Happy New Year! A big thanks to all who have read, subscribed, shared and donated to Left Hook. Your support and kind words are what keep me writing each week.
Ten years ago this blog would not have succeeded. People were living in fear and being devastated by the Eight Families banking monopoly and their corporate arsenal. Now here we are in the year 2012. So what’s next?
The end of the Mayan calendar on December 21st of this year, in tandem with other historical anomalies, has many believing that the end of this year may bring untold cataclysm.
There is nothing wrong with being prepared for all eventualities. My wife and I bought a cabin on 40 acres (see picture) in the Missouri Ozarks in August. We’ve spent a decade in this area. Despite the ticks and the Evangelicals, it remains the most livable and potentially sustainable place I have come across in my travels to 50 countries and 47 states. As we often say, it’s as close to living in the “Third World” as you can get and still live in America.
The well water is the best I’ve tasted, there is virtually no smokestack polluting industry, the growing season is long and the population density very low. A good bunch of alternative back-to-the-land folks began migrating here following the police brutality that occurred at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. There has been a steady stream coming ever since.
We spent this fall fixing the private road we live at the end of, grading our backyard -which is dug into a hillside – to redirect runoff, cutting (with a $4 bow saw) and gathering firewood (our only source of heat) and planting perennial herbs, (oregano, thyme, fennel, sorrel, lemon balm, horseradish, sage) garlic and onions.
I am almost finished digging (with a $4 shovel), composting and mulching the spring garden, which used to be a front yard full of weeds. Come spring there will be no lawn to mow. Just plenty food to eat. We’ll begin planting in February. We’re also fixing up a shed so we can get a pig, a goat and some chickens.
Many people are now fleeing suburbia to prepare for whatever 2012 brings. But we’ve been living like this for the past two decades – half here and half in the Western Montana Rockies. Most weeks we go to town once to get groceries. Otherwise it’s “Buy Nothing Week” for us all year round.
We first decided to move to the country in 1992. I realized that if we were really going to take on the Illuminati, we needed an economic base from which to operate. Many activist friends opted to work as wage slaves for single-issue self-censoring grant-money funded “social/environmental change” groups.
But I realized early on that what I wanted to talk about would never receive one penny from the Rockefeller/Rothschild social engineering/grant money machine. We decided to self-fund our political endeavors through a combination of street vending and buying/fixing/selling cheap rural properties.
We became entrepreneurs with the goal of escaping the insane system where people sell their labor too cheaply, buy the banksters’ goods at a premium, and go into debt to finance their own slavery.
Along the way, we have been greatly rewarded for taking this leap. We haven’t had a “regular” job in nearly fifteen years. We make our own schedule and our nearest neighbors are turkey, deer, fox and bobcats. Above all we revel in the joy of living a simple life in tune with the pace of nature.
I have learned that nature moves at a generally very slow pace, while human beings are now caught in a nightmare life that moves far too fast. It is not natural and deep down we know it, despite the TV propaganda which tells us we need the latest, fastest 4G device. If the Illuminati can keep us “sped up”, they can control us more easily.
I am planning to write a “how-to” book on how to escape the system, which will go into detail on how it can be done. And it most definitely can be done.
Personally, I am inclined to believe that 2012 is more about a shift in consciousness than it is about cataclysm. While the latter hype drives dehydrated food and gun sales, I believe it is just another fear-based tool of the Illuminati to scare us into submission.
We have been brainwashed to believe that we must buy our way out of our problems, even if the problem is the system. It’s the biggest mistake homesteaders make. “Stuff” will not emancipate us from the system, but a primitive skill set will.
The consciousness component is more significant.
We are entering a time in history where there will be two clear paths from which to choose. These paths will pop up many times in our lives and we will have to be decisive. Americans love to extol the merits of the “middle ground”. That false cowardly space will be washed away in the coming year. People will have to choose a side and the camps will be clearly marked.
This process has already begun to play out via the Occupy Movement. Will you defend the 1% or the 99%? Will you continue to parrot the corporate media and their lame apologies for corporate/banker/billionaire psychopaths? Or will you help strip them of power and put them in jail?
Will you continue to blame the poor for your problems or will you have empathy for them?
It’s a fairly clear choice with no middle ground.
Human kind has been lorded over for centuries by an inbred clan of clinically insane suits. We have allowed them to exploit us by pretending not to see them and through our own insecurities which make us want to fit in with the crowd, please our parents, et al ad nauseum.
Much of this has become inextricably tied to the dire economic straits which many find themselves in.
The first resolution to make this year is to get out of completely out of debt. Debt is the main tool of the Illuminati in keeping us docile, quiet and scared.
Next, consider moving to the country and becoming more self-sufficient. Non-participation in their sick economy will only occur on a mass scale if de-urbanization begins in earnest. Cities are the temples of the money-changers, where everything is for sale at prices you can’t afford if you want to be free.
2012 represents a window of opportunity which may not come around again for a very long time. This is the year to declare our freedom from the Eight Families banking cartel. Become a proactive agent of change. Think big. You are not a “consumer”. Your “career” is slavery. You are a real human being. It’s time to grow up and start acting like One.
Dean Henderson is the author of four books: Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network, The Grateful Unrich: Revolution in 50 Countries, Das Kartell der Federal Reserve & Stickin’ it to the Matrix. You can subscribe free to his weekly Left Hook column @ www.deanhenderson.wordpress.com
January 3, 2012 at 11:42 am
There will be an apocalypse in 2012-just not ours. Those who believe in the brotherhood and sisterhood of humanity-those who treat others they way they want to be treated will be fine. The Apocalypse is coming for Big Oil and Bankers for everyone else let’s hit the re- set button and live in Peace.
January 3, 2012 at 11:42 am
Hello Dean,
I would love to see a family tree of the “bankers” or what you have of one anyway.
je
January 3, 2012 at 12:20 pm
Check out my five-part series called “The Federal Reserve Cartel” in the blog achives for a primer…
January 4, 2012 at 1:06 pm
abandon the mortgage and the property tax
abandon the check-paying job and stop paying payroll and income taxes
live with as little as you can
don’t use credit, or if you do, use little and pay it off every month
don’t borrow, and don’t buy if you can’t pay cash
don’t participate in the present system of work to buy, but go to defcon 1 “work to live” — meaning work for cash or barter
don’t have a bank account or checking account
don’t “save” in banks, don’t “invest” in wall street
When criminal banksters squeeze, squeeze back by doing everything you can to avoid helping them.
January 3, 2012 at 5:51 pm
I just forwarded this to the rest of the ‘kinfolk’, as we all need to read, heed and take similar proactive actions to protect our families in the months ahead. Well-written and right on target, as usual!
January 4, 2012 at 5:19 am
Main problem there for most of us(I tried to get a few acres in the west of Ireland thirty years back) is the death grip of peasant-minded farmers/pastoralists on our common human heritage of land. Agribusiness and its tenants have it sewn up in a tight sack. In Ireland the farmers are like your NRA, licenced to own weapons to defend that original bastion of the neo-feudal paradigm, privatisation and enclosure of the primary human resource base. We’re going to need a cull I’m afraid. Their cold dead fingers are well locked on the stock.
January 4, 2012 at 4:31 pm
No shortage of why. Ye ol’ how remains the problem.
January 5, 2012 at 3:50 am
Very true….we have become slaves to human made systems and institutions. Day by day we are growing deeper and deeper into this mud.
Freedom from this slavery is what that was promised in Christ. But unfortunately man has institutionalized and created systems even around this Faith!
No wonder all the symptoms of end days are becoming visible.
January 5, 2012 at 10:49 am
All the great universalist churches teach this common humanity, but us human demons can’t shake the ego-trip…yet anyway. Or, if we do, we surrender ego to a tribal, sectarian, or corporate pre-human self-definition of self, which is a way of furthering ego. The question, I think, becomes : will the egos destroy the biosphere that supports the experiment, and abort our collective human potential to realise a sane(healthy, balanced, sustainable, steady-state, functional) society. As they say, the jury remains out. We just gotta plot for the worst, hope for and do our best. Interesting times. I think part of our problem lies in our definition of sanity and madness. We confuse social success and functionality of ego as sanity, and weak ego and social failure as material accumulater as some sign of robust mental health. Thats why we allow nuts like personable warmongers to lead continually over cliffs like the proverbial lemmings. Our collective behaviour is increasingly psychotic, but no professional mental health practitioners ever seem to comment..not since Timothy Leary.
January 5, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Except for that third last sentence where the end should have read ‘…weak ego …..as some sign of mental weakness’. Its the strong ego is seen as robust mental health, conventionally. The mens(mind) is being confused with the ego was the point. Much as psychology is captive of a priesthood of professionals, I believe it does provide a lexicon for addressing our problems which can be less emotive than religious/political trench warfare. Freud is an exemplar, for all his misreadings(not nearly as many as his freudians) he demystified sexuality and gave us a rational set of terms to deal with a central and fraught topic clinically. Superstition(spurious associations, ladders or numbers and luck, etc.) is a large lump of our problems. The priests of power are wise enough to know that the way of control is to grab us by the nuts. Fuck our sexual values, and define morality around that, as opposed to material-provision distribution, and we are fucked. Which we currently are. That must be addressed as a collective mental illness, a psychosis as virulent as nazism is seen in retrospect to be, though in the thirties more admired Adolf than later were ready to admit their sympathies. Ta for the space and all your research, Dean, enjoy the rural air and have a healthy year, the happiness usually follows.
January 5, 2012 at 9:29 pm
gave your Big Oil/Bankers book to my 23 year old son who began my enlightment 3 years ago. He is enjoying it and wanted to thank you for sharing your knowledge. Keep your fans updated as I really appreciate your thoughts.
January 6, 2012 at 7:41 am
Happy new year.
I enjoyed reading your essay. I agree that a life in the countryside is much more enjoyable than in the cities (especially now that THEIR taint is on everything). One attains a much more natural perspective on life.
Let me tell you, I’m in the countryside in a south american country and interact with old timers who have never been exposed to The Mockingbird Matrix in the US (or the “modern culture” here for that matter), and they are the most magnificent folks: in great physical shape; women who (used to) hunt alligators with spears in crystal clear, pristine lagoons (for their skins); animals who think and act human (some parrots actually talk like a normal, intelligent person, with their own personality to boot); plants that cure any kind of indigenous snake bite (what a scam that anti-venom serum biz is!); a natural healer (with plants) who cures all kinds of “incurables” (doctors have come from the cities to see how he does it -he’s actually more of a benevolent, literate shaman type)…in other words, just a cornucopia of natural human wisdom (lots of legends about gold bearing “spirits” around here too).
This is what the banksters destroyed in America with undertakings such as when Roggenfelder’s “Institute of Medicine” stamped out all competing medical treatment methods in the US (and probably around the world too) that did not push pills in the early 20th century (search for: “Dr. Leonard Horowitz” “American Red Cross” Rosecrucians) or when the luciferians’ “General Education Board” penned Occasional Letter #1 and said something like:
In our dreams, you (the American people) yield your little rural, backward peon asses to our molding hands. We shall not make you men of science or letters for we have far too many of them. The classical, well-rounded education curriculum shall be discarded for our Orwellian nightmare: You shall be our robots.
Truly frightening the scale of what these scumbags have wrought. I’d suggest you call your book something like, “How to Deprogram from The Matrix”.
Wanted to mention something else. You state:
Will you continue to blame the poor for your problems or will you have empathy for them?
It’s not just empathy and there are tons of brainwashed, selfish people ready to cheer “depopulation” of useless eaters -especially of non-white kind- who react to pleas for goodwill and decency towards their fellow countryman (or humanity) like they were bitch-slapped. I think you’ve got a stronger argument in the inescapable fact that scarcity (poverty) is a bankster contrivance. Think about it: what society that cared about themselves and had the SOVEREIGNTY to create AND allocate “money” wouldn’t choose a system of widespread prosperity (exactly what Benjamin Franklin explained to “king” george about the colonial script issued and the attendant prosperity, prompting the buffoon thug calling himself “king” to enact the Coinage Act against the colonials’ truly free money). Funny how “bonds” can mean “sovereign debt” (an oxymoron in and of itself) or chains. I’ve found that even the most hard boiled Ku Klux Klan redneck (they’re still around – not all southern whites are rednecks -like Lindsey Graham- just like not all black people are niggers -like Obamao) will have some appreciation for this position (iow, he can still see a glimmer of his real best interests through the Edward Bernayse propaganda fueled and Mockingbird Media delivered emotional, racist haze).
You know these devils well. Care to take a shot at what they’re really up to in 2012? Would Russia or China really go to war over Iran? I don’t think so (EU and the US are big export markets for Zioconned, mercantilist China -but can that change?) but I also think a war with the Persians will have widespread side-effects which will change our current socio-economic-politic-strategic paradigm (and not for the better, at least initially). I think the reason Iran has no massive and massively expensive air force is because it concentrates on US-UK NATO weaknesses not strength. I think we’ll see “terrrst” bombings in western countries (some probably false flag -their MO). See how they’ve threatened to shut down the Strait of Hormuz (their own territorial waters btw, not international waters)? And now the warning to the aircraft carrier not to come back into the Persian Gulf (through its coastal waters) with the attendant brush off by US navy 5th fleet HQ. Now the NDAA ordered global Iranian oil boycott with EU follow up.
Think this is true?
[paste]
Iran has tactical nuclear warheads, and Western governments know it…. Everyone else is being kept in the dark…
Iran’s Black Market Nuclear Warheads Are an Open Secret…
THEY CONTINUE TO RESTRAIN WESTERN MILITARY ACTION….
Kabul Press
by Matthew Nasuti
On March 21, 2008, this author was among a group of Foreign Service officers and diplomats who received a briefing at the State Department on Iran. The Department’s Middle East expert, under questioning by this author, told the group that it was “common knowledge” in the region that Iran had acquired tactical nuclear weapons from one or more of the former Soviet Republics. Using the vague term “common knowledge” allowed the expert to discuss the information in an unclassified presentation. This disclosure was consistent with reports that have been circulating for years. On April 9, 1988, the Jerusalem Post reported that Iran had acquired four tactical nuclear weapons from Kazakhstan. The Post cited Iranian documents obtained by the Israeli government and authenticated by U.S. Congressional investigators. In March 1992, “The Arms Control Reporter” published an article confirming that Iran had acquired four nuclear warheads from Russia. A May 1992, report in “The European” claimed that Iran had acquired two nuclear warheads from the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan. These reports were all generally confirmed in a 2002 interview given by General Yuri Baluyevsky, then Russia’s Deputy Chief of Staff. A report in the Cleveland Jewish News, dated January 27, 2006, reported that there were 20 sites in Iran in which dispersed tactical nuclear warheads were being stored. Finally there was a report that Iran had acquired four 152mm nuclear artillery shells from Kazakhstan that were shipped to Iran through Bulgaria.
The State Department’s 2008, admission that Iran was already a nuclear power was raised by this author in open e-mails and other communications with State Department legal advisor Stephen Townley. He would neither comment on the admission nor did he raise any claim that the information was classified. This author then notified the State Department’s Inspector General that the Secretary of State was making public statements and official statements to Congress regarding Iran that were not correct, but Deputy General Counsel Karen Ouzts told this author that her office would not investigate the allegations, giving no explanation for ignoring potential criminal offenses.
If true, then I guess they’re getting ready for the Vatican’s (which recently called for a new global central bank….you cannot make this shit up) “Book of Revelations” or Armageddon. How’s that for a Mayan 2012 prediction? I know some US gov bankster apparatchiks were against this war but red shield’s orders are orders, it seems.
Bastards.
That’s how they’ll try to shut down the Internet Reformation. 1984 here we come.
Think they’ll shut this protected-by-the-1st-amendment forum down with NDAA or SOPA ?
Best wishes for 2012 and beyond(?) to all.
January 8, 2012 at 8:30 am
Going rural is the correct step into the right direction. Tens or hundreds of thousands of people all over the world are doing that – or even never have left the soil, like some indigenous tribes in Asia or South America, (and rarely in Africa) or, looking into the US for instance, the Amish people. However, this is not sufficient, it will neither help them on the long run, nor our society, our civilisation or our species in its entirety.
Only very few of these people – and only those who have never accepted a lifestyle much different from their ancient ways – are truly independent, free and self-sufficient. Most are dependent on social and technical services provided by the established and integrated community of our time. Energy or water, telecommunication or gasoline for the car, medical care or obligations to pay taxes, fall back solutions to be provided for, when you are not able to work anymore – most or all of these things cannot be supplied by a family raising their own food from their own land.
All groups I know of (given, those are all in Europe, probably some in other parts of the world are better situated) which try to live a lifestyle like that, sacrifice to self-exploitation, to working long hours of hard labor, and to abandoment of things often not only regarded as necessities of life, but are essential to stay healthy over time. I’m not saying it is wrong what you and all the other of those people are doing, I’m only saying, it is not enough, and it won’t help you much if everything does keel over. You will have better chances to survive, but in the long run you might be part of those people who envy those who died early.
What is needed is the creation of communities which are big enough that they can be truly independent, free and self-sufficient, which do not need anything from our economic system to exist with comfort, safety and security exceeding that of rural medievial villages in Europe. Which, on the other hand, are not too big, so that people do not have a chance anymore to meet their leaders in the pub or shake hands with them on a casual basis when running into each other during resupplying at a groceries. I think that around 10.000 people (infants, children, teenagers, adults, elderly all together) will be the about correct size.
What is needed is to gather and organize this number of people who want to live a life outside of the money-fed slavery to consumism, profit and continous economic growth, and have them establish a community which can prove that an alternative lifestyle is not only possible, but preferable to man. I’m working on that solution, and if soon as I have something to show on the net, I will give a shout here.
January 8, 2012 at 12:04 pm
The problem requires integration from global to local. The technology is ripe, the socia/politicall situation is rotting on the branch, but the maggots in the planetary apple are mobilising and scurrying in terror(which they project onto chosen enemies of the chosen people; by which I mean the WASP/European/Zion axis and their global mafiosi elites).
I think the question becomes how much damage will they do floundering around in their compassless confusion(confusion because they have invested their lives in the cul-de-sac of career self-promotion with its corollary of dog-eat-dog-devil-take the weakest exclusivism). And will they leave enough unpolluted shreds to restart a more human society that retains the lessons of our current blind failures.
Or will the roaches take over and some future age see their archaeologists marvelling at our astonishing achievements; compared to the even more primitive dinosaur predecessors.
It looks increasingly that they will retreat to their bunkers and do a nuclear re-run of Adolf’s exit. He would have taken the whole show down if his trigger was nuke-primed. If they can’t play their game their way, they’ll take the ball home. Real democracy would bring material equality; for them a reduction too far for their bloated illusions of cosmic mastery. I do hope I am wrong, but that is how it reads from here. Captain Strangelove seems to be at the controls of USS Pentagonia.
GW finalised the takeover. I reckon Obama is too smart to not be aware, but he’s basically a prisoner with a gun to his kids’ heads
Funny how you can never find a decent coup just when its needed. If only the General Assembly could find its balls.
January 8, 2012 at 4:10 pm
The point is, that there never will be a coup, cannot be. The worldwide economy spends more then a trillion USD each year to make the kids consumism addicts and keep them in that state their whole life. The families, which Dean has named and blamed so profusely, controll the only means to feed this addiction, money. 99% of the 7 billion poeple on our planet are not able to fight this addiction which was forced on them by the system, and thus prostrate before the masters of the money.
The remaining 1%, if there are actually that many, which are able to realize their addiction first of all AND to fight it do not have the slightest chance to change the system. They can only try to find a hole in the system which allows them to live a life in freedom without changing the system before. I think I have found that hole, and it is neither coup nor revolution, it is utilizing a new ruleset of society within the limits, and actually taking advantage of, of the existing rules of capitalism.
We will demonstrate that a life without government, without money, without superstition, without making our planet property (to as few as possible), and preferably all speaking the same language is better then what is sold to us as the preferable way of life. The interesting thing is, that it is not a warm-up from something we had already or discussed already. It is not feudalism, not communism, not anarchism, not capitalism, not socialism. It is something completely new. We hope, that by executing this example and promoting it, we will be able to convince more and more people that our alternative is the better option and eventually motivy the masses to copy it.
But first things first. We have given us 10 years to find the first 10,000 people, starting this month. If you can read german, you can read up some of what we are planning on my website, which you will come to, when you click on my name above.
January 9, 2012 at 2:20 am
I was joking about a coup, their plot is coup-proofed.And most of us live in the holes in the system, or as I usually phrase it, in the grouting. And many of us have been working on alternatives, since at least the sixties(it could be argued Socrates, and Confucius were trying to show us the other ways to be). I’m afraid mein Deutch has gone rusty, lange zeit nein leiben in Deutchland. Either way we will need intermediary transitional systems of management, it wont happen by some natural law of necessity. Nature is indifferent to our illusions of sapiens sapiens. And I, for one, hope we will not be reduced to one language, it will impoverish us all.
The existing rules of capitalism are theft, lies, war and exclusive private accumulation. It is a false economics(the word is from the Greek for household management)as it fails to include all the inhabitants of the planetary house; not unsurprising given it developed from tribal nationalisms to the imperial competition of the ongoing Great Game. One world government, yes; but not as the empires dream it. It must be lateral, democratic, egalitarian and restorative of nature from our centuries of depredations. And we must proof it against the nexr neo-con coup if the cycles are not to iterate eternally. Then we might just, having added the Egalite to the Liberte, ultimately approach the goal of human Fraternite. But that too is still to be found in the grouting.
The trick will be to globalise it. It bloomed briefly in the sixties revulsion to the Viet Nam horrors, and is showing fresh shoots presently as an educated global polis with new media tools flex their digital extensions. That too will be repressed, but many now realise we have little alternative but to fight back. Imperial dystopia already reigns over much of the planet, capitalism is just finally bringing it home. I see it in evolutionary and mental health terms. We need make a saltatory transition to full humanity, as individuals and collectively. Our prime responsibility is to each achieve that as individuals, but we are ultimately not stylites either. Anything less is pre-human and increasingly psychotic, but then that is just my idiomatic use of one branch of English.
January 9, 2012 at 10:05 am
My website is named “emancipare”. That is a rarely used latin word (not to be mixed up with emancipation, however from a broader view they share a similar meaning) which can be translated to “someone (originally ‘the son’) to be released to independence by the father.”
We need to realize, that after 12 millenia of civilization our society now has reached the state where the father (our history) has done his job and we need to free ourself from the rules and restrictions of childhood, developing our own new set of rules, which reflect our understanding of the world and what we want to achieve in (or with the) future of our species.
We are (now) responsible for our actions and cannot blame it any longer to the powerful, fatherly entitiy which has guided our society from infancy to adolescence. We are not ignorant any more. The future is ours, not our history’s (resp. father’s). Unfortunately, history has not prepared us to take over, but, obviously, it cannot be avoided. The old ways are not able to fulfill the needs of our future. Our species will die if we fail, or can have a bright future if we succeed. Unfortunately, to do nothing is a sure way to failure, and if pressed, nearly all of man choose to do nothing.
We need to realize that we have a responsibility not only for us and our family, but for the future of our species. We need to grow balls and start to take over. Writing text on blogs will help as little as escaping to small islands of fake freedom. We are the 99%, but why do we always only see the 1%? Where are the warriors to fight for our future, where are the Generals mapping out the strategies?
Are we all waiting for the new Messiah, who will gather and organize all the unrest and despair in the world and form it into a sword which conquers the slavers of our time? We do not need to wait, we can be it, each of us can be it. There is so much happening right now, Dean has a part of it with his books, Occupy has a part of it with its demonstrations, Zeitgeist has a part of it with its movies, Attac has a part of it with its protests, thousands and thousands of people getting active all have a part of it. I think, we have all what we need. The only thing missing is a guided approach, a planned common understanding about what to do and where to go.
With the internet we actually have – the first time in the history of man – the platform to get all these people organized and gathered across the globe despite what the ruling bodies wish. What is missing is the common ground, which is developing somehow but still only vaguely identificable in the mists. There are attempts, but nothing has really succeeded so far. So let’s continue trying, and earlier or later we will finally see this common ground, gather there and simply march the slavers down. 99% cannot be stopped.