The ZeitGeist Movie

This is more of an endorsement than an actual article. If you have not seen this documentary then I highly recommend you do so, it is a real eye-opener. You can watch it for free online HERE.

The Zeitgeist Movie is split into three sections: Part 1 is about the origins of religion, Part 2 is about 9/11 and Part 3 is about the control and manipulation of the markets by a select group of international bankers, followed by a section at the end unifying all three parts of the film. If you enjoy this film then I urge you to watch The Money Masters and Loose Change, both can be found in their entirety online for free on Google video. Just search for them by name and you should find them without too much hassle. These two films expand in detail the points raised in Zeitgeist and give a more concise account of what is really going on in the world.

If for any reason you cannot find them just send me a message and I will see if I can get a copy shipped out to you as they are a real “Must See”.

The 42 Days Bill

I don’t tend to write about Politics in this blog, although it is something that interests me very much (any of my friends could tell you that). However, this story is relevant to this site, and as such it is something I feel should be addressed.

Recently the House of Commons passed the bill to keep “Terror” suspects locked up for 42 days without trial or charges filed against them by a majority of less than 10 (if my memory serves me correctly it was 306 to 315, but I may be wrong). Gordon Brown said it was a pre-emptive policy, as terror cases become more complex and cross international borders, more time is needed to collate important evidence. He continued to say that although this was not needed at present, in the not-to-distant-future it would be so instead of waiting for the situation to arise and attempt to get an emergency bill passed when they develop, he would do it now in our current state of “calm”. The Conservative’s argument was that the bill had so many concessions that it was now unworkable and that it was taking away our basic civil liberties, which is my main point of writing this article.

My first concern is the term “Terror Suspect” and the actions of “Terrorism”. The so-called “War on Terror” is so hard to define, and the very few factors that are obvious tend to be ignored by the media. The War on Terror is in fact the war against Islamic Extremism but the media will never say that for fear of offending the Muslim population. But that never stopped them when Britain’s terror threat came from Northern Ireland did it? A Terrorist is someone who (as the name suggests) causes terror in society to gain political or ideological advancement. But how long will it be before the state decides that OTHER crimes class as Terrorism and start using this new piece of legislation to lock up run of the mill criminals?

Ok, let us imagine a scenario. Football violence increases to the levels it was in the 1980’s, and football firms start fighting more and more. One day a huge fight breaks out and the police move in and arrest everyone in the area, which includes innocent bystanders and people who had to defend themselves from would be aggressors. A self-employed father of five is caught up in the middle of it all, arrested and held in a police cell. As there are so many people to interview, cameras to check and so forth the police decide to hold this man for 42 days. Meanwhile, he loses his livelihood (you cannot just take one and a half months off and expect to still get an income if you own your own business) and has his house repossessed for failure to pay his mortgage. His wife and children have to live in refuge centres as without an income they cannot afford to rent a house. The point is that by allowing the 42 day detention bill to be passed is it will inevitably become common practice for police, driving us more towards the police state we so desperately do not need.

Also, as the current holding period is 28 days (I believe), if you arrested someone and have NO evidence to charge them after an entire month of investigation then maybe they are innocent. To arrest someone for “Terrorist” activities you must have got some intelligence and evidence they are indeed plotting something?? Surely there are better ways? How about house arrest for an extra fortnight after the 28 day period? Electronic tagging even would be a better idea then locking them up. That way you get to keep one or two of your civil liberties but also the police can keep an eye on you whilst they “collate” all the relevant data”.

This bill is another step towards a 1984-esque Orwellian state, and we all must oppose it in any way we can. If we allow this to continue, before we know the powers-that-be will have used this false “War” to convince the entire population individual microchip implants are the best way to keep us “safe”. Think that is a bit far fetched? It is already happening in America, and people are CHOOSING to do this because of the false propaganda the US government pollutes the people with.

Deja Vous

Everyone has experienced Deja Vous at some point in their life. That eerie feeling of recognising the situation you are in even though you not sure how or why can be distressing for many people. But what exactly is Deja Vous and what causes it? There are a normal of theories regarding this topic, from the neurobiological to the downright outlandish.

One of the more conventional theories is that put forward by neuroscientists. Sometimes the brain will receive the same information twice, confusing the individual to get that “familiar” feeling. Information is sent through the brain by a vast and complex structure of neurones that send and receive signals to all the relevant places. When it comes to vision, the brain has two separate pathways for the information to travel just in case one pathway is damaged. The main route is called the geniculate striate pathway that leads to the occipital lobe of the brain (which can be found at the rear of the cerebral cortex) where the information is processed. One theory of Deja Vous is that the signal goes down both pathways to the occipital lobe where the brain instantaneously process both signals which causes the feeling of familiarity. So basically the feeling of familiarity is real, as the brain has (just milliseconds before) processed the exact same information.

But lets be honest, most of you read this blog do for the more crazy and random theories. So, let us have a look at some of these.

One of my personal favourites is the “Repeating Life” theory. Basically, the idea is that life is eternally repeating and you live the same life over and over again. Deja Vous is simply remembering an aspect of one of your previous existences that should be hidden away in your mind for whatever reason. Now as much as I would love this to be true, unfortunately there are too many flaws to this theory for my liking. For one, what would be the point in living the same life over and over and over again? What possible benefits could it have? Also, if all the information from a persons past lives are stored in your brain (as it would have to if the theory of Deja Vous is correct) then why does this never come out during situations like hypnotic regression? I understand people do get past life experiences brought up through regression, but it is never the same life as the one they are living. They are usually Cleopatra or a Spartan warrior (but curiously rarely a Chinese peasant!!). However, if the “Repeating Life” theory is true then this may explain precognition. If we have lived the same life over and over then like Deja Vous, precognition may work on the same basis. Instead of working in the present like Deja Vous does, precognition works by “remembering” the future. Try testing that in a laboratory-based experiment…

Another idea to explain Deja Vous is that from an evolutionary angle (my apologies to any “Creationists” reading this). Most people find the feeling of Deja Vous to be very distressing, unnecessarily experience but there is not a lot of human behaviour that cannot be somehow linked to evolutionary by-products. The idea is that years ago, in mankind’s early stages of evolution, cognitive development created a kind of early warning system for danger. We have all had a “bad feeling” about a situation and the idea that Deja Vous is a misconstrued cognitive response to potential danger does sound quite interesting, but how much truth there is to it is a totally different debate.

Either way, Deja Vous is a strange human phenomenon and is relatively unexplained by hard scientific evidence. Until this evidence emerges the less conventional hypotheses can took and root and grow as time goes on.

Grey Aliens, Dolphins And An Interesting Comparison

Well, here it is, the eagerly-anticipated “Aliens” post. I hope it lives up to its expectations.

Aliens have long been an area of major division. The notion of advance beings coming from far away planets seems ludicrous to some people. Anyone who knows me can tell you I am a FIRM believer in aliens visiting Earth, and would even go as far to say that I think they live amongst us at this very time. I will admit I have a bit of a bias on this subject, so pretending I do not would be a waste of time. However I can fully understand why people find it hard to believe and I can take that onboard, unless that is of course you are using “Creationism” or similar religious ideas as evidence, in that case I am not interested.

There are reportedly whole ranges of different “Breeds” of aliens out there, from reptilians to humanoids. But the most common is the Grey alien.

Grey aliens appear a lot in modern popular culture, and when people think of aliens they usually have a mental image similar to the image above. Grey’s are thought to originate from the Zeta Reticuli binary star system some 39 light years away from Earth. This star system consists of two yellow dwarf stars, Zeta 1 and Zeta 2, and some astronomers believe they can support life if there is a planet at the correct orbital distance from one or both stars. The main reason many researchers in Ufology think this is the origin of the Grey is due to an American couple named Betty and Barney Hill. The Hills are often credited with throwing the idea of “Alien Abduction” into the mainstream. Many years after their alleged abduction, Betty Hill went under hypnotic regression and drew a star map that was apparently shown to her during her abduction by the Greys. For years no one could find any star system that matched her drawing, but eventually they did and it was the Zeta Reticuli system. So to this day many people believe this is their origin, and why some people call Greys “Zetans”.

But if Greys were real, how would their evolution have differed from ours? Well, here are a couple of theories:

Clones

There are some scientists out there who believe that Greys are in fact laboratory-engineered clones created by some other advanced life forms and designed specifically to deal with the stress of space travel. Supporters of this idea say that Greys notorious lack of empathy may be due to them being organic robots, operating under their programming to perform tasks with no emotion.

Hollow Earth

Not as popular as it used to be, the “Hollow Earth” theory is just as it sounds. That there are intelligent life forms living in giant subterranean caverns below our feet and that the UFO’s we see in our skies in fact come from underground. There is only one real source of decent evidence I can find, and that comes from Nazi Germany. Hitler and Himmler were very interested in the occult and allegedly sent a plane to the North or South Pole (I forget which one) to find the entrance to Hollow Earth. As the plane flew across the baron ice filled landscape they noticed a huge city beneath them and their plane was then landed via remote control by an unknown force. Once landed they were greeted by Greys and the crew stayed in the Hollow Earth city for many years before returning to Berlin with new sciences that the Greys showed them. At the end of WWII most Nazi scientists were took to America, and you can see how a conspiracy theory started from that.

Dolphins

Always a popular theory is that Greys evolved from a creature similar to our dolphin. Theoretically it does make a lot of sense and out of all the ideas floating around about Greys this one is by far the most plausable. The most noticeable thing about Greys is their grey skin (hence the name, Grey Alien) and is very similar to that of a dolphin. Without an actual sample of a Grey’s skin this would impossible to verify, but there is more evidence to support the dolphin idea than just skin colour. The eyes of the Grey are always reported as big and with a black “eye shield” covering the pupil. On Earth, many water-based creatures evolve these to deal with low light levels found in the ocean, which would suggest Greys evolved in a low level light environment. Another factor that suggests Greys come from Dolphin-like creatures is their very large heads. The size and shape of the cranium infer that Greys have an enlarged rear (occipital) and frontal lobe, a feature that is common in dolphins. During many abduction cases, victims often report that they were unable to move when a Grey looked in their direction, but as soon as the Grey looked away they regained physical control. Certain species of dolphin can disable small fish using sonar, and marine biologists have found that these waves can cause significant changes at cellular level. With many years evolution, it is not that unbelievable that Greys have adapted this technique from an existing skill they gained from millions of years of evolution.

So there are a few theories as to the origins of Grey aliens. It is worth highlighting that not so long ago, elves and pixies were the equivalent of Greys in popular culture. Maybe Greys are just part of human social evolution and popularity, or maybe we really are not alone. Until they officially make their presence known, Ufology will always remain a psuedo-science.

New Article

I will posting a new article in the next couple of days. I have been revising for exams and as I have my last exam on friday morning I will have the time to add the finishing touches to it. So check back friday or saturday and it will be up.

Thanks.

Requests

Apparently I am now doing "requests". That's right, if you have a certain topic you want me to write about, please email me or leave a comment.

The next article I will be publishing is a peice requested by a reader, which should be up in the next few days.

9/11 Part 2: World Trade Centre 7

Most people do not even know that another building collapsed on 9/11 apart from the twin towers. This building was World Trade Centre 7 (WTC7), otherwise known as the “Soloman Brothers” building (see HERE). It was not hit by a plane, only had very small fires on a couple of floors, yet collapsed at free-fall speed at around 5:30pm. Official explanation? Well, there is none. The official 9/11 commission report did not even mention it. Not once! This is why WTC7 is often referred to as “The Smoking Gun Of 9/11”. So, what happened to WTC7 and why did it fall?

The landlord for the World Trade Centre complex is a man called Larry Silverstein. Shortly after 9/11, he gave a filmed interview stating that he told the fireman to “Pull it”, which is an industry term used by demolition experts to collapse a building (HERE). Normally it takes weeks, even months to carefully plant explosives to bring down a building. Yet Silverstein managed to do it in the space of a few hours, with half the emergency services tied up with the collapse of the towers (or dead in many cases, RIP NYPD / NYFD!) and all flights grounded? Does anybody believe that? I sure as hell don’t!

Below is a map of the WTC layout, highlighting which buildings collapsed:

Notice how WTC5 and WTC6 are actually between the twin towers and WTC7. Just to point out, WTC5 and WTC6 are still standing and operational to this day.

The Soloman Brothers building was a 47 storey, steel framed building that was completed in 1987. Since it was destroyed, a new building now exists on the site. A FEMA report conducted after the collapse said the cause of collapse was fire, even though no fire has ever fully destroyed a steel building, yet on 9/11 it destroyed three. A good visual aid to see the difference can be found HERE. Now, do you still think fire caused the collapse?

Like I said, I am just going to explain each part of 9/11 in parts, then look at it holistically in my final 9/11 post.