Total Agnotological Awareness

Awesome. Keiser and Co with the goods again. This time an episode that really delves into why there is so much Disinformation around at the moment:




Its using Agnotology that allowed the Uranium industry of Australia to announce today that there will be no threat to human health with the disaster in Japan.

Yeah right thats why the US military wont allow its members to get too much exposure and why large areas are being evacuated at huge cost and difficulty in the already disaster wracked area. If its so safe why not just leave everyone where they are and let everyone eat the radioactive spinach? Why refer to the brave workers trying to halt the meltdown as Nuclear Samurai and refer to their mission as a 'suicide' mission?? BECAUSE ITS NOT FREAKING SAFE YOU GREEDY MINE BASTARDS.

Of course we will still probably mine such materials for radiological health applications. But to say nuclear power is just totally safe like some at the Australian conference so dismissivly did surely gives us the right to attempt to capture and put on trial such CEO's in self defence as they threaten to exterminate the entire species with their greed?

La Grande Intifada: Operation Odyssey Dawn

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Okay as we all know the game is completely changed now. For the next bit we will be focusing on dispelling the most important disinformation of our lifetimes. Our very lives depend on it. Thankfully we have access to a private "Citizen Monitor". We will upload semi regular data tracks of what they are reading. Of course any wild spikes will immediately be alerted to. For now though this is what we are reading in the southern Australian city of Melbourne. We can take this as our 'normal' read. A good control to gauge any moves against in the coming days:

[sparx says: can you post some more information on what these CPS numbers mean? For example, how high will the CPS count have to be and how long will that have to last for it to be a harmful dose? Our global hive-mind [#akawikipedia] has some information about that here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_poisoning#Exposure_levels but having no "background" [#seewhatididthere?] on this makes it quite confusing.]

[WhiteyRound Eye says: So I am no expert but you can read more on reading Radiation levels on the site of the detector we are using. The individual who is operating it for us is much more knowledgeable on these things and assures me we should be seeing a reading between 0.15 and 0.20 CPS as our normal background hum here in Melbourne. If we start to see levels elevating above that we should start paying attention. This is not to suggest that we will be anywhere near radiation sickness levels if we do start to creep above that but just that something of note is going on that we should start paying attention to. Of course if the Plant goes off properly there is no telling where the wind will take the fall out. Very interesting times if you are into your Thermonuclear Apocalypse type lifestyle.]

[Ferretous says: interesting point of information from our friends at Ganymede Services (no not the office of the Space Dolphin! GS hosts the bright spark who brought the world the beer can widget) ... check out "Hormesis" described as follows "hormesis is any stimulatory or beneficial effect, induced by low doses of an agent, that can not be predicted by the extrapolation of detrimental or lethal effects induced by high doses of the same agent." When applied to radiation the emphasis is on SMALL amounts! Anyway, if we get a small increase from background, it could actually be beneficial to health ... how about that!?]

[Greg the Bunny says: yeah, but he did say only SMALL amounts ... not sure if people anywhere close to an accident would get only a small amount so this is not a concept which leads to a conclusion that we SHOULD have radiation leaks every now and again to stay healthy ... that would be an inductive logical flaw]

[Ferretous says: if you are interested in finding out more, Bunny, a good book to read would be ...

Radiation Hormesis and the Linear-No-Threshold Assumption by Charles L. Sanders, publisher: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2010

... here's an exceprt ...

"Take the case of “an almost perfect study in a human population that demonstrates the highly significant protective effects of near-continuous exposure to gamma radiation.” This case involved more than 180 apartment buildings that had been constructed in Taiwan in the early 1980s using recycled steel that was subsequently discovered to have been contaminated with radioactive cobalt-60. The 10,000 people who were housed there received large doses of radiation over a period of nine to 20 years that, according to LNT theory, should have led to a total of 302 cancer deaths over the 1983-2003 period studied, 232 of which would have been ordinarily expected had no radiation exposure occurred, with the additional 70 stemming from the exposure. To the researchers’ surprise, however, only seven cancer deaths were found, 225 fewer than would have been expected had the buildings been free of radiation. Instead of radiation increasing the death toll by 30%, it may have reduced the death toll by a staggering 97%.

The number of birth defects among children born in this radioactive environment also confounded LNT theory. Instead of the 48 defects expected, just three occurred."

(again, thanks to Ganymede Services for supplying the info)

... the book is quite comprehensive and up to date ... let us know what you think after reading it Bunny]

[Greg the Bunny says: all this reading ... so much stuff to learn ... far out ... this is why I come here to this website Ferretous ... so that you guys can filter the world for complicated stuff leaving me to read "reality in 500 words" synopses! Gosh, what, now you expect ME to do the legwork!? I'm Gen Y. You know that don't you?]

[SockRatEz says: hey hey Bunny, Gen Y is just another label to pigeon hole humans in order to simplify reality so as not to have to bother to engage people on an individual basis. If you are lazy and cannot keep up with things, don't drag a third of the world's population in with you purely based on age alone! ... lol ... there are plenty of other better reasons!]

[Ferretous says: I'll remind you both that some of your good friends are Gen Y ... Bunny! You're bloody Gen Y!!]

[SockRatEz says: you don't know how old I am ... does that make me in-gen-ious to you?]

[Ferretous says: eh ... ... no]

[HappyAppleStarlight says: hey this is great! maybe the airport porno scanners are actually good for us!]

[SockRatEz says: Lol ... your poor thing!]

Disinformation Sensitivity Workshop #4: The Blogger's Dilemma

DISCLAIMER:

So there I was gang, two thirds of the way through my regular Thursday night ritual of drinking whisky, eating expired tuna from the dumpster, reading my copy of Mein Kampf and yelling at the TV [#notreallybutfordramaticeffect ##idonthaveaTV] when I suddenly remembered: omFUCKINGg, you guys! I almost forgot to do my weekly Disinformation Sensitivity Workshop!

But nobody fucking panic, alright? I remembered.

I AM A PROFESSIONAL DISINFORMATION SENSITIVITY WORKSHOP "FACILITATOR" AND I'M HERE NOW TO TALK YOU THROUGH SHIT AND EVERYTHING IS GONNA BE FUCKING WONDERFUL.

So, just sit back and relax and let's all see what I can pull together with nothing but whisky, expired tuna from the dumpster, my copy of Mein Kampf, you and me. 

PART ONE: TESTED ON CHILDREN AND ANIMALS

Have you ever picked up a copy of Mein Kampf  and started to read it and not quite managed to make it through the first few pages of horrible, fucked up, racist and insane ranting and wondered to yourself how such an obviously evil and barely literate lunatic managed to manipulate millions of sane, healthy and otherwise well adjusted people into participating in years of brutal genocide and war? 

I often have.

Which is why it was useful for me - merely useful, mind, not pleasant or comfortable - to just fucking wade right into that shit and find out for myself just how such an obviously evil and barely literate lunatic managed to manipulate millions of sane, healthy and otherwise well adjusted people into participating in years of brutal genocide and war.

And look what I found, way down there in chapter X:

"All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility.

Because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily. 

And thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie; since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. 

It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.  

Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. 

For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying."

- Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf, [volume I, chapter X, 1925, arrogantly abridged and italicised by me.]

I know, right? Still, it never hurts to put this shit in it's proper historical context. OK, usually it does hurt, but that's prolly no excuse not to go there, you dig what I'm saying here?

PART TWO: SICK FROM BAD INFORMATION [#alsowhiskyandexpiredtunafromthedumpster]

OK, nobody fucking panic. Just because I'm writing about Mein Kampf doesn't mean I endorse any of Hitler's ideology, I'm totally not a fascist or anti-Semitic, at least 50% of my ancestry would ensure I was killed on site by the fascists, and the fact that I'm an anarchist prolly wouldn't help, what with fascists being notoriously unmoved by the "you're just picking on me coz I hate you" defence and all. 

I'm just trying to explore these ideas and see if there's anything we can learn from the past that might be helpful in combating the horrible, fucked up, racist and insane ranting of our very own obviously evil, if perhaps more literate, lunatic leaders in their efforts to manipulate millions of sane, healthy and otherwise well adjusted people into participating in years of brutal genocide and war. You dig what I'm saying here?

So, extrapolating from the above quotation, what can we learn about our contemporary geopolitical context and it's brutal genocide and war? I would like to humbly submit that we can learn the following: 

People governments who are willing to commit genocide will also be capable of telling lies.

Or, to put it another way:

People governments who are willing to tell lies will also be capable of committing genocide.

Which is why I have trouble "trusting" the people of Australia government of Australia [to chose a totally random example] when they say they only want to stage a military occupation of the Northern Territory because they want to "help" and "free" Indigenous people.

Because we here at Total Disinformation Awareness [.blogspot.com] are in possession of the facts relating to the genocide of the Indigenous people of Australia by the people of Australia government of Australia. 

And we are aware that people governments who are willing to commit genocide will also be capable of telling lies.

And this is why I had trouble "trusting" the people of Australia and the United States governments of Australia and the United States [to chose a totally random example] when they said they only wanted to stage a military occupation of Iraq because they wanted to "help" and "free" the Iraqi people. 

 

Because we here at Total Disinformation Awareness [.blogspot.com] are in possession of the facts relating to the genocide of the Iraqi people by the people of Australia and the United States governments of Australia and the United States.

And people governments who are willing to tell lies will also be capable of committing genocide.

And this, finally, is why I have trouble "trusting" the people of the United States government of the United States [to chose a totally random example] when they say "no option is off the table" in relation to bombing Iran because they only want to "help" and "free" the Iranian people and/or because the Iranian people are "aiding the enemies of America." 

Because, if we remember, people governments who are willing to commit genocide will also be capable of telling lies.

That's all I'm trying to say here, you dig me? 

PART THREE: THE BLOGGER'S DILEMMA

See, this is how it's gonna play out: first it's gonna happen to poor brown people you don't care about itn countries you've never heard of, then it's gonna happen to poor brown people you don't care about in "your own" country, then it's gonna happen to more poor brown people you don't care about in more countries you've never heard of, then it's gonna happen to whiney apathetic cunts who failed to do anything while they still had the freedom to act. 

And this, I contend [and still maintain] is how "the big lie" operates.

But maybe it doesn't have to happen like that, you know? After all, we here at Total Disinformation Awareness [.blogspot.com] are in possession of facts, and if you are reading these words right now you are also in possession of facts and that means none of us ever have to fall for "the big lie" again, because we're gonna remember these words:

People governments who are willing to commit genocide will also be capable of telling lies.

Or, to put it another way:

People governments who are willing to tell lies will also be capable of committing genocide.

Now, don't just go to rallies and write letters and wring your hands and say "but what is to be done?" Everyone reading this now do everything* you can to stop these holocausts.**

Resist in every way possible while you still have the freedom to act.***

Wow, I got all dramatic there at the end and forgot I AM A PROFESSIONAL DISINFORMATION SENSITIVITY WORKSHOP "FACILITATOR" for a second, huh? Well, anyway, hopefully some classical music can bring it all on home for you:

 

Ozzy Osborne, ladies and gentlemen. That's Sir Ozzy Osborne to you.

REFERENCES:

Hitler, A: Mein Kampf, [volume I, chapter X, 1925] 

[Note: the three drunken monkeys that constitute Total Disinformation Awareness's hotshot legal team sent me a strongly worded memo advising me not to post a link to Mein Kampf here, just in case someone might be reading.] 

*Anticipating your confusion, shock &/or awe, do it by informing yourself about the reality of the world you live in, spreading awareness about the manipulation and lies we are all being fed, and taking radical direct action and/or [preferably and] supporting those who are, you lazy, cowardly stooges, you.
** There, I said it.
*** Yeah, I'm telling you.

Blatant Ratings Grab - Who likes FOOTBALL?? How about SEX??!

One to enlarge our audience. tags - football, footy, hero, Collingwood, gatorfingers

STOP THE PRESSES - Was Jarryd Blair really doing the International Sign Language "Gatorfingers" (loosely translated to a kinky two holed fingering in English) or was he simply emanating the great George W Bush with a devil sign ... or was GWB really doing gatorfingers with the entire Arizona State Athletics team? I am tipping the latter, that kinky fuck!

Compliments to the Age for having a for once mildly interesting but at least somewhat humorous story about football, or was it about Gatorfingers, or was it about GWB and the devil sign ... either way it highlighted a disinformation event ... and check it out. ITS ABOUT FOOTBALL WOOHOO ... great investigative journalism ... putting those skills to great use here ... I mean the number of people this affects is staggering ... okay so most of them can't actually count but if they could it'd be a BIG number

Now if he had been doing the Barracuda then well, phew, that would be offensive ...

Of course people will ask what is the difference ...

[SockRatEz says: okay, what is the difference?]

perhaps the Age will do a follow up ...

[SockRatEz says: here's hoping ... ]

[Greg the Bunny says: you a bit jaded SockRatEz?]

[SockRatEz says: fuck off ... what I am is flabberghasted ... perhaps if the Age spent less time on some dick doing the Gatorfingers in a fucking photo and more time on things that matter they wouldn't have reported on the latest fire at Fukashima 4 hours after the BBC was reporting it ... IN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR NIGHT ... ]

[Greg the Bunny says: don't worry about the fire ... Kev sent Julia over to cry some of her crocodile tears to put it out with ... hah crocodile, see what I did there?]

[Ferretous says: I reckon I'm going to lose [e]props from sparx for this post ...]

[HappyAppleStarlight says: perhaps she could do with some Gatorfingers? I'm not really sure I get what it means but it sounds good ... and lots of people seem to be into it by the looks of those photos ...]

[SockRatEz says: ha ha, one of the two of you is going to cop it!! I know that!!]
[sparx says: Actually, I'm totally psyched to respond to this because I bet no one would expect me to know or care anything about organised sports. OH HOW LITTLE YOU KNOW ME. Not only are organised sports an effective way for the ruling class to distract us all from the fact that we're being fucked over every single day [see: bread and circuses] it also works to reinforce the basic "us versus not-us" programming that we all get force-fed as kids and makes shit like wars possible. Think about it: you get two teams with different uniforms and anthems and flags and shit symbolically battling over territory, while the atmosphere gets the crowd's bloodlust pumping and everyone has the vicarious thrill of "victory" over the "enemy." So, in short, organised sports are an excellent substitute for war in times of relative peace, and if, hypothetically, a society that's already obsessed with organised sports ever does go to war, it's not that massive a cognitive leap to transfer the uniform-wearing, anthem-singing, flag-waving bloodlust from the symbolic sports field to the literal battle ground. You dig me?]
[HappyAppleStarlight says: I still don't get the Gatorfingers, you guys. Gators don't even have fingers.]
[sparx also says: And as for your so-called "Gatorfingers" I think you'll find it's actually called "the shocker" and if you're gonna use cheap smut as a way to get more hits, I'll thank you do a bit of fucking research and at least get your terminology correct. Would it kill you to do some due diligence?]

[Greg the Bunny says: yeah, that killed the mood.]
[Ferretous says: oh really ... no fingers huh? I'll thank YOU HappyAppleStarlight to do some basic research ... and stop spreading godsdamn disinfo about gators! As if they don't have enough to deal with, people trying to deny them etymological credit for shit an' all]
[SockRatEz says: ah, that's better, vitriol! and nice use of an underhanded diversion tactic!]

INTIFADA AUSTRALIA IMMINENT

So as we all know in Australia what happens in London is of the utmost importance to what happens to us out in the "colonies". So we must keep a close eye on London in the coming weeks:



Already we are seeing the first echoes arrive in Australia. But we can not allow the resistance to be marginalised in the Country. The Intifada MUST be brought to the cities. So get prepared. Storm your Court Houses Storm your Parliament Buildings. Put these Motherfuckers up against the wall!!!!

Disinformation Sensitivity Workshop #3: Information Hides Information [In Information]

[Or: How To Be A Supersleuth Like MEEEEEEE!!!!]

PART ONE: THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

You know what, gang? Truth ain't easy. Truth doesn't, like, just rise to the surface, you know?

You gotta dig for truth, yeah?

You gotta dig for truth through a whole shitload of lies, and those lies have really slick public relations campaigns and awesome websites with cool animations and thousands of whorebots with fancy journalism degrees [from real universities!] who get paid big money to make sure you don't get to see the truth.

Truth ain't easy, but maybe it's not supposed to be. If you wanna wade into truth, in all it's fucking glory, you gotta be aware you're gonna be wading through a whole lot of lies masquerading as truth.

But, like, you got something better to do with your time, or what?

Yeah, I didn't think so.

PART TWO: HOW TO BE A SUPERSLEUTH LIKE MEEEEEEE!!!!

In light of all this, I have found a way to sleuth out secret shit on .gov.au internal sites. It's surprisingly easy and fun and [this is important] not illegal. So, do this search, right now:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=filetype%3Artf++filetype%3Appt++filetype%3Apptx++filetype%3Acsv++filetype%3Axls++filetype%3Axlsx++filetype%3Adocx++filetype%3Adoc++filetype%3Apdf+%22this+document+is+confidential%22+site%3Agov.au&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Yeah, I'm tellin' you.

OK, so maybe I was exaggerating a little bit about how surprisingly easy and fun and [this is important] not illegal sleuthing out secret shit on internal .gov.au sites is. It's not that much fun. Unfortunately a lot of the secret shit you can sleuth out on internal .gov.au sites seems to be really fucking boring, along the lines of the non-secret shit on .gov.au external sites, which is also really fucking boring.

I know, what the fuck? Lift your game, internal .gov.au sites! [And yes, internal .gov.au sites, I know you're reading this.]

But it is surprisingly easy and [this is important] not illegal and, you know, two out of three ain't so bad, now is it?

Actually, it's only 66% but it could be worse.

PART THREE: INFORMATION HIDES INFORMATION [IN INFORMATION]

OK, OK, OK. Let's just be real for a second here. I know you don't have the attention span to "read" long, boring, complex sequences of motionless "words," and I know it's, like, really hard for you to analyse and comprehend the "meaning" of long, boring, complex sequences of motionless "words," and I know that you are all so lazy, or hungover, or wasted, that you couldn't "understand" what those "words" are supposed to "mean" even if you could "read" them, and I know, deep down, you really just want me or someone like me to do all the "thinking" for you and "explain" the "meaning" of those "words" for you.

Well, fuck you, I'm not gonna. Where's the fun in that? As my man Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche so memorably said:

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

And furthermore:

For cheerfulness - or, in my own language gay science - is a reward: the reward of the long, brave, industrious and subterranean seriousness, of which, to be sure, not everyone is capable. But on the day we say with all our hearts: "Onwards! Our old morality too is part of the comedy!" we shall have discovered a new complication and possibility for the Dionysian drama of "The Destiny of the Soul" - and one can wager that the grand old eternal comic poet of our existence will be quick to make use of it! [1]

And Fred Willy was, like, this sick old miserable German bastard who lived in the horrible olden days, right? And we prolly have it a lot fucking easier than him, but he recognised the joy [or gay science, if you prefer, I know, shut up] to be found in digging for truth, even if you never find it. So what's your fucking excuse, huh?

CONCLUSION: I AM SPEAKING TO YOUR INSTINCT

Yeah, but I am:

You can and you can't,
You will and you won't;
You'll be damned if you do,
You'll be damned if you don't.

L. Dow: Chain

REFERENCES:

[1] Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm; On The Genealogy of Morals; 1887 [excerpt found here: http://users.compaqnet.be/cn127103/Nietzsche_on_the_genealogy_of_morals/on_the_genealogy_of_morals.htm] and cited in:

Hatab, Lawrence J.; Nietzsche's Life Sentence: Coming to terms with eternal recurrence; 2005 [partly available on googlebooks here: http://books.google.com/books?id=Co5_-EvpWEkC&lpg in between annoying "page not scanned" messages. What the fuck googlebooks? Lift your game!]


[SockRatEz says: you sure it is not illegal? Did you check with the three Drunken Monkey Lawyers? I clicked on it and saw a load of "confidential" files ... I guess if it is on the interenet it is public domain? Or is this another trick like when WhiteyRoundEye told me to type "itanimulli" dot com (illuminati spelled backwards) into my browser ... go on do it, I dare you! Please confirm with the 3 DMLs and let us know]

[Greg the Bunny says: the gods damn it SockRatEz ... I did that and now I have the NSA on my I.P. [e]arse!!]

[HappyAppleStarLight says: let me tell you a story about another group of people who had to confront evil and  maybe do things that weren't that legal even though they were afraid. Dorothy and Toto went to Oz and fought The Wicked Witch Of The West and all her creepy FLYING MONKEYS and they had nothing but their courage and sparkly rainbow magic and catchy songs and THE GOODNESS IN THEIR HEARTS oh, and munchkins and in the end they TOTALLY MURDERED THAT WICKED WITCH AND THAT MEANS THEY WON!!! OK, I know that's The Wizard Of Oz, but so what you guys? IT'S STILL BASED ON REAL LIFE! You know?]  

[sparx says: I feel like HappyAppleStarLight may have a good point somewhere in there. So I did consult the three drunken monkey lawyers and in between shots they said it's definitely not illegal. So. You guys. Come on. Seriously. Let's all try to be a bit more like Nietzsche and a bit less like Greg the Bunny and approach digging for truth with a little bit of fucking gay science already and not get caught up in fear, yeah? Yeah? Yeah. [#nietzscheforthewin]]