In recent years, many have voiced increasing
concerns with their ability to place trust in official data, and have faith in
conventional narratives. And for good reason: just yesterday a University of
Chicago finance professor, while being interviewed at the Ambrosetti Forum,
said that it is all about preserving confidence and trust in a "rigged
game": "if people are told enough by smart people on television that
the economy has been fixed, and the market is a reflection of the fundamentals,
then they’ll blindly support anything the Fed does." But while the saying
"don't believe everything [or anything] you read" and "trust but
verify" may be more appropriate now than ever, the following video is an
absolute stunner in its revelation of just how deep "real-time" media
deception can truly go. In a recently published paper by the Stanford lab
of Matthias Niessner titled "Face2Face: Real-time Face Capture and
Reenactment of RGB Videos", the authors show how disturbingly easy it is
to take a surrogate actor and, in real time using everyday available tools,
reenact their face and create the illusion that someone else, notably someone
famous or important, is speaking. Even more disturbing: one doesn't need
sophisticated equipment to create a "talking" clone - a commodity
webcam and some software is all one needs to create the greatest of sensory
manipulations. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-09/stunning-video-reveals-why-you-shouldnt-trust-anything-you-see-television
The paper
referred to in the news was published at the Stanford lab. Here is the chart for the last solar eclipse
drawn for Stanford,Ca. Notice the eclipse in Pisces highlights the
Jupiter-Neptune-Saturn T-square on the angles.
Neptune is in
Pisces, its own sign. Planets in their own signs are often said to be
intensified in their effects, and indeed it seems that there is an exponential proliferation
of images, with Neptune’s journey through Pisces. More and more images seem to
find their way into our world during these times. The last time Neptune visited
Pisces, in the 1850s, was when photography first began to appear regularly in
newspapers; for the first time in history, everyday people were exposed to
actual photographic images, and across that decade this trend became the
standard. Our time
is similar. In the past few years since Neptune has been in Pisces, we are
seeing a proliferation of images unlike at any other time in history. Everyone is
now a photographer. The Internet itself is moving rapidly from a predominantly textual
to a predominantly imagistic interface. The social network Instagram, whose icon is a
camera, has also become popular during Neptune’ s transit through Pisces.
In the
T-square, Saturn at the apex is in Sagittarius. Sagittarius is the sign of
meaning. The combination can lead to a disciplined (Saturn) search for meaning
and understanding (Sagittarius). When we are less conscious, with Saturn in Sagittarius we become consumers
drowning in the sea of images released by Neptune. On the other hand when Sagittarius
is engaged with consciously, there is a patient working through of the images while
we remain grounded and retain our boundaries [1].
Aiding the
process is Jupiter on the Ascendant in Virgo opposite Neptune. Virgo is the
most rational, analytic, practically-minded member of the zodiac. It will often
take things to pieces to understand how they work. Here Jupiter in Virgo is
helping us take those functional steps to discover the illusions in Neptune’s
images.
[1] Saturn
square Neptune: Navigating an Ocean of Images; Jason Holley
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