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War Of The Words: The Social Media Plague - JThomas/AltaCali

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“The first casualty when war comes is truth.” 

  U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson, 1917 

 

“News” travels fast; Facts travel slow…very slow, especially when 52% of people in the United States have “basic” literacy skills. “Most of them can sign forms, compare ticket prices for two events and look up shows in a TV guide. Most cannot find places on a map, calculate the cost of office supplies from a catalog and compare viewpoints in two editorials.” Four percent are nonilliterate. That’s 14M people, people.

 

 

Just to put the rat on the table (thanks Guru), this pandemic “exercise”has nothing to do with public health, and everything to do with the ability of local, regional, and federal governments to become dictatorships with a clic on a keypad. The message was clear and unambiguous: you will obey without questioning, and like it; otherwise there’s fines, imprisonment, or death. The response from the public? “Yes, Massa…”

 

There has not been a national freak out like the current C19 hysteria since 1939, when Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre troupe broadcast a program on CBS radio called “War Of The Worlds.” Although there was a disclaimer at the beginning of the program, many people missed it. Revisionist history has tried to downplay the mass panic that ensued, but the fact is millions of people from coast to coast in the United States actually believed Martians had invaded Earth. 

 

There was no television, and “real” news traveled slow. Still does. Corona virus? Well, microbes were the heroes in H.G. Wells famous book. When the Martians emerged from their spaceships, they were defeated by one of humanity’s oldest friends (and foes); microbes. The aliens started dropping dead, and the invasion was over. Ironic, eh wot? 

 

The main problem is “smartphones.” People think because they spend six or 10 hours a day staring at a cellphone that they actually know something. But what are they staring at (in portrait mode, no less)? The latest research on C19? The origins of inequality in the United States? The differences and similarities between Christianity and Muslim fundamentalism? The behavior of hydrogen molecules in a vacuum? 

 

No, 99% of the time (like most statistics, this one was made up on the spot) it will be so some lame-ass mainstream So-So networking site, a YouTube pop music video, or a a video game. Hey, whatever happened to “Pong?”

 

Even though I am 147 years old. I’m not some kind of Luddite, I’ve been at this technology thing since vacuum tubes. I invented the internet. OK, I participated in a project by AT&T called “videotext” in San Francisco in 1988. It was going to connect your touchtone telephone keypad to your television screen to send and receive information. 

 

My first “computer” was made by Timex, once the largest watch maker in the country. I watched the best advertisement of all time live; Apples “1984.” I have remained In Touch With The Modern World; even though I only got my first “smart” phone in 2019 (iPhone 5C for $40). Days can go by and I never have occasion to touch it. But I regress…

 

I’m not sure which concerns me more: the ease with which The Overlords pulled off the perfect heist of the “West’s” resources, or the gullibility of an allegedly educated population. “ Go inside and sit still and be quiet! No questions!” “Yes, teacher.”  It is now painfully obvious that our schools are actually a system of indoctrination. What we are taught is to stop “running around,” shut up, and obey authority. Five days a week, for at least 12 years. Well, it worked.

 

The same study discovered that 34% of all U.S. citizens have “intermediate” literacy skills. That means they can read and write at an intermediate, or sixth to eigth grade level. Most can identify the link leading to the organization’s phone number from a website with several links, including “contact us” and “FAQ.” But most cannot click to the second page of search results from a library website to identify the author of a book called Ecomyth.

 

Long story short, 88% of U.S. denizens reading comprehension skills range from illiterate to eight-grade proficiency. Shameful, depressing, and it explains a lot about why what’s going on is happening.  It explains why most of my 5.2K “followers” (hate that word, what’s wrong with “neighbors?”) are from countries other than the United States. 

 

So, join the Global Information Elite. Break your addiction to Fake News. That would be all mainstream media, and includes your favorite entertainment, social networking, and miseducation systems. Want to know what’s really going on? Do Your Own Damn Research!

 

As for this C19 false flag operation, no conspiracy theory necessary. “Just the facts, M’am.” - Jack Webb, Dragnet. Look it up, Kiddies. Lets start with everybody’s favorite multi-billionaire, Bill Gates: Is the Global Pandemic a Product of the Elite’s Malthusian Agenda and U.S. Biowarfare? 

 

Has this pandemic caused more deaths worldwide than the same time last year (spoiler alert; no.)? Official Figures: COVID-19 Yet to Impact Europe’s Overall Mortality 

 

One chart or graph is never enough: 2019-2020 U.S. Flu Season: Preliminary Burden Estimates | CDC

 

This guy is cool: Perspectives on the Pandemic | Professor Knut Wittkowski 

 

And if you want my personal opinion: They Just Stole The Whole Damn World While We Watched GOT Reruns. And By “We,” I Mean “You.”- JThomas/AltaCali/ThePlanetaryArchives - BlackHorseMedia

 

I expect you slackers to start your day by checking @ThePlanetaryArchives/BlackHorseMedia - San Francisco each morning with your coffee. Or watch one of my gorgeous hi-def videos on your smart TV. The internet was originally designed to share military secrets privately. But it can be hacked to share public information, publicly. That is, until it’s censored by the likes of Facebook and YouTube. These are my only social networks besides Yelp!, so feel free to share!

 

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Best Free Cyber Security (For Now)

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Browser: BRAVE

 

Search: DUCK DUCK GO

 

Email: PROTON MAIL

 

Messaging: TELEGRAM


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How Your Smartphone Makes You Stupid

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thrall | THrôl |noun literary: the state of being in someone's power.

 

The main reason the United States is on the irreversible course it is on is because: physics. Let’s call it Historical Momentum; “an Empire in freefall will accelerate unless there is an opposite and equal force.” Or it will eventually dissipate into smaller units of organization; villages instead of cities, energy converted to matter instead of the opposite, human beings given the same rights as tram-national corporations.

 

The other main reason is that the majority of the citizens who are in a position to provide the equal and opposite force are instead in thrall to, or beholden to, The Powers That Be. This control is exerted by The Media. Everything you see and hear is motivated by the Mushroom Theory: keep the public in the dark, feed them shit, and they will be happy. Ignorance is indeed bliss.

 

The latest and most dangerous addition to the Soft Machine is so-called social media. Someone(s) figured out you could make money selling narcissism, gossip, vitriol, games, and cute animals. Not to mention cellular devices and accessories, airtime, and “data.” We’re talking billions of dollars and hours for no productive result. Oh I’m sure a Tweet™ or text or call did something somewhere for someone, but 87% of what occurs over the internet is non-essential. And like most statistics, that one was made up from scratch.

 

The message from “the media;” so-called news and entertainment, and our education system is always the same: the ends justify the means. Pretty much what we learn in school is that it was OK to kill everything and everybody from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the Arctic to Straights of Magellan because “we” were white and Christian. I’m not either, so I’ve always had a problem with that (I used to actively root for the “Indians” back in the day before they were inevitably massacred in the Western movies Way Back In The Day).

 

We also learned that although almost all of the actual work that was done in this country was done first with free slave labor (African and indigenous), then indentured servant labor, then underpaid immigrant labor, somehow it’s OK that a few European descendants own and control everything because: “white.”

 

Somehow lost in all this was the fact was lost that we were to prepare ourselves to spend the best years of our lives commuting to a window-less, airless room, hating our boss and co-workers, and being too stressed out to enjoy the few precious hours The Man, which is to say The Banks, allot us on weekends and “holidays.”

 

This process is facilitated by keeping us in enthralled by electronic hallucinations. It’s much more subtle than The Matrix, and much more direct. Every television show, every ad on radio and TV, every movie, most print media, billboards, packaging, “branding,” peer pressure; all compel you to conform to The Narrative. And the narrative is this: “If you are rich, you can do ANYTHING you like and get away with it. And you too can get rich…if you win the lottery, or hit a jackpot in a casino. Just keep working and consuming and take your Xanax…..

 

But the primary tool of control today is that damned cellphone. It has completely destroyed any pretense of literacy; typing with one thumb? Really? The few actual artists still working in the film industry must go crazy seeing people watching movies in portrait mode on those tiny screens. And the sound quality for music is simply not there. Many webpages won’t display properly on phones, and they are certainly not places to store information.

 

No, they are entertainment and distraction devices. And what worries me more than anything is that they are used as babysitting devices. Seeing a child with their device is really concerning. They should be developing their physical bodies, instead of laying around like little slugs. And they could learn two or three languages in the time it takes to get all the coins it takes to complete The Quest, or whatever.

 

The internet was created to share information. While cat videos are information in the strictest sense, I pretty sure that’s not what Mr. Berners-Lee had in mind. There is tons of life-changing information available on the WWW, but it’s very difficult to see on a phone; especially in portrait mode……

 

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War Of The Words: The Social Media Plague - JThomas/AltaCali

War Of The Words: The Social Media Plague - JThomas/AltaCali | Digital Collaboration and the 21st C. | Scoop.it

“The first casualty when war comes is truth.” 

  U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson, 1917 

 

“News” travels fast; Facts travel slow…very slow, especially when 52% of people in the United States have “basic” literacy skills. “Most of them can sign forms, compare ticket prices for two events and look up shows in a TV guide. Most cannot find places on a map, calculate the cost of office supplies from a catalog and compare viewpoints in two editorials.” Four percent are nonilliterate. That’s 14M people, people.

 

 

Just to put the rat on the table (thanks Guru), this pandemic “exercise”has nothing to do with public health, and everything to do with the ability of local, regional, and federal governments to become dictatorships with a clic on a keypad. The message was clear and unambiguous: you will obey without questioning, and like it; otherwise there’s fines, imprisonment, or death. The response from the public? “Yes, Massa…”

 

There has not been a national freak out like the current C19 hysteria since 1939, when Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre troupe broadcast a program on CBS radio called “War Of The Worlds.” Although there was a disclaimer at the beginning of the program, many people missed it. Revisionist history has tried to downplay the mass panic that ensued, but the fact is millions of people from coast to coast in the United States actually believed Martians had invaded Earth. 

 

There was no television, and “real” news traveled slow. Still does. Corona virus? Well, microbes were the heroes in H.G. Wells famous book. When the Martians emerged from their spaceships, they were defeated by one of humanity’s oldest friends (and foes); microbes. The aliens started dropping dead, and the invasion was over. Ironic, eh wot? 

 

The main problem is “smartphones.” People think because they spend six or 10 hours a day staring at a cellphone that they actually know something. But what are they staring at (in portrait mode, no less)? The latest research on C19? The origins of inequality in the United States? The differences and similarities between Christianity and Muslim fundamentalism? The behavior of hydrogen molecules in a vacuum? 

 

No, 99% of the time (like most statistics, this one was made up on the spot) it will be so some lame-ass mainstream So-So networking site, a YouTube pop music video, or a a video game. Hey, whatever happened to “Pong?”

 

Even though I am 147 years old. I’m not some kind of Luddite, I’ve been at this technology thing since vacuum tubes. I invented the internet. OK, I participated in a project by AT&T called “videotext” in San Francisco in 1988. It was going to connect your touchtone telephone keypad to your television screen to send and receive information. 

 

My first “computer” was made by Timex, once the largest watch maker in the country. I watched the best advertisement of all time live; Apples “1984.” I have remained In Touch With The Modern World; even though I only got my first “smart” phone in 2019 (iPhone 5C for $40). Days can go by and I never have occasion to touch it. But I regress…

 

I’m not sure which concerns me more: the ease with which The Overlords pulled off the perfect heist of the “West’s” resources, or the gullibility of an allegedly educated population. “ Go inside and sit still and be quiet! No questions!” “Yes, teacher.”  It is now painfully obvious that our schools are actually a system of indoctrination. What we are taught is to stop “running around,” shut up, and obey authority. Five days a week, for at least 12 years. Well, it worked.

 

The same study discovered that 34% of all U.S. citizens have “intermediate” literacy skills. That means they can read and write at an intermediate, or sixth to eigth grade level. Most can identify the link leading to the organization’s phone number from a website with several links, including “contact us” and “FAQ.” But most cannot click to the second page of search results from a library website to identify the author of a book called Ecomyth.

 

Long story short, 88% of U.S. denizens reading comprehension skills range from illiterate to eight-grade proficiency. Shameful, depressing, and it explains a lot about why what’s going on is happening.  It explains why most of my 5.2K “followers” (hate that word, what’s wrong with “neighbors?”) are from countries other than the United States. 

 

So, join the Global Information Elite. Break your addiction to Fake News. That would be all mainstream media, and includes your favorite entertainment, social networking, and miseducation systems. Want to know what’s really going on? Do Your Own Damn Research!

 

As for this C19 false flag operation, no conspiracy theory necessary. “Just the facts, M’am.” - Jack Webb, Dragnet. Look it up, Kiddies. Lets start with everybody’s favorite multi-billionaire, Bill Gates: Is the Global Pandemic a Product of the Elite’s Malthusian Agenda and U.S. Biowarfare? 

 

Has this pandemic caused more deaths worldwide than the same time last year (spoiler alert; no.)? Official Figures: COVID-19 Yet to Impact Europe’s Overall Mortality 

 

One chart or graph is never enough: 2019-2020 U.S. Flu Season: Preliminary Burden Estimates | CDC

 

This guy is cool: Perspectives on the Pandemic | Professor Knut Wittkowski 

 

And if you want my personal opinion: They Just Stole The Whole Damn World While We Watched GOT Reruns. And By “We,” I Mean “You.”- JThomas/AltaCali/ThePlanetaryArchives - BlackHorseMedia

 

I expect you slackers to start your day by checking @ThePlanetaryArchives/BlackHorseMedia - San Francisco each morning with your coffee. Or watch one of my gorgeous hi-def videos on your smart TV. The internet was originally designed to share military secrets privately. But it can be hacked to share public information, publicly. That is, until it’s censored by the likes of Facebook and YouTube. These are my only social networks besides Yelp!, so feel free to share!

 

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DO YOUR OWN DAMN RESEARCH!™ - ALTERNATIVE MEDIA & ARCHIVES (11/2019) - YOU'RE WELCOME!

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⭐️THE NATIONAL INTEREST  ⭐️NATIONAL NATIVE NEWS ⭐️ NATURAL HEALTH 365  ⭐️NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 

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⭐️NEW EASTERN OUTLOOK 

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⭐️ORIENTAL REVIEW⭐️OXFORD AMERICAN. ⭐️OPEN DEMOCRACY 

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How Your Smartphone Makes You Stupid

How Your Smartphone Makes You Stupid | Digital Collaboration and the 21st C. | Scoop.it

thrall | THrôl |noun literary: the state of being in someone's power.

 

The main reason the United States is on the irreversible course it is on is because: physics. Let’s call it Historical Momentum; “an Empire in freefall will accelerate unless there is an opposite and equal force.” Or it will eventually dissipate into smaller units of organization; villages instead of cities, energy converted to matter instead of the opposite, human beings given the same rights as tram-national corporations.

 

The other main reason is that the majority of the citizens who are in a position to provide the equal and opposite force are instead in thrall to, or beholden to, The Powers That Be. This control is exerted by The Media. Everything you see and hear is motivated by the Mushroom Theory: keep the public in the dark, feed them shit, and they will be happy. Ignorance is indeed bliss.

 

The latest and most dangerous addition to the Soft Machine is so-called social media. Someone(s) figured out you could make money selling narcissism, gossip, vitriol, games, and cute animals. Not to mention cellular devices and accessories, airtime, and “data.” We’re talking billions of dollars and hours for no productive result. Oh I’m sure a Tweet™ or text or call did something somewhere for someone, but 87% of what occurs over the internet is non-essential. And like most statistics, that one was made up from scratch.

 

The message from “the media;” so-called news and entertainment, and our education system is always the same: the ends justify the means. Pretty much what we learn in school is that it was OK to kill everything and everybody from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the Arctic to Straights of Magellan because “we” were white and Christian. I’m not either, so I’ve always had a problem with that (I used to actively root for the “Indians” back in the day before they were inevitably massacred in the Western movies Way Back In The Day).

 

We also learned that although almost all of the actual work that was done in this country was done first with free slave labor (African and indigenous), then indentured servant labor, then underpaid immigrant labor, somehow it’s OK that a few European descendants own and control everything because: “white.”

 

Somehow lost in all this was the fact was lost that we were to prepare ourselves to spend the best years of our lives commuting to a window-less, airless room, hating our boss and co-workers, and being too stressed out to enjoy the few precious hours The Man, which is to say The Banks, allot us on weekends and “holidays.”

 

This process is facilitated by keeping us in enthralled by electronic hallucinations. It’s much more subtle than The Matrix, and much more direct. Every television show, every ad on radio and TV, every movie, most print media, billboards, packaging, “branding,” peer pressure; all compel you to conform to The Narrative. And the narrative is this: “If you are rich, you can do ANYTHING you like and get away with it. And you too can get rich…if you win the lottery, or hit a jackpot in a casino. Just keep working and consuming and take your Xanax…..

 

But the primary tool of control today is that damned cellphone. It has completely destroyed any pretense of literacy; typing with one thumb? Really? The few actual artists still working in the film industry must go crazy seeing people watching movies in portrait mode on those tiny screens. And the sound quality for music is simply not there. Many webpages won’t display properly on phones, and they are certainly not places to store information.

 

No, they are entertainment and distraction devices. And what worries me more than anything is that they are used as babysitting devices. Seeing a child with their device is really concerning. They should be developing their physical bodies, instead of laying around like little slugs. And they could learn two or three languages in the time it takes to get all the coins it takes to complete The Quest, or whatever.

 

The internet was created to share information. While cat videos are information in the strictest sense, I pretty sure that’s not what Mr. Berners-Lee had in mind. There is tons of life-changing information available on the WWW, but it’s very difficult to see on a phone; especially in portrait mode……

 

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