Reviewing Grabien - The Multi-Media Marketplace

 

 Now that the New York Times has admitted there was no Hamas raping on October 7, and South Africa has proven to the U.N. that it's plausable Zionists are committing a genocide as I write this, Grabien's mashup looks a lot different, than it did when they made it, but that's all for the better. It's now good pro-Palestinian propaganda. 

    

Watching the left side of the mediashpere air its nightmares is pretty funny. They've driven themselves insane over Trump, but using their own unrestrained capacity for dark speculation to do it. Trump doesn't even have to help. They remind me of Zionists, saying Hamas is guilty of doing anything Zionists can think up, because Zionists are always thinking up heinous shit. 

   

 Go on Netflix and count up all the documentaries about cults. Then count how many are about movements that are politically on the left, and how many movements are politically on the right. I will bet you any amount of money that the majority of them are on the left, though they're the side that's 100% positive everybody else needs deprogramming. 

   

 The left side of the media aisle is a disaster. But, so is Zionism, which the makers of these videos have never seemed to understand. Other than that, well done.

 

The Democrat Party's NOT A Cult (They Just All Think Alike At The Same Time)

According to some very authoritative and repetitive CNN talking heads, nearly our entire political class, and former luminaries like the washed-up Katie Couric, 74.5 million Americans—and that includes you—need to be “deprogrammed” immediately.

Nobody mention CNN is the home of Chris Cuomo, who's married to a NewAge Nazi nut job, so what we're seeing here is pure "projection".

MSNBC’s Joy Reid, joined by her colleague Nicolle Wallace, called for the de-Baathification and scouring of the current Republican Party following four years of leadership under President Donald Trump. 

Nobody mention Joy Reid's regulary on Twitter discussing the power of angels.

As the president’s conspiracy theories start to unspool with his departure from office, cult expert Steven Hassan, a former Moonie and the author of The Cult of Trump, believes there’s hope—if the way Americans consume information undergoes a radical change. 

Nobody mention "cult expert" - Steve Hassan (above) is NOT a cult expert, and you can't find a cult expert - or even an anti-cult advocate like me - who will say he is. He just claimed (one day) to be a cult expert, and the media accepted him - THAT'S how much research today's reporters do, and how good they are at their jobs.

 

Growing calls in media for Trump supporters to be 'reprogrammed' 

 Nobody mention acknowledged "cult expert" - Rick Ross (above) - has already said Trump supporters are NOT a cult: the cultists are putting on a good show, so let's not disturb them.

 

My God, These People Are Insane, And Just Too Mothafuckin' Hard (To Take)

 

Back in the '90s, when asked what he hated about leftists, the first sin the late, great Andrew Breitbart pointed to was "Projection": 

They accuse you of what they've done. 

Understanding that, how can anyone listen to a Democrat Party member - and especially someone who's supposed to be a journalist - complain about whatever conspiracy theories occurred over the last few days, when it's obvious they've completely forgotten the entire Democrat Party fed us a ton of conspiracy theories over the entire last four years? Hillary's "Russian collusion" hoax-that-no-one-was-punished-for? President Trump was a traitor, peeing on hookers in Russian hotel rooms, for Putin? 

The entire party said this - establishment and their supporters - for YEARS. (And don't get me started on what was occurring on the left over all the years shows like The X-Files and Coast-To-Coast AM were on the air.) But, somehow, that's all slipped the minds of Bill ANTIVAXX Maher and Katie DEPROGRAMMER Couric, these two American geniuses, always at the ready with a lecture for us slow types, right through our TV screens. 

For the first time in my life, the "Idiot Box" is off-limits: it's earned that title.

 

If I Can Get It Cooked With Pork (In Some Sweet And Sour Sauce) All The Better

I can hear the criticism in America already, but - when it comes to the fight against cultism - I really don't care about criticism from our arrogantly ignorant anymore:

“It is not mistreatment. What China is doing is to establish professional training centers, educational centers. If you do not say it’s the best way, maybe it’s the necessary way to deal with Islamic or religious extremism, because the West has failed in doing so, in dealing with religious Islamic extremism. Look at Belgium, look at Paris, look at some other European countries. You have failed.”

If the U.S. would make even a *token* gesture to fight cult nonsense, I might be able to reconsider. But - under the circumstances - even after massive cases of child rape? No, China wins this one - hands down - because we have FAILED.

Cult Deprogrammer, Rick Ross, Was On A Reality Show!

Get More: Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory, Full Episodes

Smart, compassionate blacks and whites, working together for a damned good cause:

Fewer American douchebags.

Now, how we do this to our whole country - or even just my political party - I'm still trying to figure out,…

 

The Macho Response: When My Reiki Has You Touched

Starting over.

"First, the history department, where he had a joint appointment, abruptly terminated his joint arrangement. They simply stopped inviting him to department meetings, but never informed him of their decision. Then the dean of the college wrote him a note saying that the college had decided in its wisdom that the tenure quote for Black Studies would be capped at one for all time. This meant, she explained, that if the current candidate came up for tenure as mandated by college legislation, he might well be successful and then no other Black Studies professor would ever have a chance to be tenured. In order to level the playing field, she curiously argued, she would advance the next person in line, who would have been eligible for evaluation the following year. Thus, she reasoned, two (black) people would have a chance to slug it out while the rest of the college would presumably enjoy the spectacle.”

Enjoy The Spectacle. 

"Blue Oyster Cult Founding Member Allen Lanier Passes Away At The Age of 67"

Woman's Death Linked to Alternative Cancer Treatment

"Assertions of "cold fusion" were based on nothing more than experimental errors by scientists in Utah.

...Dr. Jones,…drew cheers and laughter when he concluded his talk,..."

"When you deprogram people, you force them to think.... But I keep them off balance and this forces them to begin questioning, to open their minds. When the mind gets to a certain point, they can see through all the lies that they've been programmed to believe. They realize that they've been duped and they come out of it. Their minds start working again."

"BEWARE, IT MIGHT FORM A SINGULARITY OF AWESOMENESS,..."

"Romney was always a better man than Obama — he’s quite possibly the best human being to run for the White House in quite a few election cycles,..."

"I believe in laboratories, looking at ways to conduct electricity with -- with cold fusion, if we can come up with it. It was the University of Utah that solved that,…"

"I was at the grocery store the other day when I was unexpectedly confronted with an adult-oriented magazine located right next to the vitamin section."

"I immediately had to look away from the front cover, which featured a scantily clad, seductively posed, sex symbol. Yet it was only a few weeks ago that I read an article about how this same sex symbol loves to speak in tongues and has to restrain herself from outbursts in tongues while attending church services. What?"

"This is actually a perfect illustration of American charismatic Christianity, where you can say you love Jesus (like the rapper 'The Game' claims to do) and still frequent strip clubs (as 'The Game' still does), or where you can flow in the gifts of the Spirit and become a made-for-TV preaching sensation, only to announce that God told you that you married the wrong woman, leading to a quick divorce and remarriage."

"Yes, this is the 'gospel' of the 21st century, 'Spirit-filled' church of America, where the cross is bypassed, denial of the flesh is scorned, purity is called legalism, and anything goes if it feels good."

"It is the 'gospel' of self, in which Jesus dies to make you into a bigger and better you, a 'gospel' in which God is here to serve you and help you fulfill your dreams, and where the measure of all things is not how God feels about it but how you feel about it (or how it makes you feel)."

  

"How Does It Feel To Be Right?"

"It wasn’t perfect, but it was honest, and it was mine."

"Slavery Should Be Remembered Like The Holocaust"

"It’s your job to provide evidence to back up your claims. And when I say evidence, I mean evidence,...The more outlandish the claim, the more proof you need to back it up; the tighter you need to seal up your argument. If you don’t have it, then, as Christopher Hitchens famously said, you and your claims can be shrugged off without any discussion, because,...the sheer scope of what you’re alleging will directly correlate to how hard you’re laughed out of the room for not being able to prove it."

"Slavery, well, I mean, I don't know how obvious you could be. I mean, all you've got to do is walk down the street, and you see the evidence of slavery in everyday life. But there's a huge silence about it. It's a deafening silence about it. You know, why are the prison population of black males so huge? Why is poverty in that community so huge? Why is mental health, why is education so poor, why? When you ask yourself that question, it all leads down to what happened in slavery because no one has - you know, once it was - you know, once it has stopped, you know, everyone was left to get on with their own devices but without a platform, without a leg up.

And there you have the evidence of slavery." 

Starting over,...
 

Martha Marcy May Marlene: A Cult Watcher's Dream

WHOA. I've finally had the honor of watching director Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene - the first of the recent releases on cultism - and I'm pretty sure (since I understand the subject matter better than most) I saw a very, very different film than other reviewers. Maybe even different than Durkin himself. You see, while Martha Marcy May Marlene has been described as Elizabeth Olsen's breakout performance about a young woman who escapes an abusive cult, it's much more than that:

It's really a film about a woman in desperate need of a deprogrammer's snapping.

A constant in the film is Martha's sister, Lucy (Sarah Paulson) asking Martha what's happened to her, and Martha - clearly in the throughs of PTSD - saying, "I don't know." And the truth is, she doesn't. Martha has no idea she's been in a cult, and neither her sister or her English brother-in-law, Ted (Hugh Dancy) even knows how to ask - both are as unaware of cultism as Martha is! When it's finally determined Martha needs "help," I deduced it'll be in the form of doctors - with medications in a mental health facility - not a cult expert who can unpeel the uber-rude onion her mind has become:

Their best guess is that Martha has fled a dodgy boyfriend, and she herself releases no further clues. Her conduct, however, hints at more than heartbreak. It is one thing to ask them, “Is it true married people don’t fuck?,” which might be no more than the provocative pose of youth; to climb into bed beside the married couple while they are making love—as Martha, schooled in group sex, naturally does—signals an insolence of another order. “That’s not normal, it’s private,” Lucy cries, and her verbal confusion pulls us toward the clever core of the movie. The easiest option, which would have produced a nifty horror flick but little else, would have been to build an ideal, love-warmed nest of the bourgeoisie and then, as in “Fatal Attraction,” have it invaded by shrieking demands from without. The effect of “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” on the other hand, is to peck away at what Lucy and Ted would claim as their well-earned happiness. Even the tiniest gestures on Martha’s part—opening a can of beer and tossing the ring-pull aside, or trying on a dress and dropping the hanger for Lucy to pick up—are invested with something more warped, or more scornful of our regular habits, than simple sloppiness. Ted never makes a definite move on Martha, but you can sense the squirm of desire within him, and when he solemnly informs her, “We are trying to have a baby,” her laugh—rich, robust, and mad—slaps him into a look of wounded panic. She already has a family, ready-made. She may have slipped its grasp for now, but not for good. When, at a low ebb, she calls the number of the farm, speaks briefly, then slams down the phone, somebody calls right back.

Which brings me to something else that dawned on me as I watched Martha Marcy May Marlene - the disconnect many might have, as I write about cults or cultish thinking, imagining the "closed" secular cult depicted in this film is what I'm referring to when I, maybe, speak of an "open" religious cult like Mormonism (or even some other kind). Nothing could be further from the truth:

Sure, to me, a cult is a cult is a cult is a cult, all applying varying amounts of pressure in direct and subtle ways on those trapped (however) within their grasp. But the mindfuckers depicted in this film bear little-to-no resemblance to the cultish thinking we usually encounter (say, through Mitt Romney's Joseph Smith-inspired peddling of useless supplements) beyond talk of "cleansing," "toxins," and the nonsensical suggestion a drugged concoction is O.K. to drink because someone says it's "herbal."

This becomes most clear when the film enters Charles Manson's arena, though - unbeknownst to the uninitiated - contemporary Mormonism has entered that territory. A cult is a cult is a cult is a cult.

But what I most want you to know is, all that aside, Martha Marcy May Marlene is a truly fine film. Probably one of the best - if not THE best - I've ever seen on the topic of cultism, since it takes it's subject matter seriously, and doesn't fall into the typical sinister foolishness of The Devil's Rejects-type hyperbole, even as it descends beyond confusion and betrayal into wickedness and horror.

And while it may not be of much assistance if you're arguing with your sister about homeopathy, or fretting about a friend's participation in The Landmark Forum, hopefully Martha Marcy May Marlene might still convince some of you that even they need a higher level of comprehension and training than either you, or your average therapist, can provide. Yes indeed, this one is really special:

Check. It. Out.

 

"I Felt A Tremendous Opening In My Head" (I'll Say,...)

Jesus, did I hit the NewAge motherlode, or what? An online copy of the entire movie, Aliens from Spaceship Earth? Are you joking? I'M THE MAN!

No, seriously, people are paying good money to see this shit, as it makes it's way around the alternative film circuit, while some of the cool kids hope it's cult-infused message will remind us:

This breakthrough in consciousness gave birth to the highly enlightened era known as [the] 80s. There’s similar stuff brewing these days--let’s hope we do a better job this time around. 

"There’s similar stuff brewing these days"? Where? Sez who? Spell it out, man! The suspense is killing me,...

Anyway, The '70's Division is all here - the conmen Indian "gurus," including (the late-pedophile) Sai Baba, plus fire walking (the same sorry schtick Tony Robbins uses) and a bunch of hippies - including our narrator, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi devotee, Donovan - who keep dissing science while telling us something big was is going to happen, if only we'd start keep doing ridiculously dumb shit (that could never possibly work) to make it so. And goddammit be defiant about it.

Yes, as far as TMR is concerned, Aliens from Spaceship Earth Is the cinematic equivalent of a gigantic brain freeze - until the deprogrammers step in. (STEP IN! STEP IN! HEEELLLLLLLP!) Full cult critic disclosure:

I'm going to need my exercise hand grips, and something to bite down upon, just to get through it all. 

Either that, or call some friends to help me go totally A Clockwork Orange on it.

But I got it - I landed one of NewAge's white whales. And to tell you the truth, right about now, I'm feeling pretty darned good about myself for it.

Which is great. 

Because I know - after I watch this sucker - I'm going to grow so infuriatingly depressed, about the empty space between the ears of humanity, I'll probably never look another owner of a zodiac sign in the eye again, my head will be hanging so low,...

Tom Hanks: He's Really One Of The Good Guys

We're relieved to finally know, out of all the Hollywood Democrats out there, at least Tom Hanks ain't crazy:

After I left Capitol Hill, I had the great fortune of working as an arts-and-entertainment writer at the Washington Times. The gig included the unfairly fun duty of writing weekly movie reviews and, occasionally, interviewing the “talent,” as directors, actors, and writers are referred to in Hollywood-publicist lingo.

No doubt a highlight of those six years was the 45 minutes I got to spend in the company of Tom Hanks and the writer-director brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, who were in Washington, D.C., to promote The Ladykillers, a not-terrible, but uncharacteristically flat remake of the 1955 Ealing Studios classic. (It paled in comparison to O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the Coens’ audacious reinvention of The Odyssey.)

Hanks’ pious center-left politics are well-known, and he promptly ribbed me mercilessly about the Times’ connection to the cult led by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. “Have you seen the reverend?” Hanks joshed. “Does he levitate in the lobby?” Hanks recalled the time he saw an ad for the Unification Church on the side of a bus in his hometown of Oakland, Calif. “If you’re really the new incarnation of Christ, would you need to take out advertisements?!”

After informing me that I would not be leaving the hotel suite--“We’re here to de-program you”--Hanks finally let up. The Coens laughed uproariously throughout (as, truthfully, did I).

We always liked Hanks. Good to know he's aware of what's up. We'd like to watch his films in peace, without the annoying subtext we have with other actors. “We’re here to de-program you”?

Yes, indeed, we are.

Take My Advice: I'm Only Trying To School You

"The success of a thought reform program relies largely upon deception and/or ignorance. Those who can see how it operates and understand its implications can be in a sense substantially inoculated."

-- Rick Ross, cult expert, on how to avoid being brainwashed - you can also do what I do and stop listening to Obama's speeches - advice that came much too late for some cultists up north (killer parents) in the vicinity of KION Local6 News.

His Memory Seems To Be Working Fine, Thanks

"As a teenager, I started to find the idea of an all-encompassing God and protector alluring, and in 1984, moved to a small village in Germany. Here, I discovered Scientology. I was in a bad way one afternoon, walking the streets of Stuttgart, when a young lady approached me: 'Do you have a good memory?' she asked. I agreed to join her at the local Scientology centre, to find out.

The centre was filled with friendly, efficient people. It all seemed very official and scientific. I took tests which revealed I needed counselling, or 'auditing'. I found the 'science' aspect very seductive, and quickly became involved in the group.

After two weeks, I was taken with the teachings of [Scientology’s founder] L Ron Hubbard. He was my guru, and I started to see less of my girlfriend and friends.

...Scientology works on a strictly hierarchical basis. All through my membership, I was told there was a revelation I was being built up to, Hubbard’s theory of creation. When I became privy to the details of the story, I was shocked that this was the carrot on a stick that had kept me with the organisation for so long. His ideas seemed ludicrous, and when I stumbled upon other details of Hubbard’s biography, I was appalled.

It took five more years to gather the courage to leave."

-- John Duignan, from his book "The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology," excerpted in The Independent.

Next: He's Beating The Kids And Kicking The Dog

I love your blog.

It is truly awesome.

I was a card carrying member of the New Age for more than half my life. I have a masters degree in Oriental medicine and a doctorate in homeopathy. I spent 20 years studying the stuff. And stuff is a kind word. It's more like shit. That's right, after drinking the kool-aid for two decades, I finally drank the antidote and it wasn't a homeopathic one. It was a full potency cure called rational thought. I now believe that 99.9% of 'New Age' hogwash (and that includes CAM) is nothing more than a poison arrow of quackery and sham aimed at the gullible and the weak. Like a cult member deprogramming themselves, I am slowly trying to make sense of myself and re-train my brain muscles. Your blog is like a deliciously strong cup of coffee after awakening from a very, very bad dream. Keep up the good work, the world needs people like you to cut through the bullshit like a samurai of sanity.

Did I also mention that I used to be a Democrat?

:o)

-- Donavan Freberg (above) delivering the message many claim is impossible because, you know, TMR is so damn "mean" - and NewAge beliefs are just too fucking awesome to ever be abandoned - but delivering it none-the-less, on TMR's post about Tim Minchin's Anti-NewAge Beat Poem "Storm".

Donavan,

On behalf of the entire TMR team: Thank you.

Black Lightning: The One Man Who Knew

"In [Ted Patrick's] single-minded focus on rescuing cult members, he minced no words and wasted little time on social niceties. As a result, he often irked and alienated those parents, clinicians and law enforcement officials who might otherwise be his natural allies.

Yet, regardless of his style, the grave questions Patrick first flamboyantly brought to public attention are not the ones we can choose to like or dislike nor will they simply go away if we ignore them. Is an individual free to give up his freedom of thought? May a religion, popular therapy, political movement or any other enterprise systematically attack human thought and feeling in the name of God, the pursuit of happiness, personal growth or spiritual fulfillment? These are questions that Americans, perhaps more than others, are not prepared to deal with, because they challenge long-standing constitutional principles and cultural assumptions about the nature of the mind, personality and human freedom itself.

In the months after our trip to the Orange county Jail we spoke with many people about Ted Patrick: parents, ex-cult members, attorneys, mental health professionals and others who, at the time, were only dimly aware of the building controversy over some alleged forms of religion in America. Some denounced him as a villain and a fascist, others hailed him as a folk hero and dark prophet of what lay ahead for America."

-- Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, describing the man called "Black Lightning" (inventor of "cult deprogramming" or "snapping") who predicted the rise of cults to power, as described on Rick Ross.com.

Another Monk Joins A Cult (Bald-Headed Funny Guy Included: And, No, It's Not Ken Wilber,...)

"[Howie] Mandel (above) along with Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winning Monk star Tony Shalhoub, are on,...'Mr. Monk Joins a Cult,' which continues the show’s sixth season this Friday at 9:00 pm on USA Network (episodes also repeat on USA Sunday night before returning to NBC beginning March 3rd).

Cleverly cast guest star Mandel plays the leader of a cult, a la Jim Jones, but perhaps not as edgy or evil,...Anton Cropper, a former first assistant director on Monk for five seasons, directed 'Mr. Monk Joins a Cult' and describes the episode as a bit darker than most.

For the opening episode, Shalhoub asked the writers to check out the 1981 Canadian movie Ticket to Heaven, about a man who gets drawn into a cult but manages eventually to come out of it and get deprogrammed. 'In a lot of ways, Monk is like the cult leader,' suggests Shalhoub. 'They're both really great at kind of reading people and discovering what their vulnerable places are. But the cult leader goes much further and manipulates and brainwashes his followers, including Monk.'

'This episode ('Mr. Monk Joins A Cult') is definitely true to the Monk style,' Shalhoub maintains. 'It certainly has it comic beats, but it's very serious too. Young people get drawn into these cults, kids who are living on the street and so forth… This episode can hopefully really impact people.'"

-- From FilmStew.com.

Dark Side Of The Moons

The timing of this Saturday Night Live video's release on YouTube is funny because I'm currently reading In The Shadow Of The Moons: My Life In The Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family by Nansook Hong. (I think I'm also becoming a big fan of deprogramming - especially after reading about "Ted Patrick, a short and stocky black man who set out to probe the underground world of religious cults in order to free young people".) Interesting stuff.

I need more information on these subjects because 1) I didn't know shit about cults, or cultish-thinking, before my divorce and 2) too many people are, obviously, trapped in these scarily subservient (and quite un-American) modes of thinking and don't even know it. They try to shut down anyone that actually does know anything, thinking the fact they can hold a a job and are appealing for others to have "an open mind" will be able to cover for the mile-wide flaws in thier reasoning - or cover up that blank stare in their eyes. It's pretty scary.

Even Dan Ackroyd was on some stupid U.F.O. kick not too long ago. Yea, Dan Fucking Ackroyd! The very guy in this video!!!

Where's Bill Murray when you need him?