Shoot. Me. Now.

Reportedly, these are the words of Barack Obama in a note to his aid during his first attendance of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, mocking an interminable monologue of Joe Biden, his future running mate... and successor?

Yet another disturbing insinuation of assassination coming from Obama himself. As Rush Limbaugh has boorishly noted:

Ladies and gentlemen, the New York Times today has a story by Jeff Zeleny: "In Memories of Painful Past, Hushed Worry About Obama." (Gasp!) "There is a hushed worry on the minds of many supporters of Senator Barack Obama, echoing in conversations from state to state, rally to rally: Will he be safe? In Colorado, two sisters say they pray daily for his safety. In New Mexico, a daughter says she persuaded her mother to still vote for Mr. Obama, even though the mother feared that winning would put him in danger. And at a rally here, a woman expressed worries that a message of hope and change, in addition to his race, made him more vulnerable to violence. 'I've got the best protection in the world,' Mr. Obama, of Illinois, said ... 'So stop worrying.' Yet worry they do, with the spring of 1968 seared into their memories, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated in a span of two months." Now, I have a question. Who do you think, folks, is behind this story? (interruption) No, Mr. Snerdley. Hillary is not behind this story. Is that what you said? Obama people are behind this story. (laughing) There is no question. You could almost say that this is brilliant, to get this out there.


November the 4th

Before midnight, McCain concedes the election, and Barack Obama delivers his victory speech to a throng of an estimated million in Grant Park and environs of downtown Chicago. Then, out comes his wife, Michelle, wearing a dress pregnant with dark suggestion, as Illumarazzi brings to light...









A Narciso Rodriquez design, its dreadful allusion was immediately recognized by many commenters on a LA Times fashion page:

Reminiscent of a black widow spider...

Posted by: gt | November 05, 2008 at 11:02 AM

MMMMM can you say Black Widow? Real poor taste. But hey, GO OBAMA!!

Posted by: Kate | November 05, 2008 at 11:12 AM

A Black Widow spider immediately came to mind, unfortunately. I don't understand her choice here. It was a red hour-glass set against a black bodice, ...on her tummy side. just like the spider. What was she thinking!

Posted by: Maria | November 05, 2008 at 11:17 AM

Initially I thought it was artful and different then realized the optical illusion that minimized her hips made her look as though she were pregnant with twins. A daring choice on a night that changed the world. O happy day!

Posted by: TLo Fan | November 05, 2008 at 11:54 AM

From a curator in African Art:

When the Obama family stepped onto the stage as the next presidential family, they were all dressed in RED and BLACK. Strident colors, but not just for the cameras. This combination is a strategic message for those who know how color signals work.
First, RED was the color of the opposing party- the Republicans. In all the talk about red and black states, there was an underlying premise of division of the country into a black and white polarization. Obama stood against this, and in fact, combines two continents, and thus, did not wear any blue whatsoever.

Second, red and black are linked in African mythology to the agent of change. Esu is the Yoruba diety who wears red and black to signal his presence as the harbinger of fate, the announcer for things to come, and the one who wakes up people to provoke them to do new things. One famous story about him is about how he wore a hat that was red on one side and black on the other. He saw two friends who were so close, they always walked side by side and never disagreed. Esu inserted himself between them and the two friends started to argue about the color of his hat. His lesson: no two people should be so close that they can’t disagree. We all benefit from looking at things from different points of view.

Michelle got the whole group coordinated to speak with color.

Posted by: evvance | November 05, 2008 at 12:17 PM

true, the dress was not at all flattering. but I was more surprised to see the family dressed in such severe colors, at least until my African mom pointed out that red & black are traditional for mourning. it's possible that the color scheme was a response to Obama's grandmother's passing.

Posted by: hmmm | November 05, 2008 at 12:52 PM

hopefully she will not be a real black
widow. i need to see more agents.

Posted by: no money down syndrome | November 05, 2008 at 12:54 PM

Dreadful is what I thought, just dreadful. And it DOES look like a black widow, EXACTLY what came to mind when I saw her. If people believe in signs, they might be freaking out. It WAS very funky and maybe fashion forward but save it for the runway, not the acceptance speech! PLEEEEASE MICHELLE, promise you'll never dress like a spider again! We love you, but not your dress!

Posted by: Sami | November 05, 2008 at 01:00 PM

Unfortunately, my first take was that it looked like blood splatter, which gave me the creeps with all of the assassination rumoring.

Posted by: wirelessg | November 05, 2008 at 01:16 PM

Looks like she was standing next to "Carrie" at the prom when the bucket of blood came tumbling down. Maybe it's an omen: There will be bloodshed during the Obama reign.

Posted by: Robert Urbanek | November 05, 2008 at 06:32 PM

Bizarre dress. Ill-fitting. It looked like flames shooting and down up her body! Whoever mentioned above that color is symbolic was correct. Black symbolizes death, mystery and secrets. Red signifies danger. Not a good message to send on election night! And why did she subject her daughters to the same? I thought Biden's pale green suit was lovely and appropriate. Unfortunately, this outfit seemed to show a division between her and Michelle.

Posted by: Ann | November 05, 2008 at 06:46 PM

Do you think that the red may signify where Jackie O was covered in blood? Symbols are everything to these people they're like serial killer schizo's.

Posted by: Unknown Author | November 06, 2008 at 12:54 AM

black widow? This is like a black mass hmmm makes me wonder

Posted by: just a avrage bloke | November 07, 2008 at 03:30 AM

Although most people give no significnce to the spiritual meaning and symbolism of the artifacts of our lives, nevertheless they carry a subliminal meaning. Michelle Obama can be a capable, intelligent and beautiful person and yet wear a dress loaded with negative symbolism. Her unawareness of it does not remove the symbolism. I had cold chills when I saw Michelle Obama's black widow dress, not only because of its color symbolism (red, communism and black, african) but because she looks like she just got off an abortion table. Maybe some of you remember another first lady who appeared in public with blood stains on the womb of her dress - Jackie Kennedy with the blood of her husband. Since I believe in the power of symbolism in our lives, I can only hope our sight of Michelle Obama's blood-stained dress is not a vision or prophecy of any event in her future. Strange how the most triumphant moment in recent US history could be dressed in such macabre symbolism.

Posted by: East Coaster | November 07, 2008 at 09:07 AM

The two presidents, Lincoln and Kennedy, to whom Obama has drawn the most frequent comparison - again, by his own initiative - are the two martyred presidents of American history (Garfield & McKinley lacked the gravitas). Obama commenced his presidential campaign and introduced his running mate at the same location, Springfield Illinois, that Lincoln commenced his campaign. And, considering that Obama's birthday of August 4th, 1961 would put the time of his conception at around November 7th, 1960, one wonders if his very existence on Earth had commenced on the night of Kennedy's election.

"They say" that these things come in threes... But we don't need another martyr. It is also sometimes said that the best armor against psychic warfare is to call out and "jinx" the symbolic volleys before they can subliminally insinuate the public unconsciousness. When this is all over, as Obama enjoys a normal presidential retirement, then perhaps we will thank the savvy "fashionista" readers of the LA Times...

Haider Death

Jörg Haider ist tot

An "inside job"?
Some analysts now believe that with the death of Mr Haider, there may be attempts to reunite the two parties of the far right in Austria - a move that could considerable strengthen their political power.

more at...
Haaretz

777

The rep-digit curse strikes again.

Nero Played Fiddle

And George H. W. Bush played golf on September 11, 2001 (the 11th anniversary of his infamous "New World Order" speech).
Charles Cronk characterizes his mood on that fateful day:
"He was very relaxed,..."

Great Game Machinations

Why did he do it? Why did Saakashvili step into the bear-trap? Did he think NATO would join in? Perhaps as a result of adept disinfo operations from the Russians? (it would seem that NATO, for its part, made no insinuation of the sort) Did the Israeli/US/UK axis (ISUSUK) instigate, believing it would mire the Russians in a Georgian brier patch, thus clearing the way to move on Iran? Did a third party, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), intervene with silence in order to throw a monkey wrench at ISUSUK? Questions, questions. Motivations are difficult to tease out from what is undoubtedly the extremely tangled web of diplomatic-intelligence-counterintelligence-military operations that brought all of this about. OSCE seems to know who fired first, but mums the word.

If indeed ISUSUK played the instigator, then it was a horrendous blunder on their part. Perhaps ISUSUK, i.e. the neo-con faction, miscalculated the willingness of NATO, of the neo-lib persuasion, to be its puppet again... The latter now says: "fool me once, shame on you... fool me twice? No, we won't be fooled again. One 'Great Game' quagmire at a time, please."

In any case, Russia is for the time being on top, relishing its new resurgence. And now, allegedly, the Russians are enjoying the icing on the cake, in the form of Hummers "carrying explosives, firearms and top-secret satellite technology — the pride of NATO generals."

Stir, Brewing Jenni, part IV: Oroborous

To review the main points of Sibel Edmonds claims: in the late '90s and early naughts a network of moles had been installed within nuclear research facilities by liaisons in the U.S. State Dept. and Pentagon on behalf of Turkish, Israeli and other intelligence organizations. This "foreign exchange program" traded in military technology secrets, one purchaser of which was the notorious Pakistani ISI (notorious for its ties to the Taliban and al Qaeda).

One of the infiltrated research facilities mentioned by Edmonds was Los Alamos:

The Turks and Israelis had planted “moles” in military and academic institutions which handled nuclear technology. Edmonds says there were several transactions of nuclear material every month, with the Pakistanis being among the eventual buyers. “The network appeared to be obtaining information from every nuclear agency in the United States,” she said.

They were helped, she says, by the high-ranking State Department official who provided some of their moles – mainly PhD students – with security clearance to work in sensitive nuclear research facilities. These included the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory in New Mexico, which is responsible for the security of the US nuclear deterrent.

...among other things, we might add: Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) programs, possibly having grown in part out of visits of a Los Alamos team (under John B. Alexander) to John Hutchison's lab in the 1980s.

In short, then, we have a clandestine network whose nodes extend from Los Alamos to Washington to the Middle East to Pakistan and potentially over the mountain to al Qaeda.

Given some of the hypothesized weapons systems said to be necessary to have done the job on the World Trade Center (given the extraordinary facts of its destruction), such as DEW and "micro-nukes" - systems, to remind, developed in places like Los Alamos - can we accept the possibility that perhaps the "Big Wedding" (the al Qaeda code name for the 9/11 attacks) utilized far more than 19 hijackers with box cutters? Could bin Laden have gotten his hands on these advanced weapons with the aid of Pakistani intelligence during General Pervez Musharraf's dictatorship?

Well, that is a bit of a stretch.

But, now as Musharraf's regime ends, it is curious to note that the state where it is said he would like to enjoy his exile is none other than New Mexico, home of Los Alamos.

Chickens come on home to roost...

Amber Alert! Get ready for war

Global research jumped our scoop, upon the Sunday Times scoop, being the extra dimension of insinuation going with that particular term.

"...the president has given an “amber light” to an Israeli plan to attack Iran’s main nuclear sites with long-range bombing sorties, the official told The Sunday Times. “Amber means get on with your preparations, stand by for immediate attack and tell us when you’re ready,” the official said..."

Col. John B. Alexander is generally considered to one of the "good guys" (in the UFO research community for instance), or at least not allied with the "forces of darkness." This letter, however, from unknown to John Hutchison (as archived on his blog) would suggest otherwise.

Stir, Brewing Jinni, part III

"The Sybelline Prophetess"

It's been nearly six months now since the London Sunday Times broke the story of Sibel Edmonds' allegations of a network of moles operated by Turkish and Israeli intelligence having infiltrated U.S. nuclear research facilities with the aid and abetting of high ranking State Department, Pentagon, Congressional and think-tank figures, whose mug-shots can be found at Edmonds' State Secrets Privilege Gallery.

Since the story broke, there was a flurry of interest in the world press, but scarcely a peep out of the U.S. news media majors. And, in spite of his campaign promise to hold hearings on the Sibel Edmonds case, Rep. Henry Waxman has seen more fit to drag steroid junkies in front of his Congressional committee. All this blindsight is quite telling of to whom these characters are beholden. If you should happen to cross any of their paths on the street, my advise is that you should SPIT IN THEIR FACES. To Henry Waxman: SPIT IN HIS FACE. To Donald Graham and Arthur Sulzberger, publishers of the Washington Post and the New York Times, not seeing fit to print the biggest corruption story far beyond Watergate and the Pentagon Papers: SPIT IN THEIR FACES. To the gallery of bobbing, blathering media dicks, Brian Williams, Wolf Blitzer, Brit Hume, Charles Goodman, Jim Lehrer... SPIT IN THEIR FACES. To that beady-eyed cunt Katie Couric: SPIT IN HER FACE. To that little chipmunk runt George Stephanopolis: SPIT IN HIS FACE. Tim Russert....is not missed. To those purportedly "reputable" and "courageous" journalists and commentators such as Bill Moyers and Keith Olberman, who idolize Edward R. Murrow, but who apparently lack the nerve for this story... well, chide them for this omission and say, "I ought to spit in your face, sir." To that one time reputable journalist but now insider so ensconced with his political handlers as to deserve the title "kept whore," Bob Woodward: muster a big ball of phlegm in your throat and SPIT IN HIS FACE.

In mentioning the latter, I am reminded that the Sibel Edmonds case took an interesting turn in a follow-up to the Times story. Here, it was revealed that the State Dept. official (likely she refers to Marc Grossman) who had been aiding and abetting the mole network had also tipped off Turkish intelligence that Brewster Jennings & Associates was a CIA front company in nuclear counter-proliferation operations.

Now, another story that all of the above mentioned journalists did cover concerned the outing of Valerie Plame, a covert CIA agent associated with Brewster Jennings. It was believed at the time that in outing Valerie Plame, the Bush administration had also betrayed Brewster Jennings. But, as Edmonds alleges, the cat was already out of the bag. This would then resolve a few lingering issues in the Plame case. Scooter Libby of course was the official who was convicted of obstruction of justice. However, it was never alleged that it was he who first mentioned Plame's name to journalists. Rather, as was later revealed, it was Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage who casually discussed Plame with Bob Woodward. Armitage has washed his hands in this matter by claiming that he was unaware of Plame's covert status. This seems a likely story. However, perhaps he was aware instead that she was no longer covert, as the front company she had been associated with had long since been put out of commission.

Woodward, for his part in the conversation with Armitage, chimes in with the opinion that it's no big deal: "why does that have to be a big secret?" he asks. Both Armitage and Woodward seem to know much more than they let on. That they (and Woodward in particular, being after all a reporter) have nothing more to say on the matter suggests they have bigger fish, or underlings (Grossman was one rank beneath Armitage), or perhaps themselves, to protect.

Stir, Brewing Jinni, part II

To bring the nomenclature of our subject a little more down to earth, and to spell out a bit more of the recipe, here are some details:

;;;1981 phillipo guillupo brewster new york owner of the hipotronics company seen steel demolish itself along with his secretary;;;

Thus speaks the electromagnetic (EM) fool & magus (keep your Tarot deck on hand) John Hutchison, whose early contacts with the Military Industrial Complex (M/I-C) will fill out much of the history we are tracing.

Another M/I-C entity perhaps contributing ingredients to the recipe was founded by one Jo Emmett Jennings - a late contemporary of the previous century's EM magus Nikola Tesla. The company's website boasts...

Jennings holds the notable recognition of creating the first high voltage, vacuum, variable capacitor. This revolutionary discovery in 1942, as Jennings Radio Manufacturing Company, resulted in a capacitor offering application flexibility with its variable tuning capability and its small size.

Variably tuning, or scanning the high frequency spectrum at will, comprises a crucial element of the recipe, as the following suggests...

A complex high voltage, high frequency apparatus was assembled which when properly adjusted caused various material objects to accelerate in a vertical direction, against the gravitational field. Under some set of as yet undefined conditions, and particularly when "lift" does not take place, a target specimen will be fractured or disrupted in a catastrophic manner.

The link itself alludes to another recent Alchemical Wedding of sorts, as concerns another set of twins.

Enough said.

Recipe: Stir, Brewing Jinni

Happy April Fools Day.

This is as good an occasion as any to commence a line of research into matters of current history - whose currency stretches into the past thirty years or so - which will be updated periodically at this site. We proceed circumspectly, and will speak obliquely, harboring a healthy dose of paranoia, since after all this concerns matters that were intended to remain in concealment, invisibility, seclusion and remoteness, as the definition of the Jinni suggests.

Our subject heading says enough, as relates to a twin-bearing Alchemical Wedding of sorts that took place in April of 1997.

I leave off for now with this little ditty by Lawrence Wright.

Linda Lovelace for President!

I am presently screening "Linda Lovelace for President"

A very timely cinematic offering.... (I will petition to have this screened in the near future at the Art Damaged Lodge)

One snippet of the screenplay struck me as a bizarre prognostication:
:::
ANNOUNCER: Miss Linda Lovelace! May I have the envelope please...

LINDA LOVELACE: Oh this is so exciting, this is marvelous...
Our new Vice Presidential candidate, and my running mate, is number 42!...
...42? He didn't do anything!....

CROWD: Yeah!
:::

Consider: Linda Lovelace, star of DEEP THROAT, the first XXX blockbuster; and, "DEEP THROAT" - the anonymous source that sunk # 37, President Nixon.

And a little later on... # 42, President Clinton, apparently "Deep Throated" by "Monika LOW-IN-sky"...
But allegedly nothing more.... (deepending upon on what the definition of "SEX" is)


It makes you wonder, doesn't it? what kind of Divine, comical hand is at play..................................................


HILLARY.....how does your THROAT Stack Up?

I have a sharp eye for these little cracks in the dam sustaining the received wisdom of the 9/11 attacks. See my March 30, 07 entry on a somewhat conspicuous erratum committed by the al Qaeda chronicler, Lawrence Wright. Reading his The Looming Tower - nominally projecting the official narrative - gives one the impression that Bin Laden's organization was something more along the lines of a Keystone Cops of jihadism.
Such an impression is what Robert Baer perhaps had in mind at the end of his assessment of the recently assassinated Hezbollah figure Imad Mughniyeh, for comparison's sake...

ROBERT BAER, former CIA officer: Oh, he was -- we considered him truly a master at terrorism and even military operations. The hijacking at TWA-847, subsequent hijackings were all done extremely professional. We were lucky to catch him at TWA-847. It's still classified how we did it.

But he was truly one of the best. It's what we call tradecraft in the business. He would never go out the same exit he came in. He changed his name often, his call signs on radios. He had a very cohesive group.

Compartmentation is the word we use. He was truly the best beyond anything we see in Qaida

(sic)

So, then, the organization allegedly responsible for the single most extraordinary terrorist attack in history is relatively unimpressive in comparison to Mughniyeh? Now, while we would hardly expect Baer to speak openly about al Qaeda or 9/11 on the Newshour, by all counts a firm bastion for maintaining the myth and likely to remain so until the bitter end, we should note that he has done so elsewhere. But it was amusing nonetheless to see him pull that little jab. Needless to say, Maggie didn't ask him to elaborate and quickly changed the subject.