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SUCKERS PSYCHED on As far as dates are concerned, June 21 imparts physical and emotional viciousness. The delicate loss of light, serotonin-crazed philandering, and orgies of amazing fruit cocktails transform well-behaved gentlemen into a cabal of ruthless pleasure-paradigm pushers. About this time, Origin & Tectonics was about to drop and birthdays were in effect; I got a new suit and recovered my cowboy hat from the clutches of Bakersfield. After eating sushi, ‘beating up the kids from Spain,’ and going to a noise show featuring the staggering Chiara Giovando in tandem with some folk dingbat-loser, it was time to D.J. with a basketball, talk Alan Moore with mental roommates, and anticipate July. A time to Most of the guitars in this set were played slack-wrist’d. The flange on the opening song is definitely augmented by the insipid 48kbps fidelity of the Sony recorder. Jangle guitar has been dominating lately - the variation in strum speed allows for a new combination of guitar tones every lick. Think of the strings dancing, coming slightly closer to each other and then stepping back to rag a little, like life. This Adam and the Ants song executes the jangle fantastically in the second half. It sounds like the areas where the water flows. You know as I do that the hard/punk strum is awesome too, but that is for the winter solstice. Setlist: 0:03 WIRE – “Map Ref. 41 N 93 W” (which is in Iowa, USA by the way, what did they know that we don’t?) With you always, Mister Brians posted by mr. brian ORIGIN & TECTONICS, track the leventh, as it appears: "AAO"
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posted by mr. brian Elvis's Konspiracy Korner Live Saturday 15 September 0007 Fast & loose this week, throwing some paint at the ominous outlines that may or may not be converging within and without one's control. I am generally not one to make predictions (it is much more pleasant to simply discuss the ride over a drink as the scenery drifts by), but consider this a bit of a 'gut feeling' edition. The going has indeed gotten weirder since "football season" ended, and with a fresh orgy of corporate gladiators demanding our attentions let us pick our particular American winter feel and turn our eyes thusly: BACKGROUND, FOREGROUND, KORP NARRATIVE WATCH I have always been skeptical of the ability (although not the will) of the current civilian administration to take military action against Iran, but along with others am growing increasingly close to the '50/50' line these days. Bush's recent designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as terrorists certainly doesn't bode well, and the general narrative as typified by the front page of the New York Times seemed to intensify somewhat and notably shift away from the nuclear angle and more toward alleged Iranian involvement in Iraq. The recent shuck-jive by General Petraeus in front of Congress was playing this angle to the hilt, and none of this can be reassuring to anyone born before, say, March 2003. Israel may have claimed to be targeting fledgling North Korea-sourced nuclear sites in recent air strikes on Syria, but all parties involved (Iran included) seem rather eager to get a full regional shitstorm party started sooner than later. The significant deployment of US carrier strike groups in the Persian Gulf has been maddeningly difficult to confirm and follow over the past 18 months, but some sources are currently chattering about a very ominous deployment of three groups lead by the USS Enterprise, USS Nimitz and USS Truman by the end of this month. I am similarly not in a position to confirm or explain the probable significance of the proposed Iranian Oil Bourse and a withdrawal of its oil trade from the dollar and toward an Euro-based exchange, but it certainly is interesting to note that the last 'brinkman' to pull this move was Saddam Hussein, in 2000. WARMING YOUR 'MCMANSION', POST-PEAK All of the above, of course, should not be looked at in isolation from what appears to finally be the simultaneous beginning of the end for: the bullshit mortgage/real estate/credit binge of the past decade; oil that does anything but continue to rise steadily past record levels; and the yanqui dollar itself - the lynchpin of the whole house of cards. However you view the various factions at the very top of the 'bankster' elites, it is clear that the Fed is frantically defibrillating a corpse - albeit a still warm one. Yesterday's interest rate cut may have lofted a Dow Jones Industrial Average that was already crashing when it was at its recent "record high", but the race toward price inflation felt at very painful & basic levels of contemporary American lives is well on its way. The questions, as always, are: how hard? how fast? and of course but what if? BUT WHAT IF? The recently purported billions in "Bin Laden trades" betting on a steep fall in both the S&P 500 and Euro-STOXX indices by 9/21 may have been a case of dim-witted mass hysteria, a psyop of some sort, or just your everyday market-media manipulation. But some other weirdness within and just outside the korp media narratives has my intuition at elevated levels of counterproductive voyeurism. Won't you join me? Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov abruptly resigned last week, with Putin surprisingly replacing him with Viktor Zubkov rather than the perceived heir apparent Sergei Ivanov. Regardless of what the reasons or outcome may be at that level, let us not ignore Fradkov's official reason for his resignation: "approaching significant political events". What couldn't he stomach? Was it in any way related to what recently absconded Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Shinzo Abe are glimpsing in their crystal balls? Were Karl "MC" Rove and Alberto "Bad Cop" Gonzales just sick and tired of the relentless persecution by the potent and tireless 'journalists' who make up the Washington press corps? Did Rep. Paul Gillmor take a fatal fall down the stairs because he was running too fast toward some semblance of reform in the currently extra-wacko credit markets? Did any of these Minot Air Force Base personnel know something about the following paragraphs weeks, or months ago? INSERT DIRTY HARRY JOKE HERE An Army Times report of 9/5 disclosed that on 8/30 a B-52 bomber was armed with five nuclear warheads and flown from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. The above linked story now includes the "correction" that there were in fact six, not five warheads on the plane. Indeed, you can still find multiple korp news accounts of both five and six missiles being temporarily unaccounted for: five, five, five - six, six, six, etc. Regardless, the incident represented such a serious, thorough, and unprecedented breakdown in protocol that to assume it was an accident would be the more wildly speculative approach. The conservative 'wtf' angle suggests a thwarted move by the Cheney faction to hit Iran. The fact that Barksdale is used as a staging area for fighters on their way to West Asia and the reality of military resistance to Cheney & co's push to attack Iran make this quite plausible. Another bizarre twist was the USAF responding to the leak by publicly announcing a grounding of all fighter patrols over the country on 9/14 (or was it all this week as well?). But what about that half-missing nuke? NOT NEWS BECOMES VERY STRANGE NEWS On 9/3 "maverick" millionaire pilot Steve Fossett took off from Barron Hilton's private air strip on his Rhode Island-sized ranch (comprised of leased federal land) southeast of Lake Tahoe. Fossett, who was supposedly scouting for flat land suitable for an attempt to break the land speed record, has not been heard from since. Fossett, who as a Stanford undergrad swam to Alcatraz two years after its closure to hoist a "BEAT CAL" banner upon its walls, had made his millions on the floor of the Chicago Stock Exchange, was no rank amateur in the cockpit, and his disappearance was considered unusual due to his previous adventures and practice of keeping in close contact via satellite phone even when in remote locations. I had frankly never heard of the guy and was ignoring this story until it was disclosed that the search & rescue team ostensibly combing the Nevada desert for Fossett was composed of two dozen aircraft including Blackhawk and Kiowa helicopters. Thicker still, the search - which has only today been "scaled back" after over two weeks of very active patrol - has been lead by Air Force General Henry C. "Hank" Morrow (no relation!). Morrow is a serious bigwig and is a commander of NORAD and NORTHCOM. He is in charge of defending American airspace from threats - including those from space. In other words, exactly the guy you would expect to conduct a missing person search! Fossett's projected flight path and the subsequent search area encompass some very heavy and very classified clusters of federal land including - but of course - Area 51. This is "trespassers will be shot on sight" territory. Since the search began they have reportedly recovered at least half a dozen previously undiscovered crash sites, within what is now being referred to as the "Bermuda Triangle" of the states. What have they been looking for so intently in the Nevada dessert? THE BOGEYMAN'S ODDS, ENDS On 9/4 the Pentagon confirmed that China had successfully hacked the network of Defense Secretary Gates. Was a similar security breach involved in the B-52 nuke scenario? Was the B-52 debacle merely a convenient way to shuffle some papers and 'disappear' a nuclear warhead? Does that half-missing warhead have anything to do with the wildly disproportionate "search for Steve Fossett" in the desert of the southwest? Would an attack on Iran be desirable by certain factions within the current administration? Would a well-placed false flag operation get us all there sooner than later? Do you remember the flags on the streets six years ago? We are currently headed into a period during which multiple high level, large scale, simultaneous war games will be at play domestically. From October 15-20 Operation Vigilant Shield 08, coordinated by the aforementioned NORAD and NORTHCOM, will simulate responses to several radiological weapons detonated in the western US. From October 15-24 the Department of Homeland Security will run TOPOFF 4, a similar exercise testing response across multiple agencies to radiological devices detonated in Guam, Portland and Phoenix. No matter what side of the knives you come down upon (well, unless you believe the 9/11 Commission did its job), it is inarguable that the multiple war games taking place on the morning of 9/11 played a significant role in the lack of response to that morning's events. The Los Angeles Times recounts U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones attending a FEMA emergency preparedness workshop in August 2001. FEMA discussed three catastrophic events likely to occur within the US: a major terrorist attack on Manhattan, a super-strength hurricane hitting the Gulf coast, and a major earthquake along the San Andreas fault. Seismologists currently disagree as to whether or not an earthquake could be induced by the use of a nuclear device. I note that many well-trained Blackwater mercenaries may soon be returning from Iraq. As I have discussed previously, Blackwater personnel were quickly on the ground in New Orleans following the flooding, and they have already met with Governor Schwarzenegger. Regardless, the elites will never lack the need for a solid Praetorian guard, no? Indeed, it not difficult to envision the need increasing rapidly in the near future. No lines drawn this week, my friends, only dots - enjoy. 'leven' (special tips o' th' konsp to all the charming doomers at the LATOC Forum for keeping the gears spinning lately) posted by elvis TANKERTOWN weekly web comickxs
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