BADASS: Russo'n'Stiglitz at ::: 12 pm, 3 pm, 6 pm, and 9 pm on Saturday and Sunday at... :::

Hi Folks,

No worries, I'm glad you enjoy my ideas and I hope they work.

I have another "solution" email below involving relaxing and listening to some internet radio re-streaming this weekend. A former 2001 Nobel Prize Winner and Chief Economist for the World Bank who quit in disgust and turned-whistleblower on the elite named Joseph Stiglitz is on, and he and filmmaker Aaron Russo have some fascinating things to say about what the elite's plans are for us.

I try to avoid "blasting" anybody who's not a real "criminal", and that includes traditional "criminals" (who I still don't like) who've been victimized by a corrupt capitalist system that wants it's growing shares of private prison-industrial complex stocks to skyrocket in price and split, and then skyrocket in price and split again. It focuses on lowering education standards, destroying social services, installing cameras and metal-detectors in schools, reinforcing prejudices and stereotypes, wrongful incarceration, and creating more and more "criminals" that will become "prisoners" in domestic "slave-labor" camps. It's already started - hence the appalling silence around what's happening in our prisons, and I'm keeping up with it along with many of the other attacks on our collective sanity and civility.

Our nasty habit of attacking each other for stupid reasons has to end, and while I agree that ultimately truth will triumph, I'm more concerned about when, and I'm not prepared to wait for the wrong answer. I'm too young and pretty not to be having more fun more often, and I can't wait to get back to it.

Since they are about to take the internet, or at least replace it with something which will restrict the information I'm sharing that can help end this madness about the people enabling it, I'm furiously composing works that will stand the test of time and shatter the false paradigms we cling to. Perhaps some people will delete them, perhaps some will get involved now before it's too late. Those who save copies for later may turn to them when more stuff starts blowing up or the economy starts going South, both of which could happen anytime.

People from across the spectrum who formerly disagreed on using the term "police state" are now all saying the same thing: we're on the verge.

When people who've been working on and arguing about these issues independently for years all of a sudden flip-out at the same time, it's probably best we take notice. It's just like the dozens of former Army Generals now speaking against the most immoral wars in history currently being waged: that should just end them on principle in any sane and rational World where people used common sense to understand things, and resisted pressure to accept stupid and immoral solutions.

Our efforts are scaring them into speeding up and slipping up, and they are being caught on a regular basis by the media outlets that actually want to catch them. At this point we're heading into the home-stretch and either "winning" or "losing" in a way that's unprecedented, and I know we want to believe that we are comfortably stable in a technologically advanced gyroscopic bubble of history, but one look at the rest of the World shows we are not.

I'm looking to remind us that our problems are not a result of any weakness on our part, and are in fact the fault of our political and economic leaders who've succeeded in corrupting us to further their aims. Then we can stop yelling at each other, look up, and see which idiots put us in positions to start stupid fights in the first place.

This will stop one way or the other, but I'm not enjoying it very much, and I'm actively planning stopping it sooner than later.

Best regards,
BK







Plan BK: The Solutions - GOT MONEY? GOT 'NET? Learn how to keep them!


Dear Freedom Lovers,

They are finally taking the internet just as millions of people are finally waking up, and if we don't fight back we'll lose our best way to fight back.

We are losing it right now.

They have launched "Internet 2" with their only claim that it's "faster" - as if most of us truly need that right now; while not telling us it’s more restrictive and better at tracking and propagandizing us, the first steps in totally controlling it. They are restricting access to websites for people in North America, like alternative news sites from soldiers and 9/11 Truth sites at schools and libraries, just two among hundreds of examples of increasing censorship meant to keep us sleepwalking into full-blown fascism.

We’re not supposed to “get political”, but this censorship is extremely important even if you never looked at any of these websites: THEY ARE TRYING RIGHT NOW TO PREVENT US FROM LEARNING HOW EVIL THEY ARE FOREVER from the only sources exposing it.

To hear who the elite really are, how they’re attacking us, why they don't like us, what their plans are, and some music by Lenny Kravitz and Bob Dylan among others, you can listen to filmmaker Aaron Russo and former 2001 Nobel Prize Winner and Chief Economist for the World Bank turned-whistleblower on the global elite, Joseph Stiglitz, on the 24/7 continuous radio re-streaming broadcast of The Alex Jones Show at www.infowars.com starting at:


::: 9 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on Friday :::


::: 12 am, 3 am, 6 am, 9 am, 12 pm, 3 pm, 6 pm, and 9 pm on Saturday :::


::: 12 am, 3 am, 6 am, 9 am and 12 pm on Sunday :::


You will hear how hard people are fighting for our rights and freedoms; and how hard the bad guys are fighting to take all of them away fast, including destroying the economy. It's a massive battle, far bigger than the one in Lord of the Rings 3, and one that we can't afford to lose.

Empires have always oppressed their people to hide their escalating corruption and depravity, and this is the start of them trying to make this tyranny last forever using the technology they’ve had us create. The elite have an inter-connected Empire of Corruption, and to avoid being exposed they are brainwashing and enslaving us as I write this sentence. See how hard it is to believe even knowing the state of the World?

We know "politicians are corrupt", but to settle for that pathetic three-word insight is to sign our death certificates. They are "corrupt" because they are "CORRUPTED". And by whom? That process is what we ignore, and it's the most important one of all.

The reason they are cracking down on the so-called "Patriot Movement" is because they explain the big picture and defend the Constitutions we can still appeal to, and if we don’t all pitch-in and help right now we’ll lose them. Once they are gone we are sitting ducks for perfectly “legal” tyranny, just like any other dictatorship, and as we know they’ve already got thousands of people practicing “gun-confiscation” and “torture”.

Many talk about how “stupid” President Bush is without looking at the suffering he’s caused; or they look at the suffering he’s caused without truly identifying the reasons behind it and ways to stop it. These are the safe and useless position we are given and meant pressure others into keeping, and they often lead to a hopeless apathy over the lack of clear solutions.

Dubya being "stupid" also gives him an excuse for lying every time he opens his mouth: we then feel "smart" and get a good giggle out of his crimes by telling each other that he's too dumb to know any better. I'm telling you that's not true and it's a part of their game.

We're being played for fools by a group of criminal social-engineering geniuses: all they do is work on how to screw us, and all we do is laugh at their jokes.

I was there for a while, but through continuous learning I went deeper and discovered that ALL WARS have been based on lies since freshmen Congressman Abe Lincoln introduced “Spot Resolutions” demanding to see the “spot” on American soil where Mexico first attacked the U.S. and spilled American blood. President Polk couldn’t show it because he’d lied to the public about sending the U.S. army to first invade and attack Mexico to provoke a response. ALL WARS since have been started using propagandized “false flag” events for territory and corporate-fascist profits.

As filmmaker Ken Jenkins put it, understanding this could be the key to stopping ALL WARS: we have to help everyone realize we are being lied to, and refuse to believe them anymore. Despite their massive public relations and propaganda efforts, after years of savagery, incompetence, money-laundering and disgusting body-counts, we have to recognize that the U.S. military should have no credibility left, be reigned in by our elected representatives, and have all the corruption cleaned-out.

Don’t believe the fake hype: look at the real history.

The incredibly hard-working, courageous and sincere folks at www.infowars.com and www.prisonplanet.com and their massive archives of evidence can be considered A People’s Subpoena, and unlike their CRIMINAL absence from the mainstream and independent media, hundreds of whistleblowers from across the spectrum have appeared on The Alex Jones Show.

We need to support them, and understand and disseminate their analysis to the entire World right now. If we don’t, the fascists will attack us and we won’t know why or that it’s them; and we will mindlessly bark at each other like dogs while our masters laugh.

Now that I understand the big picture, the answers to all the World's problems are fairly similar and fairly simple, and we can avoid the hopelessness that infects many of our discussions.

Jesus said: "Money is the root of all evil".

The so-called "Patriot Movement" found: “The root of all money."

And all of us have to learn: “The elite have a lot of money to do a lot of evil with.”

And all of us have to learn: “We need to stop them now because they are doing it.”

PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO EXPLAIN THIS MADNESS AWAY.

Do not lazily amortize all the battles in history between "good and evil" into a normal and stable equilibrium we can live with, or say: "Oh c’mon, there's ALWAYS been fights between good and evil, freedom and slavery, the rich and the poor..."

It is propaganda meant to reinforce apathy, and to suggest you can ignore this battle and everything will be fine. It’s not true. Each time this happens, if it is resisted by enough people we remain free; if not we are enslaved for hundreds of years.

It is not a “smart” thing to say based on how evil we know our “leaders” are and what they’ve done so far. This is unique, and the elite's economic strangle-hold on the Third World is the first part: never before in history have a few hundred rich people trained 500 million to totally oppress another 6 billion, so that part is done. Their end goal is to use their technology and propaganda to lock the rest of us down in the same way, and they are a few months away from finishing the job.

The only thing that can stop them is a mass groundswell of support for the triumph of the human spirit. Some on the inside are scared at how dangerous their peers plans are and help release the information we learn about them, but if we’re selfish and stupid none of the elite will respect us enough to stick their necks out and help stop this.

PLEASE NOTE: There have been specific historical periods where evil has kicked the hell out of good people for hundreds of years, and they have been implementing the technology to finish the job once and for all. Increasing surveillance, DNA banks, thumb-scans, RFID chips, forced mercury-based vaccinations (Google: Thimerasol), drug-tests, National I.D. cards, psychological tests, police checkpoints and other measures are being implemented right now by scaring the hell out of us to justify taking our rights.

So what do you think they want to do next? Stop?

PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO MAKE THIS SEEM NORMAL.

Controlled debates are set up both within and between the "Left" and "Right" by powerful institutions rarely identified or criticized. That's why they teach us to talk about issues this way: it doesn't do anything. We are about to be enslaved by the institutional corruption that those same institutions have taught us to ignore. We’re awesome.

We don't see the puppet-masters despite the fact we all know on some level they exist, i.e. the "rich evil people who’ve always made money off of misery”, and we are taught to ignore them by their media whores in chasing establishment approval. I’m sorry, but simply put the wealthy and powerful should be using their influence responsibly, and aren’t.

Most activists spread the blame around like Philly Cream Cheese until we’re all smeared with it, often for our respective approaches, making problems hopelessly complex and impossible to solve. By aiming blame at each other we also weaken our trust in each other to pull-through, and these bad habits must be un-learned fast.

The best way to feel better is always the same: handle your business.

We need to look “up” and aim at the real power behind the systemic immorality in the World, and say screw the peer-pressure to ignore laying the “serious” charges against powerful people we shy away from making. You know the World is getting worse, so join the fight and get something really good done on behalf of your friends and family by transcending the media's paranoid social control mechanisms that reinforce your “normal” (IT'S NOT NORMAL) fear, depression and weakness.

You also can't beat it by continuing to buy it from the same sources you trusted that made you a mess in the first place. Just like when Vince Carter and my beloved Toronto Raptors stopped trying hard and I got disgusted and gave up on them for a while; so too must we give up on our media sources that just aren't trying anymore.

The solution is simple: identify the small group of criminals making criminal decisions, and focus everyone's energy on understanding that ALL the World's problems can be solved this way.

Before they disappear, www.infowars.com and www.prisonplanet.com have the most important analysis in history based on cross-referencing hundreds of independently shocking stories from the mainstream and independent newswires, official and leaked documents, special guests and hundreds of qualified whistleblowers. They have massive piles of evidence to support their crazy conclusions, far more than anyone else I have ever seen, and unfortunately as much as I hate to say it: they're trying harder than anyone else to prove what they are saying, and as a result they are right.

They are the best at what they do: and what they do is want to Save The World.

I passed by a homeless guy the other day, and a lady was saying in response him asking for change, "I'm sorry, maybe when I win the lottery."

Sounds reasonable enough, though personally I give whatever whenever I can.

The thing is people have won the lottery.

Or, they have as much or much-much more than any lottery winners ever have.

And their endless money supply isn’t helping any of us; it’s the root of their control.

Once you zoom out and see this you can better tackle any compartmentalized problems you are dealing with, and smash through the repetitive paths you are taught to follow that deliberately avoid affecting significant change. We have to avoid media that reinforces "long-term solutions" as opposed to "pointing out criminals", a far more effective approach to actually learning about their horrible short-term plans, and the reason for the so-called "Patriot Movement" being among the first domestically censored on the internet.

The establishment are very publicly attacking and demonizing legal citizens and taking away their free speech because they want to scare us, and marginalize the brave people who are exposing the elite’s plans to arrest or enslave the rest of us. The elite don’t want us to know that, but frankly some of us think we should.

Please focus people, we have a small window of opportunity to break out of the useless thoughts that chain us to the lies that bind, and if we understand and break free of the myths that have captured us, we will remain free.

Good night, and good luck.


Peace, (NOW!!!)
BK

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P.S. To help Save The World, please Google for "TerrorStorm: A History of Government Sponsored Terrorism", "America: From Freedom to Fascism" and "SaveTheInternet.com". Also, check the daily international mainstream newswires at "Infowars.com" and "PrisonPlanet.com" -- and pass this info on to everybody -- NOW!!!

GOT MONEY? Joseph Stiglitz, fmr. Chief Economist for the World Bank is on The Alex Jones Show today at 12 pm (Friday + Re-streams)

Re: The G8 Money Supply



hey guys,

i'm listening to the re-stream now, and alex jones just said that joseph stiglitz, former chief economist for the world bank, is going to be on friday's show radio show, which can be streamed and re-streamed at infowars.com until sunday afternoon. i recommend checking at 12 pm on friday, or every 3 hours thereafter for the beginning (of his 3 hr show) when he tells you who's gonna be on when.

while i might be whittling down to a backpack, i might not, and some of y'all are good olde fashioned propurty-owners, and power to ye, it's cool dat all of us are blessed to have a shiny-nickel in the game.

and i've gotta say, for the record:

"i like my d--k sucked and shiny shit, and that's fine; i still wanna save, Palestine..."

back to the stiggy-iggy, i'm sure homeboy knows his stuff, and hopefully he got a dope green weather forecast and some insider berating.

what the hell, i'm prolly gonna bet on euros in a minit. and maybe cleavage.

y'all check him if ya feel... :P

big rope chain enna phat gold peace!

bk











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P.S. To help Save The World, please Google for "TerrorStorm: A History of Government Sponsored Terrorism", "America: From Freedom to Fascism" and "SaveTheInternet.com". Also, check the daily international mainstream newswires at "Infowars.com" and "PrisonPlanet.com" -- and pass this info on to everybody -- NOW!!!

REPLY-TO: "That is the most retarded thing I have ever read."


that's cool...


i'm a smart guy who sez smart shit, and if you don't get this don't worry, it was an email i sent to a few friends and part of an inside joke as well.

the point is that we don't need to take this shit "seriously", and the stuff you'll learn about the world when ali g is interviewing someone is more valuable then when the mainstream news is: he asks harder questions, and the mainstream media's GOAL is to LIE to us - as you can see every day.

it's on now homie, we've got 6 months to stop our descent into fascism, and when peeps across the spectrum of politics, journalism, academia and other groups all freak out at the same time, you know we're on the brink.

no one says "maybe" we're heading into a total police state anymore, they just talk about how little time we have to stop it and encourage us to try.

i've got a lot of understanding of what's going on, but part of what i'm trying to do is legitimize ALL marginalized opinions, including hip hop's, and ALL marginalized forms of cultural expression, including hip hop's.

i know it's on TV, and i'm glad some of our brothers and sisters are making money, but the hip hop that affects the institutions that are trying to poison and enslave us is not.

remember, 2Pac's most important and personal album was called:

"Makaveli: The Don Killuminati, The 7 Day Theory"

and if you can't see the world "illuminati" in there as a warning from over 10 years ago that more of "hip hop" should have listened to, and Jay-Z's right after that, then unfortunately won't see the same people thousands of our favorite artists and writers and philosophers have warned us about all the time - the richest and most evil people in the world - are nearing the finish line for dumbing us down, brainwashing and enslaving us.

i'm flexing homie, and cooking beef.

you can knock whatever bits'n'pieces you want, but beware of your own prejudices limiting your ability to appreciate and understand the world, and wasting your energy hatin' when there could be a new way for appreciatin'.

that's how hip hop got knocked in the first place, until total freedom of expression + balls = convinced critics

as long as actions don't violate any "principles", and not "rules", then we should just let them be and hear what they're trying to say, and EVERYONE i know likes "their d--k sucked and shiny shit", or their version of it, whether it's a massage and car, or doggy-style and a nice coffee table, it's all the same shit. ALL of it. and nearly ALL of our judgments against each other are totally unneccesary.

i'm trying to make us realize that and stop judging each other over bullshit, and because of that i'm totally cool with taking some heat... :)

thanks for your comments man, i'll try to give you answers.

yo dawg,

thanks for your comments man, i'll try to give you answers.

::: on the films "terrorstorm" and "america: freedom to fascism" :::

they're new, they're hot, they're awesome, people love them, and one's by a hollywood filmmaker which has a certain "cache". that's why i chose them, and i haven't seen the ones you mentioned, but i'm looking forward to it. these horses are the ones i want to bet on for the reasons i mentioned. i'm not saying you can't disagree, just understand my arguments and see if they make more sense than others, and start pimpin' away whatever you think will save the day...

::: on the style :::

i guess it's the way i feel, and it's no doubt influenced in part by listening to alex jones and others on his show - a far more diverse list than one would imagine based on the stereotype of guys in their basement wearing tin-foil hats and reading their version of comic books. plus peeps are apathetic and complain about it, and i want to show that it's not cool. if anyone disagrees with my approach to "apathy", then why do they complain about it? you can transcend it in your own way, but "people are people", and a version of mine will work.

this isn't just some "fan" bullshit either, this is understanding people from the military and intelligence communities, politicos and academics, journalists and activists, filmmakers and lawyers, and numerous others who've either known about or worked on various aspects of this for over 10 years. when they all of a sudden flip-out it's certainly worth noting.

remember: habeas corpus is "gone", a law that's so commensensically moral it's not funny, and removing our right to "ask to be let out of jail" and "avoid being tortured" couldn't even be written into a hollywood film: you wouldn't believe it. we can believe in "red dawn" or some shit where someone else does this to us, but to have an american president declare himself a dictator while the people completely ignore it is ridiculous. people need to wake up to the ultimate proof of what they want to do to us, and be brave enough to learn the rest of it and fight it.

anecdote: i just saw a teenage girl today at a popular restaurant where i know they thumb-scan to log-in to the cashier, and i briefly took a closer look at the device asked her what she thought about it. she said she didn't and had a nervous smile on her face, and i told her "don't think about it" with a smile on my face, since at the moment it seemed the right thing to say. that's cool, but at some point i'd love it if ALL the employees there and ALL of us understood what the implications of agreeing to use this technology is, what the bad guys ultimately want to use it for, and how much more of it is coming down the pipe. once we do that we can TALK about it, and through our dialectic come up with support and solutions.

the guys on The Alex Jones Show have built up credibility with me be being "right", i double-checked their stuff extensively early on and find them to be incredibly dedicated, passionate and sincere. with the public ramping up of "evil" by the bush regime, it's also hard for me to dismiss their critics: these guys are nazi's, and until we recognize and deal with that we'll never find a way to beat them.

the guys on The Alex Jones Show actually cite sections of the government documents and bills cross-referenced with fellow scholars and critics and law associations among other groups, and they all came up with the same conclusion about this new "I'M A FUCKING KING AND WILL THROW ANYONE IN JAIL I WANT!!!" bill: that this is FUCKED.

it's very, very, very important we understand that, and if my reaction is the exact opposite of the mainstream media's then that's why - they are a pack of liars. a few truly vicious articles and video segments have even been put out there by key members of the mass media commenting on the appalling lack of coverage, a rarity since they usually don't criticize each other to anywhere near this degree, and a desperate wake-up call to their peers and the rest of us.

the lie is to not care about important things.

you can't get me to argue with you about "beheadings" by a culture we hardly see or understand that we're attacking based on greed and hundreds of lies and a lack of concern for the pain or the bodycount. and how many have you even heard of anyway? how big a problem is this when the neo-fascists are raping and torturing and carpet-bombing innocent villages with bombs of poison every 5 minutes? these are not equal actions either: they're not even close. one is a random - and possibly faked - act of resistance against a trillion dollar military; the other is a trillion dollar military being grotesquely misused in a war for GLOBAL EMPIRE, not "democracy".

they are selling us the idea that the iraqi "civil war" means they are simply too savage to figure it out, as opposed to running screaming from massively destructive super-weapons spitting depleted uranium dust that's making everone sick and deforming their children. i don't even know if there really is a "civil war" is happening with the u.s. history of "false flag" terrorism, or who's behind the bombing of mosques which no muslim would do: they just don't do that, and we're sold that they do because it reinforces the the "iraqi people" are the problem in this mess.

i think it's completely irrelevant to take the u.s. military's word for what's happening and buy into the PSYOP distractions from their own criminality. or, if we want to stop war, we have to stop using their bullshit narrative to weaken the strength of our most powerful and focused arguments.

you DO remember that dick cheney is among the most evil motherfuckers on the planet, right? that's why they hide his ass in bunkers and send him to scare the shit out of scared people: that's all he does. in public.

in private he's working overtime to enslave us. what a dick.

if we want, we can mention their "embedded" narrative to understand it and learn what they're brainwashing the public to believe, but we have to put it in the context of the PSYOP being run on us - and the HISTORY of their faking attacks to start wars that could end ALL wars for good - and their numerous savage screw-ups in this one. we have to know that these "facts" aresold to us in specific ways as toys to play with because they barely touch on the american's role in things being fucked up - which means we play right into their hands.

yes saddam was a bad guy, but so is bush, and tell me: who's tortured and killed more people for evil reasons? who's killed more people in foreign countries? who's trying to attack the entire world just like hitler did?

hint: it ain't saddam.

they're trying to reinforce the idea that the "insurgency" is a bunch of savages, as opposed to citizens who were living in country with among the highest levels of education in the world and universal healthcare.

or: more than most of us have.

they're not: "islamo-fascist-savage-freedom-hating-terrorist-killers."

they're just saying: "aw c'mon man, what the fuck are y'all doing? are you crazy? man, i wanted to send my kids to school in america before y'all went crazy, and now i just wanna avoid me and my family getting killed, get you guys out, and run my fucking fruit stand in peace! shit... "

it's also avoiding the fact that no steps are being taken by the u.s. to actually calm things down and rebuild the nation in preparation for a normal political process. oh yeah baby, they fired the first "viceroy" they put in, and the reason he was fired is because he was actually doing that, it's just another "fact" that obliterates their rhetoric that disappeared down the memory-hole...

as a respected veteran of middle-east politics, Paul Bremer really wanted to "help the iraqi people" - again - for which he was fired and subsequently discredited to justify it. he refused to play the game, which was to fuck things up on purpose so america has to stay there for 20 years. while you may believe there is something positive happening, you can't tell me anything about it.

that's the PSYOP for ya, we'll furiously defend things we can't explain and don't understand just like Fox Fans with our own lyrics of sing-song'y simple-speak, and these PSYOP social engineers are fucking geniuses in controlling both sides of a false debate: how do you think we sleepwalked into another "vietnam" with a dozen more on the schedule after everything we know about the last one?

the iraqi people have spoken and want the americans out for damn good reasons.

the americans are instead grabbing and torturing them and grabbing and torturing their economy, which is why they have no choice but to fight back.

plus-plus-plus...

and no i'm not yelling at the soldiers: we need to fire their bosses before they turn a bunch of poor 19 year old kids into serial torturers, rapists and murderers, and then those kids come home to their families and friends and communities as psychopaths.

to quote spider man's uncle ben: with great power comes great responsibility, and if you think the u.s. is using their great power responsibly you're nuts.

this is hitlerian stuff, and "normalizing it" is insane.

with a dozen former army generals speaking out against the war(s), that's a massive red flag - one of thousands at this point, and i think we should treat it as such like many other aspects that the media hides and minimizes. with the public addicted to money, sex and fear, i'll take care of all three in time, but right now i'll scare you more than they possibly could with what they're really up to - because it's worse, and i hope the fact that it makes more "sense" and is more compelling than the mindless fear they are selling has a calming effect.

there's nothing worse than being ignorantly frightened.

this is the truth man, and if that doesn't inspire us i don't know what will.

in fairness, i agree that one needs to be sympathetic to the "apathetic drones" out there, but there's a method to my madness, and unfortunately for some who shrink from the concept, revealing it reveals the madness.

i think balls are inspiring, people with big, beautiful balls have inspired me, and i've got a pair of pilates balls i've been inflating in preparation for this fight.

if you look at the history of success, it's not "written" that way, but it is that way.

and not only is the idea that we should "take time" a bad one, it's joined at the hip with "relax" and "don't get political", and is reinforced in peer-groups because that's what most people hear - i.e. "propaganda".

it's simple to understand when you understand the game, and if a bunch of different people are saying the same thing it's because they are all going to the only source they all access: the controlled corporate media, who tell them they are "smart" if they repeat "lies".

i don't even want to do this, and i'm sorry for anyone who can't handle it, but i also don't want to move this fast: the fascists do, because they've been at it for a while and they want to finish.

we need shortcuts to understanding, and any advice you can give me is advice you don't need, whereas if it's something you picked up that's commonly repeated, it's likely that i've already heard it and argumentatively trumped it with any unblinking eye focused on:

"what will achieve the best results?"

i can clarify and eliminate a lot of our petty concerns as well, and bomb-first on the bullshit. as a relatively apolitical "nad-inflator", i'll give you your "Dr. Phil of my Tupac Choprah" soon enough. consider this a preview.

i've been working on how to beat this shit, and we're taught to make fake enemies by our ignorance and fear-based culture. with so many suffering from paranoia and a war-psychosis today, i'm going to take my samurai sword and swiftly cut the puppet-master strings off of all of us marionettes as fast as possible.

sure you'll fall to the floor, but you'll pick yourself up a free man.

and as a free men with a sense of purpose, we'll help others we see fall do the same.

::: on the goodness of people :::

i totally agree man, i just think we forget we are supposed to be noble beasts as opposed to beasts of burden, and guaranteed the god-given the opportunity for "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", or however the hell you want to phrase "a good life". the devils infecting our democracies are demonizing us to keep us fighting like slaves on a plantation:

WE ARE NOT OUR OWN ENEMIES UNLESS WE AGREE TO THE LIES THAT TELL US TO BE

they also make us settle for far less happiness than we deserve.

of course, if we settle, do we really deserve it?

are we "good enough" to deserve it?

etc., etc., etc...

we can navel gaze all we want, but FUCK THAT SHIT, the best and quickest way to snap out of our funk is to handle our business.

that's it.

you can check the rest of your business to confirm this.

if you're feeling bad, get some good shit done.

that's it.

we know they are evil, we know things are getting worse, and chasing toys and houses and families like we think we're isolated from it is lying to ourselves - and a BIG part of why we're depressed. what's the point of living or bringing a new life into the world if it looks like it's all going to hell? what are we thinking to focus on arguing ourselves out of succeeding as opposed to into it? who taught us to say such stupid things and ignore the smartest and kindest people we've ever heard?

i'm rocking the "planacea" baby, or "planebo", and no matter how it plays out, i'm planning on winning. and then retiring. within 2 years. bye-bye...

we can ALL have parallel pursuits, and we should ALL try to make ALL the people around us happy and addict them to good vibes like crack. but, it's NOT by endorsing IGNORANCE about the fact that people are seriously trying to enslave us.

how the hell do we think we're going to get out of this by ignoring it? how the hell do we think we'll be safe if we close our eyes while the smoke is all around us?

i went out for beers earlier this eve and got my goofy-on with peeps in a major way, and i'm a quick-witted happy motherfucker when i wanna be. now i'm back here inspired to write you back and learn about and think of more ways of how to fight back - like the ideas contained in this email, which are great.

thanks to my inspiration i have purpose, confidence and energy, and i walk the streets turning heads a free man, or to quote fiddy:

"they say i walk around, like i got an S on my chest..."

and that's the way to beat this.

no matter what situation you are in or decision you have to make, the secret to life is: be cool, have balls. or, be cool, have eggs. or, be cool, have guts. any of them will work, it's all who you're passing the idea on to, and i find offering the combo works best.

it is what it is man, and it's like pythagoras theorem: it's mathematically proven through scientific polling, and of the hundreds i've said it to, no one who's heard it can disprove it with any situation.

hell, if you're in guantanamo, be cool, have balls, and pray the motherfuckers sleepin' on your sitch wake up. what the hell else are you going to do? and what are we going to do to keep the same bastards from "gitmo'ing" us now that they've passed a "law" specifically allowing it?

this is not unique to the "north american experience", there's a history of fascism and tyranny to look at - which we're deliberately not shown - and we're taught that "fascism" equals funny brown pants and funny little mustaches and crazy motherfuckers killing millions of jews.

that's ridiculous.

there are probably over 200 "fascist" countries in the world today, and our countries are just joining the club they created. the bad guys have used third world slave labor to get rich enough to bribe key members of the establishment arms that teach us what to think and slap us down if we disagree, and we have to stop them from escalating this - as we can see they are desperately trying to do.

the best way to inspire the "goodness in people" is by showing them how to be good people by helping the most people, not temporarily distracting them from their bullshit-bitching like that'll make it go away.

we know "don't worry, be happy" doesn't work as well as "it's a beautiful world, let's keep it that way and make it even more beautiful."

we're taught to whinge, navel gaze and masturbate, and the "self-help" industry assumes we have problems - or invents them. buying into that bullshit and the pathetic craven consumption and fear we're sold only leaves the people i know complaining about work, being tired, being bored, and just "being" alive. there are some decent principles in some of them, but the "solutions" sold often don't fit the people buying into them - just like the same pair of pants won't fit everyone, and they certainly aren't as consistently effective as they are "sold".

the high of "accomplishing something by reading it without applying it" wears off, and the best way to truly evolve is the stick to "principles" and define your own "practices". your. own. as long as you focus on the principles you can't go wrong, and you'll realize how many stupid prejudices you need to get rid of too.

self-help addicts craving their next "fix" will tell me book after book month after month to look into - even though you'll almost never hear me complain about anything, and all i can think of is: what the hell are you doing still pimpin' those? wasn't any of them supposed to work? and if they didn't, why are you still addicted to them?

i'll explain the world is fucked up, but as a citizen of a world with people far worse-off who need our compassion, i refused to weaken myself by selfishly complaining about it or my inability to affect change, or anything else less fucked up and petty on the shit-lists that plague peeps.

besides, if we realize the same shit that every single member of "UPPER MANAGEMENT INTELLIGENCE" has told us, and i'm talking ALL the most pious and generous and nigh-universally respected leaders in the world, it's simple: to avoid being a selfish, bitter, isolated bastards, like the evil bankers and bitter rich cliches we know of, and to maximize our potential and the potential of our planet, we've got to reach out and help others. that's it.

see, the rich and evil motherfuckers don't want this because then we'd become more unified and intelligent and finally kick the bums out of humanity's leadership positions. (soon...)

they have groveling underlings, or "MIDDLE MANAGEMENT INTELLIGENCE" to do their bidding. just like most middle managers, they are spineless peons meant to mindlessly parrot the establishment position, keep the people they are in charge of in-line, and reinforce a fascist and conformist "this is how you're supposed to do it" bullshit philosophy that keeps us from evolving or finding better ways of doing things even when we're not happy with the ways we settle on.

you tell me who we should listen to.

in fact, that's why it's set up that way: evil always tries to consolidate power, and the "goodness of people" is people actually realizing they need to help each other - not aim for and brag about "self-improvement" - which is why it's sold to us. i've seen poor people in poor countries laughing more than anyone in public in a big north american city, and that's because they regularily need and help each other to have fun.

that leads to trust, unity, family, fun... all that good shit.

meanwhile, we grab our X-Box's and play the military's latest video games, and you can Google for the book "From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Videogames" to learn about that shit, and about how they're training kids to hunt and kill brown people in the streets by making video games where they hunt and kill brown people in the streets.

we need to defeat and dismantle the structures perpetually being set up to enslave us spiritually, mentally, physically and economically.

we're fighting corruption, not circumstance.

if people realized that there are in fact simple answers - and that the saying "there are no simple answers" is some academic bullshit to keep us paralyzed and confused - then we'd be able to react to the serious solutions (like the ones here) with confidence and clarity. we need the balls to handle the bullshit, and part of it is letting go of stupid self-destructive reasoning - or reasoning that needlessly endorses harming others.

in nearly all the cases of perpetual or systemic immorality people are working to change, the solution is: "qui bono?", or latin for "who profits?", something i learned from Alex Jones, something that blew my mind, and something that not nearly enough people think about.

why else would people be screwed if not to benefit others? why else would others take the time to set up practices that screw people on a planet that can easily support all of us? you don't think god gave us enough shit???

MONEY is MOTIVE.

this is the same thing the cops have used for hundreds of years and "humans" have used for thousands of years, and yet most "activists" shy away from "economic" arguments for fear of... what? of what?

i'm right, and most people across the spectrum of opinion i'm trying to influence can't take it because it conflicts with their world-view, including those who've been working hard on their spheres of influence for years.

i'm really sorry about the whole "bruised ego's" aspect, but it has nothing to do with me being special, it's just the choices i made independently of any "group think" or previous philosophy or gangs i roll with, ALL of which was up for grabs in favour of a practical approach to all "people" instead of "prose" or "peer-pressure".

the availability of a massive spectrum of information the internet is our key to survival, and we have to understand that if there's a lot of it and it's attacking powerful institutions that have proven their corruption over and over and over again, it's likely been put there by people for no other reason than they are passionate and persistent about exposing real "evil" really screwing us.

my decision to focus a substantial amount of time and interest on this - again - independently of any "group think", has helped too, and i always prefer listening to advocates for "people" over advocates for "power".

i also just practiced what we all pay lip-service to - "CONTINUOUS LEARNING" - though most of us stop at a small piece of the puzzle. i've arrived here, i'm sure i'll keep going, and as it's been recommended to me, i'll strongly recommend it right back and show you it works. i don't want to settle on a safe position that will be certified by much of our largely apathetic and ignorant society, i want to find a way to beat it, and help us become less apathetic and ignorant.

i know i'm right, many other people know it, and where i'm at with it is enough for now because i don't have a choice.

this fusion of philosophy, music, activism, journalism spirituality and other elements hasn't been done before, and i'm building an unshakeable pyramid of proof that will dwarf the shitty little green one on the american dollar bill, and obliterate the "official" lies that are pounded into our heads by our propaganda and peers.

as i continue to get better and better at it, i'm planning on it making more and more sense. as they turn up the heat on us boiling frogs i'm sure more and more people will understand it, and take a long hard look at the stuff they saved on their hard drives. i'm counting on the "goodness of people" to recognize the importance of my work - AND - all the brave and brilliant brothers and sisters from the past and present that i'm begging us to listen to - many of whom you are already familiar with and say you want to listen to anyway.

while people may get there at their own pace, i'm content to stay ahead of the game to let y'all know what's comin', and perhaps even draw you a map towards a better path... :-)

peace, (now!!!)
bk









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"Besides, all the people like Jesus, Gandhi, and King taking on the Roman, British, and American Empires were crazy..."

Yo Hov,

No worries man, being crazy helps me deal with the craziest shit in the world with a big smile on my face, and I'm poking my finger into the Eye of Sauron like Curly, Larry and Moe.

And of course, Shemp.

Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk... ;P

It gets tougher hangin' with a sane missus or any other sane people for any length of time when I'm forced to be boring. I've already had those damn conversations a bunch of times, and people who, as Thoreau put it, "lead lives of quiet desperation" instead of finding inspiration, can't handle much. An increasingly paranoid world also makes us cling to our cliques and crap on others - the worst possible reaction, and I can't believe as "individuals" we're called-out for not saying and thinking the same ways: damn gang-mentality at it again...

We're kept from challenging and pushing each other to improve our respective intelligence, and politeness is often an enemy of truth, and a friend of fakir's...

Besides, all the people like Jesus, Gandhi, and King taking on the Roman, British, and American Empires were crazy, but straight up, I think them doods and others like them are who we should've listened to. We haven't, but maybe we still can.

There's a method to my madness dawg, I won't deny that it's madness, but I will insist there's an M-e-t-h-o-d, Maaan... ;P

I'll get into it and whatever else you want to ask in detail when we're recording. When I'm saying stuff no one's thought of, or stuff we've been taught to forget, it always takes a minute or two to explain, and I'd prefer to save it for posterity as we head into the home-stretch. Even you've heard me be right a whole bunch, but nonetheless the consistently skeptical and relenteless questioning comes as my credibility is challenged more than the bastards turning the planet into a slaughterhouse, so into the breach I go again and again and again...

I ain't trippin', and to quote Fiddy:

"This is chess, not checkers, these are warning shots, after your next move I'll give you what I've got..."

If what i'm doing wasn't important I'd feel worse, but people have to know the truth, and in a world of "official" lies, it's damn tough to convince people. I think I've worked it out as best I can, or if not as best I can as much as I wanted, and I refuse to be shit-on by peeps that don't do shit.

I still feel bad though, and if my friends like me and want to hang and I don't have time, that sucks. However, if my friends still like me and don't want to hang since I don't have time and I'm crazy, that's fine. In fact, I prefer it that way.

I think y'all know where my head's at in principle(s) anyway...

I called you on Mundae to say I put the word on the wire to K-Solo by blowin' his mind, I was damn near out of "Fun-Vij" by Sundae after a busy weekend, and after some "Classic-Vij" joke-crackin' I spoke "freely" about the state of the World - including our hood. i wanted to tell you not to trip over any reactions, just observe in your amused way as usual, you know homiez been trippin' for a minit. While you and Easy-B are calm as Switzerland, sometimes homie's paranoid as North Korea, and I wanted to give you a head's up on what's poppin' off. It'll sort itself out, I'm cool, and I'll still hang and get my goofy-on for social trump-cards like birthdays or weddings, etc.

We can all do what we want for as long as we can, and I'm doing what I can to buy us as much time as possible to watch old TV on DVD.

It's gonna get tougher and tougher as we get dumber and dumber with shorter and shorter attention spans.

I can't explain things in detail because people have no patience, and yet unless I take the time to explain stuff in detail no one understands it. If even then.

Ugh.

Oh well, the smartest people in history have always made the complex simple.

At least the nice ones.

The most evil ones have made the simple complex.

And they're still in charge.

I've gotta be right about everything to appeal to everyone, and to prove that my analysis is trustworthy without being seen as too specialized and/or compartmentalized. I'm ballsifying the world to brace us for battles, and just like I fell in love with their courage, passion, and tireless efforts, it seems the struggling hard-core anti-fascist "activists" in particular are lovin' it.

Incidentally, and for nearly all of us:

We're not "activists".

We're "crime-fighters".

There's doods freezing outside going thru garbage cans for food every night.

That's a crime.

And thinking of it that way opens up a world of solutions...

There's millions of other "crimes" against "humanity" being investigated, and as long as we switch from labels that turn people off to labels that turn them on, we've got a shot. I'm basing this on the brilliant work of Alex Jones, I first heard him allude to the idea and am expanding on it.

As for you guys... someone's robbing your houses. Right now.

And at some point they're coming for all your shit.

I'm giving you guns in the form of information and solutions.

You can choose to get more and shoot back now or later.

Or not at all.

See... inflation is a tax.

It just means they're printing a lot more money out of nothing, and it's especially easy today with computers and digital transactions. The guys in charge know this, and keep a bunch in advance.

Now that the U.S. Federal Reserve has stopped publishing their M3 number - or the total aggregate money supply of U.S. dollars, you can expect hyper-inflation within a few months to destroy our life(s) savings.

You can already see it happening with the housing slowdown and rising prices.

The "fix" is in, and when the interest on 5 year fixed-interest mortgages spikes after the "fixed" part expires, with 20 years left to pay for their houses the cash-strapped and jobless will become the homeless, and they bad guys will take us down hard.

Some of this is our fault, and In shopping at Wal-Mart we're acting like animals licking our own wounds until we bleed to death engorged with our own blood. With what the Americans who own Wal-Mart have done to China, it's not hard to see what they'll do to us too.

The North American private prison-industrial complex already runs slave-labor camps for corporations instead of education and job-training programs, most of which are gone.

Shareholders want to see their $20 stock go up to $50, and then $100.

And then split.

And then see it go from $50 to $100 again.

And then split.

And how can it do that without more and more and more prisoners?

That's part of why they're doing this - or at least how they're corrupting one level of this massive conspiracy ("Oh no! I used that word! That proves I can't be making sense! Oh noooo!!!), and a weakened America or North American Union (NAU) will be a prime candidate for a martial law fascist takeover. Which, if you notice our inability to get the Bush Administration to do anything positive for the World in 5 years, has pretty much already happened.

The Hitlerian wars for Empire we're involved in and our pathetic apathy and lack of desire to stop them are angering the World. They want us to stop our insane leaders from poisoning and bombing the world into the stone-age, and who can blame them.

Incredibly, and this is also a good reason for our apathy: they've also been finding out a hell of lot more about our criminal governments and corporations than we have.

Greg Palast is the best American investigative journalist in the world, and he can't get a job in the United States. He's exposed more American government and corporate "crimes" for the mainstream media like the BBC and Guardian than anyone I know. His new book "Armed Madhouse" is a bizarre parallel history of what's been happening to us that we never saw behind our "electronic Berlin Wall of controlled corporate media".

But: the rest of the world has.

And: they're pissed.

Friends who visited Europe have come back shaken by what they've heard about the continent they'd just left, and quite sanely think we've gone insane.

Through no fault of Mr. Palast or any the other journalists exposing our crimes to the rest of the World, this is part of a tactic that will be used against us.

The world will insist that Europe play "good cop" and use the U.N. to attack us, and half the troops in the World are already under U.N. control, including the ones doing hundreds of exercises in Northern Canada.

By 2010 we'll have the North American Union (NAU) acting like the 4th Reich and attacking everyone else.

By 2012 we'll have the U.N. taking us down and setting up a One World Government while the world cheers it on.

Until we're all enslaved.

Unless we stop them.

Semper fi... :-)


Cheers,
BK

The Blue Pill won't work: THEY ARE DESTROYING THE MATRIX.

Dear Everybody,

I don't know what you're up to, but I barely have time to breathe.

On 60 Minutes, Nancy Pelosi - who's family is worth $25 million - guaranteed that if she's Speaker of the House she would try to stop any attempts at impeaching Bush. The Democrats are hardly campaigning against Bush's record - and hardly campaigned at all leading up to the mid-term elections. We need to understand that with the money controlling politics today, this whole thing is a fraud.

I strongly recommend checking out www.freedomtofascism.com to see award-winning (a Grammy, Emmy, Tony, and 6 Oscar nominations) Hollywood filmmaker Aaron Russo's new DVD and clips. He's made the most important movie in history, and as a result will never work in Hollywood again.

The second-most important film in history is "TerrorStorm: A History of Government Sponsored Terrorism", and it will be available in national retail chains across America beginning October 31st. Gore Vidal and Russo were on The Alex Jones Show today, and you can catch the re-stream of their hour-long interviews starting at 7 and 10 am EST on Tuesday morning at infowars.com.

It's been a fun fantasy, and if we're willing to fight to preserve and defend it then great. If not, we never deserved to have it in the first place.

I also suggest checking out www.bowman2006.com, where American war-hero Lt. Col. Dr. Bob Bowman is running for Congress in Florida, and bravely doing battle against ALL enemies: foreign and domestic.

If people like him are elected, we might save Congress.

If not, they'll just keep giving us false hope and false victories while taking all of our rights, which they've effectively done anyway by getting rid of habeas corpus. If that's not an impeachable offense I don't know what is, and if you think Alberto "Torture? Of course sir!" Gonzales is going to help anyone wrongly interned by it... ugh.

I'm really sorry to get in your faces like this, but I've had formerly skeptical friends in the mainstream media grudgingly admit that I'm about 2 years ahead of them, and since I started this 2 years ago I'm not surprised.

Besides, this is an accident of history, and the guys like me who were successful are written up in history books. That's not my goal (I really just want to lay on a beach somewhere and relax anonymously), but it serves as a reminder that "speaking truth to power" has gone out of style, especially since "style" is defined by "power".

The great Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn said "A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny", and he was right. It was Gulags in the Soviet Union, and it's Halliburton detention centers in the North American Union - which is supposed to be COMPLETED by 2010.

There are two ways to find out if I'm right: this is the easy one.

Google away and see if the people explaining this and other facts in this email make sense. I've been sucking back this stuff for a while now and it's only made me smarter, and they explain a hell of a lot more about how things work than our mass media does.

And if you want to see 2000 Americans detained in a toxic asbestos-filled abandoned bus depot, watch "Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State" on Google Video, and see what happened to "people" in New York City at the RNC in 2004.

I'm still a "fun" guy who formerly had normally early-retiring "couples" at my house-parties until 4 am, and I even went to a friend's bachelor party on Friday night. But, that was a trump-card invitation I couldn't turn down. Now I can only afford fun in spurts, and other than that I'm furiously working on solutions and waking people up.

BTW, The Blue Pill won't work: THEY ARE DESTROYING THE MATRIX.

At this point in history, I'd love to be a malformed fetus sucking back nutrient paste and living out a normal life until my brain thinks it should die. That would be awesome.

But, and no disrespect to the incredible movie, in reality it's a false choice. This isn't even about helping others: this is about saving ourselves.

And if we won't do that... screw it.

The answer to "Why are people so apathetic?" is a simple one, and it's as obvious as asking "Why are people so fat?"

If you consume fatty foods, you'll get fat.

If you actively or passively consume the mainstream news that you know is full of lies, news where you catch lies leaving gaping holes where "facts" were, and news that avoids the Mahatma's and Martin's of today - the millions trying to make the World a better place WHO ARE INSPIRING OTHERS OUT OF APATHY RIGHT NOW, it erodes your trust in your reality and the institutions you stupidly choose to continue to... "trust".

They are just as controlled as the military, but in a different way.

If journalists step out of line and are seen as "crazy" or "not credible" for challenging institutions or ideas their organization doesn't want to, they'll be ostracized. Or fired.

The separation of "journalism" from "activism" by the right-wing media has also eroded their sense of moral responsibility, and the "news" that you absolutly must-know today is completely useless tomorrow. It's the creation of the memory-hole that's the scariest part, and the brutal truth's exposed in Fahrenheit 9/11 and a million other sources in 2004 seem so long ago...

The foot-soldiers aren't the issue anyway, it's their leaders.

And if you really believe that the corrupt, lying and murderous governments and corporate whores attacking us have more credibility than I or any of the others fighting for your freedoms do...

...then we'll lose.

Now: was this just a rambling polemic from a disenfranchised outsider?

Or: did I make any sense?

I hope you understand that I'm no fool, that I haven't been fooled, and that as a philosopher I can choose to question the immorality of situations where others blindly accept their inevitability.

I am also not coming from one particular viewpoint, I'm not a "Communist" or "Feminist" or "Environmentalist" or part of any gang, and merely want to see how to make the best decisions independent of any gang-affiliation.

I don't like wearing clothes that don't fit, and instead tailor my own.

I also don't care what people think: I don't have to.

The people I speak with know I tell the truth, and appreciate it.

My opinion has evolved from the Soft-Left, to the Hard-Left, to learning that Left and Right are stupid terms to keep us polarized and fighting with each other in reflecting what our "gang-leaders" say we should repeat. I don't even believe in "Democracy", where 51% of the people can control the other 49%, which is the reason it's sold to us: so the idiots in charge can get us to keep fighting and passing laws against each other while ignoring their own corruption.

America is supposed to be a "Republic", where 99% of people can't control 1%, and your rights are guaranteed because you were born a human being. It's a forgotten ideal but it's still codified, and before they destroy our respective sovereignty and re-write our Constitutions, we'd better remember it.

Good night, and good luck.

Peace, (NOW!!!)
BK

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