RUSSIA HATES GAY PEOPLE

Gay people, on the whole, get AIDS more often than any other cohort.

Russian military hardware seems to have been behind the downing of Air Malaysia Flight 17 as it flew over Ukraine.

More than 100 of the world's finest minds in the fight against HIV/AIDS were on board Air Malaysia Flight 17.

I repeat, Russia REALLY hates gay people.

I'm not saying... I'm just saying.

SERIOUS SCHOLARS DISCUSS REAL MIND CONTROL

This incredibly worthwhile exchange needs to be watched by every serious student of cultural engineering and mass media mind control. They have knowledge and perspectives on everything from the Big Business roots of the psychedelic movement to the CIA's involvement in everything from MKUltra and everything else you can think of. Heady, headache-inducing, but vital, historically worthwhile stuff.

10 SIGNS YOU'RE A BAD WITCH

If you're anything like me - and for your sake, Jeez, I hope you're not - you probably won't know whether the fact that you've encountered the type of female described in this excellent article from the Badwitch.es website is one of the best things - or one of the worst things - to ever happen in your life. Here's a small taste of the witchy goodness you'll find at the above linked page:

1. You don’t give a fuck.
The badness of bad witches is that they’ve reached a level of intuitive and imaginative power which gives them an inner authority. They’re being moved by their own genius and not by any external dogma or force. They may use a wide variety of traditional or institutional tools, but they’re not dependent on traditional or institutional authority for their power. They’ve woken up the magic within their own hearts and it’s alive and throbbing.
Bad witches are often offensive to – well, just about every body. Both conventional muggle types and also magical people who have rigid ideas about what magic should look like get alarmed in the presence of a bad witch.
So if you find yourself still very committed to magical practice and spiritual development but having next to zero interest in fulfilling anyone else’s expectations of what your magic or spirituality should look like, then you may just be a bad witch.

2. Seriously, you do not give a fuck.
In your life you’ve probably had plenty of experiences of people freaking out at you about your signature strange way of being in the world, and while this is sometimes sad or challenging, ultimately you don’t care. You’ve got work to accomplish – art to make, people to heal, houses to build, rituals to craft, stories to write – and you just don’t have time to be constantly soothing people who expect you to adhere to some standard other than your own genius and inner authority.
This may mean that eventually you go into stealth mode so as not to continually create alarm, but you don’t go stealth because you’re hiding or avoidant. You do it because you’ve got things to accomplish and only a limited amount of time here in the third dimension.

3. You make people nervous.

Keep Reading at Badwitch.es...

LATEST BANKSTER "SUICIDE" REALLY TRYING TO ESCAPE TO ALTERNATE UNIVERSE?!

So NewsWatch.us ran an intriguing story that got picked up by Dr. Joseph P. Farrell over at his website, GizaDeathStar.com. It involves a recently depressed and, ultimately, "suicided" bankster's alleged obsession with equations that could potentially see him reborn into an alternate, parallel dimension - preferably one where people like him aren't considered the civilization-wrecking scum-of-the-fucking-Earth. Farrell's take:

...there’s a story out there circulating about another bankster, one that was previously suicided: Gabriel Magee. It seems, according to the latest story, that Mr. Magee was obsessed with the multi-verse interpretation of quantum mechanics, and that his suicide (so we’re told) had something to do with a possible attempt by him to get out of this universe and into another one:

“An inquest last week has revealed that a JP Morgan exec that committed suicide earlier this year was obsessed with the concept of parallel universes and a mysterious suicide pact between two American students based on the theory. ... Gabriel Magee, 39, fell from the roof of the bank’s Canary Wharf headquarters on the morning of January 28. ... 

... Magee was what is known in the financial business as a quant, an individual with a background in the higher mathematics behind high frequency trading. And that mathematics, as a little research will show you, comes from the influx of trained physicists into finance that began in the late 1980s, as the methods of mathematically modelling quantum mechanics were realized to be applicable to the financial sector, and “econophysics’ was born. Would multi-verse theory play a role in such financial modelling? Potentially, yes. So Mr. Magee’s “suicide” may, once again, be deeply related to something he discovered, or learned, about the financial system. Only by coupling it to econophysics and multiverse theory, the stakes are raised considerably.
Econophysics? "Quants"? What the everloving fuck?! 

Looks like I've got some serious digging to do.

PSYCHEDELICS IN THE NEWS - BOTH LEGAL AND NON!

For those of you who are interested in throwing wide the Doors of Perception so that you can get down to the serious task of exploring Altered States of Consciousness and seeing what they have to offer up in terms of the Timeless, Accumulated Alchemical Wisdom of the Anima-Veggie-Min-Totality of Ultimate Everything... then this AlterNet article offers a decent introduction to a number of intriguing substances that you might find yourself wanting to experiment with at some point in the very near future... or not.

It's entirely up to you.

And that's the whole, entire point, is it not?

Personally, I can vouch for the 40x salvia divinorum. But take it sloooow, my babies. Work your way up to the heroic doses required to quite literally meet and communicate with the entity some call The Green Lady. She's very nice, but with her lack of social graces - like, she'll reach inside your head and pull out a handful of endlesslly long writhing snakes, and laugh at your pants-shitting terror - but she really does mean well. Try to remember that while she's turning you inside out and dragging your still throbbing remains through your very own personal fractal kaleidoscopic meat-grinder.

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Oops! I forgot to mention that the photograph above is from a recent Washington Times article about how totally fucking awesome magic mushrooms can be at fixing brains that are broken by depression, battlefield trauma, encroaching mortality and all sorts of other crap that more mundane meds just can't seem to get a handle on.

Who'd a thunk it?!

Um... well... me and pretty much everyone I know and love, for starters. And that's a lot of people, people.

Shanti! Shanti! Shanti!

LAWLESS BLACKWATER THUGS RAN POST-WAR IRAQ LIKE THEIR VERY OWN "MURDER INC."

An astonishingly frank article in the New York Times dated June 29, 2014 tells those of us who've been paying attention something we've known for just about a decade, now. It begins:

Just weeks before Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad’s Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department began investigating the security contractor’s operations in Iraq. But the inquiry was abandoned after Blackwater’s top manager there issued a threat: “that he could kill” the government’s chief investigator and “no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq,” according to department reports. 

American Embassy officials in Baghdad sided with Blackwater rather than the State Department investigators as a dispute over the probe escalated in August 2007, the previously undisclosed documents show. The officials told the investigators that they had disrupted the embassy’s relationship with the security contractor and ordered them to leave the country, according to the reports. 

After returning to Washington, the chief investigator wrote a scathing report to State Department officials documenting misconduct by Blackwater employees and warning that lax oversight of the company, which had a contract worth more than $1 billion to protect American diplomats, had created “an environment full of liability and negligence.”

You can continue reading the article here.

TORONTO G20, 4 YEARS LATER: 18 DISTURBING FACTS ALL CANADIANS SHOULD KNOW

So, you Canadians think you're lucky ducks, living in the free-est land in all of Freedomworld, do you? This post at the #cdnpoli tumblr has a little something to share with you...

The Toronto G20 Summit of June 26-27, 2010, hosted by Stephen Harper, was an incredibly expensive undertaking that resulted in massive human rights violations against members of the public at the hands of the police. Despite this, politicians refuse to call a full public inquiry and hold police—as well as themselves—to account … something to think about on the 4th anniversary of the Toronto G20, and as we approach this year’s Canada Day celebrations.  

1. Over half a billion dollars was spent on security for the three-day G8/G20 summit.

It gets worse, and more disturbing, as the list goes on. Augmented with plenty of video and other documentary evidence. This is one you're gonna want to clip and save.

THE TROUBLE WITH DEMONS

Many people think that in order for a person to be moral, they have to be a religious believer. More broadly, many believe that secular cultures are inherently immoral, un-anchored from any system that could provide an ethical underpinning necessary for a successful civilization.

Yer old pal Jerky believes the opposite is true; that, far from providing a bedrock foundation, the man-made and all-too-manipulable mythologies of faith are a dangerously shifting sand-dune of arbitrary absolutes and solipsistic meta-relativism.

Case in point: BTK killer/pillar-of-the-Lutheran-church Dennis Rader. In a recent interview, the ten-time serial torture-killer insisted: "I just know it's a dark side of me. It kind of controls me. I personally think it's a -- and I know it is not very Christian -- but I actually think it's a demon that's within me."

In truth, there is nothing quite so Christian as blaming one's heinous transgressions on possession by evil spirits. It's the ultimate "get out of jail free" card, which is ultimately the appeal of all religions. They absolve you of responsibility. As Rader watched his victims' families weeping on the TV news about the devastation his terrible crimes had wrought upon them, his Christian faith allowed him to tell himself: "Wow. That's one evil demon that's got itself wedged up inside me! Oh well. I'm sure God will forgive me when I meet him in the Great Hereafter. After all, I can't possibly be held responsible for what a demon does, can I?"

Of course, it's true that Rader won't be held responsible in the Great Hereafter, because THERE IS NO FUCKING GREAT HEREAFTER!!! And deep down inside, Rader knows it. They all know it; the child-molesting priests, the bombers, the hijackers, the idiots who stone rape victims to death, the high officials who launch jihads, inquisitions and fatwahs… but they refuse to face up to it. Because every religious believer is a believer of convenience. They're more afraid of personal accountability than they are of burning in an everlasting afterlife, because they know that shit is bogus.

Meanwhile, somewhere out there, another religious True Believer is stocking his car trunk with duct tape, pliers and a blowtorch at the slavering behest of his own, personal demon. God save us from those who believe in Him.

CHURCH OF SUBGENIUS ROCKED BY DISCOVERY OF PROTO-BOB!

In my daily wanderings, I ran across this blog post from mid-2012 at the Fit To Print blog of the Virginia Newspaper Project at the Library of Virginia. It seems somebody found this image in an ad in The Blue Ridge Herald from June 1956, starring the disembodied, floating head of Church of the Subgenius uberdeity J.R. Bob Dobbs.

And this, a full two and a half decades prior to the Church's incorporation (and the giving of Slack, and the coming of X-Day, which was a big let-down for us all, as you no doubt recall).

Anyhoo, just thought I'd share.

SEVEN YEARS IN THE LOONY BIN... FOR EXPOSING GERMAN BANKSTER CRIMES?!

London's Guardian newspaper recently ran an incredible story about an outrageous injustice that should give the willies to anyone who... well... anyone with a functioning brain, to be honest with you. I mean, just check this out...

In a plot worthy of a crime blockbuster, Gustl Mollath, 56, was submitted to the secure unit of a psychiatric hospital seven years ago after court experts diagnosed him with paranoid personality disorder following his claims that staff at the Hypo Vereinsbank (HVB) – including his wife, then an assets consultant at HVB – had been illegally smuggling large sums of money into Switzerland. 

Mollath was tried in 2006 after his ex-wife accused him of causing her physical harm. He denied the charges, claiming she was trying to sully his name in the light of the evidence he allegedly had against her. He was admitted to the clinic, where he has remained against his will ever since. 

But recent evidence brought to the attention of state prosecutors shows that money-laundering activities were indeed practiced over several years by members of staff at the Munich-based bank, the sixth-largest private financial institute in Germany, as detailed in an internal audit report carried out by the bank in 2003. The report, which has now been posted online, detailed illegal activities including money-laundering and aiding tax evasion. A number of employees, including Mollath's wife, were subsequently sacked following the bank's investigation.

There is only one word to adequately describe this: un-FUCKING-believable.

COMPUTERS WATCHING MOVIES... WOW.

Okay, so watching this came close to making me cry, and I don't know why, but I'm kind of freaked out right now.

Computers Watching Movies (Exhibition Cut) from benjamin grosser on Vimeo.

AMERICAN SCHOOL KIDS - NOW PRE-BODY BAGGED!

So. It has finally come to this. 

From the manufacturers' website:

ProTecht, L.L.C., is a world-class innovator of protective products that enhance the safety of individuals while participating in many different activities and environments. ProTecht™ researched and developed the Bodyguard™ blanket in order to provide superior protection for children and teachers while at school. Bodyguard™ blanket is one of the newest and most thoroughly tested bullet and tornado projectile resistant products in the market today. 

"Tornado projectiles." Who even knew that was a thing?!

A FULL MOON ON FRIDAY THE 13TH

As if poop hasn't already been splattering against propeller lately, what with all the Alex Jones worshipping "hate-riots" and "patridiots" popping off like so many cheap Chinese fireworks from sea to shining sea - and I mean that quite literally, what with Elliot "Supreme Gentleman" Rodger waging slaughter against the Beautiful People on a California beachfront while, way over on the other side of the continent, Canadian Trailer Park Boy Justin Bourque guns down five Mounties a mere hop, skip and jump from the icy North Atlantic - now we've got to worry about a whole new passel of moony-eyed loons and triskaidekaphobiacs getting in on the action? You know, I think the time is ripe for me to make like a turtle for a couple days. Somebody knock on my shell if we get through the next 24 hours without a major terrorist incident or the definitive kick-off of Cold War Part Two.

Oh, and by the way, this image is faked:

This one, on the other hand, is not:

Sleep well.

CONSUMER'S REMORSE? CO-OPTEE'S SHAME?

I think we need to come up with a word to describe the shudder of nauseous guilt you experience upon realizing that you've just been tricked into allowing yourself to be deeply moved or legitimately entertained by... an advertisement. "Shameful Joy" or schadenfreude is something quite different, as are "guilty pleasures".

Oh, and this is today's culprit, in case you were wondering...

A COMPUTER HAS PASSED THE TURING TEST FOR THE 1ST TIME

The fine folks over at GIZMODO reports...

This is big. A computer program has successfully managed to fool a bunch of researchers into thinking that it was a 13-year-old boy named Eugene Goostman. In doing so, it has become the first in the world to have successfully passed the Turing Test. The test is named after computer pioneer Alan Turing. To pass it, a computer program needs to dupe 30 percent of human judges in five-minute, text-based chats, a feat that until now had never been accomplished.

Fortunately, the program passed "just barely" according to judges. 

We here at the Daily Dirt Diaspora family of blogs have been writing about our concern regarding the fast-approaching "Robotalypse" for well over a decade, so we'll definitely be keeping you posted on this front of the war, as well.

We now take you back to our regularly scheduled program of paging through the history books for crazy paracultural events to remark upon.

NAKED TERROR! RASH OF NUDE CRIME HITS USA

The newswires are all abuzz of late with tales of seemingly deranged folks - mostly men at this point - doffing their duds and going on rampages of varying degrees of ferocity, always in public, and often on video.

Perhaps the most widely-disseminated of these stories is this one about the naked man who stormed the White House, claiming he had a three o'clock appointment with the Commander in Chief, President Obama, himself.

Slightly more distressing and less amusing are two recent incidents that were both caught on video. First, there's this story about an as yet unidentified naked man who, without apparent provocation, attacked a woman at a busy Los Angeles intersection in broad daylight. Then there's this story about Nicholas Dyll, in Dallas, who stripped off his clothes then dove through the open sunroof of a car in order to get at the female driver cowering in terror within. He's been charged with aggravated assault.

But that's not all! There's also this story about a naked man attacking police officers in Omaha, Nebraska. And this story about a man showing up at a courthouse in Portland, Oregon, stripping down to nothing and playing his violin in some sort of protest. Then there's this dude who was arrested for trying to "nest in a tree" whilst naked, and this North Carolina man who attacked a high school student, again, whilst naked.

A big head's up and thanks to the folks at the Rigorous Intuition discussion boards who noticed this trend and cooperatively collated all of these different stories from across the fruited plain. This post is essentially a total rip of all their good work. Sorry guys, I couldn't resist!

NASA SAYS WE'RE ALL DOOMED

Tom McKay over at FilmsForAction.com has this disturbing report about the soon-to-be-upon-us collapse of all civilization to share with us. It begins thusly...

Civilization was pretty great while it lasted, wasn't it? Too bad it's not going to for much longer. According to a new study sponsored by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, we only have a few decades left before everything we know and hold dear collapses. The report, written by applied mathematician Safa Motesharrei of the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center along with a team of natural and social scientists, explains that modern civilization is doomed. And there's not just one particular group to blame, but the entire fundamental structure and nature of our society.

Anyhoo, you can read more at the link... if you feel you need to. All this doomy-doom-doom talk is starting to sound a little Old Hat to me.

PROTECT YOURSELF FROM NLP MIND CONTROL - 10 METHODS

NLP or Neuro-Linguistic Programming is one of the world’s most prevalent methods of mind control, used by everyone from sales callers to politicians to media pundits, and it’s nasty to the core. Here’s ten ways to make sure nobody uses it on you… ever.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a method for controlling people’s minds that was invented by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the 1970s, became popular in the psychoanalytic, occult and New Age worlds in the 1980s, and advertising, marketing and politics in the 1990s and 2000s. It’s become so interwoven with how people are communicated to and marketed at that its use is largely invisible. It’s also somewhat of a pernicious, devilish force in the world—nearly everybody in the business of influencing people has studied at least some of its techniques. Masters of it are notorious for having a Rasputin-like ability to trick people in incredible ways—most of all themselves.

See more at: ULTRACULTURE

RESPECTED JFK ASSASSINATION EXPERT JOHN JUDGE HAS DIED

A former protege of conspiracy doyenne Mae Brussell and JFK assassination researcher extraordinaire John Judge has died after suffering multiple strokes in recent weeks. Celebrate his life and wonderful legacy by checking out some selected writings. Mr Judge was a cut above, and he will be sorely missed.

MIKE RUPPERT SUICIDE CONFIRMED (PRESS RELEASE)

IN MEMORIAM MICHAEL C. RUPPERT, February 3, 1951-April 13, 2014.

Sunday night following Mike's Lifeboat Hour radio show, he was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. This was not a "fake" suicide. It was very well planned by Mike who gave us few clues but elaborate instructions for how to proceed without him. His wishes were to be cremated, and as of this moment, there are no plans for a memorial service. However, I will be taking his show this coming Sunday night, April 20, and the entire show will be an In Memoriam show for Mike with opportunities for listeners to call in.

It was my privilege to have known Mike for 14 years, to have worked with him, to have been mentored by him, and to have supported him in some of his darkest hours, including the more recent ones. I am posting this announcement with the blessing of his partner Jesse Re and his landlord, Jack Martin.

Thank you Mike for all of the truth you courageously exposed and for the legacy of truth-telling you left us. Goodbye my friend. Your memory will live in hour hearts forever.

I have no more details to share than I am posting here. We should have much more information by Sunday night.

So be sure to check in...