don't believe the hype

The Military’s Full Spectrum Dominance of Technological Development and the False Hopes of Transhumanism

Josh Deaver
Don’t Believe the Hype Radio
08-08-2008

The process of creating military doctrine is not something to be taken lightly; detailed plans of entire nations are drawn up with express goals by the greatest minds the military has to offer, often decades in advance. Using foresight and indicators of technological development, social and political changes and projected future military strategies, these groups are charged with creating years of preemptive military planning which attempts to address anticipated future scenarios without the benefit of hindsight or tempered reaction to threats as they arise. These reports, conducted by a myriad of different agencies, in and out of government, set out specific timetables for geopolitical shifts, military conflicts and technological development which acts as a blueprint for the future of the military establishment: that is, until the next doctrine is crafted. Even though futurism is not an exact science, and is frequently incorrect regarding its predictions, it is nevertheless treated as the validation for an increase in military technological development.

By drawing a timeline for predictions it allows Army Research, government laboratories and private contractors to set and accomplish specific goals having to do with the development of new military technologies in order to respond to these future warfare scenarios and security matters contained within the various doctrines and assessments.

These technological developments are legitimized through “total war” scenarios, contained within the myriad of futurist assessments produced by a lexicon of the military-industrial-laboratory-think tank complex. These assessments, which consistently project the possibility of cataclysmic war, beg the need for increased research and development into military applications of new technologies to respond to security and strategy concerns; results which get passed up the chain of command, eventually becoming official doctrine.

This need for increased military research and development is additionally legitimized by the current real revolution in technological development surrounding many scientific practices and areas of research, all of which have the very real potential to change the course of human history forever, and not surprisingly have piqued the interest of military and government agencies and the myriad of institutions conducting research in their employ.

These technologies and fields of study include information technology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, genetics, robotics, cybernetics, biometrics, virtual and augmented reality, human-computer interaction, bioengineering and several others. Falling under the loose description of ‘converging technologies’, many related issues surrounding these innovations such as genetically modified food and cloning have been fiercely debated and contested while other discussions have been left solely to scientific institutions, groups of internet researchers, the government and the military.

TECHNOLOGY FEEDS DOCTRINE; DOCTRINE FEEDS TECHNOLOGY

To supporters of these technologies, these wondrous new developments seem to guarantee a utopian society, with promises of greatly extended life spans, cures to disease and other biological problems, super abundance and a sustainable environment. However grand these ideas seem to be, the majority of funding institutions and developers of these technologies see these advances more as a real solution to the future security concerns and warfare scenarios of the United States, in short-- to be used in military engagements. This discrepancy in purposed uses of these developments represents a real danger and portends a technological (if not apocalyptic) disaster if not fully understood and addressed by people outside these specialized, insular scientific communities.

Although constantly changing and being updated the current blueprint of the future for the U.S Armed Forces is known as “Joint Vision 2020”, an update of the 1996 report “Joint Vision 2010”, which attempted to understand the future conflicts of the military and to prepare accordingly. Written in 2000, “2020” reiterates the need to achieve “full spectrum dominance”; the strategic control over all war fighting theatres—the land, sea, air, space and cyber-space—a concept that implies a significant investment into technological developments in order to achieve these ends, not only in money but in time.

In order to “take advantage of technology to achieve superior war fighting effectiveness,” massive funding and research has been undertaken in order to adapt the latest technological developments for use in military engagements. Primarily funded through various arms of the Department of Defense, including the National Science Foundation and DARPA, various intelligence agencies and Army Research-- private corporations, defense contractors, university laboratories, think tanks and various institutions act as participants along side the military/intelligence establishment in “future assessments projects” which highlight the need for continued development of advanced military-based technology. Then based on the military’s own recommendations, massive funding is delivered to the same research institutions and corporations in order to develop the necessary technology.

The National Security Agency, Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, the National Intelligence Council, Office of Naval Research, NASA, Space and Missile Defense Command, Army TRADOC, BAE Systems, SAIC, the Aspen Institute, Sandia National Laboratory and Booz Allen Hamilton are only a handful of the participants.

Using the half trillion dollar defense budget of the United States, these organizations have been feverishly funding, researching, developing and producing products that can be brought to bear and used in a military capacity. Some of these technologies already developed and purposed, include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), high tech ground sensors (UGS), active protection systems, robotic vehicles, non-line-of-sight weapons and many others, have already been developed and been plugged into the current operational picture.

Through various initiatives and programs, such as Army After Next and Future Combat Systems, the Army, in tandem with the most powerful private military contractors and others, are attempting to manifest the recommendations of so many think-tank reports and future assessments into the operational capacity of the U.S Military. Billed as a “modernization program” the goal of the 14 separate FCS programs is to streamline the military into a lightweight fighting force, assisted by advanced technologies, who will experience an unparalleled amount of battlefield inter connectivity. Theoretically, using the litany of ground sensors and soldier mounted cameras, coupled with advanced satellites and other surveillance vehicles; commanders will be able to analyze a battle situation much more quickly, allowing for increased situational awareness, giving the military a marked advantage in the urban battlefields of the latest U.S conflicts. Under this idea, generally referred to as “network centric warfare”, all aspects of military technology will be connected via the Global Information Grid (GIG) wired to command and control centers which will allow for real time analysis of battle situations, making the specter of “full spectrum dominance” that much more attainable.

However enterprising these technologies may be, there are more fantastic and unbelievable technologies being developed to make advanced satellites and robotic vehicles looks like mere tinker toys. It is here we begin to see the dangerous possibilities of “converging technologies” being used in a military capacity.

SHAPING THE FUTURE

As we have seen the proclivity of the military to use the latest in technological developments for military deployment, why should these newer “converging technologies’ be looked at any different, especially when they offer the prospect for much more effective military results? As the innovations of the 20th century based around nuclear, chemical and biological research were adapted for military use, so will be the innovations of the 21st century. This point has been confirmed by Future Combat Systems Army commanders, who state that every new technological breakthrough will be plugged into there “operational environment.

Regardless of military interest, however, a growing group of scientists, academics, philosophers and interested parties see these technologies as uniformly positive and are having a great impact in shaping the scope of public debate, or lack thereof, regarding the potential uses and implementations of these technologies. This group is known as transhumanists.

While the history of transhumanism does date back some time, I will not attempt to analyze its inception as readers can find countless hours of discussion regarding these subjects quite easily on the Internet, harkening back into the bio-futurist movement of the 1920’s. Transhumanists are not homogeneous by any stretch of the imagination; they encompass a diverse group of differing political and social opinions, and with the wide variety of interested participants comes a barrage of differing ideas about the purposed uses of these new technologies. For our purposes, however, simply know that transhumanism represents an idea that by using and applying these new technologies we may eliminate many of humanities biological problems and many other “undesirable aspects” of the human condition. These undesirable aspects, according to many transhumanist organizations, include disability, suffering, disease, aging, and involuntary death. Although the countless variations of concepts and ideas contained within transhumanism make it difficult to pin down an overarching ideology, it seems the principal goal among the highly fractured movement is to use technology in order to “improve human performance.” However, even with its diverse variety of ideas, political inclinations and its philosophical drivers, most transhumanists tragically still fail to appropriately address many basic questions regarding risk, equality, privacy and perhaps most importantly, militaristic intervention into research and development.

IMPROVING HUMAN PERFORMANCE?

Focusing on the latter, the same term “improving human performance” graces the lengthy 2002 report sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the U.S Department of Commerce called “Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance”. This report, the result of a series of government workshops sponsored by the National Nanotechnology Initiative; describes the current research and development regarding converging technologies and goes into great detail on not only the peaceful applications but the militaristic as well. Among the technologies discussed were the standard discussions of FCS-related technologies such as miniature sensors, high-speed processing and communication and uninhabited combat vehicles; but in addition, more high tech militaristic uses were proposed and discussed including:

– Sophisticated virtual reality systems for training,
– Fast, broadband brain-to-machine interfaces for military and civilians,
– Artificially intelligent robots operating on principles compatible with human goals,
– A more durable human body, resistance to stress, biological threats and aging,
– Improved systems for biological monitoring
– The control of human, animal and agricultural genetics
– Nano-Implant devices

These ideas represent goals hoped to be accomplished within the next 10-20 years for the use in “national security” operations, stating “it is essential to stay as technologically as far ahead of potential opponents as possible”. On it’s face not only do these technologies have the ability to reshape the future of warfare, they are almost guaranteed to expressly effect and transform every aspect of the social stratum. From ethics, to privacy, to commerce, to education, to medicine: ironically however, in this report it is the military and government which are able to offer more probing insight and cautious approach into potential misuses and societal implications that an increase in research and development may bring.

However, other reports regarding military uses of “converging technologies” do not contain such a tempered approach, and free of the pretense of “improving human performance”, military researchers, intelligence agencies and government scientists are able to become much more cavalier regarding the potential uses of these technologies.

NOT FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION

In June of 2000, Dennis Bushnell, head scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center gave a presentation regarding “Future Strategic Issues and Warfare circa 2025” to the Potomac Institute, a think tank that deals with future security issues. This presentation was based on extensive futures work between NASA and over 30 government and military agencies as well as contracting giants Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics.

Similar to the 2003 report, there is discussion regarding the more conventional applications of converging technologies, but within discussion of military deployment disturbing implications regarding the future of warfare, privacy, equality and humanity itself begin to be revealed. While Dr. Bushnell agrees that concepts such as self-replicating nano-machines, or “grey goo”, is a potential problem, no second thought is given to such radical ideas as “smart dust” (omnipresent sensors), binary bio-weapons, human genetic engineering, ‘co-opted insects and animals’, beam weapons, EMF weapons, infectious aerosolized pathogens and swarms of miniature robotic swarms.

These technologies, developed under the guise of preventing rouge states from obtaining military parity in the age of expanded technological knowledge (see “total war”), also have the ability to create new classes of technological control mechanisms not only to be used on potential military enemies, but domestic populations as well. While these concepts that come out of the “converging technologies” debate, such as “autonomous” surveillance offers great strategic advantage for military commanders, little to no safeguards have been put in place to prevent these technologies from being used in addition to the already monolithic domestic surveillance apparatus in many countries of the world. It is this type of basic privacy concern along with several others that allows even the most casual spectator to observe the litany of problems inherent with the development and implementation of these far-reaching technologies.

The world painted by Dr. Bushnell is one of constant warfare, the abolition of privacy, the increase in new and potentially destructive weapons systems, new types of organisms, ‘automated everything’ and by proxy, the increase of the prosperity gap; not only in military capabilities between nations but in society as a whole between the richest and poorest of the planet. As implementation for many of these technologies become a realistic notion, this gap will undoubtedly grow due to the fact that the world’s elite will be able to obtain commercial uses of these technologies long before the starving and destitute of the third world. This vision of the future runs diametrically opposed to the ideas of many transhumanists, who claim these technologies will be used to create a radically new world society, one is which the numerous benefits of new technologies will be used in tandem to usher in the next step of human evolution and a golden age of development.

This report--along with hundreds of others--which show such an obvious correlation between development of new technologies and aspirations of military deployment, in addition to the innumerable concerns regarding privacy and equality, casts serious doubts on whether or not these technologies will be used solely for the benefit of “improving humanity.” While many cannot argue the validity of some of the more humane uses of ‘converging technologies’, including this author, it seems quite disturbing to realize that the crux of development and application of these technologies, supposed to be used to help people, is concentrated primarily around the military and their private contractors, organizations not traditionally known for attempting to better the human experience.

With these clear relationships being established regarding funding, research, development and deployment and the military’s domination over all steps of the process, the inaction and lack of commentary from the transhumanists is truly deafening. If the aims of this group were truly to “improve human performance” and to usher in an equitable, utopian techno-progressive democracy, it would stand to reason that attempting to remove the overwhelmingly destructive, militaristic influence towards technological development would be of paramount concern. Additionally, a simple question must be asked: whose interest is the military working towards?

The answer is simple and is stated plainly in hundreds of strategy reports, think-tanks documents and futurist assessments; these technologies will be used to assure U.S military dominance of the future.

FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION

Stories regarding gene therapy, mapping the human brain and stopping paralysis with implantable devices appear sporadically throughout the news cycles, children’s television features positive messages regarding brain-machine interfaces, robots and future bioengineered organisms and the latest science fiction presents complex allegories regarding the future of the human condition. And while these messages deal with some of the most theoretical, fantastic uses of “converging technologies” still only limited coverage is being given to the potential for negative impacts in these all-important mass media venues for public consumption. The same is true within transhumanist circles, whose goals seem to be the inculcation of public opinion towards support of these radical advances while minimizing negative coverage.

Whether it is naivety, deceit, ambivalence or distraction, a large majority of transhumanism proponents fail to recognize the overwhelming influence of military interests in their pet technologies—or if they do recognize it, it is downplayed in favor of implementation for “improving human performance”. These optimistic attitudes regarding these technologies held by, not only the media, but also the very groups that are supposed to be initiating debate are shaping an uninformed public to become passively supportive when these technologies are finally implemented. Additionally troubling, with the increasing pace of development, these existential risks and other issues must be addressed as soon as possible before the wide spread use of these technologies prevents them from being regulated in any significant way. Now with significant military and government support for the development of converging technologies, to transhumanists, a global ban of these technologies is “unreasonable” and therefore, “we should act so as to minimize net existential risk”

And while transhumanists claim to be concerned about the existential risks and destructive nature of emerging technologies, many of them are so enamored with their own research and personal fastidious ideas and philosophy about the future that many fail to see the inherent problems with acceptance to these new forces of nature. In fact some are so captivated by the ideas of immortality, collective consciousness and a general “techno-salvation”, that all criticism is relegate to mere Neo-Luddite rhetoric, an anti-progressive attempting to throw his proverbial shoes into the machine.

Regardless, knowingly or not, transhumanism acts an effective smoke screen for clouding the debate regarding technology, instilling people with patently unrealistic notions, which fail to recognize even the most basic concerns of privacy, warfare and the increasing prosperity gap. This again presents many paradoxical issues and offers a host of questions that must be addressed. Is it in the best interest of humanity to allow a certain segment of society or an entire generation to grow up with transhuman augmentations, unlike generations previous? What kinds of long and short-term inequality will that cause? Will human-computer interfaces be mandatory for all, as some have suggested? Will there be conflict between those accepting the augmentations and those not? Will these technologies be free to all? Who will be determining the course of implementation?

CAN IT BE REVERSED?

With the number of problems facing the implementation of “converging technologies” contrasted with the amount of starving and dying people in the world today-- perhaps food, water, clothing and shelter are a little more important than the whims and desires of scientists and military strategists to implement advanced technologies across the whole of society. Issues of ‘common sense’ also arise regarding a technology transfer from the scope and purview of the military into the consumer culture, where the idea that these technologies will simply, one day, be handed over for the benefit of all mankind—without being used for destructive means—becomes truly laughable.

Although many will claim these technologies are being developed for purely virtuous purposes; self-interest, personal ideologies and the cause of “military strategy” have hindered the potential for this theoretical, utopian future and relegated it to an age of hyper-mechanized warfare and unchecked development with the potential for cataclysmic destruction growing larger everyday. Additionally, due to the nature of scientific research and, to a degree, the specialization of “converging technologies”; a large majority of scientists involved with developing these technologies, will never speak out regarding their potential dangers, lest the possibility for National Science Foundation grant money disappearing. With the military, government and private interests controlling the research and development process for these technologies, this will be a difficult path to reverse.

While billions of dollars and thousands of man-hours are being put in to adapt artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and other new innovations for militaristic use, feeding the “full spectrum dominance” doctrine, transhumanists continue to use utopian rhetoric, unrealistic circumstances and sci-fi cinematic allegories to deflect criticism to cloud public perceptions about the true realities of technological development today. With promises of virtual reality, mind uploading and other extraordinary innovations, the transhumanism movement is quickly gaining proponents and prominence within the scientific community. However, by imposing their own well-meaning values and ideas on the military establishment, who act as the true developers of these technologies, and by failing to take a critical look at core issues of privacy, warfare, equality and implementation, it becomes a simple exercise to assume the best intentions and to continue forward unabated. To continue with this unflappable confidence regarding the outcomes that implementation of these new technologies might bring, could prove to be a extremely risky gambit.

Many differing opinions continue to present themselves regarding the future of technology—some believe these innovations can be curtailed as to not be used for destructive purposes, while some believe the it is too late for any effective restrictions. Regardless, for those concerned about these developments, only through massive public education, transparency in research and development, selective arms limitations and international treaties, can these technologies be limited in an administratively equitable and most importantly, peaceful way. Outside of these possibilities only dictatorial and tyrannical options remain.

Josh Deaver hosts "Don't Believe the Hype Radio" an internet-only radio talk show on RevereRadio.org .

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Continued discussion regarding military development of nanotechnology and other 'converging technologies' for the expressed purpose of national security concerns-- i.e militaristic deployment. In order to effectively halt the production of new technologies and to potentially prevent a global catastrophe, the concept of specific arms limitation agreements must be agreed upon. Regard to the issue of planetary stability must be viewed with more importance than the myopic and unrealistic ideas of these technologies being developed by rouge states/terrorist organization or that these technologies will usher in a new golden age utopia of techno-salvation.

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Discussion regarding the benefactors and proponents of government-imposed environmental regulations and the dominate corporate interests in the green movement/industry. Additionally, how the unproven returns of investment into green industry and the subsequent full-scale endorsement of billions of dollars by the top multi-national corporations and venture capital funds demonstrates a clear agenda and perhaps a hidden understanding regarding future green legislation and regulations. Is it a 'must be'?

Capital Research Center by Timothy Carney: United States Climate Action Partnership

Capital Research Center by Fred Lucas: Al Gore's Carbon Empire

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Black and white pieces on a checkered board,
austere and severe with masonic lore,
the backdrop of earth comes into view,
while presenting a picture that much askewed.
Startling in its brevity, a moment of clarity.
in the passage of time, peace is a rarity.
Relative calm with small interuption,
limited skimish with civil disruption,
now total war with endless corruption.
In the waining moments players plot out the strategy
of a global game where the end result has to be
tragedy and total control of humanities fate.
Check mate.

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Washington Post: Study confirms "Kevin Bacon" theory
The implications of this story are huge. First of all, it demonstrates the ability in which telecom companies and computer companies have to conduct massive surveillance operations for "research". Secondly, it shows the inter connectivness and predicability of our society which allows for exploitation for those seeking strategic advantage. Additionally, it also gives a commercial example of technology which is already being used extensively by military interests for modeling and simulations databases. With increased cooperation between these "private" companies and military/government interests and increased use of a input-based simulators, the prospects of a completely predictable and easily manipulated society become more likely.

Federation of American Scientists: Avatars, Virtual Reality Technology, and the U.S. Military: Emerging Policy Issues

London Telegraph: Millions of profiles from DNA database passed to private firms.

The pieces are currently lining up on the 'grand chessboard', forming a picture of the next global conflict, known as WWIV. This conflict will center around a growing number of nations attempting to secure economic and military independence outside of the traditional Anglo-American power axis, countries centered around Russia, China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. This will not be done without a retaliation however, as Anglo-American factions are now attempting to shift the suicidal wars of the Middle East towards the East into Central Asia. By a massive media propaganda blitz attempting to characterize Afghanistan as "the right war" and to justify military action against Pakistan-- as well as news of NATO missile stations, Russia and Venezuela energy cooperation and African subversion attempts-- the end result appears simple. This conflict will have disastrous effects of the entire planet, especially if the use of new dangerous military weapons is allowed to occur.

PressTV: Brzezinski: McCain would start WWIV

Reuters: "Suspected" U.S missile strike kills six in Pakistan

Pakistan Link: Pakistan has right to retaliate if forces are attacked

London Times: Pakistan warns that US-India nuclear deal could lead to arms races
More destabilization?

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Global Research: Energy and Arms dominate Russia-Venezuela talks
Global Research: Russia-Venezuela Alliance?

Global Research: Is Africa a Cold War Battleground?

Global Research: "Shanghai Six" and the Collective Security Organization are to React to American Missile Defence Plans

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Discussion of the stated goals and proposed applications from military research and development of nanotechnology and other 'converging technologies'

Bonn International Center for Conversion by Jurgen Altmann: Limiting Military Uses of Nanotechnology and Converging Technologies

Bonn International Center for Conversion: Improving the Human Being?

Global Research: America's Cyborg Warriors

SCIAM: Robot Dragonfly takes flight
This is just the tip of the iceberg for the new generation of surveillance technology, this model is primitive compared to what DARPA has already developed and tested.

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July 22, 2008 09:30 AM PDT

Laugh if you want to, or say you don't care
If you cannot see it, you think it's not there
It doesn't work that way.
-Devo

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BOOK: Club of Rome's First Global Revolution

Philippe Braillard: New Political Values for a World in Crisis: The Approach of the Club of Rome

DailyTech: Myth of Consensus Explodes

IATA Press Release: IATA claims Carbon Taxes don't reduce emissions

Australia's Sun Herald: Seven graphs to end the Warming Hype
Your going to need a lot more than science and graphs to stop an ideaological world view such as this. When a movement is based on demagougic semantics and abstract moral notions, it becomes nearly impossible to combat through reason, logic or discussion of any kind. Science and research to fit an ideaology...what a world

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John McLean (NZCSC Member): Opposing the IPCC Dogma

WorldChanging.org: Imagine What Comes After Green
Isn't it funny how "grassroots" organizations and collectives such as this always repackage the same ideas put out by top globalist political theorists and government think-tanks, to their specific base of activists, with the express goals of legitimizing and allowing our "intellectual betters" (the technocracy) to steer and plan a global society towards desired ends. The "Technotronic Era" and a "pyscho-civilized", post-industrial society.

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Coughing Fit...talk amoungst yourselves...you know the topic.

ScienceDaily: Nano-modified Food: How Much Are Consumers Willing To Accept The Associated Risks?

SceinceDaily: Nanotechnology: Learning From Past Mistakes

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Discussion of the recent coordinated media push characterizing the War in Afghanistan as "the right war". These statements demonstrate the realignment of certain forces within the intelligence agencies and the overall desire to shift the Global War on Terror eastward towards encircling and destabilizing Russia and China. This of course is the policy of Barack Obama, who hides his suicidial megalomania behind promises of ending the war in Iraq...and refocusing our efforts towards fighting terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan...and then we'll use Iran to destabilize some more and fund coups in Sudan, Tibet and Zimbabwe...and then we'll use our Polish missile station, puppet states and space-based warfare to start WWIII to cut off the SCO and try to ensure Anglo-American/Banker hegemonic domination of the future...

Wired.com: Game Controllers Driving Drones, Nukes

Discussion of the Military-Entertainment Complex, which has conditioned the "Nintendo Generation" through war video games, which inspires greater shoot-to-kill responses, and ideas about future conflicts-- called predicitive programming. And now with auntonomous military systems being used more readily, controlled through the firmiliar interfaces of videogames, the conditioning has ensured a new generation of warriors less restrained by regard for human life and more likely to manifest the wholesale violence of a video game into the material world.

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July 20, 2008 02:21 PM PDT

ATTENTION: Books are being scrubbed from the internet, information to expose these systems is being destroyed. Get as many hardcopy books as you can, while you can. Example? The infamous page 75 of "the First Global Revolution" has convinently been recently removed from Google Books. Page 75 discusses the idea of using "famine, resources shortage, and global warming" being used as a means to unite humanity behind a common goal. That would "fit the bill" indeed. You can still view portions of the book from a cached link here, but for some other reason on my end all searches in Google Books for "First Global Revolution" are coming up as 'no preview'. Upon further investigation, a high-quality PDF file is still available at archive.org and quotes are scattered throughout the internet. Take advantage of this information while you can.

Here is the quote for posterity...
"In searching for a common enemy against whom we can unite, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and like, would fit the bill. In their totality and thier interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which must be confronted by everyone together. But in designating these dangers as the enemy, we fall into the trap, which we have already warned readers about, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention in natural processes, and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself."
-Club of Rome "First Global Revolution" pg. 75

Here's some flyers I made up..print them out and pass them around town...if you dare.

There's a 75% chance I won't have a new episode this week, but you can look for me on "P.N.A.C Radio" coming up later this week on WTPRN.com

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July 15, 2008 03:41 PM PDT

Suture up the future with lofty new tropes.
Utopian promises to distract the hopes,
of those who pray for humanities' techno-salvation--
instead of military full spectrum domination.
-Josh Deaver

THANKS TO "P.N.A.C RADIO" on WTPRN.com FOR HAVING ME ON THEIR SHOW !!

2nd Hour MP3

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Take a step outside your planet and turnaround...take a look at where you are--it's pretty scary.

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Conituation of last week's discussion, focusing on how the military and other developers of 'converging technologies' steer technological development, manifest the deployment and justify the use of these technologies in every sector of life, using future assessments, think-tanks and unflappable panels of experts. Additionally discussed is how this 'need' for the militaristic use of NBIC technolgoies is backed up by 'total war' scenarios contained in within the same reports authored by government, military agencies, think-tanks and private contractors which (conveniently) feeds into the DOD's stated doctrine of "full spectrum dominance"

Discussion of the inherent inequalities having to do with what would be the coercive/voluntary implementation of biometric implants and augmentations, as well as the distorted view of normalcy coming from 'transhumanist' proponents, caused by adherence to doctrine and the insular nature of their highly spedcialized sceintific community.

Sci-Fi writer, Greg Egan's critique of transhumanism

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GlobalResearch.ca: Invisible Wars of the Future

10 Zen Monkeys: Give me Immortality or give me death

Business and Media Institute: ABC Reporters Team Up with Environmental Activists on Planet Green

Australia's Herald Sun: Fatal Delusion over Climate Change

Alabamawx.com: Global Warming Turns Cool

Slate.com: Wall-E sends the wrong message...

Russet and Stam (Yale University): Russia-NATO and the future of US-Chinese relations

MetaNexus's Global Spiral: Transhumanism and the Posthuman Future: Will Technological Progress Get Us There?

START THE DEBATE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE !

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don't believe the hype_070808_no possibility for harm, optimists run the farm, they think its for the best, utopia for the rest, i hope they have a lucky charm

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July 07, 2008 09:58 AM PDT

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Discussion of presidential candidate Barack Obama and his policies, which run contrary to every image of the establishment demagogue that is put forth by the mainstream media. Displaying many characteristics of a bottom-up, grassroots fascist movement-- the presidency of Barack Obama will represent a time in America of expanded endless, much more suicidal wars, austere economic sacrifices, increased police state measures and an increase in the power of financial oligarchs everywhere. By simply examining his own actions and statements, the prospect of 'change we can believe in' seems less and less likely.

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Bloomberg: Alcoa, Shell Want Climate Plan, Global Carbon Limits

World Business Council for Sustainable Development: Speech by Bjorg Stinson (2003)

Scroll down to last weeks post and check out some of the gigantic databases and the many white papers and think-tank reports regarding "converging technologies"

Discussion of the many paradoxes and hypocrisies involved with the discussion of "improving human performance" in the face of massive militaristic interest and funding involved in development of these 'converging technologies'. Is the military going to retire "full spectrum dominance" and its military doctrines of the forceable future to delivery humanity life-changing technologies? Why is their little to no public discussion of technologies which have the ability to change the world are literally years away from being perfected? And why are the organizations charged with supposedly discussing the societal implications of such technologies (transhumanists) obsessed with unrealistic, uber-optimistic, utopian visions of the 'convergence', distracting the issue with sci-fi delusions-- rather than discussing the real possibilities for military use and dangerous societal implications.

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2001 NASA: Future Strategic Issues of Future Warfare (2025) **READ THIS**
Look at all the wonderful things NASA and Army Research have in store for us, they’ll be improving our lives with ‘smart dust’, advanced missile systems and bio-warfare…yay!

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July 01, 2008 04:24 PM PDT

Sorry no show this week…taking some time off, be back on the 8th … here’s some databases to start you out. Spend some time going through these reports, if you got it.

Los Alamos Laboratory: Online Database

Google Directory: Top Futurist Predicitions Organizations/Sites (some good, some not)

Army War College: Research and Publications

Air Force University: Massive Data Collection

United Nations: Millenium Project
Read the U.N assessment for the year 3000…weird stuff

Today I’ll be highlighting some of the various white papers and think-tank reports regarding "Converging Technologies" and aligned scientific practices being discussed by Army Research, DARPA, NSF, NASA and more…

NIC 2001: Global Technology Revolution: Bio/Nano Trends

2002 NSF: Roco and Bainbridge: Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance
The one that started it all…so to speak

2003 NSF: Roco and Bainbridge: Nanotechnology-Societal Implications Maximizing Humanity Benefit

2004 NIC: Mapping the Global Future (2020)

2005 NSF: Roco and Bainbridge: Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations (The Sequel)

Is it naivety or deceit that causes all these scientist and transhumanist proponents to proclaim that these technologies will be used solely for virtuous purposes? Remember these very NSF scientists and private sector think-tanks also prepare similar reports for the use of NBIC in military engagements. Don’t forget Future Combat Systems.

2001 NASA: Future Strategic Issues of Future Warfare (2025) **READ THIS**

2004 British Report: Nano-Info-Bio-Cogno Shaping the Future of European Socities

2006 UK DCDC: Global Strategic Trends Programme 2007-2036
Why do they predict 30 years of escalating rioting and flash-mobs?

2004 NSF/NIH/Army Research/NASA/USDA: International R&D (Research and Development) in BioSensing
Look at the sponsors…BioSensing is an essential FCS technology

2007 NSF: Advancing Human Computing (aka Mind-Machine Interface)

2007 NSF/WTEP: International Assessments on R&D into Man/Computer Interfaces

1996 Loyola University pre-WTEC: Human Computer Interaction (yes….in 1996)

Here’s a good starting point for think-tanks involved in many future assessment projects

Association of Professional Futurists

FBI/Society of Police Futurists

Future Working Group

RAND Corporation Future Studies Program

Woodrow Wilson Center for Foresight in Governance

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

IFTF Future Now

Center for Strategic and International Studies
CSIS: ‘Seven Revolutions’ Study

Here’s some interesting programs and papers regarding military Modeling and Simulation Programs and the idea of ‘virtual worlds’

2006 NSF: Modeling and Simulation Overview
They love us so much they want to know everything about us and how we act…

2007/2008 NSF: William Bainbridge: Virtual Nations

Accelerating Studies

Arden Center for Virtual Worlds (Indiana University) Synthetic World Initiative

Human Terrain Mapping
Shows the increased use of anthropologists contracted by the military to develop profiles of indigenous areas to be used in an operational capacity as well as being fed into modeling and simulation programs

2001 Parameters Magazine: Future Warfare and the Decline of Human Decision Making

Military Review Magazine: 4th and 5th Generation Warfare

There are groups out there trying to influence the debate regarding the potential for disaster inherent in these ‘converging technologies’

University of S. Carolina: IPSPR: The Use of Emergent Technologies for Enhancing Human Performance: Are We Prepared to Address the Ethical and Policy Issues?

Converging-Technologies.com

And finally….a word from the disgusting Malthusian, rapacious, neo-fuedal World Business Council for Sustainable Development…
WBCSD: Speech by Bjorg Stinson (2003)

NEVER DO HTML IN MS WORD!!!!!! AHHHHHH

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June 19, 2008 04:16 PM PDT

SONG: Naked City- Billy Liar

SONG: Dead Kennedys- Soup is Good Food

Discussion regarding the global standardization of environmental education with help from environmental NGO's, proselytizing politicians and corrupted religious leaders of all faiths in order to instill a biocentric world view and to adopt a united "global civil ethic" written about in countless U.N declarations-- again promoted and financed by the usual international financier suspects and aligned private interests.

Freedom.org (Michael Shaw's Freedom 21): Rise of Global Green Religion

MIC FAILURE #1: Naked City- Jazz Snob Eat Shit
SONG: Roy Shivers- Maze
MIC FAILURE #2: Naked City- Dead Dread
SONG: Devo- Gates of Steel

Tennessee Center for Policy Research: Energy Guzzled by Al Gore’s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for a Month

MIC FAILURE #3: Naked City- The Prestidigitator
SONG: Butthole Surfers- Hurdy Gurdy Man

Music by Josh Deaver featuring clips from "Changesurfer Radio" hosted by Dr. James Hughes
Visit "Changesurfer" and listen to the archives to get caught up on the latest in Transhumanist thought

NewScientist: What Comes after Homo Sapiens? by Dr. James Hughes

YOUTUBE: More "Naked City" Jazz-Insanity

ADDITIONAL LINKS:
Futurist Assessments

FUTURIST Magazine: Trends Shaping Tomorrow's World (2008)

NewScientist: Brilliant Minds Forecast the Next 50 Years (2006)

Proteus Management Group/Army Center for Strategic Leadership: Analyzing Future Complex National Security Challenges within the Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational Environment (2006)

Visit Proteus USA for recent studies.

!!MASSIVE!! Air University Center for Strategy and Technology

This database contains thousands of military/private sector white papers discussing not only converging technologies but also the newest doctrines of the Armed Forces (i.e Joint Vision 2020), future conflict studies, revolution in military affairs, 4th generation asymmetric warfare and links to hundreds of think-tanks and laboratories that offer their own perspectives. This is an invaluable resource.

Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Modeling and Simulation: Linking Entertainment and Defense

dontbelievethehype_061708_put our conflicts of interest aside, to gaia you'll abide, when corps, government, NGO's and religion are on the same side

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June 13, 2008 10:19 AM PDT

SONG: They Might Be Giants- I'm Impressed

BLTC Research (that's Better Living through Chemistry): Wirehead hedonism versus paradise-engineering

U.S Air Force AIM Points: To fight future cyberbattles, Air Force recruiting part-time geeks
Air Force Uber-Alles

Wired.com "Danger Room": Top Pentagon Scientists Fear Brain-Modified Foes

EETimes.com: Simulation Challenge: Mimicking Earth and the Brain

SONG: Public Enemy- Louder Than a Bomb

Capital Research Center: George Soros' Social Justice Cinema
More evidence showing the current corporate/foundation-funded leftist coup taking place in the United States with Z-Big (Obama) at its head.

UN Directory Department of Information: Non-Governmental Organizations Directory

United States Climate Action Partnership: Membership List

World Resources Institute: Annual Report 2006

ISNET.org: Rockefeller Family Puts Pressure on Exxon-Mobil

Ask yourself why the largest corporations of the planet (including many who do real irrevocable damage to the environment) are the biggest proponents of sustainable development and man-made global warming initiatives. Don't forget all these corporations belong to global corsortiums under the auspices of the United Nations, which promote man-made global warming and sustainable development from the very top as a means for the transformation of the global economic order and the introduction of a post-industrial society.

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

SONG:Jamaroquai- Virtual Insanity

Discussion regarding the lauding praise of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and the scientific immunity given to them by the Nobel Prize in the face of countless conflicts of interests, the use of alarmist principles and statistics and perversion of the scientific method

Former IPCC Member Slams UN Scientists' Lack of Geologic Knowledge

Opposing the IPCC Dogma

2007 IPCC Assessment Process: Obvious Conflict of Interest

Climate Panel Charged With Conflict of Interest

IPCC: On the Run at Last

List of Scientist Opposing Mainstream View of Man-Made Global Warming

SONG: Roy Shivers- Clinton's Coke
myspace.com/royshiversrap

BOOK: "Spirit and Nature" by Steven C. Rockefeller

Abroad View Magazine: Interview with Steven Rockefeller on the Earth Charter

UNJobs.org: Steven C. Rockefeller Bibliography

Environmental Conservation Organization: The Rise of Global Green Religion 1996

SONG: Naked City- Bonehead

dontbelievethehype_061008_why?

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June 11, 2008 07:27 AM PDT

SONG: Public Enemy- Don't Believe the Hype

A special discussion regarding the influence of finance capital, multi-national corporations and tax-free foundations on the environmental movement, as well as the current corporate-financed "people power" coup taking place in the United States today under leftist cover.

SONG: Presage- Why?

dontbelievethehype_060308_full spectrum dominance: not just for the military

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June 04, 2008 08:00 AM PDT

SONG: Public Enemy- Dont Believe the Hype

YOUTUBE: Invasion of the Inhuman

SONG: Dead Kennedys- Soup is Good Food

Discussion of Full-Spectrum Dominance and the U.S Air Force's new Cyber Command Center

Asia Times: The U.S: Masters of your Universe

ARGUS-IS article by Brian Leninger (DARPA iXo head/ former Lockheed exec): A next-generation system enables persistent surveillance of wide areas

SONG: Eric B and Rakim- Put Your Hands Together

Prisonplanet.com: UNESCO's Task of Unifying the World

Club of Rome: The First Global Revolution
page 75

MORE BOOKS TO FIND:
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Vaclav Klaus: "Blue Planet, Green Shackles"
Austin Williams: "Enemies of Progress"

Green Left.org: Pacifying Civil Society

Green-Agenda.com: Gaia's Gurus

SONG: John Zorn- Blood Dust

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May 26, 2008 09:16 AM PDT

Sorry, no show this week...heres some articles to check out in the mean time...

'2001': A Space Odyssey' Voted Most Realistic Vision of the Future

Asia Times: The U.S: Masters of your Universe

Green Left.org: Pacifying Civil Society
good article showing the effect of tax-free foundations on radical social change movements (advocated by Greenleft.org)

Newswithviews.com: Dr. Dennis Cuddy on Tax-Free Foundations

Follow-up to Total Information Awareness, cataloguing "relationships" since 2003: ADVISE Presentation by Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

Military Review Magazine: Persistent Surveillance and Its Implications for the Common Operating Picture

ARGUS-IS article by Brian Leninger (DARPA iXo head/ former Lockheed exec): A next-generation system enables persistent surveillance of wide areas

Raytheon's Persistent Surveillance Program: PSDS2

The official DOD "blueprint" for military operations until 2020 which heavily emphasized the need for "Full Spectrum Dominance",now acts as the driving force for all military technological development: Joint Vision 2020

DefenseLink.mil: Joint Vision 2020 Emphasizes Full-Spectrum Dominance

Department of Defense: Information Operations Roadmap

YOUTUBE: David Rothkopf's "Superclass" Lecture

Elites are bad, and we will always have them
but they are the skilled so we will always need them.
The system is global, players die all the time
and get replaced by the next one in line.
Many are my friends, but the institutions must be stronger
so the superclass can rule a little bit longer.
Don't you know that 'democracy and justice' always trumps sovereignty
and free-market systems that cause inequality.
Now reformation, reformation, a change is needed
to bring the people back under our edict.
We'll promise to be nice, promise to be fair
as long as you remain under our care.
Don't get out of line or question this system,
now you have the chance for mid-level positions
You'll have peace, love and justice, all you can handle
as the superclass blows the world out like a candle
-Josh Deaver

dontbelievethehype_052008_while hes considered quite a bore, his friends and money bring us towards 'all gore'

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May 19, 2008 03:23 PM PDT

NOTE: I'm starting to delete old episodes, if you would like an mp3, email me @ dontbelievethehype1@hotmail.com

SONG: Public Enemy- Don't Believe the Hype

SONG: Gorillaz- Tomorrow Comes Today

YOUTUBE: The Ollie North Song

Discussion of Al Gore's connections to cap-and-trade proponents and carbon credit trading firms which, under government imposed global warming laws or Kyoto protocols (which are sooo wonderful), will line the pockets of select technocrats and empower governments to increase crackdown on enviro-laws, which are designed to re-order society into a post-industrial era.

Capital Research Center: Al Gore's Carbon Crusade- The Money and Connections Behind It

Capital Research Center: The International Green Agenda

SONG: They Might Be Giants: Kiss Me, Son of God

BOOKS TO FIND
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"Environmentalism at a Crossroads" by Johnathan Adler
"The Costs of Kyoto" by Johnathan Adler
"The Green Wave" by Bonner Cohen
"Politically Incorrect Guide to the Environment" by Christopher Horner
"Global Greens: Inside the International Environmental Establishment" by James M. Sheehan
"Environmental Gore: A Constructive Response to Earth in the Balance" by John Baden

Paul K. Driessen: Eco-Imperialsm: Green Power and Black Death

GlobalResearch.ca: Global Gridlock-- How the US Military-Industrial Complex Seeks to Contain and Control the Earth and Its Eco-System

PrisonPlanet.com: 31,000 Scientists reject Global Warming Theory:

Please support Jack Blood, Alan Watt and the few broadcasters that have their heads on straight.

SONG: Jamaroquai- Virtual Insanity

dontbelievethehype_051308_rants, raves, robots, rope-a-dopes and rap... download 33 times for safe keeping

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May 12, 2008 03:08 PM PDT

SONG: Public Enemy- Don't Believe the Hype the enemy is the fake guardian. SONG: Aesop Rock- 39 Thieves ADVISE Program Basics: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ADVISE Sentient World Simulation: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=sentient+world+simulation&btnG=Search Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute: www.AGIRI.org Strong Self Modification: http://www.agiri.org/wiki/Strong_Self-Modification Dr. Ben Goetzel: http://www.goertzel.org/ Gentle Introduction to AGI by Dr. Pei Wang: http://nars.wang.googlepages.com/wang.AGI-Intro.htm AGI by Ben Goertzel: http://www.agiri.org/wiki/Artificial_General_Intelligence AGI Projects: http://www.agiri.org/wiki/AGI_Projects Anthrotronix Projects: http://anthrotronix.com/template.php?content=currentprojects Darpa's IXO Artificial Intelligence Control Grid: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2301756762339435723 Darpa's Defense Sceince Office Programs: http://www.darpa.mil/dso/programs.htm Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Lab: http://www.atl.external.lmco.com/ Improving Warfighter Information Intake Under Stress (AugCog): http://www.darpa.mil/dso/thrusts/trainhu/warfighter/index.htm SONG: KRS-One, Zach de la Rocha, Last Emporer- C.I.A (Criminals in Action) you know the cops got a network for the toxic rock Disussion of the current environmental movement and man-made global warming hysteria...which, if unchallenged, will inevitably lead to fulfillment of the Club of Rome's "World Problematique" and the underlying principles of globalism, technocracy, planned society and eugenics through a myriad of legislation, treaties, decrees and NGO action. http://www.theclimatescam.com SONG: Roy Shivers- Clinton's Coke myspace.com/royshiversrap Honeywell's (w/ Lockheed ATL and Phantom Works) AUGCOG Basics: http://www.b-alert.com/augcog/augcog_honeywell.pdf Human-Computer Interface Gets Personal: http://www.afcea.org/signal/articles/templates/SIGNAL_Article_Template.asp?articleid=1159&zoneid=188 Army Yanks 'Voice to Skull' Site: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/army-removes-pa.html Pentagon Wants Cyberwar Range to 'Replicate Human Behavior and Frailties': http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/the-pentagons-w.html DOD's Joint Ground Robotics Enterprise: http://www.jointrobotics.com/ Piecing Together the Next Generation of Cognitive Robots: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080506120216.htm Tax Exempt Foundations Basics: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tax-exempt_foundations The (Rockefeller) General Education Board and Friends by John Taylor Gatto: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/12o.htm SONG: Gang Starr- Say Your Prayers NOT DISCUSSED ON AIR: ------------------------------------------ India/China Cyber Warfare: http://www.dailytech.com/India+Accuses+China+Of+Attacks+Seeks+To+Defend+Itself+In+Digital+War/article11687.htm The Overshadowed Issue- Russia: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/02/opinion/main4066695.shtml U.S Space Command "Vision for 2020": http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/usspac/visbook.pdf Thought Police Blog: http://thoughtpolice.wordpress.com ...more to come....

dontbelievethehype_050608_z big and obomber: BFFL...but seriously, they are deadly dangerous...

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May 03, 2008 12:16 PM PDT

Song: They Might Be Giants- One More Parade don't be ashamed..war is a game..world in flames...so start the parade. Song: Richie Havens- License To Kill Michael Ruppert: Z Big Presentation Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Uc8gpFe5s Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RehaxC2O9k Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gZBn5yWTAA Barack Obama: Pakistan War 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIum0o-_LZk Barack Obama acting tough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb711Dnwf5c Obama: I've learned an immense amount from Dr. Brzezenski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASlETEx0T-I Song: Bethlehem- Schatten aus de Alexander Welt sorry for making your ears bleed...hah Jack Blood interviews Webster Griffin Tarpley on "Deadline Live"- April 24, 2008: http://www.JackBlood.com "Obama The Post Modern Coup" by Webster Griffin Tarpley: Buy it...NOW! http://www.amazon.com/Obama-Postmodern-Making-Manchurian-Candidate/dp/0930852885/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209840289&sr=8-1 Song: Donovan: Hurdy Gurdy Man

dontbelievethehype_042908_not enough time to list the crimes

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April 29, 2008 11:39 PM PDT

Song: Pixies- I Bleed Song: Rush- Subdivisons Song: Aphex Twin- Heliosphan Song: Add N to (x)- On the Wire of Our Nerves (featuring clips from: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zejpx_1Fs5w) Prepare to be Transitioned into your new habitat: http://parallelnormal.com/2007/05/02/financiers-bureaucrats-intensify-push-for-human-habitats/ Google: Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, Pew etc. etc. Foundation Annual Report 2007 The Duplicity of Barack Obama by Yours Truly: www.jonesreport.com/articles/200507_duplicity_obama.html Internet has 3 years to face Borg Assimilation: http://www.truthnews.us/p=2173 Song: Devo- Gates of Steel Could Soldiers be Prosecuted for Thought Crime?: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/04/can-soldiers-be.html DARPA wants soldiers to touch, from 300 feet away: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/04/darpa-wants-sol.html House Set to Grill Military on 'Human Terrain': http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/04/the-social-and.html U.S Spies use Custom Video Games to Learn how to Think: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/04/spy_games Song: Dragonforce- Flame of Youth Song: Donovan- Hurdy Gurdy Man

dontbelievethehype_042208_technocrats helping technocrats: the rule of the skilled

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April 17, 2008 08:47 AM PDT

Mind Uploading and the Singularity: http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/mind-uploading-and-singularity VIDEO:http://brainstimulant.blogspot.com/2008/04/human-version-20.html SONG: Kraftwerk- The Man Machine Professor calls for Brain Chips: http://infowars.net/articles/april2008/140408Chip.htm The Government wants to wrap their minds around yours: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103296.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 Head Games: Video Controller Taps into Brain Waves: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=head-games-video-controller-brain SONG: Tool- Aenima BOOK: Technocracy by Dr. Andrew Wallace: http://books.google.com/books?id=NVSu0wRSRX8C&client=safari SONG: Butthole Surfers- Hurdy Gurdy Man SONG: Aesop Rock- Dark Heart News Genetically Modified Humans? No Thanks: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/15/AR2008041501620.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 Supermen and Women in 15 Years?: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/04/15/supermen-and-women-within-five-to-15-years-say-scientists-89520-20383861/ U.S has launched Cyber-Security "Manhattan Project":http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/feds-cyber-cent.html U.S. Air Force sets up cyberspace command against continuing China attacks: http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2008/ea_china0041_04_10.asp Experts divided over Cyber-Terrorist threat:http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39382598,00.htm Industrial Control Systems Killed Once and Will Again, Experts Warn: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/industrial-cont.html Cyber War and Estonia's Panic Attack: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/cyber-war-and-e.html Report: U.S. to support Czech research in exchange for radar base: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/29/content_7877686.htm Report: Strike on Iran nearing: http://prisonplanet.com/articles/april2008/150408_b_strike.htm Army tests robotics at Ft. Eustis: http://www.wvec.com/news/military/stories/wvec_military_041508_army_robot_tests.6917ac06.html On the Take and Loving It: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/On_the_take_and_loving_it SONG: Kompressor- One Zero Nine ---------------------------- NOT COVERED ON AIR: Global Warming gets the Cold Freeze: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8583 Coping with Food Inflation: http://allafrica.com/stories/200804160659.html

dontbelievethehype_040808_the con of environMENTALism

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April 05, 2008 12:37 PM PDT

SONG: Presage- Divide and Conquer A Global Democratic Movement is about to pop: http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050107EC.shtml World Business Council on Sustainable Development: www.wbcsd.org Foundations: http://www.undueinfluence.com/foundations.htm Arnold Pulls Back the Veil of `Green' Tyranny - Government's environmental policy: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_38_16/ai_66241142 Daniel Bell- The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society: http://books.google.com/books?id=q6_56x5tB7gC&printsec=frontcover&dq=daniel+bell&client=safari&sig=YoaIwP6zuoewSZtagWJ93Qwnpvw 1995 UNEP Definition of "Unsustainable": Fossil fuels. Artificial fertilizer, modern agriculture processes, irrigation water, herbicide, pesticides, farm lands(!!!), pastures, grazing of livestock (!!!), consumerism(?), dietary habits, private prop(!!!!!), paved road(!!!), damns, logging, fencing of pastures… SONG: Kraftwerk- Metropolis Environmental Grant Makers Association Quotes: http://www.nationalcenter.org/DossierEGA.html Mind Control creates the perfect soldier: http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=137542 New Political Values for a World in Crisis: The Approach of the Club of Rome: http://www.podOmatic.com/mymedia/get_media?item_id=829073&dl=1 Zap, Zap Your Dead: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/1012/guestdispatch_zap_zap_you_re_dead_ The Golden Age of the Military Entertainment Complex: http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt320.html The Military-Video Game Complex: http://fatknowledge.blogspot.com/2005/11/military-video-game-complex.html SONG: Butthole Surfers- Hurdy Gurdy Man ------------------ NOT COVERED ON AIR: Group calls for environmental regulation of nanotech: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/02/Group-calls-for-environmental-regulation-of-nanotech_1.html The Real Life Matrix (Interview regarding prominence of Military Industrial Complex in everyday life): http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2008/04/the-real-life-matrix.html Global Gridlock: How the US Military-Industrial Complex Seeks to Contain and Control the Earth and it’s Eco-System: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8499

dontbelievethehype_040108_it depends how you define 'kill'

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March 31, 2008 06:18 PM PDT

SONG: Shadowy Men from a Shadowy Planet- Having an Average Weekend

SONG: Pavement- Cut Your Hair

MNWeekly: Iran moves to join Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Radio Free Europe: Iran: Russia, China Unlikely To Welcome Tehran Into SCO

Middle East Times: U.S Spy Agency seeks data on Power Grid

Wired.com: Charity battles imaginary killing machines (or The Army doesn't use autonomous robots and therefore, never will)

Wired.com: Robot War continues (or "Well, I mean, they won't have 'Terminators' for a long time")

SONG: Dead Kennedys- Stars and Stripes of Corruption

Wired.com: Augment Reality with Video Game Contacts

Wired.com: C.I.A Chief hits China for military "master plan"

Wired.com: Obama's Pet Projects: Lasers and Hybrid Hummers

Wired.com: Battlefield Ready Ray-Guns for 2008?

Wired.com: $520 Million for Space Weapons Research

Wired.com: IARPA: DARPA for Spies

Network World: DARPA Chief outlines an expansive array of future networking projects

Braillard, Philippe: "New Political Values for a World in Crisis: The Approach of the Club of Rome", [International Political Science Review Vol. 3, No. 2, Norms and Values (1982), pp. 238-245]

New York Times: Asking a Judge to Save the World...

CQ Politics: Futurist: Electronic Doomsday

SONG: Kraftwerk- Man Machine

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ARTICLES NOT DISCUSSED:

Military Magazine: Persisitant Surveillance and it's implications for the Common Operating Picture

Alternet: Carlyle Group to buy Booz Allen?

Turkish Weekly: Which Idea will Dominate the 21st Century?

Articles highlighting recent troubles for Future Combat Systems: One
Two

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March 25, 2008 01:24 PM PDT

Dead Kennedys- Soup is Good Food Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations 2005 by National Science Foundation: http://www.wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/3/NBIC3_report.pdf Chinese and West in Midst of Cyber War: http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/cyber_war130.html Interview with Iranian ambassador to Russia: http://mnweekly.ru/world/20080313/55316656.html Rush- Farewell to Kings Boston Dynamics releases new BigDog footage: http://gear.ign.com/articles/860/860123p1.html Japan welcomes robots: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080309/BUSINESS/941317777/-1/OPINION02 Some Robots kill, Some have goodwill: http://www.excal.on.ca/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5929 Pentagon's Mind Reading computer duplicates: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/03/augcog-continue.html Tool- 10,000 Days Battlebots with a Conscious?: http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20080316/ President's Council on Bioethics: http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/bostrom20080316/human_dignity_and_bioethics.pdf Kompressor- One Zero Nine

dontbelievethehype_031808_Sounds of the new world

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March 21, 2008 12:53 PM PDT

SONG: Kraftwerk- Computer World

YOUTUBE: Transhumanism

Bill Hicks: On Government

SONG: Public Enemy- Hazy Shade of Criminal

YOUTUBE: CIA and the Golden Triangle

SONG: Laibach- In the Army Now

Music by Josh Deaver- Blind (featuring clips of Iran-Contra hearings)

YOUTUBE: Senator Daniel Inouye on the shadow government

SONG: Donovan- Universal Soldier

YOUTUBE: Bill Clinton asked about concentration camps

SONG: Mastadon- Crystal Skulls

SONG: Exit Clov- MK Ultra

MK Ultra Victim Congressional Testimony

President Clinton apologizes for mind-control experiments

SONG: Kraftwerk- Von Himmel Hock (featuring clips from Daniel Abrahamson)

Clips from Discovery Channel special "Rise of the Video Game"
*sorry about quality*

SONG: Butthole Surfers- Hurdy Gurdy Man