Reality Check

I gave my talk at church tonight and it went well; but, prior to starting I spoke to the head Pastor as we had both arrived early. He mentioned how he had told a close friend of his about the genetic modification of rice being combined with human genetic material. The person told him that he didn't believe these things were actually being done.

I provide links and I know my regular readers would not be regular readers if I just made this stuff up. We are bombarded with conflicting information and alarmist reports. I attempt not to be alarmist; but, the things I write about are being done and they are being done now, not just some vague concept in the future.

There are some things that I talk about before they go into production and I identify them as such. There are others things that I will discuss as being researched and then there are things that I talk about that are already here (in the world if not the United States). The article about the rice that has been modified with human genetic material is in the per-production stage and could go into commercial production within a year. As for gene therapy being used to cure Autism, here is a news article for you to watch.

YouTube - Autism Cure

The video is only 3 minutes long, go ahead are watch it and then I want you to read the comments left by people who claim to be autistic. The responses tend to come in three types, people who are autistic and are sick and tired of being told they are a disease, people who have to take care of low functioning autistic relatives and people who claim to be autistic and want to be cured. I have never met an autistic person who wanted to be "cured". The ones who are low functioning don't ask to be "cured", they are the ones who don't communicate. Will parents be given a choice at birth to give us gene therapy to make sure that we don't grow up to be autistic? Force us to take stem cells from aborted babies so that we do not become ourselves?

There are very serious moral and privacy issues with regard to stem cell therapy and even more so with forced stem cell therapy. There are certain religious groups that do not believe in blood transfusions. On occasion courts have forced people to give their children these transfusions against their will, think that won't happen with stem cell therapies? Of course it will, there is court precedent.

I should also point out that I do not believe the stem cell treatment did a thing to the young girl in the video. It is not uncommon for autistic kids to not say anything and then just begin talking is whole sentences, that has long been recognized. That is not the issue that I am addressing, I am addressing the issue of attempting to control our minds, our souls if you will. God created us and we all face challenges; but, we are unique, each and everyone of us. We can meet our personal challenges and be fully developed us's. It just takes work, the work is what defines our character.

But, I digress, let us return to the original point. These things are being done now, this is not science fiction and most people do not understand how far along we are down the road. The facial recognition software is already in use by facebook and others, this is admitted. Biometrics for everyone on earth, go back and read the article about India, they are openly and actively doing this to 1.2 billion people. As for exclusively electronic finances, Sweden has said they will be there in two years, not twenty and not a hundred, Now.

I would love to know how many of my readers have tried to tell people about some of these things and found that people told you that they don't believe it is real yet; but, it is. Google glasses, you can go to their own website. Google+ Project Glass. So why do so many find it so hard to believe that this is all real and we are living it? Heck, the vast majority of voters are still voting for Democrats and Republicans as if it mattered. These are the same criminals that destroyed our economy and our country so that they could prosper.

There is a lot going on and I understand that, I also understand it is more information then people can take in and make sense of. It is hard to see the truth when all you hear is lies; but, it is critical to have discernment, to investigate and know what we can know and we can know quite a lot. Do not look for outside verification, you have to come to your understanding of reality by yourself; but, not on your own. Evaluate the information you are given rather than hide from it. Dismiss information based on your investigation and not on your biases.

The thing is, there are tremendous changes going on in the world and that creates fear and confusion. The world will not end in 2012, the world will see more changes. They are not going to throw everyone into death camps either. Having said that, the worlds economies will come crashing and there will be a solution. Whether you believe we have been here for millions of years or thousands of years, we will still be here. We have seen every kind of economic, military and social change that we could imagine already, this is just one more.

Some Respite

Sorry, nothing worthy of saying tonight. I went out for dinner with loved friends and relaxed. I am currently listening to this:

YouTube - Donald Fagen - New Frontier (Video)

Samsung Galaxy 3 - Update

I was reading the news and found this article on the phone I wrote about in the last post. This article includes a 1 hour video from some big gathering to announce the phone. I highly recommend that you watch minutes 30 to 40 or even the whole video. It shows and discusses what the phone can do. The video is at the bottom of the linked page.

Yahoo News = Tech it Up - New Galaxy S III phone is bigger and smarter

The phone never stops looking at or listening to you. It knows you better than your own family, it is your family. Isn't it great? I truly pray that my readers understand what we are becoming and where this technology will lead to.

A very long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, my High School was offered money by the federal government to conduct tests on me. I had taken the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Test (ASVAB) and right after I got the results, I found out I was moving. Somehow I had screwed the machine up, I had become an anomaly to what they expected. I have no problem admitting that I am a freak. I had two weeks notice that I was moving 3,000 miles away. On my last day in school, the Vice Principal stopped me, he said that the government had offered the school money to convince me to take more tests. Isn't that funny, twisted little Pimpernel confused them and they wanted to know more. LOL.

I guess I can never really understand what a freak I am. I guess I cannot understand why the federal government offered to pay my high school just so they could give me tests to try and understand me. My life is a circus or at least a freak show. I never forgot that they offered my school money to test me, I never forgot it as I watched these technologies emerge. It is a giant test, it is Rorschach test, it is a Briggs Myeres test, it is the use of technology to predefine who you are and what you will become. It is thought crime and pre-crime and a crime. If 99.999% of the people who think a certain way become rapists, should we be allowed to arrest and confine all people who think a certain way even the .001% who will never commit a rape? The outliers get to go to jail because of the odds, the innocent are willingly sacrificed to protect the innocent.

We are building a technology that will allow others to know everything about us, a technology that defines us for now and predicts with a level of uncertainty who we will become. The true purpose is to make people comfortable with arresting those who cannot predict, at such a small percentage, nobody will care. Nobody cares about freaks and outliers. They are freaks. You might tolerate grandma not using the internet, would you tolerate a 20 year old who refuses to own a cell phone?

I am going to bed; but, I do hope that I am still relevant in my posts.

Samsung Galaxy S III

I thought we might talk techie. Samsung is about to or has just released a new phone, the Galaxy S III. Now I am not suggesting anyone should buy one. Actually, what I want to do is talk a little bit about what the phone does, it can predict if you are going to call someone. The phone is loaded with biometric information, it even knows if you are you. There are two cameras in the phone, one that aims out and one that aims in.

Remember a little bit back when I wrote about the new google glasses. I had said that eventually they would be able to identify people out of your social network and others. Here is a quote from the article:

"And there’s more still: Facial recognition technology built into the S III identifies people in photos, and links to your friends’ pages on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, making it easy to e-mail or text a photo to the identified people." I find that very creepy. Take a picture of someone and your phone will find their social media pages. This is a whole new world for stalkers.

In the very near future, if you take someone's picture with your phone, facial recognition software will identify them for you. But, wait, here is the fun part. The courts have determined that anything that travels over the internet or cell towers then it is not private. That means the government can use your pictures to spy on people without your knowledge. You are going to love it though because the first big news of catching a child molester or a terrorist or a kidnapped kid will make us all love the technology that monitors all of us 24/7.

Wired - Samsung Galaxy S III Tracks Your Eyes, Knows When You’re Ready to Call

Hey, if I take a picture of myself the phone will both identify me and my location over the internet. Gosh, if we required all phones to have facial recognition and verify the user then we could prohibit terrorizers from using phones or the internet. We could prevent child molesters from talking to minors. The ability to limit speech is unlimited. Not really, after catching the first few the rest will find a work around; but, we will continue to be monitored.

I tell you that these things are coming and then as they arrive I show you that they are here. As you understand where we are heading you will be able to see how these things fit together if you understand the end game. The end game is all electronic currencies which can only be accessed by you through verifying your biometrics. That is where this is going and when the world's currencies crash and we go to all electronic currencies remember that I told you this was planned. Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to determine why anyone would want to create such a system.

I like to listen to music while I write, so I pull up youtube. If I login to this blog, youtube automatically logs into my account without being asked to. So, youtube knows which music I listen to even if I did not personally login. It didn't always work that way. Here is a question, what is the purpose of Store Reward Cards, you know the little card you swipe at the supermarket that lowers your prices? The purpose is to track your food purchasing habits individually. You should check out the following link:

Vons Just for You

I have to say that I came across this because I happen to shop at Vons on a daily basis. This was a new promotion that they began running a few weeks back. The store has had people stopping everyone who came in to see if they wanted to get personalized coupons by signing up for this program. They even gave a free carton of eggs. I didn't sign up; but, I do have a Vons card that I use. The point is that they didn't go to all this trouble just to give me discounts. Imagine combining this technology with google glasses, you could walk in the store and know which items you buy are on sale and where in the store they are. We will all be shopping 24/7 in are google heaven.

Here is a question. In the google glasses commercial. There is the part where the guy walks in the store and he asks where certain types of books were and it mapped it out for him. How did the glasses know what store he was in and where in the store he was down to inches? Think about this, none of this would be possible if people had not bought camera phones, can you even get one that doesn't have a camera in it now?

Just some fun news for you all. Have a great weekend.

A Day in Hiding

I needed some personal time so I took the day off and hid from the world. Sometimes little old autistic Pimpernel needs to be away from people, I think it is best for all parties concerned. My big achievement for the day was to drop off some money to buy food for the homeless from a foodbank.

While hiding I came across an article that I thought I should post here. It is about how rice that has been modified with human gene stuff is about to go commercial. The Washington Post - USDA Backs Production of Rice With Human Genes. Frankenstein would be proud. We are now going into open production of human-animal and human-vegetable hybrids. Does this bother anyone other than me? How is this different than cannibalism? There was a movie called "Soylent Green" It takes place in a time when food supplies are running out and they begin making food from people; but, nobody knows it. Personally I don't want to eat anything that has any human genes in it.

On another note, I received a very nice call from a former boss who wondered why I had not applied for a promotion. I gave my answer to him and he stated that he thought I was the only one that could do the job. I really appreciated that as we had not always seen eye to eye. It is nice to know that some people appreciate the efforts that I have put in.

The Sun and it's Magnetic Shift

The sun is changing, it is flipping it's magnetic pole. It happens every 11 years. This time it is doing it in a new and unusual manner. The south and north poles are beginning the process at different rates and times. The scientists don't have any idea why or what it may mean. The scientists are not very smart.

The climate scientists had predicted that global warming was occurring because of man made carbon emissions. The problem was that all the planets in the solar system were getting hotter at the same time; but, the scientists knew that solar flares were increasing and would continue to, then they decreased and this had not been anticipated. Obviously they should have then suspected that the sun was acting differently than their models had predicted and they should have asked why.

They were so busy trying to justify global warming as being man made in order to get all of the lovely grant money that they forgot to do their real job and figure out what the sun was doing. Well, now we know, it is acting erratically in ways that we don't understand. Some scientists think that this abnormal magnetic pole shift might result in even larger solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections. In other words it could result in an even worse effect on electronics than the flares that we thought were coming might have.

How many of you understand that this could be one of the biggest events in history and now consider how little attention this has received in the newspapers and on television? The media seems incapable of giving any true news analysis and even less inclined to make any effort at it. Lets look at this another way. What would have a bigger impact this year, a solar imbalanced magnetic pole shift or global warming? Well, even if you believe in global warming being man made, if a massive solar flare took out all of our electronics, that problem would be solved. No man made global warming if all the electronics in the world went down.

If you have that part down, lets try this. The cost of protecting the electronics from a probable solar flair event is less than reducing carbon emissions. Why is it then that we are doing nothing about protecting ourselves from a known historical event that appears likely to repeat itself? The type of flares would take out all the solar energy farms. Going all solar would mean going without any power. If we are going all electric, shouldn't we at least make them capable of withstanding such flares when we know that the sun goes through 11 transitions? Why is this not in the national debate, why isn't this reported on enough?

TPM Idea Lab - Scientists Stumped By Sun’s Asymmetrically Reversing Magnetic Field

I should make something clear. I am not alarmed by these things and they don't even bother me. The world will be around for awhile longer. A meteor could hit us any time and that has always been true. Solar flares could have decimated us or the sun cooled and the world could have ended. The thing I find the most interesting is how the media doesn't tell us about these things in a meaningful way. I write this blog because I want people to see what is meaningful and understand that you are being bombarded with the meaningless. Don't believe the story that anyone tells you no matter how comfortable you are with their answers, do your own research and require people to show their sources. After that find the people who disagree the most with your sources and determine if you find them credible.

L. A. Riots - 20 Years Ago

20 years ago I was 32. I was young with a wife and three young kids. We had just bought our first house and I spent 4 fours a day on the road to go to work. I had just begun to make a name for myself in my chosen profession. I was also at ground zero for when the riots began. I watched as crowds gathered after the verdict had been read. I was there just before the guard shack in front of the central police station was torched, I heard about it as I rode home. That night I heard there was some looting near where my grandmother lived, I got my gun and drove to her apartment to make sure she was safe. I drove past National Guard units who were being brought in.

I spent the night at my grandmothers and then drove into work. I decided to have a cup of coffee and a cigarette, so I stood in the middle of the street looking at the National Guard vehicles and the fires. The street was empty other than that and a few burned out and overturned cars. I remember thinking, this is my city and I will stand here and finish my coffee. It didn't hurt having my 38 on me. Later that day, I went to the top of one of the taller buildings and looked around me. It looked like a scene from the first Iraq war, there were fires as far as you could see.

By day two of the riots it stopped being about Rodney King and just became an excuse for people to steal. People in BMWs pulling into stores to stead big screen televisions. It was one of the most surreal times in my life. My kids didn't really understand what was going on and I didn't want them to worry about me; but, I had a job to do.

It seems like forever since then. So much has happened. After the riots I think we had all had enough and city quieted down. That is how these things often happen. A blow up and then everyone has to go back to their life. Change comes over time, I have seen it in my life. When I was 6 my parents drove us across country. A black man was not allowed in one of the restaurants because he was black. When I was in school they were just beginning busing in Los Angeles. Today we have a black president. 50 years ago they wouldn't let him use their restrooms.

We are on this earth but for a short time. Forgiveness and service to others really needs to be our approach. I taught about that yesterday at church. Anyways, just some rambling memories of a different time.