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December 23, 2021
DR. SAGAN’S LECTURE ON COSMIC TIME
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Our guest speaker today at the Wachamacalits, Massachusetts Chapter of the Order of Omega Time Travel Cult is the renowned astronomer / philosopher, Dr. Carl Sagan. Dr. Sagan will deliver a fascinating lecture entitled, “Cosmic Time”. And now, here is Dr. Sagan….
GOT MONSTERS?
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If you can’t sleep a night because you’re too upset about what you see on “the news”, it’s an easy problem to solve. Turn the TV off, and leave it off. Virtually everything you see on TV is false information designed to frighten you and control your behavior. Instead, have fun dreaming up your own monsters! They will be a lot more fun and a lot let scary!
December 21, 2021
SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE
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Haven’t we all seen this “movie” before? It’s about Deja Vu, all over again, and again, and again, and again, etc., etc,. etc., ad infinitum, ad naseum…. The physical universe is a place we’ve been creating and altering and hanging out in for trillions and trillions of years. We may “pretend” each lifetime is “new” and “exciting”…. but, seriously, isn’t is really just the same old bullshit over, and over, and over? One of the reasons that we, as immortal spiritual beings have amnesia after we die, is just a simple way of forgetting about the interminably boredom and repetition of our eternal lives. Birth, growing a new body, “learning”, having sex, eating, working, having “fun”, wars, chaos, careers, aging and dying, and starting again, over and over and over…… In the “reality” we call “Earth” it seems to be working….unless you happen to be Bill Murray at 6:00 AM.
Déjà vu, (/ˌdeɪʒɑː ˈvuː/) from French, literally “already seen”, is the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has been experienced in the past, whether it has actually happened or not. — Wikipedia.org
December 19, 2021
PAPER MONEY
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A short animation about how Paper Money works….or not.
John Law and the Mississippi Bubble by Richard Condie, National Film Board of Canada
Congress Honors 9/11 First Capitalizers
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WASHINGTON—In an act that many are calling long overdue, Congress passed legislation this week to honor those Americans who were first on the scene to profit from the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001.
The so-called 9/11 First Capitalizers Act, which passed by a wide margin in both the House and Senate, is the first measure to recognize the utter lack of sacrifice on the part of those men and women who did not hesitate to put their own personal agendas above all else when it mattered most.
“It is high time we paid tribute to those who sensed the direness of the moment and immediately sprang into action on that terrible day, exploiting it for personal gain,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Tuesday. “These were the thoughtless men and women who selfishly showed us that in desperate times, the most callous among us will always be there to step forward and do whatever it takes to get a piece of the action.”
“They sacrificed their dignity and sense of basic morality so that others might one day give to them,” Graham continued.
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Developers currently constructing retail space on the site of Ground Zero are among those being honored.
The bill not only honors those who rushed to Ground Zero immediately to sell merchandise, participate in photo ops, or advance an ideological agenda, but also those who profited from afar by producing jingoistic songs and TV specials, or mentioning 9/11 in stump speeches as a way of scaring people into voting for them.
Among those Americans recognized were “United We Stand” T-shirt manufacturer Gary Tabano, country artists Toby Keith and Lee Greenwood, Halliburton CEO David Lesar, filmmaker Oliver Stone, former president George W. Bush, and 89 members of Congress itself.
After apologizing for the “needless delay” in honoring the shameless bottom-feeders, lawmakers confirmed the measure would establish a special fund for the 9/11 First Capitalizers, helping those individuals collect whatever funds and resources they somehow didn’t manage to rake in hand over fist in the hours, days, and months following our nation’s darkest hour.
“From Blackwater founder Erik Prince to the people who marketed those ‘Heroes of the World Trade Center’ trading cards, these Americans did things most of us can scarcely even imagine,” Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) said. “And after all they do, they still somehow find time to sleep like babies every night.”
Also singled out for recognition were Ashland, OR resident Linda Banks, 48, who continues to trot out her maudlin, self-serving story of where she was on 9/11 every single time she sees an opportunity, and Canton, OH resident Geoff Markum, 29, who, soon after the terrorist attack, began replacing his favorite punch line, “That was worse than the Holocaust!” with “That was worse than 9/11!”
When reached for comment, a number of First Capitalizers were more than willing to step forward and share their heart-numbing tales of exploitation and greed.
“I’m no hero. I just did what any opportunist would do,” said World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein, who tried to collect double on his $3.5 billion insurance policy by arguing that the towers had been hit by two separate planes. “After all, I couldn’t just stand idly by and do nothing to benefit myself while the entire country suffered.”
Congress also announced that it would be dedicating a special plaque on the National Mall containing the names of all 12,554,310 Americans who eventually capitalized on the tragedy with their bullshit advertising, partisan rhetoric, forgettable novels, defense contracts, and all-around cheap, manipulative sentimentalism.
In related news, the White House announced this week that work continues apace on the multitrillion-dollar monuments to the exploitation of 9/11 currently underway in Afghanistan and Iraq.
TERMINALLY GULLIBLE PUBLIC
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“Our lives are now fraught with easily-disproved fantasies, frauds and fictions being pushed to us through the media by institutions with deliberate agendas trying to engineer specific outcomes. Those of us with a pragmatic mindset and an ability to recall (even quite recent) history, often find ourselves with mouths literally agape at the obvious deceptions being foisted upon what appears to be a terminally-gullible public.”
— Chris Martenson describes the world of medicine, media, finance, politics and education.
December 18, 2021
SENTIENT BEINGS
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KNOWING MOONSHINE
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Henry Louis “H. L.” Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English.Mencken is known for writing The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the “Monkey Trial”. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, pseudo-experts, the temperance movement, and uplifters. A keen cheerleader of scientific progress, he was very skeptical of economic theories and particularly critical of anti-intellectualism, bigotry, populism, Fundamentalist Christianity, creationism, organized religion, and the existence of God.
In addition to his literary accomplishments, Mencken was known for his controversial ideas. A frank admirer of Nietzsche, he was not a proponent of representative democracy, which he believed was a system in which inferior men dominated their superiors. During and after World War One, he was sympathetic to the Germans, and was very distrustful of British “propaganda”. However, he overcame his inclination to embrace all things Bavarian, referring to Hitler and his followers as “ignorant thugs”.
SOLSTICE
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