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Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
The economic war being waged against us:
Let seller be _______________________
Let buyer be _______________________
Let product be _______________________
Let payment be _______________________
Let collector be ______________________
Let expiry-date be ___________________
Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
A Washington Post Investigation
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
These are some of the findings of a two-year investigation by The Washington Post that discovered what amounts to an alternative geography of the United States, a Top Secret America hidden from public view and lacking in thorough oversight. After nine years of unprecedented spending and growth, the result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe is so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine.
The investigation's other findings include:
* Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.
* An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.
* In Washington and the surrounding area, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001. Together they occupy the equivalent of almost three Pentagons or 22 U.S. Capitol buildings - about 17 million square feet of space.
projects.washingtonpost.com...
Originally posted by lowki
Potential privacy solution: coloured contact lenses.
Can seem like someone else's iris.
Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
A Washington Post Investigation
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
These are some of the findings of a two-year investigation by The Washington Post that discovered what amounts to an alternative geography of the United States, a Top Secret America hidden from public view and lacking in thorough oversight. After nine years of unprecedented spending and growth, the result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe is so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine.
The investigation's other findings include:
* Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.
* An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.
* In Washington and the surrounding area, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001. Together they occupy the equivalent of almost three Pentagons or 22 U.S. Capitol buildings - about 17 million square feet of space.
projects.washingtonpost.com...
"I'm not going to live long enough to be briefed on everything" was how one Super User put it. The other recounted that for his initial briefing, he was escorted into a tiny, dark room, seated at a small table and told he couldn't take notes. Program after program began flashing on a screen, he said, until he yelled ''Stop!" in frustration.
"I wasn't remembering any of it," he said.
Underscoring the seriousness of these issues are the conclusions of retired Army Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, who was asked last year to review the method for tracking the Defense Department's most sensitive programs. Vines, who once commanded 145,000 troops in Iraq and is familiar with complex problems, was stunned by what he discovered.
"I'm not aware of any agency with the authority, responsibility or a process in place to coordinate all these interagency and commercial activities," he said in an interview. "The complexity of this system defies description."
The result, he added, is that it's impossible to tell whether the country is safer because of all this spending and all these activities. "Because it lacks a synchronizing process, it inevitably results in message dissonance, reduced effectiveness and waste," Vines said. "We consequently can't effectively assess whether it is making us more safe."
Liberty Crossing tries hard to hide from view. But in the winter, leafless trees can't conceal a mountain of cement and windows the size of five Wal-Mart stores stacked on top of one another rising behind a grassy berm. One step too close without the right badge, and men in black jump out of nowhere, guns at the ready.
Originally posted by Wertdagf
reply to post by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
an unlimited intelligence will have unlimited persepective reaching an inevitible understading.... and it is not detrimental to humans. Unless having the god humanity always wanted is a bad thing.....
how effective would counciling become if it was done by a machine that could read your mind?
Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
This sounds insane, but it's absolutely true and there is no debating this fact whatsoever, as we'll see. At this point, even a conspiracy theorist might say that if there are powerful elites in control of everything, why would they risk losing that control in the face of a global artificial general intelligence (AGI) network? The answer is simple: they firmly believe that they'll be able to live virtually indefinite life-spans, literally hundreds upon hundreds of years. They believe they'll be able to stop and then even reverse aging. They believe they'll be able have enhanced physical and cognitive abilities, as well as being able to connect to a new type of global consciousness based Internet, in a hive mind.
Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
They literally believe they'll become gods, and there have been many scientific break-thru's that suggest they might be right on everything just listed. It all answers why we're being bled and bankrupted at an increasing pace. They literally say we'll face war if we try to stop them from becoming gods. I argue that this war has already begun, and the original questions answer the how and the why.
Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
If you listen closely to Global Warming rhetoric in particular, or most environmentalist rhetoric in general, there's a total disdain for humans and our populations. Note that multinational energy companies such as Enron and BP helped design the carbon trading scheme, even though supposedly the energy companies are to be the ones to lose out. But it's what global climate change efforts have in common with the global War on Terror that this is all about.
Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Whatever is actually possible, it's all coming sooner than the masses would think. One thing is for sure, which is that they don't care about you and me. Their job is to condition the masses so when this comes we're not taken by total shock & awe, but not tell us enough so that today we might stand up appalled.
Edit to add: Even the Washington Post you quote is owned by the powerful Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification church of Moonie fame.
Originally posted by Alethea
IIB,
This is one of the most profound posts I have ever read here.