VIDEO: Guidestones Web Series Teaser, Decoding Jacqueline

December 2nd, 2011 by Jay

We’ve got another teaser trailer for the Guidestones web series, inviting you to decode this international conspiracy through another mysterious figure: Jacqueline. Like Gloria, Jacqueline seems to be someone affected by this conspiracy and has therefore learned a thing or two about the truth. However, either the nature of the conspiracy or its possible affect on her means her ability to get this information out has been compromised – maybe those who do not believe her have reason to distrust what she believes… Then again, perhaps its the Georgia Guidestones, R.C. Christian and a secret society or new world order that has conspired to silence her. The only way to find out is to sign up at the top of this page to receive the series when it launches!

PHOTOS: In the Newsroom with Gord Martineau

December 1st, 2011 by Jay

We were lucky to shoot part of our web series, Guidestones, in the newsroom with Canadian television news icon Gord Martineau. Here are some production stills of this great experience, including our director Jay Ferguson and two lead actors, Dan Fox and Supinder Wraich.

Gord Martineau, Supinder Wraich, Dan Fox, News Room | Guidestones Web Series

Gord Martineau, News Room | Guidestones Web Series

Gord Martineau, Jay Ferguson, News Room | Guidestones Web Series

Gord Martineau, News Room | Guidestones Web Series

Gord Martineau, Supinder Wraich, News Room | Guidestones Web Series

Gord Martineau, News Room | Guidestones Web Series

Gord Martineau, News Room | Guidestones Web Series

Gord Martineau, News Room | Guidestones Web Series

Gord Martineau, Dan Fox, Supinder Wraich, News Room | Guidestones Web Series

BLOG: Vandalized Georgia Guidestones

November 29th, 2011 by Jay

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We’ve discussed some of the implications of the writing on the Georgia Guidestones – the commandments of the stones – and their similarity to certain strands of thinking associated with the creation of a New World Order driven by those who have formed a secret society. We’ve also shown some of the recent vandalism that has occurred on the monument. These two points are clearly related insofar as the vandalism largely attributes these stones to be related to a New World Order driven by the ‘elite’. Much of this is not helped by the official documents that discuss the creation of the Guidestones and the deliberate secrecy of the R.C. Christian figure – secrecy being a primary complaint for individuals who believe governing forces – official or otherwise – mobilize secrecy to oppress the many. This line of thinking can range from extreme conspiracy theories to the observation of how banks and major corporations are not punished for behaviour considered to be illegal – a central point of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

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To further look into this issue, here is a breakdown of the argument made for the Guidestones as an emblem of this supposed New World Order.

1. Radio Liberty draws attention to the astrological components of the structure as distinctly ‘occultist’ in the “worship the alignment and movement of heavenly bodies as part of their religious ceremonies” while they believe the reference on the stones to “‘seeking harmony with the infinite’ reflects the current effort to replace Judeo-Christian beliefs with a new spirituality.” Regardless of the new governing body and economic system implied here, Radio Liberty see the Christian ties of the Rosicrucians and the R.C. Christian moniker to be deliberately anti-Christian, though without solid evidence on this point. They warn, “[b]ehind those groups, however, are dark spiritual forces. Without understanding the nature of those dark forces it is impossible to understand the unfolding of world events.”

Vigilant Citizen also see this as a defining feature, though shift away from a particularly religious reading and instead the product of ‘secret knowledge’, noting that “[i]n a relatively ‘new’ nation such as the United States, monuments that are aligned with celestial bodies are often the work of secret societies, such as the Freemasons.” It is these societies that sought to amass knowledge otherwise unavailable to the general public, pursuing information developed through “Mystery schools of Ancient Egypt, Greece or the Druidic Celts”.

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2. The economic shift that Radio Liberty predict is one they also associate with socialism. Specifically, they advise that whenever you come across “Sustainable Development” you should “substitute the term ‘socialism’ to be able to understand what is intended.” They draw a comparison between the Earth Charter that Mikhail Gorbachev and Maurice Strong worked on – specifically the topics of “control of reproduction, world governance, the importance of nature and the environment, and a new spirituality.” Certainly there are comparisons on these topics, but ultimately the theoretical basis of socialism is the complete opposite of a new world order system and especially different from a secret society of individuals controlling everything through secrecy, which can also be evidenced in capitalism. Instead, this may be a better charge towards iterations of governments throughout the world rather than particular political ideologies.

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3. In fact, Vigilant Citizen do eschew politics and simply pay attention to the compulsion among the rich to be part of the New World Order, both in the sense of having control and through the logistics of which type of people could survive a large-scale natural disaster that would remove the amount of the population advised and/or predicted to occur by the Guidestones. They reference, perhaps cheekily, 2012: “If today’s world population is 6,7 billion, then that is a 92.54% surplus. To consider these figures is mind-boggling. But then, how many people survived in the movie 2012? Not many. Who were they? The earth’s wealthiest people. Is this predictive programming?” David Rockefeller has been specifically targeted, along with Ted Turner and Bill Gates, for references made to both internationalism and environmentalism, too points that seem to be impossible to be interested in without being connected to far more nefarious plots in some analysis of the schools of thought discussed on the Guidestones.

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4. The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine criticized religious institutions and championed level-headed reason above passion and is implicitly cited by the Guidestones. Of interest to arguments that pit the Guidestones as the work of a secret society is the fact that Paine was part of the Rosicrucian Fraternity, with records showing a 1774 meeting comprised of Benjamin Franklin, George Clymer and Thomas Paine. The limit of three members has a corollary to the concept both of a secret society and a reduced population, which alights fire under those who stress America’s symbolic function as a land of the free with minimal government intervention – though this is problematically also an argument expressed by those who have strong feelings towards immigration.

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5. Radio Liberty concludes their assessment on an interesting note, which at once plays to the concern with the Guidestones and also (unintentionally) points to the degree to which they have a visible impact on America: “The fact that most Americans have never heard of the Georgia Guidestones or their message to humanity reflects the degree of control that exists today over what the American people think. We ignore that message at our peril.” Vigilant Citizen notices the way in which some of these ‘lessons’ on the Guidestones may be beneficial, but the fear is their implementation outside of and to the detrement of the majority of the world’s population:

Many of the rules of the Guidestones do make sense for the preserving of Earth on a long-term basis. But between the idealistic words of the Guidestone’s authors and the actual way these policies would be applied on the masses – by power-hungry and greedy politicians – there is a world of difference. Reading between the lines, the Guidestones require from the masses the loss of many personal liberties and to submit to heightened governmental control on many social issues … not to mention the death of 92.5% of the population…and probably not those of the “elite”.

Photos from Alex Jones’ Prison Planet and illustrate vandalism first reported on December 11th, 2008.

PHOTOS: Rosicrucians in Toronto

November 28th, 2011 by Jay

Here are a few production stills taken while we shot the Guidestones web series in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They include a Rosicrucian church as well as a shoot inside the beautiful Metropolitan United Church.

Rosicrucian Church, Toronto | Guidestones Web Series

Rosicrucian Church, Toronto | Guidestones Web Series

Metropolitan United Church, Toronto | Guidestones Web Series

Metropolitan United Church, Toronto | Guidestones Web Series

Metropolitan United Church, Toronto | Guidestones Web Series

VIDEO: Guidestones Web Series Teaser, Decoding Sandy

November 25th, 2011 by Jay

We’re very excited for the fourth teaser trailer for the Guidestones web series, because it introduces one of the two main characters: Sandy (played by Supinder Wraich). Like Gloria, Sandy has clearly been impacted by what may be an international conspiracy, though she seems to know less than Gloria. How does she relate to Gloria or even Harold in this tangled web and to what degree do the Georgia Guidestones play a role? Sign up to our mailing list at the top of this page to help Sandy on her quest when the series launches!

VIDEO: Guidestones Web Series Teaser, Decoding Gloria

November 24th, 2011 by Jay

Here’s the third teaser trailer for the Guidestones web series, inviting you to decode this international conspiracy through a very mysterious figure: Gloria. Unlike Harold, Gloria seems to be entirely someone affected by this conspiracy, rather than participating in it. However, she has a dubious personality – maybe those who do not believe her have reason to distrust what she believes… Then again, perhaps its the Georgia Guidestones, R.C. Christian and a secret society or new world order that has conspired to silence her. The only way to find out is to sign up at the top of this page to receive the series when it launches!

BLOG: Population Control

November 22nd, 2011 by Jay

One of the most disquieting aspects of the Georgia Guidestones is the very first of the ‘commandments’: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.” The concept of population control is not exclusive to the Guidestones, especially insofar as drawing a correlation with a balance with nature, but the 500 million is 1/16th of the present population that would have to… die.

Population Control | Guidestones Web Series

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Most commonly, this topic pertains to controlling future births, including debates about the use of contraceptives vis-a-vis Catholicism or government intervention, such as China’s one-child policy. But what option is there to reduce a population if it is seen as 7.5 billion people more than desired? And if so many people are to die, could it be a gradual process or would it necessarily have to be a single, sudden method? The commandments on the GA Guidestones are then advice not for those of us who currently see them, but those left after some cataclysmic event, since it is only once the population is below 500 million that anyone can ‘maintain’ the population of that size. Population levels were already approximately 4 billion in 1975 – over 5 years before the center cluster of the Guidestones were erected. The use of the word maintain clearly conveys that this message is not for those alive before a cataclysmic event.

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Van Smith offers an interesting link between cataclysmic events, astronomy and structures such as the Guidestones:

Supposedly, B.F. Coggins, an extremely wealthy and powerful granite and real estate magnate in Elberton, Georgia, has in his company’s possession a Rosicrucian document describing the Georgia Guidestones monument as some sort of portal. The document admits that the monument contains hidden messages, but that only the enlightened will understand them. Moreover, the monument was designed for an activation event that will indicate the immediate threat of a global catastrophe so horrific that humanity will come close to losing all hope. The document reassures the survivors that they are loved and will be cared for. The tenor is such to evoke the impression that intercession will occur either supernaturally or by space aliens.

I deeply doubt the veracity of these claims, but if there is any possibility that they are true, the “activation event” can only mean that Polaris, the North Star, will drift out of the sighting hole drilled into the Gnomen stone. When I was last at the Guidestones this fall, Polaris was barely visible within the sighting hole.

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This benevolent account of the Georgia Guidestones also closely follows Hopi legends of a similar construction that their ancestors built in order to track polar alignment to warn of the coming Day of Purification, a very similar catastrophe used as fodder for 2012 hysteria.

However, there is no reputable scientific evidence supporting the notion of an impending 2012 cataclysm. On the other hand, there are good reasons to believe that the Georgia Guidestones is an arrogant advertisement for the demented plans of a deranged but powerful cult to overthrow national governments and install a totalitarian global government.

If anything, 2012 hysteria will be used as a smokescreen for manmade chaos leading up to that event.

Astronomy-based events, or natural disasters more broadly, is but one theory to describe so catastrophic a drop in population. However, there is reason to consider for whom population control benefits and, apart from a general interest in nature, who could assume they would be one of the 500 million to survive and also contribute to the event that reduces the population. Van Smith uses this as the basis for his assertion that R.C. Christian is Ted Turner.

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Smith highlights, among other evidence, Ted Turner’s interest in population control, which includes the following statement: “A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”

To this end, Terry Melanson builds on this argument by adding Raymond Wiley’s observation that the monument’s language is reminiscent of “what I would define as late-1970s Ted Turner environmentalism. It’s got very much that kind of quality to it … and lots of mentions of nature, nature, nature.”

Melanson continues along this path, drawing connections with the Illuminati:

The edifice, its message and supposed author, bears the signature of a Rosicrucian, new age, elite environmental philanthropic ethos that reached its apogee in the 80s and early 90s – people like Ted Turner and Maurice Strong and the globalists in the Club of Rome and the Aspen Institute. Environmentalism, population control, impeding catastrophe, world government, allusions to esotericism or occult traditions – it is all there in the saga of the guidestones, just as it is with the new age elite-turned-globalist billionaires.

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And traditionally, the “new world order” rhetoric of the elite has invariably been accompanied by the longing for some sort of “world government,” and disdain for patriotism and nationalism. It seems to have been coined in the 1860s by the founder of the Bahá’í Faith. According to Bahá’u’lláh, a genuine “New World Order” required the establishment of a World Government, World Parliament, World Code Of Law, World Tribunal, World Police Force, World Language, a permanent single currency, an international uniform tax, and unity of all the world’s religions under the umbrella of the Bahá’í Faith.

Yet, even with these theories in mind, we are still no closer in conceiving how the population will be so drastically reduced in size in order for this ‘new world order’ to exist. The topic, however, has no shortage of stabs in the dark made every day with regard to any number of natural disaster theories, biological contaminates, etc. We will look at some of these in future weeks.

PHOTOS: Return of the Georgia Guidestones

November 21st, 2011 by Jay

More production stills from our shoot at the Georgia Guidestones for the Guidestones web series. As always these photos come courtesy of Thom Smalley.

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Lead actress Supinder Wraich investigating one of the many translations of the Guidestones’ ‘commandments’.

GA Guidestones, Dan Fox, Supinder Wraich | Guidestones Web Series

Lead actors Dan Fox and Supinder Wraich in character as journalism students decoding the mystery of the Guidestones, aka the American Stonehenge.

GA Guidestones, Supinder Wraich, Dan Fox, Jay Ferguson | Guidestones Web Series

Filming the students’ filming.

GA Guidestones, Jay Ferguson, Dan Fox, Supinder Wraich | Guidestones Web Series

Director Jay Ferguson preparing the actors for the scene. Photo taken from a suspicious car keeping the shoot under surveillance…

VIDEO: Guidestones Web Series Teaser, Decoding Harold

November 9th, 2011 by Jay

We’ve just received the second teaser trailer for the Guidestones web series, inviting you to decode this international conspiracy. Who is Harold? What is he implying about the Georgia Guidestones? Does this point to a larger conspiracy? Is Harold somehow related to the mysterious R.C. Christian, who created the GA Guidestones? Start theorizing now; who knows what clues lie in store for our uniquely interactive, transmedia mystery.