The Offworld Agenda: "Oblivion," Elysium," And Hawking's Warning

Running Man: Cruise in "Oblivion"

I've written several times on this blog that the big "theme" to be pushed through pop-culture and the media for the years to come will be that of "offworld" colonization (a.k.a. "Starseeds").

The latest confluence of news and entertainment mirroring the same message was this week, when physicist Stephen Hawking declared that that humanity was essentially "doomed" unless they get off the Earth and colonize space. From a recent Mother Nature News article:

Discussing the Earth's most troubling concerns in an email interview with The Canadian Press, Hawking described space exploration as humankind's most urgent mission. Predicting a planet soon made uninhabitable, he says that our only chance of long-term survival as a species is to “spread out into space.”

"Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million,” he wrote.

By some great coincidence, this week also marked increased hype for two science-fiction movies about off-world space colonization by humans, "Oblivion" and "Elysium." The former will be released next Friday, and the latter, in August.

Elysium: Hawking's utopia?

"Oblivion," which I've covered a bit already, concerns a humanity who has supposedly left Earth for Saturn's moon Titan. A rag-tag band of humans remain on Earth: "The Resistance."

"Oblivion": the human, Earthbound Resistance

"Oblivion": the cold, offworld Elites

"Elysium" concerns an increasingly awful, overpopulated Earth, and the Utopian "cloud world" built in space where the rich flee and live in comfort. While not about colonizing a specific planet -- Elysium is essentially an orbiting space station -- the same message is there. GET OFFWORLD.

"Elysium": the human, Earthbound Resistance

"Elysium": the cold, offworld Elites

But as the plots for "Oblivion" and "Elysium" indicate, acting on Hawking's warning may not have the same benefit for the elite as it will have for the masses. Will humanity as a whole go offworld as the Earth continues to decline -- or only those rich enough to score a valuable place on the theoretical space stations and colonized planets?

But the clone workers of "Oblivion" bring up another possible dystopian development -- that of corporations using human "drones" or "clones" to "harvest" and terraform these planets. On one hand, this might create more jobs. On the other, this could be very dangerous, potentially health-damaging (radiation?) work -- taken up by the unemployed, desperate masses.

The expendable, offworld worker drone of "Moon"

We see this scenario play out quite clearly in the movie "Moon," in which Sam Rockwell is essentially an expandable "drone" sent to Earth's satellite; his employers having him work there while knowing he is doomed.

While it has been said that it's "impossible to own the moon" -- I believe that is is quite damn possible. If the future of humanity is offworld, this "offworld" will most likely be bought and sold; our future being less the egalitarianism of "Star Trek," and more a carbon copy of the colonization of Earth through the many centuries.

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John Lennon, The Alien "Beetles," And The Golden Eggman

I vaguely remember hearing this before...Basically, John Lennon had claimed to be "stalked" by UFOs, visited by four alien "bugmen"(!), and being the recipient of a mysterious golden egg. All this apparently was told to "psychic" Uri Geller -- who (claims Geller at any rate), became the owner of said egg.

The blog Tanata recounts the story as well as reprinting Geller's account for the London Telegraph. Wrote Geller:

John started talking about UFOs. He said he believed life existed on other planets, that it had visited us, that maybe it was observing us right now. He took me to a quieter, darker table, lit a cigarette and pointed its glowing tip at my face. “You believe in this stuff, right?” he asked me. “Well, you ain’t f—-in’ gonna believe this. “About six months ago, I was asleep in my bed, with Yoko, at home, in the Dakota Building. And suddenly, I wasn’t asleep. Because there was this blazing light round the door. It was shining through the cracks and the keyhole, like someone was out there with searchlights, or the apartment was on fire. “That was what I thought — intruders, or fire. I leapt out of bed, and Yoko wasn’t awake at all, she was lying there like a stone, and I pulled open the door. There were these four people out there.” “Fans?” I asked him. “Well they didn’t want my f—-in’ autograph. They were, like, little. Bug-like. Big bug eyes and little bug mouths and they were scuttling at me like roaches.” He broke off and stared at me.

I find it significant that there were FOUR "bug-like" creatures..."Beetles," perhaps?

It's the four bug-men in Lennon's story that make me wonder if these sorts of "visitations" are influenced, in some way, by the experiencer's own subconscious. Why four of the buggies? Was this a projection by Lennon, in reference to the Beatles? If these alien visitors really exist, do they reach into minds and "pull out" this data and use it to "mask" their activities or "communicate" with their target in a more meaningful way?

Or: was Lennon manifesting this all himself, whether on the psychic or material plane?

Then there is the issue of the golden egg allegedly given to Geller by Lennon -- who allegedly received it from the aliens!

I had a hard time believing Geller's story, but there's several pictures of the "egg." If this indeed is an "alien artifact' of some kind, has NASA or the govt gotten in touch with Geller about it? Has Geller run scientific tests on the egg to find out what it is made of?

And then there is the "coincidence" of the Eggman himself John Lennon receiving a cosmic egg.

Lennon's first reported encounter with a UFO happened in 1974 -- a craft he described as having "a flattened cone, with a red light on top and white lights rotating around the base." This was the same year Philip K. Dick had his otherworldly, possibly extraterrestrial "VALIS" experiences. So maybe the "aliens" were just damned busy. Maybe Lennon and Dick, being artists (and quite influential ones at that), were more sensitive/able to pick up what was "going on in the air" in the mid-Seventies.

Or maybe these people, along with other famous "contactees," are chosen because of their importance to the human race as a whole. Lennon wrote music that deeply influenced generations; Dick's stories and the adaptations of his stories have similarly influenced  countless persons. Maybe these entities have wisdom or messages to impart, and use these people to do so -- messages that we, in turn, receive from our pop-culture.

As for theories regarding "why" Lennon was assassinated by Mark David Chapman -- was it Bush Senior/CIA trying to shut him up about the sightings? -- I would offer the following to think about. I read Chapman's biography a long time ago, and it was obvious to me that he was a "sensitive" -- empathic, very psychically open, etc. It was also obvious, based on the description of Chapman's mental state in the years and months leading up to the killing, that he was inadvertently "channeling" some serious shit.

Perhaps Chapman, like Lennon, was "contacted" by some sort of entity -- only Chapman's entity was a very dark one, and he was more "possessed" than merely contacted. Lennon's UFO sightings sharply increased in the days leading up to his death, and he felt "stalked" by them; maybe he was? Maybe there is some sort of "war" going on in a world beyond ours, between good and evil, and maybe peacenik Lennon was "targeted" to die. Or maybe it was more of a "City On The Edge Of Forever" thing, with Lennon in the Edith Keeler "role"?

Imagine a world where Lennon had lived...

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Alex Jones Gives His "Final Thoughts"

Alex Jones in "Waking Life"

I've heard these "if I die tomorrow" type speeches from a number of "fringe" and alternative history folks. It can be easily construed as bubbling-over paranoia or a martyr complex; drama for the sake of drama. I often feel that way when I hear it from people like David Icke and Jordan Maxwell.

On the other hand, you have folks like Bill Cooper and Andrew Breitbart (and I'm definitely throwing Breitbart into this) who basically predicted their own early death and then shortly thereafter died. Were these self-fulfilling prophecies? Or was it something else?

Alex Jones has just posted a weirdly-themed video called "If This Is My Last Message...", with the subtitle "FINAL THOUGHTS FROM ALEX JONES" (caps theirs). This isn't the first time Jones has given the "I could be offed any day" speech -- and I've often thought of the martyr/drama queen thing when listening to it -- but I'll be honest, I think this video is bizarre.

I alwys feel that regardless of the intent or "real" danger to the person in question, tempting fate like this is always a horrible idea. Jones is overweight (not an ad hominem attack, just being honest), pushing 40, and seems to be always angry; which is a recipe for a heart attack. He reminds me a lot of Breitbart in this sense.

Now, some people -- I think including Jones -- believe that Breitbart was assassinated. But the sad truth is: it's just as plausible that he died of what the medical examiner declared, a heart attack. He was not a zen person, and neither is Jones. Contrast the intense anger of Jones and Breitbart to someone like Robert Anton Wilson, who, despite many health complications, lived to be 74. Wilson was no less a "conspiracy theorist" than Jones, but famously embraced positive thinking and optimism.

Quoth Wilson: “...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.”

Chill: Icke

Icke as well takes a far more calm/positive point-of-view. While even more "extreme" in his thinking than Jones, his approach is infused with a sort of "if you feel hate, you will get hate; if you feel hostility, you will attract more hostility" philosophy. Icke also struggles with health issues -- specifically crippling arthritis -- but he's made it to 60 already.

Tenebroust from "The Stench Of Truth" also has an often angry, vein-popping presentation -- but at least he balances it with a very chill radio interview show. The key is moderation. And with a seething broadcast every day, I just don't see that with Jones.

Alex Jones, with his continual bluster and seething rants + physical attributes, just seems like a health time-bomb, cardiac arrest waiting to happen. I'm not saying because I dislike the man, because I don't. I'm just saying that there's a constant morbidity that hangs over him, and this latest video creeped me the fuck out.

All this is not to invalidate the fact that people who "speak out" in this society do get harassed, threatened, and sometimes "offed." Also: I am not advising that people do not get angry about things, or express that anger in a public forum. But I feel the more one focuses on morbidity ("if I die, you'll know who did it"), the more one tends to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

But at any rate -- and regardless of the circumstances -- if God forbid Jones does drop dead, he will be considered "assassinated" and a martyr. What's creepy is that I got the impression from Bill Cooper's recordings, and Breitbart's rants, and now Jones that this might be exactly what they want -- the culmination of a career, and achieving a sort of immortality.

I just watch the "Let This Be Your Final Battleground" episode of Star Trek last night. I can't help but see the character of Lokai in Jones and others. I cannot help but see the dead planet Cheron as their domain. I think Jones occasionally has some really good points, and has brought to light a lot of important stories. But I also feel like he is almost drowning in the paranoia -- reaching what Wilson calls "Chapel Perilous." And you can see it in spades in this video, especially towards the end.

Several months ago, I stopped following another "fringe" pundit/blogger because of picking up that similar degree of hostility; as much as I was intrigued by this person's theories, the neverending negativity ended up fatiguing me. Not sure why I kept up with Jones, though I think a lot of it has to do with just having a "podcast" type thing (radio and YouTube) I can listen to. I also have a tendency to be very angry all the time -- angry about injustices, very distrustful and hypervigilant. If anything, the Jones video makes me -- the same age as him -- reevaluate my approach to life.

I can't fight injustice if my heart explodes.

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Photos of Famous People With Jimmy Savile

with Prince Charles

Here, presented without comment, is a gallery of various political types, religious types and royalty chumming it up it Jimmy Savile:


with Pope John Paul II



with Maggie Thatcher



more Charles...





with Tony Blair

with Princess Diana

even more Charles...



with Cardinal Keith O'Brien

more Maggie...

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Was The Joel Osteen Hoax A Psy-Op?

Fake: realistic-looking Drudge Report headline

Who had the money and motivation to perpetrate a massive hoax claiming that "megachurch" pastor and best-selling author Joel Osteen had "rejected Christ" -- a hoax that included multiple websites, social media accounts, realistic Internet "screenshots" (including ones supposedly from CNN and Drudge Report)?

Huffington Post talked to the as-of-yet unnamed man behind the discrediting campaign, who had some very interesting and "telling" things to say, including that he did it "to test viral media markets":

"I wanted to send Joel a message, to hopefully motivate him to talk about more serious subjects, such as Monsanto, GMOs, the poisons in our food and water, alternative cancer cures. He has a worldwide stage he isn't using to do enough good, but rather he's wafting lightweight sermons peppered with cliches across the Sunday airwaves."

Two interesting things here. First, that this person appears to be -- or is purposely presenting himself to be -- some sort of "conspiracy nut." Second, that he is apparently so social media/business-savvy that he can use the term "viral media markets."

Why would a person supposedly from the "fringe" also be so fluent in hardcore online marketing terminology? Why would he care?

There is more here than meets the eye.

As for the perpetrator of the hoax, he defiantly claims he will continue it and has his own lawyers ready to face Osteen.

Where did this dude get all the money to have "lawyers at the ready?"

I do believe this hoax was, as the man said, a "test." It is a test to gauge how gullible the American public is, and how much they can be manipulated online.

Expect more realistic hoaxes in the future -- not just concerning Christian televangelists, but all sorts of different ideologies and movements.

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Has The Moon Been Bought And Sold?

Don't count me as one of those theorists who believe we never went on the Moon -- I absolutely do believe it! (It's the when, and how, and how many times that might be open to some good ol' fashioned debate)

But according to NASA, the U.S. mission to the Moon is effectively over. Said the organization's chief Charlie Bolden: "NASA is not going to the Moon with a human as a primary project probably in my lifetime."

One question "conspiracy theorists" (I guess the MSM would refer to them as "Moon Truthers" nowadays?) have regarding the Moon landing subject is: if we really "made it" to the Moon the first time, why haven't we gone back since 1972?

And an interesting counter-question would be: what if we did?

What if NASA found "something" up there? Alternatively, what if the U.S. decided that the Moon was useful as a strategic base of some kind? Both scenarios might make the American public's "need to know" null and void.

Regardless, Russia still makes the Moon front-and-center of their space program -- and the age of private companies "mining" the natural satellite for precious minerals is just around the corner. The latter might be another reason why info about Moon trips/landings may be restricted. The Moon might be bought and sold at this point.

David Icke has recently had a fixation on what he calls "The Moon Matrix" -- and while there is some wild stuff in this theories (the biggest one being, I suppose, that the Moon is either an artificial construct or a hollowed-out planetoid), it makes for interesting listening:

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"Osteen Resigns" Hoax And Rick Warren Son's Suicide

fake: "Osteen Resigns" website

UPDATE: The fake Joel Osteen sites and Twitter are still up as of this writing. While I would imagine his lawyers are presently working to get all these things down, the apparent credulity of the American public -- some of which have apparently have "added" to the myth with additional fake "CNN" reports on their blogs -- is shocking. Imagine if the public was similarly manipulated on a number of other things via the coordinated use of such tools as fake sites, social media, Wikipedia, and the like...

I'm not saying these two stories are related at all, but I find the timing of both really interesting -- especially because both Pastors concerned are super-popular with the mainstream audience, and as  result have been the subject of severe criticism by other leaders in the Christian Church.

First, we have the announcement that best-selling Pastor Rick Warren's son Matthew has committed suicide.

Right after, we have this elaborate hoax that best-selling Pastor Joel Osteen has supposedly "quit" the Christian faith. This hoax is quite interesting, as it was elaborately constructed with a (misspelled: "Osten") domain name, separate Wordpress site reporting the "news" in some sort of AP format, and fake Twitter account.

Here, from the fake website, is a screen grab of the faux Osteen's "resignation":

Conducting a Whois domain search, this fake message is the creation of one Lucas Skass, from "BMG Enterprises LLC." Why was this hoax created? Was this the work of someone from the "Osteen isn't dogmatic enough" bandwagon? Or is this an "Anonymous"-type prank?

Whatever the case, by doing three very easy things -- creating a fake Twitter account, creating a free Wordpress account, and purchasing a similar-yet-different domain name -- this person has created mass havoc and confusion among Osteen's fellowship as of this writing.

Joel Osteen fake Twitter account

While you may not care for any sort of religion, "mainstream" or otherwise, it is the ease by which anybody can create this sort of disinformation that is most striking to me. This can be done -- with relatively little cost and technical skill -- to anyone whose agenda one wants to mess with. Imagine, then, what someone or some entity with a LOT of money can do.

Your "homework" is to figure out how extensively the online "message" can be manipulated in this fashion -- how and why.

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