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Dec. 20, 2015 - Clif High

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haboo1 p2

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	With all of the um this is continuation part two uh of the uh Haboo uh followed by a brief wujo.
	Uh it's gonna probably end up being done in chunks.
	I've got to let um uh reality intrude and deal with uh the comings and goings of things around here.
	And so I'll just stop and we'll upload it in small bits.
	Go it gets up quicker that way anyway.
	And I don't think that the continuity is really broken up.
	So at this point, you've you've uh you're gonna be offered the chance to pause here and go and look at the Max Kaiser uh video.
	You needn't watch all of it if you don't want to.
	It's really interesting.
	I found it quite fascinating, especially the guy from um Overstocked at the uh last half.
	Uh in any event, um the uh you get the first you'll get the idea when you see the image and hear them discuss the idea of immortality.
	And so uh then let's go back uh uh a couple of years.
	We'll call it a couple of years.
	And I'll start personalizing this now.
	And I've got my tea here.
	We'll have to stop perhaps if the dog wants back in.
	In any event, here's the um here's where the story gets kind of interesting.
	Um at a personal level, in any event.
	Uh my father, come on, come on, camera, I'm right here.
	Come on, where is it?
	My glasses.
	No, it's there it is.
	Okay.
	Um my mother was in the military.
	Uh he was in Vietnam.
	I won't go into any details that are not pertinent, none of them are pertinent here.
	He had an occasion at one point to assist a fellow.
	The fellow was in dire straits.
	My father was an officer.
	This guy was a um lieutenant at the time, I believe.
	I'm I'm not quite sure.
	Maybe he was a captain.
	In any event, it was many years ago in the late 60s, uh, 68.
	And um Tet offensive, actually.
	And uh, so this fellow he assisted uh survived and was reasonably grateful for the assistance.
	And um years later, decades later, my father has passed.
	He's died.
	And I happen to be working in a um uh category as a programmer, uh, in a building that in which they did interesting things uh related to telephony and um other kinds of activities uh involving software.
	And these um things that they did and involved lots of people like myself that were programmers.
	So there was a lot of people working there.
	Uh maybe a thousand for all I know, it was a big place.
	Uh anyway, uh it was a rented space, or no, they actually owned the building, I believe, the people I worked for.
	And but within that building, there were several other areas that we didn't occupy, our our corporate endeavor, and uh so they rented these spaces out.
	Um and uh one day I happened to be walking in next to this guy um uh who's who was uh about my height, um uh uh older than I and totally bald and uh including no no eyebrows, uh no beard or anything, uh puffing on a cigar like um Daddy Warbugs, uh walking around out in front of this building.
	And he sort of stops me and he looks at me like really funny and he says, you know, he said, without the beard, he said, you really remind me of somebody.
	And see, I get this a lot because in the military anyway, when we were around military bases, because uh the anybody that ever known my father, there's a distinct facial resemblance.
	Um anyway though, so and he he this fellow I was looking at, uh Baldy here, he was um about the right age, so I hazard that it was indeed my dad, and sure enough that was the case, and uh he told me the connection, and so you know, scrunched that part of the story down.
	Uh he sort of thought I was kind of cool, just because I was a connection to his past and uh that particular incident.
	And I was aware of the incident.
	My father had told me about it when he'd come back.
	Um it was a really interesting time for him and so on anyway.
	Uh so uh the Baldy at that point was a retired general, and Baldy was in uh working for a corporation that had uh leased a big chunk of the building we were in.
	And this uh and Baldi was uh General Baldy here, he was the head of this local division of this corporation.
	Corporation was named after a um oh one of those um uh Titans, one of those demigods, uh, you know, the moons of Saturn and Jupiter and all of that.
	So we'll we'll call the corporation uh Apollo.
	Um and so uh Apollo Inc.
	here occupied a big chunk of the uh building, as I say, and they had their own uh T3 lines in secure kind of crap all over to Helen Gone and all kinds of filtery stuff on their phone lines in power lines and basically it made their area a big Faraday cage as well.
	They'd come on in and aligned all the walls and this sort of thing.
	Which was relatively easy.
	The place was set up for computers.
	We had, you know, the um the uh pop-up floors, the walls came off in segments, so you can get out all the wiring and stuff like that.
	And the ceiling, of course, was you know, just basically a hung drop-down ceiling with all those nasty fluorescent lights.
	Anyway, uh Baldy is working there, and I'm working in this other part of the building.
	We don't cross much.
	He's uh at that time, well, I think he's like maybe probably 15 years older than I am.
	Uh anyway, uh so uh but occasionally we'd run into each other, and you know, it wasn't a rather congenial relationship, and then I go on, and uh over time he became aware of me with some of my um uh private software stuff when I started developing um software engines on my own and was selling software uh products.
	And so as part of their corporate things, once I gave a presentation, they didn't buy, but uh they were interested in uh in the concept of the products, uh so they probably stole it.
	But in any event, um uh this outfit worked uh Apollo here, uh uh General Baldy's sub-division, but all of Apollo as far as I know, were was basically a military subcontractor here in the United States in the um uh late 20th and early 21st centuries.
	And uh they do all kinds of military stuff.
	And so along uh comes um uh the great uh George Bush uh attack on the Middle East, uh in which they you know rig up the um uh whole fake uh attack on the twin towers, which were a losing proposition and they had to get rid of that guy was just losing money right and left, hardly any occupancy, you know all the reasons, and then and so it's uh a big put-up job.
	They get all the um 75% of the American uh populace that's um uh just wants to uh go along to get along uh and is uh deliberately blind and or is blind and not paying any attention, not aware at all, they get them to go along with this idea and let's go attack the Middle East.
	And so uh we get the uh George Bush wars in Iraq and stuff.
	And Apollo is like, oh, they're slathering at the you know, drilling all over themselves because they're a military contractor and they do all kinds of weird stuff.
	And uh a lot of their stuff was like um insuffer I always got the vibe out of it.
	I mean they they weren't you know, I was in there once, right?
	Or twice.
	I was in there in their facility twice uh before the Iraq war.
	And they um I got the vibe that it was very much like um uh men who stare at goats.
	We're talking fringe level uh weird, you know, psychological kind of crap, um uh military contractor stuff here, right?
	And so uh uh anyway, uh so I I'd gone off to other work, we have the Iraq war, and Apollo Inc.
	goes off here uh with General Baldy, and they go off into the Iraq war and they um find themselves and their employees involved in some really terrible stuff, terrible stuff that comes out all over the internet that you were all aware of, and it made you really sad to even be associated with in America, uh with the American military with and all of this.
	These kind of uh you know, these these were people that were clearly out of control, doing stuff worse than any of the dictators that we'd ever theoretically tried to overthrow.
	Uh, you know, we were really sporting them the whole time and put them in power, all this kind of stuff.
	Um uh, you know, basically evil twisted screwed up world.
	And so uh Apollo's doing well.
	They're an evil twisted screwed up organization only.
	They get a big lot of backlash from the public part of the nastiness that they're involved in.
	And we're talking the ultimate nastiness that came out of that war.
	If it if it was really disgusting and made you wanted to throw up and you maybe threw up and cried, uh they were probably involved with it.
	It was really really that level.
	And it was so bad for them that at the end of this, um, they're part of that.
	They got out maybe I don't know, um, reasonably early out of this thing, out of this debacle.
	So because my next contact with them was in um I think it was like 2013, maybe.
	Yeah, it was it was 2013.
	I'd already started working on the ProA here.
	Uh so anyway, uh and I had had uh a kale around and uh lettuce, and so they were doing some work on the property.
	Uh anyway, and so um uh my next contact with them then is after the uh the war and they've changed their name.
	Uh I got an invitation uh uh through um sort of a back channel here uh from old General Baldy.
	Only he wasn't working for Apollo, they had some new name that was like, you know, uh one two or three characters and uh and dot and then ink, you know, that kind of thing.
	Um like uh WTF, only it's not that.
	But uh but anyway, so it you know, it's just uh uh they changed their name because uh the the Apollo name got a little trashed in the because of the activity and the many many mini photos of nasty things that came out.
	Excuse me.
	So anyway, so uh I get this backhanded invitation from uh General Baldy.
	Now we're getting back into real time here again.
	And this is in like 2013 or so.
	And I thought, oh, okay, sure I wasn't doing much at the time.
	Uh there was a lot of work and stress as usual.
	Um but I was able to take the day off, and he'd invited me to come on over to lunch and an end an interesting presentation.
	I thought, okay, this is kind of cool.
	Uh, you know, he's uh he always the the vibe was always a little weird, but I knew at least within reason I didn't feel threatened by him simply because he uh respected my abilities as a programmer and my brains, and also because of his association with my father, and and you know, he always sort of um I think he felt paternal to me, like he owed me, you know, uh because he owed my dad.
	And so so you know, I thought, okay, I'll go.
	So I go on over there.
	And this was a very interesting thing.
	Uh very terrible cook, by the way.
	They'd hired this guy, I come on in, I tell him I'm a vegetarian, and that threw him for a loop.
	It's like, oh my god, oh my god, you know, um we've got this strange exotic creature here.
	What do we do?
	You know, what kind of substance do we try and offer it for lunch?
	And they gave me this sandwich digression here with big chunks of cucumber in it.
	It's like, no, guys, that's not vegetarian food.
	A person can't live on cucumber sandwiches.
	Maybe some dainty, you know, woman from the uh Victorian era where her her waist is cinched down to 11 damn inches, you know, so that nothing can pass anyway.
	Uh maybe she can exist on a cucumber sandwich, but not me.
	I need I need real stuff.
	But I I'm prepared for this.
	I've been there.
	See, I've I've worked with these corporate guys before, and I've run into the same kind of thing before.
	Really high-powered ships in in Chicago, New York, and London.
	London I was shocked at, you know, they're they're so cosmopolitan, I I would have thought better, but uh in in all three cases they're working for these very large corporations.
	They uh in the at that level they provide food while all the other people are sitting around doing stuff, hearing presentations and so on.
	And you know, you get lunch and stuff, and they have it's all they have kitchens built into these uh upper echelon presentation rooms, which are you know better than any five-star hotel you've ever seen.
	Um anyway, but uh they always end up giving you bad vegetarian food at in Chicago, New York, and in uh and in London.
	It was just terrible.
	Uh I got some really good stuff in Texas and uh Mexico, oh man, uh Mexico City, that's the place to go for vegetarian food on the on this continent.
	Um they were a little surprised too in in Mexico, but the guy had he was totally didn't bother him, didn't phase him a bit.
	He, you know, uh see senor, and he came back and uh most uh excellent breakfast I'd ever had, and then we had an A.3 earthquake.
	The earthquake was not his fault.
	Breakfast was really good.
	Anyway, though, so getting back to the story here.
	I get I get hauled on over to this really interesting lunch that mostly I didn't eat, but of course I I always bring along extra nutrition in the form of you know crunchy um uh uh energy bars, this kind of thing, just enough to get me through.
	And so I'm munching away on one of those, and you know, I was in this r uh presentation room, uh, we were all fed, uh there was a little bit of a of a sort of an overview.
	I started to get the gist of things there that it was um I was basically when I was brought into the in into the area.
	General Baldi greeted me and said he, you know, explained the terms as to why I was there, and I agreed to him, and I said sure.
	Then he takes me back in through the um more secure area.
	They were in a new building at this point, one that they'd uh bought and occupied totally.
	Still in our local area.
	I had to drive some distance, but not too bad.
	Uh I'm in Olympia, Washington, Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, by the way.
	Um anyway, so uh so I get into the the room and I the terms were fine.
	It was you know, eat, have lunch, basically keep your mouth shut.
	Uh, you know, uh he gave me a little cover story.
	No one expected anybody in that room to ask anybody else anything personal about who they were, where they were from, any background information.
	You there was just no chit-chat.
	It's one of those kind of things.
	It was okay to discuss the subject matter uh that was being presented, okay to bring up thoughts on it.
	Um uh but uh basically you weren't to ask, you know, oh hey, what do you do?
	You know, because you don't want to know what this guy does.
	Anyway, so uh and he certainly doesn't want you knowing and he doesn't want to know what you do.
	And maybe he does know what you do and that's that's a bad enough.
	Anyway though, so so I I agreed.
	It was kinda kinda interesting, you know.
	And I've been around this world before, uh, you know, given the crap my dad was involved with.
	So anyway, um uh so terrible lunch is over after about uh twenty-five minutes.
	I'd gotten there late.
	Um and we head off into this big presentation room.
	And it's really spooky.
	It's um a little mini auditorium.
	Uh didn't even know it existed in the building.
	They'd hollowed out a couple of floors, built these uh uh really nice uh presentation with the giant um uh video screens that are all linked together.
	So so you got a basically um uh movie sc uh theater sized screen if you want, or you can split it into um I think there were eight.
	I think there were eight panels that that composed it.
	Oh, hang on a second, I'm gonna get the dog in.

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