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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
I got my own personnel assets been "confiscated" by these mother fucker - "RSX" out of Van-Eck and mother fuck them - if you steal from a pirate...
I would have eaten a cherry and tried a shot of the brine too!
Just another psyops/hoax, move along nothing to see here.
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I've got a guitar, I strum a few notes and sing exceptionally well whilst cooking, neighbours don't complain but neither was Lennon particularly Earth moving.
I suppose it all down to perspective and timing, seems my talents are appreciated closer to home 🤩😘
I think the reason why such outpouring of grief and loss occurred worldwide upon Lennon's death was because he never covered his vulnerability...he never hid that he didn't know or understand. He screwed up and messed up. People related to that honesty.
Even as young men starting their career as The Beatles, they became known as zany guys who always had funny one liners. They weren't pretentious or silent sex symbols. They were guys who loved music; who were influenced by the world in which they grew up; and who floundered through divorces and drug problems.
Lennon represented his times: he was naïve; he was idealistic. So were the times. Knowing what we know today through exhaustive investigations and "truthers," the world was changing radically in those days. A president was assassinated by forces within his own country; a military-industrial complex was dictating war ventures; secret U.S. intelligence agencies manipulated popular movements and programmed the nightly news; and the U.S. currency became a phony buck.
Whereas today, I see in the Millennial and Gen Z generations an inborn cynicism and hardness. Their vulnerability is protected by a tough shield of nonbelieving and disengagement. They have grown up in an era where what looked solid has collapsed all too frequently under their feet. Their hero figures are animé-type characters who are rather invincible and hard shelled in a cold, hostile world. I think they reflect the times today. Everything is chaotic and devolving. You don't need an intellectual understanding of this concept; if you're born or living your early-mid years now, you know these facts in your bones.
I haven't read about Lennon in years, but when he died, wasn't he devoting his life, at that time, to raising his son? Who knows what kind of human being he might have become by nurturing someone he loved so much.
What a fantastic show.
You know I see Lennon as a graceful and smooth character--whimsy, not strength.
Being an intellectual giant was not his strength, but following his thoughts, humble, little, small, Like water into the structure of his culture--this brought an awareness and comraderirie to the people of his time.
I know it sounds kind of like bs, yet it does echo what was talked about in the show-that he was in the process of being true and understanding his nature.
I just think he expanded this in his post Beatles albums.
There's just something so lyrical and whimsical in his songs like watching the wheels go round and round-plastic Ono band not withstanding.
My contribution.
They were a melting pot of talent, their collective sum was greater than their individual talents.
On their separation, it became obvious as to the contributions each member brought to the table and each member then expanded upon their individualistic style's.
Do such people as Illuminati exist? Yes. Do they control power centers? Yes. Is there controlled opposition? Yes.
Somehow logic stops with the emotional charge toward someone as Illuminati, etc. Would Lennon be both an Illuminati who instigates wars and suffering while openly opposing war and writing material against war? Does this line of thinking make sense?
If someone stands against war, then I support that stance. I could only wish, if he were an Illuminati, that more Illuminati would adopt an anti-war stance.
If someone provides music and lyrics which talk about a one world, I tune out. If they celebrate a one world in which each nation flourishes with their own identity, heritage, culture, and sovereignty, as Putin stresses, then I listen.
I believe the fad springs from an inability to center within and get a gut read on someone. I saw this tendency developing in the 80s. Suddenly, job interviews morphed from discussing your qualifications, education, and skills to answering pseudo-psychological babble like "Who do you most admire in the world and why?" WTF???? Somehow they graded you on your response to the most incredibly stupid set of questions I could imagine. "If you were a balloon, which color would you be and why?"
In my day, you walked into an office, and the guy knew immediately whether or not he would hire you. He trusted himself. He trusted his intuition. Most people today have been entrained not to trust themselves and to hand over control of their world to someone with a nifty set of interview questions. Most probably through the educational system; the use of computers/smartphones to enforce herd conformity in thought/actions; and entrainment states induced through methods like chemtrails and TV.
Sorry I don't get it (just kidding),
I get what you are saying, people, feeling powerless, try to set themselves up as arbiters of truth, which is funny.
Miles Mathis makes a pretty good case that Lennon was not killed.
He (Mathis) botches his analysis of McCartney's 'evolution', however, in my opinion.
My overall impression of the Beatles, is four fairly talented (or at least energetic) musicians from England and subsequent local entertainers, who made some noise, and as that noise grew, were carried away, transformed greatly and NOT for the 'better'....
Subterfuge.
A very dangerous game.
And the one we're playing now.
To the hilt.
ned,
out
There's a part in 'Get Back' where 'she' is doing her 'screaming like a demented cat' thing and John's looking on with wonder! This is the guy who wrote 'Nowhere Man' and 'Strawberry Fields' - if ever you needed a life lesson on how to avoid a woman invading your psyche, then this is it.
Yes, Yoko was not known for her "singing." Maybe referencing the fellows above, she was a little too "post-modern." Had an extremely good friend in college who brought the latest releases back to school after vacations/breaks when he returned from New York where he lived. He played Yoko for us. We went insane...were so stoned...hookah in the middle of the floor...some great Afghan hash...and rolled around on mattresses on the floor laughing so hard we couldn't breathe.
Your comments definitely increase my interest in the film.
Among my crowd at the time, many expressed the sentiment you did. After Yoko, Lennon changed; seemed to lose creativity; and didn't produce the quality of material he had with The Beatles. As you indicate, many people hated Yoko for that reason and blamed her highly for The Beatle's split.
I wonder if Yoko was exotic pussy or simply someone Lennon felt finally understood or "got" him.
It's all history now anyway. He loved her and I guess only he understood it.
From that video I'm starting to agree.
They were considered a "british asset" - and one song that might sum them up is the one where they state "we don't want a revolution"... zappa's album cover "we're only in it for the money"....struth.
That being said - there's some good songwriting there, my favorite is "she came in thru the bathroom window.."
Also, paul's bass - that darn relic cracks me up.
Led Zeppelin came along and it was the end of the watered-down schmaltzy pop era - a good thing, then the Meat Puppets ate everyone for lunch in the 90's.... now we have nothing...no culture at all actually.
Music is more than an industry, its steered and governed by those who support narratives and have music as one of their vehicles to achieve their ends.
I was fortunate, I grew up listening to 50's, 60's, 70's and yes 80's music but I much prefer my classical to todays shite music.
There's subliminal messaging in all form of media around folk today and music is no different, yet I strongly believe that some artists embedded their feelings and messages well within their writing.
Seems the music industry isn't too good for your health either, they get everything out of an artist then kiss them goodbye, seems the bathroom is where most end up dead.
Today...a completely different story. You don't make the top unless you comply. I've seen several articles and videos on their Masonic/Illuminati symbols in shows plus their various eye and hand signals in photos announcing their Masonic status. Frankly, if I had rap screaming at me all day about "hos" and "motherf**kers" and "bitches," I might become a trifle incensed.
And not just music as you indicate. Throughout the entertainment industry. Look at the perversion Disney spews.
I like some classical. Like Pavarotti especially. But really like blues and older/early rock 'n roll. Nothing like a Mississippi hill country blues.
As for music, I have a collective taste, my music in my YouTube account reflects that.
I'm very partial to any Bluegrass music, as for Country Music, Don Williams, I'll listen to him any day, love his song Good Ole Boys Like Me.
Classical, my fav is Beethoven and his Symphony No. 7 in A. This is a masterpiece and Beethoven certainly pushed the boat out with this piece of music, some say he was either barking mad or drunk when he wrote it, I for one love it.
The Beatles took music and stood it on its head. They were completely different. Sergeant Pepper was like the holy grail coming to town. When people like Lennon stood up, you listened. You had no other communication except your friends whom you didn't contact with texts, messages, pictures, and videos on a 24/7 basis. Completely different era...completely different time...completely different modes of communication and understanding as a result. We weren't bombarded, even with all the anti-war, civil rights, and ground-breaking music scenes, with electronics; we had lives and lived. We had time to reflect and talk with friends in more than 180 characters.
People today would have no clue how big it was when Dylan switched from acoustic to electric. Like an earthquake.
"They say life begins at forty / Age is just a state of mind / If all that's true / You know that I've been dead for thirty-nine" Listening to it again, the coincidence of age is disturbing.
Chapman, after waiting for his return for hours, attracts the artist's attention, calling him with extreme kindness:
"Hey Mr Lennon?" . John turns, is hit from behind by bullets, drags himself to the hotel gatehouse and whispers:
"I'm shot, I'm shot" .
These will be his last words, before collapsing to the ground.
The caretaker of the hotel is able to give an impulse to attack Chapman, stealing his gun. He will ask him, yelling, " Do you know what you just did? ". The killer will respond with eerie calm:
"I just shot John Lennon." He will not offer any resistance when the police arrive.
Lennon was no mere singer. His social commitment and anti-Vietnam war activism exposed him to dangerous contexts, far from music. The feds monitored Lennon for several years, stalking him and recording his phone calls.
A theory put forward by Fenton Bresler , in the book "Who Killed John Lennon? " speculated that Chapman was from the CIA: plagiarized by some undercover agents, he was induced to do the insane act, according to the MK-ULTRA program of 1975.
Chapman is arrested on second degree murder charges and pleading guilty, he is sentenced to life imprisonment for 20 years. In 2000, however, he attempts a request for parole, which fortunately is refused. In 2012, he was transferred from the Attica prison to the Wende prison.
Several times over the years, he has tried to seek parole, but without success. He admitted that he realized the gravity of the murder, calling it a "despicable act", committed for "personal glory". Several times he reiterated that he killed John Lennon just because he "was very famous".
He will then say: "His 'everything' and my 'nothing' ended up colliding head-on. In the blind anger and depression of the time, that was the only way out. The only way to see the light at the end of the tunnel was to kill him " .
Yep. Chapman lived in Hawaii as MindMatters says in the vid. He had come to NY to see Lennon just a week or earlier and returned home. He admitted that Lennon was kind and autographed his albums earlier in the day before shooting him. He offers no resistance to capture.
I think MK-ULTRA. No question.
Like all workaday journalistic shorthand, such a statement seems like something "everyone knows" but is really no more than opinion presented as fact.
Fame is measurable: name recognition, record sales. But how can one actually cite causality here?
Of this type of constructive idea-seeding Lennon once said "Now I understand what you have to do: Put your political message across with a little honey."
For instance, how many artists have made hugely successful Christmas songs with an anti-war message: 'Happy Xmas (War is Over)'??
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How much is that puppy in the window ....for "minors".
Horses for courses, while the present time the lyric is sung in is the key. Strange how no musical artists can uphold that narrative now in 2022.
Only an existing Beetle could write and sing "Imagine there is no government mandates" but that would be getting it so "wrong" at the present time.
When I grew up and realized other people around me took to great measures to "know all about" their favourite band I did listen to some of their albums and they simply didn't do anything for me, to use a 60s analogy, their music was freely passed around, I accepted a try, I inhaled....it did nothing/ couldn't change my perspectives of culture either as times are moving. Now I look back on those musical eras without a shred of envy or nostalgia, like most modern music I tend to ask what kind of "fruit" does it bear or what kind of seeds does it sow, culturally speaking that is (they don't claim Royalties for no reason) !!
Lots of narratives and a labyrinth of speculation and contravertial talking points attached to the Beetles, lots of opinions never able to be settled or proven and lots of leads and crumbs left to follow and I simply put it all down (to me anyway) to one big promotional campaign to keep the back catalogue refreshed in and amongst modern generational music experiences and platforms, all of which still generates a tidy income from copyright rules for some people at least. Im not a fan, however I know alot about how promotion/advertising and relevence are dealt with in sports/music/politics, most musical careers only begin with the initial "start up" campaigns, alot of the continuation is circus performance and has to be balanced and manipulated by media platforms to create that "taste" (be it the political narratives upheld using popular culture....an example might be NewLabour's britpop allegiances with Oasis etc...later Bono from U2....or Elton John with the British Monarchy over the death of Diana).
Popular music culture is a perfect vehicle to normalize new political changes, music is rarely offered without some mysteriousness or addition aside from the sole sonic aspect, MTV was about the "anamorphic suprises" and created a whole generation who sought auditory and visual art as a single package. Of all the things government used as a carrot for freedom from the lockdown was using "indoor/outdoor concerts" because the government knows they are playing around with the last short lived bastions of freedom from their economic misery of working as a tax slave for 6 days a week, they have to control entertainment or people will look elsewhere!
Popular music today is full of satanic symbolism and perverse sexuality. They are also trying to normalize pedophilia.