<script data-pm-proxy="intercept"></script><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Palamambron Presents Conspiracy Classics]]></title><description><![CDATA[An occasional conspiracy blog discovering books in the public domain.]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3dfR!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10fef935-3665-4711-aaa6-a671ef75ecc2_418x418.png</url><title>Palamambron Presents Conspiracy Classics</title><link>https://palamambron.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:34:10 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/__u/palamambron.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Peter Edwin Harter]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[palamambron@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[palamambron@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[palamambron@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[palamambron@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Shall We Play A Game?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Applying Game Theory to the game of world domination.]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/shall-we-play-a-game</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/shall-we-play-a-game</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:32:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ihP0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7544fd6f-70ab-478e-a246-416d800c6752_380x339.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This series of articles will explore elite domination strategy as a game being played against the populace. While all of the elite are cognizant of the game, only a few in the general populace are cognizant of it. Many of the populace serve the interest of their opponents. Their utility to the elite is their ignorance of the game. Because most of us don&#8217;t know about the game, the populace has not adopted GTO (game theory optimal) strategies in playing this game. If the populace were cognizant of the game, what GTO strategies would we adopt against our opponents? </p><p>One of the rules of the game is that the elite must tell us their playbook. We call this Apocalypse, or revealing. Many movies make the occult truth &#8220;Paramount&#8221; to the populace. Paramount does not mean of the utmost importance. It means clearly visible to everyone. This is what the release of the Epstein files does. It makes the truth that the USA is a corporate crime syndicate paramount to the populace. Because they&#8217;ve made their crime syndicate visible, now the public can be sued for damages from their crimes. Anyone who does business with a crime syndicate can be sued for damages. One GTO response to the disclosure of the Epstein Files is to never do business with their fictive corporate government contractor again. Our team has yet to recognize that the USA, Inc. is a Crown corporate franchise. The recognition of this would be akin to getting our leadoff hitter on first base. It could lead to a big inning. </p><p>What is Trump, the Bank of England&#8217;s puppet, doing in Iran? (Hint: Crimes) Congress has not declared war. It never does. We keep funding illegal wars while our opponents smirk at us, knowing that we will pay all our titled property and money as damages for Trump&#8217;s war crimes. That is the banking elite&#8217;s plan for making the populace own nothing and be unhappy. </p><p>The publishing of Game Theory is the elites disclosing the existence of the game to us. I think the elites are completely confident that they will win the game (perhaps too confident). What if one soccer team knew that they were supposed to kick the ball into the goal, and the other team didn&#8217;t? Eureka! Those modern German philosophers never stood a chance against the ancient Greeks. So far, we are playing the game like we don&#8217;t get the point. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfduUFF_i1A">Monty Python Philosophy Football</a>. The adoption of any uniform strategy must be an improvement over our current lack of coordination and teamwork. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ihP0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7544fd6f-70ab-478e-a246-416d800c6752_380x339.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ihP0!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_424, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7544fd6f-70ab-478e-a246-416d800c6752_380x339.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ihP0!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_848, 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both sides adopted GTO strategies, a Nash equilibrium would be reached, where both sides understood the game and acted in the best interest of their side, but because most of the populace isn&#8217;t even close to responding in a GTO manner, the elites can ignore the Nash equilibrium strategy and use the most exploitative strategy available. This is what they &#8220;should&#8221; do, according to game theory. Because of our ignorance of the game, we are funding Obamacare, and taking poison medication (vaccines and chemo, and all the other damaging chemicals the AMA recommends) and dying in our millions. We are shopping at their corporate grocery stores, and eating at their fast food restaurants, where we are being poisoned in a hundred ways. We are fleeced by their agents on the highway. We are nickeled and dimed with their fees and licenses, and we owe taxes to their whole web of foreign corporate government contractors. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of examples of how the elites use their corporate system to exploit and murder the populace, and grind us into financial powder. It&#8217;s a fun game. The stakes are high, and we&#8217;ve all got skin in the game. </p><p>If we decide not to play the game, the outcome is preordained death or perhaps abject slavery for us, and our team loses. Therefore, we cannot hurt our outcome by playing in the game. It&#8217;s a risk free proposition. It&#8217;s a free-roll with a huge payout if we should win. When our team decides to adopt GTO strategies, we can only improve our outcome. </p><p><strong>What is the goal of the game and how will we know when we have won?</strong> </p><p>My conception is that when the philosopher kings have wrested power and control from the elites we will have won the game. Physical force won&#8217;t be necessary. Mental force will rule. Our adversaries perpetuate corporeal war to avoid the psychological and mental conflict in which we would kick their collective ass. Just recognizing the existence of the game is step one to becoming a philosopher king (of which there will be many). The willingness to play this game is a prerequisite to becoming a philosopher king, and that will be a natural outcome of recognizing and countering our opponent&#8217;s strategies. Teaching us about the philosopher kings was certainly the most important goal of Socrates&#8217;s illustrious career (Plato gets credit for the assist). </p><p><strong>Modeling the Game</strong></p><p>Game theory has modeled many types of games. Which of these models most closely resembles our game? There are two correlates that deserve exposition. <span>A large, uncoordinated populace facing a small, highly coordinated elite, can be modeled as an </span><strong>Asymmetric Game of Imperfect Information</strong> or a <strong>Principal-Agent Problem</strong>. Today, I want to focus on the information monopoly game and how, by applying GTO strategies, a populace can break the information monopoly that our opponents currently hold. </p><p><span>An </span><strong>Asymmetric Game of Imperfect Information</strong> occurs when one team holds private data that the other team can&#8217;t see, and players must make moves without knowing the exact previous actions of their opponents. In politics, this creates a <strong>Principal-Agent problem</strong>: the populace (the Principal) delegates power to leaders (the Agent), but because the leaders operate in secret, the populace cannot accurately judge if those leaders are acting in the public interest or gaming the system for themselves. The elite know their true intentions, capabilities, and the true state of technology. The populace only receives signals from co-opted agencies such as the corporate press and political speeches. The elite send false or manipulated signals to make the populace believe a specific narrative. Because verifying the signal is impossible, the populace's default response is compliance, fearing the consequences disobedience. The game shifts entirely when the populace finds a way to verify the private information directly, instantly collapsing the elite's ability to bluff.</p><p><span>A classic example of a populace successfully breaking an elite information monopoly occurred in the late 20th century across the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc through the creation of </span><strong>Samizdat</strong><span> (self-publishing) networks. For decades, the Soviet state maintained absolute control over all printing presses, paper supplies, radio, and television. By strictly controlling the flow of information, the USSR could make the public believe that resistance was futile, economic metrics were strong, and that dissent was virtually non-existent. This created a </span><strong>Coordination Failure</strong><span> among the populace: an individual might secretly oppose the regime, but assuming everyone else supported it, they chose silence and compliance. </span></p><p><span>The populace couldn&#8217;t threaten the state's massive printing infrastructure. Instead, they adopted a decentralized strategy of carbon copying networks. An individual player on Team Populace would type a banned manuscript (news, economic realities, Gulag exposures) using carbon paper to make four or five copies. They would pass these copies to trusted friends under a strict cultural contract: </span><em><span>Read this, copy it four times, and pass it on. </span></em><span>There was no central headquarters, no leadership hierarchy, and no single printing press for the KGB to raid. The network was organic and distributed. Samizdat fundamentally broke the information monopoly by introducing </span><strong>Radical Transparency. </strong><span>Reading Samizdat allowed citizens to realize that millions of others shared their exact grievances. In game theory, this transforms one team&#8217;s private knowledge into everyone&#8217;s </span><strong>common knowledge. </strong><span>Once the populace realized the regime&#8217;s control was a bluff, the game was over. </span></p><p>When structural economic failures hit the Soviet bloc in the late 1980s, the elite could no longer use their information monopoly to manufacture compliance. The common knowledge built by decades of Samizdat allowed millions of people to coordinate mass protests simultaneously, shifting the Nash Equilibrium and leading directly to the peaceful collapse of the regime. </p><p>The current information asymmetry is only one of the lopsided aspects of the game we&#8217;re playing. In the next installment, we&#8217;ll explore other layers of this onion of domination, and find ways to push back against our controllers and their priestcraft. Thank you for joining me. </p><p>Peace. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do Mental Warfare]]></title><description><![CDATA[By Deception They Do War]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/do-mental-warfare</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/do-mental-warfare</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:50:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oxCV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa5449f63-26e2-4157-abb4-6530ea435a95_460x632.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>William Blake (from whose poetry my moniker Palamambron derives) was a poet, painter, and prophetic philosopher, whose Christian ethics can teach us to recognize our enemies; the usurer, the slaver, and the priest. His words of wisdom are never far from my mind. In his preface to Milton, which I highlighted in my last article, he says there are those who would forever put off mental warfare so that corporeal warfare can continue unabated. Our enemies do warfare by deceiving us. When we undeceive ourselves, we are winning the psychological war being waged on us. William Blake&#8217;s inference is that this psychological and mental war is the only one in which victory is neccesary. When we win the mental war, we will have ended the corporeal war, and victory will be ours. Therefore, the psychological war is the only real and the only winnable war. </p><p>The old Mossad motto: By way of deception thou shall do war. CIA Director William Casey said, "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." Is the CIA on a different team than the Mossad, or is it the same team? The CIA has been doing psychological warfare on America since it came into existence. It manipulates us with fear. It deceives and distracts us with Nazi derived drugs, such as LSD, and the whole class of dissociative drugs. How is the CIA different from the Mossad and the KGB? It seems like all one thing to me. This is what made it possible for Robert Maxwell to be a triple agent, working for M-I6, the CIA, and the Mossad. Gee, our enemies are coming into focus a little bit. </p><p>The oft quoted Sun Tzu&#8217;s The Art of War tells us: </p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.&#8221; </p><p>&#8220;If he is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. When you can find no way through a strong defense, deception is perhaps most important when you are weak and cannot depend on strength.&#8221; </p></div><p>Here&#8217;s a question: Why do the Pope and the King of England seem so weak? They are powerless, shackled figureheads, right? Yes, but the wealth that they are made to represent is enormous. It is my belief, though I lack the paper receipts, that the Crown Temple Bank of England owns every federal contractor in the world. What do I mean, federal contractor? You know, the company that is contracted to provide our federal governments. When an &#8220;Orange Revolution&#8221; comes to a country, as it did in Ukraine in 2014, what does that mean? It means that the Crown Bank of England (called the Orange Bank after its founder William of Orange) has contracted with a sovereign state to provide its government. These federal contractors are run on a for-profit basis. The Bank of England propagates the belief in nation states while it grinds down the people of the world with corporate governance and taxation. </p><p>What about municipal corporations? Who owns them? The Vatican owns and operates all municipal corporations on a for-profit basis. When you buy a driver&#8217;s license, you are giving money to the Vatican. The Vatican is said to cut the Bank of England in for 40% of what it makes from its municipal companies. So, the King of England and the Pope are not weak whatsoever. Together, they have come closer to dominating the world than anyone ever has. 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">William Blake &#8211; The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun (from Revelation Chapter 12) </figcaption></figure></div><p>In my conception, the Beast from Rev ch. 1 could be the Bank of England, and the Whore of Babylon certainly is the Catholic Church and its Vatican entity. The Catholic Church offers a replacement for apostolic Christianity in the same way that a prostitute offers a replacement for real conjugal love, and it wants us to not be able to tell the difference. It&#8217;s this interpenetration between the Bank of England and the Vatican, its congress, so to speak, that dominates the world. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oxCV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa5449f63-26e2-4157-abb4-6530ea435a95_460x632.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oxCV!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_424, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa5449f63-26e2-4157-abb4-6530ea435a95_460x632.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oxCV!, 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6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">William Blake: The Whore of Babylon (1809, metal print)</figcaption></figure></div><p>And look what&#8217;s flying out of the Whore of Babylon&#8217;s cup! These spirits seem to be entering into the populace and causing them to fight corporeal warfare. William Blake&#8217;s symbol for the fallen world at war is Ulro. It is a state of total spiritual darkness and belief in only what can be seen or measured. This world suffers from single-vision and Newton&#8217;s sleep. What is Newton&#8217;s sleep? It&#8217;s the belief that the reductive physical world is the only thing that&#8217;s real. It&#8217;s a denial that men and woman exist in many dimensions, including spiritual dimensions of thought, imagination, and emotion. For Blake, the body is that portion of the soul discernible by the five senses in this age. We are tasked with undeceiving ourselves as to the nature of our existence. Were we created to be the slaves of the church and state? Were we born into a Greek Hell, sorounded by the river Lethe, and dominated by Hades? No! We are supposed to break out of the Pope&#8217;s wet paper bag that encloses our vision of ourselves and the world. This is how we do mental warfare. Don&#8217;t let the sword sleep in your hand!</p><p>Tune in next time, when we&#8217;ll learn how Francis Bacon&#8217;s secret society of British clowns (actors) infiltrate and impersonates global leaders on behalf of the King and Crown, propagating the belief in sovereign states, and allowing the Beastly Bank and Whorish Church to propagate war on the world. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Incorporated Papal System Is Death On A Pale Horse]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beginning to unpack William Blake's Preface to Milton]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/the-incorporated-papal-system-is</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/the-incorporated-papal-system-is</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:30:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!H5uJ!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd428369d-213d-4798-9b6b-d6e7faaef757_568x684.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I want to start by presenting Blake&#8217;s Preface to Milton, his epic poem where Milton and Satan are both characters (1804). It is a very short and dense piece of historical philosophy which I&#8217;d like to more fully unpack in a future post. Today, I just want to discuss the major themes and impacts of Blake&#8217;s preface: </p><blockquote><p>The Stolen &amp; Perverted Writings of Homer &amp; Ovid; of Plato &amp; Cicero. which all Men ought to contemn: are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible. but when the New Age is at leisure to Pronounce; all will be set right: &amp; those Grand Works of the more ancient &amp; consciously &amp; professedly Inspired Men, will hold their proper rank. &amp; the Daughters of Memory shall become the Daughters of Inspiration. Shakespeare &amp; Milton were both curbd by the general malady &amp; infection from the silly Greek &amp; Latin slaves of the Sword. Rouze up O Young Men of the New Age! set your foreheads against the ignorant Hirelings! For we have Hirelings in the Camp, the Court, &amp; the University: who would if they could, for ever depress Mental &amp; prolong Corporeal War. Painters! on you I call! Sculptors! Architects! Suffer not the fashonable Fools to depress your powers by the prices they pretend to give for contemptible works or the expensive advertizing boasts that they make of such works; believe Christ &amp; his Apostles that there is a Class of Men whose whole delight is in Destroying. We do not want either Greek or Roman models if we are but just &amp; true to our own imaginations, those Worlds of Eternity in which we shall live forever; in Jesus our Lord.<br><br>And did those feet in ancient time,<br>Walk upon Englands mountains green:<br>And was the holy Lamb of God,<br>On Englands pleasant pastures seen!<br><br>And did the Countenance Divine,<br>Shine forth upon our clouded hills?<br>And was Jerusalem builded here,<br>Among these dark Satanic Mills?<br><br>Bring me my Bow of burning gold;<br>Bring me my Arrows of desire:<br>Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!<br>Bring me my Chariot of fire!<br><br>I will not cease from Mental Fight,<br>Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:<br>Till we have built Jerusalem,<br>In Englands green &amp; pleasant Land<br><br>Would to God that all the Lords people were Prophets </p></blockquote><p>The poem that closes Blakes preface to Milton has become the most enduring hymn in the British hymnal and a touchstone by which many are peripherally aware of the prophet, William Blake. The most salient and impactful thing about his preface is the idea that the living artist can fight back against being  incorporated into a dead system. Reams and reams of dead fictive writing underpin the incorporated system of international commerce, government, and law. All based in Vatican Chancery and Papal bulls.  </p><p>Should I enquire about how our laws are made? I am left to mythologize:  The demon Titivillus lives in the Pope&#8217;s bowels, and emptying his whole bag of mumbo-jumbo collected from the daily prayers of priests, he produces the sulpherous and noxious scrivening of Hell, which the Pope then blows out of his ass in a great cloud. Next, the demon Adrammelech must proof-sniff the crappy copy for style and give the verbiage his officious stamp. Finally, the thousands of scriveners employed by the Bank of England catch the Pope&#8217;s drift, and after they have a good sniff of the papal wind, they proceed to type out the gargantuan atrocities of law, through which justice is perverted. </p><p>Second is the recognition that our enemies are purposefully perpetuating warfare and violent crimes, and that if we could only win the mental and psychological war being waged upon us by the cult of the Pope and king, we could put an end to corporeal warfare and papal/royal domination. We Americans aren&#8217;t supposed to be subjects to the king (federal), the bank (foreign), or the Pope (municipal), and while there have always been Tories and papists in America, they have always backed the wrong horse, because of their political and religious cult affiliation. The goodness of Catholics is co-opted by the priests. There are so many good Catholics and they do so much visible good, it&#8217;s tough to attack them, and make them see that they are complicit in an evil system. They know which side their bread is buttered on. It&#8217;s the side of see no evil, hear no evil. They are so dominated by the priests that they see their own thoughts as the enemy, and constantly are made to deny their ethical perceptions. And when they succeed in suppressing their ethical perceptions, they feel religious security. This feeling of religious security (the warm embrace of paternity) overawes any thoughts that might otherwise occupy their heads. </p><p>There are still hirelings in the court, the camp, and the university. We Americans are overrun with British pirates in the guise of federal and municipal service agents. Many of these agents of the king and Pope almost certainly hold something like <strong>Letters of Marque</strong>, which are official government licenses for piracy, authorizing them to attack and plunder our land, people, and property. These Letters of Marque (or the modern equivalent) give federal agents sovereign immunity against liability for their crimes. And their crimes are paramount. They push horrible deadly drugs on Americans. They run all the policing and licensing scams and endorse every infringement of American liberty. They run child trafficking rackets for the global elite, and supply the infrastructure of wars and global violence to extend the indebtedness of Americans to the Bank of England. </p><p>If you believe federal and municipal agents offer some valuable service to America, I&#8217;d say you&#8217;re affected by government propaganda. Specifically, Uncle Sam&#8217;s century long propaganda campaign to create the feeling of a need for law and order. This is why Uncle Sam invented the Western genre. To introduce the idea of White Hats, which are good guys in the government, serving the interest of Americans. These White Hats are mythological creatures who have never been seen in real life.   </p><p>How do we Americans fight against the dead incorporated system of our enemies, and the tide of ignorance and stupidity that washes perpetually over our Atlantic shore from the Bank of England&#8217;s propaganda machine known as Uncle Sam? Recognize that Uncle Sam is a propagandist with a notoriously British accent. He is a wanker and an offspring of the Bank of England&#8217;s unholy congress with the Jester&#8217;s Guild, and he is presented to Americans as their government. Politics is the stupidest show on TV. </p><p>How do we cut through the crap sprayed on us through the TV and Hollywood media? How do we beat the usurer, the slaver, and the torturer of Americans at their own mind game? We&#8217;ve got to stop seeing ourselves as slaves and subjects. We aren&#8217;t. We&#8217;ve got to trust our ethical sensibilities that God gave us. Recognize the Pope&#8217;s incorporated system for what it is&#8230;death on a pale horse. And we&#8217;ve got to forgive Catholics and pray for them, because we also have specs, motes, and logs in our own eyes. I hope we don&#8217;t also have to love Tories, the willing subjects of the King of England in America. That attitude is perfectly infuriating. </p><p>Would to God that all his people were prophets. Prophets are truth-tellers, and finger-pointers, and whistle-blowers. We are criers in the public square and we make an irritating noise that grates against the ear drums of our oppressors and slavers within the corporate system. Look again at Blake&#8217;s depiction of Death on a Pale Horse. Who is unrolling the scroll and what does this depiction signify? It signifies the Papal system of corporate writ. Who is shown flying beneath the rider? It&#8217;s the Whore of Babylon. She offers a replacement for real ethical Christianity in the same way that a whore offers a replacement for real conjugal love, and she wants you to not be able to tell the difference. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Last President ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lockwood's novelette comes to life.]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/the-last-president</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/the-last-president</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:01:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ffx7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1693adb-f9db-4887-88de-af45bc734e4b_634x526.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/1900orlastpresid00lock/page/n7/mode/2up">Link to the archive.</a></p><div 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on that historical event.  What was the Crime of 1873? That was when the American congress destroyed the bi-metal constitutional money system in favor of a gold only system, The Coinage Act of 1873. This system shut out the common people&#8217;s silver money in favor of the bankers, and owners of property and gold. Lockwood was trying to explain, in his heavy-handed sardonic wit, what would naturally occur as a result of this crime. He surmised that there would be a public political backlash against the wealthy gold hoarders, which would lead to a populist revolution, and a new government would set the price of silver at parody with gold at 16/1, and attempt to hold that ratio. Next, Lockwood explores what would happen after this revolution (a series of occurrences that end in the disbanding of the union), but he doesn&#8217;t consider what would happen if the government took a laissez faire approach, restoring the bi-metal system without artificial interference. 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Satire can&#8217;t have the impact on a future audience that it has on the audience that consumes it fresh. It takes work to read old satire, and we&#8217;re not going to connect with it the way readers would have at the turn of the 20th century. That being said, this is not a great book. The best thing about it is that it&#8217;s short, but not as short as it should&#8217;ve been. This is a short story that is fluffed up into a novelette, but I think it&#8217;s interesting from a critical perspective. I&#8217;m reading this as a propaganda piece. A Masonic one. I&#8217;m doing that because I&#8217;ve become a conspiracy critic. As a reader, I realize that all the cultural artistic contents have a propaganda purpose. Uncle Sam has given his official stamp to every work available to the American reader. He has created several genres of popular art for his own purposes. The question becomes how does this piece of art operate as Masonic propaganda? Maybe you are a conspiracy critic, too. </p><p>In this case, Lockwood&#8217;s novel appears to predict real life because it&#8217;s a self-fulfilling prophecy. A prophecy has a psychological impact on the people who remember it. The Masons never forget their own narratives. There are several ways in which Lockwood&#8217;s novels predict the rise of Trump, and the actions of the Trump Administration. The congruencies between modern events and Lockwood&#8217;s novels are not happening because Donald Trump is a time traveler. It&#8217;s because of the creative power of prophecy, to impact the minds of the audience. The price of silver has skyrocketed , and the ratio of gold to silver is coming back to equilibrium. What is the natural equilibrium of gold to silver? We don&#8217;t know. Let&#8217;s say 16 to1. It&#8217;s not the 80/1 ratio that has been common in this century. The banks are in turmoil. 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It could be the plan of the current admin (and the Masonic forces behind it) to fulfill his prophecy, breaking the USA up into several states. Why did Dontald Trump say that Christians would never have to vote again? Is it because Donald Trump is the The Last President?<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a> </p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://archive.org/details/1900orlastpresid00lock/page/n7/mode/2up</p><p></p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Killed Peter F. Fisher?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Introducing His Book: The Valley of Vision: Blake as Prophet and Revolutionary (1961)]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/who-killed-peter-f-fisher</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/who-killed-peter-f-fisher</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:35:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yX83!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4f6c120-eed8-4263-9505-f9b6b0b388d5_610x583.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yX83!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4f6c120-eed8-4263-9505-f9b6b0b388d5_610x583.png" 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Fisher was reported to have died in a boating accident aged 40 years, such a demise was not yet a conspiracy trope. The public had no reason to doubt the official story. When I first discovered his book, <em><a href="https://archive.org/details/valleyofvisionbl00fish/page/n5/mode/2up">The Valley of Vision: A Study of Blake as Prophet and Revolutionary</a></em>, published in 1961 by the University of Toronto Press, I thought that Peter F. Fisher was simply the nom de plume of the famous Canadian literary scholar Northrop Frye. I thought that possibly Frye created the persona to publish his own post graduate school work. As I got into the book, I realized that&#8217;s it&#8217;s not normal literary criticism, and that it includes a lot of ancient British history and philosophy which is never taught or discussed in the academy. It includes many references to other useful books as well. I had never read John Toland before I ran across Fisher&#8217;s reference to his work in the footnotes. This book has had a big impact on my education. It&#8217;s an interdisciplinary study, almost unheard of at the post-graduate level. That this writing could&#8217;ve been presented as official course work is dubious, or, it is the most outlandish post-graduate course writing I&#8217;ve ever come across. </p><p>The book was edited and published posthumously with an introduction by Frye. Apparently, Fisher had an independent study with Frye at the University of Toronto. The relationship between Frye and Fisher was a collegial one and Frye admired Fisher&#8217;s breadth of classical and philosophical knowledge. Fisher was head of the English department at the Royal Military College in Kinston, Ontario. So, his school work was already done. My question is, what allows the occasion for this narrative? Why would the University of Toronto Press put out this outlandish book, containing information not normally allowable in the academy? </p><p>You must understand that in the academy, references to ancient Briton are frowned upon. All American, Canadian, and British academic practitioners live under the Roman delusion, that culture came from Europe and spread to the British Islands, and that before the Roman conquest, Britain was full of naked people who painted themselves blue and sat all day up to their chins in a bog waiting to ambush unsuspecting travelers. Nothing good, technological, or cultural could&#8217;ve originated from such a people, therefore, gentle culture and goodness come from Rome and Italy, and the Mediterranean. Only little by little did such technological novelties as stained glass and the triple harp move from Italy, through France, and finally somehow crossed over to the poor illiterate British people. Any semblance of goodness from the British Islands must finally be a reflection from the light of Rome itself. </p><p>My inference here is that Peter F. Fisher&#8217;s book is incomplete and that Frye was useful in editing out all the really inflammable stuff that would be insufferable to the academy. From Fisher, we find a picture of an ancient Briton that was literate and ethical, and highly cultured. We might not understand the whole story of Fisher&#8217;s death. A military person like him with his unusual knowledge and aptitude may have been useful in a secret capacity, and so faking his death was necessary. Peter F. Fisher wouldn&#8217;t have been the first person assassinated by dark priests to prevent their lies from being exposed. Our Roman controllers and owners fear a revival of the cultural practices of ancient Briton. I hope you read his book. It&#8217;s great. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan In His Original Glory]]></title><description><![CDATA[And a Glimpse Into William Blake's Iconography]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/satan-in-his-original-glory</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/satan-in-his-original-glory</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 22:30:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IZ95!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fedd271cb-e338-4b58-a562-cc0d8581e102_415x520.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IZ95!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fedd271cb-e338-4b58-a562-cc0d8581e102_415x520.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">William Blake&#8217;s Satan In His Original Glory (1805)</figcaption></figure></div><p>In the process of engaging our eternal adversary in spiritual warfare, it is necessary to empathize with him, as Sun Tzu tells us in The Art of War. Therefore, it is worthwhile to understand the nature of Satan, and to understand what his purposes are and to anticipate his moves. Satan has been mythologized in poetry most famously in Milton&#8217;s Paridise Lost. Readers of that poem are invited to sympathize with Satan. Satan is the Odyseuss of Paridise Lost. His damnation and journey from Hell are what make the poem epic. There are many scenes that depict his human quality, his unsurpassed rationality, and his championing of the underdog role. His hopeless endeavor against God is pathetic in the old sense of the word. Satan&#8217;s bravery and interminable intellect are only two of the endearing and redeeming qualities that he embodies. </p><p>We must not lose sight of our enemy&#8217;s capacity for malice and treachery. He is the author of the system of priestcraft that dominates our realm. He is the lord of the white and black squares. The white squares symbolize the visible priests and the visible churches (whether Christian, Muslim, or Rabbinical). The black squares symbolize hidden Satanic Ritual Witchcraft and criminality. Both white and black priests are ritually initiated and sworn to secrecy, just like every criminal gang. Therefore, crime is organized under the black squares of priestcraft. Satan controls the white squares with his right hand, and the criminal secret cabal with his left. Together the white and black priests comprise the right and left hand of Satan&#8217;s system of societal control through the hierarchy of priestcraft. The Masons are priests. The Jesuits. The Shriners. Skull and Bones. All the secret societies are hierarchies of priests, whether visible or not.  </p><p>Because of the hirachical nature of Satan&#8217;s control system, it&#8217;s possible for him to control everyone from the top of the pyramid. That&#8217;s what he really wants&#8230; everyone to be in lock step, doing nothing but satisfying their consumer appetites, from which he can profit. Think of all the monetary interactions in our society throughout the workday. There is a clockwork, a precision of a demand and supply. That is Satan&#8217;s vision of human existence. Because we are cogs in Satan&#8217;s machine, our energy can be squeezed out of us through taxation and Satan can feed on our garmonbozia (pain and suffering) like creamed corn. His corporate system is spiritually parasitic at its core. The justice system, too, is filled with druidic symbolism and priestcraft, and all of it originates in Vatican Chancery, which is someplace you don&#8217;t want to be. </p><p>The only thing preventing Satan&#8217;s goals from being realized on earth is the activity of independent ethical actors like you and me. Our ethical freedom causes glitches in Satan&#8217;s system. What if our society was not a ground beneath Satan&#8217;s wheel on a daily basis? If we were like Tibetan monks or ancient Britons and we weren&#8217;t dominated by consumer appetites or the mania of owning things, but instead focused on spiritual concerns including health and nutrition? What if our society was focussed on valuing each other&#8217;s artistic gifts? Then Satan couldn&#8217;t squeeze us and press us for our oil. Because of the ethical goodness in our society, Satan cannot achieve the lock step Philistine control<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a> and top-down domination that he desires. The problem of human ethical autonomy is very vexing for Satan. He sees us as pieces on his board, to be sacrificed, shipwrecked, or snake bitten.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a></p><p>The danger of empathizing with Satan is that he can dazzle us with his beauty or his intellect. How many have sold their souls for his occult knowledge? In his original state, Satan was Heaven&#8217;s best musician and God&#8217;s favorite among the angels. His masculine and feminine qualities are in perfect balance. This sexual balance is reflected in the ritual practice of Satanism, where practitioners emphasize the characteristics that are opposite of their gender, in order to achieve sexual balance within the self. I suspect that Plato was right when he suggested that our bodies can&#8217;t express our whole souls and that&#8217;s why we seek completion of our souls among our friends and loved ones (from Symposium). </p><p>Milton depicts Satan as a shapeshifter who can alternately take the form of a serpent or a cormorant, or whatever form he desires. Blake describes Satan as an hermaphrodite, and the sexual symbology of the orb and scepter should not be lost on us (like it is on Google&#8217;s AI). The orb is a feminine symbol. The plus sign that appears above the orb is the hermetic symbol of the feminine. Let&#8217;s take a close up look at the Satan&#8217;s right hand in Blake&#8217;s depiction: </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nZf_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5000a66e-21c0-4f6e-a347-06c511578530_587x685.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nZf_!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_424, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5000a66e-21c0-4f6e-a347-06c511578530_587x685.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nZf_!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_848, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nZf_!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5000a66e-21c0-4f6e-a347-06c511578530_587x685.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Satan&#8217;s right hand up close</figcaption></figure></div><p>What is the object that appears behind and to the left of the orb? It appears to be a figure reading an open book that&#8217;s being held up by a spirit being. What is the meaning of all the spirits flying around Satan&#8217;s right hand? I don&#8217;t know for sure, but I think Blake is depicting Satan&#8217;s capacity to command spirits to act. Perhaps the horn player is Moroni, for example (which angelic sprite is depicted atop the Mormon Temple, who Satan commanded to tell Joseph Smith to take the Mormons to Salt Lake City). Or maybe, the exquisite detail of Blake&#8217;s painting is just a stylistic feature. I&#8217;ll leave the question open, because I&#8217;m not satisfied that I understand exactly what is going on here. </p><p>Here&#8217;s a close up of the left-hand, for symmetry&#8217;s sake:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!txkA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe378365b-8802-4d5f-a461-bd4a08c1bcd4_486x636.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!txkA!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_424, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe378365b-8802-4d5f-a461-bd4a08c1bcd4_486x636.png 424w, 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I&#8217;ll spare you the Freudian interpretation. Perhaps Blake&#8217;s iconography may reference Satan&#8217;s ability to inspire lust or deceitful phantasms. Check out the bottom of the painting.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KwDn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9876a375-33d7-4d62-924a-4881d6fcb7db_1240x563.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KwDn!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_424, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9876a375-33d7-4d62-924a-4881d6fcb7db_1240x563.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KwDn!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_848, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, 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If we follow the descending sprites down we find the book motif repeated with a character pointing down into the void. What about the two faces appearing above the three trumpeters? Are they emerging from an open book?  This is one key to Blake&#8217;s iconography. He&#8217;s trying to tell a story and he depicts the drama by leading the eye of the viewer from one place to the next. Whenever I engage with Blake&#8217;s art (even the drawings on the borders of his illuminated texts) I&#8217;m always trying to understand the story that&#8217;s being told. I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s more to learn about Blake&#8217;s iconography, and there&#8217;s much more to say about Blake&#8217;s own mythological and poetic depiction of Satan, in his epic poem Milton. We might do that next time. Thank you for your engagement. </p><p></p><p></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>According to King James meditation on the Book of Kings, the priests of Babylon completely controlled and dominated it to the extent that the king&#8217;s line was not taught letters or symbols. The illiteracy of the Kings ended when Daniel (the Hebrew slave and author of the book of Daniel) taught Nebuchadnezzar to read. </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;afbec03e-fa8f-484f-bc8a-5dfbe9b1ffae&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;THE FIRST PART&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;A Meditation Upon... the Chronicles of the Kings; The First Part&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:43833782,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Palamambron&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;William Blake buff and general poetry buff. Poetry used to be history. 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He was driven by storms, shipwrecked, and snake-bit. He was a murderer of Christians and has been called a demoniac by some. </p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity Not Mysterious]]></title><description><![CDATA[My Reflection After Reading John Toland's Book (1696)]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/christianity-not-mysterious</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/christianity-not-mysterious</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:26:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uDp6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F24d211de-7a10-47a1-9e0b-08c8ec6b4fd7_406x432.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Much of the good prophecy of the Old Testament is directly pointed against the Hebrew priests (not yet called Rabbis). When the prophets agree with the priests, we have false prophecy. If there is a thread that connects the Old and New Testaments, it is the thread of prophecy or truth-telling. The entire point of prophecy is to antagonize the lies of the elect, and counter the speech of the priestly hegemony. Paul, who warned against Judaising the new Christians, was himself the ultimate Judaiser. He was a Christian but some things he couldn't understand because he was also an educated Jew. We can all read about Paul's mental crisis as he attempted to synthesize Christianity and Judaism in the worst parts of the New Testament. </p><p>The offspring of Paul's attempt to reconcile Christianity with Judaism is known as Puritanism, which is a terrible distortion of Christianity, and has had a deleterious effect on the American continent and its people. Christ came to free the world from Satan and his 591 laws that must be followed. Jesus came also to free the Jews from Satan, and his impossible system of personal holiness, which grinds us all under its heel. Christianity is not a personal holiness quest or a tool of the self-righteous. The Gospel that the Bible shrouds is the forgiveness of sins. The Bible is designed to hide this gospel. What Satan and his Rabbinical government don't want you to know about is the forgiveness of sins. Christianity inverts the status systems of wealth and holiness (Babylon and its god), and fights against the autocracy of Satan's priestly power pyramid. </p><p>Christianity is an ethical system of freedom for its practitioners. Christianity is designed to counter Satan's priestcraft, whether Masonic, Rabbinical, or Catholic. Christianity allows us to pull off the shade of mystery and superstition, and break the spells of the Magi who enslave us. Christianity is not mysterious. In Christianity, the only status is the giving of gifts (spiritual, artistic, and intellectual as well as charitable). </p><p>There is a war between two ethical systems. One is Christian, the other is Philistine. Philistinism dominates our society, but the force of Christianity is latent within us. There is going to be an ethical revolution, a flip from Philistinism (the service of appetites) to Christianity (the giving of gifts). It almost happened in England around 1800, and in the USA during the 1960s. The government had to do extreme bullshit to prevent this ethical revolution from taking place, and thus prevented peace, love, and joy, from taking over. This time, the time of the apocalypse, or revealing, there is nothing the priests can do to prevent the Christian ethical revolution from taking place. All Hell will break loose and yet Hell will fail. After the revolution, we will begin to build the kingdom of God that Jesus taught us about in the good parts of the New Testament. In a Christian society, everyone is not trying to capitalize on everyone else. Every man is not contemplating how everyone else can be optimally exploited. That is a Philistine society, not a Christian one. </p><p>What is going on during this time is that the Babylonian system of money magic (slavery through usury and the process of inflation and deflation) is at an end. Our dollars have been inflated exponentially and electronically. There is nothing the FED or the Bank of England can do to prevent the crash of its currency due to inflation. The FED leadership always knew this was inevitable. This was Satan&#8217;s main tool to keep us locked in a cruel Philistine ethical system, with our noses to the grindstone. </p><p>The story of how fiat currencies end is always the same. This has happened many times in other countries. First, inflation goes up slowly and predictably, then it becomes noticeably increased. Then, prices of everything will double within one week. This could be next week, or this week. At that point, the buying power of the dollar will become dramatically less with each passing day, and soon people will be using other means of transacting. This is when people will discover that they have faith. When people have nothing but faith, that is when faith is most important. We will learn that faith underlies everything, and that we have nothing without it. </p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_christianity-not-mysteri_toland-john_1696_0/page/n2/mode/1up?view=theater">Link to John Toland&#8217;s Christianity Not Mysterious.</a><br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catastrophic Contagion II]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anticipating the Emergence of Vaccine Induced Polio]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/catastrophic-contagion-ii</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/catastrophic-contagion-ii</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:14:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!m_JO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08d2bae1-e861-44b1-9d09-df321d1c0e9c_603x556.png" length="0" 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To my knowledge, there have been three pandemic preparatory exercises: SPARS 2025-2028 (2017), Event 201 (2019), and Catastrophic Contagion (2022). As a predictive exercise, Event 201 was a strike right down the middle of the plate. That Covid-19 followed the script from Event 201 so perfectly makes me think that Catastrophic Contagion will also unfold precisely as Bill Gates told us it would in 2022. In the Catastrophic Contagion exercise, set to begin in September 2025, a new polio virus emerges (SEERS) that is super deadly to children especially, and leaves adult survivors with brain damage and paralysis. SPARS has also proven that these exercises are more than just shots in the dark, or speculation about the future. Together, these exercises are a disclosure of plans, and a way for governments to practice what they anticipate the public&#8217;s response will be. </p><p>Both SPARS and Catastrophic Contagion are set to begin in 2025. Why does it feel like we are subliminally walking into this thing without preparing for what this period is going to be like? A Dark Winter. We&#8217;re all summer children with no concept of what a real bad time on Earth looks like. If Covid-19 was a jab (a punch with no real power behind it), Catastrophic Contagion is the power punch coming behind the jab. The jab (covid) is meant to set up dissent against mandatory vaccination. The vaccine is deadly and the covid virus is not. People with common sense will repel against mandatory vaccination based on the turd sandwich that Covid was. The power punch, Catastrophic Contagion, is meant to obliterate dissent and compel everyone to take the DARPA death poke. Here&#8217;s a link to my previous rant on the subject. </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;88634d4b-9bf0-4b1c-be6d-c7000c0df399&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Something that has bothered my brain for a long time is the utter stupidity of the covid protocols. Of course, wearing masks and social distancing could have no impact. The PCR tests are an obvious fraud that everyone knows about. I have begun to understand that this stupidity, banality, and the hatefulness of &#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Catastrophic Contagion&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:43833782,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Palamambron&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;William Blake buff and general poetry buff. Poetry used to be history. History must be tied down with a thousand threads. &quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ab619674-b861-48e1-beeb-0f251e71360f_1440x1800.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-08-16T22:14:44.991Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eu91!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb812f90a-5bcf-454e-8e83-9e4c8e25cce9_722x307.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://palamambron.substack.com/p/catastrophic-contagion&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:171149553,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:6,&quot;comment_count&quot;:17,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Palamambron Presents Conspiracy Classics&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3dfR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F10fef935-3665-4711-aaa6-a671ef75ecc2_418x418.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>But maybe events are not going to unfold in real life like they do in Bill Gates&#8217;s wet dreams. Perhaps the public has access to nebulizers (inhaling peroxide + iodine) and will use other effective means to prevent a terrible bronchial infection from taking hold. Maybe there are doctors and pediatricians who aren&#8217;t entirely asleep at the wheel. Or it could be that viruses (or whatever the contagion is) cannot be made powerful enough to be very deadly, and pandemics inherently weaken after their initial bloom. </p><p>Did you know there is a whole class of viruses called <strong>Vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPVs)</strong>. These emerge when the live-attenuated virus in the oral polio vaccine (OPV) mutates and becomes a wild poliovirus. How do wild polio viruses escape from the polio zoo? Like this. Journalist Ethan Huff covered this almost a year ago today: </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Another deadly virus is <a href="https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/09/06/highly-evolved-polio-strain-may-have-leaked-from-chinese-lab/">in circulation</a><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a> after the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in communist China "leaked" a new deadly strain of polio called WIV14 that infected a young boy in China's Anhui province.</p><p>A paper from France's Pasteur Institute suggests that this new "highly evolved" strain of polio was more than likely developed at the WIV. It is said to be 99 percent similar to the Saukett A strain of polio used in laboratory settings and in vaccine production.</p><p>Dr. Ma&#235;l Bessaud, who led the research, says WIV14 probably came from the WIV or another facility that handles polio. The only other possible origins of WIV14 include a natural reservoir or another lab.&#8221; <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a></p></blockquote><p>Ethan Huff leans heavily on Jack Montgomery&#8217;s more in depth discussion (linked above). </p><p>In 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) was investigating a suspected new strain of polio that had affected a two-year-old child in Meghalaya, India.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a></p><p>After declaring India Polio-free in 2014, WHO says a new strain of Polio has occurred (2024), and its been found in the sewage. Whether or not you believe in viruses, you probably believe in Polio. It is a contagion that can be contracted. Whether or not a virus passes from an infected individual to the uninfected or not is immaterial. It&#8217;s possible to not believe in viruses, but it&#8217;s not possible to disbelieve in germ warfare. If UNC and Wuhan labs are not weaponizing viruses by seeking gain of function (as they planned to do with the corona virus since the 1960s) then what the hell are they doing? Why spend the billions on these biological laboratories throughout Ukraine and elsewhere if our enemies are not doing germ warfare against the people of Earth? </p><p>I feel the threat is credible enough to warn against the emergence of a deadly polio strain, coming soon to a theater of war near you, and I seem to be the only one ringing the bell on the subject. There are steps we can take to make our native immune systems as prepared as they can be. I&#8217;m not selling anything, but if you&#8217;ve never heard of nebulizers, which vaporize small amounts of hydrogen peroxide and iodine to eradicate invasive infections and mucous from the lungs, you should look into it. </p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/09/06/highly-evolved-polio-strain-may-have-leaked-from-chinese-lab/ by Jack Montgomery</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-09-10-evolved-polio-infected-chinese-boy-leaked-lab-wuhan.html by Ethan Huff</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/meghalaya/who-investigating-suspected-new-polio-strain-meghalaya-health-minister/article68550403.ece</p><p></p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catastrophic Contagion]]></title><description><![CDATA[This Is What Happens When You Don't Obey]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/catastrophic-contagion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/catastrophic-contagion</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 22:14:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eu91!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb812f90a-5bcf-454e-8e83-9e4c8e25cce9_722x307.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div 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Of course, wearing masks and social distancing could have no impact. The PCR tests are an obvious fraud that everyone knows about. I have begun to understand that this stupidity, banality, and the hatefulness of the covid authorities was done purposefully to set up pushback against the authoritarian health regime. They were so heavy handed, malicious, and literally ugly that I believe it&#8217;s part of the show. They actually want to encourage dissent at this time. That&#8217;s what all the stupidity of Canadian leaders recently forbidding people to go into the woods comes from. They are trying to provoke dissent. </p><p>Why would our controllers encourage dissent? This sticks in my craw. It only makes sense if what is coming next is so devastating that it obliterates all dissent and makes us all fall in line like people did when World War 2 started. At that time, there was Pearl Harbor, and that galvanized the whole society into a war effort. We have had many wars since then, but there&#8217;s never been an intense society-wide war effort since then. There were dissenters against WW2 in America. Famously, Ezra Pound fled the country for Italy and fought with Mussolini. Poet Kenneth Patchen was openly against WW2. In fact, there were many dissidents who were deported to Alaska or wound up in asylums because of their dissidence.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a></p><p>Remember when Bill Gates told us what would be best for the world is two pandemics that kill about two billion people each? Do you remember how he said the next pandemic will really get our attention, how perfectly Event 201 predicted Covid, and how the covid perpetrators followed the Event 201 plan to the letter? Well, in 2022, Gates and his cohorts had a practice run for a second pandemic, much like Event 201. This was called Catastrophic Contagion. In this fictional exercise, the next pandemic was scheduled to break out in September of 2025, with lockdowns beginning in October.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a></p><p>I am thinking of the worst case scenario, so I can prepare for it. What if Geert Vanden Bossche<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a>  and Luc Montignier are correct, and the immune disabled and vaccine injured will have no defense against the next set of germs the government decides to give us? What I anticipate is a &#8216;this is what happens when you don&#8217;t obey&#8217; moment. At this time, authorities will deflect responsibility, blame the unvaccinated, and encourage hate against dissidents once again. This pandemic is designed to demonstrate unequivocally the necessity of government protocols and the global authoritarian health regime. Catastrophic Contagion is supposed to be a bronchial infection with high childhood mortality, that could be deadly to all ages, and to many of the unvaccinated as well. I suffer bad from bronchitis when I contract it, and I had Covid terribly for three weeks. There was something different about the covid ailment from the normal flu or bronchitis infection. I went through a whole asthma inhaler just to stay out of the hospital. Whether it was a virus or not is beside the point&#8230;it was a contagion. </p><p>Let&#8217;s say that Gates story about two pandemics killing two billion each is accurate, and that our population is now down to around 5 billion globally, from 7 billion. This means we&#8217;re supposed to lose two out of five people. Now those numbers are a rough predictive estimate, and that&#8217;s what the Deagle population report<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a> is, too&#8230;a prediction. How often are predictions correct? Usually they aren&#8217;t correct, but sometimes they have some bearing. Deagle&#8217;s prediction report said that America will be down to 100 million people in 2025 (we&#8217;re here), whereas now we are supposed to have 250 million. I sense that the current population is less than that and I don&#8217;t give much weight to statistics, because they are so often used to tell lies and manipulate us. </p><p>What doing this rough math tells me is that Catastrophic Contagion is supposed to be like nothing we&#8217;ve ever seen. As in, winter is here, and we&#8217;re all summer children who&#8217;ve never seen the winter before. It&#8217;s meant to galvanize our society into a single effort, in lock step. All dissidence will be purged away and everyone will be involved in dealing with this deadly outbreak. All the covid stupidity and the government attempts to provoke dissent are simply a way of setting up the bowling pins, so that they can be knocked down. If Covid was a jab, Catastrophic Contagion is designed to be the knock out punch for dissidents against the global authoritarian health regime. </p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:146842971,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://chemtrails.substack.com/p/alaska-became-a-state-to-imprison&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:1865725,&quot;embedding_publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Agent131711&#8217;s Substack&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cmfH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ff34488-fac4-4a28-8530-55c4c21d8f26_356x356.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Alaska Became a State to Imprison PATRIOTS: The Bankers One-World Government Plot of the 1940s (Untold History) &quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;Every American citizen needs to read this regardless of what side they are on because it details shocking history; how Alaska became the 49th state for a single purpose&#8230; to imprison resistors - betcha didn&#8217;t learn that in 8th grade History class. 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This insane piece of history takes place only 20 years after&#8230;</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">2 years ago &#183; 198 likes &#183; 96 comments &#183; Agent131711</div></a></div></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><a href="https://blog.thegovernmentrag.com/2024/11/29/2025-its-starting-bill-gates-announces-the-next-pandemic-date-and-outbreak-location-redacted/">Next Pandemic: It's Starting. Bill Gates...</a></p><p></p><p></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><strong>Geert Vanden Bossche, DMV, PhD, </strong><em>independent virologist and vaccine expert, formerly employed at GAVI and The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundaton.</em></p><p><strong>To all authorites, scientsts and experts around the world, to whom this concerns: the entre world populaton. </strong> <a href="https://37b32f5a-6ed9-4d6d-b3e1-5ec648ad9ed9.filesusr.com/ugd/28d8fe_266039aeb27a4465988c37adec9cd1dc.pdf">link</a></p><p></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><a href="https://bakomkulissernabiz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/depopulation-2017-2025-according-to-deagel-page-1-1.pdf">Deagle Report Link</a></p><p></p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Is Sovereign Immunity?]]></title><description><![CDATA[How All The King's Men Get Away With Their Crimes]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/what-is-sovereign-immunity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/what-is-sovereign-immunity</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:52:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4wxF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72fd3999-c0b4-4993-a185-c5f52272230c_480x360.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" 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want to tell you a scary story. When I wrote my last article (<a href="/__u/palamambron.substack.com/p/the-walmart-fema-slaughterhouse-theory?r=q3id2">here</a>), I didn&#8217;t have the correct conception of the bankster time line, nor did I understand exactly what the third bankruptcy in 2000 means. After the 3rd bankruptcy, there is no 50-year period. When a company declares bankruptcy for the third time, it is immediately liquidated by court order, and whatever can be salvaged of its assets is given to the debt holders. It means that the company that had a contractual duty to us Americans to present us with constitutional government no longer exists. Current federal contractors (contracted by the Bank of England) are chartered to collect a debt, and they don&#8217;t represent us whatsoever. It&#8217;s taxation without representation, if you&#8217;ve ever heard that before. </p><p>Many federal agents in the alphabet agencies enjoy sovereign immunity. What is sovereign immunity and why is it called that? The simplest explanation is that an agent with sovereign immunity cannot be sued for the damages from his crimes because the King of England has sent him to the American Commonwealth on explicit business. It&#8217;s not that we are a sovereign nation. The sovereign referred to is the King and Crown of England, and America (and Canada) is the commonwealth to which his title, Lord of the Commonwealth, refers. This is why federal agents are selling our children, processing us for blood and organs, and grinding our bones into their cement. This is why they are running Fentanyl in the streets and killing our young men and women by the hundreds of thousand every year through the illegal drug trade. This is why DARPA perpetrated the covid hoax and generated the poison jabs that we are still suffering and dying from (and that big Pharma is profiting from royally). You shouldn&#8217;t google sovereign immunity, you should <a href="https://yandex.com/search/?text=What+is+Sovreign+Immunity&amp;lr=110795">Yandex it</a>.</p><p>To recap: the entire federal government is a salvage operation. These corporations are chartered as contractors with the Bank of England, to salvage the assets of the former USA company. We are the assets of the former USA company that they are trying to salvage (corporate chattel). This new company, the one that took over in 2000, has no duty to us Americans at all. It views us as corporate chattel to be liquidated. That&#8217;s all they&#8217;re doing. That is the only reason they exist. Think of this in terms of 911, the Patriot Act, the formation of FEMA and the changes that took place afterward. Think of what happened at Catrina, Lahaina, the Paradise fire, the fires that burned OK and TX, the LA fire, and the NC floods. Understand what is going on in terms of corporate asset liquidation and court ordered bankruptcy remedy. </p><p>Here is an improved baskster timeline, but perhaps it could still be dialed in more precisely. The Bank of England started the first USA company in 1871, and bankrupted it immediately. This bankruptcy lasted fifty years, and then we had a few years of solvency, before the 2nd bankruptcy in 1932, which brought further changes. After this second bankruptcy, the federal company stole all our gold through extortion, and initiated the birth certificate scam, which claimed Americans as corporate chattel. After the 1999 election, a third bankruptcy occurred, and the government vacated its offices for 40 days. This vacation of offices was presented to Americans as the &#8220;hanging chad&#8221; thing. Remember that? The new company waited the customary time period to resume business after this vacation. The only difference was that this new government company did not have a contractual obligation to Americans. This is a good article to kind of get your mind around what was happening in 1999: <a href="https://everydayconcerned.net/2020/08/30/the-restoration-of-the-united-states-of-america-commander-in-chief-postmaster-general-of-the-world-russell-jay-gould-has-the-title-4-flag/">It&#8217;s A Partial Hangout</a>. </p><p>The next indicated question is, if the Federal companies are in America doing nothing but crimes against us to exploit us and murder us in the most cynical and inhumane fashion imaginable, what is politics? Are you familiar with Uncle Sam and his theatrical flare for show business? That&#8217;s what it is. The Actor&#8217;s Guild is an acting troupe that works for the bank, headed by a secret society, the Jester&#8217;s Guild. This is what Donald Trump refers to as Central Casting. Did you know that all the players in the Dontald Trump Assassination fiasco are members of the actor&#8217;s guild? Donald Trump himself is a member, as is the antagonist, Thomas Crooks (he played well). All the SS members on duty (the supporting cast) are also members of the actors guild, and not real Secret Service employees at all. I&#8217;m curious to learn more about this ancient order of merrymakers, and what Goddamn buggers they&#8217;ve always been. I surmise that the tradition of actors buying other actors&#8217; houses when they die has something to do with this secrecy society, and I don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s a good thing whatsoever. </p><p>I am trying to not get DOGEd and I hope that you are too. Endeavor to survive 2025. All the king&#8217;s men are bull-DOGEing Canada, and the old USA. It&#8217;s a salvage operation. The American Commonwealth is overrun with foreign corporate exploitation. </p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Walmart-FEMA Slaughterhouse Theory]]></title><description><![CDATA[Corporate Chattel and Court Ordered Asset Liquidation]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/the-walmart-fema-slaughterhouse-theory</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/the-walmart-fema-slaughterhouse-theory</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 03:00:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/m3zSDdm-SHI" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This theory argues that FEMA is a corporate enterprise founded and contracted by the Crown, to liquidate the assets of the former USA company, which went bankrupt for the 3rd time in 2000. A company is liquidated at the end of its third bankruptcy, and the shareholders are paid whatever remnant of value can be salvaged. Who owns the shares of the former USA company? The Crown Temple Bank of England. America contracted with that bank in 1870 to provide our government, and that was the beginning of Uncle Sam, the Bank of England&#8217;s propaganda effort in America. 1870 also serves as the beginning of the bankster cycle, or the period of time it takes the bank to ruin a currency. In this case, it took the bank three bankruptcies (50 years each) to completely bastardize and ruin the dollar, and so there is about a 150 year bankster timeline, from 1870 to 2020. I don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s a coincidence that our dollar was designed to inflate and crash at the end of the third bankruptcy. It was the plan all along to crash the dollar and then run a salvage operation, to liquidate the human assets of the defunct USA company. </p><div id="youtube2-m3zSDdm-SHI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;m3zSDdm-SHI&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/m3zSDdm-SHI?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Walmart&#8217;s collaboration with FEMA goes back to the post Catrina era (2005). The above video is from 2006. Why is every Walmarts accessible by train? It&#8217;s so the pressings and grindings (the human pumice) from their slaughterhouse salvage operation can be easily carted off to the cement factory.</p><p> We are people with rights, privileges, and family histories, but to the Bank of England, we are corporate chattel. That&#8217;s what the birth certificate scam is all about. The bank issued birth certificates (beginning after the 2nd bankruptcy in 1933) so that it could name us as its dead property, in all capital letters like on a gravestone. It systematically denies that we are men, who have rights. Instead it calls us humans, having only the color of man. By calling us humans, they are saying we aren&#8217;t real men and women. We are man-esque and woman-esque.  Most of us humans have now been vaccinated, which means, from the latin root, to be turned into a cow. We&#8217;ve been commodified legally. Turned from men with rights into human cattle. What happens to cattle? </p><p>I also recognize that agenda 21 and agenda 30 are efforts to concentrate people into the cities. That is just the part of the plan the government told us about. The government has spent years filling up caves with rubber foam to prevent our escape. They don&#8217;t want us in the woods or in the wild areas where we would be difficult to eradicate. They want us in the cities and suburban areas where we can be herded into the Walmart slaughterhouses. </p><p>William Blake was a prophet who prophesied about the Great Harvest &amp; Vintage of the Nations. What&#8217;s missing from Blake is the sense that we can keep this thing from happening. It seems ingrained in the system that there must be a bloom of human population and a harvest, what I&#8217;m calling a salvage operation. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7Nyy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68127006-5690-435d-a885-98c90ea5566d_451x614.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7Nyy!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_424, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68127006-5690-435d-a885-98c90ea5566d_451x614.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7Nyy!, 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baby boom after the 2nd world war. Wages were high, costs were low, and America was a baby farm in the 1950s. Marketplace incentives caused the expansion of America families. Lower infant mortality rates aided a westward population explosion. </p><p>The availability of borrowed money allows populations to increase beyond what is sustainable based on debt. And if you decide not to borrow money and leverage it, this only puts you behind your human competition. In a system based on usury and competition, if you don&#8217;t borrow, you can&#8217;t compete against those who leverage the system optimally. And so, like Lemmings, we borrow and spend and expand, not realizing that we are racing toward the edge of a cliff. This over population is the natural outcome of the system of moneylending and it&#8217;s hard to stop the process of over overprinting, over spending, and the over producing of human resources. Once the program of usury is initiated, it&#8217;s like a wheel of destiny, sort of. A rolling swaztica that can&#8217;t be stopped. The wheel is rolling and you can&#8217;t slow it down. You can&#8217;t let go and you can&#8217;t hang on. You can&#8217;t go back and you can&#8217;t stand still, and if the thunder don&#8217;t get you then the lightening will. The natural advantage of participating in usury keeps the wheel in perpetual motion. </p><div id="youtube2-QzGWYShgmfk" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;QzGWYShgmfk&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/QzGWYShgmfk?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Every boom must incur a bust. So, the great harvest and the reset that we often hear about (the fourth turning), is simply the end of the banking cycle of debt and usury, when the corporate assets get liquidated and we can finally see the real evil of usury and the corporate system. When you buy stock in a corporation, you are participating in usury. You are lending money in hopes of gaining profit (interest). These systems work in tandem with the system of priestcraft to walk us through the three bankruptcies (or turnings), from the infancy of modern culture, through the improvements of technology, to the fourth turning, which is the designed bust of the whole economy and its fiat currency. This epic bust is designed to coincide with the third bankruptcy of the government corporation. The FEMA bankruptcy salvage operation allows the Bank of England to recoup the debt accrued by the defunct USA company through the liquidation of its corporate chattel. </p><p>America is a commonwealth, a free-for-all of foreign corporate exploitation. America is being DOGEd. DOGE is a court ordered remedy in a bankruptcy settlement. FEMA is the contractor doing the actual human salvage. What do you think? Fun theory? It makes me question how many times we have been around this 150 year loop of usury and corporate governance, this human boom and bust cycle. How many modern eras have there been? How many times have we been walked down this same path to the same corporate slaughter and harvest of the world? And who gets to drink all of our blood anyway? Please, don&#8217;t let it be Al Gore. When Al Gore spilled human blood on the tarmac, he was pouring out a libation for his homies. </p><div id="youtube2-x7VQVXAYBOs" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;x7VQVXAYBOs&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/x7VQVXAYBOs?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Just Man]]></title><description><![CDATA[Confronting Sasquatch Denialism With Poetry, Myth, and Storytelling]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/the-just-man</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/the-just-man</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:37:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B7Vv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F757cf0f0-ebaf-432b-87ee-5bee74154bd8_390x578.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="pullquote"><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B7Vv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F757cf0f0-ebaf-432b-87ee-5bee74154bd8_390x578.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B7Vv!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_424, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B7Vv!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F757cf0f0-ebaf-432b-87ee-5bee74154bd8_390x578.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 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perilous path was planted:<br>And a river, and a spring<br>On every cliff and tomb;<br>And on the bleached bones<br>Red clay brought forth.</p><p>Till the villain left the paths of ease,<br>To walk in perilous paths, and drive<br>The just man into barren climes.</p><p>Now the sneaking serpent walks<br>In mild humility.<br>And the just man rages in the wilds<br>Where lions roam.&#8221; </p><p>&#8212; William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell</p></div><p>I would like to open this discussion by referencing Lloyd Pye, a theorist and scientific personality who died of turbo-cancer in 2013 before it was cool. As a conspiracy theorist, I assume, of course, that he was poisoned by the government. You remember him. He was the Star Child guy. He made an interesting video called Everything You Know Is Wrong&#8230;a two hour presentation where he looks at the fossil records and deconstructs evolutionism&#8217;s human origin theory and exposes it as a fraud. He then takes a hard look at the Sasquatch evidence as well as astonishing accounts of wild men and women from all over the world: </p><div id="vimeo-107390264" class="vimeo-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;107390264&quot;,&quot;videoKey&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false}" data-component-name="VimeoToDOM"><div class="vimeo-inner"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/107390264?autoplay=0" frameborder="0" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div></div><p>There is so much mind-blowing stuff in this presentation. I highly recommend watching it. If you can make it through the first 20 minutes, which are slow, the rest of it is great. The next indicated question is: what is the motivation for fudging human origins? Why does The Science religion want us to believe that we evolved from apes over millions of years? For Lloyd Pye, the answer is that humans are the result of E. T. genetic engineering. We are more than Just Man. To paraphrase Pye, Science must explain everything in terrestrial terms. If it doesn&#8217;t come from grit, it doesn&#8217;t fit. The Sasquatch is superior to us in many ways because he is a natural being created from the earth. Pye argues that we humans have genetic diseases and physical problems that result from our suspect unnatural engineering. These genetic diseases and deformities are unknown in natural creation. There is a creator and a usurper. This usurper is the person The Science is trying to hide. </p><p>Lloyd Pye considered himself to be a Sitchonite. He was heavily influenced (captured) by the work of Zecharia Sitchin, and his translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls into several paperbacks that sold well in the 1970s and 80s. My favorite Sitchin book is the third in the series: <em>The Wars of Gods and Men</em>. It is obviously ghost written, by a native English speaker and a good writer. Sitchin himself was neither of those things. If you try to read either of Sitchin&#8217;s first two books, you&#8217;ll understand that Sitchin wasn&#8217;t a good writer at all. He was a scholar of ancient languages, who spoke broken English, and who didn&#8217;t represent his ideas well in his speech or writing. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5rTN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67a60699-5c4b-4acc-9af7-e086a8f48297_274x411.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5rTN!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_424, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67a60699-5c4b-4acc-9af7-e086a8f48297_274x411.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5rTN!, 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It&#8217;s a great read. Check it out (from the library).</figcaption></figure></div><p>The fact that Lloyd Pye embraced Sitchin does not reflect well on him, because today, Sitchin is widely considered to have been a total fraud. His translations are not reproducible. There is a theory that the Dead Sea Scrolls themselves are fake or partially fake, allowing Sitchin to inject fictional narratives into the text. But if Sitchin didn&#8217;t get his story from ancient Sumarian texts, where did it come from? Most of it comes directly from Babylonian mythology, especially from the Epic of Gilgamesh. Whenever I hear that stories taken from mythology are fake, I tend to disagree entirely. Mythology, and the poetry that carries it, have symbolic meaning, and I at least want to understand the story that&#8217;s being told. </p><p>What is the story of The Epic of Gilgamesh? Well, there are many stories, and some of it is lost to history, but the part I want to focus on is the story of Enkidu the Wild Man, and how he is compelled to come into a civilized state. Enkidu's name has been interpreted as &#8220;lord of the reed marsh,&#8221; reminiscent of the Florida Skunk Ape, a wild man who lives in Florida&#8217;s swamps. Enkidu is created by Anu to compete with Gilgamesh, who dominates and unjustly rules his kingdom. <strong> </strong></p><p>Following his creation, Enkidu lives with the animals, and his ways are wild. When he hears of the injustices of Gilgamesh&#8217;s kingdom, specifically that Gilgamesh enjoys first nuptial rights with his subjects&#8217; brides, he confronts Gilgamesh and wrestles with him in an epic confrontation. Enkidu seeks justice from Gilgamesh, a being that is 2/3 god. Enkidu was never meant to defeat Gilgamesh, but was created by Anu to challenge and correct Gilgamesh&#8217;s injustices. Enkidu is the Just Man, and through contending with Gilgamesh, he earns the king&#8217;s trust and friendship. </p><p>The next problem is that Enkidu was too wild to fit into society. In order to bring Enkidu into society, it is necessary for Enkidu to learn the lower mysteries. Gilgamesh introduces him to Shamhat, a prostitute, and they fuck for seven days.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z7r-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9ad39634-0dd1-4bdb-b078-a5668a1ab1b0_650x395.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z7r-!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_424, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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that&#8217;s how he becomes a civilized man. </p><p>Storytelling (or narrative) underlies everything. Every court case, every mathematical equation, every scientific journal article&#8230;everything is a narrative. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m fascinated by stories, poems, and myths. I&#8217;m just trying to tell a story that makes sense. So is Steve Isdahl, host of The Facts by HowToHunt.com on his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@proguide66">YouTube channel</a>. Everyday, Steve reads stories from his email box..first-hand accounts of Sasquatch encounters. Thousands of people have written Steve in hopes of getting their Sasquatch stories out to the populace. Not all the writers of the stories are great writers. Most are rural Americans and Canadians. Some of them have little use for such devices as periods or commas, or standardized spelling. You don&#8217;t have to be a good writer to have Steve read your story. He doesn&#8217;t vet the stories, he just reads them. We should listen to the stories these people are telling about their Sasquatch encounters. The stories are true. </p><p></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Learn about the Lower Mysteries, a pagan (Greek) celebration and religious rite, by reading Thomas Taylor&#8217;s 19th century translation: <a href="https://archive.org/details/eleusinianbacch00tayluoft/page/n7/mode/2up">Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries</a>. It depicts the seven day orgy called The Lower Mysteries. Enkidu&#8217;s seven day encounter with Shamhat is the earliest mythological expression of The Lower Mysteries. </p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Flew Over The Coo-Coo's Nest Again]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ken Kesey's classic novel demonstrates the psychiatrist's role in the control matrix.]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/one-flew-over-the-coo-coos-nest-again</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/one-flew-over-the-coo-coos-nest-again</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:34:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6TUh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3596d88e-062a-4a17-8597-7ce9d88805ef_2048x1536.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 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of my stated goals here at Conspiracy Classics is to present relevant works in the public domain. When a book turns fifty, it loses its copyright, and it becomes instantly accessible on the internet, for free. And so, I often read fifty-year-old books, listen to fifty-year-old music, or watch a fifty-year-old movie. This fifty-year delta acts like a feedback loop, incorporating old works into the art of the emerging generation. Fifty-year-old movies become relevant again. Books we never heard of when they were published pop up fifty years later. It seems to me that our copyright laws impact the larger culture, and we notice that 70s styles are everywhere today. Young women are wearing hippy clothes and long and natural hair, just like Donna Godshaux of the Grateful Dead in 1974. Ideas seem to come around on a fifty-year carousel. Ideas come into and go out of style. Is history a circle, or a spiral? Revolution doesn&#8217;t mean something new is happening. It means something old is coming back around again. </p><p>And now we&#8217;ve come back around again to Ken Kesey&#8217;s 1962 classic novel, and the 1975 movie that made everyone famous, One Flew Over The Coo-Coo&#8217;s Nest. I was exposed to this book as a child. My mom read it aloud to me. It may seem like a strange choice to read to a ten year old, but my mom didn&#8217;t like kid&#8217;s books, and so she read to me (the oldest) the books that she was reading. I remember the emotional impact of the book on my child brain. It was heavy handed. Bashing the reader with its theme that the institution was a Nazi device to quash individuality, to eliminate personality, and to deny the humanity of the inmates. The moment we learn that most of the inmates are institutionalized willingly, because they fear living outside the protection of the institution, carried a lot of impact on me. It is the high point of tension in the work, and the biggest kick in the balls. In some ways it&#8217;s great art. And in some ways it&#8217;s so manipulative that the exploitative aspcect of the art temporarily overshadows it&#8217;s redemptive aspect, and we wonder whether this is good art, or if this is intended primarily to torture the audience&#8230;brutalism. This leads to a further investigation of whether or not the audience likes to be tortured. </p><p>These questions were not only interesting to me, they were also interesting to the Reader Response critics. While critics like Stanley Fish and Wolfgang Iser gained prominence in the early 1960s (when Kesey&#8217;s book emerged), the originator of Reader Response Criticism was Louis Rosenblatt, and her work emerged in the late 30s and 40s. She argued that the reader creates the meaning of literature, not the writer. Her ideas became the groundwork for an entertainment industry that wanted to anticipate audience response to manipulate and exploit the audience. To me, this is the essential question for art critics: Does the exploitative aspect of the art outweigh the redemptive aspect? </p><p>There is a considerable redemptive aspect to One Flew Over The Coo-Coo&#8217;s Nest, in both book and film. It took creative fire, mental fortitude, and belief to write this book. It&#8217;s gonzo. It&#8217;s galling. It&#8217;s a lot to stomach and includes plenty of realistic vulgarity. The characters seem like real people, and as a kid I thought it was a true account. It feels like non-fiction. I wouldn&#8217;t want to speculate on which gross stimulants the author was on (benzedrine). I still believe that putting oneself in that creative place of belief in the power of art is redemptive in itself, even if what is produced is inaccessible or irrelevant. The film, too, has a lot to like. It introduces us to many faces we would come to know in succeeding decades. It provides novelty and demand in theatrical performance. It&#8217;s well cast and well acted. It&#8217;s quintessential Jack Nicholson, if you like that. Most importantly, it teaches us something true about the world as it existed, and as it exists today. </p><p>If today&#8217;s film industry could do something as good as this movie was fifty year ago, it wouldn&#8217;t. It almost didn&#8217;t then. None of the big production companies wanted to touch it. Who knows why? It was Kirk Douglass&#8217;s baby, but it didn&#8217;t come to fruition until Michael Douglass produced it with a burgeoning production company, without his father in the main role. This is art that people suffered to achieve, and the audience also gets to suffer along with the creators. </p><p>Now let&#8217;s get into the exploitative aspect. It a horror story. At the end, the character everyone loves gets lobotomized. It contains the implicit threat that this could happen to you. You could get gas lighted. You could get institutionalized. In our modern world, everybody is diagnosable and can be incarcerated at the whim of a psychiatrist, who is probably crazy or suicidal, if not directly controllable by a malicious element.  So, this movie teaches us about how tenuous our freedom is and that we should use our freedom of speech only in the most banal and least threatening way. And if there is any content of our speech that is unacceptable to the dominating hegemony, that we should be ready to curtail such speech and make apologies to the people our speech has injured. Or else, you&#8217;ll feel much better after your lobotomy. 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15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>                              Head Of William Blake by John Linnell, 1820</p><p>From a letter from William Blake to Thomas Butts, dated August 16, 1803: </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;I am at Present in a Bustle to defend myself against a very unwarrantable warrant from a Justice of Peace in Chichester, which was taken out against me by a Private in Captn. Leathes&#8217;s troop of 1st or Royal Dragoons, for an assault &amp; seditious words. The wretched Man has terribly Perjur&#8217;d himself, as has his Comrade; for, as to Sedition, not one Word relating to the King or Government was spoken by either him or me. His Enmity arises from my having turned him out of my Garden, into which he was invited as an assistant by a Gardener at work therein, without my knowledge that he was so invited. I desired him, as politely as was possible, to go out of the Garden; he made me an impertinent answer. I insisted on his leaving the Garden; he refused. I still persisted in desiring his departure; he then threaten&#8217;d to knock out my Eyes, with many abominable imprecations &amp; with some contempt for my Person; it affronted my foolish Pride. I therefore took him by the Elbows &amp; pushed him before me till I had got him out; there I intended to have left him, but he, turning about, put himself into a Posture of Defiance, threatening &amp; swearing at me. I, perhaps foolishly &amp; perhaps not, stepped out at the Gate, &amp;, putting aside his blows, took him again by the Elbows, &amp;, keeping his back to me, pushed him forwards down the road about fifty yards&#8212;he all the while endeavouring to turn round &amp; strike me, &amp; raging &amp; cursing, which drew out several neighbours; at length, when I had got him to where he was Quarter&#8217;d, which was very quickly done, we were met at the Gate by the Master of the house, The Fox Inn (who is the proprietor of my Cottage), his wife &amp; Daughter &amp; the Man&#8217;s Comrade &amp; several other people. My Landlord compell&#8217;d the Soldiers to go in doors, after many abusive threats against me &amp; my wife from the two Soldiers; but not one word of threat on account of Sedition was utter&#8217;d at that time. This method of Revenge was Plann&#8217;d between them after they had got together into the stable. This is the whole outline.&#8221; <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a></p></blockquote><p>Often when city folk, such as the London born and bred William Blake, move to the country, they underestimate the cultural difference. Blake couldn&#8217;t know that a rural magistrate, the third Duke of Richmond, would be invested in trying and convicting him of capital sedition. If Blake were to have been convicted, he would&#8217;ve been summarily executed. Only because he had rich, powerfully connected friends such as William Haley, who, bought the best lawyer money could buy to provide Blake&#8217;s defense, was he able to avoid execution for the crime of damning the king: &#8220;Schofield went to his officer with his comrade Private John Cock, and they swore that Blake had &#8220;Damned the King of England.&#8221; The complaint was taken to the magistrate, a charge was laid, and Blake was forced to find bail and was bound over for trial for sedition and assault&#8230;&#8221; <a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a></p><p>Blake&#8217;s maxim: &#8220;Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you,&#8221; could perhaps be improved by adding, &#8230;until he finds opportunity to stab you in the back. William Blake, for one, believed in a conspiracy to convict and execute him. He was sure that John Quantock, the justice of the peace who recorded the complaint against him, was conspiring against him with Charles Lennox, the Third Duke of Richmond. At the trial, William Hayley observed with concern and indignation that the old Duke of Richmond was bitterly prejudiced against Blake and made unwarranted observations against Blake in an attempt to prejudice the jury. (Blake Records, 145)<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a></p><p>Perhaps it was only because the trial was hotly attended by an angry public element that the plot to execute Blake under color of law was thwarted. According to the Suxxex Weekly Advertiser (Jan, 16, 1804), the verdict &#8220;so gratified the auditory that the court was, in defiance of all decency, thrown into an uproar by their noisy exhalations.&#8221; (William Blake Records, 146). Perhaps the jurors thought that Blake was not innocent of damning the king, as the complaint against him records, but that he was right to say those words. And the exhalation of the public audience when Blake was vindicated presented an opportunity for an angry public to celebrate victory over an increasingly militaristic government. </p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://bq.blakearchive.org/pdfs/14.1.gebentley.pdf</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Blake/Charged-with-sedition</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/hlq.2009.72.1.29?searchText=&amp;searchUri=&amp;ab_segments=&amp;searchKey=&amp;refreqid=fastly-default%3Acaff04bec5afa7d20be4e683546cd7f8&amp;initiator=recommender">"A Fabricated Perjury": The [Mis]Trial of William Blake</a>, by <a href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?si=1&amp;Query=au:%22Mark+Crosby%22">Mark Crosby</a></p><p>Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 1 (March 2009), pp. 29-47</p><p></p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Last Will and Testament of Henry Purcell]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plus Two of His Most Anticlerical Songs.]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/the-last-will-and-testament-of-henry</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/the-last-will-and-testament-of-henry</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 22:08:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Henry Purcell, died 1695, aged 35 or 36 years</figcaption></figure></div><p>What does it mean that all of our conspiracy theories have come true? It means we don&#8217;t have enough of them. My favorite novel conspiracy theory, and the one least likely to be proven untrue, is my theory that Henry Purcell was murdered with poison. What could I possibly do to prove this theory 330 years after the fact? Well, I&#8217;m not trying to prove it to you. I&#8217;m just trying to make you see it. I&#8217;ll introduce two songs from Purcell&#8217;s late semi-opera, Circe. So, this one includes a little compulsory music appreciation (worth it). Follow along with the score if you&#8217;d like. Our songs begin on page eleven: <a href="https://imslp.org/wiki/Circe%2C_Z.575_(Purcell%2C_Henry)">Here</a><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a></p><div id="youtube2-UavFVhIXv8U" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;UavFVhIXv8U&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/UavFVhIXv8U?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Verse 1: &#8220;Lovers who to their first embraces go are slow and languishing compared to you. In speed, you can outdo the winged wind, and leave even thought creeping and tired behind. Behold, quick as thy thought, the ingredients of thy spells are brought, by which thy dismal business must be wrought. </p><p>Chorus: Great minister of fate. Great minister of fate, in this deep cave you sit in state. Famine and pestilence about you wait. </p><p>Verse 2: At your dread word they fly through every hand, whilst their fierce undiscerning rage does pity neither sex nor age. Death is as blind as love at your command.</p><p>Chorus: Great minister of fate. Great minister of fate, in this deep cave you sit in state. Famine and pestilence about you wait.&#8221; </p><div id="youtube2-gssuCGqTI6w" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;gssuCGqTI6w&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/gssuCGqTI6w?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>&#8220;Pluto Arise&#8230;from thy blest chains where kings and lovers are. Where there&#8217;s no tormentor from state and care. And these&#8230; feel not the torments, the torments of despair. Pluto arise&#8230; from thy blest kingdom of equality. Where birth, wealth, and beauty have no tyranny. Where all mankind are fellow slaves to thee&#8230;&#8221; </p><p>Chris Keyte, the bass soloist, is brilliant. Listening to people like him is what keeps people like me from singing in public. He is recently deceased.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a> <br>You might notice that these songs derive from classical myth and are therefore pagan, not Christian. What may the priests have secretly thought about Purcell and his pagan themes? These two songs are my favorites of the more than 100 Purcell wrote. They are far from his most famous. Many people who teach Baroque music have never discovered them. Purcell himself is not on the short list of Baroque greats, the most famous of whom are European and came later. Purcell died in 1695 and Bach&#8217;s first piece wasn&#8217;t performed until 1708. Vivaldi&#8217;s first pieces were published in 1711. I don&#8217;t know of any staged performance of Purcell&#8217;s <em>Circe</em>, and the work is rarely sung by choirs. That we have such a great recording of it is wonderful. It&#8217;s almost as if these works are suppressed, not by edict or a papal bull, but by our Christian tastes and sensibilities. Another factor is that the singing parts are so difficult and inappropriate for amateur performers. </p><p>One of the salient parallels between baroque culture and our own is that the priests must control the talent. That hasn&#8217;t changed since the 1600s, the age of anticlericalism. In that age, there were voices that came out against the priests and their craft. Pierre Bayle, John Milton, and John Toland are among the few whose voices resonate with us today through reading. If the reader knows of other anticlerical voices from the 17th century, feel free to comment below. </p><p>When popular magazines discuss the death of Purcell, this is how compelling their drivel is&#8230;</p><div class="pullquote"><h2>Death by chocolate...</h2></div><p>&#8220;Purcell may be the first and only composer to die from chocolate poisoning! In truth, no one really knows for certain how he died; one theory is that he caught a chill after his wife locked him out the house, but it&#8217;s likely he died of tuberculosis.&#8221;<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a>  </p><p>And yet, this account does contain clues. Purcell&#8217;s death happened at a moment of general upheaval and a change at court. Purcell was employed by King Charles 2 as a court musician, and leader of the British school of composition. He had several advanced professional students of composition. Among them, John Blow, who composed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9RbPAy3J6g">Ode On the Death of Henry Purcell</a> in 1696. When William of Orange deposed Charles the 2nd, many changes at the court, camp, and university accompanied this political moment. The winters of 1694-95 were horrible for smallpox and general mortality as well. The above idea, that Purcell died of chocolate poisoning, derives from an account of arsenic poisoning from a London chocolate shop in 1695, in which several victims are known. It has also been posited that Purcell had a terrible case of the kidney stones, and/or a testicular infection that gave him terrible pain in his last days, leading him to revise his will on the last day of his life: </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;In the name of God Amen. I, Henry Purcell, of the City of Westminster, gentleman, being dangerously ill as to the constitution of my body, but in good and perfect mind and memory (thanks be to God) do by these presents publish and declare this to be my last Will and Testament. And I do hereby give and bequeath unto my loving wife, Frances Purcell, all my estate both real and personal of what nature and kind soever...<sup>&#8221;</sup><a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-4" href="#footnote-4" target="_self">4</a> </p></blockquote><p>Looking at the signature, we have to wonder if Henry was sensible of what he was signing. The dullness of the quill and the low quality of the signature creates an occasion for the possibility of fraud. Author Franklin B. Zimmerman describes the document in his 1983 work, Henry Purcell, 1659-1695, His Life And Times:<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-5" href="#footnote-5" target="_self">5</a></p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Then, suddenly, he took a violent turn for the worse, which scarcely left him with time enough to prepare his will. At least, this seems the only possible explanation for the evident haste of the clerk, who scribbled out a common testamentary form, not even taking time to re-sharpen his quill, which very obviously had worn quite blunt even before he handed it to Purcell for his signature. Other evidence indicating extreme haste appears in the frequent omissions, hastily amended, and in the scribe's bad planning of the space into which the text was to be fitted (see plate 38). </p><p>Also, it is clear that the annotation for calendar and regnal dates and the statement mentioning the witnesses, with-out which the legality of the will might have been in question, were crowded into the lower left margin as afterthoughts. The odd figures, just under Purcell's signature appear more naturally as &#8220;f&#8221; and &#8220;u&#8221; when the page is turned upside down, in which position the quill strokes appear correctly placed and executed, and seem to be trial strokes for the letters " D " and " u " perhaps written just after the quill was sharpened. Again, there is evident haste, as if there had been no time to search fora piece of scrap paper.</p><p>Purcell's signature provides the most telltale evidence of all. This pitiful blurred scrawl, contrasting so tellingly with his usual robust and well-formed, round Italian hand represents his last signature, and, very likely, his last act as well, for its shapelessness gives mute testimony to the swiftness with which life's force was running out. He died before midnight.&#8221;</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!10o1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76d14b90-974c-49d4-b1ac-edcafc7c6a07_915x1358.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!10o1!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_424, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76d14b90-974c-49d4-b1ac-edcafc7c6a07_915x1358.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!10o1!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_848, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, 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href="https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/records/will-henry-purcell.pdf"> https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/records/will-henry-purcell.pdf</a></p><p>You&#8217;ll notice that Henry Purcell&#8217;s last signature (pictured above) isn&#8217;t on the copy at the National Archives. Nor is the F and the U that he probably wrote as his dying act, and which are otherwise inexplicable. I imagine Henry Purcell, having been poisoned and dying, being pressured by those attending his death bed to sign a will, and him refusing to sign it, instead scrawling an F and a U. Then, as he lay dying or dead, the signature was forged, probably by his murderers, with the dullest imaginable quill. I wonder what an expert would say of the signature? </p><p>I apologize that I don&#8217;t have a reference for the tradition that Purcell had a testicular infection. I think it&#8217;s an important clue, and I believe it came from the diary of one of Purcell&#8217;s acquaintances, but I&#8217;ve been unable to corroborate it. There is one poison that is known to cause extraordinary pain in the testicles before it kills, cadmium. A deadly poison that&#8217;s been known since the Middle Ages, with it&#8217;s own alchemical sign:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jcw5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f16ee29-15cd-4109-9a6d-4d935c79860e_199x198.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jcw5!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_424, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f16ee29-15cd-4109-9a6d-4d935c79860e_199x198.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jcw5!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_848, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jcw5!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f16ee29-15cd-4109-9a6d-4d935c79860e_199x198.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://imslp.org/wiki/Circe%2C_Z.575_(Purcell%2C_Henry)</p><p></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.aru.ac.uk/graduation-and-alumni/honorary-award-holders2/christopher-keyte</p><p></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.classicfm.com/composers/purcell/guides/purcell-facts/chocolate-1/</p><p></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-4" href="#footnote-anchor-4" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">4</a><div class="footnote-content"><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Westrup">Westrup, Jack A.</a> (1975). <em>Purcell</em>. London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dent_%26_Sons">Dent &amp; Sons</a>.</p><p></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-5" href="#footnote-anchor-5" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">5</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Franklin B. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell, 1659-1695, HIS LIFE AND TIMES, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.</p><p></p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[William Blake and the Vintage of the Nations]]></title><description><![CDATA[Introducing Ronald L. Grimes's The Divine Imagination, and His Foray Into Blake's Eschatology.]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/william-blake-and-the-vintage-of</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/william-blake-and-the-vintage-of</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 18:20:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb443ddd7-77d9-4352-b6fa-d74b373b349d_387x492.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of my stated goals is to expose a relevant work in the public domain with each of my posts. Today I want to talk about Ronald Grimes 1972 work, <em>The Divine Imagination: William Blake&#8217;s Major Prophetic Visions</em>. This book is rarely read, and before its copyright expired it was impossible to get a copy. But now there is a copy on the Open Library: <a href="https://archive.org/details/divineimaginatio0000grim/page/n5/mode/1up?view=theater">here</a>. What happens is that when a book&#8217;s copyright expires, the book gets kicked out of university library shelves and hard copies hit the used books market. Google almost always produces an electronic copy, and often, the book will be scanned into the Open Library, or other internet copies will appear. Books that turn 50 all of a sudden become available that no one knew existed. That&#8217;s why many of the books I expose are about 50 years old, give or take.  </p><p>Also, I want to introduce the subject of eschatology, the study of how the world will end, and to showcase Blake&#8217;s contribution of his own myth to the subject. Those that have been with me from the early days understand that I transcribed King James&#8217;s <em>A Paraphrase Upon The Revelation</em>, which exposed the King&#8217;s reading of that most eschatological of books. That work remains in my archive, and you can check it out if you wish. My perspective is that Revelation is real prophecy, and that Jesus appeared to John of Patmos, and that the apostle faithfully wrote as Jesus commanded him. The tradition of prophecy runs from Amos, about 2,900 years ago, to William Blake, who wrote around the turn of the 19th century. I view the Revelation as connecting the prophecy of the Old Testament with the later day prophecies of William Blake in a single tradition of prophetic writing (Blake was himself steeped in biblical tradition). The spirit of prophecy we still have with us. It is the spirit of truth-telling, and calling for social justice. That&#8217;s what Amos and William Blake are all about, as well as Jesus himself (who was killed as a reprobate).</p><p>There is another prophet that I must mention in the same breath with Blake and eschatology, and that is Enoch. Anyone who&#8217;s read Blake and Enoch knows that they are the two scariest, bloodiest, most violent authors ever. Both were prophets. Like The Book of Enoch, William Blake&#8217;s prophecies are a real horror show. Enoch was a real man who was shown many things, and perhaps I should consider that Enoch is the father of prophecy, predating Amos and all the others. He and Blake are not considered to be prophets because they aren&#8217;t canonized in the Bible, but that was not my decision. My bible is a lot bigger than most people&#8217;s. It contains a ton of literature from the later centuries, that I find to be much more important than the unpoetic sections of the Old Testament. There are certainly many learned souls that disagree with me, who claim that the Book of Enoch is fabricated and expanded from the barest of biblical framework, and that copies vary wildly in content. There is certainly an academic effort to minimize the importance of The Book of Enoch. Blake&#8217;s prophetic works remind me of Enoch&#8217;s, and I&#8217;m unwilling to discard Enoch&#8217;s narrative (his myth), as I am unwilling to discard Blake&#8217;s myth. The myth is where the meaning is. </p><p>According to Blake, the prophet is reprobate, and his role is to antagonize the elect (who I identify as the priests). The modern whistle-blower is a prophet of sorts, and he or she often suffers the same fate as the old Hebrew prophets. They get killed for telling the truth (for countering the lies of the priests).</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!559h!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e3270f8-87a3-4137-a0aa-7ac0813bca96_954x573.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!559h!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_424, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e3270f8-87a3-4137-a0aa-7ac0813bca96_954x573.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!559h!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_848, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!559h!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e3270f8-87a3-4137-a0aa-7ac0813bca96_954x573.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">William Blake&#8217;s &#8220;A Vision of the Last Judgement,&#8221; bottom section.</figcaption></figure></div><p>A continual theme in Blake&#8217;s prophetic poem Milton, is the Great Harvest &amp; Vintage of the Nations. It&#8217;s imagery is taken from Revelation 14: 15-20: </p><blockquote><p><sup>15</sup> And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.<sup>16</sup> And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.<sup>17</sup> And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.<sup>18</sup> And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.<sup>19</sup> And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast <em>it</em> into the great winepress of the wrath of God.<sup>20</sup> And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand <em>and</em> six hundred furlongs. </p></blockquote><p>When Blake borrows the imagery of the winepress for his Great Harvest and Vintage of the Nations, he is claiming Revelation as poetic and mythic, as well as prophetic. He uses Revelation as a source of poetic symbolism. The enduring image of entire nations being pressed together for their gore is unsettling, but this derives also from the classical tradition that the favorite drink of the Gods, ambrosia, is nothing else than adrenalized human blood, pressed fresh for their pleasure. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re talking about. Gods stomping us and squeezing out our juice. Relishing our roasted flesh straight off the bone, and inhaling the fresh roasted smoke of our interstitial fats straight from the spit and fire, while we writhe upon the coals. Yes, the real horror, that there is to be a great banquet, and we will all be compelled to come in. </p><p>Grimes asks us to read Blake&#8217;s eschatology in a more atavistic sense. The world ends in a great consumption of the creation. The rocks, trees, as well as all the animals give up their independent wisdom and awareness, and join as one in the awakening of the ancient giant Albion, whose sleep originally imposed its world upon us. For this reason, Milton descends into the world: &#8220;Seeing that judgement is imminent he [Milton] fears that he will be caught with his demonic selfhood still unannihilated, and his emanation still separate. Milton, descending into the world, is accompanied by the seven protective Eyes of God. That his descent is of eschatological significance is indicated by his being called the &#8220;eighth,&#8221; who follows the Seven Eyes. Jesus as a historical man, is the seventh eye [of God]. The eighth is Jesus as the Divine Vision in which humanity and divinity are one.&#8221;<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a></p><p>Grimes notes that Albion plays a similar role in Blake&#8217;s system to Adam Kadmon in the Cabala.  For Grimes, Albion functions as a psychological and cosmological unity. He is the grandfather of humanity. The alpha and omega of human experience. &#8220;Sometimes referred to simply as &#8220;The Fallen Man,&#8221; Albion lies asleep throughout <em>The Four Zoas</em>&#8230;. Albion&#8217;s sleep is a means of avoiding a vision of The Divine Image, which&#8212;if he only knew&#8212;is but a vision of himself resurrected into wakefulness.&#8221;<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a></p><p>I&#8217;ve probably gone deeper into the academic weeds than I intended to, but I want to draw some parallels between the Great Harvest &amp; Vintage of the Nations and current events, you know, to make it even scarier and more real. Where has 1/2 the population of China gone? Why are Chinese city streets and subways empty? They all died of covid? Or were they all processed for blood and parts? What happens to the homeless people of America? Do they get a bus ticket to Vegas? Or do they get rounded up and processed, like wild horses? It&#8217;s been going on for years. Shipping containers full of human remains have been discovered. There are patented cement recipes that call for ground up human remains. I think the Great Harvest &amp; Vintage of the Nations has been ongoing for some time now. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FrrZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb443ddd7-77d9-4352-b6fa-d74b373b349d_387x492.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FrrZ!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_424, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb443ddd7-77d9-4352-b6fa-d74b373b349d_387x492.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FrrZ!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_848, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FrrZ!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb443ddd7-77d9-4352-b6fa-d74b373b349d_387x492.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">From William Blake&#8217;s &#8220;Los, Enitharmon, and Orc&#8221;</figcaption></figure></div><p></p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>Grimes, Ronald L. The Divine Imagination: William Blake&#8217;s Major Prophetic Visions. Metuchen, N.J. Scarecrow Press, 1972. (pg. 24)</p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>(pg. 33)</p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orange Man Bad For America]]></title><description><![CDATA[DJT, William of Orange, Ukraine, and the Bank of England.]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/orange-man-bad-for-america</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/orange-man-bad-for-america</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:48:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/011d931d-79c3-4a06-8be0-a61d342f4413_348x453.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Donald Trump, the orange man, actually works for the Bank of England. What makes DJT so orange? It&#8217;s color symbolism. He&#8217;s orange because he represents the Bank of England. The same color also symbolizes the Dutch people. Why is orange the symbol of the Dutch people, and how did that color get all over Trumps face and his bald pate? Because the color orange is associated with William of Orange, the leader of the Dutch independence movement against Spain in the 16th century, who was from the House of Orange. William of Orange became king of England by deposing Charles the 2nd and marrying his sister. </p><p>Our time in history could be compared to the English Reformation, the original Orange Revolution (1688), that led to the formation of the Bank of England in 1694. King Charles the 2nd, who was deposed by William of Orange, was frivolous and wasteful. The waste, fraud, and abuse of our modern incorporated governments is paralleled in history by Charles the 2nd, who squandered or stole the incredible fortune that he borrowed from the wealthy Germans and Dutch. The color orange symbolizes the foreign investment behind the formation of the Bank of England, and it symbolizes the fall of the prominence of the British monarchy to the leadership of the Bank of England (foreign interests) and parliament.  </p><p>All of William of Orange&#8217;s money came from Germany and the Netherlands, and that money was used to start the Bank of England. So, in 2014 when the Orange Revolution came to Ukraine, what does the color symbolism mean? It means, that Ukraine is a proxy state for the Bank of England. That Ukraine is a clearing house for the government corruption of the USA and many European states, who are also heavily managed by the Bank of England. Ukraine is kicking aid money back to corrupt politicians in the USA and Europe. Much of the money earmarked for Ukraine is not flowing all the way down the pipe. It&#8217;s getting siphoned off by interested parties. This is how the politicians are all getting so rich while the professional class is treading water and everyone else is going underwater due to massive inflation. The FED has printed away all the value of our money and that is the first part of their plan, inflation. What comes after inflation? </p><p>In my view, the Bank of England has produced the USA incorporated federal government since 1868. Trump's job as president is to run the USA company for the Bank of England. In this his second term, his role is to collapse the bloated government, and greatly reduce the money supply of America. What did Thomas Jefferson tell us would happen if the Banks ever produced the money of the US? He said, by a process of inflation and deflation, the corporations that grew up around the banks (USA federal incorporated government), would seize all the property, and Americans would be homeless in the land that their forefathers conquered. </p><p>Where are we now in the cycle of inflation and deflation? We are as plush with fiat money as we're going to get. What will the banks do to greatly reduce the money supply in the USA? The Mortgage industry depends on the availability of homeowners insurance. The Bank&#8217;s plan is to gradually make homeowners insurance so cost prohibitive that it prices people out of the market. According to federal regulations, the banks must foreclose on uninsured properties, and all the money that is owed to the banks will be sucked out of the economy. The foreclosed properties have real value that will skyrocket once the banks start lending money again. That is the cycle of inflation and deflation that Jefferson warned us about. That is the method by which the banks plan to rob Americans of sovereignty and property, and turn us into serfs. Donald J. Trump, the orange man, is the Bank of England&#8217;s man, not ours. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Oera Linda and the Magi]]></title><description><![CDATA[The evils of usury lead to our current inhumane situation]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/the-oera-linda-and-the-magi</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/the-oera-linda-and-the-magi</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:35:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!owMI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87419992-06c5-44d7-9417-977b002a9f5d_539x679.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My theory is the government is run by the bank, and the bank profits from the overpopulation cycle. The bank&#8217;s debt corporation that we know as the federal government created the baby boom, and now it is managing the population bust. Overpopulation is based on the availability of borrowed money. The government and banks are like a hummingbird feeder. The availability of food means that more hummingbirds will be produced than the ecosystem could naturally sustain. Well, as soon as you forget to fill the feeder, the hummingbirds that came to depend on the sugar water can all be found dead under the tree. It's the Bank of England. Their USA corporation caused a baby boom, from which it profited wildly, and now we are in the crash phase, that the bank knew all along must happen. To continue the human boom-bust cycle, they've got to manage the extermination of their employees (citizens), using The Science and noxious medicine that they developed to that end.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!owMI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87419992-06c5-44d7-9417-977b002a9f5d_539x679.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!owMI!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_424, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87419992-06c5-44d7-9417-977b002a9f5d_539x679.png 424w, 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Remember, it's not just inflation that Thomas Jefferson said would rob the populace of the land. It's the process of inflation and deflation. </p><blockquote><p><strong>"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency,</strong> first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." - --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23</p></blockquote><p>Is the federal government a corporation that grew up around the banks, as Jefferson said? Yes. The incorporated USA dates from 1868, when the expense of the Civil War caused bankruptcy. Deflation comes after inflation, when the bank calls in all the loans. In this situation, it seems that what the bank will do is to make housing insurance so cost prohibitive that no one will be insured. That&#8217;s when they&#8217;ll call in the housing loans (as they must according to our malicious laws), stealing property and drastically shrinking the money supply. That's the way the scam works. The foreign bank and the foreign debt corporations own everything. We own nothing. </p><p>In ancient times, there were people who understood the evil of usury, and they understood their enemies were Magi, practitioners of mind-control. These Magi use fear to control the slaves they dominate. The Frisians left a book that one could read in about two hours: <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40986/40986-h/40986-h.htm">Read the Oera Linda</a>. <br><br>My favorite part of The Oera Linda is the dialogue between Minerva (the wise founder of Athens), and the Magi (priests). This reminds me very much of when Jesus speaks to the Pharisees in the New Testament. It&#8217;s the priests trying to calumniate the wise. Minerva, the owl lady, has many names. She is called Athena, Minerva, Hellenia, and Nyhellenia, and she was venerated by several nations:</p><blockquote><p>[T]ell us what means the owl that always sits upon your head, is that light-shunning animal a sign of your clear vision? No, answered Hellenia; he reminds me that there are people on earth who, like him, have their homes in churches and holes, who go about in the twilight, not, like him, to deliver us from mice and other plagues, but to invent tricks to steal away the knowledge of other people, in order to take advantage of them, to make slaves of them, and to suck their blood like leeches.<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a> </p></blockquote><p>I hope we start to recognize our enemies, the priests. Priestcraft is infernal business. The craft of pulling the shade of mystery over the heads of the populace. The insidious introduction of superstition and fetishism. The priests want nothing else but compulsory mimetic ritual. With this they hypnotize. They stupefy the intellectual and moral capacity of their victims. What is Fauci? He&#8217;s a priest, and his religion is The Science. The ancient priests were always trying to murder Minerva, like the Pharisees murdered Jesus. She was so well-loved for her wise council that the priests accused her of bewitching the public (exactly what the priests do):</p><blockquote><p>She was once asked, If you are not a witch, what is the use of the eggs that you always carry with you? Min-erva answered, These eggs are the symbols of Frya&#8217;s counsels, in which our future and that of the whole human race lies concealed. Time will hatch them, and we must watch that no harm happens to them. The priests said, Well answered; but what is the use of the dog on your right hand? Hellenia replied, Does not the shepherd have a sheep-dog to keep his flock together? What the dog is to the shepherd I am in Frya&#8217;s service. I must watch over Frya&#8217;s flocks. </p></blockquote><p>The wisdom of the sheepdog can protect the flock only if the sheep can hear us barking. The wolves aren&#8217;t trying to eat the sheepdogs. They are trying to separate the sheep to isolate easy targets. That&#8217;s how the medical industry sees us as we walk through the hospital doors. We are easy targets for chemo, vaccines, antibiotics, and the whole list of poisons recommended by the AMA.  We are easy targets for unnecessary surgeries and spurious diagnoses. The end is always the most expensive and painful death imaginable. These days, Allopathic medicine is priestcraft, and we are the human sacrifices. There has never been a more bloodthirsty god. <br><br>To me, the most embarrassing thing about Covid-19 and the ensuing genocide is the ineptitude of the wiser set, who didn&#8217;t get the shots. Our voices had no impact, and we couldn&#8217;t protect the ones we love from the professional wolves. And now the damage has been done, and the harvest is coming in. All that money from Covid-19 vaccine damage is flowing right from our paychecks to the hospitals and medical service corporations. Is it possible for us to unincorporate from the government and the bank, before they finish crushing us? I&#8217;ll close by sharing a link to the Anna Von Reitz webpage: </p><p><a href="https://tasa.americanstatenationals.org/">https://tasa.americanstatenationals.org/</a></p><p>The Hereditary Head of State document is a great read. It&#8217;s up there with Bonhoeffer and Bunyan as important extrabiblical reading. I haven&#8217;t corrected my status yet. I&#8217;m just trying to read and learn at this point. </p><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40986/40986-h/40986-h.htm#ch25 </p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Meaning of Spring]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spring and All, by William Carlos Williams, in the light of current events.]]></description><link>https://palamambron.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-spring</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://palamambron.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-spring</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Palamambron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:50:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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/__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff91028b0-5e11-4a3c-87a4-0e05cd14850a_346x512.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Nr1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff91028b0-5e11-4a3c-87a4-0e05cd14850a_346x512.png" width="346" height="512" 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15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The opening lines of T.S. Eliot's 1922 poem, The Waste Land, reference Chaucer&#8217;s Canterbury tales: "April is the cruellest month, breeding. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. Memory and desire, stirring. Dull roots with spring rain". Elliot&#8217;s The Waste Land subverts the idea of April as a month of renewal and rebirth, as depicted in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. In Chaucer&#8217;s day, Spring was the time for pilgrimage. A traditional English pilgrimage paid homage to the Crusades. A pilgrimage is a journey to the east on foot, in a small or large company. Such a pilgrimage provides opportunities for Chaucer&#8217;s first-person narrators to tell their stories to pass the time while riding or walking. In Eliot's poem, April is a cruel month that marks the beginning of a cycle of sadness, failure, and hurt. But Williams responds to Eliot&#8217;s dreary depiction by presenting the Spring as a time of destruction and renewal. Spring is a time when things can be re-imagined and re-ordered. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!raAI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a6d88b2-3270-42f0-b765-21c23f69ee7d_701x442.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!raAI!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_424, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a6d88b2-3270-42f0-b765-21c23f69ee7d_701x442.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!raAI!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_848, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, 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In Williams Spring and All, everything is, and is new. In the context of Eliot&#8217;s The Waste Land, Williams violent depictions are a little less jarring:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-36I!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd1b77b6-0326-4065-930c-cce4fd1a2a1e_679x511.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-36I!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_424, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd1b77b6-0326-4065-930c-cce4fd1a2a1e_679x511.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-36I!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_848, 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It does to me. Not just the above quote, but the general tenor of Williams&#8217;s poem. We&#8217;re in a period of upheaval, destruction, and renewal, that corresponds to the renewal that was felt in the early 1920s, in the wake of WW1. That&#8217;s what leads to this sense of gleeful progress that ignores impacts on the people and environment around us, typical in the modern age. Why should we feel resonance with a post-war period that took place 100 years ago? Is there a war ending? It seems to me the hot part of the war is just arriving. The real resonance between the early 1920 and the 2020s is the social novelty presented in the situation. We&#8217;ve never been in a situation like this, where we can see the underpinnings of our corrupt institutions. And we&#8217;re starting to get the idea that our federal government is a foreign corporation organized for the explicit purpose of collecting a debt that we do not owe. That&#8217;s weird, man. Far out. </p><p>Spring is the time of cleansing fire. Fire is catching. The thicket of American ecclesiastical power has overgrown for generations now in the churches and universities. If one tree at Stanford or Harvard catches fire, it could light all the others up, too. This is akin to the legal process of discovery of crimes, where one leads to another. The trees (ecclesiastical powers) are tall and dry, and a good cleansing fire is only natural, and it&#8217;s only a matter of time. Reams and reams of the fictive writ of lawyers will serve as tender, and ignite this cloth, the smoke from which will make a big inky blot in the blue sky. I want to make it clear that I would prefer that all the priests, judges, and academic powers whose lineaments could burn would come out of their cloth before they catch fire. I know that there are good people wearing that cloth. Smoke from their censors is the traditional way that the priests send messages to the God above. I don&#8217;t think the smoke of the priests&#8217; censors is penetrating through the dioxin and air pollution to the throne of God anymore, if it ever did. </p><p>Spring is the time, also, of war. It&#8217;s biblical: &#8220;In the spring, when the kings go off to war&#8230;&#8221; (2 Samuel 1:11). There are many reasons why the spring is the traditional time for war to break out. In the old days, everyone&#8217;s a farmer. A man could plant his fields and by the time the ground is dry enough to ride a horse and move artillery, the men would be ready to join up for whatever campaign offered itself.  It seems to me as though this spring is going to be extra warlike. Clif High made this startling prediction earlier today:</p><p>&#8220;So sometime by the middle of April or so, we should start seeing lots and lots of people with open carry weapons. Just walking around the street with an AR-15 because you never know what the fuck's going to go on, right? Okay. And there will be far less prohibition of it and far less social stigma of it because of the situation that's ongoing with the spring offensive against the United States.&#8221; &#8212; Clif High (February 2, 2025)<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a></p><p>It feels like war to me already. A refinery in Martinez, CA blew up yesterday, and the fire is still burning. They plan to use flaring to avoid a further explosion: <a href="https://contracosta.news/2025/02/02/bay-area-air-district-releases-report-on-martinez-refinery-fire/">https://contracosta.news/2025/02/02/bay-area-air-district-releases-report-on-martinez-refinery-fire/</a> If it seems like a coincidence to you that the refinery explosion and subsequent flaring, and release of toxins into the atmosphere, coincides with six days of continual rainfall in the Bay Area, I can assure you that it seems to me to be a terror attack with malice aforethought. Has it been a week since the biggest lithium battery plant in the world blew up on the coast, an hour north of here? Where I live, Vallejo, CA, is less than 10 miles from the Martinez refinery explosion and fire. In recent months, Vallejo has become a crime center of the Bay Area. We have sideshows, where youths shut down intersections and burn the rubber off of their stolen cars. Because Vallejo is accessible from several interstates, &#8220;the block,&#8221; as it is known in rapping circles, makes a great place to chop stolen cars, and for youths to congregate. The youthful element realizes that Vallejo only has six cops (I&#8217;m serious), and they use sideshows to create cover for crimes such as theft and burglary. I&#8217;m just saying, it&#8217;s rough out there. </p><p><a href="https://thefarfield.kscopen.org/poetryandpoetics/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Williams-Spring-and-All.pdf">Spring and All by William Carlos Williams (1923)</a> </p><p>I think we&#8217;ve done a horrible job celebrating the 100th anniversary of the great works of the modern period. In presenting Spring And All, I&#8217;m trying to draw your attention to one brilliant flower among many. I&#8217;m sure some would question the relevance of reading a 100-year-old poem when the world is in such upheaval. I can assure you that it is, to me, utterly thrilling to read this work. 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books I haven&#8217;t fully read. This skill was well honed in my college days, but perhaps I&#8217;m a little rusty in this regard. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20179/20179-h/20179-h.htm#p166">Gutenberg copy here</a>. There is a useful introduction in the 1887 printing linked above. It&#8217;s sufficient to say that the book was a great success for the burgeoning book industry of the late 15th century in Germany and London. The public loved it for its humor and satire. </p><p>The Ship of Fools is a satirical German language poem by Sebastian Brandt (1494). Hieronymus Bosch&#8217;s famous painting appeared in 1500:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VZNw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62454d0b-4e7a-4504-bb07-a681fbba5b6f_1540x2874.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VZNw!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_424, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62454d0b-4e7a-4504-bb07-a681fbba5b6f_1540x2874.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VZNw!, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_848, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, 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/__u/palamambron.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/palamambron.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62454d0b-4e7a-4504-bb07-a681fbba5b6f_1540x2874.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>&#8220;The image of the 'ship of fools' is medieval/late renaissance. According to Jose Barchilon's introduction to Michel Foucault's Madness &amp; Civilization, there was a practice of ridding towns of the insane by putting them on board ships in the care of the sailors--in the theory that madness and the sea went hand in hand.&#8221;  &#8212;Scott McKinstry, NYC USA<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-1" href="#footnote-1" target="_self">1</a></p><p>Google&#8217;s AI is an art history expert: &#8220;In Bosch's "Ship of Fools," the iconography depicts a crowded boat filled with figures engaged in various foolish and sinful activities, highlighting the theme of human folly and moral decay, with details like gluttony, drunkenness, music symbolizing excess, and a lack of concern for their direction or impending doom, all while referencing the literary concept of a "Ship of Fools" where the passengers are oblivious to their perilous journey; the painting is a satirical critique of societal behaviors and the dangers of unchecked indulgence.&#8221;</p><p>So google wants to turn it into a morality play, but there is an overtly political aspect to the iconography of the Barclay&#8217;s English translation which Google&#8217;s AI chooses to ignore. Why does AI always get the details wrong? The devil is in the details. We have to think back farther to the classical roots of the symbolism, to Plato&#8217;s Republic and his symbol of the ship. Plato's ship is an allegory for the governance of a city-state. This allegory compares the governance of a city-state to the chain of command of a sailing vessel. All the fools on board Plato&#8217;s ship of politics are more interested in status among the shipmates than in the ship actually arriving at port, which it never does. They don&#8217;t care if the ship goes in circles, as long as they are in leadership. </p><p>The classical and renaissance symbolism of the ship of fools presents a nice backdrop for introducing the Grateful Dead song. It was one of six songs titled Ship of Fools from that generation. &#8220;&#8220;Ship of Fools&#8221; was not a classic cover song, like &#8220;Dancing in the Streets&#8221;, or &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221;. Rather, six different songs called &#8220;Ship of Fools&#8221; were written and performed between the 1960s and 1980s by the Doors, the Grateful Dead, John Cale, Bob Seger, World Party and Robert Plant.&#8221;<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-2" href="#footnote-2" target="_self">2</a> Have we exposed the idea that RockNRoll was a military propaganda operation? It&#8217;s the true story David McGowan died to tell: Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops &amp; The Dark Heart Of The Hippie Dream. This book changed the way I think about popular music and the entertainment industry, and I think by this time the information has saturated the conspiracy audience, even if we don&#8217;t all realize the source. </p><p>Ship of fools appears on the Grateful Dead album titled: From The Mars Hotel, a favorite of mine. The idea that the Ship of Fools could be an allegory for the USA government and the populace was not lost on Grateful Dead blogger David Dodd: &#8220;&#8220;Ship of Fools&#8221; closes the album that opens with &#8220;U.S. Blues,&#8221; and that has never struck me as an accident. But as always, Robert Hunter&#8217;s lyrics don&#8217;t allow for a simple or narrow interpretation; this song isn&#8217;t just about the failures of the US government, although I do think it could be partly about that.&#8221;<a class="footnote-anchor" data-component-name="FootnoteAnchorToDOM" id="footnote-anchor-3" href="#footnote-3" target="_self">3</a>  What is Mars Hotel about? War. Mars is the bringer of War. If you think allegory, symbolism, and iconography have nothing to do with it, check out the music video of &#8220;US Blues&#8221;: </p><div id="youtube2-rdPOAhBp2Ag" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;rdPOAhBp2Ag&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/rdPOAhBp2Ag?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>I see it. It&#8217;s the entity again. It&#8217;s the cornucopia from which flies all propaganda,  pollution, and disease. Has it set in yet that we&#8217;ve all been Shang Hied? We&#8217;re all lost at sea on a ship of fools. I want to follow this up with a discussion of what I&#8217;ve been learning from Robert Maxwell and Anna von Reitz. Join me next time as we continue to undress the entity that has been defrauding us for a long time. Soon the entity is going to be completely exposed, and its fraud laid bare. </p><div id="youtube2-6iZ49s7eH5g" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;6iZ49s7eH5g&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/6iZ49s7eH5g?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-1" href="#footnote-anchor-1" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">1</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-18991,00.html</p><p></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-2" href="#footnote-anchor-2" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">2</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://litkicks.com/ShipOfFools/</p><p></p></div></div><div class="footnote" data-component-name="FootnoteToDOM"><a id="footnote-3" href="#footnote-anchor-3" class="footnote-number" contenteditable="false" target="_self">3</a><div class="footnote-content"><p>https://www.dead.net/features/greatest-stories-ever-told/greatest-stories-ever-told-ship-fools</p><p></p><p></p></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>