Clif advised us to get into bitcoin when it was under $20 and wasn't an existential threat to the Federal Reserve. I was running barefoot round Benjakiti Park in Bangkok in those days as I couldn't afford a pair of trainers and was living off vapours. I was happy fit and healthy though so no regrets. I also studied a lot, listening to anyone who was interesting online. I still do.
This interview is a good one. I'm familiar with most of Clif's schtick and I don't agree with everything he says but from time to time he just drops more knowledge demonstrating he really is a 3rd Millennium Renaissance man. Inventor, Thinker, Coder, Linguist and general polymath as well as martial arts.
If you're having trouble sleeping, Cliff developed an all natural sleep aid called Pure Sleep, because the body only puts on mass during sleep and he was about 60 Kilos after a stomach tumour was removed. Demand for Pure Sleep has sometimes outstripped supply with very positive reviews. There's no melatonin or hangover effect but the reason I know it's good is how he was transformed by his own product. The first image was about 2016 and the next is relatively recent. Give it a try if you're struggling.
It's a wonderful conversation although for me, there are two exceptional moments in this 2008 Southbank production. Baron Bragg says he saw the US President was in Africa on TV that morning but Gore Vidal interrupts his story.
Took ages to find out the word I couldn't understand. I find listening very difficult in any language and generally respond to body language more than words. That's why podcasts are the best way of learning for me. Nothing to distract my eyes. In any case Gore Vidal is referring to Torquemada. A name I've never heard before.
What's striking is the comparison with Bobby Kennedy and saying it on camera. This is why Gore Vidal was a Greek among Romans. He said what he thought even if it took its toll, as he did with the Salzburgers who own the New York Times, now even worse and inarguably a propaganda rag. GV was an insider and knew the Kennedys so it's an exceptional piece of intel as we're now presented with RFK Jr who has done an excellent job on the Covid scamdemic only to declare his unfailing support for Zionism despite Ben Gurion's role as the highest authority (he reported to the next level up) for initiating JFK's and by extension RFK's assassination. To understand all that do a search on JFK + PERMINDEX then look at the correspondence between JFK and Ben Gurion on Dimona. JFK was adamant that Israel would have no nukes and that decision cost him his life.
Don't get me wrong. JFK upset everyone you could imagine (CIA, DoD and the FED etc) but the one thing nobody discusses is that he was bloodline and he chose to make the speech that went too far at the Waldorf Astoria which is Astor bloodline. They had to take him. He was doing everything he could to expose them.
Another gem that I picked up from Gore is that his blind Senator grandfather was 33 Degree Mason and that it's common in bloodline families for one child to be clued up and another to have no idea. They are 5th Dan black belts in secrecy and most people haven't a clue.
I'm going to use this space to share a little more of what this video confirmed for me but only those who bother to check back on this post will know. I have no intention of embarrassing anyone, but the above video confirms my hypothesis and that's a confirmation that is mostly for my indulgence. I hope the future looks upon In Our Time as a very classy effort at asking difficult questions to answer about their lies.
Probably the most important artist since Ian Curtis IMO at this point in time.
I can't believe I typed that but inspiration, is seldom the real thing. I listened for about the 4th time during the night and wondered if I'd find the talk about Jesus a bit uphill, but in fact, it's a very relaxing interview and many of the comments echo that. Kanye, has the best laugh I've heard in ages. I didn't know the old Kanye, but I like the new one.
Both the style of interview and the subject matter are captured in a manner that is rarely achieved these days. It's relaxing, informative and charming.
Consumers don't have time to study the history that supports the evidence for a global financial conspiracy stretching back thousands of years.
So please only share this with woke people.
Seriously though it's a cracker and George Ann Huges is much missed for her extraordinary interviews with Joseph P Farrell. Lot's of laughs and oodles of information.
If it means less dead civilians I can live with that. We can deal with theft later.
If anyone else has a different analysis I'm all ears. I am aware the two factions have a modest mutual partnership but that seems to be a precursor to a potential takeover and not proof of its existence today.
These people think long term and I've not included others like the Warburgs in this analysis. Upate: Original video no longer exists but a better one allows us to find out what we think of Bashar al Assad.
I don't consider myself any particular ideology though I don't mind choosing good ideas. In principle the dynamics of anarchism are much more in harmony with human nature than neoliberal capitalism which has to fall one day. That doesn't mean I can't pick and choose ideas from communism or capitalism when they're appropriate and contextually relevant.
David Graeber from Yale gives a good talk on the subject of anarchism here. Pick and mix people. Create your own reality and chuck out the ideologies. They're too fixed, easy to corrupt and anti human.
A good sense of humour is a rare quality in this field of research and so if you couple that with John Judge's fine mind (and conversational manner) you can learn a lot and open up the brain to different neurons firing on all 8 cylinders. We do share some language points like Coincidence Theorists and Conspiracy Deniers which is fun for me as I can tell he's a kindred language framer from this kind of play with words.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but it does allow me to assess the quality of a man's thinking. Last night I listened to a mid eighties John Judge talk on Iran Contra and time after time after time he was not only way ahead of the pack but bang on the money.
John Judge's mother worked in the Pentagon for DoD at a very senior level and has a great understanding of how the owners run the United States. I only disagreed with him on two points. My information tells me the 47000 deaths in the Vietnam war was adjusted to fit the projections his mother made. I also think he's inexplicably erroneous on whatever hit the Pentagon on 9/11. It was not a human guided plane. Other than that he's a very clever and shrewd observer of how things work.
Like me John thinks political parties have wrecked the democratic process.
Emile Francisco de Antonio (May 14, 1919 -- December 16, 1989) was an American director and producer of documentary films, usually detailing political or social events circa 1960s--1980s. He has been referred to by scholars and critics alike, and arguably remains, "...the most important political filmmaker in the United States during the Cold War."
Emile is quite buttoned down but at the end of the interview he wells up a bit and tells the interviewers he feels he's among friends. He died a couple of weeks later.
de Antonio was born in 1919 in in the coal-mining town of Scranton, Pennsylvania. His father, Emilio de Antonio, an Italian immigrant, fostered the lifelong interests of Antonio by passing on his own love for philosophy, classical literature, history and the arts. Although his intelligence allowed him the privilege of attended Harvard University alongside future-president John F. Kennedy, he was also familiar with the working class experience, making his living at various points in his life as a peddler, a book editor, and the captain of a river barge (among other duties).
After serving in the military during World War II as a bomber pilot, de Antonio returned to the United States where he frequented the art crowd, often associating with such Pop artists as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, in whose film Drink de Antonio appears. Warhol was famously quoted praising de Antonio with the words, "Everything I learned about painting, I learned from De."
The book Necessary Illusions (1989) by Noam Chomsky and the documentary Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992) by Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick are dedicated to Emile de Antonio.
Filmography Point of Order (1964) McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter (1964) Rush to Judgment (1967) America Is Hard to See (1968) In the Year of the Pig (1968) Charge and Countercharge (1969) Millhouse: A White Comedy (1971) Painters Painting (1972) Underground (1976) In The King of Prussia (1982) Mr. Hoover and I (1989)
Al Frankovich made the Gladio documentary for BBC 2 I posted the other day and I was rewatching this interview with him earlier on his CIA documentary 'On Company Business' when I did a quick search and noticed he died of a heart attack in George Bush Intercontinental Airport of Texas. The irony of this happening to a man whose opening scene in 'On Company Business' is the heart attack gun of the George Bush run CIA revealed at the Church commission is a little too much so I'm posting it while I piece together his body of work.
The Wikipedia entry for Al has been desecrated if anyone would like to provide information for it please use the comments below and I will rebuild it if I can. He did good work.
Robert Phoenix invited me to talk with him on Free Association Radio for half an hour on Monday. That's no reason to give me a wider berth than usual because the quality bit is Robert on his own in the beginning. That's not false modesty either. The guy is a natural at being interesting without trying too hard.
Disappointingly but not entirely unexpectedly I interrupt too much, talk too fast and don't listen very well. Robert compensates for this with a killer basso profondo John B Wells voice impersonation in the beginning. It's word and tonally perfect. He kills a man's entire career shtick in three or four minutes but with a serious comment to make about Coast To Coast integrity.
He also invokes the American female equivalent of "annoyed from Tunbridge Wells" on right wing radio batting for Team Santorum. It's not just funny it's uncomfortable how much sympathy seemingly innocuous people take in the most vicious people professing to be holy men of political calling.
Political priests are double scum plus for rational humans but for big demographic chunks it's a platinum credit card at a Miami GOP fund raiser for new voting software. It's the plenary dispensation ponzi scheme of medieval Papal scams.
Politicians are with a few rare exceptions self selecting power groomers and fondlers. Choosing sides in politics is a mugs game when they're all so disconnected from ordinary concerns, but like Robert I see what Murdoch's first choice for the GOP is packing under the piety. I don't care who gets in but the humourless self assurance of Rick Santorum screams psychopathy. There are few things on our planet more vicious than doing the Lords work in a Stealth Bomber with a growth market for Drones.
There were so many interruptions in the last interview by Project Camelot that I'm pleased to see a different style of interview take place on this occasion with Lisa Harrison who has never disappointed me yet. I've yet to listen to this interview but feel confident enough to post it based on Lisa's previous work including highly complex stories and individuals such as George Kavassilas.
I was just watching Chris Hedges being insulted by Kevin O'Leary of CBC. He asked him if he was a left-wing nutbar after Chris made an uncontroversial and appropriate response about the people at the #Occupy movement being perfectly aware which institutions are at fault. Chris then went on to dismantle Kevin O'Leary live on TV before departing with a derisory comment that he wont be returning to CBC who till then, he imagined, hadn't yet sunk to the depths of FOX news.
You can watch that video which is shooting up the Youtube charts here but for a much more comprehensive display of one of the last remaining erudite and well informed Americans I urge you to watch the video embedded above where he burrows down into the pornification of wrestling or the wrestle-fication (violence) of porn and ultimately the corporatisation and commodification of everything in the United States.
I've blogged about Chris Hedges before when I first discovered him and somehow I forgot how respectable he is. I realise now that he's a person I need to go through his entire video archive as he has an ability to articulate that is the essence of calm, thoughtful and lucid analysis. Kevin O'Leary broke CBCrules of conduct with his insult but it's a little late for him to recover any credibility he aspired to for being anything other than the odious money grubber he is.
Coast 2 Coast audiences are sky-rocketing during this eclectic age of time folding in on itself like a recursive fractal. George Noory is one of the most seasoned radio host pros I listen to and from a wide range of alternative media. I skipped ahead to the main guest on this so if it's a bit boring to begin with click around till you hit on something that grabs your attention.
