Veritas Vincit

Batman: "I have one rule."
The Joker: "Oh, then that's the rule

you'll have to break to know the truth."

~ The Dark Knight (2008)

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"Judge OKs 'truth serum' for Colo. shooting suspect"

"...Suspect James Holmes could be required to submit to a 'narcoanalytic interview' as part of an evaluation to determine if he was legally insane at the time of the July 20 shootings, Arpahoe County District Judge William Sylvester said. A narcoanalylitic interview is a decades-old process in which patients are given drugs to lower their inhibition. Academic studies have shown that the technique has involved the use of sodium amytal and pentothal, sometimes called truth serum."

(Source: P. Solomon Banda and Dan Elliott, with Nicholas Riccardi "Judge OKs medication for Colorado shooting suspect," Associated Press, March 11, 2013, URL)

"Karen Steinhauser, a former prosecutor who is a law professor at the University of Denver and a defense attorney, said she could not find any case law about use of the narcoanalytic interview."

(Ibid. Regarding "secret law, sealed law, and the contamination and distortion of the case law" see: John Williams, "UNPUBLISHED AND SECRET LAW, AND CONTAMINATION OF THE CASE LAW," Monograph, Consumertronics, URL)

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FLASHBACK ONE YEAR:

"A Chicago man who confessed to one of the most shocking slayings in the city’s history and paid for it with more years of his life than any Illinois state prison inmate has died. According to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office, 83-year-old William Heirens died March 5 at a Chicago hospital after officials at Dixon Correctional Center found him unresponsive in his cell. ...Mr. Heirens was a 17-year-old University of Chicago student and petty burglar when he confessed to killing two women in 1945...and the abduction, slaying and dismemberment of a 6-year-old girl the next year. ...In the ensuing decades, Mr. Heirens sought release from prison some 30 times, claiming that he was innocent and that he only gave a 19-page confession after police sedated him. ...In 2002, the Associated Press reported that students and law professors at Northwestern University who had worked to free other inmates had taken up his case. A clemency petition submitted to then-Gov. George Ryan claimed Mr. Heirens was given a spinal tap without anesthetic in one instance. One of the attorneys who prepared the clemency petition, Steven Drizin, said it also argued that police acknowledged that they gave Mr. Heirens sodium pentathol, a so-called truth serum, and that after that injection he made some admissions."

(Don Babwin with Adam Bernstein, "William Heirens, convicted ‘Lipstick Killer,’ dies at 83," Associated Press, March 06, 2012, URL. For more on the Heirens case, among other things, see: Cf. David McGowan, Programmed to Kill, iUniverse, 2004, URL.)

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Although denied by "Lieutenant J.D. Knight...[and] Captain Vince Sauter of the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office", a possible jail informant named Steven Unruh makes several remarkable claims about an alleged conversation with James holmes. (Apparently, "[Unruh] has a form that indicates James Holmes tried to send him a letter, but it was rejected by jail authorities. ...Knight says he has no record of any letter sent by Holmes to Unruh, intercepted or otherwise.")

"What Unruh can prove is that he was booked into the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office Detention Facility on drug and theft charges at 6:44 p.m. on July 19 -- just hours before the attack in Aurora at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises that left twelve dead and dozens wounded. Unruh says he was still in the booking area when officers brought in Holmes, whose head was initially covered with a hood. ...[I]n an interview that took place several days before [Holmes' behavior was widely reported,]...Unruh described... [Holmes' running...(and) slamming his body and his head into the (jail) wall]."

(Alan Prendergast, "James Holmes: Inmate's strange tale of 'confession' and suicide efforts," Tues., Nov. 20 2012 at 6:40 AM, Denver Westword, URL. Thank you to Jim Brandon for the news lead.)

"[Unruh] says that Holmes told him 'he felt like he was in a video game' during the shooting, that 'he wasn't on his meds' and 'nobody would help him.' He says Holmes also mentioned NLP -- presumably, neuro-linguistic programming...-- and claimed to have been 'programmed' to kill by an evil therapist. 'When he got out to his car, he wasn't programmed no more...'."

(Ibid., URL. Cf. Here, here, & here.)

Derren Brown:

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British mentalist induces a Zombie Shooter with a video game

Mentalist bests psychologist at "NLP"

Mentalist outdoes Advertising experts in subliminal game

Cf. Zombie Drug?

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"Headed by Sidney Gottlieb, the [Central Intelligence Agency's] MKUltra project was started on the order of CIA director Allen Welsh Dulles on April 13, 1953.... Its remit was to develop mind-controlling drugs... The CIA was also interested in being able to manipulate foreign leaders with such techniques... Experiments were often conducted without the subjects' knowledge or consent....In 1964, the project was renamed MKSEARCH. The project attempted to produce a perfect truth drug...and generally to explore any other possibilities of mind control. ...MKUltra involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate people's individual mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, as well as various forms of torture." (Source; cf. here and here.)

"Frank Olson (July 17, 1910 – November 28, 1953) was a biological warfare specialist working for the U.S. government at Fort Detrick in Maryland. He was drugged with LSD by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and nine days later plunged to his death from the window of a New York hotel room, in what some term a suicide and others allege was an assassination by the CIA." (Source; Cf. Here & here.)

(The Man Called X: Season 1, Episode 5: "Truth Serum" Feb. 24, 1956, URL; Image source)

SEE ALSO:

Mission Mind Control: ABC Documentary (1979)

Scopolamine: Zombie Drug?

Ted K[aczynski]., the CIA & LSD :

"It turns out that Theodore Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber, was a volunteer in mind-control experiments sponsored by the CIA at Harvard in the late 1950s and early 1960s."

(Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, "Ted K., the CIA & LSD," CounterPunch, July 15, 1999, URL .)

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Professor Snape: "Know what it is?"

Harry: [sarcastically] "Bubble juice, sir?"
Professor Snape: "Veritaserum. Three drops of this and

You-Know-Who himself would spill his darkest secrets."

~ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

Veritas Vincit or Veritas Vin-cheat?
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Now is the time

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"Now is the time..." 

~ Barack Obama (Sources: 1, 2, & 3)

"Running swiftly, balancing on the razor's edge, bald but with a lock of hair on his forehead, he wears no clothes; if you grasp him from the front, you might be able to hold him, but once he has moved on not even Jupiter [Zeus] himself can pull him back: this is a symbol of Kairos [Tempus, Opportunity], the brief moment in which things are possible." (Aesop, Fable 536) "Rove: After Four Bleak Obama Years, an Opportunity" (Source)

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"Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children." (M. Luther King, Jr., "I have a Dream," Qtd. on NPR.)

Saturn-Chronos-"Father Time" (See here)

"There's a storm coming..."

~ Selina Kyle (Dark Knight Rises [2012])

"In the U.S., the Tea Party movement is one of the first physical, political manifestations which indicate that there is a great storm coming."

~ Anders Behring Breivik, "Manifesto," Qtd. by USA Today.

"Saturn's Hexagon --'One of the Most Bizarre Things Seen in the Solar System'" (Source) "The last visible-light images of the entire hexagon were captured by NASA's Voyager spacecraft nearly 32 years ago, the last time spring began on Saturn."

("Swirling Storms on Saturn 11.28.12"; Image Source)

(Thanks to Jim Brandon for pointing out to me Saturn's Spinning Hexagon-Shaped Storm; Image Source)

(Sacred Saturnian Geometry; Image Source)

Loren Coleman has cataloged a number of prominent examples of the "storm coming" leitmotif. See here. Here are a few more - all the way back to 1984.

"There's a Storm Coming."

~ Anton Heese (Morgan Stanley interest rate strategist, "referring to the market for Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, or TIPS"; Source)

"Myth Number 6: The 9/11 attacks came as a surprise to the Bush administration. Nothing is more essential to the official story than this idea. About 10 months after 9/11, for example, FBI Director Robert Mueller said: 'To this day we have found no one in the United States except the actual hijackers who knew of the plot.'... There is much evidence, however, that counts against this claim. The Put Options: One type of evidence involves an extraordinarily high volume of 'put options' purchased in the three days prior to 9/11. To buy put options for a particular company is to bet that its stock price will go down. These extraordinary purchases included two, and only two, airlines–United and American–the two airlines used in the attacks. They also included Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, which occupied 22 stories of the World Trade Center. The price of these shares did, of course, plummet after 9/11, resulting in enormous profits for the purchasers. These unusual purchases, as the San Francisco Chronicle said, raise 'suspicions that the investors . . . had advance knowledge of the strikes.'... It would appear, in other words, that those who made the purchases knew that United and American airliners were going to be used in attacks on the World Trade Center." ~ David Ray Griffin, "9/11: The Myth and the Reality," URL. 

"You think I'm crazy? Well, listen up, there's a storm coming like nothing you've ever seen, and not a one of you is prepared for it."

~ Curtis (Take Shelter [2011]) 

"It's changing out there. Just like last time. There's a storm coming, Harry. 

And we all best be ready when she does."

~ Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [2007])

 "Storm's coming."

~ Batman (Batman Begins [2005]) 

"...there's a storm coming in..."

Gas Station Attendant 

"I know."

~ Sarah Connor (The Terminator [1984], Final lines) 

 

("Pan ... is the innermost moon of Saturn. It is a walnut-shaped small moon about 35 kilometres across and 23 km high that orbits within the Encke Gap in Saturn's A Ring. Pan acts as a ring shepherd and is responsible for keeping the Encke Gap free of ring particles." Source)

(Pan: Source)

Additionally, some websites are rewarming the "solar storm" prediction that was hot during the recent spate of "Mayan Apocalypse" prognostications. See here. (Cf. Here.) But cooler heads often prevail. So don't pan-ic.

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"USA-207, international COSPAR code 2009-047A, also known as PAN, officially meaning Palladium At Night, or P360, is a classified American communications satellite, which was launched in September 2009. The US government has not confirmed which of its intelligence agencies will operate the satellite." (Footnotes omitted, Source) For more on Pan, see here and here.

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Mention of "Palladium" also fits into a pattern of "Periodic Table" references. E.g., see: silver, cadmium, and gold and aluminum. 

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Palladium (mythology): "In Greek and Roman mythology, a palladium or palladion was an image of great antiquity on which the safety of a city was said to depend. 'Palladium' especially signified the wooden statue (xoanon) of Pallas Athena that Odysseus and Diomedes stole from the citadel of Troy and which was later taken to the future site of Rome by Aeneas. The Roman story is related in Virgil's Aeneid and other works." (Source; On Virgil's Aeneid, cf. here.) "[A]n object known as the Felix Gem..., cut on carnelian,...was considered to be the most valuable of all the carved gems in the collection of Pope Paul II (1464-71)...(The original purpose of such gems was to serve as seals on documents). The Felix Gem was made for Capurnius Severus, a member of the court of the emperor Tiberius (AD 14-37) by the gem cutter Felix. It bears a scene of the seizure of the Palladium - an image of the goddess Pallas Athena (or Minerva) - from the citadel at Troy. Ulysses remonstrates with his companion Diomedes for having murdered Athena's priestess. The reference is to Rome's earliest legendary history: without possession of the Palladium, the Greeks could never take Troy..." Michael J. Vickers, The Ancient Romans (London: Phaidon P., 1989), p. 6. 

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Is someone or something trying to turn back the clock? 

("Doomsday Clock Holds at 5 'Til Midnight" Source; Image Source)

I have touched on this theme previously. See, for example, here, here, and here. 

("1865 baseball card expected to fetch six figures" Source; Image Source)

(Just reported: "Glenn Beck Sees Civil War Brewing in America" Source; Image Source)

(Thanks to John Cole for pointing this out; Source)

What year comes to mind? (Cf. Here and here.)

"[Y]ou're going to have a fraction of people that are going to take a stand, and I can just predict a Waco-style standoff in some rural area and it's not going to end well" 

~ Mayor Dayton King (Source; Thanks to Paul Joseph Watson for the information)

(33 + 11 = Oh...never mind. Image source)

"Mike O'Neal, Kansas House Speaker, Emails Prayer Some Say Wishes For Obama's Death" (Source) "One of Lincoln's favorite books from the bible was Psalms; his favorite poem was 'Mortality' (1828) by William Knox." (Source; on parallels with John F. Kennedy as well as with the Hollywood movie In the Line of Fire, see HERE.)

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"How Obama can avoid the second-term curse? The promise and perils of second terms" (Source)

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"Now my good rats, now is the time..."

~ King Boris (A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away [1966])

See also:

"Iatrogenic Allegations"
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Aurora Rising (Aurora Consurgens), Part 1

Quæ est ista quæ progreditur quasi aurora consurgens,
pulchra ut luna, electa ut sol,
terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata?

~ Song of Solomon 6:10

Who is she that cometh forth as the dawn rising,
fair as the moon, bright as the sun,
terrible as an army with banners?

~ Song of Solomon 6:10

Etymology: "cōnsurgēns m, f and n (genitive cōnsurgentis); ... standing or rising up... ambushing".

"Relatives of the Colorado massacre victims laid eyes on suspect James Holmes on Monday and saw a red-haired devil." Source

"'He looks demonic,' said David Sanchez, whose son-in-law was critically wounded in the Aurora ambush. ... The Batman-obsessed gunman, whose curly hair was dyed a shocking red on top, seemed dazed and sleepy during the brief hearing. It’s unclear if his vacant eyes and spaced-out demeanor were a function of medication, mental illness — or just an act." Source

Pictured: "Sarpedon’s body carried by Hypnos and Thanatos (Sleep and Death), while Hermes watches." Source

"The Aurora consurgens is an illuminated manuscript of the 15th century in the Zürich Zentralbibliothek (MS. Rhenoviensis 172). It contains a medieval alchemical treatise, in the past sometimes attributed to Thomas Aquinas, now to a writer called the 'Pseudo-Aquinas'. Unusually for a work of this type, the manuscript contains thirty-eight fine miniatures in watercolour. The illustrations are allegorical representations of alchemical elements depicted in human or animal form. For example, mercury is depicted as a serpent; gold as the Sun and silver as the Moon." Source

Lux lucet in tenebris, et tenebrae non comprehenderunt
~ Aurora Consurgens, Pseudo-Aquinas
("The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend")

"Light shines in the darkness of theater massacre" Source

Century 16:

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603), "The Faerie Queene" See, for example, Michael Hoffman's Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare

John Dee (13 July 1527–1608 or 1609) "He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination and Hermetic philosophy. Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic just as they were becoming distinguishable." Source

Francis Bacon: "Francis Bacon (1561–1626) was one of the leading figures in natural philosophy and in the field of scientific methodology in the period of transition from the Renaissance to the early modern era." As a "transitional" figure, he is given a sort of liminal character, which is symbolized by the hybrid-conjunction of opposites symbol, the androgyne.

Francis Bacon wrote a work entitled "The New Atlantis" which, some have argued, lays the philosophical foundation for "The American Experiment."

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Semiramis, Assyrian Queen and wife of King Shamshi-Adad

As one last bit of intriguing Forteana, I note that as I sit writing about "Century 16" and it's symbolic connections to 2012, a British couple allegedly discovered a subterranean "well" under their house.

A Telegraph article notes that "...the well dates back to the 16th century. ... The watercourse was built in the 16th century by Sir Francis Drake to carry water from Dartmoor to Plymouth." And I dare say no Fortean would be surprised to learn that the shaft leading down the well measures "33ft". The opening looks a bit like a wormhole/black hole. In any case, the well is a sort of cavern - a home for many bats, as I understand.

-Matthew Bell

Cf.:

My "The Aurora of the Dark (K)night" & "Fool's Journey", etc.

Michael Hoffman's "Revisionist History Newsletter No. 63", "Predictive Programming", & "Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare"

VISUP's "Sirius Rises"

Loren Coleman's "The Blood Red Movie Massacres", "Red Dawn", The Copycat Effect & Dark Knight Shooting" etc.
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A Fool's Journey

"the Joker as the perfect Fool"

"scene from Trinity #37 by Kurt Busiek and Fabian Nicieza; art by Scott McDaniel[:] D-level villains (and that’s being generous) Punch and Jewelee are used as the focus of Morgaine’s machine to find a new Fool for her villain’s Tarot. The machine identifies the Joker as the perfect Fool — which really isn’t a surprise — but unfortunately neither Punch nor Jewelee survive the process." (http://www.politedissent.com/index.php?s=punch&submit=search)

http://comicbookbrain.com/large-trinity-37-page-scott-mcdaniel.php

"three-parts learned, one part crazy"

"The 'Great Fool' ... Reason is an impasse, reason is damnation; only madness, divine madness, offers an issue. ...three-parts learned, one part crazy... they are all mad, that is, inspired. ...the general solution is to represent the saviour as the fool. (Attempts to attain this condition appear in the Bible. Note the 'coat of many colours' of Joseph and of Jesus; it is the man in motley[note] who brings his people out of bondage.)
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"[Note:] Call him 'Harlequin', and a Tetragrammaton evidently burlesquing the Sacred Family springs into sight: Pantaloon, the aged 'antique-antic'; Clown and Harlequin, two aspects of the Fool; and Columbine, the Virgin. But being burlesque, the tradition is confused and the deep meaning lost; just as the mediaeval Mystery-Play of Pontius and Judas became the farce, with opportunist topical variants, 'Punch and Judy'."
(Source: Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth, pp. 57-8 and footnote #1.)

(Edgar Degas - "Harlequin & Colombine")

Now playing:

http://www.muny.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=864&Itemid=100476

"The night is darkest just before the [aurora]. And I promise you, the [aurora] is coming." ~ Harvey "Two Face" Dent, "The Dark Knight," 2008 (quotation with substitution of a co-referring expression; "aurora" = "dawn"). The Aurora of the Dark [K]night.

"In the British Isles, the Northern Lights were known as the "nimble men" or the "merry dancers," names belying the fact that auroras were seen as clans at war, and the red light as blood spilt in violent battle. ... Scandinavian popular belief linked the aurora to dead women, especially to dead virgins."
http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/4C.html

The Victims in Pictures

"EOS (Êôs), in Latin Aurora, the goddess of the morning red... Eos [Aurora]] had an unquenchable desire for handsome young men, some say as the result of a curse laid upon her by the goddess Aphrodite. ... By Astraeus Eos became the mother of ... Boreas..."
http://www.theoi.com/Titan/Eos.html