Grouchogandhi - A Punch-Drunk Filter of FACTs: August 2006

A Field Guide to Illuminati Symbols and Logos

— Tuesday, August 29, 2006 —
FACT: 2 eigenstates

More proof Graphic Designers belong to an evil and secret cult responsible for the last 5,000 years of history.

I just wish the job paid better.

Google searching for a few good furries at Worldcon

— Thursday, August 24, 2006 —
FACT: 1 eigenstates

The 64th World Science Fiction Convention, always referenced as Worldcon by Condom, kicked-off yesterday in Anaheim, California. Marketing themselves amongst the usual throng of Klingons, Stormtroopers, Furries and Dominatrixes were the real geeks and nerds from the ever-in-Beta Google company.

Google let it be known they'd be throwing a party on the first night of Worldcon to celebrate science fiction's influence on the Great Googled Society. But they were also looking to gain something for their trouble:

"If you think Google might be a good fit for you, stop by the party or head over to our jobs site."

You can see why Google would have interest in finding talent amid the True Believers of Con-goers and far away from the "mundanes" (fanspeak for "A non-fan. Those people looking at you strangely in the elevator at the con hotel."). Science fiction & fantasy and IT talent go together like Kirk & Spock, Dr. Who & female companions, Cosplay and Anime... Furries &, uh well, other-Furries.

And maybe that's Google's real purpose at Worldcon: locating and identifying those special people that Google thinks will mesh with its super-secret corporate culture and business plans. Rumors — and they're just that, rumors that no one can really say one way or the other are more than just silly banter — have swirled around for years that Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are themselves dedicated Furry enthusiasts who attend FurryCons incognito in their high-priced fursuits. If these bizarre rumors ever prove true &mdash and the Google boys really are furry fetishists — perhaps all that time devoted to furrying-around helps explain the perpetual beta-state of Google's product line. So it would make sense why Google would use Worldcon to recruit talent from the con-going community — Google has a similar insider/outsider mentality as Condom.

And you can understand Google's interest in science fiction. After all, they're apparently modeling their business model on Philip K. Dick's novel A Scanner Darkly in which everything you do is being tracked, monitored, filmed and analyzed. Even though Google claims as its primary mission to successfully “organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible" online, this mantra does not apply to Google's own inner workings. Oh, no, of course not, NIMBY. Google tracks everything you do online when it can and wants to know more about you and your Internet habits. Google keeps very hushed about how it does things, why it does them or what it's planning to do next to track, monitor and organize your information or how the company ultimately intends to use (or abuse) all the data it has collected on you, your life, your friends, your pets, your thoughts and dreams. Now, don't despair, there is some growing concern over this very mission as it relates to your privacy. But relax, sit back and surf the Internet, it's not "your" privacy after all, is it? It's Google's responsibility to harvest your data, to know more about your life than anyone else, including you.

But let's look at it with the tables turned. Go ahead, just try to find anything to verify or discredit the rumors of the Google founders and their connection to the furry scene using their own ubiqutious people-tracking products. It's impossible to find even a hint one way or the other. Could be there's nothing to it, after all, it's just half-joking rumors about the Google founders and furrydom. On the other hand, perhaps organizing and making accessible the world's information isn't their only mission statement. If you control all the information on everything, how hard can it be to redact the information to fursuit your own needs?

Apparently, we're just suppose to trust on blind faith the all-knowing Google with our personal and intimate data. I know, I know — They know what they're doing; Google wouldn't harm a fly. Yeah right, like I would trust people who are involved in a lawsuit over hushing-up exactly what they wanted on their not-so-little "party plane" and who enthusiastically collaborate with with repressive governments by censoring the very information they claim they want to be "universally accessible".

Could it get anymore PKDesque?

The Signs and Signals of Freemasonry

— Friday, August 18, 2006 —
FACT: 1 eigenstates

"An avant-garde film made by author Tracy R. Twyman while in film school."

I really want to see this turned into a dance craze!

They decided to ascend to the Moon, this time on the river found lied.

— Thursday, August 17, 2006 —
FACT: 1 eigenstates

Today I was playing around with Google's Arabic to English translation tool. It's BETA. What else do you expect from a Google product?

Anyway, I decided to test the translation skill of the app on this page in Arabic discussing this Gg post on the NASA's Project Orion logo conspiracy symbolism.

Check out Google's results from the attempted translation of the discussion on the page.

To my uninformed ear, Google's tool has a translation bias seemingly based on a snippet of dialogue from Lawrence of Arabia syllabled with a highly practiced RenFest pidgin:

They decided to ascend to the Moon, this time on the river found lied.

It is Googled! Now, I wonder, what market Google could gain in deploying an English to Monty Python translation tool?

My nipples explode with the light!

Ozzies Off to See the Wizard

— Tuesday, August 15, 2006 —
FACT: 6 eigenstates

An interesting story entitled Australian UFO Hoax on The Daily Grail caught my paranoia's third-eye today.

So, the Australian Film Commission, an Australian Government agency, readily admits the arts organization is the "man behind the curtain" in providing funding to manufacture digital film footage of UFO sightings and publish the videos as "genuine" experiences on an Internet site it created to deceive the public. As any government agency would, the AFC declares faking UFO sightings and promoting the videos without revealing the effort's true purpose was "not a hoax or deception, but an 'immersive artwork'" project.

Between June and mid-August 2006 thirty-one clips of UFOs were created. The UFO videos were distributed over the internet via websites and video podcasts. Writers crafted background stories for the sightings, and answered thousands of e-mails using a fictional persona. The process, reactions and responses were recorded for a forthcoming documentary.

So let's walk through this. The Australian Film Commission, an offical agency of the Australian Government, purposefully staged, manufactured and promoted faked UFO footage as unsourced evidence of such encounters in order to deceive the general public to the benefit of capturing the public's reaction for a documentary film. All for the sake of art, of course.

Yeah, okay, sure. I'll play along with that. But, just to note, this brings up a few opportunities for some observations. While many skeptics and UFO researches vigorously challenged the authenticity of both the site and the digital films, just imagine what could be achieved through a seriously well-funded and government supported project with the intent purpose of deceiving citizens for manipulation and observation? A properly well-coordinated professional effort of deception could easily be spread via the Internet these days, in a matter of minutes.

"A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on."
— Mark Twain

Is that why my town's tornado warning sirens go off at inappropriate and random times? Is my local population sector's response being monitored, studied, evaluated and used as information to help create more effective strategies for government (or other) control? Are those damn klaxons really there to dupe me into submission at a moment's notice? Why are those contrails overhead?

Or, even better, could this UFO deception be a test case for reverse psycho-manipulation strategies in order to create some perceived advantage by discrediting the UFO phenomenon and its adherents to the general public?

I dunno, perhaps we'll discover a Project Orion connection. Just check out the obvious Illuminati-inspired logo for the AFC!

Land of Oz, indeed. Sheesh.

NASA, Orion, Osiris and the Illuminati

— Monday, August 14, 2006 —
FACT: 7 eigenstates

Playing right into the able hands of conspiracy theorists, NASA has encoded interesting symbology into the name and project logo for the new moon landing program and the capsule-based Crew Exploration Vehicle (roll the acronym, please… CEV).

collectSPACE reports NASA will be donning the project moniker as Orion and blandly describes Orion's logo:

The triangular logo, which could be meant to resemble the shape of the new crewed capsule, has a blue background and white stars that are arranged to form the constellation Orion.

The three stars that are associated with Orion's "belt" are enlarged and appear over a trailing, red orbital vector that extends back and around a blue globe. The planet serves as the "O" in the otherwise plainly type-faced title "Orion".

O, woe! Have they not third-eyes to see! The conspiracy theorists are sure to perceive the logo this way:

The triangular logo, which could be the All-Seeing Eye of the secret planetary power faction known as the Illuminati, has a blue background and white "stars" that are arranged to form the constellation Orion, or Osiris, the Egyptian god of the dead and underworld.

The three enlarged stars not only represent the celestial Orion's "belt" but also the arrangement of the Earth-bound Pyramids of Giza and the Cydonia Monuments located on Mars. The red orbital vector trailing from a blue globe to Orion's "belt" represent the secret elite's Alternative 3 space migration program. Earth serves these secret masters to which the "O" of "Orion" renforces Osiris' dominion over the planet and it's population through the goals and plans of the ancient Egyptian mystery cult's actions.

Think that's far-fetched? Maybe but just look how snugly the NASA Apollo Program's logo fits into the secret masters' insidious pattern:

Orion's "belt", eh? Well, well, well... Could NASA make it any easier for them?

We can put a man on the moon, but we can't find the videos that prove it

— Wednesday, August 09, 2006 —
FACT: 3 eigenstates

Whether you believe man landed on the moon or not, at least NASA has pictures and video to help you prove your point either way.

Well not any more. As the Sydney Morning Herald reports, the high-quality video transmissions of the first moon landing beamed back to Earth's tracking stations and recorded on magnetic tapes have gone missing from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. These transmissions provide much higher resolution video than what the public saw on the fuzzy, ghost-like live television broadcasts during the Apollo 11 landing. Obviously, the value of the tapes is of enormous import to science and history.

Here's what's known about the screw-up: the original tapes were moved to the National Archives in 1970 where they remained until sent back to Goddard in 1984. In the first of a lot of unknowns, no one knows why they were sent back to Goddard. Also, no one knows where the 700 boxes of media are anymore. All they have left are the papers documenting their removal from the National Archives and no clue as to where they ended up or if they even still exist. Since the transmissions are on magnetic media, deterioration over time is a real concern and efforts are underway to discover their location before they are truly lost forever.

The Sydney Morning Herald also points out the window of opportunity to find, digitally transfer and archive the high-quality transmissions may be short:

"The only known equipment on which the original analogue tapes can be decoded is at a Goddard centre set to close in October, raising fears that even if they are found before they deteriorate, copying them may be impossible."

Wonderful. Great job guys. Good planning. Thanks. Metric or Imperial?

But with any luck maybe the UFO shadowing Apollo 11, which Buzz Aldrin now talks about, will be able to provide humanity with alternative footage of our most important moment.

Hollywood just can't get enough Dick

— Tuesday, August 08, 2006 —
FACT: 0 eigenstates

Last week it was Bill Pullman in negotiations to play Philip K. Dick in an indie film production entitled Panasonic.

This week, according to Variety (requires a login ID), the August 8 entry on Production Weekly and PhilipKDick.com, Paul Giamatti will play PKD in another biopic written by Tony Grisoni, the screenwriter for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. This latest as-of-yet untitled Dick flick is unrelated to Pullman's indie Panasonic and will be produced by Giamatti's new production company Touchy Feely Films and Anonymous Content's Steve Golin and Lenny Bekerman working together with Dick's daughters.

The story will combine Dick's life with his fictional works, particularly his last unfinished novel, The Owl in Daylight, often considered to be the real third volume in the VALIS trilogy.

Just to note, Giamatti also narrates the audiobook of Dick's A Scanner Darkly.

Cathulhu's secret mind control program against humanity

— Friday, August 04, 2006 —
FACT: 4 eigenstates

A U.S. Geological Survey scientist's findings may prove to be the discovery of a secret mechanism by which Our Beloved Feline Overlords maintain continued control over humanity.

Kevin Lafferty at UC Santa Barbara has published startling revelations in the latest issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society which could prove the theory of military use of the Toxoplasma gondii parasite by Our Beloved Feline Overlords to enslave humanity and even other pets! The program, code named Operation Ball of Yarn, makes use of a unique parasite common to cats with the ability to infect and control its human host and pet-owner.

"In populations where this parasite is very common," Lafferty writes, "mass personality modification could result in cultural change. The geographic variation in the latent prevalence of T. gondii may explain a substantial proportion of human population differences we see in cultural aspects that relate to ego, money, material possessions, work and rules."

The shocking nature of this program, if true, could prove once-and-for-all that Our Beloved Feline Overlords are capable of controlling every aspect of human personality and society. As of yet, there is no known defense or cure against the parasite. The extent of the program and how many people may be enslaved cannot yet be estimated but is assumed to be widespread throughout the pet-loving world.

Read more about this shocking revelation as reported at Science a Go Go.

Bill Pullman to channel Philip K. Dick?

— Wednesday, August 02, 2006 —
FACT: 3 eigenstates

The July 29 entry on Production Weekly reports that Bill Pullman is engaged in talks to land the plum role of legendary scifi author Philip K. Dick in a comic flick about the writer and his unique psyche.

Details are thin as the producers of this indie production haven't yet seen fit to list the film in IMDb's database. The movie is currently entitled Panasonic (very non-PKD) which will be hell for them come search engine marketing time. Shooting is scheduled to begin next month with musician Matthew "Break My Stride" Wilder taking the director's chair.

The logline goes something like "A fictional account of science fiction author Philip K. Dick journeying into his own psychedelic mind and putting an innocent robot out of work." Seeing as the lost Robot PKD's head has yet to surface, maybe this is a little more autobiographical than they're implying.

I'm hopeful Pullman has the gift that will channel PKD right out of the hand-written Exegesis Dick compiled about his mystical experiences with an intense higher being he called the God-VALIS-Zebra entity. The details and writings of Dick's life of drugs, urban gnosticism and open-minded paranoia in the 70's somehow seem to provide a rich and unique commentary on current events and ideas. And obviously such things as movies.

No word yet on who's playing VALIS or the Dark-Haired Girl.

Rick Vodicka vs. The Church of Scientology

My new net.hero, Rick Vodicka, an artist and "Notable Scientology Critic," details his experiences with the Church of Scientology's legal threats over his class project for an Illustration college course.

A great look into how Scientology deals with non-Church-approved reality through intimidation tactics.

Praise Xenu!

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