1999- the Matrix is completed-
Movies like the Matrix, Akira, Surrogates, 13th Floor, Nirvana, Existenz, Total Recall, and others use clues from the projected future of technology and human consciousness to show us where we are headed; and fast.
The postmodern collage becomes the virtual world of our cyber psychic graveyards and skyscrapers. We reach to such tall heights, as we stare down into a glare, which is yet to prove it's usefulness in real human terms. Smart phones are replacing smart people at as alarming a rate as HD TVs are replacing real experiences.
Relevant Headlines (links)
Hive Minded - military robots, magick, and Russia 2045, VR, etc.
Google's drive into robotics should concern us all: Google buys Boston Dynamics
World Programming-
The manipulation of the people's desire to stop violence and coexist in complete peace, into a psychological operation more geared toward selfish religious deeds and financial alleviation. The American stage provides a constant escape slightly more distracting than a well lit highway diner sign. Confused and minimalist yet expensive self improvement, mislead double standards, in sex, and in love, in self indulgence and in overall, the will. Self esteem grappling onto ego holding onto blame promptly based on some reality show baboon, some insignificant asshole. All that worry and projection makes us function on a lower chakra vibration much like the people who make the world this way.
The worldview, one which would have erected Soviet statues taller than buildings, one which allows people to take Fox news' word for it, even if it means the sacrifice of their military children...even knowing somewhere in their hearts that it's wrong to send their kids into a war they damn well don't understand, to kill people you'll never know the names of, in the name of a country that hasn't coughed up a straight answer since JFK's skull was still in one piece.
This worldview, an aspect of Nazi psychological warfare, complete with advertising smiles, and concentration camp mental driving, has been adopted (also pioneered by the Russians) by the world intelligence community, and secret cabals which pull related strings. You may know them by quite American names. This idea of the ultimate exclusive world view is dangerous to no end. It is the hidden hand of patriotism that regards itself as "protecting the homeland", "fighting for one's own country", the notion worst of all, that if your government wants it done, it must be the right thing to do. All too often, in matters of military and private defense, we are under the impression that we are the good guys, or at least that our Western idea of God, stolen and dreamed up from the very areas in the world we are attacking nonetheless, will watch over us as long as we don't realize we are participating in empirical war games, genocide, and infrastructure obliteration within foreign areas that are already bad off in many ways. We are under the impression that we can do no wrong. This is only one small way, of many ways, that we kill women and children, trying to get an upper hand on an enemy that could be flushed out using a thousand other tactics. American troops aren't Nazis. But, the eradication of a group of people under the guise of military expansion and judging them based off of skin color or race is what the Nazis did. Again, American troops are not Nazis, most of them are trying to do the the right thing, but their officers have turned it into a game where one gets money per mission. Making it, just another job, effectively desensitizing missions to the same rules of any other job, and likening violence to video game upgrades.
The worldview provided allows for pregnant single mothers waiting for their husbands to return from Iraq, the elderly who just don't want change and who trust the government, their families far too scared and lacking in personal contemplation motivation to question the story dictated by reporters hired to lie. (If they don't lie they haven't had a job since 2002...if not, before that time.) The whole of society becomes an informational brick wall, where by, it's been agreed that all places besides one's house, while one is alone; are barred from discussing religion, politics, etc...Friends didn't want to discuss 9-11 out loud after we were threatening to go into Iraq. I saw grown men hiding in a corner of a bar's back patio whispering their opinions. That was a wake up call. People are genuinely scared to express themselves. People are genuinely frightened that they cannot make a difference. This rolling indifference is the kind of docile, hypnotized populace that any super villain would be aiming for. It's the nothing, it's the toxic shit we refuse to accept is part of us. It's the sweaty paranoia, the sleepless nights worrying, the look in every friends eye for the past decade as they insulted and laughed at me and those like me, thinking today's technological police state climate we live in was entirely impossible...but they don't have to live in this world, they have football and phones smarter than them and they'll be staring into that self esteem meter catching last minute selfies when Ragnarok smashes the streets in two with fire and floods, hoping to get that last player trade or speaker on ebay, before the sky falls in.
Notes on 1947 from wikipedia, plus notes and comments
April 16th- American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch describes the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "Cold War".
May 22nd- The Cold War begins: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, President Harry S. Truman signs an Act of Congress that implements the Truman Doctrine. This Act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece. The Cold War ended in 1991.
June 21st- Seaman Harold Dahl claims to have seen six unidentified flying objects (UFOs) near Maury Island in Puget Sound, Washington. On the next morning, Dahl reports the first modern so-called "Men in Black" encounter.
June 24th- Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
July 8th- A supposedly downed extraterrestrial spacecraft is reportedly found in the Roswell UFO incident, near Roswell, New Mexico, which was written about by Stanton T. Friedman.
July 26th: the same as the events at Roswell, U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into law, creating the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council!!!
Why am I seeing all these agencies created for a purpose much larger than the Cold War, and if actions planned by JFK would have ended the Cold War more immediately and sabotaged a secret space program and all the other secrets that come with it, is that why he had to be removed from the picture?
November 24 – McCarthyism: The United States House of Representatives votes 346 – 17 to approve citations of Contempt of Congress against the "Hollywood Ten" after the screenwriters and directors refuse to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of communist influences in the movie business. The ten men are blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios on the following day.
Raytheon produces the first commercial microwave oven.
Where's Rayhteon these days? Buying up General Dynamics and...
Ray gun testing on prisoners
In August 2010, Raytheon announced that it had partnered with a jail in Castaic, California in order to use prisoners as test subjects for a new non-lethal weapon system that "[...] penetrates about a 64th of an inch under your skin. That's about where your pain receptacles are. So it's what it would feel like if you just opened up the doors of a blast furnace."
Harvesting personal data from social networking websites
In 2010 Raytheon developed an "extreme-scale analytics" system named Rapid Information Overlay Technology (RIOT), which allows the user to track people's movements and even predict their behaviour by mining data from social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, Gowalla, and Foursquare. Raytheon claims that it has not sold this software to any clients, but has shared it with US government and industryVannevar Bush:
"(He) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, whose most important contribution was as head of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) during World War II, through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project. His office was considered one of the key factors in winning the war. He is also known in engineering for his work on analog computers, for founding Raytheon, and for the memex, an adjustable microfilm viewer with a structure analogous to that of the World Wide Web. In 1945, Bush published As We May Think in which he predicted that "wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified". The memex influenced generations of computer scientists, who drew inspiration from its vision of the future. For his master's thesis, Bush invented and patented a "profile tracer", a mapping device for assisting surveyors. It was the first of a string of inventions.He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1919, and founded the company now known as Raytheon in 1922. Starting in 1927, Bush constructed a differential analyzer, an analog computer with some digital components that could solve differential equations with as many as 18 independent variables. An offshoot of the work at MIT by Bush and others was the beginning of digital circuit design theory. Bush became Vice President of MIT and Dean of the MIT School of Engineering in 1932, and president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1938. Bush was appointed to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1938, and soon became its chairman. As Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), and later Director of OSRD, Bush coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare.
Bush was a well-known policymaker and public intellectual during World War II, when he was in effect the first presidential science advisor. As head of NDRC and OSRD, he initiated the Manhattan Project, and ensured that it received top priority from the highest levels of government. In Science, The Endless Frontier, his 1945 report to the President of the United States, Bush called for an expansion of government support for science, and he pressed for the creation of the National Science Foundation."
"The song Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band mentions Sgt. Pepper teaching the band to play "20 years ago today". This would place the event somewhere between February 1 and June 1 of 1947. "
"British coal mines are nationalized. Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time. The United Nations takes control of the free city of Trieste. A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union. Cold War: The Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. U.S. Army Ordnance Corps Hermes program V-2 rocket Blossom I launched into space carrying plant material and fruitflies, the first animals to enter space. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded. John C. Hennessy, Jr., brings the first Volkswagen Beetle to the United States. He purchased the 1946 VW from the U.S. Army Post Exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, while serving in the U.S. Army. The Beetle was shipped from Bremerhaven, arriving in New York this day. The International Monetary Fund begins to operate and Wernher von Braun marries his first cousin, the 18-year-old Maria von Quirstorp the same day. Previous discovery of the 'Dead Sea scrolls' in the Qumran Caves (above the northwest shore of the Dead Sea) by Bedouin shepherds, becomes known. The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is introduced. The communists seize power in Hungary. Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties (Communist Information Bureau) ("Cominform") is founded. First recorded use of the word computer in its modern sense, referring to an electronic digital machine. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the foundation of the World Trade Organization (WTO), is established. In Long Beach, California, the designer and airplane pilot Howard Hughes carries out the one and only flight of the Hughes H - 1 Hercules seaplane, the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built and flown. This flight only lasted eight minutes. The United States Air Force test pilot, Captain Chuck Yeager, flies a Bell X-1 rocket plane faster than the speed of sound, the first time it has been accomplished. International Telecommunication Union becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations. Universal Postal Union (UPU) becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations. In Brussels, 15,000 people demonstrate against the relatively short prison sentences of Belgian Nazi criminals. The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine between Arab and Jewish regions, which results in the creation of the State of Israel. 400,000 slaughtered during mass migration of Hindus and Muslims into the new states India and Pakistan. The first practical electronic transistor is demonstrated by Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley of the United States. Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress nicknamed the "Black Dahlia", is found brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. The case remains unsolved to this day. The Communists take power in Poland. "
Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Hess, Henry Ford, and Al Capone all died in 1947
Notes on the Bush family: Glen Greenwald: The Tragic Legacy of George W Bush: Foreign and Economic Policy
"Moral and ethical questions have been raised over the billions of dollars Bush has requested for the Iraq war, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) has said ensures that less money is made available to help children and the poor in the United States. Critics have accused him of stinginess toward poor children with regards to health care in a time when it is increasingly unaffordable. Another example is Bush's effort to cut food stamps for the poor. In 2005, Bush called for "billions of dollars in cuts that will touch people on food stamps and farmers on price supports, children under Medicaid and adults in public housing." While passed by the Republican Congress, initially the "White House proposed the restriction".
Bush has taken a significant amount of criticism for his decision to invade Iraq in March 2003 and his handling of the situation afterwards. As Bush organized the effort, made the case, and ordered the invasion himself, he has borne the brunt of the criticism for the undeclared war. A Newsweek poll taken in June 2007 showed a record 73% of respondents disapproving of Bush's handling of the war in Iraq.
Another point of discussion has been whether the enhanced interrogation techniques in the Abu Ghraib prison and the Guantánamo Bay detainment camp constitutes torture or not. Although a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll "found that sizable majorities of Americans disagree with tactics ranging from leaving prisoners naked and chained in uncomfortable positions for hours, to trying to make a prisoner think he was being drowned.
Bush has stated that "We do not torture." Yet, many people and governments and non-governmental organizations disagree and have staged several protests.[105][106][107][108] These sentiments are partly a result of the Pentagon's suggestion that the president can decide whether normal strictures on torture still apply if it outweighs the security of the nation, and because the Bush administration has repeatedly acted against attempts to restrict controversial interrogation techniques, including signing statements by Bush to exclude himself from the laws created by the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 as well as vetoing legislation that would have made waterboarding and other coercive interrogation methods illegal. Furthermore, some are concerned by the Bush Administration's use of Extraordinary rendition, where individuals are sent to other countries where torture can easily occur without any form of oversight. Bush defends this practice on the basis that: [...] the United States government has an obligation to protect the American people. It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way. And we will do so within the law, and we will do so in honoring our commitment not to torture people. And we expect the countries where we send somebody to, not to torture, as well. But you bet, when we find somebody who might do harm to the American people, we will detain them and ask others from their country of origin to detain them. It makes sense. The American people expect us to do that.
A Pentagon memo lists many interrogation techniques which were requested and approved during Bush's presidency on the basis that "The current guidelines for interrogation procedures at GTMO limit the ability of interrogators to counter advanced resistance". The Bush administration's connection to these controversial interrogation techniques has been one of the main considerations in the movement to impeach George W. Bush.
These controversial enhanced interrogation techniques have in several cases become military policy and in response to Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse controversy Germany had looked into seeking to charge Rumsfeld and two others with war crimes."-notes from video above (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYrrFDQIe9s)
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