WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Bill:

After my sprain in 2009, it has only been mountaineering boots for me. I have four pairs that I currently wear, although the newest is not quite mountaineering-grade, but close enough for my ankles. Old guys like us (I qualify for Social Security now ) cannot afford such sprains, and another hiking pal read my account, described a similar event for himself, and now it is only mountaineering boots. It slows us down a little, but the protection is worth it. Happy to see how quickly you healed up.

Best,

Wade

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
Hi Bill:

After my sprain in 2009, it has only been mountaineering boots for me.

Very smart! These, glued and repaired again and again, are what I wore for years before I upgraded.

[Wade Frazier]

Ha!:

Are you sure that bare feet would not have been better? I have done the same thing to my slip-ons that I wear when I leave the house, if it is not to go to work. More than 20 years old, glued several times, but I finally had to semi-retire them, as after my last glue job, one of them pinched my toes. Maybe I’ll tear them apart and re-glue them one day. My work pants and shirts are mostly patched. Men are notorious for wearing out their clothes and shoes, to where this is not much left of them, so we are typical!

Best,


Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Bill:

You inspired me to make a boot post!

On the far right are my loafers that I have had for more than 20 years and have repeatedly glued. The rest are my four pairs that I hike in, oldest to the right and youngest to the left. The oldest are my last pair of Raichles, and you surely wore something like that long ago. My first pair came apart on the way back from Stout Lake, and this pair I bought when I moved back home in 1997. They have been re-soled once. You don’t see Raichles anymore, as they got rebranded to Mammut. In 2005, I went to “high-tech” boots, that first red pair. You don’t have to break them in. They have been re-soled and I have been duct-taping the inside back of them. The newer red pair is about three years old, I believe, and the last pair I bought last year. I may never need to buy boots again. We’ll see. I have another pair, almost new, but never fit right, so I don’t wear them. That is why the second pair of red ones is the same brand as the first red ones. I found something that worked, and no need to change.

I tried going to leather-free boots long ago, but the only company that made them made them purposefully inferior (long story), and I refused to buy them. Maybe I’ll live to see well-made “vegan” boots, just like being a vegetarian is now hip.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I was just looking at that boot photo, and realized for the first time that my ankle pronation actually bent the tops of those oldest red boots. I just went out and looked at them to confirm what that photo shows. They are legitimately bent. Instead of knock-kneed, think knock-ankled.

When I got my last pair of Raichles, I actually padded the inner ankle cuffs for the first 50 miles or so, as they bruised my legs where the boot top met the lower-end of my legs. Those Raichles are certainly the toughest of my boots, and those others didn’t really have much break-in, especially for the feet, but I can see how my ankle pronation bent those boot tops. On many, maybe even most, hikes, I will take some trip or stumble that would see my ankles sprained, but those sturdy tops prevent it. I suppose that those other boots will have their tops be eventually bent in the same way.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Time for one of my “comprehensive” posts. Anybody with an Internet connection is bombarded with COVID-19 news, and in the USA, the race riots are once again flaring, as they do each generation, it seems.

Pretty much ever since 9/11, whenever there is a mass shooting or similar event, the conspiracist cottage industry produces a “false flag” narrative (Boston Marathon bombing, Sandy Hook shooting, etc.), built on the flimsiest evidence, such as here, for that cop killing that inspired this latest round of protests and riots. I have rarely seen that kind of conspiracist “analysis” hold up to the slightest scrutiny. They are houses of cards that usually collapse on their own. I think there are a few reasons for this, and the rise of the Internet is a big part of it, as anybody can publish anything, and it can go viral in a heartbeat. What is very common is amateur image “analysis” that does not withstand cursory evaluation, and then the author flies off into bizarre paranoid fantasies. For the record, there are real and important conspiracies, which include:

• The ET/exotic technology cover-up;
• The suppression of alternative medicine;
• A generation of political assassinations and attempts in the USA, from JFK to Reagan;
• George Washington’s plan to steal a continent.

Those are important issues, and all of them have their conspiratorial and structural aspects, but most of what passes for “conspiracies” today is the “theorists’” playing with their genitals, to be polite about it, and serves to distract from the important issues. It can help go do deep on an issue or two, as there is a lot of education to be had in the process. Being the target of a global conspiracy was the education of my lifetime and woke me up, and that background was helpful when I began poking into the JFK hit, the Moon landings, the medical racket, etc. The patterns are similar. The GCs are real and vigilant, but humanity does almost all of their dirty work, gratis, which was my journey’s primary lesson.

I am not holding my breath, particularly to see justice rendered in a California courtroom, but a trial on fluoridation is beginning, and I’ll be interested in the outcome. As with heart disease, vegetarianism, and fasting, maybe this will be another topic in which my writings were only a little ahead of their time. I hope that I can live to see free energy come in from the shadows. Then, I know we will have turned the corner, and no longer stand at the edge of the abyss.

While watching the latest circuses play out (and there is a method to the madness), with the pandemic and protests, I have often wondered what Ed would have to say about it. When I read Noam’s Understanding Power recently, he touched on a topic that is quite relevant today. He mentioned that the exploitation of women in the USA was not a good thing, but was a minor issue, compared to what else is happening in the world, and I will expand a little on that topic. I have discussed it before in my work. Sexism and racism are artefacts of our economic systems, and will disappear in the Fifth Epoch. Heck, race itself will disappear, along with nations and other constructs of our scarcity-based systems.

If you are an American with the slightest shred of integrity, the USA’s domestic racism and sexism are insignificant when compared to our imperial behavior, as my great nation slaughters millions and oppresses orders of magnitude more people. The invasion of Iraq is the crime of the 21^st century so far, but the media does not even acknowledge that it is a crime, just like Hitler’s henchmen did, just like the media did about Vietnam. That is how empires work, the USA is no different, and the American people are fully complicit. The Me Too Movement (which became a witch hunt, and mere accusations ended careers), protests over police brutality, identity politics, the conspiracist hyperventilating and the like are obfuscations and distractions from the truly important issues, and the media enables this insanity.

If the media focused on the important issues, the topics would rank roughly like this:

• Our energy practices threaten to make Earth uninhabitable, in a number of ways, from Global Warming to fighting and genocides over the world’s last easy oil, which could portend the end of civilization and maybe the end of humanity;
• The solution to those issues is already on the planet, but is being suppressed in the name of power and profit, the ignorance, complacency, and blindness of the masses is directly complicit, bringing those technologies forward really would not be that difficult to do, and would usher in the biggest event in the human journey;
• Everything else is noise.

We solve that one, and racism and sexism disappear as side-effects, as do poverty, pollution and environmental devastation, nearly all disease, violence and warfare, and a host of scourges of humanity, while the ecosystems heal, ideally with human assistance, as we finally clean up our mess. I have been a voice in the wilderness for many years, besieged by trolls when I engage the public, as the admins incredibly pile on, but I have been slowly building my little band, I have devoted the rest of my life to building that choir, and we will see how it goes.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

To my previous post, I don’t shrink from controversy or mince words. I am a member of history’s most privileged demographic group: white male American professional; and I suppose I might add heterosexual to those attributes. American women and blacks, Native Americans, and the former “Third World” are all oppressed, and largely by my class. If we widen that net a little, I am a beneficiary of what white men have done to humanity for the past several centuries. The benefits of membership in my class are far from lost on me. I understand why I can hike in idyllic environments near my palatial home, which most of humanity will never know. I’ll never take it for granted, while I am highly aware of my privileged status, living near the world’s richest men, who are not exactly “humanitarians” (1, 2 – Bezos owns Washington Post, so PropOrNot is on him).

I have witnessed my “peers” blow fuses when reading this section of my site. My peers are not my target audience, and neither, really, are Americans, not since about 2004. My work will not reach them, and that is OK. Free energy will reach them, as it will all of humanity, but they won’t be reached before then, and I accepted that long ago.

In this little update to Ed’s bio, the source of that discrepancy between what Americans care about versus what the TV news does is here. I’ll admit that that Bloomberg survey could have limited the menu of what people cared about, but if they had listed our latest imperial crimes (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, for instance), do you think that they would top the list? Anywhere close? Nope. Americans simply don’t care about how many millions of people were slaughtered and had their lives shortened and immiserated because of us. Empires (and their imperial citizens) never repent their crimes, unless defeated and forced to admit it (think Germany and Japan after World War II). This essay from 2003 is still the best summary of the American collective conscience that I have seen in my lifetime. Mark Twain’s unpublished essay on lynching is another good one.

While domestic oppression of women, blacks, Latinos, gays, and the like is nothing to be proud of, it is insignificant when compared to our imperial crimes, kind of like lamenting the travails of the British working class while the British inflicted the greatest absolute demographic catastrophe in the human journey with its enslavement of India.

Future historians, if there are any, will rightfully compare today’s USA to Ancient Rome, the Mongol hordes, and Nazi Germany. Heck, we hired many of the worst Nazis and whitewashed their crimes, to turn them into American heroes, and even fashioned our government after Rome’s, such as its Senate and Washington D.C.’s monumental architecture. How many of my fellow Americans can look themselves in the mirror and even ask those questions? Almost none.

I am trying to end all this, which will end the world as we know it. This world deserves to end, and nobody is going to miss it in the Fifth Epoch. Today’s world will seem like a bad dream in the Fifth Epoch, but I can’t do this by myself, and there are not enough like Dennis and Brian for the heroic approach to work. It will be up to the lambs.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I drafted the below this morning, which is a continuation of this:

In PIA’s sixth chapter, MacLeod interviewed Alford regarding the applicability of the PM to the entertainment industry. Alford noted that the PM’s filters were relevant to how the entertainment industry deals with various topics, and particularly its overriding assumption of the state’s benevolence, no matter what crimes it might commit. In Alford’s co-authored National Security Cinema, case studies of Hollywood-produced TV shows and movies were presented, which focused on how military and CIA influence could turn the original scripts on their heads and prevent insufficiently flattering shows from even being made. For instance, the original Iron Man script had an anti-military message, but the final movie had a pro-military message, after military intervention. While MacLeod thought that the PM adequately explained how certain information was filtered from media presentations, he did not think that it was clear about how the PM applied to the active construction of propaganda. Alford noted, as Herman did in his original writings on the PM, the relative strength of the filters was not evident and could not be applied as some kind of formula to predict specific media performance. Alford also mentioned that the pairing analysis that worked so well in Herman and Chomsky’s work was not very applicable to entertainment, as such pairs were difficult to adduce.

As with similar recent works, PIA had chapters devoted to examining the PM’s applicability to the media in non-Western nations, such as former British colonies. In PIA’s seventh chapter, Tabassum Ruhi Khan examined the effect of the PM’s filters on the reporting of a financial scandal in India, how the media avoided presenting information that put India’s ruling class in an unflattering light, and spun the situation in a way that could “befuddle” audiences as it protected the powerful. In PIA’s eighth chapter, Azmat Rasul examined the Indian government’s influence over Bollywood, and the officially declared public relations function of Bollywood productions. In PIA’s ninth chapter, Jacinta Mwende Maweu analyzed the Kenyan media’s coverage of Kenya’s 2017 elections, and described the PM’s filters in action.

In PIA’s tenth chapter, Matt Kennard reported on his experiences while working for the Financial Times. Kennard frankly called the interests that own and influence the media a global “racket,” which is comprised of corporations, financial institutions, and other concentrations of wealth and power. Kennard argued that those interests held the real power on Earth. Kennard applied the PM to what he experienced, and for the first filter, ownership, Kennard wrote, “The media are not just cheerleaders for big business, they are big business.” Kennard worked in the UK, and wrote that just three corporations provided 70% of UK newspaper circulation. Kennard wrote that the indoctrination of journalists to report as the powerful want them to begins in college, and he described his days in Columbia’s journalism program, which is the world’s most prestigious journalist training ground.

Kennard related an anecdote at Columbia, when Henry Kissinger spoke to his class. Kennard was amazed that nobody in the room was about to challenge Kissinger while they tossed him softball questions, such as on the human rights situation in China. Alford, however, asked Kissinger how he slept at night after overthrowing Chile’s government and killing millions in Southeast Asia. His question cast a pall over the room, his instructor then moved to stand behind Kissinger in support, tried to silence Kennard with gestures, later told Kennard that he had “disgraced” himself by asking that question, and his reputation as a troublemaker at Columbia was thereby established. Kennard wrote that obedience to authority was deeply inculcated into Columbia’s students, so that in their careers they would rarely even question the establishment framework that they wrote from within.

Kennard noted that unless journalists had completely digested their pro-corporate conditioning, they would be “cast aside” in the workplace. Kennard eventually realized that journalism itself was a “racket,” and in response wrote The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs. the Masters of the Universe, published in 2015.

After Kennard left the Financial Times to write for other organizations, he saw that so-called “liberal” publications such as the Guardian and the Times were as corrupted as conservative publications, as they have the same owners and advertisers, rely on the same sources, and act identically. Kennard called the so-called liberal/conservative spectrum of reporting an “illusion” of an independent media that challenges power, when it is really one of power’s arms. Kennard wrote about how both “right” and “left” media produced black propaganda regarding Venezuela and its leader Chavez, who challenged corporate and imperial hegemony. Kennard optimistically concluded his chapter with: “Soon both old politics and old media will be confined to the dustbin of history.”

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I just drafted this addition to this section of Ed’s bio.

Herman and Peterson discussed Pinker’s use of sources, such as Pinker’s repeated citations of Rudolf Rummel’s work. In Rummel’s Death by Government, which is his chief scholarly work, which was one of four of his works that Pinker cited, he produced a “prudent” estimate of the USA’s “democide” deaths in Vietnam as 5,500, while attributing 1.7 million democide deaths to the “communist” government of North Vietnam. In Rummel’s definition of democide, “the killing of non-combatants must be carried out by agents acting on behalf of a government, with the clear intent to kill members of a targeted population.”

Herman and Peterson wrote:


“Free-fire zones, high-level saturation bombing, destruction of villages in order to ‘save them,’ napalm, cluster bombs, the use of ‘six times’ the tonnage of ‘bombs and shells’ against Vietnam (South and North) than it used during all of World War II (acknowledged by Rummel), and the widespread application of chemical weapons to destroy civilian crops (Operation Ranch Hand), the last causing crippling damage to hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese children, fail to resonate with Rummel, for whom it remains an article of faith that the United States did not deliberately harm civilians in the war.”


Herman and Peterson concluded that Rummel’s work was, “[…] extreme fanaticism masquerading as scholarship.” The authors noted that, in contrast to Rummel’s anticommunist writings that Pinker liberally cited, no mention was made of the work of fellow Harvard professor Amartya Sen, whose work covered similar subject matter to Pinker’s study, for which Sen won a Nobel Prize. But, instead of assailing communism, Sen and frequent co-author Jean Drèze discussed the failings of capitalist systems, such as in their Hunger and Public Action. Whereas Pinker described the famine in China between 1959 and 1961 as an event that Mao Zedong “masterminded,” Sen and Drèze did not make such an attribution of intent, compared the situations of communist China and capitalist India, and concluded that, “India seems to manage to fill its cupboard with more skeletons every eight years than China put there in its years of famine.”

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I just finished drafting my summary of the conclusion of Propaganda in the Information Age:


PIA’s concluding chapter was written by MacLeod, who observed that with the rise of the Internet, decline in print media, and rise in nationalism and xenophobia, journalism was in a state of “economic and moral crisis,” and that only 43% of humanity and 38% of Americans trusted the news. MacLeod noted the welcome rise in academic interest in the PM and its applicability to media across the world, particularly in the capitalist West. No Western nation’s media is free from the PM’s structural constraints, media ownership is more concentrated than ever, and MacLeod wrote that the PM is more relevant than ever and “remains an indispensable tool for understanding the political economy of the modern media.” MacLeod concluded the book with the statement that it was the “duty of academics, intellectuals and all thoughtful people to fight against it, exposing the media for what it is, and to manufacture dissent.”


As far as Ed’s bio goes, I think that is about the last major part of the update. I am not sure that I will mention it in Ed’s bio, but the introduction of Matt Taibbi’s Hate Inc. is an account of how Manufacturing Consent was kind of a nuclear bomb in Taibbi’s 19-year-old mind, as he planned to follow his father into journalism, to only have Manufacturing Consent turn everything upside-down what he believed about journalism. Taibbi dragged along his battered copy of Manufacturing Consent everywhere he went, during his journalism career, and when he finally got into the business, he realized that Herman and Chomsky’s masterpiece was pretty much on-target. He originally intended Hate Inc. to be an update of Manufacturing Consent, but it soon became something else, and his book argued that Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow play to different audiences: Hannity to “conservatives” and Maddow to “progressives,” but both shows are essentially the same, which serve to distract and divide Americans.

Now, I will work on the new essay. This should not take long. There will be some academic interest in that essay. I interacted with a bunch of Ed’s pals in academia and elsewhere, and there will be interest in it. I doubt that it will rock Wikipedia’s boat much, but will be one more of the thousand duck pecks that Wikipedia is getting these days. Philip Cross’s hypocritical deletion of a reference to my work, while sprucing up the references to work that is arguably less notable than mine and but has the virtue of being libelous, will be duly documented.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I admit that I have not been paying much attention to the Seattle protests and current local events. My town was on curfew last week, as shooting, robbing, and looting came to our vicinity. I have been keenly aware of the homeless problem in Seattle for nearly 40 years, and worked in Skid Row LA for six months. The next year, a documentary on homeless kids in Seattle was nominated for an Academy Award. I recall one acquaintance that needed to get drunk after watching it, but it was just a slice of my daily life back then, but my drinking problems really began to flourish then, too.

I recently mentioned marching on the eve of the WTO protests in 1999, and am glad that I missed the teargas the next day. Seattle has been the site of stuff like this for more than a century. Seattle had one of the biggest Occupy Movement crowds, but what I read about this evening was on another level. When it made the British press and trended on Yahoo!, I decided to see what was happening.

All I can say is that I pray that it ends peacefully, but Trump is getting all riled up. Will what is happening help to demilitarize the police? Will more Americans really wake up? We’ll see. I don’t see any of this helping any kind of choir effort, but I would love to be wrong. And the year is not half over yet!

Best,

Wade

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
And the year is not half over yet!

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Bill:

Bring it on! But first, I need to talk to Scotty about getting beamed up.

When writing about that student who challenged Kissinger and nearly got thrown out of the program because of it, it took me back to when I was 14, in ninth grade. It was in a gifted class, they would bring in people to talk to us periodically, and once a retired judge came in. I had no awareness of our judicial system at time, and it would have been about two years after Gary’s career ended, after he refused to participate in a frame job, and was framed instead.

That judge seemed like a kindly old man, and in our class, he told a story, which was the centerpiece of his talk. He told it in a friendly way, and it was a polished performance, but his tale was about some big-mouthed braggart, a salesman type, who bragged his way through life, and just as he was about to tell another bragging story, a piece of shrapnel from a distant industrial explosion killed him in mid-sentence. That was the end of his story, and the moral of his story was that it could not have happened to a nicer guy. At that age, I doubt that I had ever heard a mean-spirited story like that, and to this day, it was a jarring contrast, to see this avuncular old man telling a story that, in the end, was kind of horrifying and mean-spirited. I’ll bet that the judge was named in Gary’s book, but I’ll never remember his name.

The teacher had written the judge’s name on the chalkboard before his talk, and after he told his story, we had a ten-minute bathroom break. When we returned, somebody had written “phony” under the judge’s name. When we reconvened, the teacher made an announcement about that “phony” on the chalkboard, and invited whoever wrote it to come forward or approach the teacher after the class and discuss it with him and the retired judge. Nobody came forward, and I doubt that anybody did later. When it happened, it seemed like just another juvenile prank to me, but nearly 50 years later, I wonder if that graffiti artist knew something that the rest of us didn’t.

Best,

Wade

[Billy Vasiliadis]

I'm trying to understand what it is we are seeing now with the protests and calls for change. That article you posted Wade about what is happening in Seattle blew my mind while I was reading it. So surreal.

It has gotten me thinking about your work. I know you talk a lot about awakening to the reality of FE and it's release as being the only thing which can truly turn this around but I can't help but wonder if these protests can indeed spark some positive change.

I guess my question is, what level and depth of change do you think is possible as a result of all this? Is it just hacking at branches or can these efforts turn into something greater?

Here is a, imo, good video from Russell Brand where he concisely summarises what is going on:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=H1T08YOLd0s

When he talks about a solution to this global issue, he mentions needing to sacrifice certain things and being willing to change. Both are things I think are important but are they enough? I suppose this ties in with your series of comprehensive posts.

[Wade Frazier]

First of all, Billy, thank you for your heartfelt question. Work from the heart – that is what it is all about. As Chris wrote not long ago, few people ever wake up on their own, but through some external circumstance.

I have written plenty on my awakening, and how my fellow travelers awoke. Are more people awakening today? Sure they are. Is it enough, and are they awake enough for work like mine to become meaningful to them? We’ll see.

My nephew sent me this this morning, and no surprise that it was a California cop. What was refreshing in that former cop’s essay is that he recognized that he was a goon for capitalism, which requires a permanent underclass to exploit, and his job was to keep them oppressed. Russell Brand’s video that you linked to was refreshing in his nascent understanding of the global dimensions of the modern slave system, which has deep roots, as I have recently written about. That stuff is nice to see, but I think that you can also see that they are operating from within a scarcity assumption, and reshuffling the deck of scarcity is not going to be the answer, as Uncle Bucky said long ago. Only free energy can break the back of scarcity, and I have almost never met or heard of anybody who has made that leap. Even the people pursuing free energy are almost always trapped in their scarcity-based conditioning. Even the people advocating post-scarcity economic systems are trapped in scarcity, such as Stallman.

I really could go on for weeks and months on what you just brought up, but in short, after 9/11, I had some hope that Americans might begin to awaken, but instead, we went neo-Nazi and committed the greatest crime of the 21st century so far. When we had the financial collapse of 2008-2009, I thought that we would finally awaken to the structural evil of capitalism and our financial system, but that didn’t happen. The very same actors who created that mess got bailed out, and the global financial system decided to keep doing what created the mess in first place, but do it on steroids. A collapse is coming which will dwarf all others. Will that wake up enough people so that we turn the corner, or will we have World War III as a result?

So, I see all of this as maybe jolting a few more people out of their stupors, but only something like free energy will see us turn the corner, and realistically, only something like what I am doing has a prayer of making a dent in today’s environment, and everything else is hacking at branches. Is some of that hacking maybe getting a little closer to the root? Maybe a little, but the people who are going to right the ship have to go deep, completely awaken, see where the root is, and go after that, instead of propose some kind of austerity solution, as Brand was suggesting. Austerity is not the answer.

The people I seek need to realize that all of our dominant ideologies are founded on the assumption of scarcity, and mainstream science is no answer, either. It is subsumed under capitalism and imperialism, although subtly, so subtly that even people like Noam don’t realize how they drank materialism’s Kool-Aid, which is not the good stuff.

I have been reading a lot of NDE and channeled stuff lately, such as these (1, 2, 3), among others, and the consistency over the millennia is impressive, and it all makes clear that what passes for religion today is often the opposite of the teachings of the masters or what people report from the other side, as it is all based on fear, not love, as that is how societies can be manipulated. The priests are as much warriors for the moneyed class as those cops are.

Deliver free energy into people’s lives and kill scarcity, and people are going to begin to awaken pretty fast, but before then, it is going to be fitful, and people like me will still be searching for needles in haystacks. Nobody would be happier than me to see the Muppet Movie ending to this stuff, and hell will one day be closed for business, and we’ll see how much progress we make in the coming years. Time is definitely short.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am hard at work on my essay on the Propaganda Model and Wikipedia, and revising Ed’s bio. The essays are interrelated, and I’ll publish them at the same time. Because I am currently Ed’s only biographer, I also take extra care to keep the bio to Ed’s work and leave my work out of it, although the Propaganda Model and Wikipedia essay deals with my experiences with Wikipedia, so it will necessarily be more related to my work. In Ed’s bio, I don’t make any reference to my work, other than documents and images that I host on my site. It is kind of a delicate dance.

Writing my essays is hard work, but it is also creative and rewarding work. I deal with so many subjects that a lot of what I do in conceiving my essays is deciding their thrust, what to leave in and leave out, how I will structure them, etc. I have written that when I began writing my big essay, I thought that maybe I could say it in 50 pages. The big essay’s word count is currently about the count of this book. It is somewhat less than a tome. It will definitely grow in the update, but I don’t expect it to hugely grow. I will be surprised if its length increases by 50% from how it stands today but we’ll see.

The initial germ of the new essay was planted when Wikipedia erased my work nearly two years ago, but making it about Wikipedia and the Propaganda Model is a relatively recent idea, and I am happy that I let that idea ferment in my mind for a couple of years before I embarked on writing that essay. I had the initial idea for what became my big essay about six years before I wrote it, and began studying for it in 2007. Two years of distance from the events with Ed’s bio and Wikipedia helps me gain a more impersonal perspective of the events, and it is fitting that Ed is the primary author of the Propaganda Model and that Wikipedia’s bio of Ed is propaganda. That intersection of Ed’s work and Wikipedia’s treatment of it is kind of irresistible, and that I am in the middle of those events kind of makes it my obligation to write my upcoming essay, and I need to be very careful to do it justice, so it can be something that Ed would approve of. The shoes he left behind are insanely large, and it is intimidating in ways to try to fill them to the smallest degree. What an honor and labor of love it has been, but also one that has demanded a lot of self-discipline.

Another reason for my upcoming essay is that I will still link to Wikipedia from my big essay, after an internal debate on that issue for years. I won’t link to obvious propaganda articles, which means most of the articles with any political-economic relevance. Noam still reads the New York Times each day, and says it is still a good source of information, but people need to read it with a very critical eye.

Let’s see, what I might post up today. I have been working on a chapter of my new essay on Wikipedia’s filters, and comparing them to the Propaganda Model’s filters. This is only a partially drafted chapter, but the published version will likely be organized like the below. I plan to publish both essays this month, and will likely be fairly quiet, forum-wise, until I do.

Best,

Wade

Wikipedia’s Filters

Chomsky argued that the PM was only a special case of the structural constraints that all intellectuals in capitalist societies are subjected to. The PM is essentially a conflict-of-interest model, in which the ideal in democratic societies – the media’s objectively informing the public, so that the citizenry can make knowledgeable decisions – is subverted by antidemocratic influences, which Herman and Chomsky identified as owners, advertisers, the news sources themselves, attacks on the media when they fail to conform to the dictates of those three influences, and the ideological milieu, which was anticommunism during the Cold War and variously became the “miracle of the market” and antiterrorism after the Cold War ended, although the portrayal of Russia as a grave threat to the USA has had a revival in the past decade, which was the subject of the last essay that Herman published to the Internet in his lifetime, and was a regular subject of his in his last years.

Wikipedia is a nonprofit organization that does not accept advertising, so the PM would seem to have limited applicability. But since Herman’s Wikipedia biography today is propaganda, and all efforts to improve that biography have been defeated by Wikipedia’s editors and administrators, there are profound filters at Wikipedia. First, this chapter will discuss the PM’s original filters and their applicability to Wikipedia, other filters will then be discussed, including filters previously suggested to enhance the PM, and filters that seem unique to Wikipedia.

First, the original PM’s filters…

• Size, ownership, and profit orientation

There is nothing else like Wikipedia on the Internet today, and it is by far history’s largest encyclopedia, with millions of articles. Although Wikipedia is nominally non-profit, its founder, Jimmy Wales, is a fan of Ayn Rand and her homage to capitalism. Wales met his current wife, who was Tony Blair’s secretary, while speaking at the capitalist conference at Davos, to provide an example of how cozy to power Wales is.

The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, is staffed by academics, Internet entrepreneurs, and the inventor of the Wiki, and might seem democratic, but as with all organizations, following the money can be a telling exercise. The leading donors to Wikipedia have been the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (which helped establish, along with the Rockefeller dynasty, the direction of orthodox cancer research and treatment in the past century, which has been anything but auspicious, in my opinion), which donated $3 million, and in 2018, Amazon donated $1 million. Amazon uses a great deal of Wikipedia’s content in its Alexa application. There are interlocks and dependencies with tech giants such as Google, Apple, and Microsoft, and Wikipedia has publicly solicited funding from those sources. So-called philanthropic arms of those organizations have been deeply involved with Wikipedia, and one current board member worked for the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, as well as Bill Clinton when he was president. While Wikipedia may be nominally non-profit, it is dominated by corporate relationships and the corporate “philanthropic” arms. While such relationships may seem reasonable, Wikipedia can hardly act independently of those interests, and such relationships surely impact Wikipedia’s presentations regarding such “donors.” Most NGOs have been corrupted by funding issues, and Wikipedia is no different.

• The advertising license to do business

Wikipedia does not accept advertising, and on this issue, Wikipedia is arguably free of an influence that corrupts the corporate media. However, Wikipedia often becomes free advertising for corporations, as articles about corporations are often managed by themselves, although surreptitiously, and far greater conflicts of interest in editing Wikipedia have been uncovered, such as the CIA’s and FBI’s editing of articles, which will be further discussed below. So, while Wikipedia may seem to be free from advertiser bias, it is effectively a public relations conduit, while seeming to be objective, and in that way, it is an integral aspect of corporate messaging.

• The sourcing of mass media news

In this area, Wikipedia’s policies form an interlock with the mainstream media, so that Wikipedia has become a de facto conduit of the propaganda that Herman and Chomsky spent their lives exposing. This is a structural issue, and is reminiscent of the “concision” excuse for why Chomsky is almost never in the American media, which Wikipedia even has an article on. Wikipedia has a policy of using only “reliable sources” for its articles. What is a reliable source? As the rude admin who erased my changes to Herman’s biography and related articles stated, reliable sources are mainstream sources. If the mainstream produces propaganda, Wikipedia’s purpose is to summarize and present such propaganda as the truth. So, by its self-adopted principles, Wikipedia is a place to summarize mainstream views, like a parrot. That just about says it all for Wikipedia.

• Flak and the enforcers

My experiences with Wikipedia clearly demonstrate that Wikipedia provides its own flak to its editors, as it protects its patrons. I had experience with Internet troll in another venue who became noted Wikipedia editor, and such editors almost always hide behind their anonymity. At least my Wikipedia administrator assailant was a real person, but he was one of only a few that I encountered at Wikipedia. Virtually all of the rest were anonymous. Wikipedia itself has been relatively immune from litigation, as it claims that it is not responsible for its content. However, Wikipedia engages in editorial oversight, as was exercised on my work, but under false pretenses. As with most propaganda, Wikipedia’s sins are more about lies of omission than commission, although lies of commission are in Herman’s bio today, after repeated attempts to remove them.

• Anticommunism as a control mechanism

With the peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union, anticommunism and/or anti-Russian sentiment declined in the USA, to rise again in the 2010s. Wikipedia’s overriding ideology is evident in Herman’s bio, if nothing else. The pro-capitalist stance of its founder, and Wikipedia’s many corporate interlocks and other influences, have understandably helped make Wikipedia a conduit of Establishment views.

Various academics have proposed additional filters to the PM’s original five. Some of them are listed and discussed below.

• Racism

The racism reflected in the massacre list that my friend and I tried to improve upon in 2008 was unequivocal. The almost immediate deletion of our additions by the editors and admins put an exclamation point on the racism behind their activities. That list is almost unchanged, 12 years later, and is a testament to the racism of Wikipedia’s editors and admins.

• Sexism

Sexism has long been an issue in “enlightened” high-tech. In 2015, The Atlantic published an article on Wikipedia’s sexism among the editors, which also influenced Wikipedia’s content. I write about sexism in my work a great deal, but I confess to not really focusing on that issue at Wikipedia, other than to note that all of my assailant editors and administrators have been men, to my knowledge. The so-called gender gap at Wikipedia does not appear to have gotten any better since 2015. It is also an endemic issue in high-tech.

• Agency

Agency is the idea that journalists act as agents of various interests in their reporting, particularly their advocacy of the interests of political and economic elites. Herman and Chomsky stressed that the perpetrators rarely even understood what they were doing, as they had digested their indoctrination and their work rather unconsciously conformed to the PM’s filters, without any flak needing to be applied. That idea is certainly applicable to Wikipedia’s editors and admins. However, there is also a great deal of active agency, in that the editors and admins are consciously working on behalf of various interests but have not disclosed it, which the anonymity at Wikipedia, and in the Internet in general, allows them to do. In more innocent days, the CIA’s and FBI’s edits to Wikipedia were relatively easy to spot. Similar to how the USA privatized covert action after overthrowing Iran’s government, there is no doubt that the same interests are actively corrupting Wikipedia’s content, but using agents with no obvious link to them, to provide plausible deniability. I can guarantee that if all of the conflicts of interest at Wikipedia, among their editors and admins, were exposed, it would be the Internet scandal of the year.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I just had something happen that is a sign of the times. I have been doing business with Amazon since the 1990s, and these days, I have been buying a fair amount through them. I am getting kind of bombarded with offers to get Amazon credit cards, and even my credit card company is beating my door down with offers from Amazon.

So, today, I finally bit on one of them and looked at my Amazon account. My public profile was unchanged for about 20 years, and used my web site’s address from 20 years ago, before it became ahealedplanet.net. I decided to update it with the ahealedplanet.net address. I didn’t change my profile’s self-description, which said:


“I am a free energy revolutionary who woke up the hard way.”


It said that for 20 years or more, which I probably wrote when I opened my account. So, changing my site’s address on my profile woke somebody up at Amazon. They deleted that sentence, and sent me an email that said:


“We have determined that content in your public profile does not adhere to Amazon's Community Guidelines.”


God only knows what they found objectionable about it, whether it was my mention of free energy, that I woke up, or that it was the hard way. Well, they won’t get any more of my time for coming up with something acceptable. Amazon and Bezos get some ink in my upcoming essay, not all of it flattering, and I guess that fair is fair. I’ll consider that a little pre-emptive censorship on Amazon’s part. Maybe they will also delete the few book reviews that I made so long ago. Strange times.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I worked on my new essay, I got the idea of making a little more lemonade out of the Wikipedia situation: making a Wikiquotes page for Brian, like I did for Ed. They probably won’t erase that.

As I write about my experiences with Wikipedia, in a chapter titled: “Wikipedia: In Theory and Practice – My Experiences,” I thought about what I did and what got censored, and there is just one place where Wikipedia had a leg to stand on. I believe that I have written about it publicly before, but I don’t have it in my main Brian thread yet, so here goes.

My only legitimate “crime” at Wikipedia was adding these words to Brian’s bio:


“After completing a Ph.D. thesis on the physical properties of the Martian surface, O'Leary was specifically selected for a potential manned Mars mission when it was still in NASA’s program plan.”


They come from NASA’s bio of Brian, and it was either a plagiarism or copyright violation, I am not sure which, which were part of my three “crimes” which justified the erasure of my work.

So, even though those words are taken verbatim from Brian’s NASA bio, they are the words that I submitted to NASA, and Brian wrote them. It was the only part of his bio that I had him write, as it was his unique distinction and he was best qualified to write that part. So, having Brian’s own words in his Wikipedia bio was my crime. I am guilty as charged, and the only other “legitimate” “crime” that I committed was that I was a fan of Ed’s who corresponded with him, which allegedly gave me a conflict of interest. My conflict was far greater with Brian, who was a friend and colleague.

Below is from my current draft of my new essay:

Agency

Agency is the idea that journalists act as agents of various interests in their reporting, particularly their advocacy of the interests of political and economic elites. Herman and Chomsky stressed that the perpetrators rarely even understood what they were doing, as they had digested their indoctrination to the degree that they unconsciously conformed to the PM’s filters in their work, without any flak or other management. That idea is applicable to Wikipedia’s editors and admins. However, there is also a great deal of willful agency, in that the editors and admins are consciously working on behalf of various interests but have not disclosed it, which the anonymity at Wikipedia, and in the Internet in general, abets. Hired editors are a standard practice at Wikipedia. I just entered “Wikipedia editing for hire” into Google, and nearly the entire first page of results was about companies that edit Wikipedia for hire, and about half of the results were ads by such editing companies. Editing Wikipedia is big business. Amateurs at Wikipedia are going up against professionals, working on behalf of their clients, and who won’t disclose their conflicts of interest. That is an example of the agency filter at the extreme.


My so-called conflict of interest does not even register on the scale, compared to hired editors who work at Wikipedia. But, unlike companies that literally hire themselves out to edit Wikipedia, or the spooks at the CIA and FBI who surreptitiously edit Wikipedia, or operations such as Philip Cross operation, my crime was being honest enough to admit my bias and disclose my identity, unlike the zillions who don’t.

The other ironic aspect of Brian’s sentence on being hired to go to Mars is that a famous space debunker immediately attacked that sentence, with a truly idiotic debunking exercise. That attack led to Brian’s giving me his von Braun and Shepard anecdotes.

So, it is indeed ironic to me that that sentence was the only one that I could legitimately be accused of “plagiarism” or a copyright violation, when they were Brian’s words that I submitted to NASA.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

It is time for one of those posts, on how I see the big picture and where my work might fit in. I am reading this on the human afterlife, recently read this from an NDE experiencer, and I recently read this, which is the best channeled work that I have encountered in a long time.

That human afterlife book, A Wanderer in the Spirit Lands, really got into the physics of Creation, and it was very consistent with what has been reported for millennia, and that book was written in 1896. It was written from the perspective of an Italian stallion, Franchezzo, who screwed up pretty good in his life and had to “work off” his penance after his untimely death, and then helped others escape their “hells,” for those who finally got tired of them, as he learned what love really was. It was very similar to Bruce Moen’s journeys, and Max’s Hell fits right in. A Wanderer in the Spirit Lands is Franchezzo’s account of his afterlife adventures, and the hells he visited were often populated by Catholic Church officials who ran the Inquisition and performed other delightful tasks.

I can’t overemphasize that people need to have their own mystical awakenings before any of that stuff makes much sense. Otherwise, they are usually in thrall to this Epoch’s religion: materialism. All of this world’s religions are built on false faiths, and materialism is just the latest. Ten seconds into the first “case” I ever participated in, materialism was blown to shreds, and then it was my turn, and I performed similarly. Receiving veridical information like that removes any doubt.

In Tricia Barker’s NDE book, when she left her body when her heart stopped on the operating table, in her out-of-body state, she saw her stepfather get a Snickers candy bar from a hospital vending machine, which surprised her, as she did not think he was a candy-bar kind of guy, but a health nut. When she later told her skeptical mother about her experience, her mother confirmed that her stepfather had indeed stepped out for a Snickers bar when her father arrived at the hospital, to help defuse the situation.

Her mother was initially excited about the Snickers bar incident when Tricia told her about it, but after talking with her minister, she decided that her daughter was under Satan’s influence. According to Biblical literalists, NDEs are encounters with Satan, unless they meet Jesus and get handed a harp by Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates.

I mentioned a recent Scientific American article, as another scientist took a run at a materialistic explanation for NDEs, like Blackmore did. In order to do that, they have to dismiss any and all veridical perceptions when people are “dead,” and other feats of ignorance, to then concoct their laughable hypotheses. They don’t get it, that you can’t explore such things within a materialistic framework, as the evidence blows materialism to shreds.

As I read up a lot on Noam for the update to Ed’s bio, he said essentially the same thing about the USA’s imperial press. The idea that the USA invaded Indochina and perpetrated multiple genocides is unthinkable, so that truth, that is so obvious to anybody on Earth other than American journalists, is never even mentioned. They did the same thing with Iraq’s invasion. Empires never commit crimes, just mistakes, and no mountain of corpses, no matter how high, of mostly women and children, can dent their unwavering faith. Chomsky said that such understandings were “dysfunctional” to the institutions, so would never even be acknowledged, just like how their Propaganda Model is dismissed in the mainstream.

Whether they are Bible bangers, materialists who deny the legitimacy of NDEs, or imperial pundits who can never admit the obvious, it is the same dynamic playing out repeatedly, and the question is whether humans are inherently dishonest, just not quite sentient yet, or both.

The lessons from those situations are directly related to my efforts. The recent confession by a California cop was no surprise at all, as I learned those lessons, in spades, long ago. The people with the right stuff to help an effort like mine are few and far between on our planet today, and I accepted that long ago. We might not turn the corner as a species, and if it turns out that way, there won’t be any mystery why, at least among the honest and sentient.

But what the channeled and mystical material, or at least the stuff I respect the most, all agree on is that evolution, at both the physical and mystical levels, is a fact of existence, and Franchezzo was adamant that life in Earth is not nearly as brutal as it once was, and that eventually humanity will leave evil behind. How about next week?

My studies have borne out Franchezzo’s opinion. With each Epoch, as the energy surplus and human standards of living have risen, societies have become more humane. The Peaceful Savage myth is just that, I consider Douglas Fry’s work well-intended but misguided, and that Noam endorsed it will be another one of our disagreements.

When there is plenty, there is peace, and the Fifth Epoch will be all about plenty, but enough people need to be able to just imagine it (which is no easy feat), first, and come together, to overcome humanity’s inertia and the organized suppression.

So, the next big step of evolution is upon us. Do we get over the hump, or slide all the way back down to the bottom of hill, and start over, on a planet where we likely won’t have opposable thumbs? The outcome will likely be decided, one way or another, before this century ends. People born today will see how it plays out. This is it.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

My natal city has had a radical reputation for the past century, but that isn’t saying much. The biggest run ever made to bring alternative energy to the marketplace happened in Seattle in 1985, but it was wiped out by the electric companies and their minions. The gangsters in Washington’s legal system and elsewhere in the power structure, including the media, are still around, which is one reason why I refuse to speak publicly in my natal city. All I can say for them is that they were not as bad as the gangsters that run the city that I grew up in.

The two women from the Attorney General’s office who assailed Dennis became law school professors at a university right next to the protest zone. Betsy finally got caught with her hand in the cookie jar a few years ago, while Ms. Pinch Hitter is a noted “philanthropist.” Nice work if you can get it.

I was born only a few blocks from where CHAZ/CHOP is. That this latest protest is going sour, with a celebratory shooting yesterday, is no surprise. We are a gun nut nation, and mass shootings have become one of our claims to fame these days. I don’t need to tell anybody that the gardens the protestors planted won’t feed one protestor. Reshuffling the deck of scarcity is no solution at all.

I want to briefly describe what I am doing and where it might fit in, as an extension of my previous post. My work does not seek to “confront” the authorities, but to make them obsolete, along with almost everything else about today’s world, and nobody will miss them in the Fifth Epoch. But we won’t get there through “protest” and other conflict orientations. I have done plenty of marching in Seattle, never in protest, but for demonstrations for peace and helping the world’s downtrodden. One of the last ones I did was just before our invasion of Iraq, walking around Green Lake, where I lived near and walked around as a child. While we walked, there were memorials for a local woman who had just died, run over by an Israeli bulldozer, as she tried to protect Palestinian homes. The same friend who introduced me to the man who barely beat out the former Attorney General for governor, when we marched in supporting the forgiveness of Third World debt just before the WTO meeting, knew that killed woman, and I once sat in on one of his classes at the college that he attended with her. The class was devoted to studying Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel, which influenced me somewhat, as it was in 1998 or 1999, while I was studying and writing my website, largely as it stands today.

That same friend and his wife led a vigil on a street corner in the town where I live today, where Microsoft’s headquarters are, for about a year, protesting our invasion of Iraq. I stood with them for one of the vigils. Basically, cars whizzed past, and one honked once in a while in solidarity, but what I remember best was a bearded man in a pickup truck giving us the finger as he drove past. My friend’s wife got her 15 minutes of fame when the local media briefly covered the vigil she led, and her message for the public was that invading Iraq did not serve our self-interest. Geez! What a way to try to reach the public, as if nobody could really handle the fact that the invasion of Iraq is the greatest crime of the 21^st century so far. It would be as if some Germans protested the invasion of Poland in 1939, and their message was that the invasion would not turn out well for Germany in the end, which was the case, but it was not exactly an appeal to people’s consciences. I guess that she knew her audience.

That kind of epitomizes most “protest,” as it is basically self-serving in nature. If all of the demonstrations that I have been part of would have instead been devoted to free energy, the Fifth Epoch would already be here. But those ideas are far, far more radical than the most “progressive” minds can wrap their heads around today. So, I am a voice in the wilderness, hunting for those needles in haystacks.

I am an Artisan soul who has been a spear carrier for the great. I finally realized that the heroic approach would not work, as there are not enough true heroes on Earth for that approach, and the mass movement approach will not work, as it is always based on lowest-common denominator strategies that are usually self-serving at their root, and that won’t work, not for this Epochal task.

So, I am doing something else. I don’t know if it will only help a little, or it will be the critical missing ingredient that I have seen in all free energy efforts so far, but I have to try it out. It is worth one man’s life to try it out.

There is more to write, but I have chores to get to.

Best,

Wade