Why today's kids don't understand math

This is the NEW New Math, and it's no wonder kids have no understanding of mathematics.

By the way, this kind of complete obfuscation is taking place in every subject. Not just math.
And it's deliberate.
This is how you turn people into cattle.

"Clergy Response Teams" employed by US government to quell martial law unrest

This article has to be one of the most insane things I've ever read.

The US Government will employ "Clergy Response Teams" trained to quell unrest in the event of martial law.

What.
The.
Fuck.

Wake up, people!

Homeland Security Enlists Clergy to Quell Public Unrest if Martial Law Ever Declared

Could martial law ever become a reality in America? Some fear any nuclear, biological or chemical attack on U.S. soil might trigger just that. KSLA News 12 has discovered that the clergy would help the government with potentially their biggest problem: Us.
Charleton Heston's now-famous speech before the National Rifle Association at a convention back in 2000 will forever be remembered as a stirring moment for all 2nd Amendment advocates. At the end of his remarks, Heston held up his antique rifle and told the crowd in his Moses-like voice, "over my cold, dead hands."
While Heston, then serving as the NRA President, made those remarks in response to calls for more gun control laws at the time, those words live on. Heston's declaration captured a truly American value: An over-arching desire to protect our freedoms.
But gun confiscation is exactly what happened during the state of emergency following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, along with forced relocation. U.S. Troops also arrived, something far easier to do now, thanks to last year's elimination of the 1878 Posse Comitatus act, which had forbid regular U.S. Army troops from policing on American soil.
If martial law were enacted here at home, like depicted in the movie "The Siege", easing public fears and quelling dissent would be critical. And that's exactly what the 'Clergy Response Team' helped accomplish in the wake of Katrina.
Dr. Durell Tuberville serves as chaplain for the Shreveport Fire Department and the Caddo Sheriff's Office. Tuberville said of the clergy team's mission, "the primary thing that we say to anybody is, 'let's cooperate and get this thing over with and then we'll settle the differences once the crisis is over.'"
Such clergy response teams would walk a tight-rope during martial law between the demands of the government on the one side, versus the wishes of the public on the other. "In a lot of cases, these clergy would already be known in the neighborhoods in which they're helping to diffuse that situation," assured Sandy Davis. He serves as the director of the Caddo-Bossier Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.
For the clergy team, one of the biggest tools that they will have in helping calm the public down or to obey the law is the bible itself, specifically Romans 13. Dr. Tuberville elaborated, "because the government's established by the Lord, you know. And, that's what we believe in the Christian faith. That's what's stated in the scripture."
Civil rights advocates believe the amount of public cooperation during such a time of unrest may ultimately depend on how long they expect a suspension of rights might last.

"To save America we need another 9/11" WTF!?

This op-ed has to be the STUPIDEST thing I've read in a very long time.

America's fabric is pulling apart like a cheap sweater.

What would sew us back together?

Another 9/11 attack.

The Golden Gate Bridge. Mount Rushmore. Chicago's Wrigley Field. The Philadelphia subway system. The U.S. is a target-rich environment for al Qaeda.

Is there any doubt they are planning to hit us again?

If it is to be, then let it be. It will take another attack on the homeland to quell the chattering of chipmunks and to restore America's righteous rage and singular purpose to prevail.

The unity brought by such an attack sadly won't last forever.

The first 9/11 proved that.

All I can say is "Oh My Fucking God".

Many thanks to Anonymous poster #1 who pointed me to this followup article by the same asshat who wrote the above op-ed. What a fucking moron.

Derren Brown: Subliminal Advertising

What happens when subliminal advertising is used on advertising designers? Watch and be amazed. It's nice to see the tables turned on the manipulators. Now, the important lesson here is: if these fellows are that susceptible to subliminal advertising, how vulnerable are you?

Sentient world: war games on the grandest scale

The US Department of Defense is running a very-large-scale simulation of the entire world, including mathematically simulated inhabitants.

The DOD is developing a parallel to Planet Earth, with billions of individual "nodes" to reflect every man, woman, and child this side of the dividing line between reality and AR.

Called the Sentient World Simulation (SWS), it will be a "synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information", according to a concept paper for the project.

"SWS provides an environment for testing Psychological Operations (PSYOP)," the paper reads, so that military leaders can "develop and test multiple courses of action to anticipate and shape behaviors of adversaries, neutrals, and partners".

SWS also replicates financial institutions, utilities, media outlets, and street corner shops. By applying theories of economics and human psychology, its developers believe they can predict how individuals and mobs will respond to various stressors.

Yank a country's water supply. Stage a military coup. SWS will tell you what happens next.

"The idea is to generate alternative futures with outcomes based on interactions between multiple sides," said Purdue University professor Alok Chaturvedi, co-author of the SWS concept paper.

As I've been saying: very big bird swarms.

Bird swarms and propaganda

These amazing videos of bird swarms displaysa jaw-dropping organicity. Despite being made of thousands of birds, they behave more like amoebas or blobs in a lava light.

You've heard me talk before about mass consciousness manipulation. I believe this bird swarm is a good visual analog of how human cultures appear to the mathematical tools of those who would try to steer our collective consciousness this or that way for their financial and political benefit.

Instead of air, though, our consciousness swarms through a volume of memetics. An n-dimensional volume of ideas and paradigms which can be measured and manipulated. It doesn't require anything like total control to be effective, it only needs to be somewhat better than chance.

With the right influences, a large bird swarm can be driven in a certain direction, or even pinched into multiple clumps. Wind, obstacles, the maneuvers of certain 'leader' birds.

So it is with societies, too. A visually shocking terrorist event can induce a certain vector in the swarm of a populace. A new fashion or culture trend can induce a new bend in the vector. A barrage of inflammatory talk radio can help separate us into more usefully homogenous clumps, making later influences even more effective. One such clump is labeled "Republican", another "Democrat". Other clumps (seen more clearly with different memetic axes) are "immigrants", "smokers", "Catholics", "vegetarians," and "senior citizens". The list is near infinite.

When the Department of Homeland Security advises people to stock up on duct tape and plastic sheets, some people will be more prone to act on such advise, based on their trust in government and susceptibility to propaganda. Their frantic purchases of such materials can be tracked from ATM and supermarket-card records in near real-time, and a meaningful model can be derived of this new 'clump' of the greater populace. Once you've identified such a clump or subswarm, you can find ways to influence it more effectively than a less polarized superclump.

Again, this process doesn't have to be perfect, or anywhere close. If you can nudge a million people in a slightly predictable vector, you can reap HUGE rewards from predicting this trend. That's how I think the cutting edge of the propaganda machinery works these days.

Zeitgeist: The Movie

Feel the urge to swallow a horse-sized Red Pill? Then watch this movie.