tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31213433874162767282024-02-21T00:11:37.992+01:00Predictive Programming in MoviesPredictive programming is a subtle form of psychological conditioning provided by the media to acquaint the public with planned societal changes to be implemented by our leaders. If and when these changes are put through, the public will already be familiarized with them and will accept them as 'natural progressions', as Alan Watt calls it; thus lessening any possible public resistance and commotion.Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-79454809100065878382010-02-28T15:35:00.003+01:002010-03-08T10:59:03.165+01:00Robocop (1987) – Promoting the Militarization of Police<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1phil4everyill.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/robocop-1987-promoting-the-militarization-of-police/"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 476px; height: 755px;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/robocop.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1phil4everyill.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/robocop-1987-promoting-the-militarization-of-police/">Robocop (1987) – Promoting the Militarization of Police</a><br /></div>Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-19853192988166664002009-03-09T14:51:00.005+01:002010-02-28T15:48:07.556+01:00I Am Legend (2007)<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/</a><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=i-am-legend.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/i-am-legend.jpg" alt="" /></a></p><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/IAmLegend.jpg" alt="" /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/Legendhb.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><br />The movie is the third, albeit loose, screen adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel from 1954 bearing the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend">same name</a>. A decent synopsis can be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend_%28film%29">read here</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-424018-1.png" alt="" width="554" height="230" /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"You have actually cured cancer?..." Scientist: "Yes, yes we have."</span><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(187, 153, 34);"><strong>0:02:00</strong></span><br /><em><strong>From Good Intentions to Misadventure</strong></em><br /><br />A scientist publicly announces that she represents some unknown group of scientists who allegedly managed to develop a be-all-end-all cure for cancer. Unfortunately it quickly becomes apparent that the "cure" actually is a wolf in sheeps' clothes and the first batch of people treated with it precipitate an infectious epidemic of extreme and unprecedentedly fatal proportions. Consequently, most of the population of the earth is decimated; a small portion of humanity survives but not escaping a horrible transformation into extremely aggressive animal-like humanoids. Only a very few humans prove to be naturally immune and survive the onslaught unscathed and unmutated.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-410843.png" alt="" width="415" height="173" /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-426615-1.png" alt="" width="415" /><br /></div><br />Although it ultimately wreaked havoc in the most extreme way, the motives for developing the "cure" were considered to be most noble and worthy (curing cancer). Thus the reader is nudged into thinking that, in case a real plague should take place, its underlying cause must have been, at least, morally acceptable and that in all likelihood 'something must have gotten terribly wrong along the way.' It must be a tragic misfortune by misadventure, no conspiracy theories needed, you see. Our leaders would never do such an evil thing intentionally. Yadaa, Yadaa...<br /><br />This subtle brainwashing tactic helps provide a cover for possible perpetrators orchestrating any future plagues to hide behind; plagues that, in contradistinction to the one referred to in the movie, in reality are not accidentally and unintentionally brought about by misadventure but rather are administered by malevolent and premeditated willful acts. Indeed, what a wonderful world we're living in...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-451148-1.png" alt="" width="415" height="173" /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-451765-1.png" alt="" width="415" height="173" /><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(187, 153, 34);"><strong>0:14:00</strong></span><br /><em><strong>Martial Law Scenery</strong></em><br /><br />According to well-established contemporary cinematographic tradition (or perhaps 'doctrine' would be a better word), the military is seen to have totally assumed (read: usurped) the role of the police as a means of crowd control and law enforcement during times of crises; the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act">Posse Comitatus Act</a> has again been swept under the rug completely. Examples of other modern movies featuring a similar police state theme are <a href="http://1phil4everyill.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/the-day-the-earth-stood-still-2008/">The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)</a> and <a href="http://1phil4everyill.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/transformers-2007/">Transformers (2007)</a>.<br /><br />In addition to the military gone crowd control, civilians are subjected to mandatory eye scanning tests; the purpose of which is to help identify infected people. The general effect on the viewer is to make the public get used to not only being identified immediately and on immediate demand from military law enforcers but it is also to help the public get used to being herded like cattle at the discretion and say-so of your local military overlord. It thus follows naturally that this kind of scenery portrays yet one more martial law type of setting in which human rights have been wiped off of the map on the contingency event of a national/international disaster coming into actuality.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-447386-1.png" alt="" width="415" height="173" /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-448013-1.png" alt="" width="415" height="173" /><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(187, 153, 34);"><strong>0:35:00</strong></span><br /><em><strong>Vaccine As Remedy</strong></em><br />A degenerate female humanoid has been captured and now serves as 'human' guinea-pig to Dr. Robert Neville - the protagonist of the movie. With the ultimate aim of discovering an effective vaccine to cure the infected, he administers an experimental vaccine to his newfound guinea pig.<br /><br />If successful the viewer is invited to put stock into the notion that vaccines are your weapon of choice to wage war against, and to ultimately defeat, any infectious viral/bacterial diseases that is wreaking havoc.<br />Of course, never in the movie is the 'vaccine as remedy' assumption questioned.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-450181-1.png" alt="" width="554" height="230" /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Neville: "Behavioral note - an infected male exposed himself to sunlight today. Now it's possible decreased brain function or growing scarcity of food is causing them to... ignore their basic survival instincts. Social de-evolution appears complete. Typical human behavior is now entirely absent."</span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(187, 153, 34);"><strong>0:39:00</strong></span><br /><em><strong>Typical Human Behavior is now entirely absent</strong></em><br /><br />Dr. Neville, who by the fact that he is a medical doctor as well as solitary automatically radiates a natural sense of authority in his role as judge and observer, decides that the infected have been totally dehumanized and it is therefore entirely justified to, if need be, deal with them in a ruthless manner (no normal moral restraints apply which are courtesy of a healthy and humanely functioning conscience).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-489305.png" alt="" width="554" height="230" /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Neville: (talking to Anna about Bob Marley) He had this idea. It was kind of a virologist idea. He believed that you could cure racism and hate... literally cure it, by injecting music and love into people's lives. When he was scheduled to perform at a peace rally, a gunman came to his house and shot him down. Two days later he walked out on that stage and sang. When they asked him why - He said, "The people, who were trying to make this world worse... are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness."</span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(187, 153, 34);"><strong>1:16:00</strong></span><br /><em><strong>Bob Marley's Musical Vaccine for a Spiritually Ailing Humanity</strong></em><br /><br />Although the analogy with the words of Bob Marley (who I, by the way, regard as a great artist as well as human being and I commend him for making the above suggestion) at first glance is meritorious, by association with the wise words of Marley, it also imbues into the viewer a good dose of unwarranted faith into the idea that vaccines are unconditionally peachy and beneficial to humanity.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-485749-1.png" alt="" width="415" height="173" /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-518468.png" alt="" width="415" height="173" /><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(187, 153, 34);"><strong>1:27:00</strong></span><br /><em><strong>The infected won't stand to reason</strong></em><br /><br />The unrelenting hostility and absolute lack of willingness of the infected to stand to reason urges the protagonist to seek a desperate solution in dealing with a desperately threatening situation. The underlying theme iterated once again is that it is allowed for uninfected to ruthlessly deal with those who are infected as they have been utterly dehumanized. It's a recurring mantra that is seen in basically all akin viral horror movies (of the last few years). See for instance my analysis of <a href="http://1phil4everyill.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/28-weeks-later-2007/">"28 Weeks Later (2007)"</a> or <a href="http://1phil4everyill.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/the-invasion-2007/">"The Invasion (2007)."</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-520409.png" alt="" width="554" height="230" /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"The cure is in her blood..."</span><br /></div><br />And so it is announced that the effective remedy for the genocidal infectious epidemic is stored inside the blood contained in a test-tube, from which effective remedial vaccines are to be derived and administered to the infected.<br /><br />However, since one would be dealing with most reluctant recipients, the movie shows, the vaccines would have to be administered in a brutish and dictatorial manner. This implied theme of involuntary vaccine administration of course fits very well into the police state mentality already given plenty of airtime earlier in the movie.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-490302-1.png" alt="" width="554" height="230" /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Anna: "In 2009, a deadly virus burned through our civilization, pushing humankind to the edge of extinction. Dr. Robert Neville dedicated his life to the discovery of a cure and the restoration of humanity. On September 9th, 2012, at approximately 8:49 P.M., he discovered that cure. And at 8:52, he gave his life to defend it. We are his legacy. This is his legend. Light up the darkness."</span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(187, 153, 34);"><strong>1:30:00</strong></span><br /><em><strong>The Cure is a Vaccine</strong></em><br /><br />The movie closes with the handing over of the vial containing a blood sample of a cured infected. Thus it is suggested that the automatic answer to any future infectious disease epidemic lies with the concept of the vaccine. Therefore, if an infectious disease comes hither home hitting hard, people may be reminded of this movie's last scene and helped into accepting remedial/preventative vaccinations, no questions asked.<br /><br />Nowhere in this propaganda piece, is it addressed even once that vaccines have long been suspected of being harbingers of death and disease rather than bringers of life and remedy. Indeed, it can be argued, for instance, that the whole AIDS epidemic is <a href="http://www.originofaids.com/articles/early.htm">iatrogenic rather than zoonotic</a> in origin, meaning that its cause is more likely man-made than some kind of rare and spontaneous inter-species pathogenic cross-over. In addition to the article referred to <a href="http://www.originofaids.com/articles/early.htm">in-place</a>, see reference 1. Quite similarly can it be argued that the recent appalling upsurge in cases of autism is also induced by eugenically inspired power mongers, see reference 2.<br /><br />Note: the longer quotes used here, were drawn from this <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/quotes">source</a>.<br /><br /><em><strong>References:</strong></em><br /><ol><br /><li><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6531447125053615129&ei=JLaySeTmHJbUqAOapNX2Aw&q=vaccines"><strong>Vaccine Nation - Director's Cut (Gary Null)</strong></a><br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=6531447125053615129&hl=en&fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed> </li><br /><li><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6890106663412840646&ei=JLaySeTmHJbUqAOapNX2Aw&q=vaccines"><strong>Mercury, Autism and the Global Vaccine Agenda</strong></a><br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=6890106663412840646&hl=en&fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed> </li><br /></ol>Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-48950762126837069502009-02-15T19:10:00.002+01:002009-02-16T12:48:10.374+01:00The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=day_the_earth_stood_still.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/day_the_earth_stood_still.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="582" width="393" /></a><br /><br />Check out <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still_%282008_film%29">the corresponding Wikipedia page</a> to read a decent synopsis.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-421503.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-421503.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="154" width="365" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-421060.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-421060.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="154" width="365" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(17, 153, 153);"><strong>(0:08:00)</strong></span><br />While being busy minding her own business and while also having no criminal past or affiliation the door rings at the house of Dr Helen Benson. She answers and is greeted by an authoritative authority figure, who without blush lets her know, <em>"Dr Benson you must come with us. You're in federal custody..."</em> Get used to the new now folks, a time where it is apparently perfectly acceptable for the authorities to go around and apprehend and detain whoever and wherever they like without showing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_warrant">arrest warrants</a> at all and/or reading Miranda rights.<br /><br />The magic words that serve to rationalize such obtrusive government interference into your private lives are, <em>"it's a matter of national security."</em> <em>Ergo</em>, "no questions please ma'am/sir, just do as we tell you thank you very much."<br /><br />And even if you manage to fire away a question here or there, the law-enforcement officer 'assisting' you is likely to have no answers as he is just following orders or just doing his job. Quite unsurprisingly this also turned out to be the case with the nosy and moderately obstinate Dr Benson.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-422533.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-422533.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="154" width="365" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-423243.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-423243.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="154" width="365" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(17, 153, 153);"><strong>(0:10:00)</strong></span><br />To reflect the gravity of the National Security matter a scene is shown in which a whole highway has been shut down and reserved for the Police escort delivering Dr Benson to some undisclosed military facility seemingly engaged in monitoring airspace.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-423880.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-423880.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="179" width="426" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(17, 153, 153);"><strong>(0:11:30)</strong></span><br />To meet the sudden threat from outer space, rather than assembling a group of top politicians, the movie-script opts for the mobilization and employment of a team of top scientists. Nonetheless, the scientists are and, for the entire duration of the movie, will be assisted and coerced, if necessary, by ever present military personnel.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-425148.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-425148.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="154" width="365" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-430407.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-430407.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="154" width="365" /></a><br /><br />By the way, you will see the active presence of the military throughout the movie. Also you will see plenty of bodyguards walking about, security guards in galore, and a host of cameras all keeping an eye on everybody's moves. Combined with the fact that there is no such thing as civil rights in this movie, the movie very much depicts a <em>de facto</em> police state environment. But of course, all this authoritative saber rattling is merely there to keep you all safe and secure. We all know that. Whether the treat comes from fictitious terrorist desert gangsters or from fictitious space aliens, in the sheer context of <em>homeland</em> security, it is not really important as long as the threat is <em>perceived</em> to be real.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-434937.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-434937.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="179" width="426" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(17, 153, 153);"><strong>(0:28:00)</strong></span><br />The viewer is readied to anticipate full scale civil evacuations if and when so-called national emergencies come wreaking havoc upon and all around us, such as the alien invasion portrayed in the movie.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-476249.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-476249.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="154" width="365" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-476335.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-476335.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="154" width="365" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(17, 153, 153);"><strong>(1:00:00)</strong></span><br />A revealing and very important dialogue transpires between <em>Klaatu</em> and Dr Benson:<br /><br /><em>Klaatu</em>: <em>"This planet is dying. The human race is killing it." </em><br />Dr Benson: <em>"So you've come here to help us?" </em><br /><em>Klaatu</em>: <em>"No, I didn't." </em><br />Dr Benson: "You said you came to save us."<br /><em>Klaatu</em>: <em>"I came to save the Earth."</em><br />Dr Benson:"You came to save the earth, from us."<br /><em>Klaatu</em>: <em>"We cannot risk the survival of this planet for the sake of one species. If the earth dies, you die. If you die, the earth survives. There are only a handful of planets in the cosmos that are capable of supporting complex life. This one cannot be allowed to perish."</em><br />Dr Benson: <em>"We can <strong>change</strong>. We can still turn things around..."</em><br /><em>Klaatu</em>: <em>"We've watched. We've awaited and hoped that you would change. It has reached a tipping point where we have to act. We'll undo the damage you done and give the Earth a chance to begin again."</em><br />Dr Benson: <em>"Don't do that... Please. We can <strong>change</strong>."</em><br /><em>Klaatu</em>: <em>"The decision has been made. The process has begun."</em><br /><br />The movie makes no bones about the notion that the typical viewer is to blame for the phenomenon of the world going to hell in a hand basket. The degenerating environment, ballooning pollution, over-population global warming, it's all the fault of the average joe. Humans like a virus eating away the planet. What a horrible realization, the viewer is nudged into thinking... Consequently, he or she is left teetering on the brink of a guilt trip. Fortunately, the movie quickly offers a way out of this unbearable psychological predicament. All we have to do is... <strong>change</strong>! Easy, no?<br /><br />But wait, where did we hear that slogan before? That's right, here we did:<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=obama-change1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/obama-change1.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br />How convenient it is that this want for change just so happened to coincide with one of Obama's favorite campaign mantras. We leave out for the moment the most obvious of questions: what kind of change are we talking about here? Call me a nitpicker but change can be for better, but it sadly can also be for the worse.<br /><br />Obama though is not the only one shouting "change" from the rooftops, it seems to be somewhat of a fad nowadays as <a href="http://www.change.org/">change.org</a> does the same thing. This site suggest all kinds of cute and puny news items dressed up as changes triggering all kinds of emotional responses. But are all these charming suggestions for change really enough to save the planet? Or is it merely something to keep the public busy, drops on a hot stove, exercises of futility, similar to <em>e.g.</em> the fraud called "elections"?<br /><br />Lest going off on tangents, for all clarity, the <strong>imposition of a guilt-trip on the viewer</strong> and the <strong>need for (Obama-esque kind of) change</strong> are the predictive programming elements of significance in this most important of scenes.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-421221.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-421221.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="154" width="365" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-420523.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-420523.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="154" width="365" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(17, 153, 153);"><strong>(1:10:30)</strong></span><br />Quite similar to the <a href="http://predictiveprogramminginmovies.blogspot.com/2009/02/day-earth-stood-still-1951.html">original</a>, <em>Klaatu</em> proceeds to demonstrate his hands down intellectual superiority by kindly helping out with ease the planet's most intelligent physics scholar, Prof. Barnhardt. In addition, also similar to the <a href="http://predictiveprogramminginmovies.blogspot.com/2009/02/day-earth-stood-still-1951.html">original</a> a standing <em>Klaatu</em> authoritatively looking down on a humble and seated Dr. Benson and Prof. Barnhardt, helps persuade the viewer to also accept <em>Klaatu</em>'s parental moral superiority.<br /><br />A most interesting discussion follows between Prof. Barnhardt and Klaatu:<br /><br />Professor: <em>"There must be alternatives. You must have some technology that can solve our problem."</em><br /><em>Klaatu</em>: <em>"The problem is not technology. The problem is you. You lack the will to change."<br />Professor: Then help us change..."</em><br /><em>Klaatu</em>: <em>"I cannot change your nature. You treat the world as you treat eachother."</em><br />Professor: <em>"But every civilization reaches a crisis point eventually. [...] Only when your world was threatened with destruction that you became what you are now."</em><br /><em>Klaatu</em>: <em>"Yes."</em><br />Professor: <em>"Well, that's where we are. You say we're on the brink of destruction, and you are right. But it's <strong>only on the brink that people find the will to change</strong>. Only at the precipice do we evolve. </em><br /><br /><em>This is our moment, don't take it from us. We are close to an answer."</em><br /><br />Again all the woes and ills of the world are pinned on the typical viewer. Never are the guiding financial, economic and religious powers given even as much as a casual and superficial critical review. And that's a shame really, since it is not the hordes of simpleton Joe Sixpack's and Jane Soap-opera's who are too blame but rather a relatively small group of psychopathic megalomaniacs; the bigger than life banksters, the mesmerizing religious hierarchies - most notably that of the Catholic Church, the military industrial complex, etc., who are ruining it for the rest of world.<br /><br />But oh no, movies like this tempt us into believing that not only are we guilty, we need to be driven on the brink of annihilation in order to greet a better world. What a great premonition that is, huh?<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-452392.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-452392.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="154" width="365" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-453179.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-453179.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="154" width="365" /></a><br /><br />On the side, <em>Klaatu</em> demonstrates his superhuman magical powers by downing two obnoxious helicopters but then contrasts this act of aggression by showcasing a high moral standing through rescuing the son of Dr Benson from falling to sure death. Thus his authority over life and death is laid bear.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-504821.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-504821.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="154" width="365" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-505027.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-505027.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="154" width="365" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(17, 153, 153);"><strong>(1:26:00)</strong></span><br />Ironically, after witnessing from close up the most basic and ubiquitous types of bonding belonging to humans, <em>Klaatu</em> has a change of heart and confesses to Dr. Benson: <em>"There's another side to you. I feel it now."</em> The obvious question being, couldn't he have realized that a bit sooner? Wouldn't it have been better for him to first study humans from close up rather than doing that after setting in motion the hellish wrath from outer space? After all, didn't he and his space alien buddies scrutinize this planet for quite a while already before coming to earth?<br /><br />Anyway, be that as it may. The rudimentary type of bonding between mother and child is offered as the key to our Problem apparently and proceeds to save the day. It is literally and figuratively left out of the picture that the loving and forgiving relationship as seen between mother and child is unfortunately usually not as pronounced in other relationships as the movie seems to imply. The movie does not care, and they all, minus a few soldiers, intelligence personnel and a truck driver, live happily ever after.<br /><br />In addition, never mind those big bad boy banksters hiding and snickering in the shadows who no doubt greatly enjoy this remarkable piece of tear-jerking distraction. A craftily made and entertaining work of misdirection aimed at obfuscating the faces of the real guilty; the bunch of megalomaniacal degenerates really responsible for sending this world to hell, and then some.Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-18107887255778367192009-02-14T13:18:00.001+01:002009-02-15T19:19:13.477+01:00The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043456/</a><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=day_the_earth_stood_still_1951.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/day_the_earth_stood_still_1951.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="573" width="394" /></a><br /><br />Visit <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still_%281951_film%29">Wikipedia</a> for a decent synopsis.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-258629.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-258629.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="230" width="307" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-258432.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-258432.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="230" width="307" /></a><br /><strong>(0:14:00)<br /></strong>The alien being named <em>Klaatu</em> visits earth and stresses the urgency of the reason for his visit to earth with the words, <em>"I want to meet with all the representatives of the nations of the world"</em> and <em>"the future of your planet is at stake."</em><br /><br />Notice that through the particular camera angle it appears that <em>Klaatu</em> is speaking from above down below to his earthly listener. The effect of this cinematographic trick is to give <em>Klaatu</em> the appearance of having superior authority.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-260327.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-260327.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="230" width="307" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-295371.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-295371.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="230" width="307" /></a><br /><br /><strong>(0:17:30)</strong><br />While referring to <em>Klaatu</em>, two medical officers examining him, discuss his age:<br /><em>"How old do you think he is? Oh I'd say 30, 35. He told me this morning when I was examining him; he's 78. Life expectancy is 130. Their medicine is that much more advanced."</em><br /><br />This leaves the viewer with impression that (regular) medicine is the key to not only restoration of health but also to longevity itself. By associating medicine with longevity the viewer is helped to place a religious kind of trust in the medical establishment. It is therefore not a stretch to think that the commercially dedicated medical industry, most notably its pharmaceutical branch, loved the fact that propaganda as featured in this scene was being shown, seemingly free of charge, to by-and-large gullible audiences.<br /><br />No doubt, little did the typical viewer of the 1950s know that decades later it would turn out that <a href="http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2004/mar2004_awsi_death_01.htm">regular medicine can easily be proven to be more of a risk factor to health and longevity</a> than it is an unquestionable boon to health and well-being and a sure way to life extension as the movie would like to have the viewer believe.<br /><br />A further irony shown by this scene emerges at its conclusion when both officers are about to light a cigarette, a habit that of course works precisely to oppose longevity, although at the time it was probably still not a medically established fact that indeed smoking cigarettes precipitates premature death.<br /><br />Indeed, the association of longevity and smoking, combined with the lack of understanding that smoking antagonizes good health and longevity, can even be interpreted to mean that the latter works to accomplish the former. It can be imagined that this would very much please the tobacco industry.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-268655.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-268655.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="230" width="307" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-269333.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-269333.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="230" width="307" /></a><br /><br /><strong>(0:29:00)</strong><br />In this scene you see <em>Klaatu</em> and his juvenile companion named Bobby visit Arlington's war cemetery. Since the planet where <em>Klaatu</em> comes from do not engage in warfare, he asks young friend in a state of bewilderment: <em>"Did all those people die in wars?"</em><br /><br />The impression on the viewer is that the place <em>Klaatu</em> comes from must also be a serene place where people are happy and are barren from urges to go out as barbarians trying to kill one another for some petty reason. Since most if not all well-thinking people just want peace and tranquility, <em>Klaatu</em>'s voice gains more authority through recognition.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-311346.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-311346.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="230" width="307" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-311463.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-311463.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="230" width="307" /></a><br /><br /><strong>(0:32:00)</strong><br /><em>"What do you think it makes it go?"</em> Bobby asks <em>Klaatu</em>. <em>"A highly developed form of atomic power, I should imagine"</em>, <em>Klaatu</em> suggests.<br /><br />Thus a link between a high standard of technological advancement, represented by the mysterious and impregnable flying saucer, and atomic energy is suggested to the viewer. Or rephrased, it is suggested to the viewer that an advanced level of technological development is predicated on the utilization of atomic energy.<br /><br />It thus sounds like great advertisement for peddling atomic energy to the public. An idea that is perhaps not so far-fetched since atomic energy was still in its infancy and the public still needed to warm to the idea of benevolent applications of atomic energy as only a couple of years prior, thousands of people had been obliterated by atomic weapons.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-283849.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-283849.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="230" width="307" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-283763.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-283763.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="230" width="307" /></a><br /><br /><strong>(0:42:00)</strong><br />Here you see the first meeting taking place between <em>Klaatu</em> and Professor Barnhardt (an obvious personification of Albert Einstein). <em>Klaatu</em> confesses to the Professor:<br /><blockquote><em>"So long as you are limited to fighting among yourself with your primitive tanks and aircraft, we were unconcerned. But soon one of your nations will apply atomic energy to space ships. That will create a threat to the peace and security of other planets. That of course we cannot tolerate."</em></blockquote><br />He then explains to Prof. Barnhardt that hostile attitudes in outer space will not be tolerated and non-compliance to rigid universal laws will be met with sure annihilation of Earth:<br /><blockquote><em>"I came here to warn you that by threatening danger, your planet faces danger, very grave danger."</em></blockquote><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-335164.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-335164.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="269" width="359" /></a><br /><br />It should be mentioned that through the ease by which <em>Klaatu</em> successfully helps the professor, touted as the smartest man in the world, in solving a most difficult physics problem he was stuck at, it is clear that <em>Klaatu</em> has more than just marginal intellectual dominion over the professor and, by extension, the entire world.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-325544.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-325544.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="230" width="307" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-325114.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-325114.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="230" width="307" /></a><br /><br />Combined with the particular use of cinematographic techniques, such as <em>Klaatu</em>'s insistence to remain standing after he had been requested to sit down by the Prof. and thus is looking down on him together with the authoritative manner in which <em>Klaatu</em> addresses the submissive professor, it is further emphasized to the viewer that <em>Klaatu</em> not only possesses intellectual but also moral superiority akin to the kind parents naturally have over their children.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-355377.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-355377.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="230" width="307" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-356470.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-356470.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="230" width="307" /></a><br /><br />It should be noted that throughout the movie, the military can be seen to be present everywhere in rural areas while busily interfering with civil life. These can be perceived to be birth signs of a sure <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_state">police state.</a> It is to be expected though that the military's presence and interference with civil life is likely to be rationalized as being necessary to warrant state security, a notion that is likely to have been in need of popular familiarization since the passing of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Act_of_1947">National Security Act of 1947.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-357705.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-357705.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="246" width="328" /></a><br /><br /><strong>(1:15:00)</strong><br />The military, while having assumed the role of regular police, proceeds with using deadly force without issuing prior warnings or invoking attempts to apprehend and arrest suspected law violators.<br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-364957.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-364957.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="230" width="307" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-366617.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-366617.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="230" width="307" /></a><br /><strong>(1:27:00)</strong><br />Near the end of the movie, <em>Klaatu</em> explains in full his motive to visit Earth:<br /><blockquote><em>The universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all — or no one is secure... This does not mean giving up any freedom except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves — and hired policemen to enforce them.</em><br /><br /><em>We of the other planets have long accepted this principle. We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets — and for the complete elimination of aggression. <strong>A sort of United Nations on the Planetary level</strong>... The test of any such higher authority, of course, is the police force that supports it. For our policemen, we created a race of robots — Their function is to patrol the planets — in space ships like this one — and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression we have given them absolute power over us. This power can not be revoked. At the first sign of violence they act automatically against the aggressor. And the penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk.</em><br /><br /><em>The result is that we live in peace, without arms or armies, secure in the knowledge that we are free from aggression and war — free to pursue more profitable enterprises. Now, we do not pretend to have achieved perfection, but we do have a system, and it works. I came here to give you these facts. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet, but if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder. Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you.</em> <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still_%281951_film%29">Source</a></blockquote><br />The comparison with the United Nations is interesting and seems to have been somewhat in vogue during those days as the movie <em><a href="http://predictiveprogramminginmovies.blogspot.com/2008/09/things-to-come-1936.html">Things to Come (1936)</a></em> can also be considered to be a UN advertisement.<br /><br />The viewer is thus nudged into accepting the idea that freedom (to act irresponsibly, supposedly) is better to be traded for security lest witnessing Earth ultimately transform itself into a "burned-out cinder." And of course, as the movie hints at, the answer to capping our dangerous barbaric tendencies lies with accepting the United Nations as the necessary and desired sociopolitical straight-jacket that should keep us from harming ourselves.<br /><br />Along the way, the notion of a robotized police enforcement is given a big welcome, something that again would welcomed with the advent of later movies such as <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop">Robocop.</a></em><br /><br />Note that <em>Klaatu</em> again speaks with confidence and steadfastness while he addresses the Earthly intellectual elite from up above, thus once more reaffirming his authority over them similar to a group of submissive children sitting on the ground looking up to their parent who is reading out loud some weighty tale of morality to them.Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-19028192962387413682009-02-14T13:16:00.002+01:002009-02-15T19:34:15.554+01:00Survivors (2008) - Episode 3<a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=Survivors-1.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/Survivors-1.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="340" width="480" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=survivors.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/survivors.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="374" width="229" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://predictiveprogramminginmovies.blogspot.com/2009/02/survivors-2008-episode-1.html"><strong>Episode 1/6</strong></a><br /><a href="http://predictiveprogramminginmovies.blogspot.com/2009/02/survivors-2008-episode-2.html"><strong>Episode 2/6</strong></a><br /><em><strong>Episode 3/6</strong>. Abby discovers a community that could hold the key to everyone's future, but at what cost?</em><br /><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><strong>Episode 4/6</strong></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><strong>Episode 5/6</strong></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><strong>Episode 6/6</strong></span><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ftbv3/episodes/2008">Source</a><br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-436297.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-436297.png" alt="" height="282" width="499" /></a><br /><br />The remnant of the government, headed by a Black lady named Samantha Willis, live in a self-sufficient type of commune having the rare luxury of electricity.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-438659.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-438659.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="374" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-453880.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-453880.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="374" /></a><br /><br />Mysterious and intrusive black helicopters appear for the first time.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-369166.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-369166.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="282" width="499" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>(TS 19:00)</strong></span><br />The compound which is used to house the remnant of the government turns out to be a eco-center, which comes equipped with solar panels to generate electricity and possesses its own life-stock as a source for food. To the satisfaction of Abbey, Samantha reaffirms what she had said to the group earlier, that survival is possible but only by working together.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-455060.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-455060.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="282" width="499" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>(TS 21:00)</strong></span><br />While referring to the destructive viral epidemic causing the death of more than 99% of Britain's population, the lead scientist operating in the mysterious supra-governmental organisation, insists on serving as the human guinea pig for a freshly developed vaccine, as he confesses to be:<br /><blockquote><em>"responsible... for everything."</em></blockquote><br />Since the news of a new vaccine is met with celebration, again it is suggested to the viewer that vaccines are a trustworthy remedial answer to viral epidemics.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-386160.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-386160.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="282" width="499" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>(TS 47:00)</strong></span><br />Food robbers intruding on the eco-center are dealt with swiftly through a make-shift "justice" court. Although one of the two food robbers is pardoned, the viewer is made aware of the emergence of military tribunal systems that ruthlessly and swiftly deal with breakers of the law.<br /><br /><strong><a href="http://predictiveprogramminginmovies.blogspot.com/2009/02/survivors-2008-episode-2.html"><- Episode 2</a></strong><br /><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><strong>Episode 4 -></strong></span>Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-78089090713445952082009-02-14T13:12:00.002+01:002009-02-15T19:32:40.321+01:00Survivors (2008) - Episode 2<a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=Survivors-1.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/Survivors-1.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="340" width="480" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=survivors.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/survivors.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="374" width="229" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://predictiveprogramminginmovies.blogspot.com/2009/02/survivors-2008-episode-1.html"><strong>Episode 1/6</strong></a><br /><em><strong>Episode 2/6</strong>. Abby meets a gang of armed thugs who have laid claim to the supermarkets in the area. </em><br /><a href="http://predictiveprogramminginmovies.blogspot.com/2009/02/survivors-2008-episode-3.html"><strong>Episode 3/6</strong></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><strong>Episode 4/6</strong></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><strong>Episode 5/6</strong></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><strong>Episode 6/6</strong></span><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ftbv3/episodes/2008">Source</a><br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-494491.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-494491.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="277" width="491" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>(TS 04:30)</strong></span><br />While looking for food the group clashes with a hostile other group of survivors. Rather than seeking to cooperate with each other, which, in light of maximizing survivability would be the most rational and beneficial thing for any group to do, the hostile group acts to bully and terrorize the group. The viewer is led to believe that it is not wise to trust other groups than one's own. This peculiar theme of, let's say, desirable social restriction was also present in the movie, <a href="http://predictiveprogramminginmovies.blogspot.com/2008/10/happening-2008.html">the Happening</a>, where small enough groups were able to survive while larger groups succumbed to the mysterious but not less lethal "wrath of nature."<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-497623.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-497623.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="208" width="368" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-497768.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-497768.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="208" width="368" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>(TS 06:30)</strong></span><br />The moral degeneracy of the hostile group is confirmed when a scene depicts them as shooting up bottles of champagne seemingly for the sheer fun of it. What a wretched and egoistical bunch, those fellow survivors are! Or so the viewer is led to believe.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-506682.png" target="_blank"> <img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-506682.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="208" width="368" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-506871.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-506871.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="208" width="368" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>(TS 17:00)</strong></span><br />The hostility of the hostile group is emphasized when the leader proves himself to have streaks of psychopathy when he terrorizes Abbey by putting a gun to her head. In all fairness though, the character Tom Price also shows traits of psychopathy but since he is part of, and sympathetic to, the group he is less of an immediate threat and thus does not weigh as heavy on the consciousness of the viewer as does the hostile psycho.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-330903.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-330903.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="208" width="368" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-540682.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-540682.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="207" width="367" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>(TS 56:00)</strong></span><br /><blockquote><em>"Our work's too important, we cannot take that chance..."</em></blockquote><br />...says the the guy on the right to the guy on the left of the above picture when they respond to the detection of an intruder in the facility they reside in and that amazingly still operates on electricity. Their willingness and ability to deal with the intruder the way it is suggested is that there is great authority associated with the people residing in that compound. Since regular government has basically collapsed and has been thrown back into the stone age, the viewer may be urged to think that one is dealing with an organisation that not only is external, but even transcendental, to regular government, a supra-governmental structure if you will.<br /><a href="http://predictiveprogramminginmovies.blogspot.com/2009/02/survivors-2008-episode-1.html"><br /><strong><- Episode 1</strong></a><br /><a href="http://predictiveprogramminginmovies.blogspot.com/2009/02/survivors-2008-episode-3.html"><strong>Episode 3 -></strong></a>Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-79424055052451839942009-02-14T13:10:00.004+01:002009-02-15T19:28:14.971+01:00Survivors (2008) - Episode 1<a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=Survivors-1.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/Survivors-1.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="340" width="480" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=survivors.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/survivors.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="374" width="229" /></a><br /><br /><em><strong>Episode 1/6</strong>. When a flu-like virus decimates the world's population, Abby begins searching for her son.</em><br /><a href="http://predictiveprogramminginmovies.blogspot.com/2009/02/survivors-2008-episode-2.html"><strong>Episode 2/6</strong></a><br /><a href="http://predictiveprogramminginmovies.blogspot.com/2009/02/survivors-2008-episode-3.html"><strong>Episode 3/6</strong></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><strong>Episode 4/6</strong></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><strong>Episode 5/6</strong></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><strong>Episode 6/6</strong></span><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ftbv3/episodes/2008">Source</a><br /><br />As a break from the norm I decided to analyze a British TV series aired by the BBC last year. To get an impression what the series of <em>Survivors</em> is all about, it's expedient to let a description made by the Beeb itself do the talking:<br /><blockquote>ABOUT SURVIVORS<br /><br />Imagine being the only survivor of a disease that kills every member of your family, that kills lovers, strangers, friends, nearly everyone you've ever met.<br /><br />You are among the lonely few to live and now you must start over in a strange new world where everything that was once safe and familiar is now strange and dangerous.<br /><br />Set in the present day, Survivors focuses on the world in the aftermath of a devastating virus which wipes out most of the world's population. What would we do? How would any of us cope in a brave new world where all traditional 21st Century comforts - electricity, clean running water, advanced technology - have disappeared?<br /><br />These are the questions faced by the bewildered but resilient group of survivors at the centre of the drama. It is an opportunity for new beginnings, but with no society, no police and no law and order, they now face terrible dangers - not just the daily struggle for food and water but also the deadly threat from other survivors.<br /><br />"Survivors is about what it means to be human," explains writer and executive producer Adrian Hodges. "It asks questions about our nature and confronts us with our deepest fears. When everything else is stripped away, would we band together and find the best in ourselves, or would we fall apart and retreat into barbarism and savagery? Survivors is about adventure, fear, love, loyalty and friendship. But above all, it's about new hope."<br /><br />Survivors, by Adrian Hodges is a re-imagining of the classic 1970s BBC drama series which was based on the novel by Terry Nation. It launched in April 1975 and ran for 38 episodes over three series. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/survivors/about.shtml">Source</a></blockquote><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-299037.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-299037.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="239" width="424" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-299162.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-299162.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="238" width="423" /></a><br /><br />In the opening scenes it is suggested that in order to successfully counteract a pertinent and threatening flu epidemic the government be in dire need of mass vaccination programs. Therefore it is suggested to the viewer that vaccinations are the automatic no-questions asked remedial answer to disease epidemics. Vaccination programs are the clear-cut be-all and-all answer to all your viral epidemic woes, right? Well, unfortunately what is not being mentioned, of course, is that vaccines actually cause a systemic weakening of the human immune system and thus, paradoxically, make vaccine recipients more prone to develop diseases.[1]<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-286309.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-286309.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="263" width="467" /></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(TS 08:47)</span></strong><br /><blockquote><em>"The Prime Minister is reluctant to put troops on the streets. He feels it should be our last resort. What stage does he think we're in right now?"</em></blockquote><br />This is reminder to the viewer that it is perfectly acceptable and even desirable for a democratic society to transform itself into a <em>de facto</em> police state if the nation is brought into a state of emergency, such as that brought forth by an acute disease epidemic.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-296183.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-296183.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="374" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-296078.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-296078.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="374" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>(TS 13:40)</strong></span><br /><blockquote><em>"The first cases of European Flu have been reported in Washington and Bejing."</em></blockquote><br />Indicating that the widespread occurrence of the "European flu" in Britain really heralds a world wide pandemic, albeit perhaps originating in Europe.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>(TS 14:06)</strong></span><br /><blockquote><em>"We have to isolate people with infection. Quarantine them if necessary."</em></blockquote><br />Thus normalizing the need for quarantine containment during times of crisis. This was already predictively programmed in the viewer by movies such <a href="http://predictiveprogramminginmovies.blogspot.com/2008/08/children-of-men-2006_23.html">Children of Men (2006)</a>.<br /><blockquote><em>"It takes years to develop an effective vaccine. We've had days."</em></blockquote><br />This is an interesting quote as it contains a half-truth. The supposition that it takes years to develop an effective vaccine has no basis in truth. Although there may be vaccines out there that are truly effective, experience shows that there is no guarantee the public will ever see them, even after years and years of research. In fact, in practice the vaccines administered to the public prove to be more damaging than beneficial. Remember that there is a <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_depopu.htm">depopulation program</a> going on in which vaccinations act like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malthus">Malthus</a>' welcome little helpers; the sinister <em>raison d'etre</em> of vaccines right there.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>(TS 27:46)</strong></span><br /><blockquote><em>"We're talking about more than 90% of the World's population."</em></blockquote><br />And so it is etched in the viewer's mind that the disaster is truly one of pandemic proportions. It is to implant into the viewer's mind the notion of terror that a flu epidemic will result in massive death. Since vaccinations are touted as the sole remedy, the viewer subconsciously or consciously is programmed to want to have that flu shot if and when the occasion should present itself.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-312576.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-312576.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="374" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-309526.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-309526.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="374" /></a><br /><br />The viewer is also reminded that in the final stages of the pandemic all utility services and amenities come to a standstill. Basically, modern society featuring high technological standards and having all its convenient and civilized little bells and whistles, grinds to a painful halt.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-374140.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-374140.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="374" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-375304.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-375304.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="374" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>(TS 1:13:39)</strong></span><br /><br />A scene is shown in which people who have miraculously survived to horrendous wave of onslaught, rather than being glad to see fellow survivors, get hostile and reckless to the point of becoming suicidal.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-382344.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-382344.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="282" width="499" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>(TS 1:23:11)</strong></span><br /><blockquote><em>"We stand together or die."</em></blockquote><br />At least the pilot ends on a relatively positive note. Cooperation with your fellow man is king, in order for <em>homo domesticus</em> to have the highest chance of survival in this lonely <em>New World</em> <em>(Order ?)</em>.<br /><br /><strong>References:</strong><br /><ol><br /><li>There are numerous sources out there on the Internet documenting the questionable if not downright nefarious side to vaccines. I'll stick to video sources. A small but representative grasp:<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6531447125053615129&ei=qbl4SbX7EoqGjQLnupi4BQ&q=vaccines">Vaccine Nation - Director's Cut (Gary Null)</a></strong></p><br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=6531447125053615129&hl=en&fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-615404922510569174&hl=en">Are Vaccines Safe?</a></strong></p><br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-615404922510569174&hl=en&fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4043620231467528011&hl=en"><strong>Dr. Len Horowitz (2001)</strong></a></p><br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-4043620231467528011&hl=en&fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><br />More videos at Google video, <a href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=vaccines&emb=0&aq=f#">here</a>.</li><br /></ol><br /><a href="http://predictiveprogramminginmovies.blogspot.com/2009/02/survivors-2008-episode-2.html"><strong>Episode 2 >></strong></a>Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-83383391284426013332008-11-05T23:33:00.002+01:002008-11-11T00:48:05.461+01:00Transformers (2007)<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418279/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418279/</a><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=transformers_movie_poster_megatron_.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/transformers_movie_poster_megatron_.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="666" border="0" height="499" /></a></p><br /><br />For a decent synopsis, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers_film">go to Wikipedia</a>. A couple of sentences in that review immediately stand out:<br /><blockquote><em>The <strong>United States Military</strong> and General Motors lent vehicles and aircraft during filming, which saved money for the production and added realism to the battle scenes.<br />[...]<br /><strong>The military of the United States provided significant support</strong>, enhancing the film's realism: the film features F-22s, F-117s, and V-22 Ospreys, the first time these aircraft were used for a film; soldiers served as extras, and authentic uniforms were provided for the actors.[1] A-10 Thunderbolt IIs and Lockheed AC-130s also appear.</em></blockquote><br />This basically means that the script of the movie depicts the military in a sufficiently favorable way. The reason why the movie gets a padding on the back by the military is not hard to understand as it heavily promotes the all out gun-blazing take-no-prisoners warrior ethos. In other words, the movie seems to make for most welcome recruitment material as it is likely to earn the approval of hordes of 'trigger happy' video-game poisoned and naive adolescent boys.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-406225.jpg" target="_blank"> <img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-406225.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="398" border="0" height="161" /> </a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-434107.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-434107.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="398" border="0" height="161" /></a><br /><br />Much like the <a href="http://1phil4everyill.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/cyborg-girl-boku-no-kanojo-wa-saibogu-2008/">Cyborg Girl review</a> I did yesterday, this too is a movie in which the conceptual robot is personified. The movie depicts robots with remarkably human characteristics and apart from their obviously human physical appearance (<em>i.e.</em> provided they are in their non-vehicular form), they also behave very much like humans do, especially young males:<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-424877.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-424877.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="398" border="0" height="161" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-399342.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-399342.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="398" border="0" height="161" /></a><br /><br />Robots talking like (English speaking) humans do, moving like humans do, fighting like humans do, and they even know how to urinate like human males do (although the robots smartly call it 'lubricate').<br /><br />As such, personifying robots no doubt earns the sympathy of many young and naive viewers and there stands nothing in the way of viewer to even identify with the robots. Depicting robots sympathetically and which have literally superhuman powers reads like an effective advertisement regarding the merger of man and machine. By making robots come across as friendly and protective (the <em>Autobots</em> only though, not the <em>Decepticons</em>) the viewer is predictively programmed to look favorable towards a future in which man will be drawn closer to machine either by augmenting machines with human characteristics or by endowing humans with machine like qualities facilitated by neural implants. In short, machines to be humanized while man to be <em>de</em>humanized. The latter is a most worrisome prospect to anyone preferring to be a flesh-and-blood sentient human being who enjoys his or her autonomic mind and takes pride in his or hers individuality, as opposed to being an essentially soulless and unconditionally obedient machine reminiscent of a human.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-373889.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-373889.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="318" border="0" height="129" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-374033.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-374033.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="318" border="0" height="129" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-374154.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-374154.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="318" border="0" height="129" /></a><br /><br />Another predictive programming theme surfaces in a scene where a seemingly unannounced <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_and_seizure">search and seizure</a> operation by the federal police takes place. The FBI simply come barge through the door of some house, ransacks it and without notice arrest its inhabitants. No search-warrant is provided and no <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning">Miranda rights</a> are read to the promptly arrested civilians. In other words, the viewer is further familiarized with Police State antics and scenery.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-430749.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-430749.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="318" border="0" height="129" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-435911.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-435911.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="318" border="0" height="129" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-434891.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-434891.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="318" border="0" height="129" /></a><br /><br />In the last batch of scenes a battle between the 'good' robots versus the 'evil' robots transpires in the city of Los Angeles. The military is heavily represented in the city and fighter jets fly over city, something that of and by itself is unusual as this is not entirely legal. I believe that scenes such as these, although given the context of the movie their presence seems justified, are to make the viewer getting accustomed to military forces operating in and around big cities and which have taken over the role of the regular local police and, at the expense of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act"><em>Posse Commitatus Act</em></a>, are now <em>de facto</em> policing the civilian population.<br /><br />On further digging it turns out that the <em>Posse Comitatus Act</em> at this day and age was effectively suspended under the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act#Repeal_of_amendments">Bush regime</a>.<br /><br />Since the coming to reality of future calamities and crises, <em>e.g.</em> escalating economic crises or new terror attacks, is a very real possibility indeed, it is hardly a wild idea to suppose that movies such as <em>Transformers</em> help prepare the public, through predictive programming, of indeed situations in which military forces are mobilized to assume a public law enforcing capacity.<br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-375501.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-375501.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="531" border="0" height="214" /></a><br />"To punish and enslave."Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-27789260424107870462008-11-05T23:27:00.002+01:002008-11-05T23:32:58.574+01:00Cyborg Girl - Boku no kanojo wa saibôgu (2008)<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929860/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929860/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=cyborg_she_flyer01.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/cyborg_she_flyer01.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="294" border="0" height="416" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=poster-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/poster-1.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br />For a decent synopsis, I recommend the one found in the comment section of the<br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929860/#comment">IMDB entry</a>. Time-travel plays a crucial role in the story plot though it remains in the background and is never expanded on. If you want to make the time-line fit with causality you're bound to run into confusing contradictions, so a bit of caution is in place. However, in case you do want to understand the time-line but get frustrated in trying to do so then head on over to the appendix, where I try to explain one and other and indicate where the 'shoe don't fit'.<br /><br />In order to zoom in on the predictive programming elements we must first address the properties of the thematic centerpiece of the movie, the cyborg companion.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-429937.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-429937.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="311" border="0" height="132" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-429414.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-429414.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="311" border="0" height="132" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-414260.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-414260.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="311" border="0" height="132" /></a><br /><br />The main character of the movie, Jiro, is a young Japanese guy living a boring and lonely life, having no female companion. All of a sudden however, a cyborg with female physical features enters his life completely unannounced. As the story unfolds it gets clear that not only does the 'cyborg girl' possess extraordinarily effective defensive and protective powers, 'she' also happens to be stunningly beautiful.<br /><br />The cyborg not only prevents Jiro from coming to harm on various occasions but she also manages to avert lethal danger for quite a number of other people.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-317156.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-317156.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-317275.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-317275.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-316806.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-316806.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><br /><br />The cyborg girl saves Jiro's life from a psycho gunman annex <em>impromptu</em> amateur flame thrower in the restaurant where Jiro is celebrating his lonely birthday.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-447135.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-447135.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-447771.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-447771.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-448004.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-448004.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><br /><br />With superhuman speed and prowess, on another occasion she proceeds to neutralize some random hostage-taker from hurting a good number of people in some random building.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-449774.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-449774.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="410" border="0" height="174" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-449853.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-449853.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="410" border="0" height="174" /></a><br /><br />At another place, again with a superhuman effort, she manages to snatch and rescue a kid who carelessly wandered onto the streets and who would otherwise be instantly crushed to death by an approaching truck.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-461363.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-461363.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-461731.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-461731.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-462121.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-462121.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-464519.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-464519.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-467668.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-467668.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-468711.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-468711.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><br /><br />Later she rescues an entire soccer-team from acute death by fire and as a <em>Pièce de résistance</em> she rescues Jiro's life, several times no less. Unfortunately though during the earthquake of Tokyo while saving Jiro once again her lifetime too 'expires'.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-454385.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-454385.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="410" border="0" height="174" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-454159.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-454159.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="410" border="0" height="174" /></a><br /><br />Lest I forget, in addition to her astonishing protective and life saving capabilities she is also quite an accomplished electric boogie dancer...<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-319152.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-319152.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-431042.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-431042.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-431092.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-431092.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><br /><br />...and her eyes are equipped with an impressive hologram projector and she proves to be a resourceful and versatile cook...<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-430726.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-430726.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="410" border="0" height="174" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-430795.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-430795.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="410" border="0" height="174" /></a><br /><br />...and did I say already that she possesses an incredible physical strength, easily kicking the butts of street thugs without so much as a breath; also she has no trouble in lifting up obstructive buses as if they were mere toys.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-262510.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-262510.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-264510.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-264510.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-399962.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-399962.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><br /><br />At the end of the movie, long after Jiro has died and the lifetime of the cyborg companion too has expired, a young Japanese woman, who turns out to be the spitting image of the cyborg girl, buys the memory chip that once belonged to the cyborg girl. As such, she retrieves all the memories of the cyborg, especially the ones in relation to Jiro of course. She thus becomes so intrigued with the electronically induced memories and accompanying feelings that she decides to pay Jiro a visit, by going back into the past using a presumed time-machine, one year in advance of Jiro's first meeting with the cyborg girl he grew to love so much.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-476204.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-476204.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-59825.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-59825.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-483463.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-483463.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="307" border="0" height="130" /></a><br /><br />The real life girl, though provided with brain-chip implant, quickly falls hopelessly in love with Jiro and decides to go back in time to the time just after the Tokyo earthquake to take over the role as Jiro's female companion from the cyborg who gave her life (if you can call it that) to Jiro just previously.<br /><br />As with all movies, predictive programming elements and themes can be detected by understanding the effect the movie has on the viewer, in particular by imagining the effects on the unsuspecting and gullible viewer. In case of this movie, the viewer is likely to be mesmerized by the romantic side to the story, which admittedly was very strongly present indeed.<br /><br />Unfortunately, a sobering analysis <em>a la</em> predictive programming leaves less room for a romantic interpretation.<br /><br />Here we have a cyborg female robot that is physically extremely attractive, she is nifty and harnesses plenty of useful and convenient skills, making her outstandingly capable of tremendously beneficial and life-saving feats. So apart from lacking feelings and libido (?), she proves to be the ideal partner for any lonely male. In other words, the movie leaves the viewer with quite a favorable impression of the cyborg and, to some extent, may even identify with it.<br /><br />At the end of the movie, a real life female gets to be implanted with the memory chip of the then expired cyborg. During her visit to Jiro, this genuine human falls in love with him, because she can "feel his heart". This means that the memory chip manages to convey, with feelings and emotions, the recorded experiences the cyborg had when she was the companion of Jiro. The viewer may thus be quite impressed with the capabilities and positive effects of having a brain-chip implanted in one's cranium. The movie, apart from the romance or perhaps precisely because of it, thus reads as a brain-implant advertisement. For those unaware of the dangers brain implants have in regards to individuality and personal control over one's own life, I recommend to reader to watch the next informative youtube videos:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p06RLa6Wuys">The Brain Chip - A Prison For Your Mind</a><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/p06RLa6Wuys&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/p06RLa6Wuys&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrTIXB8a9GM">Re: The Brain Chip - The US Has Ordered Millions of Them</a><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MrTIXB8a9GM&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MrTIXB8a9GM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPsAkRTN8jA">Caller: Transhumanist on the Brain Chip</a><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RPsAkRTN8jA&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RPsAkRTN8jA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAv1D1SIPss">Brainchip: A Warning from a Mason</a><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hAv1D1SIPss&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hAv1D1SIPss&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><blockquote>n 1948 Norbert Weiner published a book, Cybernetics, defined as a neurological communication and control theory already in use in small circles at that time. Yoneji Masuda, "Father of the Information Society," stated his concern in 1980 that our liberty is threatened Orwellian-style by cybernetic technology totally unknown to most people. This technology links the brains of people via implanted microchips to satellites controlled by ground-based supercomputers.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />The mass media has not reported that an implanted person's privacy vanishes for the rest of his or her life. She can be manipulated in many ways. Using different frequencies, the secret controller of this equipment can even change a person's emotional life. She can be made aggressive or lethargic. Sexuality can be artificially influenced. Thought signals and subconscious thinking can be read, dreams affected and even induced, all without the knowledge or consent of the implanted person.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Are we ready for the robotization of mankind and the total elimination of privacy, including freedom of thought? How many of us would want to cede our entire life, including our most secret thoughts, to Big Brother? Yet the technology exists to create a totalitarian New World Order. Covert neurological communication systems are in place to counteract independent thinking and to control social and political activity on behalf of self-serving private and military interests.</blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/microchip_implants_mind_control.htm">Microchip Implants, Mind Control, and Cybernetics</a><br /><br />For more information on the very real dangers of neural implants, please check the reference list.<br /><br />I believe that the purpose of movies such as Cyborg Girl is to help bridge the gap between sentient man and the soulless machine and make it more attractive for people to accept implants that directly interface with the human nervous system. Although there are certain benefits to be enjoyed by augmenting nervous systems in case they have been compromised say by, for instance, paralysis or neuro-degenerative diseases, regarding the preservation of privacy and individuality however, brain chips pose a tremendous danger to humanity if such technology is administered by an tyrannical regime in an Orwellian police state setting.<br /><br />Movies such as Cyborg Girl leaves me with the impression that the people behind its production <em>either</em> naively ride along on the infectious and fashionable wave of pro-technological culture and are unaware of the inherent dangers invasive neural implants bring on board<em>or</em> they work along a more sinister futurist political agenda and through this movie contribute to predictively program naive viewers into a mindset favorable for what they believe is a desirable but no less totalitarian society.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wethepeoplewillnotbechipped.com/phpfusion/images/noverichip1ja.gif&%7E%7ESPECIAL_REMOVE%21#%7E%7Elt;br%20&%7E%7ESPECIAL_REMOVE%21#%7E%7Egt;&%7E%7ESPECIAL_REMOVE%21#%7E%7Elt;/a&%7E%7ESPECIAL_REMOVE%21#%7E%7Egt;" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://www.wethepeoplewillnotbechipped.com/phpfusion/images/noverichip1ja.gif" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong>References:</strong><br /><ol><br /><li><a href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/microchip_implants_mind_control.htm">Microchip Implants, Mind Control, and Cybernetics </a></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/hillary-clinton-chips-will-be-put-in-kids-brains">Hillary Clinton: Chips will be put in kids’ brains</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=brain+chip&search_type=">More youtube videos on the brainchip</a></li><br /><li> <a href="http://www.wethepeoplewillnotbechipped.com/phpfusion/news.php">We The People Will Not Be Chipped!</a></li><br /></ol><br /><strong>Appendix - The Time Line of Cyborg Girl:</strong><br /><ol><br /><li>Jiro is visited by an unknown girl from the future (2007). Girl stays shortly and then goes away.</li><br /><li>Jiro lives his life <strong>without</strong> the companionship of a cyborg and experiences all kinds of life-threatening disasters and witnesses all kinds of unpleasantness. As such, Jiro lives a life of pain and misery.</li><br /><li>At the end of his life (2061), Jiro succeeds in creating a cyborg that looks just like the real life girl who visited him, as mentioned in point 1. The cyborg is built and programmed to function as the protector of Jiro and help prevent all the bad things he experienced or witnessed in his life.</li><br /><li>Jiro sends his cyborg girl a year after the real life girl visited Jiro.</li><br /><li>The cyborg assists and protects Jiro and therefore this version of Jiro's life is fundamentally different from the one described in point 2. Call it a second parallelly lived life of Jiro, if you will.</li><br /><li>The cyborg is destroyed during the Tokyo earthquake.</li><br /><li>The unknown girl from the future, mentioned in point 1, intrigued by the similarity of the cyborg decides to go back in time and take over the role of the destroyed cyborg as Jiro's companion ("because she can feel his heart").</li><br /><li>Jiro and his real life companion live happily ever after.</li><br /></ol><br />The contradiction in the story surfaces if one realizes the that the story is a non-linear story in that Jiro "lives out" two parallel lives. This situation is given by the following vintage rendition:<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=timeline2.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/timeline2.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="399" border="0" height="553" /></a></p><br /><br />Apart from the physical difficulties of the existence of event altering time-travel, to make the story consistent the time-machine that sent the cyborg girl to help Jiro out in his troubled "Life 1" must also be invoked to take back the destroyed cyborg so that its memory chip can be retrieved from the "Life 2" back to "Life 1" time-line.Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-74400202910821689952008-10-29T14:21:00.001+01:002009-02-15T20:40:30.872+01:00The Happening (2008)<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0949731/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0949731/</a><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=TheHappening.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/TheHappening.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="614" width="421" /></a></p><br /><br />To read a decent synopsis, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Happening_%282008_film%29">go here.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-376103.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-376103.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="200" width="377" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-325877.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-325877.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="200" width="377" /></a><br /><br />Newsreader:<em>"[...]our brains come equipped with a self-preservation mechanism to stop us from harmful actions. This is controlled by a combination of electro-chemical signals in the brain. The blocking of neurotransmitters by certain toxins has been proven to cause hallucinations, asphyxiation and paralysis. This new neurotoxin is basically flipping the preservation switch; blocking neurotransmitters in a specific order causing specific self-damaging and catastrophic effects.</em><br />Alma:<em>"It makes you kill yourself."</em><br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-330006.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-330006.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="200" width="377" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-396660.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-396660.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="200" width="377" /></a><br />Botanist:<em>"[...] plants have the ability to target specific threats. Tobacco plants when attacked by heliophilous caterpillars will send out a chemical attracting wasps to kill just those caterpillars. We don't know how plants obtain these abilities. They just evolved, very rapidly."</em><br />Alma: <em>Which species, do you think, is doing it, if you think it's true?</em><br />Botanist:<em> Plants have the ability to communicate with other species of plants. Trees can communicate with bushes, bushes with grass and everything in between."</em><br /><br />Hence it is suggested that the plant kingdom be the prime suspect in the sudden and mysterious surge of infectious suicidal behavior overwhelming the Northeastern part of the US.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-372701.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-372701.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="200" width="377" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-338586.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-338586.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="199" width="376" /></a><br />Elliot: <em>"What if they are targeting us as threats? This part of the field may not have been set off. Something in this field may release a chemical in the air when there are too many of us together."</em><br />A science-teacher present in the group, Elliot (Mark Wahlberg), comes up with a viable reason as to why clusters of people fall victim to the elusive and etheric threat. He argues that larger groups of people stand to succumb while smaller groups, if indeed small enough, might make it through unscathed.<br /><br />The viewer, as an inherently social creature, is subconsciously instilled with the uneasy feeling to avoid seeking refuge to large clusters of people during future times of calamity. Rather it is suggested that people stick together in small groups only, lest succumbing to the consequences of whatever terror attack.<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-344630.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-344630.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="267" width="502" /></a></p><br /><br />The notion for the need to remain in small bands in order to safeguard survival is further reinforced when the protagonist group witness two groups of people coming together and in a state of dismay observe the characteristic collective suicidal behavior kicking in.<br /><br />It may be of interest to note that with the exception of military run quarantine camps, the emphasis on the need to stick to small groups of people during times of calamity was also featured in the movie called <a href="http://predictiveprogramminginmovies.blogspot.com/2008/08/children-of-men-2006_23.html">Children of Men</a>, but was also present in all the viral movies (such as <a href="http://predictiveprogramminginmovies.blogspot.com/2008/08/28-weeks-later-2007_23.html">28 Weeks Later</a>) in which the fear for infection 'naturally' leads to people becoming alienated for one and other.<br /><br />It would feel to me that the reason for incorporating this theatrical given is that any effective resistive effort against whoever is responsible for whatever attacks is more likely to be possible if people collaborate in larger groups or smaller groups that at least are in close communicative contact with one and other. In addition, the virtue of larger groups also extends to trying to mitigate more effectively and more rapidly the damaging consequences of an attack on society. With the nowadays prevalent high levels of dependency of people on each other, the pooling together of resources and brainpower seems to confer self-evident benefits for coping with any kind of calamity or crisis. It is also important to maintain communicability between separated groups as much as possible so as to be able to share advancements and progress among scattered groups. Movies such as this one seem to favor the antithesis to this survival beneficial directive, a direction which carries the least survival prospects in general.<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-340454.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-340454.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="267" width="502" /></a></p><br /><br />Josh: <em>"Why is this happening?"</em><br />Elliot:<em>"I don't know for sure Josh. I read this article about the coast of Australia. It said they have found large quantities of primordial bacteria. It hadn't been around for billions of years. It just appeared in the water. It's toxic to humans, fishermen who come into contact with it are dying. It feels kinda similar to that. With the bees disappearing, I don't know, it feels like a pattern. [...]</em><br />Josh: <em>"I don't believe it's nature."</em><br />Elliot: <em>"It may not be, there could be some other explanation. I don't know."</em><br /><br />Again, the supposed or potential hostility of the fauna towards humans is stressed once again. This time however an actual case of hostility of nature is now brought up by Elliot, thus reinforcing the idea of plants out to kill humans.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-410576.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-410576.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="200" width="377" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-409929.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-409929.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="200" width="377" /></a><br />While trying to escape the clutches of the threat, the protagonist group come across a house that has been set up to deter strangers. The two brash young kids of the group try to seek entry into the house by force rather than diplomacy and are, without much deliberation, killed in cold blood by the inhabitants of the house.<br /><br />This may serve to help create a mental barrier for people who are on the run, from whatever (terror) calamity at hand, to try and seek refuge or aid with unfamiliar people living on unfamiliar terrain. In other words, the viewer is once again urged to stick to his or her own immediate companions and rely less on the potential help from strangers.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-418435.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-418435.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="200" width="377" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-421359.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-421359.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="200" width="377" /></a><br />It is soon discovered, although not addressed explicitly by the main protagonist, that having small groups of people is not a sufficient condition to warrant survival. It is discovered that emotions of anger also seem to trigger suicidal behavior.<br /><br />So now the overall message to the viewer is to try to remain emotionally reserved during times of calamity and stay together only in small groups in order to have a chance at survival.<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-428421.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-428421.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="267" width="502" /></a></p><br /><br />Indeed, not long after the old woman succumbs to her fate she brought upon herself by sheer anger and misadventure, the protagonists meet in a harmonious and tranquil fashion and triumphantly survive the suggested wrath of nature.<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-428766.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-428766.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="267" width="502" /></a></p><br /><br />Notice the number on the school-bus. This could easily be regarded as a year number. If so the movie suddenly becomes all the more ominous.<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-427648.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-427648.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="267" width="502" /></a></p><br /><br />Scientist: <em>"Traces of the neurotoxin have been found in some plants and trees. Now most environmentalists feel that this event is like a tide in the ocean but instead of algae killing fish this happened on land. Plants and trees just cannot pick up and move when they are threatened by other species. Plants have only one option: to rapidly evolve their chemistry.[...]"</em><br />Interviewer:<em> "Why did it start and ended so suddenly?" </em><br />Scientist: <em>"<strong>This was an act of nature and we'll never fully understand it.</strong> [...] There has been much speculation as to why this happened in the Northeast only. How do you explain that? Well I believe, and this is just my opinion, that this was a prelude; a warning like the first spot of a rash. We have become a threat to this planet. I don't think anybody will argue with that. And this is a warning. A warning? Do you think the skeptics would believe that, if it had occurred anywhere else? That's why <strong>most people believe it was the government</strong>. <strong>If it had happened in one other place, anywhere else, we could all believe what you're saying.</strong>"</em><br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-432838.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-432838.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="200" width="377" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-432783.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-432783.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="200" width="377" /></a><br />...and then <em>the happening</em> blows over to Europe. This act of transatlantic disaster migration automatically jettisons the generally held notion that the American government were to be behind the attack, which would then also be a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag">false flag attack</a>. Thus the idea that after all it was nature, or the plant kingdom to be precise, that was behind the attacks is at once vindicated, at least to the gullible viewer it would be.<br /><br />Movies like <em>The Happening</em> hammer on the notion that, if sufficiently provoked, nature has the capability to release anti-human weaponry upon the human world. Though not quite as fantastical and extreme as portrayed in this movie this idea unfortunately is not a new one. After all, it did not take too long after the discovery of the AIDS virus that it was postulated that this new and mysterious but nonetheless presumed deadly virus was somehow an act of <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zoonotic">zoonotic</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Chimpanzee">primate-to-human transmission (infection)</a>. As such, the AIDS epidemic could interpreted as a similar act of the wrath of nature. At least it may be perceived as such to the uncritical and easily deceived mind accepting anything mainstream science and politicians tell it to accept. If you do have a critical mind then you may very well be already aware of the likelihood of the <a href="http://www.originofaids.com/">human rather than natural origin of AIDS</a>.<a href="http://www.originofaids.com/articles/early.htm">[1]</a><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7906799062386453844&ei=ZhcDSZzNCIiG2gK0wNiHCw&q=aids+horowitz">[2]</a><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2035439503178314656&hl=en">[3]</a><br /><br />I believe that the function of movies like this is to warm the viewer to the idea that the wrath of nature is something that may one day become a reality. The reason why this idea is important enough to make predictive movies about is, I believe, the following. Suppose our deepest fears become a reality and the world economy collapses in the near future. Most people will end up unemployed and will in no time be struggling to survive. Food and fuel shortage will soon become commonplace. Ethical conduct and moral decency will wither away with the outlook most people will have on survival. Chaos in the form of looting and riots, especially in the city, is then likely to break out. Through all this onslaught on civilized society, the general level of hygiene will plummet.<br /><br />Now this would be an ideal opportunity for our leaders to sneak a devastating biological agent into the surroundings of a large city. The authorities can then simply blame ensuing waves of human carnage on poor standards of hygiene. They can even brush off the emergence of a lethal epidemic as an act of revenge by a plagued and taunted nature. In addition, the media may even step in by making convenient <a href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Commentary/Semiotic_Deception.htm">intertextual references</a> to this movie, stating that 'we', as great parasitic wasters of planet resources, brought on the wrath of nature ourselves. Thus movies like this would then indirectly contribute to misdirect attention from the real but hidden culprits carrying out their stealth <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_sociopol_depopu.htm">depopulation programs</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Study_Memorandum_200">[4]</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJtvcZb6ILo">[5]</a><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6056499818120863453&ei=SBgDSd-vNoLi2gKZx-kF&q=depopulation+program">[6]</a><br /><br /><strong>References:</strong><br /><ol><br /><li>Early Hepatitis B Vaccines and the “Man-Made” Origin of HIV/AIDS<br /><a href="http://www.originofaids.com/articles/early.htm">http://www.originofaids.com/articles/early.htm</a></li><br /><li>Proof AIDS and Ebola were manufactured - Dr Horowitz 1 of 2<br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-7906799062386453844&hl=en&fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed> </li><br /><li>Proof AIDS and Ebola were manufactured - Dr Horowitz 2 of 2<br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-2035439503178314656&hl=en&fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed> </li><br /><li>Is AIDS a Biological Weapon (of the US Government)?<br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UJtvcZb6ILo&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UJtvcZb6ILo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></li><br /><li>National Security Study Memorandum 200<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Study_Memorandum_200">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Study_Memorandum_200</a></li><br /><li>Alex Jones Report - Eugenics - End Game For Global Depopulation<br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=6056499818120863453&hl=en&fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed> </li><br /></ol><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=2004012257_Display-35-1.gif" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/2004012257_Display-35-1.gif" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=2004012257_Display-35-1.gif" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/2004012257_Display-35-1.gif" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=2004012257_Display-35-1.gif" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/2004012257_Display-35-1.gif" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a>Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-82850122768174764142008-10-21T13:12:00.002+02:002008-10-21T13:50:57.655+02:00Vyzygoth Interviews Phillip and Paul Collins - Invoking the Beyond 3 of 3<a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=tolkien.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/tolkien.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" width="115" height="149" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=1096304880_7faeb0fd7a.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/1096304880_7faeb0fd7a.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" width="163" height="246" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=46152_3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/46152_3.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" width="132" height="188" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=911image2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/911image2.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" width="215" height="160" /></a><br /><br />Invoking the Beyond is a 7 part radio interview series of the Collins Brothers being interviewed by Vyzygoth on predictive programming in culture. Done in 2007.<br /><br />I have added relevant pictures to the interviews and condensed them into a three part video series. This is part 3of3.<br /><br />Topics include: 911, Neocons, Dune, ET, Prometheus, Science of Signs (semiotics), CS Lewis the author of Narnia, JRR Tolkien, Michael Moorcock, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Adam Weishaupt, BF Skinner, Metropolis, Space Odyssey 2001, CIA, Independence Day vs Semptember 11, Jericho, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Aldous Huxley and the Brave New World, Children of the Sun, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Aleister Crowley, HG Wells, Timothy Leary, Drugs both legal and illegal, Cointelpro, Stormfront, Bill Cooper, David Duke, Crossdressing Giuliani....<br /><br />NB: Due to Google Video categorically denying me to upload this particular video (the other preceding two parts were accepted without problems) I was forced to resort to finding an alternative upload facility. Hence I came across Revver. To suit Revver standards I was forced to cut the video into 9 subparts. The videos can be accessed by clicking on the associated thumbnails.<br /><ol><br /> <li> <a href="http://revver.com/video/1230111/affiliate/271280/vyzygoth-interviews-collins-brothers-invoking-the-beyond-predictive-programming-in-culture-3of3-subpart1of9/"><img src="http://frame.revver.com/frame/120x90/1230111.jpg" alt="" /></a></li><br /> <li><a href="http://revver.com/video/1230287/affiliate/271280/vyzygoth-interviews-collins-brothers-invoking-the-beyond-predictive-programming-in-culture-3of3-sp2of9/"><img src="http://frame.revver.com/frame/120x90/1230287.jpg" alt="" /></a></li><br /> <li><a href="http://revver.com/video/1230579/affiliate/271280/vyzygoth-interviews-collins-brothers-invoking-the-beyond-predictive-programming-in-culture-3of3_p3/"><img src="http://frame.revver.com/frame/120x90/1230579.jpg" alt="" /></a></li><br /> <li> <a href="http://revver.com/video/1230622/affiliate/271280/vyzygoth-interviews-collins-brothers-invoking-the-beyond-predictive-programming-in-culture-3of3_p4/"><img src="http://frame.revver.com/frame/120x90/1230622.jpg" alt="" /></a></li><br /> <li><a href="http://revver.com/video/1232585/affiliate/271280/vyzygoth-interviews-collins-brothers-invoking-the-beyond-predictive-programming-in-culture-3of3_p5/"><img src="http://frame.revver.com/frame/120x90/1232585.jpg" alt="" /></a></li><br /> <li> <a href="http://revver.com/video/1230760/affiliate/271280/vyzygoth-interviews-collins-brothers-invoking-the-beyond-predictive-programming-in-culture-3of3_p6/"><img src="http://frame.revver.com/frame/120x90/1230760.jpg" alt="" /></a></li><br /> <li> <a href="http://revver.com/video/1231686/affiliate/271280/vyzygoth-interviews-collins-brothers-invoking-the-beyond-predictive-programming-in-culture-3of3_p7/"><img src="http://frame.revver.com/frame/120x90/1231686.jpg" alt="" /></a></li><br /> <li> <a href="http://revver.com/video/1231748/affiliate/271280/vyzygoth-interviews-collins-brothers-invoking-the-beyond-predictive-programming-in-culture-3of3_p8/"><img src="http://frame.revver.com/frame/120x90/1231748.jpg" alt="" /></a></li><br /> <li> <a href="http://revver.com/video/1231787/affiliate/271280/vyzygoth-interviews-collins-brothers-invoking-the-beyond-predictive-programming-in-culture-3of3_p9/"><img src="http://frame.revver.com/frame/120x90/1231787.jpg" alt="" /></a></li><br /></ol><br />If you are interested in obtaining the video in crisp quality then you could do so through downloading the corresponding bittorrent file, <a href="http://tracker.conspiracycentral.net/torrents-details.php?id=2486">available here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=AboutBehaviorism.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/AboutBehaviorism.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" width="158" height="230" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=Johann_Adam_Weishaupt.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/Johann_Adam_Weishaupt.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" width="144" height="217" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=TIMOTHY-LEARY-4-LA-CA-th.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/TIMOTHY-LEARY-4-LA-CA-th.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" width="149" height="206" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=aleister-crowley1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/aleister-crowley1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" width="161" height="191" /></a>Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-38515625239150820702008-10-21T13:09:00.004+02:002008-10-23T14:47:57.570+02:00Vyzygoth Interviews Phillip and Paul Collins - Invoking the Beyond 2 of 3<a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=074563109601_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/074563109601_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="152" border="0" height="230" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=18819244_w434_h_q80.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/18819244_w434_h_q80.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="207" border="0" height="221" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=2213.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/2213.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="191" border="0" height="284" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=300px-Flashgordonconquerstheunivers.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/300px-Flashgordonconquerstheunivers.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="181" border="0" height="280" /></a><br /><br />Invoking the Beyond is a 7 part radio interview series of the Collins Brothers (Paul and Phillip) being interviewed by Vyzygoth on predictive programming in culture. Done in 2007.<br /><br />I have added relevant pictures to the interviews and condensed them into a three part video series. This is part 2of3.<br /><br />Topics include: Rosemary's Baby, Lucifer Rising, The Exorcist, Angel Heart, Invader's from Mars, Oedipus, Clear and Present Danger, The Prisoner, Dune, HG Wells - The World Set Free, The Atomic Bomb, Truman, Roosevelt, "The Yellow Peril", Billington - Fire in the Minds of Men, Minute Men, Lost, Jericho, The Stand, The Sum of All Fears, 1984, Brave New World, They Live, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Omega Man, Soylent Green, Edward Bellamy - Looking Backward, Theodor Adorno, Flash Gordon, Bertrand Russell, Robert A Heinlein, Floyd Gibbons - The Red Napoleon, Robespierre, Roosevelt's New Deal, HG Wells- The Shape of Things to Come, New World Order, Heinlein's - The Day After Tomorrow and Starship Troopers, AQ Khan<br /><br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=392375417526299148&hl=nl&fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><br />If you are interested in obtaining the video in crisp quality then you could do so through downloading the corresponding bittorrent file, <a href="http://tracker.conspiracycentral.net/torrents-details.php?id=2485">available here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=ayellow_peril.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/ayellow_peril.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="193" border="0" height="312" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=aq-khan2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/aq-khan2.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="240" border="0" height="313" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=darth_vader.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/darth_vader.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="264" border="0" height="197" /></a>Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-35564704718849235452008-10-21T13:05:00.003+02:002008-10-23T14:49:52.345+02:00Vyzygoth Interviews Phillip and Paul Collins - Invoking the Beyond 1 of 3<a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=1-1-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/1-1-1.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="147" border="0" height="205" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=23_nov_napoleon.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/23_nov_napoleon.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="196" border="0" height="198" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=30jan.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/30jan.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="202" border="0" height="175" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=blavatsky.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/blavatsky.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="139" border="0" height="189" /></a><br /><br />Invoking the Beyond is a 7 part radio interview series of the Collins Brothers (Paul and Phillip) being interviewed by Vyzygoth on predictive programming in culture. Done in 2007.<br /><br />I have added relevant pictures to the interviews and condensed them into a three part video series. This is part 1of3.<br /><br />Topics include: X-Files, Science Fiction and Predictive Programming, Star Trek, Nazi Germany, Dadaism, Nazi Art, Richard Wagner, The Da Vinci Code, The French Revolution, The Illuminati, Napoleon, James Burnham, More Science Fiction, Star Wars, HG Wells - War of the Worlds, Bertrand Russell, Pax Britannica, Social Darwinism, RIIA and CFR, Klingons, Arnold Toynbee, HG Wells - The Time Machine, More Nazism, NeoCons, Brzezinksi, Skull and Bones, Nicola Tesla<br /><br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=4918738648057841324&hl=nl&fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed><br /><br />If you are interested in obtaining the video in crisp quality then you could do so through downloading the corresponding bittorrent file, obtainable <a href="http://tracker.conspiracycentral.net/torrents-details.php?id=2483">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=dada-dadaism-logo-p.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/dada-dadaism-logo-p.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="188" border="0" height="140" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=eloimorlocks-02.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/eloimorlocks-02.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="174" border="0" height="164" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=french-revolution-2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/french-revolution-2.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="163" border="0" height="150" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=georgewskullnbones.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/georgewskullnbones.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="213" border="0" height="122" /></a>Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-45051207384335068102008-10-21T13:01:00.000+02:002008-10-21T13:02:56.950+02:00Alan Watt - Predictive Programming; Theory and Practice<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=cutting_through_the_matrix_with_ala.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" style="border:0 none;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/cutting_through_the_matrix_with_ala.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" width="399" height="219" /></a></p><br /><br />Below are two videos I made from two Alan Watt blurbs, dated 23 and 24 November 2006 in which Alan Watt gives a nice rundown of what predictive programming is, what its origins are and the theory behind it. I scrambled a bunch of relevant pictures together and blended them together with the audio in Windows Movie Maker to produce the videos below.<br /><br />1of2<br /><a href="http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/audio/Alan_Watt_Blurb_PredictiveProgramming_Nov232006.mp3">Alan Watt Predictive Programming 23 Nov 2006</a><br /><a href="http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/transcripts/Alan_Watt_Blurb_PredictiveProgramming_PART1_Nov232006.html">Read transcript here</a><br /><br />2of2<br /><a href="http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/audio/Alan_Watt_Blurb_PredictiveProgramming_Nov242006.mp3">Alan Watt Predictive Programming 24 Nov 2006</a><br /><a href="http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/transcripts/Alan_Watt_Blurb_PredictiveProgramming_PART2_Nov242006.html">Read transcript here</a><br /><br />Source:<a href="http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/radio/Special_Talks_2006.html">http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/radio/Special_Talks_2006.html</a><br /><br /><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6632635277163933555">Alan Watt - Predictive Programming Theory and Practice 1of2</a><br /><br /><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3431721190535091535">Alan Watt - Predictive Programming Theory and Practice 2of2</a>Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-49497133177066566862008-10-21T12:57:00.002+02:002009-02-15T20:37:01.362+01:00Bee Movie (2007)<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389790/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389790/</a><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=bee-movie-2.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/bee-movie-2.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="584" width="396" /></a></p><br /><br />For a decent synopsis, the reader is referred to the dedicated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Movie">Wikipedia entry</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-271592.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-271592.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="149" width="279" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-284163.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-284163.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="149" width="280" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-336987.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-336987.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="149" width="280" /></a><br /><br />The bees in the movie are all interconnected with one another through some internalized communication system. Regarding the real human world, this is analogous to one step beyond the communicativeness offered by the today's extremely fashionable cellphone networks and it indeed seems more akin to the functionality that seems to only be possible through <a title="brain implants" href="http://www.skewsme.com/implants.html#ren1">brain-implants</a>; futuristic little gadgets that open up a whole can of worms regarding ethically acceptable limits regarding its applicability. The bionic interface of man and machine, since long, has been a much favored goal of the military:<br /><blockquote>Direct neural control of complex machines is a long-term U.S. military goal. DARPA has a brain-machine interface program aimed at creating next-generation wireless interfaces between neural systems and, initially, prosthetics and other biomedical devices.<br /><span>— Rodney Brooks, “<a href="http://wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/22841.html" target="_blank">Toward a Brain-Internet Link</a>,” <a href="http://wirelessnewsfactor.com/" target="_blank">WirelessNewsFactor</a>, 10 Dec 2003.</span></blockquote><br /><a href="http://www.skewsme.com/implants.html#ren1">http://www.skewsme.com/implants.html#ren1</a>[1]<br />The demonstrated virtue of the instant communication system of the bees may be interpreted as a predictive programming viewer incentive into accepting brain-implants that are likely to be <em>advertised</em> to do the same thing in the human world but without the grabbing and holding hassle of cellphones. In other words, movies such as <em>Bee Movie</em>, in which instant communicativeness comes off as something that is of great utility, may serve as the basis for future <a href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Commentary/Semiotic_Deception.htm">intertextual references</a> by people who seek reasons to help persuade themselves, or others, into accepting brain-implants that <em>promise</em> to do the same in humans as they did for the bees in <em>Bee Movie</em>. Due to its appeal especially to children, the young viewer is most receptive for programming that may only show its payoff later in life. Although in this case, it should be stated that concerning the relative complexity of its plot, Bee Movie is perhaps more of a family movie than a mere children's movie. As such, the predictive programming then pertains to the entire family unit rather than the less comprehensive adults-only or children-only target audiences.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-274293.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-274293.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="397" /> </a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-312872.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-312872.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="212" width="397" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-313010.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-313010.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="396" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-313075.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-313075.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="396" /></a><br /><br />Right after "graduation", the life of a bee consists for the most part of doing labor for large corporations. With human corporations growing larger and larger, the prospect of someone ending up working for a large corporation is becoming ever more likely. Therefore, regarding predictive programming, the viewer, especially the younger one, is prepped to meet a future in which it is the norm to be expected to slavishly labor for large corporations and multinationals.[2][3]<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-275241.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-275241.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="396" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-276485.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-276485.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="396" /></a><br /><br />The work-ethic of bees is even so profound that those happy little buzzing critters are expected to be industrious for their entire life - no word is even mentioned of retirement or pension. Regarding a possible human parallel, this prospect seems rather ominous but keeping in mind the ever increasing debt of the average world citizen this scenario may seem less bizarre after even the most casual consideration of the ramifications of the <a href="http://www.google.nl/search?q=global+financial+crisis">current global credit crisis</a>. After all, how many people are there already working multiple jobs merely to make ends meet? How many people are there now who can even afford to reasonably think about a prospect of retiring? With currently the Federal Reserve Bank happily bailing out the fraudulent banksters of Wall Street with state-condoned <em>de facto</em> counterfeit money, which are all hidden taxes as the ensuing wave of inflation eats away people's savings and buying power, a perpetual state of financial bondage to the credit system may suddenly seem more realistic than fantastical.<br /><br />This demand for a high standard work-ethic is reinforced with the next Bee quote:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Bees know that every small job, if it's done well, means a lot. But choose carefully because you'll stay in the job that you pick for the rest of your life... And you'll be happy to know that bees as a species haven't had one day off in 27 million years."</span><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-276876.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-276876.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="396" /></a><br /><br />And the virtue of a strong work-ethic, even if a job seems incredibly boring and monotonous, is stressed yet once again:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Son: "Dad, do you ever get bored doing the same job every day?" </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Dad: "Son, lemme tell you something about stirring. You grab that stick and you just move it around and you start stirring. You get yourself into a rythm, it's a beautiful thing."</span><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-281176.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-281176.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="396" /></a><br /><br />Half-way through the movie the theme of the movie becomes apparent. The bee protagonist, after discovering that the main bee produce, honey, is being drawn from bee colonies to serve as condiment for humans.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"How did this get here?"</span><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-301831.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-301831.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="209" width="392" /></a><br /><br />The bee, horrified by this profound abuse of exploitative human power, manages to file a law suit with the humans and through a crafty and cunning appeal to basic bee-rights gloriously prevails and wins the court-case, all at the expense of the bee exploitation industry, portrayed in the movie as being excessively immoral.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-324662.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-324662.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="154" width="288" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-324739.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-324739.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="154" width="288" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-324983.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-324983.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="154" width="288" /></a><br />As a result, all honey stored with humans suddenly is now being confiscated and returned to the bees. In addition, all bees held in human captivity for exploitation purposes are released into certain freedom. Notice that these measures are executed by what seems to be a level of enforcement that can only be seen in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_state">police state</a> type of setting. The viewer is prepped for a future in which the police is "to serve and protect" the govern<em>ment</em> rather than the gover<em>ned</em>.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-327019.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-327019.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="163" width="287" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-327138.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-327138.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="163" width="286" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-328270.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-328270.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="165" width="287" /></a><br />A nasty artifact to this awkward bee-over-human legal victory quickly rears its ugly head though. As a consequence of winning the class action lawsuit, basically all bees resort to the comfort of taking extended vacations. Therefore, pollination of flowers grinds to a halt and consequentially all flora soon withers away. As such, the entire natural habitat, including the human one, faces a serious survival crisis.<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-327819.png" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-327819.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="396" /></a></p><br /><br />It doesn't take too long before the bee protagonist painfully realizes the damage he was responsible for setting in motion and together with the human protagonist finds a way to restore the pre-disaster <em>status quo</em>, simply by resuming the pollination business again, a task that of course naturally belongs to the bee, in the first place.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-339882.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-339882.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="396" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-340145.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-340145.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="211" width="396" /></a><br /><br />Through the collective pollination effort of the "born-again" industrious bees, the flora, in no time, finds full restoration to pre-crisis stature. The bees, by resuming their expected and natural task, prove to be of vital importance in sustaining the delicate balance between the plant, animal, and the human realm.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Making honey takes a lot of bees, doing a lot of small jobs. Let me tell you something about a small job. If you do it really well, it makes a big difference. More than we realize, to us, to everyone. That's why I wanna get bees back to what we do best: working together. That's the beeway. We're not made of jello, we get behind the fellow!"</span><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-472893.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-472893.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="246" width="462" /></a><br /><br />The philosophy expounded by the bee protagonist in the above quote is confirmed through a collective bee effort in which a massive number of bees carry and guide no less of an object than a US airliner and bring it safely to the ground at the destination airfield:<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-337890.png" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-337890.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="282" width="528" /></a></p><br /><br />The thematic portion of predictive programming lies with the moral of the story. This being that, although the work that one does may seem of little importance to oneself, its function in helping to maintain society nonetheless is weighty enough to offset its apparent insignificance and monotony, or even unpleasant working conditions (like the bees being subjected to nauseating smoke applied by beekeepers).<br /><br />The playful portrayal of bees having adorable and clearly recognizable human characteristics thus encourages the viewer to identify with the bees, including the immaculate and supremely industrious workerbee work-ethic. This heroically attractive but nonetheless catoon-ish expression of <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anthropomorphism">anthropomorphism</a> will, on average, appeal more to the younger rather than the older viewer. By emphasizing high standards of work-ethics in the service of a higher cause (sustaining the entire habitat), the movie therefore seems to tacitly champion the notion of unconditional servitude of the worker-class to the system, governed ultimately by the ruling class; whereby both classes harmoniously cooperate in a synergistic society.<br /><br />I think it's hardly exaggerated to state that <em>Bee Movie</em> may be viewed as being one big rationale and advertisement for a slavish and perpetual workerbee-like work-ethic in which the interests of the corporation are paramount and inherently superior to the interests, including basic rights, of its workers. In other words, although packaged in an attractive entertainment form, the movie shamelessly champions ideals of <a title="corporatism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism">corporatism</a> while shoving under the rug all those human qualities that distinguish us from a workerbee, such as human individuality and human rights.<br /><br /><strong><em>References:</em></strong><br /><ol><br /><li> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKx1gLCQef8">Mind Control Microchip Verichip Welcome to the Machines</a><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FKx1gLCQef8&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FKx1gLCQef8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></li><br /><li><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=192012118972057552&hl=en">The corporation</a><br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=192012118972057552&hl=en&fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOXjqFxM8bg">Network - Jensen/Beale Boardroom Scene</a><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rOXjqFxM8bg&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rOXjqFxM8bg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></li><br /></ol><span style="font-style: italic;">"He's a lawyer too? Ma'am I already was a bloodsucking parasite. All I needed was a briefcase."</span><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-340789.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-340789.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="270" width="507" /></a>Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-79695264622059097602008-10-11T01:31:00.002+02:002009-02-15T20:44:01.559+01:00Death Race (2008)<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452608/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452608/</a><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=death-race-small.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/death-race-small.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="642" width="434" /></a></p><br /><br />The viewer is welcomed by the following ominous message, describing the socio-political context of <em>Death Race</em>:<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-964735.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="221" width="554" /></p><br /><br />The full text reads:<br /><blockquote><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><em>"2012-The United States economy collapses.</em><br /><em>Unemployment hits a record high.</em><br /><em>Crime rates spiral out of control. The prison system reaches breaking point.</em><br /><em>Private Corporations now run all correctional facilities for profit.</em><br /><em>~</em><br /><em>Terminal Island Penitentiary streams a series of Cage Fights live on the Internet.</em><br /><em>Prisoners fight to the death, creating a ratings sensation.</em><br /><em>They are the new Gladiators and Terminal Island is their Coliseum.</em><br /><em>~</em><br /><em>But like the mob of ancient Rome, the modern audience soon becomes bored.</em><br /><em>They demand more...</em><br /><em>Death Race is born."</em></p></blockquote><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-53639.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-53639.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="173" width="432" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-53444.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-53444.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="173" width="432" /></a><br /><br />Regarding predictive programming, those opening lines are quite self-explanatory and need no further explanation. To gauge if the context given by those introductory lines gives a plausible rendition of the nature of a future American society, let's go over them in some detail.<br /><ol><br /><li><strong><em>2012 - The United States economy collapses.</em></strong><br />There's already much to do at present times, October 2008, of a possible financial meltdown that could not only wreck the US economy but of which the shock effects could be felt throughout the world.<br />It's beyond the scope of this current review to go try to demonstrate that the World is indeed amidst a financial crisis that may sooner rather than later escalate into one big enough to cause the US economy to plunge into a major depression. Therefore for anyone who is at least a bit Google-clever but who, unfortunately, has been living on the moon for the past two months here's a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=global+financial+crisis">search-query</a> to help convince you that there indeed is such a thing as a global financial crisis currently going on which has the potential of tanking the US economy in the not too distant future.</li><br /><li><strong><em>Unemployment hits a record high. The prison system reaches breaking point.</em></strong><br />These societal developments, if becoming a reality, are trivially premised on item 1, so there need be no further elaboration apart from showing that prison populations are indeed on the uprise:<br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=corrtyp.gif" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/corrtyp.gif" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="273" width="416" /></a><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/corrtyp.htm">http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/corrtyp.htm</a></p><br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=US_incarceration_timeline-clean.gif" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/US_incarceration_timeline-clean.gif" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="309" width="441" /></a><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_the_United_States">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_the_United_States</a></p><br /><br />The excerpts of the next article are also most elucidating:<br /><blockquote>More than one in 100 adults in the United States is in jail or prison, an all-time high that is costing state governments nearly $50 billion a year and the federal government $5 billion more, according to a report released yesterday.<br /><br />With more than 2.3 million people behind bars, <strong>the United States leads the world in both the number and percentage of residents it incarcerates</strong>, leaving far-more-populous <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/China?tid=informline">China</a> a distant second, according to a study by the nonpartisan <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Pew+Center+on+the+States?tid=informline">Pew Center on the States</a>.<br /><br /><strong>The growth in prison population is largely because of tougher state and federal sentencing imposed since the mid-1980s.</strong> Minorities have been particularly affected: One in nine black men ages 20 to 34 is behind bars. For black women ages 35 to 39, the figure is one in 100, compared with one in 355 for white women in the same age group.<br />Source: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022801704.html?sid=ST2008022803016">New High In U.S. Prison Numbers - Growth Attributed To More Stringent Sentencing Laws</a></blockquote><br />In addition, the female prison population is growing even faster as this excerpt from a short article, dated May 2006, demonstrates:<br /><blockquote><strong>The number of women in state prisons has grown exponentially in the past three decades, growing at more than twice the rate as the male population</strong>, according to a report from the Women's Prison Association.<br />[...]<br /><strong>Most of the increases in female imprisonment can be traced to the war on drugs</strong>, the report said. More women are being sent to prison for drug offenses -- notably methamphetamine use -- while convictions for violent crimes have fallen. Experts called for alternative sentencing for female prisoners, including addiction treatment for drug offenders.<br /><a href="http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2006/female-prison-population-grew.html">Female Prison Population Grew 757 Percent Since 1977, Report Says</a></blockquote><br />Once again, articles such as the one above as well as the Dutch documentary referred to in the reference section reinforce the notion that the so-called <em>War on Drugs</em>, rather than being an effective collective effort to try to bring a halt to the damaging effects of narcotics, is quite contrarily, apart from hopelessly failing in what it pretends to do, an efficient catalyst for increasing the scope of law enforcement and for feeding the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison-industrial_complex">Prison Industrial Complex</a>.</li><br /><li><strong><em>Private Corporations now run all correctional facilities for profit.</em></strong><br />The current developments in the prison industry are such that more and more prisons emerge that are neither state- nor federally managed but indeed owned and operated by private corporations; <a href="http://archive.epinet.org/real_media/010111/materials/greene2.pdf">prisons are being privatized</a>.<br />The prospect of privatized prison is the likely outcome of a rather alarming trend that can already be witnessed today is supported by a documentary already made in 1999 by Dutch Television. <a href="http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=864268000924014458&hl=nl">It has been placed on Googlevideo</a>, also see the reference area below. I highly recommend it, the spoken language is mostly English with a minimally contributing Dutch voice-over.<br /><br />Since the goal of any corporation, by its commercial character is to strive to maximize profit, a danger emerges of potentially conflicting interests between the pursuit of profit and ethically acceptable treatments of prisoners. For instance, cutting costs in guard labor may negatively interfere with properly managing the prisoners. As such, riots may break out, or prisoners may end up getting killed by belligerent fellow prisoners. Also the commercial exploitation of prisoners, in the form of slave labor, or, similar to the thematic centerpiece of the movie, as slavish actors in commercially attractive but macabre forms of entertainment.</li><br /><li><strong><em>Prisoners fight to the death, creating a ratings sensation.</em></strong><br />If society indeed is plunged into systemic misery then unfortunately the psychology of a human is of such generally pathological degree that it derives pleasure in the knowledge that there are other people doing worse than he or she is. If one is but a stone's throw away from the gutter, then what better way to gain some sense of perverted satisfaction than to observe another person doing even worse off than you do?<br /><br />Indeed, the phenomenon of taking pleasure in witnessing other people's suffering is well known all over the world as is reflected by the reality of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude">many languages having unique words to identify it</a>. For instance, the Dutch call it '<em>leedvermaak</em>', whereas the Germans call it '<em>Schadenfreude</em>', a word that was even adopted as <em>schadenfreude</em> by the English language. Hence it would come as little surprise that, based on regrettable but basic human psychology, and as macabre as it may be, that there would be enough people willing to support a market based the idea of broadcasting filmed fights of people trying to kill one another.</li><br /><li><strong><em>They are the new Gladiators and Terminal Island is their Coliseum.</em></strong><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=Jean-Leon_Gerome_Pollice_Verso.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/Jean-Leon_Gerome_Pollice_Verso.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="387" width="556" /></a><br />However, the idea of one person trying to bash in the head of another person for the enjoyment of others is hardly new at all and indeed was already quite commonplace no later than the days of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator">the old Roman Empire</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-53784.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-53784.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="173" width="432" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-53845.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-53845.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="173" width="432" /></a><br />The notion of prisons turning commercial is reflected by the high prices viewers have to pay in order to watch <em>Death Race</em> live, although I ignored taking into account any inflationary corrections. Since the race comes in three stages, at $99 dollars each, or $250 for all three, and taking into account that the bloodthirsty viewing audience consists of millions of viewers at any one go, it doesn't take a rocket-scientist to figure out that this kind of business is simply too lucrative for unscrupulous entrepreneurs to let pass unexploited.<br /><br />Sad as it is, the unconscientious businessman is of course only partly too blame for the emergence of modern day gladiator games since if there wouldn't have a been a market for it, represented by all the hordes of viewers out for blood, the idea of a Death Race would not have been commercially viable to begin with. It's but a simple consequence of the elementary economic law of demand and supply.<br /><br />Besides being the next generation of the gladiator games, the fictional but potentially real phenomenon of <em>Death Race</em> is akin to the existing phenomenon of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_film">snuff film</a>, by virtue of people getting filmed while they are getting killed for none other reason than commercial exploitation. However, contrary to a snuff movie, in <em>Death Race</em> family members do not get paid a single dime for the sacrificial acts of the actors. For all practical purposes, the participants in Death Race are acting out their part as mere slave laborers since all a racer can look towards is the exceedingly unlikely prospect of merely leaving prison and returning to society. Therefore, in essence, Death Race embodies the ethically questionable entertainment amalgamation of the gladiator game combined with the snuff movie, although without the bad script and with an utterly expendable and cheap acting cast. As such, the creative minds behind neo-gladiator prison games save themselves both the effort for procuring inferior movie-scripts as well as saving expenditures on acting.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-1071905.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-1071905.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="173" width="432" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-80216.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-80216.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="173" width="432" /></a><br />As the movie shows quite clearly, the idea of the inclusion of women into pits of death is, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_gladiator">is not an altogether new but nonetheless quite exotic phenomenon</a>. But with the rise of female inmates this may not be an entirely fictional and far-fetched prediction. Movies such as <em>Death Race,</em> in which women function as racing navigators, serve to help prepare the public for such a (similar) development becoming reality in the future. Given the abhorrent nature of those games, a rightful remark would be, <em>"emancipation is a b!tch"</em>, meant quite literally.</li><br /></ol><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-973822.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-973822.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="173" width="432" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-1056518.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-1056518.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="173" width="432" /></a><br /><br />The movie features prisoners being tracked by a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System"><em>global positioning system</em> (GPS)</a>. It is a known fact of today's society that the familiarity and ubiquitousness of the GPS is on the rise all over the world<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3012170.stm">[1]</a><a href="http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:JSXR66FQ3QEJ:www.accessible-devices.com/DigitalPrivacy.html+more+people+being+tracked+global+positioning+system&hl=nl&ct=clnk&cd=3">[2]</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/business/worldbusiness/12security.html?pagewanted=print">[3]</a>. In some cases, such as sex offenders, the reason for doing so, in the light of preventing recidivism, seems to be quite justified. However, <a href="http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/12234/gps_vehicle_tracking/12_practical_uses_of_gps_for_everyday_people.html">in spite of all the convenient practical benefits</a>, if and when people are tagged like sheep for all the wrong reasons then this is cause for grave concern and invokes questions of ethics regarding privacy and the potentiality for authoritative abuse by whoever is responsible for doing the tracking. Combine a dictatorial regime with mandatory tracking of its citizens, through implanted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification">RFID chips</a> for instance, and basic civil rights now will be decided by the despot to respect or not.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=mban1622l.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/mban1622l.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="320" width="280" /></a><br /><br />For instance, on a <em>prima facie</em> level it may be justified to tag and track felons, <a href="http://www.gemstone.umd.edu/teams/documents/innovative.pdf">on the basis of the virtue of protecting society against recidivism</a>. However, what if the laws of the country are such that not all felons are in actual fact a danger to society? For instance, some American states may regard the smoking of marijuana a major offense and convict all those who get caught as felons. As such, otherwise law abiding and productive members of society may find themselves being treated, by law enforcement officials as well as the rest of society, as dangerous criminals for the rest of their natural life. From a purely humane point of view alone such a profoundly discriminatory punishment surely is too much to bear and in violation of any decent standard of civil rights.<br /><br />At any rate, be that as it may, regarding predictive programming, the movie normalizes the mandatory provisioning of prisoners with GPS.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-1073454.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-1073454.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="173" width="432" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-1073519.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-1073519.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="173" width="432" /></a><br /><em>The antagonist, prison warden Hennesey, firmly asserts herself as director of Death Race.<br /></em><br />In the movie the role of antagonist is fulfilled by the organizer of Death Race, the prison warden of Terminal Island Correctional Facilities, a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LrHfxW4XOg">female</a> by the name of Hennesey. At the end of the movie, the protagonist, a former career racer named Ames who was framed and jailed by Hennesey and thus coerced into participating in Death Race, together with another imprisoned racer miraculously manage to break out of prison and escape to certain freedom. As an appetizing bonus, the evil prison warden gets blown up to kingdom come, and they all, minus the warden and a few dead racers, live happily ever after.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-979241.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-979241.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="230" width="576" /></a><br /><em>The protagonist meeting the antagonist.<br /></em><br />The happy ending of the movie suggests to the following scenario. Here you have one convicted felon, even though he is innocent and therefore wrongfully incarcerated, together with another convicted felon manage to break out of prison and subsequently stay out of prison without being haunted by the law which normally should work hard to put the escaped convicts behind bars again. Hmmmm.... does this end scenario sound likely to be possible to happen in real life too? And yet, the happy ending suggests that it is.<br /><br />Again it is this theme of hope that gives the gullible viewer some sort of false sense of security that, if such modern day Gladiator games ever should be revived, there is this chance of getting around its final outcome, and escape certain death. That is, apart from winning a sufficient number of races to qualify for release into the public, if you are cunning, daring and lucky enough you might just be able to escape into freedom and live a peaceful life afterwards. Should these kind of sadistic and essentially inhumane games ever become a reality I would not bet my two cents on the possibility that whoever are the creative minds behind them leave open any systemic glitches ready to be exploited by the exploited (<em>i.e.</em> the incarcerated).<br /><br /><em><strong>References:</strong></em><br /><ol><br /><li><a href="http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r188.pdf">World Prison Population List (fourth edition) (2003)</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://archive.epinet.org/real_media/010111/materials/greene2.pdf">Prison Privatization: Recent Developments in the United States (2000)</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1065033/How-far-bounce--The-extraordinary-taunts-sick-ghouls-jeered-teenager-leapt-death.html">'How far can you bounce?': The extraordinary taunts of sick ghouls who jeered as a teenager leapt to his death (2008)</a></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/02/13/1368724.htm">Americans starting to implant RFID chips in humans (2006)<br /></a></li><br /><li><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a></a><a href="http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-461339317435460598&hl=nl">NOW on PBS 419 Prisons for Profit</a><br /><br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.nl/googleplayer.swf?docid=-461339317435460598&hl=nl&fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><br /></p></li><li><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=864268000924014458&hl=nl"></a><a href="http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=864268000924014458&hl=nl">War on Drugs (The Prison Industrial Complex) (1999)</a><br /><br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.nl/googleplayer.swf?docid=864268000924014458&hl=nl&fs=true" style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><br /></p></li><li><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=death_race_2000.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/death_race_2000.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><strong><em>Death Race 2000</em></strong> (the original of 1975)<br /><em><br />In the year 2000 the United States has been destroyed by a financial crisis and a military coup. Political parties have collapsed into a single Bipartisan Party, which also fulfills the religious functions of a unified church and state. The resulting fascist police state, the United Provinces, is headed by the cult figure "Mr President" (Sandy McCallum). The people are kept satisfied through a stream of gory gladiatorial entertainment, which includes the bloody spectacle the Transcontinental Road Race, depicted as a symbol of American values and way of life.</em><br /><br /><em>The race is held in three segments from east coast to west, and scored both by traditional methods of timed checkpoints, and also by the fatalities ("scores") achieved by the drivers, including spectators, drivers and race crew. Scoring is 10 points for women of child-bearing age, 40 for teenagers, 70 for children under twelve and 100 for folks over 75. The winner of the race is the one who runs over the most pedestrians rather than the first to cross the finish line.[2] The cars are equipped to kill, bearing anti-personnel weaponry ranging from blades to rockets, and the drivers and their cars are themed in a manner reminiscent of the Hanna-Barbera animated series Wacky Races of the late 1960s.</em><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Race_2000">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Race_2000</a></li><br /></ol>Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-33535565405119814552008-09-27T21:47:00.002+02:002009-02-15T20:47:06.099+01:00Independence Day (1996)<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/</a><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="ID" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/independence_day_ver3.jpg" alt="bla bal" height="498" width="347" /></p><br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Times;"> <em>Independence Day</em> serves as the ground of comparative analysis, because I argue that the mind searches knowledge and experience in order to understand new phenomena. In this context, the sample from the film <em>Independence Day</em> provides the narrative qualities that embody the paradigmatic character of the situation and images of the events of September 11<sup>th</sup>.</span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030426192215/http://www.wright.edu/%7Eelliot.gaines/Indeday.htm">Elliot Gaines:2002</a></blockquote><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Times;">... as we were going across the street, we were not terribly far from the World Trade Center building, the south tower. As we were cutting across a, a quarantine zone actually, the building began disintegrating. And we heard it and looked up and started to see elements of the building come down and we ran, and honestly it was like a scene out of <em>Independence Day</em>. Everything began to rain down. It was pitch black around us as the wind was ripping through the corridors of lower Manhattan. </span><br />(Ron Insana, a reporter for MSNBC and firsthand witness to the collapse of the World Trade Center). <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030426192215/http://www.wright.edu/%7Eelliot.gaines/Indeday.htm">Elliot Gaines:2002</a></blockquote><br />For a decent synopsis visit the corresponding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_%28film%29">Wikipedia page</a>. As already alluded to with the above quotes, there are some very potent predictive programming elements in this one, so read on.<br /><h3>Alien Attacks vs 911 Terror Attacks</h3><br />Let's first address the parallels between the attacks of the alien invader, as portrayed in the movie <em>Independence Day</em> <em>(ID)</em> and the attacks on US landmark buildings on September 11, 2001.<br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><br /><tbody><br /><tr><br /><th><em>Fiction</em></th><br /><th><em>Reality</em></th><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-77814.png" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-77814.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="260" width="432" /></a></td><br /><td><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=towers.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="alignright" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/towers.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="272" width="301" /></a></td><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-77877.png" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-77877.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="260" width="432" /></a></td><br /><td><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=wtc_collapse1.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="alignright" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/wtc_collapse1.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="315" width="209" /></a></td><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-77930.png" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-77930.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="260" width="432" /></a></td><br /><td><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=wtc_collapse2.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/wtc_collapse2.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="315" width="214" /></a></td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br />In the fictional setting of <em>ID</em> the attacker from outer space destroys the White House, the Empire State Building in New York City, and a skyscraper in Los Angeles. In the real-life setting of September 11 2001, terrorists destroy the WTC towers, damage the Pentagon and if the hijacked plane, <a href="http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42112">which in all likelihood was heading for Washington DC</a>, had not been downed over Pennsylvania, the White House might also have been hit. Hence the parallels between the two attacks, one fictional and one real, are clearly discernible.<br /><br />Immediately following September 11 2001, the media began their nauseating barrage of showing us various footages of disintegrating WTC towers. Those who have watched <em>ID</em> thus have had ample opportunity to recognize the destructive real life events being similar to the fictional ones as portrayed in the movie. Therefore, by virtue of this kind of recognition and familiarity gained from fictional imprinting, the witness is led into accepting a context of response similar to the one as presented in <em>ID</em>. In the movie, a clear identification is made of the enemy and a clear distinction is made between forces of good, that being the world in general and the US in particular, and forces of evil, that being the alien invader from outer space.<br /><br />So when the real attacks happened, those who have watched <em>ID</em> are inclined to also adopt this dichotomous and uncompromisingly gung-ho mindset of good vs evil. This type of response was further reinforced when the government, most notably Bush himself, immediately following the terror attacks, began to spur the public into start thinking in pure black and white terms of good versus evil. That this technique of moral coercion left no room or time for careful and honest deliberation and reflection became dramatically clear with slogans such as, <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22you+are+either+with+us+or+you%27re+with+the+terrorists%22">"you are either with us or you're with the terrorists."<br /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-524478.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-524478.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="229" width="381" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=osama-bin-laden.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/osama-bin-laden.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="233" width="177" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=saddam-hussein.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/saddam-hussein.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="193" width="163" /></a><br /><em>To the left we see the inhuman and un-human fictional enemy, who simply wants every human "to die", flanked to the right by two supposed real-life enemies of the United States: Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.</em><br /><br />But the movie went further than just persuade the viewer to adopt a simple binary paradigm of good versus evil. By virtue of the extra terrestrial nature of the besieger, the movie could afford for the protagonists (which is roughly the entire world) to show no mercy whatsoever for the imposing antagonists, the hosile space alien hordes. After all, we have this regrettable but nonetheless clearly present tendency to hardly care for the wellbeing of animals so why would we care for other-worldly beings who are out for our blood anyway? As such, through movies such as ID, the (American) viewer is prepared to rationalize any debasement or demonization of any future inimical adversaries, threatening the integrity of the United States. Or, in the <a href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Commentary/Semiotic_Deception.htm">parlour of the Collins brothers</a>, ideational spores have been planted, in this case spores of pure and unadulterated hatred for an enemy perceived to be demonic. So when the real attacks of September 11 took place and the media almost immediately began fingering Osama Bin Laden and later on also Saddam Hussein as being the likely culprits, it would take little effort for the government, proudly flanked by its favorite lapdog: the mainstream media, to not only succeed in gathering sufficient public support for the ensuing retaliatory military campaigns, but to also manage to debase and demonize any one party labeled a "terrorist". Never mind for a minute that it has never been established through rigorous procurement of evidence that either Osama Bin Laden, with his presumed terrorist outfit known as Al-Queda, or Sadam Hussein had even any remote thing to do with the 911 attacks.<br /><br />Therefore, it already has become apparent that the predictive programming embedded in <em>ID</em> lies in its preparatory function of provoking a desired public kneejerk response and foster the primitive mindset on how to deal with any real future terror attacks, recognizable to the ones depicted in the movie. Note that <em>ID</em> was made in 1996, a convenient five years ahead of the September 11 attacks so as to leave plenty of time for the viewer to assimilate the various programming elements present in the movie.<br /><h3>The Fictional President vs The Real President</h3><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-79500.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-79500.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="260" width="432" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=bush_book.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/bush_book.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="256" width="349" /></a><br /><br />In the movie the President of the US manages to escape just prior to the alien attack on the White House. In real life, President George Bush just so happens to also not be in the White House during the time of the 911 attacks. As you can see on the above picture he is most busy 'reading' from an upside-down held (!) children's book to a group of children in some unimportant primary school situated in some unimportant town or city in Florida. Isn't it convenient for the Prez to be out of town at that particular date?.... In addition, as I already indicated before, if it weren't for the downing of the hijacked plane over Pennsylvania on that fateful September day, the parallels between fiction and reality would have even been stronger.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-313082.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-313082.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="260" width="432" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=bush_pilot_052300.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/bush_pilot_052300.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br />In the movie the President just so happens to be a veteran cold-war era fighter pilot. In real life, George W Bush also happens to be a veteran cold-war era fighter pilot. Although, truth be told, Bush's flight record must have been purely uneventful as he was safely stationed at non-combative posts in the US for the entire duration of <a href="http://www.seanet.com/%7Ejohnco/bush102.htm">his service to the air-force. </a>Hence, so much for the real-life presidential heroism although the movie programs the viewer with the opposite sentiment.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-332109.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-332109.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="260" width="432" /></a><br /><br />In the movie we see the President giving an improvised but nonetheless vigorous pep-talk, supported of course by a characteristic and dramatic musical score, to an all too receptive and patriotically inclined makeshift audience.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=Bush_Ground_Zero.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/Bush_Ground_Zero.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="240" width="360" /></a><br /><br />In real life we could all watch how George Bush addressed the bewildered and shocked citizens of NYC in the early stages of the aftermath of 911. In the movie as well as in real life, these seemingly improvised speeches by the President can be interpreted as preludes to the retaliatory military actions that would ensue. Again, fiction conveniently prepared the public to accept, without grudging, the type of military actions their leadership would take when the real thing would transpire a few years down the line.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-314587.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-314587.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="260" width="432" /></a><br /><em>"I'm a combat pilot, I belong in the air."</em><br /><br />In the movie, by an act of sheer bravery (read: reckless lunacy), the President decides to jump into a fighter jet and joins the fight with the aliens in the most literal sense of the word. Let's tiptoe around the question of whether this particular action was also a particular sensible one because, as with most propaganda work, this is not really important as it is the gesture that counts rather than feasibility.<br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=Bush_codpiece.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/Bush_codpiece.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="271" width="214" /></a><br /><br />In real life, we all remember the scene in which President George W Bush lands in a jet onto an aircraft carrier supposedly after the successful conclusion of the Iraq war on May 1st 2003. With a strong tacit reference to fictional scenes of the heroic <em>ID</em> President, this action may easily be interpreted as being a blatant PR stunt serving to bolster the image of George Bush as the heroic saviour of the US against the evil and extremely threatening Iraqi forces.<br /><br />Again predictive programming came in awfully handy to pull off this act of media <em>hocus pocus</em>. BTW Would it be a stretch to suggest that the accentuation of Bush's codpiece serves to emphasize his masculinity?<br /><h3>Aliens, Fictional or Real?</h3><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-507755.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-507755.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="260" width="432" /></a><br /><br />According to the movie, space aliens have visited planet Earth no later than 1947 with the occurrence of the Roswell incident. The movie therefore reinforces the idea that UFOs are manned by aliens rather than humans. However, as far as I can tell, the public has never enjoyed the possibility of reviewing any real evidence for the existence of alien manned spaceships visiting Earth. On the other hand, I personally know two insiders, one former US Combat Specialist and highly decorated War Veteran and one Italian ex-military Intelligence agent, high level Freemason and current Grandmaster of the <em>Ordo Illuminatorum Universalis</em>, who both reject the idea of alien manned space craft in favor of mere human engineered and human piloted space craft. Both maintain that the concepts of space aliens and alien manned UFOs are part of a cleverly designed but deceptive propaganda cover to hide behind the existence of ultra-secret man-made and man-piloted military craft. Both gentlemen including yours truly, can be contacted on this <a href="http://www.leozagami.com/index.php?option=com_contact&view=category&catid=0&Itemid=53">page</a>.<br /><br />This interpretation is also supported in the following article:<br /><blockquote><br /><h4>Area 51</h4><br />The creation of Area 51 began in April of 1955, when a Lockheed test pilot, Tony LeVier, searched for a remote site to test the U-2. Grooms Lake is chosen as the location for the runway. By August of 1955, the U-2 makes its first flight from Grooms Lake. That was only the beginning for test flights from Area 51. In April 1962, the first A-12 Blackbird was tested at Groom Lake. February 1982, the F-117A Stealth fighter takes off for the first time. All other test flights have not been released to the public, but that doesn’t mean they don’t occur. However, <strong>they are, in no way, shape or form, alien test flights. Nearly all of the evidence that supports the alien spacecraft theory, is without backing, or solid information. Also, the US government played on the UFO theories to hide their own testing plans.</strong> Today, Area 51 is the home to the latest top secret aircraft: the Aurora, among others Many of these aircraft, past and present, are able to perform incredible feats in the sky. Some so unbelievable, that they could be mistaken for alien spacecraft by fanatics of extra-terrestrials. [<strong>emphasis</strong> mine]<a href="http://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/85492.html">[Ref1]</a><a href="http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:cau3NCG176oJ:www.essay.org/school/english/area51.doc+area+51+secret+military+craft&hl=nl&ct=clnk&cd=9&%7E%7ESPECIAL_REMOVE%21#%7E%7Elt;br%20&%7E%7ESPECIAL_REMOVE%21#%7E%7Egt;&%7E%7ESPECIAL_REMOVE%21#%7E%7Elt;/a&%7E%7ESPECIAL_REMOVE%21#%7E%7Egt;">[Ref2]</a></blockquote><br />Also it should be noted that none other than the late William Cooper, who initially in his work did promote the idea of the existence of aliens and alien-manned space craft, during the later stages in his life "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_William_Cooper">recanted his UFO-oriented beliefs</a>, asserting that they were in fact part of the <a title="Illuminati" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati">Illuminati</a> plot to subjugate the United States."<br /><br />Here is what Cooper had to say about the alien scare:<br /><blockquote>"When I saw Operation Majority while serving in the Navy I believed the alien threat was real just like everyone else. It was not until I had performed many years of research that I was able to fully understand exactly what it was that I had seen. It was extremely difficult for me to believe that my government and the United States Navy had used me, especially since I had dedicated my life to government and military service. Most government and military personnel cannot and will not believe such an idea." <a href="http://100777.com/nwo/cooper">[Cooper]</a></blockquote><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=I_Haunebu2-05.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/I_Haunebu2-05.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="297" width="385" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=nazi-ufo_I_Haunebu2-07.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/nazi-ufo_I_Haunebu2-07.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="258" width="377" /></a><br />For more pictures of the Nazi <em>"Haunebu"</em> flying discs, check out <a href="http://images.google.nl/images?q=haunebu&emb=0&sa=N&tab=vi">Google</a>.<br /><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:x-small;" ><strong>"In retrospect, Americans should have correlated the WW II and post-war sightings of flying spheres, saucers, and cylinders to the wondrous technology of National Socialist Germany.</strong></span><br /><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:x-small;" ><strong>It is an understatement to say that our government has deliberately misled us on the UFO question."<br /></strong></span></em><span style="font-family:Verdana;">- from Robert J Lee's "Fascinating Relics of the Third Reich" (<a href="http://www.netowne.com/naziufos">www.netowne.com/naziufos</a>) [as quoted <a href="http://www.roswellufocrash.com/">here</a>]<br /></span></blockquote><br />So, the question remains, where do these enigmatic and wondrous craft originate from? It turns out that exotic anti-gravity technology had already been developed in Nazi Germany and culminated in the design of several types of "flying saucers" and "foo-fighters". Now, it is quite well documented that a good portion of Nazi scientists immediately after the war were imported into the United States through an international intelligence operation known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip">Operation Paperclip</a>.<br /><br />Hence, it is reasonable to assume that with the influx of unemployed Nazi scientists into the US also in came the technology to manufacture flying saucers. In order to successfully keep the public in the dark of the existence of such craft a cover is needed. This is where little green men from Mars come in awfully handy since you can always blame them for any sightings that may be the result of what really are man-made and earth-bound but nonetheless highly classified space craft. As such, most people won't suspect the existence of secret man-made spacecraft and therefore a technological and, on the basis of the maxim that "knowledge is power", an advantage is maintained relative to a nosy but ever tragically under-informed public.<br /><br />An additional motive for "invoking the beyond" as the Collins Brothers would call it, and that is in this case the invocation of space aliens threatening the very survival of the human race, is to corral all nations together into one unified uniformly acting entity with the aim of launching a concerted effort of how to successfully deal with the extra-terrestrial existential threat. In other words, the promotion of a alien invader threatening the safety and security of the world helps in the establishment of an overarching and dictatorial form of global government. This notion was already promoted in the 1980s by none other than former US President Ronald Reagan (see appendix), entirely coincidentally I'm sure.<br /><h3>Self-sacrifice</h3><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-554299-1.png" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-554299-1.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="234" width="389" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=vlcsnap-554402-1.png" target="_blank"><img style="border: 0pt none ;" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-554402-1.png" alt="Photobucket" border="0" height="234" width="389" /></a><br /><br />In the fight against the aliens the movie shows a scene in which one of the fighter pilots selflessly lays down his life and, in the wake of his self-sacrificial action, manages to drag down and destroy one of the major alien spaceships. Actions such as these, where the few worthily sacrifice themselves for the good of the many, serve to impart the notion to the gullible viewer that when facing the enemy, it is sometimes necessary to make that ultimate sacrifice. Stated differently, there's no shame in getting killed for a cause touted worthy enough.<br /><br />However, the phenomenon of self-sacrifice, by virtue of its neutrality, is also a double-edged sword. Namely, self-sacrifice can also be highly effective if perpetrated by the 'other side'. The face of the other side of the coin was shown with the terror attacks of 911 in which supposedly 19 Arab hijackers supposedly sacrificed their lives for what they supposedly considered to be a worthy cause of dying for. I use the word 'supposedly' because I think the government edition of the explanatory account as to what happened on September 11, 2001, is similar to the reasons the US government promoted for starting the invasion and subsequent take-over of Iraq, a pack of lies.<br /><br />Nonetheless, movies such as <em>ID</em> serve to rationalize and, to some extent, soothe the misery accompanying the events where US soldiers getting maimed or killed during defensive or retaliatory actions aimed at thwarting so deemed inimical forces. The movie scene featuring a romantic dramatization of self-sacrifice came in quite handy the moment the first casualties of the Iraq war came about and references were most welcome which could serve as culturally established 'band-aids' to help rationalize the losses and/or injuries sustained.<br /><h3>References:</h3><br />I highly recommend the following two expert articles, both of which were inspirational to this write-up, on the conditioning imposed on the public by <em>Independence Day</em>. Start with 1, which can be regarded as an introductory article compared to 2, which is clearly written for an academic audience.<br /><br />1. The Semiotic Deception of September 11th - by Phillip D. Collins ©, Dec. 31st, 2004<br /><a href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Commentary/Semiotic_Deception.htm">http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Commentary/Semiotic_Deception.htm</a><br /><br />2.THE SEMIOTICS OF MEDIA IMAGES FROM <em>INDEPENDENCE DAY</em> & SEPTEMBER 11<sup>TH</sup> 2001- <span style="font-family:Times;">Elliot Gaines</span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030426192215/http://www.wright.edu/%7Eelliot.gaines/Indeday.htm"></a><br /><br /><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030426192215/http://www.wright.edu/%7Eelliot.gaines/Indeday.htm">http://web.archive.org/web/20030426192215/http://www.wright.edu/~elliot.gaines/Indeday.htm</a><br /><br />Relevant videos:<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4BkzuV0LYE">George W. Bush at Ground Zero - September 14, 2001</a><br /><object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/f4BkzuV0LYE&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/f4BkzuV0LYE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GJUGUYsm68">Mission Accomplished</a><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-GJUGUYsm68&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-GJUGUYsm68&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zn88_qSz04">Thule - Vril - Paperclip</a><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5zn88_qSz04&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5zn88_qSz04&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iDmaB5BxzA">Ronald Reagan - Threat of Aliens among us</a></p><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2iDmaB5BxzA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2iDmaB5BxzA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-84143698271077701402008-09-27T21:43:00.002+02:002009-02-15T19:41:02.166+01:00Swordfish (2001)<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244244/</a><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/swordfish.jpg" alt="" width="330" height="475" /></p><br /><br />For a decent synopsis of this movie go <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish_%28film%29">here</a>. The specimen considered here is a rather remarkable one in that it revolves around the theme of government-sanctioned crime as ultimate and supposed means to combat and counteract terrorism.<br /><br />In the movie the antagonist, <em>Gabriel</em>, is played by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Travolta">John Travolta</a> while the protagonist, <em>Stanley</em>, is played by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Jackman">Hugh Jackman</a>. It may be worth noting how the two contrast. Gabriel is well-dressed, well-mannered, articulate, suave, rich, authoritative, and always on top of things while underdog Stanley is badly-dressed, poorly mannered, blunt, poor and mostly obedient by necessity.<br /><h3><strong>Senator Involvement</strong></h3><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-489815.png" alt="" /><br /><br />The criminal and unethical fruits of the mind of Gabriel quickly become apparent at the beginning of the movie. Halfway through the movie it also becomes clear that Gabriel either works for, or collaborates with, a US Senator named Reisman. Although Reisman tries to call off Gabriel's pet-project named <em>Operation Swordfish</em>, after he receives information that the FBI is closing in on Gabriel and his crew, his principled involvement with Gabriel is pretty telling as it shows that crime-boss Gabriel is linked through Reisman with the US government. Nonetheless at this point it is uncertain in regards to this unsavory connection as to what extent Reisman represents the US government. It could be that Reisman acts, for all intents and purposes, as a rogue independently from the government and that <em>Operation Swordfish</em> is not at all a government sanctioned operation, even it being a covert one. It will become apparent at the conclusion of the movie which alternative applies.<br /><h3><strong>Misdirection</strong></h3><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-493120.png" alt="" /><br /><em>"Gabriel: What the eyes see and ears hear, the mind believes."</em><br />Misdirection, the art of directing away attention of piercing eyes from places that matter much to places that matter much less, is a vital technique used by Gabriel. One could consider this to be a 'revelation of the method', as Alan Watt would presumably call it. It should become more clear why this feature is important with regards to predictive programming.<br /><h3><strong>J Edgar Hoover's "Black Cell"</strong></h3><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-161872.png" alt="" /><br /><em>"<strong>Gabriel</strong>: Against my better judgment, I'm going to tell you who I am.<br />Stanley: Don't bother. I know who you are.<br /><strong>Gabriel</strong>: Do you? I think you think I'm a bank robber. But the truth is, that I'm just like you.<br />Stanley: Like me? No. Because you're a murderer.<br /><strong>Gabriel</strong>: That I am, and worse. Much worse. But I do have ethics. Rules to which I adhere.<br />Stanley: Look, I have no idea why the fuck you're telling me all this.<br /><strong>Gabriel</strong>: Well, if you listen, then you'll know. You asked who those men were. I'm gonna tell you. <strong>J. Edgar Hoover started a secret organization in the 1950s called Black Cell. It's just to protect our freedoms in this country at all costs.</strong><br />Stanley: I don't care about any of this. All I care about is my daughter.<br /><strong>Gabriel</strong>: I'm talking about your daughter. I'm talking about you, your daughter, and 200 million other Americans who take their freedoms for granted.<br />Stanley: I see.<br /><strong>Gabriel</strong>: You don't understand what it takes to protect those freedoms. <strong>That's my job, Stanley. To protect your way of life.</strong><br />Stanley: So you and your band of lunatics are really stealing all this money just to protect little old me.<br /><strong>Gabriel</strong>: That's right, Stanley. Because wars cost money.<br />Stanley: War? Who are we at war with?<br /><strong>Gabriel</strong>: Anyone who impinges on America's freedom. Terrorist states, Stanley. Someone must bring their war to them. They bomb a church, we bomb 10. They hijack a plane, we take out an airport. They execute American tourists, we tactically nuke an entire city. <strong>Our job is to make terrorism so horrific that it becomes unthinkable to attack Americans.</strong>"</em><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-499673.png" alt="" /><br />This can easily be interpreted as the rationale for the existence of covert, but nonetheless government approved, organizations and operations aimed at thwarting, cost what it may, all those hordes of dangerous and bloodthirsty terrorists itching to kill innocent Americans. Even though it comes from the mouth of the antagonist, the viewer however is familiarized with the notion that drastic counter-terrorism measures, courtesy of the US government, may be a reasonable price to pay for maintaining 'protection'.<br /><br />In addition, the movies suggests, drastic and downright illegal and unethical means of securing funding are 'obviously' a small price to pay for warranting the safety of <em>all</em> American citizens. Any critical reference to casualties sustained along the way may 'reasonably' be brushed off as simply being consequential to unavoidable <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_damage">collateral damage</a>.<br /><h3><strong>Rationalization</strong></h3><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-507329.png" alt="" /><br /><em>"Stanley: How can you justify all this?<br /><strong>Gabriel</strong>: You're not looking at the big picture Stan. Here's a scenario. You have the power to cure all the world's diseases but the price for this is that you must kill a single innocent child, could you kill that child Stanley?<br />Stanley: No.<br /><strong>Gabriel</strong>: You disappoint me, it's the greatest good.<br />Stanley: Well how about 10 innocents?<br /><strong>Gabriel</strong>: Now you're gettin' it, how about a hundred - how about a THOUSAND? Not to save the world but to preserve our way of life.<br />Stanley: No man has the right to make that decision; you're no different from any other terrorist.<br /><strong>Gabriel</strong>: No, you're wrong Stanley. Thousands die every day for no reason at all, where's your bleeding heart for them? You give your twenty dollars to Greenpeace every year thinking you're changing the world? What countries will harbor terrorists when they realize the consequences of what I'll do? Did you know that I can buy nuclear warheads in Minsk for forty million each? Hell, I'd buy half a dozen and even get a discount!" </em><br /><br />A deepening of the rationale is thus articulated for the existence of radical counter-terrorism organizations. It's presented to the viewer that fighting terrorism this way is not that unreasonable. Never mind for a minute that Gabriel's line of reasoning reeks highly suspicious of a progressive state of internalized psychopathy. After all, the terrorists plainly deserve it as they continue to draw first blood, don't they?<br /><br />Of course, what Gabriel conveniently doesn't say is that it just so happens, for example, that the US government trained and funded Al'Qaeda into existence (see Appendix). In fact, examples of covert US government sponsorship of terrorist organizations abound. Regarding morality, the pivotal question thus arises: to what extent is the threat of terrorism genuine, and to which is it contrived? That is, what would constitute genuine terrorism, and what would be false flag terrorism? In case of the former, harsh retaliatory may be justified to some extent depending on the nature of the socio-political circumstances that apply. In case the latter applies, any kind of retaliation is unjustified and ethically bankrupt and the real basis for retaliation has nothing to do the reasons given by the powers controlling retaliatory action.<br /><br />It is interesting to note that this movie was made in 2001, right after the the alleged terror-strike by a terrorist leader who managed to outsmart America's topnotch multi-billion air-defense system while at the same time override control of 4 airplanes using 19 Arab hijackers armed with box-cutters. So if you are to believe the official government advanced fairy tale explanation of this bunch of gung-ho and incredibly lucky Muslim terrorists pulling off the most sophisticated terrorist attack to the USA known in history of man, then yeah you may appreciate the line of reasoning as presented by Gabriel. They are out to kill you so you better kill them before they do you in, right? Of course, this kind of justification hinges on the question of whether the 911 attack was genuine or simply another case of false flag terror.<br /><h3><strong>Good Guy Wins and Bad Guy.... Wins Too</strong></h3><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-515796.png" alt="" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-517172.png" alt="" /><br />With 9.5 Billion dollars the richer, the antagonist does manage to get away seemingly unscathed and not soon afterwards succeeds in blowing to smithereens a presumably dangerously bloodcurdling terrorist leader. Another potential threat is thus neutralized which otherwise may have led to extremely bad things to innocent Americans.<br /><br />After Stanley the good-guy happily retires, the rather unconventional ending of the movie paradoxically also honors Gabriel the bad-guy. As such, with the cancellation of a 'clear and present' terrorist threat, the existence for any 'ethically challenged' counter-terrorism organization is plainly vindicated. Or so the movie likes to make us believe anyway.<br /><br />Although I would find it unlikely, considering the myriad of risks involved, that covert FBI or CIA organizations or programs secure funds through such spectacular means as portrayed in the movie, the viewer is nonetheless inculcated with the idea that normal ethics hardly apply to these organizations, and indeed may be 'justly' suspended if so desired. In other words, downright illegal means of 'fund-raising' are permissible. The use of potentially unethical and unlawful acts of misdirection, being of crucial importance to make the movie script work, is not shied away from either. After all, given the supposed value of its supposed protectorate, that being the safety of US citizens and/or their lifestyles, to such organizations the single paramount rule upheld must be that the <strong>end</strong> is considered 'sacred' enough to afford the <strong>justification of</strong> any <strong>means</strong> necessary. Everything else is of subordinate importance.<br /><h3><em><strong>Appendices:</strong></em></h3><br /><h3><strong>1.Evidence of CIA involvement in seeking illegal means for funding</strong></h3><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6dHqP9wc3k">Gary Webb on C.I.A. Trafficking of Cocaine</a></p><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d6dHqP9wc3k&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d6dHqP9wc3k&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT5MY3C86bk">Former LA Police Officer Mike Ruppert Confronts John Deutch</a></p><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UT5MY3C86bk&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UT5MY3C86bk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><br /><tbody><br /><tr><br /><th><em>Quote</em></th><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td><strong>Cocaine Jet That Crashed in Mexico Part of Cowboy Government Operation, DEA Sources Claim<br /></strong><br />Mexican Officials Fear the Case, if Exposed, Could Jeopardize US Funding for “Plan Mexico”By Bill Conroy<br /><br />Special to The Narco News Bulletin<br /><br />December 19, 2007<br /><br />The Gulfstream II jet that crash landed in the Mexican Yucatan in late September carrying close to four tons of cocaine was part of an operation being carried out by a Department of Homeland Security agency, <span class="caps">DEA</span> sources have revealed to Narco News.<br /><br />The operation, codenamed “Mayan Express,” is an ongoing effort spearheaded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the sources claim. The information surfaced during a high-level meeting at <span class="caps">DEA</span> headquarters in mid-December, <span class="caps">DEA</span> sources familiar with the meeting assert.</td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br /><a href="http://www.narconews.com/Issue48/article2941.html">http://www.narconews.com/Issue48/article2941.html</a><br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><br /><tbody><br /><tr><br /><th><em>Quote</em></th><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Callisto MT,Georgia,Book Antiqua,Palatino,Times New Roman,Serif;">The CIA's Drug-Trafficking Activities</span></h3><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Callisto MT,Georgia,Book Antiqua,Palatino,Times New Roman,Serif;"><span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The CIA's operational directorate, in other words that's their covert operations, para-military, dirty tricks — call it whatever you want — has for at least 40 years that we can document paid for a significant amount of its work through the sales of heroin and cocaine.</span> — Guerrilla News Network's <a href="http://www.guerrillanews.com/crack/c_simpson.html">Interview with Christopher Simpson</a></span></span></blockquote><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Callisto MT,Georgia,Book Antiqua,Palatino,Times New Roman,Serif;"><span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ClA-supported Mujahedeen rebels [who in 2001 were part of the "Northern Alliance" fighting the Taleban which became the core of the new Afghani government following the U.S. attack on Afghanistan in late 2001] engaged heavily in drug trafficking while fighting against the Soviet-supported government and its plans to reform the very backward Afghan society. The Agency's principal client was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of the leading druglords and a leading heroin refiner. CIA-supplied trucks and mules, which had carried arms into Afghanistan, were used to transport opium to laboratories along the Afghan/Pakistan border. The output provided up to one half of the heroin used annually in the United States and three-quarters of that used in Western Europe. U.S. officials admitted in 1990 that they had failed to investigate or take action against the drug operation because of a desire not to offend their Pakistani and Afghan allies.</span> — <a href="http://www.serendipity.li/cia/blum1.html">The Real Drug Lords</a></span></span></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:Callisto MT,Georgia,Book Antiqua,Palatino,Times New Roman,Serif;">The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, as is by now well-known by anyone who has cared to be informed, has long been deeply involved in the international trafficking of the addictive drugs heroin and (since the early 1980s, if not earlier) cocaine, the enormous profits from which have financed, and continue to finance, both U.S. covert operations and the U.S. military (via payments to Pentagon contractors).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Callisto MT,Georgia,Book Antiqua,Palatino,Times New Roman,Serif;">The main reason why this is not more widely known is that the main players in the U.S. media have always worked to protect the Agency and to keep the American public in the dark as to the nature of its activities (as documented in great detail in Carl Bernstein's article in the October 20, 1977, issue of Rolling Stone: "The CIA and the Media: How America's Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up"). The information you will find on this web page, and the web pages it links to, is not considered by the editors of the New York Times and other mainstream U.S. "news" media as proper for the public to know.</span><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Callisto MT,Georgia,Book Antiqua,Palatino,Times New Roman,Serif;"><span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By the end of the 1980's it was calculated that the illegal use of drugs in the United States now netted its controllers over $110 billion a year.</span> — <em><a href="http://www.serendipity.li/cia/cia_bibl.html#johnson_paul">Modern Times</a></em>, p.782.</span></span></blockquote><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family:Callisto MT,Georgia,Book Antiqua,Palatino,Times New Roman,Serif;"><span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Covert government by defense contractor means corrupt wars of conquest, government by dope dealer. When the world's traditional inebriative herbs become illegal commodities, they become worth as much as precious metal, precious metal that can be <em>farmed</em>. ... Illegal drugs, solely because of the artificial value given them by Prohibition, have become the basis of military power anywhere they can be grown and delivered in quantity. ... To this day American defense contractors are the biggest drug-money launderers in the world.</span>— <a href="http://www.serendipity.li/wod/rdglst.html#russell"><em>Drug War: Covert Money, Power and Policy</em></a>, p.318.</span></span></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:Callisto MT,Georgia,Book Antiqua,Palatino,Times New Roman,Serif;">Most of this page concerns the CIA's involvement in drug trafficking, but we should first note that this is only one part of its activities, the means by which it finances its operations in addition to the billions of dollars it gets from U.S. taxpayers courtesy of the U.S. federal government (the exact amount, of course, being kept secret from U.S. taxpayers). In addition to being the principal source of U.S. propaganda for domestic and foreign consumption the CIA is the covert operations division of the U.S. goverment and as such has engaged in many terrorist activities. In fact <a href="http://www.serendipity.li/cia/cia_terr.html">the CIA is a terrorist organization</a>, funded by the profits of international drug smuggling.</span><br /><br />[...]<br /><br /><span style="font-family:Callisto MT,Georgia,Book Antiqua,Palatino,Times New Roman,Serif;">From the days of the Vietnam War the CIA has been at the forefront of heroin trafficking. When the Reagan administration needed to finance its war against Nicaragua the CIA applied what it had learned in Vietnam to importing vast quantities of cocaine (sometimes 20 tons at a time) from Latin America, selling it to the Mafia, and using the profits to finance its "covert activities", activities so contrary to America's professed values that they must be concealed at all costs from the American people.</span></td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br /><a href="http://www.serendipity.li/cia.html">http://www.serendipity.li/cia.html</a><br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><br /><tbody><br /><tr><br /><th><em>Quote</em></th><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">TOP SECRET CIA DRUG SMUGGLING OPERATIONS</h3><br />· Operation Snow Cone - Parent Central American drug smuggling operation. Various operations under Operation Snow Cone include:<br /><br />· <a href="http://www.wethepeople.la/cutolo.htm">Operation Watch Tower</a> - Operation Watch Tower consists of secret radio beacons stationed at remote locations between Columbia and Panama. The beacons help CIA drug pilots fly from Central America to Panama at near-sea-level without being detected by high flying U.S. drug interdiction aircraft. Pilots of the drug flights home in on the low frequency signals emitted by the beacons to reach their destination at Albrook Army Airfield in Panama.<br /><br />· Operation Toilet Seat - The CIA uses Boeing 727 and C-130 aircraft to haul drugs from Central and South America. The drugs are dumped out the rear ramps of the aircraft into waters offshore of the U.S. in waterproof containers. There the drugs are retrieved by boat and brought into the U.S.<br />· <a href="http://www.wethepeople.la/let2593.gif">Operation Whale Watch</a> - Consists of using offshore oil drilling rigs as a cover for drug smuggling. The drugs are offloaded by ship onto the oil drilling platforms. The drugs are then flown by helicopter to nearby U.S. coastal areas. Companies owning the oil rigs included Rowan International and divisions of Zapata Corp., such as Zapata Petroleum and Zapata Off-Shore. Zapata Corp. is partly owned by former President George Bush.<br /><br />· Operation Buy Back - Operation involving CIA front Pacific Seafood Company. Drugs are packed in shrimp containers and shipped to various points in the U.S. This is a joint DEA-CIA operation.<br /><br />[...]</td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br /><a href="http://www.wethepeople.la/drugs1.htm">http://www.wethepeople.la/drugs1.htm</a><br /><br />The list goes on and on. If you are still in doubt, help convince yourself some more with a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=cia+drug+smuggling">search-engine</a>.<br /><h3><strong>2.Evidence of (US) government involvement in sponsoring false flag terrorism</strong></h3><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=3351628745330562266&ei=-fHUSOZFjLCIAsHetdMC&q=false+flag&vt=lf" target="_top">False Flag Operations for Dummies </a></p><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LoNglhBqlNo&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LoNglhBqlNo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=4839416769550862985&ei=lvLUSLvMOY7IiALmloDHAg&q=false+flag+tarpley&vt=lf" target="_top">Webster Tarpley - False-Flag Operational Structure Explained </a></p><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QykP6V0lyok&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QykP6V0lyok&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Here's a fragmented article detailing US government's penchant for nurturing false flag terrorism:<br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><br /><tbody><br /><tr><br /><th><em>Quote</em></th><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td>After reading the article detailing the proposed and existing oil pipeline routes in the Middle East at <a href="http://szamko.gnn.tv/blogs/17155/Pipeline_Time">http://szamko.gnn.tv/blogs/17155/Pipeline_Time</a> then consider the following examples of “false flag terrorist operations”... where governments fund, set-up, and execute their own covert terror operations and blame scapegoat nations or “alleged” terror cells like Al Qaeda to ,muster support for further war (to ultimately dominate world economies through control of the world oil supplies).The point being that world citizens are not only the cannon fodder in the slaughter…but end up paying the tab through increased interest fees and taxation by corporate politicians for their war expenditures.<br /><br />1.) British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: “Al Qaeda” was the name of a U.S. intelligence <a href="http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/">database</a> ... also see <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20030116&articleId=372">fabricating_the_enemy</a><br /><br />2.) The phony (Mossad) Al Qaeda Cell in Palestine … plus more documented examples of intelligence agents impersonating and setting up Al Qaeda cell groups <a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fakealqaeda.html">strategically</a><br /><br />[...]<br /><br />5.) “Operation Northwoods” was a US government plan to stage the assassination of civilians and blame it on Communist Cuba. See “Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba”, National <a href="http://globalresearch.ca/articles/NOR111A.html">Security_Archive</a><br /><br />6.) The Japanese code was broken 9-12 days prior to the Pearl Harbor attack. Foreknowledge of Japan’s planned attack on Pearl Harbor by the US Administration was tantamount to complicity. See <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/WOO203A.html">Source</a><br /><br />[...]<br /><br />8.) London Underground Bombing <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/090705bombingexercises.htm">Exercises</a> Took Place at Same Time as Real Attack<br /><br />9.) Explosions In London: Who Stands To Gain?<br />Israel Diplomat Warned, <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/Jul05/070705explosions_London.html">Cover-up_In_Progress</a><br /><br />10.) a confirmation of the report that Israel’s Netanyahu recieved a warning prior to the first blast in London 7/7/2005<br /><br />From <span class="caps">ABC</span> station <span class="caps">WTVG</span> 36, <a href="http://www.wtvq.com/servlet/Satellite?c=MGArticle&cid=1031783713979&pagename=WTVQ/MGArticle/TVQ_BasicArticle">Lexington_Kentucky</a><br /><br />Terrorism expert says at least one person tipped off to London attacks<br /><br />Terrorism expert Tommy Preston of Preston Global in Frankfort, Kentucky, said sources in the intelligence community reported that at least one person in London, England was warned of Thursday morning’s terrorist attacks moments before the initial blast. Preston, citing sources in the intelligence community, said former Israeli Prime Minister and current Finance Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was in London this morning for an economic forum. “Just before the first blast, Netanyahu got a call from the Israeli Embassy telling him to stay in his hotel room. The hotel is located next to the subway station where the first attack occurred and he did stay put and shortly after that, there was the explosion,” Preston said.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />11.) The Muslim Terrorist Apparatus was Created by <a href="http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/brz.htm">US_Intelligence</a><br /><br />12.) Another taboo subject is the longevity of the United States as both a terrorist state and a haven for terrorists. That the US is the only nation on record to have been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism (in <a href="http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ejaysmith/nicus3.html">Nicaragua</a> ), and has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on governments to observe international law, is unmentionable.<br /><br />13.) America as Terrorist Haven: “A chief terrorist with long ties to US intelligence agencies is seeking asylum in the United States. The <span class="caps">FBI</span> has evidence linking him to an airline bombing that killed 73 people. We’re talking about the notorious militant Cuban exile: Luis Posada Carriles.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/09/148243">Democracy_Now</a> ! May 9, 2005<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />14.) In California, in the eighties, John Pilger (investigative journalist and writer) met four Vietnamese who had been assassins in America’s Operation Phoenix; one of them ran a fast food drive-in. He seemed a contended man. What all these people have in common, apart from their history of terrorism, is that they were either working directly for the US government or carrying out the dirty work of American policies. Operation Phoenix, for example, devised, funded and run by the <span class="caps">CIA</span>, was responsible for up to 50,000 murders. He states:<br /><br />“Much was made of al-Qa’ida’s training camps in Afghanistan, the target of American bombers. But these were kindergartens compared with the world’s leading university of terrorism at <a href="http://www.zmag.org/Sustainers/Content/2001-11/01monbiot.cfm">Fort_Benning</a> in Georgia. Known until recently as the School of the Americas, it trained some 60,000 Latin American soldiers, policemen, paramilitaries and intelligence agents. Forty per cent of the Cabinet ministers who served in the genocidal regimes of Lucas Garcia, Rios Montt and Mefia Victores in Guatemala are graduates.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />16.) American military in Iraq plant car bombs on unwitting Iraqi civilians. See: <a href="http://rense.com/general65/strat2.htm">Sick Strategies For Senseless Slaughter</a> by John Kaminski<br /><br />[...]</td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br /><a href="http://deeperpolitics.gnn.tv/blogs/7329/Examples_of_documented_False_Flag_Terrorism">http://deeperpolitics.gnn.tv/blogs/7329/Examples_of_documented_False_Flag_Terrorism</a><br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><br /><tbody><br /><tr><br /><th><em>Quote</em></th><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td>The essence of false flag operations and other covert operations is that the same methods cannot be used for ever, but must be changed. In the first half of the 19th century, the British used the extreme nationalism of the Mazzini networks to destabilize their enemies. Around 1850, the main cover story for terrorism became the international anarchist movement and this was used well into the 1930s, especially for purposes of political assassination. In the 1950s and 1960s, the standard explanation for terrorism was the deranged loner, such as Lee Harvey Oswald. In the 1960s and 70s, methods radically changed, with youthful leftists and communist terrorists of college-age taking center stage: here we see the Weathermen in the United States, the Baader-Meinhof group in Germany, and the Red Brigades in Italy (this is a phase which resembles the one now starting). In the 1970s and 1980s, this was supplemented by the radical Arab and Palestinian political terrorism of Abu Nidal and Black September. Even during this period, there was also the rise of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. In the 1990s, especially in the United States, the focus shifted completely to right wing anarchist militias who wanted to destroy the government: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing are the leading example. By the late 90s the scene had changed again to focus on Al Qaeda and bin Laden. Now the credibility and usefulness of the 9/11 mythology has been exhausted, and we need to ask what will come next.</td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br /><a href="http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/nl/1612.html">http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/nl/1612.html</a><br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><br /><tbody><br /><tr><br /><th><em>Quote</em></th><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td><strong>But NOT the U.S.</strong>It is logical to assume that, even if other countries have carried out false flag operations (especially horrible regimes such as, say, the Nazis or Stalin), the U.S. has never done so.<br /><br />Well, as documented by the New York Times, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html" target="_blank">Iranians <em>working for the C.I.A.</em> in the 1950's posed as Communists and staged bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected president</a> (see also<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax" target="_blank"> this essay</a>).<br /><br />And, as confirmed by a former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,462976,00.html" target="_blank">former head of Italian counterintelligence</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension" target="_blank">NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism. </a> As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20051130003012/http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php/documents/collection_gladio/synopsis.htm" target="_blank">"You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security."</a><br /><br />Moreover, recently declassified documents show that in the 1960's, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to <em><strong>blow up AMERICAN airplanes</strong></em> (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to <em><strong>commit terrorist acts on American soil</strong></em>, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. If you view no other links in this article, please read the following <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662&page=1" target="_blank">ABC news report</a>; <a href="http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf" target="_blank">the official documents</a>; and watch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IygchZRJVXM" target="_blank">this interview </a>with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.</td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br /><a href="http://www.911proof.com/">http://www.911proof.com/</a><br /><br />The existence of an overwhelming amount of documentation detailing various acts of false flag terrorism across the globe leaves little room for doubting the idea that governments leave no stone unturned to attain their goals of power sustenance and/or expansion.<br /><br />If you still doubt the veracity of false flag terrorism, then I recommend finding out more on the subject using a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=false+flag+terrorism">search-engine</a> and watching the many videos that have emerged over the years on <a href="http://video.google.nl/videosearch?q=false+flag&emb=0&aq=f#q=false%20flag%20terror&emb=0">the subject</a>, most notably the ones that document the <a href="http://video.google.nl/videosearch?q=false+flag#q=911&emb=0">biggest and most dramatic false flag operation of them all: 911</a>.Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-8575224894810687832008-09-19T00:03:00.002+02:002008-10-21T12:54:24.628+02:00Things to Come (1936)<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028358">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028358/</a><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/Thingstocomescifi.jpg" alt="" /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/Shape_of_things_to_come.jpg" alt="" width="258" height="400" /></a><br /><br />This rather old movie may be regarding as a tutorial for recognizing predictive programming elements for the simple reason that a lot of its 'predictions' have more or less come true. Precisely because of the oldness of the movie the cinematographic skills are necessarily primitive and the programming thus is rather crude and obvious. Hence the movie makes for a suitable, if not ideal, case study for trying to detect elements of predictive programming.<br /><br />For a decent synopsis read the dedicated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Come">Wikipedia page</a>.<br /><br />The movie is an adaptation to the silver-screen of the dystopian <a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_George_Wells">HG Wells</a> novels <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Come">written in 1931 and 1933</a>:<br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><br /><tbody><tr><th><em>Quote</em><br /></th></tr><tr><td>The screenplay was written by H. G. Wells and is a loose adaptation of his own 1933 novel <em>The Shape of Things to Come</em> and his 1931 non-fiction work, <em>The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind</em>.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />So what predictive programming elements can we glean from this movie? Let's go over them by my now usual routine of addressing various relevant movie-shots and accompanying quotes.<br /><ol><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-482540.png" alt="" /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-483800.png" alt="" /><br />The movie predicts a war involving a city called <em>'Everytown</em>' (which is just a peculiar way of stating that the war is also a global war) by Christmas 1940, whereas the actual World War broke out in September 1939 when the Nazis invaded Poland. So Wells was only off for about a sloppy one year period. It goes to show that Wells was definitely 'in the know', as Alan Watt calls it, as to what the agenda entailed. The viewer of that time, is urged to prepare for the coming war.Interesting quote at the beginning of the movie:<br /><em>"War stimulates progress. War can be a stimulating thing. But you can overdo a stimulant. [...] If we don't end war, war will end us.... What can we do?"</em><br />The sentiment regarding the phenomenon of war pretty soon slides from a fairly tolerant one to a more alarming realization that war does have the capacity to basically wipe humanity off of the face of the earth.<br /><br />Hence from the get go the viewer is encouraged to start thinking of alternatives to war (as a way to settle disputes between states and powers).</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-491005.png" alt="" /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-491441.png" alt="" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-491755.png" alt="" /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-492254.png" alt="" /><br />The viewer not only is prepared for a state of war but is also made aware of the likelihood that the coming war will not be a clean 'gentlemanly' one, involving only standing armies fighting it out on some remotely located rural country-side far out of sight of city life. Quite contrarily, this time the war will be an all out dirty one in which civilian non-combatants too will be drawn into the conflict. In the movie this is shown by scenes in which in <em>Everytown</em> the civil population mixes with the armed forces.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-496331.png" alt="" /><br /><em>"Why do we have to murder each other?"</em><br />That's indeed the right type of question to ask. Why <em>do</em> we kill each other to begin with? Why <em>do</em> we engage in war at all? The viewer is made aware of the rightful banality of the need for one country to go and fight another. The viewer is again stimulated to consider more benign alternatives to war as a means to settle disputes or to look towards the possibility of forever ridding the earth of war altogether.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-536961.png" alt="" /><br /><em>"You have been trained not to think but to do."</em> Quite a true statement in its own right. Soldiers are expected to obey orders first and ask questions, if allowed, later. Since it is the sovereign ruler stating this and since the movie casts him in a bad light anyway, the viewer gets an even less positive opinion about war; in which its participants are basically caricature-like robots who are stripped of thinking and expected to only follow orders. Surely, an enlightened society looks towards thinking as something that is an asset rather than being redundant or even a handicap.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-500306.png" alt="" /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-500368.png" alt="" /><br />After more than 25 years of a long and protracted war the results are as obvious as they are devastating. <em>Everytown</em> has been ruined and so the populations of the world have been all but decimated. The viewer is thus at once reminded of the potential horror that goes with the consequences of a protracted war. Surely this is an unbearable glance into the future for the impressionable viewer of that time. But the troubled viewer needs not to worry, as is customary to stories with happy endings, salvation is already peeking around the corner.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-512067.png" alt="" /><br /><em>"We as <strong>mechanics and engineers</strong> have placed ourselves to salvage the world. []... The brotherhood of efficiency, the freemasonry of science. We're the <strong>last trustees of civilization when everything else has failed</strong>."</em><br />How more plain to you want it? Humanity obviously cannot take care of itself. Either we're too infantile and/or we're too busy warring with each other to even sit down calmly and try and settle disputes peacefully and reasonably. So on come the intellectual (scientific) elite who have taken it upon themselves to salvage the world and rid it of war in its entirety. It's a blatantly obvious advertisement for a <a href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Ascendancy.htm">Scientific Dictatorship</a>, mind you on a global scale, if there ever was one.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-515229.png" alt="" /><br /><em>"We don't approve of independent sovereign states. We mean to stop them."</em><br />The people are too warlike to be able to take care of their own businesses and problems. Never mind the banks who fund wars, the manufacturers who produce weapons of war and the religious parties who spark wars, as they have always done before. No of course, it's all the fault of poor old Joe Sixpack and Jane Soap-opera. Hence, in order to 'protect' ourrselves from our bloodcurdling neighbor, we all need to surrender our basic human rights. Of course, we are all too familiar with that mantra for god knows how many years already, most assuredly since the terror attack of 911.Thus the viewer is helped to warm to the idea of a relinquishment of state sovereignty ultimately for his/her own good as it 'obviously' did not do anybody much good when it was still in effect.<br /><br />That body of surviving 'engineers and mechanics' taking control of the world for the purpose of implementing a unilateral pacification program obviously reflects the mission statement of an organization we now know as the <a href="http://www.un.org/">United Nations</a>. However that organization did not exactly achieve its aims:<table class="quotetable" border="2"><tbody><tr><th><em>Quote</em><br /></th></tr><tr><td>The founders of the UN had high hopes that it would act to prevent conflicts between nations and make future wars impossible. Those hopes have obviously not fully come to pass. From about 1947 until 1991 the division of the world into hostile camps during the Cold War made agreement on peacekeeping matters extremely difficult. Following the end of the Cold War, renewed calls arose for the UN to become the agency for achieving world peace and co-operation, as several dozen active military conflicts continued to rage across the globe. The breakup of the Soviet Union has also left the United States in a unique position of global dominance, creating a variety of new problems for the UN (See the United States and the United Nations).<br /></td></tr><br /></tbody></table><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_Nations">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_Nations</a><br />Never mind that the United Nations failed miserably, that's not the point of having it. What is important however, is that the installation of the UN may be interpreted as a first approximation to a global scientific dictatorship.<br /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-507902.png" alt="" /><br /><em>"We shall come here and clean things up. We go on, that's how things are. We're taking hold of things. With science and government in the long run no-man is indispensable. The human things go on with peace forever. The warlike state has to vanish. "</em><br />I agree with the peace part. War has to end. But is it really necessary to hand over sovereignty only to trade it for an essentially undemocratic and totalitarian rule in which people have the same rights as cattle?<br /><br />Be that as it may, given the sentiment of the movie and the horrific consequences of years and years of ongoing war, the viewer is tempted to agree with the protagonist for favoring a scientific dictatorship.<br /><br />To play things in favor of the protagonist, the last remaining sovereign ruler appears to have a love for the bottle, is rude, loud and is called to have the subtlety of a bullfrog by what seems to be his very own wife no less, and of course he is openly inimical to science. Therefore he is not your ideal poster boy for state sovereignty, the viewer is led to think. Hence the only offered alternative in the movie becomes attractive by means of exclusion. An obvious but no less effective technique, if you ask me.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-550077.png" alt="" /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-551504.png" alt="" /><br />At the end of the movie the viewer is familiarized with the marvels and prosperity that belong to a serene and complete scientific dictatorship. Cities have gone underground and seemingly have become entirely self-sufficient. There are no traces of all out destruction. Society is orderly. People are sharp-dressed and look healthy and content. Conflicts and/or disputes are nowhere to be found and pretty looking technological gadgets abound. What a pleasant peek into the future.Who would want to possibly have something else than a scientific dictatorship now? Or so the viewer is urged to think.</li><br /></ol><br /><strong>Disclaimer:</strong><br />Please do not think that I am a proponent of war. On the contrary I am disgusted by the horrible machinations of war as much as any other well-thinking human being would be. However, I do have reservations about being manipulated into a global dictatorship on false pretenses. Because you then automatically have to ask yoursel, well if a scientific dictatorship is so benign then why are they so secretive and manipulative about it?<br /><br />Therefore, I am not against state sovereignty and I am highly skeptical of a global dictatorship, scientific or not. It's not that I am against a world government per se, as a concept. If its leadership is benevolent, reasonable and does not abuse its power I might even welcome it. What I am worried about though is abject and absolutist forms of government in which you have no rights to be able to defend yourself against possible abuses of power and you are basically being treated as rightless cattle.<br /><br />In addition, let me state it quite clearly that I am not against science as a whole. In fact, I am a scientist by training myself and am thus fully acquainted with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method">scientific method</a>. As such, I am also fully aware of the shortcomings of science and that the science of today will be generally antiquated by tomorrow, figuratively speaking. So hence a dictatorial rule based on today's science is likely to be unjust or unwarranted in due time. Hence extreme care and scepticism has to be taken to conform legislation based on the today's science.<br /><br /><strong>Appendix:</strong><br /><strong>The United Nations</strong><br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><br /><tbody><tr><th><em>Quote</em><br /></th></tr><tr><td><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/United_Nations_member_countries_wor.png" alt="" width="737" height="323" /><br /><em>Summary</em><br /><br />Map showing United Nations members and the decade they joined the UN as from the figures on the UN site. At the top right is an inset map showing Cold War countries - USSR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and West Germany. Also shown are North Yemen and South Yemen, and Tanganyika and Zanzibar.<br /><br />Note: On the site, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine are given a 1945 date for joining, with the other former-Soviet republics given a 1990s date. China is given a 1945 date for joining, when they were represented by the Republic of China (which later relocated to Taiwan in 1949), and was replaced by the People's Republic of China as China's representative in 1971 (see China and the United Nations).<br /><br />All areas listed in gray are not UN members<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:United_Nations_member_countries_world_map.PNG">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:United_N...countries_world_map.PNG</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_member_states">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_member_states</a><br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><tbody><tr><th><em>Quote</em><br /></th></tr><tr><td><br /><pre><strong><span>The U.N. Deception</span></strong></pre><br />This is the New World Order, the globalists will overthrow the United States Consitition to replace it with a UN Constitution! A one world government, being setup by globalist elites; George Bush Senior, Kofi Annan, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Pope Benedict, all of these elites and many others call for a one world governance!<br />[googlevideo=http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=2634703139474212867&hl=nl]<br /></td></tr><tr><td>References:<br /><a href="http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/arms/freedom_war.html">Freedom From War</a><br /><a href="http://www.thepowerhour.com/articles/HardRoadtoWorldOrder.pdf">THE HARD ROAD TO WORLD ORDER</a><br /><a href="http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/english/Agenda21.pdf">AGENDA 21</a><br /><a href="http://untreaty.un.org/cod/icc/statute/romefra.htm">Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC)</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-62339278736571367872008-09-15T13:32:00.000+02:002008-09-15T13:33:40.476+02:00V for Vendetta (2005)<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/</a><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/2006_v_for_vendetta_wallpaper_004.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br />For a decent synopsis I recommend the corresponding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta_%28film%29">Wikipedia entry</a>.<br /><br />The parallels between <em>Equilibrium</em> and <em>V for Vendetta</em> are hard to miss. Both films depict <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia">dystopian societies</a> which heavily refer back to Nazi Germany. In <em>V for Vendetta</em> the government has transformed itself into a full-fledged Police State ruled by an oligarchical rod of iron.<br /><br />I will expand on the various elements of this generally sober-toned albeit occasionally satirical film and then attempt to reveal the predictive programming as I go:<br /><ol><br /> <li> <img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-262223.png" alt="" /><br /><em>"Yellow coded curfew is now in place. Any unauthorized personnel will be subject to arrest. This is for your protection."</em><br />For the purpose of furthering control, the government has put into effect a curfew to which all regular citizens are to be subjected to. The onset of the curfew is announced through vintage looking loudspeakers, and thus is highly reminiscent of a world war II era. The viewer is acquainted with the phenomenon of the normalcy of curfews that comes with dictatorial rule. That it is but 'for the protection' of the citizenry is of course simply Orwellian <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newspeak">newspeak</a> [ostensibly to prevent or smother acts of terror perpetrated by ever dangerous and ever evasive enemies of the state].</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-258908.png" alt="" /><br />The emblem of the ruling party, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsefire"><em>Norsefire</em></a>, is quite interesting in that it features a red double cross on a black background. The colors obviously are a clear reference to Nazi Germany.<br /><br />Wikipedia explains:<br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><br /><tbody><br /><tr><br /><th><em>Quote</em></th><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td>In the book, a blue "N" on a black flag is the symbol of the party. An "N" or "NF" are the only party symbols shown.<br /><br />The symbol of the Norsefire party in the film resembles the Croix de Lorraine, the heraldic symbol of the province of Lorraine in France, which was adopted as the official symbol of General Charles de Gaulle's Free French Forces between 1940 and 1944. It was later used for various Gaullist political parties in France, notably the RPR (Rally for the Republic).<br /><br />In the context of the film's fascist Britain, it could be seen as a combination of the St. George's Cross and the Nordic Cross flag, or a radical modification of the flag of England (a red centered cross on a white background). Its colours are similar to those of the flag of the Northern English city of Durham. In the movie, the symbol is shown in flags, police badges, coat of arms, tanks, and army beret badges. The black and red colours are interchangeable with each other, with one forming the cross and the other forming the background.<br /><br />It is also, literally, a double cross. A double cross of a different type can be seen in The Great Dictator, which satirises Nazism. The cross also forms an "H" on its side.<br /><br />Noting that Guy Fawkes, the inspiration for the novel and film, acted against the British Crown as a Catholic, it is also possible that the Wachowski brothers' movie script added a flag intended to be symbolic of the historical antagonism between the Catholic Church and Freemasonry. The Norsefire party symbol used in the movie is a particularly close match to the red slanting Patriarchal cross designating a 33rd degree level mason of the Scottish Rite.</td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsefire">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsefire</a><br />A 'double cross', besides having a rich history as featuring on a good many <a href="http://wapedia.mobi/en/Cross_of_Lorraine">European state flags</a>, has also an additional meaning when considered a verb; its meaning being <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=double%20cross">'to deceive' or 'to betray'</a><a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=double+cross&searchmode=none">[2]</a>. And it just so happens that this is of course precisely what <em>Norsefire</em> is doing, its rule is based on swindle, deceit and other foul play. As a tantalizing aside, the reader should know that the genuine British flag, the <em>Union Jack</em>, also features a double cross:<br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/union-jack1.gif" alt="" /><br />As such, the <em>Norsefire</em> flag may thus be interpreted as a perhaps extreme variant of a political doctrine that was already holding sway over the British empire.<br /><br />It may also be interesting to note that the double-cross also features quite clearly in the logo of Rockefeller run <a href="http://www.exxonmobil.com/Benelux-English/About/Bnl_HS_MobilHistory.asp"><em>Exxon</em> (formerly Esso or S.O., Standard Oil)</a>:<br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/double_cross.jpg" alt="" /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/exxon.jpg" alt="" /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/lg_exxon.gif" alt="" /></li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-264298.png" alt="" /><br />The <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=chancellor&searchmode=none">Chancellor</a> of <em>Norsefire</em> addresses its governmental council in absentia, while his image is magnified to emphasize the subordination of his henchmen in what seems to be a typical Big Brother fashion (this theme was also present in <em>Equilibrium</em>).<br /><br />It seems that the producers of this movie, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachowski_brothers">Wachowski Brothers</a>, went out of their way to make the analogy with Nazi Germany more than just remote. If you look at the eyes of the Chancellor you may notice quite a pronounced dilation of the pupils, and during all Big Brother shots such as this one you would continue to observe his eyes being as big as saucers. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mydriasis">Mydriasis</a> is a typical consequence of the consumption of psychoactive stimulants such as cocaine or amphetamines. Just as <a href="http://www.amphetamines.com/adolf-hitler.html">Hitler</a>, it seems that the Chancellor too was under the influence of uppers perhaps in an attempt to reflect the same type of zeal as embodied in Hitler.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-264667.png" alt="" /><br /><em>"[...]Our job is to report news, not fabricate it. That's the government's job."</em><br />A blatant reminder to the viewer that the mainstream media is complicit in the treachery and immoral conduct of the government, at least in case it's tyrannical in nature. Regrettably, the immoral wedlock of the media to the government is highly reflective of real present day society also.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-282138.png" alt="" /><br />Decent food seems to be in hard supply in totalitarian Britain and is something the citizens normally have no access to. Although it can be obtained, as <em>V</em> did, through illegal means. The viewer may expect scarcity of (good) food if a Police State were to be put into effect.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-268582.png" alt="" /><br /><em>"[...] There is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?<br />Cruelty and injustice. Intolerance and oppression [...] You now have sensors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity....<br />How did this happen? Who's to blame? [...] If you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into the mirror [...] I know you are afraid, who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems conspired to rob you of your common sense.<br />Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high-chancellor Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you<br />peace. All he demanded in return was your silent and obedient consent."</em><br />The viewer is encouraged to accept blame for any future installations of tyrannical and absolute forms of government. Complacency, apathy, but most of all fear, is what begets tyranny. So when abject tyranny comes knocking your door down you should, first and foremost, blame yourself for letting it get that far. Nonetheless, not to panic, for there is solace and relief looming over the horizon already.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-285800.png" alt="" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-288133.png" alt="" /><br /><em>"[...]Chancellor sutler agreed, we have to keep this discrete for obvious reasons... The loss of the voice of London could be<br />devastating to our credibility. Perhaps a stroke? No, no that's too horrific. A quiet dignified death in his sleep." </em><br />Another example of the twisting of reality to suit the needs of the government while, according to established rule, truth is sacrificed once again. Lies are created by the government, blindly accepted by the media who then, without grudging or adulteration, simply regurgitate it to the public. Sadly, quite an accurate reflection of real life too.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-292724.png" alt="" /><br /><em>"One thing is true of all governments. The most reliable records are tax-records."</em><br />Another sneer towards the concept of government serving to illustrate its inherent lack of integrity.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-294313.png" alt="" /><br /><em>"<strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">V</span></strong>i <strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">V</span></strong>eri <strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">V</span></strong>eniversum <strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">V</span></strong>ivus <strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">V</span></strong>ici" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi_veri_universum_vivus_vici">(by the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the Universe - Faust)</a></em><br />Who can now possibly still deny that Latin is an elegant language? In that sentence there are just a tad bit too many glorious and righteous Vs to prevent from dissuading the viewer from placing trust in the protagonist of the movie <em>V</em> to save to day, hey? Therefore, the viewer is thus encouraged to accept a genuine and tormented but heroic saviour when the socio-political situation becomes that much unbearable that the only reasonable reaction would seem to be: <strong><em>revolution</em></strong>.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-300166.png" alt="" /><br />That's an interesting flag if there ever was one: An modified Union Jack, having a bit of the US in it while having a heart of Nazism. Quite the accurate reflection of the Nazi-phile <em>Norsefire</em> led UK. It may be interesting to note that there is quite a salient body of historical evidence to support the idea that indeed <a href="http://www.greghallett.com/"></a>Nazism was helped on its feet by Britain. While it is common knowledge that the US started out as a British colony, there also exists a body of evidence that the Brits never actually relinquished their grip over the US and that the latter secretly continued to be a 'plantation' for Britain.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-403789.png" alt="" /><br />The movie shows that homosexuals would be persecuted in the Fascist UK, again much like Nazi Germany. However, reality was a bit more complicated than that. It seemed that in Nazi Germany the effeminate "fem" homosexuals were indeed persecuted while the overly manly "butch" homosexuals were pretty much left as they were. Indeed, <a href="http://www.abidingtruth.com/pfrc/books/pinkswastika/html/the_pinkswastika_4th_edition_-_final.htm">butch homosexuals seemed to have pretty much ran the entire Nazi apparatus even</a>.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-392821.png" alt="" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-465690.png" alt="" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-465961.png" alt="" /><br /><em>"What if the worst and most horrifying biological attack in the history of this country was not the work of religious extremists.[...]<br />If our own government was responsible for what happened at St. Mary's and Three Waters. If our government was responsible for the deaths of almost a 100 thousand people, would you really wanna know?" [...]<br />"Imagine a virus, the most terrifying virus there is. And imagine that you and you alone have the cure. The target of the country should not be an enemy of the country, but rather the country itself." [...]<br />"The end result of the true genius of the plan was fear. Fear became the ultimate tool for this government."</em><br />At the end of the movie it becomes clear that all along it was <em>Norsefire</em> that was behind orchestrating the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag">false flag operation</a>, in this case a <a href="http://erlenda5.blogspot.com/"></a>terror strike, that immediately led to the scaring of the UK population into utter submission to <em>Norsefire</em>. Government using terror and mass murder as a means to expand their power; a crazy idea, or not?<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=false+flag+terrorism">You decide...</a></li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-486953.png" alt="" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-488534-1.png" alt="" /><br />Finally, the tyranny of <em>Norsefire</em> becomes too unbearable and propelled by the momentum of the spirit of revolution as instigated by the now deceased saviour, <em>V</em>, the exploited and degraded population rebel <em>en masse</em> and march on to the parliament only to watch its utter destruction, thus signaling the end of the reign of <em>Norsefire</em>. And they all, minus <em>V</em>, live happily ever after.</li><br /></ol><br />So to recap, after a string of worldly misadventures the UK plunged into an utterly oppressive Police State, where Nazi-like intolerance and dishonesty hold sway like never before (?). The justification for rise of <em>Norsefire</em> to power turns out to be completely disgenuine and fabricated as the <em>false flag</em> terror strike it was. A surviving victim of the nefarious practices of <em>Norsefire</em> becomes the iconoclastic saviour of Britain and ultimately succeeds in tearing down the dystopian and morally bankrupt dictatorial regime.<br /><br />The moral of the story seems to be that should the time come that a full fledged Police State will be installed then the public should worry not for a saviour one day will emerge who will work hard to wrest free control from the clutches of tyranny and guide you all into happy freedom again.<br /><br />Note that this popular silver-screen messianic theme was also present in <em>Equilibrium</em> as well as in <em>The Matrix</em> trilogy. Do I need to inform the reader that the hope for waiting for a saviour to take you by the hand and guide you into safety may be a vain one?<br /><br /><strong><em>Appendix:</em></strong><br /><strong>The Gunpowder Plot of 1605</strong><br /><a href="http://www.gunpowder-plot.org/fawkes.asp"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/guy_fawkes.jpg" alt="" /></a><br />The historical figure on which the main character <em>V</em> is based, <a href="http://www.gunpowder-plot.org/fawkes.asp">Guy Fawkes</a>, was part of a conspiracy to blow up the English Parliament and eveyone in it, including King James I and family as well as the entire government.<br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/namesno.gif" alt="" /><br />Now there are two different and opposing historical accounts as to what really happened.<br /><br />One view supports the notion that the plot was instigated by the predominantly Protestant English government itself in order to strengthen anti-Roman Catholic legislation and basically altogether wipe out the threat of a potentially powerful English Roman Catholic column. By making it look as if a group of zealous Catholics conspired against the Protestant government and the King the apprehension and exposure of the ostensible evildoers would earn enough disgust and hatred for the Roman Catholics by the Protestant citizens for its government to stringently clamp down on the Catholic minority and obliterate their civil rights. As such, by this view the conspiracy is interpreted to be a false flag operation.<br /><br />The other view asserts that the conspiracy of which Fawkes was part of was not of crypto-Protestant nature but indeed genuinely Roman Catholic. The group led by one Robert Catesby was in turn spurred into action by the Jesuits, headed in England at that time by Provincial Henry Garnet. If one considers the <a href="http://www.armitstead.com/gunpowder/gunpowder_trial.html">official court-procedures</a> of the ensuing court case, one notices that the list of accused mentions many a Jesuit, including Garnet. It so happened that Garnet together with a number of fellow Jesuits were found guilty and summarily executed by the power of the English Crown.<br /><br />I hope to address this controversial historical event in more detail on a later time and will leave it for now by mentioning a feature in the movie which seems to favor the second hypothesis.<br /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-286724.png" alt="" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-287149.png" alt="" /><br />In this part of the movie, <em>V</em> confesses that the <em>Count of Monte Cristo</em> is his favorite movie. Now it so happens that there are several sources claiming that the good Count is in actual fact none other than the Jesuit Superior General.<br /><br />Please read the following supportive quote:<br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><br /><tbody><br /><tr><br /><th><em>Quote</em></th><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td>The Jesuit General rules the world through his provincials. And the provincials then, of course, rule the lower Jesuits, and there are many Jesuits who are not "professed", so many of the lower Jesuits have no idea what’s going on at the top. They have no concept of the power of their Order.<br /><br />It’s just like Freemasonry. The lower have no idea that the High Shriner Freemasons are working for the Jesuit General. They think that they’re just doing works and being good people. But the bottom line is that the high-level Freemasons are subject, also, to the Jesuit General because the Jesuit General, with Fredrick the Great, wrote the High Degrees, the last 8 Degrees, of the Scottish Rite Freemasonry when Fredrick protected them when they were suppressed by the Pope in 1773.<br /><br />So, you have the alignment with the Jesuit Order and the most powerful Freemason they had in the craft, Fredrick the Great, during their suppression. That is an irrefutable conclusion. And then, when you see the Napoleonic Wars, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars carried out by Freemasonry, everything Napoleon did, and the Jacobins, whatever they did, completely benefited the Jesuit Order.<br /><br /><strong>It’s to this end that Alexander Dumas wrote his The Count Of Monte Cristo. The Count is the Jesuit General. Monte=Mount, Cristo=Christ. The Count of the Mount of Christ. Alexander Dumas was talking about the Jesuit General getting vengeance when the Jesuits were suppressed, and many of them were consigned to an island, three hours sailing, West, off the coast of Portugal. And so, when the Jesuits finally regained their power, they punished all of the monarchs of Europe who had suppressed them, drove them from their thrones, including the Knights of Malta from Malta, using Napoleon.</strong><br /><br />And Alexander Dumas, who fought for the Italian patriots in 1848, to free Rome from the temporal power of the Pope, wrote many books and one of the books was to expose this, and that was The Count Of Monte Cristo.<br /><br />So, when you read that book, bear in mind that it’s really a satire on the Jesuit Order regaining their power in France. The Count of Monte Cristo has an intelligence apparatus that can’t be beat. Well, that’s the Jesuit Order.<br /><br />But the Count doesn’t get what he really ought to have, or his last wish, and that’s the love of woman. He gains back all of his political power; he gains back everything he lost; but he doesn’t have the love of a woman. And THAT is the Jesuit Order. They have no women. They have no love of a woman. Because to have a wife, to have a woman, means you have an allegiance to your wife and family, and you cannot obey the General. That’s why they will NEVER be married, and that’s one of the great KEYS to their success.</td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br /><a href="http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/blackpope.htm">http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/blackpope.htm</a>Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-44408043856457276852008-09-07T22:00:00.000+02:002008-09-07T22:01:05.774+02:00Minority Report (2002)<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/</a><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/minorityreport.jpg" alt="" /><br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><br /><tbody><br /><tr><br /><th><em>Quote</em></th><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td>Minority Report is a 2002 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on the Philip K. Dick short story of the same name. It is set primarily in the Washington, D.C. area in the year 2054, where a special police department called "Precrime" apprehends criminals based on foreknowledge, provided by three psychics termed "precogs". The film stars Tom Cruise as John Anderton, a Precrime officer, who heads the Precrime police force. Colin Farrell plays Danny Witwer, an agent from the Department of Justice who is sent to observe the process, Samantha Morton portrays the senior precog Agatha, and Max von Sydow plays Lamar Burgess, Anderton's superior. It is one of several films based on stories by Philip K. Dick.<br /><br />The film cost over $100 million, though it made more than three times that in worldwide box office, and sold at least four million DVDs in its first few months of release.[1][2] Minority Report was one of the best reviewed films of 2002,[3] and was nominated for and won several awards.[4] These included four Saturn Awards, including Best Science Fiction Film and Best Direction. Minority Report also earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound Editing. The film has a distinctive look, featuring desaturated colors which make it almost resemble a black-and-white film, yet the blacks and shadows have a high contrast, resembling film noir.</td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_%28film%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_(film)</a><br />As is rather characteristic of a dystopian Sci-Fi movie, Minority Report too is laced with predictive programming elements. I will present them by showing one or more screenshots illustrating each, followed by an elaboration.<br /><ol><br /> <li> <img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-500180.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-207127.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-473852.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-524226.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br />Government enforced control is imposed, among other means, by mandatory identification in which eyes or irises are scanned on various occasions and through various means. For instance, the eyes of potential customers are scanned on entering a store. People entering their workplace must have their eyes scanned also. And there's a scene in which law enforcement officers initiate and direct an eye-scanning procedure to an entire city-block in order to attempt to apprehend the bad-guy (in this case it is the hero of the movie though). In order to safeguard their safety the identification procedure is implemented by the use of spider-like robots.This PP theme is to make the viewer aware of a future in which mandatory identification, through eye-scanning for instance, possibly imposed several times a day, will be as ordinary as having cereals for breakfast.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-481217.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-496220.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-295543.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-295752.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br />"Look mom! no hands!" (j/k)<br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-296113.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br />These pictures paint a reality in which passenger traffic in the city obviously has been totally revamped. Quite unlike another scene in which Anderton (Tom Cruise) is happily steering across the country side, there is no such thing as having control over your own vehicle while in the city. That is, automated piloting has become the norm while you transport from point A to point B in the city.<br /><br />The viewer is made aware that in the future you won't have control over your own vehicle except when you are in the rural area where traffic densities are low enough to permit a passenger to play their own driver. This means more government imposed control. Although in terms of preventing accidents and increasing transport efficiency, automated piloting does not seem an entirely unreasonable resolution.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-208604.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-362456.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br />Virtual reality in galore. The viewer sees images of virtual <em>sex</em> and virtual <em>praise</em> in an attempt to make the concept of 'virtuality' appealing (if not bizarre LOL).</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-308222.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-308862.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-377245.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-505267.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br />Law enforcement is equipped with all kinds of gadgets that are still quite exotic for the present time. You see agents with jet-packs strapped on while carrying non-lethal weapons such as 'sick-sticks', which induce sickness on contact with would-be arrestees. Guns that emit airborne shock-waves to knock out assailants or other 'trouble-makes'. And then you have the next generation of cuffs that go not to the hands but to the head and upon activation instantly renders incapacitated the recipient.<br /><br />The viewer is let in on what type of novel gadgetry they may expect from the police-force in the future.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-499649.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-499761.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br />On entering a store and after identification through eye-scanning, a prospecting customer is welcomed by a constant barrage of customer-specific advertisements, call it spam on steroids if you will (as I do). This implies that there is no such thing as privacy in the future and that all kinds of commercial agencies, such as advertisement agencies have access to your personal data so as to be able to tweak advertisement to suit your customer habits. The idea that there will be no privacy in the not too distant future is thus once more reinforced on the viewer.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-463766.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br />Of course, the idea of the Hived Mind gets peddled to the viewer once more.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-478231.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br />Here you see the main character buying illegal streetdrugs from a dealer who seems to have no eyes in his sockets. As an aside, while peddling his gear the dealer utters the interesting phrase: <em><strong>"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."</strong></em><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/pirateflag-356x372.jpg" alt="" /><br /><a href="http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/">http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/</a><br />I came across this slogan for the first time on Alan Watt's site, the researcher who implicitly introduced me too the concept of predictive programming. The meaning of the slogan is that if all people are prevented from seeing (like most dumbed-down, complacent, lethargic or otherwise handicapped sheeple are prevented from seeing what's really happening in and to the world), the person who has but the slightest quality of vision automatically has the possibility to dominate and exploit everyone else. Anyway, I am drifting.<br /><br />So, in addition to the no doubt overwhelming availability of whole galaxies of prescription drugs there are also still the good-old street-drugs just in case meds from the former category cannot give you the kind of satisfaction you were looking for.</li><br /> <li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-488735.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-489239.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br />Perpetrators of thought-crime are not relocated to traditional prisons but rather are more like stored in specially arranged facilities in which the inmates are brought into some sort of state of suspended animation and kept in cylindrically shaped confined spaces. Could this be a future echo of the type of prison-system we might one day get to see installed?</li><br /></ol><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-476190.png" alt="" width="504" height="213" /><br /><br />Although the thematic centerpiece of the movie, pre-crime, features a fatal weakness (that being the presence of echos generated by the precogs), the viewer is not dissuaded to think that one day in the future law-enforcement based on the premonition of crime may be implemented without any flaws (especially if enough tax-dollars are thrown at it).<br /><br />After all, in the movie it is being advertised and bragged about that, through pre-crime, murder-rates have plummeted to negligible levels. Therefore, of and by itself, the notion of pre-crime is presented to the viewer as being not something that is altogether disadvantageous to society. What the viewer is not made aware of however, is the type of intrusion and indeed the violation of privacy associated with the imposition of a pre-crime system onto the public. The realization of a pre-crime system therefore ultimately boils down to increases in control for the government and less freedom for its citizens. The mantra never changes, sadly.Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-30600297672213396402008-09-04T19:30:00.002+02:002008-09-07T12:20:11.685+02:00Gattaca (1997)<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/</a><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/gattaca.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-425762.png" alt="" /><br /><br />This movie paints a society in which advanced genetic technology is used to basically divide up the human family into two classes: those who have the right genetic makeup, characterized by a superiority in physical and mental fitness, and those who have defective genetic makeups, characterized by a certain proneness to develop physical and mental degenerate conditions / diseases later in life.<br /><br />Members of the first class, called <em>'valids'</em>, are given top working positions in society, while second class members, called <em>'invalids'</em> or <em>'de-gene-erates'</em>, are given inferior type of jobs.<br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><br /><tbody><br /><tr><br /><th><em>Quote</em></th><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-432210.png" alt="" /><br />Immediately after birth, a bloodsample is taken, analyzed, and it is immediately determined to which class the person growing out of that baby would belong to.</td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br />Through stringent de-facto regulative discrimination based on genetic profiling, it is ruled out that <em>invalids</em> ever get to have job positions that would normally only be available to <em>valids</em>.<br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><br /><tbody><br /><tr><br /><th><em>Quote</em></th><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-443393.png" alt="" /><br />The symbolic presence of a glass window separating the two classes strengthens the sense of separation between them.</td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br />The public is thus made aware of the future prospect of a genetically defined class segregation between the Elite- or ruling-class and the worker- or servant class. This is already more or less the case in present day society but a 'scientific' backing would surely serve to make the dividing line more rigid and absolute.<br /><br />However, it should be noted that the movie features two brothers of which one is ruled to be a <em>valid</em> while the other is branded an <em>invalid</em>. I believe that, those responsible for shaping society envision a society which in all likelihood will not only feature two classes, but rather a garden variety of classes in which genetic makeup indeed defines suitability for some certain class while ruling out other classes.<br /><br />With respect to the power-Elite, I expect genetic discrimination will either not even apply to those people or, if it does, it may be used to verify if someone ultimately does have the right 'bloodline' credentials to belong to some Elite class.<br /><br />With regard to the public, the viewer is brought up to speed to the idea that ultimately, in the not too distant future, it will be genes deciding to what class you get to belong. The important note is that you <strong>do not have any say in or control over the destination of your life</strong>.<br /><br />It is like the old Hindu caste system but this time it's sugar-coated with a touch of <em>scientism</em>. I say <em>scientism</em> rather than <em>science</em> because it is still uncertain whether we are mere slaves of our genes or that we ourselves have the potential to rise from genetic determinism.<br /><br />In genetic biology until rather recently it was the prevailing norm to assume that the genotype (genetic makeup) is deterministic in shaping and expressing the phenotype (physical characteristics) of the organism. In other words, the genes completely directed the development of the organism. However, this classical viewpoint has now come under siege and biologists such as <a href="http://www.brucelipton.com/about">Bruce Lipton</a> now believe, through legate scientific observation, that it is the <em>environment</em> that determines which genes get to be <em>expressed</em> and which get to be <em>suppressed</em>. Note that the classic viewpoint implies that through some alleged self-regulating mechanism genes themselves coordinate genetic expression.<br /><br />To the people in power this paradigm shift must seem a rather unwelcome one since people, most notably the <em>'commoners'</em>, now may realize that they are not mere slaves and victims of their genes and have a justification to indeed rise above their delineated potentiality through something as relatively simple as the way in which they perceive themselves.<br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><br /><tbody><br /><tr><br /><th><em>Quote</em></th><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-428740.png" alt="" /><br />On entry into a working facility designed for <em>valids</em>, people are forced to identify themselves, through blood testing, so as to ensure that no <em>invalids</em> slip in illegally.</td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br />The viewer gets acquainted with a future of a proliferation of mandatory identification methods such as, blood-tests through special blood-sampling thumb scanners and regular blood-tests through administered through old-fashioned syringes. Also urine testing seems to become an admissible indicator for suitability for some working position, implicitly assuming that criteria on a genetic level have been met already. It is stressed again that you, as a person, do not really have a say in the conduct or direction of your life but rather are subjected to the level of your 'genetic fitness' already set in stone at birth.<br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><br /><tbody><br /><tr><br /><th><em>Quote</em></th><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-513712.png" alt="" /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-500420-1.png" alt="" /><br />Stoic people behaving in a conformal and disciplined way like the good little worker-bees they are.</td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><br />Another remarkable feature in the movie is that it depicts a rather stoic and minimalistic society. It would seem that people of the future are not allowed to express emotions and enjoy themselves too much, given the sparseness of emotive expression combined with a rather bleak and sterile scenery. Is this gloomy prospect to let us know that we are to behave more like robots in the future? Perhaps if and when we have brainchips jammed up in our craniums, or be severely drugged <em>Brave-New-World style</em>, then indeed we will behave more like the good little androids we ought to be.<br /><br />In romantic happy ending sci-fi movies like this one the programming usually comes with a thread of hope. In this case the movie helps convince the viewer that all is not lost for the unfortunate <em>de-gene-erate</em>. The movie demonstrates that if one works long enough, by persistent cheating no less, one can overcome one's genetic predisposition for banishment to the lower class and thus transcend by fraudulent escape to the upper class.<br /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-481426.png" alt="" /><br /><br />The movie shows that an important way in establishing who is top dog and who is under dog still is the old-fashioned visual face identification. However, it doesn't show that pretending to be someone else is not a terribly difficult thing to do given the rather vintage low-tech looking visual identification devices. With this inferior type of equipment indeed it seems that two rather similar looking faces cannot be told apart. Hence identity switching or impersonation is a plausible thing to do, the move likes to have us believe.<br /><br />However, this scenario is unlikely to occur in the technological world of, let's say, 20 years from now, since the high-resolution of the electronic gadgets of then no doubt will feature astounding detail and accuracy. Hence, quite unlike the vintage looking scenarios of the movie, identity falsification of the future will be next to impossible if not totally out of the question altogether.<br /><br />I believe that giving the movie that 50s/60s vintage look was the reason for tricking the viewer into baiting the false hope that a class-like society is not as rigid as it would seem. Themes like this seem to be part of the hope thread by giving the viewer some respite towards looking to a future in which all is not lost, even when absolute scientific worldwide tyranny has been blatantly brought to the fore. As such, if and when a scientific dictatorship gets to be installed people may have a tendency to not rebel that strongly and thus cause less trouble and resistance to its implementation.Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-69053393380914488912008-09-03T22:05:00.003+02:002008-09-03T22:19:32.791+02:00- Predictive... What?<a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=Mickey_Mouse_Magic_Wands_GBC_Screen.gif" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/Mickey_Mouse_Magic_Wands_GBC_Screen.gif" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=disney83.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/disney83.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="227" border="0" height="228" /></a><br /><br /><em>"Hollywood is the magician's wand (holly-holy) which has been used to <strong>cast a spell on the unsuspecting public.</strong> Things or ideas which would otherwise be seen as bizarre, vulgar, undesirable or impossible are inserted into films in the realm of fantasy. When the viewer watches these films, his/her mind is left open to suggestion and the <strong>conditioning process begins</strong>. These same movies which are designed to program the average person, can give the discerning viewer a better understanding of the workings and the plan of the world agenda. "Be-aware".</em><br /><br /><em><strong>Predictive Programming - The power of suggestion using the media of fiction to create a desired outcome</strong>."</em><br /><br />~Alan Watt<br /><a href="http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/movies.html">http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/movies.html</a><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=MonkeySeeMonkeyDo.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/MonkeySeeMonkeyDo.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br />For an excellent introduction to the phenomenon of predictive programming download and listen to the next <em>blurb</em> by Alan Watt:<br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?svrjt2etno3">Alan_Watt_Blurb_PredictiveProgramming_Nov232006.mp3</a><br />Listen to more of this knowledgeable researcher:<br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?gznko7kzn5l">Alan_Watt_Blurb_GoodExampleOfPredictiveProgramming_April112007.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?rhilfta2du7">Alan_Watt_CTTM_LIVEonRBN_37_Predictive_Programming_for_Predictable_People_Nov122007.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?ntrk2rrvwzk">Alan_Watt_CTTM_LIVEonRBN_81_Pupils_Properly_Parroting_Predictive_Programming_Feb272008.mp3 </a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?tzwfs1rglmf">Alan_Watt_CTTM_LIVEonRBN_100_Food_Crisis_Predictive_Programming_Apr112008.mp3</a><br /><br />See Alan explaining predictive programming:<br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzP3v5mKSwYoMLMhzHXi31hgcJ6d1ODCE5krn2JoJiuvBxnDEQO48T0DDZO2vPcjvzmM9MbuXOPO4rSf-8lQg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/">Alan Watt's website...</a><br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=normal_Movie_Magic_Jan_08_1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/normal_Movie_Magic_Jan_08_1.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="258" border="0" height="337" /></a><br /><strong>Fiction as a Precursor to Fact</strong><br /><br /><em>"Thus, "science fiction" is a means of conditioning the masses to accept future visions that the elite wish to tangibly enact. This process of <strong>gradual and subtle inculcation is dubbed "predictive programming.</strong>" Hoffman elaborates: "Predictive programming works by means of the propagation of the illusion of an infallibly accurate vision of how the world is going to look in the future" (205). Also dubbed "sci-fi inevitabilism" by Hoffman, <strong>predictive programming is analogous to a virus that infects its hosts</strong> with the false belief that it is:</em><br /><br /><em> * Useless to resist central, establishment control.<br />* Or it posits a counter-cultural alternative to such control which is actually a counterfeit, covertly emanating from the establishment itself.<br />* That the blackening (pollution) of earth is as unavoidable as entropy.<br />* That extinction ('evolution") of the species is inevitable.<br />* That the reinhabitation of the earth by the "old gods" (Genesis 6:4), is our stellar scientific destiny. (8)"<br /></em><br /><br />~Phillip D. Collins<br /><a href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NewAge/Sci.htm">http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NewAge/Sci.htm</a><br /><br />For another more extensive review of predictive programming imbued by movies in general, and by SciFi movies in particular, feel free to download the next audio series that was done with the <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=philip+paul+collins">Collins brothers</a> being interviewed by <a href="http://www.vyzygoth.com/">Vyzygoth</a>:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?cgyh1kiglgm">Vyzygoth with Collins Bros - 2007-08-13 Invoking the Beyond (Predictive Programming) 1of7.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?c7uiri7pndq">Vyzygoth with Collins Bros - 2007-08-20 Invoking the Beyond (Predictive Programming) 2of7.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?4dkx6gfwksq">Vyzygoth with Collins Bros - 2007-08-27 Invoking the Beyond (Predictive Programming) 3of7.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?cjzjifvpdm9">Vyzygoth with Collins Bros - 2007-09-03 Invoking the Beyond (Predictive Programming) 4of7.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?jzybdoqmrwy">Vyzygoth with Collins Bros - 2007-09-10 Invoking the Beyond (Predictive Programming) 5of7.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?ug9wcsvu894">Vyzygoth with Collins Bros - 2007-10-01 Invoking the Beyond (Predictive Programming) 6of7.mp3</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?eduhyfhc0j0">Vyzygoth with Collins Bros - 2007-10-01 Invoking the Beyond (Predictive Programming) 7of7.mp3</a><br /><br /><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=wand.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/wand.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/?action=view&current=disney-princess-enchanted-journey--.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/disney-princess-enchanted-journey--.jpg" alt="Photobucket" width="270" border="0" height="207" /></a><br /><br />Here's another one, done just recently by <a href="http://www.pidradio.com/?m=200806">PID Radio</a> reviewing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull:<br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?nknyogila4l">pidradio080629 predictive programming.mp3</a>Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-89134977968578156592008-08-27T23:47:00.006+02:002008-08-31T18:21:24.092+02:00Equilibrium (2003)<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238380/</a><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/412635AK5NL_SS500_.jpg" /><br />This movie features some interesting themes and symbology other than the predictive programming kind, so pardon me if I dwell a bit on details and go off on tangents a bit more than I do usually.<br /><br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><tbody><tr><th><i>Quote</i></th></tr><tr><td><b>Overview</b><br /><br />Following an apocalyptic Third World War, the strict government of the city-state Libria has eliminated war by suppressing all human emotion. In the monochromatic and sedated society, artifacts from the old world (works of art and music that may evoke some emotion) are destroyed and the population is required to take emotion sedatives. Grammaton Cleric Preston (Bale), a man trained to locate and arrest those guilty of feeling emotions, finds himself abandoning the drug and experiencing outlawed feelings. As he struggles to conceal his feelings from his superiors, colleagues, and family, Preston finds himself drawn into a sinister world of double-crossings and lies, and becomes an unwitting pawn in a sophisticated plot which ultimately changes the repressed society forever.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilibrium_%28film%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilibrium_(film)</a><br /><br />Let me first start off with pinpointing the <b>obvious predictive programming themes</b>:<br /><br />This movie offers an ominous glance into a rather <a style="text-decoration: underline;">cold Brave-New-World </a>futuristic type of society, in which Huxley's premonition of a society in which its inhabitants are (voluntarily?) sedated by happiness pills, to combat states of depression, anxiety, sorrow and all the rest of it... has now been replaced by the actualization of a society in which its members are mandated to self-administer a medication that radically suppresses feelings altogether.<br /><br />It so happens that the leaders of society have decided, no doubt after a profound deliberation (sarcastic joke), that, based on the presumption that unchecked human emotions are the leading cause of all the misery in the world in general, and war in particular, it was simply the best thing to do to altogether eradicate the full scope of human feelings.<br /><br />Never mind that vital and intrinsically benign and nurturing emotions such as sensations of pain, love and compassion, are also flushed down the drain. And never mind that indeed feelings are of crucial importance in the basic act of decision-making, so that necessarily everyone with one iota of responsibility simply cannot do without feelings and emotions. Therefore, at least those who have leadership obligations have to still be able to feel to avoid persistent states of frustration regarding decision-making. As it turns out, this is indeed the case as the society's leader confesses at the end of the movie that he still is able to feel:<br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-469923-1.png" /><br /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-360377.png" /><br />To enforce such an abhorrently dystopian society to function, a <a style="text-decoration: underline;">Big Brother-like Police State</a> is established, in which human emotions are outlawed and suppressed. Behavior gets to be ruled by reason, exclusively.<br /><br />Police officers are typically dressed out in black gestapo-like uniforms with long overcoats and wearing motorcycle helmets that serve to not only protect the head but to also obfuscate the officers' identities. Through making the police more anonymous an instant distance is created between them and regular citizens, especially the considered enemies of the state, who are simply: people who are still able to feel: so-called "Sense Offenders." Compare the police of yesteryear with the police of today, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfISlq1gzK8">especially in the US</a>, to acknowledge the (predictive programming) theme of the militarization of the police already is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=police+brutality">coming to fruition</a>.<br /><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-400047.png" /><br />To drastically enforce preventing people from having emotions a drug is created called <i>Prozium</i>, which needs to be administered several times a day by means of automated inoculations. All civilians are mandated to take this essentially <b>zombifying drug</b>. As such, a pale and robotic kind of society emerges out of the ashes of the devastation brought on by a cataclysmic nuclear WWIII. Regarding programming this movie is not the best way to try to peddle any government intentions of <a style="text-decoration: underline;">mandatory public drug use</a>, but still we are being prepared nonetheless. Also note that the movie allows for the possibility that the leadership does not require to take sense-numbing medication.<br /><br />Let's now focus on somewhat less apparent predictive programming elements. First off, it is not too hard to detect similarities between the society painted in Equilibrium and former Nazi Germany.<br /><br />In fact, the reigning flag of <i>Libria</i> for instance features nothing short of a <i>Teutonic Cross</i>:<br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-398800.png" /><br />Examples of genuine Teutonic Crosses:<br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/Image37.gif" /><br /><a href="http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/enigma_of_freemasonry/text.htm">http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/enigma_of_freemasonry/text.htm</a><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/33insignia.jpg" /><br /><a href="http://www.bradford.ac.uk/webofhiram/?section=ancient_accepted&page=33sovgrandingen.html">http://www.bradford.ac.uk/webofhiram/?sect...grandingen.html</a><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/masonic-symbols-3.jpg" /><br /><a href="http://karenswhimsy.com/masonic-symbols.shtm">http://karenswhimsy.com/masonic-symbols.shtm</a><br />(<a href="http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1508078">"Ordo Ab Chao - Deus meumque Jus" means "Order out of Chaos - ~ God's morality is my Right"</a> ; this and the previous picture clearly show a connection between the Teutonic Cross and Freemasonry. One might speculate if there is perhaps a Freemasonic influence behind the production of this movie. After all, a theme of the movie is the emergence of a new society built on the ashes of the old, like the masonic Phoenix Rising from the Ashes.)<br /><br />A banner-flag featuring the Teutonic Cross suggests rule by the Teutonic Order. So who are the Teutonic Knights?<br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><tbody><tr><th><i>Quote</i></th></tr><tr><td><b>The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order.</b> Its members have commonly been known as the Teutonic Knights, since it was a <b>crusading military order during the Middle Ages and much of the modern era.</b><br />[...]<br />In 1143 Pope Celestine II ordered the <b>Knights Hospitaller</b> to take over management of a German Hospital in Jerusalem, which, according to the chronicler Jean d’Ypres, accommodated the countless German pilgrims and crusaders who could neither speak the local tongue (i.e. French) nor Latin (patrie linguam ignorantibus atque Latinam).[1] However, although formally an institution of the Hospitallers, the pope commanded that the prior and the brothers of the domus Teutonicorum (house of the Germans) should always be Germans themselves, so a tradition of a <b>German-led religious institution could develop during the 12th century in Palestine.[2]</b><br />[...]<br /><b>Modern Teutonic Order<br /></b><br />The Order continued to exist in Austria, out of Napoleon's reach. Beginning in 1804 it was headed by members of the Habsburg dynasty until the 1923 resignation of the Grand Master, Archduke Eugen of Austria.<br /><br /><b>In 1929 the Teutonic Knights were converted to a purely spiritual Roman Catholic religious order and were renamed Deutscher Orden ("German Order"). </b>After Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany, the Teutonic Order was suppressed throughout the Großdeutsches Reich from 1938-1945, although <b>the Nazis used imagery of the medieval Teutonic Knights for propaganda purposes.</b> The Order survived in Italy, however, and was reconstituted in Germany and Austria in 1945.<br /><br />By the end of the 1990s, <b>the Order had developed into a charitable organization and incorporated numerous clinics.</b> It sponsors excavation and tourism projects in Israel and the Palestinian territories. In 2000 the German chapter of the Teutonic Order declared insolvency, and its upper management was dismissed. A 2002-03 investigation by a special committee of the Bavarian parliament was inconclusive.<br />[...]<br /><b>Influence on German nationalism</b><br /><br /><b>German nationalism often invoked the imagery of the Teutonic Knights</b>, especially in the context of territorial conquest from eastern neighbours of Germany and conflict with nations of Slavic origins, who were considered by German nationalists to be of lower development and of inferior culture. The German historian Heinrich von Treitschke used imagery of the Teutonic Knights to promote pro-German and anti-Polish rhetoric. Such imagery and symbols were adopted by many middle-class Germans who supported German nationalism. During the Weimar Republic, associations and organisations of this nature contributed to laying the groundwork for the formation of Nazi Germany.[21] <b>Emperor William II of Germany posed for a photo in 1902 in the garb of a monk from the Teutonic Order</b>, climbing up the stairs in the reconstructed Marienburg Castle as a symbol of the German Empire's policy.[21] <b>During World War II, Nazi propaganda and ideology made frequent use of the Teutonic Knights' imagery, as the Nazis sought to depict the Knights' actions as a forerunner of the Nazi conquests for Lebensraum.</b> Heinrich Himmler tried to idealize the SS as a 20th century incarnation of the medieval knights.[22]<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_Knights">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_Knights</a><br /><br />Hence, as the Nazis and the Teutonic Knights went hand in hand, it can be safely assumed that Libria essentially is ruled by Nazism. As good hospital-operating Teutonic Knights do, Libria's leadership approaches the problems of society as a medical problem, which, according to good allopathic (German) tradition enthuses over treatment with pharmaceuticals, applied in the characteristic brute force fashion. The rationale being that since no success has been obtained in controlling unchecked human emotion (considered the root of all the world's problems) using non-invasive means, it is decided best to simply chemically anesthetize feelings altogether; indeed a very radically intolerant and invasive approach that is most compatible with Nazi ethics.<br /><br />Of course the movie never even remotely addresses the idea that the prevalence of war basically has more to do with sinister shadow politics engaged between filthy rich and megalomaniacal men than it has to do with the emotional incontinence of the ordinary masses. The viewing crowd is lured into believing that the phenomenon of war is basically the fault of Joe Six-pack and Jane Soap-opera.<br /><br />Anyway, there are even more profound parallels to be found between Libria and the Catholic Church, no less. The fact that the Teutonic Knights formed/form a Roman Catholic Order, ultimately serving the Pope in Rome, is the first piece of evidence.<br /><br />The civil servants tasked with hunting down "sense offenders" (note the phonetic similarity with "sex offenders", BTW) are referred to as <i>clerics</i>, or members of the <i>clergy</i>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clergy">the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion</a>. Actually the full title is <i>Tetragrammaton Cleric</i>, where the Greek word <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton">Tetragrammaton (TG) signifies the "four letters" of the name of the God of Israel: YHWH</a>. For an elaborate account, showing also the connection between the TG and the Nazi Swastika, see:<br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/tetragrammaton.jpg" /><br /><a href="http://rexcurry.net/tetragrammaton.html">http://rexcurry.net/tetragrammaton.html</a>Thus another, though more implicit, link between the TG clergy and Nazism is laid to bare.<br /><br />In addition, the head of state is referred to as <i>Father</i> so as to signify the clerical head. In the Roman Catholic Church the Pope is also referred to as the <i>Holy Father</i>. So those are pretty clear additional hints.<br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-457713.png" /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-457784.png" /><br />Later in the movie a scene is shown in which a "Sense Offender" is burned alive in a furnace much like the heretics of old were burned alive at the stake in the vain hope of "purifying the soul with flames". This was an all too common happening during the times of the Spanish Inquisition which, by the way, was administered by the Roman Catholic Dominican Order as well as the Jesuit Order. In addition, the scene is also reminiscent of the existence of disposal furnaces present in Nazi Germany, which functioned to get rid of corpses of persecuted political dissidents and so deemed racial adversaries. As an aside, the word <i>Holocaust</i> derives from Greek and means <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aholocaust">Sacrificial Burnt Offering</a>.<br /><br />Now take a look at the type of clothing the clerics are dressed in:<br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-383219.png" /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-463511.png" /><br />and compare this to the standard Jesuit cassock:<br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/JesuitCassocksen_toomeycassocks2.jpg" /><br /><a href="http://www.matthewfsheehan.net/index.cfm?event=ProductDetails&CategoryID=104&ProductID=1649">http://www.matthewfsheehan.net/index.cfm?e...&ProductID=1649</a><br /><br />To make it really obvious, in one particular scene there is even a civil servant dressed up remarkably similar to a genuine Roman Catholic cleric (notice the characteristic clerical collar):<br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-465537.png" /><br /><br />Only a blind person could now possibly still deny the parallels between the leadership showcased in the movie and the Roman Catholic clergy. This revelation comes as little surprise since it has been quite clearly demonstrated, by a number of noteworthy alternative historians such as Eric Jon Phelps and Thomas Richards, that indeed the conception of Nazism as well as its operation was greatly facilitated by the Roman Catholic Church itself. Internet references abound to prove the cooperation between the two.<br /><br />First one may learn of the setting up of a <i>Reichskonkordat</i> <a href="http://www.concordatwatch.eu/showtopic.php?kb_header_id=752">between the Vatican and Nazi Germany</a>. NB: A <i>concordat</i> is a legally binding mutually beneficial agreement between some governing body and the Papacy.<br />A modest grasp detailing this remarkably paradoxical unholy alliance can be obtained here: <a href="http://www.vaticanassassins.org/hitlers_papal.htm">[1]</a>,<a href="http://www.spirituallysmart.com/nazi.html">[2]</a>, <a href="http://continuingcounterreformation.blogspot.com/search/label/Adolph%20Hitler">[3]</a>, <a href="http://www.remnantofgod.org/NaziRCC.htm">[4]</a>, <a href="http://www.remnantofgod.org/jeswar.htm">[5]</a>, <a href="http://www.illuminati-news.com/103006a.htm">[6]</a><br />To further disclose the connection between Nazism and the Vatican there is the still ongoing <a href="http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com/">class-action lawsuit</a> with the plaintiffs being the survivors of a WWII era Croatian genocide suing the Vatican Bank (IOR). It is remarkable, to say the least, that the Vatican admitted wrongdoing but it claimed <a href="http://www.byzantinesacredart.com/blog/2007/10/croatia-nato-ally.html">it was justified under international law</a>. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=alperin+vatican+bank">Google</a>.<br /><br />It is therefore hardly a stretch to call Nazism a Catholic invention, or at least a profoundly backed enterprise, and many of its leaders were, in fact, of Catholic nomination, including Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Von Papen, Bormann etc.<br /><a href="http://www.liberalslikechrist.org/Catholic/NaziLeadership.html">[7]</a><br />It was Hitler for instance, who called Himmler his Ignatius of Loyola and confessed that he "had learned much from the Jesuits", while the SS was even patterned after the Jesuit Order. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_occultism">[8]</a>, <a href="http://100777.com/node/1311">[9]</a>, <a href="http://www.rense.com/general6/chamish.htm">[10]</a><br /><br />So to recap, here we have a movie that drew its inspiration heavily from Roman Catholic Nazi Germany and modeled its leadership themes consistent with specific Catholic Orders (Jesuits and Teutonic Knights), much as it happened in real life history also.<br /><br />It is remarkable however to realize that the hypocritical leadership in the movie is overtly anti-Nazi, if only by mere principle of condemning war in general:<br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-398352.png" /><br />It nonetheless is just as Nazi-like in character and practice as the original was, except for the externally directed war-seeking part though. Thus, in essence, nothing has changed: Nazism still rules the world (but the herds are sadly too sedated and too disengaged to notice, also much like the real life situation today).<br /><br />I hesitate to call this programming as it seems also a bit of an act of whistleblowing to me too. If it can be rightfully called programming, then I believe it is to inform the public that nothing will change in the future, we will still be governed by Nazism, no matter what.<br /><br />The parallels between Libria's government and 1) Nazism and 2) Roman Catholicism, are so overwhelming and blatant that it puzzles me, quite frankly. After all, would the Roman Church really welcome the release of movies that expand on the historically documented fact that Nazism and the Vatican were happily wedded together at some stage in history? It almost seems that this is indeed the intent of the movie; to instill, perhaps on a subconscious level, a deep fear, hatred and/or disgust for the Catholic Church. After all, wasn't it Machiavelli who said that to <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=machiavelli+%22%22it+is+much+safer+to+be+feared+than+loved%22">rule through fear is much better than to rule through love?</a><br /><br />Perhaps more programming can be gleaned from the nature of the conclusion of the movie. To save society from the horrible clutches of absolute and soul-numbing tyranny, the main cleric fortunately comes to his senses (thank golly) and decides to switch sides and join the network of Sense Offenders so as to ultimately succeed in killing the Nazi clerical leader (<i>Father</i>). The suggested programming seems that it doesn't really matter if Nazism still rules today, some day, sooner rather than later, a saviour will emerge, deliver us from evil and we all live happily ever after. So the viewer may just as well happily sit back, relax, do nothing and just enjoy the show!<br /><br />Notice that this "messianic" theme was also present in the Matrix series, and even showed the saviour (<i>Neo</i>) dressed up in a similar Jesuit-like outfit:<br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/matrix_neo-1-1.jpg" /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/matrix3.jpg" /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/statueneocropped-1.jpg" /><br /><br />With movies like these, are we to be persuaded into believing that (renegade members of) the Jesuit Order ultimately will save us from absolute and abject tyranny? Indeed, perhaps the programming lies in the movie giving hope to the viewer that, when crises similar to the one shown in <i>Equilibrium</i>, there will always be valiant turncoat formerly inimical hero-types capable of saving the day. That this may very well be a vain and false hope in practice would, no doubt, be something Hollywood is reluctant to acknowledge through their movies.Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3121343387416276728.post-4287032818700177622008-08-26T12:53:00.003+02:002008-08-31T18:22:52.689+02:00Code 46 (2003)<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0345061/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0345061/</a><br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/Code_46_DVD.jpg" /><br /><br />Definition:<br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-317261.png" /><br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><tbody><tr><th><i>Quote</i></th></tr><tr><td><i>Code 46<br /><br /> Article 1<br /><br /> Any human being who shares the same nuclear gene set as another human being is deemed to be genetically identical. The relations of one are the relations of all.<br /><br /> Due to IVF, ID embryo splitting and cloning techniques it is necessary to prevent any accidental or deliberate genetically incestuous reproduction.<br /><br /> Therefore:<br /><br /> I. All prospective parents should be genetically screened before conception. If they have 100%, 50% or 25% genetic identity they are not permitted to conceive<br /><br /> II. If the pregnancy is unplanned, the foetus must be screened. Any pregnancy resulting from 100%, 50% or 25% genetically related parents must be terminated immediately<br /><br /> III. If the parents were ignorant of their genetic relationship then medical intervention is authorized to prevent any further breach of Code 46<br /><br /> IV. If the parents knew they were genetically related prior to conception it is a criminal breach of Code 46.<br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_46">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_46</a><br /><br />Next are two reviews that pretty much reveal the themes embodied in the movie. I have high-lighted, through boldfacing, the parts I considered relevant to a predictive programming oriented discussion. At the end of each high-lighted segment is attached a footnote <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>number</b></span> referring to an expansion written below the two following reviews.<br /><br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><tbody><tr><th><i>Quote</i></th></tr><tr><td>Code 46 is a love story set in a <b>Brave New World-type near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints.</b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(1)</b></span> People cannot travel unless they have "<b>papelles," a special travel permit issued by the totalitarianistic government, the "Sphinx".</b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(1)</b></span> Outside these cities, the desert has taken over and shanty towns are jammed with non-citizens - <b>people without papelles forced to live primitive lives.</b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(1)</b></span> William is a family man who works as a government investigator. When he is sent to Shanghai to solve a case of fake papelles, he meets a woman named Maria. Although he realizes she is behind the forgeries, he cannot help but fall completely in love with her. He hides her crime and they have a wild, passionate affair that can only last as long as his papelles: 24 hours. Back home, William is obessed with the memory of Maria. When the original investigation is inevitably re-opened a week later and William is sent back to finish the work he started, he tracks her down, only to discover she has been accused of a <b>Code 46 violation</b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(2)</b></span> and any further relationship is impossible. Written by Anonymous<br /><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-350619.png" /><br /><b>In a near future, in a world ruled by a totalitarian government, checking of the genetic code is mandatory for any type of possible relationship between man and woman. </b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(2)</b></span>The investigator from Seattle William (Tim Robbins) travels to Shanghai to investigate the faking and stealing of special Visas called "papelles". The main suspect is Maria Gonzales (Samantha Morton), who works in the company Sphinx, but William falls in love for her and protects her. They have a passionate one night stand, and sooner they find that <b>they are genetically incompatible to each other and they have violated the Code 46. </b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(2)</b></span>Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0345061/plotsummary">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0345061/plotsummary</a><br /><br /><table class="quotetable" border="2"><tbody><tr><th><i>Quote</i></th></tr><tr><td><b> It is the not-too-distant future, in a world which appears to suffer from overpopulation and large scale environmental degradation.</b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(1)</b></span> The population is divided between those who live "inside", in high density cities physically separated from "outside", where a poor underclasses lives. <b>Access into and travel between the cities is highly restricted, and regulated through the use of health cover documents, known as "papelles" </b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(1)</b></span>in <b>the global pidgin language of the day. This comprises elements of English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Italian, Urdu and Mandarin.</b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(3)</b></span><br /><br /><b>Residents of the cities venture outside at night and remain indoors during the day, as direct sunlight has become hazardous to their health, perhaps through ozone depletion.</b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(4)</b></span> The form of government appears to be somewhat authoritarian in nature, and society is regulated by various "codes". <b>The eponymous code of the movie title prohibits "genetically incestuous reproduction", which may occur as a result of the various medical technologies which have become commonplace, such as cloning.<br /></b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(2)</b></span><br />The main character is William Geld (Tim Robbins), an insurance fraud investigator based in Seattle who is sent to Shanghai to interview employees at a company known as "The Sphinx", which manufacturers insurance cover documents. William's assignment is to identify employees who are suspected of forging and smuggling covers. After interviewing numerous Sphinx employees, he identifies a young worker named Maria Gonzalez (Samantha Morton) as the cover forger. <b>He is able to do this by means of a genetically engineered "empathy virus" which allows him to obtain unstated information from people if they voluntarily reveal something about themselves.</b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(5)</b></span> Maria tells William that she has the same dream each birthday: she is traveling the subway to meet someone she cannot identify. Each birthday she is one station closer to her destination, where she expects to meet the person she is looking for. William is captivated by her, and instead of turning her over to security, identifies another employee as the forger.<br /><br />William then follows Maria and they meet and begin an affair. They have dinner, then go to a nightclub. Putting complete trust in a man who could have had her arrested, Maria reveals how she was able to smuggle papelles out of her workplace. In the club they meet Damian (David Fahm), a naturalist who longs to travel to Delhi to study bats. He has applied for cover for eight consecutive years but has been refused each time. Maria supplies Damian with a papelle. William is upset by this and indicates that he should turn Maria over to the authorities, but Maria somehow knows that William would not do this. William explains that there are legitimate reasons why Damian is unable to obtain the proper clearances legally. However, Maria believes that some risks are worth taking to fulfill one's dreams and that no one has any right to interfere if those she helps are willing to take that risk.<br /><br />William and Maria then leave for her apartment where they spend a passionate night together. <b>While there Maria shows William her "memory scrapbook" (an electronic booklet that records and displays video from the user's mind), which contains memories of her parents and close friends.</b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(6)</b></span> Other movies show her passing off papelles to various people. Maria says she thinks these people are beautiful and that their eyes are full of desire and dreams, and she wants to help them. As Maria sleeps, William finds a forged cover in her room and takes it.<br /><br />William's travel cover will expire the next day so he returns home to his family. On the way to the airport, he stops to give the forged cover document to a poor street vendor at the city's perimeter checkpoint, an act of humanity which could change the anonymous vendor's life. A few days later he learns that <b>Damian died in Delhi after exposure to a virus to which he had no immunity</b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(5)</b></span>, and it is known that Damian was able to travel there using a forged cover made while William was in Shanghai. William is reprimanded by his superior for not discovering the true Sphinx forger. He explains that he had trouble with his empathy virus and requests that someone else be sent. However, he is ordered to deal with the problem and to return to Shanghai to complete his assignment.<br /><br />Upon his return William discovers that Maria has gone. Her apartment is abandoned and the only clue to her whereabouts is an appointment scheduled at a medical clinic. He visits the clinic and using his empathic abilities learns that Maria was pregnant, but that <b>the pregnancy was terminated due to a violation of Code 46.</b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(2)</b></span> William knows that this means Maria is somehow genetically related to him, but he has no idea how this is possible.<br /><br /><b>William discovers that Maria has been taken to another institution to have her memory of the episode erased.</b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(6)</b></span> He travels there and talks to Maria, but finds her memory of him has been erased and she no longer knows him. He succeeds in getting the clinic to release Maria into his care by telling them she is a witness in his fraud investigation. After she is released William proves to Maria that she knows him by his intimate knowledge of her and by showing her her memory recording of when she gave Damian the papelle, which includes a shot of William. Williams tells her about the memory erasure, but denies knowing why it was done. He also tells her about how he didn't report her for fraud. Maria is disturbed by this information and becomes very distressed. William gives her a sleeping pill and while she is sleeping, he cuts some hair from Maria's head and takes it to a facility which provides instantaneous DNA analysis (similar to the one portrayed in Gattaca), and discovers that Maria is fifty percent genetically related to him, and that she is a biological clone of his mother, <b>who was one of a set of twenty four in-vitro fertilised clones.</b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(2)</b></span> This knowledge does not affect William's feelings, but instead of going back to Maria he freaks out and decides to go home to his familly. However when he tries to leave he is not allowed to do so as his cover is now expired.<br /><br />William then realises that his only hope of returning home is to get a papelle from Maria. He returns to Maria's apartment and tells her about his inability to leave and she agrees to help him. She tells him she must acquire a papelle and that she will meet him at the airport later. She goes to work and obtains a papelle. While taking a train to meet William she remembers her birthday dream, and that he was the person she is looking for in the dream, and she remembers her feelings for him. She meets William and gives him the papelle and then tells him she remembers him. He decides not to leave her.<br /><br />William and Maria then travel to Jebel Ali in the Middle East, which does not require special travel clearance. The two hide out in the old city where they book a room. Here William reveals to Maria that as well as the memory wiping she has been given <b>a virus that induces a terrorizing adrenaline rush in response to physical contact with the person who brought about the Code 46 violation.</b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(6)</b></span> However, Maria still wants to make love with William and so he ties her down to prevent her from fleeing once the adrenaline rush kicks in.<br /><br />Afterward, <b>Maria enters a somnambulistic state also caused by the virus which forces her to report the further Code 46 violation to the authorities.</b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(5)</b></span> She is unconscious of this though William is aware of the virus's reaction. They then rent an old car and travel away to escape the authorities who are tracking them. William crashes the car while avoiding a collision with pedestrians and they are both knocked unconscious.<br /><br />When William awakes he finds himself in Seattle with his wife and child. <b>He has no memory of Maria or the Code 46 violation, as all memories of her and their time together have been completely flushed from his mind.</b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(6)</b></span> The authorities had brought William before a tribunal, but decided the empathy virus had affected his judgment. He attempts to use the empathy virus to read his son's thoughts on the drive back from the hospital, but is unable to. <b>Maria is more severely punished by having her memories of William loving her un-erased</b><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b>(6)</b></span>, essentially forced to remember him and exiled to the place she hated the most, the desert.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_46">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_46</a><br /><br />The viewer is confronted with the following elements of predictive programming:<br /><ol><li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-326425.png" /><br />Overpopulation is a given. Cities are cordoned off and inaccessible without special travel permits, called "Papelles" implemented through thumb or finger scanning. The viewer is made aware of a futuristic prospect of over-population and government control exercised by stringent travel restrictions.<br /><br /></li><li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-347916.png" /><br />Code 46: Compelling regulations are put in effect regarding reproduction. The natural way to conceive children has taken a backseat and "in-vitro" ("test tubes") ways of conception seem to have gained prominence, while reproduction is subjected to restrictive laws. The viewer is made aware to the idea that the government will have more say in the specificity of the children you may want to have than Mother Nature.<br /><br /></li><li>There seems to be one global language spoken, a mixture of several widely spoken languages but predominantly consisting of English, and containing traces of Spanish and French. The emphasis of the presence of a global language seems to familiarize the viewer with the concept of globalization and unification a bit further.<br /><br /></li><li>The daylight seems have a toxic influence on the wellbeing of humans, in contrast with the darkness of the night which is bearable for humans. This theme seems to paint a scenario in which the world has fallen victim to its own pollution. A fashionable but no way scientifically endorsed cause for global pollution is humanly induced CO2 emission. The viewer may feel a certain sense of commitment to help reduce global pollution by accepting responsibility in contributing towards lessening CO2 emissions. As such, this theme is highly compatible with the whole Global Warming myth and welcomes the much touted but phony CO2 emission discouragement swindle dressed up as a remedy, called Carbon Tax.<br /><br /></li><li>Viral-based technology abounds. The society of the future seems to feature a versatile virus-mediated technology capable of manipulating (enhancing or restricting) the host of a virus in a number of ways:<br /><ol><li>"Empathy viruses" function to obtain unstated information from people if they voluntarily reveal something about themselves to the carrier of this virus.<br /></li><li>Unauthorized visits to certain cities can be met with death if no prior immunity for locally prevalent viruses has been obtained.<br /></li><li>A virus is given to Code46 violators, which is responsible for causing violent adrenaline reactions in case recidivism should occur between two Code46 violators.<br /></li></ol><br /><br /></li><li>Memory retention can be manipulated by undisclosed neurological/ neurosurgical technology. That is, memory a person has of a specific event can either be wiped or, if they were wiped before, can also be restored again. This suggests that the process of the erasure of a memory actually consists of a reversible suspension of conscious access to that memory.<br /><br />The movie also alludes to a technology that enables retrieval of memories and place them into electronic storage devices.<br /><br /></li><li><img src="http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/DutchPhil/vlcsnap-387770.png" /><br />At some stage there's a woman revealing to the main character that she belongs to a religion she refers to as "Christian Science." Perhaps this is to make the viewer aware of any possible profound future merger between science and Christianity. Given its rather "progressive" tendencies nowadays, this may be the choice future garb the Roman Catholic Church may want to cloak itself in.<br /></li></ol>Philip A E Jonkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17418300693913703430noreply@blogger.com0