Are Cats Spies Sent By Aliens?

For anyone that's moggy about moggies as I am, here's a nice light-hearted piece on who felines might really be and what their true mission is on earth...;-)

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Are Cats Spies Sent by Aliens? A Deep Examination of One of the Internet's Best Conspiracy Theories

By Austin Considine

Are those big eyes recording your every move for their alien masters? One conspiracy theory says yes. Image by Keith Kissel via Wikimedia Commons

Attention cat people. There’s a burgeoning theory around the internet that begs reckoning. It’s not the theory that parasites in cat poop are turning you into crazy cat ladies, though that’s certainly cause for alarm. It’s much worse than that.

Domestic house cats, it seems, may be alien sentinels—sent to spy on us and report their findings back to the mother ship. Or, as some theorists have put it, they’re like alien camcorders tracking our every move.

Well, maybe. We humans love our conspiracy theories, and there’s a decent chance this is just another among them. As a poll published just yesterday reveals, 51 percent of Americans believe the JFK assassination was a conspiracy; 15 percent believe “the government or the media adds mind-controlling technology to TV broadcast signals”; and 4 percent believe reptilian shapeshifters control the government.

It’s impossible to know just how pervasive cats-as-alien spies theory is without an adequate polling apparatus (if you have one, please get in touch). One guesses it’s fairly low. Then again, 4 percent is much higher than one might have expected for the lizard people theory, and, according to the same poll, some 29 percent of Americans believe aliens exist and 14 percent believe in Bigfoot, so who knows?

As with most conspiracy theories, the cats-as-alien-spies theory is surprisingly well-developed—and based on a few kernels of truth and genuine ambiguity. How much? Motherboard decided to take a look at some of the supporting premises, one-by-one. A user who goes by the moniker “RedSpider” summarizes the prevailing wisdom in a handy list on the British tech message board, Digital Kaos. I’ve appropriated his/her list here (lightly edited for style and clarity), with the original points bolded.



Examine the evidence and decide for yourself:

1. There is no documentation before ancient Egypt that mentions the existence of cats. And in ancient Egypt, they were worshipped as gifts from the gods.

As with several of these premises, these propositions are mostly true, but also somewhat disputable. To find out more about the fossil record, I emailed Ryan Haupt, a paleontologist at the University of Wyoming who, as he described it for a previous interview, “studies the lives of modern mammals to better understand what their extinct relatives were doing in the past.” He said Egypt was “the best guess” for the origin of the domestic cat species, but noted that “cat skeletons have been found at older sites.”

Exporting domestic cats was illegal in ancient Egypt, according to Wild Cats of the World, a book by Mel and Fiona Sunquist, which may explain why they don’t appear definitively in the records of other civilizations until thousands of years later than early cat records in Egypt. What older feline skeletons have been found elsewhere don’t provide clear “evidence as to whether they were domesticated or not,” Haupt said, adding, however, that they “probably” weren’t.

“Looking at just skeletons it's basically impossible to say when cats stopped being wild and started being domesticated.” Haupt said.

As for cat worship, the picture is a bit more complicated than the conspiracy theorist asserts. Cats were, indeed, revered by the ancient Egyptians, the Sunquists write. Cats were beloved as pets; they were mourned like family members when they died; they were embalmed and buried with varying degrees of pomp according to its owner’s wealth; cat cemeteries were plotted along the banks of the Nile; the penalty for killing a cat was death. But cats weren’t simply viewed as gifts from the gods. Some of the Egyptian gods were cats, like Bastet, the goddess of joy and love. One ancient Egyptian papyrus depicts Ra, the sun god, as a knife-wielding cat with spots.

I tried by Twitter and e-mail to contact everyone’s favorite Ancient Aliens theorist and founder of Legendary Times Books, Giorgio Tsoukalos to get his opinion, but he didn’t reply.

2. Science is baffled by a cat's purr, and cannot determine how the sound is produced. (Feedback, much?)

I’m not entirely sure what “Feedback much?” means, unless it means that a cat’s purr is some kind of transmission feedback, similar to a cell phone’s when held near a speaker. But the broader assertion is, again, partly true.

For this, I started with a bit of internet research. That science doesn’t know why cats purr is often taken for granted around the internet, but that only tells part of the story. It’s true that cats possess no special organ for purring. But science does know a thing or two. As noted in a WebMD article:

A rhythmic, repetitive neural oscillator [in the brain] sends messages to the laryngeal muscles, causing them to twitch at the rate of 25 to 150 vibrations per second (Hz). This causes a sudden separation of the vocal cords, during both inhalation and exhalation - the unique feline vibrato.

“Opera singing for cats,” is what animal behaviorist Karen L. Overall, VMD, PhD calls it. But the purr is usually so low-pitched that we tend to feel it as much as hear it.

I contacted Dr. Ken Simpson, of Monon Animal Hospital, my vet back in my hometown of Indianapolis to ask what the latest veterinary science said. (Full disclosure, he’s also my uncle.) He said the “physiology remains a slight enigma,” but noted that vets have learned a few fascinating things about purring over the years.

“To me, purring is a method of communication that may be derived when the laryngeal folds are dilated with blood due to excitement from stimulation,” he wrote to me. “As air flows through the folds, a vibration occurs which creates the sound heard. I have also heard that diaphragm movement against over-inflated lung tissue contributes sounds to the purr. In my experience, cats with asthma and hyperinflated lungs have a slightly louder purr.”

There’s evidence the behavior is learned, he noted. He described a deaf cat, for example, who never purred. Another cat patient of his had meningitis as a kitten and was learning-impaired as a result; that cat never purred either. Case studies like that lend themselves to the notion that cat purring does indeed, originate in the brain, and Simpson said he saw “no reason to doubt” the “neural oscillation” theory.

Still there’s a certain point where the knowledge plateaus: What, exactly, is the neural oscillator? Why, exactly, does neural oscillation exist? And why, in behavioral terms, do cats purr? Those questions remain a bit of a mystery. Alien bio-technology? Transmission signals? It’s doubtful, considering some wild cats, like cheetahs, purr as well.



3. If you hold a cat's ears back and describe what you see, it is a perfect match to the classic “grey alien,” with its almond-shaped eyes, small mouth, and small nose.

Obviously true. See below. Next premise.

Left to right, images via Flickr and Wikimedia Commons

4. A cat can see exponentially better than you. Making it appear that it must be more advanced evolutionarily speaking. How?

The extrapolated version of this, as I’ve gathered from other cat-as-alien-spy internet detritus, says that cats stare at us with those big eyes because they are, in fact, alien cameras, recording and beaming our actions back to the grey aliens that put them here. I can’t find any evidence of anything but standard neuronal circuitry in a cat’s brain, but one never knows. We humans have recently managed to build a computer out of living cells, so who knows what alien technology may be hidden in the feline brain?

Leaving that aside, the idea of a cat’s eyes being “exponentially better” and that translating into evidence of irrationally advanced evolution is, of course, absurd.

Cats eyes have more “rods” in them than “cones”—the former are responsible for providing black-and-white images, which makes them crucial for night vision; the latter add color and help us discern details. Cats, thus, have better night vision, but they only “see better” depending on your definition. I like seeing in color, so if you suddenly gave me cat’s eyes, I wouldn’t describe my vision as “better” at all.

A cat’s eyes do have a second advantage with regard to night vision. As this New York Times article explains:

Cats also have elliptical pupils that open and close faster and can become larger than our round ones. In addition, cats and some other nocturnal animals have a mirrorlike membrane, the tapetum, on the back of their eyes, which reflects the light passing through the rods back through them in the opposite direction. This “double exposure” allows cats to see well in near darkness.

But suppose we were to grant that cats had “better” vision because they can see better in some ways. That would mean, yes, that its eyes (but not the whole cat) were “more advanced evolutionarily speaking.” But dogs smell better than we do. So do bees and mice, for that matter. Cheetahs run faster, birds fly better and elephants kick more ass generally. Are they aliens, too? Doubtful. If any species presents a real anomaly, it’s us, with our enormous brains, which are three times bigger than nature typically grants its animals proportionally. I would like to go on the record here to state that if anything is related to aliens, it’s probably us.

5. Ever watch a cat wake from a deep sleep and run out of the room in an instant? Transmissions from the mothership coming in, and they must be alone.

We’ve all seen this happen and I can’t find an answer. Evidence of alien collaboration? Put it in the “maybe” column.

Alien spy cat, receiving its latest instructions. Image by renedepaula via photopin

6. All things that come out of cats are totally unnatural. (Not of this earth.)

This , too, is absurd. Hairballs are disgusting but totally natural considering cats are hair and all they do is lie around and lick themselves all day. As for their urine and excrement, I don’t see how it’s any different than any other mammal’s, other than its smelling particularly foul.

7. Cats survive situations that any earthbound animal would surely perish in. How can a cat fall out of a four-story building backwards, and land on its feet? (Anti-gravity properties.)

This is partly true. Cats are great hunters, and would probably outlive us humans in the wild if we and our cats were suddenly stranded on an uncharted desert isle or in a post-apocalyptic situation. But so would a lot of wild animals. The landing-on-feet scenario notwithstanding (more on that below), it’s hard to conceive of a natural situation in which cats will always survive better than “any earthbound animal.”

But that landing-on-its-feet thing is no joke. It’s nuts. Folks at the Smarter Every Day YouTube channel offer some great slow-motion footage of a few cat-drops using a high-speed camera. As the host explains, the flipping cat problem was a mystery since time immemorial. Today physicists know a lot more about it, and the physics observed in flipping cats has helped teach scientists how to operate space telescopes.

As series host Destin Sandlin, a mechanical engineer and rocket tester, notes, on the surface a cat appears to violate the physical law of conservation of angular momentum. “I’ve studied freefalling bodies—my own, in fact—in several different environments, and once I get my angular rotation started in one direction, I can’t stop it,” he says.

But when the cat’s freefall is slowed down, it’s clear the cat does not violate the law. It’s just extremely, extremely agile. In physics terms it’s complicated, but it has everything to do with the way the cat arches its back, extends and retracts its legs, and, in doing so, rotates its body along two separate rotational axes.

So while the theory of anti-gravity properties is certainly appealing, it doesn’t, shall we say, carry weight.

8. If you die, your cats will eat you. Not really a link between cats and Aliens, but still pretty creepy.

By all accounts this is true. In 2010, for example, about a dozen cats were found eating the corpse of a northwestern Pennsylvania man who was found dead there with his mother.

But as Chris Gayomali notes for The Week, cats aren’t the only pets that eat their owners after they die. Some pets kill their owners then eat them. Gayomali’s article includes examples of pet pigs, pythons, a pet hippo, lizards and others, including a pair of Nebraskan pugs who survived on their owner’s body for two weeks after he killed himself.

Now may be a good time for a bit more journalistic disclosure by saying that I am, in fact, a dog person. I would happily believe that cats are the only pets that eat their owners if so compelled. But it simply isn’t true. Brian Palmer notes in this Slate article that history is rife with examples of dogs eating dead humans, even the corpses of their owners. (Apparently, Palmer notes, there is even a theory among some scholars that Jesus’ body was eaten by dogs and that “his acolytes fabricated the story of a reverential entombment as a sort of coping mechanism.”)

Our conspiracy theory friends are correct that this is creepy, indeed. But it’s hardly evidence that cats are alien drones.

@AustinConsidine

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Human Tissue Found In Burger Meat

In the light of the recent European meat findings, has the cannibal theme from the 1973 movie, Soylent Green, already manifested in our world and supermarkets and we just haven’t known it yet?

In the movie a global food shortage sees people surviving on government-issued rations of supposed plankton-rich food called Soylent. Which turns out to be a processed ‘food’ - made from the bodies of dead humans!
Well, here follows another clue…

And this time, it’s happening right here in South Africa. Of course, like all other travesties of justice against the people of this land, the recent deplorable findings of human tissue in burger meat have been severely downplayed.

For years I’ve been telling people that the meat in our fast food joints is not what people think it is. I’ve said it’s probably horse meat and god/goddess-alone-knows-what else!

Corroborating this in 2011, findings of the National Consumer Forum discovered all sorts of criminal acts at work when the Orion Cold Storage company scandal broke. Amongst them, allegations that this company was importing Australian kangaroo meat and re-labelling it as Halaal beef (leading to religiously-jeopardise both the huge Muslim and small Jewish communities here also) and importing Irish and Belgian pork, re-labelling them as Halaal sheep/veal.

Due to high level corruption and collusion in the area of both labelling fraud amongst the relevant government department/authorities and Muslim authorities that together should have been responsible for immediately shutting down or at least suspending that company’s activities, supermarket fridges continued to be supplied by the company who's activities remain 'protected'.
A few brave voices in the wilderness continued vain attempts to bring legal action against them.

But Orion Cold Storage is far from the only company doing this. There’s been a proliferation of water buffalo passed off as beef in retail outlets: camel meat, horse, goat and donkey meat found in meats not labelled as such; all being passed off as other more-acceptable meat cuts. And who knows how many years this has been happening for...how many years the human population have been eating such meats without their knowledge. Unlike in Europe, though, where corporates and government authorities are forced into accountability, authorities here protect and side with the criminal companies instead! The the process usually becomes one where the whistleblowing individual/association is villified publicly and warred against in the media or ignored enough until they shut up. Then everyone can happily return to their illegal commission-collecting and criminal activities relatively unscathed. Followed shortly thereafter by the public's loss of memory on the subject.

Most recently, the very popular South African kudu biltong (dried meat like jerky) has now been found in 92% of cases to contain kangaroo, giraffe and horse meat! This is a huge industry in South Africa.

It’s easy for manufacturers and suppliers to and in South Africa to get away with such practises. Despite our grand constitution, none of the human-rights and consumer protection bills are policed. And thus just a tiny percent of the label requirements of foodstuffs are adhered to. Ditto GMO crops. If I remember right, about 70% of all crops grown in South Africa are GMO'd. One of the world's highest. We’re truly a perfect breeding ground for all kinds of ‘guinea pig’ experimentation on the human race here.

South Africa has long been known by those in positions of power worldwide as one of the top places to hide out in (for international criminals, syndicates and celebrities alike); an excellent place for the financial abuse of consumers (why Barclays Bank returned here to obtain their ‘fair’ share of the spoils, amongst many other multinational corporations and organisations) and a welcome spot for the continued thriving of the global sex and drug trafficking rings.
Due to self-censored fear and total consumer apathy, all in all we offer up a most inviting land. As well as offering first world technology here coupled with international-level professionals, including scientists.

So, unless you’ve managed to reach that rarefied state called breatharianism where your body is sustained on air alone and no longer needs food of any kind, then this is relevant to you, too.

Personally, all this hasn’t affected me as I committed to a vegetarian diet (ovo lacto) many, many years ago. Or has it? After reading this, the likelihood of a human tissue or gene in my tomato is way closer than just a remote possibility.

In magic, madness and mystery

Shellee-Kim

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The horse meat fiasco in Europe has prodded scientists to look a bit deeper into what else we might be consuming. A team of South African scientists have just found traces of human tissue in meat meant for public consumption from 9 provinces.
A University of Stellenbosch scientist and his team conducted a microbial analysis that revealed traces of human elements, but said that slaughterhouse workers sometimes cut themselves . . . or other things . . . which could lead to the findings.

Despite the overall findings that consumers have absolutely no idea what they are eating – including human remnants – in 85% of the products, SA’s Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries deputy director-general downplayed it by asserting that we are not becoming unwitting cannibals.

We’d like to think that these food scandals are safe from us – overseas, it’s their problem. But, big problems are usually systemic and many of the developed nations are on the same platform. As with most food scandals, they go on for years unnoticed before the beans are spilled.

It doesn’t sound like anyone’s literally being run through the meat grinder just yet, but it’s a startling fact that we don’t know much about what our food comes into contact with. And we have scientists and regulatory agencies continually asserting how safe our food supply is.

Are you unsettled at the prospect of ingesting someone else’s particles and blood? Do you wonder what else will be found when the next scientific investigation is conducted in your country?

Perhaps we should be asking ourselves before each meal, “Hey, who’s in there? How’d they get in there? Anyone missing?”

http://economicrisis.com/human-tissue-fo...hreat/3271
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/human-tis...eat_032013

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From Times Live:


It has also been found that only 15% of meat being sold has been correctly labelled, which means 85% of the meat in the market is questionable. The findings were presented in parliament yesterday at a briefing on meat inspections.

University of Stellenbosch scientist Louw Hoffman said his team had conducted a microbial food analysis, a "snapshot" which sometimes picked up human DNA on meat samples. He said, however, this was not indicative of risk.

"If I walked into a factory, and the sample I randomly selected to test was a meat sample of which the person de-boning had just picked his nose and then touched the meat, I would get a totally different microbial reading," he said.

Hoffman said the products examined were mostly sausages and mince, and that 95 out of 139 products which were sampled were incorrectly labelled.

But Hoffman said though the meat was incorrectly labelled, there were no health risks to consumers.

Briefing parliament's portfolio committee on agriculture, forestry and fisheries, University of Western Cape forensic scientist Dr Eugenia D'Amato said nearly 43% of samples she had tested which were labelled as game, were, in fact, beef.

D'Amato said horse meat had also been used as a substitute for springbok in biltong, and pork was found in ostrich sausages.

There was also a smaller proportion of kangaroo in samples.

The health department's Mandisa Hlela said though the department's own sampling had found that only 15% of meat products had been correctly labelled, DNA testing was "quite expensive" and was mainly a municipal function.

The department paid about R30000 for 20 samples tested.

"However, we've gone through to the municipalities and the D-Day was the 24th [of March] and we've not received responses from all of them," said Hlela.

She said, however, that not all of the nine provinces had concluded the devolutions of health services, which included food inspection, to municipalities.

MPs have now called for increased policing of local and imported meat products to prevent this sort of mislabelling.

The ANC's Eugene Ngcobo said labelling had to be "fair and straight" so that consumers were informed when they bought either horse or donkey meat.

"We should know, and have a choice," said Ngcobo.

Hoffman said what was also worrying was that allergens were not listed, and that up to 20% of consumers risked allergic reactions to the plant allergens which were found in some of the meat products.

"In the labelling regulations it clearly states that allergens have to be mentioned and noted," said Hoffman.

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Kangaroo sold as kudu biltong


Most of South Africa's biltong - dried strips of cured meat and a much loved snack - has little to do with the ingredients on the label, according to DNA test results published on Friday (1 March).
Game biltong which is popular with the health conscious, as it is considered lean and free-range, is the most mislabelled, according the study by scientists from the University of the Western Cape.

"The finding was that there is a major substitution of species in the market," said researcher Maria Eugenia D'Amato.

Of the 146 samples tested over 100 contained undeclared meat species. All the samples marked beef were correctly labelled, but for the most badly labelled case 92% of packets of kudu biltong contained different species such as horse, giraffe, pork, beef and even kangaroo.

Researchers were concerned that one sample labelled zebra, contained meat from a mountain zebra, a species threatened with extinction.

"Some of the substitutions are intentional because kangaroo does not occur in South Africa and it must have been imported," D'Amato told AFP.

Pork in ostrich meat

"Also finding pork in ostrich sausage, that is intentional, there is no way that is going to be a mistake," she said pointing out that such actions infringed on some people's religious beliefs such as Jewish and Muslims who do not eat pork

The study, published in the European scientific journal BioMed Central, was conducted between 2009 and last year.

It is the first study of its kind in South Africa and entirely unlinked to the horse meat scandal that has riveted Europe.

Game biltong is a huge business in South Africa where over 10,000 wildlife farms are listed.

The meat is seen as healthier than beef because it is leaner, contains low cholesterol and no hormones or antibiotics that get injected into domestic farm animals.

South Africa authorities said last week they had launched an "urgent" investigation into how unlabelled donkey, water buffalo and goat meat got into products sold in supermarkets, following findings of a separate study.

The government requested the probe after reports created "some alarm and panic" after irregular ingredients were revealed in a Stellenbosch University study.

In that study, up to 68% of 139 meat samples from shops and butcheries had irregular ingredients, with pork and chicken most often substituted for other meats.

Plant matter was also found in the minced meat, burger patties, sausages and deli and dried meat.

Europe has been battling its own food drama after horse-meat was found in so-called beef ready-made meals and burgers in several countries.

Source: AFP via I-Net Bridge

More Musical Deceptions Revealed - James Damiano Vs Bob Dylan

Hello readers!

I know I should be tougher by now, but I read this with a badly-sinking heart, having only just discovered it. Although not new news, it is for me.

Having really enjoyed Bob Dylan's musical contributions in the past, it came as a greater shock to discover some of my much-loved tunes of his, were not his at all! Like A Rolling Stone, Blowing In The Wind and Knockin' On Heaven's Door, amongst many others constituted part of my personal identity, growing up in the 70's and 80's.
These and many, many others were and are purportedly the property of one writer and musician, James Damiano. Evidence in Damiano's favour is overwhelming. And for which Damiano has been fighting years for the public acknowledgement of, not to mention the $ billions in payment for out-and-out plagiarism of his work. And Joni Mitchell's public outing of Dylan in 2010 calling him a 'fake', 'plagiarist' and 'deceiver' only reinforced all of this.

So discovering and deciding that Bob Dylan must now be added to my boycott list of many past musical heroes/heroines that made their respective pacts with the corporate music devils in exchange for fame and fortune, was a major blow to the guts; I still feel physically ill about it.

While the story at the link below has been and continues to be completely censored by the mainstream media press-titutes, the irony that gives the story extra credibility (not that it needs it when you research all the evidence) is this on:

http://www.jamesdamiano.yolasite.com/

This website is hardcore proof that Mainstream Media has censored your news this website has been viewed by Reuters, Bloomberg Media, Spin Magazine, Georgia Board of Regents, The Center for Public Integrity, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Washington Post, Disney Network, Fox Media, Turner Broadcasting Network, Yale, Harvard, Columbia and Columbia Law School, UCLA and UCLA Law School, Oxford University, Rutgers University, The New Jersey Law Journal, and The EOP.gov Executive Office of the President "The White House". It has also been viewed by over 750 thousand attorneys.

I'm still reeling a bit - like I did when I discovered others of my old faves - Led Zeppelin, The Eagles and The Doors amongst others - had also long since sold themselves out. And the fact that Joni Mitchell herself endorsed this deception in 2010 gives James Damiano's case extra weight.

But again, the overwhelming evidence that Damiano has produced alone doesn't need it. While Dylan has the collective power of lying lawyers, including Orin Snyder, behind him, the censoring mainstream media and the controlled and controlling global corporate music industry moguls all in support of his great deception and the continued coverup.

Well, no more...
And so it is in every area of humanity's endeavours that layer upon layer of deception must be revealed and accepted to make way for the Truth of things. Let it fall fast and thick for our accelerated awakening.

In the meanwhile, I'll be spreading the word as far as I possibly can where appropriate and relevant and never be knocking on this particular door for musical inspiration ever again!






In magic,madness and mystery
Shellee-Kim

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"Bob Dylan's Stealing of James Damiano's Songs"



In a Los Angeles Times Interview Bob Dylan admitted to plagiarizing a great percentage of his songs including "Blowin' In The Wind", "The Times They Are A Changin'" "Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" and more

“Well you have to understand that I’m not a melodist. My songs are either based on old Protestant hymns or Carter Family songs or variations of the blues form. What happens is, I’ll take a song and simply start playing it in my head. That’s the way I meditate". “I wrote ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ in 10 minutes, just put words to an old spiritual, probably something I learned from Carter Family records. That’s the folk music tradition – you use what has been handed down. ‘The Times They Are A-Changing’ is probably from an old Scottish folk Song.”...."I'll be playing Bob Nolan's 'Tumbling Tumbleweeds,' for instance, in my head constantly -- while I'm driving a car or talking to a person or sitting around or whatever. People will think they are talking to me and I'm talking back, but I'm not. I'm listening to the song in my head. At a certain point, some of the words will change and I'll start writing a song.".......Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan's Stealing of James Damiano's Songs



Image: James Damiano

No artist can lay claim to the controversy that has surrounded the career of songwriter James Damiano. Thirty two years ago James Damiano began an odyssey that led him into a legal maelstrom with Bob Dylan that, to this day, fascinates the greatest of intellectual minds.

Since auditioning for the legendary CBS Record producer John Hammond, Sr., who influenced the careers of music industry icons Charlie Christian, Billy Holiday, Bob Dylan, Pete Seger, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Ray Vaughan , James has engaged in a half a billion dollar copyright infringement law suit with Bob Dylan.

As the curtain rises on the stage of deceit we learn that CBS / Sony international recording artist, Bob Dylan not only used songs and lyrics written by James Damiano but also solicited Mr. Damiano's materials for a period of over ten years and eleven months.

As per Judicial filings Bob Dylan's name is credited to the songs. One of those songs is nominated for a Grammy as the best rock song of the year. Ironically the title of that song is Dignity.



FOLK LIES: Joni Mitchell Outs Bob Dylan by Jonny Whiteside

“Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.” — Joni Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, April 22, 2010

Caterwauling Canuck “folk singer” Joni Mitchell got just about everybody riled up with that sweet morsel of self-serving insight, but the real shock is not that Mitchell is absolutely correct but that someone finally came out and said it. After decades of carefully manicured deification by Columbia Records, brain-dead rock critics and the slimy elite institution that elevated such barely able snake-oil salesmen as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger to celestial heights, it’s high time to flout indoctrination and examine Dylan’s track record as a Grade-A phony.


Most Dylan fans would be stunned to realize that his vocal style (for lack of a better term) was high-jacked, in its entirety, from long-dead bluegrass-country singer Carter Stanley. We’re not talking about an influence, like Lefty Frizzell for Merle Haggard, but a total appropriation of Stanley’s highly idiosyncratic approach. A counterfeit from the get-go, once Dylan realized what an advantage his audience’s innate ignorance was, he’s exploited it ever since.

Just type “Bob Dylan plagiarism” into your friendly search engine, and a plethora of questionable circumstances pop up, enrobing the singer almost as completely as his years of reflexive media fawning have. Documented from his teenage start, when he submitted a hand written, thinly revised version of country star Hank Snow’s “Little Buddy” for publication as an original poem, to his 1963 pilferage of Irish poet Dominic Behan’s “Patriot Game”’s melody for the similarly slanted Dylan tune “With God on Our Side” to songwriter James Damiano’s ongoing multimillion dollar copyright infringement suit (alleging Dylan’s Grammy-nominated “Dignity” is nothing but an altered version of Damiano’s “Steel Guitars”) to the naked “Red Sails in the Sunset” melody heist for the song “Beyond The Horizon” on his Modern Times album, up through the recent Confessions of a Yakuza-Love & Theft plagiarism charges (Love & Theft? Calling Dr. Freud!), the Timrod controversy, even the numerous passages of Proust and Jack London that (re) appear in the text of Dylan’s autobiography, it’s a deep, dark thicket of thoroughly damning and apparently chronic bootlegging. Naturally, Dylan has said nothing publicly about any of these, but he already spent over three million dollars defending himself against one-time affiliate Damiano–the classic delay-to-destroy court room technique.


The following music score was prepared by Dr. Paul Greene who graduated Magna Cum Laude From Harvard. Dr. Greene in his audio version of the comparison states that James Damiano's Songs "Steel Guitars" which was copyrighted in 1982 share an "Exact Melodic Arc" of Bob Dylan's Grammy nominated "Dignity" which was copyrighted with the Library of Congress in December of 1994.



Defenders and apologist have an extraordinary array of excuses on Zim’s behalf, from use of “literary allusion” to his building a “cultural collage,” or that his “borrowing” is “homage,” to the more deliciously desperate “he obviously doesn’t NEED to do it” (strangely, though, he always has). This instamatic, Clinton-ian excuse making serves only to further polish up the shine on Dylan’s teflon hubris and to underscore the blind, Pavlovian worship which he has long enjoyed. Let’s face it: as a lyricist, Dylan is crap, inarguably unworthy beside, say, Hank Cochran, Chuck Berry, Mickey Newbury or Jimi Hendrix (”All Along the Watchtower” plays as a lead balloon even for Hendrix, nearly deflating his Electric Ladyland masterpiece).

While we’re endlessly told that “The pump don’t work / cause the vandals took the handle” is vintage Dylan worthy of class room study, in truth it’s little more than the wordy spew of a peripatetic rhyming dictionary who’ll hang any phrase together as long as it fits. Metaphor is convenience, not expression for Dylan. His songs have also treated women quite badly: the entire attitude of “It Ain‘t Me, Babe“ is ugly; “Just Like a Woman” is nothing short of misogynistic, but, worst of all, Dylan’s sheer verbosity has ineradicably stained American pop music, and we’ve all had to suffer through the post-Dylan legacy of long-winded nonsense (“American Pie,” anyone?).


The real tragedy is that none of these very well-documented and nigh irrefutable plagiarism charges will ever emerge from the shadows, as the Cult of Zimmerman’s hulking form casts a very, very long one. Even when the Hank Snow rip-off stared the world in its face, the strongest reaction was a nervous giggle and murmurs of youthful indiscretion. To capitulate the carefully constructed myth of folk music and Dylan’s subsequent installation as rock & roll’s poet laureate is unthinkable, a hot, hit-the-panic-button nightmare for generations of quiescent “hipsters“ never weaned from the million-selling Dylan teat. His socio-cultural mystique is also an industry-manufactured sham, one that very handily diverted attention away from genuine political stink-stirrers like the MC5 or the lysergic guerilla warfare of the 13th Floor Elevators.

As a junta-backed counter-culture figurehead, Dylan is ideal: a harmless, unoriginal patsy, a cute insouciant whose relentlessly self-involved stance never threatened anyone, save for the hazard of the droning lip service endlessly paid him. We should all praise Joni Mitchell for this overdue call-out (just don‘t ask us to listen to her records), but it’s unlikely that any in the Zim Cult will even consider the ramifications of her statement. But when you pile it up with all the rest, there’s a single conclusion to be made: Bob Dylan is an artistic (and ethical) fraud, one whose own fear of creativity has long since given way to an apparently lifelong practice of emulating his superiors by vampirism, siphoning off their intellectual blood and using it to top off his own under-baked efforts. Weirdly, even then, the results have been scarcely palatable.


It is judiciall and publicly uncontested by Bob Dylan and Bob Dylan's law firms Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Parcher Hayes & Snyder, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Hecker Brown & Sherry and a few other Dylan law Firm including Orin Snyder, Robert Church, Steven Kramer, Mary Jo White, Steven Hayes, Jonathan Liebman, and Sony House counsel that Bob Dylan and people in Bob Dylan's entourage have solicited James Damiano's songs and music for a period of over ten years and eleven months.

Bob Dylan Admits to Plagiarizing His Greatest Hits

“Well you have to understand that I’m not a melodist. My songs are either based on old Protestant hymns or Carter Family songs or variations of the blues form. What happens is, I’ll take a song and simply start playing it in my head. That’s the way I meditate". “I wrote ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ in 10 minutes, just put words to an old spiritual, probably something I learned from Carter Family records. That’s the folk music tradition – you use what has been handed down. ‘The Times They Are A-Changing’ is probably from an old Scottish folk Song.”...."I'll be playing Bob Nolan's 'Tumbling Tumbleweeds,' for instance, in my head constantly -- while I'm driving a car or talking to a person or sitting around or whatever. People will think they are talking to me and I'm talking back, but I'm not. I'm listening to the song in my head. At a certain point, some of the words will change and I'll start writing a song.".......Bob Dylan


The Stealing of James Damiano's Songs by Bob Dylan

The Missing link to all other Bob Dylan

Plagiarisms including

"Blowin In The Wind" "Shelter From The Storm" and "Knockin On Heavens Door"

http://www.jamesdamiano.yolasite.com/