Predictions: The Bane of the Alternative Media
Predictions: The Bane of the Alternative Media
The 2012 Olympics have come and gone. Fanfare in, fanfare out, some amazing athletic performances, and a whole mess of product positioning left behind.
Despite the mini-rant I gave on my radio show on July 28 on why I hated the Olympics so much, I don’t really hate the Olympics. I admire the athletes from around the world who train so hard and compete so incredibly.
And I did glean bits of the Olympics here and there on TV. Of course, the athletes were amazing. Usain Bolt is clearly superhuman. Anthony Joshua gave a nice come-from-behind effort to win the gold in boxing. The U.S. Women’s basketball team has officially become legendary, winning their fifth Olympic gold medal in a row. On the last day, I caught some gymnastics and wrestling, and all of the athletes looked just astounding.
What I simply can’t stand is the endless hype. The marketing, advertising, product positioning, fanfare, and hoopla that is so over-the-top. As great as the athletes are, the surrounding hype is even more obnoxious. I know, I know, you’ve got to pay the bills and I’m being a killjoy. Whatever.
But the reason I am writing about the Olympics is for a different reason altogether. It is because from the viewpoint of what we like to call the alternative media, nothing happened.
And what was supposed to happen, you may ask? Well, unless you have had your head glued to mainstream news for the last four years, you have heard some of the predictions, repeated with variations from countless so-called “inside sources,” that there was supposed to be a Major Event during the 2012 Olympics. I admit I haven’t researched every aspect of this, but it appears to have derived from the late Rik Clay, and then was grafted onto the concept of the alleged Project Blue Beam, or other False Flag ideas.
Simply put, the 2012 Olympics were supposed to feature a phony alien invasion that was designed to scare the hell out of you so that you would acquiesce into accepting an overt global fascism. The primary day for this apparently was supposed to be Saturday, August 4. A great holographic display of an ET mothership (or, depending on your variation in this, Jesus, Satan, or whomever) was supposed to appear and, one supposes, people were simply going to check their brains and accept it all.
I have always thought this idea to be untenable. The false alien invasion meme is a joke, always has been. Try imagine the logistics of pulling something like that off. If you thought 9/11 was a big one, that’s nothing compared with this. I discussed some of my objections to such a Project Blue Beam scenario here, when (once again) such predictions were running rampant and leading people in circles.
Now, it’s not that there aren’t false flag events. Anyone who has read or listened to me in the past knows that I believe these things happen. So, regarding the Olympics, there were a few more realistic scenarios offered, such as a false “terrorist” attack occurring, something really big, like on the order of 9/11, which would further cement our growing global nastiness. On the face of it, I could believe something like that, so long as there is actual evidence supporting it, which in this case there was not.
By the way, not all predictions for the Olympics were doom and gloom. On the positive side of things, we were told that it would signal the appearance of a positive extraterrestrial presence here on Planet Earth. As the great day of August 4 approached, however, we saw people hedging their bets: it might be possible that nothing seemed to happen, but in fact the portal was to open that day, and now, any time after August 4, the benevolent extraterrestrials might indeed show themselves openly to us.
Thus, the Olympics were supposed to introduce a new Heaven or a new Hell, each with a healthy array of variations being offered. Of course, I should not leave out the marketing-offered-as-prediction by UFO author and media figure Nick Pope who, it turns out, was simply promoting a new alien invasion game by Nintendo.
I know that I am not the only person who finds all these predictions beyond annoying. It’s one thing to want to garner some headlines and love (and maybe, if you’re really lucky, some marketing/consulting fees), but it’s another thing to pollute a field that, quite frankly, can’t take any more pollution than it already has. And it’s another thing, moreover, to write predictive pieces that are inevitably wrong, that waste the time of researchers who are inevitably asked to chime in on such ridiculous assertions, and which (not least of which) create a culture of fear on the one hand and false hope on the other.
No one is served by these predictions except those who make them. They are, literally, self-serving. And even that is only in the short-term. For in the long run, can the purveyors of such useless predictions really be said to benefit? They harm the community they are claim to inform and they harm their reputation. Ultimately, I believe, they harm themselves at a deeper level. You can’t be the boy who cries wolf year after year without it taking a toll on you.
There is a lesson, of course. In a world in which the mainstream media fails repeatedly and by its nature to educate and engage the public, it is our job as responsible world citizens to look for evidence and facts, to analyze matters carefully, and — at all times — to use caution. This includes looking for possible answers and scenarios that differ from those you currently believe.
After all, no one is infallible. We all make mistakes. Caution and prudence in all matters is a good thing, not a bad thing. Especially in making predictions, which have become the bane of the alternative community and alternative media.
The ramp up to the Olympics was bad enough. We are already besieged by predictions for December 21, 2012, and more will be coming to a website near you. My advice: keep your head firmly fastened to your neck.
Richard Dolan
Richard Dolan is author of UFOs and the National Security State (currently in two volumes), A.D., After Disclosure, and the soon-to-be-released UFOs for the 21st Century Mind.
Visit his website at http://keyholepublishing.com
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Economics is possibly the only field comparable to UFOlogy in which an analyst can make any number of predictions and still be recognised as a legitimate authority on the subject, even when his predictions turn out to be consistently false or conversely, the obvious outcomes are either ignored or not taken into consideration. Imminent official disclosure of ET contact? Still waiting on that one. Brutal subjugation by rampaging insectoid hordes, who bizarrely have no MO beyond destruction and pillage, despite having access to rapid space transport? No sign of them yet. I just got another email today from PRG about disclosure – same story for over a decade and you can go back decades and see the same themes repeating over and over. One of the more subtle and corrosive effects of making false predictions is that it generates and sustains a deep cynicism as to the validity of the entire subject. Is that intentional? No idea but it works in turning people off the subject when certain themes are hyped, hyped and then the rug is pulled. What a let down! How disappointing! Makes us all a little embarrassed that we could be so naive. Yet we all bite the next time it appears. We just can’t help ourselves.
I think that this is possible, that the “cynicism” is a desired product appropriate to the nature of this business it serves. Integrated Pest Management is claimed by many proponents of having multitudes of definitions and yet the earliest definition clearly states it’s terms without any reason to amend it’s meaning. Shills are active to protect an interest by abandoning clarity in issues and their fog often resting heaviest in the open spaces of a discussion where characterization of a topic is formulating. Cynicism would act as blood platelets closing off the stream of consciousness in a direction of examination by reducing potential participants. After all this phenomena is very personal in it’s revelations. Our society has compartmentalized credibility by it’s reductionist policies encouraging an environment to be exploited by a tyranny of experts to prevail upon our common sense and belief in ourselves. Which is all we have when facing this phenomena alone. The “experts” will not be there to moderate in the place where all men, kings to paupers are fodder. It is important to give the shills no quarter in the realm of credibility. To their shill voices no answers. Just as we have been delivered, we shall return. Their character as played is irrelevant to the process of understanding truthfully the nature of this phenomena, outside of the possible fact that their activities may not be independent of it but a result of it’s catalytic ways. Which makes the shill a most pathetic victim indeed in the course of victimizing the truth. It is important not to over intellectualize, or second guess but rather follow your guts on it. This may be a struggle between who we are and who they are and it is very likely that the result will be that one of us may loose our identity and history in the process. Then being a historian, fireman or Indian chief won’t matter. Read Dave Jacob’s book, The Threat.
That’s actually nohtnig comparing to the video interview with a real alien on U.S. Military base, which was leaked a few days ago.. that video is really SHOCKING and if you don’t have 18, I don’t even recommend you to watch it. incase you haven’t saw yet, just type in google: Shocking Alien Video Leaked InfoI think this is somehow connected with all those Jerusalem UFO sightings too.
Infinite is a concept not just in terms of space but as a word, there is no proof that the unirsvee will expand forever, there are theories that it will collapse at some point to the singularity it once was (which is also a theory) and other theories that it will then again expand. If you could travel around the unirsvee you would not reach a border but you could possible end up where you began, if it was infinite then you would just keep going into new space.
You are spot on, the community cannot take the stress of even more garbage being pumped through its channels. Saying that, it does seem to be prompting a lot of us to jump ship and hoist our own flag. As Joseph P. Farrell notes, we are witnessing a “parting of the ways” within the alternative research community. I could say a lot more, but I in fact wrote a whole article about it, which I will now shamelessly promote:
http://www.afterdisclosure.com/2012/04/lizards-and-lamentations.html%20%20
The aliens are eniehgtlned beings who are concerned for our wellbeing here on planet Earth. The want to help us with the transition now taking place in time for the 2012 movement into 5th Dimension reality. They are beloved beings of Light and mean us no harm.