There was a very chilling – very prophetic documentary produced back in 1987 directed by Paul Michael Glaser (yes – the guy that played Starsky) and produced by George Linder and Time Zinnemann. The documentary was narrated by the Governor of California as well as Corporal Peter Newkirk (a radio operator that served in the British Army during WW2).
It focused on current social and economic trends that impacted 1980’s America and how these trends would eventually cause a string of global strife in the years immediately following the 2016 election. Threats of worldwide economic collapse, disease, food shortages, and wide spread civil disobedience would all lead to totalitarian police states ran by partisan democrats attempting to control and censor nearly all cultural and personal activity.
The research that produced this documentary suggested that the U.S. populace would be increasingly pacified through the glorification of reality TV and the popularity of games shows that showcased gladiator-style competition.
As a result, society would slowly but sure become inverted to a point where violent criminals and drug abusers would assume roles as folk heroes while hard working decent Americans would be treated as “the bad guy”
The documentary suggested that by 2019 if current cultural trends continued on their trajectory we would be facing food riots and civil unrest. Law enforcement personnel in this documentary were frequently pushed by their leaders to infringe on civil rights as a matter of practice but when these same officers were caught on video or attempted to act as “whistle blowers” they were metaphorically fed to the lions.
It was also explained how easy it was for the government to produce computer generated footage edited to deliver a scripted narrative. The digital quality of this “fake news” rivaled reality. The general populace could watch entire news reports – completely unaware that the entire video clip was a digital rendering.
In one vignette, Officer Ben Richards, a police helicopter pilot from Bakersfield California, was framed for causing civilian casualties during a food riot. In a shocking admission – (of course under the agreement of anonymity) - a government worker demonstrated how Officer Richards was framed using synthetic media (AKA- Deep-Fakes) as video evidence that he committed the crime. More chilling than the use of DeepFake technology to control government agendas and messaging, the government used violent mercenaries to pursue (and in some cases kill) those who had been accused of crime through the use of DeepFakes and other synthetic media. The classic government scheme was to simply “cut feed” anytime questionable content was leaked to the public through outside sources. Most common was the excuse that storms and cloud cover was interfering with the signal.
Scary shit…..
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