by Jake Devlin
“Oh, yeah. Or maybe he'll be a bully and wind up in jail.”
“Because of his mom?”
“Yeah.”
“I was thinking more of his name. Billy Kevin? That's as stupid a redneck name as Stevie Bru- – geez! Did you see that?”
“What, tossing the fish up in the air?”
“Yeah; they do that sometimes before swallowing 'em.”
“Playing with their food?”
“Maybe. But I'd guess there's probably a biological reason for that, like when they jump out of the water and do a belly flop; helps with their digestion.”
“Really?”
“Yeah. And when they slap the water with their tails, they're constipated.”
“Rea- – oh, Gordy, now you're pulling my leg.”
“No, Ro, really.”
“You sure?”
“Yeah – no, I am pulling your leg.”
“Oh, Gordy.”
“But it could be, couldn't it? Makes sense?”
“Yeah, I guess it does. You do that a lot, don't you?”
“What, slap my tail on the water?”
“No, no, no. Make stuff up, see if people believe it.”
“Well, of course; I write fiction.”
“I don't mean that; I mean in real life.”
“Yup. But you love me for that, right?”
“Sometimes; sometimes in spite of it.”
“Hey, Anna! How was the waterboarding?”
“Paddleboarding, Gordy, paddleboarding. Hi, Rosemary. And you won't believe what just happened out there.”
“What?”
“About half an hour ago, I was just finishing up my yoga, and” –
“You do yoga on your waterboard?”
“Paddleboard, Gordy, paddleboard. And yes, I do yoga on it.”
“So what happened?”
“I was doing shivasana” –
“Shiva what?”
“Shivasana, the final position, lying down on my back. And I felt a bump, turned over and came face to face with a manatee; it had its head up on the front of the board, and” –
“Really?”
“Yeah, Rosemary, really. And then he got both his flippers up on the board and nuzzled my face.”
“Wow! Rea- – no, you're pulling my leg.”
“No, Rosemary, I'm not. It happened, really. And it was so cool. I didn't move, just lay there face to face with him for like five minutes.”
“And then?”
“And then he just slid back into the water and swam away. I rolled back over and lay there for like ten more minutes. It was so cool.”
“You're a vegan, aren't you?”
“Yeah, Gordy, I am. Why?”
“They are, too. Maybe it just liked your breath.”
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June 19, 2013
7:58 p.m. local time
St. Tropez, France
“There are actually two sort of separate groups with somewhat different ideas on how to get to the New World Order or the One World Government. One I'd call the Incrementalists, who are okay with slow and steady progress toward the goals of the Margaret Mead Master Plan. They're the ones behind the green movement, the anti-oil, pro-solar, pro-wind, anti-nuclear, politically correct, anti-business, anti-capitalism, pro-environment, pro-worker” –
“Wait a second, Jake. That sounds like socialism.”
“Some similarities. But the folks deep behind this faction, the ones in real charge, are not socialists per se. They use a lot of the strategies and tactics the far left uses, and they push that ideology on their 'useful idiots,' but under all that, they're supporters of the world police state, and that doesn't fit easily into any of the labels we're all so fond of using.
“They're the ones who push the 'Think Globally, Act Locally” mantra, and their followers have been infiltrating and appearing before governments at all levels for decades, pushing different pieces of the overall agenda at city, county, state and federal government meetings and hearings, filing 'sue and settle' lawsuits in the US” –
“What lawsuits?”
“'Sue and settle. The far-left environmental groups file lawsuits against the EPA, usually, an agency that's been infiltrated and filled by like-thinking 'officials,' and then they file a consent decree that's based on previously agreed results, like a new interpretation of a regulation, excessive and unwarranted delays in permitting or some other action by the agency, and that becomes the ruling by whatever court is involved.”
“No action by Congress?”
“Nope, other than the Clean Air, Clean Water and Endangered Species Acts, which are the ones they use most for filing these things. With the consent decrees, the agencies can tell Congress, 'Hey, the courts made us do it.' And, of course, the lawyers on both sides get paid with taxpayer money.”
“Of course.”
“Of course. Business as usual.
“And if you or anybody attends a few city council meetings, for example, or any local government meeting or hearing, chances are there'll be somebody there pressing for some green agenda item. And they'll be backed in some way by the incrementalists.
“One of the biggest problems is that most elected officials are amateurs, especially at the local level, but the lobbyists are professionals, trained, financed and backed by the incrementalists. So the elected ones are far too gullible and get the wool pulled over their eyes way too often.”
“Yeah; seen some of that myself, back home.”
“They're also the faction behind the UN's Agenda 21.”
“And you call those people incrementalists? They sound pretty active.”
“Yup. But compared to the other bunch, they're wusses; they work within and through existing government structures.”
“And the other bunch?”
“The other faction is much more impatient and extreme. They're willing to and wanting to bankrupt or destroy all governments that might oppose or impede their New World Order vision, using any and all strategies and tactics they can, legal or illegal, with no regard to human rights or even human lives. I call 'em the Shock and Awers, sometimes Shock Troopers.”
“Shock Troopers?”
“Not the actual troops themselves, like the Incrementalists' far leftie robot-brained followers, but the folks in charge, the ones at the top, pulling all the strings in secret. We've bugged most of the people in both factions and gotten lots of information that way, and we've gotten more material when we've done bodyguard or assassination jobs for them, too.”
“You've done both?”
“Yup, for both factions, and sometimes the assassinations are from one faction targeting the other one, usually from the Shockists toward the Incrementalists.”
“But you keep the bodyguarding biz separate from” –
“From the assassination side? Of course. None of the clients of one biz know anything about the other one. We're good there.”
“So, the Shock Trooper faction? What about them?”
“I could use a glass of wine first. Want some?”
“Sure.”
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July 22, 2014
11:57 a.m. local time
Undisclosed location
“No, no big problems, so far. A few misunderstandings because of his accent, but we've cleared those up pretty quickly, and he sometimes gets a little bossy, but Julie slaps him down quick on that, too. I think he's afraid of her. Yeah, Amber, right, but don't all men have some kind of mommy issues? So no, no bet. And he is totally focused on the work, no interest in anysing else. Like – what? No, I did? Really? Must be rubbing off. No interest in anything else.
“Like last night, Julie and I were gonna stream 'The Usual Suspects' for the umpteenth time, and – yeah, maybe the best movie ever, and Sven Casey is positively superb in it. I know, right? He deserved it.
“Anyhow, we invited him to join us in our suite for that, but he just stayed in his, and this morning he raced out to the kitchen and plopped nearly a who
le ream of papers in front of us, nearly knocked the eggs Benedict off the table, and started blabbing about the breakthrough he'd made.
“Yeah, yesterday was a spinach-and-milk-only day. Julie and I may try that sometime. It does make him manic, and it usually leads to a breakthrough. Yeah, like the one-week-back barrier, the one-month and three-month ones. It's now able to go back six months. He's going over this latest one with her now. Yeah, got 'em on the monitor.
“He's really excited, laughing, running around the table, and Julie's got the most perplexed look I've ever seen on her face, watching him and scribbling notes.
“Now he's pointing to my chair and – what the hell? You are not gonna believe this, Amber! A life-size clown doll just appeared a couple feet from my chair out of nowhere! You gotta – oh, crap; it just fell to the floor and shattered! You gotta see this. Lemme – what? Oh, okay; I'll send it to you later.
“What the – wait, another one? But this one is IN my chair! I think that breakthrough – no, it's full life size. I've never seen anything bigger than a – than a – oh, maybe a basketball before. Yeah, right.
“And the detail is tremendous! No, it's rigid, like maybe porcelain or something. But the nose, the mouth, the eyes, the hair, even the wrinkles in the costume, phenomenal! Like nothing I've ever seen that printer do before.
“And he's jumping around it, clapping his hands, laughing, and slapping Julie on the back. He looks like a kid who just got a pony from Saint Nick. Lemme turn up the audio.”
“See, Julie, my aim vas off again – I mean vill be off again.”
“Like with the coffee cup.”
“Ja, just like zat. I must haf had to print it und send it again.”
“What's that on his chest, Doc?”
“Vat? Vere?”
“There, on his chest, the plaque. Ah. It says, 'Hi, Julie, from Greg. July 23rd, 2015.”
“Mein Gott, it vorks! Vun whole year! It vorks!”
“Wait, there's more. It says 'R.I.P., Dr. F.'”
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June 19, 2013
8:06 p.m. local time
St. Tropez, France
“Salute, Pam.”
“And to you, Jake. Oh, this is good.”
“It is, isn't it? It's from that vineyard we bought last month.”
“The one near Avignon?”
“No, the one near Lake Como. Avignon was the month before.”
“Ah. So it's Italian.”
“Yup.”
“So, the Shock Trooper faction?”
“Ah, yes. Okay; let me gather my – okay.
“This bunch go back long before the Margaret Mead forum, even centuries back, building from secret societies from antiquity.”
“Like the guilds of tradesmen in medieval Europe?”
“Yeah, but even before that. Mystical societies, religious cults, quasi-spiritual groups, covens” –
“Wait. Covens? You mean witches?”
“Nature-worshipping groups, think they're called Wiccans, groups like that. Not the ones on brooms and waving magic wands, the TV and movie types.
“Anyhow, most of these groups have complex initiation rituals, which demand loyalty, obedience and absolute secrecy, often on pain of death.”
“Even today?”
“Yup. Not all of 'em, of course, and not for everybody who might just be a member. But they do indoctrinate their members to toe the party line, with punishments clearly, but maybe only subtly, laid out.”
“Like?”
“Oh, ostracizing 'em, bankrupting 'em or their companies, framing 'em criminally, all the way up to assassinating 'em.”
“So pain of death, literally.”
“Yup, in some few cases. And we usually got the jobs.
“We've been putting this all together for decades, but it only came clear from a couple of documents we found in early 2009, right after the housing bubble and the financial bubble blew up.”
“Where'd you get 'em?”
“From the family vault of one of the most elite of the elite, a guy from an old European banking family, maybe the oldest. We'd picked up several emails and conversations from lots of the elite, talking about how the “Test” had worked, and we finally sorted out that they were talking about those bubbles.”
“Test?”
“Yup; a dry run of their strategy to implement their Master Plan.”
“The Margaret Mead Master Plan?”
“Similar, including most of it, piggy-backing on it, but far beyond it, even beyond Agenda 21.”
“Beyond?”
“Yup; it has the schedule all laid out, with the ripple effects and, quote, 'unintended consequences,' which were actually intended, of course. But naturally they plan to spin it all in the media, which they control, and blame anybody but themselves.”
“Naturally, like Democrats and Republicans back in the United States blaming each other.”
“Oh, far beyond that, too. But that's a piece of their strategy, a small piece, but a piece nonetheless.”
“And they have a schedule? Already?”
“Yup. It all leads up to early fall of 2016, just before the election in the US, when they'll run a massive identity theft program and use that to steal nearly all the savings of every middle-class American, and then martial law will be declared, and they'll” –
“Wait, wait, Jake. Martial law?”
“Yup, but that's only one step toward their ultimate goal.”
“Which is?”
“The usual. World domination, subjugation of the non-elites in a global police state, control of all natural resources and destruction of both the US dollar and the US government, as well as all other national governments and currencies.”
“Okay, but wait, wait. You said it leads up to the identity theft? What happens to do that?”
“It starts in earnest in early 2016, with coordinated hikes in interest rates by all the central banks all around the world. Same tactic that started the housing bubble bursting.”
“When people's mortgage payments went up, right?”
“Yup; and reset to unaffordable amounts and led to all the foreclosures we saw and still are seeing.
“Back then, when the Fed chairman started it in July of '04, it took two years, till mid-06, to go from one percent to just over five percent. But the plan for this round is less than six months to go from a quarter of a percent to over nine.”
“Six months? Nine percent?”
“Right.”
“Geez.”
“But to distract people from that, they also plan to drive the price of gasoline up to over nine bucks a gallon in the US by the summer of 2016, so people'll be whining about that in the media and around all the water coolers from Maine to California.”
“But how are they gonna do that?”
“Same way they did back in '08, get speculators to drive the price of oil up, but not to a measly hundred and fifty bucks a barrel, like they did then, but to three hundred, four hundred, maybe more.”
“How?”
“They just start buying oil futures, slowly building up positions, all coordinated amongst themselves, and then the speculators will jump on the bandwagon as the momentum builds.”
“So a bubble?”
“Yup, and they'll keep supporting it to keep the momentum going until they're ready to burst that bubble, just as they did in '08.”
“And in 2000, with the dot com bubble?”
“Well, that was a little different, and I don't have any evidence of these guys doing that; we weren't focused on that back then. But it could have been them.”
“Oh, okay.”
“And in September of '16, they'll burst the bubble, sell out their positions and go short, again in a big, coordinated way.”
“So they'll take their profits on the long side and make more when the price crashes.”
“Yup. But, again, that's a side issue, a distraction for the public.”
“The gullible, complacent p
ublic.”
“Yup. Any profits they make are mostly irrelevant to them.
“But just as the oil prices start down and foreclosures pick up, that's when they'll do the identity thefts. And that process won't be at all gradual; it'll happen almost overnight.”
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July 24, 2014
10:13 a.m. local time
Bonita Beach, Florida
“Whatcha reading, Gordy? Can I see?”
“G'morning, Deb. Sure.”
“'This Town.' Any good?”
“Oh, yeah. It's nonfiction, about all the social intrigue in DC, the self-promotion, self-enrichment and self-perpetuation.”
“Beyond just status-seeking?”
“Think so; I've just started it.”
“Who's the author? Mark – can ya move your thumb?”
“Oh, sorry.”
“Mark Leibovich?”
“Yeah. I can loan you this one when I'm done.”
“Cool; thanks. I like to read between customers.”
“I like to read between the lines.”
“You write that way, too.”
“Got me there, Deb. So how's biz?”
“Good, really good; lots better than last year with all those water releases. And this summer's a lot more crowded than usual.”
“Yeah, I've noticed that; not as bad as season, but close.”
“Yeah. People are discovering summers down here ain't that bad.”
“Yeah. So you ready to tell me where you get your hot dogs?”
“Nice weather today, huh?”
“I'll take that as a no.”
“Rosemary coming over?”
“Yeah. She had some things to do this morning, so she'll be late.”
“Tell her hi for me, okay?”
“Sure. We may come up later for a dog.”
“Cool. Uh-oh.”
“Uh-oh what?”
“Sonya.”
“Oh, crap.”
“I'm outa here. See ya.”
“Bye.”
“Goddammit all to hell!”
“What now, Sonya?”
“Goddamn asshole redneck bitch!”
“What? You mean Deb?”