Tuesday, December 9, 2014

THE SIGN OF LEVIATHAN

Leviathan

THE SIGN OF LEVIATHAN

Hollywood has been taking advantage of the internet and the buzz about its various movie franchises. I know that many people who are excited about Star Wars have seen the new trailer of The Force Awakens. While the trailer is a fun peek at the highly-anticipated film, the title alone signifies that perhaps this is the time to have our own inner force awaken to what is about happen.
It is indicated in the trailer that perhaps the evil empire of the reptilian Sith has not died, and that there is a plot to somehow reawaken the dark side that it is still present throughout the galaxy.
Many of the images from the trailers have caused controversy, including a scene where a Jedi knight or an evil “fallen” Jedi shows a light saber that appears to be a “crosier” or a papal staff.
This is only speculation, but evil always seems to find a way to return.
Another indication that symbolism warns of a coming evil is seen in the new poster that has been issued for the James Bond franchise.
Bond film number 24 has now been called The Return of Spectre, and the movie poster for the film shows a bullet hole that appears to have tentacles like an octopus. The symbolism of the octopus sends out a frequency to those who understand the ancient symbology of the great serpent Leviathan, or the Greek myth of the Hydra.
There have been many other film enthusiasts that were fully aware of the symbolism when Marvel studios released Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Captain America still remains true to old American values while those around him seem to be changing. Also, S.H.I.E.L.D, the fictional equivalent of the C.I.A. in the Marvel universe, is showing signs that it is not protecting American freedom, but targeting American citizenry.
Captain America comments in the film that what S.H.I.E.L.D is doing is using fear in order to create a Leviathan-like military industrial complex that is targeting Americans for death — Americans that are being seen as potential threats.
The biggest question is who are these Americans a threat against? As the story unfolds, we begin to realize that the protective S.H.I.E.L.D has been compromised, and that many of the members of shield have been lured into believing in the ideology of HYDRA, the fictional criminal terrorist syndicate featured in the film.
HYDRA’s symbol is the octopus, and in the story of Captain America, HYDRA is the science and technological wing of the Nazis, led by Scientist Johann Schmidt. He is later is revealed to be “Red Skull,” a notorious mastermind that believed his brand of Nazism and fascism would become more powerful than that of Hitler’s.
Flag of HYDRA from Captain America
Flag of HYDRA from Captain America
Logo for United Underworld, the criminal syndicate of villains in the old Batman TV show
Logo for United Underworld, the criminal syndicate of villains in the old Batman TV show
From the ancient writings of the prophets, including the Book of Enoch, and from many books of the Bible, we read about the old serpent, the multi-headed dragon, the Hydra, the Leviathan. In Jewish cabalism and esoteric mystery schools like the Golden Dawn, the Great Beast from the depths of the underworld is understood to represent the evil empire of the elder gods from a “time before time,” the so-called “kingdom of Edom,” that was defeated by God’s angels and cast into the Abyss so that the children of Adam could rule over the present reality.
However, these same ancient energies are implied to be lying dormant beneath the seas of chaos, and are nonetheless being tapped into by those humans who choose to do the bidding of the serpent. Moreover, we know that these servants of Hell are channeling these energies to put themselves into power, and then using their earthly powers to summon the Great Beast up from the depths to rule existence directly through them in a “New World Order” that is simply a replication of the old.
The symbol of this new order anciently was a leviathan. Leviathans had been depicted in many forms, in some cultures this idea was shown as a gigantic sea serpent that was under the power of Neptune or Poseidon.
It also was depicted has a huge octopus and eventually was seen as a symbol of the Demiurge. The Demiurge was the subordinate or substitute of the divine. There was the kingdom of the Supreme Being, and then there was the subordinate kingdom that was raised from the depths and used as a substitute or perhaps even a counterfeit to the divine kingdom of God.
The Octopus as a symbol of the Gnostic Demiurge, from Alpha Galates
The Octopus as a symbol of the Gnostic Demiurge, from Alpha Galates
The kingdom of the Demiurge or Leviathan was based in the material and not the spiritual. Therefore was seen as the kingdom of Satan or Saturn. The symbol of the octopus has been linked to Gnostic sorcery and the notion that a new world can be forged in the guise of a godly kingdom.
This new world or new dawn of time is to be the Age of Aquarius. It promises to be a time of the revelation of the method, the unveiling of Isis, and the eventual messianic legacy of fulfillment which for some means the second coming or incarnation of the messiah.
According to the followers of the occult, there are three gates that need to be opened to usher in the Age of Aquarius.
This will include a new world order, and a new messianic prophet who will unite the world after a possible global collapse. This collapse could be economic, political, religious, or a combination of them all. This new messianic prophet will be called counterfeit by those who know the sign of his coming.
Before he arrives there is to be a time of a great purging of human beings. They will be caught up in war, famine plague and pestilence.
It is believed that the period of transition between the ages extends many years,. Then comes the period of transcendence, which will bring forth great commotion and trouble from the depths of the underworld.
And we are living during one of these periods between the outgoing Age of Pisces and the incoming Age of Aquarius. That is the time when the Beast will arise and completely reveal himself from the murky depths of the many waters.
When the Earth progresses into a new age, there is a precipitation of incoming energies, causing significant variations in terrestrial occurrences. We can expect strange weather patterns, an increase in earthquake activity, and natural disasters unseen on this planet for thousands of years. The possibility of an asteroid hitting the earth is not out of the question.
We are on the threshold of a new era, but the birth of the Age of Aquarius will be attendant with toil and pain. All the prophets and messengers of light warn of cataclysmic Earth changes and an immense global catastrophe heralding the advance into Aquarius.
Of course, the ending of one age is also the beginning of a new one, but we should not expect overnight transformations. The supposed “dawning of the Age of Aquarius” in the 60s, like all false dawns, quickly fizzled out. The belief that we entered Aquarius and are now in a new era of universal love, peace and brotherhood is a delusion suffered by many adherents of the “New Age.” The grave mistake of believing that on a certain date the Earth, along with all humanity, will be automatically transformed to a new level is a serious misinterpretation of astrological cycles.
In the new world, with the coming of this new dawn of enlightenment that we have all taken part in, those who kill in the name of preserving an agenda make history. The surviving victims live in fear of the next time those in power go on a murdering spree. We are all looking for someone to save us from our peril. But we can’t be saved in ignorance. We have been programmed to be stupid.
Unfortunately, people have learned that it is best to play dumb and criticize those who try to be inquisitive. “Stupid is as stupid does,” you know. “Life is a box of chocolates,” and if you take a bite out of a couple of pieces, you can eliminate the caramels from the nuts. That’s the way they want it, and most Americans feel obliged to allow it.
Is anyone going to reveal that the zeitgeist has been hijacked by some demonic mindset, and that we are so caught up in anger at each other that we have no way of turning back?
Symbol of NROL-39, a satellite launched by the National Reconnaissance Office
Symbol of NROL-39, a satellite launched by the National Reconnaissance Office
In Thomas Hobbs book Leviathan from 1651, that classic work on the philosophy of statecraft asserted that people will always fight with each other to their mutual ruin (what he called “the war of all against all”) unless an all-encompassing absolutist sovereign can take over and save us all from ourselves.
Hobbs proclaimed that this dictator must control both the power of the sword and the power of the crown and the mitre (the military power of the state and the ecclesiastical powers of the clergy). He will subsume every single aspect of society, including the people themselves, into the gigantic body of his empire, with himself as the head. This creature he likened to the monster Leviathan from the Bible. This man-beast was illustrated in the frontispiece to the book, above the words from The Book of Job 41:24: “There is no power on earth to be compared to him.” A special copy given to King Charles II showed the creature with multiple faces.
Frontispiece to Leviathan by Hobbs
Frontispiece to Leviathan by Hobbs
Now what does it say to you that a work of philosophy like this was presented to and eagerly accepted by the King of England, who is also a direct descendant of many of the power elite today? Do you realize that this book is still considered a classic and studied in colleges today as a legitimate ideal of how a state should be run?
It is becoming painfully apparent that America has slept through its history, failing to awaken to the corruption and the journey into despotism. Americans need to have their eyes pried open to see reality, and even then many people will be content with not getting involved with the process of real change. Many are under the false assumption that a lot of what is going on doesn’t apply to them, but only to people who are poor, uneducated, or in a minority group.
It is time to pour yourself a hot cup of “wake the Hell up,” because the next gulp you take is going to go down hard.
It has been said that “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time,” a quote that has been falsely attributed to Abraham Lincoln.
And now we make a liar out of whoever said that, because we have all been fooled. We can once again go back to asking “what went wrong?” There was no real positive change for the future. We only got chump change touted as deliverance from “evil.”
Honesty is a thankless attribute. How much praise and acceptance goes to those who program and are programmed to accept the New America without thinking outside of the parameters of their own prejudice and polarization?
Are there people out there capable of accepting that everything we think we know is wrong? Or that we need to approach the New Year with objectivity in the face of our chagrin when we realize that the lie was so convincing that we fell for it?
Sir Francis Bacon wrote that “all governments are obscure and invisible.” This seems to apply to the present shadow government that has many secrets. Much of what was once secret is most certainly being discovered, and there are dots that need to be connected in order to bring the truth into the sunlight.
In 1615, The Rosicrucian Manifesto made it clear how the revelation of the method works as part of “the making manifest of all that is hidden.” Secrets are revealed at the right moment in order to demoralize the uninitiated.
“The entire march of time reveals what is hidden, yet also does it hide what is revealed. There is nothing that will not be revealed, and nothing secret that will not be brought into the light.” – The Rosicrucian Manifesto, 1615
Entropy is going to force the revelation of the method. If the “crowd think” cannot be controlled or predicted, there will be gradual decline into disorder. The biggest revelation of all is that now with this entropy, the elite are openly showing us their dark side.
They are no longer hiding their lies and they are excusing their crimes.
There are also a number of people who are excusing their crimes and accepting them as the way things are done. It is as if we have forgotten that there is another way to right the wrongs of the world.
The elite have the advantage because of wealth. Their criminality is being financed by fake money and thin promises of beneficial change. We can all see that they are resigned to behaving like tyrants to maintain control.
The dark side of the cryptocracy has been hidden for years, and has been relegated to mere conspiracy theory. However, it is now been confessed that the final objective is a New World Order.
War and the threat of war are central to U.S. foreign policy. Not just a war against us domestically, but war that shapes the globe and prepares us for a New World Order where the classes are destroyed. The rich will remain sovereign over an enslaved workforce that is fed the idea that they are working for their freedom.
The Illuminati considers war to be a most advantageous way to sacrifice, for it kills both children and adults. It is also a way to have plausible deniability when they brainwash and commit the acts of murder. Keep in mind that there is no blood on the hands of the Illuminati, but only on the hands of the armies they command. It is the destructive group dynamic and manipulation that is used by most destructive cults. It is very effective in cementing the public’s commitment to letting the elite create more war, ensuring more pain and suffering, as the apt pupils dance in the blood of the dead in celebration.
There are magical workings being performed in high places of power and behind the closed doors of the churches and synagogues.
The ancient traces of such workings can be found in the Talmud, the Koran, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Bible, the Cabala, and The Book of Enoch. All powers are to be considered and all magic has power. The Luciferian illuminists use it to their advantage until slowly the congregations are becoming desensitized to this philosophy of death and murder. We begin to see the ritual of death as a reason to celebrate.
There are a great number of secret organizations which all practice death rituals or make death oaths, and many of these groups are part of an octopus whose tentacles reach into the world’s most powerful organizations, religions, and governments.
Leaders from all over the world are members of these organizations that are considered Luciferian, meaning that those members carry out our affairs without regard for moral imperatives or boundaries. They act on behalf of what is revealed to them in secret meetings. They are told that they will not be judged by any higher authority or God.
In the darkest of secret rituals, there is one where the initiate is forced to witness several carefully staged death rites, and is told that he or she may be killed too. The initiate, after witnessing several instances of seeming death, is then given a ritualistic rebirth. The candidate is told that since he or she has escaped death, that person therefore deserves to be allowed to make the change into the new life. It is known as a “hard baptism” or the forging of “blood cement.”
After the trauma rituals that include witnessing or being threatened with ritualistic death, the initiate is reminded that no matter what, one will always have to face the dark father Saturn.
In the secret schools you are told that Saturn, the dark father of the unseen prison, is your master, and you must learn to respect this entity of chaos in order to restore things to a new order. In these rituals, there is a binding or commitment of “worship” by the initiate to a new mentor or savior. If you defy the mentor, you can face death or material ruin.
Think of all the trauma-based ritualistic murders that have happened on our soil here in America: “The Killing of the King” ritual in Dallas during the JFK assassination; the siege at Waco; the Oklahoma City bombing; the first attacks on the World Trade Center; the Columbine Shootings, the attacks of September 11th; and the disaster of Hurricane Katrina. Theorists believe that these “traumas” were magical rites of death with numeric signatures, code words, and synchromystic events. They appear to be magical ritualistic murders that American people have witnessed, and each of us has seen them repetitively played over and over again through television reports and retrospectives.
Circumstances point to the theory that many of the traumas that we have shared in the world have been the result of dark magic. It seems that groups within the CIA, NSA, Mossad, and other covert organizations carry out rituals using phrases, names and memes in order to set forth a crisis that can be remedied with more governmental control.
The various groups within the cryptocracy are seen as so many tendrils or tentacles that have their hidden hand in everything that happens here in Earth, ever-reaching like the arms of a great octopus. The great octopus is called the Leviathan or the Kraken.
Many conspiracy theorists and those who read books about the fringe know about a novelist and investigative journalist who set out to expose the truth about what he saw as a fascist parasite that was taking over world governments and was gradually changing the ideologies of the United States.
Danny Casolaro planned to write a book exposing misuse of power in government. His book was about to connect the dots of what many “conspiracy theorists” claimed to be a much larger beast. Casolaro uncovered one conspiracy after another, reaching out like deadly tentacles from the body of a slithering octopus. His opus was originally to be called “Behold a Pale Horse,” but he changed it to The Octopus.
The octopus has long symbolized conspiracies to take over the world
The octopus has long symbolized conspiracies to take over the world
Casolaro paid the ultimate price as he was found dead in a bathtub, his wrists slashed dozens of times and most of his manuscripts missing. However, Casolaro had confided in friends that what he was doing was detailing the inner threat and criminal element whose tentacles were attached to a repugnant leviathan of deep conspiracies.
Casolaro had remarked that the tentacled criminal syndicate within government sprouted almost like an endless hydra. Once you were able cut off one head, another criminal organization would grow in its place. As governments accrue more power to themselves, they seek out ways to expand and complete their control. Fear and dread secure the ideal atmosphere in which to enforce this type of mindless conformity.
The main goal of the so-called elite or “Illuminati” is to create a network of human resources and labor to maintain the opulent lifestyles of the few. The way to do this is to create an imperial cult that many have already associated with what is called a bestial, leviathan empire.
In ancient writings, mainly the Biblical apocalypse, this empire will signal the beginning of the apostasy. It will have a number, and that number will be six hundred threescore and six.

Justice Department Interventions Will Not Halt Police Violence Across America ~ folks "these" police crim's aren't somebody We The People don't know or can't find ...these fucks live amongst U.S.  ... Our Forefathers knew how 2 handle this trash  ....just an matter of ...time  until the Good People will stand the fuck UP & take out the ..trash ....just an matter of ...time !   we's got an ass pipe problem in ALL LEVEL'S of Our gov.      ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL    level's  & shit duty time is cum~in

Numerous cities have been under consent decrees but brutality continues


Barack Obama
Over the last several years a number of police departments with histories of using lethal force against oppressed peoples have been subjected to civil rights investigations and consent decrees with the Justice Department. 
Nonetheless, violence by the police against the people has continued and even worsened. The recent public slayings of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and others have illustrated clearly that the United States government is incapable of reining in local law-enforcement agencies.
In fact the escalation in the militarization of the police is being facilitated by the Department of Defense which is supplying lethal weapons, body gear, and armored vehicles to cities throughout the country.
When the Obama administration called for the use of cameras by police officers during a summit at the White House on Dec. 1 it was already superfluous. That same week a grand jury in New York decided not to indict even one police officer under investigation in the choking death of African American Eric Garner in Staten Island.
The killing of Eric Garner was videotaped and yet the police involved in the fatal attack–as well the emergency medical technicians who refused to provide life-saving assistance to Garner—were not indicted or disciplined by the prosecutor’s office or the City of New York. The current Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York, who was framed as a liberal and progressive during his campaign in 2013, appointed William J. Bratton, one of the architects of the “stop and frisk” and “broken windows” theory of policing as the chief law-enforcement commander.
Detroit Was Under Two Federal Consent Decrees for 11 Years
The City of Detroit is a clear example of the systematic failure of the Justice Department and the federal courts to eliminate police misconduct and brutality. Since the Great Migration of African Americans and the rise of the labor movement during the 20th century, the history of police suppression of the people has become well enshrined in the political fabric of the Motor City.
In July 1967 amid deteriorating conditions involving residential segregation, institutional racism and police brutality, the masses of African Americans rose up in the largest urban rebellion in the history of the U.S. up until that time. After the rebellion police repression escalated with the expansion of the tactical mobile units and eventually the dreaded decoy unit known as STRESS (Stop the Robberies Enjoy Safe Streets), which was responsible for the police killings of 33 people during 1971-73.
Beginning in 2000, amid a series of cop killings of civilians, the Justice Department Civil Rights Division began a three year investigation. In 2003, the Justice Department entered into a consent judgment with Detroit leading to 11 years of monitoring by several private firms overseen by a federal judge. These actions did not lead to an immediate decline in police violence.
The police killing of civilians continued and even intensified while the federal monitoring was taking place. Tens of millions of local tax dollars were turned over to private monitors who abused the funds without recommending the termination or prosecution of any of the officers who were carrying out these killings and other acts of brutality.
On May 16, 2010, a police raid at the wrong address resulted in the shooting death of seven-year-old Aiyana Jones on the city’s eastside. By this time the City of Detroit had been under two federal consent decrees for seven years involving the use of lethal force and the deplorable conditions existing in the lock-ups.
It was only due to public pressure that the white cop, Joseph Weekley, was indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter and reckless discharge of a firearm. However, after two trials there has been no conviction of Weekly who remains free and on the City of Detroit payroll.
The discharge from the consent decrees was only able to take place under emergency management and forced bankruptcy during 2014. A much talked about Board of Police Commissioners has been stripped of the limited authority that it had since its creation under the City Charter of 1974 enacted at the same time as the first African American Mayor Coleman A. Young came into office. The Commission largely served as a venue for the filing of complaints about police misconduct where virtually no disciplinary actions were taken.
Only Mass Struggle and Revolutionary Organization Can End Police Terrorism
Other cities such as Cleveland are now under yet another of such consent decrees. Cleveland had been under federal monitoring before and even with the announcement of the new consent judgment by Attorney General Eric Holder, no police have been arrested or indicted in the recent killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was playing with a toy gun in a public park when he was gunned down by the police.
Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and numerous municipalities have experienced similar situations of federal involvement which have not halted the misconduct and brutality. Objectively through its policies, the White House, the Pentagon along with the courts from the federal level down to the local judicial systems, categorically defend police officers in situations related to violence against African Americans, Latinos and others.
It has only been the rebellions and mass demonstrations that have pushed the question of police violence against the people to the forefront of political discussions inside the U.S. If people had not gone out and militantly demonstrated against the blatant killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, these issues would not have even been acknowledged by the government and the corporate media.
Police agencies operating under the U.S. capitalist system function exclusively on behalf of the corporations and the repressive state. In order to eliminate police misconduct and brutality it is necessary to transform the state apparatus through the transfer of wealth from the ruling class to the workers and the oppressed.
This can only be carried out as a result of the seizure of political power by the majority within society. Decades of “reforms” through “training programs” and federal investigations have not changed the situation in the least.

Ten Facts You Should Know About the American Police State

Ten Facts You Should Know About the American Police State


what do u do when the law ,becomes the lawless ?     Our Forefathers knew what 2 ...do   hum !!!  WTF do u think the 2nd mem~ment  is 4 .....lawless hunt~in season  Oops

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1. More than 500 American citizens have died after being tased, a device considered “non-lethal.”
2. The yearly cost of the War on Drugs to the Americantaxpayer is about $40 billion. The estimated cost to end hunger worldwide is $30 billion yearly.
3. There are more than 80,000 military raids conducted by police every year in the United States.

4. There are roughly 2.3 million people locked up in the United States with another 5 million on probation or parole. The overwhelming majority are for non-violent crimes.
5. UNICOR, an establishment inside the US Federal Prison System uses its confined pool of labor to produce war goods for the US military.
6. In 36% of US SWAT raids, no contraband of any kind is found after the officers risk everyone’s life and engage in reckless actions that cost lives.
7. An average London resident is recorded over 300 times a day by Big Brother’s video surveillance apparatus.
8. The only nation to maintain a higher incarceration rate than the United States is Germany … under the Nazis.
9. 97% of reported police brutality victims are people of color.
10. Every 98 minutes, a cop kills a family pet. There have been no recorded officer deaths from a dog in last decade.

Elite Think Tank Admits to Ongoing Climate Engineering Experiments yes "IT" is going ON ....but maybe just maybe "IT" is a "cover" for what "IS" really going on ...maybe "they" r looking 4 somebody who looks like US & walks like us & talks like us & quacks like Us .... but isn't "really"    ...like us  huh  :)     hehe

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If we could experiment with the atmosphere and literally play God, it’s very tempting to a scientist - Kenyan earth scientist Richard Odingo
For those who know about the history of geoengineering – aka chemtrails – you might be noticing a spate of admissions from the halls of establishment science and government that the “conspiracy theory” is no longer … it is a fact.
Perhaps the efforts of independent researchers have forced such open disclosure, at least putting us over the hurdle of abject denial. However, the narrative being created for mainstream media consumption is disingenuous at best, and full-throttle manipulation at worst. Case in point is an admission from The Royal Society that geoengineering experiments are being debated for full rollout even in the absence of policy restrictions.
The elite UK think-tank, The Royal Society, has for years openly discussed control over the planet’s weather.  Their 2011 propaganda press release entitled “Who Decides?” is an overtly Orwellian exercise in problem-reaction-solution that, naturally, argues for a cabal of technocratic insiders to implement godlike power over the unwashed masses who are threatened both by their own ignorance as well as “rogue elements” that could hijack weather manipulation technology.
Mainstream outlet The Verge wound up echoing these supposed concerns in their 2013 article,“Weather wars: who should be allowed to engineer our climate?” which has the subtitle, “Geoengineering could be the silver bullet in fighting climate change — or the start of something even worse.”
Let’s bypass for a moment that there still is intense scientific debate about the legitimacy of those who assign climate change to certain man-made activities, and instead look to these attempts to portray a full consensus that leapfrogs us to do-or-die solutions.
Even though the above story appears to have been originally disseminated by the Associated Press, what was not mentioned in any of the establishment outlets is the backstory that indicates a much longer timeline in getting to the conclusion that geoengineering is possibly the only hope that remains for saving the earth.
The Royal Society published a paper further back in 2009, which was based upon a 12-month study; the results were given the title: “Geoengineering the climate: science, governance and uncertainty.”
If we look at the recommendations from this report, then look at what is being discussed today as something supposedly novel, an agenda emerges. The report recommends:
  • Parties to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - Ed.) should make increased efforts towards mitigating and adapting to climate change and in particular to agreeing to global emissions reductions of at least 50% on 1990 levels by 2050 and more thereafter;
  • CDR (Carbon Dioxide Removal - Ed.) and SRM (Solar Radiation Management - Ed.) geoengineering methods should only be considered as part of a wider package of options for addressing climate change. CDR methods should be regarded as preferable to SRM methods.
  • Relevant UK government departments, in association with the UK Research Councils, should together fund a 10 year geoengineering research programme at a level of the order of £10M per annum.
  • The Royal Society, in collaboration with international science partners, should develop a code of practice for geoengineering research and provide recommendations to the international scientific community for a voluntary research governance framework.
Citing the slow path of debate and legislation, the panel of “twelve leading academics representing science, economics, law and social science” advocate for climate engineering as a “final hope.”This was 2009, of course; so when we read their latest press release  “Atmospheric particles can brighten cold clouds as well as warm ones” an otherwise innocuous title should trigger an alarm.
Indeed, here we see that what is bullet-pointed above – and discussed within the study – as a non-preferable, potentially dangerous tinkering with global systems is underway.
For the first time, modeling research led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that atmospheric particles can brighten cold clouds in the Arctic. Using simulations, they showed that low clouds over the Arctic may be brightened by deliberately injecting small particles known as aerosols. It’s already well known that injecting aerosols into low clouds over the warm ocean can, in some circumstances, reduce the amount of sunlight that reaches the surface. The concept, untested over the Arctic until now, is called marine cloud brightening, and it can also happen when ships send exhaust into the atmosphere.
The full report consists of 14 articles discussing several climate engineering methods, some openly available here (others are locked). There appears to be a consistent message that the politics of proper governance could impede much-needed field experimentation.
However, there is additional vague language similar to the section above which leaves uncertainty about what exactly has been modeled by computers and what might have already been tested in the open. What cannot be doubted, however, is that the volume of scientific articles now published indicates a real agenda with massive scope, a massive budget and massive consequences.
Also clear is a reinforcement of the meme that climate scientists are proceeding with caution - a notion highlighted recently by Harvard, but which has very little basis in the general history of scientific endeavors that have claimed a do-or-die right to proceed (nuclear, GMO, vaccines, etc.).
As with all things secretive, governmental, and possessing a military component, we only can do our best to independently research cause and effect. Such research by those who have dedicated their energy to uncovering the climate change/geoengineering agenda seem to conclude that engineering the planet’s weather is not a “final hope” … but more likely to be our Finale.
Main source:
http://phys.org/news/2014-12-atmospheric-particles-brighten-cold-clouds.html
Additional Sources:
Geoengineering Watch 
Chemtrails Planet 
Aircrap.org
Obama Takes Bold Step to Geoengineer Climate Change

PARASITIC PROWL: Analysis of the Hollywood Pyschodrama ‘Nightcrawler’

Guest Post: Shawn Helton
21stCenturyWire
The Hollywood thriller Nightcrawler takes you on a dark ride through the seedy streets of L.A., as death chasing video-stringer’s hunt for the next story to sell. When you peel back the layers of the film’s plot – you see a haunting vision of American media, popculture and hidden meaning…
IMAGE: ‘Nightcrawler’ –  Jake Gyllenhaal, portrays Lou Bloom, a former thief turned  freelance video stringer. (Photo link static.entertainmentwise.com)
IMAGE: ‘Nightcrawler’ – Jake Gyllenhaal, portrays Lou Bloom, a former thief turned freelance video stringer. (Photo link static.entertainmentwise.com)
Vague terror creeps inside

In the opening sequence of Nightcrawler, we see a crime in progress, as the film’s lead character Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) is seen trespassing in a restricted industrial area, scrapping for metal goods in the dark of night. The wide-eyed Lou is confronted by a private security guard and pretends to be lost, seemingly unfettered by the consequences of his actions, stalks closer towards the guard with a devil-may-care grin. The audience is then given its first glimpse into Lou’s manipulative scope, when he viciously envelops the guard in a violent struggle. Although we are a witness to Lou’s crimes, the camera abruptly cuts away from the scene before it ends - leaving the rest to your imagination
Early on in the story, Lou’s ambition is seemingly misguided and without any clear direction, as he spouts off corporate self-help jargon trying to leverage himself among other people. He appears to be caught in a narcissistic fantasy world while hermetically teaching himself online and as a means of survival, pawns the occasional stolen bike during the day. At nighttime, we see the darker side of Lou’s personality near the forefront, one looks to exploit any opportunity, such as snatching and selling copper wire, chain-link fencing and manhole covers to a local scrap yard for quick cash.
Even though Lou is a thief, he attempts to get a job at the scrap yard, unconcerned that his small-time criminal operation would effect his chances of getting hired. We find out that self-preservation is paramount in Lou’s world, even if things are dangerous, ugly and without morality.
IMAGE: ‘ Bleak dreams’ – Lou attempts to get a position at the scrap yard even though the owner knows he’s an unemployed nighttime thief. (Photo link the2shot.files.wordpress.com)
IMAGE: ‘ Bleak dreams’ – Lou attempts to get a position at the scrap yard even though the owner knows he’s an unemployed nighttime thief. (Photo link the2shot.files.wordpress.com)
The metamorphosis of Lou Bloom
A pivotal moment occurs when Lou stumbles upon a car crash along the side of the highway and stops. This is a particularly symbolic sequence in the film, as the crash seems to signify a clear shift in Lou’s psychological state, as he sees two police officers pulling an injured woman from the burning wreckage, while two freelance cameramen are shooting footage of the horrific scene. The burning car scene could have an underlying meaning, perhaps symbolizing the Phoenix motif and all its occult associations. This idea is strengthened when we see that Lou’s dark persona and sociopathic behavior is no longer partially dormant, he becomes exhilarated by the rush of the accident.
MAGE: ‘Gnostic duality‘  - Ouroboros emblem (Photo link ourfunnyplanet.com)
MAGE: ‘Gnostic duality‘ – Ouroboros emblem (Photo link ourfunnyplanet.com)
One might see the gnostic perspective of psychologist Carl Jung at work in Nightcrawler, particularly his view on the Ouroboros symbol, which is represented in the image of a snake eating its own tail, perpetually in a death and rebirth cycle of individuation. Here is a short excerpt from Jung’s Collected Works:
This ‘feed-back’ process is at the same time a symbol of immortality, since it is said of the Ouroboros that he slays himself and brings himself to life, fertilizes himself and gives birth to himself.
When we consider Lou’s portal into the dark, the American author, novelist, philosopher and well known alternative researcher, Robert Anton Wilson comes to mind, with his article “Don’t Be Afraid of Black Magick,” and the section called the Psychic Assault:

“The so-called “black magician” is a “new brain” hominid fear-merchant who has somewhere learned that there are more powerful intimidations than physical assault. The dimensions of horror, terror and mindwarp are discovered. You can scare more people, and acquire greater power, by the exploitation of psychic assault. When a human’s “mind” or reality-construct is threatened, the person virtually ceases to exist as human, and regresses to the status of a terrorized mammal in a trap.”
Wilson’s concept of ‘fear-merchants’ and ‘psychic terrorists’ can certainly be seen within the dark film frames of Nightcrawler, as Lou is a designer of reality not only for himself but for anyone who gets sucked into his abyss. We quickly realize that Lou preys on those who are intellectually submissive and like a cold corporate CEO; he looks to take advantage of the weak.
Lou’s psychological transformation is also strangely akin to that of Gregor Samsa, the main character of Franz Kafka‘s seminal work The Metamorphosis. While many take Gregor’s transformation into a grotesque insect as a faultless anomaly, it was most likely intended be viewed as Gergor disconnecting from reality, which ultimately lead to his dissociative behavior. Some critics have suggested that Gergor’s debt and family obligations were perhaps self-motivated, purposely keeping his family from being able to take care of themselves. This is where we can draw a connection to Lou of Nightcrawler, as we see him becoming emotionally withdrawn and absent from reality, displaying a parasitic-like pursuit for money and acknowledgement. Although Gregor’s story is very different from that of lou’s, both men seemed to be convinced of their new role in society - regardless of the cost to those around them.

IMAGE: ‘Transformed and transfixed’ – Gregor Samsa undergoes a psychological metamorphosis, while Lou Bloom becomes a Nightcrawler. ( Photo link 2.bp.blogspot.com)
IMAGE: ‘Transformed and transfixed’ – Gregor Samsa undergoes a psychological metamorphosis, while Lou Bloom becomes a Nightcrawler. ( Photo link 2.bp.blogspot.com)
While continuing to examine the burning car scene, we see that Lou was mesmerized by Joe Loder’s (Bill Paxton) mobile video operation. Joe is a brash ‘nightcrawling’ freelance video veteran, with a rather cagey burned-out bravado and his chance roadside meeting with Lou foreshadows a future rivalry between the pair. Prior to jetting off to film the next twisted death scene, Joe sheds light on the bloody business of television news, giving Lou the most basic and brutal advice about selling the misfortune of others, when he exclaims, “If it bleeds, it leads.” This becomes a mantra that echoes throughout the film, conjuring the media’s obsession with selling hyped-up violent imagery, death and fear. Although Lou’s job prospects are bleak, having been turned down for a second time by Joe, the idea of being a self-made ‘nightcrawler’ has Lou hooked, as the next scene sees him trading in a stolen bike for a cheap police scanner and an old Radioshack Realistic camcorder.
IMAGE: ‘Burning inside’ – Bill Paxton ( on the left) plays Joe Loder, a longtime video stringer looking to corner the market on selling death. Lou Bloom (on the right) is transformed by Joe’s ‘ambulance chasing’ video career. (Photo link saidmagazine.files.wordpress.com)
IMAGE: ‘Burning inside’ – Bill Paxton ( on the left) plays Joe Loder, a longtime video stringer looking to corner the market on selling death. Lou Bloom (on the right) is transformed by Joe’s ‘ambulance chasing’ video career. (Photo link saidmagazine.files.wordpress.com)
Media ‘reality’ becomes a stage
Over the past few months, we saw a very poorly produced fear campaign coming out of mainstream media concerning Ebola and it wouldn’t be an understatement to say that the public witnessed an all out assault on their perception of reality, as we mentioned here at 21Wire:
“The media build-up around Ebola seemed poised to eclipse the Anthrax scare, SARS, Avian/Bird Flu and Swine Flu combined, as the bio-world’s version of 9/11 – a virtual reboot of the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918.”
Here’s an example of media manipulation that we covered here at 21WIRE during the largely media driven crisis…
IMAGE: ‘Mass deception’ – Where told this an image of  Amber Vinson being transported to Atlanta for the same Ebola treatment as aid worker’s Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol. Do you notice anything strange about this photograph? Why is there someone without protective gear anywhere near the Ebola infected patient? (Photo link dailymail.co.uk)
IMAGE: ‘Mass deception’ – Where told this an image of Amber Vinson being transported to Atlanta for the same Ebola treatment as aid worker’s Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol. Do you notice anything strange about this photograph? Why is there someone without protective gear anywhere near the Ebola infected patient? (Photo link dailymail.co.uk)
The idea of staged crime scenes has reached a critical mass in today’s world, with several noteworthy events in 2014 alone. We’ve seen the apparent ‘disappearance’ of MH370, the fake ISIS executions, and other psyops such as the Isla Vista rampage to name a few. In fact there have has been a series of surreal and unreal news stories since the Smith-Mundt Act was effectively rendered obsolete by US lawmakers on July 2nd 2013, as reported by RT news last year:
“Until earlier this month, a longstanding federal law made it illegal for the US Department of State to share domestically the internally-authored news stories sent to American-operated outlets broadcasting around the globe. All of that changed effective July 2, when the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) was given permission to let US households tune-in to hear the type of programming that has previously only been allowed in outside nations.”
The Smith-Mundt Act has ensured for decades that government-made media intended for foreign audiences doesn’t end up on radio networks broadcast within the US. An amendment tagged onto the National Defense Authorization Act removed that prohibition this year.”
The American public will no doubt see an unprecedented increase in propaganda on into the future, despite the tagline of news agencies claiming network transparency over the new provision.
In the in the narrative of Nightcrawler, we see the media trickery that is often reflected in real life, and as a viewer, we get an inside glimpse at the level of distortion that exists within the strategic planning rooms of media outlets. Some reviewer’s have suggested that Nightcrawler is partly a black parody on media’s perceived stranglehold on reality but an astute observer might see the film’s content as confirmation that there is a ploy to keep the masses conditioned about information.
IMAGE: ‘Framing reality’ – Lou seen here trying to get footage of a carjacking victim. (dinobone.files.wordpress.com)
IMAGE: ‘Framing reality’ – Lou seen here trying to get footage of a carjacking victim. (dinobone.files.wordpress.com)
Rebirth, ritual madness & the occult
When considering a more in-depth analysis, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is considered, as we see a stark reality depicted in Nightcrawler, one which appears to masquerade as black satire but is far too buried in the savage nature of man to be funny. Here is an excerpt from Terry Eagleton‘s book Sweet Violence: The Idea Of The Tragicthat provides a lens with which to view the modern world referenced from Nietzche, as it relates to Lou Bloom’s ambition to become a nightcrawler:
As the high priest of Dionysus, Nietzche finds in tragic art a frenzy, chaos, excess and horror which takes pleasure in both creating and destroying – the domain, we might say, of Thanatos or the death drive, where we can reap sadistic jouissance from the misery and carnage secure in the consolation that this eternal flux of strife, savagery and rebirth will never pass away.”
It appears that Lou’s renewed sense of purpose following the crash scene evokes a Dionysian influence within his own reality, despite Lou’s glazed over demeanor on the surface. We could also see the car crash as some kind of modern day occult initiation perhaps, something which is partially described in this section from Patrick Harpur‘s book Daimonic Reality:
“The essence of initiation… is death and rebirth. In puberty rites, the childish self dies that the adult self may live; the shaman is dismembered and resurrected, dying to his old bodily perspective and rising again with a new daimonic perspective. Many tribal peoples sanction ‘secret societies’ whose purpose is to initiate adults into the mystery of death and rebirth via rites which are the same kind as, but less extreme in degree than shamanic initiation.”
Its hard to know if Nightcrawler’s writer-director Dan Gilroy, intended on having such ancient themes run through his film, but given his past screenplay pedigree, with such credits asFreejack and The Bourne Legacy we should consider that the possibility is there.
The overall premise of the a dystopian sci-fi Freejack, we see the controlling elite are seeking immortality by hiring mercenaries called “bonejackers.” The hired bonejackers, travel through time stealing bodies from the past to extend the lives of their paymasters from the future. Dark transhumanist concepts are also abound in the feature film, The Bourne Legacy, along with references to mind control, as examined here by researcher and writer Jay Dyer from Jay’s Analysis:
“In Bourne Legacy, we are introduced to the latest (public info) on nanotech and bio-engineering–particularly the attempt to create a supersoldier. We have thus passed the realm of mere MKULTRA mind-controlled assassins.  We have now passed into the realm of bio-engineered nano-soldiers that have their minds wiped of the past, and are reprogrammed to do the bidding of the geo-political chess masters who handle them.”
On the surafce, Nightcrawler’s narrative seemingly has little to do with the science fiction based yearnings of elite handlers shaping the human condition through a technocratic process. However, we see that Gilroy is aware of such manipulation and shaping of perspective, which no doubt could have influenced the stripped down seedy thriller Nightcrawler. It could also be said that Lou appears to display a subterranean Darwin-like outlook in Nightcrawler, with all of the underlying eugenics based associations, which would link to its modern day counterpart transhumanism.

IMAGE: ‘Shooting in the dark’ – an inexperienced Lou learning the ropes as a video stringer. ( Photo link wn.de)
IMAGE: ‘Shooting in the dark’ – an inexperienced Lou learning the ropes as a video stringer. ( Photo link wn.de)
The Eye of the lens

After Lou scraps together his makeshift nighttime video operation, we find he’s quickly submerged within the basement of T.V. news, selling exclusive footage of shootings, carjackings and residential crime to the local news station KWLA. This is where Lou meets Nina Romina (Rene Russo) the head producer at the currently low-rated news outfit KWLA.
Nina appears as washed up former primetime reporter going contract to contract with whatever failing news station will give her the best deal in the twilight of her career. Nina seems cut from the dark heart of Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) from the film Network, where ethical concerns have no place when it comes to selling a news story.
Lou’s seedy chop-shop videos arrive just in time for ‘sweeps’ programming, helping to boost Nina’s image as a capable producer, as she looks to rise from the graveyard of her broadcasting career. This is where we see Nina as Lou’s macabre muse and as their relationship in the film evolves, they become a darker echo of the Hollywood classic, The Graduate. We see this play out when Nina encourages the younger Lou to chase after more graphic material, when she coldly turns to him says, think of our newscast as a screaming woman running down the street with her throat cut.” 
IMAGE: ‘All Consuming’ – Lou seen here at a crime scene with fellow stringer Joe, sizing up his camera equipment. This scene foreshadows an accident orchestrated by Lou, where Joe becomes the victim; with Lou filming. ( Photo link the2shot.files.wordpress.com)
IMAGE: ‘All Consuming’ – Lou seen here at a crime scene with fellow stringer Joe, sizing up his camera equipment. This scene foreshadows an accident orchestrated by Lou, where Joe becomes the victim; with Lou filming. ( Photo link the2shot.files.wordpress.com)
Oedipus, fragments of death & manipulation
As Lou emerges as a full-fledged nightcrawler, we see him hire an intern named Rick (Riz Ahmed) who helps him GPS his way to the next violent scene. Rick is down on his luck, struggling to find employment and out of desperation takes the low paying wage to work alongside Lou. Rick becomes unknowing accomplice/protege to Lou’s pursuit of grisly footage.
With the nightcrawling competition becoming stiff between Lou and Joe, we see that Lou takes matters into his own hands, as he dismantles Joe’s van, which later causes a serious accident. The following scene has Lou arriving to shoot an accident scene with Joe being pulled away on a stretcher. The orchestration of Joe’s accident is another critical moment in the film, as it displays Lou’s slippery decent into darkness when he seemingly takes Joe out of the stringer business for good.
As business starts to boom for Lou and the payouts from the news network KWLA becoming larger, he exchanges his beat up old car for a blood red Dodge Challenger, along with an upgrade in cameras and scanning equipment, we then see the morally bankrupt Lou blazing through the neon lit streets of L.A. with his partner Rick, willing to do anything to get the most brutal footage – even if it means altering a crime scene.
In the aftermath of a particularly horrific car accident, Lou rearranges a dead body by dragging it between the car wreckage so that he can frame the ‘perfect’ shot. While Lou’s vile nature continues to grow in Nightcrawler, the film quietly attempts to paint him as an independent or even alternative media person. I believe that this was Hollywood’s way of distorting the narrative with regards to independent media and the fact is, Lou Bloom would be more likely to rise through the ranks of a sensational, entertainment based mainstream media organization then that of a grassroots media operation seeking the truth.
The underlying subtext of Nightcrawler appears to display an effort by Hollywood to defame independent media in today’s world, a subliminal snow job on citizen journalists, researchers and alternative thinkers alike.
Lou would be MSM gold – as he was more interested in manipulating the viewer than being truthful. 
IMAGE: ‘The birth of tragedy’ – Oedipus Tyrannus ( Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles first performed c. 429 BC. (Photo link contentreserve.com)
IMAGE: ‘The birth of tragedy’ – Oedipus Tyrannus ( Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles first performed c. 429 BC. (Photo link contentreserve.com)
In a metaphorical sense, we can view Joe and Nina as being the pseudo-parents of Lou as the Oedipus Complex  appeared to be at play in the film as well. The concept has been used in different forms of media for centuries and was derived fromSophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus. Oedipus learns he has been cursed to kill his father and marry his mother. As Lou discards of Joe, he is free to pursue Nina and all that she has to offer. Disgustingly, Lou blackmails Nina not only for money and notoriety but also for sex. This is where we can draw a connection to the Oedipus concept, as both Joe and Nina played a role in the creation of Lou the nightcrawler. Here we see that Gilroy has intentionally created a twisted fragile reality, representing the final stages of Lou’s development, one with Oedipal implications.
IMAGE: ‘It looks so real on T.V.’ –  Lou here with Nina at KWLA in front of a fake backdrop of L.A. ( Photo link soundonsight.org)
IMAGE: ‘It looks so real on T.V.’ – Lou here with Nina at KWLA in front of a fake backdrop of L.A. ( Photo link soundonsight.org)
Stark comparisons sell death
Many critics have stated that Nightcrawler is reminiscent of such films as American Pyscho, Taxi Driver and Network, while it’s true there are strong references to each of those films, there are also other films that also could have also provided subliminal inspiration for Nightcrawler. Even though the gritty feel and some of the psychological aspects of all of the films mentioned are very similar to Nightcrawler, we observe Lou Bloom as someone who is cold and without redemption, appearing as an empty mimic fascinated by the personal hell of others.
We see other films of note that are certainly seen referenced  within Nightcrawler as well, such as the 1951 classic, Ace in the Hole, with Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas) as a wise-cracking drunk reporter who manipulates the rescue of a man trapped in a cave for a bigger story, which leads to the man’s death. This scene is a close echo to one featuring Lou and Rick at the end of Nightcrawler. Stylistically, Nightcrawler also conjures images from the 2011 hyper-violent neo-noir crime thriller Drive, starring Ryan Gosling, as the unnamed lead character who is a movie double/stunt-driver trapped in the pitfalls of Hollywood’s underground world.
IMAGE: ‘Mirror people’ – the unraveling of Lou Bloom. (basementrejects.com)
IMAGE: ‘Mirror people’ – the unraveling of Lou Bloom. (basementrejects.com)
FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
Additionally, there are even more exploitative and scandalous films that remind me of the violence displayed in Nightcrawler…
In the 1978 mondo film, The Original Faces of Death, we see a campy and seedy display that seemed to effortlessly tap into the depraved side of American culture, grossing $35 million worldwide. In many ways, Faces of Death could be seen as the forerunner of voyeuristic based programming we see on television today, even though reality T.V. shows have yet to be as graphic.
While much of the footage in Faces of Death had been faked, it ushered in a whole new realm of crime scene rubbernecking and the in 90′s the Traces of Death films, had become a mixture of both real and fake death scenes for audiences to consume. The film Traces of Death, included the shocking televised suicide of Pennsylvania State Senator and Treasurer, Robert Budd Dwyer during a press conference which he had initially held to offer his resignation following what he believed to be an unjust bribery conviction. The footage is just as brutal, sad and shocking 27 years later, as all of it was captured on live T.V. The Faces/Traces films although bizarre and surreal, point to the kind of violence we see depicted in Nightcrawler.
Here’s a clip from the seminal film Network, with lead character Howard Beale (Peter Finch) shaking the very foundation of media in the information age. Many critics tout this film as a precursor to Nightcrawler…

Network - Mad as Hell Scene

It should be stated that while both Network and Nightcrawler explore some of the same concepts within media, Howard, the lead role in Network, was a very different character and was bent on exposing the hidden agenda of the ruling class, as well as their foothold on mouthpieces at news agencies, which ultimately led to his demise. Lou should be seen as  a leech on a host – as he offers no such truth or reality.
Here’s another incredible scene from Network that describes the ‘primal forces’ at work between big business and media…

Network (1976) - Ned Beatty - "The World is a Business"

IMAGE: ‘Vile video’ – Lou enters a crime scene to shoot footage of those in need of  medical help. ( Photo link weekendnotes.com)
IMAGE: ‘Vile video’ – Lou enters a crime scene to shoot footage of those in need of medical help. ( Photo link weekendnotes.com)
The media feeds off your psyche
The culmination of Lou’s nighttime video efforts reach their zenith when he happens upon a brutal home invasion in an affluent neighborhood with Rick. Lou snaps into action after hearing what sounded like gunfire coming from the nearby wooded residence. When Lou hides close to the house, we see two gunmen leaving the scene. However, the ambitious stringer Lou manages to get the assailants license plate captured on film prior to them fleeing. We then see Lou entering the home of those victimized during the raid, the scene is both chilling and darkly surreal. Instead of calling the police, Lou shoots footage of each of the victims as they lay dying in their own home, slowly going from room to room with his camera in hand following the trail of blood. As an audience, we’re shocked by the quiet horror on display and strangely, the act of filming the grisly crime feels like more of a violation than the crime itself. All in all, the scene has a decidedly David Lynch feel, in particular referencing the atmospheric and voyeuristic 1997 filmLost Highway.
Lou quickly cuts the invasion footage for KWLA, demanding even more money and more from Nina. Lou withholds the vehicle identification clips from KWLA and from the police. This where we see Lou orchestrating the release of certain footage, so that he can film a climatic ending involving both assailants involved in the invasion. When Lou’s partner Rick questions him on the ethical nature of this, he designs a final outcome for Rick as well. When watching Nightcrawler, we are witness to crimes that are without any resolution, a recurring theme throughout entire film.
Lou’s totem animal could be seen is a Jackal, as a gaunt survivor scavenging between the living and the dead.
In October, the Guardian revealed a bit of lore surrounding L.A.’s freelance video stringer scene:
“Nightcrawler may function as an introduction to a seamy, unfamiliar world but LA has been the terrain of freelance news cameramen since 1979. That was when former private detective Bob Tur began the Los Angeles News Service and dedicated himself to capturing the fires, floods, shootings, stabbings and car crashes that took place during the hours and in the areas camera crews employed by local news shows avoided. By 1985, LANS was such a success – it sold more than 3,500 stories to the local stations, made a profit of $1.6m, and had 22 regular employees – that several ambitious former employees broke away and formed rival agencies. Huddled in anonymous white vans parked in petrol stations, the opposing agencies were so hungry to be the first to film the aftermath of a drive-by or suicide, shoving matches between camera crews would frequently ignite into full-on brawls while the supposed object of their competition lay ignored nearby in a pool of blood.
Watch the Nightcrawler trailer below…

Nightcrawler TRAILER 1 (2014) - Jake Gyllenhaal Crime Drama HD

Changing the Business Model: Building the sponsorship base




I LOVE the tour, but cycling is in SERIOUS trouble if they don't come up wit an better biz model ? what other sport has watching it ...almost fucking FREE  huh  , hey France maybe someday our "tour' ( Cali~for~nie)  will be as big as ....le tour !  Lol  we got a great "fan model"  to try & copy ???  :0 yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!!!

Sponsorship in pro cycling is mostly centered around the Tour de France. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
Editor’s note: VeloNews contributor Steve Maxwell and his TheOuterLine.com partner Joe Harris are publishing a multi-part series of articles about how to improve the sport of cycling’s business foundation. This is an excerpt from the second article.
One of cycling’s greatest attractions for fans is that it’s basically free to watch. The flip side is that, relative to other sports, there is much greater pressure on event organizers and teams to find external commercial sponsors to provide the financial foundation for the sport. And although there is an urgent need to diversify the sources of revenue in the sport, the fact is that pro cycling — by its very nature — will always be heavily dependent upon commercial sponsorship. Viewed from this perspective, one of the most pressing issues faced by the sport is the need to attract and retain more committed and global long-term sponsors.
The real problem (as pointed out in the first article in this series) is an underlying atmosphere of instability that affects everything and everyone in the sport, because the requisite sponsorship and financial backing are always in flux. Team managers are always on the hunt for new sponsors. Race organizers are trapped in revolving budget shortfalls. Marginal teams come and go. Riders and other employees worry constantly about whether their team is about to collapse — should they be looking for employment elsewhere? There is no sense of security. This continuous turnover, uncertainty, and sense of financial foreboding has a very negative impact on the sport — and it must be addressed.
Sports sponsors are after opportunities that will give their brand wide exposure, but they obviously steer away from options they fear could turn into liabilities. In this regard, pro cycling is at a distinct disadvantage. Doping scandals have overshadowed the sport for so long that it has developed a poor public image — with the general public, but also with much of the potential sponsor base. As Bob Stapleton, chief of the former HTC High Road team, and now chairman of USA Cycling, says, “You can’t talk about cycling sponsorship without confronting the doping issue.”
Because of this historical legacy, “cycling can look like a risky bet,” says Slipstream team owner Doug Ellis, especially vis-à-vis other sports. No one wants their name and brand to get bogged down in a doping scandal, and no company, even today, should enter the pro cycling market without directly confronting this issue and deciding how to deal with the risks.
Although it’s impossible to know what the real impact of doping has been, it is certain that there are many potential sponsors out there who fear that associating their name with pro cycling may hurt rather than help their brand image and customer awareness. Because of this, cycling has had to adapt to continuously high sponsor turnover — with new firms coming in and out of the sport almost every year. Despite recent and hopeful progress in this regard, numerous key sponsors continue to pull out of the business — Belkin, Liquigas and RadioShack to name just a few.
Beyond this primary issue of changing and overcoming its historical image, there are also a number of secondary challenges in promoting pro cycling sponsorship.
First, it is very difficult to measure and document the value of a sponsorship investment. Accurately measuring the benefit and economic value of any sports sponsorship is at best an inexact science, but more sophisticated metrics and means of evaluating the real financial returns would be invaluable in attracting cautious potential sponsors. One recent study estimated a six-to-one financial return on cycling sponsorship investments — a claim which was briefly bandied about by various parties who wanted to agree with the conclusion, such as the UCI and sponsor-hungry ProTeams. Unfortunately, however, these studies are often based upon very simplistic value calculations or unverifiable assumptions — making it difficult to judge their accuracy or conclusions. Many sponsors tend to fall back on what is easy to measure — like the number of logo or signage “views,” often measured as the number of seconds the logo is in view on television — rather than what may be important to measure, such as consumer recognition of the sponsors’ product, and whether or not the consumer trusts the sponsor.
Second, the visibility and potential revenue-generating capability of pro cycling is overwhelmingly focused on a single event — the Tour de France. Getting selected for the Tour is a huge consideration for existing or potential sponsors, and unfortunately, the system for selection has historically been somewhat opaque. The sport desperately needs to diversify its calendar and logically organize its structure (to be discussed in later article in this series) in order to spread the wealth around a bit better. Here again, the sport is heavily dependent upon the decisions and strategies of ASO to move it in a positive direction for overall growth — not just to consolidate and preserve its current lock on key events.
And even with key sponsors, many teams don’t cover all of their expenses. In many cases, there is a wealthy individual owner behind the scenes absorbing at least some financial losses incurred by the team. This has led to a growing disparity or “income gap” within the ranks of the teams on the WorldTour — where some teams struggle to survive while others are propped up by the likes of cycling patrons like Andy Rihs or Oleg Tinkov. This allows some teams to survive over the short-term, but it’s clearly not a sustainable long-term financial model; being a loss-leader rarely leads to market success. Moreover, when patrons pull out, these teams often collapse.
Finally, cycling events are just as dependent as teams are upon sponsorship arrangements and wealthy backers to survive — particularly in the United States. All three of the top races in the U.S. are essentially underwritten by wealthy individuals or companies — in addition to name sponsors. Event organizers face most of the same challenges that bedevil individual teams, and sometimes actually find themselves competing with their constituent teams for the same sources of scarce sponsor dollars.
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TEMPORAL CLOAKING PROBLEM SOLVED… AND MORE HIGH OCTANE SPECULATION ON ALL THAT MISSING HYPER-INFLATION

Many regulars here shared this article, and it grabbed my attention not only because of the inherent significance of its contents, but because of a dilemma that I have been wrestling with over the past few months and years. Indeed, today’s “high octane speculation” goes far beyond those parameters, and might best be qualified as “totally wackadoodle” speculation. But back to that in a moment.
Consider first this article about temporal cloaking – a subject we’ve talked about before on this website – and a recently discovered “solution” to some of its inherent problems:
Time cloak used to hide messages in laser light
In other words, not only have technicians and scientists been able to remove information from the temporal stream, they are now able to recover it, provided they know the right frequency by which to do so:
“Last year, a team at Purdue University in Indiana built a cloak that could transfer hidden data at 1.5 gigabits a second, fast enough to make it theoretically useful for real communication. The only thing was, the message was hidden so well that no one could actually read it. That problem has now been solved.
“‘With this new device, we don’t just limit ourselves to thinking about cloaks as a way of preventing somebody from getting information, but also as a way to enable communication,’ says Joseph Lukens, an electrical engineer at Purdue. ‘One guy sees nothing, the other guy sees everything.’
“Lukens and his colleagues created two different communications channels using lasers tuned to two different frequencies. One is a regular frequency and the other is a time-cloaked channel that remains hidden unless you know it’s there. Photons from each laser traveled along the same fibre, but the intended recipient just needs to tune in to the right channel to reveal the secret information.”
Now for regulars here, I’ve been saying for quite some time that any implicit ability to engineer the fabric of (observable) space-time on the laboratory bench gives a potentially cosmic capability for destruction. But alternatively, it also gives a potential for cosmic re-engineering of reality at the most fundamental level, that of observed information. In effect, what the Purdue experiments imply is two levels of reality: the “matrix” reality of the everyday world you and I live in, and a hidden reality accessible to the “sysadmins” with the requisite keycode or frequency to tap into “temporally veiled information.”
One can easily extrapolate where this might go: information could possibly be temporally cloaked until some time in the future, when it could be unlocked or accessed only at that time…
…like an old-fashioned time lock on a bank vault.
Now imagine, for a moment, this type of technology applied to international and/or domestic financial clearing. Have some “bad paper” on the books that you need to shred? Why not “shred” it in the most effective way possible, via some sort of temporal cloaking, with the information – in this case in the form of trillions or quadrillions of dollars of electronic liquidity – only accessible to those with the right frequency, to be applied at the right time… ?
Why am I bothering you with all of this? Well recall, over the past several years, like many others I have wondered why all the predictions of hyper-inflation and the collapse of the dollar that we’ve heard the vast majority of conventionally-minded financial analysts making since Nixon took the USA off the Bretton-Woods agreement, have never occurred? Under normal circumstances, such predictions would have caused any scientist to go back and check the assumptions of his model. But neither has happened, neither the dollar-collapsing hyper-inflation, nor the re-examination of the “conventional” models of economics (which seem stuck in some Newtonian-like equivalent of “financial mechanics”, unable to enter the age of “quantum economics”). Lots of current continues to be put into the circuit, but the hyper-inflation has yet to show up on the load end, a problem of analysis magnified many times over with all the QE (“quantitative easing” is the euphemism) undertaken in recent years. This failure has led me and a few others(Catherine Austin Fitts to name but one) to hypothesize that the money is in fact going “elsewhere,” and we have speculated that it may be going off world in some form of trade or tribute.
But what if “somewhere” is, in fact, “somewhen”? Admittedly, this is speculation of such a “high octane” nature as to be “totally wackadoodle”.  It does, however, have a certain simplistic elegance to it, for after all, if all debt-based fiat currency is a borrowing in the present from the future, against a principle that can under such circumstances never be repaid (at least in the present), then the way to “balance the books” is to shift all that liquidity to the future (where it will presumably be needed). Perhaps it is more than just coincidental that all those physics graduates of the 1970s and 1980s found themselves in the world of finance as “quants,” designing the high frequency trading algorithms that employed their mathematical models from quantum mechanics. Perhaps one is looking at a bit of quantum mechanical financial alchemy, where one bit of information can not only be present at two different places at the same time, but in two different times at the same place, a kind of financial time machine. After all, delta t functions have as much presence in the mathematics of finance, as they do in physics… It does make one wonder.