{"id":753,"date":"2009-01-27T14:42:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T22:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/27\/defying-spacetime-cheneys-former-house-magically-reappears-2\/"},"modified":"2009-01-27T14:42:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T22:42:26","slug":"defying-spacetime-cheneys-former-house-magically-reappears-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/defying-spacetime-cheneys-former-house-magically-reappears-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Defying Spacetime: Cheney&#8217;s Former House Magically Reappears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vice-President&#8217;s mansion is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-cheney-residence-google-map-sl,0,3175980.htmlstory\">once again visible on Google Maps. <\/a><br \/><iframe marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" data-src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?source=embed&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;cd=2&amp;geocode=FfPhUQIdTgBo-w&amp;split=0&amp;t=h&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=117631292961056724014.0004616f8c484ff5bbf20&amp;ll=38.924161,-77.066002&amp;spn=0.013355,0.021458&amp;output=embed&amp;s=AARTsJrY5r1MBnIUswKrkC5e0sxWMgEnYA\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"350\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?source=embed&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;cd=2&amp;geocode=FfPhUQIdTgBo-w&amp;split=0&amp;t=h&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=117631292961056724014.0004616f8c484ff5bbf20&amp;ll=38.924161,-77.066002&amp;spn=0.013355,0.021458\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Does anyone else detect the aroma of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisc.edu\/wisconsinpress\/books\/3645.htm\">Soviet-style &#8220;Revisionist History&#8221;<\/a> here?&nbsp; I saw this happen first-hand when I worked as a newspaper editor in Venezuela.&nbsp; It happened on a big government project that was being overseen by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fpolar.org.ve\/Encarte\/fasciculo25\/fasc2504.html\">the terrifying secretary\/concubine<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blanca_Ib%C3%A1%C3%B1ez\">Blanca Ib\u00c3\u00a1\u00c3\u00b1ez<\/a> (she was alleged to be de facto ruler of the country, <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 397px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 397\/397;max-width: 800px; float: left; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/soviet-revisionist-history.jpg\" height=\"397\" width=\"397\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>while <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jaime_Lusinchi\">dipsomania President Jaime Lusinchi<\/a> floated like a Manatee in the pool at Miraflores, surrounded by half-empty bottles of Pampero rum).&nbsp; It was called<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fpolar.org.ve\/Encarte\/fasciculo25\/fasc2505.html\"> the John Paul II housing complex<\/a>, situated in the slum of Montalban. It was supposed to be for the workers; they used the pension funds from some union workers to fund the construction.&nbsp; Then, once it was partially completed, it supposedlyl &#8220;ran out of money&#8221; &#8211; even though our digging found that millions more had been allocated to build the complex than would ever logically be needed to complete. <\/p>\n<p>At about that time, we started noticing that the official documents and records had been tampered with.&nbsp; The photos of all the dignitaries on hand for the ground-breaking ceremonies had had several faces (known criminal acquaintances of Blanca) air-brushed out.&nbsp; The names disappeared and reappeared and then disappeared from the lists of Boards of Directors &amp; Project Managers; all, we learned, because behind the scenes, the rats were fighting each other over who would get to feast on the mountains of cash. <\/p>\n<p>In the end, the complex that was supposed to provide safe, secure and stable housing for the workers who had busted their asses for a lifetime, was condemned and then sold for pennies.&nbsp; To developers who quickly turned the whole thing around, finished it, and then sold it for a massive profit as high-end luxury housing. <\/p>\n<p>Now THAT&#8217;S a political scandal.&nbsp; Thousands of workers robbed, their money stolen by corrupt politicians in league with criminals masquerading as bankers, and good hardworking people left homeless.&nbsp; Sounds familiar, eh? <\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; the disappearance\/reappearance of entire structures reminds me of those dark days. Some of the comments <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/405792\/cheneys-former-home-no-longer-shrouded-in-pixels\">over at Wonkette <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A vague hologram of the mansion lingered aboveground while the actual<br \/>dwelling burrowed 666 fathoms below the earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crust, coming at last<br \/>to rest in a den of snakes. All you could see in aerial photos on<br \/>Google Earth was a bunch of squares and nothingness in the midst of a<br \/>normal neighborhood of houses and trees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>are beverage-on-monitor funny: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Can you still see the pentagram on the roof or did Jill have it painted over?<\/p>\n<p>When mysterious doors start appearing out of nowhere, leading into<br \/>horrific hellscapes that defy the physical layout of the house,<br \/>Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna wish they kept that place hidden. You wait\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>I wonder where he hid the horcruxes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/305;max-width: 800px; float: right; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/soviet-iskorenim.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>The larger issue here is, what happens when a malignant governmental entity manages to take control of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahalo.com\/Internet_Tubes\">&#8220;Teh Intertoobz&#8221;<\/a> and sets about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/archive\/2008\/06\/02\/9359\">cleansing history &amp; facts according to its whim?<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/art-bin.com\/art\/omoscowtoc.html\"> Under the Soviet regime, when Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky<\/a> or others fell out of favor, to erase the embarassing love-letters contained in the history books, it was necessary to collect all the printed materials, burn them, and replace them with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2003-06-17-bush_x.htm\">brand-new propaganda extolling the virtues of the new regime<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Obviously, if a Vice President of the United States can, by fiat, declare that a piece of the Earth&#8217;s crust can no longer be seen from space &#8211; or at least, that it no longer show up on maps &#8211; what does that mean for the future?&nbsp; If, as the digital triumphalists hold, in the future all ink on paper volumes are replaced by the Exploding Silicon Inevitable, how fluid does reality become?&nbsp; And don&#8217;t give me any of that &#8220;Wayback Machine&#8221; smack.&nbsp; All 1s and 0s are subject to either hacking or strong magnetic fields. <\/p>\n<h1 id=\"firstHeading\" class=\"firstHeading\"><small><small><\/small><\/small><\/h1>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vice-President&#8217;s mansion is once again visible on Google Maps. View Larger Map Does anyone else detect the aroma of Soviet-style &#8220;Revisionist History&#8221; here?&nbsp; I saw this happen first-hand when I worked as a newspaper editor in Venezuela.&nbsp; It happened on a big government project that was being overseen by the terrifying secretary\/concubine Blanca Ib\u00c3\u00a1\u00c3\u00b1ez [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}