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		<description><![CDATA[ÜBERMENSCH: CHILDREN OF DEAD MEN When Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency in 2008, we were plagued with the word &#8220;change&#8221; as a selling point to his campaign &#8211; that word was &#8220;change.&#8221; While the left wing and the right wing saw change in different ways there was another wing that saw the world differently. [...]]]></description>
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CHILDREN OF DEAD MEN</div>
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<p>When Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency in 2008, we were plagued with the word &#8220;change&#8221; as a selling point to his campaign &#8211; that word was &#8220;change.&#8221; While the left wing and the right wing saw change in different ways there was another wing that saw the world differently. These are the “<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Up-Wingers" target="_blank">Up-Wingers</a>”. Their idea of change was more Promethean and bold than with mere political ping pong. “<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Up-Wingers" target="_blank">Up-Wingers</a>” aren’t really a political party, they are just a group of what are called &#8220;<em>forward and evolutionary I-theists</em>.&#8221; They believe that our “change” should come from enhancements in technology. That becoming more than human is our next phase in evolution.</p>
<p>“<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Up-Wingers" target="_blank">Up-Wingers</a>” are kind of secret group of people that don’t rally, they don’t protest and they really don’t think about politics, that is of course if the politician supports their views of the super human or the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Übermensch" target="_blank">Übermensch</a>.</p>
<p>The “<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Up-Wingers" target="_blank">Up-Wingers</a>” movement is excited about the prospect of how we are integrating so quickly into a technological hyper-reality that the simulation is far more real than the mediocrity of the real.</p>
<p>Everything is intensified that our stimulation sensors need upgrades in order to sustain the kind of stimulation we are seeing today. In order to do this we may have to face voluntary human extinction with the promise that a better life awaits through technological advancement.</p>
<p>We are living in the age of the technocrats. Big business, big data, and the big brains who control the intelligentsia and are responsible for the DNA databases, the genome mapping, the medical surveillance state and the micro chipped society that will eventually end up part of the singularity.</p>
<p>In government, the technocrats are on top, too. Their policies are beginning to sound like something out of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World" target="_blank">Huxley’s &#8220;Brave New World&#8221;</a>, many of the technocrats and “<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Up-Wingers" target="_blank">Up-Wingers</a>” give us our GMO&#8217;s and sit on the board of directors of pharmaceutical companies.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Technocrats" target="_blank">Technocrats</a> both helped cause and failed to predict the global financial crisis and they are also helping to both promote and destroy the information age by fighting these small battles and according to the government fueling sedition and terrorist ideologies.</p>
<p>Technocrats can be your science fiction prophets that tend to guide the conversation about how we feel about machines and the relationship that we eventually have to have with them. These machines will help us, serve us, will be involved with law enforcement and without care we can also see these machines as an enemy plotting to kill us.</p>
<p>Science fiction illustrates the extremes of Transhuman form. Even though the idea of Transhumanism extends the promise of neutralized pain and suffering, we must understand that it is pain and suffering that makes the joy of the human experience more meaningful. It has been demonstrated in Science fiction that while Transhuman technology may prolong the life of one man, he still remains a slave buried in a technological prison. In &#8220;Star Wars&#8221;, Darth Vader was enslaved by technology and his ego. In &#8220;Robocop&#8221;, the protagonist was fighting to regain his lost humanity.</p>
<p>Nietzsche’s description of the Übermensch is one who has surpassed humankind, but still cares for the transience and vitality that humankind represents. We all know the story of Pinocchio wanting to be a real boy – and yet there are many humans that feel that they need to become Pinocchio&#8217;s. The need for love and the need for humanity can be found in the movie &#8220;A.I.&#8221;. The story was haunting, the creepiness compelling and it served as a warning to those who believe that full evolution from MECHA to ORGA is possible.</p>
<p>While there are pacemakers, titanium heart valves, and now bionic limbs in order to improve life, there are people that believe that voluntary conversion to machines will help in creating a heaven on earth. The new evolution is being prepared as we speak and many people are ready to convert.</p>
<p>However, with the conversion there are consequences that we need to address and some of these consequences sound like nightmares that challenge our morality.</p>
<p>In the mind of the “<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Up-Wingers" target="_blank">Up-Wingers</a>” and technocrats there must be a separation from mind and body. You have to train your mind to accept the idea that you are nothing more than a machine that can be salvaged through repairs and mechanical expertise.</p>
<p>This includes anything to do with medical health and reproductive health.</p>
<p>The main value that exists in the technocratic paradigm of medicine is separation. There is the principle of separation that states that things are better understood outside of their context, that is, divorced from related objects or persons. Techno-medicine continually separates the individual into component parts, the process of reproduction into constituent elements, and experience of childbirth from the flow of life. But first and foremost, it separates the human body from the human mind.</p>
<p>The transhumanistic and technocratic style is more or less without the obstacle of a soul that literally gets in the way of the process of treating the body like a machine that may be in need of an artificial part or substance to sustain it.</p>
<p>Mechanizing the human body and defining the body-machine as the proper object of medical treatment frees techno medical practitioners from any sense of responsibility or care for the patient’s mind or spirit. In the future and at times in our present we begin to see that medical doctors do not necessarily have the need to engage with an individual who has a medical condition. They merely use language that reflects a more mechanical view of the patient. You go from being a named patient with a bad knee, to merely the knee replacement coded and signed ready for tracking and prepared in room 223.</p>
<p>The passage in the Obama care proposal page 1001 illustrates this perfectly. The <a href="http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message870743/pg1" target="_blank">Affordable Health Care Act Subtitle C-11 Sec. 2521— National Medical Device Registry</a> reads:</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the ‘registry’) to facilitate analysis of post market safety and outcomes data on each device that— ‘‘is or has been used in or on a patient; ‘‘and is ‘‘a class III device; or ‘‘a class II device that is implantable, life-supporting, or life-sustaining.”</em>&#8221;</p>
<p>There have been many attempts to downplay this section by those who don’t want to believe that this may entail an implantable device, namely a transponder or chip, however this is exactly what this is meant to address along with other devices that can be used to prolong and sustain life.</p>
<p>In fact, the very purpose of these devices are to collect data in medical patients such as &#8220;<em><a href="http://www.meguiar.addr.com/end_times/HEALTH_CARE_MICRO_CHIP.htm" target="_blank">claims data, patient survey data, standardized analytic files that allow for the pooling and analysis of data from disparate data environments, electronic health records, and any other data deemed appropriate by the Secretary.</a></em>&#8221;</p>
<p>These provisions are necessary in order to restructure that which is seen as being an old system. The Affordable Health Care Act was proposed and made into law, not improve health care, but to control who gets medical care, who is need of new technologies to prolong life, and to regulate reproductive health in order to identify and observe those with genetic defects or mental problems.</p>
<p>Yes this is all part of a surveillance and eugenics program that many people think is all for the benefit of the people.</p>
<p>Obviously, they were wrong and now we are part of the machine that will decide if we are eligible for health care and even technological breakthroughs that will sustain life or even recreate it.</p>
<p>Ever since man walked the earth he has made his world, destroyed it and made it all over again. As it is written Biblically that <a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/1-27.htm" target="_blank">God made man in his own image</a>, it must be said that man has made things in his own image to his own liking in ways unprecedented for thousands of years. It has been speculated by many theorists that as man realizes his power he most often sees himself as a God and develops technological creations that imitate what is termed “natural“ or “human.”</p>
<p>By the time we get to the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=postmodern" target="_blank">postmodern</a> world that many human beings inhabit today, the lived-in, physical environment is for the most part, culturally produced. Reality is encountered mostly as virtual, or produced as an effect of human enhancements and operations. We are kept constantly surrounded by human productions and technology that is indistinguishable from magic. We are transported everywhere by machines within a realm totally fabricated by human engineering. We remain mesmerized by phenomena that are electronically simulated. We lose ourselves in virtual worlds.</p>
<p>Most memories now are collective unconscious thoughts that have been pumped into you through electronic transmission. You accept reality through the electronic medium. All things both real and simulated have had an effect of your brain. You have retained everything based on what a controlled electronic dictum has given you. Our rational minds are now far from rational because we have had most of the objective reality replaced by Hyper-reality.</p>
<p>The uncanny valley hypothesis holds that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. From robots, to enhanced humans and even synthesized sperm and ovum, the new science is here and Transhumanism is the next phase in our evolutionary shift.</p>
<p>A loose definition of Transhumanism is a point in evolution where man becomes something that is beyond human. Transhumanists see the human body as something that can be improved through science and technology. They also see technology as a means to where we can overcome suffering, aging, loneliness, and involuntary death. Transhumanist thinkers predict that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings with such greatly expanded abilities as to merit the label &#8220;posthuman.” The symbol for Transhuman is H+ or “<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Enhanced+Human" target="_blank">Enhanced Human</a>.”</p>
<p>With the post-Homo Novo human breakthroughs, we are now capable of creating human beings both organic and artificial through a synthesizing of human matter and the use of technological constructs that raise the limits on what we call human life.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/an-april-fool-in-the-uncanny-valley/" target="_blank">Human sperm can now be created outside of the human body in a laboratory</a>. The sperm can be made from a small sliver of skin. It raises the possibility of babies being born entirely through artificial means, and even the macabre scenario of long-dead men &#8216;fathering&#8217; children from beyond the grave.</p>
<p>This means that we are at a point in our evolution where human reproduction is not a purely biological process. Imagine making sperm from the DNA of a dead man. Or how about making sperm from the DNA of a child? How would that affect us psychologically, socially and ethically? <a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/unveiling-the-uncanny-valley/" target="_blank">The process could be done in a lab with machines monitoring the embryo as it grows</a>.</p>
<p>With this technology it is feasible to get the same result from the stem cells of an aborted fetus. This would mean that if a woman wanted an abortion she could request that the cells of the unborn fetus to be salvaged, kept in liquid nitrogen, and then used later when the baby could be born at a more convenient time for the mother. <a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/666-branding-a-new-monster/" target="_blank">Does this technology now eliminate the murdering of babies in abortion clinics?</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groundzeroradio/posts/10151474307407102" target="_blank" class="broken_link">Would conservative groups praise this type of technology if it meant that the baby would eventually be born instead of killed off?</a></p>
<p>Honestly, the biggest frustration is that technology now has raised issues that the Bible with all of its “divinity” does not address. That is, of course, “Up-Wingers” and the “Technocrats” are allowed to play God by enhancing or terminating creation for the sake of Transhumanist pursuits.</p>
<p>We also will see some very interesting legal rulings with the new technolies and sciences – many will be unfair and dismissive.</p>
<p>For example, according to Wikipedia, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrue_v._Capato" target="_blank">a legal case entitled Astrue v. Capato</a>, a court ruled that posthumous birth are not entitled to Social Security Survivors benefits.<br />
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&#8220;<i>In 1999, Karen Capato&#8217;s husband, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Robert+Capato" target="_blank">Robert Capato</a>, was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Out of fear that he would become sterile due to the chemotherapy, Robert started to deposit sperm in a sperm bank in 2001. He began to recover and discovered that he was not left infertile by the cancer treatments. This led to the Capatos conceiving a son. Robert&#8217;s condition started to worsen in 2002 and he died of cancer.</i></p>
<p><em>Eighteen months after her husband&#8217;s death, in 2003, Capato gave birth to twins. They were conceived after Robert&#8217;s death using the sperm deposited in the sperm bank via in vitro fertilization. This was according to the Capatos&#8217; plan so their son could have siblings. She applied for Social Security Survivors Benefits based on her husbands earnings during his lifetime. Her claim was rejected by the Social Security Administration (SSA).</em>&#8221;<br />
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Obviously, it is going to be difficult o adjust to the new idea of Transhumanist procedures and policies. Some believe they are unethical and immoral.</p>
<p><a href="http://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/the-national-intelligence-council-predicts-a-very-transhuman-future-by-2030/" target="_blank">Transhumanists will argue that what they are proposing promotes life and the continuation of the soul</a>, that is if we have souls. With these technologies it is feasible to create another host for the continuation of your consciousness, basically another host for your mind. The idea of uploading the brain into the body of a clone or an artificially enhanced child has been considered by science as one of our next steps in the evolutionary process.</p>
<p>In 1958, Robert Sheckley wrote a piece of speculative fiction about a human&#8217;s consciousness being transferred into a brain-dead body. This can unleash something known as the Frankenstein consciousness where ethics once again need to be examined. While we have the capability of creating artificial intelligence do we have the capability of building a model of a brain complete enough to allow a conscious mind to emerge?</p>
<p>&#8220;<a href="http://hplusmagazine.com/2009/07/01/mind-uploading-and-mind-children/" target="_blank"><em>The other question is concerned with identity. Some people argue that, if a copy of a conscious mind is identical by all measures (ignoring the fact that one is biological and the other is neuromorphic software/hardware) it should be thought of as a continuation of the mind that was mapped and uploaded. Others argue that a copy cannot be considered the same as the original, so the newly awakened consciousness must be another person.</em></a>&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/h-trans-post-humanity/" target="_blank">This where we wonder if Transhumanism is literally killing off a part of you to extend other parts of you</a>. The brain is the most delicate and we debate the ethics of its transplantation. We don’t bat an eye about the use of other organs to be harvested from donors and to use body parts in order to live on in others.</p>
<p>In the book “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/A-Change-Heart-Memoir/dp/0446604690" target="_blank">Change of Heart</a>” dancer Claire Sylvia claims that after a heart and lung transplant operation, she discovered that new organs were not the only thing she inherited. She began to crave beer and Kentucky fried chicken. Her friends were also noticing that she would sometimes act like a teenager and walk like a boy. She claims that she inherited the traits of her young male donor.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/unveiling-the-uncanny-valley/" target="_blank">There have been other accounts of this phenomenon, as well, which raises awareness about psycho-spiritual issues regarding consciousness and death</a>. Is there organ memory within the body and if we transcend the body to machine will our mechanized bodies yearn for human needs like spiritual and emotional desire?</p>
<p>As you can possibly understand, Transhumanism or Trans-post-humanity faces serious risks, especially from the misuse of new technologies. There are possible realistic scenarios that lead to the loss of most, or even all, of what we hold valuable. Some of these scenarios are drastic, others are subtle. <a href="http://www.millennialstar.org/the-mormon-transhumanist-association/" target="_blank">Although all progress is change, not all change is progress</a>.</p>
<p>While there are advantages to most Transhuman or human enhancement technologies, we need to understand that perhaps it is a moral imperative to limit our ability to integrate with machines and technology. If not, we are looking at voluntary genocide.</p>
<p>However we may not have to worry about the possibility of totally disappearing, perhaps our salvation could be that machines would be able to someday find the DNA data of many who have previously died in a possible extinction level event. They could be programmed to somehow find a way to artificially create a fetus, nurture it and feed it. Thus the civilization of the future could very well be the Ubermench created by machines synthesized from the dead bodies of our ancestors.</p>
<p>Thus the future will be made certain, the creators of the future will be machines and their offspring will be children of dead men and women.</p>
<p>Could it be that this is how it has been all along?</p>
<p>This gives new meaning to the Latin phrase <a href="http://groundzero.fm/?p=episode&amp;name=2013-06-13_20130612_groundzero.mp3" target="_blank">Deus ex Machina</a>.<br />
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<p>In theaters, the &#8216;Man of Steel&#8217; took in a huge amount of box office dollars and it really is no surprise. I was <a href="http://groundzero.fm/?p=episode&amp;name=2013-06-14_20130613_groundzero.mp3" target="_blank">circling the issue of heroes</a> and <a href="http://groundzero.fm/?p=episode&amp;name=2013-06-15_20130614_groundzero.mp3" target="_blank">the phenomenon of what Superman truly is</a> and how the theme of the creation of a ‘super’ man or a man that is better than the common man is part of the agenda of the elite.</p>
<p>It has always been the secret agenda of the elite to eliminate what they feel are bottom feeders and create or breed a <a href="http://hplusmagazine.com/" target="_blank">new type of human called H+</a> or what <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch" target="_blank">Friedrich Nietzsche had called the Übermensch</a> or the “Overman.”</p>
<p>The Übermensch or the &#8220;Superman” according to Nietzsche has reached a state of being where he is no longer affected by &#8216;pity, suffering, tolerance of the weak, the power of the soul over the body, the belief in an afterlife, and the corruption of modern values.</p>
<p>This seems to be the similar ideology that is possessed by our leaders and unfortunately many Americans when it comes to the lives of people that they consider the other, or beneath their standards. Americans find themselves in position of an eerie sense of ennui when it comes to how lives are being shattered by war. They also seem to be more apt to condemn those who see themselves as revolutionaries or even whistleblowers.</p>
<p>American leaders now believe that they are unreachable and at some times act as if they are above all in decision making, and earnest true believers wish to side with them which makes them all part of the machine. Little by little we begin to see the loss of humanity in favor of being plugged in and turned on to the simulation rather than the reality.</p>
<p>Life becomes something that can be disposable, and people become things without souls. The lines between fantasy and reality blur and much like what is seen in the video games, movies and comic books human beings are only part of a program and can be removed at will to make way for the powerful and the perfect.</p>
<p>Superman at first was just a simple super hero; ultimately he is a stepping stone for the long, slow, gradual introduction the new human or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism" target="_blank">the transhuman</a>.</p>
<p>Many believe that the Transhumanist movement has at least some of its origins in some of the darker ideologies of the past. Many of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groundzeroradio/posts/10151474322967102" target="_blank">recent headlines I have been reading</a> have reminded me that science really has not stopped in their quest for human engineering and creating the eugenically perfect human and trying to understand the mysteries that the human experience gives us in the far reached of the brain.</p>
<p>The more I read about what science is interested in now, and what the agendas are of the new globalist super state I intuitively think of the past ideologies that have sprang from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism" target="_blank">Social Darwinism</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariosophy" target="_blank">Ariosophy</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy" target="_blank">Theosophy</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism" target="_blank">Nazism</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism" target="_blank">Communism</a>.</p>
<p>I have been reading some remarkable stories recently that when clearly thought out you begin to understand the possible motivations behind the all out effort to <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/16/msnbcs-ari-melber-explains-why-dna-collection-is-a-civil-rights-issue/" target="_blank">collect DNA samples</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/science/obama-to-unveil-initiative-to-map-the-human-brain.html?_r=0" target="_blank">map out the human brain</a> and other so-called innovations in science that seemingly have the support of the American people.</p>
<p>We all know that the human form has changed dramatically over the years and it has been theorized that we are breeding towards a younger looking and more fit human. The mixing of the races has also developed a more attractive looking human that actually is being called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novus_homo" target="_blank">Novus Homo</a> or the new man.</p>
<p>A psychological study in England, lead by researcher Dr. Michael Lewis, shows that &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1265949/Mixed-race-people-attractive-finds-British-study.html" target="_blank"><em>a &#8216;fusion&#8217; of black, white and mixed races would lead to &#8216;Mr and Mrs Average&#8217; of the future being mixed race, resulting in people more readily identifying with them.</em></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1265949/Mixed-race-people-attractive-finds-British-study.html" target="_blank"><em>But there could also be a Darwinian explanation, with cross-breeding between diverse genetic backgrounds naturally leading to more genetically &#8216;fit&#8217; people who tend to be more attractive.</em></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1265949/Mixed-race-people-attractive-finds-British-study.html" target="_blank"><em>Dr Lewis and colleagues from Cardiff University’s School of Psychology collected a random sample of 1,205 black, white, and mixed-race faces from Facebook communities, including &#8216;mixed race and proud&#8217; and Cornwall-based.</em></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1265949/Mixed-race-people-attractive-finds-British-study.html" target="_blank"><em>Each face was then rated for their perceived attractiveness to others on a scale of one to 10 by 40 female students.</em></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1265949/Mixed-race-people-attractive-finds-British-study.html" target="_blank"><em>Overall, there was a 55 per cent chance that mixed-race faces were perceived as being more attractive than either black or white faces.</em></a>&#8221;</p>
<p>Think of this study when you try and ascertain why our own <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Übermensch+is+in+the+White+House" target="_blank">Übermensch is in the White House</a> and why his administration seems to be obsessed with medical surveillance, eugenics directives, DNA databases, and brain fingerprinting.&#8221;</p>
<p>There have been a number of troubling stories in the news recently which sound like they can be taken right from the Nazi eugenics playbook. On the surface, of course, they sound like science granted to improve our way of life. On the other hand much of what we are hearing about is very creepy because of its propensity for abuses and the suspicion of what it is being used for covertly.</p>
<p>For example The U.S. Defense Department has established was it is calling the world&#8217;s first brain tissue repository in an effort to understand more about traumatic brain injuries to members of the armed services. The Pentagon will attempt to collect several hundred samples for the repository. They will seek permission from the families of deceased service members to collect specimens.</p>
<p>In other words, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groundzeroradio/posts/10151474319687102" target="_blank">soldiers who have given their lives to their country will be subjected to having parts of their brains removed after their deaths for analysis</a>. And this will now happen at <a href="http://braininjuryresearch.usuhs.mil/" target="_blank">The Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine Brain Tissue Repository for Traumatic Brain Injury</a>, which is in Bethesda, Maryland.</p>
<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.myfoxny.com/story/22593616/dod-establishes-brain-tissue-bank" target="_blank"><em>It is being funded with a federal grant to advance the understanding and treatment of traumatic brain injuries in soldiers. The goal is to address how head trauma leads to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). CTE is a neurodegenerative disorder that involves the progressive accumulation of a protein in nerve cells within certain regions of the brain. As the protein accumulates, it disturbs function and appears to lead to symptoms seen in affected patients such as boxers and football players with multiple head trauma.</em></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.myfoxny.com/story/22593616/dod-establishes-brain-tissue-bank" target="_blank"><em>Service members exposed to blasts are coming home with troubling, persistent problems and we don&#8217;t know the nature of this, whether it&#8217;s related to psychiatric responses from engagement in warfare or related to actual damage to the brain.</em></a>&#8221;</p>
<p>If there is part of us that we equate with our &#8220;self,&#8221; or the soul within it is surely the brain. Government and Department of Defense scientists know this.</p>
<p>Imagine the trauma of knowing that the government is now not only claiming ownership of a soldier in life but ownership of the soldier’s brain in death that can be sliced, labeled, frozen and shipped to a laboratory somewhere in the world to be used for research.</p>
<p>I suppose we can overlook the fact that &#8220;<a href="http://usazorropress.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/pentagon-to-study-dead-soldier-brains-or-use-them-for-something-more-sinister-in-brain-mapping-saga/" target="_blank"><em>the Pentagon is involved in progressive genocide worldwide</em></a>&#8221; and take their word that the whole process of taking soldiers brains is all for research is providing a better way of life for future soldiers. However, <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=brain+extraction+human+enhancement+super+soldiers" target="_blank">there are some researchers that are fearful that the brain extraction is part of the human enhancement programs that are meant to create super soldiers and super humans</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.occupycorporatism.com/hacking-the-human-brain-furthers-the-advent-of-super-soldiers/" target="_blank"><em>At the Human Enhancement and the Future of Work conference, and further expanded upon in their published report, explains how science and ethics are coming into conflict as technology promises to replace the faulty human body with an eternal, mechanical replacement.</em></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.occupycorporatism.com/hacking-the-human-brain-furthers-the-advent-of-super-soldiers/" target="_blank"><em>These Transhumanists define human enhancement as everything that “encompasses a range of approaches that may be used to improve aspects of human function such as memory, hearing, mobility. This may either be for the purpose of restoring an impaired function to previous or average levels, or to raise function to a level considered to be ‘beyond the norm’ for humans.”</em></a>&#8221;</p>
<p>Rebuilding the human body is being researched in institutions such as Stanford University in California has recently devised a mathematical algorithm, called REFIT that can decipher neurological signals in the brain that convey movement, speed and accuracy. The public justification for this study is to improve “prosthetic system performance and robustness in paralyzed people”, yet the implications could serve to create super humans and super soldiers.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.occupycorporatism.com/transhumanism-how-the-elite-plan-to-live-forever/" target="_blank">According to Susanne Posel, in her article for Occupy Corporatism called &#8220;Transhumanism: How The Elite Plan To Live Forever&#8221;</a>:</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>The Food and Drug Administration has approved REFIT for human clinical trials as the researchers endeavor to create neuroprosthetics where mind controlled robotic limbs will become a viable future.</em></p>
<p><em>One working prototype is the Bebionic3 myoelectric hand, formed from aluminum with alloy knuckles that mimic real human hand movements. This neuroprosthetic sends electro-signals to the human brain and helps the mind operate and control the function of the prosthetic.</em></p>
<p><em>The replacement of bio-mechanical creations in “the nature of work” for the future is expected to improve society by:</em></p>
<p><em>• Using autonomous robots in the workplace</em><br />
<em> • Altering the global temperament of work and business</em><br />
<em> • Transition robotic workforce to provide goods and services</em><br />
<em> • Structure organizations that influence international understanding of robotic advancements</em><br />
<em> • Utilize robotics in medical care to advert disease, change illnesses and add to the progress of medicine</em><br />
<em> • Promote a new sense of physical well-being</em></p>
<p><em>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has a $2 billion yearly budget for research into creating a super solider as well as developing a synthetic police force. Working with the human genome, DARPA hopes to manipulate certain gene expressions. In experimentation, DARPA and the military industrial pharmaceutical complex are using natural abilities that are enhanced through genetic engineering.</em></p>
<p><em>Some of the medical feats DARPA would like to enhance are the ability of military soldiers to re-grow limbs destroyed in battle.</em></p>
<p><em>By eliminating empathy, the Department of Defense hopes to “enhance” a soldier’s ability to “kill without care or remorse, shows no fear, can fight battle after battle without fatigue and generally behave more like a machine than a man.”</em></p>
<p><em>Scientists are researching the construction of soldiers that feel no pain, terror and do not suffer from fatigue as tests on the wiring of the human brain are furthered by Jonathan Moreno, professor of bioethics at Pennsylvania State University. Moreno is working with the DoD in understanding neuroscience. The Pentagon allocated $400 million to this research.</em>&#8221;</p>
<p>While there are pacemakers, titanium heart valves and now bionic limbs in order to improve life, there are people that believe that voluntary conversion to machines will help in creating a heaven on earth. The new evolution is being prepared as we speak and many people are ready to convert. The question is: “<a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/unveiling-the-uncanny-valley/" target="_blank">How far will you go?</a>”</p>
<p>We have sped up our evolution with the use of drugs, bodily enhancements and technology. The human we will see in the not too distant future, will be an advanced human, <a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/h-trans-post-humanity/" target="_blank">maybe even something that has a semblance to humanity without being human</a>.</p>
<p>Science fiction illustrates the extremes of transhuman form. Even though the idea of transhumanism extends the promise of neutralized pain and suffering, we must understand that it is pain and suffering that makes the joy of the human experience more meaningful. <a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/unveiling-the-uncanny-valley/" target="_blank">It has been demonstrated in science fiction that while transhuman technology may prolong the life of one man, he still remains a slave buried in a technological prison</a>.</p>
<p>The Internet has been <a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/unveiling-the-uncanny-valley/" target="_blank">remarkably effective at promoting the ideas of a techno-utopia</a> and the idea of transhumanism philosophies even though many authors like Aldous Huxley and Philip K. Dick have painted a grim picture of a world that rejects humanity for technological enhancements</p>
<p>If our future is destined to be lit by the fires of a nuclear conflagration, <a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/unveiling-the-uncanny-valley/" target="_blank">transhuman philosophies could be curtailed and replaced</a> by the need for a social and philosophical globalization.</p>
<p>Nationalism and globalization slows down the process for transhumanism. Global sustainability or the green movement wants global reduction of species, not enhancement or even survivability. <a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/unveiling-the-uncanny-valley/" target="_blank">They see technology and human survivability as detrimental to earth sustainability</a>.</p>
<p>While global sustainability wants population or “carbon footprint” reduction, transhumanism wants population replacement. They believe that “humanity” can be sacrificed in order to be enhanced. Evolution’s next phase is better living through <a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/unveiling-the-uncanny-valley/" target="_blank">the mixing of machine and man and the eventual takeover of machine</a>.</p>
<p>Humanity need not survive. But an artificial construct of the human condition or a virtual reality can be enough for the over stimulated future. The human condition seems to be so “<a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/unveiling-the-uncanny-valley/" target="_blank">last century</a>.”</p>
<p>Many people are already comfortable with the idea of using technologies, nanotech machine or genetic, to improve their health to optimal and somewhat beyond, to ensure a healthy life until they die. People wear pacemakers, have titanium valves in their hearts or artificial knees or hips. <a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/unveiling-the-uncanny-valley/" target="_blank">All part of technology to improve your way of life</a>.</p>
<p>Are you comfortable with seeing your body age or would you consider cosmetic surgery, implants, chemical peeling, Botox injections, or liposuction? In order to prevent obesity, would you consider elective gastric bypass surgery? <a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/unveiling-the-uncanny-valley/" target="_blank">Would you consider an injection of microscopic nanotech robots to clean your arteries or to help you lose weight by having &#8216;nano-bites&#8217; that live on human fat</a>?</p>
<p>Would you be willing to link your thinking capacity to technologies, genetic or mechanic, which would intensely increase your cognitive abilities, to the point of being able to multitask managing multiple complex tasks, to hold vast amounts of information and models to be called at will, to be able to reason with unthinkable speed and depth. <a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/unveiling-the-uncanny-valley/" target="_blank">If all of this technology could be put in a chip and inserted into your brain would you accept it</a>?</p>
<p>If you were given the opportunity would you totally leave your human genetics behind, and modify yourself every day with new advances in technology, up to and including having powers which mythologies attribute to the gods. Would you allow yourself through technology to become like Superman or Spider-Man? <a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/unveiling-the-uncanny-valley/" target="_blank">Would you want to accept the role of a mutant with ability to shape shift knowing full well that you may or may not be accepted as human by your peers</a>?</p>
<p><a href="http://groundzero.fm/?p=episode&amp;name=2013-02-01_20130131_groundzero.mp3" target="_blank">Would you give consent to becoming part of a computer program if it would mean you could become immortal?</a></p>
<p>If you became terminally ill with a malady science had no cure for, <a href="http://mediamonarchy.blogspot.com/2009/10/ted-williams-severed-head-abused-in.html" target="_blank">would you voluntarily have your body cryogenically frozen in order to preserve it for a time when science could revive you and cure you of the disease or replace your diseased parts with mechanical parts</a>?</p>
<p>If you find yourself saying yes to any of those questions then you are taking your first step towards the new evolution of mankind. The evolution that should transcend the need for a new world order. The revolution where some of your humanity will slip through your fingers and allow you to be impervious to pain, suffering, even death.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/unveiling-the-uncanny-valley/" target="_blank">You may say it will give you freedom</a> &#8211; but it may just make you a slave to technology.<br />
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		</p><p><a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/614-matt-haley/matt_haley_superman_shazam/" rel="attachment wp-att-12321"><img src="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/matt_haley_superman_shazam-266x390.png" alt="6/14: Hero Worship w/ Matt Haley" title="6/14: Hero Worship w/ Matt Haley" width="266" height="390" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-12321" /></a>As the new &#8216;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/14/showbiz/zack-snyder-man-of-steel/" target="_blank">Man Of Steel</a>&#8216; film is being seen by massive worldwide audiences, it&#8217;s Friday night at Ground Zero and we&#8217;ve seen the movie, too. If the previous Superman movie was overtly messianic, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groundzeroradio/posts/10151462897387102" target="_blank">this latest film seems to cast our hero as a flawed and fallen angel</a>. Tonight, Clyde Lewis welcomes our friend and artist <a href="http://www.matthaley.com/" target="_blank">Matt Haley</a> (creator of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151046266932102" target="_blank">Ground Zero logo</a>!) back to the show to look at &#8216;<a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/the-naked-man-of-steel/" target="_blank">The Naked Man Of Steel</a>&#8216;!</p>
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<p>While I had approached the subject of heroes and whether or not we struggle with identifying them among us, I decided to let my inner child run free and purchased a matinee ticket for the new film &#8216;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Steel_(film)" target="_blank">Man of Steel</a>&#8216;, a film about Superman and his dealings with the people of planet Earth.<br />
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I was very hesitant in seeing this film because I was worried that once again I would be seeing a film where the idea of a &#8216;<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Jesus+Christ+Superman" target="_blank">Jesus Christ Superman</a>&#8216; would be the metaphor for the entire picture. I must tell you that the metaphor never escapes Superman because he is part alien and part man, much like Jesus was part God part man. This film however gave it a direction that reminded me of Martin Scorsese’s &#8216;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ" target="_blank">The Last Temptation of Christ</a>&#8216; where Jesus knew that he was a man and a God and had to deal with the pitfalls of being both and living up to the destiny of being more than just a man and more than just a God among them.<br />
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It meant that sometimes you must learn restraint, patience, tolerance and a genuine love for who you are and who your fellow men are.</p>
<p>We are told that mankind is at a constant and long suffering struggle with decisions that are either good or evil. This leaves us vulnerable and naked and this is why in the presence of deity we feel ashamed or humbled because we can’t hid the fact that inside all of us is duality seeking balance.</p>
<p>We learn in the movie &#8216;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6DJcgm3wNY" target="_blank">Man of Steel</a>&#8216; that even our heroes and maybe are saviors are conflicted.</p>
<p>I think that this makes him more believable now as opposed to being a superhero that cannot be conquered or challenged and therefore boring.</p>
<p>I believe that in this instance Superman has been stripped naked, revealing that he had 33 years to learn how to be human. He found that he loved the experience in such a way to be a protective and thoughtful archangel to a planet that is struggling with its paranoia and fear of an enemy that they can’t define.</p>
<p>We realize in this film that there are worldwide concerns about what is being seen in space. World organizations are secretly investigating extra-terrestrial events and how they are affecting the world at large. There is so much destruction in the film that it makes me wonder if this is the future. That in the destruction of this old world, humanity and heroes can be found who are willing to sacrifice whatever it takes to rebuild and restructure what appears to be total oblivion.</p>
<p>Is this a global concern &#8211; or are people in the United States more concerned about these types of topics?</p>
<p>Can we see the film as a metaphor for the second coming or is there far more here than just a unifying hero that comes to save the world in another form of <a href="http://groundzero.fm/?p=episode&amp;name=2013-06-13_20130612_groundzero.mp3" target="_blank">Deus Ex Machina</a>.</p>
<p>There are a lot of people that will tell you that the movies we see and the books we read are just movies and books. It is even worse if you are a comic book reader because a lot of what is written about in the comics and the heroes we see in them really have no meaning in the big scheme of life beyond the panels of ink and lines.</p>
<p>I beg to differ because comics have always been known to reflect an underground theme that eventually shows up in television shows and movies.</p>
<p>I would argue that much of the propaganda found in movies and television today is sparking the process of globalist indoctrination that many people fear is the future for our country. There have been conspiracy theories surrounding the processes of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_%28conspiracy_theory%29" target="_blank">New World Order</a> being forged where America loses its sovereignty and we have no choice but to join the ranks of a world dictatorship operating under a new socialist model. In theory, the worry seems to be that “predictive programming” could be destructive to a captive audience.</p>
<p>There is always that possibility that if you indoctrinate enough of the masses someone will accept that a New World Order is the only way to eliminate our economic and social ills. Some may even believe that the fate of the future generations rests on the idea of a globalist doctrine.</p>
<p>Several writers and commentators have spoken on the topic of  “shadow government” and their task of “controlled disintegration” in order to level the physical economy of the wider world economy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/the-chinese-syndrome/" target="_blank">Starting in 1973, the Council on Foreign Relations embarked upon a massive, nation changing project it named “Project 80s.”</a> This project had at its core, the policy of “<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=controlled+disintegration" target="_blank"><em>controlled disintegration</em></a>” of world economy in order to reconstruct a socialist government based on the Chinese Model.</p>
<p>Several key policies of “<a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/socialism/socialism1.htm" target="_blank">Project 80s</a>,” were major issues that dealt with the now hugely propagandized ecology and climate “problems” and the task of population reduction. Controlled disintegration of the economy would force the world into a new kind of socialism.</p>
<p>The task at hand would be to gradually change the entire dynamic of the planet, maintain a full spectrum surveillance state and those who adapt to all of these abrupt changes will survive and those that don’t will perish.</p>
<p>Former Secretary of State and CFR member Hillary Clinton admitted in an address &#8220;<i><a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/30073.html" target="_blank">latest address to the Council on Foreign Relations what Carroll Quigley wrote about in Tragedy and Hope&#8230;Dan Smoot wrote about in The Invisible Government, and Gary Allen wrote about in None Dare Call It Conspiracy</a>,</i>&#8221; and that is The United States is not under the control of a constitutional government. It is being controlled by special committees and social engineers that want to create the New Socialist Order.</p>
<p>A steadily growing percentage of Americans realize some form of threat does exist that actually challenges the continued existence of this republic. They sense a threat and there are others that believe it is a paranoid delusion and that perhaps our way of life needs to change and that the new leaders have the world safely protected by an unseen network.</p>
<p>So many of the elite are fighting for the steering wheel of the planet and many people are hoping that the person who gains control is a person of integrity. There are others who are cheering for the military, others are waiting for a savior from elsewhere to fulfill written prophecy and save the world from utter destruction and terrible evil.</p>
<p>In the fictional panels of a Superman comic and in the films that have shown him on the screen you cannot ignore that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Steel" target="_blank">Man of Steel</a> is a metaphor for Jesus. He is the Christian man of steel and there are many Christians today that are awaiting his return to save the planet from succumbing to war and globalist oligarchy devoid of God and morality.</p>
<p>In the Superman mythology, his father’s name is Jor-El, and Superman’s birth name name is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superboy_%28Kal-El%29" target="_blank">Kal-El</a>. The connection here is the extension of the name, “El” In Hebrew, “El” literally means “God” or “god.”</p>
<p>Jor-El sent his “<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=only+begotten" target="_blank"><em>only begotten</em></a>” son to Earth, not to condemn or destroy it , but to contribute to it, protect and save the people who live on it.</p>
<p>The rest of the story however seems to fall in line with much of the Gnostic stories that speak of a war between the Gods, the battle between Lucifer, God and Jesus and how there seems to be this lack of love for the people of earth by Lucifer and how he eventual falls.</p>
<p>The battle between the evil Zod and Cal-el is similar to this story. In the religious view there will most definitely be a Deus ex Machina where god will literally return to save the world and change it back into a paradise.</p>
<p>If you study the works of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky" target="_blank">Helen Blavatsky</a> and her Theosophy, you find her theories on the idea of Lucifer being the true protector of man. General Zod in the latest Superman epic sees himself as the only survivor of Krypton but has the knowledge to revive the people of his dead planet. The way to do it is to change the environment of earth and to commit an act of genocide to do so. Kal-el favors humans and protects them from Zod and thus we see the classic struggle of the metaphoric Jesus to Satan, Superman and Zod.</p>
<p><a href="http://superman.wikia.com/wiki/General_Zod" target="_blank">General Zod</a> begins a rebellion against a planetary <a href="http://superman.wikia.com/wiki/Kryptonian_Council" target="_blank">Council of Krypton</a>. He along with his followers are banished into the void. This is also metaphoric of the fall of Lucifer and his rebellious angels from the presence of God. Zod of course hates humans and wants them all dead and he eventually comes to earth and reveals himself to the earth as an adversary, much like Satan is in the Christian pantheon.</p>
<p>It has taken thousands of years, many books and so–called sacred texts to continually wire the human mind for the arrival of gods, angels, demons, extra–terrestrials, aliens or whatever metaphor you choose to use.</p>
<p>Whoever is behind it has had the sound knowledge of social engineering and a clear view of the intended goal. Keeping a mystery is a subtle weapon and keeping a secret is a manipulative tool to get the reptilian mind working to try and reveal the secret.</p>
<p>The contemporary fiction of the man of steel is quite literally a tale that has been written about for millennium.</p>
<p>There has always been a struggle for world domination and that domination includes mass murder, genocide, and the oppression and enslavement of a group of people at the expense of the powerful and privileged.</p>
<p>In every history of the world there always seems to be the meme of a savior that will somehow rise from the oppressed that will eventually be a selfless care giver to the weak.</p>
<p>The gnostic balance needs to be pointed out because where the Jesus and Superman comparison fails is that Superman or Kal-El does not come to the planet to save it from sin. Superman has a mission to show planet Earth that we must realize our potential; and be mindful of our future and our importance in the universal whole.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/14/showbiz/zack-snyder-man-of-steel/" target="_blank">If you really wanted to detail the true meaning of Superman</a>, you can actually call the concept <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=I-theism" target="_blank">I-theism</a> or the knowledge that the way to find potential the world beyond is to find the god or hero within.</p>
<p>Once again we see the Luciferian concept of all for you and struggle with the Christ like concept all for others. The man of steel, the true man or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cbermensch" target="_blank">Übermensch</a> struggles with both concepts and chooses both through the balance of nature and does not feel guilty when he fails or sins.</p>
<p>Friedrich Nietzsche wrote “<a href="http://www.theperspectivesofnietzsche.com/nietzsche/nuber.html" target="_blank"><em>Man is something that shall be overcome&#8230;. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman (SUPER MAN/UBERMENCH) &#8212; a rope over an abyss&#8230; What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.</em></a>”<br />
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I-theists see themselves as the great thinkers of the world and believe that they are gods themselves. I –theists see themselves as shepherds and not the sheep.</p>
<p>However, I-theism &#8211; or even the concepts of solipsism &#8211; fail when we realize that quite literally in the end we are left alone, frightened and naked when we die.</p>
<p>Therefore, we hope and pray that at that moment there will be a savior waiting to show us how to ascend to a place we call heaven.<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[HERO ZERO In my Yahoo news trends I again noticed that the book &#8216;Nineteen Eighty-Four&#8217; by George Orwell is still selling like crazy. I don’t know if it is because of the 64th anniversary or people want to read it to see if the government is using it as a guide book to destroy everything [...]]]></description>
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<p>In my Yahoo news trends I again noticed that the book <a href="http://blogs.denverpost.com/books/2013/06/11/did-edward-snowden-propel-george-orwells-1984-onto-bestseller-list/10191/" target="_blank">&#8216;Nineteen Eighty-Four&#8217; by George Orwell is still selling like crazy</a>. I don’t know if it is because of the 64th anniversary or people want to read it to see if the government is using it as a guide book to destroy everything that amounts to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.</p>
<p>As I was doing research I stumbled upon some other recommendations for reading. These recommendations linked me to several other authors I have read over time. There was Aldus Huxley’s &#8220;<a href="http://archive.org/stream/ost-english-brave_new_world_aldous_huxley/Brave_New_World_Aldous_Huxley_djvu.txt" target="_blank">Brave New World</a>&#8220;, many of the great books by Joseph Campbell and, of course, there was &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minority_Report" target="_blank">Minority Report</a>&#8221; by Phillip K. Dick.</p>
<p>These authors were very influential in my young adult life. While what they wrote was at the time fiction I tend to wonder if they were prophets, agent provocateurs, or heroes.</p>
<p>I was moving through the internet to the essay that was written by Phillip K. Dick that was unfortunately called “<a href="http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm324170.html" target="_blank">The Great Satanic Blasphemy</a>.&#8221; This essay makes you wonder about superheroes and the possibility that we all have the ability to “save the world” because we are all basically &#8220;<a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pluriform" target="_blank">pluriforms</a>&#8221; of God.</p>
<p>The very idea is literally a Satanic or Luciferian doctrine, because what it is literally saying is that we are all gods and heroes in our own rite and that we all have the power to make decisions that are the equivalent of what God has to do throughout eternity.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/108/01/3.html#S3" target="_blank">This notion was first presented in the Garden of Eden</a>. It was the snake that divulged the secret to mankind that if he took a bite of the fruit form the tree of knowledge, he would become self aware and this would make him capable of being a god.</p>
<p>It has always been the argument for thousands of years if the original sin of rebellion was a heroic act because it gave man the ability to question his existence rather than wandering around aimlessly in paradise.</p>
<p><a href="http://groundzeromedia.org/archives/dis/caesar/caesar.html" target="_blank">Philip K. Dick postulated that we were all in this great council of god&#8217;s and that we agreed to come down to this prison world</a>. In the agreement we lost our memory of our previous lives as gods and we lost our superhuman powers. The idea of attainable godhood is blasphemy in most Orthodox religions.</p>
<p>It is known as original sin or sin of pride. Dick believed that man did not fall. He believed that man did not sin. Dick believed that it was man&#8217;s mission to come down to Earth, which is a virtual prison.</p>
<p>Dick felt that it was man’s destiny to save the world and to look out for all creation. Man was a god in embryo, a potential hero that learns on earth how do regain his superhuman powers and use them to redeem the world. After he has accomplished this task he can reunite with the divine and all things would be restored, thus giving balance to all things.</p>
<p>In a more Gnostic view of the planet Dick was actually creating what we would call “the matrix” or the “program” deemed the &#8220;<a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_inganamort_121702_subdermal.html" target="_blank">Black Iron Prison</a>&#8221; or what most rational people call reality. Dick wrote that reality was not real at all.</p>
<p>He wrote that it was clever fakery created by the &#8220;great magician&#8221; the &#8220;lord of the dark realm&#8221; or &#8220;dark father&#8221; who poses as the creator. This unreality has no sense or logic to it. Thus those who believe that it is the only world become atheists or embrace religion that accepts the &#8220;dark lord&#8221; or &#8220;dark father&#8221; as the creator.</p>
<p>Dick wrote that true religion begins when we begin to remember that we come from the stars and that our true creator is the Lord of Light. We learn that we have the power to use the light force to bring light where there is darkness, sanity to the irrational, and balance where there is chaos.</p>
<p>If we accomplish all this we become heroes, we become illuminated and edified and we are eventually lifted up to be in the presence of other heroes that have endured all of the pain and suffering that exists in this prison we call earth.</p>
<p>Dick posed a very interesting question and that is can mankind be satisfied worshiping a god that is offered to him, or does he create a better world or a better god, savior or hero that is worthy of our adoration?</p>
<p>Well to answer that question one needs to look at all of the heroes, and idols that are offered to us every day.</p>
<p>In the &#8220;Dark Knight&#8221; film, Batman was called a hero, but a hero with a caveat, a hero that has gone into hiding because he will be hunted. He will be hunted because he took the blame for the actions of Harvey Dent. Dent, a well loved politician and District Attorney had committed a bunch of crimes. Batman, of course, did many things that were heroic and yet people were of the opinion that he was a criminal, thus he was the Dark Knight. Dent who represented the so-called law abiding protector was also a criminal but the authorities saw to it that he remained a shining knight and the reality was different.</p>
<p>Thus Commissioner Gordon stated “<em><a href="http://www.quotefully.com/movie/The+Dark+Knight/Lt.+James+Gordon" target="_blank">Batman is the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we&#8217;ll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he&#8217;s not a hero, he&#8217;s a single guardian, a watchful protector.</a></em>”</p>
<p>In the imaginary Gotham City, Harvey Dent was the hero that was inflated by the people, and when they poked at him he deflated and there were colleagues of his that still were trying desperately to keep his hero status inflated.</p>
<p>In the meantime, the true protector and hero Batman was not as glamorous or even powerful and so he had to flee or face his destruction.</p>
<p>It is remarkable how art can predict life and how we begin to understand just how cynical we are when it comes to determining what a hero is.</p>
<p><a href="http://bygonebureau.com/2008/07/28/what-barack-obama-and-harvey-dent-have-in-common/" target="_blank">Barack Obama, like the fictional Harvey Dent</a>, is &#8211; in our reality &#8211; a mono-mythical hero that was inflated to the position of the external savior of America. Now he is deflating and even when a less desirable “Batman” hero named Edward Snowden exposes corruption in the very government Obama runs, people are confused as to whether or not that he is the hero we deserve or need right now.</p>
<p>Are we really that cynical that we are debating whether or not <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Edward+Snowden+is+a+hero" target="_blank">Edward Snowden is a hero</a> for exposing corruption and constitutional malfeasance?</p>
<p>What is the definition of hero in this time of confusion and corruption?</p>
<p><a href="http://groundzeromedia.org/archives/dis/caesar/caesar.html" target="_blank">In Hollywood, heroes are made every day</a>. They are placed on a lit screen. Their names are raised in lights on the large marquee. Their footprints are cast in cement and stars are handed to them on cracked Hollywood sidewalks. We see them get statues and plaques for pretending. It&#8217;s all make believe. It&#8217;s a dream that producers and big money movie moguls weave. It&#8217;s just a fantasy that lasts for about 90 minutes and sometimes the afterglow stays with us long after we spit out the old maids in the popcorn bucket.</p>
<p>However, we may or may not look at the deeper meanings of the parables that are being presented to us and why these stories are being presented. Is it really all about the revelation of the method or are we seeing the collective consciousness having a fit of retro causality?</p>
<p>We live in times where reality and fantasy actually collide. I would hope that we could identify a heroic act when we see it instead of creating heroes out of failures and continuing to keep them inflated when we know that they are full of holes.</p>
<p>We are now in the middle of an open-ended war and the heroes will not be recognized immediately because most of those heroes will wear jeans and a T-shirt. <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=9%2F11+heroes" target="_blank">The shirt will be stained with the blood of what the empire calls “collateral damage” and layered with the sweat and body odor from the volunteer</a>.</p>
<p>The heroes of the struggles to come will be common people like you and me.</p>
<p>Yet there won&#8217;t be any awards ceremony on television with special statuettes or trophies that will honor those who do something that is above and beyond the call of duty.</p>
<p>There have been surveys taken in America about heroes. Less than half of all Americans have a personal hero. In one survey a third of those surveyed stated that they believed heroes exist today.</p>
<p>It is also not uncommon to see that people will even call people heroes even when they fail.</p>
<p>There are also new contingents that have decided that the police and the military are our new heroes and should be revered as such. It can be argued that these men aren&#8217;t heroes because they are just doing their jobs.</p>
<p>Others say &#8220;enforcers&#8221; are not heroes. They are &#8220;task masters&#8221; who patrol the sheep. It looks as if the hero today seems to be in this scary super police force that is out to eradicate an unseen evil.</p>
<p>The struggle is between ideologies and the hierarchy. The ultimate end result seems to be death to innocents treated as collateral damage in the struggle of these ideologies.</p>
<p>Are heroes on the offensive side? Or are they on the defensive side? This is the confusion that is war. It&#8217;s hard to find a hero in a war. All because of that struggle where you wonder if murder is justified even in throes of war.</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t it interesting that when the rich throw bombs it&#8217;s called a war and when the poor attack its called terrorism?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s one of those arguments that can be whittled down to semantics.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.redstate.com/freedomrepublican/2013/06/12/rep-peter-king-erroneously-calls-for-arrest-of-glenn-greenwald/" target="_blank">It is also remarkable that today as we hear about Edward Snowden exposing corruption and Glenn Greenwald reporting it as a journalist and we have politicians like Peter King demanding their arrest</a>.</p>
<p>We have been told that if we see something we should say something. Ed Snowden saw something and said something and Greenwald became a champion of the fourth estate.</p>
<p>We all speak of someone anyone that will do something and now we are confused when someone does something. Why is this so difficult? Can we admit that we have been programmed and that we are stumped and incapable of seeing heroism that is not defined for us?</p>
<p>The lines seem blurred and they have been blurred for a while now because Edward Snowden had a warm up act named Bradley Manning.</p>
<p>Manning sent troves of classified U.S. documents in 2010 to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. The files documented complaints of abuses against Iraqi detainees, a U.S. tally of civilian deaths in Iraq and America’s weak support for the government of Tunisia a disclosure that Manning supporters said helped trigger the Middle Eastern pro-democracy uprisings known as the Arab Spring.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/09/express/the-torture-of-bradley-manning" target="_blank">Manning, of course, has been treated like a terrorist</a>. It was reported that he was held alone for nine months in a windowless cell 23 hours a day, sometimes with no clothing. This has now caught the eye of human rights groups and the United Nations’ chief torture investigator.</p>
<p>As I have pointed out: our anger, our cynicism and lack of respect for the Constitution is drawing the attention of other countries. This open ended war has forced us into surrendering our morality and integrity.</p>
<p>Politics have been playing us so that we will not recognize the conspiracy against the American people.</p>
<p>Name a government official who would use his large family fortune to wipe out crime? Bruce Wayne did it for Gotham City. He never became Mayor or Governor and many people still hated him. Yet he was one man who declared war on crime.</p>
<p>Name a religion that would use their fortunes to eliminate the horrors of war, famine, or abuse. Jesus was the ultimate hero, he healed the sick raised the dead and saved the world. What religion has done this?</p>
<p>All I see are religions using their fortunes to fight the scandals and crimes that they had a part in.</p>
<p>I know it sounds like I am on an altruistic soapbox but it is obvious why Americans lack the ability to identify heroes. The world is afraid to invest their honor of a hero. We are not only running out of them, but many that attempt a heroic act are told they are criminals.</p>
<p>While looking for a hero we have lowered our standards for what a hero is.</p>
<p>We have been sold on the idea that athletes are heroes. While some are remarkable and talented like Michael Jordan they still champion nothing.</p>
<p>They only continue to breed the idea of fighting. They continue to breed the ideologies of war. Yet our children look up to athletes to the point of idolatry, many of them unaware that a lot of them are adulterers, drug users, wife beaters, and gamblers.</p>
<p>As the story goes, perhaps they are the heroes we deserve.</p>
<p>How many children want to emulate a teacher or how many young kids set out to find a cure for cancer, or find ways to conserve energy, or eliminate waste and pollution? How many young people want to volunteer to eliminate starvation? Are there any teenagers out there who would enjoy spending time with an elderly person? Maybe helping them with a problem? How about cleaning their yards?</p>
<p>Do plastic role models like Britney Spears extol the virtues of volunteerism?</p>
<p>What do the Kardashians do for the world? Besides flaunt vanity and fake opulence. Is the hero of the week someone who wins on &#8220;American Idol&#8221; or a propped up androgynous product like Justin Bieber?</p>
<p>It was Scott Adams who said:</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. The psychological explanation for this phenomenon is that life sucks and we&#8217;d all rather fantasize about being someplace else.</em>&#8221; &#8212; <a href="http://meekgeek.tumblr.com/post/1672292834/dilbert" target="_blank">Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle</a></p>
<p>We also live our lives through someone else when we should learn to get to know the hero within.</p>
<p>We must understand that if we don’t feel heroic, or if we feel we don’t mean anything in the big scheme of things, we may not be able to recognize others who have decided to give up everything for a heroic act.</p>
<p>The way to arrive at something that is heroic is to be selfless for the benefit of someone who may need help in understanding that we need to survive, that our way of life in America is important and should held to a sacred standard and not just ignored because of selfishness and cynicism.<br />
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<div align="center">DEUS EX MACHINA:<br />
AN EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL SMACKDOWN</div>
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<p>I ran across a news item today that stood out from all of the noise that is the Prism scandal and I had to take a break from it all to report to you some very interesting findings that may have you take a virtual double take with regard to what is about to happen to planet Earth.</p>
<p>We may be seeing some drastic changes happening which paces the Earth in situation where all of our problems will intensify or change dramatically.</p>
<p>I see it as a cosmic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina" target="_blank">deus ex machina</a>.</p>
<p>For those unfamiliar with the term, I can only explain that in the Greek and Roman tragedies a <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=deus+ex+machina" target="_blank">dues ex machina</a> was a plot device where God would literally be lowered down by a crane in the middle of the play and it would signify a drastic plot change. Simply put it is an unexpected power or event that saves a hopeless situation, or makes it worse.</p>
<p>The Atlantic magazine has painted a very apocalyptic picture in an article that demands at least the attention of Ground Zero listeners. This whole scenario may not even make the mainstream press but it is something that seriously needs your attention if you are planning on surviving what is being predicted as a very turbulent future.</p>
<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/the-biggest-threat-to-the-economy-could-come-from-outer-space-20130612" target="_blank"><em>Imagine waking up just after midnight to a sky so bright you swear it must be early morning. Imagine seeing the Northern Lights as far south as Cuba or Hawaii. Imagine that the same phenomena behind both have also generated electric fields in the ground strong enough to power small electronics.</em></a>&#8221;</p>
<p>It has happened before and now it is becoming more and more plausible for this to happen again as an extraterrestrial smack down could actually wear the economy out so badly that there will be no money, or even manpower to help those who are left without resources if we see a major geomagnetic event on planet Earth.</p>
<p>We have all heard about the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Carrington+Event+in+1859" target="_blank">Carrington Event in 1859</a> when the Earth was struck by the most severe geomagnetic storm ever recorded. That is the worst case scenario; however, there seems to be a chronic problem where the sun now has been super active and super destructive sending all sorts of magnetic energy to the <a href="http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2013/5/16-23761_Solar-Flares-May-Interrupt-GPS-Navigation-Research_article-wide.html" target="_blank">planet that is disrupting GPS</a>, causing volcanic responses and severe weather all over the world. These little incidents are causing millions of dollars in damage and the death toll continues to rise and soon there will be so many catastrophes that the governments of the world will buckle under the economic burden.<br />
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Magnetic storms can force Earth&#8217;s magnetic fields to go temporarily haywire, overwhelming power grids, triggering earthquakes, volcanic activity and severe weather.</p>
<p>We are seeing this now and we are also realizing that governments are saying that they just don’t have the money to help victims leaving them to recover on their own.</p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/the-biggest-threat-to-the-economy-could-come-from-outer-space-20130612" target="_blank">Lloyd&#8217;s of London, the giant insurer, issued a report on the coming catastrophic cycle in 2010. In the foreword to the report, Lloyd&#8217;s Tom Bolt warned of a scientist-predicted spike of major Earth events between 2012 and 2015. &#8220;In terms of cycles, we are in late autumn and heading into winter,&#8221; he wrote then. A severe space-weather event could prove devastating, according to the Lloyd&#8217;s report</a>.</em></p>
<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/the-biggest-threat-to-the-economy-could-come-from-outer-space-20130612" target="_blank"><em>An outside analysis conducted by Metatech for the Electromagnetic Pulse Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency found that the effects of a severe geomagnetic storm would not only be widespread, but long-lived. Such an event has &#8220;not only the potential for large-scale blackouts but, more troubling &#8230; the potential for permanent damage that could lead to extraordinarily long restoration times.&#8221;</em></a>&#8221;</p>
<p>Now the really important thing that has been brought up is that, if this is to occur, there may be a serious need to create a global government that would have to be organized in order to restore the planet to its original state.</p>
<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/the-biggest-threat-to-the-economy-could-come-from-outer-space-20130612" target="_blank"><em>In a globalized world, all kinds of sectors would be impacted by a power failure. Fuel, food, water, sanitation, communications, medical/health, finance, and transportation would all feel cascading effects. Many businesses rely solely on satellite navigation for transportation on land and sea, and cell phones would be vulnerable to interference.</em></a>&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/the-biggest-threat-to-the-economy-could-come-from-outer-space-20130612" target="_blank"><em>&#8220;Impacts would be felt on interdependent infrastructures, with, for example, potable water distribution affected within several hours; perishable foods and medications lost in about 12-24 hours; and immediate or eventual loss of heating/air conditioning, sewage disposal, phone service, transportation, fuel resupply, and so on,&#8221; the NAS report found.</em></a>&#8221;</p>
<p>Many people now are not aware of how fragile the planet is at the moment, how quick lives can change and how much raw data about a new Earth has been tossed around in science circles. This data has paled the so called sciences of climate change and anthropogenic global warming.</p>
<p>The truth that falls hard on the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=global+warming+cult" target="_blank">global warming cult</a> is that their science has not added up statistically however. mega storms and mega earthquakes along with volcanic events have now become the new concern and solar effects, along with speculation into weather control has now been evaluated as a way to eventually collapse the economy and replace it with a global government.</p>
<p>It has now been reported that after the devastating tornadoes have ripped through Oklahoma and Tennessee that another weather anomaly has formed and one in five Americans may see some devastating effects from what is called a shelf inland hurricane or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derecho" target="_blank">derecho</a>.<br />
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This major low pressure system will be moving from Iowa to Maryland packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds.</p>
<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2340158/Mid-West-braced-giant-240-MILE-line-thunderstorms-One-Americans-told-prepare-devastating-wave-tornadoes.html" target="_blank"><em>Meteorologists are warning that the continuous line of storms which will include tornadoes and a possible derecho that could span a straight line of devastation nearly 240 miles wide. [These] storms are also likely to generate power outages that will be followed by oppressive heat, said Bill Bunting, operations chief at the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.</em></a>&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2340158/Mid-West-braced-giant-240-MILE-line-thunderstorms-One-Americans-told-prepare-devastating-wave-tornadoes.html" target="_blank"><em>The risk of severe weather in Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, is roughly 45 times higher than on a normal June day, Bunting said. Detroit, Baltimore, Washington, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and Louisville, Kentucky, have a risk level 15 times more than normal. All told, the area the weather service considers to be under heightened risk of dangerous weather includes 64 million people in 10 states.</em></a>&#8221;</p>
<p>The last one that was recorded traveled 500 miles. These are force multiplied storms that seem to be anomalous and they look terrifying.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that there have been many theories and documentation about the wild world and where it is headed. We are seeing force multiplied storms and magnetic shifts that are a lot like what <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hapgood" target="_blank">Charled Hapgood</a> predicted. In 1958 Hapgood published his first book, &#8220;<a href="http://archive.org/stream/eathsshiftingcru033562mbp/eathsshiftingcru033562mbp_djvu.txt" target="_blank">The Earth&#8217;s Shifting Crust</a>&#8221; in collaboration with James H. Campbell, a mathematician and engineer.</p>
<p>He often spoke of the polar shift and the change in the Earth and its weather patterns that would alter the lives of people on Earth.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/earth-in-the-balance/" target="_blank">Hapgood suggests is that at some time around 10,000 BC the lithosphere shifted as one mass, instantaneously, by a margin of 30 degrees.</a></p>
<p>Evidence has been found in Siberia where considerable quantities of mammoth carcasses have been discovered, seemingly instantly frozen. Some even remain in a standing position and the contents of both their mouths and stomachs show their diet was a mixture of plants only to be found in temperate zones.</p>
<p>NBC News reported recently that <a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/05/29/1712242/scientists-recover-wooly-mammoth-blood" target="_blank">Russian researchers say they&#8217;ve recovered blood samples from a 10,000-year-old mammoth carcass and that this is the first time liquid blood has been recovered from the beasts</a> that we can only determine were flash frozen by a sudden change in the geophysical health of the Earth.</p>
<p>If the Earth’s crust was to shift we would see greater than one mile high tsunamis racing around the globe and super storms with incredible wind velocity. Earthquakes would buckle nations and volcanoes would explode furiously. It would be difficult for anyone to survive such a mega-catastrophe.</p>
<p>Difficult, but perhaps not impossible and this is what you have to determine is whether or not you are prepared for whatever may happen because it is becoming more apparent that we are seeing much of what we are used to change and abruptly make things in our life more difficult.</p>
<p>The best evidence we have that the Earth and the Sun are about to perform a deus ex machina is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Rift" target="_blank">East African Rift</a>.</p>
<p>Nature News and news services out of Turkey are reporting that the &#8220;<a href="http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=8546" target="_blank"><em>African continent is literally unstitching itself apart just like the sleeve of an old shirt. The East African Rift traverses from the southern end of the Red Sea, going through Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique. The molten lava beneath the Earth&#8217;s surface there makes it thin by constantly pushing against it, and eventually breaks it and tears it apart.</em></a>&#8221;</p>
<p>Flying above the Rift you can see the land ripping apart and coming to the surface in Ethiopia is the ocean. This is amazing and sorry to say our concerns are focused on the war effort. Anyone want to start up cause to prevent global unstitching? The science is in and it does not look good. It isn’t as glamorous and it can become a cataclysmic disaster far worse than Co2 emissions.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/the-divine-search-for-heaven/" target="_blank">The human race has a rich cosmic history and mankind will hopefully find itself at a place in time where that cosmic history will have to be honored in order for us to understand what the real purpose of our existence is</a>. Most of us have found that purpose through various religious beliefs and practices. However, digging deeper beyond the mainstream dogma is hidden history, truth that somehow is escaping us in this time. It is vital that we have a hint or a clue about what is in store for the planet cosmically.</p>
<p>Sometimes there are things all around us that indicate that the world is on a collision course with destiny. The tempting of fate seems to be a great sport with those who control us. They are able to make laws, take away rights and dictate to us what is sacred and what is profane. In the end however what wins is nature. Nature is neither good nor evil but it carries out justice.</p>
<p>&#8220;<a href="http://www.2012.com.au/SchumannResonance.html" target="_blank"><em>Earth&#8217;s background base frequency, or &#8220;heartbeat,” is rising dramatically. Though it varies among geographical regions, for decades the overall measurement was 7.8 cycles per second. This was once thought to be a constant; global military communications developed on this frequency. Recent reports set the rate now at over 11 cycles, and climbing. Science doesn&#8217;t know why, or what to make of it. While Earth&#8217;s &#8220;pulse&#8221; rate is rising, her magnetic field strength, is declining. According to Professor Bannerjee of the University of New Mexico, the field has lost up to half its intensity in the last 4,000 years.</em></a>&#8221;</p>
<p>This decline can cause all kinds of changes in the natural order of things. Plants and animals will show the effects first and then man will begin to become unstable. The effects from such a magnetic shifts have been recorded thousands of years ago. <a href="http://www.groundzeromedia.org/terra-mortis-the-advancing-galactic-wave/" target="_blank">Reports of earthquakes, floods, volcanic activity and plasma from space have been recorded</a>.</p>
<p>Now we see all of this come full circle, the indication that there is a revolution about to close and a new cycle that will arrive to change things and to somehow bring balance and teach us the concept of complexity theory.</p>
<p>There are many paranoid notions that much of what we hear in the news about mass death, suicide, catastrophe, and war are part of this agenda. However, there are realities to consider about the planet’s ability to remove that which is causing a disruption in the balance of nature. The aspects of how nature tends to its parasites is far more disturbing than a simple plan carried out by the elite.</p>
<p>However, those in control want to give nature a little push.<br />
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