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Murder By Joystick!
by Zen Gardner
Does anyone even notice? Does anyone even care anymore? Is the world so callous they can't even see, feel or think? Are western "leaders" so power drunk they've taken to virtually shooting fish in a barrel for fun and profit?
Looks that way to me.
US drone terror bombing of Somalia combined with US instigated invasion by Somalia's neighbors like Kenya and Ethiopia create more death and destruction than the famine.
Seventy-nine more people have been killed in US assassination drone attacks in southern Somalia, bringing the death toll to 146 over the past two days, Press TV reported. The US military launched terror drone attacks on Bilis Qooqaani town, which is located 448 kilometers (278 miles) southwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu, on Friday. At least 79 people were killed and several others were injured in the strikes
November 18th 2011
Modern Warfare 3: Combat simulator video game is latest installment of military propaganda for kids
In the past few years since the Western occupation of the Middle East began, we have seen a barrage of military propaganda infect every corner of American culture. From print media to movies and television, our culture is becoming inundated with pro-war propaganda.
Children are one of the primary targets for this propaganda, mainly through the use of “combat simulator” video games.
Combat simulators are commonplace at the top of the sales charts, and oftentimes bring in more money than big Hollywood blockbusters. These video games glorify the military and have helped the rest of the media to desensitize a whole generation to the horrors of war. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is no exception
November 10th 2011
Sit back and relax: Watch a 3-D film of the brain as it loses consciousness
For the first time researchers have watched the brain as it loses consciousness.
A new imaging method constructs a 3-D movie of the brain as it changes while an anaesthetic drug takes effect.
The real-time 3-D images show that slipping into unconsciousness involves a change in electrical activity deep within the brain, scientists said.
The shift is thought to alter the activity of certain groups of nerve cells and hinders communication between different parts of the brain.
Lead researcher Brian Pollard, of the University of Manchester, said the findings appear to support a hypothesis put forward by Professor Susan Greenfield, of Oxford University, about the nature of consciousness itself.
Professor Greenfield suggests consciousness is formed by different groups of brain cells, which work efficiently together, or not, depending on the available sensory stimulations, and that consciousness is not an all-or-none state but more like a dimmer switch, changing according to growth, mood or drugs.
June 16th 2011
 A pill to enhance moral behaviour, a treatment for racist thoughts, a therapy to increase your empathy for people in other countries — these may sound like the stuff of science fiction but with medicine getting closer to altering our moral state, society should be preparing for the consequences, according to a book that reviews scientific developments in the field. Drugs such as Prozac that alter a patient’s mental state already have an impact on moral behaviour, but scientists predict that future medical advances may allow much more sophisticated manipulations.
The field is in its infancy, but “it’s very far from being science fiction”, said Dr Guy Kahane, deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and a Wellcome Trust biomedical ethics award winner.
April 25th 2011
Coming SoonFrom the Air Force: Mind-Reading Drones
 Scientifically speaking, it’s only a matter of time before drones become self-aware and kill us all. Now the Air Force is hastening that day of reckoning.
Buried within a seemingly innocuous list of recentAir Force contract awards to small businesses are details of plans for robot planes that not only think, but anticipate the moves of human pilots. And you thought it was just the Navy that was bringing us to the brink of the drone apocalypse.
It all starts with a solution for a legitimate problem. It’s dangerous to fly and land drones at busy terminals. Manned airplanes can collide with drones, which may not be able to make quick course adjustments based on information from air traffic control as swiftly as a human pilot can. And getting air traffic control involved in the drones cuts against the desire for truly autonomous aircraft. What to do?
The answer: Design an algorithm that reads people’s minds. Or the next best thing — anticipates a pilot’s reaction to a drone flying too close.
Enter Soar Technology, a Michigan company that proposes to create something it calls “Explanation, Schemas, and Prediction for Recognition of Intent in the Terminal Area of Operations,” or ESPRIT. It’ll create a “Schema Engine” that uses “memory management, pattern matching, and goal-based reasoning” to infer the intentions of nearby aircraft.
April 22th 2011
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
This video was originally created to be part of an art exhibit for Exposed the Art Project http://www.exposedtheartproject.org , a multimedia collaboration raising awareness of social issues. The group decided that the message in the Deliberate Dumbing Down of America shouldn't be put on hold. So here it is. The other artists of Exposed the Art Project are: painters Barry Gross and Viktor Safonkin, and photographers Adela Holmes and Presscott McDonald. We picked four themes for our premier—Social Commentary, Spirituality, Metamorphosis and Time and Chance. This is my contribution for Social Commentary
March 30th 2011|
Truth, Propaganda and Media Manipulation
 Never before has it been so important to have independent, honest voices and sources of information. We are – as a society – inundated and overwhelmed with a flood of information from a wide array of sources, but these sources of information, by and large, serve the powerful interests and individuals that own them. The main sources of information, for both public and official consumption, include the mainstream media, alternative media, academia and think tanks.
The mainstream media is the most obvious in its inherent bias and manipulation. The mainstream media is owned directly by large multinational corporations, and through their boards of directors are connected with a plethora of other major global corporations and elite interests. An example of these connections can be seen through the board of Time Warner.
Time Warner owns Time Magazine, HBO, Warner Bros., and CNN, among many others. The board of directors includes individuals past or presently affiliated with: the Council on Foreign Relations, the IMF, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Warburg Pincus, Phillip Morris, and AMR Corporation, among many others.
Two of the most “esteemed” sources of news in the U.S. are the New York Times (referred to as “the paper of record”) and the Washington Post. The New York Times has on its board people who are past or presently affiliated with: Schering-Plough International (pharmaceuticals), the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chevron Corporation, Wesco Financial Corporation, Kohlberg & Company, The Charles Schwab Corporation, eBay Inc., Xerox, IBM, Ford Motor Company, Eli Lilly & Company, among others. Hardly a bastion of impartiality.
March 25th 2011|
Mind Clicks- US army's VIP 'brainwash Psy-Op' exposes Pentagon's growing grip or Coup d'état
March 2th 2011|
David Icke - Mind Revolution, Humanities Prison
February 15h 2011
Nuge, nudge, wink wink... How the Government wants to change the way we think
 Shame, vanity, laziness and the desire to fit in are all to be used as tools of Government policy by ministers acting on the advice of a new psychology unit in Whitehall.
The first glimpse into the confidential work of the Cabinet Office's Behavioural Insight Team came on Tuesday when ministers suggested members of the public should be able to make small charitable donations when using cashpoints and their credit cards.
On Friday, the Cabinet Office again followed the unit's advice in proposing that learner drivers be opted in to an organ donation scheme when they apply for a licence, and also floated the idea of creating a lottery to encourage people to take tests to prove they have quit smoking.
These initiatives are examples of the application of mental techniques which, while seemingly paradoxical to the Coalition's goal of a smaller state, are likely to become a common feature of Government policy.
January 13th 2011
DAVID ICKE - Mind control and other topics
December 21th 2010
How To Brainwash A Nation
December 8th 2010
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