Saturday, November 3, 2012

Money for nothin' and syncs for free!

By Andrew West Griffin
Posted: November 3, 2012

Whenever a sync appears and its related to music, I take notice. It's always fun for me and within the past hour or so, it happened.

Driving back from the country, down I-44, my wife and I tuned in "80's on 8" on Sirius XM. The 1985 Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing" came on. It's a great pop ditty and guilty pleasure. A very 1980's pop-rock nugget.

As we sang along, the singer Sting came to mind. I was thinking about how "Money for Nothing" and Sting's wonderful Dream of the Blue Turtles album would have been on the charts at roughly the same time. As the song ended, the famous "I want my MTV" chorus came up - sung by Sting! I had completely forgotten this. But there it was. My mind was syncing "Money for Nothing" and Sting at the same time. I should also note that with my recent Bob Dylan syncs, Dire Straits singer and guitarist Mark Knopfler is opening up for Dylan in Tulsa this month.

As soon as I heard the last Sting-sung "I want my MTV," the next song - "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles came on. Of course! The first video to ever appear on MTV. What a treat!

As that MTV-related song ended, I looked up and saw the website www.m-v-t.com on the back of a semi truck. MVT? An  inverse of MTV? What is that? It stood for Mesilla Valley Transportation and m-v-t.com is their website. A sync wink? Yes, I do believe it was.

Of course this led to wondering if I would see the universal number "42." Indeed I would. Soon after, mile marker 142 appeared. It was a turning out to be a great day!

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Dams burst forth, in dreams

By Andrew West Griffin
Posted: November 1, 2012

As we have said before, in the art of synchromysticism, the meeting of popular culture and conspiracy analysis are often observed.

A blogger in Arizona who writes the Dismantle the Beam Project blog, often comes up with some incredibly insightful observations. I don't claim to understand it all, but it makes for very interesting reading if you have the time.

Additionally, there is a Christian activist named Jonathan Kleck who has been releasing videos for some time talking about Barack Obama being the "Antichrist" and sees the president as having a role in a coming dictatorship and events that will forever alter humanity.

While listening to The Alex Jones Show today, a caller asked the host if he was familiar with a viral video about a possible "false flag" event involving Hoover Dam, the Nov. 6, 2012 release of Halo 4, and images of a "dam" seen on the back of the new $50 bill.

Curiously, what actually caught my attention synchromystically speaking, was how after the caller's question was dodged by Jones, he then goes on a riff about people who thought the 1960's sitcom Gilligan's Island was real. This clicked because the Dismantle the Beam Project recently posted a piece about Gilligan's Island being a blueprint for the New World Order. An hour before I heard that, amazingly enough, I was writing a review of a new album of the band Nada Surf and one of the songs makes references to Gilligan's Island. Time to pay attention.

Dismantle the Beam Project has been all over this "conspiracy analysis" about Hoover Dam for months. Back in April, when DTBP released the post "4-23-12 Hoover Dam expected to be the next 9/11," it really caught my attention. Indeed there is a lot to consider.

Where the pop culture side of things comes into this involves a musician I greatly admire - Bob Mould. The leader of both Husker Du and Sugar, Mould is out on tour in support of his new album Silver Age, an album full of interesting, esoteric symbols, and one I just reviewed at Red Dirt Report.

In addition, Mould and his two bandmates - bassist Jason Narducy and drummer Jon Wurster (Superchunk) are also performing songs from Sugar's groundbreaking 1992 album Copper Blue.

This album, featuring terrific muscular power-pop songs like "Changes," "Helpless," "If I Can't Change Your Mind," and "Fortune Teller" was re-released this year for its 20th anniversary.

But one of the most interesting songs on Copper Blue is "Hoover Dam." (The name Copper Blue is interesting to this writer for the fact that it is a beautiful name and that Arizona, not only known as the "Grand Canyon State," it is also known as the "Copper State." Hoover Dam is on the border of Arizona and Nevada. Also curious is that Mould's new album incorporates another element - silver - in the album title Silver Age.)

This song is full of imagery that indicates Mould was going through a rough time. He chose the iconic Hoover Dam as a place where he is "standing on the edge" of the dam, "right between two states of mind," of "spinning down a hole" and "losing all control" all the way "down to the center of the earth."

Sings Mould: "Covered up with lava and I feel fine / It washes over me / Keeps me feeling warm at night / And if you've made a deal with / The guy with the horns and the cape / I'll see you later."

Mould is also performing Copper Blue on this current tour, which is exciting a lot of fans of his old band Sugar.

That said, we should go back to kooky Jonathan Kleck and the video he calls "An Ancient Evil Awakens - Hoover Dam False Flag Soon?" He and a colleague note that the new Halo 4 video game, out on Nov. 6, features the "didact" symbol overlaid on the Hoover Dam, with a reddening sky - for no apparent reason.

"What does the Hoover Dam have to do with Halo?" asked Kleck.

Good question, since Halo 4 takes place "lost in space" and not on Earth.

As we noted in early October, President Obama made a special trip to visit Hoover Dam, a bit of "public infrastructure" that Obama called "spectacular" and a wonder to behold.

And then, showing images compiled by the blogger at the DTBP blog, showing pop singer Madonna taking a "birthing pose" in front of a shape that looks an awful lot like the Hoover Dam, they show a $50 bill, manipulated to look like Hoover Dam bursting open -and a reddening sky. Much like the $20 bill and the 9/11 Twin Towers burning. The Hoover Dam site, finished in the late 1930's, is full of esoteric artwork and imagery.

Does that mean Hoover Dam will be destroyed on Nov. 6th? Who knows. There were a lot of signals leading up to 9/11 and there were a lot of clues leading up to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing in 1995, here in Oklahoma City.

But is the Hoover Dam and Halo 4 being combined to send the message that our DNA is being manipulated and that a new "race" of superhumans is being created? If you read this review of Halo 4, it makes you wonder, particularly with the Halo series now being created under the auspices of NWO insider Bill Gates and Microsoft (via 343 Industries). The fact that "Prometheans" are involved in a war with "lesser beings" and that the "Didact" is a Promethean, is interesting in light of Ridley Scott's recent hit film Prometheus. Is this part of an elaborate Hollywood "tell," as DTBP might suggest?

Meanwhile, DTBP blog, on June 10, 2012, released the post "Search for Project Bluebeam converges at Hoover Dam." A lot of people scoff at "Project Blue Beam." Whether or not it is real, or simply a diversion or psy-op, it could be a cover for something else, as this blogger suspects. He looks at three films - Mars Needs Moms, John Carter, and Cowboys and Aliens (and others) and says the messages therein are regarding efforts to create a "massive human hybrid program."

We are seeing more of this. For instance, note the "Cleatus the Fox Sports Robot" who is a superhuman, football-playing robot and mascot for the Fox channel. As Claire Zulkey asked (jokingly) "When the robot uprising inevitably occurs, will Cleatus be a benevolent or a tyrannical overlord? And how can he be destroyed?"

This, of course, brings to mind the recent Jay Weidner documentary Kubrick's Odyssey II: Beyond the Infinite. Weidner asks if Kubrick, in 2001: A Space Odyssey, was showing how man was losing his soul and the machines (like HAL 9000) was gaining one.

I think the overall theme we are seeing develop here is one of transformation. Into what, I shudder to think.