That BCCI movie has its own ARG

[elfismiles]

ARGH!

[Trailhead] Stop The International
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/view ... hp?t=27014

Two days ago, there was an envelope in my mailbox with just my name on it. When I opened it, there was a bunch of US-Dollar notes in it. Those Dollars were surrounded by a red "badge" which read: "DIES IST BLUTGELD" (= this is blood money), FOLGE DER SPUR (= follow the trail), FOLGEDEMGELD.DE (= follow the money). When you come to that Website, you can choose, whether you like it in English or in German.

On the page, you are greeted by someone called Louis Salinger, who is a chief inspector of Scotland Yard. He explains some insights on a current case in which the so called "The International Bank of Business and Credit" is being involved. Salinger then told us to meet a contact person at the central station in Berlin who could give us some clues about where to find some more insights and information. So we travelled to a Park called Treptower Park where we found a CD with different files. Now, there is a new website, which is called STOPTHEINTERNATIONAL.COM which includes a countdown, that will reach zero in about 5 days.

The International:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963178/

ETA - link on the first site to IBBC:
http://www.theibbc.com

trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgMPsAzR9l8

The Illuminati & BCCI: Coming to theatres everywhere
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board/v ... hp?t=21165

[Penguin]

I was just discussing The International and how it in my humble opinion covers for BCCI story, in a public sauna
The other guys there were pretty up to it too.

[Wombaticus Rex]

I'd be curious to see who's behind that one. Szulborski seems like he's retiring to be a teacher of ARG designers, but 42 Entertainment smells like the most likely culprit.

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

"...Louis Salinger, who is a chief inspector of Scotland Yard. He explains some insights on a current case..."

Interesting choice of name. Also brings up Pierre Salinger who reported that TWA800 was brought down by a missile July 1996 and more.

His office was infiltrated by a young woman later outed as working for MI5 to infiltrate PanAm 103 families and censoring wikipedia regarding PanAm 103.

wiki-
"Pierre Emil George Salinger (June 14, 1925 – October 16, 2004) was a White House Press Secretary to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He served in the United States Senate as a Democrat from California briefly in 1964. He later became known for his work as an ABC News correspondent, and in particular for his stories on the American hostage crisis in Iran, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland, and his claims as to the cause of the explosion of TWA flight 800."

[orz]

Hugh your theory collapses once again. Foiled by your own 'logic'. How could ANY mention of the name 'Salinger' trump the pre-existing ultimate possible Salinger Keyword Hijack - J. D.?

[nathan28]

Hugh your theory collapses once again. Foiled by your own 'logic'. How could ANY mention of the name 'Salinger' trump the pre-existing ultimate possible Salinger Keyword Hijack - J. D.?

WARNING! MAY BE TRIGGERING!

[§ê¢rꆧ]

What do you guys think of ARGs?

Seems like a great way to poison the waters. Maybe I'm too old (and I ain't really that old, but in Internet years I guess I am).

On the other hand, an ARG seems to be a great way to disseminate information, and of course (*pukes*) market a product. I don't think I've fallen into any ARG holes yet (unless 911 truth is an ARG). I've stayed clear of the Teresa Duncun stuff, but I'll confess I've read the threads here a bit, scratching my head.

Nine Inch Nails had an ARG for their "Year Zero" album, and while I enjoyed the music of NIN as I always do, it sort of fell flat to me, and I didn't participate.

I can see the appeal, but I am leery. It's kind of like occult orders, to me. Creating insiders with deception, at the expense of those not in on the game.

[elfismiles]

What do you guys think of ARGs?

Seems like a great way to poison the waters. Maybe I'm too old (and I ain't really that old, but in Internet years I guess I am).

On the other hand, an ARG seems to be a great way to disseminate information, and of course (*pukes*) market a product. I don't think I've fallen into any ARG holes yet (unless 911 truth is an ARG). I've stayed clear of the Teresa Duncun stuff, but I'll confess I've read the threads here a bit, scratching my head.

Nine Inch Nails had an ARG for their "Year Zero" album, and while I enjoyed the music of NIN as I always do, it sort of fell flat to me, and I didn't participate.

I can see the appeal, but I am leery. It's kind of like occult orders, to me. Creating insiders with deception, at the expense of those not in on the game.

I warned the paranormal, UFO and parapolitical communities about the inevitable blurring of the lines that ARGs would cause in an article I wrote back in early 2001:

Majestic Art of Electronic Disinformation - by SMiles Lewis
http://www.elfis.net/mkc/mkcx/majesticarts.htm

It was that research that led me then to suspect ATS (AboveTopSecret.com) was possibly just such a psyop - blurring the lines. Posting about ATS' ARG related history at ATS stirred up quite a shit storm and ultimately led Shawnna to contact me.

I am fascinated by ARGs, find the idea very compelling, yet the implications are rather significant as evidenced by a number of technical papers on the subject:

The Majestic Game, Interactive Media Environments, and a New Turing Test: Blurring the Boundaries Between Virtual and Real by Damian Ward Hey

There is something potentially more disturbing going on here than the participation in a murder mystery in which you get e-mailed by a simulated murderer or voice-mailed by a screaming, simulated soon-to-be victim. There is the looming threat of Baudrillardian hyperrealism.

Howard Rheingold comments that “hyper-realists see the use of communications technologies as a route to the total replacement of the natural world” and that:

The most radical of the hyper-realist political critics charge that the wonders of communications technology skillfully camouflage the disappearance and subtle replacement of true democracy — and everything else that used to be authentic, from nature to human relationships, — with a simulated, commercial version. …

Why torture people [political dissidents, or other ‘trouble-makers’] when you can get them to pay for access to electronic mind-control? (Rheingold, 2000, pp. 317-318)

The danger that alarmists fear is that the simulation will become socially and politically more “real” than real life situations whose contexts are buoyed by actual socially overdetermining economic, political, religious, etc., institutions. People will then begin reacting more en masse to the inconsequential world of simulation than to the real world. When this happens, the argument goes, one of two things, and possibly both, will occur: 1). The economy and socio-political structure of our society will collapse because people are producing in simulated situations rather than “actual” ones and/or 2) The wily hegemony of our society will further the narrative and blur the ability to distinguish between reality and simulation, whereby, as seen in the Rheingold passage, “electronic mind-control” will be exerted by the same hegemony over the hapless worker-inhabitants of simulated realms.

Proceedings of the Media Ecology Association

Lance Strate, “Media Ecology as a Scholarly Activity” (President’s Address) … “The Majestic Game, Interactive Media Environments, and a New Turing Test: … www.media-ecology.org

http://www.media-ecology.org/publicatio ... index.html

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

KH = ARG = displacement = psyops decoy.

"Majestic" is a good example.
Think of one or two things the kidz shouldn't know about not related to UFOs.

[§ê¢rꆧ]

ATS always turned me off. Especially all the ads. That's interesting.

Regarding the NIN ARG, it was about fascisim, surveillance society, etc. I couldn't get caught up in it because there are so many real things to look into.

But I wonder to, someone not aware, if the NIN ARG might have inspired them to look into matters deeper. I don't think researchers would have confused it for reality, although not having looked at it too closely, I can't say for sure.

But if it did get people to look into parapolitical matters a little closer, perhaps it was a good thing.

ON EDIT: Is anyone following the BCCI-movie ARG?

ON EDIT AGAIN: I guess it's over

[Joe Hillshoist]

I never got into the NIN ARG much... it seemed pretty obvious to be honest. But my missus is a mad keen Trent Reznor fan. Did you know he uploaded his entire catalog to the pirate bay or something, including all the remixes. I also think this is one of the most inspirational songs ever. Even if it is poppy and soppy.

He is pretty mainstream, but to be honest so was that worldview when Year Zero came out. I think it might have joined a few dots for some people tho.

ARGs are interesting. Basically any belief system can be an ARG can't it?

We all know the dao that can be expressed isn't the true dao, so by definition every belief system is an ARG. IE a model of reality that is different to reality itself...

sMiley, what do you think of this in light of Guantanamo/Bhagram etc etc:

Why torture people [political dissidents, or other ‘trouble-makers’] when you can get them to pay for access to electronic mind-control? (Rheingold, 2000, pp. 317-318)

??

And along the same lines, is the War on terror an ARG, and if so how, and whats it selling?