Psychopaths and Sycophants

A world full of killing and hatred and greed,
isn't a world that most of need.
But it's run by some nuts,
with their heads up the butts
Of conscienceless sociopath seed.

If you are normal, and I use the term loosely, you have probably wondered how in God's name the world became so fucked up. You wonder how good-meaning people could have invented a system so diabolical that half the world is starving and the other half is wondering if they'll eat next week.

When you step back and look at the world at large, you may see as I do that so-called civilization is run by psychopaths aided by sycophants. The lowest estimate I have found of psychopathic occurrence in a population is 1%, the highest 4%. At just one percent, there are some three million of these mental cases in the United States alone and only about half of them are institutionalized (prison or mental.)

From Wikipedia:

Common characteristics of those with psychopathy are:

• Grandiose sense of self-worth

• Superficial charm

• Criminal versatility

• Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others

• Impulse control problems

• Irresponsibility

• Inability to tolerate boredom

• Pathological narcissism

• Pathological lying

• Shallow affect

• Deceitfulness/manipulativeness

• Aggressive or violent tendencies, repeated physical fights or assaults on others

• Lack of empathy

• Lack of remorse, indifferent to or rationalizes having hurt or mistreated others

• A sense of extreme entitlement

• Lack of or diminished levels of anxiety/nervousness and other emotions

• Promiscuous sexual behavior, sexually deviant lifestyle

• Poor judgment, failure to learn from experience

• Lack of personal insight

• Failure to follow any life plan

• Abuse of drugs including alcohol

• Inability to distinguish right from wrong

So, at least 1.5 million sociopaths are at large in America at any given moment. They run the gamut of social class, but those from families with money tend to be well-protected from incarceration. If mental illness is inherited, and you know damned well it is, there must be many psychotic families with generations of inherited wealth. After all, a family with money but no conscience can easily multiply its wealth.

It is logical, therefore, to assume that most of the truly wealthy are either psychopathic or have psychopathic tendencies. A casual look at history proves my hypothesis that the world is run by those who deserve to be locked up by the other five-sixths of us! Instead, we bow to their money, their power and their superficial intelligence.

The world is an insane asylum and the nuts are in charge.

Politicians repeatedly promise “change” and “hope” but deliver only more oppression. Businessmen attract our investment into what are now clearly simple Ponzi schemes. The psychopaths lure sycophants into becoming judges, lawyers and policemen. Every sin against humanity is legalized and enforced by cooperation between fools and their anti-social masters.

Everything is controlled by money and the psychopaths control the money. We have the best government that money can buy! Those that don't play along with the system are made to comply through threats of violence. You work to eat, you eat to work. Who do you work for?

The nut jobs are outnumbered, but they have carefully cultivated the environment to stay
empowered.

They control the media, education, voting and religion to name just a few things. Better you ask what is it they don't control? They have the army, the police and the hearts and minds of the brainwashed. Very few people today see through the ruse to control themselves. The control system is so complete that most people don't understand they are being controlled. The few that understand find it easier to acquiesce than to promote real change. Most people have just given up.

Take a good look around and I think you'll see, that most of what is, doesn't have to be.

There is no reason for the Federal Reserve or the Income tax. America existed for 150 years without either of those diabolical entities.

A real nation would have a small army to protect itself from foreign psychopaths and support itself by a small tax on commerce. It would have money unencumbered by usury and laws that protect the individual instead of corporations or religion.

A real nation would not export its ideals on the point of a bayonet.

A real nation would not need to rely on force to control its population.

A real nation would not allow a sixth of its citizens to live without health care.

A real nation would not have homeless and starving people.

PSYCHOPATHIC TENDENCIES

Let's tackle another subject I am under-qualified to discuss. I am not a licensed practitioner of the mental arts nor do I play one on the internet, yet. I tend to avoid government attention much less seek their permission to do something. Only qualified doctors may diagnose you insane. The rest of us just think you're nuts.

If one of the mental mechanics thinks you're nuts, you probably are – unless you aren't. There is no such thing as a sure thing, after all. That's what Catch-22 is for.

I think we're all a little nuts. Sometimes I imagine Earth as the nuthouse of the universe. We're sort of Intergalactic Australians, dumped here and forgotten by the powers that be. Those UFOs you're seeing are just more defective souls being delivered to our little rock.

I guess you can see how I got here.

The trouble is, some of our nutty Earthlings are full blown psychopaths who think they have more rights than you. These thugs prefer that you work and they eat. Most work for the government or at least they write its laws. Many wind up in jail but others keep getting re-elected.

I was going to include a number of bars and graphs to illustrate my point that psychopaths naturally get either locked up or re-elected, but that's just stating the obvious. I wonder what you get when psychopaths breed? Wouldn't that be a royal mess?

Rodney King proved Kundalini can be spontaneously induced when he asked, “Why can't we all just get along?” Why don't we treat each other fairly? Why must we cheat ourselves?

Psychopaths feel no remorse for inflicting abuse on others, but what do you call someone who tolerates his neighbor's abuse? Tolerating the abuse of others seems like a cowardly way to live.

And yet, if you want to maintain your sanity and your living, you have to tolerate flagrant abuse all around you. The stories grow more abusive every day as those with money squeeze those without.

Why does most of the world starve while a few gorge themselves? It's the rule of gold. Either you're born into it or you lick the boots of those who are. That's the way it is.

Sure, you can get ahead – you might even get rich. You can't get filthy rich without getting filthy.

The source of the psychopath's power is the illusion that only they may create money. They lie to us about the nature of money and hand out degrees based on how well you misunderstand finance. They tell you money does work when all it can really do is measure wealth. Money talks. People work.

In the United States, the people gave the power to coin money to Congress, but Congress outsourced our right to private bankers in return for a piece of the action. They were promised a stable currency and easy access to credit in emergencies but received massive inflation and loss of policy control instead. Bankers used the power to create money to seize control of everything, including the government itself. Bankers cause bankruptcy. Look around. Any questions?

Lies vs. Reality

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100924/ap_on_re_us/un_un_world_summit_ahmadinejad#mwpphu-container

The only blatant liar in this article is AP: "Ahmadinejad has called for the destruction of Israel."

The toadies that ignore the physical evidence of nano-thermite in WTC debris, the dancing Israelis (there to "document the event.") and so much more anyone capable of reading My Pet Goat might discern, will soon learn their masters have little use for their continuing services.

Folks, September 30th is the end of the federal fiscal year. If you didn't wake up to reality two years ago (nearly to the day), I don't know how I can convince you that you are a slave to international bankers. Ben Bernanke is already squealing for another bailout. The ride isn't over.

There is an answer. It has been presented to every President and every viable candidate since and including Gerald Ford. Mathematically Perfected Economy. Iceland is considering it now.

We can wait until chaos reigns or we can demand our state legislatures convene an Article 5 convention to reform our money. We can petition for redress. We can boycott and stockpile.

Whatever we do, we must agree that the world's root problem is the usurpation of the people's innate right to control their own money. There are a number of plans that are orders of magnitude more fair than the legalized theft occurring today. Pick one and debate its merits with your fellow citizens.

My friends, we are living on table scraps. Our energy and enthusiasm for real work deserves an economy where our standard of living would increase by a factor of ten. We can end inflation and lower, if not eliminate taxes. We just have to demand that our laws not enable cheaters to prosper.

Do not accept the excuse there is no money for the work we all know is necessary to repair our infrastructure, educate our children and promote the pursuit of happiness. The credit the banks rent to you is your own, it always has been. If the collateral is secure and the principal can be repaid, the loan should be made. Remember, banks don't loan existing money, they create it based on your credit!

I don't want my children and grandchildren being used by these psychopaths the way I am being used.

Usury kills. Nothing without work. Reject debt slavery. Mathematically Perfected Economy.





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Timeshifting Your Future

I don't believe in bullshit stories about time travelers from the future. As far as I can tell, we can only travel forward in time. It is theoretically possible to travel quite a ways forward in time, but who wants to live in a galaxy ruled by cockroaches?

You can toss out parallel universes with the bathwater for all I care. Multiple worlds existing alongside one another are no different from the old tales of fairyland  The universe is big enough to be all there is by definition. We don't need another one, much less an infinite number of universes cluttering up the living room.

What we have is the here and now. We may ponder the still to come but we can only reflect upon the past. Everything past is past and cannot be undone. No one is going back in time to stop Oswald or abort Hitler.

So you have no control over the past but some control over the future. Obviously, obstacles will block your progress from time to time, but you can try to roll with the punches. Your immediate future is usually in your hands. Should you duck right or left?

We make decisions as we travel down the highway of time. Everyone and everything is flowing along at more or less the same rate. According to Einstein time is relative to speed. The speed limit is the speed of light, he says. I'm no Einstein, but I think he's wrong. Light presumably has no mass? Then what is it? We'll never build anything capable of approaching light speed without obliterating everything in its path, anyway.

Luckily, there are vast, empty areas of space we can use as a sort of gigantic salt flat for intergalactic speed record attempts. Of course, we won't be able to post the results for centuries to come.

We have seen nothing that exceeds the speed of light so far. (OK, there are some debatable results but even those particles are barely faster than light. Maybe they're less massive than light?)

The mounting evidence reveals the fact that the best path into the future is through the actions you take right now. You've to got have a plan and that plan must be realistic. Of course this presumes that reality as you reckon it somewhat resembles the truth.

It has been written that the truth will set you free. Don't you believe it. The truth finds you imprisoned within a social construct deliberately fabricated by the lies of soulless, inbred psychopaths. The social hierarchy surrounding us dictates our actions to an embarrassingly large degree.

Call it the Matrix, or the Man, or the Construct  or the Combine. Call it the Powers that Be. Call it the Illuminati. Call it the Money Power. Call it the Jews or the Zionists. Call it Greed. Call it Democracy. Call it the Just Us system. I just call it the Family. Not the mob, bigger.

It's the Good Ol' Boys with the White Shoes and the Top Hats. It's the Banksters, folks.

The truth is that a very small group of people have figured out how to get all the rest of us to do all their dirty work while they sit around and eat. How did they get the entire world to scurry about doing whatever they wanted done? They control the people by controlling the money supply. When money is kept in deliberately short supply then its value rises. Money should be the focus of your quest for truth.

Once you truly see what surrounds you, you begin to understand effective ways to change the things you do not like. You can point out the flaws in the Matrix to your friends and so work together to help others understand their plight. Contribute as little energy as possible to the banker's world of dreams.

For once your eyes are open to truth, you will know that what passes for money in this world belongs to the bankers, not to the people. The banks create it and destroy it, charging interest upon everyone who is forced to use it. They feed upon the people. Look at what you have done for money.

The people, in their ignorance, surrender to debt servitude without ever glimpsing the truth that real money is merely a promise to pay, backed by collateral. Money can be a note, good for twelve chickens from John Smith in September 2013. The creator was Jones, the note given to Smith. Should Smith choose to trade the note for a pig from another farmer, he can if the farmer agrees.

That note might pass around all over the valley until September when it will be found that Mr. Smith's chickens all ran off and were subsequently consumed by a tiny group of people trying to stave off the zombie apocalypse. The unfortunate Smith himself being zombified beyond any delusions of money.

So you must ask yourself -- what kind of future do you want? Even a small course-correction now can be enough to bring us to a far better place down the river of time. Small changes can make a big difference. A change in attitude could save the world, if it's the right change.

One simple change that isn't very hard to accept is the notion that charging interest is immoral. This notion used to be common sense. What happened? Why is the only religious sect still believing this being targeted by the War on Terror? Why has the definition of usury changed over the years?

If the creation of money were only limited to available collateral and credit, there would be virtually limitless money available. Without bankers artificially limiting the economy by the imposition of "interest," the rest of us would find our standard of living improved by a factor of twelve.

The economy would flourish and everyone would be able to afford to pay others to do the work they need done -- not just the bankers. This would result in a sort of random funding of the economy rather than the top-down direction that occurs now. The people would fund what they desire, not war and other usury.

Having money will of course make the people less dependent on the government for "everything." In fact, there would be little call for much "government" at all. Without the power to create money at interest, the banksters would have to discover another trade to generate income. What else besides legalized theft do these monsters know?

There are very few real Banksters  Most of the people that carry on the business of business are mere underlings, completely engrossed in the smell of money. Psychopathic tendencies exist in nearly everyone (except you, of course) and the criminals at the top of the pyramid know how to maximize their profits from our weaknesses and vulnerabilities.

Once an organization has control of the government, it can change the laws to suit itself.

A certain family has ruled economic affairs for over three hundred years. There are other aspects to "rule the earth" and so even though these people have been in charge for some time, shit has a way of happening alone. In other words, not everything is a conspiracy. Adopting this viewpoint is contrary to your prior instructions, I know. You are taught the obvious lie that there are no conspiracies. Don't be naive.

Think logically and you will understand that someone has to be the richest person in the world. Has to be one. This person wields tremendous power. The truly richest person has to be richer than the Queen of England who (technically) owns all of the British Empire (more or less.)

And so we establish the Queen is up there. Are there richer people? The press tells us Bill Gates is the richest person in the world with around 50 billion dollars. Have you noticed that fifty billion dollars isn't a hill of beans nowadays? The British Empire is still worth way more than Bill Gates.

Anyway, it seems I have once again gone off track. I wanted to say that you can have some (limited) control over your future, but your influence must overwhelm the influence of everything (and everyone) else.

Everyone, even the richest of us, is steering a wooden dinghy down category five economic rapids formed by the looming fiscal abyss. One by one we will all crash against the rocks of our own greed and drown in a sorrowful sea of usurious debt. Whether we go over the cliff or down the drain doesn't really matter.

No. I wanted to say take charge of your future by making plans that will soon be dashed upon the rocks.

No. No. No. I wanted to bring you some good news: that you control (some) of your future! Is that upbeat? Uplifting?

Try not to think about John F. Kennedy as you carve your Thanksgiving bird. Think of pink Indians, instead.

RINGSIDE TO MADNESS

"When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat." George Carlin

The psychopaths appear to be firmly in charge, but their paranoia does not allow them to ease the pressure of their boots upon our necks. Every day our condition worsens but their tyranny grows.

America is now a police state. It's official. The law is upheld with overwhelming force. No mercy.

I do not believe I have to explain to you, dear reader, the criteria I used to come to my conclusion. The conclusion is obvious. A moron would laugh if told otherwise. The conclusion is now self-evident to anyone capable of using an internet search engine.

America is now a police state. Let it sink in. It's real.

The Constitution seemed like a good idea, but it turned out it was just a piece of paper. Imagine that.

George Carlin declared we have no rights and he is absolutely right about that. We only have what we successfully defend. The only thing about me I am willing to defend is my humanity. I am human.

As an aside let me mention that many laws enacted by government suppress your ability to defend yourself. A free man is free to own anything he pleases as long as he harms no one.

Carlin called everything bullshit (and it's bad for you.) He was right, again. So bullshit is all we really have. In the end, nothing we do matters a whit. Of course,

The End(TM) is a long way off. On the other hand, the older you get the faster the time flies -- so I expect the end of everything very soon.

Returning to the short term -- How about them Giants?

Seriously folks, try to keep from being shot by the police or imprisoned for being a dumb ass. It's comply or die, nowadays. The cops who train other cops have been trained by Israelis. Maximum deadly force.

You might ask, "How do we fix this?" A question of Biblical proportion. Specifically Luke 6:31.

April 15th Blues

After a long, hard winter people should be able to enjoy the spring without the gawd-awful dread induced by the IRS. All the joy and hope for the new year is crushed by that feeling of impending doom that tax time brings. Even folks that know they have a refund coming dread the annual exercise of calculating the government's piece of their “action.”

If you do the math you will discover that the total IRS take only pays the interest on the national debt. That's right, your taxes aren't funding the war or feeding welfare mothers – they're simply lining the pockets of banksters who “loaned” non-existent money to fund the government in years past. This year's illegal wars have to be financed – kill now, pay later.

Every year at this time I get deeply disturbed that I have to spend so much time to figure out how much money the government wants to steal from me. Most years the figuring hurts more than the paying. The worst part for me is knowing that a legitimate government would simplify tax collection such that its people could enjoy springtime without tax worries.

There are many ways to run a legitimate government without harassing people by requiring they incriminate themselves by signing an income confession. I think part of the reason for the income tax (apart from taking your money) is to force people to submit to government edict in a most abusive way. It's some sort of Pavlovian training, some sort of slave conditioning.

The only reason for taxes is to fund government. To govern is to control. To agree to fund government is to agree that people are out of control and need their behavior regulated. I think the vast majority of people do not require governing. Most people get along with others and are fair-minded. They work and play within established social norms without the need for written rules.

But, then there are the sociopaths, what used to be called psychopaths. They make up about 3% of society and are usually prisoners or politicians. The sociopaths who manage to constrain themselves enough to stay out of jail naturally gravitate to positions of power due to their lack of compassion for others. They are usually smart, cunning and persuasive. Between their powerful positions and their compelling arguments, they can persuade many people to help accomplish their goals. Sociopaths are natural born leaders. Consequently, we live in a psychopathic world.

Since the psychos are in control, they naturally figure the rest of us are as evil as they are and so write law after law after law to regulate us. Have you ever wondered why politicians are also called lawmakers? If a politician doesn't write or sponsor several new laws each year he is considered a failure! There are so many laws, regulations and ordinances on the books that right now you are probably breaking several without even knowing it.

So while our controllers wriggle with joy as they transform springtime into tax time, providing a season of angst for the unsuspecting and obliging herd of sheeple, let us consider an alternative to income tax.

I propose we toss the income tax and all other taxes to be replaced with a very simple sales tax. Anything bought or sold would be taxed at 3% – with 1% local (city/county), 1% state and 1% federal. No other taxes to be levied. No income or property taxes whatsoever.

The kicker here is to tax anything that physically changes hands. Anything. Any hands. Any time.

Today, there is no tax on food if it is unprepared. The sociopaths traded poor people's food so they could trade real estate, stocks and bonds with impunity. The taxes lost on food are nothing compared to the tax savings the rich receive. We need to tax food and everything to avoid rich exceptions. No excuses.

No more resale licenses to pass sales taxes to end consumers. All taxes and all levels. This will remove several layers of middle man fat. There are resale levels in our economy that profit on untaxed markups that add no value to goods. Corporations create subsidiaries just to cash in on nontaxable redistribution of goods. All the middle men create are higher prices and we are better off without them. Taxing their operations will drive them out of business if they do not add value.

Only taxing sales would greatly benefit wall street. Today, companies employ accounting firms to hide their real income from the IRS in order to pay lower income taxes. These phony numbers are passed along to potential investors in their annual reports. These same companies will spend money on worthless write offs to offset taxable income. A lot of money is wasted chasing tax credits instead of investing in whatever the company actually does to create income.

If there were no income tax, corporations would not hide their income. They would seek to maximize income by avoiding unnecessary purchases. Accountants could go back to balancing books instead of manipulating them!

Can a 3% tax work? I think so. Remember, it is at every transaction level. A company buying steel will pay tax on that steel. When that company makes ball bearings, the company that buys those bearings will pay tax on them. When the bearings are placed in street skates, the skate company will also be taxed. When the skate is sold to a distributor, the distributor will pay tax. When the distributor sells to Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart will pay tax. Finally, you will be taxed on your pair of street skates with steel ball bearings.

Yes, you'll be taxed on milk, but so will the big shots be taxed while trading stocks on Wall Street or the financiers selling sub-prime mortgage instruments. The only exchange I would exempt is the exchange of labor. You cannot be taxed for exchanging your time for money.

So here we sit, dreading what otherwise would be a lovely spring day just to satisfy the gluttony of the Federal Reserve. Both the Fed and the income tax were created in 1913, look it up. (Other notable 1913 creations were the Anti Defamation League, the American Cancer Society and the Alfalfa Club – quite a busy year for the Creeple, but they do love their 13's.)

Sheeple and Social Hierarchy

No doubt you've heard of the Sheeple. Sometimes they're called the goyim, or the unwashed masses, or the useless eaters. All are derogatory terms for people who go through life without paying attention to external forces shaping their existence. You might say they are sheepwalking through life.

A few years ago, I humorously expanded the idea of Sheeple to encompass more levels of awareness. The Sheeple were in the middle of a bell curve, representing the vast majority of people. To the left were those with more awareness of their situation and opposed to it, and to the right were those with more awareness but inclined toward the status quo.

The result was more fascinating than funny.

On a standard bell curve, 68% of whatever is represented is in the middle. So, we can assume that 68% of human beings are actually Sheeple. Sheeple go along with the system they're born into without much argument. They may question the status quo, be it capitalism, communism, fascism, Catholicism, or any other “ism,” but they rarely act on their doubts. They just try to get along as best they can.

One standard deviation away from the Sheeple center, you have left and right “radicals.” This represents 27% of the population, with 13.5% on the left and 13.5% on the right.

The folks on the left I call Seeple. They “see” what is wrong with society and tend to report on it. Here you'll find artists and bloggers like me. Seeple see what is going on, but they feel powerless to stop it.

The folks on the right I call Meeple. They might see that society is screwed up, but they don't care as long as they can capitalize on it. They are likely to be your boss at work. They are cops and lawyers and judges. They pretend that society's rules are in everyone's best interest and work to enforce them when they aren't breaking them. These Meeple are hypocrites that are often exposed by Seeple.

We have accounted to 95% of people with just Sheeple, Seeple and Meeple – but there is another 5% equally distributed left and right of the bell...

On the left, 2.5% of the population are Freeple. These folks have severed contact with society as we know it. They are either self-sufficient, living in cabins in Idaho or they have given up and are homeless living under bridges. Homeless people don't give a shit and they don't vote. Despite the fact that they live on the edge of existence, they are free. Truly self-sufficient people, with no taxable income are rare. I imagine there are a few truly Freeple, but most are free via abdication.

On the right are the 2.5% or so of sociopaths who set up the entire system. I call these assholes Creeple. They don't give a shit about anyone else, but they are glad to have the help of the idiot 13.5% Meeple and the compliance of the 68% Sheeple. No wonder they promote Democracy, eh?

Freeple. Seeple. Sheeple. Meeple. Creeple. Humanity in a nutshell.

The Freeple and the Creeple are pretty much nuts, but in different ways. Very few Freeple are capable of coping with their lives while the Creeple not only cope with their own lives, they seek to control other people's lives.

There's not much to be done for this 5% of society. It is the dregs and the elite, both are incorrigible.

If nothing can be done for what we tend to call the top and bottom of society, what of the middle and the first deviation? Are we forever stuck with people who don't care to learn (Sheeple) and people who do wrong despite knowing better (Meeple?) Can Seeple help the others see?

I think a difference can be made by education. Not government (Creeple) education, but popular education. Talking. Arguing. Writing crap like this. Get the Sheeple and Meeple to think a little.

The Sheeple don't want to think and the Meeple don't want to think how fucked up they are. But if we keep repeating the lessons, like propaganda, they will hear it and some of it will sink in. It is really hard to stay in denial while confronting truth. The Meeple will resist, but the Sheeple will absorb.

If we can shift the bell curve to the left (and by left I don't mean left-political or communist) we can reduce the percentage of Sheeples and Meeples. I don't think we can ever reduce the Creeple percentage as they are inbred psychopaths without empathy. Ultimately, only incarceration or annihilation will rid the world of the Creeple scourge.

A perfect society of self-sustaining individuals have the integrity to not need police, lawyers, judges, politicians, bankers or soldiers. Once we learn to respect ourselves, respect for others follows. It is possible to create a world where anyone can do what they want to do without hurting others.

We can start with some simple rules and build on them.

Presently, the single biggest gain for society would be to outlaw any unearned income. No interest payments and no jobs that don't create value. This would outlaw private banks and many worthless government jobs. Banks and government are where the Meeple and Creeple feed.

If we can see fit to outlaw usury and uselessness, then we are well on our way to living in a world that maximizes human potential.

ICKEOLOGY

My son gave me a copy of David Icke's latest book as a Father's Day gift. I ordinarily don't subscribe to Mother's Day, much less Father's Day, but for some odd reason I'm not opposed to accepting gifts for any reason. Maybe it is a made-up holiday they won't pay you for, but it always falls on a Sunday and Sunday is a good day to goof off. Hallmark appreciates your business, by the way, but not as much as they used to when they sponsored some of the best tearjerkers to ever see the small screen.

Getting back to David Icke, his name is spelled like Ike as in Eisenhower. I like Ike. You have to explain this to people because if they've never heard his last name pronounced, they might think it is pronounced “Icky” or “Eehhcckky!” as in the thought of giant lizards controlling the world is really icky stuff.

If this were “Ikeology,” our paradigm might only include the beliefs of the self-professed Son of God himself. However evolved Mr. Icke thinks he is, his belief spectrum is just a teeny tiny perturbation in the galactic spectrum of beliefs. Why limit a new field of pseudo-science to the knowledge of only one man? I say anything that makes me go, “Ick” goes in the icky set.

As for the book, it solidly documents most of the mess we're in. Icke glosses over financial truths, perhaps because he lacks understanding of the technical details economists focus on. I think he grasps the simple truth that money isn't money, but he doesn't spend as much time on the subject of money as he does his lizards.

Yes. Lizards rule us. Remember the big banner that fell down at the end of Jurassic Park?

“Dinosaurs rule the Earth!”

Well, it's not quite that simple. You can't see the lizards unless you're very unlucky and about to become a blood sacrifice on the alter of Moloch, the giant owl god. Owls eat lizards so I reckon Moloch is not someone you want to be messing with.

It would all be hilarious except Icke makes a very good case for the possibility that some sort of “fourth-dimensional entity” that resembles a reptile possesses the body of anyone of any prominence. Maybe not everyone, but a surprising many of the movers and shakers of world society.

Everyone important is related to either “blue blood” or “Jew blood.” If you're a Rothschild or a descendant of the good king Charlemagne, your life can be anything you want it to be as long as you remember your roots.. I'm sure Charlie was a real keeper, but if you're not related to him, you have no hope of becoming president of virtually anything.

The Jewish side of the wealth equation is pretty obvious. Imagine for a second that Secretary Paulson had been named Palsoni, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke had been named Bernancini, and Goldman-Sachs were named Gambino-Squitieri? Would anyone question the presence of the mob?

The Jewish Mob is one faction vying for world control. There are others including the lowly American Patriot, hoping to restore his right to own a thermonuclear weapon. There is probably a market for mini-nukes that only take out one house in a neighborhood. As you might guess from their capital portfolios, the mobster can leverage a lot of money toward laws he wants, while the Patriot can't even leverage his one vote. He's lucky if it's counted, much less matters.

Imagining the true rulers of the world as lizards instead of men excuses too much of their reptilian behavior. Animals and reptiles have ruled the world for too long. The madness the world seems bent to pursue will only create hell on earth. Total world domination by lizards from outer space might be excusable, but allowing mere mortals such control is a reprehensible rift in the theory of public trust.

If you toss the first two chapters and the last one, Icke's book is a strategic guide to his other books and to additional sources of information. David likes connecting dots and he performs a yeoman's job of identifying the way the “elite” (whom I call “Creeple”) not only control the world but profit immensely by doing so. Given the co-ordinates from David Icke, you soon learn to read the daily news in a different way.

Almost anything can fit into Ickeology if you think about it long enough. But, at the same time, the theory demands an inherent acceptance of anything genuinely Icke. Full adherence to Ickeology would include a belief that lizards possess the bodies of powerful and famous people.

Just as a Christian is free to believe some of the Bible, but admonished for not believing certain things like homosexuals should not be stoned to death, an Ickeologist is free to toss anything he doesn't agree with for any reason. Take what you like and leave the rest is David's motto and ours too. Bugger the rest.

The funny thing about all of this is that the world starts to make perfect sense if you believe it is being run by seven foot reptiles from a galaxy far, far away. Crank back just a hair to a world run by self-centered psychopaths and you get pretty much the same picture without the lizard scales.

A simpleton can see the game is rigged for the rich and powerful once Icke points it out. I doubt the world is ruled by lizards, but I'm willing to keep an open mind. Same as Jesus, really.

Not even David Icke believes in Ickeism. Religions are elaborate frauds in Ickeology, and yet so many students take what Icke says as gospel. It must be the Rothschilds on top, because it has always been thus. Banking and Royalty, or perhaps, Royalty and then Banking and then mere mortals. Businessmen and thieves every one of them excepting a bare few.

There is no doubt that power comes from money and money is connected to ancient bloodlines. Most of it is ancient money, stolen long ago by the new heir's great-great-granduncle. Move along, don't dally in my finances. We pay handsomely for discretion.

I imagine we all have a little reptilian in us, one way or another. Our Hyde to hide from polite society. A fetus has a tail at one point, doesn't it? Icky is people with real tails. It happens, right?

I don't think you can make it a full-blown religion and I wonder how the Supreme Court might interpret the right to be a religion unto yourself. An ideology, a paradigm a way of thinking. One thing leads to another and pretty soon someone is spilling his guts for amnesty and a high seven figures. The religion business can be deadly serious.

Anyway, once you grok the idea that giant lizards run the show, its easy see how all the events of the day are interconnected and controlled by the reptilian cartel. They control virtually everything already and the few concerns they don't concern themselves with don't count for hardly concerns at all. There's some little guys, that's all. Lots of them. Maybe too many.

Whoever is behind the curtain doesn't want to be seen. They operate in secret by controlling the elections of various national “rulers.” The exact power structure and cost of attainment differs from one country to the next but the United States is one of the most expensive nations to entertain. Now that we've learned to count in trillions, how long before we ponder quadrillions and beyond?

How long can this constant money devaluation continue before someone figures it out and pulls the plug? Look at Italy, they just lopped off a few zeroes and continued on in bankruptcy. Will the good old USA ever repay the banks the money that was stolen from us plus interest? Fat chance.

Someone has to step forward and just say the game is over, they ain't paying anyone anything until this whole mess is straightened out. The common man, the average Joe, the man and woman on Main Street are feeling a tight pinch, what with losing the house and the job and the savings and all, but they're Merkins and they'll struggle on. Despite the obvious money scams exposed every day, the average person continues to believe everything's a fair shake until he tries to contact his insurer.

It looks to me like someone just has to say “Nope.” I was incapacitated by a bad case of irrational exuberance and deceptively oversimplified algorithms. If only the computer models had been more complex, more realistic, then we wouldn't have destroyed the world! Bwhah!

But the economic reality is that the world has been destroyed and there's nothing anyone can do about it at this point. Everybody's broke and scamming to make off with other people's money.

The powers that be are looking for a quick reboot of the economic system with themselves still in charge. It looks like they're going to get what they want – John Q. Public is still embarrassingly ignorant of his plight. Banks, trillions, OK!

Anyway, try the Icke paradigm for a week and see for yourself how obviously reptiles rule the earth.

The People versus the Banks

"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks." Lord Acton

We teeter at the precipice of the largest economic depression since the Dark Ages. Nothing in modern history compares with the current threat of a return to feudal society.

As horrible as was the War to End All Wars and the war that followed, the suffering we now face threatens worse than even Hitler imagined.

There are no jobs, but plenty of work. Lacking money provided by jobs, the people will starve.

Don't look to the governments for handouts, they've been broke for years. Only inflated home prices kept the financial world turning, the people borrowing to eat, but now the equity is gone and so the game is over.

America outsourced its production to the rest of the world and the rest of the world depended on Americans to buy their goods. But without real work, American wages were stagnated and the people were forced to use their homes as cash machines. With every refinance, the banksters profited more.

With the last dollar of equity gone, the financial scam is exposed as a Ponzi scheme. The suckers have been completely fleeced and there's no future left to hock. The game is over.

I think the time Lord Acton spoke of has now come. We are unable to pay the interest, much less the principal -- not that the principal was ever more than entries in a ledger book.

Government is as much to blame for this crises as the banksters, after all, government is owned and operated by banksters. Another quote from Lord Acton will help explain:

“And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Our governments were corrupted long ago and their power long absolutely corrupted.

Ezra Pound, the father of modernist poetry, spent twelve years in a mental institution for expressing the common sense argument that usury kills: (listen)

Canto LXV

With usura hath no man a house of good stone
each block cut smooth and well fitting
that delight might cover their face,

with usura

hath no man a painted paradise on his church wall
harpes et luthes
or where virgin receiveth message
and halo projects from incision,

with usura

seeth no man Gonzaga his heirs and his concubines
no picture is made to endure nor to live with
but it is made to sell and sell quickly

with usura, sin against nature,
is thy bread ever more of stale rags
is thy bread dry as paper,
with no mountain wheat, no strong flour

with usura the line grows thick

with usura is no clear demarcation
and no man can find site for his dwelling
Stone cutter is kept from his stone
weaver is kept from his loom

WITH USURA

wool comes not to market
sheep bringeth no gain with usura
Usura is a murrain, usura
blunteth the needle in the the maid's hand
and stoppeth the spinner's cunning. Pietro Lombardo
came not by usura
Duccio came not by usura
nor Pier della Francesca; Zuan Bellin' not by usura
nor was "La Callunia" painted.
Came not by usura Angelico; came not Ambrogio Praedis,
No church of cut stone signed: Adamo me fecit.
Not by usura St. Trophime

Not by usura St. Hilaire,

Usura rusteth the chisel
It rusteth the craft and the craftsman
It gnaweth the thread in the loom
None learneth to weave gold in her pattern;
Azure hath a canker by usura; cramoisi is unbroidered
Emerald findeth no Memling

Usura slayeth the child in the womb
It stayeth the young man's courting
It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth
between the young bride and her bridegroom

CONTRA NATURAM

They have brought whores for Eleusis
Corpses are set to banquet

at behest of usura.

Toward the end of Pound's life, he said he mistook the symptom (usury) for the cause (greed).

Unbridled greed does cause usury, but self-interest is why we get out of bed. There is some virtue in profit but Reagan overstated the case saying, "Greed is good."

If value is added to a product, it follows that the value-adder should be rewarded for his efforts. Earned profit is good, even if driven by greed. Unearned profit is just stealing.

Some resources to help you understand the current crises:

Money as Debt

The Earth Plus 5%

The Story of Stuff

Freedom to Fascism

Freedom Road

Concise History of Usury

By now you're saying, "Steve, I get it. Greed begets usury and usury is legal only because governments are controlled by banksters. Usury begets debt and debt begets inflation. Inflation begets hyperinflation and hyperinflation begets death. SO WHAT DO WE DO???"

Governments (controlled by banksters) are the enemy. This enemy controls vast resources and still has the faithful cooperation of many, many stooges. They have written the laws, they control the armies and the police. We have the allowed the psychopaths control over our lives.

Today's governments are operated by psychopathic lying thieving killers. Open your eyes and see the truth. Why should half the world starve and most of the rest struggle while a very few assholes live in luxury? This is a big planet, there's more than enough for all of us.

It's a matter of attitude. We need to adopt an attitude of abundance instead of scarcity. Look at all the food thrown away -- it could feed the world. We could grow more if we wanted. The only reason things are as they are is the economic system enforced by (controlled) governments.

Since we have very few resources and virtually no weapons, our ONLY recourse is to deprogram the people we know. Information and re-education are our only hope. There is no hope for violent revolution just as there is no hope for voting change while banksters control the count.

As horrible as the economic crises is, as much suffering as it will bring, it will force our friends and relatives to pull their heads from the sand and ask, "Why the hell is this happening?"

You now know the answer is usury, so explain it to them. Only when the majority understands how we got into this mess in the first place can we hope for a better world.

Talk to your friends. Preach to them. Ask them to tell others. Truth is the only hope.