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US Army designs "shoot 'em up" VIDEO GAME.
by gregvanderlaan.com
I was outraged to see that the Taxpayers paid the US Army to create a Video
Game that teaches teenagers about war and gives them an opportunity to
explore careers in the military. www.americasarmy.com is the home of a game
that lets people experience virtually the art of war using a military simulator
that teaches tactics and strategies to civilians. Blow stuff up too. This game
is rated "T" for teen by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board.
Players may join virtual teams to compete online with others across the internet.
A headset microphone is recommended for shouting orders to your teammates.
The marketing strategy is brilliant. A teenager might make the intellectual leap
from "Gee, It's a lot of FUN to blow up people in this Video Game " to
"Gee, if I enlist, I can blow up people FOR REAL". A player may get a copy
of the game on CD by visiting their US ARMY recruiter. The talents of a Video
Game player would be very useful to an army that uses complex computer
controlled weapons. I remember that the CNN broadcast of the bombing of
Baghdad looked eerily familiar. The surrealistic green color scheme of the
night-vision cameras and the trails left by the bombs seemed to be identical
to the Video Game "Missile Command". However, unlike a game, when a
player kills a person in reality they stay dead, no replays. The graphics in
this game are superb, a typical scene shows oil wells and a "Escher-like"
tile floor. The action appears to take place in a Middle Eastern city.
A link to shopping lets you purchase dolls to play with offline. Handy to have
when your kid sister wants to serve tea to her dollies. You can have your
action figures shoot up the tea room and blast all the bad guys. One doll is an
Indigenous Soldier. "Special Forces teams have a proud history of training
indigenous forces to fight to liberate their countrymen from oppression".
Another doll is a Special Forces Intelligence Sergeant. "The Special Forces
Intelligence Sergeant is responsible for collecting and providing essential
intelligence during missions, conducting and handling agent reports,
analyzing risks associated with friendly and enemy courses of action, and
acts to counter or neutralize identified intelligence threats". Of course, the
intelligent Sergeant needs a machine gun to fill out those reports. OOPS,
I typed intelligent when I meant Intellegence... A slip that anyone could
make... Assuming the Sergeant to BE SMART, not collect rumors.
A basic concept in mind-control is to saturate the subject with virtual blood
and gore to allow them to become used to seeing horrible sights. When faced
with actual blood and gore, the person is not offended due to familiarity.
The actual US Military has been using motion pictures to train soldiers for
years. The first time a new recruit sees a "sucking chest wound" they are
disgusted and often vomit. Upon repeated exposure, the new recruit becomes
comfortable with the images. Training soldiers often uses the concepts of
Pavlov and B.F. Skinner. This style of training is effective, a soldier should
not question a command but execute it instantly for the Army to function
properly. If a soldier has lingering doubts about the wisdom of invading a
foreign country that has no WMDs, no ties to Al-Qaeda and nothing at all
to do with the mass murder on 9/11/2001, then they will hesitate when the
time comes to pull the trigger. Just like practicing flying an airplane using
a flight simulator, a "shoot 'em up" Video Game can be used to speed up
reaction times. This opportunity to program your own mind is now available
to any teenager with a computer and an Internet connection. Playstation
and XBOX versions are available too.
SEE, they learned a lot from project MKULTRA.
www.riseofasoldier.com is the website for the new version of the game
created by UBISOFT. Epic Games designed the underlying architecture
for these games. The U.S. Army announced that it has licensed Unreal
Engine 3 for the next generation versions of America's Army. In addition
to serving over 5 million registered users playing more than 1.34 billion
missions "a wide variety of agencies from the U.S. Navy to national
laboratories have repurposed America’s Army for applications ranging
from appended training devices for weapon systems to adaptive thinking
and leadership training simulations".
~~~and now, years later... more thoughts~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Farmville is a completely different video game that is played by 1% of the world's population.
It teaches cooperation and working together with your neighbors. If you help each
other, everyone benefits... quite a different message... Hopefully, this concept will
spread. What if?
A friend of mine has intentionally selected people that live on different CONTINENTS
to be her Farmville Neighbors. Some of the websites are written in different Alphabets
and different Languages. Fortunately, we have auto translate built into the computer
system. Babblefish and Google both will give a machine translation... Often that is
close enough for her to understand people a world away... If the internet can connect
us all, war will become a quaint historical memory... Why Not?
http://www.babblefish.com/
http://translate.google.com/
The game teaches scheduling and keeping appointments. Important life skills often overlooked
in this ADHD world. A player plows and plants crops that are to be harvested in a specific time.
If you plant a crop of strawberries, they are ready to harvest in 4 hours. If a player fails to harvest
them in a timely manner, they wither and are not sellable. In my game, on the weekend I plant
short time crops and during the work week I plant crops that take 2,3 or 4 days to mature.
Animals never need attention... go figure... One would think that slopping the hogs would be required.
However, it's just a game. I "harvested" my pigs yet got no bacon.
Two thumbs UP for Farmville. Both my friend and I feel it is a good game for KIDS of all ages.
Here is what my farm looks like. I found GOD on Farmville... Actually, CROP CIRCLES
are a popular pastime on Farmville. People engineer beautiful farms and on the ZYNGA
message board they enter their creations in a contest. With virtual coins as a prize.
This style oof game has become so very popular that there are now MANY similar games.
Fishville, Cafe World, Frontierville, Farm TOWN... all based on SIM. Simulating a real world
scenario and letting multiple players interact on the same game. For example: I just sent my friend
a Surfboard and now her gameboard has it proudly displayed. Another friend sent my the PINK
COW that is the center of the "G" shown above. Without a little help from my friends, my farm would
not be as fun...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~@~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ wow, what a lot of heavy words...
here is some art to cleanse the palette.
Cross on the mountaintop near Petrolia... Lost Coast... hallucination documented. | This airplane has been recycled to become a playground toy... 
When Viewed from Space, It's not possible to see the Nation Boundary Lines... States and countries are a totally artificial concept. mkultra coffee cup artwork painted on a coffee cup The CIA/LSD mind control project that escaped the laboratory and got out onto the dance floor! 
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I've heard that the State of California is having budget problems again... Did you notice that we are spending more on salaries, goods and services than we are receiving in taxes?
Our governor recommends we cut spending on salaries. Good Idea! We should do that...Many of those offices have too many people that do not have a whole lot to do... DMV is now closing 2 Friday's a month. Well, we could get by without the DMV a couple of days without even noticing...
We also should increase voluntary taxes.
the people that want to pay should be taxed and the rest of us can decline...
sounds good? too good to be true? well, read further...
TAX MARIJUANA! Only smokers would pay. I don't smoke and would not pay a penny...
The giant marijuana business pays NO taxes... They are the largest cash crop in California. Bigger than rice... bigger than almonds, strawberries, artichokes, apricots... and all TAX FREE!
As a matter of fact, IT COSTS TAXPAYERS MONEY to hire police, prison guards, lawyers, judges, construction crews to build the extra prisons needed to house the criminals... the expense list goes on and on and on... and on... and on... helicopter pilots, fuel...
Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) helicopters fly over remote areas of California looking for farms.
So, we could CUT SPENDING and INCREASE TAX INCOME if we just Legalized Marijuana and Taxed it.
Why should criminals keep all the profit?
Especially now that the criminals are Mexican Nationals that ship the green dollars to Mexico.
So, we arrest a few, put them in jail or send them home... burn the plants and... so what! The business is now based on playing the odds. Plant ten gardens, if nine get busted the one that gets to market causes enough profit to pay for the whole enterprise... there is an endless supply of braceros willing to replace the ones arrested.... There are plenty of men in Mexico that would gladly volunteer to go live in rural California and be paid to be farmers by the "Mexican Mafia".
Did you know that you and I pay to purchase helicopters? CAMP is a huge waste of my tax dollar...
The real effect of CAMP was to move the gardens indoors and grow them using lamps... diesel fueled generators provide the electricity to light up the fluorescent "gro-lights".
Spilled diesel fuel gets into the Trinity river... and the Salmon... and the Klamath... NO, the criminals do not clean up after themselves... NO OSHA or EPA... NO Worker's Compensation. No Social Security taxes withheld... No payroll Taxes paid...
TAX FREE, JUST LIKE THE CHURCH!
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