The Great Brick Conspiracy of 2020 A.D. (or) The Fine Art of Destabilizing Political Protests

What follows is a passage from a 6-2-20 BBC article entitled "George Floyd Protests: Misleading Footage and Conspiracy Theories Spread Online" by Flora Carmichael, Alistair Coleman, Joice Etutu, Jack Goodman, Shayan Sardarizadeh, Marianna Spring, Olga Robinson, and Ben Strick (yes, it took eight journalists to write a 1,400-word article):

The BBC's anti-disinformation team has been tracking misleading videos and conspiracy theories about the protests, which have been circulating online.

So, here's what to look out for - and avoid - on your social media feeds.

Rumours that the protests have been set up with potential projectiles handed out to agitators have gained traction, with thousands of posts referencing "bricks" on social media.

Several videos that show piles of bricks along with claims that they were planted by police or the government have been watched by millions of people [...].

One Police Department in Boston hit back at misleading claims about a viral video of its officers unloading bricks from a van.

Suggestions had been made on social media that the officers were unloading bricks from a vehicle "to use them as an excuse" against protesters.

However, Boston's Northeastern University Police Department has tweeted that the officers had collected them "from a damaged brick sidewalk" and taken them back to the station as they were posing a safety hazard to pedestrians [...].

What follows is the Police Department's aforementioned tweet....

On Monday, June 1, while on a routine patrol of campus, two of our officers came across a damaged brick sidewalk at the corner of Tremont and Coventry streets that posed a safety hazard for pedestrians due to loose, upturned and broken bricks.

Here are choice responses to the Police Department's tweet....

meg

@megansaysso Replying to


@northeasternpd


i will be calling your non-emergency line to detail every single loose brick on campus in the coming days/weeks and will request that you dispatch an officer to assist me, since this is a service you provide.

warren dixon

@warren_dixon Replying to

@northeasternpd


Had to remove the dangerous bricks quickly so they could go shoot rubber bullets and teargas at peaceful protesters. Ya right, sounds plausible...


defiantdamsel


@think_young1 Replying to


@northeasternpd


...those folks at Target were just moving corporate shit from one place to another... #NoJusticeNoPeaceNoracistpolice


Ie Fuchs

@mynameisieReplying to


@northeasternpd


That sidewalk is miserable with sturdy bricks. If you removed loose bricks, you would have holes which would be more hazardous. Can university police spontaneously decide to dismantle a city sidewalk?


@Topdekfireblast Replying to


@northeasternpd


Right, cause I see cops out fixing the sidewalk all the time, try harder

I encourage you to study THIS VIDEO and decide for yourself if the official explanation above actaully matches what's seen on screen. 

Returning to the BBC article:

Another viral video from Fayetteville, North Carolina that has racked up over a million views shows a pile of bricks in the vicinity of protests as a man says there is "no construction" site in the area.

We've been able to geolocate the video and found images from 24 May with the same pile of bricks in the same place, long before any protests took place.

Despite the above sentence, the BBC fails to include these "images" with the article.

Most of the videos and images we've seen don't look particularly suspicious - it's not uncommon to see piles of bricks near building sites.

I've never once seen a pyramid of bricks just left out in the open on a street corner like an all-you-can-eat sample tray at Trader Joe's.

In the final analysis, after one reads this article, one can only conclude that (according to the BBC), the numerous piles of bricks that have conveniently popped up at various protest epicenters scattered throughout the United States each have their own separate explanation, almost none of them the same. Yup.... 

To read the entire BBC article, click HERE.

THE FENTON FILES

Last night I appeared on Lorien Fenton's THE FENTON FILES radio show for a nearly two-hour-long interview during which I discussed the disruptive role of agent provocateurs in the recent protests in Long Beach, Dallas, Seattle, Minnesota, and beyond. Fenton and I also touched on such topics as mass mind control, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the films of Bela Lugosi, the hypnotic talents of Manly P. Hall, the strange theories of Stanislav Szukalski, as well as my books BELA LUGOSI AND THE MONOGRAM NINE (co-written with Gary D. Rhodes), UNTIL THE LAST DOG DIES, CHAMELEO, and CRYPTOSCATOLOGY. If you'd like to listen to the interview, just click HERE (I enter the scene at around 19:00):

Blood, Carnage and the Agent Provocateur

"It's a strange world filled with odd-shaped folk."

--Robert Sheckley

Last night, as the National Guard was being deployed near Cryptoscatology Headquarters in Long Beach, California, I searched the words "Long Beach" on Twitter and came across this message. The last sentence stood out to me:

"Long Beach protestors this car is a trap! The p0lice parked the car in front of the convention center bc that’s where they are stationed! Don’t get caught destroying the trap car. Ignore it, walk by it, keep the message going!!! They’ve been planting brick piles on sidewalks too!" 

Then, not long afterwards, I saw this video (from Dallas).  

This video was shot at Ground Zero in Minneapolis. Scroll all the way down to the video entitled "Claims Raised of Cops Provoking Riots" (1:24).

And this video was shot in Seattle.


To put all of this into a historical perspective, I highly recommend reading Alex Constantine's 1993 book entitled Blood, Carnage and the Agent Provocateur: Truth About the Los Angeles Riots and the Secret War Against L.A.'s Minorities.

FEMA and Palantir

From Spencer Ackerman's 5-21-20 Daily Beast article entitled "FEMA Tells States to Hand Public Health Data Over to Palantir":

The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency urged health officials in “all states and territories” to provide “daily” updates on ventilator availability for the novel coronavirus directly to the data mining giant Palantir, according to emails shared with The Daily Beast and confirmed by FEMA. 

Palantir, co-founded by key Trump ally Peter Thiel, signed government contracts last month worth approximately $24.8 million to provide the Department of Health and Human Services with data-management software to track health-infrastructure deficiencies and forecast where future needs will emerge, through a platform known as HHS Protect. The company’s tools integrate a staggering 187 data sets containing information on everything from hospital inventories, medical supply chains, diagnostic and geographic testing data, demographic stats and more. 

Those data sets do not include information from identifiable patients, according to HHS, which experts say keeps the arrangement from running afoul of privacy laws. But information on state capacity to meet COVID-19 hospitalization needs, particularly for the predictive purposes the FEMA administrator references and Palantir specializes in, is a potential goldmine for the secretive company. 

“If they’re accessing these rich data sets directly from our public health infrastructure, will they exploit that to add economic value to their core data sets? If their AI learns how to infer and predict the patterns of the disease from our public data, then that becomes a hugely lucrative advantage for a private company, especially now when everyone, in every business sector, wants to know where COVID is going and how hard it’s going to hit,” said Shoshana Zuboff, the author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and a professor emerita at Harvard Business School.

If you want to read Ackerman's entire article, click HERE. 

Previous Cryptoscatology posts about Palantir can be found HERE, HERE, and HERE. A previous Cryptoscatology post about Peter Thiel can be found HERE.

Palantir and Project Maven

From Isabel Asher Hamilton's 5-26-20 Business Insider entitled "'Our Product Is Used on Occasion to Kill People': Palantir's CEO Claims Its Tech Is Used to Target and Kill Terrorists":

Alex Karp, CEO of data analytics firm Palantir, told Axios in an interview broadcast Monday that the company's tech is used to kill people.

Karp was answering a question about the company's involvement with US Immigration and Custom's Enforcement (ICE), a relationship which has provoked protests by human rights activists. 

Karp said he had lost some of his favorite employees who thought the company's work for ICE was unethical.

"I had people protesting me, some of whom I think ask really legitimate questions. I have asked myself if I were younger at college: 'Would I be protesting me?'"

Karp said he sees questions of injustice in every aspect of the company's work. "I see this with our work with clandestine services, I mean our product is used on occasion to kill people," he said.

When pressed by the interviewer on what technology he was referring to and whether this might mean using drones, Karp remained vague.

"If you're looking for a terrorist in the world now you're probably using our government product and you're probably doing the operation that takes out the person in another product we build."

Earlier this year Palantir picked up a Pentagon contract to develop targeting AI for military drones. The contract, called "Project Maven," had previously been Google's but the tech giant abandoned it after employee uproar over the ethics of developing military technology.

If you want to read the entire article, click HERE.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HARLAN ELLISON!

In honor of what would have been the 86th birthday of Harlan Ellison (1934-2018), I suggest reading Ellison's Hugo Award-winning short story "The Paladin of the Lost Hour" and his hilarious piece of creative nonfiction entitled "The Three Most Important Things in Life." The former tale was collected in Ellison's World Fantasy Award-winning 1988 book ANGRY CANDY, and the latter piece was collected in Ellison's 1982 book STALKING THE NIGHTMARE.

(Previous Cryptoscatology posts dealing with Harlan Ellison can be found HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.)

Richard Sharpe Shaver and the Philosophy of Flying Saucers

I recommend listening to the 4-30-20 episode of Bob Carlson's UNFICTIONAL, which airs weekly on KCRW in Los Angeles. This particular episode (entitled "The Philosophy of Flying Saucers") deals with a prime cryptoscatological subject, namely Richard Sharpe Shaver, creator of what has come to be known as "The Shaver Mystery":

The story of the Shaver Mystery began in 1943 when a man named Richard Sharpe Shaver sent a letter to Amazing Stories, an early science fiction magazine. But Shaver said his story was not fiction, it was an incredible thing that had actually happened to him. These are excerpts from Shaver's writing, read by an actor. 

VOICE READING EXCERPT: I myself cannot explain it, I know only that I remember Lemuria! Remember it with the faithfulness that I accept with the absolute conviction of a fanatic. And yet, I am not a fanatic. I am a simple man, a worker in metal employed at a steel mill in Pennsylvania. 

While working in a factory, Shaver said he gained the ability to hear the thoughts of others. He quit his job, he became a hobo for a while, and that led to his discovery of a race of Pre-historical extraterrestrial creatures called the Titans. They were once part of a large civilization here on earth, but most of those had left in spacecraft... while a few were abandoned here on earth. Of those, a small number were the Noble Teros. But unfortunately, a larger number of the ones left behind became mutated by the sun's radiation into sadistic savages. They were called Dero.

VOICE READING EXCERPT: A race of Dero is produced whose every thorough movement is concluded with a decision to kill. They will kill instantly. They will instantly kill or torture anyone who will make contact unless they are extremely familiar with them and fear them. That is why they do not instantly kill each other.

And the reason Richard Shaver knew so much about Deros and the underground caverns, is because he was held prisoner by the Deros in the Cavern World. He saw how they used rays to read and manipulate people's minds. Now he was here to tell readers... they're still doing it.

You can hear the entire episode HERE.

(Previous Cryptoscatology posts dealing with the work of Richard Shaver can be found HERE and HERE.)