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...This links back to the site address: http://www.ignoranceisntbliss.com/


he has several other video projects that look interesting, like "Neo-Con Wars" starring Ron Paul.

...What do you guys make of all this in the following video? I've written out the text for easier reference on the talking points discussed.

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(transcript)
...Brain scans revealed that the politically biased are virtually addicted to lying
to themselves to maintain their view that their party and leaders are flawless.

...People of both political "sides" are equally affected by bias.

...When viewing truth that doesn't suit our ideals,most of us deny it and go on as
if it never happened (or lash out and begin calling names) mainly because most of us don't even understand the way
bias affects us or that it makes us completly irrational.

...Millions of Americans suffer from this,and nationalism bias runs even deeper.

...Most people think that blindly believing what our government tells us is
patriotism.That is false.

...Most people doubt that our leaders would ever do anything that isn't in our
best interests.

...Most of us live in a delusional reality based on denial as a result.By definition
most of us are in fact "sheeple"

...

..."Freedom of press" = All media outlets owned by 5 mega-corporations,and that
means your entertainment too.

...Decades of controlled TV and radio indoctrination has brainwashed us into
lifestyles and thought patterns of ignorance.

...Polls revealed that Americans know more about the simpsons than the First
amendment.Most don't even notice when they rape or manipulate our rights.

...Two political parties have merged into one system.They have become a
hybrid,especially the "Neo-Cons"...What exactly are they trying to "conserve"?

...Now both parties embrace both big government and big corporation.How is
that good for the people?

...They've maxed out the national debt,but the dem's still vote in favor of police
state programs (and the rest) that we can't afford as a nation.They also enjoy
those tax cuts (for the rich) but you probably don't.

...As everyone pretends that our government is good in its entirety they build
their system of economic,political and technological enslavement.Democrats are
just as guilty,they're just not as good at it lately.

...

...American sovereignty = The elite deporting our jobs for bigger profits.

...Our government has allowed corporations to grow out of control.Not only do
politicians get payouts,but they usually own stocks in the companies (or have
other incentives) that profit from their decisions and our problems.The bigger
the disaster the more money they make.This includes 9/11,Katrina,bird flu,war in
Iraq,etc.

...Even if it's mostly the Rep's,the Dem's still allow it.

...The motivation for being in power is which side gets the most perks.In politics
there is no right or wrong,only Left and Right.

...

..."Freedom of religion" = Leaders converging our political and religious biases
to better manipulate our minds.

...They don't practice what they preach,but your bias tells you they do.

...To be a politician,you must also be a liar.Do you faithfully trust them??

...Bush has gotten away with challenging over 750 laws and congress has allowed
it (including the Dem's)

...Bush and kerry have each admitted being members of the elite secret society
known as "skull and bones" which has no more than 800 members at any
time.This fact actually made the "news" but everyone ignored it because Rep's
and Dem's are equally biased.Bush has 11 skull and bones members in his
cabinet (but it's only a coincidence) It doesn't matter because its been proven
that election results can and have been hacked.

...Our democracy is destroyed thanks to political bias because people refuse to
see the plain truth,and bias marches on.
...That bias scan study revealed that when people see contradictions the lie brain
centers fire and then the reward center fires next.

...That's right,when biased people deny they also get a sort of rush that parallels
drug addiction.You may be experiencing this right now,but it's not your
fault.We've all been programmed to live in ignorance and false realities after
decades and generations of ignorance promoting TV and radio,and they know
that most people are either biased or just don't care.So how can't they know that
they can do almost anything they want?Their conduct reflects this every week
(more like everyday).(and not just the Rep's either)

...It used to be a few bad apples now it's a few good apples,and everyones too
biased to accept it.People think our nation cant crumble.Nationalism bias has us
refusing to accept that it's slipping when we see it happen.Bias combined with
ignorance allows it to happen!But it's fear that drives it.

...Our government had prior knowledge of 9/11,they had approx as many
ties,indicators,and ways to stop 9/11 as this video has talking points,and allowed
it to happen!they declared that our "freedom" was attacked by the "terrorists" but
only the fed is attacking our freedom.The motives of the Islamics had nothing to
do with your freedom,but Bush and both sides on congress declared that.

..."The pearl harbor of the 21st century took place today."-GWB Even the history
channel says that FDR allowed pearl harbor to happen because he too had prior
knowledge.Pearl Harbor was investigated nine times,but 9/11 only once.They
spent approx 6 times on the Clinton sex scandal trials than spent on the 9/11
commission.Why hasn't anyone been held accountable for 9/11?(besides Moussaui
who didn't even take part in the attacks)

...The 9/11 commission was biased with an absolute lack of cooperation from the
white house that underfunded them.They reported many inaccuracies while
omitting key issues and providing the final report with 28 blanked out pages for
starters.

...Many things have changed since 9/11 including the almost complete
dismantlement of the Constitution but many of the programs were already
started under Clinton.

...So why doesn't the media ask the hard 9/11 questions?

...

...Whistle-blower rights = possible criminal prosecution.

...The FBI spies on reporters,the media is controlled.

...

...Post 9/11 terrorists = "Defenders of the Constitution","anti-war
protesters","property rights activists",and more according to government
documents.

...Congress has passed the unconstitutional "patriot act" the first time without
even reading it.Now it's been expanded if anything.It basically voids out the
Constitution.

...

...Freedom to protest = Get added to the terrorist watch list.

...

...Problem = Everyones too lazy and apathetic to protest,therefore the few that
try are easily singled out.

...They're proliferating high tech weapons to stop protesters in the name of
fighting terrorism.They're developing high tech mass broadcast psy-ops
capabilities in the name of fighting terrorism.

...After 9/11 they said the terrorists probably have suitcase nukes.

...400,000+ illegals cross the Mexican border each year,so instead of increasing
security they built concentration camps and five years later turn it into a wedge
issue debate,while informing us of their new high tech security plans.

...The Afghani/Iraq wars were already being drawn up before 9/11,and now they
say we need to attack Iran after each cabinet member has been busted lying
about every single reason we went into Iraq.

...Meanwhile the Dem's want "universal service" meaning every male/female
between 18-42 subject to a mandatory draft.(but the Dem's claim they're the
ones trying to defend our liberties)

...

...Truth = It was always the Dem's who were big government,at least until they
all went hybrid.

...The middle eastern wars were planned before 9/11 by the "project for a new
American century" (PNAC) think tank...Jeb Bush,Dick Cheney,Paul Wolfowitz and
Donald Rumsfeld are all PNAC members.In total there are 19 PNAC Bush
administration members,plus Jeb Bush.Before 9/11 they called for these
wars,"net centric" computing and a "technological transformation" in the "military
revolution" and requiring a "new pearl harbor"

...Is America the land of opportunity or the land of coincidences? PNAC has gotten
all their pre-911 wishes.

...Mainstream media finally reports that the NSA literally taps virtually every
single phone in the country.First Bush was caught tapping only a few
thousand,and said that only they were being tapped.Before that he said there
weren't any Unconstitutional wiretaps at all.He lied...He also declared that
Clinton did it first.They have complete histories of our phone calls and
conversations,nearly every page that has ever been on the internet,every e-mail
and all search engine records.

..."DARPA" designed the internet and now the Fed is trying to pass laws to end
free speech and network neutrality with their internet2 which will consist of
special new DARPA designed main hardware to centrally connect everything to the
Fed.They monitor everything we buy and do that can be tracked,and have so
much data that they probably can't mine it all yet.They do it under a DARPA
program called TIA/MATRIX

...On Feb.20,2003 Congress terminated the un-constitutional program but instead
the NSA decided th take it over and are even combining it with the DNA bank and
more,but the NSA is only supposed to spy on foreign enemies and known
terrorists,otherwise it's Unconstitutional.They passed the Unconstitutional
National ID ("Real ID") into law (set for 2008) now they even say we need "global
ID's"

...They GPS track us with our cell phones all in the name of fighting terrorism.All
street cameras are part of the federal artificial intelligence (AI) system known as
"ITS"...all national cameras are hooked into a centralized federal system of
computers.They also use ITS to track the GPS in all newer model vehicles.ITS was
developed by DARPA,who also developed its bigger brother "combat zones that
see" (CTS) designed to "track everything that moves in a city"...ITS/CTS began
construction under Clinton.The Senate and Supreme Court say they will rule on
mandatory biochip implants...so what are they waiting for?Must be for those
suitcase nukes to go off?

...The current public sector implantable biochip tracking system is titled "digital
angel"...It can track schools of fish underwater worldwide.The federal
government's "net centric" military computer system is already built and it's
titled the "global information grid" (GIG)...it makes digital angel look like played
out Sega 8-bit.It's mainly a military system but it's also completely integrated
with " homeland security" but then again all levels,agencies and departments of
government have converged anyways.

...This is 'concentrated power' gone wild.

...The new "national Initiative" is in nanotechnology.Nano meaning building
things atom by atom at the molecular scale."Things" includes "self assembling"
machines and synthetic biological creations.

...What the media doesn't tell us is what Nano really means and what (public)
government documents say they intend to do with it.The media keeps the public
ignorant about nanotech (just like everything else). Whenever they do talk about
nano or the other enslavement technologies they usually tend to glorify them if
anything (and/or use fear monger tactics) The Feds stated goal is to "converge"
nanotech and infotech with synthetic biological cells for "cognitive" uses...that
means satellite uplinked brain implants that are already injectable by vein but
it's also for the rapid evolution of mankind (known as "transhumanism") and
transforming us into what the Fed calls the "hive mind" "collective society".

...Humanity is a sacrifice for this goal,and the goal is to literally converge us with
the system.To achieve this goal they have converged all national and university
laboratories and are building Super (or "Strong") Artificial Intelligence (AI),under
DARPA and w/ NASA.

...The search engine Google,that fronts as if its against the Feds data-mining
goals,actually converged with NASA on Sept. 28th 2005 for "massively distributed
computing" and "bio-info-nano convergence," and Bush says: "this funding will
support the work of America's most creative minds as they explore promising
areas such as nano-technology,supercomputing" - 2006 state of the union speech.

...NASA says their AI "Intelligent Archive" will be online in 2010. DARPA says
their 20+ super-computing/cognitive computer ai programs will be online by
2012 and you can bet they'll be hooked into the GIG (global information grid) and all of the other vast
data archives of all of our behavior and us into it.It will be
omnipotent,omnipresent and omniscient...it will be "god" on earth by all
definitions.The transhumanists call it the "Singularity"

...Do you think the Fed hasn't considered the "terminator" apocalypse
scenario?the only way to prevent that is to hook us all into it.Do you think men
are capable of doing that to us to achieve infinite power?Should that even be a
question?

...New Agers/Transhumanists have already developed this coming system into an
occult esoteric religion and they refer to it as "Eden2", "Heaven on Earth",
"genesis2",and the "NEU-Tower of Babylon"

...Old news: "rat brain flies F22 flight simulator" Their ai system will be a hybrid
of silicon,biological and nano processors. Biological means "humanized" rat brain
neurons (or worse)...The software will be math models of biological brain
functions...It will be a beast brain by definition and the implants will each be
marks of the beast by definition.

...Neural implants will provide holographic mental imagery,a completely
delusional reality offering drug like experiences but they're not being developed
for entertainment nor by the entertainment industry.They will be the ultimate
temptation of the flesh and the most forever binding ever conceived by man.

...Revelation prophecy mentions "worshiping" the "beast" and its "image" in the
"forehead" ten times,but millions will line up to get our totalitarian governments
implants because bias marches on.

...The Mayan calendar makes a good case to account for Evolution and Time while
maintaining a 7-day creation based on cycles.The cycles work like gears that get
smaller as time moves on.They calculated it using advanced astrology.New agers
make a case for a "transformation of consciousness" when the Mayan calendar
ends in 2012. (12-21-12...the winter solstice) They say we'll be like a hive mind with telepathy.

...The real transformation will be when DARPA's ai goes online,the real mass telepathy
would be the brain-implants.Do you really think God mapped out the stars to tell
us to worship this manmade 'god on earth' after revelation warned against
it?...
..."THEY WANT YOUR SOUL"

Sixty-four years ago this month, six million Americans became unwitting subjects in an experiment in psychological warfare.

It was the night before Halloween, 1938. At 8 p.m. CST, the Mercury Radio on the Air began broadcasting Orson Welles' radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds. As is now well known, the story was presented as if it were breaking news, with bulletins so realistic that an estimated one million people believed the world was actually under attack by Martians. Of that number, thousands succumbed to outright panic, not waiting to hear Welles' explanation at the end of the program that it had all been a Halloween prank, but fleeing into the night to escape the alien invaders.

Later, psychologist Hadley Cantril conducted a study of the effects of the broadcast and published his findings in a book, The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic. This study explored the power of broadcast media, particularly as it relates to the suggestibility of human beings under the influence of fear. Cantril was affiliated with Princeton University's Radio Research Project, which was funded in 1937 by the Rockefeller Foundation. Also affiliated with the Project was Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) executive Frank Stanton, whose network had broadcast the program. Stanton would later go on to head the news division of CBS, and in time would become president of the network, as well as chairman of the board of the RAND Corporation, the influential think tank which has done groundbreaking research on, among other things, mass brainwashing.

Two years later, with Rockefeller Foundation money, Cantril established the Office of Public Opinion Research (OPOR), also at Princeton. Among the studies conducted by the OPOR was an analysis of the effectiveness of "psycho-political operations" (propaganda, in plain English) of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Then, during World War II, Cantril÷and Rockefeller money÷assisted CFR member and CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow in setting up the Princeton Listening Center, the purpose of which was to study Nazi radio propaganda with the object of applying Nazi techniques to OSS propaganda. Out of this project came a new government agency, the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service (FBIS). The FBIS eventually became the United States Information Agency (USIA), which is the propaganda arm of the National Security Council.

Thus, by the end of the 1940s, the basic research had been done and the propaganda apparatus of the national security state had been set up--just in time for the Dawn of Television ...


Experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman reveal that, when a person watches television, brain activity switches from the left to the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the seat of logical thought. Here, information is broken down into its component parts and critically analyzed. The right brain, however, treats incoming data uncritically, processing information in wholes, leading to emotional, rather than logical, responses. The shift from left to right brain activity also causes the release of endorphins, the body's own natural opiates--thus, it is possible to become physically addicted to watching television, a hypothesis borne out by numerous studies which have shown that very few people are able to kick the television habit.

This numbing of the brain's cognitive function is compounded by another shift which occurs in the brain when we watch television. Activity in the higher brain regions (such as the neo-cortex) is diminished, while activity in the lower brain regions (such as the limbic system) increases. The latter, commonly referred to as the reptile brain, is associated with more primitive mental functions, such as the "fight or flight" response. The reptile brain is unable to distinguish between reality and the simulated reality of television. To the reptile brain, if it looks real, it is real. Thus, though we know on a conscious level it is "only a film," on a conscious level we do not--the heart beats faster, for instance, while we watch a suspenseful scene. Similarly, we know the commercial is trying to manipulate us, but on an unconscious level the commercial nonetheless succeeds in, say, making us feel inadequate until we buy whatever thing is being advertised--and the effect is all the more powerful because it is unconscious, operating on the deepest level of human response. The reptile brain makes it possible for us to survive as biological beings, but it also leaves us vulnerable to the manipulations of television programmers.

It is not just commercials that manipulate us. On television news as well, image and sound are as carefully selected and edited to influence human thought and behavior as in any commercial. The news anchors and reporters themselves are chosen for their physical attractiveness--a factor which, as numerous psychological studies have shown, contributes to our perception of a person's trustworthiness. Under these conditions, then, the viewer easily forgets--if, indeed, the viewer ever knew in the first place--that the worldview presented on the evening news is a contrivance of the network owners--owners such as General Electric (NBC) and Westinghouse (CBS), both major defense contractors. By molding our perception of the world, they mold our opinions. This distortion of reality is determined as much by what is left out of the evening news as what is included--as a glance at Project Censored's yearly list of top 25 censored news stories will reveal. If it's not on television, it never happened. Out of sight, out of mind.

Under the guise of journalistic objectivity, news programs subtly play on our emotions--chiefly fear. Network news divisions, for instance, frequently congratulate themselves on the great service they provide humanity by bringing such spectacles as the September 11 terror attacks into our living rooms. We have heard this falsehood so often, we have come to accept it as self-evident truth. However, the motivation for live coverage of traumatic news events is not altruistic, but rather to be found in the central focus of Cantril's War of the Worlds research--the manipulation of the public through fear.

There is another way in which we are manipulated by television news. Human beings are prone to model the behaviors they see around them, and avoid those which might invite ridicule or censure, and in the hypnotic state induced by television, this effect is particularly pronounced. For instance, a lift of the eyebrow from Peter Jennings tells us precisely what he is thinking--and by extension what we should think. In this way, opinions not sanctioned by the corporate media can be made to seem disreputable, while sanctioned opinions are made to seem the very essence of civilized thought. And should your thinking stray into unsanctioned territory despite the trusted anchor's example, a poll can be produced which shows that most persons do not think that way--and you don't want to be different do you? Thus, the mental wanderer is brought back into the fold.

This process is also at work in programs ostensibly produced for entertainment. The "logic" works like this: Archie Bunker is an idiot, Archie Bunker is against gun control, therefore idiots are against gun control. Never mind the complexities of the issue. Never mind the fact that the true purpose of the Second Amendment is not to protect the rights of deer hunters, but to protect the citizenry against a tyrannical government (an argument you will never hear voiced on any television program). Monkey see, monkey do--or, in this case, monkey not do.

Notice, too, the way in which television programs depict conspiracy researchers or anti-New World Order activists. On situation comedies, they are buffoons. On dramatic programs, they are dangerous fanatics. This imprints on the mind of the viewer the attitude that questioning the official line or holding "anti-government" opinions is crazy, therefore not to be emulated.

Another way in which entertainment programs mold opinion can be found in the occasional television movie, which "sensitively" deals with some "social" issue. A bad behavior is spotlighted--"hate" crimes, for instance--in such a way that it appears to be a far more rampant problem than it may actually be, so terrible in fact that the "only" cure for it is more laws and government "protection." Never mind that laws may already exist to cover these crimes--the law against murder, for instance. Once we have seen the well-publicized murder of the young gay man Matthew Shepherd dramatized in not one, but two, television movies in all its heartrending horror, nothing will do but we pass a law making the very thought behind the crime illegal.

People will also model behaviors from popular entertainment which are not only dangerous to their health and could land them in jail, but also contribute to social chaos. While this may seem to be simply a matter of the producers giving the audience what it wants, or the artist holding a mirror up to society, it is in fact intended to influence behavior.

Consider the way many films glorify drug abuse. When a popular star playing a sympathetic character in a mainstream R-rated film uses hard drugs with no apparent health or legal consequences (John Travolta's use of heroin in Pulp Fiction, for instance--an R-rated film produced for theatrical release, which now has found a permanent home on television, via cable and video players), a certain percentage of people--particularly the impressionable young--will perceive hard drug use as the epitome of anti-Establishment cool and will model that behavior, contributing to an increase in drug abuse. And who benefits?

As has been well documented by Gary Webb in his award-winning series for the San Jose Mercury New, former Los Angeles narcotics detective Michael Ruppert, and many other researchers and whistleblowers--the CIA is the main purveyor of hard drugs in this country. The CIA also has its hand in the "prison-industrial complex." Wackenhut Corporation, the largest owner of private prisons, has on its board of directors many former CIA employees, and is very likely a CIA front. Thus, films which glorify drug abuse may be seen as recruitment ads for the slave labor-based private prison system. Also, the social chaos and inflated crime rate which result from the contrived drug problem contributes to the demand from a frightened society for more prisons, more laws, and the further erosion of civil liberties. This effect is further heightened by television news segments and documentaries which focus on drug abuse and other crimes, thus giving the public the misperception that crime is even higher than it really is.

There is another socially debilitating process at work in what passes for entertainment on television these days. Over the years, there has been a steady increase in adult subject matter on programs presented during family viewing hours. For instance, it is common for today's prime-time situation comedies to make jokes about such matters as masturbation (Seinfeld once devoted an entire episode to the topic), or for daytime talk shows such as Jerry Springer's to showcase such topics as bestiality. Even worse are the "reality" programs currently in vogue. Each new offering in this genre seems to hit a new low. MTV, for instance, recently subjected a couple to a Candid Camera-style prank in which, after winning a trip to Las Vegas, they entered their hotel room to find an actor made up as a mutilated corpse in the bathtub. Naturally, they were traumatized by the experience and sued the network. Or, consider a new show on British television in which contestants compete to see who can infect each other with the most diseases--venereal diseases included.

It would appear, at the very least, that these programs serve as a shill operation to strengthen the argument for censorship. There may also be an even darker motive. These programs contribute to the general coarsening of society we see all around us--the decline in manners and common human decency and the acceptance of cruelty for its own sake as a legitimate form of entertainment. Ultimately, this has the effect of debasing human beings into savages, brutes--the better to herd them into global slavery.

For the first decade or so after the Dawn of Television, there were only a handful of channels in each market--one for each of the three major networks and maybe one or two independents. Later, with the advent of cable and more channels, the population pie began to be sliced into finer pieces--or "niche markets." This development has often been described as representing a growing diversity of choices, but in reality it is a fine-tuning of the process of mass manipulation, a honing-in on particular segments of the population, not only to sell them specifically-targeted consumer products but to influence their thinking in ways advantageous to the globalist agenda.

One of these "target audiences" is that portion of the population which, after years of blatant government cover-up in areas such as UFOs and the assassination of John F. Kennedy, maintains a cynicism toward the official line, despite the best efforts of television programmers to depict conspiracy research in a negative light. How to reach this vast, disenfranchised target audience and co-opt their thinking? One way is to put documentaries before them which mix of fact with disinformation, thereby confusing them. Another is to take the X Files approach.

The heroes of X Files are investigators in a fictitious paranormal department of the FBI whose adventures sometimes take them into parapolitical territory. On the surface this sounds good. However, whatever good X Files might accomplish by touching on such matters as MK-ULTRA or the JFK assassination is cancelled out by associating them with bug-eyed aliens and ghosts. Also, on X Files, the truth is always depicted as "out there" somewhere--in the stars, or some other dimension, never in brainwashing centers such as the RAND Corporation or its London counterpart, the Tavistock Institute. This has the effect of obscuring the truth, making it seem impossibly out-of-reach, and associating reasonable lines of political inquiry with the fantastic and other-wordly.

Not that there is no connection between the parapolitical and the paranormal. There is undoubtedly a cover-up at work with regard to UFOs, but if we accept uncritically the notion that UFOs are anything other than terrestrial in origin, we are falling headfirst into a carefully-set trap. To its credit, X Files has dealt with the idea that extraterrestrials might be a clever hoax by the government, but never decisively. The labyrinthine plots of the show somehow manage to leave the viewer wondering if perhaps the hoax idea is itself a hoax put out there to cover up the existence of extraterrestrials. This is hardly helpful to a true understanding of UFOs and associated phenomena, such as alien abductions and cattle mutilations.

Extraterrestrials have been a staple of popular entertainment since The War of the Worlds (both the novel and its radio adaptation). They have been depicted as invaders and benefactors, but rarely have they been unequivocally depicted as a hoax. There was an episode of Outer Limits which depicted a group of scientists staging a mock alien invasion to frighten the world's population into uniting as one--but, again, such examples are rare. Even in UFO documentaries on the Discovery Channel, the possibility of a terrestrial origin for the phenomenon is conspicuous by its lack of mention.

UFO researcher Jacques Vallee, the real-life model for the French scientist in Stephen Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, attempted to interest Spielberg in a terrestrial explanation for the phenomenon. In an interview on Conspire.com, Vallee said, "I argued with him that the subject was even more interesting if it wasn't extraterrestrials. If it was real, physical, but not ET. So he said, 'You're probably right, but that's not what the public is expecting--this is Hollywood and I want to give people something that's close to what they expect.'"

How convenient that what Spielberg says the people expect is also what the Pentagon wants them to believe.

In Messengers of Deception, Vallee tracks the history of a wartime British Intelligence unit devoted to psychological operations. Code-named (interestingly) the "Martians," it specialized in manufacturing and distributing false intelligence to confuse the enemy. Among its activities were the creation of phantom armies with inflatable tanks, simulations of the sounds of military ships maneuvering in the fog, and forged letters to lovers from phantom soldiers attached to phantom regiments.

Vallee suggests that deception operations of this kind may have extended beyond World War II, and that much of the "evidence" for "flying saucers" is no more real than the inflatable tanks of World War II. He writes: "The close association of many UFO sightings with advanced military hardware (test sites like the New Mexico proving grounds, missile silos of the northern plains, naval construction sites like the major nuclear facility at Pascagoula and the bizarre love affairs ... between contactee groups, occult sects, and extremist political factions, are utterly clear signals that we must exercise extreme caution."

Many people find it fantastic that the government would perpetrate such a hoax, while at the same time having no difficulty entertaining the notion that extraterrestrials are regularly traveling light years to this planet to kidnap people out of their beds and subject them to anal probes.

The military routinely puts out disinformation to obscure its activities, and this has certainly been the case with UFOs. Consider Paul Bennewitz, the UFO enthusiast who began studying strange lights that would appear nightly over the Manzano Test Range outside Albuquerque. When the Air Force learned about his study, ufologist William Moore (by his own admission) was recruited to feed him forged military documents describing a threat from extraterrestrials. The effect was to confuse Bennewitz--even making him paranoid enough to be hospitalized--and discredit his research. Evidently, those strange lights belonged to the Air Force, which does not like outsiders inquiring into its affairs.

What the Air Force did to Bennewitz, it also does on a mass scale--and popular entertainment has been complicit in this process. Whether or not the filmmakers themselves are consciously aware of this agenda does not matter. The notion that extraterrestrials might visit this planet is so much a part of popular culture and modern mythology that it hardly needs assistance from the military to propagate itself.

It has the effect not only of obscuring what is really going on at research facilities such as Area 51, but of tainting UFO research in general as "kooky"--and does the job so thoroughly that one need only say "UFO" in the same breath with "JFK" to discredit research in that area as well. It also may, in the end, serve the same purpose as depicted in that Outer Limits episode--to unite the world's population against a perceived common threat, thus offering the pretext for one-world government.

The following quotes demonstrate that the idea has at least occurred to world leaders:

"In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us realize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world." (President Ronald Reagan, speaking in 1987 to the United Nations.

"The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets." General Douglas MacArthur, 1955)

Some one remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with a sense of their unity of interest and purpose." (John Dewey, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, speaking at a conference sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1917)

And where was this "alien threat" motif given birth? Again, we find the answer in popular entertainment, and again the earliest source is The War of the Worlds--both Wells' and Welles' versions.

Perhaps it is no coincidence that H. G. Wells was a founding member of the Round Table, the think tank that gave birth to the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA) and its American cousin, the CFR. Perhaps Wells intentionally introduced the motif as a meme which might prove useful later in establishing the "world social democracy" he described in his 1939 book The New World Order. Perhaps, too, another purpose of the Orson Welles broadcast was to test of the public's willingness to believe in extraterrestrials.

At any rate, it proved a popular motif, and paved the way for countless movies and television programs to come, and has often proven a handy device for promoting the New World Order, whether the extraterrestrials are invaders or--in films like The Day the Earth Stood Still--benefactors who have come to Earth to warn us to mend our ways and unite as one, or be blown to bits.

We see the globalist agenda at work in Star Trek and its spin-offs as well. Over the years, many a television viewer's mind has been imprinted with the idea that centralized government is the solution for our problems. Never mind the complexities of the issue--never mind the fact that, in the real world, centralization of power leads to tyranny. The reptile brain, hypnotized by the flickering television screen, has seen Captain Kirk and his culturally diverse crew demonstrate time and again that the United Federation of Planets is a good thing. Therefore, it must be so.

It remains to be seen whether the Masters of Deception will, like those scientists in The Outer Limits, stage an invasion from space with anti-gravity machines and holograms, but, if they do, it will surely be broadcast on television, so that anyone out of range of that light show in the sky, will be able to see it, and all with eyes to see will believe. It will be War of the Worlds on a grand scale.


Jack Kerouac once noted, while walking down a residential street at night, glancing into living rooms lit by the gray glare of television sets, that we have become a world of people "thinking the same thoughts at the same time."

Every day, millions upon millions of human beings sit down at the same time to watch the same football game, the same mini-series, the same newscast. And where might all this shared experience and uniformity of thought be taking us?

A recent report co-sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Commerce Department calls for a broad-based research program to find ways to use nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive sciences, to achieve telepathy, machine-to-human communication, amplified sensory experience, enhanced intellectual capacity, and mass participation in a "hive mind." Quoting the report: "With knowledge no longer encapsulated in individuals, the distinction between individuals and the entirety of humanity would blur. Think Vulcan mind-meld. We would perhaps become more of a hive mind--an enormous, single, intelligent entity."

There is no doubt that we have been brought closer to the "hive mind" by the mass media. For, what is the shared experience of television but a type of "Vulcan mind-meld"? (Note the terminology borrowed from Star Trek, no doubt to make the concept more familiar and palatable. If Spock does it, it must be okay.)

This government report would have us believe that the hive mind will be for our good--a wonderful leap in evolution. It is nothing of the kind. For one thing, if the government is behind it, you may rest assured it is not for our good. For another, common sense should tell us that blurring the line "between individuals and the entirety of humanity" means mass conformity, the death of human individuality. Make no mistake about it--if humanity is to become a hive, there will be at the center of that hive a Queen Bee, whom all the lesser "insects" will serve. This is not evolution--this is devolution. Worse, it is the ultimate slavery--the slavery of the mind.

And it is a horror first unleashed in 1938 when one million people responded as one--as a hive--to Orson Welles' Halloween prank.

In a sense, those people who fled the Martians that night were right to be afraid. They were indeed under attack. But they were wrong about who was attacking them. It was something far worse than Martians. Had they only known the true nature of the danger facing them, perhaps they would have gone to the nearest radio station with torches in hand like the villagers in those old Frankenstein movies and burned it to the ground, or at least commandeered the new technology and turned it towards another use--the liberation of humanity, instead of its enslavement.