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THEY LIVE

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OBEYThey Live is a 1988 American science fiction-horror film directed by John Carpenter.  The film follows a nameless drifter referred to as “Nada”, who discovers the ruling class within the moneyed elite are in fact aliens managing human social affairs through the use of a signal on top of the TV broadcast, concealing their appearance and subliminal messages in mass media.   This is a clip from the famous “sunglasses” scene: “I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass.  And, I’m all out of bubble bum….”

The idea for They Live came from two sources: a short story called “Eight O’Clock in the Morning” by Ray Nelson, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in the 1960s, involving an alien invasion in the tradition of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and a story called “Nada” from the Alien Encounters comic book.  John Carpenter describes Nelson’s story as “…a D.O.A. type of story, in which a man is put in a trance by a stage hypnotist. When he awakens, he realizes that the entire human race has been hypnotized, and that alien creatures are controlling humanity. He has only until eight o’clock in the morning to solve the problem.

The more political elements of the film are derived from Carpenter’s growing distaste with the ever-increasing commercialization of 1980s popular culture and politics. He remarked, “I began watching TV again. I quickly realized that everything we see is designed to sell us something… It’s all about wanting us to buy something. The only thing they want to do is take our money.” To this end, Carpenter thought of sunglasses as being the tool to seeing the truth, which “is seen in black and white. It’s as if the aliens have colorized us. That means, of course, that Ted Turner is really a monster from outer space.” (Turner had received some bad press in the 1980s for colorizing classic black-and-white movies.) The director commented on the alien threat in an interview, “They want to own all our businesses. A Universal executive asked me, ‘Where’s the threat in that? We all sell out every day.’ I ended up using that line in the film.” The aliens were deliberately made to look like ghouls according to Carpenter, who said: “The creatures are corrupting us, so they, themselves, are corruptions of human beings.”

Because the screenplay was the product of so many sources: a short story, a comic book, and input from cast and crew, Carpenter decided to use the pseudonym “Frank Armitage,” an allusion to one of the filmmaker’s favorite writers, H. P. Lovecraft (Frank Armitage is a character in Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror). Carpenter has always felt a close kinship with Lovecraft’s worldview and according to the director, “Lovecraft wrote about the hidden world, the “world underneath.” His stories were about gods who are repressed, who were once on Earth and are now coming back. The world underneath has a great deal to do with They Live.” — (Wikipedia.org)

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NATIVE AMERICAN CRIMINAL CLASS

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“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”

— Mark Twain

“Modern-day political/economic parasites provide an excellent example of the distortion of information and economies created by vested interests.

For instance, the number of parasitic “professionals” in the United States has increased dramatically in recent years. Each of these professions represent a vested interest:

Number of Lawyers in 1960 equaled 260,000; in 1990 756,000

Number of Political Lobbyists in 1960 equaled 365, in 1990 40,111

Number of Trade Associations in 1960 equaled 4,900; in 1990 23,000

Number of Federal Regulatory Staff in 1960 equaled 70,000; in 1990 130,000

There are now 400 lobbyists in Washington for every Senator! The number of federal lawsuits has roughly tripled in the last 30 years. Forty-two percent of the members of the House of Representatives are lawyers, compared to only fifteen percent in an 18-country average outside the United States. Each of these lawyers and lobbyists are trying to influence the creation or enforcement of laws to serve the vested interests they represent.

The financial distortion and stress on the national economy created by these professionals is staggering.

There are two ways to get rich:

1/ produce something valuable from which you create new wealth, or

2/ try to get a share of somebody else’s wealth.

These professions, by setting themselves up as middlemen in our economy each take a share of our wealth. Of course, these parasites think very highly of their own work and demand very high wages.

It is estimated that the cost of paying for federal regulation, including the residual work involved in processing the enormous amount of paperwork required to comply with newly created government regulation–which often requires the services of a lawyer, since these regulations are all written in legal language that only lawyers understand–costs the American taxpayers about $4,000 per household, or $392 billion, a year.”

— Excerpt from THE OZ FACTORS by Lawrence R. Spencer.

The U.S. Congress has long been dominated by lawyer-politicians. “From 1780 to 1930, two thirds of the senators and about half of the House of Representatives were lawyers; the percentage seems to have stayed fairly stable” (Friedman 1985: 647). . . . at the beginning of the 101st Congress in 1989, 184 members (42%) of the U.S. House of Representatives were lawyers (47% of the Democrats and 35 % of the Republicans). Sixty-three senators were lawyers, roughly equally distributed between the two parties (Ornstein, Mann, and Malbin 1990: 20-21, 26-27). At the beginning of the 102nd Congress in January, 1991, 244 of the 535 members of both houses (46%) claimed attorney as their profession.

. . .too many lawyers cause the law not to be made in a commonsense way but in a legalistic way. Process is worshiped over result because the lawyers get paid more for the process than the result. What could be more enjoyable to a lawyer than arguing the law after making the law which to be argued—as a legislator.  Because lawyers control all legal rulemaking an increase in the number of lawyers does not cause a reduction in their individual activity. It simply increases their percentage take of the American economy.

Lawyer reform is in order!

 

 

 

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DOMAIN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE RESCUE MISSION

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“There are several obvious reasons that The Domain, and other space civilizations do not land on Earth or make their presence known.  It takes a very brave IS-BE to come down through the atmosphere and land on Earth, because it is a prison planet, with a very uncontrolled, psychotic population. And, no IS-BE is entirely proof against the risk of entrapment, as with the members of The Domain Expeditionary Force who were captured in the Himalayas 8,200 years ago.”

— Excerpted from the Official Transcript of the U.S. Army Air Force Roswell Army Air Field, 509th Bomb Group: SUBJECT: ALIEN INTERVIEW, 26. 7. 1947, 1st Session published in the book Alien Interview, edited by Lawrence R. Spencer, 2008.