Category Archives: Foundations

Brace yourselves for the truth, as he sees it

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Alan Watt is still coming to us live via the Republic Broadcasting Network, weeknights at 8 p.m. EST. He offers a penetrating look into the news of the day, making his voice one of the most intelligent, and spellbinding, in internet talk radio.

From Watt’s bio:

“Alan Watt is a long-term researcher into the causative forces behind major changes in historical development.”

Warning: If you linger too long on RBN, you might find some of the rants from the network’s other hosts hard to stomach.

via Programs & Hosts | Republic Broadcasting Network.

Scanning faces for autism

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Computer scientists revive eugenics tool to spot brain damage

(SS scientists studied Tibetans' facial characteristics on an early expedition.)

University of Missouri computer scientists are sure to anger “neuro-diversity” advocates with this one: Hypothesizing that autistic kids have unique physical features, they will create a roadmap with head size and facial feature measurements for diagnosticians.

The research is being funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.

“Instead of looking at brain structures slice-by-slice in an MRI (magnetic resonance image), we developed tools to create 3-D representations of the structures in order to visualize and make comparisons,” said Kevin Karsch, a research assistant in Ye Duan’s computer graphics lab, in a recent announcement. “Using the 3-D representations, we are comparing the brain structures of autistic children to those of non-autistic children; no one has ever done that.”

Note: FXSmom last year blogged about using facial characteristics to diagnose genetic disorders.

MU Researchers Study Facial Structures, Brain Abnormalities to Reveal Formula for Earlier Detection of Autism | MU News Bureau
The U.S. Department of Defense awarded Duan, in collaboration with researchers at the MU Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, a $110,000 grant to create a facial imaging system that will make identical measurements of the faces of children with ASD. Additionally, the NARSAD Foundation, the world’s leading charity dedicated to mental health research, awarded Duan the prestigious Young Investigator Award and $60,000 to fund 3-D imaging of various segments of the brain in children with ASD. The projects also are supported by a $100,000 contribution from other MU sources and $30,000 in Research Scholar Funds.

We are developing a quantitative method that will accurately measure these differences and allow for earlier, more precise detection of specific types of the disorder,” said Ye Duan, assistant computer science professor in the MU College of Engineering. “Once we have created a formula, we can pre-screen children by performing a quick, non-invasive scan of each child’s face and brain to check for abnormalities. Early detection is crucial in treating children and preparing families.”

Food Revolution 2030

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The food riots anticipated by military experts have already started. Now the Royal Institute for International Affairs is talking revolution, as a way to approach world hunger.

The Royal Institute for International Affairs is calling for something “close to a revolution” in agricultural efforts to meet the world’s hunger for food by 2030. A report from Chatham House (link, below), says we may already be at a point where a global middle class of fatties is taking food from the mouths of the poor.

Chatham House – Publications – Reports and Papers – View Paper
In the longer term, the key challenge is to increase the supply of food: the World Bank estimates that demand for food will rise by 50 per cent by 2030, as a result of rising affluence and growing world population. Achieving this challenge will require something close to a revolution, and a massive investment in agriculture in developing countries.

Arctic seed vault receives first deposit

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Africans are the first to send seeds (for corn, soy, and other food crops) to the Arctic seed repository, by way of Oslo. The vault, pictured here, is among the seed bank projects being paid for by the United Nations, the Rockefeller, Ford and Gatsby foundations. — Mark Baard

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African seed collection first to arrive in Norway on route to Arctic seed vault
The vault is being built by the Norwegian government as a service to the global community, and a Rome-based international NGO, the Global Crop Diversity Trust, will fund its operation. The vault will open on 26 February 2008.

The shipment, which was sent by the Ibadan, Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), consists of thousands of duplicates of unique varieties of domesticated and wild cowpea, maize, soybean, and Bambara groundnut. The seeds from the IITA genebank in Ibadan, Nigeria, were packed in 21 boxes weighing a total of 330 kg. The processing by IITA staff took several months, and the boxes were packaged over a three-day period, with 10 staff checking the accession list, reporting errors, and adjusting the inventory, as needed.

Listen to Alan Watt tonight on RBN…

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…and download his past shows and transcripts at CuttingThroughTheMatrix.com and AlanWattSentientSentinel.eu.

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  • Check out this story, which I wrote earlier this year: http://tinyurl.com/yr3vym
  • Culture creation: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2298/
  • New Canadian driver license: http://blog.mlive.com/chronicle/2007/12/new_drivers_license_requires_b.html
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Cutting Through The Matrix
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Alan Watt is a long-term researcher into the causative forces behind major changes in historical development.

With historical documentation, he shows how cultures are created and altered by those in control, always to lead the people like sheep into the next pasture. Learn the true esoteric meanings of mystery religions from one who knows.

Is transhumanism a religion?

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Movement promises “an end run around mortality”


A real beauty, or virtually so. (Image: from the transhumanist book, The Perfect World Tour, by “A.R. Teest.”)

Natasha Vita-More does not appreciate being called a religious leader. (See her reply to a recent parallelnormal post here.) Vita-More and her husband, Max More, are leaders of the transhumanist and extropian movements, which advocate for the use of technology to transform the human into a “posthuman,” which they believe will be better than the originals.

But the movements, which have ties to the United Nations, and to Oxford and Yale universities, do offer hope to those who long for life “beyond our current biological limitations,” and for greater security in a dangerous world.

Transhumanism also has its share of famous followers, drawn largely from the fields of science, engineering and biology.

The transhumanists, after all, will need the help of scientists to realize their dream of creating a life form to supplant mankind.

Posthumans will replace ordinary, biological, humans with “completely synthetic artificial intelligence,” according to one scenario described by the Extropian Institute, Max More’s think-tank.

Such virtual life might arise from human brains being downloaded to computers, or humans being modified with multiple computer implants, the extropians add.

The inventor Ray Kurzweil and MIT artificial intelligence guru Marvin Minsky are transhumanists.

Kurzweil is not a religious man. But he does believe science might help him “live long enough to live forever.” He takes dozens of supplements daily, and spends a full day each month at a Massachusetts clinic, where he receives massive vitamin doses intravenously.

“The promise of eternal life through continuous upgrades obviously satisfies one of the chief needs of religious personalities — an end run around mortality,” my brother, Erik, told me last week.

Erik covered a meeting of the World Transhumanist Association at Yale for the Village Voice in 2003.

Erik does not share my belief that transhumanism might meet the deifinition of a cult. “But,” he said, “some vulnerable people attracted to it might be ripe for such exploitation.”

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Alan Watt cuts through a puffy piece about clouds

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No mystery: Alan Watt says the “twilight zones” of air particles around clouds are what the government has been spraying into the air for years.

Alan Watt, in his May 25 audio blurb, slams Live Science (link below) for what he described as an article that parrots government sources.

Watt’s listeners will also appreciate this about Live Science: the science news website is funded in part by Venrock, which got its start in 1969 as the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family. And although I have not uncovered any glaring conflicts of interest in its science coverage, Live Science and its sister site, Space.com, are backed by several other venture capital firms with large stakes in the tech and biotech sectors.

clipped from cuttingthroughthematrix.com
May 25, 2007 Alan Watt Blurb (i.e. Educational Talk)
“The Power of Particle Propaganda” (from NASA) – “Nuking Your Brain is Safe for You” (from British Boffins) – “Laptops, Gonads, Going, Going, Gone!”
(Orwellian Clip followed by Song: “The Great American Novel” by Larry Norman)
***Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt – May 25, 2007 (Exempting Music and Literary Quotes)***LISTEN / DOWNLOAD

Prepare to be "transitioned" into your new "habitat"

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Paul has a plan for you. It may require “a vast array of policies and regulations,” and heavy taxes, he says.

One of the backers of smart growth plans for major cities envisions a global “Great Transition” of humans into concentrated population centers. Paul D. Raskin, director of the Boston-based Tellus Institute (Note: Tellus is now blocking access to its site, but much of the same material is here), expects people to resist the Great Transition. That’s why intergovernmental organizations and transnational corporations must create a marketing campaign “to inspire people [and] to seize the public imagination,” Raskin says in a Tellus video.

The problem of a push-back from a reluctant populace was echoed by Rappaport Institute Director and Harvard economist Ed Glaeser, in a Boston Globe article this week (see excerpt and link, below).

Both Raskin and Glaeser contributed to what is now called MetroFuture, a smart growth initiative for Greater Boston that will “shift growth from remote new suburbs to existing town centers,” according to the Globe.

A large group of financiers and institutes, the Kraft family, and the real estate tycoon Dick DeWolfe are also members of the MetroFuture initiative.

Similar smart growth plans are underway in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore, as well as in Utah, Central Florida, and the Midwest. All of the plans are directly linked to the United Nations plan to create “habitat areas” in which human consumption and labor can be more easily controlled.

Alan Watt has recently been discussing the U.N.’s “Agenda 21“–which outlines the plan for human habitats, at Cutting Through the Matrix and Red Ice Creations Radio. You will not read about Agenda 21 in any mainstream article about “smart growth”–for that I recommend listening to Alan’s blurbs at Cutting Through the Matrix, and his interviews at Red Ice.

clipped from www.boston.com

Plan envisions bustling town centers

‘MetroFuture’ puts focus on suburbs

By Sarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff | May 1, 2007
Planners mapping the future of Greater Boston want to encourage people to live and work in suburban town centers, and cut pollution, water usage, and traffic to improve the quality of life over the next two decades.
“The plan is fighting against both economic and political factors that will make this difficult,” said Ed Glaeser, economics professor at Harvard University and director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.

Global warming: pretext for weather warfare?

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Plans within plans: Lowell Wood (a.k.a. “Dr. Evil”), with his mentor, Edward Teller. Recent reports suggest that the scientists’ weather warfare proposals are gaining traction.

Recent reports in the Wall Street Journal (see excerpt and link, below) and elsewhere point to the threat posed by a group of physicists, led by one “Dr. Evil,” who want to use aircraft to disperse specially engineered particles to block out the sun.

The reports, based on an article in the Spring 2007 Wilson Quarterly, supports claims by Alan Watt that weather modification experiments (marked by chemtrails and sudden weather changes) have long been underway.

The author of the WQ piece, James R. Fleming, describes the “troubling motif of militarization in the history of weather and climate control.”

Fleming quotes Dr. Evil (Pentagon physicist Lowell Wood, who gets a kick out of the nickname) as saying the time has come for “an intelligent elimination of undesired heat from the biosphere by technical ways and means,” rather than changes in fuel consumption and public policy.

Wood was a protégé of the late nuke scientist Edward Teller, who proposed similar climate control measures before he died in 2003.

clipped from blogs.wsj.com
Climate engineering has become a popular topic among a group of scientists who are skeptical of the potential other environmental remedies, from carbon taxes to alternative energy, James R. Fleming, a professor of science, technology and society at Colby College, writes in the Wilson Quarterly’s spring issue. But the potential fixes being discussed reflect an overconfidence in technology, Mr. Fleming says, as well as an ignorance of the history of failed efforts to control the weather.
One idea put forth by a physicist involved in climate-control discussions would involve bombarding the Arctic stratosphere with specially engineered particles to deflect the sun’s rays, thereby lowering temperatures.

The internet "thinks," and the hive mind rules

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Guilty, says the collective

This kid, pictured above, tells ABC News today, “Right now pretty much the internet thinks it is me.” (Excerpt and link, below.)

He’s been receiving death threats and hate mail since the shooting at Virginia Tech yesterday. His passion for firearms, his personal circumstances and Web 2.0 chatter in blog services, chat rooms and Twitter, have conspired to link him to the mass shooting yesterday.

Meanwhile, marketers and tech journalists are busy parroting the Web 2.0 message–that groups, not individuals, will produce the internet’s “content” through their “collective intelligence”–at a convention this week in San Francisco.

Many more individuals (such as those with non-politically correct hobbies) will find themselves in opposition to what the Institute for the Future‘s Jane McGonigal calls this “collective life worth living.”

McGonigal this week is speaking on the subject of “hacking happiness.” She says her work is based on the positive psychology movement started by UPenn professor Marty Seligman.

McGonigal’s quest for human happiness has its roots in animal suffering.

In 1965, Seligman conducted sadistic animal experiments–including trapping and shocking dogs in cages–to show that animals learn helplessness, according to a recent audio blurb by Alan Watt, and an article in the Economist.

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He is Asian, he lived in the dorm where the first shooting occurred and he recently broke up with his girlfriend — he also happens to have a web blog packed with pictures in which he poses with firearms. On the Internet, Wayne Chiang is as good as convicted.
“Right now pretty much the Internet thinks it is me, Chiang told ABC News. “I am just interested in trying to clear my name.