With these three inventions under their direction, those in positions of power strongly suspected that it was possible for them to control the whole world with the push of a button.
Immediately, the Rockefeller Foundation got in on the ground floor by making a four-year grant to Harvard College, funding the Harvard Economic Research Project for the study of the structure of the American Economy. One year later, in 1949, The United States Air Force joined in.
In 1952 the grant period terminated, and a high-level meeting of the Elite was held to determine the next phase of social operations research. The Harvard project had been very fruitful, as is borne out by the publication of some of its results in 1953 suggesting the feasibility of economic (social) engineering. (Studies in the Structure of the American Economy – copyright 1953 by Wassily Leontief, International Science Press Inc White Plains New York).
Engineered in the last half of the decade of the 1940s, the new Quiet War machine stood, so to speak, in sparkling gold-plated hardware on the showroom floor by 1954.
With the creation of the maser in 1954, the promise of unlocking unlimited sources of fusion atomic energy from the heavy hydrogen in seawater and the consequent availability of unlimited social power was a possibility only decades away. The combination was irresistible.
The Quiet War was quietly declared by the International Elite at a meeting held in 1954.
Although the silent weapons system was nearly exposed 13 years later, the evolution of the new weapon-system has never suffered any major setbacks.
This volume marks the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the Quiet War. Already this domestic war has had many victories on many fronts throughout the world. Bill Cooper, Top Secret: Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, Operations Research Technical Manual TM-SW7905.1
The equivalent of twelve filing cabinets of new information for every American citizen every year. Nova: The Spy Factory, PBS 2009
The world we live in is awash with data ... We need a powerful branch of science – statistics. Believe me, there is nothing boring about statistics. Professor Hans Rosling, The Joy of Stats, BBC 2010
With statistics we can really make sense of the world. ibid.
Statistics tells us whether the things we think and believe are actually true. ibid.
Public statistics is making citizens more powerful and the authorities more accountable. ibid.
Right across Europe nineteenth-century society went mad for facts. ibid.
The variation in data is just as important as the average. ibid.
The normal distribution shape occurred time and time again. ibid.
Nightingale’s graphics are rightly considered a classic. ibid.
A great correlation – the link that was established in the 1950s between smoking and lung cancer. ibid.
The data deluge is staggering. ibid.
Does it concern you that your telephone company may be providing your phone records to the government without your knowledge and permission? CNN News ‘Privacy on the Line’, Cafferty File, 2012
Relevant data are presented in such a way as to obscure direct comparisons and selected to exaggerate the enemy’s strength, the standard pattern throughout the Cold War era. Noam Chomsky, Deterring Democracy
That’s kind of the way you have to look at the world too – you can get overwhelmed with meaningless data; you have to pick out what matters which does take discernment and training. Noam Chomsky, Interventions, lecture Back Page Books January 2008, Youtube 1.06.26
Freedom of Information: my favourites are … ‘I’m eight years old and just requested my personal data from my school’. Mark Thomas Comedy Product s5e7, Channel 4 2001
The rapidly growing number of government data banks. Duncan Campbell, Secret Society: We’re All Data Now, BBC 1987
Over the past five years two commercial companies have set up two larger data banks … information on virtually everyone in the country. ibid.
‘Psychographics focuses more on why someone buys … who your customer is and why they buy.’ The Corbett Report: Psychographics 101, James Corbett online 2017, Infusionsoft’s ‘Introduction to Psychographics’ October 2016
This is not about corporations moulding themselves to better fit your desires, maybe it’s about moulding you to better desire what various companies and selling. ibid.
This nexus of behavioural science and big data and marketing. ibid.
Patrick M Wood: Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation. The Corbett Report: Data is the New Oil, November 2017, James Corbett online
‘Technocracy is the science of social engineering, the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population of this continent.’ ibid. Patrick Wood
‘The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data’. ibid. The Economist
‘Data is the new oil: Your personal information is now the world’s most valuable commodity’. ibid. CBC News online
‘Data is not the new oil’. ibid. BBC editorial
Bill Gates, who has just announced his own plan to create his own desert mega-smart-city of the future not in Saudi Arabia but in the good old USA. ibid.
Smart technology represents less of a breakthrough in power distribution and more of a revolution in complete constant panopticon surveillance of everyone. ibid.
‘Congress just cleared the way for internet providers to sell your web browsing history’. ibid. CBC News online
Telecom companies are currently scrambling to implement fifth-generation cellular network technology, dubbed 5G. The Corbett Report, The 5G Dragnet, James Corbett online June 2019
The harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation present in current mobile technologies will be amplified by orders of magnitude in the much more powerful and denser extremely high frequency radiation network that 5G relies on. ibid.
Privacy and security would be next to impossible. ibid.
Why is there such a headlong rush to connect this network? ibid.
Your personal information is gathered and stored everywhere, all the time. Every single thing you do with your cellphone and your computer is registered and analysed by companies like Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter to name but a few. All this personal data forms the heart of something called Big Data … This makes all your information very valuable. The Real Value of Your Personal Data, VPRO 2013
All this data reveal things about you. ibid.
Six months ago the American whistleblower Edward Snowden first revealed how the NSA has access to personal data stored with internet companies like Google and Facebook. In fact as it turned out, these companies actively cooperate in sharing your data with the authorities. ibid.
‘The frontier of accuracy is yet to be determined.’ ibid. expert
Businesses can also use your personal data to predict your future behaviour as an individual even better than you can. ibid.
Having all this data also provides power to who controls it. ibid.
‘It’s a new kind of power that’s very sneaky and gradual. ibid.
Will our data be used for less positive purposes too? ibid.
Cambridge Analytica: ‘An organisation that keeps pretty unsavoury company.’ The Great Hack, opening commentary, Netflix 2019
Your behaviour is being accurately predicted. So the ads that seem uncannily accurate that have to be eavesdropping on us are more likely to be evidence that they are targeting words. ibid. Professor David Caroll, Parsons School of Design
It began with a dream of a connected world. ibid.
These digital traces of ourselves are being mined into a trillion dollar a year industry. We are now the commodity. ibid.
Who was feeding us fear and how? ibid.
A company called Cambridge Analytica was also working on Project Alamo … claimed to have 5,000 data points on every American voter but it was invisible. ibid.
We turn now to the burgeoning scandal around voter profiling company Cambridge Analytica. ibid. Democracy Now
They wanted to discredit Trump, they wanted to discredit Brexit, and we were the vehicle for doing it. ibid. Cambridge Analytica dude
Wired to fourteen channels of body function, an experimental subject practices biofeedback. Using biofeedback people reduce muscular tension, redirect blood flow, and perform feats previously thought impossible. Might we one day create super-athletes? Could biofeedback bring about a revolution in human health? In Search of s6e2 … Biofeedback, History 1981