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Why You Shouldn't Trust Anything You See On Television



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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