Coincidence or not, this is very interesting to me. The similarities are quite precise. Many artists, or rappers rather, say that most of the stuff that happened to them, happened after they started writing about it. Strange that is. Art imitates life, or rather, thoughts manifest themselves into reality?

I think this may point so something beyond political conspiracy, and into the one realm of the paranormal that I personally might be able to get behind. There are just these inexplicable synchronicities in the world -- it wasn't just The Lone Gunman episode on 9/11; there was also that rap album with the WTC being bombed releasing on that day. There was also an episode of SNL's "Weekend Update" around March of 2001, where the little picture over Tina Fey (or whoever it was) cycled between a picture of a plane crashing, a picture of the twin towers, and a picture of Osama Bin Laden, back-to-back-to-back, in completely unrelated stories.

In my opinion, synchronicities like these point more toward a holographic or associative universe than they do some grand info-dumping conspiracy.

The first problem with this being a controlled release is the fabled cui bono -- who benefits? What does the CIA or NWO or whoever you think is behind this gain by releasing information about the future in an obscure video game? No one realizes it's prescience until after the fact, and even then there's no effect on the public. If you're trying to send a message to someone, an email works a heck of a lot better.

There are a lot of other documented cases that relate to this -- the Noophere Project, the wisdom of crowds, the placebo effect, deja vu, and so on. There really seems to be a collective unconscious in the world. What's more, physics even talks about this, with the reality of quantum entanglement and retrocausality. In a way, maybe all of our brains are actually entangled. Maybe that's what the soul is.

Anyway, I'm more than willing to chock this up as coincidence -- albeit a spooky one. This is a world where weird things happen, because we don't fully understand reality yet.

Originally posted by Anonymous ATS

I'm Brian Upton, the designer of Ghost Recon. I wrote those mission briefings you're quoting, not Tom Clancy. Tom wasn't involved in developing the plots of the Red Storm games after the original Rainbow Six. They were all done independently by me or one of the other Red Storm designers.

Hi I really do hope you are going to back up those claims ? Yeah you know because I'am Tom Clancy and I developed the plots ...

Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
I'm Brian Upton, the designer of Ghost Recon. I wrote those mission briefings you're quoting, not Tom Clancy.

And you just happened upon this site, and this thread, just to post that?

Hmmm.

I never played Ghost Recon but I played Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter and there is a lot of propaganda in it too. You see a fake news clip where the North American leaders are signing an agreement called NASJA which is something like North American Security Joint Agreement. It was basically the same thing that happened a few years later with SPP.

yeah i've played teh series and can confirm the year was 2008 but not month of it happening. what atrip.

here is what the storyline of the game is got it from the offical GR site




Eastern Europe, 2008
The world teeters on the brink of war. Radical ultranationalists have seized power in Moscow - their goal, the reestablishment of the old Soviet empire. Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan - one by onne the nearby independent republics slip back into the Russian orbit. Russian tanks sit in the Caucasus Mountains and the Baltic forests, poised to strike to the south and east. The world hold ots breath, and waits.
For one small group of elite soldiers, the war has already begun: U.S. Special Forces Group 5, First Battalion, D Company. Deployed on peacekeping duty to the Republic of Georgia in the Caucasus, this handful of Green Berets represents the very tip of the spear - the first line of defense. Equipped with the latest battlefield technology, and trained in the latest techniques of covert warfare, they strike - swiftly, silently, and invisibly.
They call themselves "The Ghosts"

I loved GR when it first came out haha was brilliant. First thing i thought when i saw Russia had attacked South Ossetia was "WTF! Ghost Recon was a game wasnt it?" lol.

has anyone else heard about in relation to the lone gunmen, that this sort of stuff is planted in the sub concious on purpose for psychological reasons?

I heard that somewhere and im trying to find out more on just how it works and how it benefits the planners of the future events. This sort of thing seems to happen quite often actually.

Originally posted by TheRepublic
this sort of stuff is planted in the sub concious on purpose for psychological reasons?

I'm pretty sure that it is planted in the sub-concious mind so that you are aware that they are in total control and that you are a slave.

Originally posted by xeroxed88
I thought about this game as soon as I heard what had happened with Georgia and I was a little bit freaked out to say the least.

I'm not sure whether Tom Clancy is some sort of prophet - I doubt it though. I remember 11th Sept. 2001, my friend read alot of Clancy's books and said to me that in one of the books it mentioned the WTC being hit by planes and he was really scared about it. I'm not sure if he was telling the truth as I have never read his books.

GR is awesome though!

Well your friend is half right. Clancy in Debt of Honour had a plot that a 747 was crashed into the capitol Building and took out the government. It lead into the next book Executive Orders where Jack Ryan became president. He was about to the sworn in as vice president when the airliner hit the building. I do remember that interview on 911, $#%$ freaky s@#t.

Interesting about the game. On the lone gunman thing, didn;t we have an interview here on ATS with someone involved int he x files and lone gunman series who said it was just a terrible co-incidence?...

Here's another one for you. In the PC game F-22 Lightning (released 1999) you have to drop a tactical nuke on an Iranian WMD facility. Not all that amazing in itself, but the game was made by NovaLogic who also happen to make simulation software for the US military. I remember wondering at the time if it would actually happen one day.....who knows!

Yes and Operation Flashpoint and ArmA have been made by Bohemia Interactive, who also happens to make simulation software for Army use.

Not to mention their latest production, VBS2 (army usage) has a real time editor, virtually any scenario can be recreated with realistic vehicles etc.

Who wants to bet that I can create a scenario that actually plays out in the future?

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