<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:37:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>Book Review</category><category>msm</category><category>reality</category><category>psy-ops</category><category>election</category><category>bilderberg</category><category>consciousness</category><category>Hidden Knowledge</category><category>culture</category><category>economy</category><category>videos</category><category>mexico</category><category>Mars</category><category>chemtrails</category><category>philosophy</category><category>freedom</category><category>war</category><category>swineflu</category><category>birdflu</category><category>obama</category><category>2012</category><category>icke</category><category>ancient mysteries</category><category>EU</category><category>The Moon</category><category>globalwarming</category><category>Mind Control</category><category>policestate</category><category>israel</category><category>nwo</category><category>health</category><category>NASA</category><category>ronpaul</category><category>BCG</category><category>money</category><title>Challenging you...</title><description>Challenging everything you think you know...because knowledge is everything.</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>90</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-5047436743638595405</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-11T00:38:15.881-07:00</atom:updated><title>Shock horror, Agent Provocateur</title><description>Agent Provocateur - London Protests March 26th 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/s_zozlNfGl4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few well placed photographers, an 'anarchist' in a balaclava smashing a bin through a bank window - consider the British public well and truly conditioned to what 'protest' is...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-5047436743638595405?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2011/04/shock-horror-agent-provocateur.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/s_zozlNfGl4/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-7087866529076176188</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-02-06T05:42:02.262-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>videos</category><title>Debating Zeitgeist Moving Forward</title><description>The third of the Zeitgeist movies was recently released online. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4Z9WVZddH9w" frameborder="0"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I sent out the link to a lot of people I know, not because I agree with the contents of the film, just because its intellectually an interesting film. Zeitgeist, the first film, had a phenomenal impact with young people who had the itch, that itch that says - this ain't right, something ain't right with the world. After dealing with organised religion and the monetary system, many felt their itch very well scratched, and with that, a 'cult' (and I am using that word very carefully and in the usual context) following developed, including the &lt;a href="http://thezeitgeistmovement.com/"&gt;Zeitgeist Movement&lt;/a&gt;. ZMV talks more about society's problems and how our current system is, well, rubbish.  Peter Joesph then goes on to elaborate on the solution in more detail than ever. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;An interesting debate developed after &lt;a href="http://www.freedomainradio.com/"&gt;Stefan Molyneux&lt;/a&gt; posted a response on his YouTube channel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Pg5K07c72Tw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was followed up by Peter Joesph himself, releasing the following response.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ozy52bZ6JTw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stefan than released another response which as far as I am aware of has not been replied to yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/b9WEWcbfnHg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here's my review of all these reviews, and a perspective on the debate. Stefan's first video I felt was rather condescending and his points would have much better received if he hadn't been laughing at his own jokes all the time. For a philosopher its all a bit strange, you'd have thought he would have been more, well, wise. He did also use some fairly weak circumstantial examples to criticise ZMV with. I think this did a lot to agitate Peter Joesph and shape his tone of reply. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;However &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;in Stefan's reply to the reply, his tone gets more serious, as he probably realises his earlier mistakes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;I tend to agree with Stefan's overall philosophy and also assessment of ZMV. The Zeitgeist solution involving the resource-based economy and central planning is a scary concept and no matter how well intentioned this system might be, it is still a system, and systems need to be run by someone. That opens the small problem of power being available, power corrupting - which it always has and always will do, not least because psychopaths drift towards positions of power whilst the rest of us stand by and watch because, well, we're too nice. Stefan challenges Peter to agree to a non-aggression means of implementing the Zeitgeist solution and its an interesting point that goes unmentioned by PJ in his films. What about people who don't want to be part of the new system...what happens to them? We can't help but look at history for examples. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-7087866529076176188?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2011/02/debating-zeitgeist-moving-forward.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/4Z9WVZddH9w/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-6228564524660013843</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-09T20:40:04.882-08:00</atom:updated><title>Students protest in the UK, media fawns to the elite ruling class</title><description>&lt;div&gt;The British press, a fawning, spineless sorry excuse for a profession, are pulling on the heartstrings of the sleeping masses who are already fed up and chilled to the bone at home by the fireside. The Daily Mail, the most despicable of the bunch when it comes to this sort of thing, leads with the story of Prince Charles's car getting pelted with paint bombs and being attacked by an angry mob - which, strangely, was led directly through a protest area.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/TQGMgtzfPlI/AAAAAAAAAbY/vjGNrFXC66I/s1600/charles.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 156px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/TQGMgtzfPlI/AAAAAAAAAbY/vjGNrFXC66I/s320/charles.bmp" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548870709576416850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmm, how did that happen? Terrible planning by MI5, wot wot. Amazing how the photographers were right there to take close up pictures of the shocked Prince. He does have a bloody good PR company you know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The press go on to describe the 'horror' and terror of the precious couple, as the 'baying mob' surrounded them. The Telegraph says it was an 'attack'. I think their bombproof, bullet proof Rolls Royce was fairly safe to be in.  Quite an amusing place to stare out at the unhappy serfs on the street. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In not one paper is there any kind of mention of a genuine cause for social unrest, a rise in tuition fees that will either cripple prospective students with debt or put them off higher education completely. And then what...what choices will this generation have, and how can the press be so short sighted in ignoring the issue. This is of course the bigger picture and unfortunately emotion and patriotism sell papers;  publishing a picture of a student swinging from a Union Jack on the Cenotaph will move more copies than a boring article on social justice. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cricketer Graham Swann, at the height of popularity - a wealthy young man commenting from the sunny climes of Australia on Twitter says:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/TQGQzMehnGI/AAAAAAAAAbg/17GRG4KmOa0/s1600/swann.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 136px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/TQGQzMehnGI/AAAAAAAAAbg/17GRG4KmOa0/s400/swann.bmp" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548875425094147170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Swanny has over 100,000 followers on Twitter. I'm sorry Graham, stick to the spin bowling and clowning around in your &lt;a href="http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/england/england-in-australia-2010-11/swannys-ashes-video-diary/"&gt;Ashes Video Diary&lt;/a&gt; please. First of all, the vote is already passed, 323 to 302. A majority of just 21. That means almost half of parliament along with the student unions and students themselves have spent some time debating the issue. It's passed, don't you get it? Despite vociferous opposition from a very large and important part of society, they passed it. No amount of polite, articulate argument is going to change anything. The greedy, selfish and bloated MP's in parliament passed it, safe in the knowledge that &lt;i&gt;their&lt;/i&gt; kids won't be affected. P&lt;a href="http://flashnewstoday.com/index.php/swann-broad-want-to-join-ipl/"&gt;robably yours neither Swanny&lt;/a&gt;. The thought that we have an open and fair democracy is laughable. The reports say that Parliament Square was surrounded by a 1000 police officers, as the politicians voted away the future of many many lives. Probably not wise to let in 30,000 protesters, but also not wise to ignore public opinion this strong. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'm sure many, like Graham Swann, were outraged this morning with images of the capital being 'violated'. However, let's just take a quick reality check. I'm not going to defend anyone defacing the Cenotaph but please - it's fascism to use it as a stick to beat the entire movement with. If those glorious dead from the Great War could see how it got to this stage, I am sure they'd be stood there with their placards amongst the student protesters. Most of them were young men too. They didn't give their lives for out of control private banks to bring the world economy to its knees, and then use public tax money - your labour - to save themselves. And this is the result. Austerity measures home and abroad are bringing down the quality of life, which I believe to be an intentional climax to a long term plan, but that's irrelevant. The point is it's happening, and I have respect that people so young in my country are very aware of what this means. More so than the armchair upper-middle class who sit and comment in disgust at shop windows on Oxford Street being broken.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CrgzpPvJxmQ?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CrgzpPvJxmQ?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As with any genuine protest movement, the line is crossed by some and this can sometimes lead to a loss of public opinion. Is it too far-fetched to suggest that there is some state/intelligence involvement in the more radical elements of the protest group? Is there evidence of government's using agent provocateurs in the past? Of course there is. It's not hard to figure out. &lt;a href="http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2010/12/agents-provocateurs-london-student-demo.html"&gt;The case of the abandoned police van&lt;/a&gt; - a photo opportunity for the press - you can even see the 'police aware' sticker on the windscreen! Then of course, there are some people out on the streets taking advantage of the situation too. Anarchists maybe. However, it only reflects the civil unrest felt across broader sections of society, that others also have the urge to take to the streets. In times of economic andsocietal breakdown and government oppression, radicalism takes hold. Certainly, a whole swath of young people have just been radicalised by being ignored by their elected officials, most notably &lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/nick-clegg-no-apologies-no-regrets-no-shame-2151708.html"&gt;Nick Clegg&lt;/a&gt; and his Liberal Democrats. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So with one portion of society feeling distanced and forgotten by a wealthy ruling class, other members of society who are psychologically unstable come out of the woodwork, driven on by their hatred of humanity and disdain for freedom.  A comment in the Telegraph is a chilling example:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/TQGk4FI346I/AAAAAAAAAbo/WpWBvRclk3g/s1600/comments.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/TQGk4FI346I/AAAAAAAAAbo/WpWBvRclk3g/s400/comments.bmp" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548897499256185762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And there you have it. This is how tyranny takes hold. I ask, which is more dangerous - the protester on the street, or the man who does nothing and applauds when the troops roll in and start brandishing their batons and tazers.   &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Through the press and propaganda, the government convinces the general population that the protesters are radical and should be feared, that they are just a bunch of crazed bloodthirsty lunatics, ignoring the socio-economic situation that caused the problem in the first place.  The public calls for the solution, which in some cases involves violent repression. Incredibly, the majority will support it without realising they are building their own invisible prison around them. They spit hateful remarks because &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt; selfish lives have been interrupted, &lt;i&gt;their &lt;/i&gt;twisted view of the world distorted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Revolt, disobedience and social unrest are key factors in any truly free social democracy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a letter to James Madison in 1787, Thomas Jefferson wrote:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem&lt;/span&gt;. Even this evil is productive of good. It prevents the degeneracy of government, and nourishes a general attention to the public affairs. I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem&lt;/span&gt;. Translates literally as "I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude." - or alternatively: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;I prefer dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery&lt;/span&gt;." &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Amen to that. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-6228564524660013843?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/12/students-protest-in-uk-media-fawns-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/TQGMgtzfPlI/AAAAAAAAAbY/vjGNrFXC66I/s72-c/charles.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-918565803706648262</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-26T00:11:59.134-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ancient mysteries</category><title>Bosnian Pyramid 2010</title><description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DvDmtvb_WQU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DvDmtvb_WQU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-918565803706648262?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/11/bosnian-pyramid-2010.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-1243662259958737207</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 03:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-23T19:49:05.555-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>nwo</category><title>Banks, Ireland, Bailouts.</title><description>Jim Corr sums up the honest truth, in his own words, to the people of Ireland. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ing8xH3Qj-k?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ing8xH3Qj-k?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The headline from this website, the Daily Bail, doesn't encourage anyone who loves freedom from banks too much either...&lt;a href="http://dailybail.com/home/rothschild-bank-and-goldman-sachs-are-both-on-the-list-of-bo.html"&gt;Rothschild Bank AND Goldman Sachs Are Both On The LIST Of Bondholders Getting U.S. Taxpayer Billions In Irish Bailout&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 'World in Review' staggers and chokes us even more. Utterly astounding. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6LyVbZbjLZ0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6LyVbZbjLZ0?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whichever way you perceive all of this information, no one can deny that the history of the 21st century is taking another twist with the latest developments in Ireland.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-1243662259958737207?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/11/banks-ireland-bailouts.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-5670381295829353813</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-13T19:22:55.432-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>videos</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>nwo</category><title>Getting back to the challenge</title><description>What's been going on recently - well there's a ton of things to watch and read. Every day the news reader is choc full of interesting links and videos, there's barely enough time to digest all this information. I'll just note a couple of the good ones I have perused very recently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First up is one of the mad hatters in the House of Lords telling the other half-dozing peers an insanely important piece of information that is basically as follows - a private company is attempting to BUY the British economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y8tvz8oICgg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y8tvz8oICgg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just mind boggling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next up is a 90 minute interview with one of the great cult figures of research into 'alternative' theories on ancient civilizations, Graham Hancock. Here he is chatting to David Wilcock, another well know researcher and lecturer who we'll come to in a minute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the interview they talk through Graham's books and cover many interesting subjects. This is a great way to spend some time, but then again you could watch &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvRRbFgMO4A"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and similar things as well if its too much for you...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WvNEVvHgOOY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WvNEVvHgOOY?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David Wilcock who interviews Hancock above is an interesting guy in his own right. His website is &lt;a href="http://divinecosmos.com/"&gt;Divine Cosmos&lt;/a&gt; which covers a vast array of material. He is especially interested in the evolution of consciousness, universal consciousness and 2012. His latest YouTube video lecture is a fascinating watch too, well worth tuning into - unless of course you missed &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D13zilh0OOA"&gt;last nights X Factor&lt;/a&gt; - then don't bother. If you have got the time, its called '2012 Event Horizon, Prophecies and Science of a Golden Age'. This lecture contains some fantastic points for continued research, definitely keep a pen and paper handy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cEyqT2_ricA?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cEyqT2_ricA?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following on in the same theme, I've also recently taken delivery of &lt;a href="http://www.pyramidcode.com/"&gt;The Pyramid Code&lt;/a&gt; DVD set and it is a nice production outlining some of the interesting alternative theories and the anomalies surrounding ancient Egypt and especially the Great Pyramid. I've moved James Dunn's &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Giza-Power-Plant-Technologies-Ancient/dp/1879181509"&gt;The Giza Power Plant&lt;/a&gt; to the top of my wishlist after watching.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Moving on, as mentioned before on Challenging You, (&lt;a href="http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/10/oopswe-lied.html"&gt;Oops...We lied&lt;/a&gt;) The Telegraph further confirms our fears of being completely lied to in a brazen fashion in an article called &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8127156/Warning-of-new-era-of-surveillance-state.html"&gt;Warning of new era of surveillance state&lt;/a&gt;. God bless, well, us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Britons are already the most watched citizens in the democratic world because of an army of surveillance systems including CCTV, cameras that track vehicles, vast Government databases and the sharing of personal data such as air passenger details.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regarding broken promises, &lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-clegg-ndash-the-man-who-betrayed-us-all-2131652.html"&gt;Clegg, The Man Who Betrayed Us All&lt;/a&gt;. It would be funny if wasn't so breathtakingly embarrassing. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Vigilant Citizen pulls another great great article out of the bag - &lt;a href="http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=2536"&gt;The Hidden Hand that Shaped History&lt;/a&gt;. Like all of the information on this blog, I consider it worthy of your honest consideration, and nothing more. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-5670381295829353813?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/11/getting-back-to-challenge.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-7551139204170864283</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-01T23:00:57.894-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>videos</category><title>The Matrix -  A poem</title><description>Love, love love this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/P01ZxSb3SZM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/P01ZxSb3SZM?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-7551139204170864283?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/11/matrix-poem.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-9040368703759863719</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-01T23:00:23.512-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>videos</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>msm</category><title>Aussie host Jon Faine shows extremist views</title><description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tE3pMPObcGU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tE3pMPObcGU?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An awful example of mindless extremism, from Aussie Radio Hose Jon Faine.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-9040368703759863719?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/10/aussie-host-jon-faine-shows-extremist.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-5963410306268881319</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-10-20T18:37:20.270-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>policestate</category><title>Oops...we lied!</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/TL-X82NH0EI/AAAAAAAAAaw/2Voo0TWyJXs/s1600/conmanifesto.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 193px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/TL-X82NH0EI/AAAAAAAAAaw/2Voo0TWyJXs/s320/conmanifesto.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530305939032756290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This was taken from the Conservative Manifesto which is &lt;a href="http://www.conservatives.com/Policy/Manifesto.aspx"&gt;still available online&lt;/a&gt;. All about respecting people's privacy and curtailing electronic surveillance. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Telegraph technology section just published an article called &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8075563/Every-email-and-website-to-be-stored.html"&gt;Every Email and Website to be Stored&lt;/a&gt;, an oh so familiar sounding headline from the long heady days of the Labour government. Does this go some way to showing that it really isn't important who is in power - the agenda continues. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.popgadget.net/images/fauxsecurity_cameras.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 349px; height: 389px;" src="http://www.popgadget.net/images/fauxsecurity_cameras.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; "&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "&gt;The plans were shelved by the Labour Government last December but the Home Office is now ready to revive them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "&gt;It comes despite the Coalition Agreement promised to "end the storage of internet and email records without good reason".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-5963410306268881319?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/10/oopswe-lied.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/TL-X82NH0EI/AAAAAAAAAaw/2Voo0TWyJXs/s72-c/conmanifesto.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-5044861555436804937</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-10-06T23:36:56.324-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Book Review</category><title></title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/891362-L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 313px; height: 475px;" src="http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/891362-L.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recently finished the book 'Who built the moon' by Knight and Butler. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I bought the book as a prelude to David Icke's 'Human Race Get Off Your Knees' which I will be collecting soon. Icke's newest book also focuses on the moon as being a suspicious object that effects human life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As clearly pointed out in '&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Who-Built-Moon-Christopher-Knight/dp/1842931636"&gt;Who built the moon&lt;/a&gt;' the fact that our satellite has a very real effect on our ability to exist on this tiny planet is not debatable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The authors point out the many things that the moon contributes to life on earth, such as maintaining the tilt of the earth on its axis, which creates the seasons and allows life to flourish in a comfortable and minuscule temperature range. In the chapter 'The impossible message' the origins of DNA is discussed. The chances of DNA originating by itself by chance on Earth are mind bogglingly high, the probability being higher than the estimated number of particles in the universe, such is its complexity. The authors suggest how the moon played a role in the creation of DNA on earth. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The book summarizes the current scientific theory on how the moon was formed - and to the reader they point out that all such theories are just that, and that they all have massive holes in them. Interestingly, the moon's mass almost exactly that of the missing portion of earth's crust that today holds the oceans. Coincidence? Just one of many that are pointed out in the book - including the infamous megalithic yard - a measurement system that has some eerie coincidences of its own both in the ancient world and when compared to today's metric system. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Concluding the book the authors propose three theories of how the moon came to be in place. To be brief they are 1) Aliens 2) God and 3) Time traveling humans! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personally, I'm in the number 1 camp!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-5044861555436804937?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/10/recently-finished-book-who-built-moon.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-1575708063367367526</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-31T22:54:59.089-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>mexico</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>nwo</category><title>Mexico</title><description>What the hell actually is going on in Mexico. I've no idea if the BBC or CNN are reporting from Mexico very often because I don't watch prefabricated corporate garbage. Even flicking over BBC World news on my cable channel and getting a brief flash of someone saying 'terrorism' is too much. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I know a little about Mexico in that it is basically a warzone where lawlessness rules and murder is commonplace in drug related gang violence. &lt;a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/04/29/93136/as-drug-war-death-toll-rises-mexicans.html"&gt;Over 22,000 dead in 3 years&lt;/a&gt; apparently. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, we know that things are unstable and violence and intimidation are prevalent, I'm sure we can assume that corruption is rife amongst elected officials and supposed public servants. A perfect testing ground for social experiments. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few weeks ago one particular story shivered my spine more than most - &lt;a href="http://tommytoy.vox.com/library/post/big-brother-is-here-global-rainmaker-introduces-retinal-scanning-for-the-masses.html"&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;. Retina scanning technology being trialled in a Mexican city of 1 million people. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"In the future, whether it's entering your home, opening your car, entering your workspace, getting a pharmacy prescription refilled, or having your medical records pulled up, everything will come off that unique key that is your iris," says Jeff Carter, CDO of Global Rainmakers, who, before coming to GRI, headed a think tank partnership between Bank of America, Harvard, and MIT.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hmm. Bank of American, Harvard and MIT. Haven't we seen those names somewhere before! Well yes, we know they are slimy little suckers on one of the tentacles of the New World Order. What's contained in this report is nothing less than petrifying, and Mr Cater's response to people having choice about being in this scheme was scripted by Orwell himself...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"And it's interesting: When you get masses of people opting-in, opting out does not help. Opting out actually puts more of a flag on you than just being part of the system. We believe everyone will opt-in."&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You're are not helping the cause if you opt out! We all know that any scheme that is 'voluntary' to begin with becomes 'required' and then 'law'. It's a means of introducing the idea into public consciousness (Hollywood having laid the foundations). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following on from this I saw a report posted on Prison Planet via 'The Economic Collapse Blog' called '&lt;a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-death-of-cash-all-over-the-world-governments-are-banning-large-cash-transactions"&gt;The Death of All Cash&lt;/a&gt;'. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;In Mexico, a bill before the legislature would completely ban the purchase of real estate in cash.  In addition, the new law would ban anyone from spending more than MXN 100,000 (about $7,700) in cash on vehicles, boats, airplanes and luxury goods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$7,700 is not a very high limit, and this legislation has some real teeth to it.  Anyone violating this law would face up to 15 years in prison.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We all know the ultimate goals of our new world - that is a micro-chipped prison planet where we can all truly be free in utopia...nowhere does it seem to be more scarily real at the moment than Mexico. Societal breakdown, minority report style technology being used and cash seemingly being phased out. The question is, how long before it spreads?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-1575708063367367526?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/08/mexico.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-6791396819769163266</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-29T18:37:13.483-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>culture</category><title>Generation Hexed - Carcass</title><description>Meaningful lyrics from metal band Carcass..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lost forever&lt;br /&gt;A whole generation of pathetic lost souls&lt;br /&gt;With no meaning no depth&lt;br /&gt;They're already dead, before it gets old&lt;br /&gt;Anonymous, blank&lt;br /&gt;No individuality, uniformed&lt;br /&gt;A wholesale&lt;br /&gt;Blanket identity, from the day that they're born&lt;br /&gt;- Another generation to mourn&lt;br /&gt;What choice for a new generation?&lt;br /&gt;Another generation under sedation&lt;br /&gt;Flocking like sheep&lt;br /&gt;The instinctual herd, as fashion dictates&lt;br /&gt;Primitively seduced&lt;br /&gt;Commonly reduced, resigned to their fate&lt;br /&gt;Another useless&lt;br /&gt;Faceless degeneration&lt;br /&gt;Like the one which precedes&lt;br /&gt;Acknowledging&lt;br /&gt;A bleak existence, to be spent on it's knees&lt;br /&gt;- The pattern it seeds&lt;br /&gt;What choice for a new generation?&lt;br /&gt;Another generation under sedation&lt;br /&gt;Generation hexed&lt;br /&gt;Just another useless generation&lt;br /&gt;..Hexed&lt;br /&gt;Trapped together&lt;br /&gt;Another wasted generation is sold&lt;br /&gt;With no meaning, no depth&lt;br /&gt;They're there to be bled&lt;br /&gt;Never breaking the mould&lt;br /&gt;Anonymous, blank&lt;br /&gt;No individuality, misinformed&lt;br /&gt;A wholesale&lt;br /&gt;Blinkered non-entity, on it's knees born&lt;br /&gt;- Another generation to scorn&lt;br /&gt;What choice for a new generation?&lt;br /&gt;Just another generation under sedation&lt;br /&gt;Self suppressed&lt;br /&gt;Generation vexed&lt;br /&gt;Ha, self oppressed&lt;br /&gt;Just another generation hexed&lt;br /&gt;(lead)&lt;br /&gt;What choice for a new generation?&lt;br /&gt;A generation vexed&lt;br /&gt;Still no choice for a new generation&lt;br /&gt;Just another generation under sedation&lt;br /&gt;Generation hexed&lt;br /&gt;Just another useless generation&lt;br /&gt;Generation hexed&lt;br /&gt;Just another wasted generation&lt;br /&gt;..hexed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/c/carcass/#share&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-6791396819769163266?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/08/generation-hexed-carcass.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-5576867104076642799</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-08-16T03:51:37.785-07:00</atom:updated><title>Robert Anton Wilson</title><description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wVC0FcSRxL8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wVC0FcSRxL8?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-5576867104076642799?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/08/robert-anton-wilson.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-3529940719160276370</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-07-21T23:47:55.753-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>chemtrails</category><title>Chemtrails</title><description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bSSWnXQsgOU&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bSSWnXQsgOU&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-3529940719160276370?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/07/chemtrails.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><thr:total>8</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-8728677438768817589</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 13:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-05-04T08:01:04.752-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>election</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>nwo</category><title>The LibLabCon - And Introducing Your Next Government</title><description>There are some problems with voting liblabcon that most people seem to overlook in their fervent attempts to look clever because they watched Question Time or managed to read a whole article in 'The Times' without stopping.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's start with&lt;a href="http://www.conservatives.com/Policy/Manifesto.aspx"&gt; the Conservatives&lt;/a&gt;. Starting with &lt;b&gt;national security&lt;/b&gt;, they have suddenly started sounding American - they will start a 'National Security Council' and a 'National Resilience Team for Homeland Security' - HOMELAND SECURITY! This is of course to protect us from all the nasty people who want to blow us up (like MI5). Just look at the wonderful job the department of HOMELAND SECURITY is doing in the USA..and take heart that we are next in line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/S-AlfDfVxyI/AAAAAAAAAXA/-APFtNtACUw/s1600/105.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 246px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/S-AlfDfVxyI/AAAAAAAAAXA/-APFtNtACUw/s320/105.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467411163070711586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Foreign Policy&lt;/b&gt; - rather reads like a school boys idealistic essay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/S-An992zMBI/AAAAAAAAAXI/9VNkeLhckVg/s1600/110.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/S-An992zMBI/AAAAAAAAAXI/9VNkeLhckVg/s320/110.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467413893157695506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A small choice pick: '&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;work towards greater stability in Afghanistan and Pakistan&lt;/span&gt;'. No mention of our boys dying to maintain the geopolitical empire of the Anglo-American establishment whilst ensuring the supply of opium continues to flood out of the area in ever increasing rates? Oh, ok then.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;We will maintain a strong, close and frank relationship with the United States&lt;/span&gt;. Patriots across the country are wiping their brows in relief. Phew! That is the same United States that invades, tortures, uses depleted uranium, props up dictators when it benefits their corporations and instigates revolutions in other countries that don't benefit their corporations, and supplies Israel with all its military might to maintain its country-sized concentration camp.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Climate Change&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/S-Ap497K4KI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/vzBv25MFydE/s1600/carbon.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 163px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/S-Ap497K4KI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/vzBv25MFydE/s320/carbon.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467416006299934882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;We can confirm our aim of reducing carbon emission by 80% by 2050&lt;/span&gt;'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First problem...man made climate change doesn't exist - and unless you've been living in cave of mainstream ignorance you will know this. Heavily heavily documented on this blog and thousands of others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second problem...do you have any idea what reducing our 'carbon emissions' by 80% actually entails! Well, I'd stock up on paraffin lamps if I were you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The EU&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The media has slyly turned the debate away from the European issue and Cameron has escaped on the 'referendum question'. With Liblabcon there is no way out of the EUSSR and what it has in store for us in the next couple of decades.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Liberal Democrats are heavily pro-EU and also have gone 'green' mad - from their&lt;a href="http://www.libdems.org.uk/our_manifesto.aspx"&gt; manifesto&lt;/a&gt; - '&lt;i&gt;there are only a few years to stop runaway climate change&lt;/i&gt;'. Large portions of their policies consist of environmental fascism in the name of the carbon religion. Utter Al Gorian nonsense. They also support the war in Afghanistan. That's poor form. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And do we really need to comment on the Labour party? They've shown us their policies quite clearly in the last 13 years. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The other major area of concern is of course the economy. Hahahahaha. Read this: &lt;a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;amp;aid=18948"&gt;Britain's Election: Welcome to No Choice Democracy &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Your next leader is already ordained anyway. To anyone who has seen &lt;a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4675077383139148549#"&gt;Ring Of Power&lt;/a&gt; or who understands how 'bloodlines operate' in our stranger-than-fiction reality,  &lt;a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6677414.ece"&gt;this story&lt;/a&gt; will be easy to understand. In fact, it's appearance in The Times couldn't have been a clearer message to those in the know. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-8728677438768817589?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/05/liblabcon-and-introducing-your-next.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/S-AlfDfVxyI/AAAAAAAAAXA/-APFtNtACUw/s72-c/105.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>22</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-1451583374000105529</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-04-27T00:10:00.640-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Hidden Knowledge</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Book Review</category><title>Book Review: Dark Misson, A Secret History of NASA</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.darkmission.net/images/DM-NYT-Correct-Color-Wilcock-Mod.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 323px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 492px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.darkmission.net/images/DM-NYT-Correct-Color-Wilcock-Mod.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dark mission is truly the work of conspirational lore. Forget the Apollo moon hoax, that's dismissed in the first chapter as a NASA disinformation campaign to deflect attention from the undeniable evidence of the ruins of an ancient alien civilization on both Mars and our own Moon. A little background knowledge of the theory of Earth's hidden history is helpful before reading this book. If Dark Mission is truly the first introduction to all material contained within it, then it will be even more astonishing for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://comicsnbeer.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/marsfacebw.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 360px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 360px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://comicsnbeer.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/marsfacebw.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(region_of_Mars)"&gt;Face on Mars &lt;/a&gt;takes up a lot of the discussion in the book, and the first chapter discusses this and other anomalies in the Cydonia region such as 'The City' and the 'D &amp;amp; M' pyramid. The mathematics of the region are also looked at, a model constructed by one of the authors, Richard C Hoagalnd (see his website, &lt;a href="http://www.enterprisemission.com/"&gt;enterprise mission&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.robertreckmeyer.com/image-files/phy_hyper.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 350px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 304px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.robertreckmeyer.com/image-files/phy_hyper.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoagland continues in chapter two (the book is written entirely in the third person) with an explanation of his hyperdimensional physics model, the foundation of which (as is my limited understanding of blowing-Einstien-and-Newton-out-of-the-water-physics) is that 3-D tetrahedrons within the interior of galactic bodies play a part in drawing in energy from other planes of existence (4th dimension and above). At 19.5 degrees the geometric shape inside a sphere would reach the planets surface, and this number is incredibly significant, as the book shows throughout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taking an abrupt turn the 3rd chapter is dedicated to political maneuverings and postulates that JFK was assassinated because of his wish to unite with the Soviets in a joint mission to the moon. Chapter 4, 'The Crystal Towers of the Moon', shows the evidence of incredible glass ruins on the moon through photographs taken over various Apollo missions. By careful analysis of images the authors show some of the unusual features that have been spotted in various frames. Chapter 5 is entitled 'A Conspiracy Unfolds' and is an investigation into the history of NASA, its occult ties, and the bizarre ritualistic system of numerology and star-alignments it follows. The authors submit this is based on the Egyptian Pantheon of Osiris, Isis and Horus (represented by Orion, Sirius and Leo), the pagan worship of these gods having been continued through the ages by 'initiates' - starting with the Egyptian priests, through to the Knights Templar and other secret societies and into world freemasonary at its higher orders. The story includes Alan Parsons, L Ron Hubbard and Werner Von Braum (a Nazi rocket scientist bought over in breech of Operation Paperclip) amongst others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To be extremely brief, the remainder of the book focuses on more anomalies on Mars, and the long battle with NASA over the images and intereptation of these images released from the various Mars missions since Viking 1 in 1976. Deep analysis of the images released from NASA often showed strong implications of being tampered with in order to hide the real information in the frame. The book covers the political issues within NASA and government and the effects they had on their relationship with the alternative research community, as well as the authors sometimes troubled relationship with the aforementioned independent researchers. At times it reads like a crime novel, with inside leaks, mysterious clues and half-truths - at other times it gets very personal and you feel like a fly on the wall during heated email exchanges and scientific arguments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an absolutely fantastic book, with the range of subject material covered, its hard to not be absorbed. Alien civilizations, assassination, political and professional deceptions and cover-ups, a new model of physics for our understanding of the physical universe...and lots of pictures to boot. Highly recommended for any alternative book shelf!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://imzadiradenoy.tripod.com/DatasHead.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 478px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 503px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://imzadiradenoy.tripod.com/DatasHead.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-1451583374000105529?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/04/book-review-dark-misson-secret-history.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-3344391143312360422</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-04-19T07:11:22.204-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Book Review</category><title>Book Review: HeartMath</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51329BHAfbL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51329BHAfbL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The HearthMath Solution looks and for all intent and purposes is a self help book, however I wish the cover designers and authors had made the front cover look a little more scientific rather than so self-helpy - I fear many would be put off by the claims of how you can instantly improve your life with the methods included within. It looks like just another fad, another scheme which may work for some people and not others and involves stack loads of money. It isn't. It deserves a more scientific outlook because the book starts with just that, the foundation of the techniques discussed later. Experiments reveal a field of energy that is emitted from the heart of every person and extends around 8 feet from the body. You know how someone's bad mood can affect you, and how the atmosphere of 70,000 people in a sports stadium feels...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lawyertopeacemaker.com/images/heartfield.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 275px; height: 230px;" src="http://www.lawyertopeacemaker.com/images/heartfield.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The authors show how the heart has its own measurable intelligence due to a small nervous system that is connected to the brain, therefore able to communicate emotion and 'thoughts' to our control center. This is first science that I have come across that explains intuition in a clearly defined way. There is note made of the number of metaphors and idioms we use to describe our heart intelligence through language - following our heart, my heart wasn't in it, and so on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The various techniques come later in the book and teach you how to center in on your heart, listen to what it is saying whilst trying to blank out that untrained monkey that is our 'head' intelligence, the mind. The authors argue that much of our (undue) daily stress that effects physical well being comes from our habit of listening to the head first and reacting in a very primitive way to our environment. If we learn how to step back, breath, and focus, we give the heart a chance to speak and then with all the best intention, wisdom and integrity backing us up, we can make the right decision - that being whatever means our mental balance is unaffected. This is eastern philosophy for on-the-go yuppies, meditation for those who prefer it packaged in a western container - either way, I am a fan. The same as any meditative practice in our modern lives - the hardest thing is finding the time and discipline to follow through these techniques. I am sure however that those who do tune into their heart will be rewarded.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-3344391143312360422?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/04/book-review-heartmath.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-2529399468017762643</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-03-21T06:33:37.636-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ancient mysteries</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Hidden Knowledge</category><title>Sacsayhuamán</title><description>Mentioned in Sitchin's fourth book of the Earth Chronicles, &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Realms-Book-Earth-Chronicles/dp/0380758903"&gt;The Lost Realms&lt;/a&gt;, Sacsayhuaman is a walled complex predating the Incas in Peru. Its &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacsayhuam%C3%A1n"&gt;Wikipedia page&lt;/a&gt; is mostly dedicated to the fake and rather pathetic attempts to explain how these megalithic walls were built...&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Lee" title="Vince Lee" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Lee" title="Vince Lee" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vince Lee&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; is an author, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architect" title="Architect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;architect&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;, and &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer" title="Explorer" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;explorer&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; who has studied and consulted on various ancient sites where people moved large &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalith" title="Megalith" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;megaliths&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;. He theorized that the blocks at Sacsayhuaman were put into place by carving them and then lowering them into place. The stones would have been precisely carved in advance to create the tight joints made to fit into prepared pockets in the wall. Then the stones would be towed up a ramp and above the wall, where they would be placed on top of a stack of logs. The logs would be removed one at a time to lower the stones into place.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;There is much unknown about how the walls were constructed. The stones are so closely spaced that a single piece of paper will not fit between many of the stones. This precision, combined with the rounded corners of the limestone blocks, the variety of their interlocking shapes, and the way the walls lean inward, is thought to have helped the ruins survive devastating earthquakes in Cuzco. The longest of three walls is about 400 meters. They are about 6 meters tall. The estimated volume of stone is over 6,000 cubic meters. Estimates for the weight of the largest &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;limestone&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; block vary from 128 tonnes to almost 200 tonnes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;It goes on to give some rather pathetic attempts at explaining how these walls were constructed. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Lee supervised an experiment to see if his proposed theory could work on a small scale; this accomplished limited success. If the Killke were unable to obtain the tight joints the first time, they would have had to be able to lift the stones up to correct their mistakes. The modern workers were not able to obtain as much precision as the Killke, but they thought with more practice, they could have achieved more precise joints and done it with larger stones.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt; 'We could have done it with more practice' seems to be the excuse after failure of trying to replicate these walls. We are fed the same cock &amp;amp; bull stories with the Great Pyramid and &lt;a href="http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2009/03/book-review-stairway-to-heaven.html"&gt;Baalbek in Lebanon&lt;/a&gt;, just as equally unexplainable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mysticland.cz/wp-content/uploads/sacsayhuaman_zed.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 597px; height: 397px;" src="http://www.mysticland.cz/wp-content/uploads/sacsayhuaman_zed.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;Yeah, they did that with logs.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;From '&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Realms-Book-Earth-Chronicles/dp/0380758903"&gt;The Lost Realms&lt;/a&gt;':&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;The three lines of zigzagging walls are constructed of massive stones and rise one behind the other, each one somewhat higher than the one in front of it, to a combined height of about sixty feet. Earth-fills behind eachwall have created terraces that, it is presumed, were meant to serve the promontory's defenders as parapets. Of the three, especially the lowest (first) wall is built of colossal boulders, weighing between ten to twenty tons. In one instance a boulder twenty-seven feet high weights over 300 tons. Many stones are fifteen feet high and are ten to fourteen feet in width and thickness. As in the city below, the faces of these boulders have been artifically dressed to perfect smoothness and are beveled at the edges, which means that they are not fieldstones foudn lying around and used as nature had shaped them, but rather the work of master masons......&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;.....as all studies have shown, the gigantic stone blocks were quarried miles away and had to be transported to the site over mountains, valleys, gorges, and gushing streams...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;The rock was quarried, but they had no iron or steel with which to do it. The list goes on and on..!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-2529399468017762643?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/03/sacsayhuaman.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-2898014702300226611</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-03-13T18:49:47.827-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>chemtrails</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>psy-ops</category><title>Chemtrails not going away...</title><description>As I detailed in my post &lt;a href="http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2009/07/you-are-being-sprayed-with-chemicals.html"&gt;You Are Being Sprayed With Chemicals&lt;/a&gt;, the psy-op to introduce chemtrails into the public consciousness has been underway for some time.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today, Yahoo UK seem to be in on the act...you have to ask the question, who is behind this picture of vapor trail laden skies...! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/S5xOSYKskRI/AAAAAAAAAWc/bIh2Gf6xd34/s1600-h/chemtrails.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 358px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/S5xOSYKskRI/AAAAAAAAAWc/bIh2Gf6xd34/s400/chemtrails.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448315726843384082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-2898014702300226611?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/03/chemtrails-not-going-away.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6p5qxFdx9Ko/S5xOSYKskRI/AAAAAAAAAWc/bIh2Gf6xd34/s72-c/chemtrails.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-8284793420062482885</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-02-17T08:34:55.862-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Hidden Knowledge</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>2012</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Mars</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>The Moon</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>NASA</category><title>2012, Mars, The Moon, NASA and so much more</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.8ov.org/image/MayanCalendar.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 419px; height: 420px;" src="http://www.8ov.org/image/MayanCalendar.gif" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Are people naturally skeptical? I don't think so. Human behaviour does however mean that we like to belong, we feel comfortable in the security of thinking what others think. If you stopped the average man on the street and asked him 'I've heard there is a secret human colony on Mars that people have been teleporting to' - he'd &lt;i&gt;probably&lt;/i&gt; think you were crazy. And if you did stop a man on the street to say that, perhaps you are crazy - I'm not here to say it's crazy or not, it is what it is. Neither can I say I believe it or not - but it's certainly interesting, that's for sure. If you are the kind of person who struggles to believe that a small group of bankers could possibly have gotten together a long time ago to forge a (whisper it) conspiracy (gasp!) to control and manipulate people for their own personal gain, then this kind of stuff will well and truly be beyond your disbelief. Suspension of disbelief is essential - either that, or knowing  'the only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing'. By the way - the situation I presented isn't a joke, there &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; 'whistleblowers' who say they have teleported to Mars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://democrashield.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/tardis.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 298px;" src="http://democrashield.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/tardis.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;Andrew D Basiago is a name you may want to look up. Or a great introduction to his blowing of whistles is &lt;a href="http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2009/09sep/RIR-090910.php"&gt;his interview on Red Ice Radio&lt;/a&gt;, to which he also did a follow up some time later. His 'book' is '&lt;a href="http://exopolitics.blogs.com/files/mars---andrew-d.-basiago---the-discovery-of-life-on-mars---12-12-08.pdf"&gt;The Discovery of Life on Mars&lt;/a&gt;'. You can also search for his 6 hour interview with Jessica Mystic (no idea) on You Tube - 'A Conversation with Andrew D Basiago'. The man claims he was part of 'Project Pegasus', which was a secret time travel/teleportation CIA project during the 60s and 70s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There's another man who says he has also teleported to Mars. From &lt;a href="http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m9d9-Two-whistleblowers-independently-report-teleporting-to-Mars-and-meeting-Martian-extraterrestrials"&gt;The Examiner&lt;/a&gt;, - the headline: Two whistleblowers independently report teleporting to Mars and meeting Martian extraterrestrials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Two whistleblowers, both formerly involved in secret research and development projects undertaken by US defense agencies, have independently verified their secret teleportation to US bases on Mars, and to meeting intelligent Martian extraterrestrial life.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Andrew claims a device called the choronovisor was being used which could holographically project images of the past and the future. Some people witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus Christ using this machine. Andrew claims he met Barak Obama when he was a college student and he already knew he would be president one day, as did Clinton and Bush. If you are wondering what the hell holographic projection could have to do with anything, &lt;a href="http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2009/04/holographic-universe.html"&gt;read this book&lt;/a&gt;. Considering the laws of quantum physics, the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronovisor"&gt;chronovisor&lt;/a&gt; is possible...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now recently, this: &lt;a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2010m2d10-Whistleblower-Laura-Magdalene-Eisenhower-Ikes-greatgranddaughter-outs-secret-Mars-colony-project"&gt;Whistleblower Laura Magdalene Eisenhower, Ike’s great-granddaughter, outs secret Mars colony project&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;blockquote&gt;In a public statement, Laura Magdalene Eisenhower, great-granddaughter of former President Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969), has exposed her attempted recruitment from April 2006 through January 2007 by a secret Mars colony project.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;No matter how absurd you think this all sounds, you at least have some reading and listening to do...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mike Bara is another interesting fella, co-author of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Mission-Secret-History-NASA/dp/1932595260"&gt;Dark Misson, The Secret History of NASA&lt;/a&gt;. He claimed in his &lt;a href="http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2009/07jul/RIR-090719.php"&gt;Red Ice Interview &lt;/a&gt; that the moon is fake. And who I am to disagree. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Watch Mike's presentation called 'The Physics of 2012'. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7880620&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7880620&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/7880620"&gt;ALIENEVENT MIKE BARA LECTURE ON MAYAN CALENDAR AND PHYSICS OF 2012, NOV 14 LOS ANGELES 2009&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/user2675873"&gt;Saeed David Farman&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;Mike and his co-researcher Richard C Hoagland believe that the Moon has crystal skyscrapers. Their book is about how NASA follows precise Masonic ritual dates. Buzz Aldrin, a 32nd degree Mason, is believed to have performed Masonic rituals when visiting the Moon. And here he is &lt;i&gt;admitting there is a monolith on Phobos...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oaiSfn8jlxY&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oaiSfn8jlxY&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, what &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;is&lt;/span&gt; going on here!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Couple all this with Saturn's hexagon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qzL194jiTyY&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qzL194jiTyY&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And recent photos released by NASA of the sun which seemed to show huge Earth sized objects orbting our star.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2QAmG4n9V20&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2QAmG4n9V20&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;then you have some food for thought. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;How could the Masons have anything to do with NASA? Well, NASA was basically set up by the Nazis who were bought over (to the USA) with project Paperclip after WW2. The Nazis are well known for their UFO building and their obsession with the occult. They are heavily linked with the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society"&gt;Thule society&lt;/a&gt;, which in turn links up with what all secret societies and freemasonry pertain to: hidden knowledge. Knowledge widely believed to have been passed down from &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Underworld-Mysterious-Civilization-Graham-Hancock/dp/1400049512/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1266423775&amp;amp;sr=8-4"&gt;pre-diluvian civilisation&lt;/a&gt;(s) to initiates in Sumeria/Egypt who have forever kept this metaphysical/astophysical information about the true nature of physics, our universe and the origins of humanity secret. These initiates eventually turned into the secret societies we know today (Skull and Bones, Illuminati, Freemasonry at its highest levels)   The fact that our world leaders still worship Egyptian gods and symbols of various star systems and all their incarnations in the various civilizations since then through ritual and ceremony is well known in some quarters - worse still, they do it in front of us. Symbology is not just a fictional area of study made up by Dan Brown. Read the &lt;a href="http://secretsun.blogspot.com/"&gt;Secret Sun&lt;/a&gt; before doubting this fact. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jordon Maxwell's '&lt;a href="http://www.jordanmaxwell.com/articles/questions/index.html"&gt;Have you ever wondered&lt;/a&gt;' pages will keep your mind busy as well...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To say there's more going on in the world than we could ever possibly understand is an understatement. To say that our inability to see these things as they are hidden in plain sight is due to our suffering indoctrination from an educational system that never teaches us to see beyond what is presented to us is not an understatement - it's just a tragic fact. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And I haven't even mentioned underground bases, Alien species, Draco, Pleidies, reptiles, hollow earth theory, pole shifts, comets, solar pulses, galatic center, missing planets in our solar system, Niburu and the Annunaki, other theories of Planet X, fake alien invasions, project Blue Beam, CERN allegedly trying to create a stargate, the 'Yemen stargate', or crop circles...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-8284793420062482885?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/02/2012-mars-moon-nasa-and-so-much-more.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-722709143540616136</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-02-10T18:51:05.492-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>nwo</category><title>Pyramid of Power</title><description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonhoff/4324537859/" title="pyramidofpower by jonhoff, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4324537859_cc9614d74f.jpg" width="437" height="500" alt="pyramidofpower" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-722709143540616136?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/02/pyramid-of-power.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4324537859_cc9614d74f_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-7347815537350716710</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-02-02T23:42:11.845-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>videos</category><title>George Galloway</title><description>&lt;center&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GtN_gkb9EPs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GtN_gkb9EPs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6735383821693864337-7347815537350716710?l=challengingyou.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://challengingyou.blogspot.com/2010/02/george-galloway.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jon Hoff)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6735383821693864337.post-240164686113855334</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-01-31T07:27:03.388-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Book Review</category><title>Weapons of Mass Instruction</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PFm-nJCxL.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 333px; height: 500px;" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PFm-nJCxL.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Author John Taylor Gatto gets a thumbs up straight away, in closing the last chapter of his book '&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Mass-Instruction-Schoolteachers-Compulsory/dp/0865716315"&gt;Weapons of Mass Instruction&lt;/a&gt;' he slips in the phrase 'new world order', something he alludes to throughout the book without ever quite getting there. But you know he knows. He even mentions Carol Quigley's Tragedy and Hope a couple of times. He knows. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gatto is an ardent advocate of school reform, and this book is a collection of musings, anecdotes and an open plea to common sense. This book was confirmation of what I have always suspected was true but was never quite sure how to articulate it to others - institutionalized schooling was introduced across the world as a means to create a servile, dumbed down mass of consuming zombies. And my, how successful they have been. Gatto is no intellectual slouch, consistently refering to the philosophical history of education (vs schooling) and also the sociological factors which influenced the appearance of the modern school system. Incredibly, the name 'Rockefeller' appears in the book fairly often. Is there anything this lot don't have their slimy beaks involved in? So yes, the eugenicists who obviously favored the appearance of behaviorism as a model for schooling are also mentioned. Gatto abhors standardized testing and argues against some of the common criticsims leveled at home schoolers such as socialization being a problem. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once the truth is pointed out in such concise terms and your own journey to that truth is fast-forwarded (in other words, realisation is forthcoming) then it is hard to imagine how you once put &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;any&lt;/span&gt; faith in the bizarre ritual of sending your precious cargo to one of these prisons (I mean schools). I always knew it was like this as my intuition told me so, a nagging doubt. I thank Gatto for having done the hard time and the research and not least for his fantastic list of what a real education consists. 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