Apocalypse Now?: New world order could have devastating implications for Western nations

[You have to read between the lines in mainstream pieces like this, everything is planned an organized, including all the apocalyptic chaos (wars/weather/financial/etc) from which they will bring order out of in a few years.] It's a Peter Oborne opinion piece which makes sense, I was quite impressed with his Shouldn't Happen to a Muslim. The world won't end, but billions will die; when I refer to apocalypse this is all I mean, not some biblical literally everyone on Earth perishing in fire and brimstone. Things like this (they are desperate to get Pakistan under extremist control, an extremist they have total control over obviously; or at least attacks like these help portray Pakistan as being an extremist nation thus putting it on the same side as Iran in the coming global conflict) are all about setting up the sides for World War 3. The new world order he refers to in his title is the one we are all familiar with, the one that will come out of all the chaos he is writing about, all of which is fully organized. Here's the link.

Almost exactly seven years ago Al Qaeda terrorists targeted their hijacked planes into the Twin Towers at the heart of New York’s financial centre — and the world was transformed.

There were no deaths this week, but the effects of the carnage on the financial markets will be far more profound and destabilising than the 9/11 atrocity.

For almost all of us, it will, I predict, be a change for the worse, and for a large minority the consequences will be extremely distressing.

Here comes the apocalpse: Is the Western world entering a nightmare scenario, as depicted by Edvard Munch?

The Western world — Britain, Europe and the U.S. — has moved from excess to austerity overnight. This week’s financial typhoon will savagely impact living standards.

In due course, it will topple governments and lead to a permanent transfer of economic and political power from Europe and America to the emergent and, in some cases, such as China, semi-barbarous economies in the East.

I know I will be accused of being unnecessarily apocalyptic and irresponsibly negative, but I believe that the greatest mistake we can now make is to downplay the seriousness of the situation and bury our heads in the sand.

The seismic events which have seen the near-destruction of the investment banking sector and the collapse of insurance giant AIG are on the scale of the Great Crash of 1929.

That was such a disaster because it created conditions for the emergence of fascism in continental Europe and then World War II.

Although it is hard to predict the consequences, we should expect ramifications of equal significance — including the re-emergence of violent Far Right parties across the globe.

Some experts were talking this week as if the financial crisis was nearly over. They
could not be more wrong. The downturn has only just begun — and for most citizens
uninvolved with finance the consequences have not been felt at all.

But they will be felt very soon and very brutally. The British economy is in the same position as the Texan coast earlier this month as Hurricane Ike approached — apparently calm, with life going on as normal, but an almighty storm is raging just over the horizon and heading our way with terrifying speed.

We can expect a sharp increase in personal bankruptcies. Yet the numbers will not peak until this time next year at the earliest.

Hundreds of thousands of people will lose their jobs, with many forced to sell their houses. Property prices will slump.

There will be extreme human suffering, panic and despair. Many careers will be destroyed. This is considerably worse than the downturn of the early 1990s.

The orthodoxy from the British Government, the Confederation of British Industry and elsewhere that there will be a mild slowdown ending late next year is nonsense.

This crisis is vicious, dynamic and only just beginning.

Even those of us lucky enough not to lose our jobs and our homes will have friends and relatives who do.

Let us examine, first, the fate of City bankers from firms such as Lehman Brothers — all summarily dismissed when their firm went under this week.

They will receive no severance payment and almost no chance ever again of benefiting from the six-figure salaries and massive bonuses they have taken for granted over the past few years.

That means they cannot service the huge mortgages they have taken out on hugely expensive houses. So this weekend they have become forced sellers — which means that thousands of new For Sale signs will be going up in London and the South-East in the coming weeks.

Personal bankruptcy:Traders and investment bankers face an uncertain future

If these unemployed investment bankers had the misfortune to buy anywhere near the top of the market, they now face the prospect of personal bankruptcy.

This is because they will find that their houses are worth much less than they paid for
them, and will therefore be unable to repay their loan.

With so many vendors on the market obliged to sell at any price, it can be assumed that any London house will fetch 25 per cent less this weekend than it would have done this time last week.

Many of the younger bankers — those in their 20s and 30s with young families — now face utter disaster.

Of course, there is scant public sympathy for these former ‘masters of the universe’ who enjoyed good times.

But we already know that Thursday’s merger of Lloyds Bank and HBOS (supposing it
is completed: contrary to statements by Chancellor Alistair Darling, this is by no means certain) will lead directly to the loss of some 40,000 jobs among
bank workers.

There will be bloodletting on every High Street where there is both an HBOS and Lloyds outlet — one branch will undoubtedly be closed.

But that body-blow is just the start. Over the coming months, the financial typhoon will mercilessly spread outwards and wreak devastation on the economy.

Banks will foreclose on thousands of small businesses. Massive corporate failures are inevitable.

These disasters will then rebound on the financial sector, as company bankruptcies
and plunging house prices force fresh balance sheet write-downs and yet more sackings.

Unemployment — already rising fast and up 80,000 over the summer — is set to surge ahead and will increase well above the two million predicted by economists.

This will produce a vicious spiral. Every worker out of a job means less tax receipts and higher welfare payments.

In last March’s Budget (a work of fiction when it was published), Alistair Darling forecast borrowing this year of £43 billion. Even at the time, this figure was shockingly large.

It meant that only Egypt, Pakistan and Hungary among significant world economies had more profligate government spending than Britain.

As of this weekend, Government borrowing is out of control.

It will soar nearer £100 billion next year — more than double Darling’s estimate. This will cast doubt about Britain’s ability to finance our debt in the international
credit markets.

The International Monetary Fund has already warned Darling about his reckless spending. In the months to come, it will demand cuts in government spending, just as it did in the 1970s when the then Labour Chancellor, Denis Healey, had to beg for an IMF loan.

Warned: Government borrowing is twice Chancellor Alistair Darling's estimate and has bought a rebuke from the IMF

Darling will have to take urgent, painful action to reverse the splurge of recent expenditure — welcomed by financially ignorant Labour MPs — on public services, in particular health and education.

And whereas the responsible wing of the Labour Government, as it did in the 1970s, will support this prudence, the Left will call for extra spending to save jobs.

It is likely that the Labour Party will split on this issue — just as it did in the aftermath of the Crash in 1931 and again at the start of the 1980s. In the medium term, the only resolution to this debt crisis is a rise in inflation, as governments are forced to print money to fend off depression.

Savers should thus brace themselves for the return of double-digit price rises not seen since the early 1980s.

Driven by poverty, crime will also soar — particularly crimes against property. We should also brace ourselves for a return of political violence to the streets.

Certainly the British National Party will use the economic downturn to agitate against immigrants, accusing them of having ‘stolen British jobs’.

The BNP made some striking gains at last May’s elections, and these will continue in the European elections next June.

This is the troubling prospect we face. But the worldwide consequences are just as significant and we can expect the Euro to fail under the strain of economic collapse.

The Euro has never been tested by adversity. The single currency’s architects made one foolish mistake when they set it up ten years ago: they established monetary union ahead of political union.

In long-established democracies such as Britain and the United States, it is natural for one area of the country to help the other in times of difficulty.

For instance, there was no strong objection when taxpayers in the South were asked to bail out Northern Rock, even though its operations were concentrated in the North-East.

Fascist threat: Far right parties such as Jean-Marie Le Pen's FN in France could exploit the situation

However, that is not the case in mainland Europe where French taxpayers would refuse to contribute huge sums to bail out, say, the Italian banking sector.

That is why the Euro is likely to be destroyed by the coming economic storm — just as Britain’s membership of the European monetary system was smashed on Black Wednesday 1992.

The truth is that this week’s seismic events will come as a crashing humiliation to the European political class.

Like in Britain, this crisis will be exploited by the Far Right in countries such as France, Holland and Austria.

These countries have powerful neo-fascist parties which will relish recession, in particular singling out for blame ethnic minorities, just as the Nazis did in Germany after the 1929 crash.

The good news is that Britain — despite the efforts of Tony Blair and others — remains outside the Euro.

It means we can control our interest rates and allow the pound to depreciate, unlike so many European countries, some of which (such as Ireland) are already being devoured by recession.

Wall Street Crash: The US became more insular after the stock market crashed in 1929

But the biggest worry is what will happen in the U.S. Ever since the end of World War II, America has been the world’s policeman.

It has been able to play this role, and see off perceived enemies, such as Soviet Russia and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, because for the past 60 years it has been the greatest global economic power.

The most important question facing the world today is whether the U.S. — already crippled by the estimated $2 trillion cost of financing the Iraq occupation — can afford to continue its global role.

The historical precedent is far from encouraging.

After the 1929 crash, the U.S. turned in on itself, resorting to protectionism.

It re-engaged with the world only after the attack by Japan at Pearl Harbour in December 1941.

It is too early to say for sure, but it is possible that America is at a similar turning point in its history.

President Bush’s decision to pour taxpayers’ money into so many bankrupt financial institutions has led to an explosion of U.S. national debt which will be hugely exacerbated by yesterday’s move in Washington.

As a result, U.S. global creditworthiness is in jeopardy, and it is likely that at some stage over the next decade the dollar will lose its unchallenged status as the world’s reserve currency.

There are signs that this process has already begun.

For this weakening of the currency was the fate of sterling in the economic crisis of the 1930s.

Indeed, the subsequent decision to take the pound off the Gold Standard in 1931 marked the effective end of the British Empire.

Rising power: China has emerged as a threat to US power, and the recent Beijing Olympics have only added to its stature

America’s global dominance — already threatened by the emergence of rival economic powers such as China — may soon be coming to its end.

The U.S. will probably retreat inwardly, becoming isolationist, at any rate temporarily — opening the way to a new and even more menacing global order.

It is inevitable that America will soon withdraw from Iraq, leaving its bitter enemy, Iran, unchallenged as the dominant regional power.

China will become ever more assertive and will want to humiliate Washington by seizing control of Taiwan, something the White House will be powerless to resist. It will move on to threaten nearby India.

Africa will become the scene of proxy wars between China and the West, just as it was the scene of proxy wars between the United States and Soviet Russia for much of the post-war period.

China, much to U.S. fury, will also start to meddle in Latin America.

The world that will emerge from the Great Crash of 2008, therefore, will be dark and unpredictable.

This weekend, all sensible families will go through their finances, anticipate the inevitable problems that lie ahead, and cut back at once on unnecessary spending such as eating out, second cars and foreign holidays.

For the past 25 years we have lived through a glorious party.

We have all — governments, companies, banks and, of course, consumers — lived beyond our means and are paying the price.

This weekend the hangover begins. It will be prolonged.

Life will be much closer to the austerity that followed World War II than the frenzied, debt-fuelled boom of the past two decades.

Perhaps our lives will be none the worse for all this. Our values will certainly change — many will say not before time.

Material objects should count for much less.

Almost overnight we have entered a new world, and we must learn to make the best of it.

Danny the Dog, Rosebery 7470, Eden Log and Other Movies

[I havn't seen most of these in a few months so might have remembered something wrong, just wanted to put a few movies that I've been meaning to cover, none of them are major blockbuster movies which I'll leave for their own posts (Dark Knight, Wanted etc), obviously major spoilers follow.]

Wanted to cover a few movies I've had on my hard drive for a while, firstly Danny the Dog which I'll just paste the plot from wiki (this is more than possible): "Unleashed is the story of Danny (Jet Li), a man who has lived his entire life as a slave. Raised since childhood by vicious loan shark "Uncle" Bart (Bob Hoskins), Danny has been trained like a dangerous human attack dog, used to beat people who have not paid their loan back to Bart. When Danny has his collar on, he is tame and harmless, but once Bart takes his collar off (and tells him to attack), Danny becomes a vicious, brutal fighter.[through programming yes?] Although a grown man, Danny still has the mentality of a child, and is forced to live in squalor, naive and innocent of the real world."

Bob Hoskins' character murders Danny's mother when he was a kid and kidnaps him [they have Danny behind a door], making him his own personal literal attack dog. Turning people into animals is something done often in programming as it is part of the dehumanization process [along with usual trauma, his collar along with the phrase "attack/kill" were programmed as the triggers]; ones like dogs are usually the protector alter because they are vicious; hence Danny's fighting skills (super-human feats because of access to other parts of the brain most do not). Can't remember if the collar had electroshocks on it but this technique is used on actual dogs in programming them in dog fighting and such, the BBC put out a good documentary about the horrific inbreeding/training (programming) of dogs/etc [and their unsurprising eugenics connection] here's a link to a summary. Note the pentagram below on the collar, we (average people on the street) are nothing but dogs to them, and we all worship God/doG.

The next film, Rosebery 7470 is obviously deeply disturbing but quite well done in terms of portraying victims' fragmented minds in a visual way [every time she has a flashback and/or undergoes some form of trauma (abused by her father + mother's mental abuse in the flashbacks) the image becomes fractured/blurry/confused, check it out in the trailer below]. But the title "Rose"and 747 suggests that this is not a positive creation but a negative one; the actress who plays the main traumatized girl, Alison Asquith is Alice Ansara, and naturally it comes from Australia (Oz). The red shoes are consciously used, showing the Oz programming/abuse and how it ties into this [this kind of specific use of red shoes is used in many things showing the extent of it]. Various traumas are shown, such as the removing of a fetus, incest and physical abuse whilst tied up etc. She is obviously shown as being totally out of it [having dissociated so often]. I'm surprised this trailer is even allowed...

Fractured glass/mind symbolism during some verbal abuse.

Note black/white duality top.

It's very well done with loads of split/fractured mind symbolism and showing it from Alis' perspective (how she'd see the abuse, as a series of fractured/confused scenes from her past that she can vaguely remember because she dissociated throughout most of it causing amnesia of said events; in outright programming these memories would be completely whiped through intentionally created amnesia walls). Alice and the director both won an award for this. Here's the plot summary [obviously completely misses the point]:

Rosebery 7470 will plunge you into the disturbing depths of a stagnant Tasmanian mining town, where one young girl's nightmares, fantasies and realities collide.

The ambitious debut feature from experimental filmmaker Stefan Popescu: be prepared for an injection of insanity and tragedy straight to the eyeball. Rosebery 7470 is disturbing.

Trapped by the perversity of being, Alison, a young woman from the Tasmanian mining town of Rosebery, loses her grip on reality and plunges into a world of nightmares and fantasy.

Demanding and visually arresting, Popescu uses his unique experimental style to create a visceral and monstrous world.

Through a (The Looking) Glass Darkly by Kathleen Koen [KK]
Splid mind symbolism below (the camera stays on this half face shot as she moves)

Just before the father removes the fetus (at home, not sure about anaesthetics or anything) she is tied up and ritualistically puts the red shoes on her.

Final shot of the movie has her father with a heart and her bleeding onto her red shoes.

Really quick mentioning of the film with Dennis Hopper in (have you seen Space Truckers? Total mind control) Sleepwalking playing an abusive father which is essentially why Nick Stahl (another ritual puppet, first film "The Man Without a Face" at age 13, John Connor, Templar christ-like figure in Carnivale etc.) is "sleepwalking", dissociated from reality, "in his own world" so to speak. He eventually snaps and kills his dad because he abused him and his sister's kid, the usual mind control undertones are present ("I'll split your head open like a pumpkin"... "You think I can't break you." and such, various symbolisms too which I can't remember at present)

Sticking with Nick Stahl, in the movie Quid Pro Quo he plays a man paralyzed from the waste down who went through significant trauma as an 8 year old in a car crash that killed his parents (he doesn't remember any of it), but the kicker for this one is that he was not pyhsically paralyzed, it was all in his mind (showing the mind's power over the physical body, hence all these feats that come about from programming [when you can access previously inaccessible areas of the brain this is possible]; people can be programmed to think their legs are paralyzed/arms/whatever and genuinely not be able to move it [also done through simple hypnosis and drugs of course]), and some "magic shoes" he finds subconsciously triggers his mind to being able to walk again.

Also by Magnolia films, one with Uma Thurman; with more trauma/mind control symbolism as a Columbine (mind controlled attack) style event occurs at their school when she was a kid. There is the standard memory suppression/flashback theme we find in many mind control movies, as we finally realize Uma's character Diana is actually dead [so this all existed in an alter-reality]. The child-Diana has a butterfly tattoo on her hand and when she is shot there is an infinity mirror scene mixed with loads of water [apologiez for black and white, only had a DVD screener]. The poster is also standard mind control with Uma mirrored, but the reflection isn't Uma it's the girl I think.

A quick mentioning of the film Emotional Arithmetic would be worthwhile as it was surprisingly enjoyable (usually hate that drama/relationship crap); it's about a group of three who were held in an "internment camp" by the Nazis and were thusly subjected to loads of trauma (hence their fragile mental states). The most fragile of the survivors is the old man who saved them, Jakob who spent most of the time after that in a Russian Psychiatric Facility, where we know mind control experiments were done en-masse; and this is described in the movie where he tells of being electroshocked and subjected to other significant traumas. War is trauma based mind control/ritual sacrifice en-masse, that's all it's ever been and ever will be until we revolt against the insane fuckers that bring about these totally insane wars destroying the psyche's of entire generations with each delusional war.

Eden Log next which resonates/synchs up to many different themes (nature taking over, fuck'd up gov't experiments, and others), this I thought was really quite excellent. A man wakes up with amnesia with no clue where he is or why (you eventually find out he was one of the gov't stormtroopers), he is sometimes taken over by the base-anger/primal fear alter which leads him to do horrific things such as rape a woman leaving her traumatized, shocking/totally confusing himself that he would do such a thing, I think this happens in an elevator. Other mind control symbolisms are naturally present such as a prominent revolving door, people trapped in cubes, spiral staircase, one eyed shots, the tree logo with it's roots.

The people are harvested in cubes, above is the spiral staircase.

Wouldn't be mind control without the colossal glass dome shattering because the tree roots grow out destroying modern civilization.

Note twin towers eyes as the very final shot of the movie.

There are a few more I want to cover but I'll just do one more for now, Insanitarium. The mind control in this goes without saying (it's an insane asylum), here's the wiki plot: The film follows a man (Jesse Metcalfe), faking insanity, in order to save his sister (Kiele Sanchez) who has been involuntarily institutionalized. The siblings soon find that the strange doctor at the asylum (Peter Stormare) has been testing an experimental compound on the patients that seems to be turning them into flesh eating psychopaths. The two siblings band together with a terminally paranoid man (Kevin Sussman) and a helpful nurse (Olivia Munn) in the hopes of finding a way out of the asylum. At the end of the film, the two siblings are trapped in a police car, while the patients escape into the outside world. It ends with a panning shot, revealing the city below the asylum's hillside location.

Resonates Joker Jack Nicholson's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest which obviously has similar themes. Standard mind control techniques include electroshocks, but there are various other subtle hints at mind control such as fractured glass, self-mutilation (to fake being insane), one insane dude pulls the head off a cat (not pictured), loss of limbs, cannibalism and such things.

Edit: Meant to add this, a video with clips from the infamous American Mcgee's Alice [movie and game remake coming out at some point] called Insanitarium, standard themes.

The End is Nigh!

Upside Down Rainbows [did you notice the MASONS NEWS SERVICE?], strange weather is a afoot (with all these manufactured hurricanes hitting America to and whatnot). This cover of Murdoch's The Times I found interesting, it shows the banking sector/square mile [wrote about this stuff ages ago] with all it's Freemasonic banking buildings covered in 9/11 resonating dust, with only the Freemasonic monuments (squares, pyramids) pointing out of the ashes. Again, this whole "financial crisis" is so contrived it's unreal [by the bankers/Freemasons who make MASSIVE profits... REVOLT!!!]. Note how they've got the Canary Wharf Tower [note ALL the numerology there, 771ft tall, 130,130 square metres of office space [hadn't heard of that shard of glass building mentioned in that link], and I wonder what fucked up occult blood rituals they do on the 13th floor... mysterious, but not really when you consider they are obsessed with this kind of occult numerology and ritual thinking (hence the ritual occultism in all their architecture)] with it's pyramid at the top with smoke coming out of the 'capstone' for some reason... Anyway, link to random twister story for Oz resonance. The K-oz is building...

Visitors to Devon would normally expect to have a few late, sunny days at this time.

However, Britain's bizarre weather took another strange turn when this spectacular twister twirled its way across the county's coastline, yesterday.

Witnesses watched as the mini tornado-style phenomenon appeared on the horizon off Torquay.

Spectacular sight: The twister draws water up into the air

Local resident Alison Heather, 21, photographed the scene at 2.30pm on Wednesday and described it as 'breathtaking'.

She said: 'It was moving across the bay and you could actually see that it was drawing the sea spray up a couple of hundred feet in the air.

'It wasn't the sort of thing you expect to see here. It was breathtaking.'

Gathering storm: Witnesses were amazed by the twister spiral towards Berry Head

A spokesman for the Western Lady ferry service said one of their skippers logged the twister at 2.20pm around two miles east of Berry Head.

He said:' The skipper saw a long thin formation come down from the sky, and when it was near the surface, water was sucked up to meet it.

'It was a bit spooky recall because on land here it suddenly went cold and dark for ten minutes. It was very unusual weather for this part of the world.'

Witness Dave Perry added: 'It was right on the horizon and lots of people were looking at it. It was like a giant water spout.

Spotted: A witness took this photograph of the twister that suddenly appeared on the coast

'First of all we thought it was a cloud but then we saw it was actually sucking up the water. I haven't seen anything like it before here.'

A tornado is a violent, rotating column of air which is in contact with both the surface of the earth and the base of a cloud. [Oz cyclone yes?]

But a spokesman for the Met Office said the 'twister' was more likely to be a water spout - an intense column of cloud that occurs over a body of water.

Mercury

Bloc Party's new video - Mercury. Love it (not sure about the song though) think it's a Bush parody (can't make out some of the words written though so I'm probably wrong) or something (GWB was literally built [through programming], Vale/Yale university, skeleton secret society parody of Skull and Bones at Yale, 2.3 thing), pretty symbolic anyway... insane fuckers that rule the planet (they create and prop up the leaders to cause chaos, shown in this video) are bringing about the apocalypse [and all the chaos in general throughout history, whilst they're tucked away safe in their luxury underground bunkers and whatnot].

Also David Kelly was murdered by the government obviously. Here's Thom Yorke's Harrowdown Hill song about it. More supportive evidence that Kelly was murdered has come up recently which I saw on Red Ice, here's the link. Harrowdown Hill: Did I fall or was I pushed? Where's the blood.....?

The World's Gone Postal, by Design

Apocalypse kicks off here.

Ends here.

[Images from Postal movie, based on the sick but extremely fun game Postal (I only ever played Postal 2), the movie appeals to anarchist gamer humour, also featuring mind control cults (with insanely hot female followers) and such things]

Much better quality here but no embedding, Realm of Connections has it covered: Tinsley Twin Towers [also check out that Myra Hindley thing, (probably) mind controlled child killer in the Olympics video (celebrating their historical achievements; i.e. mind controlled serial killers like Hindley and Brady)].