Posts Tagged ‘media studies’

Our freedom of speech philosophy and no-rules policy appeal to fellow Undergrounders (members of our Underground Knowledge discussion group on the international literary site Goodreads.com) if the group’s burgeoning membership is any guideline: membership has just topped 1200, making it one of the fastest growing groups of its kind – if not the fastest – on the popular Amazon-owned book site.

James Morcan discusses Underground Knowledge on Boston's Philosophic Perspectives Radio Show

The Underground Knowledge group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era. All you need is an enquiring mind, an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or share ‘underground knowledge.’

The inspiration for the group was our first non-fiction book The Orphan Conspiracies – a book one Amazon reviewer describes as “More conspiracy fact than fiction.” Another reviewer says, “This book may scare the pants off you!” and yet another says, “Every American should read this book.”

The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

Book the inspiration for our group.

Some of the group’s discussion threads contain literally hundreds of posts by members – a reflection no doubt of the timely and often controversial topics covered in these threads. Examples of those topics are listed in earlier blogs.

Also mighty popular are our ongoing polls. For example, our latest poll, which closes October 16 PDT, asks: What is your opinion of whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange & Bradley Manning who leak classified intelligence information to the public concerning their own government’s criminal activities?

Whistleblowers Manning, Assange and Snowden.

Interim poll results show two thirds of respondents consider them heroes. To view the interim results and comments, or better still to have YOUR say, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group?type=group 

Examples of earlier polls include:

Do you believe World Trade Center 7 (aka Building 7), which no plane hit on 9/11, collapsed solely due to fires as per the official story?

Do you believe genius-level intelligence is primarily the result of nature (genes) or nurture (education, environment, parenting etc)?

Do you believe Jesus Christ was a real historical person?

Do you believe Robert (Bobby) F. Kennedy (RFK) was solely killed by the “lone gunman” Sirhan Sirhan?

Do you believe the likes of Bill Gates & Warren Buffett are the richest people in the world as per the annual Forbes Rich Lists?

Do you believe classified mind control technologies are being used by governments on innocent citizens?

Do you believe MARILYN MONROE committed SUICIDE or was MURDERED?

Do you believe A.I. (artificial intelligence) will ever be more advanced/sophisticated than human intelligence?

Do you believe time travel is possible?

Do you believe the Pyramids of Giza were constructed solely to be burial chambers (tombs) for the pharaohs as Egyptologists tell us?

Do you……and the list goes on… Check it out via the above  link.

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Members of our Underground Knowledge group include scientists, journalists, moms and dads, historians, doctors, whistleblowers, authors, bankers, teachers, intelligence personnel, housewives, students, Army vets, pacifists, conspiracy theorists, the odd redneck and the Average Joe. All viewpoints welcome!

To visit the Underground Knowledge group, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group   

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Do you believe ALL animals should be classified by law as Sentient Beings? That’s the question we put to members of our Underground Knowledge group on Goodreads.com – and interim results show nearly three-quarters of poll respondents voted a resounding YES!

“Hey listen up…I got feelings too, Bud!”

To date, 74% of respondents say Yes; some 18% say No; and 8% are Unsure.

The poll was inspired by New Zealand’s recent decision to classify all animals as sentient beings, thereby making it illegal to kill, harm or experiment on any animal.

Greeting New Zealand’s new Animal Welfare Amendment Bill, the activist site TrueActivist.com  welcomed the news as “a landmark decision by the Kiwis (that) sets a precedent that other countries should follow”.

True Activist states:

New Zealand has just set a great example to the world by recognizing what animal lovers have known forever- that our furry friends are as sentient as we are, and (obviously, dur) they have feelings just like we do. It’s a theme we have covered time and again here at True Activist, but this landmark ruling by NZ is the first time this shift in perception and policy has been extended to all animals, not just chimpanzees, orangutans, or dolphins.

To read the full article go to: http://collectivelyconscious.net/articles/new-zealand-now-recognizes-all-animals-as-sentient-beings/

And to read what our Underground Knowledge group poll respondents have to say, or better still to have YOUR say, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group?type=group

Poll ends September 28.

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Our Underground Knowledge discussion group is aimed at those with an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or to uncover “underground knowledge” on important issues of our times.

Everyone’s welcome to join! All you need is an enquiring mind and a desire to learn. Our members include scientists, social activists, teachers, historians, authors, former military and intelligence agency personnel, bankers, housewives, whistleblowers, students, former police officers, journalists, readers and many more.

Visit the Underground Knowledge discussion group at: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group

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Flight MH370, Princess Diana, Boston Bombings, 9/11, suppressed science, hidden cures, MK-Ultra, undeclared fortunes, drugs wars, media manipulation, banned books of Bible, global warming and more… No subject is off limits in our Underground Knowledge group on the popular literary site Goodreads.

James Morcan discusses Underground Knowledge on Boston's Philosophic Perspectives Radio Show

Membership of the group has just topped 1100, reinforcing our belief that members welcome our freedom of speech policy and our no rules ‘rule’.

The group is open to everyone! All you need is an enquiring mind, an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or to uncover “underground knowledge” on important issues of our times. Our members include scientists, journalists, moms and dads, historians, doctors, whistleblowers, authors, bankers, teachers, intelligence personnel, housewives, students, Army vets, pacifists, conspiracy theorists, the odd redneck and the Average Joe. Everyone’s welcome!

A small sample of some of the group’s most contentious or interesting discussion threads follows:

Alternative thinking books 

The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election  

Was 9/11 a false flag attack and ‘Inside Job’? 54% of you voted YES 

The Slap TV show, Child Trafficking and Corrupt Child Protection with Tammi Stefano

Finding (hiding) a cure for cancer 

New Zealand Now Recognizes ALL Animals As Sentient Beings

James Morcan discusses Underground Knowledge on Boston’s Philosophic Perspectives Radio Show

How to spot a sociopath

What really happened to AA Flight 587?

25 Signs That The Global Elite’s Ship Is About To Sink

Is the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) another invention of the West? 

Global Warming – is it real?

The US Military’s proposal to kill American civilians (Operation Northwoods declassified)

Mozart & shattering the inborn genius myth

Are aliens visiting Earth or not????  

How much is Queen Elizabeth II worth??

To visit the Underground Knowledge group, or better still to join and have YOUR say, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group

 

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The latest poll in our Underground Knowledge discussion group on Goodreads.com asks: Do you believe the official story of Osama Bin Laden’s death was real or staged? To date, 48% of poll respondents say it was staged, 31% say it was real and 21% are unsure.

 

Bin Laden…dead or alive?

 

A random selection of poll respondents’ comments follow. (Names withheld):

I tend not to believe the story of Osama Bin Laden’s death simply because upon further research there appears to be too many holes, inconsistencies and flat-out contradictions in the reports.

I believe Bin Laden was killed by Navy SEALs as reported by the government. Are there inconsistencies in the reporting on his death? Yes. But consider this: As a former investigative journalist, I know reporters rarely get things 100% correct, nor does their reporting jive with each other’s. Second, as someone with nearly 26 years of military experience, I know operations rarely go as planned and getting all the details often takes months or years no matter how much debriefing or after action reports are produced. A lot of details are left out because personnel simply don’t want to own up to their own actions.

It is known that Osama Bin Laden was a CIA agent. He was controlled by US intelligent corps. Maybe he was dead by suffering illness and the murder by the US marine corps was a fiction.

I’m unsure if what was told to us concerning his death was accurate or not. Our Government has not been the pinnacle of truth through our history as a country. My own Native American People can vouch for this. Who knows what truly happened. I doubt we will really ever know.

Have you ever watched “The Hunting Party” starring Richard Gere? To me the whole thing is staged but I don’t know the details of what is really going on because it hasn’t stopped. I don’t know if Osama Bin Laden was who he says he is or not. But his death was SO fabricated it was almost funny! Sometimes I think he isn’t even dead yet. Where is the body?

To view all the comments, or better still to have YOUR say, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group?type=group

 

Poll ends July 20.

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Our Underground Knowledge discussion group is aimed at those with an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or to uncover “underground knowledge” on important issues of our times.

Everyone’s welcome to join! All you need is an enquiring mind. Our members include scientists, social activists, teachers, historians, authors, military and intelligence agency personnel, bankers, housewives, whistleblowers, students, former police officers, journalists, readers and many more.

Visit the Underground Knowledge discussion group at: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group

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Do you believe the world as a whole is overpopulated and therefore at or close to the absolute limit of what it can support? That’s the question we put to our Underground Knowledge group members in our latest poll on Goodreads.com.

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Interim poll results show that 57% of respondents believe planet Earth is not overpopulated, some 37% insist it is, and the balance (6%) are unsure.

Poll respondents’ comments make for interesting reading. Sample abridged comments (names withheld) follow:

I do not believe the world is overpopulated and believe the problem is actually a lack of fair distribution of resources, lack of priority given toward environmentalism and various other issues I’ve outlined in these two discussion threads:  https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/…  and https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/…

 

If you enjoy living in a world with no wild animals, no wild spaces, not open frontiers but enjoy snuggling up in cramped conditions with billions of people like you eating mass produced food and if you do not care that we are facing a massive decline in variety of specis of flora and fauna, the big species extinction wave, then with all those “if”s accepted, the world is not overpopulated for you.

 

The world is not overpopulated, the problem is such a wretched distribution of food, of wealth, of the basic necessities of life. Much too much is concentrated in the hands of the few, of the horridly corrupt. What if we stopped these insane endless wars and used that money to put in a well, a roof over the heads of families, food on their tables, medical care? Would we not all sleep better?

 

The world is not Close to the Limit, it has past it.

 

If the world had past its limit to support life you and every other human being on the planet would already be dead…  

 

The population of the planet has more than doubled in my lifetime. Clearly this is not sustainable. Already there are many signs of strain, in species extinctions, widespread homelessness and hunger, pollution, climate change, wars over resources, etc. There are other factors involved but overpopulation fuels them all. By any standard the planet is grossly overpopulated now. It is not just a matter of space.

 

There’s loads of space. That’s not a problem. We could build islands, extend coastlines, utilize currently uninhabitable spaces…We’re not overpopulated but we sure as hell need to sort out our distribution and use of resources.  

 

To view all the comments, or better still to have YOUR say, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group?type=group

Poll ends June 30 PST.

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Our Underground Knowledge discussion group is aimed at those with an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or to uncover “underground knowledge” on important issues of our times.

Everyone’s welcome to join! All you need is an enquiring mind. Our members include scientists, social activists, teachers, historians, authors, military and intelligence agency personnel, bankers, housewives, whistleblowers, students, former police officers, journalists, readers and many more.

Visit the group at: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group

 

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Membership of our lively ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group on Goodreads.com  has now topped 800, making it one of the fastest growing groups on the extraordinarily popular (Amazon-owned) literary site.

Goodreads: Book reviews, recommendations, and discussion

Our Underground Knowledge group is also one of the most active on Goodreads. Little wonder given many of the contentious topics under discussion…

A random sample of the group’s discussion threads follow. (Click on any links that appeal to view members’ comments):

Restructuring capitalism

The Queen’s position in modern Britain

Big Pharma & the Medical Mafia

Can we trust news media outlets?

The truth about international aid

November 22, 1963. Dallas, Texas.

Hurricane Katrina and African-American communities

The overpopulation myth (part 1)

Do 300 People Rule The World?

The multi-trillion dollar WW2 cover-up

(Profiting from) The War on Drugs

The Catcher mystery continues

Is the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) another invention of the West?

Finding (hiding) a cure for cancer

Earlier historical versions of Jesus Christ?

Are aliens visiting Earth or not????

Was 9/11 a false flag attack and ‘Inside Job’? 62% of you voted YES

Global Warming – is it real?

The US Military’s proposal to kill Americans

Banned books of the Bible

The political apathy of today’s youth

The Big Bang Theory – Debunked?

Obama, Murdoch & the Bush/Clinton clans

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Our Underground Knowledge discussion group is aimed at those with an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or to uncover “underground knowledge” on important issues of our times.

Everyone’s welcome to join! All you need is an enquiring mind. Our members include scientists, social activists, teachers, historians, authors, military and intelligence agency personnel, bankers, housewives, whistleblowers, students, former police officers, one or two rednecks (we are trying to weed them out), doctors, a couple of busybodies (they’re okay), journalists, readers and many more.

Visit the group at: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group

 

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Membership of our lively ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group on the popular Goodreads.com literary site has now topped 700 — little wonder given the controversial nature of many of the topics being discussed!

Goodreads: Book reviews, recommendations, and discussion

Some of the more contentious discussion threads follow. (Click on any links that appeal to view members’ comments):

Is the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) another invention of the West?

Finding (hiding) a cure for cancer

Earlier historical versions of Jesus Christ?

Are aliens visiting Earth or not????

Was 9/11 a false flag attack and ‘Inside Job’? 62% of you voted YES

Global Warming – is it real?

The US Military’s proposal to kill Americans

Banned books of the Bible

The political apathy of today’s youth

The Big Bang Theory – Debunked?

Obama, Murdoch & the Bush/Clinton clans

Restructuring capitalism

The Queen’s position in modern Britain

Big Pharma & the Medical Mafia

Can we trust news media outlets?

The truth about international aid

November 22, 1963. Dallas, Texas.

Hurricane Katrina and African-American communities

The overpopulation myth (part 1)

Do 300 People Rule The World?

The multi-trillion dollar WW2 cover-up

(Profiting from) The War on Drugs

The Catcher mystery continues

 

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Our ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group is aimed at those with an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or to uncover “underground knowledge” on important issues of our times.

Everyone’s welcome to join! All you need is an enquiring mind. Our members include scientists, teachers, historians, authors, military and intelligence agency personnel, bankers, housewives, whistleblowers, students, former police officers and many more.

Visit the group at: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group

 

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Membership of our fledgling ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group on Goodreads.com has topped 600, making it one of the fastest growing groups on the popular literary site.

Goodreads: Book reviews, recommendations, and discussion

The ‘Underground Knowledge’ group is aimed at those with an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or to uncover “underground knowledge” on important issues of our times. Everyone’s welcome to join! All you need is an enquiring mind. Our members include scientists, teachers, historians, authors, military and intelligence agency personnel, bankers, housewives, whistleblowers, students, former police officers and many more.

Visit the group at: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group

The group’s new discussion threads include:

Is the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) another invention of the West? https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/…

Mozart & shattering the inborn genius myth https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/…

Plum Island (NY) – inspired by Nazi science? https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/…

Communication Between Humans and Plants https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/…

Weather modification and HAARP https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/…

Who or what are aliens (if they even exist)? https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/…

Princeton University proves that thought influences physical reality? https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/…

Can Little Brother overthrow Big Brother? https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/…

 

Check us out if this sounds like a group you could be interested in…or better still join us and have YOUR say!

 

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In the latest poll on our ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group on Goodreads.com  we ask members if they believe Hurricane Katrina was a purely natural disaster; some of the responses make for interesting reading…

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Katrina batters New Orleans. 

The full question posed in this (continuing) poll reads: Do you believe Hurricane Katrina was a purely natural disaster or do you think it was an ‘inside job’ on some level (e.g. HAARP, eugenics-style racial attack, blowing up levees or general weather modification)?

Thus far, 43% of poll respondents have opted for natural disaster, 20% are unsure and the balance (37%) opted for inside job.

 

A random selection of comments from those who believe Hurricane Katrina was an inside job follows. (Names withheld):

I sense it was an Inside Job and voted that way. Declassified documents seem to indicate weather modification may be very advanced. Not just HAARP but general weather modification technologies that the military industrial complex has in its possession.

 

I strongly feel that Katrina was either orchestrated event or else a natural disaster that was used in an opportunist fashion to attack impoverished African American communities. Unfortunately, when you study the history of eugenics it is impossible to dismiss such sinister racial experiments.

 

Total inside job. I’ve talked to people that lived through it, swimming from house to house, and they said the levies were intentionally tampered with, although I can’t remember the specifics. Either way, it’s self-evident. All you have to do is look at how many people profited off the cleanup and by how much.

 

While I am unsure about the cause; I am sure that the authorities did everything in their power afterward to make more of a mess.

 

Indeed it was orchestrated. There was an emergency planning scenario drill exercise held in New Orleans which commenced one week ahead of the storm called Hurricane Pam. It is believed that this granted FEMA the cover it needed to plant the explosives in the levee wall of Lake Portchartrain.

 

The slow government response to this huge disaster was very unusual. Somehow, things didn’t make sense from a rescue point of view. Why did it take so long for the government to do something? This is not a normal response, in the U.S., anyway.

 

Although I cannot be 100% sure that it was a manmade inside job, I still voted that way, because if Katrina wasn’t, then certainly other things of the same ilk were. Weather modification, eugenics and associated things are those areas that can be backed up with some hard facts, and yet it’s still routinely ignored in mainstream press (even the weather modification we’ve been told has been employed).

 

And here’s some links relating to Katrina that poll respondents have provided:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz91N… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9k9P… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1m_d… https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/…

http://www.whale.to/b/vialls3.html

https://www.academia.edu/7533253/War_…

 

To view all the comments, or better still to have YOUR say, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/115513-do-you-believe-hurricane-katrina-was-a-purely-natural-disaster-or-do-you

 

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Our ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group is aimed at those with an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or to uncover “underground knowledge” on important issues of our times. Everyone’s welcome to join! All you need is an enquiring mind. Our members include scientists, teachers, historians, authors, military and intelligence agency personnel, bankers, housewives, whistleblowers, students, former police officers and many more.

Visit the group at: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group

 

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Interested in books of an ‘alternative’ nature? Books on underground knowledge, suppressed technologies, 21st Century history, media studies, secret learning methods and well researched, well documented conspiracy theories? Then our ‘Underground Knowledge’ group’s bookshelf on Goodreads.com is for you!

 Goodreads: Book reviews, recommendations, and discussion

Our bookshelf is now loaded with more than 300 titles – and with what we believe to be some of the most well-researched and level-headed conspiracy theory books around. Many are more conspiracy fact than theory.

Here’s just some of the titles on offer:

The Lone Gladio by Sibel Edmonds The Lone Gladio Edmonds, Sibel

 

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow Little Brother (Little Brother, #1) Doctorow, Cory

 

Flying Saucers & Science by Stanton T. Friedman Flying Saucers & Science: A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs Friedman, Stanton T.

 

GENIUS INTELLIGENCE by James Morcan GENIUS INTELLIGENCE: Secret Techniques and Technologies to Increase IQ Morcan, James

 

Reich of The Black Sun by Joseph P. Farrell Reich of The Black Sun: Nazi Secret Weapons & The Cold War Allied Legend Farrell, Joseph

 

In Search of Schrödinger's Cat by John Gribbin In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality Gribbin, John

 

Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge McKenna, Terence

 

The Orphan Trilogy by James Morcan The Orphan Trilogy (The Orphan Trilogy #1-3) Morcan, James

 

The Transhumanist Wager by Zoltan Istvan The Transhumanist Wager Istvan, Zoltan

 

Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Washington, Harriet A.

 

Acid Dreams by Martin A. Lee Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion Lee, Martin A.

 

Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide Kristof, Nicholas D.

 

Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth’s Lost Civilization Hancock, Graham

 

To view all the books on our ‘Underground Knowledge’ bookshelf go to: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1980267-bookshelf-up-and-running

 

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Our ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group is aimed at those with an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or to uncover “underground knowledge” on important issues of our times. Everyone’s welcome to join! All you need is an enquiring mind. Our members include scientists, teachers, historians, authors, military and intelligence agency personnel, bankers, housewives, whistleblowers, students, former police officers and many more.

Visit the group at: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group

 

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