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Originally posted by Kram09
Well in Blackjack itself doesn't it mention that users of alternative discussion sites have some hand in it all.
What if we assume that Blackjack is real for a minute. Then when it happens they can take the posts that we've made about it on here, take them out of context and spin them in the media to make us look like crazy people who were involved somehow.
Originally posted by TheIrvy
I think, considering the different, already established "general" conspiracies, concerning who's pulling what strings and why, I can see several different logical "purposes" for the BlackJack sideslow being shown and updated and kept going during all this speculation with no direct comment from the paper with regards to it's intended purpose.
1) Simplest and cleanest, it's a bit of fun being had by a bored and frustrated designer for the newpaper. He's cobbled together some slides using parts of photoshop he doesn't normally get to play with, and he had a good bit of fun making up a slideshow he knew would go down well amongst conspiracy ponderers. He may even be a ponderer himself. All good, clean, harmless fun, no conspiracy except for a conspiracy to entertain. I'm a designer myself, and it's certainly the kind of thing I'd spend time on for fun, if I'd had the idea and the opportunity.
2) We've read reports on ATS about how certain government members have expressed an intent to "infiltrate" conspiracy sites. We've also heard people suggesting that the speed and anonymity provided by the internet has made keeping secrets a whole lot harder, and many believe that several attempts at a false flag may have been scuppered by the news leaking too early. With so many people, everywhere, looking in so many directions, it's hard to skulk and sneak unseen. The most effective way to disrupt conspiracy sites is not to come in as a debunker, but to come in as an out and out believer, and then misdirect and lead. Make sure that everyone's firing out dates that amount to nothing and eventually we'll all be boys crying wolk, with so many dates being thrown out that any hit looks like shooting fish in a barrel. This slideshow could be an attempt to focus the attention of the conspiracy sites in a particular direction, leaving more space where less people are paying attention. It could also be to create a regular, predictable focus that comes around yearly, with people being more and more sure every year that it's this July 21st, of course it wasn't last year, don't be silly, it's definitely this year. This gives allows "them" to know where we'll be looking and when, and that's good if you're needing to sneak somewhere.
3) It may be a means to implicate conspiracy sites as terrorists. The event goes off picture perfect to the Black Jack scenario, and the leaders of the world announce that they have intelligence that the attack was carried out by conspiracy theorists, who used the Black Jack "cartoon" as a script for their terrorist deeds, and used their unrestrained, unmonitored internet access to anonymously coordinate, fund and supply the attack. This would justify all sorts of immediate and broad sweeping change in how we are able to access and use the internet, and all done in the interests of the safety of your little children, ladies and gentlemen.
It's late and I need to sleep, but those are just 3 "alternative" reasons for it, and whether we like it or not, whether we're comfortable or not with it, we have to be honest and say that we have theories, we have hunches, we have hopes and fears, but we really do not know what's going on behind closed doors and in the inner sanctums of our country's political and financial systems. All we can do is be vigilant, stay calm, and remember, if you dismiss the unlikely without examining it first, you could pass by the truth and never even consider it.
[edit on 18-6-2010 by TheIrvy]
Originally posted by Primordial
Interesting reading all of this. I remember the whole thing from last year.
Question.
Does anyone have a link where the slides are given with the codes that were put into the html from the blackjack12 website?
I know the slides are on the telegraph website but the other site had larger versions and had hex and base64 messages separate from the pictures.
I have found some sites with bits and pieces but I'm trying to find something that has them in order with the original messages, either still in hex or converted.
Originally posted by order in chaos
Originally posted by Primordial
Interesting reading all of this. I remember the whole thing from last year.
Question.
Does anyone have a link where the slides are given with the codes that were put into the html from the blackjack12 website?
I know the slides are on the telegraph website but the other site had larger versions and had hex and base64 messages separate from the pictures.
I have found some sites with bits and pieces but I'm trying to find something that has them in order with the original messages, either still in hex or converted.
I am not sure but are you looking for this?
www.slideshare.net...
Originally posted by Antoniastar
Hi Gtown,
Thanks for bringing up this subject. I scanned all 7 pages of this thread and didn't see anywhere that this link has been posted yet. Thought you, and others, might want to know that there has been some very recent intense interest in Operation Blackjack. Here is the link...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
These new developments have re-peaked my interest. Good thing you put 2 and 2 together.
Toni
[edit on 18-6-2010 by Antoniastar]