Expanding on yesterdays’ post about Singularity technology and dogma, today I found an interesting post about virtual reality and the ‘uploading’ of human consciousness into computer software, an advanced form of ‘Second Life’ or ‘World of Warcraft’ if you will. So my question to the ether is, “Is this part of the NWO plan to put humanity into a ‘Matrix’ type reality to keep us happily enslaved?”

Virtual worlders, led by a so-called “convergenist” from the National Science Foundation, met this week to discuss one of their plans for humankind: capturing individual personalities onto computers, and transmitting them into other worlds.

Rather than meeting in the real world, attendees at the Convergence of the Real and the Virtual conference brought their swords and leopards, and their idealized bodies (big muscles, big boobs) to a space in World of Warcraft, an online massively multiplayer online role playing game, or MMORPG.

The NSF sociologist who organized the WoW scientific meeting, William Sims Bainbridge [sic}, has taken the form of a “level 65 (out of 70) blood elf priest” in the game, which claims more than nine million players.

Part of Bainbridge’s job, as director of the NSF’s Human-Centered Computing Cluster, is to direct young researchers into areas of “future research,” including “immersive and multi-sensory technologies, and direct brain-computer interfaces.”

For the WoW meeting, Bainbridge described how human consciousnesses might be uploaded to virtual worlds (at least in Battlestar Galactica, they call it “downloading”).

Although I have called myself a transhumanist in the past, the idea of ‘uploading’ my consciousness into an artificial world gives me a queasy feeling. Is that an old fashioned affectation on my part, a hold-over from my upbringing and a biological bias? It could be, but the author of this post points out something else, control of the masses as put forward by William Sims Bainbridge:

If World of Warcraft is fundamentally subversive, Second Life is utopian. In principle, except for the land sold and taxed by Linden Lab, this virtual world is entirely created by its residents. Some rules have crept in over time, such as bans on child pornography, gambling casinos, and most recently unregistered financial institutions. Said to have been inspired by the imaginary Metaverse in Neal Stephenson’s cyberpunk novel, Snow Crash, like World of Warcraft it is tied to a west-coast American counterculture, but it seeks to empower ordinary people more than to critique the elite.

The logical extension of these principles would be full cultural and legal independence, in which virtual worlds seceded from the (perhaps) dysfunctional nations of the mundane world. Already, social theorists have contemplated non-spatial government that represents the interests of online communities that are not limited to any particular patch of dirt. My own research has turned up many indications that the subculture to which virtual worlds belong has departed from conventional culture in many ways. Notably, participants are much less likely to be guided by religious belief, and more likely to prefer the suspension of disbelief associated with science fiction and fantasy. So, we can expect that virtual worlds will prototype many social innovations that might then diffuse to offline governance, while often preaching sedition. The question then becomes how much this revolution is real, rather than virtual.

“How much of this revolution is real, rather than virtual.” Well, I don’t know. The NWO brooks no dissention, so I have to believe that in order for the control mechanism to work and to have willing slaves, the outlet for sedition has to remain in the virtual ‘Matrix’ world. So the VR template has to be as ‘real’ as possible in order to fool the human brain. The slave masses in ‘The Matrix’ trilogy had no idea their universe was generated by an artificial intelligence, so it would at least have to be of that quality or greater.

In this instance I have to break with the movies and propose that the NWO super-computers would have to go another route other than sucking the life out of their slaves to power their machines, there are more efficient ways for that. I’m going to note something that caught my eye yesterday that might tie in real nicely with the NWO/Matrix and part of the control mechanism that could be utilized:

The future isn’t all rosy. Increasing pollution, overpopulation, poverty, and climate change – society’s impact on the earth is reaching a breaking point. And while we may work to slow the onset of these catastrophes, reversing them is no longer an option. The question becomes, how do we live with the troubles we’ve already caused?

What if we used technology to not only combat this dangerous new environment – but also to escape from it? We already use mobile devices to provide on-demand escapism, channeling movies, music, and other distractions. Increased processing power and emerging technologies will enable holistic computing systems to be stored in wearable devices, providing a more immersive personal media experience. In a troubling future, these augmented reality devices would offer a new dimension - a virtual layer that could be used to “re-skin” the troubling outside world. A boundary between the wearer and the world around him, the device would become a sort of visual drug, used to make the world appear a better place – even if just for a moment.

Re-skin reality? Just what the NWO sociologists ordered! Better than that ol’ time religion, bring on that Singularity tech!

Okay, so my imagination’s running rampant here. Taken by themselves, these inventions and events might not amount to much. But better minds than mine are connecting the same dots.

It seems we keep swallowing the red pills instead of the blue ones the NWO keep pushing.

Sociologists want your brain in cyberspace

Virtual Nations

frogConcept: A Digital Escape

Special tips sur le chapeau pour  Red Ice Creations and Posthuman Blues. Surely better dot connectors than I.

Noted Singularity advocate Michael Anissimov sez singularity supporters are unfairly being treated the same as religious rapture fundies:

The comparison between the singularity and religious rapture is an unfair smear. As Steven says,

But that image of a shared psychological flaw is itself so seductive that it has distorted people’s view of what the singularity is about into a kind of geek-bible-wielding strawman — singularitarian ideas are assumed to parallel fundamentalist Christian ideas even where they don’t, just because the comparison is apparently so much fun. “Oh, look at those silly nerds, aping the awful fundies without even knowing it!”

People who compare discussion about the possibly huge impact of emerging technologies to that of religious delusion are themselves falling victim to a seductive and oversimplified view of the reality. The press release pretends to be objective, but it’s completely not. Casually tossing off phrases like “singularity dogma” are just perpetuating this seductive but incorrect interpretation.

The ‘Steven’ Anissimov refers to wrote a blog post last year denouncing the comparison. Now after studying the Singularity and its possible affects for a couple of years (mainly because I have a vested interest in staying alive) I can see what Anissimov and Steven are railing against. So far from what I have read on Anissimov’s blog, he is pretty interested in Aubrey Degrey’s Methuselah Foundation. I am too, because of my previous statement, but Degrey not only studies the technical aspects of life extention, his foundation has occult connections as well. That’s a discussion for another day though.

As Anissimov notes, life extention and increased intelligence/mind uploading are two different things (actually three), so lumping the two/three together into ‘Singularity’ subjects isn’t right, thus the term is irrelevant:

This press release insults all life extension advocates, confusing them with singularity advocates. For instance, the Methuselah Foundation, with over $10 million in funding, practices “death avoidance” — or what some might call “recognition of the horror of physical and mental deterioration prior to an unwanted death”. But the Methuselah Foundation and numerous “death avoiders” have little connection to discussions of the singularity, which focuses on the possibility of greater-than-human intelligence. Having a high IQ and living a long time are two different things. One contributer seems to be going after mind uploading.

Fair enough, but tell that to Ray Kurzweil. He is the main reason why people lump the Singularity in with Rapture Theology. He is the High Priest of the Singularity so to speak. If his book “The Age of Spiritual Machines” isn’t a Bible of technological/theological beliefs, I don’t know what is.

As far as his blog post goes, he doesn’t mention Kurzweil even once. Maybe for the above reasons. If he has in the past, I’m sure I’ll be corrected and that would be fair.

But to complain that certain aspects of a possible technological Singularity is unfairly being compared to religion is also unfair. Especially if one of its main apostles attaches religious connotation to it.

Like it or not, the Singularity has dogma all over it.

Special Report on the Singularity by IEEE Spectrum

Wow, does life imitate art or what?:

Cyberdyne Incorporated is building a real life Iron Man suit named HAL.  No, this isn’t the ultimate in crossover fan-fiction - it’s an actual factual product. You might expect to wait ten years for such technology, but Cyberdyne Inc. is aiming to start production in October.  Yes, THIS October.  Start saving.

The suit in Iron Man is built by Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey Jr.), a brilliant engineer who has made billions from building weapons. Kidnapped in Afghanistan, he questions his life, and resolves to put his genius to better use: to protecting rather than destroying by building himself a suit of armor that gives him superhuman powers.

The HAL real-world suit is based on the research of Professor Sankai’s laboratory at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.  The HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) is designed to enhance the abilities of the wearer without restricting their range of motion, a set of sensors and motors at each joint multiplying the user’s strength.  And like Tony Stark himself, they appreciate that sophisticated systems require sleek styling to sell - with white shelled sections topped with blue-LED rings at each motor, this couldn’t be designed to look more modern without spontaneously jumping into the future.

It has been said by Singularity advocates like Ray Kurzweil that disabled people will be the first true transhumans. Devices such as this HAL exo-skeleton will enable spinal cord, or nervous system damaged individuals to enjoy total mobility once again.

The Paralyzed Veterans of America organization should pay attention to this.

Real-World ‘Iron Man’ Suit Foreshadows Future of Artificial Intelligence

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Once again, the Anthropic Principle is under the gun:

Many people marvel that we live in a universe that seems to be precisely tailored to suit the development of intelligent life. The observation is the basis for some forms of “Anthropic Principles” that strive to explain why the laws of physics take the form we observe, given the nearly countless other possibilities permitted by schools of thought such as string theory…

…But a new paper in Physical Review Letters from a group of physicists at Case Western Reserve University argues that any connection between the laws of physics and the existence of life is likely to be an illusion stemming from our shortsighted definition of intelligent life.

For the sake of their analysis, the authors define intelligent life as any organism capable of producing scientists who can observe the universe around them. They then consider three types of universes: those that don’t lead to scientists, those that lead to scientists who are completely different from us, and those that lead to scientists who need the same physical laws to survive that we require.

I think the statement “…those that don’t lead to scientists, those that lead to scientists who are completely different from us, and those that lead to scientists who need the same physical laws to survive that we require…” is funnier than hell.

Anthropic scientists; “…get thee behind me…!”

Priceless! LOL!

A Critique of Shortsighted Anthropic Principles
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Paul Gilster of Centauri Dreams posts an intelligent essay about a realistic possibility of the invention of a ‘warp drive’:

Mention the term ‘warp drive’ and the name Miguel Alcubierre immediately comes to mind. But it was only recently that the Mexican physicist’s connection to the idea arose. His 1994 paper, written while he was at the University of Wales, took what had been a science fiction concept (most famously, I suppose, in Star Trek) and extended it into the realm of serious science. Not that Alcubierre put forth a realistic proposal for building a starship that could travel faster than light. What he was doing was the essential first step in such study, trying to demonstrate that FTL travel times could be achieved within the context of General Relativity.

You would think that flying to Alpha Centauri in, say, a few days would be a gross violation of Einstein’s laws, but this may not be the case. What Alcubierre proposed was that warp drive could function not by acceleration through space, but by the acceleration of space itself. Interestingly, while there is a seemingly iron-clad prohibition against superluminal movement through space, the movement of spacetime itself is not restricted. A warp drive could theoretically expand spacetime behind the ship while contracting it in front, allowing the vehicle to reach its destination far faster than the speed of light limitation would otherwise allow. Space itself moves around the craft while vehicle and crew remain motionless within a bubble of transient spacetime.

This is going to be an ongoing debate until someone actually builds this thing. Mainstream physicists are loath to mention an inkling that Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity can be used this way.

I think to admit so would give the UFO community credibility in that if we could possibly build a device that would enable interstellar flight, other more advanced cultures already have and might currently be here observing us.

This is my opinion, not Gilster’s. But he says to take the possibility of FTL seriously.

Warp Drive: A Cottage Industry Emerges

Ahh, the smell of cherry blossoms in the air, traffic on the Beltway lessens as Congress takes their ‘break’ and the stench of elitists roll into town to attend a conference that doesn’t ‘exist’:

A Dutch newspaper is reporting that Holland’s Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Verhagen are set to attend the annual Bilderberg conference in Washington DC from June 5-8, apparently confirming that a recent alleged Bilderberg meeting in Athens Greece was merely a ruse.

As we reported on Tuesday, a Greek newspaper claimed that Bilderberg had met in Athens last weekend, but Bilderberg sleuths Jim Tucker and Daniel Estulin, both of whom have always successfully determined the location of the Bilderberg meeting in advance for decades, questioned the accuracy of the report.

Bilderberg occasionally attempts to throw investigative journalists off the scent by having a mock steering meeting in advance of the actual meeting, diverting attention away from the location where their undemocratic scheming will take place…

…On June 5 they received at the White House by President Bush. The Government has indicated that Friday.

Topics at the meeting with Bush would include the international political situation, including developments in Afghanistan, and economic cooperation between the United States and the Netherlands.

It seems that Bu$hco has to give a full report directly to his masters this year. I thought it was against the law for public officials to attend meetings like this? LOL! Guess what, corporations and privately funded groups are the government people! Wake up and get over it! This whole democracy idea has been undermined for decades, the moment the Federal Reserve was formed!

Kudos once again to Jim Tucker and Daniel Estulin. These brave people risk their lives every year to expose the elites and get at the truth.

Dutch Newspaper: Bilderberg To Meet In Washington June 5-8

Don Herbert (1917-2007) was a pioneer in the television medium after serving in World War II. His show Watch Mr. Wizard started airing on NBC in 1951 and ran for 15 years. His experiments looked a little impossible at first, but he always used a young person to assist him and they usually worked utilizing everyday household items. Herbert won a Peabody Award for the show in 1953.

Again Herbert used the same formula to educate another generation of young people during the 1980s using the nascent cable TV medium. Mr. Wizard’s World ran on cable’s Nickelodeon Network for 8 seasons and ran for another 10 with reruns. My own daughters grew up watching it, mainly with my insistence.

Video clips for both series are hard to find, but I did manage to scrape up a couple of shorts. I’ll list some links that’ll take readers to sources if they want to further research Don Herbert’s career.

I’m certain some of my readers of both generations were influenced by Herbert’s life.

Watch Mr. Wizard

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Mr. Wizard’s World

Watch Mr. Wizard, MBC Archive

Archive of American Television Interview with Don Herbert (2005)

Don Herbert biography on Wikipedia

This week’s Carnival Of Space is hosted by Altair VI, a blog I don’t read enough of:

I’m glad that Paul Gilster at Centauri Dreams nominated his “Rethinking Galactic Empire”post for this week’s Carnival, because it was the most mind-expanding blog post I read all week. Will we outgrow our visions of interstellar expansion when we go post-biological? As Paul reported, astronomer and SETI philosopher Milan Cirkovic thinks that it’s possible, and that it might help to resolve the Fermi Paradox.Catholic Sensibility offered up “Brown Sugar Astronomy”, a yummy educational demo on the density and structure of Solar System objects. Reminds me that I need to come up with a dessert for Samantha’s preschool open house on Friday. Rob Simpson at Orbiting Frog is also playing with sugary foods in the interest of science education. Have a bite of his clever “Measure the Speed of Light Using Your Microwave” demo.Bad Astronomy debunked UFOsthis past week, and Charles Lintott summed up his anxiety about the future of spaceflight using astronauts. A Babe in the Universe looked at the “Science of Iron Man” and concluded that there might actually be some. Space Cynicssuffered the psychic pain of seeing a hero knocked from his pedestal, and Out of the Cradle looked at novel forms of lunar recreation. Starts with a Bang considered the best way to deflect asteroids, while Mang’s Bat Page proposed the Great Astronomers Badge Swap. And, AstroEngine shared some nifty video of dynamic coronal loops from the STEREO mission.

Paul Gilster’s post is a most intriguing one. George Dyvorsky of Sentient Developments has posited this theory many times on his blog. It’s one that bears further investigation as we rush head-long into our own ‘Technological Singularity’.

Carnival Of Space #54

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Cory Doctorow of Little Brother fame takes a few pokes at ‘Big Brother’ this week:

If you’re pissed off that BT and other ISPs are using software like Phorm to track your browsing habits, you could try out AntiPhormLite, an app that generates a never-ending string of spyware radar-chaff, running a second browser that continuously, plausibly browses the web, screwing up your profile and confounding the snoops. They’ve posted the full source for audit as well…

…AntiPhormLite runs independently and silently in the background of your PC. It connects to the web and intelligently simulates natural surfing behavior across thousands of customizable topics. This creates a background noise of false information disguising and inverting your own interests. We believe our technology is indistinguishable from that of a typical user engaging the internet. To support this claim we have introduced a preview mode that works with any of your preferred browsers, and together with a detailed reporting system and a host of custom options each AntiPhormLite will appear unique.

Good suggestion. Thanks Cory!

And here’s a suggestion if you do a lot of international travel and you want to keep the snoops out of your business:

Encrypting your entire hard drive, something you should certainly do for security in case your computer is lost or stolen, won’t work here. The border agent is likely to start this whole process with a “please type in your password”. Of course you can refuse, but the agent can search you further, detain you longer, refuse you entry into the country and otherwise ruin your day.

You’re going to have to hide your data. Set a portion of your hard drive to be encrypted with a different key - even if you also encrypt your entire hard drive - and keep your sensitive data there. Lots of programs allow you to do this. I use PGP Disk (from pgp.com). TrueCrypt (truecrypt.org) is also good, and free.

Sound advice all the way around!

AntiPhormLite confounds BT’s spyware by simulating random browsing

HOWTO keep your laptop’s data out of customs’ hands

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With the advent of the next ‘Indiana Jones’ movie being released to the theaters on May 22nd, the theory about the ‘real’ Mayan crystal skulls has been viral in the mainstream and ‘Tubes media recently:

There is a legend that the ancient Maya possessed 13 crystal skulls which, when united, hold the power of saving the Earth — a tale so strange and fantastic that it inspired the latest Indiana Jones movie.

Experts dismiss the hundreds of existing crystal skulls as fakes that were probably made by colorful antiquities traders in the 19th century. But Mayan priests worship the skulls, even today, and real-life skull hunters still search for them.

The true story of the skulls stretches over continents and hundreds of years, and may be even more extraordinary than the tale portrayed in this fourth installment of the Harrison Ford franchise.

It’s unclear what version of the tale will appear in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” which opens in U.S. theaters on May 22.

 

 

I’m a huge fan of the Indiana Jones franchise and I’m intrigued how an ‘aging’ Harrison Ford (he’s 65 years young) portrayed the character during the Cold War period.

Somehow though, I feel the Crystal Skulls would’ve fit better during the present period of time, given the proximity of the year 2012. I wonder how the writers (or likely George Lucas) justified using the Skulls during the 1950s?

I guess I’ll have to take in the matinee!

Real-life skull worship inspires new ‘Indiana Jones’ film

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In the para-political world I inhabit at times, the Vatican is often portrayed as an instrument of evil, a purveyor of anti-Christian (especially Protestant) ideals and a backer of world tyrants. I’m not so extreme in my views, but the Church does have a track record of controlling rulers of governments in the past, enriching themselves at the expense of the masses they profess to represent and adhere to a policy of extreme secrecy. But I digress.

So it comes as no surprise this past week as the Vatican embraces ‘our Extra-Terrestrial Brethren’:

In the Vatican newspaper piece, titled “The Extraterrestrial Is My Brother,” the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes said the expansiveness of the universe means there could be life on planets other than Earth.

“In my opinion this possibility exists,” Funes, the director of the Vatican Observatory, told L’Osservatore Romano. “Astronomers believe the universe is made up of 100 billion galaxies, each of which consists of 100 billion stars. … Life forms could exist in theory even without oxygen or hydrogen.”

Funes said that there might even be other intelligent life out there, but believing in its existence doesn’t pose a problem for those of the Catholic faith.

“It is possible. So far we have no proof. But certainly in a universe so big we can not exclude this hypothesis,” he told the paper.

“As there is a multiplicity of creatures on earth, so there may be other beings, intelligent, created by God. This does not conflict with our faith, because we cannot put limits on the creative freedom of God.”

As you know, I sometimes refer to sites that theorize the Catholic Church (primarily the Jesuits) are already in communication with ETs, demons (Lucifer himself), angels, and other myriad forms of extra-dimensional entities. So it’s no surprise that claims of the Vatican giving this ‘proclaimation’ is just an affirmation of what they already know to be true.

Another theory is that the Vatican along with the main world governments have knowledge of a previous ancient Solar System civilization as posited by Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara and this is a pre-emptive strike to get followers acclimated to the idea of other ‘children of God’.

This is fascinating. I can hardly wait for the outcome!

Vatican: It’s OK for Catholics to Believe in Aliens

 Are Microsoft and Google in a space race? We think they are. Their rivalry is also, we believe, a precursor to the next great post-Internet technology boom: space exploration and development…

… Microsoft just released its new Worldwide Telescope, which will access images from NASA’s great fleet of space-born telescopes and earth-bound observatories such as the future Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, partially funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, which is projected for ‘first light’ in 2014 in Chile’s Atacama Desert -the world’s Southern Hemisphere space-observatory mecca. The 8.4-meter telescope will be able to survey the entire visible sky deeply in multiple colors every week with its 3-billion pixel digital camera. The telescope will probe the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, and it will open a movie-like window on objects that change or move rapidly: exploding supernovae, potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids and distant Kuiper Belt objects.

So far this particular ‘Space Race’ is confined to ground based telescopes using advanced viewing software. I predict in about 10-20 years Google/Microsoft will be conducting virtual reality tours to Solar System planets and moons utilizing more evolved versions.

This could happen faster than actual physical explorations by robots or humans.

Microsoft vs.Google: New Masters of the Universe?

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Times Online UK has this to say about NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander:

…for Nasa, however, the biggest question of all is whether the Phoenix will reach the surface safely.

Its landing system will use descent engines for a controlled touchdown rather than making an airbag-cushioned landing.

This method allows for a larger payload of instruments but is more prone to failure and has seen serious losses. It has not been used successfully on Mars since 1976.

Almost half of the space probes sent to Mars from the past 40 years have failed to reach their targets for one reason or another.

This includes all probes, American, old Soviet, European, etc.

That’s quite a few. And the fact the landing system on Phoenix hasn’t been used since the Viking Landers over thirty years ago doesn’t inspire much confidence in NASA’s skills.

Nasa life-hunter closes in on Mars

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More goodies other than space tours from the Google-Plex:

Google is billing Android as “a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications.” Some may call it Google’s answer to the iPhone, and for a long time it was already billed as “the iPhone killer,” long before the software development kit was released.

The Android is going to be a very open platform, where anyone can affect changes. Whereas before, wireless companies had a large amount of control over the phone and its software, with the introduction of Apple’s iPhone, things have been shook up: Google plan to take that a lot further with Android.

Android’s openness has been put through the wringer over at MIT though, after Massachusetts Industry of Technology professor Hal Abelson asked his computer science student’s one question; what do you want your cell phone to be able to do?

Like the Esso/Exxon ad of the 1960s-1970s, “Put a tiger in your tank”, the ad of the early 21st Century is going to be, “Put an android on your phone”.

The Google-monster might be onto something here. People now are disconnecting from landlines and are using their cellphones exclusively for calls, messaging and ‘Tubes surfing. Especially in countries that had no previous telephone infrastructure, this technology is wide spread. The ‘Android’ will only cement this.

The Google-Plex/Cloud-Hive Mind is coming!

MIT Students Demonstrate Potential Power of Google’s Android for Mobile Phones

Thanx today to The Daily Galaxy

forgetomori posts this:

Brazilian contactee Antonio Alves Ferreira interviewed his alien abductors, Riaus and Telione , when their flying saucer landed. That’s not news. The news is, the aliens graciously allowed Ferreira to record the interview. And we have that recording right here…

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The quality is unfortunately worse than terrible, as it was all recorded on cassette tape more than two decades ago. I tried to filter some noise out, but it also filtered some of the voices and sound effects, so I decided to upload the original, without filtering.

Even the parts where clear Portuguese is spoken cannot be quite understood. It’s not that important, since the parts where “Protu” is spoken are not translated by Ferreira, so we would miss at least half of the conversation anyway.

This recording was made available thanks to Eustáquio Patounas, from SOCEX, the “Society for the Study of Aliens“, who kindly authorized this reproduction.

Of the endless things that a debunker could say about the recording, I’ll first mention that it’s really adorable. Ferreira introduces the aliens in the beginning, and in the end thank them for the interview, just like a gentleman should. He has a slight country accent, and the background noises do remind me of cars and trucks. But they could be from inside the flying saucer, obviously.

This is the first time I’ve heard of an alien interview being ‘adorable’.

Like this guy was abducted by grey alien teddy-bears or some sh*t.

Interview with the aliens: The audio recording

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The Heavy Stuff further tackles the ‘Reality is a Simulation’ idea:

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Of course, that `subject matter’ is the 1970’s college dorm late night favorite subject  of `what is reality’? Yes, younger readers,  before the Matrix - the very structure of realitywas something the `college heads’ thought discussion worthy. Perhaps is was those higher times that allowed a clearer seeing of the thin vail of reality - the illusionrefered to by the mystics and shaman of yester ages and days gone by.

And, in part one - THS - covered the `normal’ Matrixlike idea that `we’ (yes, you and I) and everything else — was simply the result of a running software program made by at least one civilization. In essence, an artifical being within an artificial reality.

In the first post, it was perhaps the logic of the `low threshold’ that was the most worrisome aspect of IF we are a simulation. Afterall, if only ONE civilization EVER ——— EVER — produced and ran (these are most important words)  a `reality simulation software - in which ‘the spaces within the program could have self-awareness‘ ————– THEN — the `real odds’ of us (you and me) being real - in the manner WE think of real —– may be quite small. And, that the odds we ARE a simulation — quite large. Indeed, in part one - THS threw out some numbers to just form an opinion as to what the odds might actually be - or - to set you thinking about the hard numbers of the situation.

BUT, a closer look might dramatically INCREASE those odds  - that is - increase the odds that  we are real. (Isn’t that nice?) …

Circular logic here, but the author is essentially playing the devil’s advocate in this instance. He takes on Nick Bostrums’ Reality Theory head-on with aplomb and intelligence.

This is Part 2 in a series.

Part Two - Is our existence Simulated Reality, or (Is IT) Reality Simulated?

Part One of the series

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Lastly, anthonynorth of Beyond The Blog expouses his own take on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and our observations of the Cosmos:

As more and more powerful telescopes look into the cosmos, the more our astronomers and cosmologists claim to know about the universe. But is our growing knowledge as simple as that?
One thing that worries me is the fact that any new discovery seems to offer a great deal of excitement, but only mild surprise. It is as if whatever is found fits quite neatly into our view of things.

One answer to this is that our theories are right.

We have a good grasp of the universal construct. We are on the right track, and soon everything will be disclosed. But there is another answer.
This concerns the nature of what we can know. For instance, many ‘realities’ could be out there, but we are only capable of imagining a certain set of principles. Even if the result of them was there to be seen, we would miss them.

anthonynorth isn’t exactly endorsing the Anthropic Principle per se, but he in fact is wondering why this seems to be so. Very intelligent essay.

A Universal Artist

Many tips o’ the hat to The Anomalist

The New Yorker’s “Drug War Bulletins” are sure to boil your blood: a man who died for want of a liver transplant because the hospital insisted he needed “drug treatment” for his medical marijuana use; a suburban San Diego housewife who will spend the next 20 years in jail because she was peripherally involved in a heroin deal while she was in college in 1975; and a pulmonologist who’d been favored by the drug warriors until his giant, well-funded, unreproachable study concluded that pot didn’t give you lung cancer, and who is now a pariah whose research conclusions have been boycotted by the press.

The CIA’s ‘War On Drugs’ as we all know is a world-wide money laundering scheme the NWO’s ‘world economy’ needs to bleed the sheeple dry of money, keep investment banksters like JP Morgan Chase in business and ‘Big Pharma’ companies like Pfizer enriched.

Especially Big Pharma, they loath the pain killing properties of cannabis and are willing to pull out all stops to keep it criminalized at the national level.

Drug war horror stories to boil your blood

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Oh, Highest Authority, bless you for helping my friends and I create the War on Terror. For without it, where would we find all of the drones we need? Our lackeys, our workers, our monkeys, our associates, our slaves, where would they all be if the War on Terror was never created? 

Yes, God, bless your golden heart for the War on Terror. Not to be forgotten though, bless your golden heart for Capitalism as well-the dog-eat-dog system which gave us the foundation of fear for which to install the War on Terror in the first place.

Thank you for all of your guidance, Lord, for without it, we would have a much harder time trying to keep all of these two-legged animals on a leash. Without your guidance, only you would know how we would go trying to make them trust us, and actually believe that we really cared about them. Spying on them, dividing them, making them aggressive towards eachother, these are things that we could have never done without your approval. And again, as I speak for not only myself, but for the other guys as well, thank you, my Lord!

If the dezinens of the NWO had a nightmare…er…night-time prayer, it would be this!

No Excuses, You’re Ours!

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Dott. Nazareno Gabrielli, whose exploits range from directing conservation works in the Vatican, especially in the Sistine Chapel, to exhuming bodies of long-dead saints, was in Malta last week to deliver a lecture.

Dott. Gabrielli had been to Malta once before when he had assisted at the exhumation of the body of Saint George Preca (although the real expert’s work was done by Dr Abela Medici).

Exhumation of the bodies of saints is one of the tasks he has been undertaking as director of a scientific laboratory.

Prior to coming to Malta, he had directed the exhumation of the body of San Padre Pio, which involved, amid many controversies, no less than 50 days work.

He also exhumed the body of Pope John XXIII and that of San Ubaldo from the altar in which he was entombed for seven long centuries in Gubbio.

Digging up and preserving body parts of religious holy-people (saints) and honored ancesters have been a human hallmark of worship since the beginning of agriculture and walled towns. There is no proof that earlier hunter-gatherer cultures did this, but there is proof that they buried ancesters when they had the time to before moving on to other hunting areas.

Only in the past 6,000 (if not earlier) years has ‘civilized’ humanity held preserved bodies, or parts to worship in order to be closer to their ancesters in the other realm.

And the NWO is into worship, ancester or otherwise. Don’t let anyone tell you different.

From the glories of the Sistine Chapel and exhuming long-dead saints

Here is a little piece from Benjamin Fulford at the Project Camelot site:

We asked Benjamin Fulford for a status report on the current state of affairs regarding whether there had been any change as a direct result of the public stand he took speaking out on behalf of the Asian Secret Society about the world situation. In answer, he wrote the following in an email dated today:

For the reaction, you will notice that Asian countries have stopped buying US government bonds. The US secret government has retaliated by artificially raising food and oil prices.

We are in the middle of World War 3. The US and Israel have been taken over by Nazis and the rest of the world is trying to take them down.

The reason the society has not started assassinations yet is that the Nazis in the Bush/Clinton administration want any excuse to start all out world war. However, if starvation begins in earnest, there will be assassinations.

I haven’t been a fan of Benjamin Fulford lately, he talks a big game, but no results. Assuming the above statement is true, why hasn’t there been a true decoupling of the Chinese economy from the U.S., or the yuan from the dollar?

IMHO I believe Fulford to be a Rothschilds disinformation agent. This bears continuous watching.

On the other hand, there’s this news item:

Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. And speculation is helping to drive the prices of basic foodstuffs out of the reach of the hungry.

The prices of wheat, corn and rice have soared over the past year driving the world’s poor – who already spend about 80 per cent of their income on food – into hunger and destitution.

The World Bank says that 100 million more people are facing severe hunger. Yet some of the world’s richest food companies are making record profits. Monsanto last month reported that its net income for the three months up to the end of February this year had more than doubled over the same period in 2007, from $543m (£275m) to $1.12bn. Its profits increased from $1.44bn to $2.22bn.

Cargill’s net earnings soared by 86 per cent from $553m to $1.030bn over the same three months. And Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world’s largest agricultural processors of soy, corn and wheat, increased its net earnings by 42 per cent in the first three months of this year from $363m to $517m. The operating profit of its grains merchandising and handling operations jumped 16-fold from $21m to $341m.

Similarly, the Mosaic Company, one of the world’s largest fertiliser companies, saw its income for the three months ending 29 February rise more than 12-fold, from $42.2m to $520.8m, on the back of a shortage of fertiliser. The prices of some kinds of fertiliser have more than tripled over the past year as demand has outstripped supply. As a result, plans to increase harvests in developing countries have been hit hard.

Cargill’s 86% jump in profits is truly an insane evil, to be outdone only by the oil megacorps’ profits the first quarter of this year.

The be priced out of getting heat and electricity can be life threatening in its own right, especially during the winter months in the North East. It can be survivable during the spring or summer though, I’ve known people who have done it.

But to purposely price the daily life from literally hundreds of millions of people is not only a crime, but a true evil only equalled by the likes of Bu$h, Clinton, Pol Pot, Mugabe, the Junta in Burma, the Chinese Technocrats and other lower dezinens of the NWO.

Could the Myanmar junta and the Chinese be victims in their own right via the ‘natural’ disasters that have been hitting their nations recently by senior NWO members HAARP technology? Unknown.

And do these recent events give Fulford credibility? The waters are murky in this regard and bear further diligence.

Benjamin Fulford Email at Project Camelot

Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis

Exxon shatters profit records