3665-ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? | View Thread

Do you believe everything you see? If so, you may want to reconsider.

In 1999, Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris conducted a study on the phenomenon of ‘inattentional blindness,’ subsequently publishing a video which dramatically supports their finding that it is remarkably easy for people to miss details in visual information simply because one is not looking for them. Their research was presented as a test for the public in a video released in 2010.

Try it for yourself. Just count how many times the players in white pass the ball.

Did you catch that the first time?

The critical point here is that the mind is naturally drawn to whatever it is that our attention is directed towards. We are easily fooled in this way. We inherently ignore details, even gross details, when we are prompted to take something at face value.

We live in a time of unprecedented media trickery and digital propaganda. Couple this with the availability of affordable personal computers and software that can create videos of extremely convincing and believable visual quality, and you have the perfect conditions for the rise of disinfo. You no longer need well-funded agencies like the Pentagon to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to have effective propaganda produced to support and advance an agenda, whether it be political, corporate or personal. For anyone can fool the masses from their bedroom studios.

In the early 1900s, French philosopher Jacques Ellul described propaganda. This was in at a time when the world just beginning to step into the age of mass propaganda.

Propaganda is the manipulation of the subconscious by technical means… Our technical world not only creates these feelings spontaneously, it develops them with malice aforethought for technical reasons and by technical means which, in their action on the human being, reinforce the structures of that technical world. ~ Jacques Ellul

Technology has in fact become so sophisticated now, that media producers are able to achieve extraordinary effects that make disinfo more effective than ever. Consider the following examples.

1) New Technology for Merging Faces

2) Real Time Control of Facial Expressions

Over the last few years, an Australian media production company,Screen Australia, duped the world with a number of productions which were actually digitized hoaxes, revealing their secret only after the fact that media outlets around the world had featured them in news reels as being authentic.

Take a look for yourself, as described by RT.

3) Lightning almost strikes girl in Sydney!!! Boyfriend’s reaction is priceless!!!!

This video of a man speaking some sort of gibberish after his girlfriend was, supposedly, almost struck by lightning proved the most popular of the fake viral videos, reaching almost 60 million views, according to its creators.

The full video:

4) GoPro: Man Fights Off Great White Shark In Sydney Harbour

While many correctly outed this video as fake that didn’t stop it clocking up views. The video has more than 34 million views.

The full video:

5) USA vs JAPAN – Ultimate Selfie Stick Fight

Uploaded a year later on the same YouTube channel as the great white shark standoff, this dramatized video of tourists in a battle of the selfie sticks was watched in total more than 21 million times according to The Woolshed Co. figures.

The full video:

6) Snowboarder Girl Chased By Bear – I Was Singing Rihanna Work And Didn’t Know It Was Behind Me!

This clip of a Rihanna singing snowboarder oblivious that there was a bear behind her was uploaded just a few months ago, and quickly went ‘viral’, getting news coverage across the world.

The full video:

The following explanation from Screen Australia shows just how much of an impact these video releases had on the media world.

Final Thoughts

The mind is frightfully easy to deceive, and as the propaganda machine kicks into overdrive in a push for World War III, we must be aware of how easy for illusions to be passed off as real in our world. The media, especially the corporate media, is determined to hammer us with the most sensational, click-generating content it can, often disregarding the imperative to pursue truth in a time of universal deceit.

Read more articles by Buck Rogers.

Buck Rogers is the earth-bound incarnation of that familiar part of our timeless cosmic selves, the rebel within. He is a surfer of ideals and meditates often on the promise of happiness in a world battered by the angry seas of human thoughtlessness. He is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com.

Like Waking Times on Facebook. Follow Waking Times on Twitter.

This article (Exposed Viral Hoaxes Prove How Easy it is to Dupe the World with Disinfo) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commonslicense with attribution to Buck Rogers and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement.

(activistpost.com)

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 10/24/2016 12:15:09 AM
	Fleet Of Android Robots To Begin Policing The Streets By 2017 OCTOBER 22, 2016 By Jake Anderson According to a report from the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition (GITEX), a fleet of android robots will police the streets of Dubai as early as 2017. Videos from Dubai’s annual computer and electronic trade show featured new prototypes of the robot shaking hands, saluting, and brandishing a touchscreen interface by which people can report crimes or pay traffic fines. It is another indicator that we are fast approaching an age of automatic policing. The robot cop prototype is able to scan faces, possibly serving as a new mobile street surveillance tool. In the coming months, a team consisting of Dubai Police, IBM’s supercomputer, Watson, and Google will improve the robot’s artificial intelligence technology so it can “spot people from 10 meters or 20 meters away, approach them and greet them,” said Dubai Police’s Technical Innovations Department Head Major Adnan Ali. We’re expecting for it to be in tourist areas at first in 2017, near Burj Khalifa, GPR, City Walk and by 2020 we want to have a more thorough area covered. Dubai’s android cops follow in a recent but frenetic tradition of automatic policing experimentsbeing deployed by law enforcement agencies all across the world. Many were shocked by the weaponized robot drone that took out cop-killer Micah Xavier Johnson in Dallas earlier this year. But the bigger surprise is how much robotic and drone technology has been integrated into our newly militarized police departments. There is a drone-catching drone in Japan, a riot-control drone in India, an Israeli rover bot, traffic robocops in the Democratic Republic of Congo — and many others. We are likely about to see a beta acculturation stage of militarized policing in which the general population is exposed to the reality of drones and android cops. Once the shock of this wears off, you can expect full squadrons of robotic police equipped with state of the art AI technology and exoskeletons. Truckers and KFC attendants aren’t the only middle-class American workers who will lose their jobs to automation — cops are on the chopping block, too. This article (Fleet of Android Robots to Begin Policing the Streets by 2017) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Jake Anderson and theAntiMedia.org. Anti-Media Radio airs weeknights at 11pm Eastern/8pm Pacific. If you spot a typo, email edits@theantimedia.org. (activistpost.com)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
	+1

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 10/24/2016 10:50:17 AM
	US: Philippines' Duterte sparking distress around the world October 24, 2016 U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affair Daniel Russel issues his statement to reporters after meeting with Philippine officials at the Department of Foreign Affairs in suburban Pasay, south of Manila, Philippines on Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. Russel has said that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's controversial remarks and a "real climate of uncertainty" about his government's intentions have sparked consternation in the U.S. and other governments and in the business world. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) MANILA, Philippines (AP) — America's top diplomat for Asia said Monday that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's controversial remarks and a "real climate of uncertainty" about his government's intentions have sparked distress in the U.S. and other countries. Daniel Russel, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, said he also relayed to Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. international concern over continuing killings under Duterte's crackdown against illegal drugs. Russel's visit to the Philippines, part of a three-nation trip to Southeast Asia, comes amid increasing uncertainty about Washington's treaty alliance with Manila. The brash Duterte, who took office on June 30, has displayed antagonism toward America, declaring his desire to scale back military engagements with the U.S. and telling President Barack Obama to "go to hell." Duterte's administration, however, has not formalized his public declarations to remove U.S. counterterrorism forces from the volatile southern Philippines and stop large-scale joint exercises involving American forces, creating confusion among even his Cabinet officials. In a major walk-around, Duterte sparked diplomatic alarm when he announced during a state visit to Beijing last week his "separation" with the United States. Upon returning home the day after his stunning remarks, Duterte said he did not mean he was severing diplomatic ties with Washington but only wanted to end a foreign policy that's overly oriented toward the U.S. "I've pointed out to Secretary Yasay that the succession of controversial statements, comments and a real climate of uncertainty about the Philippines' intentions has created consternation in a number of countries, not only in mine," Russel told reporters Monday in Manila after a meeting with Yasay that went overtime. The unease, Russel said, was also palpable "not only among governments, but also ... in other communities, in the expat Filipino community, in corporation board rooms as well." "This is not a positive trend," he said, adding that the U.S. remains committed to continuing a solid alliance with and providing assistance to the Philippines, including in fighting the drug menace. Coinciding with Russel's visit, the U.S. military turned over a refurbished C-130T cargo plane Monday as part of Washington's effort to help modernize the underfunded Philippine military, which has struggled to deal with Muslim and communist insurgencies and natural disasters. Outgoing U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg said at the turnover ceremony that the U.S. was trying to clarify Duterte's remarks in relation to existing policies, including their impact on planned joint military exercises. Despite the concerns, Goldberg said the U.S. rebalance to Asia would proceed. "It's a historical relationship, it has its ups and downs," Goldberg told reporters. While he remains optimistic, Goldberg said "some of the language we've heard is inconsistent with that friendship." Asked if joint combat exercises with the Americans would continue despite Duterte's declared opposition to them, Yasay could not give a categorical answer to reporters. Duterte wanted the joint combat drills to enable the Philippines "to be self-reliant in our defensive requirements," Yasay said. "If this will not be achieved, (Duterte) said then, there's no purpose of proceeding with these." Patrolling the China-held Scarborough Shoal with the U.S. Navy, for example, can send a signal that it's a deterrent against bad Chinese intentions. "It has precisely resulted in both parties digging in and made a peaceful resolution of the disputes even farthest from achieving," Yasay said. Russel said that while Washington welcomes the relaxation of tensions between Manila and Beijing under Duterte, the rapprochement should not come at the expense of the U.S. or other nations. "It's a mistake to think that improved relations between Manila and Beijing somehow come at the expense of the United States," he said. "This should be addition and not subtraction." (Yahoo News)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
	+1

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 10/24/2016 1:53:49 PM
	Iraq denies Turkish participation in Mosul ops Sun Oct 23, 2016 9:35PM Iraq’s Joint Operations Command has denied a claim by the Turkish prime minister that military forces from his country were participating in operations to retake the northern city of Mosul from the Daesh terrorist group. “The spokesman of the Joint Operations Command denies Turkish participation of any kind in operations for the liberation of Nineveh,” a statement said, referring to the Iraqi province of which Mosul is the capital. On Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildrim had announced that Turkish troops had joined the military offensive by the request of Kurdish Peshmerga forces, who have been deployed near Mosul. "The Peshmerga have mobilized to cleanse the Bashiqa region from Daesh. They asked for help from our soldiers at the Bashiqa base. So we are helping the tanks with our artillery and howitzers there," he said. On Saturday, Abadi reiterated his stance on the involvement of Turkish forces in the battle for Mosul, stressing that Iraqi forces will accomplish the task themselves. A handout picture released by the Iraq Prime Minister's Press Office shows Iraqi Prime Minister Heidar al-Abadi (R) meeting with US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter in Baghdad on October 22, 2016. (Photo by AFP) "I know that the Turks want to participate, we tell them thank you, this is something the Iraqis will handle and the Iraqis will liberate Mosul and the rest of the territories," he said following a meeting with visiting US Defense Secretary Ash Carter in Baghdad. “We don't have any problems,” Abadi added, noting that the Iraqi government "will ask for help from Turkey or from other regional countries” if need be. Ankara has been locked in a diplomatic row with Baghdad over the presence of Turkish troops at the Bashiqa military camp. The Iraqi government says the troops are there without Baghdad’s permission, and has frequently called for their withdrawal. Peshmerga close in on Mosul Meanwhile, Kurdish Peshmerga forces have reached within eight kilometers of Mosul. Earlier, Kurdish forces announced that they had retaken the Bashiqa which is located close to Mosul. Iraqi forces enter the village of al-Khuwayn south of Mosul, after recapturing it from Daesh on October 23, 2016, in part of an ongoing operation to tighten the noose around Mosul and reclaim the last major Iraqi city under Daesh control. A Kurdish commander also confirmed that Turkey had shelled Daesh positions using heavy artillery on request of the Peshmerga forces. According to Kurdish forces, two Peshmerga factions linked together after surrounding Bashiqa and managed to secure an area measuring around 100 square kilometers and secure a long stretch of the Bashiqa-Mosul highway in a move which severely limits the Takfiri terrorists' freedom of movement. Iraqi forces secure power plant east of Mosul According to Brigadier General Nijem al-Jabour, Iraqi troops have managed to retake a power station from Daesh terrorists some 30 kilometers south of Mosul. Iraqi forces fire artillery shells towards nearby villages from the outskirts of the village of al-Khuwayn, south of Mosul, after recapturing it from Daesh on October 23, 2016, in part of an ongoing operation to tighten the noose around Mosul and reclaim the last major Iraqi city under Daesh control. (Photo by AFP) He added that so far some 30 villages surrounding the Daesh stronghold have been purged from Daesh’s presence. Another Iraqi official noted that Daesh executed around 40 people who were celebrating the liberation of their villages. Half of Mosul refugees will be children The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) warns that half of the Iraqis expected to flee Mosul when the offensive reaches the city itself will be children. "The UN is estimating that between 1.2 to 1.5 million people may be affected by the current situation in Mosul. We as UNICEF estimate that at least 50 percent of these people will be children," said UNICEF's Middle East regional director, Geert Cappelaere. Iraqi refugees that fled violence in Mosul wait to enter Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) controlled land, near the Iraqi border, in Hasakah province on October 23, 2016. (Photo by Reuters) Since the offensive began last week, around 5,640 people have fled the city. "These children have been exposed for over two years to probably a lot of atrocities, extreme living conditions and we want to be there for them to provide them the psycho-social support, to provide them efforts that give them back a normal life as a child," he added. According to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), so far, around 900 families, some 5,400 people, have been accepted in designated refugee camps outside of the direct conflict zone. Over the past week, the Iraqi army, backed by volunteer forces, has been engaged in a large military offensive to cleanse Mosul of Daesh terrorists. Mosul fell to Daesh in 2014, when the terror group started ravaging the country, naming the city as its so-called headquarters in Iraq. The Mosul offensive involves more than 25,000 Iraqi ground forces. It is expected to take weeks, if not months, to drive Daesh out the city, which hosts more than a million civilians. (PressTV)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
	+1

Menu

Forums

Fleet Of Android Robots To Begin Policing The Streets By 2017

Exposed Viral Hoaxes Prove How Easy It Is To Dupe The World With Disinfo

1) New Technology for Merging Faces

3) Lightning almost strikes girl in Sydney!!! Boyfriend’s reaction is priceless!!!!

4) GoPro: Man Fights Off Great White Shark In Sydney Harbour

5) USA vs JAPAN – Ultimate Selfie Stick Fight

6) Snowboarder Girl Chased By Bear – I Was Singing Rihanna Work And Didn’t Know It Was Behind Me!

Final Thoughts

US: Philippines' Duterte sparking distress around the world

#Podesta16: WikiLeaks releases fresh batch of emails from Clinton campaign chair

‘Slaughter Donald for Putin bromance’: #Podesta15 emails reveal ISIS strategy diversion for Clinton...

Clinton campaign yet again distracts from Podesta revelations with misinformation about RT — RT...

Pay for Play? Clintons’ financially fueled favors revealed in latest Podesta emails — RT America

Iraq denies Turkish participation in Mosul ops