Saturday, September 27, 2014

Future Shock: In Ten Years, the World Will be Radically Different 0

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Sharon
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Personal robots as envisioned today by startup Alpha Smart Solutions. What will ten years hence bring us?
By Sharon K. Gilbert
Picture yourself ten years ago. In 2004, the Internet was just beginning to explode. Facebook was in its infancy, serving primarily as a social platform for college students. MySpace had a subcult following, again primarily for students and geeky twenty-somethings. Cell phones had gotten considerably smaller, but most business professionals and even soccer moms carried both a cell phone (Nokia being the most popular in 2004) and a PDA, that’s Personal Data Assistant for those who’ve forgotten. The Apple iPhone didn’t even debut until 2007.
iPod sales were still relatively slow, and Steve Jobs had just introduced the G5 Mac to the world. Podcasting was also a newborn babe, with just a few online op-ed files for the few who knew where to find them. Automation for iTunes didn’t even exist until late 2004/early 2005, depending on what source you quote. In short, 2004 marked a shift from analog to digital consumption–and it was a very slow shift at first.
Now, look at us. Nearly every grandma is on Facebook (much to the dismay of her grandchildren), and almost every person in America has the equivalent of a laptop in the form of a constantly connected cell phone that integrates all the PDA goodies with a fully functioning camera, GPS location service, and apps for all occasions, tastes, and budgets. Wearbles are now the new kid on the block. Google Glass and Oculus Rift to name just two. Most consumables now come with embedded RFID tags to help with inventory and import paperwork. Deep Brain Implants are all the rage with cognition researchers, and ‘smart’ pills now monitor our health and compliancy.
All in ten years.
Now, I want you to imagine where we will be in another ten years, in the Year 2024, perhaps the beginning of 2025. By that time, today’s Google Glass will have spawned a plethora of imitators, and nearly everyone will  have abandoned cell phones for wearables. Smart glasses will be affordable, and they might even correct your vision while providing a heads-up display with the blink of an eye or a twist of the head. But these will be all too common by then, if they’re not already considered dinosaurs by then. Contacts will replace glasses, but implantable devices will very likely be the new high-end interface. Clear-lens extraction with an interface replacement will be all the rage by then. This means that your natural ‘lens’ (the part just behind your pupil that accommodates your visual focal length, helping you to see near and far) will be removed and replaced with a connected lens. Cochlear implants will aid in ‘hearing’ the Internet, and these new parts of ‘you’ will respond to your thoughts. Think I’m crazy? DARPA is already working on such devices, and they are very close to achieving thought control through brain implantation.
Newborns in 2024/25 will probably require insertion of a GPS tracking device that permits them access to the Internet. Parents will still have the option to upgrade when the child reaches school age (probably age 2 or 3, if not lower), but what child wouldn’t want to be part of the connected world?
By 2024/25, it is also possible that the ‘net will have suffered major growing pains. As connectivity becomes 24/7 through interfaces, the strain on our current routers, servers will reach a breaking point, and there may even be a time without an Internet. However, sky routers, and free WiFi will soon get everyone back online with a new paradigm. It’s free for most, but those with the money will have access to a higher tier with all entertainment moved to streaming.
Cyberwarfare will become the primary military strategy, but boots on the ground will still be required at times, and this will mean robots, drones, and enhanced humans. And yes, we will very likely still be in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and very likely in Ukraine and a whole slew of other places by then.
Robocop drones may soon become the choice for elite protection.
Policing will shift more to enhanced humans or robots, particularly in urban areas where economic depression has left entire pockets ravaged by crime and drugs. Privatization will become a reality as businesses hire private protection; the vision of a RoboCop may well become a reality.
Ten years from now, everything will be different–even more different than now is compared to 2004. Computing speeds are about to escalate into an upward momentum. Molecular machines based on graphene and PCDs (Phase-Change-Devices) will pave the way for enhanced men and men-like machines. We will have taken a major step toward building Cylons.
Every house that can afford them will have at least one personal robot assistant. Most of these will be purchased as virtual babysitters, but some will provide company for adults, others act as business partners. The Singularity will be ten years closer, and it is very possible that a sentient machine will make its presence known by 2024/25. Cybergods will become a very unpleasant possibility.
With most humans in the world online all the time, many of them personally and biologically connected, a sentient Internet program could do terrible and terrifying things. Advocates choose to believe that this paradigm will ennoble mankind. Considering mankind’s history, I consider that very unlikely.
If Christ has not returned by 2024/25, this is the reality that I believe will be ours. Are you ready? Do you know Christ? Time is running out, and a new dawn is just about to rise. Humanity’s self-directed evolution will inevitably result in a cyber-construct that will look at you and me, at those of us who are not ‘enhanced’ or ‘upgraded’ and see us as mere playthings at best; as mere substrate at worst.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Category Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Enhancement, Cognitive Technology, Emerging Technology, Internet of things, Op-Ed, Robotics, Super Soldiers, Transhumanism

New ‘phase-change’ devices can make computers 1,000 times faster 0

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Sharon
Computing platforms have been marching toward nano-scalability for some time now. Not only does smaller, more compact take up less space, but it also allows electrons to move more quickly and communicate information much more efficiently. PCMs not only hold the promise for molecule-sized chips, but will allow the information to be stored where it is created. Can you say Cylon, anyone? We knew you could. Here’s a quote from today’s article about the new PCM revolution. Oh, and one more thing. One type of PCM is bee’s wax. So, what do those bees know that we don’t? — SKG
First developed in the 1960s, ‘phase-change materials’ PCMs can switch between two types of structures to achieve very different electrical states. This means they can start off in a crystalline structure that conducts electricity and allows a current to flow freely through them, before switching to a glassy structure that acts as an insulator instead, stopping the electrical current in its tracks. These materials can achieve this switch between conductor to insulator in mere billionths of a second.
read the entire report via New ‘phase-change’ devices can make computers 1,000 times faster.

9/11 Commission Report: Fraudulent Investigation And Intentional Coverup

Michael Thomas
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September 26th, 2014
Updated 09/26/2014
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“The ‘official’ 9/11 Commission Report is at once ridiculous and absurd, ludicrous and laughable, preposterous and nonsensical. Anyone who doubts this statement is completely clueless. They do not know the facts and have made no serious effort to understand the truth about the 9/11 false flag attacks on America.
For the unaware and uninitiated the ‘official’ US Government 9/11 narrative contains numerous explanations which have been proven to be scientifically impossible. Furthermore, much of what has not been declared impossible falls squarely within the realm of the highly implausible, extremely improbable and totally unreasonable.
The real rub here is that US taxpayers funded the 9/11 Commission Report. In other words millions of tax dollars were paid to produce a patently false and fraudulent report the purpose of which was to deceive the American people. The primary objective behind the Commission Report was to reinforce the government’s deliberate falsehoods around every aspect of the 9/11 false flag operation. In this way, the public was tricked into believing a story so farfetched, so bizarre and so fantastic that ….
The US Federal Government is notorious for floating some of the most ridiculous conspiracy theories ever advanced in modern history. However, their 9/11 tall tale is much taller than the Twin Towers which the US Federal Government brought down by way of controlled demolitions. Which is exactly why the 9/11 Commission Report was even published — to provide cover for the true perpetrators, as well as to cover up the greatest crime ever committed against US citizens on American soil … by its own government.  However, the main pillars of the government’s storyline are now about to collapse, just as the Twin Towers did on 9/11.
Do they have plausible deniability because of the various national co-conspirators, foreign secret services and overseas corporate contractors who collaborated in the actual execution of the 9/11 attacks? You betcha! But that does not diminish the integral role that the US GOV’T played in the design, coordination, implememtation and coverup of the whole misbegotten scheme.”
– State of the Nation

The following video and its description quite nicely dovetails with the 9/11 commentary above by State of the Nation. As a matter of fact, it presents the 9/11 Truth material in such a way that any skeptic still sitting on the fence will be properly moved to the right side.
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9/11: A Conspiracy Theory

The Corbett Report
www.corbettreport.com
Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes.
(Watch French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Dutch or Portuguese translations of this video.)
TRANSCRIPT: On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 men armed with boxcutters directed by a man on dialysis in a cave fortress halfway around the world using a satellite phone and a laptop directed the most sophisticated penetration of the most heavily-defended airspace in the world, overpowering the passengers and the military combat-trained pilots on 4 commercial aircraft before flying those planes wildly off course for over an hour without being molested by a single fighter interceptor.
These 19 hijackers, devout religious fundamentalists who liked to drink alcohol, snort cocaine, and live with pink-haired strippers, managed to knock down 3 buildings with 2 planes in New York, while in Washington a pilot who couldn’t handle a single engine Cessna was able to fly a 757 in an 8,000 foot descending 270 degree corskscrew turn to come exactly level with the ground, hitting the Pentagon in the budget analyst office where DoD staffers were working on the mystery of the 2.3 trillion dollars that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had announced “missing” from the Pentagon’s coffers in a press conference the day before, on September 10, 2001.
Luckily, the news anchors knew who did it within minutes, the pundits knew within hours, the Administration knew within the day, and the evidence literally fell into the FBI’s lap. But for some reason a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists demanded an investigation into the greatest attack on American soil in history.
The investigation was delayed, underfunded, set up to fail, a conflict of interest and a cover up from start to finish. It was based on testimony extracted through torture, the records of which were destroyed. It failed to mention the existence of WTC7, Able Danger, Ptech, Sibel Edmonds, OBL and the CIA, and the drills of hijacked aircraft being flown into buildings that were being simulated at the precise same time that those events were actually happening. It was lied to by the Pentagon, the CIA, the Bush Administration and as for Bush and Cheney…well, no one knows what they told it because they testified in secret, off the record, not under oath and behind closed doors. It didn’t bother to look at who funded the attacks because that question is of “little practical significance“. Still, the 9/11 Commission did brilliantly, answering all of the questions the public had (except most of the victims’ family members’ questions) and pinned blame on all the people responsible (although no one so much as lost their job), determining the attacks were “a failure of imagination” because “I don’t think anyone could envision flying airplanes into buildings ” except the Pentagon and FEMA and NORAD and the NRO.
The DIA destroyed 2.5 TB of data on Able Danger, but that’s OK because it probably wasn’t important.
The SEC destroyed their records on the investigation into the insider trading before the attacks, but that’s OK because destroying the records of the largest investigation in SEC history is just part of routine record keeping.
NIST has classified the data that they used for their model of WTC7’s collapse, but that’s OK because knowing how they made their model of that collapse would “jeopardize public safety“.
The FBI has argued that all material related to their investigation of 9/11 should be kept secret from the public, but that’s OK because the FBI probably has nothing to hide.
This man never existed, nor is anything he had to say worthy of your attention, and if you say otherwise you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist and deserve to be shunned by all of humanity. Likewise him, him, him, and her. (and her and her and him).
Osama Bin Laden lived in a cave fortress in the hills of Afghanistan, but somehow got away. Then he was hiding out in Tora Bora but somehow got away. Then he lived in Abottabad for years, taunting the most comprehensive intelligence dragnet employing the most sophisticated technology in the history of the world for 10 years, releasing video after video with complete impunity (and getting younger and younger as he did so), before finally being found in a daring SEAL team raid which wasn’t recorded on video, in which he didn’t resist or use his wife as a human shield, and in which these crack special forces operatives panicked and killed this unarmed man, supposedly the best source of intelligence about those dastardly terrorists on the planet. Then they dumped his body in the ocean before telling anyone about it. Then a couple dozen of that team’s members died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.
This is the story of 9/11, brought to you by the media which told you the hard truths about JFK and incubator babies and mobile production facilities and the rescue of Jessica Lynch.
If you have any questions about this story…you are a batshit, paranoid, tinfoil, dog-abusing baby-hater and will be reviled by everyone. If you love your country and/or freedom, happiness, rainbows, rock and roll, puppy dogs, apple pie and your grandma, you will never ever express doubts about any part of this story to anyone. Ever.
This has been a public service announcement by: the Friends of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DIA, SEC, MSM, White House, NIST, and the 9/11 Commission. Because Ignorance is Strength.

INTELLIGENCE MAN

INTEL Man

INTELLIGENCE MAN

As history unfolds it becomes quite clear that how we interpret news events is based on quick glances at a newspaper, a magazine or news program that is funded, owned and operated by a corporation that has a controlling political interest in what is being reported.
This type of journalism is what you would expect in a country where the press is no longer objective. It usually turns up in countries that are highly controlled. Countries with State run newspapers and state run radio and TV stations. The state of the media has been declared dead by old timers who long for the days of real journalism, where hunting for the blockbuster story was as stimulating as delivering it.
Now those days have long passed and no one stops to understand that sometimes it takes more than a television show or a newspaper columnist to get the whole story. Sometimes stories are not meant to be reported accurately. Sometimes it is not the fault of the messenger— it is the fault of the source or the informant.
When I attempted to report that the CIA and other alphabet agencies recently had an intelligence dump, I felt as though the report had hit the ground with a thud. The reason is simply that when the bombs are bursting in air over Syria I really don’t know if the CIA responding to Freedom of information act inquiries truly impresses anyone.
But what is important is what has been found in the intelligence dump and how the CIA and NSA find useful idiots in the media and elsewhere to spread disinformation in order obfuscate and confuse the general population in matters of intelligence.
I know that when someone gives you an anonymous tip you run the risk of spreading disinformation and so as a rule you are not to fall in love with any report you feel you have scooped up and divulged.
Good disinformation always has a grain of truth to it, and so if you find that the original story gets in the way of facts, you sometimes have to painfully admit that the information you received was a bust stretched in order to throw you off the trail of treachery and criminality.
Recently I have had to deal with a number of Facebook posts that were inadvertently posted from my administration account. Some were outrageous forms of disinformation with some truth to them while another story about a three breasted woman was inadvertently posted as a joke and a number of irate Facebook watchers were concerned about the content of my website.
I have to say that when you are in the business of gathering intelligence and information, there will be from time to time things that slip through the cracks. Keep in mind that mush of what you see in a Facebook post is mostly part of a clipping service and it is up to the person reading the post to decide whether or not it is disinformation.
I am also stating for the record that information also is gathered by listeners from other talk show websites like Info wars and other sites and I am certainly not responsible for information that Alex Jones or other reporters are citing as real.
They too run the risk of reporting false information that can be part of an intelligence dump or other investigative reporters that may or may not have been duped into being a part of disseminating a disinformation campaign.
Disinformation has been released everywhere about every possible topic you can think of and without the aid of a massive staff equipped with the background of intelligence gathering there is always a risk of reporting erroneous material to the public.
People, who are listeners to shows like Ground Zero, may also post things in social media from time to time that may also be disinformation. It is not always deleted from the social media forum and so it is important to use caution when repeating information that may be half true or completely false.
One of the greatest examples of how disinformation can completely confuse people is the Sandy Hook Shooting. This is a topic that has been a sore spot with me because of the fact that I have been accused of making claims about the case that I have never made, and that most of the so called claims that have been said I support can be traced to a disinformation campaign that was unleashed to discredit anyone associated with Conspiracy theory.
I have always suggested that with the Sandy Hook case that any reporter that has been labeled a conspiracy theorist may have at any time reported disinformation that was strategically released on the internet to discredit anyone entertaining malfeasance during the investigation.
I even reported that there was a glaring misconception about Peter Lanza, the father of the so called lone nut gunmen Adam Lanza which got me accused of reporting disinformation. However I stick by what I reported and that is Lanza in most conspiracy circles was actually reported to be acquainted with the Father of James Holmes, the Aurora shooting suspect.
It was reported that Both Peter Lanza and Colorado shooter James Holmes’s father were set to testify in the LIBOR hearings.
This is FALSE!
However, it does not excuse him from a scandal that is even more interesting. According to his LinkedIn site, Lanza worked “closely with many of the preeminent partnership tax advisors in the United States on a daily basis Lanza’s responsibilities at GE-EFS include:
• Tax strategies, planning and tax operations
• Reporting directly to GE-EFS Chief Financial Officer
• Consultations on “structuring, negotiating asset acquisition, dispositions”
• Responsible for risk management on transactions
• Assist other employees in achieving business tax objectives
• Partner with GE Corporate tax group to “leverage technical resources . . . provide support on projects and initiatives”
GE successfully evaded paying taxes for many years. Although the corporation reported global profits of $14.2 billion with $5.1 billion of that total being attributed to American operations last year, GE claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion. Lanza, would have contributed to the success of GE evading corporate taxes in the United States.
There have been many investigative sources that claim that the LIBOR scandal allegations were first put out on the web by a COINTELPRO group in order to distract from the tax scandal.
There may still be many lies being propagated by COINTELPRO groups to discredit anyone who believes them or continues to report them without fact checking. That is why a dose of reality not only exposes the mainstream narrative as disinformation but also the half truths that have been created by do-it-yourself theorists that push their lies as truth.
There is still plenty of disinformation and hidden truth about Sandy Hook that I cannot report nor can I talk about. The truth is I was threatened by an unnamed law enforcement agency to not speak about any details about what I know and I can honestly tell you that it is most certainly a case that I will not be able to report ever again and I will leave it at that.
When a reporter or an investigator is head off at the pass so to speak and is told that others are spreading disinformation and that you may have true information or vice versa it can be convenient and safe to avoid speaking of the topic. There are most certainly agents, intelligence men, and informants, paid enforcers, Men In Black and others that see you as a mark.
When they case you out, they approach you and take advantage of your good nature. They can either be fair by dropping you a hint of what may be solid intelligence, or they may mislead you or even convince you that story as true so that you can promulgate their organized smokescreen that will keep you from finding the truth about a certain subject or news report.
I recently was invited to watch a film called Mirage Men. I did not know what to expect from the film, however I did see that two well known guests of Ground Zero, Peter Gersten and Linda Moulten Howe were featured in the documentary. This peaked my interest and so I immediately delved into the film and to be honest it left me feeling frightened for independent researchers that choose to investigate UFO’s and the subject of extra-terrestrial disclosure.
The film “Mirage Men” is a film that simply put is a bit of warning for anyone that might want to get too close to the intelligence dumps that are voluntarily given by agents of the United States Government that wish to mislead the public on the subject of UFO’s and alien phenomena.
The government takes their secret projects very seriously, and it seems they take the alien and UFO topic seriously. However they also know how powerful a good UFO or alien Disinformation campaign can immediately throw researcher off the trail of something that the government doesn’t want you to know about.
We have seen this many times in the fictional television show the X-files where Mulder and Scully were led to believe that there was an alien or extra-terrestrial event happening to throw them off the trail of an even darker and sinister cover up or conspiracy.
Mirage Men actually uncovers the fact that some of the UFO and conspiracy theory enthusiasm is the intended byproduct of a deliberate government-sanctioned disinformation campaign.
In some cases it has been reveled in the film that for over the last 30-40 years, the U.S. Air Force and other government bodies have stoked the public’s fascination in U.F.O.s, and even encouraged a few of the more enthusiastic folks with false-leads.
The film and even the Man In Black they interview, the slimy and chilling Richard Doty does not say that the Extra terrestrial and UFO reality does not exist, Doty just confesses that he and several other Intelligence men have been responsible for spinning lies and disinformation about everything from Secret Alien bases, Roswell, Majestic 12 , and Cattle Mutilations.
Doty we need to remember is a paid government liar and so what is most frustrating is we never know where his lies begin or end in the film. He goes from saying that they made up some of the UFO stories that are reported as fact and then uses doublespeak to say that the Alien and UFO accounts in some instances are very real and so they make a convenient smokescreen for government informants to mislead the public and enthusiastic UFO researchers.
The film accidentally becomes a Psy-op tool and it unintentionally raises serious questions about Doty’s credibility. If we are to believe Doty, then we are to determine that he along with other agents are sadists because of what they did to UFO researcher and businessman Paul Bennewitz. A one-time PhD candidate in physics, Bennewitz claimed the existence of a plot involving an extensive network of UFO bases tied to an alien colonization and control scheme to subjugate the human race.
He became convinced that cattle mutilations were due to aliens. As a result, Bennewitz claimed to have uncovered evidence of aliens controlling humans through electromagnetic devices, and furthermore claimed that UFOs were regularly flying near Kirtland and the nearby Manzano Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility and Coyote Canyon Test Area in New Mexico.
Richard Doty, was allegedly a special agent for the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base and claims that he was responsible for hoaxing and convincing Bennewitz of his alien claims to the point of obsession. The obsessions ended up having Benewitz’s family commit him to a mental institution. Paul Benewitz felt his lif was in danger and suffered from paranoia.
Doty says he was told to make Bennewitz believe there was an impending alien invasion because Bennewitz was actually observing secret Air Force projects. According to Doty, the Air Force wanted to discredit Bennewitz so no one would figure that out. However, Doty claims that in doing so, he created hoaxed documents that were given to Bennewitz and other UFO researchers, and that he broke into Bennewitz’s house and office, some if not all of which is illegal.
This entire affair is incredibly unscrupulous, and Doty claims he did it all under orders.
Doty is now a sergeant with the New Mexico State Police.
The Mirage Men film seems to imply is that a majority of the modern U.F.O. sub-culture is the work of a few agents working on behalf of the N.S.A., C.I.A. and other PSY-OP agencies.
However investigators like Linda Moulten Howe, featured in the film contest the idea and pretty much states that it is up to reporters to try and sift through disinformation and even Doty admits that he was not able to fool Linda into believing all of the yarns he was spinning.
I was not convinced that everything Doty said in the film was true or even relevant, if anything he came off a slimy and sickening psychopath who I hope I never meet.
If anything the film makes you second guess anything you hear anymore and gives you more reason to question any and all research you do.
The United Kingdom is now saying that they will also be a part of an Intelligence dump on what it knows about UFO’s due to a Freedom of Information act request.
The FOIA response outlines that the documents were found and that they will be released to the public, making them available in about 9 months. The document also includes a table of the 18 documents to be released. They include several documents titled “Air Traffic Control Low Flying UFOs,” several others titled “ADGE UFO Reports.” and then, among others, the specific files requested.
As we note the data dumps and measures from the United Kingdom we can conclude that not all UFO reports are the handy-work of some sadistic Intelligence man.
What is most disconcerting is that the disinformation campaigns go unabated and are the result of enthusiastic intelligence scoops. It happens with any story, in any newsroom. The problem is that citizen journalists and those who are called conspiracy theorists suffer from some intentional agenda to lie to the public.
The Latin phrase “caveat” emptor will always apply when seeking out and delivering sound and credible information. Who you choose to believe or endorse should be chosen on their track record and their ability to get the story right and deliver it objectively.

ELON MUSK’S MARTIAN COLONIZATION PLANS… AND SOME HIGH OCTANE STUFF          

Mr. S.D. one of our regular readers, found this article, and when I read it, I had to share it, not so much for what the article says, but rather for the thoughts it provoked in me regarding the seeming strange rush to commercialize and colonize space:
Elon Musk Reveals Plans To Colonize Mars As Space X Competes With Boeing For 3 Billion Dollar NASA Space Shuttle Replacement Contract
There is one sentence in this article that set me off on my high octane reverie, and it occurs here:
“In order to achieve this goal Space X is working on The Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V. While SpaceX has yet to do any test flights with the Falcon Heavy, Musk told CNBC earlier this year he’s hopeful his space company will get people to Mars by 2026.”
Now, this means Mr. Musk is willing to spend billions to develop a heavy booster chemical rocket, essentially, the Saturn V on steroids, and it’s this that gives me pause.
Most of you who are regular readers here and who have read my various books – specifically Covert Wars and Breakaway Civilizations and Covert Wars and the Clash of Civilizations are aware that I have been arguing a rather complex case about the relationship of black budget projects, Mr. Richard Dolan’s concept of a “breakaway civilization,” secret physics and technologies, and a vast hidden system of finance put into place by President Truman in 1947 using recovered Axis loot and various forms of financial fraud – rehypothecated gold,, gold-backed bearer bonds with “errors” on the paper that can be used to denounce them as counterfeit, and so on – and kept entirely off the books. In other words, I have been arguing that there is the “deep layer” of the black budget, which is one thing, and then there is something entirely different and much deeper than that, and that is this hidden system of finance. As a consequence of this deepest layer, I have been arguing that the intelligence-national security community entered the world of international finance and banking in a major way. One consequence of this argument, and one that not many people have apparently understood, is that for all the talk of “the banksters”, they are not the ones really in control of the vast amount of money represented by this deepest layer, and hence, if they sometimes act as if they don’t really understand themselves what’s going on in modern markets, it’s because they really don’t; they have deeper players that, perhaps, some of them have just woken up and found out about. Perhaps this factor is the hidden factor behind the mysterious banker “suicides”, above and beyond collecting on insurance policies!
But I digress.
It is this hidden system of finance, now almost seventy years old, and thus representing a commitment of trillions of “secret dollars” over all those decades, that is the real factor, for if one stops to think about it, this vast sum of money, plus enough brains and research, could indeed be the hidden locomotive behind Ben Rich’s now famous statements that “they found an error in the equations” and that we could now, “take ET home.”
The bottom line – and it really is a bottom line – is that Mr. Musk with his chemical rocket development is playing with pocket change, the real development  occurred elsewhere.
So what’s going on? Why the sudden promotion of such commercial enterprises by a NASA that has, in effect, said, “sure, if you can get there, go ahead and go”? My suspicion is that the commercialization of space provides a convenient way – here comes that “bottom line” again – to devolve and detach the government from having to maintain the expensive “public theater” of the public space program with its expensive and – from the standpoint of human interplanetary exploration and colonization –  totally impractical chemical rockets while at the same time maintaining its much more secret one. That was the game of the 1950s, 60,s 70s, and 80s. But why pay for the public fireworks, when the private sphere can now do it?
And the nice thing is, it provides an even better layer of “plausible” deniability.
So what could possibly go wrong with such a brilliant plan?
Well, if Mr. Musk is smart, he won’t be wasting all that money on a big bottle rocket. He’ll invest his money in “that off-the-books” stuff. If he’s smart, however, he’ll keep his mouth shut, or, if he’s even smarter, he’ll openly admit it…. and if that happens, then watch the fun begin…