"well, look at it this way. if things get so bad, that all his predictions are coming true, he either needs to get a lot of friends with protection, or lay low.
I say, start angry, quiet, and when powerful enough, make change. not so quiet that you don't protest, but not so loud you draw unwarranted attention."

I often wondered if he wasn't a disinfo agent and what he said was true, why isn't he dead yet? I mean in his world they kill people all the time for knowing too much, including US presidents... this means he doesn't know enough and his signal to noise ratio is too high....

"this brings me to a question, why throw a molotov coctail at the police, when you don't come armed to fight back if that is what you want?
I think a lot of violence at protest is the police disquised as civilians. Thus, when civilians do protest, it will nOT be televised, as it will be actually violent, rather than a bitch slap."

with the large number of documented cases of the FBI planting people to cause conflicts and unrest, this rings frighteningly true.

"Why even be in this tribe if one can't entertain the notion that maybe they don't know everything about everything? It's not such a bad situation to find yourself in."

if the moderator felt that people who don't provide value and troll asked those of us who are skeptical to leave I'm sure we would leave this tribe to it's own cognitive dissonance. But I grew up fascinated by conspiracies and I believe there are conspiracies around us all the time, affecting broad aspects of our lives, but I also think they tend to be fairly prosaic and mundane by most standards, which doesn't lessen the importance to me. I think it says a lot of a person's beliefs if they can't stand up to scrutiny. Keeping an open mind is important, but more important is keeping an objective mind. If I open myself up to having to believe every anecdote and story I hear, without backing of solid and testable evidence, then I have to be open to believing in a panacea of crap. Otherwise I have to admit that I am selective in my reasoning criteria and I have sacred cows that cannot be subjected to the same level of scrutiny as others. If I believe bigfoot exists on the same level of evidence as is presented for alien abductions, chupacabra, lochness monster, masonic mind control, chemtrails, hollow earth theory, flat earth theory, christianity, reptilian overlords, illuminati, one world government, the fed and world banking, mayan 2012, on and on, then what do I really believe? At some point I will have to start tossing out the contradicting theories and then I am already falling down the slippery slope.

It reminds me (prepare for non-sequitor) of watching the Montel Williams show back in the 90s, where he has a bunch of guests come on and talk about their odd pursuits and beliefs. He has a guy who talks in detail about chasing bigfoot and his life's work of collecting data and anecdotes (but never oddly a picture). When this guy finishes they move on to a young woman who claims to have been the product of a human/alien coupling. She says she can see the future and has psychic powers and can recognize other aliens living among us. Montel then says (I paraphrase) "Of course you know what I am going to ask you now." The audience oooohs and ahhhhs and he asks her if there any aliens in the audience. "Yes" she says. The audience gets more riled up and he asks her to identify them. To this she replies she cannot as they have asked her psychically not to... The audience erupts into laughter as they cut to commercial.
As the camera panned back I had to chuckle and ask myself, how bad off are you when the guy who chases bigfoot is laughing at you on tv?
I swore I would never be that woman.

and Mr. M, your ability to stray off topic and get really personal is very cool, you come off as a real person who cares and your open mindedness isn't a handicap, it's even downright entertaining at times!

That would be nice roman. The there's that whole TOTAL GLOBAL DOMINATION / WORLD SLAVERY scenario. Don't get me wrong man. I totally agree with you. But I see ongoing genocide in the present and it is only escalating every day into the future.