Intelligence

 

 

 

 

[Meeting room]

 

(Khrisong brings in Victoria.) 

 

KHRISONG: 

Are you recovered? Child? 

 

JAMIE: 

There you are, I've been worried sick. 

Where have you been? Victoria? 

What have you done to her? Doctor? 

Doctor, I think she's ill. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Let me see. 

 

VICTORIA: 

Doctor. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Yes, Victoria. 

 

VICTORIA: 

There is great danger. 

You must take me away. 

Take me away. Take me away! 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Yes, yes of course. 

 

JAMIE: 

Victoria, what's happened? Tell us? 

What's the matter with her? Victoria, it's me, Jamie. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo : 

How long has she been like this? 

 

VICTORIA: 

Doctor. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Yes, Victoria. 

 

VICTORIA: 

There is great danger. 

You must take me away. 

Take me away. Take me away! 

 

KHRISONG: 

The child is still in a state of trance. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Still? What do you mean? 

 

KHRISONG: 

She spoke to us with 

The Voice of The Master. 

 

THOMNI: 

Ah. Then she did reach the holy sanctum. 

 

JAMIE: 

What are you talking about? 

 

THOMNI: 

She was certain that Padmasambhava 

would recognise the Doctor. 

 

JAMIE: 

Recognise The Doctor? 

 

THOMNI:

Yes, he has been here before. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

But that was three hundred years ago. It's the same man….

 

RALPACHAN:

Khrisong, the Abbot Songsten wishes us to join our brothers in prayer. 

 

KHRISONG:

Very well. You will prepare to leave.

Is Mister Travers ready? 

 

RALPACHAN:

He is in the courtyard. 

 

KHRISONG: 

Come, Thomni, to prayer. 

 

THOMNI: 

Khrisong, will you forgive me? 

 

KHRISONG: 

We have both of us strayed 

from the path of obedience. 

 

(The Monks leave.) 

 

The Cosmic Hobo : (sotto) 

Jamie, there is something I have to do. 

 

JAMIE: 

Right. Hey, why are we whispering? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

It's My Voice. She reacts to My voice. 

 

JAMIE: 

Oh, it's that hypnotism thing. 

Can you not do anything about it? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Yes I can, but I need more information. 

Now, you wait here. 

 

JAMIE: 

Where are you going? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

I'm going to see a very old friend.

 

[Inner sanctum]

 

(There is a cloth over the model on the table.) 

 

PADMASAMBHAVA: 

Oh, Intelligence. You promised to release me, 

yet still I feel your grasp upon this frail body. 

Why? What is happening? This was not your plan. 

But if you continue to expand? 

I have brought The World to its end. 

 

(In the cave the gunk is still coming from the pyramid,

filling the chamber and the tunnel,

and approaching the cave mouth.)

 

PADMASAMBHAVA: 

Come in, Doctor. Good to look upon 

your face again. So many years...

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Padmasambhava. So it's True. 

 

PADMASAMBHAVA: 

I have been kept alive so many years, 

but now our time left is very, very short. 

Listen carefully. Perhaps you can --

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Kept alive? I don't understand. 

 

PADMASAMBHAVA: 

I didn't know. I didn't realise….

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

What? Try to tell me. 

 

PADMASAMBHAVA: 

Intelligence. Formless in space. 

I astral travelled. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

I see. You made mental contact 

with this intelligence? 

 

PADMASAMBHAVA: 

It used my mind. 

It controls my body. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

But why? 

 

PADMASAMBHAVA: 

Experiment. Wished material form. 

A Voice, it said. I believed. 

Experiment. But now. 

Help. You must Help Me. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Yes, of course I will help you. 

But first you must tell me things :

Why are the monks being driven away? 

What is the purpose of these robots, the Yeti? 

Where is their control? 

Padmasambhava? 

Padmasambhava? 

 

(The old man's head has slumped forward. 

The Doctor listens for a heartbeat, then leaves the room. 

Then the eyes open and glare after him.)

 

[Meeting room]

 

JAMIE: 

I wish there was something I could do. 

 

(Jamie goes behind Victoria, picks up a broken stool 

and throws it to the floor. She doesn't even twitch.) 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

What on earth was that? 

 

JAMIE: 

Oh, it was just an idea. 

 

VICTORIA: 

Doctor — There is great danger. You must take me away. 

Take me away. Take me away! 

 

JAMIE: 

Doctor, you've got to do something. 

Did you find out what you wanted to know? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Not about Victoria, no. 

But I found some very interesting clues 

as to what's been happening. 

 

JAMIE: 

Oh, never mind about that. 

It's Victoria you ought to be worrying about. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Yes. Yes, you're quite right. Victoria must come first. 

Trouble is I really need more information. 

However, I'll just have to take a chance. 

It may just be simple post-hypnotic suggestion. 

On the other hand....

 

JAMIE: 

Yes. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

It may be something worse. 

 

JAMIE: 

What if it is? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Well, let's just hope it isn't.

 

(The Doctor takes Victoria's face in his hands.) 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Victoria. 

 

VICTORIA: 

Doctor. There is great danger. 

You must take me away. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Yes, Victoria. 

 

VICTORIA: 

Take me away. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Listen to me. You've been taken away. 

You're no longer in the monastery. 

You're safe in the TARDIS. 

 

Now do you understand? 

You're safe. In the TARDIS. Yes. 

Well, look at me. Look at my eyes. 

 

You're feeling tired, very sleepy. Drift away. 

Let yourself drift away into sleep. Deeper. Deeper. 

Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep.

 

Oh, not you Jamie --

 

JAMIE: 

Hey, what? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

So far, so good. 

 

JAMIE: 

Hey, I never knew you could 

do that sort of thing. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

No. Neither did the person 

who hypnotised Victoria. 

 

JAMIE: 

What now? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Well, I'm tempted to ask her What Happened, 

but I don't think I dare probe too deeply. 

The important thing is to get rid 

of this implanted fear. 

It's growing every minute. 

 

JAMIE: 

What if you can't? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Well, we shall just have to do as she asks 

and take her away. If we don't....

 

JAMIE: 

Yes. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

She'll go out of her mind. 

 

JAMIE: 

What? 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Well, that's the object of the exercise. 

To get us away from the monastery. 

But I'm not beaten that easily. 

 

JAMIE: 

Hey, you're taking an awful risk. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

I know what I'm doing, Jamie. Victoria? 

Now, Victoria, you can hear my voice, can't you? 

 

VICTORIA: 

Yes. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Oh, good. Now I'm going to take you 

a little way back in the past, Victoria. 

You're in the cell with Thomni. 

Do you understand? 

 

VICTORIA: 

Yes. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Good. Now you're going to 

forget everything after that. 

You went to sleep. Is that clear? Good. 

Jamie and I have come back to the monastery 

and you are in the meeting room with us. 

You're feeling happy, but a little tired. 

 

Do you understand? 

 

VICTORIA: 

Yes. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Good. Now, when I count three, 

you're going to wake up. 

One, two, three. 

 

VICTORIA: (yawning) 

Oh, oh dear. Oh, I must 

have dropped off. 

 

The Cosmic Hobo :

Yes, I believe you did. 

I've got work to do. 

 

VICTORIA: 

What are you grinning at?

The Power

Big Mack McTeer of 

The House of The Blue :

The Suit's real neat 

and everything, Elwood, 

but do I really have 

to wear The Hat?

Elwood Blues :

These are unsophisticated men.

The only things they respond to 

are Fear and the draw of Lucre.

We elicit this by using 

Iconographic Symbols 

and Psychological Intimidation.

The way we look together now

presents a uniform image 

of Strength and Organisation.

Don't Say Anything. 

Look Mean. 

No Smiling.

power (n.)

c. 1300, pouer, "ability; ability to act or do; strength, vigor, might," especially in battle; "efficacy; control, mastery, lordship, dominion, ability or right to Command or Control; legal power or authority; authorization; military force, an army," from Anglo-French pouair, Old French povoir, noun use of the infinitive, "to be able," earlier podir (9c.), from Vulgar Latin *potere (source also of Spanish poder, Italian potere), from Latin potis "powerful" (from PIE root *poti- "powerful; lord").

“Whatever some hypocritical ministers of government may say about it, Power is the greatest of all pleasures. It seems to me that only love can beat it, and love is a happy illness that can't be picked up as easily as a Ministry. 

— Stendhal "de l'Amour," 1822

Meaning "one who has Power, person in Authority or exercising great influence in a community" is late 14c. 

Meaning "a specific ability or capacity" is from early 15c. 

In Mechanics, "that with which work can be done," by 1727.

Sense of "property of an inanimate thing or agency of modifying other things" is by 1590s. Meaning "a state or nation with regard to international authority or influence" [OED] is from 1726. Meaning "energy available for work is from 1727. Sense of "electrical supply" is from 1896.

Colloquial a power of for "a large quantity of, a great number of" is from 1660s (compare powerful). Phrase the powers that be "the authorities concerned" is from Romans xiii.1. As a statement wishing good luck, more power to(someone) is recorded from 1842. A man-advantage power play in ice hockey so called by 1940. Power failure "failure of the (electrical) power supply" is from 1911; power steering in a motor vehicle is from 1921. Power politics "political action based on or backed by threats of force" (1937) translates German Macht-politik.

Origin and meaning of power

power (v.)

"to supply with power," 1898, from power (n.). Earlier it meant "make powerful" (1530s). Related: Powered; powering.

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*poti- 

Proto-Indo-European root meaning "powerful; lord." 

It forms all or part of: bashaw; compos mentis; despot; hospodar; host (n.1) "person who receives guests;" idempotent; impotent; omnipotent; pasha; plenipotentiary; posse; possess; possible; potence; potency; potent; potentate; potential; potentiate; potentiometer; power; totipotent. 

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit patih "master, husband;" Greek posis, Lithuanian patis "husband;" Latin potis "powerful, able, capable; possible." 

empower (v.)

"to give power or authority to," 1650s, also impower, from assimilated form of en- (1) + power (n.). Used by Milton, Beaumont, Pope, Jefferson, Macaulay, but the modern popularity dates from 1986. Related: Empowered; empowering.

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The Evil of The Doctor

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“As above, so below. 

From the tiny and ordinary to the vast and celestial.

Mr. Stubbs is the name of the circus chimpanzee in from a serialized story entitled Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus collected in book form in 1881. The book, a gritty yarn for kids, was a favourite of both Harlan Ellison and William Burroughs interestingly enough. No idea what might have attracted Burroughs to this tale of lithe wild youths and chattering chimps!

Disney released a film version of Toby Tyler in 1960 and it was this movie adaptation that prompted my beloved cousin Agnes to borrow the name ‘Mr. Stubbs’ for the christening of her ‘Jacko’ chimp toy.

Jacko was a popular Chad Valley ape doll in the early 1960s, when most kids wound up with one of these rubber primates in his rakish striped jersey, like a beatnik bonobo. Like so many of my generation, I had a Jacko of my own and indeed still do – he sits, as he has done for decades, on top of my bookshelf with the same glass-eyed grin I’ve known since childhood – but as a show of eternal devotion to my cousin, there was no option but to name my toy after hers, and so was born Mr. Stubbs 2!

Some combination of the spirit of both our simian pals gives life to Uotan’s faithful sidekick.

I left Nix Uotan, Last of the Monitors, in his human guise at the end of Final Crisis – a cosmic being grounded on Earth disguised as an ordinary human being with everyday problems – like the need to pay his rent, which frames the entire story. 

For his appearance in The Multiversity, we chose to streamline Uotan into a more superheroic figure; I asked Ivan Reis to sex up Uotan’s previous A Clockwork Orange look to make it more of a sleek sci-fi superhero costume in black and gold with an impressive cape. I figured he’d have adopted a style more in keeping with his surroundings in the DC Universe.  

We never really resolve whether or not Uotan’s unnamed human identity is hallucinating his adventures as he lies reading comics on Xannies and Zoloft. Are stories real? Monitors move in mysterious ways…

Superjudge is an album by psychedelic rock band Monster Magnet. Frontman Dave Wyndorf is a long-time comics fan, often citing Kirby in his lyrics. Dave kindly gave me permission to use Superjudge as Nix Uotan’s official superhero name, and he’s thanked in the last issue of the series.

If Nix Uotan is Wotan, the God of Wednesday when the comics come out, if Wotan, like The Babylonian Nabu, Roman Mercury, Greek Hermes, Egyptian Thoth and many others is a god of speed, communication, language,  then Stubbs represents the so-called ‘Ape of Thoth’, the cynocephalus that capers around the silver-tongued mage like the Jester taunts the King, pricking pomposity with humour, obscuring wisdom with inane chatter and madcap interpretation.

Nix Uotan was created to be DC’s Dr. Who equivalent – in this case, a super-powerful black character traversing the many worlds of the Multiverse, solving problems in his cosmic yellow submarine with a wisecracking pirate chimp for company! I’ve always been a little disappointed no-one has thought to pick him up and run with the concept.

As our two heroes travel in their shiftship, the Ultima Thule to answer a distress call from Earth-7, they encounter only ruin and horror and a universe broken and spoiled…”

MASTER: 

Hello, Doctor.

Welcome to The End of Your Existence.

Say 'Hello' to my friends.

I believe we're all acquainted...

..right? Do you like the garb?

I love the garb. 

Got to Dress for The Occasion.

I was just thinking...

We could call this...

The Master's Dalek Plan.

Or The, er... Cyber-Dalek Master Plan, or

The Cyber-Master's Dalek Plan?

I can't quite get it.

But in the end I suppose

we'll just call it :

The Day I Killed The Doctor...

..with a little help

from my friends.

Our Lady :

SCOFFING: Your friends?

You hate each other.

MASTER: 

And the one thing stronger than

their hatred for each other...

..is their hatred for you.

Just took a little handsome

genius to point it out to them.

"What Unites Us is stronger 

than What Divides Us."

I mean, that's very You, that, isn't it?

You love a Team, don't you?

Letting every Tom, Dick and 

Harriet into Your TARDIS...

Well, You have Your Fam.

Now... I have mine.

Our Lady :

So everything else was a diversion?

MASTER: 

No. No. No! 

Not a diversion. Very important!

Three-phase plan. You'll see.

Except you won't.

MASTER LAUGHS

But rest assured, 

without you to defend it,

Earth will fall very, very fast.

I did warn you, Doctor.

I'm going old-school, Doctor.

A Tribute to our elders.

Do you remember The Ultimate Sanction 

for breaking Our Laws?

Our Lady :

[WHISPERS] 

Forced regeneration.

MASTER: 

They even did it to you 

once, didn't They?

Well, maybe more than once. 

Who knows? Not you.

Our Lady :

You don't have the Technology.

MASTER: 

I do. I do. I do!

MASTER GIGGLES

When I ransacked Gallifrey,

I took everything.

But where would he get The Power?

If only I had a planet built for this purpose....

No, wait, wait. I do!

MASTER LAUGHS MANIACALLY

You did get that, right?

A conversion planet.

Except it doesn't only convert organic to Cyber.

I brought it here to help another Conversion altogether.

MUSIC: 

Rasputin by Boney M

♪ There lived a certain

man in Russia long ago

♪ He was big and strong

In his eyes a flaming glow

♪ Most people looked at him

with terror and with fear... ♪

VINDER: 

OK, Doctor. This is my last roll of the dice. I've been

carrying this around with me since you gave it to me.

♪ ..like a preacher

Full of ecstasy and fire

♪ But he also... ♪

You need my help?

I could certainly do with yours.

But I'm not holding out much hope.

♪ Ra-Ra-Rasputin Lover

of the Russian queen

♪ There was a cat

that really was gone

♪ Ra-Ra-Rasputin Russia's

greatest love machine

♪ It was a shame how

he carried on... ♪

Let's get you out of there.

This is Inston-Vee Vinder saying,

if you need my help... Vinder!

..I could certainly do with yours.

MASTER: 

Hello, TARDIS.

Receiving this loud and clear?

Say Goodbye, Yaz.

TARDIS, lock on to his signal.

Forced regeneration, Doctor.

To force you...

to regenerate... into Me. 

Our Lady :

Oh, no! You wouldn't....

Emperor on The Bridge

Emperor 2012 - General Douglas MacArthur Arrives in Japan WW2

A Story of Love and Understanding 

set amidst the tensions and uncertainties of 

the days immediately following 

The Japanese Surrender at 

The End of World War II. 

On the staff of General Douglas MacArthur (Jones), 

the de facto ruler of Japan as Supreme Commander 

of the occupying forces, a leading Japanese expert, 

General Bonner Fellers (Fox) is charged 

with reaching a decision of historical importance : 

Should Emperor Hirohito be Tried and 

Hanged as a War Criminal? 

Interwoven is the story of Fellers' love affair with Aya, 

a Japanese exchange student he had met years previously in the U.S. Memories of Aya and His quest to find her in the ravaged post-war landscape help Fellers to discover both his wisdom and his humanity and enable him to come to the momentous decision that changed the course of history and the future of two nations.

Everyone Has Their Price

Floyd Lawton shows Deadshot | Suicide Squad

 

 

Amanda Waller : 

This is crown jewels here, Mr. Wayne. 

And you do understand 

my legal exposure. 

If anyone knew what I 

procured for you...

 

Bruce Wayne : 

Listen... I can keep a secret, okay? 

What do you want?

 

Amanda Waller : 

People are asking questions about Midway City.

 The kind of people who 

can get the answers. 

And if they can get those answers, 

my head will be on a pike.

 

 

Bruce Wayne : 

Consider yourself under

My Protection.  If you deliver.

 

Amanda Waller : 

[hands him several files regarding 

metahumans]  

Why, Mr. Wayne?

 

Bruce Wayne :

 Just like to make friends.

 

Amanda Waller : 

There's the difference between us.

 You believe in Friendship, 

I believe in Leverage.

 

 

Bruce Wayne : 

Good night.

 

 

Amanda Waller :

You look tired --

You should stop working nights.

 

Bruce Wayne :

You should shut it down, or my friends and I

will do it for you.

White Wolf

The Lone Wolf [ A product of a Narcissistic Home ]

The Lone Wolf. 

A Product of a Narcissistic Home. 

Today I want to talk about the child 

that grows up in a narcissistic home, 

and in adulthood prefers a more 

solitude life, the lone wolf. 

Growing up in a narcissistic home the child becomes desensitized to friendly fire, eventually seeing their parent as the enemy, and avoiding them as much as possible. 

The parent will dismiss, overlook and undervalue the child feelings, wants and needs all while making their own feelings and needs a priority. 

They are selfish, unloving, incapable of nurturing and providing support for their child’s self development. 

This child may see their parent create drama and chaos over something insignificant or even imagined, fueled with emotions at the expense of others. 

Or they may grow up not having a desire to form connections or only having limited connections, these children may grow up to be a lone wolf. This personality type may occur from narcissistic abuse, being pushed away, neglected or from being bullied. Wolves normally live in packs, but what the narcissistic parent has done is pushed that wolf away from the pack and the Lone wolf may tend to embrace it. When they feel they don’t belong and don’t fit in, this rejection can reinforce the lone Wolf Personality.

DISCLAIMER: This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for clinical care. 

And We Accept That : Why it is That We Will Win