After years of thought and preparation, The Smog Chronicles were born.
Since inception late last year, Cloud City Sessions have provided another vehicle for my perspective. They've proven a more encouraging forum for my expression. Though the music contains a powerful message; listening can also be used to motivate production. Whether driving, working out, or thinking creatively; music can be transformed from sound to work. Taking a step back from focusing on manufactured news reports and contrived conflict, I've been working to explore and ingest as many musical forms and stylings as possible to provide the best possible radio.
My love for baseball has also found a groove with High & Tight; another healthy outlet of late. I've long credited MLB as my distraction of choice, my focus on it now yields an hour of discussion each week. Thanks to those of you who've taken time out to listen to my programing.
Balance is the key to all things; mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. As involved as I may get into these distractions; they will not sway me from my true calling. Balance is the goal. Focus on discipline; constructive thinking and action. As natural earth events, international political and economic activity continue to unravel, an increase in creative thought and action is required to maintain balance. While I've leaned heavily towards audio of late; events have naturally drawn me right back to the soul of The Smog Chronicles.
In intelligence parlance a legend is defined as the complete cover story developed for an under or deep-cover operative. A trail or record has to be put in place over a long period to establish credibility matching the operative's assigned cover.
The Osama bin Laden that was killed yesterday was a straw man who, among other things, gave a significant boost to Barack Obama's 2012 re-election hopes. But I sense there is much more to the story than this. The first step in assessing the theater surrounding last night's late announcement is to not fall into the trap of analyzing it as if it were the truth.
Killing a legend made of lies requires an entire new set of lies, which present new, well-chosen options to control and influence public opinion. The second step is to not yield to the instinctive desire to find immediate explanations. It took me three years of totally dedicated research to conclude, argue and state that Dick Cheney and the United States government orchestrated and executed the attacks of September 11th as a pretext to seize oil reserves in the Middle East.
When a legend fabricated from lies dies the only way to kill that legend is to tell more lies, all in furtherance of a (perhaps new) specific agenda.
Michael C. Ruppert 5/2/11
Society has once again been served an assimilating event on which to hang it's hat. Though it's too early to dissect and determine the exact motive for this story and its construction; some components are obvious straight out of the gate.
The young white "crowds" featured on Sunday night and Monday morning celebrating the alleged killing were clearly assembled by the same agency responsible for generating "crowds" protesting the US and it's military action in Pakistan. This same agency invented the so-called "Al Qaeda" classification and has once again invented threats against the US and produced similar contrived "crowds" of bin Laden sympathizers for the news cameras to capture. Concentrated, televised groups (made to look like masses) serving the same agenda though separated by thousands of miles and international borders. Note the fresh-out-of-the-package American flags waived by our smiling youth on the streets of NY and DC; while burned at the same time by their screaming counterpart in the Middle East. Note the playing to the camera and stretching to fill the frame by all. Mr. John Perkins, the self-dubbed "Economic Hitman" has spoken and written extensively about this technique and it's use over the past half-century.
Those in charge acknowledged the power of media, the vulnerability of the people and how easily they could be manipulated long ago.
The story told thus far is based exclusively on hearsay via the White House and national media. No first hand accounts, no witnesses, and only a rumor of photographic evidence support the legend. More "information" is uncovered with each passing hour, much like the days following 9/11. The scene, the compound, the special forces team and it's accolades, the plan reportedly initiated by the president, the intelligence gathered leading up to the mission, what's been uncovered at the site, stories with new details released throughout the day. The script of "what happened" will continue to be written in the weeks ahead. I expect in the end an "official" timeline will be agreed upon and logged like The 9/11 Commission Report; the most insulting book in American history.
I implore you to find the courage to think independently, use your intuition and rational mind as your senses are barraged with details of this fable as it continues to unfold. We are living in a time of radically advanced thinking, learning, and accessibility to information. The history books our grandchildren inherit must contain the true accounts of events that unfolded creating the Earth they experience. Integrity is the most important lesson children can be taught, it is required that we lead by example.
The time is now.
