Now I'm Getting Really Paranoid

It's been said before. I am paranoid. That's what gives me my edge. In this day and age, paranoia is a talent. You need it. But this has really freaked me out. Last Thursday, I ordered a book on the Cathar-Weavers, Loom Of Destiny by Jean Sebastian Kaici from Amazon. I'm continuing my work on The Weavers. This is a leading title, the reviews say. I want to read it. Week later, all my other books have arrived bar that one. I get an email from Amazon saying sorry it's out of stock. Fair enough, I'll buy from another source, a second-hand place. I go to the page on Amazon. It's gone. I do a google search. It's not appearing. I know I'm not going mad because I took a screenshot of the page on Amazon when I ordered it so I could use the cover image on my blog. I email Amazon. They don't reply. I look at my order history. Sure enough Loom Of Destiny is in the original order. But everywhere else, on Amazon, on teh internet, everywhere, that book has ceased to exist!!! Tell me I'm doing something wrong. Or I've missed something. But in the space of a week that book has vanished.

The Loom Of Destiny

I ordered a bunch of books on the Cathars, The Weavers and Gnosticism from Amazon. I'm going to really soak myself in this stuff. See if anything comes. This one in particular I'm looking forward to - it's got the whole history of The Weavers in it and speculations on what happened to the sect after the massacre at Monrtsegur in 1244.

2012 2012 2012

The Daily Grail has a great summary of the relevance of 2012 and why you should care. Link.

• December 21 - End of the great cycle of the Maya calendar's Long Count and a 26,000 year planetary cycle in the Aztec calendar, and thus the alleged end of our world (the end of the cycle is dated December 22 or December 23 by some calculations).
• According to the 1997 book The Bible Code the world will end due to a collision with a meteor, asteroid or comet.
• Interpreted by Millennialism as a time when there will be an evolutionary change in human consciousness brought about by a series of world changing events or revelations. Following this period of upheaval they believe we will begin a new 1,000 year cycle in which peace, enlightenment and our environmental movement take priority.
• The Olduvai cliff will begin and permanent blackouts will occur worldwide, according to "The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road To The Olduvai Gorge" by Richard C. Duncan.
• Terence McKenna's Novelty Theory claims that time is a fractal wave of increasing novelty that ends abruptly in 2012.
• Tibetan Monks specialising in remote viewing predict that divine extra-terrestrials will intervene at a point where the world's governments are about to deploy weapons of mass destruction. Adding to this, the Tibetan Monks say that the world is not ready to be destroyed and that our Earth is blessed and being saved continuously from all kinds of hazards that Mankind is not even aware of.

Pope Orders Exorcism Squads To Comabt Occult Forces

The Pope has ordered his bishops to set up exorcism squads to tackle the rise of Satanism. Vatican chiefs are concerned at what they see as an increased interest in the occult. They have introduced courses for priests to combat what they call the most extreme form of "Godlessness". Each bishop is to be told to have in his diocese a number of priests trained to fight demonic possession.

The Hidden Hand

I don’t agree with everything this guy is saying but this rings true: Link.

Some would argue that The United States Congress, the elected officials of the people who were involved in passing the United States Patriot Act just forty three (43) days after September 11, 2001 (had either been duped or were willing and active participants in the plot) and establishing the office of Homeland Security giving the Executive Branch of Government Dictator type powers. For example, unchecked and undemocratic Executive Orders were imposed, law enforcement powers went unmitigated, and Congress ability to legislate was compromised and was the Patriot Act essentially an outright violation of U.S. law and of our U.S. Constitutional Rights? And did this legislation actually meet its attempt by intentionally and willfully usurping the balance of powers we have in our three branches of government?

But the HIDDEN HAND strategically would use the 9-11 incident to weaken the Bill Of Rights and to totally disarm the United States Citizens and proliferate the powers of the Executive Branch of Government (George Bush) and the sad thing about this criminal act, it was met with no resistance from the masses of the people they volunteered as willing participants.

New Document Reveals Military Mystery's Powers

A drive by Clifford Stone on the X-Files-esque uber-site Above Top Secret to use the Freedom of Information Act to turn up UFO-related documents has led to the release of a fascinating report, HAARP: Research and Applications. It's from the Air Force Research Laboratory and Office of Naval Research, and it lays out the uses the military see for HAARP. Turns out the Pentagon wants some military bang for their buck from the program. HAARP can actually perform a lot of militarily important functions, all involving the interactions of radio waves with the high atmosphere, magnetosphere and ionosphere. Link.

Armageddon Out Of Here

Fascinating article on American 'End Timers'. No mention of 2012, of course. Link.

Weird Russian Mind-Control

Homeland Security in bed with the KGB? Link.

Total Information Awareness

I just came across this page on Wikipedia about the US government's development of a mass digital surveillance system. Grok it. Scary. Note how it used to be called the "Total Information Awareness Program". But then was renamed the Terrorism Information Awareness Program. Note how the second sounds way more acceptable to an afraid public. Just another cog in the wheel of oppression. Link.

Watch out! 2012 Is a'coming

"2012 in historical time may likely be a point where a massive catastrophe wipes out most life on the planet, and the timeless nature of consciousness flashes back glimpes of this event along historical time, which we pick up."

Link.

Storm Worm Spams Its Own Bots

When Botnets Go Wild. Link.

Corman said the Storm Worm is an "instantiation of a class of botnets" that is being used in attacks such as pump-and-dump campaigns to derive profits for its authors. It communicates through decentralized peer-to-peer networks, which makes it difficult to stop.

If the Storm Worm authors find a way to monetize other uses for the botnet, users may see an influx of DDoS attacks that could paralyze some organizations. Some businesses are preparing for such an incident by reassessing their disaster recovery capabilities, Corman said.

He said he also worries about a political motive: For example, Storm could impact the websites of presidential candidates, or be used to deliver spam that may sway voter's decisions, Corman said.

Are We Seeing The End Of America?

Hard-hitting conversation between Noami Wolf and journalist Don Hazen. Link.

You can't underplay how sophisticated the Bush team has been about manipulating our fears. And one reason we really can't ignore is our home-grown ignorance. We now have two generations of young people who don't know about civics. A study came out that showed that even Harvard freshmen really don't understand how our government works.

Former Pilots & Officials Call for US UFO Probe

An international panel of two dozen former pilots and government officials called on the U.S. government on Monday to reopen its generation-old UFO investigation as a matter of safety and security given continuing reports about flying discs, glowing spheres and other strange sightings. Link.

Storm Worm Botnet now "more powerful than world's top supercomputer"

The Storm Worm Botnet, a massive network of infected Windows PCs spanning the world, has now enslaved enough computers to rival the processing power of top military computers. This is incredible.

"If you calculate pure theoretical throughput, then I'm sure the botnet has more capacity than IBM's BlueGene. If you sat them down to play chess, the botnet would win."

Link.

"Storm Worm" adds millions of computers to botnet

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070902-storm-worm-adds-millions-of-computers-to-botnet.html

The Vatican And The Knights Templar

Very interesting article about hidden Church societies. Link.

Almost from their founding, the Templars have been rumored

a.) to still exist 

b.) to be impossibly rich, and 

c.) to guard the Holy Grail (the cup from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper) and other Christian relics.

Knights Templar Absolved By The Vatican

"This is proof that the Templars were not heretics. The Pope was obliged to ask pardon from the knights.

"For 700 years we have believed that the Templars died as cursed men, and this absolves them."

Doh! Link.

Storm Worm Rising

The Storm Worm is a huge botnet that may have commandeered up to 2 million PCs around the world. You visit a site, download a piece of malware, and unbeknownst to you, your computer becomes just another 'zombie' node in the botnet army. Then the creators use yours and the other computers on the network to launch spam or denial-of-service (DDos) attacks.

As sci-fi writer Sterling himself says,

The Storm worm is an amazing piece of work. Anyone who has taken the time to reverse engineer Storm will tell you that it is a very sophisticated piece of software and it is highly unlikely that it was created just to send spam.

Link.

Mayan Shamanism and 2012: A Pyschedelic Cosmology

Leading 2012 writer and researcher John Major Jenkins puts it all in context. Amazing stuff!

The profound integration of celestial, psychological, ritual, and mythopoeic elements at Izapa bespeaks the psychedelic influence, because those tools of vision open the consciousness to higher states of awareness in which multiple dimensions are seen for what they are – mutually interweaving and interpenetrating aspects of a unity that is simply not apparent to the “normal” consciousness that functions on more limited planes of perception.

These processes and concepts are intimately involved in the understanding that the Milky Way is the Great Mother, and the dark rift is her vagina or birth place. It is the place of transformation that the prospective male king must enter in order to be reborn as the king, a divine being. That these things are templated upon the alignment of the December solstice sun with the dark rift in the Milky Way – on the 13-baktun cycle end date, December 21, 2012 – is mind-boggling.

Link.

Ancient Astronauts

Giorgio Tsoukalos of Legendary Times gives his thoughts on 'ancient astronaut' theories and mysteries of the past. Link.