This one is a gem. 


https://www.reddit.com/r/Firearms/commen..._to_drone/

Sorry for all involved. I would never be a police office .

Quote:Allow me to introduce you to American Army's new Ripsaw M5 Robotic Combat Vehicle it’s absolutely terrifying and awe inspiring. It’s the world's first fully electric engine and fully autonomous super tank. It only weighs 10 and a half tons or 3 times less than a Bradley while still delivering the same firepower. You might have already seen them in giant blockbusters like Fast and Furious 8, Mad Max fury Road and GI Joe.

Skip to the 3:10 mark and miss the Ad:
I personally feel there is much truth in Panspermia as our sensors and telescopes have detected all the building blocks of life in the universe where ever they are pointed to look. youtu.be...

I was sitting on my front porch trying to figure out what I could do to protect my retirement and family's assets.


Backstory:


One week ago the President had gotten on the news and television broadcast to announce the USA was 33 trillion in debt and the interest payment on that amount of debt was unsustainable. Therefore all retirement and savings accounts were as of now frozen while a 90% tax was figured on each account. IMO a tax is just a nice way of saying we are stealing from you especially in this instance.


As if the debt was not enough the Russians and the Chinese had called in the debt owed to them and there was only one way to pay the debt off; that was if all Americans and account holders in the USA helped pay off this debt with the money they had been saving and hording. Considering how the Congress approves and funds the finances and workings of the government if it were me I would start with the people who had been in office for a short time yet on a government salary were now multimillionaires! “Oh I forget nothing to see there !”


I had been retired now for a little over 20 years and while not rich we lived comfortably. Our house was paid for and we owed nothing to anyone (except for the yearly State and Federal taxes for living and breathing) we paid cash for whatever or did not buy anything..


The president had said Social Security would be increased by 10% to help offset the retirement funds that were being taxed out of existence and furthermore all money would now be digital.


“Big whoopty doo !”


Sitting in silence and waiting for a moment of lucidity to my dilemma was evidently not working and I was all out of fortune telling crystal balls.


The only good news was we were out in the country because according to the news, the riots and clashes of the people against the current government enforcers was going full blown chaos ! The banks were being broken into and even set on fire when people could not get “THEIR” money back from “THEIR” accounts. Protest were popping up everywhere and so were the armed enforcers .


The modern world is so interwoven with the accumulation of wealth or cash on hand that once the wealth pillar is removed from society it is like one of the legs of a three legged stool is violently removed.


I am afraid this really is THE END

Not sure if this post will have much interest depending on how far one has gone down these deep dark rabbit holes much like a labyrinth of endless mirrors, but here goes and the thread (essay) title will make sense (maybe) further down...

Back when Marilyn Ferguson's only published book was "Champagne living on a beer budget: How to buy the best for less", she still managed to...



Who better than acid trippin IFAS/SRI alum Dr. James Fadiman to help edit her "Brain/Mind" newsletter.

IFAS = International Foundation for Advanced Study.

Can LSD make you a billionaire? This was the title of a TV show transmitted by CNN Money on January 2015. After a retrospective of the psychologist James Fadiman and the engineer Willis Harman’s 1966 research on the potential of “psychedelic agents in enhancing creative problem-solving,” the audience could hear of Steve Jobs’ LSD experiences. Link

That might be a good place to start peeling back the layers and seeing where the whole 80's New Age, Inc. thing came from.

The Aquarian Conspiracy was hailed by many commentators as a keynote speech for the Eighties. The Aquarian Conspiracy went on to win the Book-of-the-Year Award from Renewal in 1980.

Quote:At its peak in the 1980s the publication had a worldwide base of some 10,000 subscribers, ranging from academics and intellectuals to schoolteachers and storekeepers, and helped to popularize the ideas of such notables as Prigogine, neuroscientists Karl Pribram and Candace Pert, physicists Fritjof Capra and David Bohm, psychologist Jean Houston and many others.

Ferguson was a founding member of the Association of Humanistic Psychology, earned numerous honorary degrees, and served on the board of directors of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Among those influenced by her was senator and vice-president Al Gore, who was partially inspired by Ferguson in the creation of the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future and later met with her in the White House in 1993.
Marilyn Ferguson

Quote:In the early 1970s, Ferguson, by this point living in Los Angeles, began exploring burgeoning research into Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) and parapsychology. Her findings resulted in a book-length report on the field, the 1973 The Brain Revolution: The Frontier of Mind Research (“Just how vast is the potential of the human brain?” asked a full-page ad for the book that ran in the New York Times). She also began editing the Brain/Mind Bulletin, a journal about neuroscience and human behavior that developed a small but passionate following.

In 1977, Ferguson polled 210 diverse respondents on their feelings about a broad set of spiritual and consciousness-based trends that went beyond the established bounds of science. The results surprised her. She found that 96% of her respondents expressed belief in telepathy, 94% in psychic healing, 89% in precognition, 88% in clairvoyance, and 76% in consciousness surviving bodily death.

Ferguson showed the findings to Jeremy Tarcher, a maverick Los Angeles publisher who had once written for the original Star Trek television series and was known for publishing books on yoga and neuroscience.

Tarcher later recounted to the New York Times his initial astonishment at seeing the results: “I called Mrs. Ferguson because I was interested in her Brain/Mind Bulletin newsletter, and we went to lunch. She gave me a folder of material. I started to read it and I started to cry. It expressed all the things most important to my heart.”

Ferguson and Tarcher set to work synthesizing her findings and the most compelling information from Brain/Mind to create a paean to an emerging “New Age.”

Ferguson argued that the growing pains of contemporary America–militarism, class divisions, consumerism – were peeling away amid the new focus on the spiritual she chronicled through Brain/Mind and her survey. “The symbolic power of the pervasive dream in our culture: that after a dark, violent age, the Piscean, we are entering a millennium of love and light – in the words of the popular song, ‘The Age of Aquarius,’ the time of the mind’s true liberation,” Ferguson wrote.

Ferguson was particularly excited about the effect of New Age communications methods – more honest dialogue about emotions, more space for awe, more openness about the potential to use technology to foster connection between professionals and social acquaintances alike. Much of the book was a breathless and enthusiastic survey of the research Ferguson’s colleagues had conducted in communication and consciousness studies.

The book not only covered the emergent transition from the Piscean Age to the so-called Aquarian Age of the New Wave, but also wove an ambitious historical web that suggested the paradigm shift was long in coming. Ferguson linked the Transcendentalists, John Muir’s environmentalism, and concepts from figures as diverse as Gandhi, Buckminster Fuller, and Saul Bellow to the arrival of her heralded Aquarian Age.

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LaRouche’s contention was that Ferguson’s book was actually a government-backed psyop, orchestrated through a labyrinthine web of think tanks led by England’s Tavistock Institute, NATO, and Stanford’s powerful Social Research Institute (SRI). LaRouche even contended that SRI’s well-connected director, Willis Harman, had effectively fed the text to Ferguson.

While fellow Futurists saw Ferguson as too rosy and spiritual, Carl A. Raschke, a University of Denver Religious Studies professor, argued that The Aquarian Conspiracy was chipping away at traditional American values. Raschke, interviewed for a 1986 New York Times piece exploring broader New Age criticism, said, “I think it’s as much a political movement as a religious movement, and it’s spreading into business management theory and a lot of other areas. If you look at it carefully you see it represents a complete rejection of Judeo-Christian and bedrock American values.”

Marilyn Ferguson’s The Aquarian Conspiracy and the New Age Era

Quote:In 1968 the U.S. Office of Education commissioned Stanford Research Institute (later called SRI) to have a look into the future and report what they’d found there. SRI took it one step further and spelled out what “changes in the conceptual premises underlying Western society would lead to a desirable future.” (Changing Images of Man, xvii)

The results were made into a book called “Changing Images of Man”, edited by O.W. Markley and Willis W. Harman. You can download a copy of the 1982 reprint here, courtesy of Skilluminati Research. This book is a conspiracy theorist’s wet dream. It is nothing less than a blueprint for a vast social engineering project undertaken by the very highest levels of the military/industrial complex. The project, as we’ll see, was already well underway by the time this study was commissioned, but in the late sixties and early seventies, thanks in part to this project, SRI was at the hub of just about every major development in the evolving “New Age” community.

Conspiracy theorists within the Christian right see this book, now almost mythical in status, as evidence of a very longrunning project, indeed, comprised of a Satanic plot to rule the world. But we, especially those on the political left who would completely ignore such theories, will need learn to step out of our own ivory towers from which we scorn those “ignorant fundies” and re-examine how the elites in our society operate.

Quote:Sir John Whitmore also wrote the foreword to and is extensively quoted in a book called Nine: Briefing from Deep Space which was published in 2005. The book is based upon interviews with extraterrestrial beings which a group of people including Whitmore, as well as Phyllis Schlemmer and Uri Geller, claimed to have had over a number of years. The book and Whitmore himself have been quoted and spoken about on a number of websites which explore such claims. During the 1970s, Whitmore commissioned Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry to write a script for a movie that he was intending to fund called The Nine, but the deal fell through.

US State Dept warns of travel to Bahamas and Jamaica

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-wa...rcna135970
The U.S. State Department on Friday increased its advisory level for would-be travelers to the Bahamas, urging "increased caution," as the nation's capital has recorded 18 murders this year.
The elevation to Level 2 follows a security alert posted Wednesday by the U.S. Embassy in Nassau, which expressed concern that Americans might be victimized by gang violence in the capital.

"Murders have occurred at all hours including in broad daylight on the streets," the embassy said in its alert. "Retaliatory gang violence has been the primary motive in 2024 murders."



https://www.travelandleisure.com/us-trav...ca-8553637
The U.S. State Department has issued a travel advisory for travelers to Jamaica.

[i]The advisory, which is a "Level 3," encouraging Americans to "reconsider travel" cites "violent crimes, such as home invasions, armed robberies, sexual assaults, and homicides, are common" as the reason for the alert.

The advisory also mentions all-inclusive resorts.


horrible news, especially for poor countries that rely on tourist dollars.
are we witnessing a slow global collapse?

hope they fix things down there.[/i]

The Biden horde is coming.

In May 1773, Parliament passed the Tea Act, which instituted a tax of three cents per pound on all British tea sold in America. The act effectively granted a monopoly on the sale of tea in the American colonies to the British East India Company, which was looking to reduce its excessive stores of tea and relieve its financial burdens. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Tea Act’s passage, James Vaughn, a historian of the British Empire at the University of Chicago, examines the developments in Britain, British North America and South Asia leading to the passage of the act, and discusses why a relatively mundane piece of parliamentary legislation renewed the imperial crisis and led to the outbreak of the American Revolution.

This is a fascinating informative lecture.