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Boston: Nuke target and breakaway state capital

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In a bizarre piece of uncredited fiction at the Telegraph, the U.S. becomes a fascist police state, and Boston is targeted by a “false flag” terrorist attack set-up by the federal government.

I guess I should be glad I got my speeding ticket yesterday (on the Jamaicaway, and what a whopper it was).

Next time, the police might be permitted to open fire on any suspicious vehicle…

Cryptogon’s covering Operation Blackjack, and notes the striking use of symbology in the online comic:

Remember the Kingstar (controlled demolition company) van near the exploded bus on the 7/7 London bomings? That’s what came to mind for me.

Also, the ‘fictitious’ attack occurs during the Summer solstice. What’s the name on the side of the van? New Dawn Presentations. And its logo? That’s right, the Sun.

One other thing: All the cool kids know that the Illuminati are fascinated with Ferris wheels near bodies of water. (Look, don’t blame me, I just work here.)

via cryptogon.com » Archives » Operation Blackjack: The Story of Terrorist Nuclear Attacks on Major Western Cities.

No Picnic: Marketers plan for the future

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Photo: A different kind of picnic in Amsterdam. CC Mark van Woudenberg (http://flickr.com/people/mindcaster-ezzolicious/)

The speeches by leading futurists, celebrities like Sir Richard Branson, the yoga classes with Woody Harrelson: Picnic in Amsterdam is a great big party for the global technorati.

Futurist speaker Adam Greenfield at the conference next month will address the loss of privacy and independent thought caused by ubiquitous computing devices.

In an interview at the Picnic website, Greenfield describes how a mobile device might present you with map, minus a route through a bad neighborhood. In other words, it has already done some of your thinking for you.

Greenfield, a former PSYOP sergeant in the US Army’s Special Operations Command, is now head of design direction at Nokia.

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Live long and prosper? We might do neither

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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

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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More information:

Red Ice Creations special report

Alan Watt’s Cutting Through the Matrix

Think tank: depopulation, brain-chipping on the horizon

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One of the lucky ones, according to futurists.

An organization headed by a former World Bank president the author of “Future Shock” predicts a dismal future for Americans.

24 million disabled Americans, most suffering from diseases caused by excess consumption, will require special public transportation to go to treatment centers, according to the World Future Society.

The WFS, whose directors include former World Bank president and U.S Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, and the futurist author Alvin Toffler, also predicts that the able-bodied will flee to other parts of the world, such as China and India, for work.

And healthy or not, young or old, most can look forward to being brain-chipped, and connected permanently to a global computer network, according to the WFS.

The WFS portrays the brain-chipping scenario as one of the few pluses on its list.

More of the WFS’s grim forecasts for the next 25 years: China’s drinking water supply will be virtually depleted, and global warming-generated super storms will cost hundreds of billions of dollars in damages annually.

Link and excerpt, to some of the predictions, are below.

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Forecast #1: Generation Y will migrate heavily overseas.
#2: Dwindling supplies of water in China will impact the global economy.
#3: Workers will increasingly choose more time over more money.
#4: We’ll incorporate wireless technology into our thought processing by 2030.
#5: Children’s “nature deficit disorder” will grow as a health threat.

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.

Minicast: Alan Watt on "the New Normal"

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It’s normal, now

Propagandists working for the major foundations and think tanks are crafting “the New Normal” for climate changes, brain chipping and other technologies, says Alan Watt, in a recent audio blurb at Cutting Through the Matrix (see links, below).

The audio: [audio http://clickcaster.com/resource/audio/minicast--alan-watt-on--the-new-normal.mp3]

Every book, blog and seminar that includes “the New Normal” in its title is about getting rich within “the new paradigm.” So, it is refreshing to hear someone questioning the validity of “the New Normal” itself.

Also, as a science and technology reporter, I was struck by Watt’s observation that authors are typically told what to write about by their bosses (rather than authors bringing the truth up to their editors, for example). From my own personal experience, that is how it often works in the mainstream media.Song credit: “Over the Wall,” from the soundtrack to “Escape from New York,” by John Carpenter.

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April 13, 2007 Alan Watt �����Blurb (i.e. Educational Talk)
“Pathocrats’ Conspiracy AGENDA for Upcoming Generation” (from Ministry of Defence)”
(Song Credits: “Habla Me” by Gypsy Kings)
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April 12, 2007 Alan Watt �����Blurb (i.e. Educational Talk)
“Normalizing Changes, Apathy Creation and the EU”
(Song Credits: “The Trouble With Normal” by Bruce Cockburn)
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Brain-chipped mobs a military threat

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Just following orders: Brazilian flash mob

The British Ministry of Defense describes its new report on future strategic threats as “probability-based, rather than predictive.” The two sound the same to me. It’s the Brits’ best guess at what the future holds.

The predictions also jibe with Alan Watt‘s predictions for widespread human brain-chipping, which the MoD expects by 2035.

The MoD report refers to masses of brain-chipped humans–mobilized by governments or gangsters–as “flashmobs.”

Today, flash mobs, such as those organized in 2003 by alternate reality games “queen bee” Jane McGonigal, seem harmless enough. Flash mobbers in major cities use cell phones and the internet to meet in the street, where they flash disconcerting, Nazi-like salutes (see the Brazilian flash mob, above) and have pillow fights.

But what will it take to replace those pillows with clubs? Perhaps not much, given the right signal to a brain chip, or even a cell phone.

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Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future
Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx’s proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe’s drops as fertility falls. “Flashmobs” – groups rapidly mobilised by criminal gangs or terrorists groups.This is the world in 30 years’ time envisaged by a Ministry of Defence team responsible for painting a picture of the “future strategic context” likely to face Britain’s armed forces. It includes an “analysis of the key risks and shocks”.

Sony's alternate reality, "Home"

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Got this today from one of my journalism students:”A buddy of mine back home showed me a demo of this over Easter. It reminded me immediately of second life (video and link, below), but with very distinct and interesting differences.”

Atari also is working on its own virtual/alternate reality.

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