RIP Lewis Allan “Lou” Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013)
Someone good.
Hidden in Plain Sight #2: Don’t tread on me
I used to be a huge Metallica fan. (Doesn’t Kirk have lovely hair? I used to have hair like that.)
Over the summer of 1986/87 I played Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets back-to-back, non-stop.
I wore out the vinyl.
I cried when Metallica’s bass player Cliff Burton died in a bus accident in September 1986.
But Burton’s death was nothing compared to the tragedy that Metallica were to bring upon themselves five years later, in 1991.
Metallica were the Gods of thrash metal. They defined the genre. And they used to sing about wholesome things like mass murder (Kill ‘Em All, 1983), dying in the electric chair (Ride the Lightning, 1984), cocaine addiction (Master of Puppets, 1986) and governmental corruption (… And Justice for All, 1988).
But then … they sold out. Big time.
The second definition of selling out refers to putting aside musical quality or original intentions in favor of commercial success, where a distinction is made for those who achieve success without changing their original sound. The difference between the two is often subjective. Whilst artists may change their musical direction for commercial reasons, such as pressure from major labels who require songs to appeal to mass markets a change in sound may also be part of a natural progression of creative maturity.
An example of an artist being accused of selling out is the band Metallica, whose 1991 eponymous album has been considered as the turning point in the band’s musical direction, and have been called the “poster boys for musical un-integrity” after the band’s attempt to sue fans downloading their music through Napster. The album, known as The Black Album, saw critics and Bob Rock, the album’s producer, acknowledge that there was a move away from the band’s previous sound. Rock claimed that the change stemmed from the band’s desire to “make the leap to the big, big leagues”, whilst some fans blamed Rock himself, going as far to eventually create an internet petition demanding the band cut their ties with him. However, other fans did not consider the change in sound to be significant enough to be considered selling out and others accepted the change as part of a natural evolution of the band’s style. Ultimately The Black Album became the band’s most commercially successful, going 16x platinum, but the differing reaction by fans to the album is an example of the difficulty in labelling an artist as a sellout objectively.
Was the release of the Black Album “part of a natural progression of creative maturity”? No. There is no difficulty whatsoever in labelling Metallica, circa 1991, as a sellout objectively. They sacrificed their musical integrity on the alter of commercial success. And what unparalleled commercial performance! The love of money is the root of all evil.
I used to joke that the members of Metallica had been abducted by aliens and replaced by Bieber-like body snatchers for who-knows-what nefarious alien purposes. One similarly aggrieved fan wrote an entire comic strip premised upon the abduction of the real band members and their replacement by simulacra. (I wish I could now find it.)
True Metallica fans don’t mince words.
I remember driving one morning just after I had received my drivers license. I was 16, it was summer in Minnesota, and the local radio station was about to debut the new Metallica song, Enter Sandman. Life was great. I was so pumped and nervous as I’d been a fan since before Justice was released. The song came on…and so began one of the worst days of my adolescent life, and I’m not sure I’ve ever recovered. Serious life-bummer. I was more let down than the first time I got dumped by a girl. To my credit, I kept it together and didn’t plow my car at high speed into a huge tree to spare myself the pain I was feeling.
The biggest piece of shit ever written by Metallica! I dont know if it is because they enlisted Bob Rock (WANKER) to ptoduce this album or if it is because they got lazy. Real dissappointment. I Know many people like this album and defend it but it is a pice of shit. Sorry all u Metallica die hards out there. I’d rather listen to myself take a shit than have to listen to this garbage.
I was an atheist in those days. It’s only now that I realise that Metallica did far more than sacrifice their musical integrity on the alter of commercial success. They sold their very souls to Satan. This fact is hidden in plain sight. Let’s take a closer look at the Black Album.
The first thing to notice about the Black album is … it’s very black. Metallica’s logo can just about be made out in the darkness of the top-left-hand corner. Black is the devil’s colour. (Sure, it’s also New Zealand’s national colour, but Metallica sure weren’t thinking of the All Blacks when they squeezed this one out.)
Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. (NIV)
In the bottom-right-hand corner is a stylised, coiled serpent, that bears an intentional likeness to the rattlesnake on the Gadsden flag.
Notwithstanding that “Don’t tread on me” is a libertarian slogan and the Gadsden flag rattlesnake is a libertarian icon (I have no idea what happened to the missing apostrophe in ‘dont’) let’s see what happens when we take the snake, flip it horizontally and tip it on its side.
Now we see the true nature of Metallica’s mascot. It’s a serpent, its coils spelling out 666—the Number of the Beast of Revelation—and shaped into a slide to take you down on a one-way trip to never never land. This is snakes and ladders but with no ladders. Snake, rattle ‘n’ roll!
That’s the album art, it’s pretty clear.
What about the lyrical content?
Well, the very first track is Enter Satan. (Or, rather, Enter Sandman, but we all know who Sandman is.)
Say your prayers little one
Don’t forget, my son
To include everyoneTuck you in, warm within
Keep you free from sin
Till the Sandman, he comesExit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We’re off to never never land
Nek minnit, you belong to Satan.
Sad But True.
Hey
I’m your life
I’m the one who took you there
Hey
I’m your life
And I no longer careI’m your truth, telling lies
I’m your reasoned alibis
I’m inside open your eyes
I’m you
Holier Than Thou
Little whispers circle around your head
Why don’t you worry about yourself instead?Who are you? Where ya been? Where ya from?
Gossip is burning on the tip of your tongue
You lie so much you believe yourself
The Unforgiven
Never free.
Never me.
So I dub thee unforgiven.You labelled me,
I’ll label you.
So I dub thee unforgiven.
Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us? Nope. I dub thee unforgiven.
Wherever I May Roam.
And I’ll redefine anywhere
Anywhere I may roam
Where I lay my head is home…and the earth becomes my throne
It’d pretty clear who this song is about.
The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”
Don’t Tread On Me
Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail
Once you provoke her, rattling of her tail
Never begins it, never, but once engaged…
Never surrenders, showing the fangs of rageDon’t tread on me!
OK, so I can’t really knock this one. 🙂
The exception that proves the rule? It’s a half-decent song, great lyrics! (But it still plods like no speed metal I ever heard.)
Through The Never is a trip through never never land with your new friend, the Sandman.
Twisting
Turning
Through the never Never
Nothing Else Matters is hardly an improvement on nihilism, the doctrine that nothing matters.
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters
In God we Trust? No, apparently it’s in man we trust and God doesn’t matter.
Of Wolf And Man
I hunt
Therefore I am
Harvest the land
Taking of the fallen lambOff through the new day’s mist I run
Off from the new day’s mist I have come
We shift
Pulsing with the earth
Company we keep
Roaming the land while you sleep.
More roaming the land, going back and forth on it. While you sleep. (Never mind that noise you heard. It’s just the beast under your bed, in your closet, in your head.)
The God That Failed
Pride you took
Pride you feel
Pride that you felt when you’d kneelTrust you gave
A child to save
Left you cold and him in graveI see faith in your eyes
Never you hear the discouraging lies
I hear faith in your cries
Broken is the promise, betrayal
The healing hand held back by deepened nailFollow the god that failed
There are two further tracks but I can’t go on. It’s a desperate, dire, demonic album.
And, quite apart from that, it’s a steaming pile of the proverbial. So watch your step.
Hidden in Plain Sight #1: El Diablo
“People that are Christians now, but were satanists, recognized President Clinton’s signal at his inauguration as a sign of Satan. That seems fairly cut and dried, and it is. Clinton communicated what he wanted to the people to whom he wanted to communicate. The whole affair with him flashing the satanic hand signal took only a couple of seconds.”
– Fritz Springmeier, Blood of the Illuminati
This is the first of four (maybe more) blog posts.
Manuela’s mother says she was, however, increasingly disturbed over her daughter’s lifestyle. Especially when Manuela had two teeth removed and had metal vampire fangs implanted. She was also taken aback by her daughter’s tattoo—an upside down cross on her scalp.
But the hand sign? “Well,” she said, “I thought it was like the sign the deaf give, meaning, I love you.”
“I often heard Manuela say she was not of this world and was a satanic vampire,” recounted her mother, “but I figured it was just so much silly talk. Just another way of living. After all, not every Goth vampire ends up sacrificing victims to Satan.”
My hypothesis is that Satan leaves his calling card hidden in plain sight.
Keep it metal! \m/
This post concerns the sign of the horns. Apparently, it was popularised by the late Ronnie James Dio.
Ronnie James Dio was known for popularizing the sign of the horns in heavy metal. He claimed his Italian grandmother used it to ward off the evil eye (which is known in the Italian culture as malocchio). Dio began using the sign soon after joining the metal band Black Sabbath in 1979. The previous singer in the band, Ozzy Osbourne, was rather well known at using the “peace” sign at concerts, raising the index and middle finger in the form of a V. Dio, in an attempt to connect with the fans, wanted to similarly use a hand gesture. However, not wanting to copy Osbourne, he chose to use the sign his grandmother always made. The horns became famous in metal concerts very soon after Black Sabbath’s first tour with Dio. The sign would later be appropriated by heavy metal fans under the name “maloik”, a corruption of the original malocchio.
Terry “Geezer” Butler of Black Sabbath can be seen “raising the horns” in a photograph taken in 1971. This would indicate that the “horns” and their association with metal occurred much earlier than Ronnie James Dio suggests. The photograph is included in the CD booklet of the Symptom of the Universe: The Original Black Sabbath 1970–1978 compilation album.
I can’t find the photo.
The “El Diablo” hand sign often is confused with the deaf’s signing of the phrase, “I love you.” While at first this appears an odd resemblance, we register an “ahh, I get it!” emotion when we discover that the person who invented, or created, the hand sign system for the deaf, Helen Keller, was herself an occultist and Theosophist. Did Keller purposely design the deaf’s “I love you” sign to be such a remarkable imitation of the classic sign of Satan? Was Keller saying, basically, “I love you, Devil?”
Frato Metallo uses it. (The sign language version.) But is it metal? Is it of God?
Even Pastor Bob defends the use of the “devil horns”.
Personally, I don’t feel comfortable with the use of the devil’s horns symbol.
I think the devil’s horns symbol symbolises the devils’s horns. Call me old-fashioned.
If I’m at a metal concert – or anywhere else that I mean business – what’s wrong with a fist thrown in the air?
Ke$ha’s Incubus.
So many Pop/ Rock stars revel in Satanic Hedonism.
From personal experience this psyche appears to be a natural tendency within us to rebel against Moral restraints and to feed and cultivate our carnal lusts… and thus Sex and Satanism sells….big time.
The lust for Fame and fortune…. Satan smiles.
Marilyn Manson cashing in on Pop-Satanistic Rebellion.
Feeling the magnetic attraction to such things myself… yet also knowing that this Broad low path leads to destruction, I worry about the many thereon…. the Myriad’s of ‘children’ following these Pied pipers to hell.
I wrote about this issue here >>> Jimi vs Jesus. <<< Yet there is more to this Kesha story than just the Normal Pop-Satanism. What grabbed my attention was her claim to having had sex with a Ghost. Was she lying simply for publicity? Many people will simply say that she is.... or that she was dreaming... or that she suffered from some sort of sleeping dis-order.... and yet this sort of experience has a very ancient history... and having experienced an Entity attack myself, this subject is of interest to me... Kesha seems to say she has invited Satan into her life. Read more.... The Green Manalishi.
Have you been brain washed into thinking there are no such things as Ghosts, Demons, Spirits, …God…?
Read this >>>> Defunct / Archaic Western Dogma blindly insists : ‘Whatever does not fit the Naturalistic Materialist Paradigm is Illusory’. Entity Attacks
“Make mine freedom”
Dr. Utopia’s Ism vs. working together to produce an ever greater abundance of material and spiritual values for all
[Hat tip: Lizzie Taylor]
Zealandia
Come near, you nations, and listen;
pay attention, you peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,
the world, and all that comes out of it!
The Lord is angry with all nations;
his wrath is on all their armies.
He will totally destroy them,
he will give them over to slaughter.
Their slain will be thrown out,
their dead bodies will stink;
the mountains will be soaked with their blood.
All the stars in the sky will be dissolved
and the heavens rolled up like a scroll;
all the starry host will fall
like withered leaves from the vine,
like shriveled figs from the fig tree.My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
see, it descends in judgment on Edom,
the people I have totally destroyed.
The sword of the Lord is bathed in blood,
it is covered with fat—
the blood of lambs and goats,
fat from the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah
and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
And the wild oxen will fall with them,
the bull calves and the great bulls.
Their land will be drenched with blood,
and the dust will be soaked with fat.For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause.
Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
her dust into burning sulfur;
her land will become blazing pitch!
It will not be quenched night or day;
its smoke will rise forever.
From generation to generation it will lie desolate;
no one will ever pass through it again.
The desert owl and screech owl will possess it;
the great owl and the raven will nest there.
God will stretch out over Edom
the measuring line of chaos
and the plumb line of desolation.
Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom,
all her princes will vanish away.
Thorns will overrun her citadels,
nettles and brambles her strongholds.
She will become a haunt for jackals,
a home for owls.
Desert creatures will meet with hyenas,
and wild goats will bleat to each other;
there the night creatures will also lie down
and find for themselves places of rest.
The owl will nest there and lay eggs,
she will hatch them, and care for her young
under the shadow of her wings;
there also the falcons will gather,
each with its mate.Look in the scroll of the Lord and read:
None of these will be missing,
not one will lack her mate.
For it is his mouth that has given the order,
and his Spirit will gather them together.
He allots their portions;
his hand distributes them by measure.
They will possess it forever
and dwell there from generation to generation. (NIV)
The mother of Invention?
Engine installers at Douglas Aircraft. Long Beach, California. October 1942
from The Libertarian Republic
This picture speaks a thousand words to me
They say necessity is the mother of invention, yet as an Engineer I wonder why are the so few woman Engineers these days?
It’s not like you have to be built like Arnold Schwarzenegger to be a good engineer.
Modern tools do most of the Hard yacka.
This worker in a Van Nuys, CA factory in 1944 soon started calling herself Marilyn Monroe.
(Pic from The Libertarian Republic)
“Any girl can be glamorous,” Hedy Lamarr once said. “All she has to do is stand still and look stupid.” The film star belied her own apothegm by hiding a brilliant, inventive mind beneath her photogenic exterior. In 1942, at the height of her Hollywood career, she patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was two decades ahead of its time.
Hedy Lamarr (thanks Janie)
During WW2 woman put on overalls, and swung on spanners while their men busied themselves killing each other abroad and society nodded with approval at Woman getting their hands dirty.
Yet today so few woman even consider Engineering as a career.
Necessity is on vacation…. The Men have come home….and society has reverted back to tradition… to what is comfortable.
I think that’s kinda sad…
Yet maybe it’s for the best…
😀
Who’s defaming who?
David Bain supporter Joe Karam experienced “the worst four years of his life” as his reputation was “laid siege to” by the authors of the Justice For Robin Bain website, Karam’s lawyer says.
Karam is suing Kent Parker and Vic Purkiss in the High Court in Auckland for their branding of him as “a liar, fraudster, crook and scoundrel” in the wake of Bain’s retrial for the 1994 murder of his family.
Bain, supported by Karam, was found not guilty.
Karam’s lawyer, Michael Reed, QC, told Justice Patricia Courtney that Parker, a website developer from Havelock North, controlled the Counterspin website where statements defamatory of Karam had appeared.
Purkiss, who has not turned up today to defend the court action, was responsible for defamatory comments on social media, Reed said.
Reed said the media had picked up on the men’s campaign and made matters worse by “giving their soapbox an air of legitimacy”.
“Without question it has been the worst four years of Mr Karam’s life.”
Worst four years of Joe Karam’s life? I don’t believe it.
Reed said what was “masquerading as Justice For Robin Bain was nothing but spite for Joe Karam”.
It was a “most egregious, spiteful and vindictive campaign of defamation against [Karam]” to which Parker and Purkiss “cannot mount any tenable defence”.
I’m a member of the Facebook group(s) Justice For Robin Bain.
I’m not a member out of spite for Joe Karam. I’m a member because I seek Justice For Robin Bain.
I resent Reed’s comments. Who’s defaming who?
Reed said the defendants claimed Karam’s support of Bain was “purely cynical, his interest pecuniary”.
They likened Karam to the Nazis and North Korea, and labelled him “a tyrant, a pimp and someone who aided and abetted a murderer”.
Karam’s been running a trial by media that has found Robin Bain guilty of the Bain murders. But Robin Bain has never stood trial. There isn’t any evidence that he committed the murders. He is not guilty.
In view of this, it’s no wonder that people would speculate as to Karam’s motives in aiding and abetting David Bain. Karam needs to harden up.
Purely cynical, his interest pecuniary? One shouldn’t speculate as to people’s motives. But Karam is also no stranger to such speculation. He presents hearsay as fact when it comes to Robin Bain’s supposed motive. Covering up his incest with his daughter Laniet? Could be. It could also be that David Bain’s motive was covering up incest with his sister Laniet. But it’s all hearsay.
My own view is that Karam has been fooled by a homicidal psychopath.
The forensic evidence points overwhelmingly to David’s guilt.
Waikato DHB’s pro-fluoride campaign
The Waikato DHB spent $47,000 on a pro-fluoride campaign to influence a referendum aimed at getting fluoride put back into Hamilton’s water supply. The campaign achieved its goal and in the referendum 23,000 citizens voted in favour of having fluoride medication and 10,000 voted against.
The action of the DHB is wrong. They shouldn’t be advocating medicating people against their wishes.
A guy I used to work with made an amusing observation about electronic faults we repaired. He said that there were only two types of faults – electricity going where it shouldn’t or electricity not going where it should. There is similar but useful truth about Government faults. With Government each fault is either a bad law or Government not following it own laws.
In this case are the DHB employees driven by bad laws or are they acting against the law?
The Act that prescribes legal DHB activities is the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000. This legislation refers to the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights which identifies the following right:
Right 7
Right to Make an Informed Choice and Give Informed Consent
So, it appears the DHB employees are acting against the DHB’s own rules. They are acting illegally.
The remedy under this legislation is to make a complaint.
Right 10
Right to Complain
…
(2) Every consumer may make a complaint to —
… ( C) (ii) the Health and Disability Commissioner.
The complaint I suggest is this:-
The Waikato DHB is advocating medicating people with fluoride against their wishes. This is a breach of Right 7 of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Right to Make an Informed Choice and Give Informed Consent).
Someone should make this complaint. I don’t feel I can because I’m not a Waikato DHB consumer.
Online complaints can be made here.
Joe Karam did it
Heads up, peeps. Ears out. There’s a defamation trial happening in Auckland today.
Joe Karam’s defamation case against two Justice for Robin Bain members, heads to the High Court in Auckland today.
Kent Parker and Victor Purkiss are defending themselves.
Joe Karam says he has been seriously defamed by the pair.
Kent Parker says today will be a pretrial hearing, the trial proper starts tomorrow.
“We’re being sued by Joe Karam for comments that we’ve made on a Facebook page and on a website, in relation to the Bain case and his participation in it.”
I don’t recall the comments made. I’m looking forward to hearing what they were and whether or not they are considered defamatory.