The Enlightenment Engine

My last blog will continue to be updated with less frequency now that I am over here at Memes. Some of what you have seen posted here was first blogged there yet there is much that is archived there that may never make it over here, all of it good stuff. Rather than spend the next two months catching readers up on where all of my research and parapolitical musings are currently at, I have decided to include a list of links here. Enjoy!

My very good friend PC93 saw fit to offer to host a blog for me at a time when I was running out of options. Because of him, my research did not go under a year or so again for what would have been about the fifth time and, I assure you, the last. His site is called Enlightenment Engine and my blog, there, is here.

9/11 and Echelon: Key Players Unearthed

In 1999, I would embark on a campaign ( Jam Echelon Day ) to publicize
the existence of global system of surveillance ( ECHELON ) implemented
by the National Security Agency that "listened" for signs of dissent
and threat to the United States...

Filed under: space race, surveillance, NRO, Bush, 9/11, capitalism, Conspiracy, signals intelligence, DARPA, big brother, space, snoops, technology, security

Adaptive Camouflage: A Not-So-New Twist on Stealth Technologies

Lightweight optoelectronic systems built around advanced image sensors
and display panels have been proposed for making selected objects
appear nearly transparent and thus effectively invisible. These systems
are denoted "adaptive camouflage"...

Filed under: 9/11, war, revolution in military affairs, aviation, technology

Washington's $8 Billion Shadow

" Mega-contractors such as Halliburton and Bechtel supply the
government with brawn. But the biggest, most powerful of the "body
shops"—SAIC, which employs 44,000 people and took in $8 billion last
year—sells brainpower, including...

Filed under: Iraq, 9/11, capitalism, corporatism

The mysterious Prince Turki al-Faisal

Tuesday, December 12, 2006 by Joseph Cannon Prince Turki al-Faisal, the
former head of Saudi Arabian intelligence, has abruptly resigned his
post as the Saudi ambassador to D.C., a job he held for a mere fifteen
months. Supposedly, he wants to "spend...

Filed under: bin Laden, Saudis, money trail, BCCI, Bush, Watergate, 9/11

Do antivirus apps ignore US government spyware?

Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com 18 July 2007 08:18 AM Companies that
produce security software may soon be ignoring certain spyware, and
potentially even infecting their customers through auto updates, under
orders from US government agencies. In the...

Filed under: Psychological Operations, justice, surveillance, Conspiracy, government, corporatism, activism, social engineering, censorship, DARPA, revolution in military affairs, big brother, liberty, freedom

THE PERSECUTION OF THE BISON

This piece came out when, a couple of months ago, about three hundred
of the last wild buffalo whose entirety currently stands under four
thousand were sentenced to death. It would have included a hundred
calves whose only crime was being on national...

Filed under: change, justice, buffalo, first nations, bison, activism, history, genocide

Bored? Frustrated? Confused? GET MAD!!

"Alienation, technoboredom, neurosis, and frustration are not diseases
of an unlucky few, nor even of the many. They are built into the
structure of this society, twisting beggar and businessman alike,
spitting them out like shards from a flawed...

Filed under: hope, creativity, change, justice, classics, direct action, activism, liberty, anarchy

Seizing The Media

"IMMEDIAST projects are against all forms of coercive communication,
cultural monologue and media control. We acknowledge non-violent public
insurgence as a legitimate response to sustained violations by media
and state. We recognize the air as public...

Filed under: hope, revolution, change, capitalism, government, classics, corporatism, direct action, activism, social engineering, censorship, big brother, liberty, anarchy, media

The Withering of the American Environmental Movement

" The absence of a forceful opposition from progressive greens and the
appearance/reality of collaboration with the federal government by
Beltway groups, only strengthens the cause of the extreme right. As the
left migrates toward the center, the...

Filed under: hope, change, positive, environment, ecology, politics, government, direct action, activism, sustainability, deforestation, green scare

Local Papers Spin BFC Arrests, As Expected

"The police involved in the arrests of two Buffalo Field Campaign
volunteers may never have their actual actions brought to light, at
least as far as the general public is concerned. Cameras and film were
confiscated and though the cameras will come...

Filed under: buffalo, first nations, bison, environment, ecology, capitalism, politics, government, direct action, activism, police

POLICE BLOODY & ARREST FIELD WORKERS FILMING BISON HAZE ON PUBLIC LANDS

The second BFC volunteer was arrested after attempting to document the
first volunteer's arrest. The MHP attempted to take the camera away and
forcibly placed the volunteer into handcuffs, slammed him to the
ground, injuring his face. U.S. Forest...

Filed under: buffalo, bison, environment, ecology, politics, government, activism, police

Earth First! A Founder’s Story

Earth First! A Founder’s Story By Howie Wolke D ave Foreman’s old
Volkswagen bus wobbled on unbalanced tires to the northeast across the
Plains of San Augustine on New Mexico Highway 12. The salsa at the
Mexican restaurant in the town of Reserve...

Filed under: hope, revolution, change, environment, ecology, direct action, activism

Absolutely Hilarious!

Was the first moon landing faked? I don't know. Is this video proof
that it was or is this video a fake? I don't know. Is this an
exceptionally funny video ? Yew betcha!

Filed under: Psychological Operations, creativity, Conspiracy, politics, history, social engineering, science, big brother, media, space, humor

Dispelling the Cowboy Myth: an Interview with George Wuerthner

Open space isn't necessarily good for wildlife or ecosystem protection.
If that were the case, then Montana would not have any endangered
species. There would be bison, wolves, grizzlies and sage grouse
everywhere—but these species are on the...

Filed under: buffalo, bison, environment, ecology, politics, government, global warming, sustainability, deforestation

We Ought Not Grow Cows In Dry West

It has been estimated that if all of the ranching that exists from the
Front Range of the Rocky Mountains to the west coast of the United
States was eliminated that only two percent of the national beef
production would be affected. This is because of...

Filed under: buffalo, bison, environment, ecology, politics, global warming, sustainability

Cowboy Mentality Dominates Bison Slaughter

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Columbus Delano, speaking in 1873: "I
would not seriously regret the total disappearance of the buffalo from
our western plains, in its effect upon the Indians. I would regard it
rather as a means of hastening their...

Filed under: buffalo, first nations, bison, environment, ecology, politics, government

The Corporate Takeover of U.S. Intelligence

Snip: "Because of the cloak of secrecy thrown over the intelligence
budgets, there is no way for the American public, or even much of
Congress, to know how those contractors are getting the money, what
they are doing with it, or how effectively they...

Filed under: surveillance, corporatism, signals intelligence, censorship, DARPA, revolution in military affairs, big brother, snoops, technology, security

Is Your Computer Connecting To Websites Without Your Knowledge?

If you are worried that some programs on your PC are secretly making
connections to websites in the background, here's a quick tip that uses
a simple DOS command to detect and prevent such suspicious activity: 1.
Type cmd in your Windows Run box....

Filed under: surveillance, censorship, big brother, technology, security

60 Years After the End of the 3rd Reich, Catholic Priests STILL Manning Concentration Camps

A much awaited human rights abuse trial is underway in Argentina. The
accused is a catholic priest charged with carrying out human rights
abuses while working in several clandestine detention centers during
the nation's 1976-1983 military dictatorship...

Filed under: Psychological Operations, justice, Conspiracy, genocide, religion, big brother, behavior modification, torture

Sentient World Simulation

War Games on the Grandest Scale "Perhaps your real life is so rich you
don't have time for another. Even so, the US Department of Defense
(DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality to
see how long you can go without food...

Filed under: Psychological Operations, surveillance,

NSA 'Spy Room' at AT&T Exposed

"The room, described as secret and secure, houses surveillance
equipment used to spy on AT&T customers. Investigations could
include web use, email and voice communications." NSA 'spy room' at
AT&T exposed Agency can spy on email...

Filed under: surveillance, government, big brother

Mind Games

"Throughout the summer of 2003, Gardiner documented incidents that he
saw as information-warfare campaigns directed both at targeted foreign
populations and the American public. By the fall, he had collected his
analysis into a lengthy treatise,...

Filed under: Iraq, Psychological Operations, Propaganda, capitalism, social engineering, war, big brother

The War and the Spectacle

"Socially and psychologically repressed, people are drawn to spectacles
of violent conflict that allow their accumulated frustrations to
explode in socially condoned orgasms of collective pride and hate.
Deprived of significant accomplishments in...

Filed under: Iraq, Propaganda, capitalism, classics, psychology, corporatism, social engineering, war, big brother

USAF Psyops: The Neurobiology of Dread

A study last year on the neurobiology of dread gives an idea of what
our military Psychological Operations folks are paying attention to. A
link on this Air Force Psychological Operations web site is to this
article on a recent study on the neurobiology...

Filed under: Psychological Operations, neuroscience, psychology, big brother, behavior modification, torture

The Armored Knight of the 20th Century

For the most part, the people in advertising and commercial
entertainment who manipulate the aggressive, subjugating, archetypal
male images are unaware of the powerful historic and metaphysical
forces that stand behind and propel the effectiveness of...

Filed under: Propaganda, psychology, social engineering, media, advertising

The Hobohemians

On the rails with the new freedom riders by Ben Ehrenreich Catching Out
I WON'T TELL YOU EXACTLY WHERE WE ARE, LEST UNION PACIFIC get wise and
throw up another security camera, a few more reels of razor wire or
some of those infrared sensors I keep...

Filed under: creativity, liberty, anarchy, counterculture, freedom

Towards a Feral Revolution!

"In a very general way, we know what we want. We want to live as wild,
free beings in a world of wild, free beings. The humiliation of having
to follow rules, of having to sell our lives away to buy survival, of
seeing our usurped desires transformed...

Filed under: hope, revolution, creativity, spirit, primitivism, liberty, anarchy

Found: the giant lion-eating chimps of the magic forest

by James Randerson, science correspondent Saturday July 14, 2007 The
Guardian Deep in the Congolese jungle is a band of apes that, according
to local legend, kill lions, catch fish and even howl at the moon.
Local hunters speak of massive creatures that...

Filed under: zoology, anthropology, cryptozoology

The Ancient Chimp Stone Age

Chimps have never been known to flake rocks intentionally to fashion
tools, but Mercader believes that way back during a “chimpanzee Stone
Age,” they did crack nuts with the stones found close to the Noulo
site. The cavity-pocked, cantaloupe-size rocks...

Filed under: intelligence, zoology, anthropology, paleontology

Terence McKenna's "Stoned Ape" Theory of Human Evolution

When a person takes small amounts of psilocybin visual acuity improves.
They can actually see slightly better, and this means that animals
allowing psilocybin into their food chain would have increased hunting
success, which means increased food supply...

Filed under: creativity, intelligence, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, ethnopharmacology

Running on Emptiness: The Failure of Symbolic Thought

Freud, Marcuse and others saw that civilization demands the sublimation
or repression of the pleasures of the proximity senses so that the
individual can be thus converted to an instrument of labor. Social
control, via the network of the symbolic, very...

Filed under: creativity, intelligence, cognition, classics, psychology, ontology, anthropology, social engineering, primitivism

Maize in Pre-Columbian India

Carl L. Johannessen and Anne Z. Parker, "Maize Ears Sculptured in 12th
and 13th Century A.D. India as Indicators of Pre-Columbian Diffusion,"
Economic Botany 43 , 1989, 164-80, argue that stone carvings of maize
ears exist in at least three...

Filed under: first nations, anthropology, history

The O'Odham: Native-Americans With Ancestors From India?

By Gene D. Matlock , BA, M.A. Hindu scholars have always claimed that
in remotest times, their ancestors visited every part of the globe,
mapping it accurately, and mining gold and copper in such places as
Michigan, Colorado, Arizona, England, Ireland...

Filed under: first nations, anthropology, history

Sacred Buffalo, Holy Cow: The Struggle for the Western Range

This piece was first published online at the Buffalo Field Campaign's
old website which was, in turn, hosted by the Alliance for the Wild
Rockies . Although it is now eight years old, it remains a thorough
synopsis of the history of the slaughter...

Filed under: buffalo, first nations, bison, environment, ecology, history, genocide

Yellowstone Buffalo Slaughter History

More wild buffalo have been slaughtered in America in the past ten
years than at any time in the last century. Capitalizing on the
Indian's complete dependence upon the buffalo, 19th century government
leaders launched a campaign to wipe them out...

Filed under: buffalo, first nations, bison, environment, ecology, history, genocide

How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later

If you are a Philip K. Dick fan or if you enjoy films like Minority
Report, Bladerunner, the Matrix, or the Truman show, if you are
familiar with the state of the nation's counterculture and you enjoy
movies about a psychotic police state being implemented...

Filed under: creativity, metaphysics, books, films, science fiction, gnosis

Bush's Shadow Army

MEET BLACKWATER USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government
has made its Praetorian Guard for the “global war on terror.”
Blackwater has the world's largest private military base, a fleet of
twenty aircraft, and 20,000 contractors...

Filed under: Iraq, Bush, corporatism, mercenaries, books

Geronimo's Great-Grandson Wants Bones Returned

"He died as a prisoner of war, and he is still a prisoner of war
because his remains were not returned to his homeland," Harlyn Geronimo
said. "Presently, we are looking for a proper consecrated burial."
Geronimo's great-grandson...

Filed under: justice, first nations, Bush, Conspiracy, history, genocide, secret societies

A BRIEF HISTORY OF RELOCATION ON BLACK MESA

" These native peoples, their cemeteries, their burial & sacred
sites, religious structures and Anasazi ruins have been destroyed at
Black Mesa to make way for coal mining. People are not only restricted
from access to sacred sites, but many...

Filed under: first nations, environment, ecology, capitalism, government, global warming, corporatism, genocide

Are Prisons Driving Prisoners Mad?

Are Prisons Driving Prisoners Mad? Friday, Jan. 26, 2007 By JEFFERY
KLUGER Enlarge Photo A SuperMax prison in Boscobel, Wisconsin. Olivia
Og There's no such thing as a good day for a prisoner at the highest
level of security within the Ohio State...

Filed under: prisons, capitalism, crime & punishment

The Crime of Galileo

Whereas you, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei, of Florence,
aged seventy years, were denounced in 1615, to this Holy Office, for
holding as true a false doctrine taught by many, namely, that the sun
is immovable in the center of the world, and...

Filed under: Propaganda, crime & punishment, classics, ontology, history, social engineering, science, religion, censorship

The Optimism of Uncertainty

"To be trully radical is to make hope possible rather than despair
convincing." ~ Raymond Williams "War will exist until that distant day
when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige
as the warrior does today...

Filed under: Zinn, hope, revolution, creativity, change, justice, positive

Spooky Action at a Distance (On Nonlocality)

"It's one thing to say the electrons must affect each other instantly,
but you might still wonder how an electron here instantly knows what is
happening millions of miles away. Moreover, in order to explain the
results we got, we had to say that...

Filed under: classics, spirit, metaphysics, physics, science, chaos theory

David Bohm and the Implicate Order

"Bohm suggests that the whole universe can be thought of as a kind of
giant, flowing hologram, or holomovement , in which a total order is
contained, in some implicit sense, in each region of space and time.
The explicate order is a projection from...

Filed under: metaphysics, physics, science, chaos theory

Propaganda in a Democratic Society by Aldous Huxley

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free," said Jefferson, "it
expects what never was and never will be. . . . The people cannot be
safe without information. Where the press is free, and every man able
to read, all is safe." Propaganda...

Filed under: Psychological Operations, Propaganda, classics, social engineering, liberty

The Information War by Hakim Bey

Humanity has always invested heavily in any scheme that offers escape
from the body. And why not? Material reality is such a mess. Some of
the earliest "religious" artefacts, such as Neanderthal ochre burials,
already suggest a belief in immortality...

Filed under: revolution, creativity, classics, psychology, metaphysics, ontology

World Scientists' Warning To Humanity

"Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human
activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the
environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our
current practices put at serious risk the future...

Filed under: environment, ecology, classics, global warming

Viruses of the Mind

"Think about the two qualities that a virus, or any sort of parasitic
replicator, demands of a friendly medium,. the two qualities that make
cellular machinery so friendly towards parasitic DNA, and that make
computers so friendly towards computer...

Filed under: creativity, intelligence, cognition, psychology, metaphysics, ontology, social engineering, science, memetics

A Commentary on Socio-Cultural Programming and Todays Planetary Situation

Social programming in todays society functions primarily around the
following concepts and ideas: 1. Body Identification: Members of
society are conditioned from birth to identify with the physical body,
and this concept is continually reinforced from...

Filed under: creativity, cognition, spirit, psychology, metaphysics

Electrical Current Applied During Sleep Shown to Improve Memory

Oscillating current stimulation – Slow oscillation stimulation during
sleep Lisa Marshall , marshall@kfg.uni-luebeck.de, Department of
Neuroendocrinology, University of Lübeck Matthias Mölle ,
moelle@kfg.uni-luebeck.de, Department of Neuroendocrinology...

Filed under: sleep, memory, cognition, neuroscience

Wal-Mart Recruits Intelligence Officers

Wal-Mart's interest in intelligence operatives comes at a time when the
retailer is defending itself against allegations by a fired security
employee that it ran surveillance operations against targets including
critics, dissident shareholders, employees...

Filed under: surveillance, Conspiracy, corporatism

Fascism Defined

Fascism, in this day and age, seems a rather nebulous concept. I can't
count how many times I have asked someone to define fascism only to
draw a blank stare or an amibiguous collection of rants against the
Anglo-American power structure that, while...

Filed under: politics, government, the left, corporatism, history, the right

Nuclear Weaponry [VIDEOS]

Oppenheimer once said (in reference to his "problem child"), "Now I am
become death, the destroyer of worlds." He wept as he uttered those
words. First H-Bomb Detonation Nagasaki Bomb 1962 Underground Nuclear
Test The Baker Event Castle...

Filed under: environment, ecology, death, global warming, history, health, war, genocide

The Green Goodbye

Eco-friendly burials eschew headstones, embalming and pricey caskets
made from exotic imported wood.. The Green Goodbye by Nancy J. White
Imagine a gently sloping hill covered with fallen leaves, green ferns
and bright wildflowers, the branches of sturdy...

Filed under: environment, ecology, death

The Lowdown on Wildfires, Salvage Logging, & Thinning

Decreased canopy accompanied by more arid conditions in general make
many tinder boxes, forest service "efforts" at fire suppression
notwithstanding. Since they ARE getting more frequent, it is safe to
say that a few hundred national forest...

Filed under: environment, ecology, global warming, deforestation, science

It's Not Just Climate Change..

"...we could end carbon emissions tomorrow and the Earth is still on a
trajectory to ecologically overshoot its carrying capacity. The social
movement to save the Earth and seek to enter an era of global
ecological sustainability is a multi-front...

Filed under: environment, ecology, global warming, toxicology, sustainability, pollution, deforestation, oceanography

Gaia Theory

James Lovelock is one of the world's truly extraordinary scientists.
For the last 35 years, he has worked independently from home, where he
has consistently produced world-class science. His electron capture
detector was the first to show us that...

Filed under: environment, ecology, spirit, science

No ORGANIC Bee Losses

"...no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial
beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list. The problem with
the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in their hives to
fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed...

Filed under: environment, ecology, zoology, health, toxicology

Monbiot: "If we want to save the planet, we need a five-year freeze on biofuels."

Oil produced from plants sets up competition for food between cars and
people. People - and the environment - will lose. George Monbiot
Tuesday March 27, 2007 The Guardian It used to be a matter of good
intentions gone awry. Now it is plain fraud. The...

Filed under: environment, ecology, global warming

An Interview with Ward Churchill

"Take the whole sweep of Manifest Destiny in the United States, which
reduced the Native population by some 98 percent, and the lebensraum
impulse in Germany, place them side by side, and both practically and
philosophically you've got a direct...

Filed under: first nations, history, genocide

Testing Nonlocal Observation as a Source of Intuitive Knowledge

Dean Radin just posted the abstract for this forthcoming study to his
blog. This study explored the hypothesis that in some cases intuitive
knowledge arises from perceptions that are not mediated through the
ordinary senses. The possibility of detecting...

Filed under: neuroscience, metaphysics, physics, science, gnosis

The Kucinich Conundrum

"Kucinich will run all the way, waiting for that moment when he
transforms from punch line to President. And he insists that he isn't
frustrated that it hasn't happened yet. 'Not at all,' he says. 'The
real test of power is whether...

Filed under: politics, Kucinich, government, the left

Why You Should Avoid Taking Vaccines

"Vaccines contain many toxic substances that are needed to prevent the
vaccines from becoming infected or to improve the performance of the
vaccine. Among these substances are mercury, formaldehyde and
aluminum." Why You Should Avoid Taking...

Filed under: health, toxicology

Radar love: the tortured history of American space radar programs

High resolution airborne synthetic aperture radar image of the
Pentagon. (credit: Sandia National Laboratory) Radar love: the tortured
history of American space radar programs by Dwayne A. Day Monday,
January 22, 2007 On January 11 Reuters published an...

Filed under: intelligence, space race, surveillance, NRO

Saddam's Hanging: Psyops as Usual

You only have to look back a few years (we won't mention JFK) to find a
huge event aimed at viewers with media complicity intended to induce
trauma. Recently, in Iraq, we have a two pronged psychological attack,
the first being aimed at placating...

Filed under: Saddam Hussein, Iraq, Psychological Operations, Psyop, Propaganda

Millions of Bees Die - Are Electromagnetic Signals To Blame?

".... what would make them disoriented? Perhaps it is the 250 HZ
signals being pumped out of GWEN stations all over America.... signal
will induce a misdirection of up to 10 degrees in the navigation
ability of the honeybee. They go away from the...

Filed under: environment, ecology, zoology, physics, signals intelligence

WAR OF THE WORDS

"John Rendon and SAIC design strategies for information warfare on a
grand scale and they charge a grand price that is ultimately paid by US
taxpayers who are all but totally oblivious to the fact that they are
subsidizing psychological warfare that...

Filed under: Psychological Operations, Propaganda, politics, social engineering

World's Great Apes Face Disaster, says Leakey

Richard Leakey, former head of the Kenya wildlife service and now chair
of Wildlife Direct, said apes across the world faced unprecedented
threats from the combined effects of hunting, disease and logging. And
he said efforts to tackle global warming...