Threats

"...Obama is believed to be 
the most threatened president 

in U.S. history."

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"Mr. Obama has little choice 

but to put his arms around the chaos 

and make the decisions that

involve pain and sacrifice up front."

~ Leon Panetta, 2008

(Panetta was a member of Obama's 2008-9 transition team; Quoted in: Richard E. Nicolazzo, "Obama's new PR playbook: keeping it real," O'Dwyer's PR Report, Vol. 22 No. 12, December 2008, p. 19.)

(Order out of Chaos: The two-headed phoenix reconstitutes itself again and again.)

"Obama Administration Prepping for Social Chaos..." 

(Source: Email from "Lee Bellinger" AmericanLanternAlerts.com, Tuesday, October 2, 2012 7:07 AM. Note: I do not endorse Bellinger's remarks. I merely think that his sentiments, being beamed out through cyberspace, are of symbolic interest.)

For discussions of some relevant, associated symbol patterns, see: here, here, here, and here.

The reader may wish to consider the above information side-by-side with Barack Obama's own "Presidential Memorandum" (issued via the Office of the Press Secretary) in which he mentions "...the National Insider Threat Policy...to promote the development of effective insider threat programs within departments and agencies to deter, detect, and mitigate actions by employees who may represent a threat to national security. These threats encompass potential espionage, violent acts against the Government or the Nation..." 
(Source; Cf. Here - Thanks to Jim Brandon for the link.)

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But don't worry. The U.S. government also blogs the following. Quoting NASA scientist David Morrison, to the effect that "At least a once a week I get a message from a young person ― as young as 11 ― who says they are ill and/or contemplating suicide because of the coming doomsday." The U.S. pledges that "Scary Rumors about the World Ending in 2012 Are Just Rumors" (Source). 
 

(In the "Line of Fire" - Lincoln. Ford already "phased out" Mercury, see here. Image, Atalanta Fugiens.)

For previous discussion of the recent occurrences of "In the Line of Fire" (movie) and Clint Eastwood symbolism, see here and here.

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"Ford restarts Lincoln Motor Co. ... The automaker has not used its full name since the 1950s, an era when it was synonymous with rich but understated luxury" (Source)

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All this drama with Ford Motors makes for good theater. And it's coming just in time for the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination and the centennial birthday of the Federal Reserve. See here.

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"...Ford is attempting to turn back the clock."

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(Separatio: Atalanta Fugiens, Epigramma VIII)

(One sort of "blue oval" - not the Ford logo, but the "cosmic egg," Source)

"...Ford wants to give it greater separation from the more mass market Ford 'blue oval'..." (Source)

(White House Blue Room - Image source)

As Jim Brandon reminds listeners in part two of his audio series, "Sirius Rising," among the noteworthy features of the White House is the "Blue Room." "The Blue Room[,]...on the first floor in the White House, ...is distinct for its oval shape." (Source) (There are also rooms associated with green and red.) And, of course, the West Wing of the White House features the famous "Oval Office."

(The King Revivified, Atalanta Fugiens)

(Note that the X-100 "Kennedy Presidential Limousine...was a 1961 Lincoln Continental 4-door convertible. ... Ford Motor Company assembled the car at its Lincoln plant in Wixom, Michigan in January 1961. ... The X-100 was impounded for evidence in the weeks following the assassination on November 22, 1963. Soon after plans were made to modify the car in Cincinnati, Ohio and then return it to Washington D.C. ... [I]t was used occasionally by Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter. The X-100 remained in service until early 1977." Text Source; Image Source)

"The 97-year old luxury brand, synonymous with presidential limos and black Town Cars, is returning to its original name, Lincoln Motor Co. Lincoln hopes the name will help restore the brand's luster..." (Source)

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"Lincoln Motor Co. founder Henry Leland — who also started Cadillac — named the company after his hero, Abraham Lincoln." (Source) "Lincoln now has the lowest U.S. sales of any luxury brand...Lincoln is just starting out on a long journey..." (Source)

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"The trail leading to the 'Killing of the King' is called the 'Journey of Death.' It is also called the 'Long Journey of the Alchemist," (Source: Jim Brandon, "Sirius Rising," Part 1, Interview with James Shelby Downard. On the "Journey of Death" [Jornada del Muerto] see here and here. On alchemy and Lincoln, see here.)

Arborem cum sene conclude in rorida domo et comedens de fructu eius fiet iuvenis 

("Shut up the Tree with the Old Man in a House of Dew and eating the fruit thereat He will become Young") (Source: Atalanta Fugiens)

(New Year Rebirth: Image Source)

Notice: This author does not wish any harm on the President. I have both consequentialist and non-consequentialist reasons. With respect to the former sort, and as I have alluded to previously, threatening government officials (in word or action) is simply and obviously bad news for the United States and its people. Echoing Michael Hoffman's trenchant comments elsewhere, prima facie, any person who takes up arms is - consciously or unconsciously - an agent of the system. For those Cryptocrats who seek to replace with a police-state (what remains of) our hard won heritage of liberty are the only beneficiaries of such violence. In reference to the non-consequentialist reasons, let me just say the following, obliquely. Obama's Republican opposition is rumored to include the so-called (or, perhaps,  self-proclaimed) "Religious Right." Such people ought to be broadcasting the message of their professed teacher, Jesus, who said: "But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" (Matthew 5:44, NIV). 

In many ways, we live in something like a Matrix-world or what might be termed a gigantic psychic pressure-cooker. (Alternatively, some have termed it an "open air alchemical laboratory" [cf. here] or a "prison planet.") We need a bit of genuine calm. 

"Rancor is a pimple on the brain!" 

~ Nero Wolfe

Cf.:

"Hue of Lincoln"

"Hercules and His Twin"

"Tony Scott" (+ Lincoln)

"Tidbits"

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Laugh

"The common defect of all mystical systems previous to that of the Aeon 

whose Law is Thelema 

is that there has been no place for Laughter." 

~ Aleister Crowley , "Laughter," Little Essays Towards Truth

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"And there is no Vision more critical in the career of the Adept of Horus than the Universal Joke. ... In the idea of Laughter is inherent that of Cruelty... Nature is full of cruelty; its highest points of joy and victory are marked by laughter." (Source) On "nature's cruel laughter" see Loren Coleman's piece on Hurricane Isaac (among other things): "Isaac Laughs." Additionally, 23 years ago the power Category 5 Hurricane Hugo made "[l]andfall in South Carolina ...at midnight on the night of the 21st" of September, 1989.

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"For [U.S. Vice President Joe] Biden and [Representative Paul] Ryan, debate becomes a laughing matter". Stewart and ("Lincoln-Killing") O'Reilly paved the way. The "real" debate is mocking the mockery, I suppose. Of the "debate," O'Reilly is supposed to have stated: "[Y]ou wouldn't see this in a lot of other countries. That's for sure." (Source) Well, even a broken clock is right twice a day. (Cf.: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8) It's a palimpsest of mockery. "As the mountebank delivered his harangue, the clown would repeatedly poke his head out from behind the curtain, making fun of everything his master said, parodying his patter and twisting the meaning of his words. The mountebank played the perfect straight man, meanwhile. Here he was, trying so hard to hawk his wares, and his own assistant was doing everything possible to undermine sales. The merriment was of course intentional. While the clown seemingly encouraged the public not to buy the proffered merchandise, the mountebank knew full well that the bystanders would easily be converted into customers as soon as they forgot that they were, in fact, supposed to be buying. Once the audience had been effectively hypnotized, once its judgment and willpower had been weakened, the real sales pitch could begin..." (J.H. Towsen, Clowns; qtd. in Hoffman, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare, p. 18).

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This jesting at the jest has been called the risus purus - the "pure laughter." "The highest form of laughter (the "risus purus" Beckett calls it in his early novel Watt) is the laughter about human unhappiness." (Source)

(It's risible)

Risu!: "Ay! let us end with that most sudden surprising Word of a certain Angel of The Vision and the Voice, who left the Seer lapsed in his solemn Trance with the gay laughing phrase—"But I go dancing!" The Tables of the Law? Bah! Solvuntur tabulae—risu!" (Crowley, op. cit.)

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Note, in the above Beckett quotation that the "risus purus" is connected with the word "dianoetic." The root word "noetic" has to do with Reason - that is, the rational faculties - and is derived from the word "nous" ("mind"). "Dia" is a Greek preposition that means "through" or "by means of." For his "Dianetics," Hubbard apparently just dropped the mind and substituted a net. "THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them." (L. Ron Hubbard) In this way, Hubbard was a bit ahead of his time. For nowadays most of us seem to get our information dia-net - through the "net" or "world wide web." Or, as Hoffman has put it, we're "wired to the data hive" (op. cit.).

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"The core of the reactive mind is called the bank. It may surprise you to learn that the bank consists of word-phrases called GPMs (Goals-Problems-Mass) placed there to confuse..." (Source) "The 'Laughter-Calm' GPM, or implant, is described as having taken place 19,670 trillion years ago[:] 'This takes place in a cave. It is 7-1/8ths of a second in duration. It has screams of laughter, very wild, and calm....It is a pole with a split in it. Laughter comes from the rear half and calm from the front half simultaneously. Then they reverse. It gives one a sensation of total disagreement. The trick is to conceive of both at the same time. This tends to knock one out....'" (Source)

(Source; The Man Who Laughs [1869])

(Source; "The Man Who Laughs" [1928])

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(Source; cf. "A Fool's Journey")

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(It's Rise-able)

MoveOn comments: "Phew! Last night, Joe Biden kicked butt and may have put the brakes on Mitt Romney's rise." (Anna Galland, MoveOn.org, Email, Friday, October 12, 2012 2:54 PM)

Tarot: "De Mercurio...The sense of humour of this god is very strong. He is not sentimental about his principal function; he regards the Universe as an excellent practical joke; yet he recognizes that Jupiter is serious, and the Universe is serious, although he laughs at them for being serious. ...THE LORD OF ILLUSION..." (Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth, p. 128.)

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(Source; "Glenn Beck Calls Himself a ‘Rodeo Clown’")

"Indeed the human face when crying can seem very close if not identical to that same face laughing."
(Source: Michael Taussig, "The Language of Flowers," Critical Inquiry, Vol. 30, No. 1 [Autumn 2003], p. 98.)

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[Update 16 October 2012]

Pre-Halloween Candy 

(Candy Alt Crowley; Photo Source)

"Presidential debate moderators announced: Crowley is first woman in 20 years ...The 2012 presidential debates will feature a female moderator for the first time in 20 years. The Presidential Debate Commission announced Monday that PBS’s Jim Lehrer, CBS’s Bob Schieffer and CNN’s Candy Crowley will moderate the three presidential debates, while ABC’s Martha Raddatz will moderate the lone vice presidential debate between Vice President Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). Crowley is the first female moderator for a presidential debate since ABC’s Carole Simpson, who was the last female to land the gig in 1992." (Source) See also the Lewis Carroll-like "Alice"-reference, below.

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(Say it crow-ly; Photo Source)

"CNN’s Candy Crowley recently called Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan the 'death wish ticket.'" (Source) CNN's Candy Crowley claimed some Republicans think this 'looks a little bit like some sort of ticket death wish.'" (Source) "CROWLEY: ...looks a little bit like some sort of ticket death wish." (Source)

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"...as though Kennedy would be alive today if you'd been in bed at 10:00 p.m. That's ludicrous. ... You wanted to station agents on his bumpers and side boards. He refused. Do you know why I think he refused? I think he refused because he had a death wish. He talked all the time about being assassinated. His favorite poem was 'I Have a Rendezvous with Death'... which is not a good poem, Frank. I think he wanted to die. ..." ~ John Malkovich as assassin Mitch Leary, Calling Clint Eastwood as Agent Frank Horrigan, from "Lafayette Park," Movie: "In the Line of Fire". On "Lafayette", see here (the post includes numerous links to several now classic articles on the "Fayette Factor").

("Go ask Alice, I think she'll know" ~ Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit"; Photo Source)

"Malkovich, who leaves a trail of bodies as he stalks the president, likes to tantalize Eastwood by phone with new riddles, threats and pearls of wisdom." (Source) Candy Crowley ("In an interview with CNN..."): "They will call on 'Alice,' and 'Alice' will stand up and ask a question. Both candidates will answer. Then there's time for a follow-up question, facilitating a discussion, whatever you want to call it,' Crowley said. 'So if Alice asks oranges, and someone answers apples, there's the time to go, 'But Alice asked oranges? What's the answer to that?' Or, 'Well, you say this, but what about that?'" (Source)

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Speaking of "In the Line of Fire," who was it recently making cryptic throat-cutting motions at the Republic Convention? Read about it HERE.

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As Jim Brandon pointed out years ago in "Sirius Rising," JFK was reported to have read a book called The King Must Die. "As a child, Jack Kennedy would 'devour [stories of] the knights of the Round Table,' according to Jackie. After the Wisconsin primary during the 1960 election campaign, he read The King Must Die, by Mary Renault, about the martyrdom of such folk heroes as Arthur in Britain and Roland in France." (Source)

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(Orange grove; Source)

For more, see HERE.
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