Electronic Disinformation

[AstroCafe]

This is the second time I have received such a message. I am wondering if true, if it could be the source of the Dr. Yeats story, and others like it. I guess it will be harder to determine what is fact per se, and fiction? Leslee

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`Journal of Possible Paradigms - Spring 2001

Majestic Art of Electronic Disinformation

http://www.elfis.net/mkc/mkcx/majesticarts.htm

"A character in the game might ask me the name of my wife. A few months
later I might get a call saying, "'Neil, if you don't stop snooping, you
might find Laurie in a pool of blood'."
-Neil Young, Game Designer at Anim-X

Back in February I learned of a new "game" which threatens to further
blur the lines between fact and fiction within the ufo community and its
relevant parapolitical / conspiracy sub-communities. It's called
Majestic and it is being billed as "The game that plays you." This new
online interactive experience uses the player's own mind as the gaming
environment with the world wide web and telecommunications networks as
its intravenous feed straight into that player's paranoia prone
imagination. The international software developer, Electronic Arts, is
banking on the popularity of paranoia as a sort of mental thrill ride.
Depending upon what level of interactivity a player desires, players can
be contacted by the game via web sites, email, online instant messaging,
phone, fax, and even cellular phone messaging systems. With "reality"
television shows like Mtv's Fear and the Fox Family Channel's World's
Most Haunted Places already pushing the envelope of ethical
entertainment, the inherant dangers of such a paranoic "game" are quite
apparent.
Among the many ethical ambiguities implied by the very premise of the
game is its use of real and fake web sites to promote real and hoax news
stories. The game designers have gone so far as to create front
companies for several of these web sites. They are actively urging fans
of the game to create web sites to act as fronts for the game.
http://www.zdnet.com/gamespot/stories/previews/0,10869,2655645,00.html
http://www.majestic-alliance.com/alliance.html

The disinformation is already spreading... I'm already receiving emails
from experiencers and researchers who are forwarding links to web pages
which turn out to be among the growing list of hoax sites. One
experiencer sent me a link to an online image of a supposed reptoid
alien. The link was to one of the top two Majestic related fan sites,
www.abovetopsecret.com.
One of the likely hoax sites is www.chemtrail.com. If you do a whois
lookup on this site you get the name of a company called Octopus
Interactive - these web developers really know their conspiracy
theory... Anyone familiar with the majority of conspiracy theory from
the 1980s and 1990s should recognize the Octopus conspiracy as one of
the (allegedly) farthest reaching and most convoluted. Most important is
the Octopus theory's linking of continuing news reports about software
known variously as the Inslaw and Promis programs that were designed
with "back doors" for in-the-know agencies.
But perhaps one of the most direct potential dangers to this game's
contamination of the UFO scene can be found within one of our
communities most prolific contributors: Filers Files. Since July of last
year, each issue of Filers Files has contained the important message
"Sponsored by Electronic Arts" within its header. To date, Mr. Filer has
not responded to my repeated sincere requests for more information on
the nature of this sponsorship.
http://www.filersfiles.com/files/2000/FilersFiles26.htm
http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jul/m03-033.shtml

Meanwhile, high quality parapolitical sites such as www.disinfo.com have
officially announced their open participation in this new gaming
experience.
Of course, many will see this game as a part of the conspiracy itself;
ie- the Majestic game is simply a pretext for the very type of data
gathering / backdoor access to your privacy engendered in the original
claims of Octopus conspiracy researchers and NSA Echelon devotees.

From Disinfo.com - Majestic: The Welcome Intruders by Jeff Halpin
http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id830/pg1/

EA's new game "Majestic" (www.majesticthegame.com / www.majestic.ea.com)
captures the experience of surfing the dissipative edge of reality and
meta-fiction. Could it really be a social experiment to soften up host
populations for the rumored "MJ-12" group and "Majestic" technology
taken from a crashed saucer at Roswell? Or, more likely, is EA cashing
in on the late 1990s "X-Files" phenomenon, using "Live Action
Roleplaying" techniques? Jeff Halpin investigates, but decide for
yourself.

More Majestic Fact ? Fiction Sites

EA.com and Anim-X have created a number of shell companies, which they
used to register strange websites full of info about Majestic.

http://www.MajesticAlliance.com/

http://www.majestic-alliance.com/

http://www.sirnemisis.com/

http://www.majesticnetwork.com/

http://www.majestictheory.com/

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/

http://www.darkdata.org/

http://www.conspiracy-net.com/majestic/

Majestic
http://pc.ign.com/previews/8565.html

This IGN article (November 16, 2000), by Vincent Lopez, features
commentary by EA's VP and Executive in Charge of Production of Majestic,
Neil Young, about realtime experiences and reinventing the adventure
game genre.

Majestic trailer (big) 10100K
http://pcmovies.ign.com/media/news/video/majestictrailerbig.mov
Majestic trailer (small) 2420K
http://pcmovies.ign.com/media/news/video/majestictrailersmall.mov

Majestic
http://www.gamecenter.com/Pc/Previews/Majestic/

This Gamecenter.com article (January 5, 2001), by Jason Ocampo, asks the
salient question, "how long it will take before an innocent outsider
stumbles into the game. Should a third party unknowingly intercept one
of the game's death threats and turn it over to law enforcement, we
imagine that there will be a whole lot of explaining to do."

Preview: Majestic
http://www.dailyradar.com/previews/game_preview_1155.html

This DailyRadar.com article (November 16, 2000), by Matt Sammons,
examines EA's use of multistrand narrative (David Lynch, Robert Altman)
and interactive technology (AOL Instant Message ID, fax, phone) in
Majestic. "EA is setting some lofty goals here, and it is more than
willing to throw around terms like "paradigm shift" and "the next
generation of entertainment." For once, game fans may be in for more
than vaporspeak."

ZDNet Gamespot: Majestic
http://www.zdnet.com/gamespot/stories/previews/0,10869,2655645,00.html

This ZDNet Gamespot review of Majestic (November 17, 2000), by Amer
Ajami, explains how AOL Instant Messaging and the different
interactivity settings work. Ajami also explains why Majestic was
inspired by MJ-12. ScreenShots | ChemtrailCon
http://www.zdnet.com/gamespot/filters/products/screens/0,11105,445181-4,00.html

Majestic: The Truth Out There

http://www.gamersrepublic.com/allformat/CrossPlatform/News/112000/majestic.asp

In this Gamers' Republic News article (November 20, 2000), by Shola
Akinnuso, Anim-X president Neil Young warns that Majestic will have
multiple endings, depending on how the game plays you. "Called a L.A.R.P
(Live Action Role Player), Electronic Arts is the dungeon master, and
the gamers are the inhabitants of a very intelligensia-oriented, very
engaging exercise in human interaction."

EA's Majestic AIMs to Shake Things Up
http://www.happypuppy.com/news/articles/001117-n-1.html

This Happy Puppy review (November 17, 2000), by Raymond M. Padilla,
likens an EA press conference to Discordian theater.

Something Wicked This Way Comes
http://pc.hotgames.com/features/180/features_1.htm

This HotGames.com editorial (November 27, 2000), by Dustin H. Chin,
suggests that EA is playing "cat and mouse with the digital
generation."

Preview: 'Majestic' Online Game Blurs Reality
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/computing/01/08/majestic.idg/index.html

This CNN article (January 8, 2001), by Dan Elektro, examines how
Majestic fits with The Blair Witch Project (1999) and other cultural
detritus that blurs the line between meta-fiction and reality.

FGN Online
http://www.fgnonline.com/pc/news/15080.html

This FGN Online article (August 24, 2000), by Anthony Hicks, features an
interview with John Ricotello, EA's Preasident and COO. Ricotello:
"Majestic will be the first PC game I've seen that will fax you or phone
you."

EA's Majestic: The Online Game that Plays You
http://www.gamepro.com/index.html?/computer/pc/games/news/7391.shtml

This GamePro.com article (November 16, 2000), by Dan Elektro, briefly
considers
how Majestic will affect the online gaming industry.

Dark Matter in Alternity - Role playing game with ParaUFO content
http://www.wizards.com/darkmatter/

Mtv's FEAR -
http://www.m
tv.com/mtv/tubescan/fear/`

[0108]

Brother!

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Just what we needed.

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Dharma/Dean

Among the many ethical ambiguities implied by the very premise of the
game is its use of real and fake web sites to promote real and hoax news
stories. The game designers have gone so far as to create front
companies for several of these web sites. They are actively urging fans
of the game to create web sites to act as fronts for the game.
http://www.zdnet.com/gamespot/stories/previews/0,10869,2655645,00.html
http://www.majestic-alliance.com/alliance.html

The disinformation is already spreading... I'm already receiving emails
from experiencers and researchers who are forwarding links to web pages
which turn out to be among the growing list of hoax sites. One
experiencer sent me a link to an online image of a supposed reptoid
alien. The link was to one of the top two Majestic related fan sites,
www.abovetopsecret.com.

[0108]

Members,

Attached I have included some specific comments by Cater on the
non-existence of neutrinos. Take a look.

Dharma/Dean

Neutrinos are invisible, uncharged, nearly massless particles that can
travel cosmological distances. Unlike the photons that make up visible
light, or other kinds of radiation, neutrinos can pass unhindered
through
stars, vast magnetic fields and entire galaxies without skipping a beat.

members,

Neutrinos are soft particles, they just don't know it. Because these
particles which they observe can " pass unhindered through

stars, vast magnetic fields and entire galaxies," then they think that
they are high energy particles.

Please note Mr. Cater's comments:

" Since the Van Allen radiation belt does not consist of charges captured
by
the earth's magnetic field, why do they assume the configuration of the
belt? Nearly all of the particles in the belt are particles which have
been
ejected by the sun. These particles consist mainly of soft electrons of
various kinds. Their penetrating ability, as is indicated by their effects
upon satellites, have given the false impression that they are high energy
particles. Soft particles which penetrate solid matter release hard
electrons and protons in the process. It was assumed that these hard
particles could only have penetrated matter if they had extremely high
initial kinetic energy. The earth's magnetic field must be already
saturated

···

with particles since its field is of limited intensity and can capture no
more. Additional particles coming in tend to be repelled by the field back
toward outer space. The highest concentration of particles in the earth's
field is in the higher latitudes. Therefore, the greatest repulsive forces
must exist in that region. That is why the belt is concentrated closer to
the equator."

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Here is something from the appendix to Admiral MacMillan’s book Four Years in the White North. It suggests a possible origin of the Eskimo people in the hollow portion of the Earth.

Afterwards, I’ll put in a few comments which have appeared in various books, such as The Hollow Earth. All together, we have here some very thought-provoking evidence.

Here is the part from MacMillan’s appendix:

“ Captain Richardson, in his work The Polar Regions; says: ‘ The Eskimos of Point Barrow have a tradition, reported by Dr. Simpson, surgeon of the Plover ( in the year 1832 ), of some of their tribe having been carried to the North on ice broken up in a southery gale, and arriving, after many nights at a hilly coun­try inhabited by people like themselves, speaking the Eskimo language, and by whom they were well received. After a long stay, one spring in which the ice remained without movement they returned without mishap to their own country and reported their adventures.”

Here is something which has appeared in various books; I think it is from Raymond Bernard’s The Hollow Earth. The logic is decent but not absolute. I think it would be fruitful for us to start back-tracing surface cultures to their sources:

Marshall B. Garner felt the Eskimos migrated from inside the Earth to their present home of the rim of the alleged Polar opening. In A Journey to the Earth’s Interior, or, Have the Poles Really Been Discovered? Gardner elaborated on his unusual belief. He wrote:

The question we will answer is: ‘ who are the Eskimo and where did they come from? ‘ That it is necessary to pose this question is shown by what Fridtjof Nansen, the explorer, has to say on the subject. Nansen tells in his Northern Mists all that has been previously discovered about the Eskimo. One is astonished to see that it all ends in a question mark. In other words, only a little is known about the Eskimos, and as to their origin nothing is known.

Nansen on the Eskimos

And yet the Eskimo must have come from somewhere to his present habitat, for as Nansen says “ his world is that of the sea, ice and cold, for which nature had not intended human beings”- implying, of course, that the Artic regions were not the original home of this race. He goes on: “ as men of the white race pushed northward to the ‘ highest latitudes ‘ they found traces of this remarkable people, who had already been there in times long past; and it is only in the last few decades that anyone has succeeded farther North than the Eskimo, partl by learning from him, or enlisting his help. In these regions, which are his own, his culture was superior to that of the white race, and from no other people has the Artic nevegator learned so much.

A Puzzle

The north coast of America and the islands to the north of it, the Bering Straight to the East coast of Greenland, is the territory of the Eskimo ... Within these limits the Eskimo must have developed into what they are now. In their anthropological race characteristics, in their sealing and whaling culture and in their language they are very different from all other known peoples, both in America and Asia, and we must suppose that for long ages, ever since they began to fit themselves for their life along the frozen shores, they have lived apart, separated from othes, perhaps for a long time as a small tribe. They all belong to the same race; the cerebral formation, for instance, of all real Eskimos, from Alaska to Greenland, is remarkable homogeneous; but in the far West they may have been mixed with indians and others, and in Greenland they are now mixed with Europeans. They are pronouncedly dolichocephalic; but have short, broad faces, and by their features and appearances are easily distinguished from other neighboring peoples. Small, alanting eyes, nose small and flat, narrow between the eyes and broad below; cheeks, broad, prominent and round; the forehead narrowing comparitively above; the lower part of the face broad and powerful; balck, straight hair. The color of the skin is a pale brown. The Eskimos are not, as is aften supposed, a small people on an average; they are rather of middle height, often powerful, sometimes quite tall, although they are a good deal shorter, and weaker in appearance than average Skandanavians. In appearance and also in language they come nearest to some of the North American tribes.”

Nansen admits that he is puzzled- in common with other inquirers, no two of whom agree- over the origin of the Eskimo race. The real central point of their culture, he says, is seal hunting, “ especially with the harpoon, sometimes in the kayak in open water and sometimes from the ice. We cannot believe that this sealing, especially with the kayak, was first developed in the central part of the regions they now inhabit; there the conditions of like would have been too severe, and they would not have been able to support themselves until their sealing culture had obtained a certain development. Just as in Europe we met with the ‘ Finnish’ sea-fishing on a coast that was connected with milder coasts further South, where seamanship was first able to develop, so we must expect that the Eskimo culture began on coasts with similar conditions ... “

D. Nansen then discusses the various possible mild coasts on which the Eskimo might have learned his sealing and navigation, but cannot come to any satisfactory conclusion and says that the question will have to be left open.

The fact that the question cannot be settled in any other way naturally impresses us with the probability that it will be settled through the application of our theory. The coasts on the polar orifice on the inner side of the Earth would afford the ideal conditions for the earliest habitat of the Eskimo race, and, as we shall see later, there are other facts which make us certain that the Eskimo race as we know it today is an overflow from the settlements on the borders of the polar orifice. Not only shall we show later that there has actually been communication between the Eskimos of the north and and the Antartic region- we shall show that the uninhabited part of the world has been visited by Eskimos or similar people coming through the interior of the Earth- but many things in Eskimo history and tradition point to their coming from the interior.

They Came from the North

First, however, let us note that Nansen lists quite a number of scientists all holding “ various views as to the origin of the Eskimo,” which, however, are all different from the idea set forth by Nansen that they must have come from a milder climate than their present one. Nansen notes that on the American Artic islands the Eskimos no longer live as far north as they once did- where older traces of them are found. It is evident in this case that they began north and gradually made their way south. But that beginning was not only north, but was in the interior. And in many other cases we shall see that the farther north ones goes, the more one sees traces of Eskimos, and we shall also find it true that all their traditions point to the north, and even to a condition of things which can only be explained on the theory that they once lived in a land of perpetual sunshine- which the interior of the Earth is.

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That the Eskimos left the interior of the Earth very early- perhaps when the northern climate was milder than it is now and therefore more attractive to them- seems probable. Nansen says:

“ There can be no doubt that the Eskimo arrived in Greenland before the Norwegian Icelanders. The rich finds referred to among others by Dr. H. Rink of Eskimo whaling and sealing weapons and implements of stone from deep deposits in North Greenland show tha the Eskimo were living there far back in prehistoric times.”

And in a note appended to this statement Nansen adduces evidence to show that in those prehistoric times the Eskimos lived more to the north than they do at the present time- a very significant thing to admit, seeing that it points to a northern and not a southern origin and starting point.

But the Eskimos had learned a number of things, that is to say, they were not a new tribe emerging from savagery but had a history behind them, when they did take up their abodes on the northern shores of the outer world. Nansen remarks that they “ must have had at the time of their first immigration much the same culture in the main as now, since otherwise they would not have been able to support themselves in these northern regions.”

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Poorer Hunting in the South

This quotation answers any reader who may wonder why the Eskimos emigrated from the interior in the first place, where the climate is mild, out into the regions of north Greenland where it is harder. The answer is that the Eskimo is by nature a hunter and fisher, just as some tribes of the Earth are naturally nomads and roam. The Eskimos were hunters and fishers of whale, narwhale, seal etc., and they persued their prey gradually over the polar lip. As long as they had sought these creatures in open water they had great difficulty in catching them. When they came to an ice-bound region, after they had come down past the region of warm currents and open sea around the poles, they found it easier to catch their prey. When they went too far South, so that the sea became warm and open again, they could no longer do this so easily, and so, as Nansen points out, they remained in localities where the winter meant ice. “ Southern Greenland, therefore, had no great attraction, so long as there was room enough further North.”

In other words, the Eskimo who came too far south found out what we have seen that the polar explorers from our own countries found out- a greater abundance of life further north.

That the Eskimo came from the interior of the Earth, that is to say, from a location which they could not easily explain to the Norwegians who might have asked where they originally came from, is shown by the fact that early Norwegians regarded them as supernatural people, a species of fairy. When we remember that in the efforts of these Eskimos to tell where they came from they would point to the north and describe a land of perpetual sunshine, it is easy to see that the Norwegians who associated the polar regions with the end of the world, certainly not with a new world, would wonder at the strange origin thus indicated. They would naturally assume that these were supernatural beings who came from some region under the Earth- as that was always considered to be the abode of fairies, gnomes and similar creatures.

[Frode]

Re: [allplanets-hollow] Electronic
Disinformation
Have any of you seen this site:

www.wingmakers.com

That was a great fake!

I just love this things.

The illusion is getting
illusive.

The truth is not out there!

Frode

PS! Dean! Maybe you could get your site
sponsored LOL!