Month: December 2019

RWR
2019-12-27

Post author By RWR Host
Post date December 27, 2019

Ironically, not much separates the Amanda Marcottes and Jeb Lunds of the political ecosphere, in the ostensible divide between them and those like the Donald J. Trumps, Edward Gallaghers – and Hallmark Channel viewers – whom they would seek to demonize.

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RWR
2019-12-26

Post author By RWR Host
Post date December 26, 2019

It's A Wonderful Life - final scene collage.

As we come to the conclusion of the year – and decade – it is perhaps important to reflect on the significance of our own influence, each and every one of us, upon circumstances… not only on one another, but our own as well.

Fox Tails

The Sound
[ Influence ]
of Music

Post author By RWR Host
Post date December 23, 2019

“While listeners might be worried about playing emotional or overtly erotic music on speakers others can hear, they might not worry as much when they are listening via headphones. …” — How headphones are changing music – Quartz

Tags Alice Bailey, cultural Marxism, Culture industry, cybernetics, Eros, eroticism, Frankfurt School, mind control, music, necrophilia, perversion, social engineering, Theodor Adorno, WWI

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RWR
2019-12-19

Post author By RWR Host
Post date December 19, 2019

Christmas Eve, Harper's Weekly (January 3, 1863) — "Christmas Eve," an illustration by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly, January 3, 1863

We continue the emphasis of good news, glad tidings, and of peace on earth, good will toward men. As we continue to focus on season’s greetings, and the Reason for the Season, we must decide for ourselves how we will respond to the awareness resources like RBN and RWR afford.

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RWR
2019-12-18

Post author By RWR Host
Post date December 18, 2019

Continuing in the spirit of the Reason for the Season, and heartwarming tales – albeit, in uniquely RWR fashion – we discuss the second (1915) WWI truce, Muslims protecting Christians in the headlines, the Irving Berlin (love, hopeless romantic) story, and much more…!

Musings

Perfectionism is killing us

Post author By RWR Host
Post date December 17, 2019

More people than ever say they’re feeling pressured to look and be the best. It’s taking a toll. So writes Christie Aschwanden in her recent Vox article. Once an issue that affected a select few, perfectionism is now a growing cultural phenomenon, fueled by modern parenting and social media and an increasingly competitive economy, researchers […]

Episode

RWR
2019-12-17

Post author By RWR Host
Post date December 17, 2019

Christmas Truce 1914, as seen by the Illustrated London News. — "British and German Soldiers Arm-in-Arm Exchanging Headgear: A Christmas Truce between Opposing Trenches" – Illustrated London News (January 9, 1915)

In the spirit of Christmas, and the Reason for the Season – albeit in unique RWR fashion – today through the week, we focus on heartwarming stories, including and beginning with the legendary Story of the WWI Christmas Truce.

Tags Adam Smith, Administrative Fourth Branch, administrative law, Albert Pike, Arnold J. Toynbee, Christmas, Chuck Missler, Fourth Branch, Hallmark Channel, holidays, Megyn Kelly, Patrick Henry, Richard N. Gardner, Tom Kersting, WWI, WWIII, Zola

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RWR
2019-12-12

Post author By RWR Host
Post date December 12, 2019

Grand opening of the first Dada exhibition, Berlin, 5 June 1920.

Despite the ever-present “public relations” — propaganda, lies we’re fed — a critical examination of history, and particularly of 20th century history reveals that we are increasingly being plunged into a dystopian nightmare — and perhaps more provocatively; it was all planned and prepared long ago…

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RWR
2019-12-11

Post author By RWR Host
Post date December 11, 2019

It’s becoming more and more self-evident; the warnings of history, and the watchmen like Alan Watt and Chuck Missler who have sounded the alarm of clear and present danger, were never more prescient, and via the cybernetic technocratic communitarian way, we’ll all become hopelessly enslaved… en route to the the ash heap of history…

Tags 2019-12-04 Pearl Harbor Shipyard Episode, 2019-12-06 Naval Air Station Pensacola Episode, 2019-12-10 Jersey City Episode, Adam Curtis, Afghanistan, AI - Artificial Intelligence, al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab, Aldous Huxley, Alex Nowrasteh, Alphabet, Amazon, anonymization, Anthem (novel), APA - American Psychological Association, Apple, AWS - Amazon Web Services, Ayn Rand, b8ta, Boko Haram, Brain Dynamics Laboratory, Brave New World (novel), Brickwork, Cato Institute, China, Christopher Lapiniski, CIA, cybernetic totalism, cybernetics, deidentification, Demolition Man (film), Deobandism, dystopia, Edward Bellamy, Edward Bernays, Egypt, Fabian Socialists, Fabian Society, Fascism, FBI, flu, FRONTLINE PBS, George Orwell, George Santayana, Glenn Beck, Google, gun control, gun rights, Henry David Thoreau, HIHOP - make it happen on purpose, history, immigration, information privacy, ISIS, Jeff Brown, Kurt Vonnegut, learned helplessness, Lebanon, LIHOP - Let it happen on purpose, LinkedIn, loneliness, Looking Backward 2000–1887 (novel), Louise Hawkley, Michael Kelly, Microsoft, MIHOP - help it happen on purpose, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, Mujahideen, Nest, Newburgh Four, Nineteen Eighty-Four (novel), NORC - National Opinion Research Center, Operation Gladio, Operation Gladio B, Operation Gladio C, Pakistan, Palo Alto, Panopticon, Paul Ohm, Paul Volcker, Phillip Raub, Player Piano (novel), posthumanism, privacy, progress, propaganda, Propaganda (novel), RaaS - Retail as a Service, Rachel Rojas, red flag law, Reid Hoffman, reidentification, RetailNext, Ring, Ronald Reagan, Salafism, Sanjay Gupta, Saudi Arabia, slavery, Snellen chart, social engineering, Socialism, Stephanie Cacioppo, Stockholm Syndrome, Strategy of Tension, surveillance, surveillance capitalism, technocracy, technology, Thomas Jefferson, Toys “R” Us, UAE - United Arab Emirates, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Vibhu Norby, Wahhabism, Walden (novel), Warsaw ghetto, We (novel), William Mintun, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Zbigniew Brzezinski

Musings

What’s In A Word…

Post author By RWR Host
Post date December 9, 2019

So… this just happened… [I loathe that mindless expression, so the irony applies with force.] Somewhere in the process of working on other things, while mulling over the definitions of certain things – article, episode, incident, for instance – suddenly something dropped into the (mental) slot… and it finally occurred to me what Patrick Clawson […]

Tags Carroll Quigley, Edward Mandell House, FDR - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, foreign policy, Gulf of Tonkin Episode, Iran, James Perloff, John Adams, Lusitania Episode, Patrick Clawson, Pearl Harbor Episode, Peter Dale Scott, Power Elite, Strategy of Tension, USS Maine Episode, William Blum, WWI, WWII