Infowars_Magazine-Jan_2013.pdf

T
he death of our world, the end of times, can come in many forms. If you are reading this, clearly you are all too aware that the world did not end on
December 21, 2012 as many predicted based on the Mayan calendar. But the death of the Republic, the death of financial independence and the death
of many freedoms have all emerged as real threats to our livelihood. In many important ways, a New Age of surveillance, domination and centralized
power has dawned upon us. Hidden government has surfaced, emerging into open tyranny, like the waxing and waning of the moon. This article we wrote
in December holds true-- that the predictions of a grand destruction at the end of 2012 only distracted from the lingering death by a thousand cuts that has
been wrecking society, and which will continue to destroy our world well into 2013… and beyond.
1 Doomsday adherents cannot seem to agree
on precisely what catastrophe will befall the
earth on December 21st. Will it be the emergence
of Planet X or a combination of crippling
global superstorms and extreme weather
events? Unlike Y2K, which at least was a single,
quantifiable threat, the Mayan prophecy
comes with no specific warning attached, leaving
it open to wild and inaccurate speculation.
2 The establishment media and entertainment industry in the west has
exploited the 2012 hysteria for their own commercial and tabloid-driven
ends. Rest assured, you know it’s fraudulent when the system itself
is pushing it. Real threats to people’s livelihoods like the declining value
of the dollar, food shortages or threats to private retirement funds
including 401K’s and IRA’s are all too real but not sexy enough to be
turned into blockbuster Hollywood movies or prime time documentary
specials. Real threats to our environment like genetically modified
food, chemtrails or unstable nuclear reactors are sidelined in favor of
obsessing over inane fantasies about Armageddon.
3 Astronomer and NASA scientist David
Morrison put out a YouTube video containing,
“Detailed rebuttals of five separate apocalyptic
scenarios on its website, including a meteor
strike, a solar flare and the so-called polar
shift, whereby the Earth’s magnetic and rotational
poles would reverse.” And if you don’t
believe NASA, there are millions of amateur
astronomers who are constantly stargazing
and would notice any celestial threat to the
earth many weeks or months in advance.
4 The Mayans themselves were not too
smart as a culture in comparison to others,
so why should we pay much attention to what
they said anyway? The Mayans were incapable
of inventing the wheel and thought that life
was a dream of the Gods, which is why they
routinely made human sacrifices to stave off
the fear that the Gods would awaken and the
world would end. Why should we indulge in
the same deluded fears of such a primitive culture?
6 The Mayan leaders once exploited manufactured
hysteria about the end of the world
to make their inferiors follow orders. Possessing
advanced knowledge of when solar
eclipses would occur, the elders would claim
that a snake was about to eat the sun and that
only by obeying commands would the elders
permit the sun to return. Watching a subsequent
solar eclipse, the peasants believed the
scam, thinking the elders had divine powers
to make the sun disappear – ensuring total
obedience.
5 If you do think we should be paying attention
to the Mayans, then that also indicates Armageddon
is some way off yet. During a recent
speech, the National Council of Elders Mayas,
Xinca and Garifuna pointed out that the end
of the Maya calendar has nothing to do with
the end of the world, noting that it merely
represents the end of one cycle leading to the
beginning of a new one. “It’s the time when
the largest grand cycle in the Mayan calendar—1,872,000
days or 5,125.37 years—overturns
and a new cycle begins,” noted Anthony
Aveni, a Maya expert and archaeoastronomer
at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
7 The Mayan prophecies contain absolutely
zero evidence that anything catastrophic will
actually happen on December 21st. “The very
few ancient texts that refer to Dec. 21, 2012
treat it as a calendar milestone, but do not
contain prophecies of doom,” says John Henderson,
professor of anthropology at Cornell
University.
8 Most of the individuals whipping up the
frenzy are doing so for personal profit. In
China, “Scam artists had been convincing
pensioners to hand over savings in a last act
of charity,” reports the Telegraph. Others
have been selling “end of the world” survival
kits (a delicious contradiction in terms) –
cashing in on the hysteria.
9 Some people have used the supposed end of the world in 2012
as an excuse to make apologies for the very real tyranny that we see
unfolding on a daily basis in a myriad of different ways. Armageddon
hysteria has been hijacked as a useful psychological justification
for laziness and procrastination when it comes to educating others or
making personal preparations for genuine crises that the world could
face in the coming years.
10 Many Christians have earmarked December
21, 2012 as either the date of armageddon
or the second coming of Christ. However, this
ignores the Bible itself which quite clearly
states that the end of the world will not be
foreseen by man. “No one knows the day or
hour when these things will happen, not even
the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only
the Father knows,” states Mark 13:32.
Forecasting that the world will not end on December 21st is hardly a bold prediction. However,
2012 hysteria has been an interesting study in affirming the fact that the establishment media
will only talk about such a “threat” at length when it really poses no threat at all – while ignoring
or downplaying very serious issues that do pose a real danger to the future of the species.
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