"New Age teaches that Hebrews are the descendants of aliens from another planet 4000 years ago. The Jews will rebuild the Temple on the ruins of the Dome of the Rock on Temple Mount just as described in Ezekiel 40-48. The US dollar will collapse just as it was designed to do cause it's nothing more than a pyramid scheme, causing the world to establish one currency because all currencies are tied to the dollar and the Federal Reserve, and unite as one global government divided into 10 states"
Someone added that quote, below this particular video, to no surprise, because NewAge is Madame Blavatsky's "New Thought" the Nazi's "New Man" was trippin' on (Some NewAgers know it, but most NewAgers don't - which is why blacks are into it - which blows my mind: all they'd had to do, to make it more relevant to what's happening today, would've been to change the Bible verse to Ezekiel 25:17, but, I ask too much).
Man, I swim in this shit, but - for me it's impossible not to - as I'm watching the rest of 'em DROWNING in it. And I don't know which is worse. BEING A NEWAGE IDIOT DON'T HAMPER ANYBODY'S SOCIAL LIFE. Why would it? They're surrounded by idiots. So they got THAT going for 'em.Meanwhile,I'm limited to chit-chat at the supermarket, and that's it. Then I got to get away from people - fast - before something bad happens, like they ask my "sign" or intimate "karma" is at work in our lives.
Once that happens, I'll have the smallest social circle in America.
Leadership? What does it mean? It's hard to say nowadays - it's obviously got something to do with education,and nothing to do with ethics, or the imperative of alleviating black poverty - especially considering the examples so many are associated with:
That's California, where I was told (after I'd lived there for 23 years) everything was - as they say - "hunky-dory". But how about Texas? That great example California's always being compared to by conservatives? They've got a bunch of morons, too, capable of investing in pyramid schemes, initiated by a Christian scam artist who claimed to have found Noah's Ark:
Latinos are upset because they never thought a man of his integrity would choose to work for a pyramid scheme:
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been named Senior Advisor to Herbalife's Chairman and CEO, Michael O. Johnson and the company's board of directors.
Obviously, cheating on his wife while in office wasn't clue enough,...
Well shake it up baby now (Shake it up bay-bay) Twist and shout (Twist and shout):
"After a few months of government-sponsored and media-promoted hysteria over guns, the mass roundup of toddlers and preteens wielding high capacity pointyfingers is hardly surprising.
Lefties are fond of lecturing (and writing books, and plays, and movies) about the famously dark days of McCarthyism, where right wing Bircher paranoiacs supposedly were looking for a 'Red under every bed.' I suppose to a certain extent they had a point, but the sum total impact of that brief 50's reign of terror seems to be that a couple of Hollywood writers lost screenplay deals.
Contrast that with our new age of left wing paranoia…"
Come on come on come on come on baby now (Come on bay-bay) Come on and work it on out (Work it on out) Oooooh!
HARTFORD — An attorney Friday compared the Women’s Gifting Table to Yale’s secret societies, while also taking aim at the government’s use of a grand jury to “force” people to talk during its investigation of the table.
Norm Pattis highlighted “sisterhood” and “empowerment” aspects of the table guidelines during the second day of a trial focusing on two leaders of the alleged pyramid scheme, as he and attorney Jonathan J. Einhorn continued pushing the “good faith” intent defense for their clients.
Both have said the defendants, Guilford residents Donna Bello and Jill Platt, cannot be found guilty of defrauding the IRS and gifting table members if they felt they filled out tax returns correctly and truly believed monetary exchanges between members were tax-free gifts, not investments. “
It’s not a crime to be misunderstood,” said Pattis, who represents Bello, and said table rules had a “Shirley McClain sensibility.”
Gifting table guidelines refer to a “journey” and “circulating the energy of giving and receiving.”
You know you twist your little girl (Twist little girl)
You know you twist so fine (Twist so fine):
But this feel-good spot can't hide the real truth.
The narrator dares you to think for yourself, make up your own mind, and defy critics who just don't understand. And the ad is definitely visually appealing. It has even been compared to Apple's 1997 "Think Different" campaign. However, even that can't make people forget some of Scientology's most bizarre factoids.
1. It was founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard who believed negative emotions were caused by things called Body Thetans and devised a way to get rid of them.
2. They believe we are ruled by a galactic, alien overlord named Xenu.
3. They require quiet or silent births. That means the mama-to-be must not utter a word.
4. The church insists members that live on their compounds can leave anytime they want, but "defectors" tell a different story. Those that once lived in Scientology compounds claim they had to drive cars through gates to escape and were then relentlessly pursued.
5. After leaving the religion, director Paul Haggis said, "I was in a cult for 34 years. Everyone else could see it. I don't know why I couldn't."
Come on and twist a little closer now (Twist a little closer)
And let me know that you're mine (Let me know you're mine) Oooooh!
One of the weirdest historical confluences you can imagine took place in Pasadena, California, in the 1940s. There, a darkly handsome young man and chemistry autodidact named Jack Parsons had just made a bundle of money by inventing solid rocket fuel and selling it to the military. He was part of a group of explosion-obsessed researchers at CalTech who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where recently the Martian Rovers were made. He was also a goddess-obsessed acolyte and generous financial supporter of the infamous Pagan leader, Aleister Crowley.
Parsons used his defense contract money to convert an old mansion into a group house whose residents included other Pagans, artists, scientists, and writers. One of his boarders was a charismatic science fiction author named L. Ron Hubbard, who became Parsons' greatest frenemy, participating in rituals of sex magic with the rocket scientist, sleeping with his girlfriend, and finally absconding with all his money. Here is the true story of how Scientology and JPL were both conceived by men under the sorcerer Crowley's mystical influence.
Well shake it up baby now (Shake it up bay-bay)
Twist and shout (Twist and shout),…
HARTFORD — An attorney Friday compared the Women’s Gifting Table to Yale’s secret societies, while also taking aim at the government’s use of a grand jury to “force” people to talk during its investigation of the table.
Norm Pattis highlighted “sisterhood” and “empowerment” aspects of the table guidelines during the second day of a trial focusing on two leaders of the alleged pyramid scheme, as he and attorney Jonathan J. Einhorn continued pushing the “good faith” intent defense for their clients.
Both have said the defendants, Guilford residents Donna Bello and Jill Platt, cannot be found guilty of defrauding the IRS and gifting table members if they felt they filled out tax returns correctly and truly believed monetary exchanges between members were tax-free gifts, not investments.
“It’s not a crime to be misunderstood,” said Pattis, who represents Bello, and said table rules had a “Shirley McClain sensibility.”
Another side of Shirley MacLaine has emerged in a new book.
Her daughter Sachi Parker says that during a bizarre episode in the 1970s, Shirley was all for her losing her virginity.
In a shocking memoir released this weekend in America, Lucky Me: My Life With – And Without – My Mom, Sachi says that the 78-year-old actress took little interest in her life until she was 17.
Then, she and her boyfriend, Brad, were invited to the star’s California beachfront flat where she claims she met Shirley’s sex therapist friends, Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen.
Sachi says Phyllis told her mother: ‘It would be a fabulous opportunity for Sachi, to have her first introduction to sex with all of us here as a support group. We could talk about it afterwards and validate her feelings.’
As Sachi flushed with embarrassment, she says her mother declared: ‘I think it’s a wonderful idea. We’re all here to help you, sweetheart.’
Now 56, Sachi says that helpless to oppose the three ‘powerful’ adults, she ‘felt like Mia Farrow surrounded by the satanists in Rosemary’s Baby’ and they watched as she and Brad left for the bedroom.
Though I live for moments like this, we've been down this road too many times before. Let me guess:
"Adam LeBor’s excellent book, written with perfect restraint, explores how it came to pass that a staggering $65 billion imploded in December 2008 when Madoff admitted that his investment business was 'one big lie'.
As the title suggests, the book is not a biography of Madoff but a study of his 'cult'. LeBor posits that it helps to think of Madoff as a godlike figure whose sociopathic ability to deceive was outweighed only by the vanity of his victims.
Although he seems confounded by the depth of Madoff’s cruelty, LeBor has limited sympathy for the investors who were so keen to join the secretive, exclusive fund that promised returns of 10 to 12 per cent every year.
LeBor’s book neatly chronicles the many shades of complicity. It is stuffed with finely detailed tales of hubris and hypocrisy. Madoff’s acolytes, hoping to avoid more lawsuits, fall over themselves to declare how much money they too have lost.
On the surface, this might seem repetitive, but each story of disintegrated paper wealth brings its own ego to light. Not everyone had the privilege of being defrauded by Madoff."
-- Laura Slattery, from her review of The Believers: How America Fell for Bernard Madoff’s $65 billion Investment Scam, which is an excellent title - just like "cult" - or even The Irish Times.
"The multibillion investment fraudster Bernard Madoff did not stop at financial shenanigans, it seems. This weekend, to the list of those he cheated for decades can be added the name of his wife, Ruth.
For 20 years, Madoff had an affair with one of his investors, and the lady in question is about to tell her story. She is Sheryl Weinstein, a mother married for 37 years, whose book, Madoff's Other Secret: Love, Money, Bernie, and Me, will be published by St Martin's Press on 25 August. A promotional blurb on the Barnes & Noble website says: 'After a 20-year intimate relationship with Madoff – she lost it all. In Madoff's Other Secret, she tells her story. Filled with personal details, exclusive documents, and photographs, her account will reveal a Madoff nobody knew, and it will shock and surprise readers.'
An attorney for Madoff's wife, Ruth, said his client did not know about the 'alleged affair'. The lawyer, Peter Chavkin, said that the allegations were a powerful reminder to those who claim Mrs Madoff knew about her husband's $65bn (£39bn) fraud 'that there are some things that some spouses, however close they are, do not share with each other'.
In the book, Mrs Weinstein says she met Madoff, now serving 150 years in prison for defrauding investors, at a business meeting when she was chief financial officer for the charitable women's organisation Hadassah, where she had a role in investment decisions. The charity was not one of the losers from Madoff's Ponzi scheme, withdrawing far more money than it put in. But suggestions that Mrs Weinstein was tipped off by Bernie's pillow-talk would be wrong. She herself was a heavy personal loser in the fraud.
At Madoff's June sentencing, Mrs Weinstein was among investors urging a long prison sentence for the financier, who admitted ripping off investors over at least two decades. She said she viewed meeting him 21 years ago 'as perhaps the unluckiest day of my life'. Mrs Weinstein said that her investment losses had forced her to sell her Manhattan home, had devastated her, her husband of 37 years, her son, her parents, her in-laws and everyone who depended on them. She called Madoff "that terror, that monster, that horror, that beast".
In her correspondence with the court, Mrs Weinstein made no mention of the affair, though she did write, in a request to speak at sentencing, that she wanted to address Madoff and the court because she thought 'the personal connection may be more difficult for him to ignore'.
Her husband, Ron Weinstein, said in a June letter to the court that all the money the couple had saved was lost and their marriage was strained: 'My wife has been a basket case, and we are both very depressed.' During the late June sentencing hearing, Mrs Weinstein was among those urging that the fraudster be sent down for a long stretch.
Madoff's lawyer Ira Sorkin's only remark on the book was that he hoped the author "was more discreet with her investment obligations than she has allegedly been with her sex life".
The book has drawn fresh attention to Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organisation of America, which has said its principal investment with Madoff totalled about $33m, while another $7m had been entrusted to him after it was donated by a French backer in 1988. Hadassah did not return a telephone call for comment.
Stanley Epstein, a California lawyer married to a Hadassah member, said Hadassah's treasurer told him after Madoff's arrest in December that the organisation had cashed in between $120m and $130m from its Madoff accounts over the years. The profits could make the organisation a target for those seeking to recover money to be distributed to defrauded investors. Mr Epstein's wife, Harriet, said. 'The fact that this woman had an affair and was on the committee that made decisions about investments makes no sense. She obviously had a conflict of interest.'"
-- David Randall, once again exposing the damage of adultery - and why it's not a "private affair" - but something that affects everyone, because no one's The Independent.
"India's swine flu death toll on Thursday rose to 20, as thousands of schools, colleges and cinemas shut down in and around the country's financial capital Mumbai to combat the spread of infection.
The latest victim of the A(H1N1) virus was a 26-year-old woman in the southern city of Bangalore while an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old woman died in the western city of Pune, the Press Trust of India news agency said.
Pune, some 120 kilometres (75 miles) from Mumbai, has been the worst hit Indian city, with 12 deaths and a cluster of infections.
Two people have died in Mumbai and about 2,000 people have been confirmed to have the virus across the country, the health ministry said.
The deaths come as Indians prepare for a long weekend, with the popular Hindu festival of Krishna Janmashtmi on Friday and Independence Day celebrations on Saturday.
Krishna Janmashtmi, or Dahi Handi as it is called in Mumbai, typically brings hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets to mark the birth of the god Krishna and to watch spectacular human pyramid formations.
Mumbai is also scheduled to hold its annual gay pride march on Sunday."
Why is this such "great" news? Because, as it states here, here, and here, homeopathy is either a cure for swine flu, or it'll act to prevent it, and India (like France) is a major homeopathy proponent. Plus, the people saying this are NewAge doctors - medical professionals - not members of the Insane Clown Posse. You can trust 'em.
So, go - take your magic pills, pray to Krishna, ponder human pyramid schemes (!) and be sure to "mingle" - because all of your NewAge friends, in and out of medicine, have assured us everything will be just fine-and-dandy:
"I stupidly had this jazz band advertised on my Web site."
-- James Trabulse - a Frenchman running a Bernie Madoff-type Pyramid scheme in the San Francisco Bay Area - explaining why he was being investigated by the SEC, in an article for The San Francisco Chronicle.
"Reed Slatkin, co-founder of Earthlink Inc. and once a Scientology minister, was sentenced in 2003 to 14 years in prison for swindling investors out of about $240 million over 15 years. Groups affiliated with the Church of Scientology agreed to return millions received from his scheme."
-- The Associated Press, with a list of the largest Ponzi, or pyramid, schemes in history.
"I'm the biggest sucker who ever walked the face of the Earth."
-- Eric Roth, screenwriter, on losing all his retirement money (along with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg) in Bernard Madoff's $50-billion Ponzi scheme, in The Los Angeles Times.
Hey, NewAgers, see that quote? That's what you should've been saying a looonnngg time ago. And if you haven't yet, you will:
UPDATE: I've got to add that, just like my Aunt Alice, I've been consistently telling you guys you're stupid. But you don't believe it. Meanwhile, everywhere you look, things are falling apart - and it sure ain't guys like me in charge.
My foster mother, Johnnie Mae Hubert (who I've quoted before - "The Devil talks pretty" - regarding following gurus) used to say "a hard head makes a soft behind" and, I'm telling you, the Baby Boomers (and the kids they raised) have the unfortunate luck to be, both, the largest generation - with the hardest damn heads - ever seen in the history of the entire world. It's long past time for them to grow up, and - if they don't want to completely destroy where they live - "grow up" means getting out of the way and letting the truly knowledgeable people you can trust, who actually know what they're doing, do what needs to be done. Just get out of the way. Sit down. Shut up. Practice being humble - as you Buddhist types are always arrogantly admonishing others to do.
I know, I know - you have no idea who those "truly knowledgeable people you can trust" are, right? Here's a hint:
They're the ones who have been telling you you're stupid.
