[a woman’s fragrance] last in the armoury

Welshcakes wrote an interesting piece on aromas, including perfume:

Recently I nearly came to blows with a friend over the
matter of perfume. I was both surprised and upset by what this person said,
which was, basically, that he liked people's "natural" smell and preferred women
to wear no perfume at all.

I was surprised because it had never occurred
to me that any woman would go out - or stay in, for that matter - without
putting perfume on, and upset because I drown myself in YSL Paris every day and
it's as much a part of me as my make-up and clothes.

I've always
regarded perfume as essential and have been proud of wearing a scent that has
become my "signature" one. My friend pointed out that some people may not like
it, to which my response was that they could stay away from me, then, though I
did take his point about allergies.

But heavens above, as an asthmatic I
suffer from enough allergies myself and I don't think a good perfume can be
classed with something positively harmful, like the odour of tobacco smoke.

Talking of fashion, I wonder what you all think about jewellery? I am of
the opinion that the right piece of costume jewellery can "make" an outfit and
have been known to buy a brooch or necklace first and then get an outfit to set
it off! But I also believe you can wear too much of the stuff, a view not shared
by the majority of Italian women, who pile it on. Chanel famously advised, "Look
in the mirror before you leave the house - and take one thing off!"

That's fine with me as long as that one thing isn't my perfume!

Perfume is a signature

Was there ever such an issue to illustrate the divided opinion between men and women as a woman’s fragrance?

Most men’s opinions of perfume range from ‘it’s a bloody waste of money’ and ‘they know how to rip off women, don’t they’ through to ‘that smells nice - what you’ve sloshed over yourself before we go out’.

At best, men don’t profess to be experts in this – it’s a woman’s thing. The theory is that the fragrance merges with your own body aroma to create an enticing effect and either unconsciously or subconsciously, the targetted males are affected, the peripheral females quite consciously picking up on it too and realizing how classy that woman is.

That might be the theory, based on each woman wishing to feel special but the reality is that it gets lost, particularly in an office. If you’re wearing the most subtle of forest scents, it will get lost in the plethora of other females present, especially some young girl who’s splashed on a spicy, sporty mix which overpowers the room plus the smoke in the air, plus the gorgeous bodies which grab the man’s attention from a distance before the fragrance has even had a chance to do its job.

Yet women persist in paying exorbitant amounts for the stuff. I happen to agree with the woman here, simply because she feels it’s so vital to her.

To her, this fragrance is a statement, it’s her signature, it sets out her stall, it can define her, so if she’s wearing, say, a light floral during the day but moves to a heavy oriental at night, there is a message there, if the man cares to receive it. Certain classics might say, “Hands off me, I’m far too much of a queen for you.’ Chanel Chance might say, ‘I’m feeling fresh and flirtatious,’ but some say it’s more suited to a younger woman.

By far the most important reason for a woman wearing her perfume is that it makes her feel good inside; she actually enjoys the feel of it on her. So, if she’s wearing a certain fragrance which makes her happy and gives her confidence, if she’s prepared herself with care and everything seems to be in place, a man would do well to recognize it and comment if he wishes to have any success in that direction.



The science of perfumes

For the boys, these historically famous perfumes below illustrate the thinking which goes on behind them:

Miss Dior by Christian Dior: chypre, sage, gardenia, rose, patchouli, and labdanum. This classic scent is perfect for the office. The scent itself is quite complex, it is marketed as refreshing, woody and mossy - and to be honest that's not a bad description.

Chanel No. 19: floral, woody, and green. Notes of neroli (a flower oil), galbanum (a resin from some Asain plants), may rose, and irises from Florence finish with a chime of chypre with a subtle, woody vetiver (an East Indian grass). The refreshing yet flowery scent of Chanel No 19 never fails to remind me of sunnier days, which is always nice in cold gloomy weather.

Chanel Allure: bergamot (a herb), mandarin, water lily, magnolia, jasmine and may roses, vetiver (an East Indian grass) and, finally, velvety vanilla. Chanel Allure has a feminine, sophisticated, light smell of an oriental, floral fragrance. It is fresh and light, aimed at a younger market than Chanel No 5. Allure is a beautiful perfume.

Shalimar by Guerlain: (Gare-lahn) contains bergamot, lemon, and patchouli accented with vanilla, sandalwood and musk. Shalimar is a classic perfume from Guerlain, which was popular, although very exotic, in the 50's. According to one reference, it "was inspired by the timeless love story of an Indian Emperor who designed the Shalimar gardens for the wife he adored. [...] The hint of musk from exotic spices such as amber and vanilla were considered too overtly sensual for refined women at first."

Bois des Iles: It's exciting, daring, provocative, and confident. Oh - I'm so in love!

Each fragrance has its own message and in my second book, Lemmings, each of the women had three or four which reflected her personality.



Natural and painted

In the field of overall presentation, perhaps ‘natural’ can be interpreted to mean ‘as cunningly natural as the woman can get away with’ and in this, the French have the game sewn up with the number one rule of style:

Less is more.

Admittedly, the Italians have a different approach to the same subject but then again, they have a different skin tone. The Russian women are slowly learning how to do it but still tend to be as heavy-handed as the Italians, particularly the rich middle-aged. I can’t comment on Anglo-Saxon women because I don’t know any these days.

Look at the people in these pictures – Clémence Poésy, Virginie Ledoyen, Emmanuelle Beart, Sophie Marceau and Ségolène Royal; age notwithstanding, they all follow this rule, blemishes are not particularly papered over and look at the unpaintedness of the fingers. You might say Sophie Marceau is very much made up but the effect is still ‘natural’, it’s subtly done, it’s not made-up to look made-up.

The French approach to perfume is also subtle – just a dab in the right places and even some unusual places, at the critical times. Combined with the maxims: clean and groomed, simple but well cut attire, something expensive, something naughty and flowing body movements, it’s hard to resist.

Allergies

These were mentioned in Welshcakes’ article.

I have to confess that I’m allergic to many perfumes, particularly the cheaper variety, which always gets the rhinitis going. However, if a woman cares for the man at all, she can use a particular fragrance she’s learnt does not bring on massive attacks, which she likes, which she can then use sparingly and all is well.

Fragrances are not selfish – they are interactive … or should be.



The person inside

There are many Russian girls who think they need only take care of the outer shell and feel that the inside - the nature and personality - are hardly of any consequence and to an extent, they’ve learnt that from the Russian man’s approach to lovemaking.

Writing as a man, I suppose the first sorting out is the look, the attire, the way she holds herself, as viewed from a distance, the way she moves, whether she’s the type he likes.

Closer, it’s how she’s looked after herself, how well she’s groomed, an offputting aspect being if she looks expensive and high maintenance. Better to pass on her and find someone equally as ravishing who’s not going to cost the earth.

By now there’s a two way process going on which involves the man himself and how he presents. If he fails in this regard, he’ll get the haughty bitch effect from her. If he intrigues her, then it comes down, in his eyes, to the niceness or otherwise.

Penultimately, the critical test is when she opens her mouth and starts the conversation. How many women have fallen at this hurdle?

In this whole process, perfume comes a very long last. Yes, it has a vital place in a woman’s world but nowhere near the extent, in the wider world, to which she hopes it would be or should be.


What can a woman do?

If she’s still in the game [and which woman would claim she’s not] then my humble suggestion is that she deals with the way she moves first. Anne Boleyn was a classic case in the way she returned from the French and Austrian courts and knocked ’em dead back in London.

It was partly the accent she’d picked up but far more powerful was the way she moved, with that blend of the elegant and coquettish which drastically lowered her true age. I once had a 36 year old wife [they’re not all 23, you know] whom I’d thought for months was 27, until she showed me her passport.

Look at how the French woman stands and sits also, her poise and you’ll get the idea. It’s the same for men too. I was interested hearing Matt Damon speak of this and how his body movement was edited to create the effect. Apparently, my own is not unlike a guided missile combined with a faintly amusing shuffle, so I believe, which makes it hard to be taken seriously.

One of the funniest things I ever saw was a Russian girl I was at the beach with, whose claim to immortality was her curves and shyness. Coming out of the water, she had to go past a group of men and went into the hip swagger in such an exaggerated way that they burst out laughing. You can only do what you can get away with, that which your body shape allows and anything else is vaguely ludicrous.

For the more mature, it’s how ladylike she can come across as, which now moves on to the question of attire. Simple, well cut, concealing the weaknesses and highlighting the positives is the only rule. She should forget all the accessories, going out festooned like an ocean liner, forget all the too-busy ornateness – she should simply rely on her elegance and poise but that comes from inside her head and heart, doesn’t it? A man-hater, for example, can never bring off the effect – sooner or later, the cloven hoof will appear.

Somewhere in here has to come the ‘air of mystery’, the alluringly arcane. That’s all right to an extent, especially if she grudgingly allows her secrets to be revealed one by one but if she overdoes the mystery thing, then she’s just a dishonest person and not worth bothering about.

Finally, again, it comes down to the perfume, always last on the list.

In the words selected by one other beautiful woman:

Either we are in the universe to inhabit the lovely eternity of our souls
and grow real, or else we might as well dedicate our days to shopping and kill
time watching talk shows.

[fiction] why some of it works and the rest falls flat

It would be mighty nice if my own amateur literary efforts were not included in this analysis as they might not survive the fierce spotlight of scrutiny. This is intended merely as a spotlight on professional fiction.

Each to his or her own but much of Hardy falls flat for me, the bulk of the modern authors do too and I’d like to know why. Once we’ve eliminated the factors of it not being a genre we enjoy, not liking the author him/herself and representing a point of view we don’t subscribe to, then what makes a good piece of writing?

What makes it satisfy us, in other words?

There are two Holmes stories I like to quote to students. One is generally regarded as being a superior work and the other falls flat.

The Bruce-Partington Plans

At last, shortly after nine o'clock, there arrived a messenger with a note: Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jimmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H.

It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets. I stowed them all discreetly away in my overcoat and drove straight to the address given. There sat my friend at a little round table near the door of the garish Italian restaurant.

"Have you had something to eat? Then join me in a coffee and curação. Try one of the proprietor's cigars. They are less poisonous than one would expect. Have you the tools?"

"They are here, in my overcoat."

"Excellent. Let me give you a short sketch of what I have done, with some indication of what we are about to do."

The Mazarin Stone

"And Mr. Holmes knows it?"

"Mr. Holmes always knows whatever there is to know."

"Well, we'll hope he won't fail and that Lord Cantlemere will be confounded. But I say, Billy, what is that curtain for across the window?"

"Mr. Holmes had it put up there three days ago. We've got something funny behind it."

Billy advanced and drew away the drapery which screened the alcove of the bow window. Dr. Watson could not restrain a cry of amazement.

What allows the former excerpt to live and the latter to seem forced and wooden?

Well, the choice of vocab for a start, attempting characters the author had little experience of, the calibre of the plot and perhaps the overuse of adjectives in annoying ways – these might be some factors.

For me though, the one overriding factor is the author’s engagement with the subject matter, for if he can’t be clattering over those cold cobblestones himself, how can he expect us to?

Which is possibly why SF and humour are so difficult to bring off satisfactorily. How does Douglas Adams, for example, get away with it?

Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody -- maybe even disliking them a lot -- and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire. It was a difference which kept the vast majority of the population alive from day to day.

Men were real men, women were real women, and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. Spirits were brave, men boldly split infinitives that no man had split before. Thus was the Empire forged.

Why do people who attempt to emulate Adams or set up Marvin the Paranoid Android fan fiction not actually succeed?

These are some of the questions puzzling mankind this day.

[wordless friday] captions please

Moon over Sedna

The first short story was probably a romantic thriller; this one's for you SF buffs. Hope you like it.

[quiz] for the clever clogs

1. What is the easternmost point of the United States?

2. What North American plant can live for thousands of years?

3. Is ice a mineral?

4. Is the earth’s core liquid or solid?

5. How long is a Martian year?

Answers

1. Pochnoi Point at Semisopochnoi, Alaska; 2. The creosote bush, Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan deserts, has been shown by radiocarbon dating to have lived since the birth of Christ and might last 10 000 years; 3. Yes, ice is formally described as such in Dana’s System; 4. Trick question - the very centre seems to be solid but it is surrounded by molten liquid; 5. One year.

[fragmented society] the fish rots at the head

There are four major illusions which have been perpetrated for such a long time, namely that:

1. the state is the government;
2. the government is composed of the elected politicians;
3. the voice of people within the geographical boundaries is relevant;
4. individuals or groups have any power for real change.

Defining the State

Number 2 is the one which continues to confound the population and a glance round the blogs shows that even bloggers are hoodwinked into believing that exposing the pollies exposes what’s really going down.

Mark Steyn wrote:

Both the secular Big Government progressives and political Islam recoil from the concept of the citizen, of the free individual entrusted to operate within his own societal space, assume his responsibilities, and exploit his potential. In most of the developed world, the state has gradually annexed all the responsibilities of adulthood—health care, child care, care of the elderly—to the point where it's effectively severed its citizens from humanity's primal instincts, not least the survival instinct.

Hear, hear but Mr. Steyn himself falls into the trap of believing that the State means Capitol Hill, the White House and the judiciary. Mark uses the term ‘the state’ but doesn’t define what he means by that. He gets closer to it when he writes:

And now the last holdout, the United States, is embarking on the same grim path: After the President unveiled his budget, I heard Americans complain, oh, it's another Jimmy Carter, or LBJ's Great Society, or the new New Deal. You should be so lucky. Those nickel-and-dime comparisons barely begin to encompass the wholesale Europeanization that's underway. The 44th president's multi-trillion-dollar budget, the first of many, adds more to the national debt than all the previous 43 presidents combined, from George Washington to George Dubya.

Now who enabled Obama’s rapid rise to such a position in the first place? Conversely, why should Europe collapse when Freddie and Fanny went down? There’s far more to this than incompetent elected representatives of the people. The October, 2006 FOMC report even anticipated the events of 2008-10.

Albert Einstein was closer to it in his:

‘The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.’

Who is this ruling class?

You can look, if you like, at the Oxbridge, Yale or Harvard graduates, the playing fields of elite schools or at the secret alumni but it’s still only scratching the surface. More illuminating is to look at the silent NAAC and who are behind them. Yet Obama was never one of these people and so he must have been one of something special to have ever been considered.

He was. He sold his soul to the global thrust and this is reflected in Mark Steyn’s term ‘Europeanization.’ Once you can see the people who transcend all national boundaries and scorn yet utilize the word ‘patriotism’, you’re getting closer.

Gordo’s grin when attacked in the EU parliament angered a lot of Brits. A recent MSM poll suggested that 90% of people believe their politicians are acting against their interests. Again and again, people are encouraged to think the buck stops with the pollies when the pollies are only one visible manifestation of the real power which enabled their preselection in the first place.

Even Ike only skirted round the issue with his ‘military-industrial complex’. Blackwater is just one manifestation as well, one tool of the real power. So was Mark Thatcher in Africa.

Dubya and Obama are so clearly dupes in the power game that even your average punter can recognize it. It’s almost sanctified bar-room dogma these days that presidents don’t get to be so without the backing of ‘the power’.

Charging that ‘the power’ is vested in the Old Money and the thirteen ruling families:

1. Astor
2. Bundy
3. Collins
4. DuPont
5. Freeman
6. Kennedy
7. Li (Chinese)
8. Merovingian (European Royal Families)
9. Onassis
10. Rockefeller
11. Rothschild
12. Russell
13. van Duyn

… does not give the complete picture either because they fight among themselves for ascendancy.

The Bond film Quantum of Solace updated the villainous organization to a shadowy cartel of financiers who buy up the water supplies of nations to control those nations. There’s talk of destabilizing regimes and the like, talk which was once attributed to The Quiet American, Kissinger and U.S. foreign policy, in what passed for political commentary.

Truly, the names don’t matter all that much. Call it Dan Brown or Mr. White – more relevant is to scrutinize the manifestations and modus operandi.

In Britain, we have a dismayed community, frightened for their jobs and for their mortgages, who are lying low, spending little and watching tele, wondering on whom to vent their spleen for this state of affairs. We’re told it is the bankers who brought it all on [not that I’m arguing – they played their critical part] and so Gordo has his new post-democracy, post-capitalism, global financial strategy to trot out.

Gordo thought that one out all by himself?

Mark Steyn again:

If you're a business, when government gives you 2% of your income, it has a veto on 100% of what you do. If you're an individual, the impact is even starker. Once you have government health care, it can be used to justify almost any restraint on freedom: After all, if the state has to cure you, it surely has an interest in preventing you needing treatment in the first place. That's the argument behind, for example, mandatory motorcycle helmets, or the creepy teams of government nutritionists currently going door to door in Britain and conducting a "health audit" of the contents of your refrigerator.

That’s what the whole thing is about and at least it’s a bit more honest to finally come out and admit it, rather than maintaining the charade of representative government and the will of the people.

Mark Steyn uses the word ‘creepy’. Precisely. The modus operandi and manifestations of ‘the power’ are not only intrusive, militaristic and totalitarian – they truly are ‘creepy’, as shown in the following fragments from articles about how it operates in the shadows. These fragments are simply lifted from about a dozen articles written by victims and tools of ‘the power’.

The nature of the power

# We would take the data, and download it into a database and then send it to Langley.

# they will fund one side, then another, while ultimately out of the chaos and division, they are laughing because they are ultimately beyond political parties

# It meets in the black forest region, which is considered the center of the earth, and a vortex for psychical/spiritual energy. They are some of the most vicious people I have ever known in my life

# Certain companies will use a phoenix as their logo, especially red on black, or the reverse, this is a huge sign

# use a tremendous amount of Greek and Roman mythology

# The evidence is there, but in my opinion, the average person does NOT want to know, and even when confronted with it, will look the other way.
# But a lot of the current U.S. leadership will be in Europe when the change occurs, and many have homes there. They will be "changing nationalities" overnight, as it were.

# I believe it is impossible to win a presidential election in our country today without their backing.

# [Written 1999] But one day, this won't work (or this leverage will be withdrawn on purpose) and the next great depression will hit. The government will call in its bonds and loans, and credit card debts will be called in. There will be massive bankruptcies nationwide. Europe will stabilize first and then Germany, France and England will have the strongest economies, and will institute, through the UN, an international currency.

# Basically, they are in denial. They believe that history can be changed

# anything they want, and the (to them) joy of controlling millions of others. They believe their intellect is sharp, and that they will be the "good guys"

# They believe that basically, they are GOOD and doing a good work, even if the means are tough to endure at the time. They are weeding out the weak and unfit, and developing a supreme human being.

# but these people really believe that there are other spiritual dimensions, and that to pass into them, first a major sacrifice is done to "open a portal"

# believe that their children are the brightest and best and will be the intellectual elite who will rule over the unintelligent, or "less fit"

# Arrogant people make mistakes, and they are becoming more blatant and open in recent years.

# There is a lot of discontent in the ranks, and there would be a mass exodus if the members believed it were really possible to get out (and live).

# These people think they are untouchable, and this could make them careless.

# that would make the Depression of 1929 look like child's play and through that, bringing people financially to their knees, they would then come in and control them, and bring in whatever other measures they would want to in the guise of rescue - when it certainly wouldn't be that at all.

# and how to discern what lies and propaganda and strategies have been given over the television, over movies with intentional strategies.

# know how to find out and research what people's weaknesses are, whether they are sex, drugs, sexual perversion, financial gain -- they lure them in and once people have been forced and coerced to participate

# lower levels in my community with money laundering, pornography, prostitution. It was endless.

# attempting to do is to bring down the population through various contrived means - which is a whole other subject all on its own - in order to bring these people to death so that the planet will be left pristine and untouched for their future progeny.

# I am certain they have had to change it and alter it in order to bring it through - they feel that what is their ace in the hole this time, because they have tried this many, many other generations

# I think we have all lived in an inflated society, not just the government, but we have all been trained to use credit cards, buy on credit, and really we own virtually nothing anymore. If you do a crash on the financial things people have invested in - it's all just a mind game anyway - none of it's real.

# It cripples the economy. The specific means of how that is to be done I would say probably has fingers and feelers into the IRS, all the world banking systems that are in place, have been for years. If you follow the money, you will find a lot of the answers.

# Unfortunately I think people are going to have the opportunity to make a spiritual stand as people were during the times of Nazi Germany where they housed babies and people who were going to be killed due to a sick genetic belief system.

# They are fuelling the government agencies and the military who have been given such a high priority on this earth for destruction instead of funding education and teaching children how to think and critically analyze, and empowering people. It's all built on a military mind, and bent on destruction, and control, and power.

# They are trying to do good deeds and balance those with their bad deeds, they believe in balance in their religion. It's a gnostic luciferianism.

# One of the things George Bush did in his initiation ceremony was to lie in manure and recount all of his sexual exploits.

# It has a lot of colour programming - the list of people who are to be dealt with

The nasty side to their work

# The children claimed teachers had killed turtles to demonstrate what would happen to them and their families if they talked about the molestations. Bynum, while retained by the defense, had managed to corroborate a key point in the testimony of the children.

# In 1992, therapists at the L.A. Commission for Women's Ritual Abuse Task Force were also poisoned, and corroborated their allegations with medical reports - the Los Angeles Times was given the reports, but ignored them and alleged the therapists were paranoid fantasists.

# a physician's report that one of the children suffered "blunt force trauma" of sexual areas. The parents were left to ponder why some of the toddlers had chlamydia

# Tate (1991), who examined a number of these British cases and compared them to North American and Dutch cases (Hudson 1991; Jonker and Jonker-Bakker 1991; Snow and Sorenson 1990), was struck by the similarities. Because many of these children reported SRA without attending adults encouraging them, Tate concluded that either there exists a worldwide conspiracy among toddlers or the children are speaking the truth. [Onno van der Hart, "Reports on Ritual Abuse in European Countries: A Clinician’s Perspective," 1998]

# [in November of 1988] Approximately 80 youngsters came forward and made allegations concerning sexual abuse, forced prostitution, and cult activities including the human sacrifice of small children and babies

# The senate committee appointed investigator, Gary Caradori and his young son, Andrew died when Caradori's plane exploded in mid-air shortly after leaving Chicago for Lincoln, Nebraska on July 11, 1990.

# Marion David Pettie, a leader of the cult, is an identified homosexual, pedophile, and CIA officer. His son was an employee of Air America, which was notorious for smuggling drugs destined for the U.S., out of the Golden Triangle into Saigon during the Viet Nam War.

# their best protection is that no one would believe what was happening. They also have their own media blitz campaign, one that is pretty effective. For example, a reporter with the initials M. S., who wrote articles on Ritual Abuse (RA) and Mind Control in the San Diego Union-Tribune, was a member

# You can show them [the sheeple] photos of underground tunnels near Los Alamos, and they will say, "Isn't that interesting. Must be some government project."

# But I believe that the media that downplays ritual abuse is feeding into a deep need in the average person to NOT know the reality.

# They [the victims] become a vegetable, or worse, they scream and scream for hours without end.

# These people are paedophiles, they abuse and torture small children and teach them, under duress, to become perpetrators themselves from earliest infancy. This alone means they should be stopped. They run the porn industry, along with other groups

# Why isn't child pornography stopped? We have the evidence, law enforcement knows it exists, yet it is a multi-billion dollar industry. HOW do these people "hide" from justice and capture? Why don't the police stop them? Because these people aren't stupid.

# and later, doctors at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute in California, and places where there were NASA installations

# dropped off a table as an infant, near drowning, sexual abuse and orgies, being drugged, food and sleep deprivation

# Long Beach, California as a child where they used means of light and sound combined with electroshock and drugs

# What ended up happening was that once we got there, and put on our choir robes, the whole thing turned and changed, and we stopped singing. And we went downstairs in the basement to be filmed in pornography and all sorts of rituals [this was written in middle-age by the victim]

# the fatal accidents that Michael Kennedy and Sonny Bono had - skiing into a tree - sound very familiar.

# a stun gun is used, and was used, because they believed it would erase memory twenty minutes on each side of the memory.

# programmed with tones, so a tone on a phone would have a specific meaning that would be subliminally and subconsciously connected with a command.

# The film, Lost Horizons, I was programmed to be ageless unless I left. That's the theme of the film - when you leave, you start aging.

# Yes I do. I think people have yet to look at how serious the havoc that is being wreaked on children really is. If people look with the eyes of a child to the Disney films and to a lot of the things children are watching on television and in movies, it is horrific.

# how would I have known about all the sexual stuff unless I had seen it? Adults need to logically think about how a child would ever even conceive of this kind of horror, and yet not just one or two children are coming up with this, but hordes of children from all over the world

# People have got to start looking at this logically.

# they [whistleblowers] are being discredited. And I believe the children are telling the truth. They are saying the same things that happened to me and lot of other women

# people still today believe that a lot of those horrors didn't happen - that people will turn away and deny what really happened because it is so horrific and incredulous.

# This is not something that the normal mind is going to be able to handle.

# So there is a lot of skill in using fiction and deceit and fronts and covers. There is a science of using spiritual things to control a person.

# So, Ewen Cameron, who was a programmer - his victims would have had personalities within them that would think they were Ewen Cameron.

# [read] Swinbourne Kleimer

# Clinical hypnotists throughout the world jumped on the multiple personality bandwagon as a fascinating frontier. By the 1920s, not only had they learned to apply post-hypnotic suggestion to deal with this weird problem, but also had learned how to split certain complex individuals into multiple personalities like Jeckyl-Hydes.

# During 1966, Delgado announced that his findings supported 'the distasteful conclusion that motion, emotion and behaviour can be directed by electrical forces'. He added that 'humans can be controlled like robots by push buttons'.

# Frey found he could remotely induce sleep in his subjects by subjecting them to electromagnetic waves. He also learned he could produce acoustic noises - booming, buzzing and hissing, directly inside a volunteer's head.

# sometimes getting 'shot-up' three times a day, depending on their co-operation. Brought before the Senate subcommittees in 1975, Isabel saw no contradiction in providing hard drugs to the very addicts he was employed to cure.

# Continuing on from Frey's earlier work, Joseph Sharp, a doctor at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, was able to transmit spoken words via pulsed microwaves. Sitting inside an electromagnetic field, Sharp clearly heard and understood words transmitted to him by a colleague.

# announcement in 1995 that non-lethal weapons - including high powered microwaves and radio frequency devices - are to be 'transited' to the law enforcement sector was met with dismay in some quarters

# George White was a CIA career officer who constructed safe houses in San Francisco and New York, where people were recruited off the streets to have sex with prostitutes and were given LSD and other drugs without them knowing it

# This involves the use of sodium amytal and hypnosis for the creation of amnesia barriers and deliberate insertion of false memories.

# Linda McDonald, went to McGill to be treated for mild post-partum depression from March to early September, 1963. During the course of her hospitalization, she received 102 ECT treatments, using the Paige-Russell technique, in which the button was pushed 6x per treatment, instead of 1x. She also received about 80 days of barbiturate and neuroleptic induced sleep. She was regressed back to incontinence of urine, incontinent of faeces, total disorientation, then sent home.

# Dr [Selwyn] Leeks is already being investigated by the board following claims that he allowed children to be punished with electric shock treatment and pain-inducing injections while in charge of a psychiatric hospital unit in NZ in the 1970s.

# The woman who made the allegations of sexual misconduct told The Sunday Age that Dr Leeks had complained to her that he had been hounded by authorities in NZ. He said the children he had treated were feral and psychotic and were future murderers and thieves. Society would realise one day that he was ahead of his time.

# "We demonstrated that in the hippocampus, an area of the brain well known to be important for memory in both animals and humans, the protein Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor is required specifically for the consolidation of fear memories," said Jonathan Lee, from the university's Department of Experimental Psychology.

# "Because memories decay over time there is this period of consolidation," Dr Collinson said. "You see something for the first time, you remember it and you have to keep thinking of it over and over until it stays in your long-term memory."

Are we in good hands?

All instruments of society – law, medicine, education, social welfare, the armed forces, the police, the regional assemblies, the electoral process – have been harnessed to bring about the planned changes, right down to the lowest echelons; the absolute arrogance, as shown in the ‘second’ Irish referendum, is there for all to see.

These people at the top are currently ‘tolerating’ the charade of parliamentary democracy because they know what’s on the agenda down the track. Look at the list of those who signed Lisbon again.

Steyn once more, on the Iranian demonstrators:

And what they'd written on those placards was: "Live free or die!" They understand the power of those words; so should we.

Stirring stuff, Mark and you get no argument from me - so we should. But how can we when people don’t even know what they’re really up against and show no inclination to find out?

As was the case in World Wars I and II, we are up against sociopathic sub-humans who despise the common man, are capable of great cruelty brought on by their indifference to human misery and whose ultimate plan is to dehumanize and bestialize humanity.

Churchill knew what bloodthirsty guttersnipes mankind was facing when he said:

You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.