Broken Puppets: Re-Evaluating The "MK Victim" Narratives

You know, I used to read these lurid narratives from "ex-MK-ULTRA sex slaves" who claimed to victims of these massive conspiracies of pedophiles that included politicians and celebrities. If you're a conspiracy buff at all, you've no doubt run into these: Arizona Wilder, Cisco Wheeler, "Svali," and others. And, if you are like me, your first reaction at reading these narratives is: "these people are fucking nuts."

Arizona Wilder

Seriously. They're talking about being molested by Bob Hope, secret rituals where people drink blood, "symbols" like monarch butterflies and certain jewels used for mind control, and so on. Go on YouTube and look up the videos of "Esoteric Kitten" -- a self-described former "corporate spy" -- for some info on this mythology, as well as David Icke's "Revelations of a Mother Goddess," Arizona Wilder.

It has been theorized that RDJ exposes Hollywood scandals under the pseudonym "Him" -- something he denies

Further, some might say all these lurid narratives -- that dovetail so neatly with the lurid gossip narratives of "Entertainment Lawyer's" Crazy Days And Nights blog (with its occasional "insider" commenter "Him" who may or may not be Robert Downey Jr.) -- help distract us from the real news that is impacting and will impact our lives and the world.

Jimmy Savile

But then I read about these actual conspiracies with people like Sandusky and Penn State -- these actual pedophile rings featuring actual celebrities like that Savile motherfucker (basically, the UK's version of Dick Clark) -- and it really starts to make me wonder. The Savile thing especially, which seems to have its tentacles strewn far and wide within celebrity, political, and maybe even royal circles.

Kevin Clash

Then I read this thing about the guy who did the voice of Elmo. As I detailed in an earlier post, I had just finished watching his hagiography biography the night before his scandal went down. Now a second accuser has come forward, and the puppeteer, Kevin Clash, has resigned from "Sesame Street". The gist I get from all this is that while the two accusers seem shady and a bit like "opportunists," it also appears that Clash probably had a thing for teen boys and was actively "grooming" them.

"Elmo" receives Penn State T-Shirt

And then you have to wonder what psychological shape a teenager is in after being "groomed" by adults for sex, especially if they have no other legitimate adult figure to provide them with a sense of worth. What sense of respect for themselves and others (and, indeed, humanity) after being involved in such situations? Certainly, some overcome the abuse. But others feel that their only value is as a sex object -- and that any thing or person can be bought and sold.

Corey Feldman alleged a pedophile ring active in Hollywood

Because I am telling you now in all honesty: children and teens who do not have important and responsible adults in their lives have large targets on them for pedophiles. Pedophiles are everywhere. I have not the slightest doubt that some form of these pedophile "rings" involving high-profile persons do exist -- I mean, we have a genuine one being investigated now in the UK! How can these stories exist only in the realm of conspiracy-kookism? I read stories like the Savile case (something I think Icke had mentioned ages ago), and it makes me take a second look at everything.

But our society is willfully blind. And it will not let go of its heroes -- unless they are purposely doing so in some long, drawn-out zombie death march as in the Whitney Houston/Lindsay Lohan situation (providing a satisfying, lingering frottage of schadenfreude).

"Thrown from the freedom train"

Finally: I wrote a comic containing pretty much every bit of symbolism from these "MK Girls" narratives --symbols that I had no idea were related to this entire subject matter until after the fact. Are these primal symbols and ideas? How far back in human history do these situations go? Is it ultimately, as some people theorize, simply a matter of "stealing" the youth-energy of young people -- whether literally or metaphorically?

This book is like a MK Ultra "Sex Kitten" encyclopedia

All I know for sure is that these sorts of "rings" have been apparently happening, undisturbed, for decades, if not centuries. Why are they all coming out of the woodwork now -- the Church, the Boy Scouts, Penn State, Savile, etc.?

Yes, even in the frickin' Boy Scouts

I'm going to sound like the biggest naive hippy-dippy woo-woo for saying this -- but I absolutely believe it's because we as a group -- Humanity -- are reaching another level of evolution and this shit just don't fly anymore. It's like a non-denominational version of Judgement Day, only it's not happening when the world ends, but happening RIGHT NOW.

And I think there are more stories to come.

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"They Are Already Here": The Stargates of "The Host," "Ingress," and "The Avengers"

"It's happening all around you. They aren't coming. They're already here."
--from the website for "augmented reality" game "Ingress"

"This is the future, and humanity is all but extinct. We have been invaded by another species, who erase our minds to take our bodies."
--from the trailer for the upcoming movie "The Host"

Last post, I discussed a couple of interesting features of the new Google massively multiplayer "augmented reality" game "Ingress." I pointed out the similarities between the game's interface and that of another current Google initiative "Project Glasses," as well as the prominent "conspiracy"/esoteric imagery used in the game's" trailer. I also wondered aloud why the latter was being marketed to the "young, hip" demographic -- rather than to kooks like myself.

The "O" in the title has the glowing blue "Stargate" type "look", as well as a "mirrored" one in the sky on the right.

I might have found something to illuminate (if you will excuse the pun) this subject a bit further -- if not to exactly answer my questions, then to at least add another layer to bring out more details. And that something is to be found in, of all places, a trailer for a movie based on a novel by Stephanie Meyer. Yes: Stephanie Meyer, author of the "Twilight" series of books. Those easily offended by seeking esoteric meaning in mass-market content created for teenagers may bow out now from this post, and I shall totally understand.

Still with me? Okay, here goes:

First, let's go back to the "Ingress" game itself, and the rest of its trailer. Around 1:13 in the trailer, a woman "playing" (here reality is blurred...playing, or experiencing?) "Ingress" looks up from her smartphone (your "tool" in the game) and stares with suspicion at a tall man in a suit also looking at his phone. This is her narration:

"What if they are already among us, but we don't realize it?"

In context, this could refer to the other "players" in the game. But the next lines muddy things up a bit. Here, a male narrator speaks (this is the young "hip" dude we saw in my previous post -- only this, time, we get a close-up of the "key" he is wearing around his neck):

"I must be prepared to work with them -- or fight them."

Another male, older narrator, accompanied by the following image:

"They are coming."

They? What, the other players in the game?"

Yet another voice-over:

"Something's wrong out there in the world -- this doesn't seem like a scientific study."

The last part of that line is interesting, when we think of the intersection between Google's "Ingress" and what is presumably a "scientific study" of some kind, "Project Glasses."

The mystery of "Ingress" is related to a fictional research company/facility called "Niantic." Before the announcement of the game, Google conducted a "viral" campaign, making Niantic seem like a real entity complete with its own website, unique YouTube videos and Google+ postings. Going into that aspect of the game would be an entire post in itself, so I'm going to table it for now; just putting it out there to think about.

"real" Tweets related to the "Niantic Project"

Anyway, let's go back to the subject of "They." Who are "They?" How are they already among us? Are "They" masquerading like us? Why?

Now let's move on to the "Host" trailer.

"The Host" is about aliens who have infiltrated human bodies (hosts, obviously):

 These aliens (some in the UFO community might refer to them as "walk-ins") look just like humans. And they seemed to be linked to this energy portal/stargate:

 

Coincidentally enough, such portals and "stargates" seem to be essential elements to "Ingress," and its trailer is full of them:

 

 

What comes through these energy matrixes and portals? In the "conspiracy"/esoteric lore -- from which both "Ingress" and "The Host" seem to borrow from heavily -- "stargates" are access points from which "aliens" can enter our world (and vice-versa). 

These "energy portals" have had many names and designations in popular-culture in folklore -- one might think of the "gate to hell" in "The Amityville Horror" (located in the basement of a house) and "The Sentinel" (in the penthouse suite of a posh building), the wardrobe in the "Narnia" books, the blue portal where Loki and the Chitauri hordes invaded New York in "The Avengers," and the myriad of caves and "dark places" in the works of Lovecraft.

Important to note: the Chitauri -- also known, to comic book fans, as "Skrulls" -- are shapeshifters, using their power to infiltrate humanity. While in the movie "Avengers" they do not shapeshift, Loki (via the "Cosmic Cube") possesses human bodies to essentially be alien vessels -- as in "The Host."

Alien portal in "The Avengers"

Loki with Cosmic Cube

"The Avengers" -- Hawkeye essentially under "alien" mindcontrol

"The Host": "You Will Be One Of Us"

"Ingress," "The Host," and "The Avengers" all features narratives of (blue!) energy portals and the possible "takeover" of the human body (and will) by outside forces. But I could sit here all day and list hundreds more movies, comic books, TV shows, novels, and video games that feature the same elements.

Why do these elements repeat themselves so often?

And why, in the case of "Ingress" and "The Host," are these "entertainment" projects being specifically marketed to younger, "hipper" audiences? Why does the imagery of these two trailers sort of mirror each other, featuring similar energy portals and even willowy female protagonists?

"The Host"

"Ingress"

I am only asking questions, as I am a Pattern Recognition hobbyist. I do not suggest, as some theorists might, that this imagery and "mirroring" is happening on the part of some overt massive conspiracy carried out by an elite group to either manipulate society or even, as some postulate, "gloat" over their nefarious takeover "in plain sight."

But what I do suggest is that reality and fantasy seem to have a far more "playful" and interdependent relationship than is commonly accepted. We see this countless times in events "happening" in a movie or comic book right before it happens in real life, or an actor whose most important role seems to bleed out into their personal lives in startling ways. Or you might notice this phenomenon happening in your own lives, in the microcosm, as you continue your journey towards self-realization.

I merely point out patterns and suggest possibilities.

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MK-Ultra Themes In "Unknown Soldier"

The use of various psychological/technological methods to seriously alter a subject's brain has been liberally used in comic book stories for a while now -- the "programmed" soldier/operative with implanted memories, visions of the government-sponsored (whether ours or those of "foreign powers") mad-scientist with a fistful of electrodes, Shipwreck from the "G.I. Joe" cartoon hallucinating his Springfield family. But when a comic actually references MK-Ultra by name, my ears prick up.


DC's "G.I. Combat" #0 opens with the following exchange between the Unknown Soldier -- a mysterious man in military fatigues and a face completely covered in bandages -- and Agent Komal from the organization Advanced Medical Military Operations (or, "A.M.M.O"):

Unknown Soldier: "Who or what am I?"

Komal: "Are you aware of the MK-Ultra program executed during the Cold War?"

Unknown Soldier: "No. Can't you answer a question without asking one?"

Komal: "In the Fifties and Sixties, the Office of Scientific Intelligence conducted experiments that involved illegal testing of random Citizens. LSD, PCP, and a whole catalogue of drugs were used. This testing led to the development of a substance capable of tapping into subconscious memory. If you really want answers..."

Unknown Soldier: "I'll do it. When can we start?"

Two things I find interesting here: how MK-Ultra techniques are offered in a "therapeutic" manner (indeed, in the beginning of its real-world use it was billed as something that could treat depression, etc.) -- and how enthusiastic the Unknown Solider is to use it. This all feels like the character is a patsy for A.M.M.O., a brainwashed operative literally walking into the same situation that messed him up in the first place.

A good portion of the rest of the issue involves the Unknown Soldier essentially undergoing past-life regression via "MK-Ultra" techniques. The combat situations he finds himself through history (Vietnam, the Revolutionary War, etc.) seem to suggest that he is indeed some sort of "spiritual avatar" of the Soldier-as-Archetype, an "Eternal Warrior" (if I might borrow another publisher's character for a second).

Which all sounds peachy-keen, except for one sickening possibility: what if this man is actually experiencing is false memories purposely implanted by A.M.M.O.?

One of the Unknown Soldier's many "past lives"

In such a scenario, the "eternal warrior" story is just an embellished tale to cover up more sinister -- and if not entirely sinister, then certainly shadowy -- motives/operations by the organization. The "Unknown Soldier" legend sounds rather heroic -- whereas "being the zombie operative puppet of a pseudo-governmental agency" sounds rather like a crap deal. Oh, did I mention the part where the character had "died" and was brought back to life?

Of course, another possibility in the story is that Unknown Soldier is both being manipulated AND has tapped into some sort of "eternal warrior" scenario. That's the one I buy, personally.

"G.I. Combat" #0 references a bunch of topics that are currently hitting America's zeitgeist. Seemingly forgotten and forsaken, the faceless Unknown Soldier could stand for our army veterans who are getting inadequate health (physical and especially mental) care. As I've mentioned before, the "programmed" soldier/assassin is a much-used trope all over our popular culture (the Jason Bourne movies, "Dollhouse," even Hawkeye during the first half of "The Avengers").

From a completely different "Unknown Soldier" comic -- but a great and relevant image

I like War-themed comic books, but, given the vagaries of the comics market, I realize that this Unknown Soldier storyline could be ended/abandoned/greatly altered at any time. Still, I'd like to see how it plays out. I appreciate when writers go the extra mile and try to inject a bit more real-world relevancy and/or edgy conspiracy theories into their comics. This is exactly the stuff I want to cover on this blog, because I feel so much of this content goes unnoticed under the radar -- especially by people who are not familiar with current comics, but would really enjoy the stories. (if you want to read a really great breakdown of MK-Ultra in comic book form, check out David Gallaher & Steve Ellis's "Box 13"!)

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