Transhumanists envision a life at sea

Photo: Cynthia thanks mother ocean. CC/Bettina Neuefeind

Cynthia thanks mother ocean. Photo: CC/Bettina Neuefeind

Some folks are planning for a life at sea–on man-made islands:

The mission of the [Seasteading Institute] is to enable the building of ocean communities, to experiment with innovative political and social systems…The Seasteading Institute | SHARKRIDE!, May 2009

The Seasteading Institute (TSI) is backed by billionaire PayPal founder and transhumanist Peter Thiel.

Seasteading enthusiasts, apparently in no rush for a return on their investements, have contributed more than $500,000 to the institute to-date.

It is not clear whether the poor and the profane will find their way onto these islands. TSI does argue, however, that the islands might help isolate undesirables.

Winning entry. Image: CC/ejacobhansen

Winning entry. Image: CC/ejacobhansen

I’m not sure what is meant by “innovative political and social systems,” in the Seasteaders’ mission, but Aftermath News notes that the Bilderberg gang has been discussing overcoming resistance to depopulation:

The UK newspaper The Times reported that these “leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population,” and that they “discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change.”

via Secret Bilderberg Agenda to Restructure Global Political Economy « Aftermath News.

Keep watching the skies

Chemtrails are will be real. Policymakers and scientists last week were brainstorming earth changes.

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A proposed "geoengineering" Flettner vessel that would move about on the world's oceans, spraying salt into the air, to make clouds more reflective. Image: The Royal Society

Climate change scientists last week met to discuss how high altitude military jets might spray sulfur into the stratosphere, to “geoengineer” climate changes.web_021107-o-9999g-0232

Read this excerpt, below. Note my emphasis on the last sentence. This is one of the reasons why Alan Watt is always on about the Club of Rome.

Richard Turco of UCLA estimated that injecting enough sulfur in the stratosphere to properly geoengineer the climate would require 3000 aircraft sorties per day, and cost $50-$100 billion per year. Model results he presented showed a large amount of uncertainty as to what might happen, and he cautioned that there was “no guarantee of success, and failure would be catastrophic”.

A. Robrock of Rutgers disagreed with Dr. Turco, and estimated that the cost of injecting the required amount of sulfur into the stratosphere would by less that $5 billion per year, provided the U.S. military would let scientists use 167 of the existing fleet of 522 F15C Eagle jets to do the job. After all, he reasoned, why wouldn’t the military want to use their aircraft to confront our enemy global warming?

via Wunder Blog : Weather Underground.


Sticky, Sweet, Madonna a riddle

Matt Drudge‘s best headline, ever (image, caption, below, left): this is FREAKY. Perhaps the synchromystics, or the occultists, can explain this latest exhibition?

Bonus: This bit, about her carbon footprint (right):

My Way News – Madonna kicks off `Sticky and Sweet’ tour in UK
However, others wondered at the singer’s carbon footprint, questioning the amount of carbon dioxide pumped out by ferrying Madonna’s wardrobe, makeup, and freezers (for ice to soothe the dancers’ aching feet) across the world.

See also: Lady Di, Mind Controlled

Live long and prosper? We might do neither

Biotech body snatchers. A genetically “inferior” underclass. Increased terrorist attacks. Futurists will “make it so.

(Marketing buzzword alert: “Futuring,” a verb, is the act of exploring of the future, according to those who do it. Photo: Futurist Thornton A. May flashes the three-finger “Sustainability Symbol.” More about this strange hand signal shortly. Credit: Dragonpreneur, under a Creative Commons license.)

from Mark:

A new book by a futurist and adviser to three U.S. presidents portrays a horrific near future scenario filled with body snatchers, a booming “neuromarket” for false memory implants, and a self-aware internet that rebels against humanity.

The author of “The Extreme Future,” James Canton, Ph.D. (below), was a student of Alvin Toffler, according to Publisher’s Weekly. He will be speaking at the U.S. Army War College this fall, at a conference aimed not at predicting, but shaping, the future.

“The goal of futuring (exploring the future) is not to predict the future but to improve it,” reads a quote from futurist Edward Cornish, on the U.S. Army War College’s website.

For more about how futurists plan our futures, see these blurbs and broadcasts by Alan Watt.

Bloggers from the military and intel communities are talking about the book. Here is an excerpt from one dot-mil blog:

(Dr.) Canton…includes “Top Ten” lists detailing everything from Energy Trends to Robo-Futures.

In THE EXTREME FUTURE, Dr. James Canton predicts that:

• The high cost of oil will force the West to invent new alternatives to oil and lead to depressed OPEC economies, leading to more terrorism against the West

• Radical life extension will create a two-class global society of those who live over 150 years and of those who cannot afford to

• The Internet will develop an awareness of itself and its own personality and rebel against human controls

• Human cloning will become the ultimate in identity theft

• A nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India is more likely then not

• Copy-cat products from Asia—from drugs to auto parts—will perform better then the original branded products they’re based on

• Radical life extension will reshape entire markets and society

• The new global Innovation Economy will deliver widespread prosperity and wealth

Colorful, cute, creative and useless

Protesters on the Web and in the streets might believe they are making changes, but they’d be wrong.

(Hello, worthless: For all of their viral videos, chain emails, outlandish performances and guerrilla visual marketing campaigns, the new generation of dissenters have little to brag about. Photo: 2004 Democratic National Convention protesters, by Mark Baard)

from Mark:

The Denver Post, citing their “funky fusion of protest, performance and pompoms,” suggests that protesters are changing their tactics for the YouTube generation. (See excerpt and link, below.) But when young protesters hit the Democratic Convention this summer, they will be corralled into the same caged protest zone I saw at the 2004 in Boston.

And the devastating impacts to Americans of the so-called War on Terror, failing banks and foreclosures, and the emerging police state have never been worse.

Indeed, the mass protests that elsewhere and at other times have forced governments to reverse their unpopular decisions, are completely absent from the American scene. Instead, food riots

That is because, as secret societies historian Alan Watt often notes in his radio programs and audio blurbs, governments and corporations generate apathy as often as they use terror to control the masses.

New generation plans dissent – The Denver Post
A nude-in with bare bodies arranged to spell “PEACE,” traffic- stopping bike blockades, music with a message. Civil disobedience, direct confrontation, radical cheerleading.

That funky fusion of protest, performance and pompoms.

The new generation of activists, and the daisy-in-the-rifle protesters who birthed them, is busy with creative ferment, organizing public dissent for the Democratic National Convention here in August. They are motivated by the desire to create social change with people power, not political power, frustrated by a mounting list of problems, from the housing crisis to soaring prices for gas and food.

Running against the reptilians

The candidate: David Icke is standing for a parliamentary seat. Photo: Jack Cutting

(Update: Steve, in his excellent comments, below, says I mischaracterized David Icke’s spiritual views in this post. In short, Icke believes that he is a Son of God, not “the” Son, a state he shares with any other human being. — mb)

from Mark:

Red Ice this week made international news of David Icke’s anti-Big Brother campaign for British Parliament.

Icke, the former sportscaster, footballer and a Son of Godreincarnation of Jesus Christ (so he says), does not want the job, actually.

Rather, he seeks to call attention to Britain’s alarming cascade into a full-blown police state.

As the Palmgren brothers note at Red Ice, The Times of London, a Rupert Murdoch paper (that I’ve written for), mocked Icke’s announcement, noting the conspiracy researcher’s assertion that the Royal family and other world leaders are members of a reptilian master race.

The Times lists Icke alongside a beauty queen and the gag candidate, Mad Cow-Girl, as the candidates for the available seat.

David Icke’s Media Conference In ‘Big Brother’ By-Election Update (Video) In case you’ve missed it, David Icke will stand under the title ‘Big Brother – The Big Picture’ with David Davis in the upcoming parliamentary by-election in Haltemprice and Howden. Listen to our radio program from July 1st with David Icke to get the background. The following video is the presentation David Icke gave at the press conference July 2nd:[googlevideo=http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-972704915352925347]

Bush, Obama, Cheney, Ramses: All in the family

(Blood is thicker than water. Photos: Ramses, right, by Jimmy Smith; President George W. Bush, courtesy of the White House)

from Mark:

I’ve listened to enough patriot radio, and done enough Googling, to know that America’s leading politicians and personalities are related (see link, excerpt, below).

Still, I was struck by this recent statement by the far-out occult conspiracy researcher and broadcaster Freeman: “George W. Bush is a direct descendant of Ramses (one of the ancient Egyptian kings).

This is an important assertion for students of the reptilian/ET agenda. It is also, I imagine, impossible to prove.

I do not know a thing about family trees, so I cannot tell you whether this one from David Icke is accurate…

But I am astonished at how the mainstream media uses firm evidence of elite inbreeding, where it exists, to mock conspiracists and to claim, perversely, that it somehow proves politicians serve very different masters.

FactCheck.org: Are Barack Obama and Dick Cheney cousins?
Obama’s other relatives, by the way, include George W. Bush, who, according to the Sun-Times, is his 11th cousin. They share the same great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, a 17th-century Massachusetts couple named Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole Hinckley. And Harry S. Truman was Obama’s fourth cousin four times removed, the paper says. The New York Post, using ancestry.com, reported that Brad Pitt and Obama are ninth cousins. Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga told the BBC that his maternal uncle was Obama’s father, making them first cousins (we think).

We wouldn’t make too much of this, though. After all, according to at least some researchers, a common ancestor for all humans now alive may have existed just several thousand years ago. That means you, dear reader, could have a cousinly relationship that may not go all that far back to everyone from Jack Kevorkian to Tina Fey to Hugo Chavez to the woman selling trinkets from a piece of cardboard on a Bangalore street corner.

Second Life | The Second Life® Brand Center

Ding!

I’d read that Second Life developer Linden Lab was prohibiting the press from using its logos, and thought that was ridiculous.

Behold:

Second Life | The Second Life® Brand Center
Guidelines for Press Use of the Second Life Hand Logo

(These are excerpts–mb)

Never use a Second Life Hand Logo (or any part or version of one):

in any name or logo of a business, news program, or publication, including any website or blog, in a header or banner of a website or blog (so far so good, right?–mb) in the title of … without……in any manner…

in any manner that tarnishes the Second Life brand name or the Logo. (My emphasis–mb)

In other words, you may not publish this logo (below), and say it looks evil.

A look at the Salk Institute campus

I am curious about the symbology of The Salk Institute campus in La Jolla, Calif. (images from the Salk website and we-make-money-not-art), designed by architect Louis Kahn.

Laboratory buildings at the campus are split by a watercourse channel.

Kahn’s first major commission was for the Yale University Art Gallery.


“Kahn produced buildings which were as monumental and as spiritually inspiring as the ancient ruins of Greece and Egypt,” according to the Design Museum of London. “Kahn devoted his career to the uncompromising pursuit of formal perfection and emotional expression.”

Image of the day – we make money not art
Was taken last week at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies at La Jolla, California which Kati London and I visited courtesy of Lev Manovich and Jeremy Douglass. The institute was built by architect Louis Kahn as two symmetric concrete buildings with a thin stream of water flowing in the middle of a courtyard that separates the two. Too bad my images dont do justice to this amazing building.

And let's not forget Bohemian Grove

Red Ice Creations reminds us of gold ole’ WFB’s many club memberships (link and excerpt, below).–mb
clipped from redicecreations.com

Knights of Malta, CFR and Bilderberg Group Member William F Buckley Jr. Dies at 82
Ed comment: Worth noting is that William F. Buckley Jr. was a Knights of Malta and a member of Council on Foreign Relations, he was also a Bilderberg Group attendee, as detailed by nndb.com.