Dangerous Moons, Gullwings, Cantinas, Plus William

I’m somewhat humbled by some of your comments over the last couple posts, and by the number of them. I realize that this initial outburst is partly due to the novelty; the volume will tail off, which is fine. I’ve answered a few but I’m thinking that it’s best I mostly avoid doing that. I have a given amount of ‘writing chops’ in any 24 hour sleep cycle and need to preserve it for the daily posts. So I ask you to please not be offended if I don’t respond to a comment you think important. I’m reading everything with high interest.

One of the comments I already answered was from Mike Pakecek of Penn Magazine. For those who missed it or just skimmed it, I’ll paste my response here:

Mike, apologies for my silence about you and your efforts. Now that you’re ‘publicly’ here I will try to make amends.

Do not be offended but as always I worry about who you really are. Provisionally, to anyone reading this I suggest you click on Mike’s Penn Magazine link and give it a look. I love the format and reading bits realize I need to read more.

I worry about Jim Fetzer (and your closeness to him). Many reasons for this, one being how I begged him to read The Most Dangerous Book in the World and even physically sent him a hard copy (yes, in the mail!) and he apparently would not read it. Or did and refused to respond. [Then there is] [h]is unqualified support for Trump… AGW [global warming]… a lot of etceteras here.

So I have to wonder about you. Again, no offense meant. I realize that this sort of ‘paranoia’ is exactly what ‘they’ want, but what’s a boy to do in these lunatic times? Having said that…

Good info is good info and you have been the source of a lot of it. For that I thank you.

So, there’s that. Give Penn Magazine a look if you’re so moved and (of course) feel free to comment here on the contents.

I keep mentioning that book with the Dangerous in the title. Yeah, I sent it to Fetzer a long while back and have sent it to others whom I figure will benefit from a read. I just sent a copy to F. William Engdahl, the book-writer and geo-political analyst, with whom I’ve become friendly (more in a bit). William is a ‘pundit’ in the good sense.

In sending the copy and while on the book’s Amazon page I happened to notice that the book review I wrote three years ago is up top, as the ‘Top Reader Review,’ which means my review got the most ‘Helpful’ clicks (mine got twice as many as #2). I sent the review to William as part of my personal intro to the book and why he should read it. You might as well give the review a look as well; it’s not long-winded (I know how I can get). Go to the page and scroll down.

William is in Germany so the Amazon-shipping will take a week or two. I’ll wait until I know he has the book before emailing him my other thoughts on it, why it’s important and so forth. When the time comes I’ll paste my email in here so you get the drift as well.

I also sent him Who Built the Moon?, another one I’ve been harping about. I’ll explain that one too and why the two books in tandem have sculpted my way of looking at… well, Life, the Universe, and Everything. (Btw, I’ve viewed the movie version of Hitchhiker’s Guide a half dozen times in the last couple years. Brilliant! as the Brits would say.)

William wrote me that he appreciated my sending the book but that he could have read it online and saved me the time and money. I wrote back

‘William,

A physical book is better: If it’s one you should read and you don’t, it will sit there staring at you….(;

allan

P.S. One thing they can and will do is get us used to ‘cloud’ books, which can be ‘rewritten’ in ways that would make Winston Smith cringe. I of course especially think of books that involve ‘history’ in it’s many facets. I would suggest that with important books (research, etc) you make some sort of hard copies (if only pdfs on a CD) so if they ‘edit’ history you will know. (you and I are of the age that when this really kicks in, we’ll probably have moved on, but still…) (end quote)

True, right?

I came to get friendly with William Engdahl through my German buddy Joachim, whom I’ve mentioned a few times here. For those of you who have a moment (there’s a nebulous concept!), and have not done so already, you might give my essay, ‘A Night at the Cantina’, a look. I tried finding it online but The Surfer’s Journal, for whom I originally wrote it, has a pay wall, so you’ll have to perform a couple clicks to get to the version that appeared in Can’t You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer’s Memoir… etc.

It should not take you more than 15 seconds to make the cyber trip: Click here then do a word search for ‘Pilsen.’ Boom. You’re there. (Or go to page 171.) My 50^th birthday party in outback Costa Rica, which I (accurately, if memory serves) describe as ‘…early Peckinpah as updated by Tarantino.

Although I’ve been in touch with Joachim almost weekly, the last time I saw him was in 2015, when I went to Germany to show Water Time at a Berlin film festival. We drove up from his house (I forget the town) to Berlin on the Autobahn in his Gullwing Mercedes. Normally (meaning for ‘normal’ Germans) a four-hour drive, we made it in a buck and a half. A while back I posted a short YT clip of the drive, which you can check out here. The clip ends as Joachim put serious peddle to metal and the Gopro goes flying; I picked it up and caught a few frames of the speedometer; I’ll include a grab of the reading during our ‘best go’ on that stretch. (The ‘323’ is kph.)

Truly an engineering marvel, the Mercedes Gullwing is one of the few late model sports cars (Joachim’s is 2011) that increases in value with time. (You’d have to cough up near 200k if Joachim wanted to sell.) But the importance of that drive was not that we hit 200 mph and did so in traffic; it was the long-term result…

Maybe halfway to Berlin, after I’d become semi-confident that flashing by cars themselves doing 100 mph so fast that I couldn’t even register their hue was not going to result in my death (among other ‘occupations’ Joachim is an ex-movie-stunt driver), I brought up the issue of the events of September 11, 2001. A rolling of the eyes (dangerous, considering our velocity) and a ‘Come on, man,’ was his reaction my ‘inside job’ crapola.

Returning to the states a few days later I left him a copy of Most Dangerous, which he could not get through for a year, even well after he made the transition to completely awake. What was the problem with the book? ‘The problem is what it means’, he told me. A deeply insightful reaction. Most people don’t understand the implications of the information therein…

For what it’s worth – and you folks know how skeptical I am about anyone changing his/her mind about anything – that I ‘woke up’ Joachim (on that appropriately wild ride) is one of my few genuine accomplishments. He’s now working on the formation of an institute of study and engineering/agricultural advancement in the Canary Islands that I believe will have a real effect, if only of limited scope (but we’ll see how ‘limited’ it is). The group he’s rounded up include names that… I’ll have to get back to you on the details. I may have said too much already. (When I find the right sitter for Gus, I will pay him a visit.)

So there’s a backstory to my relationship with William Engdahl. As for William himself, I believe he has gone ‘deeper’ than any geo-political analyst actively writing today. I say ‘deeper’ rather than just deeper because of his reticence to name the perpetrators of 9/11, a subject the truth of which profoundly affects every aspect of geo-politics.

I know. Normally, in a situation like this I’d quite rightly insist that we have to assume William to be… well… not on our side. (I do have trouble with labeling disinfo agents, don’t I? This has to do with details like ‘are they paid and by whom,’ and so forth. The line between a formal agent of the PTB and a ‘useful idiot’ – I prefer ‘unwitting participant’ – is a very fuzzy one.)

Addendum: One of the reasons I think William is for real is that he’s publicly come out with the truth that petroleum is not a ‘fossil’ fuel. (It is almost certainly ‘renewable’ in the sense that Mama Earth pumps out more of it from deep in her belly.) This is about as anti-PTB as you can get.

Problem here is that he’s so deeply correct about certain levels of HTWRW – damagingly so, for the PTB – that I have to suspend judgment for now. And yes, part of my motive in sending him the book is to analyze his reaction. (William subscribes to this blog, so yes, I’m giving myself away, but no problem; sneaky I’m not.) What can and does happen is that in the awakening process a person who makes his/her living through any sort of public media can be swayed into doublethink via fear of ridicule and the resultant career ramifications; being branded a ‘conspiracy theorist’ still ranks up there in fear-mongering.

Problem is, though, there is a line we all must cross. Eventually ‘following the evidence,’ truly doing so, must win out. Recently, William emailed me with a fairly detailed list of geo-political events and situations that have him… the adjective that came to mind was ‘rattled.’ (F. William Engdahl rattled? Okay. All right. We’ve crossed a line…)

My impression from his email – keeping in mind that he reads this blog — was that he was subtly asking for my take on What The Fuck Is Going On In The World (WTFIGOITW, yes, a doozy!) If I’m correct here, this is a good sign re who he really is (also keeping in mind that he himself may not know who he really is).

But as I say, William is as deeply insightful as they come, geo-politically. I’m hoping that the two books in combination (involving two theoretically wildly different disciplines) will ‘reset’ the basis of his thinking (not the thinking itself). My selfish reason being an intense desire to soak up the results, assuming all goes well.

If, as with Joachim after our 2015 Gullwing ride, I can have a positive effect on a… a remarkable person… what more can I ask of myself? (The very few emails I’ve gotten from you all that indicate a change in thinking have made my days in ways difficult to describe.)

We’ll see. Meanwhile, maybe read one of his books or at least listen to some interviews. You’ll learn something if you pay attention.

Allan