Corbett Report – Episode 216 – Who’s Gaming Who?
The Corbett Report
January 28, 2012
Science-fiction fantasy is becoming mundane reality and video games are increasingly merging with 21st century combat. The DoD recruits youth through traveling arcade exhibitions and new recruits are just as likely to end up behind a keyboard as behind enemy lines. What does this mean for the future of our predicatively programmed world, and should we be worried. Find out more in this week’s edition of The Corbett Report.
[hat tip: Media Monarchy]
DAVID ICKE – MIND GAMES….in a World Full of Repeaters! (video)
YouTube – jay4louise2
January 10, 2012
Police State Gadgets and the Technology of Enslavement (video)
Boiling Frogs Video
January 10, 2012
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TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=3650
The popular conception of the police state, derived mainly from works of science fiction, revolves heavily around the deployment of exotic technologies for keeping the populace firmly under the thumb of an authoritarian government.
Winston Smith and the characters of 1984 were surveilled by the omnipresent telescreens. The inhabitants of the Brave New World were controlled by their government-administered soma drugs and hypnopædia indoctrination. Enemy of the State introduced the viewer to worldwide telephone and satellite surveillance. Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report had its robotic tracking bugs. And all manner of science-fiction has featured pain devices and bracelets that cause the protagonist to double over in pain at the click of a button.
Perhaps it is the frequency with which these devices are presented to us in fictionalized form that prevents many from noticing that this technology is not the stuff of sci-fi fantasy, but increasingly a part of our everyday lives.
Free Thinking Human Or Programmed Sheeple – David Icke/Alex Jones (video)
by Zen Gardner
Before It’s News
January 9, 2012
Newsroom: Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere (video)
[Potent News Editor’s note: I heard the hilarious clip below on an episode of The Front.]
The Onion
March 9, 2010
Excruciating up-to-the-minute coverage of some irrelevant bullshit story that has no ramifications whatsoever.
New Clancy ‘Rainbow Six’ vid game labels OWS protesters as the new domestic terror threat
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by J.D. Heyes
Natural News
December 21, 2011
(NaturalNews) Is it getting increasingly harder to voice your opinion in the U.S. without someone labeling you a terrorist or a subversive? The latest outrage comes from the Tom Clancy-inspired “Rainbow Six” videogame series, in which Occupy Wall Street protesters are the new domestic terrorists.
The latest incarnation of the series, “The Patriots,” won’t hit stores until 2013, but here’s a sample of the plot: “Terrorism has evolved and America is under attack. Capitalizing on the sense of frustration in a nation seemingly corrupted by greedy politicians and corporate special interests, a group of US citizens-turned-radicals, the True Patriots, will stop at nothing to overthrow the government and financial institutions. As a leader of the elite Rainbow counter-terrorism unit, players will be the last line of defense tasked with saving the nation no matter the cost.”
If that’s not enough to shock you, the first official trailer for the game is introduced along a similar theme: “This is the day we’ve been waiting for. This is for the jobs you’ve streamlined, the debts you’ve collected, this is for the homes you foreclosed on, the bailouts you took. We are the true patriots. It’s time for a new balance of power. You may not answer to the government, but you will answer to us.”
There may be a few factions within the OWS movement calling for direct action against the government, but they are fair game for law enforcement. But generalizing all OWS-type protesters as terrorists that have gone over the edge and are acting in the extreme is, well, extreme. For the record, the First Amendment specifically protects speech and even civil disobedience, so long as it such behavior doesn’t violate the law or the rights of other citizens. Or, at least, it used to.
Granted, the video game isn’t calling the “terrorist” group Occupy Wall Street, but we think you get the picture, based on the set-up plot of the game. And that, to us, is the real problem here.
Sources:
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2011/12/09/confirmed-rainbow-patriots-making-its-debut-at-the-vgas/
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Rainbow-Six-Patriots-Gets-Disturbing-Terrorist-Trailer-239860.shtml
America on The Road to Total Destruction with Author Charlotte Iserbyt (video)
The Alex Jones Show
January 6, 2012
…Alex talks with Charlotte Iserbyt, who served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and improvement at the Department of Education during the Reagan years. During her stint there, she blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America’s classrooms. She subsequently wrote and compiled the deliberate dumbing down of america, a chronological history of the past one hundred plus years of education reform. A new version of Iserbyt’s book is now available at the Infowars store.
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