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Technology Grimaces
What are “Technological Grimaces”?
Grimaces are similar to facial expressions, but they also refer to wood carvings from various countries and regions. Many of them are frightening, ugly, and colorful at the same time. Carvers of grimaces, buffoons, actors—these terms, too, are associated with what we might call a “mimicked expression.”
The creator of a grimace wants to convey something specific—a message. Thus, a grimace is a conveyor of information.
Technologies such as the Internet, everything related to media, information, and perceptions, and much of what people present to others is like a theatrical performance by jugglers, in which they display their self-made grimaces. Most of the time, they are ugly, speak only the language of their creator, and are created to achieve a specific goal—for example, the spread of an ideology.
Anyone who hangs ugly grimaces made of wood or clay on their wall has either been convinced by the designers’ views or has failed to understand the meaning behind them (aside from individual taste). The latter is the case with almost every technology. When tech geeks present ugly contraptions—which they themselves do not understand—in the same manner as actors, it is as if the viewer were watching a buffoon.
Grimaces also serve to instill fear. Think of the Maori, who used grimaces to strike fear into their opponents.
Fear breeds uncertainty and also forces individuals to focus on things they don’t even want to. This, in turn, prevents them from thinking about what is happening behind the scenes in the world. By instilling fear, the public is deliberately distracted from what is really going on.
The fact that so many people are caught in the rat race is no coincidence; it is the result of the actions of those who are hungry for power.
Following, we’ll take a look at a few technological oddities. At first glance, they seem very different, but upon closer inspection, they’re not at all.
By the way, illusionists and grimaces—a team that can certainly outwit common sense and, at times, even completely render it useless. Everyday actions prove this, such as when parents hit their children because they’re disturbed by the little, clueless creature while playing on their smartphone or typing on social media.
Corporatocracy
Political structures in which corporations hold power. Our current situation! Further, rich individuals who hold political office through corporate structures.
The goals within a Corporatocracy and among its rulers include the following:
• Control over thoughts
• Accumulation of knowledge about how people react
• Monopolies on data processing and the media
• Monopolies on resources such as oil, precious metals, coal, land and properties
• Control over food, drinking water
• Control over education, schools, universities etc.
• Control over trade and markets
• Control over laws
• Control over the weather
• Control over life
To achieve dominance, power is always taken away from one side and transferred to the other. Let us sharpen our senses and see through the connections behind it all.
The German people are still being burdened with the misdeeds of World War I and II; a guilty conscience has been instilled in them ever since, and reparations are demanded of them. However, the masterminds and those who instigated this war are kept out of the public eye. Generals who blindly followed orders and those who carried them out are ideal scapegoats. Especially after their deaths, a certain image of them is maintained, thereby diverting attention from the true perpetrators.
No one holds the British, the Belgians, or the United States accountable for their countless war crimes: the enslavement and brutal killing of millions of Black people and others, spanning centuries; exploitation and forced labor on rice, cotton, sugar, tee and tobacco plantations. More than twelve million people were forcibly loaded onto European ships by slave traders and transported from Africa to America. More than ten million of them lost their lives in the land of their tormentors. Who even talks about that anymore?
British concentration camps during the Boer Wars. Have the guilty parties received their just punishment?
During that time, the stage was set for today’s charlatans and unscrupulous profiteers. No one denounces them.
Who asks the question: What is the state of mind of people who stand in the town square as onlookers watching an execution, those who drive others before them with a whip, or soldiers who follow orders to kill in a British concentration camp?
Unscrupulous individuals have always been interested only in expanding their power. They pass on material wealth and their destructive legacy from one generation to the next. Often, these individuals are part of high society and self-appointed elites. They are descendants of those who should have been brought to justice long ago. They consistently evade their responsibility, and they succeed in doing so through distraction, by repeatedly presenting the population with new, theatrical spectacles.
Not only did the beating of children become routine during the era of “EGOlution”, but so did lying and self-deception.
Very few see humanity as a whole. Almost everyone wants—must—be something special. To this end, we use tools that we neither understand nor know how to use properly, even if we believe the opposite.
To learn, we must ask ourselves these questions again and again and answer them:
• Why are we this way?
• Who starts wars, and why?
• Who supports these efforts?
• What do financial systems, banks, and laws have to do with our problems?
• What role do inventions such as the printing press, newspapers, the media, and data processing play in this?
• Why have things come to this?
• Who can we trust?
• What do we need to learn?
• How can we bring about real change in the things that matter?
This book provides answers to all these questions. Some are a bit harder to solve than others. But the fact is, we urgently need to take action so that we, as a species, don’t end up completely crushed. Neither digital technologies nor nonsensical and convoluted laws are enough to achieve this. The only solution is targeted global cooperation, free from the influence of money and lobbying. In detail, it may sound difficult.
Nevertheless: Where there’s a will, there’s a way!
If we take a closer look at certain technologies, we can see at what times conflicts have intensified. In this global spectacle, tools such as money and data processing are used methodically. If we recognize this, we can respond effectively and free ourselves from artificial constructs—provided we have the will to do so. Every day we complain about everything around us, yet we don’t change our behavior.
It is irrelevant which people are the most aggressive at which time of year. Nor does it matter how many people were killed in a raid or who fought on which side during the hostilities of World War I or World War II. For individuals, this may be decisive—as it is for a mother, a father, a son, or someone who was in the war themselves. Yet this tells us absolutely nothing about the mental processes of the human brain that play a role in this scenarios.
As is so often the case, the causes are much simpler than we assume. The craving for land and possessions is rooted primarily in historical events.
Pathological selfishness, narcissism, and the need for recognition, as well as hubris and arrogance, are additional traits that have developed over time.
Natural and logical processes during the Stone Age or earlier formed the basis for human evolution at that time. These mechanisms, introduced by nature, have been gradually altered by everyone over time and, for the most part, replaced by flawed ones.
Actions and plans can only be successful if the rules established for them are followed and supported by others!
Data processing today would be a flash in the pan that no one would remember if so many people weren’t falling for it and sensing the big money in it every day.
Technology is not a solution if it is not used responsibly. Individuals will always seek to gain an advantage as soon as they have the opportunity to do so, and this advantage is almost always a disadvantage for everyone else. As long as we are mentally incapable of thinking outside the box and see only ourselves as important, we will not make any intellectual progress.
Internet and Data Processing
At one time, the Internet was an extension of television. Now, television is the amputated part of the media landscape. Advertising, sales, movies, and TV shows—all of it is inexorably shifting to the Internet.
More than 90 percent of Americans share their favorite TV shows, movies, and homemade videos online. Other countries are following this trend (copying isn’t limited to data alone). As a result, the same content is uploaded to the web countless times. Wasting resources made easy!
Just like on the boob tube, we watch countless videos online. Data transmitted over Wi-Fi has long since replaced television in many areas—or at least drastically reduced its use. TV stations have long since shifted their programming also on their Websites.
The Original Concept Behind the Internet
Back to the early days of the Internet’s development.
To disseminate knowledge and achieve faster, shared access to information through the decentralized hosting of various types of content, such as audio, images, and text.
Initially, this technology was supported by the military; a few years later, it was primarily driven by academic support. The military has never lost interest in the Internet. It continues to use it for propaganda and to transmit, store, and intercept large amounts of data. Without data transmission, modern military equipment can no longer be used nor controlled!
In general, any technology used by large numbers of people is suitable for distributing messages and propaganda to them and thereby influencing them.
In the early 1990s, the actual major turning point—or rather, the rise of the Internet—began with the shutdown of ARPANET and the commercial transformation of the Internet (The Internet has always been and remains a military project; we can see this from the services it offers and the way it handles people's data.). It was precisely at this time, with the emergence of the first major players in the Online-business, that society’s accelerated social and moral decline also set in.
Companies like Google and Microsoft entered the scene. With online-services such as a search engine, a significant negative milestone was reached in the history of data collection and the disregard for privacy.
Note: No company can provide a free Online-service of this magnitude out of its own pocket without support from industry, the government, or another institution or “cults”.
This makes no sense from either an economic or a logical standpoint.
It is all the more astonishing that, since then, so many people have been carelessly entering and storing their personal information on systems owned by strangers.
Measured against the total global volume, the share of information transmitted via the Internet was initially about 1–2 percent. Not even 10 years later, it had already reached about half, and today it stands at well over 90 percent.
Billions of people are connected daily through a wide variety of Online-services—for example, by reading magazines, visiting social media sites and websites of all kinds of companies, universities, schools, and stores. At this very moment, and while you are reading this book, millions of people are sharing personal information with strangers over the lines of data.
The population has become highly manipulable and vulnerable due to the information, that every well-meaning person discloses every day, to the seemingly endless array of Online-grabbing.
Normally, this isn’t a big deal. Everyone manipulate. But when information is acquired unlawfully or under false pretenses—out of a lust for power and for inhumane reasons—and on this scale, then it is more than just tragic.
Plans to enslave humanity through the Internet may have been hatched as early as the 1960s or even earlier (the Bilderberg Group, eugenicists, self-appointed elites). The onset of commercial expansion is one of the cornerstones of data processing that has spiraled out of control. It quickly became clear that the Internet is the best tool for gaining access to people’s secrets.
Apart from Google Search, which services have gradually spread across the Internet?
If we take a look at their origins, we can see where the greatest incentive to collect and monetize data and information comes from. The motivations of individual companies may differ slightly, but ultimately they all share the same goal.
The more lucrative the sale of personal information becomes, the more Online- doing emerge with the intent of generating personal profiles.
PC games, movies, and TV shows on video-sharing sites, travel blogs, dating sites, real estate, mail-order companies, Online-stores, books and magazines, emails, newsletters, messaging apps, video conferencing, remote services, CDN, cloud storage, IaaS, SaaS, operating systems, software, hardware, and registrations of all kinds and for any purpose are connected to the Internet and are therefore, in principle, accessible to anyone with Internet access!
It’s nearly impossible to quantify this in total—there are likely hundreds of thousands of ways in which anyone can compromise their privacy through an online connection simply by registering on websites or even just visiting them! A distinction must be made between secure and insecure websites, with the latter making up the vast majority of the Internet.
Another very lucrative source of revenue opens up for many cloud service providers through businesspeople, who store their company documents on their data storage platforms. These systems are intended to save costs and facilitate access. However, they are usually owned by third parties, and the most important configurations are not under our control!
The user interfaces installed—which allow users to access the data and adjust settings—give the impression of being trustworthy. Terms from the field of information technology employ the same tactic when it comes to encouraging users to enter more data.
The terms and conditions of cloud service providers state that they assume no responsibility for data loss or access by third parties. It is now also well known that cloud service providers misuse data.
Like all IT-environments, Cloud-environments consist of various components, such as monitors, storage, routers, hubs, people, etc.
A new package, a new name—and suddenly companies are switching from their enterprise environment to a Cloud-environment.
Cloud—what could possibly be bad about that for me?
When we store love letters, bank statements, trade secrets, and everything else that’s important to us by the enemies, we should be aware that we’re storing it on a storage system that strangers have access to!
The Internet is a medium through which about 60 percent of humanity currently exchanges information. Anyone who thought the figure was higher will be disappointed.
We assume that everyone has an line to transmit data, and one or more cell phones on hardware, and spends most of their time using connected technology.
Someone sitting on the subway without a smartphone is practically suspicious. But most of the time, we don’t even notice this, since we’re too distracted by our own devices.
Even if you don't have your own Internet connection, you can still get ONLINE. Everyone knows about WiFi hot-spots. Many people use their neighbor's connection, or one provided by their university, school, or employer.
Now, control freaks want to provide Internet access to indigenous peoples and others in very remote areas, such as the Aboriginal people in Australia.
Inventions and Traditions
Many are portrayed as heroes because they invented something that benefits a person, a company, or a country. Inventions that promise profit are promoted and often marketed as milestones in human history. In the process, the country in question takes center stage to reap the rewards (enhancing its reputation), intimidate competitors, and gain an economic advantage.
An article by Steven LeBlanc on the University of Cambridge website (the authors are also listed there) explores how wars and violence have evolved. It’s an interesting report from a purely scientific perspective, like most of its kind.
Almost all studies on this topic deal with which weapons were used, which nation possessed the deadlier ones, who sold them from A to B, who was allied with whom, or what the alleged trigger for the conflict was (always from an ecological or political perspective), and what economic factors led to wars. What is not taken into account, however, is the root of all evil—the sickness of the mind!
Certain human traits and tendencies—which have always been reinforced by additional incentives such as pleasure and the desire for recognition—have spiraled upward in an unprecedented history of “EGOlution.”
Everyone should understand that no single individual is responsible for the suffering in the world, nor is any specific weapon or threatening letter. Persons from specific bloodlines, cults, and certain ideologies bear the primary blame for this. Pitting the population against one another, sowing discord, and nipping harmony in the bud are some of the underlying goals.
Note: A harmonious world spells the end for warmongers and those who use the suffering of others to gain power and profit with violence, weapons, bad food and lies!
Let’s first turn our attention to a few inventions with high destructive potential. The original purpose is usually not the same as what the invention is ultimately used for. The driving forces behind their development are almost always cited as healing, relief, and great benefits—but not their drawbacks and negative aspects.
Destructive inventions
In the year 670, Kallinikos invented Greek fire in Byzantium. The ingredients were petroleum, tree resin, and sulfur (and later, saltpeter as well). Kallinikos was an architect and inventor. He was originally from Heliopolis, a region that is now part of Syria. Online-sources claim that Greek fire was not invented until later and that its exact composition is unknown.
Greek fire was a incendiary weapon used during the Byzantine Wars. The highly flammable liquid—the napalm of antiquity—was sprayed and fired from catapults, hand grenades, and incendiary bombs, as well as under pressure (flamethrowers). It was also used successfully in defensive situations. For over seven long centuries, Greek fire became Christianity’s most devastating weapon and ensured that Constantinople withstood all attackers. It was poured down on attackers from above and set alight.
Note: Heliopolis was sometimes also part of ancient Greece and sometimes part of Egypt.
Black powder
China developed black powder during the “Tang Dynasty” (ca. 600–900 BC).
It was subsequently refined so that it would ignite and burn more evenly. This refined form is known to us as gunpowder, the invention of which is attributed to Chinese alchemists. However, their actual goal is said not to have been the creation of an explosive material. Instead, they sought to discover a potion that would grant eternal life. In doing so, they achieved the exact opposite!
Even though it is used not only for firearms, rockets, and artillery but also for blasting in mining, it remains a negative force in our world.
Both the information regarding the “Tang Dynasty” and the date of black powder’s invention are contradictory on the Internet.
Gatling-Gun
Richard Jordan Gatling invented the Gatling gun in the 1860s.
He believed, that if one man could fire as many shots as hundreds of men otherwise would, large armies would become unnecessary. He came to this conclusion because more soldiers died of disease than from bullets during the Civil War.
Later, this deadly weapon was also used to forcibly expand European colonial empires. Simple, defenseless peoples were ruthlessly mowed down by the Gatling gun.
V2 – Rocket
The world’s first short-range ballistic missile.
“Wernher van Braun” was one of the most important rocket engineers and advocates of space exploration in the 20th century. He harbors a desire to build large and powerful rockets. Before the end of 1932, he begins working for the “German army” to develop liquid-fueled rockets. Based on his research into liquid-fuel rocket technology, which was funded by the army, van Braun earned his doctorate in physics on July 27, 1934, at the University of Berlin/Germany, later in the United States.
In 1960, President Eisenhower transferred his rocket development group at the Army’s Redstone Arsenal to the newly founded NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). The main goal was the development of the massive Saturn rockets. Accordingly, van Braun became director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle as well as the Superbooster, which was intended to take Americans to the moon.
Note: The trip has not been confirmed to this day. Numerous scientists and skeptics have provided evidence that the U.S. video footage of the landing is fake.
The V2 gained its notoriety primarily during World War II through its use against the Allies. It killed people and destroyed numerous facilities. The V2 rocket’s first flight in October 1942 was aimed at Paris; in September 1944, approximately 1,100 V2s were launched toward Great Britain to wreak havoc. In Belgium, about 5,000 people died as a result of V2 attacks.
Concentration camps
First appearance of concentration camps – the Boer (Europeans) Wars in South Africa.
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl and British Field Marshal. Roberts establishes “refugee camps” for civilian families seeking shelter who, for various reasons related to the Boer War, are forced to leave their homes. However, when Lord Kitchener replaced Roberts as commander-in-chief in South Africa in 1900, the British Army introduced new tactics to crush the guerrilla campaigns. As a result, the influx of civilians into the refugee camps increased dramatically. Kitchener initiates plans to drive the guerrillas out of the country through a series of systematic actions organized like a shooting competition, with a weekly “bag of dead,” prisoners, and wounded, and to deprive them of everything that could provide them with food, including women and children. Initial refugee camps turn into concentration camps. Of the 28,000 Boers who are taken prisoner, over 25,600 are sent overseas. The vast majority of Boers remaining in the local camps are women and children.
It is estimated that a total of 30,000 women and children lost their lives in these concentration camps.
First Boer War of 1880–1881, Second Boer War of 1899–1902. Long before the first concentration camp was established in Germany (1933)!
Note: The British royal family, the Windsors, are actually of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (German) descent. In 1917, they changed their surname to conceal their ties to Germany. The name Windsor is derived from Windsor Castle.
Alfred Nobel – Inventor of dynamite
Alfred Nobel filed well over 300 patents.
At the time, he was criticized for profiting from the sale of weapons. The objection probably came mainly from those who, as a result, were able to sell fewer weapons. To make a positive contribution and support people with good ideas, he bequeathed his entire fortune—as stipulated in his will—to establish a foundation that would honor the best scientists once a year. We know it as the Nobel Prize.
Other accounts, however, state that he donated his estate to this foundation because he had no heirs of his own.
Gasoline, the disposable product
At first, gasoline was viewed as a waste product.
In 1859, a man named Edwin Drake distilled oil from the first crude oil well in Pennsylvania to produce kerosene for lighting. He saw no use for the gasoline produced in the process and disposed of it. That changed with the invention of the automobile. From that point on, gasoline became indispensable.
By 1920, there were already approximately 9 million gasoline-powered vehicles. The United States is the world’s largest consumer of crude oil—then as now. In 2024, Americans will consume over 19 million barrels of oil per day.
Even though most people do not view crude oil as a destructive invention, we must consider how many lives have been lost in connection with it.
TNT, RTX, IMX-104, IMX-101
Weapons of any kind designed to kill! The U.S. Army is attempting to drastically increase production of 155-mm artillery ammunition to 100,000 rounds per month by the end of 2025. The biggest concern is securing enough explosives to fill them.
“We need to produce enough explosives—either IMX-104 or TNT—to fill that many shells in a short period of time.
In the United States alone, we don’t have the production capacity. We have to turn to our allies overseas. Fortunately, we have many who are very capable”, said Doug Bush during an event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on February 5 in Washington.
Before the war in Ukraine, the USA was producing about 14,400 of these artillery shells per month. But as the Ukrainian armed forces rapidly fire through the ammunition for the howitzers being sent to the country, the USA has taken extensive steps to increase deliveries.
Note: Holston Army Ammunition Plant.
Zyclon B – Poison Gas
Fritz Haber was a German chemist (of Jewish descent). In 1918, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invention of the Haber-Bosch process.
His invention made the large-scale synthesis of fertilizers and explosives possible. According to estimates, one-third of the world’s annual food production is powered by ammonia produced through the Haber-Bosch process—enough to feed nearly half the world’s population. Today we know that many fertilizers are harmful to health.
Fritz Haber’s work also led, among other things, to Zyclon B, which was used to gas approximately 1 million people.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Haber wanted to be a respected German. This underscores the fact that Jews were by no means always unpopular in Germany. If that had been the case, Jews would not have been German patriots.
Neurotoxin Sarin
Dr. Gerhard Schrader is a German chemist. He specializes in the discovery of new insecticides, in the hope of making progress in the fight against world hunger. However, Schrader is best known for his accidental discovery of nerve agents such as sarin and tabun. Because of this, he is sometimes referred to as the “father of nerve gas.”
Agent Orange
Arthur Galston develops a chemical designed to accelerate the growth of soybeans. He has serious concerns about its effects on humans, the chemical is delivered to the U.S. Government in orange-striped barrels. Of this, 77 million liters are sprayed over Vietnam, resulting in 400,000 deaths and disabilities, as well as an additional 500,000 birth defects.
Toxins in food processing
Many mold toxins, mineral oil hydrocarbons, pesticides, acrylamide … find their way into food through the industry. Often intentionally.
Note: Documentaries “Food Inc.” and “Rudolf Krska”
Consuming these toxins can cause us to develop cancer and diabetes, suffer damage to the brain and other organs, and ultimately die as a result. Too much sugar and fat can also lead to death.
Note: Cola consumption in the Mexican city of “San Cristóbal de las Casas.”
Other food-related scandals include: glass shards in ground meat, listeria in meatballs, moldy pastries, bacteria in sausage, salmonella in turkey fillets, spoiled sardines in restaurants, pathogens in milk, e-coli bacteria in cheese, plastic in potato salad, beer, and salami, and metal in gummy bears and chocolate.