Episode 75: Transhumanism, Thought Monitoring, & Manchurian Candidates in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was released in 2009. That same year, Ray Kurzweil was talking to Scientific American about "The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine." It's easy to dismiss some movies as Hollywood schlock silliness, but is that always the whole story? Or are we in the realm of predictive programming?

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1046173/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies

https://www.amazon.com/Causes-World-War-Three/dp/1258157276

https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276174

https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Bolshevik-Revolution-Capitalists/dp/190557035X

https://www.nytimes.com/1941/05/06/archives/nazi-base-reported-in-antarctic-area-repair-shop-at-deception-bay.html

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/transhumanism

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2289560/14605498

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/merging-of-mind-and-machine/

https://today.uic.edu/zombie-genes-research-shows-some-genes-come-to-life-in-the-brain-after-death/

https://houstonherald.com/2023/03/scientists-can-now-read-your-mind-ai-turns-peoples-thoughts-into-images/

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Transhumanism, thought monitoring, Manchurian candidates, GI Joe, Rise of Cobra, nanomites, NATO, Mars industries, Cobra Commander, Neo vipers, nanotechnology, body doubles, brain chips, false flag events, hyper elites.

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Hello, hello, and thanks for tuning in. In tonight's episode, I will be talking about transhumanism, thought monitoring and Manchurian candidates in GI Joe, the rise of the Cobra. The film came out in 2009 so I mean, you've had ample time to watch it if you were planning to. But nevertheless, I will say spoilers lie ahead. There's no way for me to talk about the film and all of these different themes that are contained therein without getting into spoilers. So I just want to say that up front, spoilers do lie ahead. I was not able to find it free of charge on like Tubi or one of those streaming services. So you might have to pay a buck or two if you want to rent it. I actually have it on DVD, because I went to see this film back in 2009 and liked it. I have some cheesy tastes sometimes. What can I say? I think it's important to have some amount of turn your brain off and just have fun in your life. Nevertheless, I have identified some things in a seemingly innocuous Hollywood schlock film that I think we should talk about. So choose your frosty beverage of choice, and we will saddle up and take this ride. The film starts in France, 1641, and this seems like a pretty odd choice for a modern day film about GI Joe, a Scotsman named James McCullen has been found guilty of treason for the sale of military arms to the enemies of King Louis the 13th even while selling arms to Louis himself, McCullen says the king is a bag of filth who murders his own allies. McCullen asserts that it is his family's Destiny not just to sell weapons, but to run the wars. McCullen is placed inside a flaming hot mask of iron a la Dumas book, The Man in the Iron Mask. Even though this scene is important for shadowing for the plot of this film, I think it's also important because it shows how the world really works. These fat cats fund both sides of a conflict. They foment both sides of a war, and then it doesn't really matter who wins, because they win either way. You can read about this in David Talbot's book The Devil's chess board, and in Anthony C Sutton's book Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, the remarkable True Story of the American capitalists who financed the Russian communist. McCullough's remark about not just providing the arms, but wishing to control entire Wars is preaching it as well. See, right? Mills gets into this in his book The causes of World War Three, he says that peace becomes not a lasting goal, but simply time to kill in between forever wars, and that book was written in like 58 Hollywood is telling you something important, and we're only a couple of minutes into a schlock movie about a shirtless chanting Tatum. So there you go. We fast forward now to a meeting at NATO's weapons command. Another Scotsman is unveiling a program called nanomites, little creatures he calls perfect little soldiers, originally developed to isolate and kill cancer cells. So I'm going to butt in yet again. We're very early in the film. Hardly anything has even happened yet, and you're being given another important piece of information this Scotsman is talking about how these nanomites are perfect little soldiers, yet they were originally developed to isolate and kill cancer cells. Think about this. I've warned you before that any of these pieces of technology, whether it's some kind of biotech, it's Lord Elon's brain chip. It's AI, whatever. It's always sold to you as being a help. You're always told about the noblest and most beneficent possible uses for the technology. And then, oops, a daisy. Looky. Looky. It gets weaponized. If you think back to my review of Iron Man three, we hear Pepper Potts making the same argument to Aldrich Killian when he shows up to pitch the Extremis program. And she tells him, this is cool, but it also sounds highly weaponizable. And of course, we know that's exactly what happens. The Scotsman admits that his company Mars industries, is being funded by NATO. I'm immediately thinking of Lord Elon. Look at how many defense contracts that bastard gets. We're supposed to think that he's some self made billionaire, but he's feeding off the government. Make no mistake about it, these situations also. In real life, and not just with Lord Elon. If you read David Talbots book, he talks numerous times about Charlie, India, alpha, companies that were nothing more than a front. So let's go for a moment to the Wikipedia page for Palantir. The company has three main projects, Palantir Gotham, Palantir Apollo and Palantir foundry. Palantir Gotham is an intelligence and defense tool used by militaries and counter T word analysts. Its customers included the United States intelligence community and United States Department of Defense. Their software as a service is one of five offerings authorized for mission critical national security systems by the US, Department of Defense. Palantir Foundry is used for data integration and analysis by corporate clients such as Morgan Stanley, Merc, Airbus, PG and E and Fiat, Chrysler Automobiles. Palantir Apollo is a platform to facilitate continuous integration, slash, continuous delivery across all environments. Palantir original clients were federal agencies of the US IC, it has since expanded its customer base to serve both international as well as state and local governments and also to private companies. End quote, but hey, this is a Hollywood schlock film. You've got this guy who's a descendant of another guy who sold arms to both sides, and says, my family is destined to not only sell arms, but to control the wars, and he's running a huge defense company that's funded by NATO. Hoping this is just fiction. This is just a silly little action movie with a shirtless chanting Tatum, okay? The Scotsman tells us these nano mites can eat metal. They can destroy a single tank or devour an entire city. This man is selling an order of nanomite powered warheads to NATO. Members of the US military are set to provide a military armed escort for these warheads. At nightfall, the convoy is hijacked. The hijackers have advanced weapons that defeat the military men. In the midst of this battle, the GI Joes show up and foil the hijackers when they arrive at a secret underground training bunker, general Hawk, played by Dennis Quaid, has a call with the Scotsman. We learn that he is a McCullen and the CEO of Mars industries. In the next scene, we learn that the hijackers work for McCullen, and he wanted the hijacking to look like NATO's fault. He has a deep sea base like a James Bond villain, and it's there that we meet Cobra Commander. Cobra has created 20 Neo vipers. These super soldier Manchurian candidates have been injected with nanomites. Cobra has used this to disable the self preservation part of their brain. They feel no fear, they feel no pain, they have no morality. They feel no regret or remorse. In his demonstration to McCullen, one of the soldiers is bitten by a king cobra, and not only is the man not afraid, the nanomites bind together to expel the Cobras Venom so he doesn't even get sick. The soldiers are totally obedient to their programming. Cobra says there is a NEO Viper set up in Washington, DC, awaiting a signal. Cobra says a presidential bunker has also been constructed. Their plan involves plunging the world into chaos, and then having one man solve the crisis. One of mccullen's hijackers is a Baroness who lives on a massive French estate. The house looks like something we'd see in Eyes Wide Shut. Is this merely a coincidence? I mean, we know that these hyper elites exercise a lot of control. McCullen hijackers infiltrate the secret GI Joe base, known as the pit, they are able to retrieve the warheads. The US president is told of the stolen warheads. McCullen has his ancestors Iron Mask, and he says the most important rule of selling arms is to never get caught selling to both sides. You do it. You just work to cover your tracks and not be caught. He tells his team to take the warheads to Paris to have them weaponized, then test one. Let CNN show the world how they perform. I've written in my personal notes. You get a lot of bang for your buck with every scene that he's in. He's telling you additional information from their playbook. It's not that you don't sell to both sides. It's that you don't get caught doing it. He's also showing you how false flag events get staged. Let's weaponize a warhead and then test it out in Paris and let CNN show the world what these puppies can do. Zartan has agreed to let Cobra Commander change his appearance. Cobra was also going to install a brain chip, but Zartan destroys it. The experiment is designed to permanently alter Zartan. Appearance, though we're not yet sure why the Joes learn that the Baroness is married to a man who runs a lab for particle acceleration. Obviously, this is not going to be a mere coincidence. We see Channing Tatum's character Duke have a flashback to East Africa four years earlier. He has Rex, a science officer, played by Joseph Gordon Levitt, and he is to enter some type of building to look for something. We don't know what it is yet, but he's going in there to look for something. There is heavy fire going on all around. An air strike begins too early, and this building explodes, killing Rex in the process. In the present time, the Baroness and Storm Shadow show up at her husband's particle acceleration lab in Paris, violence ensues. Meanwhile, the Joes are fitted with suits that look suspiciously like Tony Stark's Iron Man armor. They too are in Paris. The Baroness husband weaponizes the warheads under duress. Storm Shadow kills him and they leave in my personal notes I've written, this makes me wonder how many elite relationships and even marriages we see that are performed either for show to the public or for some kind of gain, the Joes figure out the plan to detonate a warhead on the Eiffel Tower after an extensive car chase and plenty of explosions, the Baroness and Storm Shadow escape and the warhead is fired. The Nano mites eat away at the metal, which also spreads to nearby vehicles. Duke reaches the kill switch, but the tower is so badly damaged that it collapses. The Joes find the corpse of one of mccullen's henchmen. One of them uses a device that he says, can access the cerebral cortex, he says, the brain survives for a couple of minutes after death, they intend to use the electrical impulses from his memory and convert them to images. The man begins to rapidly decompose, as though a kill switch inside of him has been hit. We see Cobra assuring McCullen that this is the beauty of nanotechnology. The Joes are able to capture images, and one of them is clearly McCullen. The Joes are then arrested in Paris. I've written in my notes. Is this a glimpse into the future, or does this technology already exist? Remember, DARPA had the internet long before John and Jane Q Public ever heard of it. Could Lord Elon's brain chips be used as thought control. We also see a theme of mood control in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. The US president is briefed about what has happened. Duke is held hostage as a prize for McCullen, he is able to reactivate the tracking beacon, which will make McCullen underground lair easier to find. It's a state of the art military base under the polar ice caps. In my notes, I've written, There is a theory that the Nazis had a base in Antarctica on May 6, 1941 The New York Times stated Nazi based reported in Antarctic area. Some also theorize that stolen art and Nazi gold were funneled there for safe keeping. Is it a coincidence that McCullen secret lair is there and and that he's allowing Cobra to do DR mingle a style human experiments? Judge for yourself. McCullen tells duke he wants to use the warheads to strike fear into the hearts of every person on the planet. Then they'll turn to the person with the most power. Duke thinks McCullen wants that role for himself, but he doesn't. Cobra intends to turn Duke into a nanomite warrior. Cobra says that Mars industries manufacture 70% of all arms on the planet. He says there are two sides to it, the sword and the shield. I immediately thought of the book, the sword and the shield, by Christopher Andrew and Vasily matrokin. The sword creates and sells weaponry. The Shield creates defensive technology, like high tech bunkers. I've written in my notes, the game is always played this way. The brinksmanship we saw during the Cold War is one example, each country escalates and claims more is needed to stay on top. Meanwhile, as C Wright Mills argues, you're going to start World War Three simply by preparing for it, the sword in the shield paradigm follows what we see of create a problem, propose a draconian solution that everyone rejects, and then land on a crappy solution somewhere in the middle that the hyper elites wanted all along. We learn a plot twist here. Cobra Commander is actually Duke's old buddy, Rex, he didn't die in a fire explosion, after all. Dex Duke is infuriated and wants to know why Rex faked his own death. He says he discovered something. Rex gets in the bunker and sees videos of human experimentation. McCullen is on one of these videos, encouraging the scientist. Who He appropriately calls Dr Mindbender, to do whatever it takes to succeed. Science requires sacrifice. I've written in my notes, this definitely sounds like Nazi shit. Rex freaks out and says what they are doing is light years ahead of anyone else. He intends to copy the files and leave, however, Mindbender locks them in the bunker and tells Rex, if we live, I'll show you everything. They survived the blast, injured, but alive, and they escaped with the research in Washington, the President is told of the three rogue warheads that have been released, he's told he must get down to the bunker. He's confused as to why no demands have been made. What's the plan here? The president gets to the bunker, which has been manufactured by Mars industries. Surprise, surprise. In the final showdown, McCullen is wounded, but Cobra grabs him and says, You're coming with me in the presidential bunker. One of the nanomite soldiers posing as a secret service. Agent kills everyone except the president. A body double walks in, and this is Sara 10 after his procedure. We know that a variety of world leaders have body doubles. Saddam Hussein, for example, had multiple political decoys. So Is it really this far fetched? You be the judge. Cobra injects mccalling with nanomites. He renames him Destro. Cobra anoints himself Cobra Commander. We get the typical happy Hollywood ending as Cobra and Destro are apprehended and locked up at the end of the movie, The Joes are told to mobilize for Operation mongoose. I shit you not, Operation mongoose, which surprised me. Meanwhile, in the White House, Sara tan is installed as the fake president. I'm going to go back for a second to sciencedirect.com and read their handy dandy definition of transhumanism. Transhumanism is the position that human beings should be permitted to use technology to modify and enhance human cognition and bodily function, expanding abilities and capacities beyond current biological constraints. Transhumanism is characterized by a set of core values, emphasizing positive experience and recognizing the limitations of human cognition and embodiment in achieving maximally positive experience. End quote, well, I don't know how positive the experiences always are, but okay, we see transhumanist ideas coming into play early in the movie. I mean, we have McCullen standing up at this meeting of NATO's weapons command telling them that nano mites are perfect little soldiers. Now they were originally developed to isolate and kill cancer cells, so we initially have this very benevolent, wonderful usage for this technology. No one could say no to that. Nobody would say we don't want a technology that can isolate and kill cancer everybody's going to be on board with that. But then, uh oh, it gets weaponized. Now, these things can eat a tank. They can destroy an entire city. They can kill everybody. But hey, in the beginning, sunshine, roses and lollipops, and we have Cobra Commander using these nanomites to turn people into Manchurian candidates. A while back, I recorded the episode The Manchurian Candidate and the Winter Soldier, where I asked the question, is this all the realm of Hollywood and spy fi novels, or are these scenarios possible because you don't get a film like Captain America, the Winter Soldier, without first having a novel, and then a film like The Manchurian Candidate, which obviously deals with this notion of these soldiers going off to be brainwashed. And Raymond Shaw in particular, has certain phrases and behaviors that will trigger him to murder, and then he won't even remember what he's done. After he's done the task, he won't even remember that he's done it. So you have in GI Joe, The Rise of Cobra. You have Cobra Commander using this nanite technology, this transhumanist type technology, to make a team of what he calls Neo vipers, but they're really Manchurian candidates, because they're under his control. I mean, that's like in the movie, one of them sticks his arm into a crate with a cobra and feels no fear. There's no reaction that a normal person would have to draw their arm away or to flinch. He allows the Cobra to bite him, and then the Nano mites just simply push the venom out of the wound. Creepy stuff, and it just makes you wonder, like, wait a minute, is this strictly the realm of a Hollywood movie? V is it all made up, or is there maybe some truth to this? We also see this in what happens to Sara tan. I mean, he's not only physically transformed, which that, in and of itself, is crazy, the way that he goes from looking one way to being a complete duplicate for the President in this film. I mean, we could get into conspiracy theories about clones, because there's not just conspiracy theories about body doubles or political doubles. I think a lot of people know that prominent politicians have at least one body double for security purposes. But, you know, there's some people that believe they're they're outright clones that famous entertainers and artists, people that are considered to be too profitable to go away, or politicians that are considered to be pawns and puppets are cloned. And we can get into that conspiracy some other time. But, I mean, there are people who believe that. So you have Sara tan allow Cobra Commander to completely change his physical appearance. But it's not lost on me that Cobra also wants to install a brain chip in his head, and he crushes it up and says, No, thanks. I'll control my own mind. Immediately, you think of Lord Elon and the brain chip, and it just makes you wonder, what is that kind of technology going to do inside someone's head. Of course, it's sold to us for the best possible uses. Someone with paralysis or someone with a degenerative disease can suddenly have the use of their limbs again. What monster is going to say no to that? Nobody is going to tell somebody that has paralysis or a disability. Oh, you can't use this. Then people have free will. They can. They can choose to do that if they want to. I'm not stopping anybody. I'm just sort of on the fringe out here, like pepper pots and Iron Man three, going, yeah, all of this sounds cool, but it also sounds weaponizable, which is precisely what we see in GI Joe, just as in the Iron Man films, we see another example, I believe, of transhumanism. When the Joes are given suits that look a lot like Tony Stark's Iron Man suits, these can make you jump higher, can make you run faster, your reflexes are so much faster. And they also, at one point, tell the guys, before they put the suits on you think it and the suit does it, so you have this integration. I'm also thinking of how Tony Stark says, the suit and I are one. If you want my suits, you can't have them. The suit and I are one. So is this foretelling an age where man and machine are integrated to the point where you feel like you can't live without some sort of addition to your body. Now, I realize you may be thinking, Come on, Sara, this sounds kind of funky. Sounds kind of out there, haha. I don't know. Keep in mind that March 23 2009 okay? The same year that this film was released, by the way, but over a decade ago, March, 23 2009 in the Scientific American I will drop a link. You can check this out for yourself, and I hope that you do. Ray Kurzweil published the article THE COMING merging of mind and machine. The byline reads, the accelerating pace of technological progress means that our intelligent creations will soon Eclipse us, and that their creations will eventually Eclipse them. In this he writes, sometime early in this century, the intelligence of machines will exceed that of humans. Within a quarter of a century, machines will exhibit the full range of human intellect, emotions and skills ranging from musical and other creative aptitudes to physical movement. They will claim to have feelings and unlike today's virtual personalities, will be very convincing when they tell us so by around 2020, $1,000 computer will at least match the processing power of the human brain. By 2029, the software for intelligence will have been largely mastered, and the average personal computer will be equivalent to 1000 brains. Once computers achieve a level of intelligence comparable to that of humans, they will necessarily soar past it. For example, if I learn French, I can't readily download that learning to you. The reason is that for us, learning involves secessions of stunningly complex patterns of interconnections among brain cells or neurons and among the concentrations of biochemicals known as neurotransmitters that enable impulses to travel from neuron to neuron. We have no way of quickly downloading these patterns, but quickly downloading will allow our non biological creations to share immediately what they learn with billions of other machines. Ultimately, non biological entities will master not only the sum total of their own knowledge, but all of ours as well. As this happens, we will no longer be a clear distinction between human and machine. We are already putting computers neural implants. Directly into people's brains to counteract Parkinson's disease and tremors from multiple sclerosis. We have cochlear implants that restore hearing. A retinal implant is being developed in the US that is intended to provide at least some visual perception for some blind individuals. Basically by replacing certain visual processing circuits of the brain, a team of scientists at Emory University implanted a chip in the brain of a paralyzed stroke victim that allowed him to use his brain power to move a cursor across a computer screen. End, quote, I'm just going to pause here because it's like, well, are the things going on in this GI Joe movie really that far fetched when you start to listen to somebody like Ray Kurzweil and you think about how this technology had been in the making, had been in the planning, had been in the predicting for years. Think about that. We also see the theme of transhumanism, because Rex, who has been burned up and has difficulty breathing, uses a variety of technology and apparatuses to disguise his appearance and to keep him going. We also see that Cobra turns McCullen into Destro by actually injecting him with nanomites and turning his face. He's not just wearing a mask. He winds up with like a metallic face from the nanomites, we see themes of thought monitoring or mind reading pretty easily. I mean, Cobra has these volunteers that he's turned into, quote, Neo vipers. They they feel no fear, they feel no pain, they have no morality. They don't feel any regret or remorse. He's able to control their minds so that they do his bidding. We also see this with Sara tans reference to crushing the brain chip and saying, No, thanks, I'll control my own mind. We also see this in that creepy scene in Paris where one of the Joes plugs these probes into a dead man's head and says, Well, the brain survives for a few minutes after death. What we can do with this equipment is convert the electrical impulses from this person's memory and convert them into images, which is like, Okay. I mean, I wonder if that technology actually already exists. If you ever want to take a really weird trip down a rabbit hole, you should read about zombie genes. I'll drop a link from UIC today, their article zombie genes. Research shows some genes come to life in the brain after death. In the hours after we die, certain cells in the human brain are still active. Some cells even increase their activity and grow to gargantuan proportions, according to new research from the University of Illinois, Chicago. End quote. That's kind of interesting. I'll leave you to your own theories. I mean, I personally don't believe that when we die, it's just lights off and you go in the ground and become worm food, and that's the end of your consciousness. I think consciousness goes on. I've had too many experiences that have convinced me that we are, in fact, spirits in the material world. But this idea that, well, there are some parts of your brain that survive after death, science is proving that to be true. As for the other part of that question, if we go to an article published March 16 to 2023, so just a couple of years ago, Houston, herald.com scientists can now read your mind. Ai turns people's thoughts into images. Artificial Intelligence can create images based on text prompts, but scientists unveiled a gallery of pictures that technology produces by reading brain activity. So that's exactly what we see this man doing in the GI Joe movie. I'm going to plug these probes into this person's brain and turn the brain activity into actual images. And yet people think predictive programming is a joke. I mean, come on, man the idea of Manchurian candidates or super soldiers or brainwashed soldiers that will just simply do whatever they're told with no thought for the consequences and no interventions of morality, that's pretty obvious by the way, that Cobra creates his little army of Neo vipers. So these nano mites that are originally created so we're told to eradicate cancer have now been weaponized. Oh, and then they're also used for brainwashing and mind control purposes, things that make you go, hmm. I would also add that what's going on with the McCullen characters, both the ancestor that we see in 1641, and then the more contemporary McCullen that we see that's in cahoots with NATO. That shows you such a pertinent crystallization of how the world really works, how these Fauci. Cats and hyper elites fund both sides of a conflict, they win either way, left, right, capitalist, communist. It doesn't matter if you're funding both sides of a conflict, then it doesn't really matter who wins, you still win. And as he says, It's not that you don't do it. It's that you don't get caught doing it. I mean, look at his whole plan. His plan is that the warheads would be stolen. It would be blamed on insurgents of some kind, and it would be NATO's fault. So it's not that he's not going to inflict some kind of terror on the world. He's going to do that. It just has to be NATO's fault, and then they're going to install this decoy president. See, it's not McCullen that wants the attention. He doesn't want to be perceived as the man who has the solution, the man who has all the power. No, he wants Zartan as the decoy President, to be perceived as the man with all the power, so that when people panic and start freaking the F out, they will run to him. So Cobra and McCullen will actually be controlling the world. They'll just be doing it behind the scenes. It'll all be behind a cloak. All be behind a dummy. Think about that. I mean, when we think about JFK really trying to make the presidency into a presidency, and then being blown away, and we think about all the dummies and puppets and individuals beholden to their masters that we've had ever since then. I mean, it doesn't seem that implausible to me. I've said many times before, we don't even really know who these power brokers actually are. They're just hidden behind the scenes. They're not people that we've chosen, they're not people that we've elected, and in so many cases, we don't even know who they are. That's really the role that McCullen and Cobra are wanting to have for themselves. We're going to be pulling the strings, but we're going to have a dummy President installed, so he'll be the one to the public that's in control of everything. I really feel like this is one of those films where it's easy to dismiss it as Hollywood schlock. This is just silliness. This is just Channing Tatum without a shirt on and some kind of jock movie for frat boys. But if you care to go a little bit deeper, if you if you know what you're looking for, there's some surprising and frightening information. Here, stay a little crazy, and I will see you in the next episode.

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