Argentina: Fireball Fell from the Sky

San Juan, 25 Jan 2008 - The people of Santa Lucía were surprised yesterday when a black porous rock fell from the sky.

CASLEO (the Leoncito Astronomical Complex) has been analyzing the rock today to determine whether it is a meteorite.

"It was like a fireball that crossed the sky", several witnesses said yesterday.

Profesor Eloy Actis, director of the Félix Aguilar Observatory, is amongst those who do not believe it is a meteorite; he claims that "it should weigh more than 20 kg, when in fact it is only a rock of 2 kg. It could be a volcanic rock - but due to the area where it fell, this would be highly unlikely."

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Photograph © Diario de Cuyo

Flame On! The Human Torch discovers what he can do ...

In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, there are women who see "men all in fire walking up and down the streets". They see with their inner eyes a portent of doom, at this time of crisis for the State apparatus and society.

But this isn't just doom and gloom - it's a sign of the times. Some have knowledge of what is going on: that's light. And some even act on that knowledge: that's fire.

Men all in fire walk up and down the streets

Dear reader: you probably know all this already. But when I was young I had absolutely no idea about lies and the lying liars that tell these lies - I was completely and totally clueless. And when I say clueless, I mean really CLUELESS.

So please forgive me if I'm going over old ground here.

9/11 is a good place to start, because - as both the government, and its opponents agree - everything changed on that date.

The 9/11 operation was years and years in the making. A lot of money was spent trying to make sure everything went the way they wanted. ('They' in this case being the real conspirators - rather than any guys on the airliners with Muslim names.)

But once the dust had settled from the Twin Towers, and the fire had been put out at the Pentagon, this didn't mean that they could just pour themselves a few martinis and congratulate each other. That's not what happened after JFK's assassination, and it's unreasonable to assume that the same sort of thing could happen in this instance.

Basically, after the deed had been done, and all those people had died, they had to get on with a clean-up operation - because it's not as though everyone would just fall for the lies, and deny what their eyes were telling them. There would be emergency services personnel to intimidate, there would be whitewash reports to produce (as with the Warren Commission after JFK), there would eventually have to be a show trial or two (e.g. Moussaoui and his stun-belt).

The conspirators are most probably harder at work than ever, trying to keep a lid on things. They're confident, I guess, that they can do this, because of JFK. He was the President - they killed him - and we're in a situation now where you can't say 'grassy knoll' without being cold-shouldered or laughed into silence even by your friends.

One of the greatest dangers, though, comes from journalists. These are the people that society trusts to ferret out political truth and present it bravely and responsibly. But that's only an ideal: pretty nearly all journalists know that their job is on the line if they talk about this 9/11 stuff.

Basically, it's JFK all over again. You can talk about it as a journalist - but say goodbye to any chance of a reasonable career.

Because society itself has problems dealing with this sort of thing. If 9/11 was a government operation designed to secure greater control over a populace regarded as 'degenerate' in some way (common enough thinking among authoritarians everywhere), then government itself is not merely corrupt, it is irremediably broken. If that's the case, then we're all up sh*t creek anyway - and it's a whole lot easier to simply enter into a state of denial (common enough thinking among just about everybody everywhere - including you and me).

So the conspirators hold all the cards.

Except that they don't quite - because there's a Rebel Alliance.

These are the people in alternative news media, which is principally on the Web. In effect they're amateur journalists who are independent of the 'respectable' (and heavily compromised) news media organisations.

Anyway, alternative news media (though often enough thought of as lightweight, because it doesn't have the so-called gravitas of major news organisations, and because it's frequently satirical or darkly funny, because they've seen the Emperor's new clothes) does pose a danger to the conspirators. It's samizdat stuff - like the underground photocopied journalism that posed a long-term danger to the Kremlin in the last years of the Soviet Union. Basically, its influence can mount over the years.

The way the government deals with this stuff in a totalitarian state is to arrest the people responsible, torture them, put them in labour camps, or shoot them. In a democracy they institute programmes of CoIntelPro - counter-intelligence programmes. In the US in the 70's this was how they dealt with groups like the Black Panthers, the American Indian Movement, Earth First, etc, etc. In Britain the targets were the IRA, CND, the trades union movement, etc, etc - and ultimately the Labour Party, which until the 80's was softly anti-authoritarian, and left-wing in its understanding of economics.

Essentially, what they're doing in CoIntelPro is secretly infiltrating the organisation that they're worried about, and trying to co-opt it. Rumour has it that Tony Blair was just such a agent of CoIntelPro in the 80's when he was a member of CND - in other words, he never gave a damn about nuclear disarmament, but was simply there to help co-opt or disrupt elements of the organisation on behalf of MI5's Counter-Subversion section. Okay - that is just a rumour. But just because it's a rumour doesn't mean that it's not true.

CoIntelPro is about secrets and lies, put to work by agencies like MI5 or the FBI in order to minimise the effectiveness of any organisation that is critical of the government, or threatens to disrupt its rule. One way of doing this is to encourage an organisation to violence - the dictum is that you can easily spot the CoIntelPro agent: he's the one who suggests we blow something up, and then says he knows where we can get the dynamite.

That's a classic agent provocateur, and governments have been using such assets since at least the 19th century. It gives the police a free rein to round everybody up and put them in jail - and to paint everybody else involved in the issue (black rights, environmental issues, home rule for Ireland, anarchist theory - whatever) as violent extremists who will stop at nothing to get what they want. Even though the real people who will stop at nothing - including the murder of innocents - to get what they want, are actually the government and its agents.

Another way to paint such idealists as violent whackos is for the government to set up its own organisation of violent whackos - who are actually all CoIntelPro agents: a classic example was the Symbionese Liberation Army in the US in the 70's. Plus, they can now do innovative things with torture, drugs and hypnosis to turn normal people into CoIntelPro agents, through the establishment of a maze of different personalities within the one individual: Sirhan Sirhan, who was implicated in the assassination of Bobby Kennedy in 1968, is probably the best-known victim of this programme, known in America as Project Artichoke.

The 9/11 truth movement can't be co-opted in quite such a dramatic way, because, as a revolutionary movement, all it's trying to do is shed light on historical truth. It's not trying to change society, or put in place its own political policies. CoIntelPro in this case works by trying to fracture the movement through the promotion of some bits and pieces of the truth, which are then compromised with a politically important lie - politically important from the point of view of the government and conspirators, that is.

Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is probably an instance of this. This film, apparently a brave attempt to get out the truth of 9/11, is a distraction to buy the government some time. It indicates that the Bush administration, because of long-standing business connections with the bin Laden family, allowed the attacks to happen. In other words, the administration is corrupt - which everybody pretty much knew anyway, and the administration itself is at no pains to conceal. Fahrenheit 9/11 has all the feel of revolution, but it's actually nothing at all. It's a distraction - another clandestine victory for CoIntelPro. You can practically hear the martini glasses being clinked together jovially at wherever it is these guys get together to congratulate themselves.

With the 9/11 truth movement, the idea for CoIntelPro is to minimise the damage, fracture the movement, shift attention away from the obvious, buy themselves just a little bit more time before the hammer falls, and their position is secured long-term. 9/11 is JFK Phase II - and if Phase II succeeds, then Phase III gets rolled out.

That's not to say that Michael Moore is a CoIntelPro agent.

When St Francis came along, the Pope, or some other ecclesiastical hierarch, could have had him executed. Job done. But he was useful in other ways. He was totally orthodox in his understanding of the Christian faith, and was completely faithful to the authority of the Pope - unlike a whole slew of other mendicant friars, who were far more revolutionary and socially aware. Francis was the Papacy's weapon against them - the acceptable face of revolution, which wasn't all that much of a revolution at all. It gave honest Christians a spiritual outlet, while preserving the status quo. Eventually, another order of friars, the Dominicans, actually became forceful and effective agents of repression in Spain, forming the best part of the Inquisition there.

Michael Moore's perhaps much the same - full of fire and light, but not asking the real questions. Which makes him acceptable to the administration. He openly supports the Democrats - who today are scarcely different from the Republicans in their policy choices, and just as venal. Or at least the top dogs in the party are, and in reality only the top dogs count.

The 200lb gorilla in the living-room is the Pentagon attack. It was struck by a plane - probably a Global Hawk drone converted to carry missiles and painted in American Airlines colours. That (I reckon) is the best explanation from the evidence available. Global Hawks are about the size of a business jet, while a 757 is enormous. There's absolutely no evidence of an airliner at the Pentagon. It's so obviously not there, and never was there.

Not only is it obvious, but if the truth about this came out, then the administration is completely finished. No one can claim that Bush and Cheney simply turned a blind eye. This was manufactured - no airliner, but they keep on saying that Flight 77 hit the Pentagon. CoIntelPro can't really deal with something of this magnitude, of this order of duplicity, with a public realisation that this was solely due to careful, deliberate, centralised military planning.

If this fact becomes accepted (that there was no airliner at the Pentagon), then the tanks roll out on to Pennsylvania Avenue, either as a military coup, or (more likely) as part of Phase III: the Dictatorship, the state of national emergency.

And the same will happen here, because our government is so attuned to Washington: tanks in Whitehall, and the troublesome top brass purged - and we're all screwed, because everything will become much more overtly repressive.

Of course, it won't change anything much, because they're planning to do this anyway, at the precise point (I suppose) when they pull the plug on our somewhat fictitious economy - except that the government will have had their hand forced before they were completely ready. They won't yet have had time to build the infrastructure for a really effective Big Brother state, where nobody can voice dissent without being stomped on straight away.

Furthermore, people will know. They'll know that the government is their enemy. There won't be any room for denial any more. They won't be able to tell themselves that the government is just trying to protect our way of life from fictitious terrorists, or a fictitious right-wing take-over - when all along the real right-wing state terrorists are finally firmly in charge.

However - what do I know? :) I could be so wrong.

But then - where's the airliner?


The Kennedy Assassination
Cosmic CoIntelPro Timeline
Destruction of the 911 Truth Movement

Smoke and Mirrors: evidence submitted recently at the ongoing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui - click on the picture to enlarge. (With thanks to 9/11 Blogger and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.)

Spot the airliner.

A Boeing 757 is a pretty big aircraft, a whole lot bigger than the buses and fire engines in the picture - so where is it? Where are the wings? Where are the cars that would have been tumbled over in the wake of a massive aircraft's near ground-level approach into the wall of the Pentagon?

Something's not right here, and it has implications for us. This isn't just an attack on the Pentagon - it's a psychological attack on us all.

Certainly there's debris here, and certainly something has hit the Pentagon. But an airliner?

What's going on? Am I manipulating the evidence to fit some spaced-out conspiracy theory? Or do the eyes confirm what the Heart already knows full well: that there is indeed manipulation going on here - but it comes from powerful interests in the US administration itself. No doubt years in the making, this piece of performance art is nevertheless all about pulling a fast one.

As any Las Vegas stage magician knows, one of the ways they manage to pull off such astounding magic tricks and illusions is by spending an unfeasible amount of money on it, and doing an awful lot of preparation, with a good number of hidden stage-hands. The audience is bamboozled - partly because they would never have guessed that anyone would have put so much effort into such a seemingly effortless bit of quick theatre. But that's how stage magicians earn a living. They take advantage of the audience's better nature, and more or less simplistic way of thinking.

This is how the murderer tries to get away with his crime in an Agatha Christie novel: he simulates an attack on himself, though never one where he actually gets seriously hurt, in order to put himself in the clear. The actual crime here is the destruction of the World Trade Center, and the financial rip-offs that went with it; the bit of distraction on the side is the Pentagon attack.

Though not much of an attack at all, as the aircraft which hit the Pentagon has caused very little real damage. Those who died in their offices, we can be fairly sure, meant little to the real movers and shakers. They were as expendable as those who died in the Twin Towers - mere Army staff and a few others, who weren't with the real programme.

It sounds all wrong, doesn't it? Nobody would do a thing like that - unless, of course, they were part of that sneaky untermenschen, the Ay-rabs. White people don't do things like this. Dick Cheney wouldn't do something like this - he's a guy with a respectable and responsible position in society: he's the Vice-President, for crying out loud. It's not as though he's the sort of guy who would, say, shoot someone in cold blood.

It sounds all wrong - but what are our eyes telling us? Isn't it ironic that we never take ourselves all that seriously? Even though the guys and gals who did this take each of us very seriously indeed. They know we're a danger to them. But if they can get away with this, then we'll have sold our birthright for a mess of pottage. And good luck to us - because we'll need it.

All they need is just a bit more time, and then everything will fall into place for them. Martial law will be in place - even if they never actually call it that. We'll have lost everything - including our own souls, because the truth never really meant all that much to us.

Of course, there is another way: to stand up for the truth, to start to take ourselves seriously, to learn to shed the self-deception. It's scary - especially at first - but it's fun.

Because this is the path from Fear to JOY.


Some useful links (imho):
Pentagon Strike - a flash presentation;
Frozen Fish - an article by Joe Quinn, one of the editors of:
Signs of the Times - alternative news;
Physics 911 - scientific panel investigating nine-eleven;
9/11 Blogger - 9/11-related alternative news;
Stevenwarran - eyewitnesses at the Pentagon.

Antiquity and Modernity: or is it all much of a muchness?

Under the Pyramids

Ancient Egypt possesses an undeniable attraction. Its monuments are heavy with the weight of years. They call to us out of the past with a vision of stability - with a vision of progress. The Egyptians, 5000 years ago, moved from a 'primitive' lifestyle to something much more metropolitan, much more recognisable to our own culture. There's familiarity there - and yet, in the hieroglyphs and composite creatures with the heads of jackals and hawks, something mysterious too.

They could do so much - witness the pyramids which startle the imagination, even in their ruinous condition, without the smooth limestone facings they used to possess. These were the first skyscrapers, still doing the work they were designed for, to impress those who saw them.

But is this impression a positive or a negative thing? Is it impressive or repressive? Surely, Egyptian science must have been truly advanced for such monuments to have been erected?

Otto Neugebauer, however, the foremost historian of ancient mathematics, pointed out some fifty years ago that Egyptian maths was appallingly primitive compared to the level found in Babylonia. For a 3000 year old culture that speaks volumes. To have remained at such a primitive level for such a long period of time, they would have had to have rather cut themselves off from the rest of the world.

Plus, their literature was poor at best - in fact, rubbish might be a more appropriate term for it. It doesn't compare to the better parts of the Old Testament or Homer or the Epic of Gilgamesh - the Book of the Dead notwithstanding. Additionally, they couldn't get a grip on the alphabet, even though, from the Late Bronze onwards, alphabets were being used fairly extensively all over the eastern Mediterranean.

So, anyway, Egyptian culture was fixed, moribund, stagnant. They had traded progress for security - and that security wasn't really much of a security at all.

It was all about illusion and self-deception.

And so you get a culture that mummifies corpses - again, illusion and self-deception. Who could believe that mummification would give someone a better start in the afterlife? What sort of basic thinking processes would promote such a patently misguided belief? Presumably one that's conservative to the nth degree - that wants everything to remain just the way it's always been.

To me that looks like a turning in upon oneself - a desire for sleep, a desire for oblivion. I'd rather choose life.

So, anyway, the ancient Egyptians seem to have prized conformity above all things. Which makes it not so dissimilar to the way things are in our own culture. Or certainly, the way things seem to be going. Perhaps that's what dumbing down is really all about - the search for illusory security through deliberate ignorance.

The Egyptians faced some tough times during the period of the Ptolemys, when serious cracks appeared in the social structure. Over-taxation to maintain an increased bureaucracy put a good number of Egyptians (possibly most) in penury. That, and the subsequent assimilation of Egypt into the Roman Empire, made Egyptians little better than serfs. Again, there are parallels with our own culture.

It was difficult for Egyptians to get out of this fix without jettisoning pretty much the whole of their culture - which may be why Christianity could make such successful inroads into the country; it offered a completely new template when people were at their most vulnerable.

That's when Egyptian literature becomes interesting and even challenging for a modern reader. Suddenly there was a new type of conformity: Christianity. But at the same time, a new exploration, because the culture had fractured to such an extent that anything was possible - which was why you also got new experimentation, with an explosion in Pachomian monasticism and Gnostic literature in Coptic.

But getting back to ancient Egypt (rather than Egypt in the Classical period) - there seems to have been a love of the straight line in things: all those obelisks and square-cut ashlar blocks. It's so very different from the artistic motifs and architecture found in the ancient British Isles, where you get spirals and curved lines and the deliberate roughness of Stonehenge, for instance.

There's a bludgeoning effect about Egyptian architecture which I really don't like - it seems to be about keeping you in your place, about informing you that you are nothing compared to the elite for whom these structures were created. There's not much that's homely or courteous about Egyptian temple architecture - it's about state control, and the reinforcement of an attitude of subservience through religion. A religion that you can't qualify or object to, because it's so heavy with the weight of years; that you can't reject without seeming to reject everything else that your society stands for.

All those straight lines in the architecture indicate an enforced straightening out of human beings into perfect machines for the use of the state. That makes ancient Egypt an exemplar of synarchism: a polite term for fascism.

Of course, human beings don't altogether take kindly to that kind of abuse. When the Egyptian state tried to move into Phase II of their synarchist dream, with the establishment of Atenism under Akhenaten, there was, after a few years, a revolt. It's unfortunate that some Christian theologians seem to regard Akhenaten as some sort of monotheistic hero. Of course, you can see where they're coming from when you compare the Hymn to the Sun-Disc with Psalm 104, where there are striking parallels.

There are parallels with Atenism in other parts of the Old Testament, too - parallels with Phase II of the synarchist dream, which envisioned a divine triad of the Sun-Disc in the sky, its hypostasis in an earthly temple, and its manifestation in a human figure, the Pharaoh.

And so we get in the Old Testament a similar triad: Yahweh in heaven, the worship of him in the Temple at Jerusalem (with the Ark of the Covenant as his footstool), and an embodiment of him in the King of Judah: David, the one who sings praises to the Lord, the anointed - but also the man of blood (ish haddam), the foreshadowing of a future Messiah who will put the other nations to rout.

In turn, this transfers fairly seamlessly to the devotional ban (herem), when Samuel commands that whole villages be exterminated simply because they are of the 'other' nations, and killing them all is a divine necessity - an aspect of the worship due to Yahweh.

Nonsense, really, isn't it? Just the sort of thing the true Prophets denounced. And not a million miles from what is happening in Palestine today.

It's trading life for security, or freedom for cucumbers - as some of the Israelites wanted immediately after the Exodus from Egypt.

Hosea said, "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son".

I think that's sort of a first stage in spiritual work, the stage of a child: to turn your back on Egypt, and not to keep on thinking nostalgically (and erroneously) about how good it all was - even though it remains attractive in a glittery sort of a way to lots of people even today. Especially in New Age circles.

But then, we all tend to fall for the Glorious Spectacle - and miss the hidden meanings, the darker notes, underneath.

Which might be something to bear in mind - especially if they try to foist The Nine upon us once again.

Gynoid Maria: the future is now.

Metropolis

What's it like to live in the 21st century? Can we see it as it really is? Can we make out the wood for the trees?

Or do we need dreams to make sense of it?

In 1924 Fritz Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou set about creating the silent film Metropolis. Several million Marks later, the film was released in 1927 - to mixed reviews. Visually stunning, even today, it was perhaps too much for many people to grasp. The storyline, too, seems somehow distant and otherworldly: evocative of something vaguely other, and yet rooted in the world of today, the world we know. Or think we know.

A world of dreams - and making the same sort of sense that dreams do.

Metropolis was speculative cinema, speaking in archetypes straight through the eyes to the heart with its dystopian vision of the future - the future of the early 21st century.

Fritz Lang had been impressed by the visual spectacle of the Manhattan skyline, and incorporated a Raygun Gothic version of this into his sets for the film. That's the same skyline that speaks to us too - but in a different way. For us, it's a scarred skyline, marked as it is by the absence of something. Where are those ugly 60's twin towers?

Metropolis - the city that never sleeps, the city that does not need to lose itself in dreams. Because it's living the dream, isn't it?

But who actually is asleep, and who is awake?

The plot of Metropolis involves the creation of a robot woman - a gynoid - who mirrors the human character Maria, and creates mayhem amongst the upper-class men through her exotic dancing - an inversion of the way in which the human Maria is consolidating a worker's movement amongst the serfs in the lower levels of the city, and encouraging peace.

As a fictional device, though, robots weren't new. A few years before Lang and von Harbou set about creating Metropolis, in 1921, Karel Capek's play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) was premiered in Prague. It created quite a sensation, being translated into English shortly after, and put on the stage in London in 1923, with Basil Rathbone playing the part of Harry Domin, the General Manager of the robotics plant.

Except that these are not the normal robots we think we know. These robots are fully fleshed - more the result of biological research than research into electronics. One of the characters in the play, Helena, burns the formula for making the robots, and when the robots have revolted against their human masters and killed all but one of them, they cannot make more of their kind; all they can turn out on the robotics factory line are bloody chunks of meat.

Aldous Huxley (a Kropotkinesque Anarchist, as he mentions in the foreword to a later reprint of Brave New World, and thus an enemy of the State), envisaged a more satisfying scenario of foetuses grown in a factory to specific requirements - for example, for the production of epsilon semi-morons, the lowest class of human, who would do the menial work for the society in which they lived, without having the perspicacity to see that they were being used.

Capek's robots are highly intelligent, but they have a specific limitation. They remember everything, but have no real creativity; they can see the past very well, but cannot envisage the future. As Harry Domin says at one point, they would make excellent university professors.

Karel Capek always pointed out, though, that it was not he who had come up with the term 'robot'. That had been the suggestion of his brother Josef. Josef had also been a writer, and the word 'robot' was taken from the Czech for drudgery; 'robotnik' means 'peasant' or 'serf'.

Years later Josef entered Belsen concentration camp as a guest of the Nazis. The motto for this system of Arbeitslager, or 'work camps' was of course 'Arbeit macht frei' - 'Work makes us free'. Josef himself did not survive this kind of work, this extreme form of serfdom.

But even before Capek's play, G. I. Gurdjieff had been promoting and exploring the idea that people were not necessarily who they thought they were. People were really machines, he said - and had to learn how not to be machine-like. They had to develop their free will in order to become truly human, and lose their robotic nature. They had to wake up.

The Ukrainian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, who studied under Freud in Vienna, also worked along similar lines. In the 1920's he came to understand humans as constrained by something he called 'Character Armour': sets of personality characteristics which would protect the individual, not just from the blows of life, but from one's own desires and instincts - desires of which the individual is actually afraid.

Further experience in the Soviet Union, and then in Berlin, indicated to him that the State could use this weakness in the human individual for its own ends. Fascism, he suggested, is the "basic emotional attitude of the suppressed man of our authoritarian machine civilisation and its mechanical-mystical conception of life".

In this political model, reinforcing a person's Character Armour through enforced self-control, and encouraging him or her to find a deranged fulfilment in 'purity', has a specific purpose: the paralysis of the will to rebel. Not only would the individual be unable to rebel, they would not even know that there was something which ought to be rebelled against.

Unable to properly anticipate the future, freedom would become their greatest fear - though a fear so locked in the depths of their subconscious that they would not even be able to properly identify it as a fear. Instead, they would tend to characterise the future as always at the mercy of some unholy 'anarchy', i.e. the end of their world - the end of 'purity' - and the fulfilment of their real, subconscious, desires. It would mean the Triumph of the Heart, and thus the loss of all the tiny controls in life which allow the individual to feel secure.

Thus the good citizen of a fascist state and economy would become unimaginative, controlling, intentionally dumbed down, fractured to the depths of his psyche, overconfident, unable to see where the State was taking him, and a natural bully.

Naturally, such a situation could never happen today, since fascism has been abolished by our enlightened leaders.

Seeking a free place to pursue his work, Reich was ironically sent to prison in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, on technical charges brought by the US Food and Drug Administration. Copies of his books were burned by government officials at the Gansevoort Incinerator in New York on 23rd August 1956. The books burned included perhaps his most important work, the Mass Psychology of Fascism, which outlined how and why people fell for the lies of authoritarian states, becoming robotised in the process.

But of course that book-burning can't have actually happened, because only the Nazis did that sort of thing, and America is the land of the free - isn't it?

People tend to think, "I cannot be a robot, because I am flesh". But isn't that part of the lie? Robots aren't necessarily like the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. They might be made of flesh like Capek's robots were - or like the citizens of Huxley's Brave New World (1932). All it takes is to stop asking questions, and to identify ourselves with the bland culture presented to us every day on television - the manufacturer of consent.

Who is awake, and who is asleep?

As the astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Petit says: "Sleep, the Principal Investigator of my Heart".

But the Heart can be suborned by the State, because, as Reich said, the social order will create character forms that support the social order in a closed cycle.

And thus the Hive is born, the type of society most useful for an authoritarian leadership - where freedom and free will are celebrated, but only as a part of the general lie. Where books are freely available - and yet seldom, if ever, read. And those who do read widely are discreetly marginalised as eccentrics - or even feared as subtle enemies of the social order. Where robots imagine they are free when they have been conditioned to be nothing of the sort - and are thus the more easily controlled.

So even our dreams can be controlled by the State, here in the Hive of Metropolis.

Maria, and her robotic double, were the fictional creations of Fritz Lang and of Thea von Harbou. And in a sense these two Marias stood for Thea von Harbou herself. She could develop into one or the other: the gentle Maria who serves others, and becomes human in the process - or the manipulative gynoid Maria, who serves herself by controlling others, and masks her true nature as a robot.

Thea chose the second of these options. In 1931 she separated from her husband, Fritz Lang, and they were soon divorced. The split was perhaps as much an ideological one as anything else. In 1932 Thea joined the Nazi party, one year before Hitler came to power. Fritz, however, was forced to flee Germany after his 1934 film, The Testament of Dr Mabuse, was banned by the Nazis because of the film's criticisms of Nazi thinking.

In 1937 Thea wrote the screenplay for Der Herrscher (The Ruler or Director), a film which celebrated complete submission to absolute authority, eventually finding reward in total victory. Detained by the British after the end of the War, Thea found work clearing rubble from the bombing of Berlin. She died in 1954.

Der Herrscher centres on the character of Clausen, the wealthy director of a munitions firm. This family-owned company has been running for more than a century, and is clearly based on the Krupp dynasty, which owned the largest industrial concern in Europe at the time. Metropolis, because it had run so far over budget, had put its film studio (Universum-Film AG or Ufa) into financial difficulties. In 1927, Ufa was taken over by Alfred Hugenberg, himself a close friend of Gustav Krupp. Eventually, in 1937, the Nazi party bought up most of Ufa's shares, making it a vehicle for their propaganda.

Gustav Krupp had opposed the Nazis until 1930, when they had convinced him that the party was good for business: the trade unions would be robbed of power, and the growth of the armed forces would bring Krupps more revenue. At this, Gustav threw in his lot with them, becoming chairman of the Adolf Hitler Spende, a political fundraising organisation for the NSDAP.

The Corporation, a recent Canadian documentary, details how large companies assume the same characteristics as human psychopaths. Devoid of any significant degree of empathy, the aim always is control of larger market share, at minimal cost. That constitutes profit for the company; and nothing else - not even worker happiness - is allowed to get in the way of that. The conditioning of our culture is such that possibly most people would say that this is obvious, because you can't run a company any other way. That's profit, which is intrinsically good.

Robots can only think this way, and that is their tragedy. They can see the past, but cannot creatively understand the final outcome, what the future promises to deliver to us if we carry on thinking and working in this way.

In Capek's play R.U.R., Harry Domin asks Helena what she thinks would be the perfect employee. She answers that it would be the one who is most honest and dedicated. Domin replies: "No, it's the one that's the cheapest. The one with the fewest needs... [Young Rossum] chucked out everything not directly related to work, and, [in] doing that, he virtually rejected the human being, and created the Robot."

Krupp evidently felt the same way. Seventy thousand concentration camp victims died working for Krupps in their forced labour programme, for example at their fuse factory near Auschwitz. In 1947, when a U.S. Military Tribunal at Nuremberg was trying Gustav's son Alfried (Gustav himself being too senile at this stage to stand trial), it was found by the judges that the Krupps factories were marked by a brutality exceptional even under Nazism.

Alfried denied any guilt. He stated: "The economy needed a steady or growing development. Because of the rivalries between the many political parties in Germany and the general disorder, there was no opportunity for prosperity. ... We thought that Hitler would give us such a healthy environment. Indeed he did do that. ... We Krupps never cared much about [political] ideas. We only wanted a system that worked well and allowed us to work unhindered. Politics is not our business."

Convicted of slave labour, Alfried was sentenced to twelve years in prison. However, it was not long before he was free (being released to applause in 1951), and had resumed control of the firm.

Before Der Herrscher, Thea von Harbou had written another influential screenplay: Frau im Mond (Girl in the Moon). This film, released in 1929, dealt with the launching of a rocket to the Moon. Hermann Oberth, the rocket pioneer who played such an important part in the development of the V2, was involved in creating a rocket for the special effects department at Ufa. His involvement with the film studio didn't last long, but the film probably had a lasting effect on German militarists, who became conditioned to the idea of long-range rockets as a workable idea. The engineers working on the V2 project were highly enthusiastic about the film, one of the first V2's even having Frau im Mond painted on its tail. However, Frau im Mond was at last withdrawn by the Nazis, as being too close to the truth of research then underway.

There was something undeniably dramatic about the V2, especially at launch. It was a weapon, not just of Vergeltung or vengeance (which is what the V in V2 stands for), but of shock and awe. It was also a stealth weapon, undetectable through its supersonic ballistic flight, until it hit its target. And the primary targets were significant too: it was the metropolis of London and the city of Antwerp. This was a weapon of terror, designed to strike at the densest concentration of civilians.

Of course, only the Nazis do this sort of thing. Allied bombing of Dresden, Hamburg and Berlin was designed to destroy only munitions production - and when Churchill declared that the purpose was really to strike terror into the heart of German workers, he must obviously have meant something else; after all, the British unfailingly believe in fair play. Naturally, the same goes for the bombing of Baghdad and Fallujah in more recent days. The shock and awe involved were only ever directed at Baathist cadres and Islamist terrorists. Civilian casualties are regarded as regrettable - even though civilians are the ones who bear the brunt of such assaults, and their after-effects. Still, can't be helped, can it?

Work on the V2 (and on the V1, an early cruise missile) was carried out by slave workers at Peenemunde on the German Baltic coast. Development of the technology for the V2 was done by possibly one third of Germany's research scientists, most of them knowing nothing of where their research was heading. Today, scientific research is only carried out to improve our living standards, and the work done by scientists and engineers working for defence companies and government research agencies is really only directed towards refining existing technologies, like ruggedising laptops for desert use, or something. Pioneering new weapons and technologies like the V2 are now over and done with - because only the Nazis did crazy off-the-wall things like that.

Eventually, after a heavy Allied bombing raid in 1943, research and production shifted to other sites in Germany - including underground facilities. Again, such facilities - obviously - do not exist today, because scientific research now is an open book, with the general welfare of everyone its prime concern.

No longer do governments hide the results of their research. The Northrop B2 Spirit bomber, for instance, though a secret plane, is nevertheless actually flown at air shows for the admiration of the general public. Which of course makes it anything but secret. Rumours that in fact such aircraft are only pale copies of the real B2 - capable of flying at speeds of Mach 10, and giving the United States a strike capability of within two hours to any point on the earth from their base in Missouri - well, this is just pie-in-the-sky. The fact that they cost $2 billion each is only another instance of military overspend. And anyway, any sort of magneto-hydrodynamic technology would allow passenger aircraft also to travel at such speeds - and where are they? It's hardly likely that our governments would conspire to keep such things secret, when they might have such useful civilian applications.

Because of course there is no such thing as conspiracy. Only the Nazis did that sort of thing, when they conspired in the Final Solution, for instance. Or when they put together their secret plans for world domination. Only James Bond villains in their cavernous underground lairs do that sort of thing today - and that, of course, is fiction: technothriller, the diet of teenage boys and other immature individuals.

The Nazis are gone. We know this because no one wears jackboots or goose-steps any more - unless, of course, they're a bunch of sad losers meeting in some secluded semi in Beckenham, to drink schnapps, watch a rerun of Triumph of the Will on the video, and dream of a Fourth Reich. That a military coup was in the process of happening against Harold Wilson in the 70's, with lorry-loads of paratroopers on the road from Aldershot to take over the Houses of Parliament - again, such things don't happen. This is a stable democracy. It always has been - and therefore, by extension, it always will be.

Our world depends on us being complicit in the lies told to us by the State. We must be complicit in their official narratives, to maintain the lies we tell ourselves about ourselves. The State implies that each of us has little worth, other than as members of the societal form that the State has provided for us.

This societal form is the Metropolis.

Metropolis is a Greek compound. It means the mother-city, the mother-state. And we, poor souls, feel we need a parent in order to feel secure. That's why we buy into the lies - so that we can feel secure in the protection afforded us by our parent.

But what security do we really have under the State's protection? Is this security real, or just another of the State's illusions?

In 1984, George Orwell's vision of a society founded on lies to the disintegration of all forms of mutual aid and true love, rockets are landing daily on London. Julia, the girlfriend of the chief character in the novel, Winston Smith, recognises what is happening. These rockets are being fired by their own government, as a means of maintaining support for the war against whoever is the enemy of the day.

In New York, on 9/11 2001, two airliners crashed into the Twin Towers. They collapsed, and though the death-toll was tiny compared with the ongoing massacre of the innocents in Iraq, the effect as a televised spectacle was probably unique in the history of humanity. It was a new Pearl Harbour, which ensured the beginning of a war without end, and an excuse for the government of possibly the most moronic of presidents to assume unprecedented powers over its people. The citizens had been frightened into the ever-closer embrace of the Metropolis.

Fear stops thought. The State knows this. Fear means that people will no longer ask questions, but will instead accept whatever baby-food the State feeds it with. These are the official narratives, the acme of impudence. No longer can people see what happened to World Trade Center Building 7, which collapsed despite being hit by no aircraft - the dust raised by the Twin Towers' collapse being nothing compared to the clouded thinking of our frightened and bewildered infant selves.

Likewise, few of us can question the strike against the Pentagon. There is no trace of an airliner there, for there never was one there. There never was one there, for the simple reason that it's too difficult to fly by remote control a whopping great 757 into the side, rather than the roof, of such a building - and thus minimise the damage caused. It is the Pentagon, after all - the place where they plan their stupid wars.

And so another sort of aircraft had to be used. The State knows that the populace will never enquire further, because the Lie is too big to be questioned. Only Nazis would use a pimped-up modern equivalent of the V1 flying bomb - i.e. a missile-bearing Global Hawk drone - to create their own Reichstag fire. And the Nazis, of course, are now safely in the dustbin of history.

The plentiful CCTV footage of the incident, naturally, has never been released.

There are no government conspiracies, for the simple reason that if there were, then our Metropolis would be seen to be nothing but a sham, and we would have lost our parent. Nobody wants to be an orphan - which is why there is no conspiracy.

The Metropolis makes robots out of otherwise sincere individuals - individuals who possess such astonishing potential for growth into love of others, and knowledge. This is the social and psychological order that opposes the Triumph of the Heart. They want to make serfs out of us all, and their means for doing this are fear and lies.

And when another false-flag terror attack occurs here in the West, it will be done to reinforce the power of the State over us - as will the rain of bombs on Teheran and Damascus from the city-killer B2's.

But though cities are destroyed, the Metropolis remains.

For the real target is us.


[Peter Straughan's radio play, Metropolis, an adaptation of Thea von Harbou's novel and screenplay, provided a good deal of inspiration for this essay. It was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 24th March 2006 - and, like the first ever television science fiction presentation, a version of Capek's R.U.R., aired in 1938 on the BBC, is now sadly unavailable.]

Here Comes the Gas: cover of the GasCD featuring Gil Scott Heron, Ani Defranco, Bruce Cockburn, Michael Franti and Free Radicals. Photo by Nick Cooper from the demonstration against the Free Trade Area of the Americas, Quebec City, April 2001.

The Treachery of the Snow

It gets cold on the prairies in the winter - and when the snow comes, it can come in fast.

At first, just a few gentle flakes in the air, which you could catch on your tongue. But then it changes - just like it does on the Russian and Ukrainian steppes.

Pushkin describes it thus in The Captain's Daughter:

A light snow was falling, which suddenly changed to thick, heavy flakes. The wind began to howl; it was a snowstorm. Within a moment the dark sky had merged with the ocean of snow. Everything disappeared.

"Looks bad, sir," shouted the coachman. "A blizzard!"

Winnipeg Free Press: Army to Occupy Downtown - Spring Exercise to Turn City into 'Battleground':

More than 500 army troops, backed by helicopters, armoured vehicles and artillery, will turn downtown Winnipeg into an armed camp as part of a military exercise to train soldiers for the modern battlefield.

[Note: In fact, as Lieut. Col. Jim Fitzgerald of the 38th Brigade has more recently pointed out, no helicopters will be used, and only four light armoured vehicles will be deployed from Princess Patricia's Light Infantry in Edmonton.

However, not mentioned here is the fact that there will be 40 US military personnel from Minnesota taking part in the exercise, so that Canadian forces can learn to work with their American counterparts.]

Exercise Charging Bison will unfold for seven days and nights beginning April 30 ... in what is believed to be the largest urban warfare training exercise of its kind ever held in Canada.

There won't be live ammunition, but there will be laser weapons and a variety of blanks and 'simunition' - or simulated munitions - that make noise and smoke or discharge harmless projectiles.

The drill is designed to simulate the kind of complex conditions soldiers would encounter in places such as Afghanistan...

Sarah Chayes, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - perhaps Afghanistan's even more complex than many Canadian senior officers realise:

The "suicide bombings" in Afghanistan that have garnered mentions in the Western press of late are often something else. In one case I investigated carefully - the target, an Afghan official, was a friend of mine - much evidence contradicted the notion that the attack was a suicide bombing, as it was immediately labeled: the condition of my friend's body, the type and location of the survivors' wounds, and eyewitness descriptions. Everything pointed to a remote-controlled mine planted ahead of time. But no Afghan or U.S. official bothered to collect this evidence or to examine it seriously when it was presented to them.

Why such sloppiness? Because the terrorist suicide bombing explanation suits everyone. Americans are comfortable spending their resources searching for the Al Qaeda bogeyman; the real perpetrators take cover behind the Al Qaeda label; and Afghan officials are absolved of complicity or incompetence and the responsibility to properly investigate. [...]

This state of affairs is so bewildering that Kandaharis have reached an astonishing conclusion: The United States must be in league with the Taliban. They reason that America, with its power and riches, could bring an end to the "insurgency" in a month, if it so chose. They figure that America remains a close and munificent ally of Pakistan, the country that is sponsoring the "insurgency," and so the continuing violence must be a deliberate element of U.S. policy.

Resist Operation Charging Bison - Canadian military deployments at home:

In Quebec City in 2001, 1000 soldiers were deployed against protestors of the Summit of the Americas, to stifle dissent against the governments' push for corporate control of the hemisphere.

In Ts'peten, also known as Gustafsen Lake, British Columbia, in 1995, native demonstrators trying to protect their land from further encroachment were met with armoured peronnel carriers, .50 calibre machine guns, and land mines. The federal and provincial governments rejected any involvement by an impartial, independent, international adjudication process to settle the conflict, and even the presence of neutral peacekeepers, with the famous declaration "There shall be no alien intervention into the affairs of this state."

Jeff Wells on the political state of play in Canada - Stand on Guard, Run like Hell:

We're living at a time when all the pieces are coming into play, and that includes the other North America. If the next move is a Harper victory [Note: this was written in January, just before Stephen Harper became Prime Minister of Canada], I think we can expect a certain destabilization that will be welcomed by some in Washington who will be ready to exploit it. Because there will likely be an election in Quebec next year that will almost certainly elect a separatist government bent upon holding a new referendum on sovereignty. These Conservatives, led by alienated Westerners, have no love or understanding of Quebec, and many of them hope for its departure from Canada as its predominantly left values are regarded as impediments to untrammelled rule by the far right. Harper is already cutting deals with the sovereigntist Bloc Québécois, whose leader has pledged not to bring down a minority government for three years.

That could be enough time to see the end of Canada, both conceptually and factually. There would then be nothing for us but Fortress North America. So US residents seeking shelter from the storm will need to look further. And may have some company.

No doubt this will all be great fun for the individual reservists involved in this exercise. But that's not the point. It's the slow ratcheting-up of domestic clamp-down: getting peace-loving Canadians used to the unprecedented idea of troops on the streets, preparing Canadian soldiers for a role in quiet cities like Winnipeg and Edmonton - and for missions in concert with US forces - and testing the waters to see what level of resistance such exercises smoke out.

It's not primarily Albertan oil that America wants - it's unlimited access to more basic stuff when their money turns to dust: wood and grain, and most of all, water.

The first flakes of the snowstorm.

Why acquiesce in our own destruction? Isn't this the time to take off the rose-tinted glasses and take a good, hard look at the character of those who govern us? What do they really stand for? Peace at home, and death in Iraq. Bread and circuses in the UK and US - and a free rein to spread mayhem abroad.

Is Blair our Dad, taking us for pleasant summer outings to the zoo, and buying us ice cream? You bet he is - but when he's drunk in the evening, it's best to stay well out of the way. Bush and Blair and all the others are our alcoholic, abusive, violent Dads. Let's cut the ties before they drag us down to the abyss.

That's not to say any of us need to resort to violence of any kind. That's their game - and they pretty nearly always win. We don't even need to resort to politics. Again, that's their game, and the odds are stacked pretty firmly in their favour.

Our game is a better one - the game of Truth, where everything is open for scrutiny, and where the foundations are a good deal more rock-solid. But let's face it, too many of us are scared of the Truth, because of the lies we've built on in our own lives.

That's where the pathocrats have the advantage over us: they know we've sold out to them, so that we can enjoy a temporary security under their protection.

Security? That kind of security is nothing but a will o' the wisp. Unchallenged, we're allowing them to build and consolidate their position, until finally the destruction they've visited on Fallujah becomes a destruction they visit on us.

The axe is gonna fall. Let's get ready to at least dodge the blow, or slip the net, if we can do nothing else.

The War Against Global Pathocracy

The following article, by Mathew Kristin Kiel, does a good job, I think, of summarising what Anarchism is really all about. It's not class war, or any of that nonsense. It's about co-existence, mutual aid and trust; about growing up, for goodness' sake.

But there's a reason why life on Earth is so hard, even though most of us fall so readily into patterns of mutual support. The reason is the Leopards - the monsters all around us.

These are the psychopaths, the sociopaths, the predators - who look like us, use much the same language as us, but are not the same as us. We are their prey. If we are the logical, the kind, the co-existers - then they, on the other hand, are the pathological, the cold, the selfish.

They mimic us. They don't understand us - so much of what we do makes no sense to them - but they have to mimic us because they are a minority (albeit one that has taken over the rulership of this world); they need us to believe in them, so that they can continue to enjoy power over us. Like scum, they tend to rise to the top. They are con-artists - and ultimately, they wish us either dead, or their cowering slaves.

Take a calm and measured look at people like George Bush or Dick Cheney. What is it about their smirking self-assurance, their easy ways - most of all, their eyes? How can they seem to know so little of real life, to be so shallow, so unbearably glib?

But that's what psychopaths are like.

It's the banality of evil.

Mathew pretty much hits this nail square on the head. The urgent contest now is against the psychopaths amongst us, and against their collaborators.

We Grow Up, Now, or We Die
by Mathew Kristin Kiel
8th December 2005 - completed and revised 1st January 2006
Final Revision and Expansion, 19th January 2006

An Analysis: Many among the current "opposition" and its alternative and independent media, press and online journalism are actively delivering us to the Pathocracy.

The Human Race must build a united and coordinated resistance to the advancing, plutocratic, global Pathocracy, all of us together, or we will lose everything. The so-called opposition to this global menace is, thus far, a worldwide laughingstock, either utterly ineffectual against the Pathocracy's advance or else downright collusive in its antihuman insanity. The Pathocracy's deviousness in devising means to prevent our becoming aware of its nature and its foul intentions has, thus far, been succeeding far too well, and there are no limits in the harms it will inflict on all the Peoples of the Earth if not stopped.

We must now become determined to examine ourselves and to subsequently change as required, in every way. Our ways of doing things, our thinking, our concepts about the way this world works, and most of all our assumptions and understandings about the nature of the people in it, especially the nature of the people now running it, MUST be brought into alignment with the Facts. It is imperative that we find and face, now, and then broadcast the world around, to all who will and can listen and learn, the Facts about our own Natures and the Nature of the Pathocratic Enemy. The false givens and assumptions we hold, conditioned into us, for the most part, by our would-be destroyers, are working against us all and still empowering them. If we are to have any hopes of surviving, let alone of defeating the tyranny that has been unleashed upon us, we must reach a new, deeper and far more accurate awareness of what is happening and why.

Unfortunately, as if by design, not a far fetched possibility, a simple element of basic semantics, dialectics, the terms and names with which we identify, describe and ultimately understand the Enemy, ourselves and all else, is making it far more difficult for us to confront and defeat the Monster. If we do not find and establish a new and far more precise set of terms that all of Humanity can understand, clearly and carefully defining just who and what it is that we oppose, we will have no hope of successfully resisting the Pathocratic juggernaut. We are perishing under a multiplicity of descriptions so widely variant across Human languages and cultures as to render them contradictory, divisive, baffling in the extreme and all but meaningless.

As but one example of this problem please consider: The precise, same group of individuals, comprising a global, semi-sovereign and massive fiduciary, commercial, paragovernmental bureaucracy, with Paul Wolfowitz currently at the head of their largest international front, the World Bank, are being identified, globally, by two diametrically opposite terms. All of the organization's members are part of the same, solitary, imperial, world destroying, extralegal financial, commercial and economic consortium. They pursue their policies with a ruthless unanimity of focus and purpose. Ever since the end of WW II, they have been devising and utilizing international trade, banking, development and commerce regulations, policies and "laws" to conduct what amounts to a worldwide war of economic rape, robbery and pillage against the humble peoples of the Earth.

These members of the global Elite are identified, on two or more continents, in one separately established and largely ineffectual opposition movement, as the "Neo Liberals." Every nuance of their policies and practices is identified by the signature, supposedly representative and accurate label of this older of their two opposition movements as "Neoliberalism." However, simultaneously, on another continent or two, in another, separately established, slightly younger and also largely ineffectual opposition movement, the exact same consortium, with all of the exact, same members and players, right up to the World Bank with Paul Wolfowitz at the helm, is identified, known and opposed, by the signature and supposedly accurate label of "Neo Conservatives." The identical set of activities, effects and goals is labeled "Neoconservatism."

It IS the same devouring Monster, gobbling up the resources, sustenance and rights, wealth and health of the world's humble peoples. It IS the same society and economy deforming, hideously destructive and globally present Monster being called by two different, opposite names, and described in contradictory, opposite terms. This semantic confusion gravely endangers all of Humanity. It is drastically slowing and often outright defeating our responses by scattering our counteractions in multiple directions, nearly all of them either misleading or outright false.

In the particular example of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the International Development Agency, among other consortium fronts, neither of the terms currently used to represent that Monstrous Elitist racketeering enterprise is in any regards descriptively, economically, politically, socially or ideologically correct. Both terms, again not coincidentally, disguise and deny the truth of the design, nature and purpose of the devouring Monster. However, this dismal failure to find and hold an essential unity of focus and purpose cannot be assigned only to the deplorably imprecise and contradictory semantics in use. Neither can it be allayed entirely to the appalling lack of access to mainstream media and press outlets by opposing voices.

Many dedicated purveyors of hysterical thinking, hatred, divisiveness, myths, illusions, cons, lies and plain old, nasty, low down in-group vs. out-group programming, in somewhat cosmetically revised "packages," are firmly lodged in the center and heart of the ranks of "truth movement," "opposition," "alternative," "independent" and other counter cultural media, press and online information outlets and forums. It is they who could and should have long since begun addressing these glaring semantic problems and begun working toward establishing a workable and uniting, global, pan-Humanity dialogue.

But, being apparently arrogant unto the death of all Humanity, they would rather keep on spewing out the standard, confusing and fragmentary fare, often repeating purely false information and reinforcing prevailing lies, illusions and myths, keeping the burgeoning Pathocracy going and growing contentedly. Such "journalists" seem to be too busy loudly grinding their own various "axes," to bother taking the time and making the efforts to ascertain whether the information and conclusions they declare to be factual are in fact supported by evidence, solid data and documentation. Writing an article that is one third fact, one third self-posturing hype and one third Pathocratic Lies is not helpful.

We are also being mislead by allegedly truth-based and fact-based material that deliberately compounds the serious semantic difficulties, raising the levels of confusion and obfuscation. Present among us, without possibility of doubt, is a dedicated element of COINTELPRO. Those who seem the most astute in either revealing or at least admitting that such agents of chaos, strife and disinformation do exist and are deliberately setting various groups of dissidents against one another, who turn out to be the most guilty of doing exactly those things themselves.

They too frequently just happen to, coincidentally, be subtle false flag wavers, distraction action jockeys, tall tale spinners and repeaters of fabrications and rumours in the fields of countercultural and opposition media, journalism, information services and research. For some baffling reason, it seems that those who receive the hystericized outpourings and exhortations of this new generation of quieter, more seemingly reasonable and objective sensationalists consider that all which is proclaimed to be done in and for the sake of Truth and Fact must then automatically be beyond suspicion of being less than reliably objective and accurate.

To make the point clear, only those information sources where active links, bibliographies, references, etc., are freely provided, so the reader or viewer can go to the unaltered, original source materials and documentation, and where the readers or viewers are urged, strongly, to check things out for themselves and not to take anyone's word for it automatically, are fit to be at all trusted any longer. Even then, it is up to each of us, personally, to take responsibility for the contents and quality of the information we allow to guide our decisions and to influence our very thought processes themselves. We must stop assuming that what is seen or heard from any media or press, not only in the obviously tainted and collusionist mainstream, is necessarily free of willfully incorrect, carelessly unchecked or downright fraudulent content.

The modern resistance fails to investigate, find, challenge, expose and evict from among its own information sources and communications those publications, networks, organizations and persons not providing reliable, factual, unbiased and well documented content. An even worse defeat is assured by the failure to acknowledge and address this lack of attention to and concern for the need to maintain strict standards of accuracy, unbiased truth, reason and ethical behaviour in reporting from among the prevailing counterculture's own ranks. Often the most truthful, factual and honest information content and sources are simply out shouted by or ignored in favour of the false and misleading, especially in the case of sensational and hystericized content or presentation.

A body of persistent, conditioned, irrational beliefs and "factual" information that proves patently false under careful, logical scrutiny sits within the heart of the so-called opposition, alternative and independent media, press and punditry. It is indicative of both the scope of the problem and of the deplorable content of some "opposition journalists" that the word "punditry" is a correct evaluation of their output, behaviour and attitudes. That such manipulative and irrational content, regardless of the inclination of its slant, is lodged within the very fabric of what purports to be a truth-based, freedom of information and thought movement is a dangerous reality.

The output from such sources is replete with emotional "hot buttons," reactionary trigger words, name calling, spear chucking and a multitude of mind twisting, unity defeating, and truth slaying Lies, myths and unfounded beliefs presented as givens or facts. In perpetuating myths, illusions, irrational beliefs and lies, and in triggering conditioned, irrational, emotional responses in readers and audiences, the producers of such materials are enhancing the Monster's abilities to Deceive, manipulate and control us. Even if such fare is couched in a somewhat altered iteration, or when attempts are made to ameliorate its pejorative nature, twisted facts or just plain Lies, by an author's personal disclaimers that the biases, inflammatory nature or other obviously "loaded" flaws of the content didn't come from himself or herself, it is simply not acceptable. Those individuals who choose to produce and distribute such materials are actively betraying Humanity. Every such work is a direct assault on the reader's mind, an attempt to block or reduce crucial critical faculties.

At a time when the ability to think logically and dispassionately is imperative for each and every one of us who does or would stand opposed to the Monster, deliberately seeking to fan the flames of unreason is inexcusable. The modern resistance is being destroyed from within by its own failure to tune out and shut out those who continue to pour further inaccuracy, deceit and fragmentation into the already chaotic clamour and deliberate confusion as to what is and is not true and factual.

Some of the most respected and widely known counter cultural leaders and voices are among the worst of the spear-chuckers and muckrakers, railing vehemently against all but their own rigidly defined political and demographic identity groups. Only by dint of their also bashing Bush or other figureheads and fragments of the most visible arm of the Pathocracy, the U.S. government, have they managed to gain what little credibility they have. It is a poor substitute for objective, hard hitting facts. Any journalist who resorts to name calling and inflammatory rhetoric is actively creating more problems, not helping to solve them.

Possibly the most devious peddlers of disinformation are those members of the mainstream media and press, or highly regarded alternative journalists, and a number of well regarded academics and other experts, who will go after the U.S. government and the Bush administration's manifest wrongs, but turn around and serve as outspoken excuse makers, defenders, blame shifters and deniers for all of Zionism's and Zionist controlled Israel's wrong doings.

The reprehensible actions of Zionists, worldwide, in designing, fueling and even, in regard to many Ashkenazi "Jews" and their founding, medieval fathers, deliberately acting as an integral part of the global Monster of doom, is historically well documented. The Zionist/Ashkenazi/Israeli complicity in the instigation, establishment, escalation, planning and conduct of each day's increase in the war mongering and other antihuman insanity being undertaken by the U.S. government and the Bush administration is far from difficult to ascertain and document. Those who claim to speak the truth while still behaving as apologists for or defenders of Israel's racist, anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian and rigidly, murderously theocratic policies and activities are either severely deluded or seriously and dangerously collusive with the Monster. Any of us who continue to grace their words with one iota of attention, let alone credence, are enabling them to get away with actively contributing to the enslavement and mega destruction coming down upon all Humanity, very soon, and brutally raining down upon the Palestinians in the here and now.

There is one last "camp" in the anti-totalitarian movement deserving of mention for the harm they're doing to truth seekers and sincere opponents of the Monster. They are the entrenched new-era dogmatists. Despite a thinly modernized "fact based" or "truth movement" cover, they're still touting and spouting, from between the deceitful few revelatory facts they place in their outpourings, a solid stream of old school muck raking incantations and exhortations to engage in hatred. Rather than to help us unite in making our common cause against a far more lethal Real Enemy, these habitual mudslingers still depict the old, standardized and demonized "enemies", such as the communists, or the socialists, or the Democrats, or the liberals, or the Republicans, or the conservatives, or whites, or blacks, or anglos, or gringos, or Asians, or immigrants, or atheists, or Catholics, or Jews, or hippies, or right-wing, or left-wing, or Neoliberals, or Neoconservatives, or whatever else, etc., etc., et al, ad nauseum and nearly ad infinitum, as being, the sole and total cause of the problems.

Each of these "alternative" rabble rousers vows, as always, that his or her own most despised group is the one and only real and true "enemy" of us all, or the one and only "wrong" or "bad" ideology, philosophy, political party, economics, religion, or whatever, that has caused this entire mess. It really is, with a few rare and notable exceptions, a truly worn out and noisome crock of tired old cliches passing itself off as "opposition" journalism. The only thing it actually opposes are straw figures, and opposing a straw figure, then knocking it down is one of the classic tactics of the disinformation specialist.

Simple logic dictates that there cannot be so very many "one and only true enemies" out there. Logic says that either none of these groups is the Real Enemy or else that all of them are a part of it, but absolutely not the heart of it. Betting on the latter would be the wiser choice by far. It is all just the same, old in-group, an arbitrarily and narrowly defined, patently enhanced and egotistical "us" pitted against the, same old, tried and false, exaggeratedly dangerous and demonized out-group of "them."

The formulaic output coming from some of these "journalists" is making a direct contribution to the ongoing failure of Humanity to effectively identify and resist the destruction unleashed against us all. As one small example, the ceaseless anti-Islamic, anti-Muslim rhetoric coming out of the mainstream press and media is bad enough, but there is more than enough of it also being foisted upon us from the "new right" voices among alternative and independent sources to cause trouble. All rhetoric, no matter whose, no matter how cleverly subdued or disguised, promotes scapegoating and finger pointing, two habits of conditioned pathological thinking that I would personally vote as being among the top 10 intellectual and emotional habits most likely to get us all killed. Both are operand patterns of denial and projection. Denial and projection are more lethal in this regard than in most, and they are, in fact, two of the Enemy's favorite weapons.

If these self-proclaimed insiders and experts, each claiming to be the revelator of entirely factual content, do sincerely desire to inform and alert the rest of us to the dangers and threats we face, in contrast to basking in the glows of their own self-inflamed egos, they might want to first commence making some real efforts to educate themselves as to the Facts of the global menace. All they have done up to now is to guarantee an old fashioned, ongoing "divide and conquer" victory to the real Enemy. So far, that old strategy is working superbly. We have fallen for it and continued to give both merit and credibility to a bunch of self-important posturers who as yet care nothing for the truth of our dreadful situation.

To persist in their customary tactics is no longer a simple matter of free speech or style. It is a significant part of the defeat, thus far, of many appeals and attempts to make possible an effective and dedicated pan-Human opposition to the global menace now being deployed against us. They need to stop inflaming the emotions of their readers, which only adds thoughtless reactivity and senselessly provocative vulgarity to an already massive public confusion. They need to stop increasing the contradictions and errors in a situation that is already being desperately misidentified, even by many of the well-intentioned among us, and that is being at best poorly understood, if at all, by the vast majority of those to whom the thinking public turns for elucidation.

While the use of terms such as pathological, psychopathic, delusional, disturbed, demented, plutocratic, autocratic, dictatorship and the like are indeed becoming much more frequent in the more sincerely dedicated truth movement sources lately, it is far too slow and too limited in scope to convey the Reality. That specific type of awareness needs to increase exponentially and to be made known worldwide in order for us to have any working chance to build the unity we so desperately need. If we cannot and do not root the divisive Lies and the Liars who purvey them out from among our own ranks, we will fail to build the global, Human trust and community that is now imperative. The honest and profoundly honourable commitments, built upon that trust that we desperately need to achieve, will never happen. We must now reach across every previously known "difference" between one another, every previous barrier to our unity, and find the commonality that is the critical and real foundation of our ability to effectively resist and counter the advance of the Monsters.

As for the hard core hate mongers and myth pushers, we cannot permit them to continue with impunity in their total disregard for the consequences of their, at best, mistaken and misguided assumptions and assertions being presented as facts. If they make no attempt whatsoever to amend both the inflammatory rhetoric and the faulty "informational" content and tone of their missives, they need to be "outed" publicly as deliberate disinformation specialists and propagandists, given publicly the Truth demanded by their lies, and then soundly ignored until they cease to have enough readership or audience to keep themselves afloat.

If any of these self-proclaimed journalist-patriots are real fighters for the good of all Humanity they will stop the hype, dispense with the emotional button-pushing and the political name-calling, stop all of the petty and divisive crap, and immediately begin dealing with the Truths of who and what is really destroying us all and how we can all go about fighting back. They are selling us all to the Enemy with every rant and rave that pits one demographic, racial, social, political or religious group of psychologically normative Humans against another, or that portrays any one group as either more wronged or more right than another. They are encouraging us to keep on being the blinded victims of artificially constructed "differences" that were foisted upon us to deliberately confuse us and to obfuscate the Truths about our Nature, the Enemy's Nature and our dire situation as a race and a planet.

Of course, with them as with any of us, the hardest battle to win is the one that takes place internally. It is at the level of their personal responsibilities to achieve the highest possible levels of honesty, integrity, courage, humility, and much else, (in the individual and supremely personal war for control of their own Minds and Souls) that these journalists have truly failed. They seem to not yet have bothered attempting to fight for even their own freedom from the lifelong indoctrination in bigotry, bias, prejudice and other entirely erroneous assumptions about our "human nature" that has been drummed into us all. Lodged within that most resistant place of all, their own minds, the conditioned, irrational beliefs they are ignoring are working, through them, to keep us all powerless.

Those old and comfortable terms reinforce the habituation with which, for all of our lives until now, we have all been conditioned, whether subtly or openly, to either love or hate one group or another, to think that external differences are causes to either accept or reject one group of our brother and sister Beings or another. By making their constant exhortations for us to continue to either love or hate those same old things right along with them, they are helping to deliver us all to the slaughter houses of the real Enemy.

While the behemoth coming to devour us is all of these old things, and more, those are all but symptoms of the Enemy's Real nature and presence. Fighting the symptoms, one at a time, from a hundred different directions, will not cure the cause of the cancerous and pandemic disease of the Body Human that is eating us all. Treating the symptoms, only, will result in the death of the patients, in this case potentially the entire human race and Planet Earth. This time we must confront the cause and eradicate its ability to ever again harm or attack us, or else all will perish.

The Truth over and above all other geopolitical, socio-economic, demographic, military, personal and psychological Truths is that we are nearly all targeted for extermination by a truly global Pathocracy.

These are the Real stakes, and the Real issues. Let it sink in. Get used to it.

Pathocracy is the first and only accurate term that Humanity has ever yet had to convey the meaning of the Evil that has always stalked the halls of power and the realms of privilege, in all times, in all civilizations, and in all governments. Learn it. Learn its meaning and spread it as far and as wide as you possibly can. Read it and learn its lessons as if your very own life and the lives of everyone and everything you hold most dear depend upon it, for, in Truth, they do.

The term Pathocracy contains within it both the cause(s) of the condition afflicting us and the keys to a means of establishing the necessary unity to fight back. It even holds the hope of a real and lasting means to at last cure this world of the specter of Evil in human form. Anyone who seeks to learn what is really wrong with this world, and how things got to where they are today, needs only to click on the link to Political Ponerology, (provided in the column of links to the left, near the top of the Signs of the Times web page each day) then read. Read it as many times as needed for the full import to sink in. There will the seeker find the Facts, the Truth. There is no word in it that should be skipped or skimmed over lightly. There is no means to overstate or even begin to estimate the value of the gift that the aged Dr. Andrew Lobaczewski, MD., has given to all Human Beings.

You'll know when you've gotten there, when you've reached an Awareness of the Objective Reality. There will come a moment of such visceral response to this potent and imperative Knowledge Dr. Lobaczewski has saved from destruction and passed on to us, that you will Know. In the depths of your Mind and Soul, nothing will ever be the same for you again, your Thinking, Seeing, Feeling, Living, and especially your Being, will NOT be the same again, ever. About the middle of my third reading of Political Ponerology, the Truth of it finally broke through completely.

No, Toto, we are NOT in Kansas any more, and we can never go back to Kansas, not to the same one that we left behind, not ever again. We can only go forward. It is crucial for us to begin living and acting in accordance with this new and essential knowledge about ourselves, Pathocracy and our two Human Natures. We can only go forward through the trials to come and have faith that, if we learn to live by this new awareness, we will have the hope of someday building a new Kansas that will be in Reality what we had only been deceived into believing it was before.

The survival of our Human Race and of the only planet that is our home depends upon each and every one of us learning the Facts found in this text and then informing as many others around us of the basic truths in them as we possibly can. Until the majority of us, globally, have learned the truth, the danger will keep getting worse, as will the horrors being inflicted upon ever greater numbers of us by the day. However, even the first, quick read through of Political Ponerology will provide the reader with the first real clarity yet found, the first sense that it really IS possible to understand, at last, long last, through the evidence of solid facts, scientific research and proofs, the causes of the whole nightmare that afflicts our modern Reality. Those who do want to know the truth will find it there. It is not pleasant, but it is, at last, the only Sane answer to "What is WRONG with?"... These people.... This world.... This government, and much, much more.

Once you have read it, once you have absorbed its meaning, then you too will understand another Fact.

All of the following are equally wrong, equally false, and now equally OBSOLETE terms: capitalism, socialism, communism, federalism, republicanism, democracy, monarchy, constitutional monarchy, liberalism, conservatism, and all other isms, archies, and ocracies.

With one notable exception, tribal matriarchy in hunter-gatherer and nomadic herder societies, and pure, one-on-one bartering and trade, everything that is now ruling, or has ever ruled, over human beings in a system with one of those endings, ism, archy and ocracy is a Pathocratic Lie, a deliberately deceptive means of control devised to gradually bring ever greater numbers of human beings into living under pathological systems of governance and control.

The seed of Pathocracy has been extant within every inherently rigid and/or hierarchical human social, religious, economic, political and governmental structure ever to have been invented, from the oldest to today's. With each new generation of humans, historically, Pathocracy has increased, exponentially, in the numbers, kinds and degrees of its control over non-pathological human beings. Now, we live in the times when its control has at last extended to almost 100% of the normative human populace across almost 100% of the earth's habitable surface. Any action we now take that does not help us to confront our previous failures, grasp the Reality of our situation and henceforward respond appropriately is the same as acting on behalf of the Pathocracy.

Dr. Lobaczewski sums up well the denials of the old school thinkers and blamers who just cannot and will not change their minds, refusing to even examine let alone accept, support and report the facts, "The defenders of the natural world-view have traditions, belles-lettres, even philosophy on their side. They do not realize that during the present times, their manner of comprehending life's questions renders the battle with evil more problematic."...

When the self-proclaimed opposition, independent and alternative pundits keep on handing out the old, false labels, fables and myths, when they keep plucking on the old harp strings and lines, they are selling us all out, and it is time we stopped accepting it. It matters not whether they do so from a basic lack of personal integrity, or to make a few more bucks, or to get away with laziness in researching the facts. They do grave harm to us all whenever they reinforce and reiterate things that have now been clearly shown to be false, or when they use words that are designed to create the kind of emotional reactivity that is intended to cancel out our capacity for higher thought.

In fact, the flogging of emotionalism and reactivity in others is classic Pathocratic mind control tactic, and a favorite Psychopathic spellbinding weapon against the normative Human Being.

Let us from now on keep that in mind. When we peruse online journals or read the newspapers, when we hear a pundit expounding on any topic, or view the speeches of public figures, let us ask ourselves whether the material is appealing to our Reason and our Minds or seeking to stir up and elicit a purely emotional response that does not necessarily relate to the information or matter at hand. Doing so may prove invaluable in teaching us to identify exactly who is and who is not a contributor to the pathological drive for the destruction of this world and humanity. By keen observation, we can, and must, determine who is and who is not working for the Pathocracy in one way or another.

All hopes of our own simple survival, depend upon our winning, personally and collectively, this central battle to confront and defeat the emotionality, inaccuracies, distortions, irrationality and Lies, the "dark glasses" of the learned and conditioned projective processes, denials and the habits of pathological thinking lodged within ourselves.

As Dr. Lobaczewski himself puts it "Developing and popularizing the objective psychological world-view could thus significantly expand the scope of dealing with evil via sensible action and pinpointed countermeasures."

That we, the Truth movement, the independent, alternative, and fact-based, freedom of information proponents, writers, journalists, press members, publishers, bloggers, forum posters and you name it, should and must make the implementation of this "developing and popularizing the objective psychological world view" our number one priority is obvious. It is perhaps the most crucial service to the good of all Humanity that any generations of communicators have ever undertaken. With the facts now before us, confirming beyond dispute the existence of an organized and globally active, highly sophisticated Ponerological Pathocracy, front and center in all this world's affairs, we must make the exposure of the literal and readily provable Insanity of our current leaders, and other prominent figures worldwide, our primary focus and goal.

The front page, day in and day out news of the world, at least in our own corners of it, must expose to the public's view the literal Insanity of the world's leaders and their irrational, basic and well demonstrated incompetence to fill the requirements of their positions. When we fight them on political, social or economic grounds, or on any of the other conventional grounds, we are fighting them on their own terms, and we will lose every time. Their terms are all Lies, all disguising the central, most important point about themselves and all that they have done and will do. THEY ARE INSANE.

Let us fight them then on the basis of Fact: The sole and entire cause of all that ails them, and thereby us, is their fundamental Insanity, their pathological, ponerological, collective and individual Insanity. It is extremely doubtful whether many of those residing in the heights of power in and over this planet and her peoples, could, or would, pass the basic mental competency and psychological fitness exams as used by the military, police departments and courts.

It is time for us to make common and constant before the public all these words and more in the same vein: Pathological, psychopathic, sociopathic, delusional, personality disordered, disturbed, pre-senile dementia, congestive dementia, paranoid, ideation, conspiratorial, fixated, irresponsible, irrational, and add to them the new and profoundly Truthful terms Pathocrat, Pathocratic, Pathocracy, Ponerogenic, Ponerological, Ponerology, Psychophage, Psychophagia, Psychophagic, (a more accurate word to describe psychopathy and psychopaths, it means a Mind and Soul eater).

All of these are factual, scientific and clinical terms. All of them accurately, truthfully describe the behaviours and ideation displayed daily by our world's rulers. Their Insanity is obvious in their speeches, their acts and all else about them in every moment. Exposing those public figures who fit those terms so well, assigning to them the Facts of their Insanity at every hand, ought to be our number one focus, because this IS the Truth told to all of their countless Lies. The cause of the Lies IS, and always was, their Insanity.

We must simultaneously identify and eliminate our own conditioned viewpoints as to the nature of the evil we confront. The minds of all Human Beings are and will continue to be the primary and hardest to win of all the battlegrounds in this war for our own survival. All of us who seek and value the objective, factual truth, about ourselves, our societies, our world-view and even our very Universe itself, are the most Real combatants there may ever have been.

We are now standing on the front lines of the War to Overcome Human Evil. That is no longer a statement of religious, philosophical or moral principles but a simple, worse than dreadful, scientific Fact.


Essay: Only one dividing line between Humans is Real, or ever was. We must learn what it is and learn to live by it.

All of the human race, every last single member thereof, suffers an equal jeopardy. To quote that notable and humble man of Truth, Benjamin Franklin, "If we do not all hang together, they will hang us all separately." In other words, it is already a serious, worldwide threat.

We are now in the mega crisis of Humanity's ultimate confrontation with the Evil that stalks this Earth in Human form. It has engulfed most of our world, and far too many of us who do sincerely care about others and who want both the earth and the ordinary folks therein to live in peace, are caught up in fighting with each other over just what kind or flavour of evil is afoot. We have, until now, been unable to discern just which direction is, in reality, opposite to them, the Pathocracy, so as to then apply resistance in the correct direction or manner. However, our thinking of them and responding to them by a hundred different negative words that they have invented, manipulated, twisted and long been expert at using to divide us IS now OVER.

We have been callously and deliberately boxed in by a multitude of utterly meaningless, rigidly defined and terribly confining compartments, the illusory justifications for various groups of Human Beings to be reflexively conditioned to despise each other. All of our existing and historical group related "differences" are now irrelevant in the discovery of the One Factual, scientifically established and demonstrable Difference made clear to us by the works of Andrew Lobaczewski, MD., author of Political Ponerology.

His chillingly factual, objective scientific research, clinical data, case studies and analysis reveal that there is but one point of distinction that ever has held or ever will hold validity in dividing human beings into two separate camps. Those two camps truly and absolutely cannot ever coexist in harmony with one another. They never have yet. The sole cause of this inability to coexist harmoniously is that one of these two groups, the one that has finally developed a globally organized and sophisticated Pathocracy highly likely to kill us all, is constitutionally incapable, by right of its very Nature, of according to all the rest of Humanity the simple rights to exist unmolested, live in freedom and be able to, without restrictions, interference or fear of harm, choose and peacefully pursue their own courses in life.

The two camps of Humanity are comprised of the innately cooperative type, the "live-and-let-live," normative Human majority, a good 80% or more of the total Human Race, and the innately aggressive and predatory type, a very small minority of 20%, at the most, who are utterly helpless to control their inherent needs to prey upon, dominate, and even torture or kill, in one degree and regard or another, anyone who is unlike themselves. It is probable that the real ratio is an even greater split than 80% vs 20%, likely as much as 90% vs 10% or more.

Why and how then can such a small minority of the Human Race have wound up in control of almost all the territories and peoples of the Earth? Because they are endlessly deceitful, cunning, cruel, calculating and ruthless in their aggression against normative Humanity, having no capacity for either conscience or sincere bonding and attachment to others. The closest they ever approach to such things as loyalty, family and love are the intuitive, ponerological bonds they have with one another. Such bonds are then always turned, in a very typical, predatory, hunting pack mentality and methodology, to the formation of ponerological unions, associations, and, now, in the ultimate extreme, a global ponerological Pathocracy with one another, always and ever in their endless, headlong pursuit of more and better predation against normative Human Beings.

They have gotten us to this day's brink of annihilation simply by cheating, lying, stealing, converting, spellbinding, intimidating, aggressing, killing and brutalizing against normative Humanity since prehistory. Their favorite and most effective tactic is deceit. It is also their greatest weapon against us. What they most crave to steal, by way of their incomparable deceitfulness, is the belief, the good faith, the trust and even the love of normative Human Beings, and taking all of our sustenance, goods and works too is a nice "fringe benefit" for them.

This is nowhere more a fact than in their means and ways to evoke from us, and then betray for their own selfish gains, our own beliefs and trust in them to do what and as they've said they would do, to keep their words, uphold the oaths they've sworn, to deliver on promises they've made or honour the deals they've agreed upon with us in good faith. They never do, never have and never will: It is NOT in their Nature to do so. They cannot behave with either honesty or integrity, not ever, not even within their bonds, unions and associations with others like themselves. Even in their relationships with each other, they will con and cheat, violate and betray. They are born without the capacities for either empathy or truth.

This article has required several revisions, because attempting to deal with some of the most life and death matters in Human history is not done both well and also done quickly, or easily, at least not by me. The whole works got blocked up when I found myself seeking in vain for a single word that would clearly convey the true depth and breadth of the chasm that separates a normative Human Being from the born, humaniform predators known as a Psychopaths. No matter how I hashed up suffixes, prefixes and roots, Greek, Latin and other, nothing could and would describe their inner desolation, their absolute lack of Empathy, Love, Loyalty, Fealty, Fellowship, Compassion, Mercy and all other such normative Human characteristics that is at the core of the psychopath's Nature.

After more than a week stuck on it, I e-mailed Laura Knight-Jadczyk, publisher of the original version of this analysis and essay, and explained the difficulty to her. She said she'd get back to me on it a few days later. She certainly did. When I first read her suggestion, chills ran down my spine. She has provided a word we would all be wise to learn, and make use of it in addition to, and perhaps even in lieu of psychopath. With it we can truly describe these spiritually vacant, malevolent humaniform predators who walk among us, disguised as us. They do unimaginable amounts of damage, of literal evil to us just as easily, as automatically and as persistently as they draw breath.

Laura wrote this in her reply: "..It occurred to me that the true nature of the psychopath is a 'black hole' so to say - a 'soul eater.' .. So, then I thought: what about psychophagia - soul eating. What we call a psychopath is really a psychophage - a soul eater."

Anyone who has had the "benefit" of a close, personal encounter with a Psychophage, the most malevolent of humaniform predators, will Know exactly what this new term means and how powerfully appropriate it is. Those who haven't had such an experience are best advised to take this word to heart and let it serve them not merely as Knowledge but as warning.

There is the chasm that cannot be bridged by either side of the line. In addition to the manifold material, emotional and psychological harms they do, they are PSYCHOPHAGES; they EAT away at our SOULS. As individuals, as nations and as a worldwide ponerological Pathocracy intent on enslaving and destroying the Earth and the Human Race, they eat our souls. Since Psyche is from the same root as Psycho, Psychophagia also includes their eating away at our seat of consciousness, at our brains, our emotions, our Minds. And of course, among all else that they steal, some of the worst, most lasting damage done by them is their theft of our emoti