Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World
February 25th, 2008Shown here for the first time, these seventy-five patches reveal a secret world of military imagery and jargon, where classified projects are known by peculiar names (“Goat Suckers,” “None of Your Fucking Business,” “Tastes Like Chicken”) and illustrated with occult symbols and ridiculous cartoons. Although the actual projects represented here (such as the notorious Area 51) are classified, these patches-which are worn by military units working on classified missions-are precisely photographed, strangely hinting at a world about which little is known.
By submitting hundreds of Freedom of Information requests, the author has also assembled an extensive and readable guide to the patches included here, making this volume the best available survey of the military’s black world-a $27 billion industry that has quietly grown by almost 50 percent since 9/11.
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Babylon, Pyramids, All Seeing Eye…
These 2 videos tie it all the symbols together over the last 4000 years. Blew my mind.
Ring of Power – Part 1:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8250619454941053618
Ring of Power – Part 2:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1158343264447729869
Or search ‘Ring of Power Amenstop’ in google video.
http://snipurl.com/20fb9 [video_google_com]
http://snipurl.com/20fbb [video_google_com]
I know your broadband limitations Kevin (one of the dad’s at cricket practice works for Telecom and says ‘yup, it our fault’), but if you can figure out a way to find the time and bandwidth watch them and give a review, I will figure out a way to pay your broadband bill for a month. 😉