Thursday 30 July 2015

The REAL Jade Helm


The Map that launched a thousand YouTube videos.

Jade Helm is the latest buzz term amongst conspiracy theorists, or whatever they are referring to themselves as now. It’s been so pervasive it has even dislodged MakaElectric from his nigh on six year obsession with Operation Blackjack. Which, for those not in the know, was a fictional cartoon series ran by The Telegraph in 2009. Which many construed as predictive programming for an actual false flag attempt. (Maka kindly even made a lovely slideshow video, of the series, set to the best Dramatic and Exciting music I've ever heard.)
Of course, most outgrew that notion within weeks, but for some (read: Maka) it became a catch-all for all things that were fucked up or unexplainable in the world.  But of course, I digress…


To explain where the Jade Helm conspiracy theories derive from allow me to offer a short explanation. These theories are based on the eponymous United States military training exercise, scheduled to take place in multiple U.S. states from July 15 to September 15, 2015. 

“The exercise in unconventional warfare involves United States Special Operations Command (with other U.S Armed Forces units in multiple states, including Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Utah. Troops engaging in the exercise will assume the roles of either occupying or resistance forces. Most locations are in sparsely populated arid regions near small towns. Some participants will wear civilian attire and drive civilian vehicles.” Source.

The conspiracy theories seem to emanate from the map shown here from the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, that divides the region into four colours, with two "hostile" states, two "permissive" states, two states leaning one way or the other, and California divided. 

Jim Shea of the Hartford Courant writes in his article “Thank You Texas and Good Luck with the Invasion” that the conspiracy theories about Jade Helm 15 include:

“A psychological operation aimed at getting people used to seeing military forces on the streets" so they do not realize when an invasion actually takes place; an international operation aimed to seize people's guns; recently closed Walmarts used by the military to "stockpile supplies for Chinese troops who will be arriving to disarm Americans"; and a military plan to "round up political dissidents" and "remove key political figures" who may be against the imposition of martial law.” Source.


Manny Fernandez writing earlier this month (July 14) in The New York Times article “As Jade Helm 15 Military Exercise Begins, Texans Keep Watch ‘Just in Case’  added that  theories held by some bloggers and activists include Jade Helm 15 as a
 "secret plot" to impose martial law, confiscate firearms, invade Texas, and institute "total population control." Source.

And of course Alex Jones can’t let a good fake crisis go to waste, so he added his well-known linguistic virtuosity to the whole mess of crazy announcing that the helm was an acronym for: 

"Homeland Eradication of Local Militants."
I think Alex needs to learn the difference between an acronym and a backronym. He being so learned and all, and with all the documents, I would have thought he would be familiar with the term, since he talks about its most famous example so fucking often. I, of course, am talking about the PATRIOT Act; a backronym so Orwellian that it beggars belief!

Tuesday 28 July 2015

Lafayette shooter John Russell Houser was "troubled, anti-tax, government hater"

It has been reported by Al Jazeera  that the perpetrator of last week's LaFayette theater shooting which left 3 people dead, including the gunman, John "Rusty" Russell House, has a history of "mental-illness, troubled, anti-tax, government hater"
It has also been reported by the Washington Post  that John House was also a misogynist who may have targeted the "feminist" film Trainwreck and hated liberals:
"Jonathan Martin reports on Houser, a drifter from Alabama with a history of mental illness, hatred for the government, and for women and liberals: "John Russell Houser, the man police say opened fire inside a Lafayette, La., movie theater on Thursday night, had boasted in an online profile that he made dozens of appearances on television talk shows. The hosts of those shows said Friday that Houser over-stated his role, but they do remember him as an argument-starting guest who was angry about high taxes and the growing power of women. Houser allegedly killed two people and wounded nine others who were watching the new comedy “Trainwreck,” a film written by and starring the feminist comedian Amy Schumer."

 Sources: 
Al Jazeera:
Lafayette shooter John Russell Houser was "troubled, anti-tax, government hater" 
You can watch this video below.

The Hollywood Reporter:
Did the 'Trainwreck' Shooter Purposefully Target a Feminist Movie?

The Washington Post:
TV hosts remember alleged Lafayette gunman as anti-tax, anti-feminist ‘gadfly’

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Friday 5 June 2015

What Conspiracy Theorists Could Learn from the James Holmes Trial


*Update: A concise version of this blog appears in this video
 


It very rarely happens, but when it does, it kinda tickles me a way I would call synchronicity if I wasn’t such a cynic! I’m talking about when two of my interests, which on the surface seem to have very little in common, somehow collide into one “entity” and become even more interesting. WTF is she talking about? is probably one of the more generous things you’re asking about me right now, but what I’m talking about is this:

A few weeks ago my interest in following televised American trials and my interest in all things conspiracy theory, collided when the trial of the 2012 Aurora gunman, James Holmes, began in Colorado.***

To be honest, I'm surprised I haven't seen anything from the "everything-is-a-hoax-crisis-actors-fill-the-world-what-about-WTC7" crowd about how it's a gigantic hoax.
Although the event did happen almost three years ago, so a lot of them may have been 5150'd into that great big FEMA Camp of oblivion and beautiful candies that make you see rainbows.
For the others, well they either got sucked into the Sandy Hook denialist bullshit, or well, like I said it's been almost three years...and they are mostly like off chasing something shiny.
You've probably noticed how I haven't suggested that they've simply realised the error of their retardation and quietly slipped away. Because we all know that very rarely happens.

I've been following the trial very closely. And I think that the "holmies" who believe it be all a hoax, might benefit from watching it too. Because as all that evidence comes tumbling out, it gets harder to shield your mind. Who the fuck am I kidding, right? It'd be fingers in their ears time until they hear something that would confirm their bias.
I've even picked up on a few things that they might have used to their advantage, had they been paying attention. ;)


In the opening statements, for the defence, lead defence attorney, Daniel King, gave several examples of his actions that “prove” that James Holmes is insane.
King described Holmes' delusions of believing that President Obama was communicating with him through the television. And that Holmes thought that his thoughts were being “telegraphed” to everyone else in the jail where he was being held.

But as we’ve moved forward in the case, which is now in its twenty-sixth full day, we are far from having to rely on Daniel King to deliver the words of the defendant. Now, and for the past five court days, we have been hearing from the shooter himself.
No, James Holmes hasn’t decided to testify in open court, in front of possible survivors or victims’ families.
Instead, through the videoed psychiatric evaluation carried out over 22 hours (over various days) by court-appointed independent psychiatrist Dr William Reid, M.D., we got to hear it all straight from the Defendant’s mouth.
The videos were entered into evidence through the testimony of Dr William Reid, who evaluated Holmes over several days at Pueblo State Hospital during the end of July 2014 and the beginning of August 2014. Dr Reid was the second independent evaluator to examine Holmes, as the prosecution had found “flaws” in the original evaluation. Reid again visited with Holmes on August 27th 2014, once he had been returned to the Arapahoe County jail.
Through this video evidence we got to see what James Holmes was like once he had been medicated for a year and a half. Contrary to popular belief, Holmes wasn’t medicated when he was arrested. He had taken a Vicodin to manage the pain, in case he got shot. But other than that, he wasn’t medicated. And as for his rather spaced-out appearance at his first court appearance the Monday following the attack? (Which we will examine in full later through Reid’s videos) Well, he wasn’t medicated then either. In fact he wasn’t medicated with any kind of psychotropic drugs until he had a complete nervous breakdown in November 2012. A full four months after his arrest.
Previous to this, he had been acting bizarrely: defiling Styrofoam cups by balancing them on his penis while doing backward somersaults, during the trick. His fondness for pushing the envelope on new uses for Styrofoam cups continued when he ate a sandwich consisting of lunch meat between, yup, you guessed it: two Styrofoam cups!
The above mentioned “delusions” by Holmes about Obama speaking directly to him through his television, and the irrational thought that his thoughts were being “telegraphed” to other prisoners, all happened while Holmes was in jail, but before he was medicated.

Obviously, the counter argument to this is that the bizarre behaviour was brought on by Holmes’ “mind control” handlers, and that any subsequent changes in behaviour brought on post Holmes being medicated, were simply so he would go along with the story of a lone gunman and not give away the vast MK-Ultra conspiracy that was actually the cause of the 2012 Aurora Shooting.

Phew. I need to take a breath after inhaling that much bullshit at once.
Anyway, back to Reality Land. I once again offer the evidence of Dr William Reid M.D. to counter that counter argument. (A counter-counter argument?)
Although, as previously noted, Dr Reid did not evaluate Holmes until July 2014, just over two years after the event. However, previous to these interviews, Reid familiarised himself with the case by spending over three hundred hours going over everything on record.

One of the first things he viewed was video of Holmes in jail just after he was arrested. Holmes is filmed twenty four hours a day, and Reid viewed the first week of these video in their entirety. This was important, according to the doctor, as it allowed him to see how the defendant behaved directly after the shooting. The only thing of note, to the doctor, was that Holmes “sleeps at slightly odd hours.” That was the only thing that he noticed in the week following the week of the event. If that’s evidence of “MK Ultra level mind control”, then I guess most teenagers, college students, and people in their twenties, are under a similar type of control. :/
      

But before I delve further into what Dr Reid (and he is only the first of many psychiatrists-both independent and “hired”-to take the stand) has found about Holmes after the shooting, let us first take a look at James Holmes in the year leading up to that fateful night in July 2012.

You see there’s two strands to James Holmes’ life in the year leading up to July 2012. There’s the strand of Understanding the Year leading up to July 2012 through Holmes’ interactions with his family, friends and therapists.
And then there’s the second strand which allow us to view the year leading up the massacre through the lens of how Holmes’ was performing in his graduate course.




Throughout the opening statements for the State, District Attorney George Brauchler interwove into his speech, through many mediums, how it seemed that Holmes was compartmentalising the different aspects of his, almost, double life.

Below you will find two videos. In each video I have painstakingly woven these threads together, one video represents Understanding the Year leading up to July 2012 through Holmes’ interactions with his family, friends and therapists. The second video attempts to allow us to understand the year leading up the massacre through the lens of how Holmes’ was performing in his graduate course.

In the third video, in this series, you find a short rebuttal from Holmes’ lead attorney, Daniel King, Chief Trial Deputy at the Colorado State Public Defender. I will be producing a longer version, for Mr King to have an extended say on these issues, but as he addressed this piece specifically to Mr Brauchler, I am including it here as a third video. 



Strand 1: Understanding the Year leading up to July 2012 through Holmes’ interactions with his family, friends and therapists.






Strand 2: Understanding the year leading up the massacre through the lens of how Holmes’ was performing in his graduate course.





Rebuttal: This allows us to view what Holmes' had done leading up to July 2012, through the perspective of his defence attorney, Daniel King.