Japanese banks are installing new ATMs. Currently, the ATMs require a card and your biometric freatures (palm, eye or fingerprints) are used to verify that you are you and prevent others from using your card. These banks are now going to no longer require the card, your biometric identification alone will allow you to access your money.
Gizmag - Japanese palm-reading ATMs to allow card-free transactions
I cannot imagine that any of my regular readers do not understand the times we live in. I cannot imagine anyone regularly visiting this blog and not care about these things. I am amusing; but, not that amusing. In Japan, currently, in order to access your money through an ATM, you have to give the bank your biometric information. There are vary few Christians in Japan and I wonder how they feel about this.
In Scotland schools your biometric information is required to get a school lunch and it is also how the lunch is paid for. Why isn't this bigger news? Here is the article from Gizmag - Palm Vein-based Biometric ID system for schools. In the article it says “This installation in the education sector provides a first glimpse of a school of the future,” said Mike Nelson, General Manager, Fujitsu Europe Limited. “Biometric solutions will increasingly allow us to move towards a cashless society and this project is one of the first real examples in the UK of an innovative and truly practical biometric solution in operation.
I write about the cashless society and how it is tied to biometrics and it is coming and in different parts of the world, different aspects of it are in use; but, it isn't discussed in the mainstream media very much. Consider what Mr. Nelson said, we cannot have a cashless society if we do not have your biometrics.
Let us assume that we are going to eliminate physical currency and have an all electronic currency. If I want to steal money from you, mug you, then I will either have to force you to put your hand on the sensor or cut it off and do it time and time again. You can do the same with someone's eye. Now lets talk about car keys.
If you have a newer car then you have a newer key. The new keys are laser cut and can only be duplicated by the manufacturer (they are also expensive). When I had my Mercedes, I had to prove it was me to get a key and the people at Mercedes had to get a copy of my license so that they could get the key from the manufacturer. In the future it will be my biometrics.
Now, I am going to get biblical on you. The Book of Revelations said 2,000 years ago that we would have a one world currency and nobody would be allowed to buy or sell without a mark on their hand or forehead. You can believe the bible or not, that is a personal choice; but, the technology required to require such a mark worldwide was not available until now. That is a fact. In the future all currency will be electronic and you will be required to be scanned on your forehead or your hand in order to make financial exchanges. Churches won't even be allowed to receive cash if the members have not provided their biometric information.
I have previously written about the coming requirement that one have an individual identification in order to use the internet. One European or Scandinavian country has already said that they are moving forward with that. Put the pieces together. In order to buy or sell, you will need to be in a biometric database and have an individual international identification.
My readers know that I research these things and provide links so that you can verify that I am not paranoid or making these things up, they simply are. Many people believe these technologies are great and do not care about their privacy; but, lets consider just how much information is electronically kept about you. Every tweet, every post, every purchase, every call, every place you went with your cell phone or in your car or carrying your passport or where you took your dog or your when your computer was with you is tracked. That is GPS technology.
I know that some of my readers are atheists and it doesn't matter, what I write about effects them also. Are any of my readers happy to know that they will not be allowed to buy or sell unless they have an international identification and have all of their biometric information stored so that they can be tracked. This is why they are against Burqas and hoodies, the cameras cannot see and identify you. Look, government will be prevented from outlawing these things, you won't be required to show your face; but, in exchange, you will be required to be scanned on your hand in order to buy or sell.
The scanners in Scotland, they don't just scan your palm. They scan your working veins in your hands. I don't recall if the article said how it dealt with people who had no hands, I bet they scan their forehead?
The United States government has announced that in the future if you have not paid your taxes, you passport will be deactivated and passports in the United States have RFID chips in them. What if you were not allowed to buy food unless you had paid your taxes? I be fewer people would cheat on their taxes.
So what brought this all up? Well I attended a church tonight and after the service, one of the attendees had asked me about Revelations. I liked their question, they asked about the Rapture (that is when we are told some believers will leave this world at the same time during the end times). I said that I thought there would be Christians left behind and that it would be a great opportunity to help others understand what was going on and support those who awakened. I am not of the Harold Camping crowd, I don't believe that all believers avoid the end times and I believe we continue to have new believers. I was then asked about "cookies". LOL.
I use an analogy of cookies to explain how the world works. The masses are managed by giving them cookies. Your cookie could be money or fame or toys or jewelry or sex or whatever. People chase cookies. If you threaten to take away their cookies for doing wrong or giving them cookies for doing what you want then the degree to which they are your slave is equivalent to their greed for their cookie. Money is the cookie that most love because it can buy just about any other cookie.
What happens when you have a choice between taking a mark or not having any of your cookies? When you have a cashless society, the government will expect you to pay taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, income tax, whatever tax and you won't be able to if you don't have your biometrics because you won't be able to use your bank and their won't be any physical currency. If you don't pay your taxes, you will lose your house, you won't be able to buy anything or sell anything and you will lose everything you own, you won't even be able to pay for gas or car insurance or your license. You will lose all mobility.
In the end, you will have two choices, yes and no. Which will you pick?
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
The Internet is the Military and Intelligence Agencies
I wrote about this once before; but, it was a long time ago and I thought it deserved discussing the issue again. All of the communications of the world are monitored on one level or another by the United States. All GPS satellites are owned by the United States Military and controlled by them. Wikipedia - Global Positioning System.
Russia, China, Iran, heck, every nation in the world, every crook in the world, every terrorist in the world, everyone in the world that uses GPS is using a system that is owned and controlled by the U.S. Military. So, why is it that nobody seems to know this? It is claimed that it is all taken care of by four satellites; but, with the government you can never really know.
The internet is also owned by the government. It was designed and created by the military. It was ARPANET. Wikipedia - ARPANET. Once it had proven itself, it was modified and eventually 13 servers became the backbone of the current internet and all of them are controlled by the United States government. The core 13 are known as the Root Name Servers and they control your ability to find anything or communicate with others. Wikipedia - Root Name Servers.
Central to these servers is ARPA. ARPA stood for Advanced Research Projects Agency (now known as DARPA)which is an agency of the United States Department of Defense. You can look either up on Wikipedia. The management of these servers is contracted with private companies; but, the final say is still with the Department of Defense. The two companies that are most interesting to me are Verisign and ICANN. Remember a while back when a number of websites were taken down at the request of the government, that was done by Verisign.
Now, here is a question for the little ones. Why does the government allow anyone in the world to access the internet? Better yet, why doesn't the government openly take credit for the internet? Here is another question, when we go to a cashless society, the United States government will control the international currencies. During a war we could simply put a stop to another countries ability to use the internet and access their currencies and of course the GPS.
As you read this I do hope you understand the importance of what I am saying. Read the articles fully and you will understand the simplicity of it. You do not have a basic human right to use the internet and in the end the focus of the internet is not commerce, it is achieving predictability of human reactions to social and environmental forces. It's purpose is predictive programming.
Some people recently were discussing how the President wanted an internet kill switch; but, the truth is, he always has had that switch. He just has to shut down the 13 computers and the whole thing comes to an end. In fact, he also has the ability to reboot the internet (it takes three keys) and involves three military bases. I wrote about this before and provided links.
The internet began in the early 60s and it wasn't until the late 80s and early 90s that private companies were allowed to use it. Why were private companies allowed to use it? When the private companies were allowed to use it a couple of big companies emerged. AOL being the one that did the best. In order to use the internet you had to have a service provider like AOL. I didn't like the limitations of a service provider, I didn't trust them and there were limitations. I obtained a truly independent service provider, my original service provider was a couple of NASA engineers who started their own business because they knew about these things before they became public. How technical were they, not vary. I had to show them how to configure the first Internet Explorer software to work within their server. I was beta testing the software.
I was one of the first people on the internet, it was part of my job to investigate it because nobody knew what it was going to become. We thought AOL and Prodigy and Compuserve were the internet. The public face of the internet in the beginning was not the government, it was these private service providers.
Look at the garbage we believe. People think Google and Facebook and Yahoo are going to control the internet. They are not, the government OWNS the internet. I know the government can see anything and everything on the net. I know they know who I am and who you are. They know who visits this site and every other site in the world because they control the infrastructure.
In the future you are going to be required to have a unique, personal identification in order to use the internet and it is going to require facial recognition in order to verify who you are. This is already being discussed nationally and internationally.
Now here is some wisdom. You do not build infrastructure if you don't know what you want in the end. Well it is called the Information Awareness Office. Wikipedia - Information Awareness Office. Their purpose is to have "Total Information Awareness", their description of their purpose, not mine. And who created them, DARPA, the same people who created the internet. If the same people created these two things then if you put the two together, you understand the purpose. The purpose of the internet is to convince people to provide every detail of their life to the government under the illusion that any of it is hidden from them.
William Safire reported that the Information Awareness Office was funded to create dossiers on 300 million Americans. That meant all of us. This same office was funded to find a way to bio-metrically identify people. In other words, identify people just by facial recognition software. That only works if you have cameras everywhere and that is why we have cameras everywhere.
This is not me being paranoid, I provided the links and you can go to their own websites. I have. Everytime you tweet or post, the government has access to it and it gets added to your file. The FBI told me that I don't have a file and that if I do it means that I am on a "Watch Lit". Not a "no fly" list. My answer to that is always the same; but, I will clean it up, my answer is "Watch This". LOL.
Why do we hear so much about Facebook having facial recognition software and that being a threat to our privacy when the government has had it for decades? Do you think they don't have voice recognition technology? That has been around for decades also. If you use technology that has a camera or a microphone (and what doesn't, most use both) then every time you use it, you are identified.
Now, I don't want people to be all paranoid. Nobody cares what 98% of you think or do, you are probably not that interesting and pose no threat. You are openly being told that you have no privacy on the internet for a reason. They want you to reject people who are not wired in. What do you think about people who don't own a cell phone, use only cash and won't use the internet? Social pressure is an amazing thing.
The Pimpernel apologizes for not having written better posts recently. There was not much in the news that I cared about and I was sad. The news is getting more interesting and I am feeling better. I even got to see my old dog (lives with my ex-wife) recently and that was nice. I wanted her (the dog) to see me before she passes on and she is very old. I do hope that the last few posts have risen to what my regular readers have come to hope for out of me.
The purpose of writing these new articles is because I have been asked to explain these things to people and we will be making some videos in multiple languages. So the request got me thinking about starting with the basics again. When I first began this blog, a few years ago, someone tried to convince me that while what I said might be interesting and true, they said that nobody would understand me. I think they were wrong, heck, based on what people tell me, I communicate fairly well.
Russia, China, Iran, heck, every nation in the world, every crook in the world, every terrorist in the world, everyone in the world that uses GPS is using a system that is owned and controlled by the U.S. Military. So, why is it that nobody seems to know this? It is claimed that it is all taken care of by four satellites; but, with the government you can never really know.
The internet is also owned by the government. It was designed and created by the military. It was ARPANET. Wikipedia - ARPANET. Once it had proven itself, it was modified and eventually 13 servers became the backbone of the current internet and all of them are controlled by the United States government. The core 13 are known as the Root Name Servers and they control your ability to find anything or communicate with others. Wikipedia - Root Name Servers.
Central to these servers is ARPA. ARPA stood for Advanced Research Projects Agency (now known as DARPA)which is an agency of the United States Department of Defense. You can look either up on Wikipedia. The management of these servers is contracted with private companies; but, the final say is still with the Department of Defense. The two companies that are most interesting to me are Verisign and ICANN. Remember a while back when a number of websites were taken down at the request of the government, that was done by Verisign.
Now, here is a question for the little ones. Why does the government allow anyone in the world to access the internet? Better yet, why doesn't the government openly take credit for the internet? Here is another question, when we go to a cashless society, the United States government will control the international currencies. During a war we could simply put a stop to another countries ability to use the internet and access their currencies and of course the GPS.
As you read this I do hope you understand the importance of what I am saying. Read the articles fully and you will understand the simplicity of it. You do not have a basic human right to use the internet and in the end the focus of the internet is not commerce, it is achieving predictability of human reactions to social and environmental forces. It's purpose is predictive programming.
Some people recently were discussing how the President wanted an internet kill switch; but, the truth is, he always has had that switch. He just has to shut down the 13 computers and the whole thing comes to an end. In fact, he also has the ability to reboot the internet (it takes three keys) and involves three military bases. I wrote about this before and provided links.
The internet began in the early 60s and it wasn't until the late 80s and early 90s that private companies were allowed to use it. Why were private companies allowed to use it? When the private companies were allowed to use it a couple of big companies emerged. AOL being the one that did the best. In order to use the internet you had to have a service provider like AOL. I didn't like the limitations of a service provider, I didn't trust them and there were limitations. I obtained a truly independent service provider, my original service provider was a couple of NASA engineers who started their own business because they knew about these things before they became public. How technical were they, not vary. I had to show them how to configure the first Internet Explorer software to work within their server. I was beta testing the software.
I was one of the first people on the internet, it was part of my job to investigate it because nobody knew what it was going to become. We thought AOL and Prodigy and Compuserve were the internet. The public face of the internet in the beginning was not the government, it was these private service providers.
Look at the garbage we believe. People think Google and Facebook and Yahoo are going to control the internet. They are not, the government OWNS the internet. I know the government can see anything and everything on the net. I know they know who I am and who you are. They know who visits this site and every other site in the world because they control the infrastructure.
In the future you are going to be required to have a unique, personal identification in order to use the internet and it is going to require facial recognition in order to verify who you are. This is already being discussed nationally and internationally.
Now here is some wisdom. You do not build infrastructure if you don't know what you want in the end. Well it is called the Information Awareness Office. Wikipedia - Information Awareness Office. Their purpose is to have "Total Information Awareness", their description of their purpose, not mine. And who created them, DARPA, the same people who created the internet. If the same people created these two things then if you put the two together, you understand the purpose. The purpose of the internet is to convince people to provide every detail of their life to the government under the illusion that any of it is hidden from them.
William Safire reported that the Information Awareness Office was funded to create dossiers on 300 million Americans. That meant all of us. This same office was funded to find a way to bio-metrically identify people. In other words, identify people just by facial recognition software. That only works if you have cameras everywhere and that is why we have cameras everywhere.
This is not me being paranoid, I provided the links and you can go to their own websites. I have. Everytime you tweet or post, the government has access to it and it gets added to your file. The FBI told me that I don't have a file and that if I do it means that I am on a "Watch Lit". Not a "no fly" list. My answer to that is always the same; but, I will clean it up, my answer is "Watch This". LOL.
Why do we hear so much about Facebook having facial recognition software and that being a threat to our privacy when the government has had it for decades? Do you think they don't have voice recognition technology? That has been around for decades also. If you use technology that has a camera or a microphone (and what doesn't, most use both) then every time you use it, you are identified.
Now, I don't want people to be all paranoid. Nobody cares what 98% of you think or do, you are probably not that interesting and pose no threat. You are openly being told that you have no privacy on the internet for a reason. They want you to reject people who are not wired in. What do you think about people who don't own a cell phone, use only cash and won't use the internet? Social pressure is an amazing thing.
The Pimpernel apologizes for not having written better posts recently. There was not much in the news that I cared about and I was sad. The news is getting more interesting and I am feeling better. I even got to see my old dog (lives with my ex-wife) recently and that was nice. I wanted her (the dog) to see me before she passes on and she is very old. I do hope that the last few posts have risen to what my regular readers have come to hope for out of me.
The purpose of writing these new articles is because I have been asked to explain these things to people and we will be making some videos in multiple languages. So the request got me thinking about starting with the basics again. When I first began this blog, a few years ago, someone tried to convince me that while what I said might be interesting and true, they said that nobody would understand me. I think they were wrong, heck, based on what people tell me, I communicate fairly well.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Science Tries Imititating Life
The purpose of the internet is not just to aide in communication or game playing. It's higher purpose is to map out how people think and interact. We are designing all of our technology to duplicate human thought. We are attempting to create the "Synchronicity", we are trying to make computers that are smarter than us in the hope that they will make better choices than us. We are trying to make computers into God.
Google is a good example of this. Google is a personality test, it finds your likes and dislikes and tailors your search to you. It is not the only program that is mapping you out and the programs have a pretty good idea of how 90% of the people will act 90% of the time. We call this predictive programming. It will never get 100% because it cannot duplicate outliers.
When you hear about a new program or website, you should ask yourself what it is learning about you, about all of the people that go there. There is a new website that is hoping to understand all of the internet and you. I think you should read the linked article below because that is what they say about themselves.
Wired - Wavii Vows to Understand Entire Internet
You may have heard how the military is monitoring gamers and how they think. The military games are the perfect place for examining different battlefield tactics and see which ones work in which situations, why wouldn't they look at this information. Certainly the "Sims" is a good test ground for social interaction and to monitor peoples aspirations.
We do not live in "The Matrix", we are participating in giving people the tools to create one. I have previously written about crowd sourcing and why it cannot work, the same things apply here. The technology behind Wavii will eventually be combined with something even worse. They are currently attempting to create a technology that can literally read your thoughts. You will want to read this linked story also.
Singularity Hub - Brain Scanner Being Used To Give Stephen Hawking A New Voice
The article talks about someone who has invented a machine that can read your thoughts and they chose Stephen Hawking to learn from first. Many consider Mr. Hawking to be the smartest man in the world, a good choice if you believe he is and want to understand deep thinking; but, Mr. Hawking is still a douche and does not know all the answers.
While I know that this will fail to achieve what is truly intended, it will be very successful most of the time. That is not the part that bothers me the most. The use of this technology will make people intellectual cripples in the future.
Someone recently told me a story. They told me how a younger relative had asked them to review something they wrote for school. The person read it and said that there were numerous spelling mistakes. The kid said that the teacher said it didn't matter because the kid could always use spell check. When I was in High School, electronic calculators had just come out. My teacher told us that we could not use them and made us learn to use a slide ruler. That man taught us how to read maps, how to write checks (though my mother had already taught me when I was six) and he always gave very practical advice, things that were simple and would help throughout life. I deeply regret that I cannot remember his name; but, I remember his face, him and his teachings.
Ignoring, for the moment, how this technology can be used to manipulate us, consider how never having to learn things for yourself will make our children incapable of doing anything if the technology goes down. It will teach us to not think for ourselves, it will provide all the virtual pleasures and we as a species will become stupid and rely on it. It will destroy new thought through consensus and crowd sourcing. If you live in a virtual world and nobody will interact with you, you have been constructively put into solitary confinement.
Hundreds of millions of people rely on Facebook for their social interactions. What if they were removed from Facebook for bullying and everyone else at all the other social media sites rejected you because you had been kicked off for bullying. You lose your community. You would only be allowed back in if you allowed someone to approve what you said in advance, to censor you when you were inappropriate, in advance of anyone other than a moderator know what you said.
If you don't understand where all of this is going, I will explain. Right now there is talk about passing anti-bullying laws and internet protection laws. People are upset about that and these laws will not be successful in most ways. What is going to happen is that websites such as Facebook and others will be held liable if they allow certain communications. The websites will kick you off and they are legally entitled to. The same result through a different method, one that seems legal.
I was kicked off of a website by someone I dearly love. I was told that the site was being changed to allow me on in the future; but, it would require that a moderator approve my statements in advance. I want to be very clear, that was one of the purposes for the redesign, it was with me in mind and that was a very kind thought. I could never be involved in such a community, I don't believe in a mediator of my words and accept responsibility for my actions. Anyways, I do know where social is headed because of my personal experience.
What we are talking about is creating a personal internet experience. Lets say we identify someone as a pedophile (child molester). As part of their punishment, their use of the internet would be limited to their profile, the sites they could be limited to would be ones that didn't have children on them. We would all support that, wouldn't we? Now, what if, everything you ever did on the internet created a profile of you and determined what you could and could not see on the internet and you didn't even know it. Websites that you would never be interested in just didn't show up on your searches and you never made a mistake so you never learned anything new or that was not in agreement with existing beliefs? Get it?
In the end, it is a spiritual question. It is the simplest question in the world. Would you give up your free will for pleasure? What is being offered is "The Matrix", a place where you always win in exchange for giving up your free will. The price for free will is the truth and it is bought at a price. According to the bible, the smartest man up to the time he died, was Solomon. Solomon said that with great knowledge came great pain. How much pain will you take to grow, to not take the easy way out?
Google is a good example of this. Google is a personality test, it finds your likes and dislikes and tailors your search to you. It is not the only program that is mapping you out and the programs have a pretty good idea of how 90% of the people will act 90% of the time. We call this predictive programming. It will never get 100% because it cannot duplicate outliers.
When you hear about a new program or website, you should ask yourself what it is learning about you, about all of the people that go there. There is a new website that is hoping to understand all of the internet and you. I think you should read the linked article below because that is what they say about themselves.
Wired - Wavii Vows to Understand Entire Internet
You may have heard how the military is monitoring gamers and how they think. The military games are the perfect place for examining different battlefield tactics and see which ones work in which situations, why wouldn't they look at this information. Certainly the "Sims" is a good test ground for social interaction and to monitor peoples aspirations.
We do not live in "The Matrix", we are participating in giving people the tools to create one. I have previously written about crowd sourcing and why it cannot work, the same things apply here. The technology behind Wavii will eventually be combined with something even worse. They are currently attempting to create a technology that can literally read your thoughts. You will want to read this linked story also.
Singularity Hub - Brain Scanner Being Used To Give Stephen Hawking A New Voice
The article talks about someone who has invented a machine that can read your thoughts and they chose Stephen Hawking to learn from first. Many consider Mr. Hawking to be the smartest man in the world, a good choice if you believe he is and want to understand deep thinking; but, Mr. Hawking is still a douche and does not know all the answers.
While I know that this will fail to achieve what is truly intended, it will be very successful most of the time. That is not the part that bothers me the most. The use of this technology will make people intellectual cripples in the future.
Someone recently told me a story. They told me how a younger relative had asked them to review something they wrote for school. The person read it and said that there were numerous spelling mistakes. The kid said that the teacher said it didn't matter because the kid could always use spell check. When I was in High School, electronic calculators had just come out. My teacher told us that we could not use them and made us learn to use a slide ruler. That man taught us how to read maps, how to write checks (though my mother had already taught me when I was six) and he always gave very practical advice, things that were simple and would help throughout life. I deeply regret that I cannot remember his name; but, I remember his face, him and his teachings.
Ignoring, for the moment, how this technology can be used to manipulate us, consider how never having to learn things for yourself will make our children incapable of doing anything if the technology goes down. It will teach us to not think for ourselves, it will provide all the virtual pleasures and we as a species will become stupid and rely on it. It will destroy new thought through consensus and crowd sourcing. If you live in a virtual world and nobody will interact with you, you have been constructively put into solitary confinement.
Hundreds of millions of people rely on Facebook for their social interactions. What if they were removed from Facebook for bullying and everyone else at all the other social media sites rejected you because you had been kicked off for bullying. You lose your community. You would only be allowed back in if you allowed someone to approve what you said in advance, to censor you when you were inappropriate, in advance of anyone other than a moderator know what you said.
If you don't understand where all of this is going, I will explain. Right now there is talk about passing anti-bullying laws and internet protection laws. People are upset about that and these laws will not be successful in most ways. What is going to happen is that websites such as Facebook and others will be held liable if they allow certain communications. The websites will kick you off and they are legally entitled to. The same result through a different method, one that seems legal.
I was kicked off of a website by someone I dearly love. I was told that the site was being changed to allow me on in the future; but, it would require that a moderator approve my statements in advance. I want to be very clear, that was one of the purposes for the redesign, it was with me in mind and that was a very kind thought. I could never be involved in such a community, I don't believe in a mediator of my words and accept responsibility for my actions. Anyways, I do know where social is headed because of my personal experience.
What we are talking about is creating a personal internet experience. Lets say we identify someone as a pedophile (child molester). As part of their punishment, their use of the internet would be limited to their profile, the sites they could be limited to would be ones that didn't have children on them. We would all support that, wouldn't we? Now, what if, everything you ever did on the internet created a profile of you and determined what you could and could not see on the internet and you didn't even know it. Websites that you would never be interested in just didn't show up on your searches and you never made a mistake so you never learned anything new or that was not in agreement with existing beliefs? Get it?
In the end, it is a spiritual question. It is the simplest question in the world. Would you give up your free will for pleasure? What is being offered is "The Matrix", a place where you always win in exchange for giving up your free will. The price for free will is the truth and it is bought at a price. According to the bible, the smartest man up to the time he died, was Solomon. Solomon said that with great knowledge came great pain. How much pain will you take to grow, to not take the easy way out?
Monday, April 9, 2012
Where Are The Protest Songs
The world has gone horribly wrong and there are no protest songs. Where are the Neil Youngs, the Arlo Guthries, the Sex Pistols? We have Lady Gaga and boy bands singing banal, meaningless drivel. Where are the protests in the songs, where is the concern that the youth are about to be given a life of debt and less?
My guess is that they are playing in clubs and small venues and building their base. Whether you believe things are bad or do not, you should still know that many people are unhappy and many of the young ones are unhappy. How come we cannot hear their voices? If they can sleep out at Occupy events then certainly they are writing protest songs, why don't we hear them? It is because the media does not play them, they play Lady Gaga (who I actually believes has a good voice).
Look at the media you are presented with and understand that it is not reality, it is a show. Politics and media are shows that are put on to lead and entertain. The entertainment is meant to reinforce your biases and bigotry. What you are being shown is that it is all staged. That is what reality tv teaches you and you come to believe that everyone is a liar so that you will not hear the truth.
Do not give up, do not give up on looking for the truth. I am not going to say it is easy making sense of this world, I do what I can to explain things to others, do the same. We all know things are not right, the question is what is right. What should we be thinking about and doing?
My guess is that they are playing in clubs and small venues and building their base. Whether you believe things are bad or do not, you should still know that many people are unhappy and many of the young ones are unhappy. How come we cannot hear their voices? If they can sleep out at Occupy events then certainly they are writing protest songs, why don't we hear them? It is because the media does not play them, they play Lady Gaga (who I actually believes has a good voice).
Look at the media you are presented with and understand that it is not reality, it is a show. Politics and media are shows that are put on to lead and entertain. The entertainment is meant to reinforce your biases and bigotry. What you are being shown is that it is all staged. That is what reality tv teaches you and you come to believe that everyone is a liar so that you will not hear the truth.
Do not give up, do not give up on looking for the truth. I am not going to say it is easy making sense of this world, I do what I can to explain things to others, do the same. We all know things are not right, the question is what is right. What should we be thinking about and doing?
What is Normal? Not these days.
When you read the news, watch television or go to the movies, when you are exposed to the mass media, it seems that the world has gone insane. I know many people have just shut down and stop paying attention, it seems that it is too much for them to take in and process. Obviously this is not true for my dear readers.
I think the biggest problem is that we have lost our moral compass. People are fearful of what they do not understand and who can understand anything going on in the world anymore. Over the weekend I attended an event at a University at night. While there I had to help someone up because they had passed out in the street. I saw a number of people openly groping each other in public and one of the people who was there with me had a young lady call down from a balcony and ask him if he wanted to have sex. We did not know any of these people.
Throughout the evening we heard screaming, carrying on, ambulances and general craziness. It was a world with no boundaries, privacy or restraint. This is not the old guy talking about the kids these days. It was the kids these days that first got me looking at globalization. It was the kids who are going to run this world that I was seeing, the ones who can afford to go to an expensive University. I also went to college and saw parties, what was different was that I was told it was this way every week.
In the past, people from the lower classes were wild and the people from the upper classes had to maintain more dignity. That isn't true anymore. The guy that passed out, he was with two women. One of the women was semi-comatose and the other seemed okay. I asked her if he was going to be okay and she said, "oh they are like this all the time, I have seen them much worse". Worse than passed out so bad that even shaking and talking will not wake him?
Rome fell for a reason, nobody cared and everyone just wanted to enjoy themselves. They had convinced themselves that the purpose of life was joy. When the barbarians came, there was nobody willing to fight back. The old saying is that Rome fell from within before it was taken from without (or something very much like that). The United States and the west are collapsing from within.
I saw my mother in law over the weekend. I did not see my ex-wife. My mother in law had always been a staunch Republican. She told me she had become a Tea Party member and had even lost a friend because of it. She said it didn't seem to matter who we voted for because nothing changed and that is not how it used to be. I was proud of her for seeing it. She even mentioned how the government spies on us (a relative of hers that really does know had told her how it was done).
Where are we going? When will people work together again? The bible talks about Israel. At certain times in it's history the people turned from the Lord and did what was right in their own eyes with no concern over how others looked on it. Those were the times when Israel was taken into captivity by other nations. The west is the same today. Today people don't just do what they want, they post it on Facebook and are happy to let you know even when they are committing a crime.
We had the big party with the housing bubble and then it burst and we have the hangover as we have to pay for the party, as the economies all go sour. Kodak has declared bankruptcy and is about to give out over $8 million in bonuses. Huh? Not long ago Arnold Schwarzenegger pardoned a convicted murderer because it was the son of a political friend and Schwarzenegger said that is what you do for friends. There is no shame and nothing that moves us other than personal reward, happiness if you will.
I will say something good about my ex-wife. When her sister left her husband for another man, she tried to tell her it was a bad idea. I have heard that she has had second thoughts about her own actions with regards to me. We all make mistakes and that is just life, the question is whether or not we learn from them or glory in them. The people that are supposed to be our leaders no longer care nor worry about their mistakes, nothing has changed even after the bubbles have burst and the economies have failed. Those who can benefit from the failures are happy to, nobody does good.
When my mother in law told me that she was a member of the Tea Party, I told her that the Tea Party and the Occupy movement should join up with the areas that they do agree on. She looked puzzled for a second and asked me about them. I told her of my experience in Los Angeles with them. Congress has the lowest level of trust in the history of the country; but, we cannot agree on who to put in office to replace them. The left and right dislike their own parties and have tried to start new movements; but, they have not reconciled on what they do agree on.
Just some thoughts from a crazy old man.
I think the biggest problem is that we have lost our moral compass. People are fearful of what they do not understand and who can understand anything going on in the world anymore. Over the weekend I attended an event at a University at night. While there I had to help someone up because they had passed out in the street. I saw a number of people openly groping each other in public and one of the people who was there with me had a young lady call down from a balcony and ask him if he wanted to have sex. We did not know any of these people.
Throughout the evening we heard screaming, carrying on, ambulances and general craziness. It was a world with no boundaries, privacy or restraint. This is not the old guy talking about the kids these days. It was the kids these days that first got me looking at globalization. It was the kids who are going to run this world that I was seeing, the ones who can afford to go to an expensive University. I also went to college and saw parties, what was different was that I was told it was this way every week.
In the past, people from the lower classes were wild and the people from the upper classes had to maintain more dignity. That isn't true anymore. The guy that passed out, he was with two women. One of the women was semi-comatose and the other seemed okay. I asked her if he was going to be okay and she said, "oh they are like this all the time, I have seen them much worse". Worse than passed out so bad that even shaking and talking will not wake him?
Rome fell for a reason, nobody cared and everyone just wanted to enjoy themselves. They had convinced themselves that the purpose of life was joy. When the barbarians came, there was nobody willing to fight back. The old saying is that Rome fell from within before it was taken from without (or something very much like that). The United States and the west are collapsing from within.
I saw my mother in law over the weekend. I did not see my ex-wife. My mother in law had always been a staunch Republican. She told me she had become a Tea Party member and had even lost a friend because of it. She said it didn't seem to matter who we voted for because nothing changed and that is not how it used to be. I was proud of her for seeing it. She even mentioned how the government spies on us (a relative of hers that really does know had told her how it was done).
Where are we going? When will people work together again? The bible talks about Israel. At certain times in it's history the people turned from the Lord and did what was right in their own eyes with no concern over how others looked on it. Those were the times when Israel was taken into captivity by other nations. The west is the same today. Today people don't just do what they want, they post it on Facebook and are happy to let you know even when they are committing a crime.
We had the big party with the housing bubble and then it burst and we have the hangover as we have to pay for the party, as the economies all go sour. Kodak has declared bankruptcy and is about to give out over $8 million in bonuses. Huh? Not long ago Arnold Schwarzenegger pardoned a convicted murderer because it was the son of a political friend and Schwarzenegger said that is what you do for friends. There is no shame and nothing that moves us other than personal reward, happiness if you will.
I will say something good about my ex-wife. When her sister left her husband for another man, she tried to tell her it was a bad idea. I have heard that she has had second thoughts about her own actions with regards to me. We all make mistakes and that is just life, the question is whether or not we learn from them or glory in them. The people that are supposed to be our leaders no longer care nor worry about their mistakes, nothing has changed even after the bubbles have burst and the economies have failed. Those who can benefit from the failures are happy to, nobody does good.
When my mother in law told me that she was a member of the Tea Party, I told her that the Tea Party and the Occupy movement should join up with the areas that they do agree on. She looked puzzled for a second and asked me about them. I told her of my experience in Los Angeles with them. Congress has the lowest level of trust in the history of the country; but, we cannot agree on who to put in office to replace them. The left and right dislike their own parties and have tried to start new movements; but, they have not reconciled on what they do agree on.
Just some thoughts from a crazy old man.
Friday, April 6, 2012
Digital Money Again
I had previously posted on how Sweden wanted to go all electronic for their currency. Well, the Canadians do also.
itbusiness.ca - Royal Canadian Mint reveals MintChip, issues $50,000 developer challenge
When I talk about the end of paper currency, older people usually think I am nuts and younger people think it is a great idea. Not only are we going to see an end to cash, we are going to see an end to checks. Here is a nice article from England.
The Telegraph - Is a cashless society on the cards?
About a quarter of a way down the article there is a link to another article discussing how by 2018. Let me make it clear in the future you will not have cash or checks and you will do all your transactions electronically where they can be used against you and be used to profile you. Your digital fingerprint will be a history of every purchase and transaction you ever make.
Currently people who would be called "globalists" want to institute personal carbon taxes. CICERO (The Center for International Climate and Environmental Research) has published this article - Personal carbon “credit cards” – coming soon to your wallet?
So what are we looking at in the future. Electronic currency, personal carbon taxes, a tax on all international transactions going to the United Nations to fight global warming. Read the links and tell me that I am making this all up. Look at what people believe and then ask how much influence they have over the decisions. I have none or at least practically none. I wrote two posts in one day. Enjoy.
itbusiness.ca - Royal Canadian Mint reveals MintChip, issues $50,000 developer challenge
When I talk about the end of paper currency, older people usually think I am nuts and younger people think it is a great idea. Not only are we going to see an end to cash, we are going to see an end to checks. Here is a nice article from England.
The Telegraph - Is a cashless society on the cards?
About a quarter of a way down the article there is a link to another article discussing how by 2018. Let me make it clear in the future you will not have cash or checks and you will do all your transactions electronically where they can be used against you and be used to profile you. Your digital fingerprint will be a history of every purchase and transaction you ever make.
Currently people who would be called "globalists" want to institute personal carbon taxes. CICERO (The Center for International Climate and Environmental Research) has published this article - Personal carbon “credit cards” – coming soon to your wallet?
So what are we looking at in the future. Electronic currency, personal carbon taxes, a tax on all international transactions going to the United Nations to fight global warming. Read the links and tell me that I am making this all up. Look at what people believe and then ask how much influence they have over the decisions. I have none or at least practically none. I wrote two posts in one day. Enjoy.
Google Glasses and the End of Anonymity
Firstly, I apologize for the delay in new posts. I have been moody and had some things on my mind.
Now I want to discuss the new Google glasses. Have you heard about these? You put them on and have a little display that is basically your personal assistant and access to the internet. Oh it also works as a phone and video recorder. Here is an article about them which includes a video showing how they will work. If nothing else, watch the video.
Wired - Google Gets Transparent With Glass, Its Augmented Reality Project
So, what did you think of the glasses. The first thing that I want to point out was that the glasses mapped out where the music section was in the store. How did it know? Google maps of the inside of buildings? Interesting isn't it? The next thing you may have noticed is that the wearer asked if his friend had arrived at the store yet and because his friend has his phones gps on, he knew he was only a couple hundred feet away. Now lets look at something else and you will begin to understand what the glasses can really do.
PC World - Why Facebook's Facial Recognition is Creepy
Facebook has implemented facial recognition technology that allows it to surf the web and identify pictures of you from anywhere. Lets consider what might happen if we combined the two technologies. Walking down the street, you see a pretty girl and have you glasses find pictures of her on the internet and attempt to identify her or see if you have any common friends in your social network. She notices you also and does the same except she discovers that you are a registered sex offender. Yep, when you were in high school at 18, you slept with your girlfriend of 17 and the parents had you prosecuted. It would just say that your a sex offender 20 years later. How do I know, because I met someone who was in that situation. Perhaps your still good with all of this; but, lets continue down this path.
She blows you off and you continue walking. You next see an old friend and have the glasses scan the internet for more current information on him. While you are doing that, the search engine reports and records you photo of him and someone who has been waiting to serve him legal papers gets a notification of where he is because you saw him. Is this getting scary yet? Lets consider this even deeper, you see someone, the image is sent back to the internet, it matches someone who the police are interested in and they get live streaming video of what you are seeing and what the person is doing. You have become an informant and didn't even know it.
We are looking at a coming world where everyone is self reporting and reporting on everyone else. When you post someone's picture on the internet without their approval, you are violating their privacy. You are also giving away their personal information because you are giving away their biometric identity. When you use the glasses you are making a recording of everything you have done during the day. Try and think about these things as new technologies emerge.
Now I want to discuss the new Google glasses. Have you heard about these? You put them on and have a little display that is basically your personal assistant and access to the internet. Oh it also works as a phone and video recorder. Here is an article about them which includes a video showing how they will work. If nothing else, watch the video.
Wired - Google Gets Transparent With Glass, Its Augmented Reality Project
So, what did you think of the glasses. The first thing that I want to point out was that the glasses mapped out where the music section was in the store. How did it know? Google maps of the inside of buildings? Interesting isn't it? The next thing you may have noticed is that the wearer asked if his friend had arrived at the store yet and because his friend has his phones gps on, he knew he was only a couple hundred feet away. Now lets look at something else and you will begin to understand what the glasses can really do.
PC World - Why Facebook's Facial Recognition is Creepy
Facebook has implemented facial recognition technology that allows it to surf the web and identify pictures of you from anywhere. Lets consider what might happen if we combined the two technologies. Walking down the street, you see a pretty girl and have you glasses find pictures of her on the internet and attempt to identify her or see if you have any common friends in your social network. She notices you also and does the same except she discovers that you are a registered sex offender. Yep, when you were in high school at 18, you slept with your girlfriend of 17 and the parents had you prosecuted. It would just say that your a sex offender 20 years later. How do I know, because I met someone who was in that situation. Perhaps your still good with all of this; but, lets continue down this path.
She blows you off and you continue walking. You next see an old friend and have the glasses scan the internet for more current information on him. While you are doing that, the search engine reports and records you photo of him and someone who has been waiting to serve him legal papers gets a notification of where he is because you saw him. Is this getting scary yet? Lets consider this even deeper, you see someone, the image is sent back to the internet, it matches someone who the police are interested in and they get live streaming video of what you are seeing and what the person is doing. You have become an informant and didn't even know it.
We are looking at a coming world where everyone is self reporting and reporting on everyone else. When you post someone's picture on the internet without their approval, you are violating their privacy. You are also giving away their personal information because you are giving away their biometric identity. When you use the glasses you are making a recording of everything you have done during the day. Try and think about these things as new technologies emerge.
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