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News Briefs 01-05-2017

By Gregon

Me, IRL, when someone wants to talk to me…

Quote of the Day:

Subjectivity is the only thing that we know is objectively real.

Alan Moore

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Greg is the owner-editor of The Daily Grail, as well as the author of a number of books including Stop Worrying, There Probably is an Afterlife.
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  1. CustodyWars
    Divorce laws have created a type of class system in which a man can only marry (or even have sex) below his own socio-economic standing at great peril. The courts heavily favor the woman when it comes to custody issues. As long as a woman wants her children, she will invariably get them (along with child support directly proportional to the father’s income), and regardless of how badly she has acted. The courts claim to protect the welfare of the children, but there is absolutely no accountability regarding how child support is spent after it is awarded.

    A father can also be dragged back into court at the whim of the mother (to request additional support), and is forced to once again disclose all financial information, credit card statements, etc., etc. It’s a totally humiliating process. On the bright side, it may be helping to reduce world population.

    1. One of the curiosities of the
      One of the curiosities of the moment is the Kardashianesque fascination with Alex Jones’ personal life indulged in by people who would otherwise consider themselves above all that. I have a few friends and family members who have been unhinged by Jones perhaps because of a visceral dislike of his personality more than his political views or ideas. It’s obvious though that he is perceived as an existential threat to some entrenched interests who cannot just be dismissive of him but have spent a lot of money and effort trying to, as they say, “assassinate his character.” I can’t think of anyone else on the American scene for the past 50 years who has attracted such rabid and concerted vilification except for Trump.
      In the case of Jones the media detractors appear to have given up on just marginalizing him with satire and now are engaged in the same scorched earth policy used on Trump until he suddenly began “acting presidential” after loosing those cruise missiles on Syria to remediate what has turned out to be yet another false flag attack.
      It can’t be any more obvious that the whole enterprise of vaporizing Trump and his perceived agents is mostly a War Machine project. Making scary WAR has always been the easiest way to steal money from the hoi-polloi and put it firmly into the coffers of what Bush Sr. liked to call “higher, righter and tighter hands.”

      1. From the Feelings-Not-Truth-Dept
        The weapons-grade persuasion techniques used in yer last election (whose whole purpose was to get someone elected) are, like unexploded munitions, still are affecting people.

        That added to the failing business model of something that is dreadfully necessary to our civilization a free and responsible and competent press

        Is leading imho to the ridiculing and flaying of other people who are even associated with either Trump (sexism n racism n Hitler etc) or Hillary (criminal and weak etc)

        This global telepathy experiment certainly is fascinating

        I notice how quickly I am coming to accept as normal news stories that are sourced by internet handles and are just aboot twitter words et al

        Amazing

        Bizarre

        Human

      2. Assassinate?
        I am just going to leave a few IdiotWars headlines here:

        Subliminal Super Bowl Illuminati Secrets Revealed
        Alex Jones: Is Michelle Obama Transgender?
        Global Warming is a Crock of Shit
        Obama Caught Running ISIS
        Why Does Popular Culture Glorify Being A Pussy
        Why Are Feminists Fat & Ugly?

        And my personal all time favourite:

        NWO Opening Thousands Of Portals To Ancient Demons

        His batshit insane character does not need any “character assassination”. He has done a pretty good job on his own. But actually you made a valid point here: his lawyer argued in the pretrial hearings that “Alex Jones, InfoWars host” is merely a performance-art character who has no impact on “Alex Jones, father of three.”

        Let that sink in for a moment: “merely a performance-art character” who thinks NWO is opening portals to ancient demons. Sure sounds legit.

        1. The “problem” with Jones is
          The “problem” with Jones is that he is quite obviously getting the goat of some people far more effectively than,say,the National Enquirer. You do not see this much coordinated invective unleashed on the Enquirer. Now, why do you think that is?

        2. The “problem” with Jones is
          The “problem” with Jones is that he is quite obviously getting the goat of some people far more effectively than,say,the National Enquirer. You do not see this much coordinated invective unleashed on the Enquirer. Now, why do you think that is?

  2. Vindication for Hancock (Revisted)
    I think Hancock is only vindicated in the sense that he is still (even after all these decades) like a “voice crying in the wilderness” about the importance of the so-called Stone Age. He has been more successful than most in keeping this topic alive within popular consciousness.

    Gobekli Tepe was a game-changer, but the orthodoxy has naturally been slow to assimilate the finding. There even seems to be a growing tendency to downplay Gobekli Tepe. At any rate, it has provided an opportunity for Hancock and other alternative researchers to continue annoying the mainstream. Unfortunately, it has also resulted in books that have the appearance of being “rushed to market” instead of being carefully constructed and edited for popular consumption.

    Magicians of the Gods was excoriated by this review (and it is hard to deny most of the claims):

    http://www.jasoncolavito.com/magicians-of-the-gods-review.html#.WQdF3dLyuUk

    The same reviewer (Jason Colavito) was even more disappointed with the more recent “Gobekli Tepe Update” by Bauval and Schoch of their own work:

    http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-the-origin-of-the-sphinx-by-robert-schoch-and-robert-bauval
    http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-the-origin-of-the-sphinx-by-robert-schoch-and-robert-bauval-part-2
    (Again, many of the criticisms are valid and could have been minimized, if not totally avoided, with a bit more due diligence on the part of the authors and/or publisher.)

    1. Magicians of the Gods was excoriated by this review…
      I just wasted 10 minutes of my life reading the angry, petty vitriol Jason Colavito considers a critique…thanks for nothing. It’s clear he has an agenda and spends the majority of his post on personal slanderous attacks on Hancock accusing him of being a plagiarist, racist, liar, etc…

      I just feel dirty now…

      Greg H.

      1. Peer Review
        I recently wasted a weekend and a half and 17 bucks & some change (plus shipping) on that train-wreck called “Magicians of the Gods”, so I guess the joke’s really on me with this one.

        Welcome to the world of peer review, although Mr. Colavito’s critique does not really qualify as peer review, since he mainly writes NON-FICTION. I’ve had my early scholarly work being torn to shreds by my betters, I learned my lesson, did my research better, and moved on trying to be more comprehensive, and hopefully better.

        This is something I wrote about, I think, nearly 7 years ago to this very site. The people (including yours truly) interested in things and phenomena loosely labeled as fringe or alternative need to start making better research, coming up with better theorems and axioms, and better evidence.

        Magicians of the Gods offers none. It is badly researched, it uses secondary sources while missing critical information contained in the primary sources, and the so-called evidence is along the lines “this rock somehow ´feels´older”, and yes, it is essentially a re-write (with footnotes) of Victorian era colonialist, imperialist and racist drivel by F.A. Paley and Ignatius Donnelly. It also blatantly recycles Andrew Collins´arguments with virtually nonexistent credits.

        It is also worth noting that Mr. Hancock attacks Mr. Colavito by name in Magicians of the Gods chapter 12, if I remember correctly.

        Would you kindly point out which parts of Mr. Colavito’s critique were somehow wrong, and please, be specific?

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