The Language of Power
Posted Apr 23, 2008 16 comments
QUESTION: Some are raising that the privacy aspects of this thing, you know, sharing of that kind of data, very personal data, among four countries is quite a scary thing.
CHERTOFF: Well, first of all, a fingerprint is hardly personal data because you leave it on glasses and silverware and articles all over the world, they’re like footprints. They’re not particularly private.
His stance has remarkable implications for the future of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) in a post-Bell's Theorem world. It's also a very naked statement that the only "privacy" you can expect to have ends at the surface of your skin -- everything else is exposed to the panopticon. Clothing hides nothing anymore.
Spooky action at a distance is a great single-sentence summary of 5GW. For brainfood I submit Henry Okah, David Myatt and Ronald Stark. In terms of clinical psychology, 5GW operatives are NOT SANE -- they are sociopaths, they are monomaniacs, etc. Effective 5GW is all-consuming and requires greater discipline than most humans are willing to subject themselves to.
Henry Okah ran a multinational fuel-piracy ring, which funded the purchase of huge stockpiles of weapons, which were used to arm constantly-shifting groups of mercenaries who were organized and mobilized via SMS text messaging. He's repeatedly crippled the infrastructure of Nigeria, and done over $29 billion in damage to Shell. He pulled all this off while living a respectable life in South Africa: he's since been arrested in Angola and deported to face charges in Nigeria. Read more.
David Myatt wears many masks: he's a leading neo-nazi philosopher, he's a Satanic occultist, and he's also a radical Islamic cleric. Sounds crazy and gets far stranger than that -- get to know David Myatt aka Ashton Long aka Abdul Aziz. Jeff Wells at Rigorous Intuition has the best summary and meditation on Myatt's twisted legacy: read Nine Angles of Separation.
Ronald Stark was the subject of the most entertaining article I ever did research for: The Man Behind the LSD Curtain. It was mostly guesswork, quotations and my own blend of horseshit, but characters like Stark -- or Barry Seal, or Finis Shelnutt -- are worth studying for the patchwork of connections they reveal.
Along those lines, check out the excellent Zenpundit thinkpiece, Who Would Declare War on the World?
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1. Mr. Nowhere on Apr 23, 2008 at 1:33 PM permalink
Very intriguing to say the least. I think you’re definetly onto something with this 5GW research. It reminds me of something I noticed years ago and just sort of filed away in the back of my mind while I was starting to read up on all things parapolitical and paranornmal. Mainly while reading things like Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain’s “Acid Dreams” & Picknett & Prince’s “Stargate Conspiracy”, among other things.
Mainly: the identification of key players in some very unusual goings-on where their activities overlapped with the worlds of intelligence, the occult, the counterculture, drugs, and the machinations of the rich & famous (and sometimes academia as well). People who could seemingly change their personalities at will and keep their lives compartmentalized to an extreme.
No doubt digital communications technology has greatly eased the difficulties of such activities. The ARG phenomenon being merely one facet among many of what the future holds for memetic engineering and action-at-a-distance. Everything’s connected and then some (Theresa Duncan anyone?). Is it a game, a viral ad campaign, an intelligence agency piece of disinfo, a beta-test of an immersive entertainment project, occult memetic warfare, or some or all of the above? That’s what tends to go thru my mind lately regarding any number of things online. And I’m sure its only going to increase in years to come.
“In the future, everything will be games. Everything."--Grant Morrison
2. Thirtyseven on Apr 23, 2008 at 2:17 PM permalink
This overlap and muddy water is why I want to slim down my working vocabulary for future Skilluminati Research articles.
5GW debates are polluted by a lot of faulty language—even broad concepts like “terrorism.” Terrorist movements could not exist without popular support from the global poor. It’s worth speaking plainly: Earth is in the middle of WW3, and it’s being fought along class lines, everywhere at once.
The future of warfare is too important to be left to patriots, you know? You know.
3. Eric Patton on Apr 23, 2008 at 3:55 PM permalink
I have some of the Order of Nine Angles occult books and manuscripts in PDF if anyone wants me to create an upload. I knew you’d get around to Myatt at some point.
4. Captain Marginal on Apr 24, 2008 at 1:39 AM permalink
One can’t help but wonder if the recently created AFRICOM had something to do with the capture of Henry Okah…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Africa_Command
http://www.africom.mil/
It’s awesome that Okah’s organization MEND is defending him using the name Jomo Gbomo - as if Jomo hadn’t been Henry all along.
It’s even more awesome that it does not matter whether he goes free or not - his ‘fluid’ approach will spread.
It seems to me that the way the world works now is similar to the world of the Ghost In The Shell series.
5. Themikenesedude on Apr 24, 2008 at 3:55 AM permalink
Um, one innocent error....
Sorry but privacy does not stop at our skin:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103296.html
And dangerously enough they already put the system in use:
“Consider Cernium Corp.’s “Perceptrak” video surveillance and monitoring system, recently installed by Johns Hopkins University, among others. ... Unlike simple video cameras monitored by security guards, Perceptrak integrates video cameras with an intelligent computer video. It uses algorithms to analyze streaming video and detect suspicious activities, such as people loitering in a secure area, a group converging or someone leaving a package unattended. Since installing Perceptrak, Johns Hopkins has reported a 25 percent reduction in crime.”
I remember after watching one of the episodes of “Farscape” that introduced Scorpius to the sci-fi series (with his mind-reading machine) I asked an ex-girlfriend, “Isn’t a machine that can read memories dangerous because memories can be exaggerated, falsified, altered over time in a subjective way- even changing in a matter of seconds for the one holding the memories?”
She said, “Yeah, that’s what would make that such a dangerous technology and that’s kind of the point.” In similar fashion Crichton’s nemesis of the show has an experience in the memory-reading machine of an event that happened on another dimensional plane and of course he memorizes it differently if not blocks it out altogether and puts it in a different perspective in his brain.
What if someone who is manic depressive or has an anxiety disorder that they can cope alright with is labelled a “terrorist” because of their elevated heart right or brain-wave activity? Or if anyone is in that state just because they are late for a flight and slept less hours and the machine misreads their elevated levels? It’s just as true as the metaphor for that episode of the science-fiction show “Farscape”: “It reads your memories so it can not lie.” Well in real life a machine like the one already in use and proposed in this article puts out the idea that, “The computer reads a certain amount of variables from heart-rates, invasive x-ray brain-wave readings, pupil dilation, and situational variables programmed into the computer.” Sounds about as unreliable as a polygraph test to me.
Fellow thought criminals and “different people” of the world like myself, be very worried....
6. Thirtyseven on Apr 24, 2008 at 10:13 AM permalink
As a genetic SubGenius, I am not intimidated in the least by new “thought-crime” tech.
Like you said, it’s essentially just a polygraph with a floating-point processor and a fancy LCD readout. The theory behind the machine is still bullshit, so it will still give them bullshit. Polygraph tests are easy to fool, these will be, too.
Because after all, it’s not like WE’RE THE DEFECTIVE ONES HERE. It’s not that I can’t “act normal”—shit, I got recruited at a bar chatting to what turned out to be an HR guy from Homeland Security—it’s just that I choose not to. It’s like being nice to people when I wait tables—in fact it’s the same thing.
7. Themikenesedude on Apr 24, 2008 at 11:14 AM permalink
But then again what is “normal”? Even as polite as I am I’ve always been kicked around for being different, so I just accepted that. The difference is I see pretty much all the jerks in the world as the “freaks”. It’s really bizarre. Mostly I guess I feel stupidity, self-destruction, and doing less than you’re capable of makes one “normal”. The problem with me is I’ve always spoken my mind as best I could be capable of in a certain given context and done the best I could and either given as much respect as I could or withdrew (Usually after giving the finger and saying “I don’t have to deal with this!") (Of course, if you learn to not expect much from people from past experience you have a lot more work cut out for you than if you’d willingly accept the help with open arms… Even though I never chose that for myself and believe me if there were a way to change others to make them more thoughtful and pleasant to be around I’d go for it.). It’s all about the “middle of the road- don’t be proud- you’re helping competition and that’s not making people with low self-esteem feel good and it’s your fault” type of cliches. Basically, to be “normal” I’ve always felt was to put oneself down so people wouldn’t feel envious or jealous- but I don’t do that so yeah I know I’m not “normal”. I know I can get hell or get profiled for just - well - walking or talking or breathing. So I let it go- whatever- All I have really is my integrity and knowledge of my values. I don’t know, maybe my “emotional intelligence” was stunted more than a decade ago when I used to be a teenager. Either that or I was Howard Stern somehow in my last life because I just speak my mind and do what I do and, well, people don’t get it! But then again I’m “unique” not normal. All that I’d get from a cold reading would be a buttload of embarrassment and I’d succeed in stripping someone’s authority just by showing how quickly and impulsively they judge others and jump to decisions. And the lesson that you really truly can’t judge anyone’s motivations no matter how many variables are given out by a machine to predict whatever. People aren’t like chess where you can have a list of a certain amount of moves or different sets of moves to finish up a game, because people are organic. They don’t have the expected programming, or instructions, or results built into them that machines do. All people have is their DNA and RNA and learned traits from upbringing etc. and those aren’t “built” or “made” or controlled by people unlike a computer with a certain amount of expectations is. Even if you clone a person that clone can have a life of its own and not have to really answer to anyone if it chooses not to.
8. Mr. Nowhere on Apr 24, 2008 at 11:43 AM permalink
Thought-crime tech =
BEDEVERE:
Quiet! Quiet! Quiet! Quiet! There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.
VILLAGER #1:
Are there?
VILLAGER #2:
Ah?
VILLAGER #1:
What are they?
CROWD:
Tell us! Tell us!…
BEDEVERE:
Tell me. What do you do with witches?
VILLAGER #2:
Burn!
VILLAGER #1:
Burn!
CROWD:
Burn! Burn them up! Burn!…
BEDEVERE:
And what do you burn apart from witches?
VILLAGER #1:
More witches!
VILLAGER #3:
Shh!
VILLAGER #2:
Wood!
BEDEVERE:
So, why do witches burn?
[pause]
VILLAGER #3:
B--… ‘cause they’re made of… wood?
BEDEVERE:
Good! Heh heh.
CROWD:
Oh, yeah. Oh.
BEDEVERE:
So, how do we tell whether she is made of wood?
VILLAGER #1:
Build a bridge out of her.
BEDEVERE:
Ah, but can you not also make bridges out of stone?
VILLAGER #1:
Oh, yeah.
RANDOM:
Oh, yeah. True. Uhh…
BEDEVERE:
Does wood sink in water?
VILLAGER #1:
No. No.
VILLAGER #2:
No, it floats! It floats!
VILLAGER #1:
Throw her into the pond!
CROWD:
The pond! Throw her into the pond!
BEDEVERE:
What also floats in water?
VILLAGER #1:
Bread!
VILLAGER #2:
Apples!
VILLAGER #3:
Uh, very small rocks!
VILLAGER #1:
Cider!
VILLAGER #2:
Uh, gra-- gravy!
VILLAGER #1:
Cherries!
VILLAGER #2:
Mud!
VILLAGER #3:
Uh, churches! Churches!
VILLAGER #2:
Lead! Lead!
ARTHUR:
A duck!
CROWD:
Oooh.
BEDEVERE:
Exactly. So, logically…
VILLAGER #1:
If… she… weighs… the same as a duck,… she’s made of wood.
BEDEVERE:
And therefore?
VILLAGER #2:
A witch!
VILLAGER #1:
A witch!
CROWD:
A witch! A witch!…
VILLAGER #4:
Here is a duck. Use this duck.
[quack quack quack]
BEDEVERE:
Very good. We shall use my largest scales.
9. Themikenesedude on Apr 24, 2008 at 6:49 PM permalink
"See if she floats! If she’s a terrorist she won’t float!” ....
No one escapes The Spanish Inquisition- Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk.... (Administration members make evil Trademarked-Villians’-Cackles-And-Grins)
10. Mr. Nowhere on Apr 25, 2008 at 12:58 PM permalink
Thirtyseven--I comepletly agree, it is all about a war being fought along class lines. How can it not be when oil has gone up 1300% in the last ten years? Add to that the problems with bad crops (and potentially worse via things like stem rust)--the food riots in the developing world being a perfect example--its pretty plain for everyone to see now what the real impetus behing the so-called “anti-terrorist” legislation was really all about:
Namely: keeping the proles in line when the shit hits the proverbial fan. The powers that be knew this was coming.
11. Eric Patton on Apr 26, 2008 at 7:17 PM permalink
Good point about that technology. Israeli intelligence has always made a point of publicizing the power of UAV drones and other spy technologies to catch terrorists in an effort to deemphasize the element of HUMINT. That way they can protect both informants and their method.
12. Captain Marginal on Apr 26, 2008 at 11:06 PM permalink
Henry Okah might just be screwed, but his organization and his ideas live on:
http://tinyurl.com/6ke6cm
“Our candid advice to the oil majors is that they should not waste their time repairing any lines as we will continue to sabotage them. We have time on our side and there is so much to be destroyed.” Joseph Gbomo, spokesman for MEND.
As anticipated, MEND has quickly found a new “Joseph Gbomo” and is back in action as a charter member of the shadow OPEC. It’s a great demonstration of how quickly open source warfare can bounce back from seemingly fatal blows. NOTE: The combination of a labor strike at Exxon (850,000 barrels a day) and systems disruption aimed at Shell and Chevron (~500,000 barrels a day) has shut down 50% of Nigeria’s oil production. The oil markets responded to this loss of production from a major producer and drove prices to nearly $120 a barrel.
13. Kamal S. on May 03, 2008 at 3:24 PM permalink
Eric Patton: Please by all means upload the pdf’s, in fact if you would be so kind, could you email some to me?
Thanks
14. Mr. Kernon on May 06, 2008 at 8:45 AM permalink
Have you seen this?
http://rigorousintuition.yuku.com/topic/821/t/David-Myatt-Searchlight-article.html
and this?
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/01/389959.html
Both a good read.
15. MAD on May 07, 2008 at 10:49 PM permalink
Hey, I was going to post a comment to your excellent article about “Fuck 911”, but you turned the comments off due to spam. That’s another thing the “Truth Movement” does well. Spam the fuck out of anybody they disagree with…
16. barbara on May 10, 2008 at 6:49 AM permalink
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