John Oliver said no one ever comments on the murder of Japan's president by a cult, but I did just that, the day before he mentioned it:
Because that's how I roll. I also watched a debate on Israel, which Dennis Prager opened with an easily-debunked lie, despite thinking his every utterance is "perfect":
There, I noticed - if you put their dates in chronological order - you lerarn Israel's entire existence has relied on lies, American "cheating," and mass murder:
1946: self-proclaimed zionist "terrorists" bomb Palestine's King David Hotel, killing the British, Arabs, and Jews.
1948: every single new historian in Israel concludes that there was ethnic cleansing at the beginning of the creation of Israel. For instance, on April 9, 1948, Zionist paramilitaries attacked the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing at least 107 Palestinian Arab villagers, including women and children.
1967: One of the peace treaties had Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and especially Egypt, recognizing Israel, but Israel was supposed to give back the Sinai Peninsula and didn't. That's what led to the 1973 War
1972: The Palestinian Authority murdered all the members of the Israeli Olympic team in the Munich Olympics
1996: "A Clean Break: A New Strategy For Securing The Realm" is written by Richard Pearl and David Wormsear. This was written to Benjamin Netanyahu, and it was all about how regime change in Iraq will be in Israel's interest because then Netanyahu can break up the peace process
2000: Israel's acting foreign minister said if he was Arafat he'd have turned the Camp David deal down, too. Bill Clinton threw Arafat under the bus after the negotiations, but Arafat wanted to continue the negotiations. The Israelis said no and the Americans said no. What [Palestinians] were offered had Netanyahu (when he didn't realize he was being recorded) bragging about how much he fooled Bill Clinton because he put all these poison pills in the agreement and therefore they would never really get a state. One of the lead American negotiators, Robert Mali, said this was a fraud, we never really presented a real state to the Palestinians. Jimmy Carter said the same thing.
2001: Colin Powell told George W. Bush to do a two-state solution
2002: Benjamin Netanyahu encourages overthrowing Iran
2023: Hamas killed 34 kids on October 7th. Since then, Israel has killed 15,000 Palestinian kids. 25,000 women and children. They've killed more journalists than all other conflicts this year, combined. They've killed three times that amount of Humanitarian Aid workers.
I don't talk too often on the blog, because A) I think it's pompous, and B) I don't assume anybody is gonna understand (or care about) anything I say. As they used to say, I'm just 'too far gone.'
I guess, this is a test of that theory.
The U.S. government lied to its citizens, and the world, about wrecking the German economy by blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline. It's gotten Ukraine and its people blown to bits, and put us further in debt, over its NATO ambitions. And, it's been assisting in a genocide of the Palestinian people by Zionists - all things I'm against - as President Joe Biden, a millionaire, regularly interrupts my entertainments, to beg me for money, so "we can finish the job." How he assumes he roped me into all this, I will never know. That so many others endorse it, or passively go along with it, just tells me there's no reason for me to talk.
It's all a masquerade. Biden's being allowed to assumes he's Dean, and I'm Johnny, who just has to cope with whatever he does - drunk on power - in "a good year for apples."
Not so. I've never bought any of this, because I've seen through all of it. Just as I was 'black' in the early 90s, I was also 'woke' in the early 90s, as evidenced by a 1992 song I recorded called "Thank You," that featured a long sample of the late, great playwright August Wilson, specifically talking about "privilege." I spoke at the award-winning gay filmmaker Marlon Riggs' funeral. My boys also released a song against homophobia in 1992. So, when the concept of being 'woke' came back around in the 2020s, my first thought was amazement at how 'late' everybody else is. My next thought was - despite the constant stream of new hysterias - American culture is a slow-moving iceberg, that causes cataclismic damage whenever it finally meets reality head-on.
Just look at what it's done to Ben Shapiro, if you don't believe me: twisting that poor man into some kind of weird combination of Eddie Munster and a photo-negative Bobby Fischer.
Since 'woke' has re-emerged, life's mostly been a matter of protecting myself from flying "intellectual" debris, like Bill Maher's pontificating on the narrative developing around 'woke' - not the concept itself - which has been, both, frustrating and hilarious. I will remind you, again, of the frustrating part: back in the 90s, Bill Maher was the man who wouldn't let Christopher Hitchens explain to America that their beloved Bill Clinton is a rapist - basically, Maher's almost single-handedly responsible for us still having to endure the vile pronouncements of the murderously villainous conspiracy theorist, Hillary Clinton - but Bill Maher's being allowed to get away with criticizing 'woke'?
Isn't exposing walking contradictions, like Bill Maher, supposed to be why we have News programs? Instead, Maher's Real Time is considered the News program, proving the utter futility of anyone 'woke' talking, when we can see the barbarians are not at the gate: the gate is there to keep us in.
Professional critics, today, make their careers arguing gender, long after "Long Tall Sally" was released in 1955, by a "Tutti Frutti" embraced for wearing a pompadour, sequins, make-up, mascara, and fake eyelashes, to scream about s-e-x. This should give you some indication of how long they'll keep "debating" the ethics of our nation committing a genocide.
It's impossible to say anything to a world that just wants to hear affirmations. It's almost impossible to speak. It's almost impossible to have an urge to speak.
I don't know how anyone can be saved from a grinding disillusionment today, after reading stories like "Priest arrested for operating illegal Viagra trafficking operation from his home". With so much corruption, an outlook that's burnt around the edges just seems to come with the territory. Consider this statement on the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, one of Bill and Hillary Clinton's largest, and most successful contributions to American society, and the world:
The NCCIH has managed to spend more money on SCAM than any other institution in the world. The NCCIH has wasted precious funds on plenty of dubious studies; arguably, this is unethical. It has misappropriated its role from testing to validating SCAMs. And it has validated none.
Does anyone else recognize how easy it would be, to shut down the whole Clinton operation, if activists - instead of screraming about Gaza - would just press them on wacky NewAge scams? Not recognizing that fact shows how weak America's mainstream, and independent media are, as institutions, today. And it was the Clintons who weakened them. Or do you think Bill Clinton endorsing Theranos, in front of an adoring crowd of reporters, was an accident?
Bill Maher vehemently denied he and Sam Harris were duped by Hillary Clinton's RussiaGate AND that he and Sam Harris suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, when, it's quite obvious - in reality - they most certainly did and do.
IN THE PAST:
Bill Maher vehemently denied American meddling in the politics of the Middle East AND the deadly effects that meddling (and the lies about them) has had, when - in reality - America has bloody hands and (Hillary Clinton, as former Sec. of State) is up to her neck in it.
THE ORIGINAL SIN:
Bill Maher sided with the late Suzanne Somers to vehemently deny AND repeatedly refuse to allow the American people to hear the late Christopher Hitchens' evidence that former President Bill Clinton is a three-time rapist, when - in reality - Hitchens' evidence was solid.
Matt Taibbi and Racket News have reported the origin of Hillary's RussiaGate hoax - surprise: it was Hillary. She is who betrayed the President (by calling him "illegitimate" and a traitor), deceived the nation, confused our allies, and tricked the world - including Russia - causing pure chaos. Because the Press will, apparently, print anything she says.
“Within 24 hours of her concession speech,” the authors report, campaign manager Robby Mook and campaign chair John Podesta “assembled her communications team at the Brooklyn headquarters to engineer the case that the election wasn’t entirely on the up-and-up. For a couple of hours, with Shake Shack containers littering the room, they went over the script they would pitch to the press and the public. Already, Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument.”
That most reporters never really acted like it - since 2016 - is a nice reminder of the "eerie" hold on the Press that Christopher Hitchens mentioned to Charlie Rose, all the way back in 1999.
Ronan Farrow was the third journalist to say it, if the point isn't clear. The credibility of an accuser, or a journalist, doesn't matter, because what is anybody gonna do about it anyway? Nothing. Look at how hard it is to prosecute Joe Biden - with an abundance of evidence - but how easy it is to torture Donald Trump with nothing. That is another clear indicator America's been in the NewAge for a long time, and has no ethics left to fall back on. Look around: nowhere to be found.
Look at the, supposedly, now-heroic Bill Maher, shooing away evidence, decades ago, before he started going on TV to declare he's "on the side with all the good ideas." And then, just think: a little more of his attention in the 90s could've spared us all a Columbia University professor's seven year Russia hoax to sabotage a president. But no. Instead, today's media is making the "news" about a silly actress who almost bumped into a rapist - in the Hamptons.
Isn't it obvious by now, America's so awash in Clinton lies, we're drowning?
And as we drown, hasn't it always been obvious, they're being protected?
The media's "celebrating" the Lewinsky affair kicking off 25 years ago this month, but, what this should actually be, is the beginning of a reckoning - for rape - that Bill Clinton so richly deserves.
And Monica's, too, if you want to get down to it. That girl ain't been all that at all.
"What characterizes our era? Cults, quacks, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo, that's what. In How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, Francis Wheen brilliantly laments the extraordinary rise of superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria. From Middle Eastern fundamentalism to the rise of lotteries, astrology to mysticism, poststructuralism to the Third Way, Wheen shows that there has been a pervasive erosion of Enlightenment values, which have been displaced by nonsense. And no country has a more vivid parade of the bogus and bizarre than the one founded to embody Enlightenment values: the USA. In turn comic, indignant, outraged, and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World is a masterful depiction of the absurdity of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less." (2004)
"[The Clintons have] an eerie, unattractive ability to get liberals to keep their mouths shut"
"That's why I got out of the Democratic Party, for sure, because that is one giant cult"
"They think it's a messaging issue, but messaging is not the problem: reality is the problem"
The Democrat Party's open embrace of the NewAge movement vs. reality. It's a nightmare. And a long-running one: if America is so sufficiently educated that our government warned quackery was an $84 billion scandal by 1984, how were the people so brain dead that Oprah - by the early 2000s - could establish Dr. Oz as "America's Doctor"? Why wasn't there an immediate government intervention, plus a groundswell of public indignation, at Winfrey and television executives, after her (remember: educated) audience immediately recognized she was promoting a fraud over U.S. airwaves?
Because nobody saw a goddamn thing, that's why.
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
By the year 2000, Bill Clinton (who had been playing around in the NewAge movement for decades) was already on a tear to legitimize the concept of evidence being malleable (and, apparently, he's still a huge fan). But his job was to protect America from fraud like that. And now, we're over two decades into this thing, and everything's falling apart, because so little can be nailed down. Hardly anything can reach resolution. And anyone, paying attention, should be able to recognize, part of the reason for that is, the Democrat Party's relationship to evidence has A) gotten very slippery, and B) expanded beyond the parameters of alternative medicine.
Two recent examples being the successful, 5 year-long, Hillary Clinton-inspired Russia hoax - featuring no evidence whatsoever - that was fully supported as fact by Democrats across the nation. And now, the massive amount of evidence against the Biden family that, somehow, the Democrat Party, just as miraculously, cannot see. For them, evidence - as a concept - has become twisted and strange.
You may not think NewAge spirituality and American politics are logically connected at first, but, like Oprah looking good while totally fucking you over, they are. (As logical as the notion that, if everything NewAge is "harmless," then the website dedicated to its many mistakes will be called "What's the harm?") Oprah is now a Washington lobbyist, with at least three of her accolades and "spiritual advisers" now vying for political power in their own right. And, when the Vice President of the United States is someone gullible, or cynical enough to have dated Montel talking-to-the-dead Williams, then it's undeniable.
Clearly, the NewAge movement now has the power to turn fellow Democrats into unquestioning idiots - even those who'd never go near Oprah - babbling any conspiracy theory they're told to run with. But what's important is, once again, our educated public doesn't catch it. Time to say it again:
"Propaganda only works when you do not have a well-informed population"
One of the few things I am 100% sure of is that we have a population that's "well-informed" enough to keep psychics in business. They all know their star signs and any details about them. They keep psychics, chiropractors, and homeopaths doing a brisk business. They're collectively going vegan. They are also collectively practicing yoga (though Indians, mostly, do not). Most Democrat voters can imagine no higher calling than attempting to be blissfully "happy" at all times, even if it's totally manufactured, and especially if they can do it in a group. In other words, the next generations of Americans are being groomed as a NewAge cult. A nation of Burning Men.
I woke up this morning,...thinking about “woke” - a lot.
Specifically about how, just like Americans stupidly do yoga without understanding it or the dangers, they're also approaching woke in the same ignorant, superficial way. It's a weakness.
And, though it’s fun to watch otherwise intelligent people babble on authoritatively about something they clearly have no clue about - as though they're the smartest people on Earth, coming to save us from,…what they don’t understand - if you're black, and been through the whole "woke" thing, it still leads to feeling like you’ve been born in the world's most stupid era.
Every American, by now, should know what “woke” means. Long story-short: Smart. Blacks have used the term since the 1940s. That the rest of America is just now waking up - to the term - speaks volumes about how cut-off most are, from we people they've supposedly lived side-by-side with for centuries. Who, they insist, don't deserve reparations, presumably because they know our lives so well. They watched a few Thomas Sowell videos, don't you know.
That, Ladies and Gentlemen, would be a woke observation.
I been "woke" to black life. In the '90s, the joke was, if you wasn’t by then, your dumb ass gonna stay nappin'. Remember "It's a black thang, you wouldn't understand?" It appears that may still be true.
Now it's in the hands of the NewAge, so I've had nothin' to do with it. Seriously, those people are crazy, and anything they're behind is a lie that goes right off the rails.
It's crazy that 30 years after I was creating my own Jan. 6, people like John McWhorter (who it's easy to imagine nappin') are still actually missing NewAge, to see "woke," butas a “religion.” He's like people who aren't aware Trump highjacked the Republican Party: the NewAge movement took over "woke" - that's the sick 2023 M. Night Shayamalan twist.
It's weird, watching this deeply religious country, terrified over the growth of a religion. After a lifetime of Christians insisting we, specifically, need to find “religion” as THE answer to all of our problems, now they fear a belief. In terms of NewAge - which is widely acknowledged as harmful - going "woke," I think it's fair to ask, “What’s changed?” Here's a quote to help explain things:
"If you've ever gone browsing in an occult bookstore (and you really should; it's like browsing in a science fiction bookstore, only the authors really believe the stories they're writing, or pretend to), you may have seen a shelf labeled "conspiracies" right alongside the sections marked "astrology" or "Tarot." People who write about fringe politics often miss the extent to which New Agers serve as a transmission belt, allowing ideas from the left, the right, and the counterculture -- not to mention more outré folks like the UFO buffs -- to slide from one subculture to another."
"Many of the progressive and holistic ideas that lie at the heart of today’s lifestyle Left, the environmental Left, and the New Age movement share numerous unquestioned philosophical, emotional, and practical similarities with the intellectual and cultural currents that fed into and sustained Nazism."
- Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism
Those are white women who listen to Oprah, who, skeptics have noted "promotes the paranormal, psychic powers, new age spiritualism, conspiracy theories, quack celebrity diets, past life regression, angels, ghosts, alternative therapies like acupuncture and homeopathy, anti-vaccination, detoxification, vitamin megadosing, and virtually everything that will distract a human being from making useful progress and informed decisions in life." That's their bastardized, inside-out version of "woke." Just from that old list from 2008, I can pull out psychic powers, new age spiritualism, conspiracy theories, quack celebrity diets, homeopathy, and anti-vaccination as major social problems, today, that were helped along by Oprah. I'd add scarily bad journalism to the list, as well. Hell, I could make a really long list after how long she's been around. These people were destined to be a problem.
But, if they were clever, they would've screamed "Fraud!" because that would've been "woke".
"For [Oprah's] believers, self-knowledge is much less important than self-'love.' But the question they never seem to ask themselves is: If you wouldn't tell another person you loved her before you got to know her, why would you do that to yourself? Skipping the getting-to-know-you part has given us what we deserve: the Oprah culture. It's a culture where superstition is 'spirituality,' illiteracy is 'authenticity,' and schoolmarm moralism is 'character.' It's a culture where people apologize by saying, 'I'm sorry you took offense at what I said,' and forgive by saying, 'I'm not angry at you anymore, I'm grateful to you for teaching me not to trust shitheads like you.' And that's the part that should bother us most: the diminishing, even implicit mocking, of genuine goodness, and of authentic spiritual concerns and practices. Engagement, curiosity and active awe are in short supply these days, and it's sickening to see them devalued and misrepresented."
Anybody can see Oprah's 2016 Netflix show, Greenleaf, is a “megachurch melodrama” but can they see she's fucking with you?
Are they smart enough to know it's a cover for that other Netflix show, When They See Us?
You’d think it wouldn't be possible for deeply spiritual and religious people to make deeply dishonest and racist films - films anyone could debunk - but Oprah would. Because she's the Queen of "Woke."
"That would be the same Marianne Williamson who introduced the world to "A Course in Miracles" in her book, A Return to Love. And those would be the Miracles described by Jesus-channeler Helen Schucman, who, at the end of her life "cursed, in the coarsest barroom language you could imagine, 'that book, that goddamn book'," and whose life-partner sidekick, William Thetford, was oh-btw concurrently doing research on "Personality Theory" funded via the CIA's then-secret MK-ULTRA mind control program. Weird, I know. But hey, I'm just saying."
- Rage Boy, from The Mystic Bourgeosie, who noted Obama "actually said 'new age' twice in his inauguration speech"
It'd be amazing if no one didn't notice something.
"Woke" is knowing what was being let loose, in 2013, when Obama - who the NewAge called "The Lightbringer" - was handing out the U.S. Medal of Freedom like it was candy. And what effect such lousy recipients would have 10 years later.
