"A MEMO TO SENATOR OBAMA"

From Newsweek Magazine, May 24, 2008.

ATTACK OF THE RANDROIDS!

I wrote this essay in 1998, and I published it independently on a bit of web space I was allotted by the first ISP I ever signed up with. Aside from rants on alt.movies.kubrick, it's the first thing I ever published online, and it was soon noticed by the influential proto-blog Suck.com, who liked it so much they devoted half a day's edition to it. I present it here, now as an archival curio that still holds up, if I do say so myself. Enjoy! - YOPJ

Reading Does a Body Good!

In early 1998, the Modern Library Association (a division of Random House) assembled a group of America's leading literary figures in order to compile a list of the "100 Greatest English Language Novels of the 20th century." Even though it was a marketing ploy obviously geared towards getting more Americans to peruse Random House's catalog of classic literary works, THE LIST was given major coverage by many international media outlets, including CNN and most of the various news-oriented magazines. For the first time in a long time, it seemed, books were "big news." 

Continue reading at Daily Dirt Diaspora Blog!

THE NET: THE UNABOMBER, LSD AND THE INTERNET - A STUDY GUIDE

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A CONCORDANCE 
or a series of notes and thoughts on 

THE NET, THE UNABOMBER, LSD AND THE INTERNET

a documentary by Lutz Dammbeck (2003) 

The following notes were taken by myself during two separate viewings of the film. The text presented includes all of the subtitles from the film (indicated by quotation marks), as well as a number of observations, side references and potential avenues for further inquiry that came to mind as I watched. The reasons for my engaging in this admittedly somewhat pedantic exercise are twofold. Firstly, I do it because I believe this film to be an important and insufficiently propagated document in the field of parapolitics, and anything I can do to help get it seen by more people - and, in particular, the RIGHT people - I see as worth doing. Secondly, I wanted to create an easy-to-use text and image based "concordance" that both documents and compliments the original film. I leave it for you readers to decide whether or not I have succeeded on that count. - YOPJ - 26/04/2012

PRELUDE 

"In 1930, Viennese mathematician Kurt Godel shakes the foundations of mathematics with his incompleteness theorems. He demonstrates that in every formal logical system there are problems that are not solvable or conclusively determinable. The truth is superior to provability."

Mathematician Kurt Godel

THE NET 

We begin on a commuter plane travelling from Frankfurt to New York. Director Lutz Dammbeck explains that he has some interviews lined up for a film he's been working on about the evolution of information technologies. But lately he's become distracted. He explains:

THE NET - THE UNABOMBER, LSD AND THE INTERNET

In 2003, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck released an independently produced documentary film entitled Das Netz, the English title being The Net: The Unabomber, LSD and The Internet. Since its debut, it has slowly been acquiring a reputation as a must-watch production among serious students of conspiracy, secret histories and parapolitics in general. 

In my opinion, this is a film that deserves much more attention than it has been given, and it needs to be seen by a lot more people, for a long list of reasons that will become obvious once you've watched it, which you can either do here, using the embedded video provided below, or on Youtube.com, where the subtitles will probably be a lot easier to read.

Unfortunately, the film's official website is a German language only. Unless you're one of those lucky Fritzes and Friedas who speak it, that's too bad, because the site seems to have a pretty active forum section.

I am bringing this film to your attention now because I have nearly completed a lengthy "study guide" for it, which I intend to post here sometime during the next 24 hours. In it, I flesh out some of the concepts Dammbeck touches on only briefly, tease out some potential implications and offer my own, alternate explanations to some of the information presented in the film. I also offer suggestions for further avenues of research to compliment and broaden your understanding of the rich bounty of information presented in this remarkable film.

And so, in closing, I urge you to watch this film, and keep watching this space for my upcoming study guide!

Cheers!

YOPJ

EVIDENCE OF REVISION, PART SIX OF SIX

EVIDENCE OF REVISION, PART FIVE OF SIX

ALBERT'S BLOG ON ALL THINGS PARAPOLITICAL

Check out Albert's Blog BDC192, the new blog by my old pal - and very interesting character in his own right - Albert Venczel. He's working on a media degree at a prestigious Toronto university, and he's undergoing a trial by fire right now as an adult student back in school at a later point in his life. He's a good man who's had some intriguing encounters, and his work on a variety of 9/11-truth-oriented projects (among other things) deserves some attention, so here's a link to his work. Wish I could do more for you, Albert! Sorry I lost all my audience! Seriously. It sucks for both of us.

EVIDENCE OF REVISION, PART FOUR OF SIX

EVIDENCE OF REVISION, PART THREE OF SIX

EVIDENCE OF REVISION, PART TWO OF SIX

EVIDENCE OF REVISION, PART ONE OF SIX

This 6-part documentary series presents the publicly unavailable (and even suppressed) historical audio and video recordings relating to the Kennedy assassinations, the classified "Black Ops" used to launch massive war in Vietnam, CIA mind control programs, the Jonestown massacre and other important truths of our time. The more you know about real history versus official history, the better equipped you are to see behind the lies of our day. All together, this documentary spans 8 hours, and it is a definite must see. This is Part 1: The Assassinations of Kennedy and Oswald. If you dig it, you should buy it!

PUNISHMENT PARK

This little-seen classic of early 70's paranoid political conspiracy cinema deserves to be seen by a much wider audience. You can now watch the entire mockumentary online, thanks to Youtube. Here it is. Watch along with yer old pal Jerky and leave some comments!

HOLY CRAP-DOODLE! A NEW RIGOROUS INTUITION POST!!!

Run, run, run to our old pal Jeff Wells' formerly essential Rigorous Intuition Blog to read his latest post in... what... a year and a half? I got so excited when I surfed on over there and saw an update that I immediately raced back to my own pathetic blog to announce it. I haven't even read the damn thing yet, but that's what I'm gonna do now. So, if you'll excuse me...

WEST MEMPHIS THREE UPDATE - A RARE BIT OF GOOD NEWS

The West Memphis Three walked out of jail today, free men at last. I don't know why the film-maker who brought their plight to the attention of the masses with his cycle of excellent documentaries finds this development to be bittersweet, but if you have time to read this story, go ahead and find out for yourself.

"ZOMG DA SEE-EYE-AYE MIGHTA KNOWN ABOUT DA NINE-WUN-WUN!"

This article is the very definition of the expression "limited hangout", and is insulting to the intelligence of all who read it.

WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KILL A COP?

Don't act all offended, just open your mind and read this article, because - all things considered - it asks a difficult question that I have a sinking feeling more and more of us are going to be forced to contemplate in the very near future.

ZIZEK JOINS THE GROWING CHORUS OF INTELECTUALLY RIGOROUS APOCALYPTIC ANGST

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THAT "TROLL" ON YOUR BLOG...

ERYKAH BADU CHANNELS MYSTIC MASTER ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY

Pop singer Erykah Badu is making waves with her excellent new video, Window Seat, for which she disrobed in a public space and was issued a ticket for disturbing the peace for her efforts. I knew she was up to something special when I saw promotional material for her latest CD in which she was decked out as the Alchemist's Assistant from Alejandro Jodorowsky's mythopoeic masterpiece The Holy Mountain (1973).

Here's that video:

FRENCH WOMAN CLAIMS SHE WAS BRAINWASHED BY OPUS DEI

AFP is reporting that a French woman is suing the conservative Roman Catholic secret society/cult known as Opus Dei, claiming they brainwashed her after she enrolled in an Opus Dei-connected hospitality industry school at the age of 14, then used and abused her for 13 years - forcing her to serve as a virtual slave to the organization, reclaiming her wages, etc - until her parents rescued her from their clutches. French authorities appear to have taken her claims seriously, and the defense arguments seem pretty damn flimsy. This could be one to watch, folks.