Promoted by Steven D

I’m watching the NBC show “Phenomenon,” and although it’s presented as if these people have supernatural powers, I’ve yet to see anything that wasn’t a straight math trick or magic trick. Yet people in the audience are amazed, and seem persuaded that these people have supernatural powers.

It makes me realize how easily people are fooled, and not just in such matters. According to a recent Zogby poll, 52% of the American public thinks the U.S. should launch a military strike at Iran to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons.

The magic act is a complete success, but the truth has not been served. THERE ARE NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN IRAN. And worse, IRAN IS YEARS AWAY FROM GETTING THE BOMB.

Yet a majority of fellow citizens believe this. I believe that’s why Hillary Clinton, who is surely smart enough to see through the hype, is nonetheless siding with the fearmongers on the Iran issue.

Wouldn’t it be a miracle if someone of Hillary’s stature stood up and said look, I know how this works. This is all propaganda. Here’s the real truth.

But truth doesn’t sell. It’s usually messy, confusing, and subject to numerous qualifications. The truth is nearly always complicated. In reality, Occam’s Razor is usually NOT the correct explanation, because it is oversimplified.

Here’s a scary little Halloween gift for you. It’s part of a larger film called “Zeitgeist” which I would warn you to view most skeptically. Some of the data presented is provably true. Some is provably not. And then there’s the stuff that can’t be proved one way or another. It is NOT “the truth”. But I believe it’s closer to where this all is heading than anything you see on the nightly news. This is just a ten minute clip. Watch it. Then do your own homework.

Yes, there really is talk of creating “the Amero,” a cross-border currency between Mexico, the U.S., and Canada to challenge the rising power of the Euro. Yes, there really are plans for a European Union (beyond the economic union – but a union with its own flag, it’s own anthem, etc.), an Asian Union, and an African Union. Unmentioned is “Syriana,” and I’m not talking about a film. I’m talking about something the screenwriter heard while researching the book. He sat in on high level meetings in the government and heard the term used to describe a hypothetical Middle Eastern Union.

Whether or not a Rockefeller told Aaron Russo what Russo claims, I don’t know. I can’t verify that. There’s another provocative quote assigned to David Rockefeller, but I can find no primary source for that quote – only a repeat of it, not sourced, across the Internet. Quotes can be invented. And context is everything. Maybe that was a punchline to a joke Rockefeller was telling. Who knows?

But all that aside, I do think we’re nearly in a dictatorship already, and it terrifies me. My own state, California, just passed a law prohibiting employers from requiring their employees to be microchipped. What scares me is why such a law was considered necessary! Who is planning on forcibly chipping us as a condition of employment?

If we don’t get very loud, very vocal, and very visible in the next few years, the America that never was, that we all hoped would be, will cease to exist in any meaningful way.

“Happy” Halloween.

SPOILER AHEAD. Don’t read further if you don’t want to know how many magic tricks are done. So many are just variations on this simple theme.

That matchbook trick on Phenomenon? That’s just the ultimate in misdirection. The trick was not about finding the “needle in the haystack” that matched the card. The trick was to get the woman to pick the right card, and the matchbook was planted. You see?

People want to believe that some people can read minds and have magical power over matter. A deception is not as pleasant as a magic trick. But the deception is the reality.

There is no war on terror. There never can be. That’s the magic trick. The reality, the real deception, is that the powers that be can expand empire, reduce the world’s population and produce more wealth for the already superwealthy through war. And the “beauty” of the war on terror is that it can never be won. “Perpetual war for perpetual peace.” Now that’s some genuine sleight of hand, however demonic.