Saturday, September 10, 2011

Freeman's Latest Perspective

Freeman has a new idea. Apparently the magazine he's been promising to publish for a year or more (through donations) is not to be. His community garden project evidently didn't capture his long-term interest either. In fact, the "Out Grow Your Gov't" ChipIn campaign has been wiped from the website and the Google cache links.

His latest announcement:
"We're going to bust out and take this revolution to the streets! We have so many homes to visit and joy to share, we want to live in a Tour Bus. It has been my life's dream to revive the Merry Pranksters and dance, drumming into office buildings to see how many people we can spring from the work force penitentiary."
Freeman poetically describes his idea of, and a name for, his revolution. But first, he poses a few questions:
How will human culture change in the next millennium as a result of conscious evolution?
Will we feel it proper to cater to our earth so that beauty supplants blind ambition?
Will our technological advancements be turned to providing free time for the inhabitants of earth?
Can everyone participate in a giving and receiving interaction that perpetuates an exchange of information that would become everyone’s new work, our new economic orientation?

The Type One Road Show

Get on board with the Type One Movement
– Social Media With Purpose -
Never before has the individual had the powers of the mass media.
The 21st Century has opened the doors to a new style of communication

– Type One Media --
Type One is a Globally Communicative Social Structure of Individuals

Bringing Power Back To The People Through Independent Media

Type One Artists Resonate With the Global Consciousness

Expressing the True Loving Nature of Humanity
From here, he goes straight for the wallet:
To start this interplanetary trip, we need a Type One Roadshow Tour Bus. This will be easy. All we need is $27.50 from 200 people and we will have the sweetest ride.
His pitch:
Now, what is worth $27.50 to 200 people? That's about the price of a Cheap Trick concert or a DVD. DVDs I have. How about a concert? A lecture tour? 200 talks along the way may way [sic] on my soul a bit. 200 visits to see the people that supported the trip...that might be possible.

I plan on seeking all that wish to be sought and creating shows of great amazement and joy. Highlighting the strange and presenting the impossible; a solution to our world's plight. Is this too much to ask?
Yes, it is, Freeman.

Reading between the lines it appears that they plan to visit the 200 people who donate the money to buy that Type One Roadshow Tour Bus. Obviously it would not be in Freeman's best interest to spring his donors from the confines of the work force penitentiary until
after he and his wife drive off from their visit. This is because they expect to be further supported by these kind folks on the visiting list:
We’d be paid by the people we touched.
And here's why:
Our gifts should go to the people who have brought us spiritual truth. When people come into our lives at just the right moment to give us the answers we need, we should give them money.
Do you hear that, Granny? You should be supplementing your social security by collecting money each time you give advice and share your wisdom. No more worries about a tight budget!

Freeman boasts that he has never had a 'regular job' - ever. In 2005, he hit the airwaves courtesy of a Project Camelot whistleblower (won't name him because I can't find the reference). By season two of the Freeman Perspective he was advertising his "internationally known" self (he interviewed Michael Tsarion by phone), he was selling DVDs, and was out on the radio guest circuit. Following that he had a website donated to him by whynotnews.eu, and he went a-travelin' to Australia with those fellows. Upon his return, he peddled the same old DVDs - despite promises, promises, of tons of research just waiting to be media-fied as soon as the donations poured in.
Next he begged for money to go to Europe to see David Icke. Somewhere around that time he married. (Congratulations to him but who's putting the food on the table and keeping a roof overhead?) Then he made a member subscription area on the (donated) website. At last, he hatched the garden plot.

Freeman has seemingly worked his way up to the priesthood as evidenced by his ability to sell contradictory notions to his followers, to-wit:

They should give him money and they should be free from the work force penitentiary.

I predict that once he's on the road to visiting all the $27 Americans who are not homeless or unemployed (the already free people), he'll be reporting back that the penitentiaries are heavily guarded. He won't be able to spring those slaves. Unless of course, he gets enough donations to retain a lawyer or start a PAC to assert the right to free the slaves. . .

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Perry, Paul & Romney


No, that's not the back of Romney in the photo, it's a security guard. To be a fly on the wall. . .

Eagle Scout Perry is being catapulted to the top by the talented newsreaders and conscientious news re-writers of the journalistic profession. Perry's state is on fire worse than it should be because he gave authority to the feds in their beige cars to send the fireman home. His Executive Order mandating the vaccination of twelve-year-old girls was unconscionable though highly profitable for all the big bidness boys concerned.

Ron Paul (who has never been asked to explain why he thought to give Shrub more power) cannot get a headline, a byline or an honorable factbox mention - no matter what he says or how many citizen dollars or positive polling numbers come his way. He did rate a Yahoo News blog entry wherein the blogger explains, in the two-questions-one-answer form we Americans have come to be educated, enlightened and advised in:

"But is the news media right to dismiss Paul's candidacy as a sideshow? Was his near-win in Iowa really irrelevant?

One way to answer the question is to look at prediction markets like Betfair and Intrade. These sites are updated in real time by traders who are wagering on the likelihood of each candidate winning the Republican nomination. These traders are jockeying for an information edge as events and non-events unfold. If traders bid up the price of laying a bet on Paul immediately after the straw poll, they were calling it out as a noteworthy event for the candidate. If, on the other hand, his price barely budged, then the traders would be validating the news media's dismissal."

Leveraged buyout magnate Romney earned his riches the new-fashioned way: loopholes in the financial system. And it didn't hurt that Poppa was a governor. His new palace (who says there's no aristocracy in the Republic?) will surely be a green sweep of a demolition leaving no footprint behind.

Conclusion: Romney already owns the odds.