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October 31, 2007

The Donspiracist Presents: Are there reptiles among us

It just wouldn't Halloween w/o hearing from the Donspiracist. He wonders if, perhaps, humans can transform into lizards.
Shapeshifters have captivated human imagination for much of recorded history. Think of the vampires that turn into bats, the men that turn into wolves, demons that can transform into anything that scares us most. The fascination seems to lie in the notion of one thing changing into another, the same idea that drives alchemy. To believe such a thing, one must presuppose the existence of the supernatural and a type of physics that allows a human to change into some other, often animal shape. To my knowledge, science has not disproved either one.

I know its Halloween, and werewolves should be on the agenda, but I'd rather turn my attention to a different kind of shapeshifter: the reptilian.

David Icke was the first writer to popularize for modern audiences the human that can shapeshift into a reptilian being. In Icke's view, the reptilians came to our planet eons ago, and they remain to rule our planet, only in disguise. He traces certain distinct human lineages back to Babylon. These families exist today in the shape of our ruling classes. You know many of their names: Rothschild, Rockefeller, Kennedy, Bush, and almost all the royalty of Europe. Many of these families are related to each other, and in convincing style, Icke demonstrates how most world leaders are linked to these bloodlines in one way or another. That includes most U.S. Presidents.

Icke loses people when he talks about "lizard people", but his research on the ruling elite and how they are interconnected almost everywhere on the globe is unparalleled and rarely challenged. But given that most of us believe in ghosts, life after death, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, why are reptilians any weirder? I suppose because of the implications.

This brings us back to Cathy O'Brien, the mind controlled slave of MK Ultra fame. She is one of many people Icke documents that claim to have seen famous people of power shapeshift before her eyes. In his book The Biggest Secret , Icke says this:

Cathy writes in "Trance Formation Of America" of how George Bush was sitting in front of her in his office in Washington DC when, he opened a book at a page depicting lizard-like aliens from a far off, deep space place. Bush then claimed to be an 'alien' himself and appeared, before her eyes, to transform 'like a chameleon' into a reptile. Cathy believed that some kind of hologram had been activated to achieve this and from her understanding at the time I can see why she rationalized her experience in this way. Anyone would, because the truth is too fantastic to comprehend until you see the build up of evidence.

On its own, this is riveting and highly entertaining reading, but also eminently dismissable for most people. We can believe in the Son of God rising on the third day, and that God created the world in Seven Days, but find reptilians as nonsense and rubbish. Some claim that the reptilian story was fed to Icke as disinformation to discredit his very accurate research on the ruling elite and their attempts to take control via terrorism and depriving the populace of civil rights.

Icke himself continues this way: Hunter S. Thompson in his book, "Fear and Loathing, In Las Vegas," describes seeing reptiles while in a drugged condition and a guy I met in the United States (in those 15 days I mentioned earlier) told me a similar story. He 'tripped' on a large amounts of LSD in the 1960s and in his seriously mind-altered state he would see some people as humans and others as humanoid lizards and other reptiles. For a while he believed that he was merely hallucinating, but as a regular 'tripper' at high doses he began to realize that what he was seeing, usually by the third day of a five-day 'trip', was not an hallucination, but the vibratory veils lifting which allowed him to see beyond the physical to the force controlling the person. In these moments the same people always had lizard features and the same people always looked human. They never switched. He also began to observe that those around him who appeared lizard-like in his altered state always seemed to react the same to movies, television programmes, etc.

Hunter S. Thompson is hardly one who is usually associated with reptilian beings, and the fact that LSD is part of his evidence might bias some, but I find it strangely compelling. Thompson wrote about some crazy things; some might even call him a fabulist or a liar, but the fact that he remains largely mute on this subject in his own writing makes me think there might be something to this.

Let's add to this discussion the reminder that we all have reptilian DNA inside of us. In fact, at certain stages of gestation, a human fetus looks more like a frog or a lizard than a human being.

Appearing on Coast to Coast AM this past summer, Steward Swerdlow revealed information about how reptilians came to Earth from the Draco star system over 800,000 years ago. He claims to have learned this information while a test subject at the Montauk Project, a secret government facility on the tip of Long Island that focuses on mind control, the paranormal and psychology.

If you have been reading this column and are thinking that things are beginning to tie together, you're right. For example, the leader of the Freemasons has movements that eerily reminescent of a reptile. And what about the strange slits in Hillary Clinton's eyes? If you think her eyes are strange, you should see George Bush Sr.'s eyes.

What you see on these videos is both remarkable and indistinct. As one of them asks, can we handle the truth if truth is indeed much stranger than fiction? I would counter with a different question: isn't that what Halloween is all about??

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October 23, 2007

The Donspiracist Presents: Is the Earth Hollow?

There comes a time when the rationality of men must fade into insignificance and one must accept the inevitability of the Truth!

The quotation above is attributed to U.S. Navy Admiral Richard Byrd, taken from the diary he wrote after an expedition to the North Pole in 1947. What his diary reveals—if indeed the diary is authentic—is a reality so shocking and at odds with what mainstream science tells us that most of you might be unwilling to accept it.

But before we get to Admiral Byrd, we should explore some background. Many traditions as old as our civilization have told of the hollow earth. Buddhist and Hindu tradition tells of a place they called Shambala or Aggartha, an advanced realm that was located deep within the earth. Native American tribes as varied as the Sioux and the Inca talk of a race of white people who would issue forth from the bowels of the earth to pass on wisdom and guide them. This tale of the Inner Earth people has remarkable similarities across cultures; they are almost always described as tall, fair and white; often, they are called the descended masters, the first race, or the survivors of Atlantis or Lemuria.

Europeans have considered the possibility of a hololwo earth for centuries. Plato wrote of huge subterranean tunnels below the Earth's surface. In the 17th century Sir Edmund Halley, of comet fame, was convinced that all heavenly bodies, including the Earth, were hollow. Decades later, a mathematician named Leonhard Euler produced a mathematical proof that the Earth must be hollow.

On top of that, there is inexplicable evidence that is often ignored. For instance, in separate stories in Flying Saucer magazine in June 1970 and Search magazine in July 1970, Ray Palmer published a photograph that still causes controversy. In his editorial, he wrote that the photo was taken by the ESSA-7 satellite on November 23, 1968. Although we can see the ice-fields and 8-foot thick ice we do not see any ice fields in a large circular area directly at the geographic pole. Instead we see THE HOLE.

A detailed map of hollow earth and sheer craziness after the jump. -ed.

However, the science that most of us took in high school and college contradicts this legend. Science tells us that the earth is solid, with a molten iron core, topped by a mantle and a thick crust. We are told this so matter of factly that few of us ever question its validity. As is the case with evolution, though, surprisingly little sold evidence can support the claims that we are taught are proven fact.

The authors of a recent book called The Land of No Horizon have endeavored to take a scientific rather than mythological approach in their investigation of this topic. What they have discovered is that modern scientific findings actually support a hollow earth model rather than a solid one. They examine such topics as impact craters, continental drift, and the human reproductive cycle being linked to the 28 day rhythm of the moon as a means of supporting their theories, and they explained their ideas on an episode of Coast to Coast AM.

Some of you are know hopping up and down screaming how dare I compare this hollow earth nonsense to evolution . That, however, is another column. But the point is very pertinent. If we are to worship at the altar of science, then let's be fair. Evolution is a theory, not proven fact. And to teach it as anything other than a theory, albeit a probable one, is irresponsible and disingenuous. The same can be said for the hollow earth theory. I make no claims for its factual existence; my role is to present compelling evidence. The fact remains that science has never drilled deeper than 15 miles into the Earth's crust. Beyond that distance, we really don't know what lies at the center of our planet. The "common sense" that it is of course solid is not self-evident but rather a product of cultural conditioning. There was once a time when most educated people believed the Earth was flat.

And here's an intriguing fact: do you know it is illegal to enter a cave in the U.S. without a federal cave permit? Why would that be?

If we can open our minds enough, we will see that, rather than scientific certainty, serious doubt exists about the nature of the Earth's core. You can view a handful of videos on YouTube presenting evidence, including one that appeared on the Discovery Channel, and among the most intriguing evidence is the aforementioned story of Admiral Richard Byrd.

Admiral Byrd's secret diary of his expedition to the North Pole in 1947 is a document that can easily be found on the internet, but whose veracity is challenged. After thorough research, I have yet to find any evidence that disproves that this is really Richard Byrd's writing. In it, he describes how the voyage to the North Pole got strange when he sighted mountains in a spot where they should not have been.

Byrd writes: We are crossing over the small mountain range and still proceeding northward as best as can be ascertained. Beyond the mountain range is what appears to be a valley with a small river or stream running through the center portion. There should be no green valley below! Something is definitely wrong and abnormal here! We should be over Ice and Snow!

He then notices that the temperature has gone up to 74 degrees and he sights what looks like a mammoth on the ground below.

Soon after this, he loses control of his plane, and is joined in sky by disc-like escorts, who land him in the midst of a gleaming city. Once he disembarks, he is brought to see the leader of these people, one they call the Master.

The Master greets him as follows: 'We have let you enter here because you are of noble character and well-known on the Surface World, Admiral.' Surface World, I half-gasp under my breath! 'Yes," the Master replies with a smile, 'you are in the domain of the Arianni, the Inner World of the Earth."

The diary claims that the people of the inner earth grew concerned with the activities of man after the explosion of nuclear weapons in 1945. They ask Byrd to deliver a message about ecological and planetary disaster if nuclear proliferation were to occur.

Byrd is then escorted out of the inner earth and returns home to explain his mission. His superiors in Washington are not pleased. Byrd writes: The President has been advised. I am now detained for several hours (six hours, thirty- nine minutes, to be exact.) I am interviewed intently by Top Security Forces and a medical team. It was an ordeal!!!! I am placed under strict control via the national security provisions of this United States of America. I am ORDERED TO REMAIN SILENT IN REGARD TO ALL THAT I HAVE LEARNED, ON THE BEHALF OF HUMANITY! Incredible! I am reminded that I am a military man and I must obey orders.

The diary ends with Byrd issuing a warning about the military-industrial complex, ala Eisenhower.

So whether you take all this as a ripping good yarn or something deeper and more sinister, we have returned to a favorite theme of the conspiracist: all is not as it seems. Even if the Earth were proven to be solid tomorrow, I still find it hard to ignore ancient texts and common myths that appear in dozens of cultures around the world. The lesson I take from it all is not to worship too devoutly at the altar of science. Scientific truth is only as sturdy as the next great theory; it should never become dogma. People once believed that the Earth was the center of the Universe, and Newton's Laws once fully explained how the universe worked. Copernicus and Einstein shattered those certainties. We live in an age where cutting edge scientists are about to find life—albeit microscopic—on Mars and have all but proven the existence of multi-dimensional reality. We live in a time when sentient computers are mere years away and where growing bodies of evidence point to the reality of life after death.

In this context, can we ever be certain? I prefer the term "reasonably sure". After all, from where we stand, the earth feels pretty solid and looks pretty flat.

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October 11, 2007

The Donspiracist Presents: Is Denver's Airport Evil?

The Donspiracist was not happy with the Phils-Rockies series last week, so he decided to take his revenge the only way he knew how: by exposing the TRUTH about Denver's evil airport, an airport that looks like a swastika from above, that houses prisoners underground, and that has horrifying paintings in it's main entrance!
I, the Donspiracist, took a week off to celebrate the Phillies' thrilling theft of the NL East title from the hated Mets, only to have his jubilation crushed by those boys who play in Homer Central, aka Coors Field. I hope they get snakebitten.

How fitting is it then that my topic for this week is the Denver Airport? If you've never been or wonder why the hell I'm writing about an airport, then you need to start by taking a look at some pictures, which are taken of the mural in the Great Hall of the Denver Airport. As you look at them, you notice that they are not what you would expect for an airport serving the general public, including families and children. The work is dark, violent and disturbing. The artist who was commissioned to paint these murals claims he was simply working in a medium he has explored for years. That may be so, but what the hell? Some of the more offensive murals have since been painted over. Still, conspiracists suggest the murals portray the intentions of the New World Order, a future filled with fascist world government, genocide and occultism. (Check this out, it's a pretty wild video about the airport -ed.)

But this is not simply an article about disturbing art. The Denver Airport is state of the art; it also took many years to build and ran far, far over budget. Once again, you may not be alarmed by this information. What major construction project runs on budget and schedule you might ask? But this is a story that goes much deeper. Literally. The story of the Denver Airport involves rumors of multi-levels built underground, housing a secret government research facility, aliens, and prisoners of the New World Order.

One source on the website Mysterious Universe says this: When the DIA opened, the ceremony was attended by White House officials. The state governor who championed the project later received a high level appointment in the federal Department of Transportation. The completed airport cost $5.2 billion instead of the originally estimated $1.5 billion and the opening date had been delayed by two years...The terminal was built into a shape roughly resembling a swastika.

Anomalies-unlimited.com substantiates eye witness accounts of huge underground facilities not usually associated with airports. One witness goes on to describe large underground concrete shafts as wide as highways equipped with sprinkler systems and lighting. When questioned how such a tremendous project could have been keep secret, he replied: I think a lot of the people saw things that disturbed them so much that they would not talk about it. I know several people who worked on the project that managed to find their way down into the depths, probably close to the deep underground base, and saw things that scared them so badly they won't talk about it. I interviewed a few of the former employees on these construction crews that worked out there on these buildings that ended up buried, and they are afraid to talk. They say that everybody is real nervous about it, and they decided to tell some of the secrets that they knew, but they don't want anybody to know who they are. So, I can tell you that it is a very unusual and spooky type of place, and if you are a sensitive person you get nauseated as soon as you enter the perimeter of the airport. Especially when you go down underground. You become very nauseated a nervous. There is also so much electromagnetic flux in the area that if you get out on the open ground around the airport, you will "buzz".

Another source adds: There is the Deep Underground Military Base underneath Denver International Airport, which is over 22 miles in diameter and goes down over 8 levels. It's no coincidence that the CIA is relocating the headquarters of its domestic division, which is responsible for operations in the United States, from the CIA's Langley headquarters to Denver...DIA serves as a cover for the vast underground facilities that were built there. There are reports of electronic/magnetic vibrations which make some people sick and cause headaches in others. There are acres of fenced-in areas which have barbed wire pointing into the area as if to keep things in, and small concrete stacks that resemble mini-cooling towers rise out of the acres of nowhere to apparently vent underground levels. The underground facility is 88.3 square mile deep. Basically this Underground Base is 8 cities on top of each other! These city-sized bases can hold millions and millions of people, whether they are mind controlled, enslaved NWO World Army Soldiers or innocent and enslaved surface dwellers from the towns and cities of America and Canada.

The sources go on and on. The internet is rife with them. Whether the U.S. government is truly building gigantic bases right beneath our feet is hard to really say. However, this is the same government that has done mind control testing on its own citizens and which has espoused an overt policy of torture and suspension of habeas corpus during the current "war". In other words, the average American does not seem to matter much to those who are in charge. The changes in our liberty since 9/11 have seemed a bit fascistic, and there is a ton of evidence that massive amounts of our tax dollars are funneled yearly into black programs that we are then told do not exist. In short, we have a government obsessed with secrecy in the name of national security, despite the fact that we won the Cold War, have created a society of unimaginable wealth and luxury, and have experienced only one major terrorist attack in our history. Talk to those in London and Madrid and Jerusalem about how you're scared and see how much sympathy you get.

I don't know for sure what is going on at the Denver Airport, but I do think there is plenty of evidence to suggest it's not just something normal. Too many odd occurrences, too many odd facts, too many odd structural and design elements make even the most sober citizen suspicious. And hey, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, I'm not calling it a frog even if Dick Cheney and all of Congress assures me they have looked into it and swear it is a frog.

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September 26, 2007

The Donspiracist Presents: Are Futuristic Weapons Already Here?

Dunno if you've been following the Donspiracist, but I really think his fun yet informative column has gotten better each and every week. This week is no exception. I really think you're gonna enjoy this one. The future of weapons sound like they come from a sci-fi novel. And the future is a lot closer than you think. -JGT

Secrecy is the conspirators' greatest weapon. If you control information about your activities, you then can operate without much scrutiny. The public cannot get incensed about what it does not know. This truism is particularly pertinent involving phenomena that are hidden in plain sight. These are events or technologies that are not protected behind the gates and locks of government high security, ala Area 51, but instead operate in the open, but are not given the attention by the media that they deserve.

Take Raytheon's invention of a pain machine. The Daily Mail reported last week on Silent Guardian, a directed energy weapon developed by Raytheon for the U.S. military. The article discusses the small black box that, when turned on, "emits an invisible, focused beam of radiation - similar to the microwaves in a domestic cooker - that are tuned to a precise frequency to stimulate human nerve endings. It can throw a wave of agony nearly half a mile." The report goes on to say that the machine causes no permanent damage to victims, but that the pain it causes is so intense that it cannot be borne by anyone in its path. If it weren't documented, I'd label it science fiction. Can this be the future of warfare? Or, more specifically, police work? More importantly, why was there no mention of this device in the American media?

Couple the Daily Mail article with episodes in Whitley's Strieber's recent novel The Grays. In it, the President is almost convinced by some evil intelligence community types to use a scalar weapon on a small town in Ohio. The reader is led to believe that the weapon, which looks a lot like a satellite, would cause earthquakes and great destruction in the college town, all via the use of directed radiation.

Once again, sci fi, right?

As it turns out, perhaps not. A growing body of evidence suggests scalar weapons are real. They are based on the work of scientist Nicola Tesla, the legendary figure who invented, among other things, alternating current. His contributions to electricity, engineering and physics are invaluable, and some even call him the man who "invented the 20 th century".

One of Tesla's discoveries led to modern scalar technology, which supposedly Russia has investigated at a much deeper level than the USA. The physics of the discovery are a bit beyond my understanding, but it has to do with electromagnetic radiation, a field the Russians have labeled "energetics". Apparently, the scalar weapons can do more harm on a mass scale than most of us can imagine, and they threaten to make nuclear armaments obsolete. Sources claim a scalar weapon can do the following: make a nuclear like destruction; earthquake; hurricane; tidal wave; cause instant freezing - killing every living thing instantly over many miles; cause intense heat like a burning fireball over a wide area; induce hypnotic mind control over a whole population; or even read anyone on the planet's mind by remote; affect anybody's REM dream sleep by sending in subliminal pictures to the visual cortex; cause hallucinogen drug like effects or the symptoms of chemical or biological poisoning; make a disease epidemic by imprinting the disease 'signature' right into the cellular structure; paralyze and or/kill everyone instantaneously in a 50 mile radius and lastly remove something right out of its place in time and space faster than the speed of light, without any detectable warning.

Sounds crazy, I know. But the evidence is compelling. No country has yet admitted to possessing scalar technology, but there is something in the Alaskan wilderness which bears some resemblance, and its name is HAARP.

HAARP is a joint project of the Air Force, the Navy, and the University of Alaska that purports to be a scientific investigation into the ionosphere with the goal of understanding and/or aiding communications and surveillance. But a growing number of skeptics are convinced that merely is a cover story for the truth. One source claims this: In a document prepared by the government, the US Air Force claims: "The potential applications of artificial electromagnetic fields are wide-ranging and can be used in many military or quasi-military situations... Some of these potential uses include dealing with terrorist groups, crowd control, controlling breaches of security at military installations, and antipersonnel techniques in tactical warfare. In all of these cases the EM (electromagnetic) systems would be used to produce mild to severe physiological disruption or perceptual distortion or disorientation. In addition, the ability of individuals to function could be degraded to such a point that they would be combat-ineffective. Another advantage of electromagnetic systems is that they can provide coverage over large areas with a single system. They are silent, and countermeasures to them may be difficult to develop." Which brings us full circle to the Silent Guardian I wrote about in the 2nd paragraph.

And mind you, this is the Air Force speaking, not some nut job on an obscure blog.

The truth seems to suggest that directed energy weapons are the future, but for those of us who thought the age of Star Trek and Star Wars type technology was far, far off, think again. Perhaps we already see their effects.

Did you notice "crowd control" in the quote above?

Those who speculate on the uses of weapons such as HAARP say the range can include weather manipulation (Anyone wanna say Katrina?), earthquakes, and mind control. Some bold investigators have even suggested a scalar weapon is the true reason the WTC towers collapsed on that fateful September day, not steel weakened by burning jet fuel.

You might be saying, ugh, here he goes with that again. But if you truly read the alternative evidence that is out there, and if you truly see through the holes in official reports, then you open yourself up to what is heretofore unimaginable. And this column lives by the motto that nothing in our world is as it seems.

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September 11, 2007

The Donspiracist Presents: Is Big Pharma Conspiring to Make You Sick?

The Donspiracist is back. This time he takes on Big Pharma, and wonders if there is a conspiracy in place to keep us sick.

In the last 15 years, Big Pharma has ramped up their advertising and have flooded the market with drugs treating diseases that were unknown just a generation ago. And they won't stop until all of you are taking prescription or over the counter medication.

Take this quote from Selling Sickness: How The World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels: "Thirty years ago, Henry Gadsen, the head of Merck, one of the world's largest drug companies, told Fortune magazine that he wanted Merck to be more like chewing gum maker Wrigley's. It had long been his dream, he said, to make drugs for healthy people–so that Merck could 'sell drugs to everyone.' Three decades on, the late Henry Gadsen's dream has come true."

What do we have now? Erectile dysfunction. Acid reflux. Restless leg syndrome. Adult ADHD. Overactive bladder syndrome.

People feel the need to actively treat with drugs such normal conditions as hair loss, obesity, indigestion, toenail fungus, occasional depression (to be distinguished from major or serious depression), social anxiety, and insomnia.

Activist Kevin Trudeau says, "Drug companies are no longer selling drugs to save lives. They are manufacturing and selling drugs that are used to treat the simplest and mildest of conditions. This trend is more than just worrisome . . . Drug companies are taking advantage of people's vulnerabilities and selling you ineffective drugs that all have negative side effects. These drugs and medical treatments do not work as advertised. They are ineffective. At best they suppress the symptoms for a short time." You might know Trudeau from his best seller Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About. It's easy to dismiss him because of his infomercials, until you read his book.

But if you haven't done that and refuse to, how about this from Dr. Ben Kim's medical blog: "Here's how a pharmaceutical sales representative recently summarized his work for me: 'I take the doctor out to dinner at a fancy restaurant, all expenses paid. As dinner winds down, I ask the doctor to recommend my company's brand for certain health conditions among his patients. Sometimes, the doctor will say that his office needs new equipment. I say how much? The doctor says $5,000. I say fine, but only if you write 100 scripts (prescriptions) for a specific drug made by our company each month. The doctor agrees, and we get him his new $5,000 machine.'"

What's stopping the doctor from taking the machine and not prescribing the drug? Kim goes on to explain about IMS, a tracking system that allows big pharma companies to ensure the doctor is keeping his end of the deal.

If you're still skeptical that this conspiracy has no legs, how about this from the of The Nation in 2002: "In June, the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the most respected medical journals, made a startling announcement. The editors declared that they were dropping their policy stipulating that authors of review articles of medical studies could not have financial ties to drug companies whose medicines were being analyzed. The reason? The journal could no longer find enough independent experts. Drug company gifts and "consulting fees" are so pervasive that in any given field, you cannot find an expert who has not been paid off in some way by the industry. So the journal settled for a new standard: Their reviewers can have received no more than $10,000 from companies whose work they judge. Isn't that comforting?"

That was 5 years ago. Things have gotten worse since. Mike Adams reports this on his medical site NewsTarget.com: "[H]ow about the sleeping drug, Ambien, that's causing people to engage in "sleep driving" (sleep walking while driving a car), where they cause major traffic accidents . . . Even though Ambien is clearly far more dangerous than marijuana, you don't see people being arrested for taking Ambien. You don't see our prisons packed top to bottom with people who possessed Ambien. And you don't see doctors -- who sold the drug to patients -- charged with dealing drugs." This site, by the way is not a pro-pot site. In fact, the author is a natural healer who eschews all drugs, legal and illegal. He just recognizes the hypocrisy and sham that we all are being sold on a daily basis.

I say all this not as a purist who hates drugs, but as an active consumer of pharmaceuticals. I have asthma, and as such I take a number of prescription medications daily to control that condition. Without them, my quality of life would be worse than it is. In fact, without steroids and anti-inflammatory drugs, I probably would have died of an extreme asthma attack in 1999.

In addition, without penicillin, my mother very likely would have died as an infant during World War II.

But then there's this to consider: when the Vioxx scare occurred a few years back, my grandmother, who suffers from chronic and painful arthritis, had to switch from Vioxx to over the counter ibuprofen. In the years since that switch, she reports little difference in her condition. Basic Advil gives her as much relief as a highly touted and expensive medication. So I wonder why did the doctor prescribe the costly and dangerous Vioxx in the first place?

That, my friends, is precisely the problem.
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August 31, 2007

The Donspiracist Returns

This time the Donspiracist talks about a creepy private hangout and secret society that some of the most powerful men on earth belong to. This is good stuff. Enjoy.
What did you do for summer vacation?

Hopefully, you didn't have to sit through Daddy Day Camp.

But, if you were lucky, you did get to go to camp, just like many of our richest and most influential politicians and businessmen. They congregate for two weeks in July every year at a place called Bohemian Grove, a very large encampment about an hour north of San Francisco. The Grove is owned and run by the Bohemian Club, an organization founded in the middle of the 19th century by men who felt isolated and exiled in the rough American West.

The club has evolved into a meetinghouse of the most powerful men in our society. Every Republican president since Coolidge and most Democrats have been members, as have most upper echelon government officials. The roster of recent members includes both Bushes, Bill Clinton, Reagan, James Baker and Henry Kissinger. Members from other areas of society are prominent as well, including Walter Cronkite.

The ostensible reason for their gathering is to get away from the cares of running the world. Reports from those who have attended or have investigated say a spirit of silliness and drunkenness pervades.

I know, you're thinking, so what? And if that was all there was to it, I would not be writing this article. However, the main event of this summer encampment is the Cremation of Care ceremony, which involves burning an effigy at the foot of a 40 foot stone owl.

You read right: 40 foot stone owl. Here are some pictures from the Coast to Coast AM website.

Filmmaker and radio talk show host Alex Jones infiltrated the steep security at the Grove with a hidden camera in the summer of 2000. He claims to have uncovered some deep dark secrets. The entire film can be found here. Excitement gripped me as I began to watch. I'm always into rich people acting all perverted and pagan, ala Eyes Wide Shut. The sexual ritual scene inside the mansion where everyone is masked remains one of the creepiest pieces of American cinema in recent memory; for raising hairs on my arms, I'll take that over gory horror any day.

The problem is, despite Jones' claims of pagan rituals to a Babylonian god named Molloch, the film doesn't really show more than a bunch of rich men acting weird and silly.

Even if the practices at Bohemian Grove are not occult, it still raises, for me, an interesting question. Why do the rich and powerful of our world join such secret clubs and keep them so secret and behave in such odd ways? I know the old argument that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but hey, I have a brother pretty high up the food chain at GM, and on vacation he takes his kids to the beach, barbecues and plays golf like the rest of us.

The point is Bohemian Grove is suspicious by its very nature. It contains many of the same members as the Bilderbergers, the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Skull and Bones. These are not just harmless social clubs. At the very least, these are groups that decide major issues that eventually affect you and me.

But what's with the big owl? It does feel distinctly pagan. And if you look closely, the owl pops up in odd places.

That a view of the Capitol building from above. (I got it from here, another site worth checking out concerning the grove.)

Granted, that may be a coincidence. But I'm not a big believer in coincidences, nor am I foolish enough to believe that the world's richest and most powerful men like to blow off steam by drinking themselves silly and dressing up like women and burning human effigies in a spirit of collegiality.
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August 24, 2007

Introducing...the Donspiracist!

Ladies and gentlemen, I am very excited to bring to you the latest member of the jonnygoodtimes.com staff, the Donspiracist. The Donspiracist is going to be looking a little closer at some things that deserve a 2nd look. He begins with this column, on 9/11.
In his very entertaining book of essays Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman writes about a pre-9/11 email he sent his friends asking them to make a choice. Would they rather go on blind date with someone they knew was attractive and successful? Or would they prefer to go on a blind date with someone who was attractive, successful, and "very patriotic"? Almost immediately, all his friends responded that they would date the first person. Klosterman claims he wasn't surprised, nor am I. A quick poll of my friends and co-workers returns similar results.

Why is it that so many of us think of patriotic people as undateable? Even in this post-9/11 age where one's willingness to express love for America is a kind of litmus test, I secretly believe patriotic people are lousy in bed and would make dull significant others.

Why?

The answer to that question lies in imagination. Being patriotic really doesn't take much thought or creativity. In fact, it takes none. It's a stance, a reflex, a script, a cage. It cannot be compared to other types of loyalty because it doesn't involve the same kind of love as say love of a woman, a parent, or even a local football team. Patriotism is rote. It comes from the part of us that likes to deliver the expected behavior. In fact, it has a lot in common with going to church on Sunday. Most of us who do so are motivated not by intense deep belief but by obligation that emanates vaguely from somewhere in our childhood, but whose precise location we cannot locate. All we know is we get defensive if we stop going and someone in a social situation points that out. Faux pas in the making. Patriotism is that old pair of jeans we refuse to throw out even though they stopped looking good on us years before.

Which brings us to the 9/11 Truth movement, a burgeoning internet community that makes the patriotic types spit with rage. 9/11, they say, is settled. The 9/11 commission has published its findings. The names of the terrorists have been discovered. The victims have been mourned. The rubble has been cleared…

But has it? 911truth.org is a leader in the movement to question the official line that our government and our media have settled on.

If you look at the "top 40 reasons to doubt the official story of what happened on September 11th, 2001" on 911truth.org, you might not feel so certain. Number 3 is one of the most thought provoking: How was it possible the Pentagon was hit 1 hour and 20 minutes after the attacks began? Why was there no response from Andrews Air Force Base, just 10 miles away and home to Air National Guard units charged with defending the skies above the nation''s capital? How did Hani Hanjour, a man who failed as a Cessna pilot on his first flight in a Boeing, execute a difficult aerobatic maneuver to strike the Pentagon?

Or if you checked out Alex Jones's two websites, prisonplanet.com and infowars.com, you'd see links between 9/11 and events that are still unfolding. His favorite piece of evidence is about WTC 7, which was not hit by a plane but did collapse anyway, for no apparent engineering reason.

Or if you read David Icke's Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster , you'd see research that the 9/11 commission blatantly ignored, especially linkes between the Bush and Bin Laden families that would make Michael Moore speechless.

Or if you read George Washington's Blog, you would see an explication of false flag terror and how it has played a role in the history of many nations. In a recent entry, he writes: Many timid writers and commentators are finally waking up to the fact that the powers-that-be are whipping up fear of the enemy in order to justify their imperial wars of aggression and a consolidation of power at home .

Or if you went to NY 9/11 Truth, you would see how people are organizing seminars and establishing ballot initiatives to inform the public that the official line is wrong.

To ignore all this as the ranting of lunatics, as mass self-deception, shows a rigid acceptance of what we are told is true. And you know what? Most of us still have enough kid in us to resist that. Most of us have enough imagination and creativity to wonder if maybe, just maybe, history is more fable than it is fact.

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