The Ghost In The Machine

[EndtheMadnessNow]

In his 1967 book "The Ghost In The Machine", Arthur Koestler argues that the lack of natural cybernetic processes in the human organism necessitates the creation of an artificial substrate - a process he likens directly to alchemy.






Surveillance Capitalism, while useful, is a somewhat misleading term. It fails to properly identify the role of intelligence agencies and by extension the state which has played in the development of the current paradigm.


The Age of Surveillance Capitalism [PDF]

"Capitalism" implies a certain level entrepreneuralism, genuine investment and competition. What we've actually got is military-industrial R&D, state procurement and monopolies. In this sense the neoliberal 'free market' is an utter lie, a complete and utter con job.
The internet was built on the backs of military and financial networks. From the beginning...ARPANET to SWIFT > intelligence, the state and capital have been intertwined. And this relationship has only deepened. It is not new.

Even the development of the personal micro computer is the result of military intelligence investment. The feedback loop is clear: military investment paid for through taxation develops a product that is then commercialized and sold back to the public who originally paid for it.

Google, who quite possibly wouldn't have survived without investment from the surveillance state, builds NSA databases. In-Q-tel, the CIA venture capitalist arm, funds tech start ups from Recorded Future to Palantir.




It's vitally important to realize this revolving door between intelligence agencies and capital is not at all a recent development:

The Secret History of Facial Recognition

Sixty years ago, a sharecropper’s son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished. Who was Woody Bledsoe, and who was he working for?



He teamed up with his friend and colleague Iben Browning, a polymath inventor, aeronautical engineer, and biophysicist, and together they created what would become known as the n-tuple method. They started by projecting a printed character—the letter Q, say—onto a rectangular grid of cells, resembling a sheet of graph paper. Then each cell was assigned a binary number according to whether it contained part of the character: Empty got a 0, populated got a 1.

The beauty of the n-tuple method was that it could recognize many variants of the same character: Most Qs tended to score pretty close to other Qs. Better yet, the process worked with any pattern, not just text. According to an essay coauthored by Robert S. Boyer, a mathematician and longtime friend of Woody’s, the n-tuple method helped define the field of pattern recognition; it was among the early set of efforts to ask, “How can we make a machine do something like what people do?”
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...Panoramic was among 80 organizations that worked on Project MK-Ultra...Through a front called the Medical Sciences Research Foundation, Panoramic appears to have been assigned to subprojects 93 and 94, on the study of bacterial and fungal toxins and “the remote directional control of activities of selected species of animals.”
Research by David H. Price, an anthropologist at Saint Martin’s University, shows that Woody and his colleagues also received money from the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, a CIA front that provided grants to scientists whose work might improve the agency’s interrogation techniques or act as camouflage for that work.

But it was another front company, called the King-Hurley Research Group, that bankrolled Woody’s most notable research at Panoramic. According to a series of lawsuits filed in the 1970s, King-Hurley was a shell company that the CIA used to purchase planes and helicopters for the agency’s secret Air Force, known as Air America.

And that the dialectical relationship within and between the two often erupts into globally important news about the true nature of power in the contemporary world:

Mega Group, Maxwells and Mossad: The Spy Story at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal

The above story is a mind-bending look at the interplay between genuine capital, intelligence agencies, the state and what we might call 'institutional capital', as well as the media, finance and technology...
and can also be seen as the forerunner of this recent story:

The intelligence coup of the century | Archived here.

An interesting question is to what extent western intelligence agencies have gained independence from their parent states since WWII, and especially since the environment of security exceptionalism was engendered in the wake of 911. The Snowden revelations would seem to suggest 'quite alot'.

And how much they support and run cover for each other: Five Eyes

Course, we can't forget the UK Government's GCHQ which has a system for monitoring the entire internet:

A simple guide to GCHQ's internet surveillance programme Tempora

This is how you conduct geo-parapolitical memetic warfare. You install listening devices to monitor communications and when someone takes countermeasures you accuse them of doing basically what you were doing.



Tempora

Along with it's own 'troll farms' and disinfo networks just 5 klicks down the road from Bitchute:

Here's a twitter executive who works inside the British Army's 77th Brigade secret information warfare machine who edit videos, record podcasts, creates thousands of sock puppet accounts and write viral posts. No big deal.

A Twitter chief is also a reservist for the British Army’s information warfare unit

Twitter's "head of editorial" in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa also serves as a part-time officer for the British Army's information unit, the 77th Brigade, a new report from Middle East Eye revealed.

It’s no accident that the 77th wear the Chinthe on their shoulder. Like the Chindits, they are a new kind of force. An unorthodox one, but in the eyes of the British Army also a necessary innovation; simply reflecting the world in which we all now live and the new kind of warfare that happens within it.


Whilst you develop and deploy your system of hybrid warfare, you accuse your enemies of doing what you're doing:


The 'War' in Russia's 'Hybrid Warfare'

There's an obvious overlap here with mind control...

Latest Army PSYWAR recruiter vid from the @1st Special Forces Command...



Welcome to the Brave New World.  

[727Sky]

Great thread !!

[Minstrel]

I agree with @"727Sky" . Excellent topic and presentation.
Will be digging-in later.

[Snarl]

And how much they support and run cover for each other: Five Eyes

Had a bad run-in with these jokers. Trick to winning is to get them into court to settle. Bonus: Settlements are tax-free. They'll do anything to keep a light from shining right on them. Back then, anything below a quarter-million was below the radar.  Food for thought.

Whilst you develop and deploy your system of hybrid warfare, you accuse your enemies of doing what you're doing:

You'd think even the un-washed would have caught on to this tactic by now.

People think he's nothing more than a huckster. And, it should be obvious he's not getting the quality intel he once did. I've never liked his delivery either ... but having seen (more than a few) things he's blurted with my own eyes I know he's not completely full of shit. His claim to hit the mark 90-95% of the time ... might not be an exaggeration.  The walk-away from Jones is: He's got more money right now than he'll ever need. Why does he keep on? When you see why ... you won't be able to un-see it.

Really too bad TOS blocked and deleted discussions about Sandy Hook. If people's attention could have been turned away from the distractions ... the scariest aspects of what was going on in that town might have been unearthed. There was always something wrong with Lanza going to that school. Always something wrong with the classroom he picked. What he did was targeted/focused. Something wrong about grown men being caught running through the woods at that hour trying to evade helicopters.