investigation of the very media presenting it or the sponsors that support the media. Some government agencies do not want this information generally known. Nor do the Born-Again Christian movement, cults, and many human-potential trainings.
- Everything I will relate only exposes the surface of the problem. I don't know how the misuse of these techniques can be stopped. I don't think it is possible to legislate against that which often cannot be detected; and if those who legislate are using these techniques, there is little hope of affecting laws to govern usage. I do know that the first step to initiate change is to generate interest. In this case, that will probably only result from an underground effort.
- In talking about this subject, I am talking about my own business. I know it, and I know how effective it can be. I produce hypnosis and subliminal tapes and, in some of my seminars, I use conversion tactics to assist participants to become independent and self-sufficient. But, anytime I use these techniques, I point out that I am using them, and those attending have a choice to participate or not. They also know what the desired result of participation will be.
- So, to begin, I want to state the most basic of all facts about brainwashing: In the entire history of man, no one has ever been brainwashed and realized, or believed, that he had been brainwashed. Those who have been brainwashed will usually passionately defend their manipulators, claiming they have simply been "shown the light" ...or have been transformed in miraculous ways.
- The Birth of Conversion: Brainwashing in Christian Revivalism in 1735.
- Conversion is a "nice" word for brainwashing...and any study of brainwashing has to begin with a study of Christian revivalism in eighteenth century America. Apparently, Jonathan Edwards accidentally discovered the techniques during a religious crusade in 1735 in Northampton, Massachusetts. By inducing guilt and acute apprehension and by increasing the tension, the "sinners" attending his revival meetings would break down and completely submit. Technically, what Edwards was doing was creating conditions that wipe the brain slate clean so that the mind accepts new programming. The problem was that the new input was negative. He would tell them, "You're a sinner! You're destined for hell!"
- As a result, one person committed suicide and another attempted suicide. And the neighbors of the suicidal converts related that they, too, were affected so deeply that, although they had found "eternal salvation," they were obsessed with a diabolical temptation to end their own lives.
- Once a preacher, cult leader, manipulator or authority figure creates the brain phase to wipe the brain-slate clean, his subjects are wide open. New input, in the form of suggestion, can be substituted for their previous ideas. Because Edwards didn't turn his message positive until the end of the revival, many accepted the negative suggestions and acted, or desired to act, upon them.
- Charles J. Finney was another Christian revivalist who used the same techniques four years later in mass religious conversions in New York. The techniques are still being used today by Christian revivalists, cults, human-potential trainings, some business rallies, and the United States Armed services...to name just a few.
- Let me point out here that I don't think most revivalist preachers realize or know they are using brainwashing techniques. Edwards simply stumbled upon a technique that really worked, and others copied it and have continued to copy it for over two hundred years. And the more sophisticated our knowledge and technology become, the more effective the conversion. I feel strongly that this is one of the major reasons for the increasing rise in Christian fundamentalism, especially the televised variety, while most of the orthodox religions are declining.
- The Three Brain Phases: The Pavlovian Explanation
- The Christians may have been the first to successfully formulate brainwashing, but we have to look to Pavlov, the Russian scientist, for a technical explanation. In the early 1900s, his work with animals opened the door to further investigations with humans. After the revolution in Russia, Lenin was quick to see the potential of applying Pavlov's research to his own ends.
- Three distinct and progressive states of transmarginal inhibition were identified by Pavlov. The first is the equivalent phase, in which the brain gives the same response to both strong and weak stimuli. The second is the paradoxical phase, in which the brain responds more actively to weak stimuli than to strong. And the third is the ultra-paradoxical phase, in which conditioned responses and behavior patterns turn from positive to negative or from negative to positive.
- With the progression through each phase, the degree of conversion becomes more effective and complete. The way to achieve conversion are many and varied, but the usual first step in religious or political brainwashing is to work on the emotions of an individual or group until they reach an abnormal level of anger, fear, exitement, or nervous tension.
- The progressive result of this mental condition is to impair judgement and increase suggestibility. The more this condition can be maintained or intensified, the more it compounds. Once catharsis, or the first brain phase, is reached, the complete mental takeover becomes easier. Existing mental programming can be replaced with new patterns of thinking and behavior.
- Other often-used physiological weapons to modify normal brain functions are fasting, radical or high sugar diets, physical discomforts, regulation of breathing, mantra chanting in meditation, the disclosure of awesome mysteries, special lighting and sound effects, programmed response to incense, or intoxicating drugs.
- The same results can be obtained in contemporary psychiatric treatment by electric shock treatments and even by purposely lowering a person's blood sugar level with insulin injections.
- Before I talk about exactly how some of the techniques are applied, I want to point out that hypnosis and conversion tactics are two distinctly different things--and that conversion techniques are far more powerful. However, the two are often mixed...with powerful results.
- How Revivalist Preachers Work
- If you'd like to see a revivalist preacher at work, there are probably several in your city. Go to the church or tent early and sit in the rear, about three-quarters of the way back. Most likely repetitive music will be played while the people come in for the service. A repetitive beat, ideally ranging from 45 to 72 beats per minute (a rhythm close to the beat of the human heart), is very hypnotic and can generate an eyes-open altered state of consciousness in a very high percentage of people. And, once you are in an alpha state, you are at least 25 times as suggestible as you would be in full beta consciousness. The music is probably the same for every service, or incorporates the same beat, and many of the people will go into an altered state almost immediately upon entering the sanctuary. Subconsciously, they recall their state of mind from previous services and respond according to the post-hypnotic programming.
- Watch the people waiting for the service to begin. Many will exhibit external signs of trance--body relaxation and slightly dilated eyes. Often, they begin swaying back and forth with their hands in the air while sitting in their chairs. Next, the assistant pastor will probably come out. He usually speaks with a pretty good "voice roll."
- The "Voice Roll" Technique
- A "voice roll" is a patterned, paced style used by hypnotists when inducing a trance. It is also used by many lawyers, several of whom are highly trained hypnotists, when they desire to entrench a point firmly in the minds of the jurors. A voice roll can sound as if the speaker were talking to the beat of a metronome or it may sound as though he were emphasizing every word in a monotonous, patterned style. The words will usually be delivered at the rate of 45 to 60 beats per minute, maximizing the hypnotic effect.
- The Build-up Process: Inducing Altered States
- Now the assistant pastor begins the "build-up" process. He induces an altered state of consciousness and/or begins to generate the excitement and the expectations of the audience. Next, a group of young women in "sweet and pure" chiffon dresses might come out to sing a song. Gospel songs are great for building excitement and involvement. In the middle of the song, one of the girls might be "smitten by the spirit" and fall down or react as if possessed by the Holy Spirit. This very effectively increases the intensity in the room. At this point, hypnosis and conversion tactics are being mixed. And the result is the audience's attention span is now totally focused upon the communication while the environment becomes more exciting or tense.
- Assured Continuation: Fleecing the Flock
- Right about this time, when an eyes-open mass-induced alpha mental state has been achieved, they will usually pass the collection plate or basket. In the background, a 45-beat-per-minute voice roll from the assistant preacher might exhort, "Give to God...Give to God...Give to God...." And the audience does give. God may not get the money, but his already-wealthy representative will.
Bonding by Fear and Suggestion - Next, the fire-and-brimstone preacher will come out. He induces fear and increases the tension by talking about "the devil," "going to hell," or the forthcoming Armegeddon.
- In the last such rally I attended, the preacher talked about the blood that would soon be running out of every faucet in the land. He was also obsessed with a "bloody axe of God," which everyone had seen hanging above the pulpit the previous week. I have no doubt that everyone saw it--the power of suggestion given to hundreds of people in hypnosis assures that at least 10 to 25 percent would see whatever he suggested they see.
- Testimony: Creating Community Spirit
- In most revivalist gatherings, "testifying" or "witnessing" usually follows the fear-based sermon. People from the audience come up on stage and relate their stories. "I was crippled and now I can walk!" "I had arthritis and now it's gone!" It is a psychological manipulation that works. After listening to numerous case histories of miraculous healings, the average guy in the audience with a minor problem is sure he can be healed. The room is charged with fear, guilt, intense excitement, and expectations.
Miracles - Now those who want to be healed are frequently lined up around the edge of the room, or they are told to come down to the front. The preacher might touch them on the head firmly and scream, "Be healed!" This releases the psychic energy and, for many, catharsis results. Catharsis is a purging of repressed emotions. Individuals might cry, fall down or even go into spasms. And if catharsis is effected, they stand a chance of being healed. In catharsis (one of the three brain phases mentioned earlier), the brain-slate is temporarily wiped clean and the new suggestion is accepted.
- For some, the healing may be permanent. For many, it will last four days to a week, which is, incidentally, how long a hypnotic suggestion given to a somnambulistic subject will usually last. Even if the healing doesn't last, if they come back every week, the power of suggestion may continually override the problem...or sometimes, sadly, it can mask a physical problem which could prove to be very detrimental to the individual in the long run.
- The Grey Area of Legitimacy
- I'm not saying that legitimate healings do not take place. They do. Maybe the individual was ready to let go of the negativity that caused the problem in the first place; maybe it was the work of God. Yet I contend that it can be explained with existing knowledge of brain/mind function.
- A Game in Which the Rules Keep Changing
- The techniques and staging will vary from church to church. Many use "speaking in tongues" to generate catharsis in some while the spectacle creates intense excitement in the observers.
- The use of hypnotic techniques by religions is sophisticated, and professionals are assuring that they become even more effective. A man in Los Angeles is designing, building, and reworking a lot of churches around the country. He tells ministers what they need and how to use it. This man's track record indicates that the congregation and the monetary income will double if the minister follows his instructions. He admits that about 80 percent of his efforts are in the sound system and lighting.
- Powerful sound and the proper use of lighting are of primary importance in inducing an altered state of consciousnes--I've been using them for years in my own seminars. However, my participants are fully aware of the process and what they can expect as a result of their participation.
- Six Conversion Techniques
- Cults and human-potential organizations are always looking for new converts. To attain them, they must also create a brain-phase. And they often need to do it within a short space of time--a weekend, or maybe even a day. The following are the six primary techniques used to generate the conversion.
Isolation Intimidation, Deprivation and Indoctrination - The meeting or training takes place in an area where participants are cut off from the outside world. This may be any place: a private home, a remote or rural setting, or even a hotel ballroom where the participants are allowed only limited bathroom usage. In human-potential trainings, the controllers will give a lengthy talk about the importance of "keeping agreements" in life. The participants are told that if they don't keep agreements, their life will never work. It's a good idea to keep agreements, but the controllers are subverting a positive human value for selfish purposes. The participants vow to themselves and their trainer that they will keep their agreements. Anyone who does not will be intimidated into agreement or forced to leave. The next step is to agree to complete training, thus assuring a high percentage of conversions for the organizations.
They will usually have to agree not to take drugs, smoke, and sometimes not to eat...or they are given such short meal breaks that it creates tension. The real reason for the agreements is to alter internal chemistry, which generates anxiety and hopefully causes at least a slight malfunction of the nervous system, which in turn increases the conversion potential. - The "Sell It By Zealot" Technique.
- Before the gathering is complete, the agreements will be used to ensure that the new converts go out and find new participants. They are intimidated into agreeing to do so before they leave. Since the importance of keeping agreements is so high on their priority list, the converts will twist the arms of everyone they know, attempting to talk them into attending a free introductory session offered at a future date by the organization. The new converts are zealots. In fact, the inside term for merchandising the largest and most successful human-potential training is, "sell it by zealot!"
- At least a million people are graduates and a good percentage have been left with a mental activation button that assures their future loyalty and assistance if the guru figure or organization calls. Think about the potential political implications of hundreds of thousands of zealots programmed to campaign for their guru.
- Be wary of an organization of this type that offers follow-up sessions after the seminar. Follow-up sessions might be weekly meetings or inexpensive seminars given on a regular basis which the organization will attempt to talk you into taking--or any regularly scheduled event used to maintain control. As the early Christian revivalists found, long-term control is dependent upon a good follow-up system.
Wearing Down Resistance - Alright. Now, let's look at the second tip-off that indicates conversion tactics are being used. A schedule is maintained that causes physical and mental fatigue. This is primarily accomplished by long hours in which the participants are given no opportunity for relaxation or reflection.
- Increasing Tension
- The third tip-off: techniques used to increase the tension in the room or environment.
- Introducing Uncertainty About Identity
- Number four: Uncertainty. I could spend hours relating various techniques to increase tension and generate uncertainty. Basically, the participants are concerned about being "put on the spot" or encountered by the trainers, guilt feelings are played upon, participants are tempted to verbally relate their innermost secrets to the other participants or forced to take part in activities that emphasize removing their masks. One of the most successful human-potential seminars forces the participants to stand on a stage in front of the entire audience while being verbally attacked by the trainers. A public opinion poll, conducted a few years ago, showed that the number one most-fearful situation an individual could encounter is to speak to an audience. It ranked above window washing outside the 85th floor of an office building.
- So you can imagine the fear and tension this situation generates within the participants. Many faint, but most cope with the stress by mentally going away. They literally go into an alpha state, which automatically makes them many times as suggestible as they normally are. And another loop of the downward spiral into conversion is successfully effected.
Jargon - The fifth clue that conversion tactics are being used is the introduction of jargon--new terms that have meaning only to the "insiders" who participate. Vicious language is also frequently used, purposely, to make participants uncomfortable.
- Lack of Humor: No Release, No Resistance
- The final tip-off is that there is no humor in the communications...at least until the participants are converted. Then, merry-making and humor are highly desirable as symbols of the new joy the participants have supposedly "found."
Not Always a Bad Thing - I'm not saying that good does not result from participation in such gatherings. It can and does. But I contend it is important for people to know what has happened and to be aware that continual involvement may not be in their best interest.
- Over the years, I've conducted professional seminars to teach people to be hypnotists, trainers, and counselors. I've had many of those who conduct trainings and rallies come to me and say, "I'm here because I know that what I'm doing works, but I don't know why." After showing them how and why, many have gotten out of the business or have decided to approach it differently or in a much more loving and supportive manner.
- Many of these trainers have become personal friends, and it scares us all to have experienced the power of one person with a microphone and a room full of people. Add a little charisma and you can count on a high percentage of conversions. The sad truth is that a high percentage of people want to give away their power--they are true "believers"!
Cults: A Captive Course in Stockholm Syndrome - Cult gatherings or human-potential trainings are an ideal environment to observe first-hand what is technically called the "Stockholm Syndrome." This is a situation in which those who are intimidated, controlled, or made to suffer, begin to love, admire, and even sometimes sexually desire their controllers or captors.
- But let me inject a word of warning here: If you think you can attend such gatherings and not be affected, you are probably wrong. A perfect example is the case of a woman who went to Haiti on a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Haitian Voodoo. In her report, she related how the music eventually induced uncontrollable bodily movement and an altered state of consciousness. Although she understood the process and thought herself above it, when she began to feel herself become vulnerable to the music, she attempted to fight it and turned away. Anger or resistance almost always assures conversion. A few moments later she was possessed by the music and began dancing in a trance around the Voodoo meeting house. A brain phase had been induced by the music and excitement, and she awoke feeling reborn.
The Only Hope of Immunity - The only hope of attending such gatherings without being affected is to be a Buddha and allow no positive or negative emotions to surface. Few people are capable of such detachment.
- The US Marines as a Brainwashing Cult
- Before I go on, let's go back to the six tip-offs to conversion. I want to mention the United States Government and military boot camp. The Marine Corps talks about breaking men down before "rebuilding" them as new men--as marines! Well, that is exactly what they do, the same way a cult breaks its people down and rebuilds them as happy flower sellers on your local street corner. Every one of the six conversion techniques are used in boot camp. Considering the needs of the military, I'm not making a judgement as to whether that is good or bad. IT IS A fact that the men are effectively brainwashed. Those who won't submit must be discharged or spend much of their time in the brig.
Steps in the Decognition Process - Once the initial conversion is effected, cults, armed services, and similar groups cannot have cynicism among their members. Members must respond to commands and do as they are told, otherwise they are dangerous to the organizational control. This is normally accomplished as a three-step Decognition Process.
Alertness reduction - Step One is alertness reduction: The controllers cause the nervous system to malfunction, making it difficult to distinguish between fantasy and reality. This can be accomplished in several ways. poor diet is one; watch out for Brownies and Koolaid. The sugar throws the nervous system off. More subtle is the "spiritual diet" used by many cults. They eat only vegetables and fruits; without the grounding of grains, nuts, seeds, dairy products, fish or meat, an individual becomes mentally "spacey." Inadequate sleep is another primary way to reduce alertness, especially when combined with long hours of work or intense physical activity. Also, being bombarded with intense and unique experiences achieves the same result.
- Programmed Confusion
- Step Two is programmed confusion: You are mentally assaulted while your alertness is being reduced as in Step One. This is accomplished with a deluge of new information, lectures, discussion groups, encounters or one-to-one processing, which usually amounts to the controller bombarding the individual with questions. During this phase of decognition, reality and illusion often merge and perverted logic is likely to be accepted.
- Thought Stopping
- Step Three is thought stopping: Techniques are used to cause the mind to go "flat." These are altered-state-of-consciousness techniques that initially induce calmness by giving the mind something simple to deal with and focusing awareness. The continued use brings on a feeling of elation and eventually hallucination. The result is the reduction of thought and eventually, if used long enough, the cessation of all thought and withdrawal from everyone and everything except that which the controllers direct. The takeover is then complete. It is important to be aware that when members or participants are instructed to use "thought-stopping" techniques, they are told that they will benefit by so doing: they will become "better soldiers" or "find enlightenment."
- Thought-Stopping Techniques
- Marching
- There are three primary techniques used for thought stopping. The first is marching: the thump, thump, thump beat literally generates self-hypnosis and thus great susceptibility to suggestion.
Meditation - The second thought stopping technique is meditation. If you spend an hour to an hour and a half a day in meditation, after a few weeks, there is a great probability that you will not return to full beta consciousness. You will remain in a fixed state of alpha for as long as you continue to meditate. I'm not saying this is bad--if you do it yourself. It may be very beneficial. But it is a fact that you are causing your mind to go flat. I've worked with meditators on an EEG machine and the results are conclusive: the more you meditate, the flatter your mind becomes until, eventually and especially if used to excess or in combination with decognition, all thought ceases. Some spiritual groups see this as nirvana--which is bullshit. It is simply a predictable physiological result. And if heaven on earth is non-thinking and non-involvement, I really question why we are here.
Chanting - The third thought-stopping technique is chanting, and often chanting in meditation. "Speaking in tongues" could also be included in this category.
- All three-stopping techniques produce an altered state of consciousness. This may be very good if you are controlling the process, for you also control the input. I personally use at least one self-hypnosis programming session every day and I know how beneficial it is for me. But you need to know if you use these techniques to the degree of remaining continually in alpha that, although you'll be very mellow, you'll also be more suggestible.
- True Believers and Mass Movements
- Before ending this section on conversion, I want to talk about the people who are most susceptible to it and about Mass Movements. I am convinced that at least a third of the population is what Eric Hoffer calls "true believers." They are joiners and followers...people who want to give away their power. They look for answers, meaning, and enlightenment outside themselves.
- Edward Hoffer, who wrote "The True Believer", a classic on mass movements, says, "true believers are not intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but are those craving to be rid of unwanted self. They are followers, not because of a desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy their passion for self-renunciation!" Hoffer also says that true believers "are eternally incomplete and eternally insecure"!
- I know this from my own experience. In my years of communicating concepts and conducting trainings, I have run into them again and again. All I can do is attempt to show them that the only thing to seek is the True Self within. Their personal answers are to be found there and there alone. I communicate that the basics of spirituality are self-responsibility and self-actualization. But most of the true believers just tell me that I'm not spiritual and go looking for someone who will give them the dogma and structure they desire.
- Never underestimate the potential danger of these people. They can easily be molded into fanatics who will gladly work and die for their holy cause. It is a substitute for their lost faith in themselves and offers them as a substitute for individual hope. The Moral Majority is made up of true believers. All cults are composed of true believers. You'll find them in politics, churches, businesses, and social cause groups. They are the fanatics in these organizations.
- Mass Movements will usually have a charismatic leader. The followers want to convert others to their way of living or impose a new way of life--if necessary, by legislating laws forcing others to their view, as evidenced by the activities of the Moral Majority. This means enforcement by guns or punishment, for that is the bottomline in law enforcement.
- A common hatred, enemy, or devil is essential to the success of a mass movement. The Born-Again Christians have Satan himself, but that isn't enough--they've added the occult, the New Age thinkers and, lately, all those who oppose their integration of church and politics, as evidenced in their political reelection campaigns against those who oppose their views. In revolutions, the devil is usually the ruling power or aristocracy. Some human-potential movements are far too clever to ask their graduates to join anything, thus labeling themselves as a cult--but, if you look closely, you'll find that their devil is anyone and everyone who hasn't taken their training.
- There are mass movements without devils but they seldom attain major status. The True Believers are mentally unbalanced or insecure people, or those without hope or friends.
People don't look for allies when they love, but they do when they hate or become obsessed with a cause. And those who desire a new life and a new order feel the old ways must be eliminated before the new order can be built.
Persuasion Techniques - Persuasion isn't technically brainwashing but it is the manipulation of the human mind by another individual, without the manipulated party being aware what caused his opinion shift. I only have time to very basically introduce you to a few of the thousands of techniques in use today, but the basis of persuasion is always to access your right brain. The left half of your brain is analytical and rational. The right side is creative and imaginative. That is overly simplified but it makes my point. So, the idea is to distract the left brain and keep it busy. Ideally, the persuader generates an eyes-open altered state of consciousness, causing you to shift from beta awareness into alpha; this can be measured on an EEG machine.
- "Yes Set"
- First, let me give you an example of distracting the left brain. Politicians use these powerful techniques all the time; lawyers use many variations which, I've been told, they call "tightening the noose."
- Assume for a moment that you are watching a politician give a speech. First, he might generate what is called a "yes set." These are statements that will cause listeners to agree; they might even unknowingly nod their heads in agreement. Next come the truisms. These are usually facts that could be debated but, once the politician has his audience agreeing, the odds are in the politician's favor that the audience won't stop to think for themselves, thus continuing to agree. Last comes the suggestion. This is what the politician wants you to do and, since you have been agreeing all along, you could be persuaded to accept the suggestion. Now, if you'll listen closely to my political speech, you'll find that the first three are the "yes set," the next three are truisms and the last is the suggestion.
- "Ladies and gentlemen: are you angry about high food prices? Are you tired of astronomical gas prices? Are you sick of out-of-control inflation? Well, you know the Other Party allowed 18 percent inflation last year; you know crime has increased 50 percent nationwide in the last 12 months, and you know your paycheck hardly covers your expenses any more. Well, the answer to resolving these problems is to elect me, John Jones, to the U.S. Senate."
- Embedded Commands
- And I think you've heard all that before. But you might also watch for what are called embedded commands. As an example: On key words, the speaker would make a gesture with his left hand, which research has shown is more apt to access your right brain. Today's media-oriented politicians and spellbinders are often carefully trained by a whole new breed of specialist who are using every trick in the book--both old and new--to manipulate you into accepting their candidate.
The Power of NLP - The concepts and techniques of Neuro-Linguistics are so heavily protected that I found out the hard way that to even talk about them publicly or in print results in threatened legal action. Yet Neuro-Linguistic training is readily available to anyone willing to devote the time and pay the price. It is some of the most subtle and powerful manipulation I have yet been exposed to. A good friend who recently attended a two-week seminar on Neuro-Linguistics found that many of those she talked to during the breaks were government people.
- Interspersal Technique
- Another technique that I'm just learning about is unbelievably slippery; it is called an interspersal technique and the idea is to say one thing with words but plant a subconscious impression of something else in the minds of the listeners and/or watchers.
Practical Examples - Let me give you an example: Assume you are watching a television commentator make the following statement: Senator Johnson is assisting local authorities to clear up the stupid mistakes of companies contributing to the nuclear waste problems." It sounds like a statement of fact, but, if the speaker emphasizes the right word, and especially if he makes the proper hand gestures on the key words, you could be left with the subconscious impression that Senator Johnson is stupid. That was the subliminal goal of the statement and the speaker cannot be called to account for anything.
- Persuasion techniques are also frequently used on a much smaller scale with just as much effectiveness. The insurance salesman knows his pitch is likely to be much more effective if he can get you to visualize something in your mind. This is right-brain communication. For instance, he might pause in his conversation, look slowly around your livingroom and say, "Can you just imagine this beautiful home burning to the ground?" Of course you can! It is one of your unconscious fears and, when he forces you to visualize it, you are more likely to be manipulated into signing his insurance policy.
Shock and Confusion - The Hare Krishnas, operating in every airport, use what I call shock and confusion techniques to distract the left brain and communicate directly with the right brain. While waiting for a plane, I once watched one operate for over an hour. He had a technique of almost jumping in front of someone. Initially, his voice was loud then dropped as he made his pitch to take a book and contribute money to the cause. Usually, when people are shocked, they immediately withdraw. In this case they were shocked by the strange appearance, sudden materialization and loud voice of the Hare Krishna devotee. In other words, the people went into an alpha state for security because they didn't want to confront the reality before them.
- In alpha, they were highly suggestible so they responded to the suggestion of taking the book; the moment they took the book, they felt guilty and responded to the second suggestion: give money. We are all conditioned that if someone gives us something, we have to give them something in return--in that case, it was money. While watching this hustler, I was close enough to notice that many of the people he stopped exhibited an outward sign of alpha--their eyes were actually dilated.
Subliminal Programming - Subliminals are hidden suggestions that only your subconscious perceives. They can be audio, hidden behind music, or visual, airbrushed into a picture, flashed on a screen so fast that you don't consciously see them, or cleverly incorporated into a picture or design.
- Most audio subliminal reprogramming tapes offer verbal suggestions recorded at a low volume.
I question the efficacy of this technique--if subliminals are not perceptible, they cannot be effective, and subliminals recorded below the audible threshold are therefore useless. The oldest audio subliminal technique uses a voice that follows the volume of the music so subliminals are impossible to detect without a parametric equalizer. But this technique is patented and, when I wanted to develop my own line of subliminal audiocassettes, negotiations with the patent holder proved to be unsatisfactory. - My attorney obtained copies of the patents which I gave to some talented Hollywood sound engineers, asking them to create a new technique. They found a way to psycho-acoustically modify and synthesize the suggestions so that they are projected in the same chord and frequency as the music, thus giving them the effect of being part of the music. But we found that in using this technique, there is no way to reduce various frequencies to detect the subliminals. In other words, although the suggestions are being heard by the subconscious mind, they cannot be monitored with even the most sophisticated equipment.
- If we were able to come up with this technique as easily as we did, I can only imagine how sophisticated the technology has become, with unlimited government or advertising funding. And I shudder to think about the propaganda and commercial manipulation that we are exposed to on a daily basis. There is simply no way to know what is behind the music you hear. It may even be possible to hide a second voice behind the voice to which you are listening.
- The series by Wilson Bryan Key, Ph.D., on subliminals in advertising and political campaigns well documents the misuse in many areas, especially printed advertising in newspapers, magazines, and posters.
- The big question about subliminals is: do they work? And I guarantee you they do. Not only from the response of those who have used my tapes, but from the results of such programs as the subliminals behind the music in department stores. Supposedly, the only message is instructions to not steal: one East Coast department store chain reported a 37 percent reduction in thefts in the first nine months of testing.
- A 1984 article in the technical newsletter, "Brain-Mind Bulletin," states that as much as 99 percent of our cognitive activity may be "non-conscious," according to the director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Psychophysiology at the University of Illinois. The lengthy report ends with the statement, "these findings support the use of subliminal approaches such as taped suggestions for weight loss and the therapeutic use of hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming."
Mass Misuse of Subliminal Programming - I could relate many stories that support subliminal programming, but I'd rather use my time to make you aware of even more subtle uses of such programming.
- I have personally experienced sitting in a Los Angeles auditorium with over ten thousand people who were gathered to listen to a current charismatic figure. Twenty minutes after entering the auditorium, I became aware that I was going in and out of an altered state. Those accompanying me experienced the same thing. Since it is our business, we were aware of what was happening, but those around us were not. By careful observation, what appeared to be spontaneous demonstrations were, in fact, artful manipulations. The only way I could figure that the eyes-open trance had been induced was that a 6- to 7-cycle-per-second vibration was being piped into the room behind the air conditioner sound. That particular vibration generates alpha, which would render the audience highly susceptible. Ten to 25 percent of the population is capable of a somnambulistic level of altered states of consciousness; for these people, the suggestions of the speaker, if non-threatening, could potentially be accepted as "commands."
- Vibrato
- This leads to the mention of vibrato. Vibrato is the tremulous effect imparted in some vocal or instrumental music, and the cyle-per-second range causes people to go into an altered state of consciousness. At one period of English history, singers whose voices contained pronounced vibrato were not allowed to perform publicly because listeners would go into an altered state and have fantasies, often sexual in nature.
- People who attend opera or enjoy listening to singers like Mario Lanza are familiar with this altered state induced by the performers.
- Extra-low Frequency Vibrations (ELFs)
- Now, let's carry this awareness a little farther. There are also inaudible ELFs (extra-low frequency waves). These are electromagnetic in nature. One of the primary uses of ELFs is to communicate with our submarines. Dr. Andrija Puharich, a highly respected researcher, in an attempt to warn U.S. officials about Russian use of ELFs, set up an experiment. Volunteers
were wired so their brain waves could be measured on an EEG. They were sealed in a metal room that could not be penetrated by a normal signal. - Puharich then beamed ELF waves at the volunteers. ELFs go right through the earth and, of course, right through metal walls. Those inside couldn't know if the signal was or was not being sent. And Puharich watched the reactions on the technical equipment: 30 percent of those inside the room were taken over by the ELF signal in six to ten seconds.
- When I say "taken over," I mean that their behavior followed the changes anticipated at very precise frequencies. Waves below 6 cycles per second caused the subjects to become very emotionally upset, and even disrupted bodily functions. At 8.2 cycles, they felt very high...an elevated feeling, as though they had been in masterful meditation, learned over a period of years. Eleven to 11.3 cycles induced waves of depressed agitation leading to riotous behavior.
The Neurophone - Dr. Patrick Flanagan is a personal friend of mine. In the early 1960s, as a teenager, Pat was listed as one of the top scientists in the world by "Life" magazine. Among his many inventions was a device he called the Neurophone--an electronic instrument that can successfully programm suggestions directly through contact with the skin. When he attempted to patent the device, the government demanded that he prove it worked. When he did, the National Security Agency confiscated the neurophone. It took Pat two years of legal battle to get his invention back.
- In using the device, you don't hear or see a thing; it is applied to the skin, which Pat claims is the source of special senses. The skin contains more sensors for heat, touch, pain, vibration, and electrical fields than any other part of the human anatomy.
- In one of his recent tests, Pat conducted two identical seminars for a military audience--one seminar one night and one the next night, because the size of the room was not large enough to accommodate all of them at one time. When the first group proved to be very cool and unwilling to respond, Patrick spent the next day making a special tape to play at the second seminar. The tape instructed the audience to be extremely warm and responsive and for their hands to become "tingly." The tape was played through the neurophone, which was connected to a wire he placed along the ceiling of the room. There were no speakers, so no sound could be heard, yet the message was successfully transmitted from that wire directly into the brains of the audience. They were warm and receptive, their hands tingled and they responded, according to programming, in other ways that I cannot mention here.
Technological Tools for Mass Manipulation - The more we find out about how human beings work through today's highly advanced technological research, the more we learn to control human beings. And what probably scares me the most is that the medium for takeover is already in place. The television set in your livingroom and bedroom is doing a lot more than just entertaining you.
- Before I continue, let me point out something else about an altered state of consciousness. When you go into an altered state, you transfer into right brain, which results in the internal release of the body's own opiates: enkephalins and Beta-endorphins, chemically almost identical to opium. In other words, it feels good...and you want to come back for more.
- Recent tests by researcher Herbert Krugman showed that, while viewers were watching TV, right-brain activity outnumbered left-brain activity by a ratio of two to one. Put more simply,
the viewers were in an altered state...in trance more often than not. They were getting their Beta-endorphin "fix." - To measure attention spans, psychophysiologist Thomas Mulholland of the Veterans Hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts, attached young viewers to an EEG machine that was wired to shut the TV set off whenever the children's brains produced a majority of alpha waves. Although the children were told to concentrate, only a few could keep the set on for more than 30 seconds!
- Most viewers are already hypnotized. To deepen the trance is easy. One simple way is to place a blank, black frame every 32 frames in the film that is being projected. This creates a 45-beat-per-minute pulsation perceived only by the subconscious mind--the ideal pace to generate deep hypnosis.
- The commercials or suggestions presented following this alpha-inducing broadcast are much more likely to be accepted by the viewer. The high percentage of the viewing audience that has somnambulistic-depth ability could very well accept the suggestions as commands--as long as those commands did not ask the viewer to do something contrary to his morals, religion, or self-preservation.
- The medium for takeover is here. By the age of 16, children have spent 10,000 to 15,000 hours watching television--that is more time than they spend n school! In the average home, the TV set is on for six hours and 44 minutes per day--an increase of nine minutes from last year and three times the average rate of increase during the 1970s.
- It obviously isn't getting better...we are rapidly moving into an alpha-level world--very possibly the Orwellian world of "1984"--placid, glassy-eyed, and responding obediently to instructions.
- A research project by Jacob Jacoby, a Purdue University psychologist, found that of 2,700 people tested, 90 percent misunderstood even such simple viewing fare as commercials and "Barnaby Jones." Only minutes after watching, the typical viewer missed 23 to 36 percent of the questions about what he or she had seen. Of course they did--they were going in and out of trance! If you go into a deep trance, you must be instructed to remember--otherwise you automatically forget.
- In Closing...
- I have just touched the tip of the iceberg. When you start to combine subliminal messages behind the music, subliminal visuals projected on the screen, hypnotically produced visual effects, sustained musical beats at a trance-inducing pace . . . you have extremely effective brainwashing. Every hour that you spend watching the TV set you become more conditioned. And, in case you thought there was a law against any of these things, guess again. There isn't! There are a lot of powerful people who obviously prefer things exactly the way they are. Maybe they have plans for...?
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Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- June 23
Lisa Sylvester: The Department of Homeland Security plans to build 670 miles of vehicle barriers and fencing by the end of [this] year. The national security fence is designed to keep drug runners, human smugglers and illegal aliens out. To meet the deadline, the agency has had to waive environmental and other regulations as allowed under Congressional law. But environmentalists complained and filed a lawsuit, noting that endangered jaguars could be affected by the fence construction...
Now the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to intervene in the dispute, effectively giving the Department of Homeland Security the green light to proceed. DHS responded saying, quote, "we're obviously pleased that the Supreme Court has let the lower court's ruling stand. The American people expect this department to enforce the rule of law at the border."
Rep. John Culberson (R-TX): For the public safety and priority of protecting this nation comes first before the rights of animals. And the fence will be built under law. It has to be built and now we know from the Supreme Court it will be built on time.
Dobbs: ...Well, so far about half of that, 700 miles of fence mandated by the Border Fence Act of 2006 has been built, 150 miles of vehicle fencing, 182 miles of pedestrian fencing we're told is completed. The Department of Homeland Security expecting to finish another 340 miles by the end of this year...
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CIA acknowledges its Nazi roots.txt
Subject: [] UPI: CIA acknowledges its Nazi roots
From: "David Crockett Williams" <gear2000@lightspeed.net
To: "www.GeneralAgencyServices.com" <gear2000@lightspeed.net
Subject: UPI: CIA acknowledges its Nazi roots
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 20:35:50 -0700
Below looks like first official public acknowledgement that CIA operations
were/are heavily precendented/created and staffed by former Nazi SS
personnel and "ethics".
This brings recent DoJ Inspector General report acknowleding CIA complicity
in hard drug trade into perspective
http://www.copvcia.com
http://www.suppressedwriters.com
http://www.cia-drugs.org
along with the history of how and why hemp was outlawed by fraud and
disinformation campaign by American monopolist/industrialists who profited
from the way by their industries in Nazi Germany and the US while
suppressing the hemp competition to their monopolies, after which WWII
ended and "behind the scenes" CIA was created by wholesale importation of
Nazi SS intelligentia and integration of related skullduggery to control
american politics and society for corporate exploitations. For nazi-hemp-us
industry connections see
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/randy/swas1.htm and forwarded
post at end of this article.
See the movie about the US hemp relegalization movement: Facts, history and
inspiration of Jack Herer at http://www.emperorofhemp.com
Notice below UPI byline location where CIA released this information is
College Park, Maryland, site of UMD campus from where main formal physics
opposition is coming out against the new-energy "zero-point" technologies to
replace nuclear and fossil fuel power. (see year 2000 public input to DOE
Subject: [] UPI: CIA acknowledges its Nazi roots
http://www.drugtext.org/press/webster/sep00/%5B%5D%20UPI-
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In the November 1999 issue of EPE (Everyday Practical Electronics), a small and
intriguing circuit was published in the Ingenuity Unlimited section by Z.
Kaparnik. It was a very small implementation of a typical transformer feedback
single transistor invertor. The transformer was a standard ferrite bead with two
windings wound on it and the circuit was using the high voltage pulse generated
when the transistor turns off to light an LED from a single 1.5V battery.
This page has two variations on the original design to use the simple circuit in a
useful manner.
Here's the Joule thief. It's like an open PCB torch that will take either an AA or
AAA battery in the holder and use whatever power is left in the battery to light a
white LED.
The amazing thing about this circuit is that it will run right down to about 0.35V
if left running continuously, and will often provide a week of continuous low
level light from a battery that would normally be considered dead.
The level of light is initially quite high but gradually reduces as the battery
voltage goes lower. However, it can still be used for reading in a dark room, even
when the battery is almost completely drained.
Make a Joule thief.
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Outer space offers many advantages for manufacturers because of the ... This did
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A much smaller initial population of two female humans should be viable as ...
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... whatsoever you choose to in that outer space. You can choose to be ...
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