Posts by philipmatthews
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who have I been sending those cheques to then?
It's all been a W.A.S.T.E
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but I do not know their Fax number.
Probably has some 666s in it.
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Dubya and Darth Cheney, I could imagine them, on dark nights transforming into tongue flicking lizards, descendants from a long line of somehow surviving dinosaur aliens from another dimension ensuring our confused and anxiety ridden psychic energies were feeding their ravenous appetites.
I remember hearing variations on this stuff from potheads I used to flat with in Wellington 20 years ago. The story that all the Nasa astronauts who had gone to the Moon were also 33rd degree Masons (even if that were true, what was it supposed to mean?). The three secret Ks on a Marlboro cigarette packet (I think Matthew Dentith had this on his bFM slot the other day). Secret UFO bases in the North Island. Masonic imagery on the US dollar bill. I used to read Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's Illuminatus! trilogy which was an epic 70s parody of conspiracy thinking and paranoia, something like Pynchon-lite, and surely introduced the "illuminati" idea into broader culture. Funny now to see how widely used "illuminati" is as an all-knowing, all-seeing, omnipresent but invisible secret society -- how something that Wilson introduced as parody and fantasy has been taken so seriously by so many. There was once an historical Illuminati of some kind but to make them the source of all evil now, as people like David Icke do, makes about as much sense as citing Trystero or Golden Fang or other secret societies out of Pynchon books.
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In a great year for conspiracy, I think my favourite headline would be: "Charlie Sheen demands Obama meeting on 9/11 cover-up". The Weekly World News would have rejected that one as too far-fetched, but it ran for real in the LA Times.
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That's actually a wee bit disturbing.
I had to turn it off when he started doing the Darth Vader voice.
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Or how about a big crazy dose of Jonathan "it's become more and more apparent that it is a Satanic agenda" Eisen? Not sure how to embed this ...
http://uncensored.co.nz/2009/02/05/media-revolution-news-interview-with-jonathan-eisen-part-1-of-2/
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"Share it with each other" indeed -- that tourism promo makes 70s NZ look like the world capital of wife-swap parties.
But what street in what NZ city is at 0.49? I can't figure it out.
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If Deb had said anything to anyone at the time (on the 6th) she could hardly change her tune the next morning.
It's alright. I'm officially over it.
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Assuming she didn't also see that morning's front page of New Zealand's largest newspaper, then you're right.
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My point, Lucy, is that you don't know who saw the so-called Asian woman, or when, or where. You don't know whether she was with Aisling or another small child. You don't know if she was Asian or Pakeha or Middle Eastern or any other ethnicity. The police, who issued that information, know much more than you do -- or I do. You have no genuine reason to doubt that there was some kind of sighting of an Asian woman other than your belief that some -- even many -- Pakeha NZers harbour prejudice towards people of Asian descent. To you, this prejudice contaminates the sighting. But all you have is an opinion. You have no evidence. That's my point.