sillyConValley();

A Video Essay by
Rob Argento | This feature length video essay takes you around the Valley: on the ground and in the air, through space and time, from past to onrushing future. Meet Valley Movers and Shakers like Bill Joy, Steve Jobs, and Larry Ellison. See where geeks live and work. Get a glimpse at how Her Highness Technology is becoming the midwife to the emerging new world order.
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By Rob Argento | What the ancient mystics and prophets promised in terms of the coming millennial global community is being fulfilled right before our very eyes. | read more |

Bill Joy with Introduction by Rob Argento | Our most powerful 21st-century technologies—robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech—are threatening to make humans an endangered species. | read more |

Introduction by Rob Argento | Don't want to take the chip? Well, the message from the mad scientists of buildinggods.com appears to be "Upgrade or Die!" How the marketing science of sillyConValley(); will con you deeper into The Matrix. And you will even think it's Cool! Now watch this clip to see for yourself who's really wearing the tin foil hats. | read more |

Johann Hari with Introduction by Rob Argento | About the looming two-tiered Web and how the Web is shaping “our minds and souls in ways we are only beginning to comprehend.” | read more |

Aldous Huxley with Introduction by Rob Argento | In 1932 Aldous Huxley introduced the world to “the much too orderly Brave New World where perfect efficiency left no room for freedom or personal initiative.” I remember first reading about it in high school and thinking “This is so far out; never happen in my lifetime…" | read more |

By Rob Argento | If there is a silver lining to the domestic surveillance story it is this: the hijacking of Silicon Valley mindshare by the corporatacracy (the union of global corporations with big government) could turn out to be the smelling salt that awakens Valley geeks from their boy scout-like subordination to both Big Government and Big Business.
"We’re not trading privacy for security; we’re giving up privacy and getting no security in return." — Bruce Schneier | read more |

CNN Headline News | Glenn Beck and guests of CNN Headline News talk about how the banking policies of the Federal Reserve, which is about as Federal as Federal Express and offers no reserve, helped create bubbles like the Dot Com Dot Bomb that have led to the demise of the American economy.

Post Modern Times | Dr. Neal Goldsmith thinks that the "new science" implies a new spirituality that will help us solve all the "global problems" that seem to harrow us today. But will science be used to help humanity, as Goldsmith thinks, or to replace humanity with Cyborg Man, a merger of the human with the machine? Goldsmith has worked to improve the innovation process and facilitate the management of change for companies such as American Express, AT&T and Gartner

Commondreams.org | Few People Have Heard of the Rare Mineral
"More than 80 per cent of the world's coltan is in Africa, and 80 percent of that lies in territory controlled by Congo's various ragtag rebel groups, armed militia and its corrupt and underfunded national army." | read more |

U.S. Senate Minority Report Update | Scientists Continue to Debunk “Consensus” in 2008
"…a steady stream of peer-reviewed studies, analyses, real world data and inconvenient developments challenged the UN and former Vice President Al Gore's claims that the 'science is settled' and there is a 'consensus.'" | read more |

C-SPAN 2 | "Environmentalism...rather precisely maps a lot of Judeo-Christian beliefs about the origin of the world and so on."

UC Berkeley | "The nature of the Ultimate Revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this...to get people to actually love their servitude."

Dr. Nick Begich | "The research sites are getting pressed down...where there's less and less access, and that whole constraining of data is really working against modern democracy in this century."

Gwen Olsen | Last summer we introduced you to Gwen Olsen. Gwen learned firsthand the danger that lurks in every American's medicine cabinet, working in the pharmaceutical industry. Now notorious filmmaker Alex Jones interviews Gwen who exposes still more of the wild world of Big Pharma.

Infowars | Huxley says the ruling oligarchy will choose the "soft" approach to ruling the masses because it is more efficient than the "1984" approach.

OUTTHERETV.COM | Richard and Kate Mucci get real about life inside The Matrix. It's not a pretty picture but it just might wake you up. Send us more Neos and Trinitys like Richard and Kate before it's too late.

PCWorld | The "girl" Emily acting on this clip is not real. She is the digitized product of Image Metrics and might one day replace a real actor. Who knows, you might be next.

DailyTech | Details of new theory of greenhouse effect give more accurate climate predictions | read more |

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | Media elite's last gasp effort to save crumbling empire
"MySpace is Rupert Murdoch's battle axe…whereby…freedom of e-speech will cease to exist." | read more |

Alex Ansary | Why do countless American people go along with the War on Iraq? Why do so many people call for a police state control grid?…This is a carefully crafted design. | read more |

Washington Post | Minority Report is coming to you
"Imagine a world…where police officers can read the minds of potential criminals and arrest them before they commit any crimes." — Nita Farahany | read more |

Richard Gage | "…NIST seems to have forgotten or neglected to apply key features of the scientific method…" | read more |

Ozan Halici & Jurgen Mayer | Google, like Facebook, might be invading your privacy. In the words of a former CIA agent:
"…Google is cooperating under cover with the U.S. government, including the CIA." | read more |

Gwen Olsen | Gwen Olsen learned firsthand the danger that lurks in every American's medicine cabinet, working in the pharmaceutical industry. But her most poignant education would come as a victim and, ultimately, as a survivor. Watch this fifteen year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry speak out on YouTube. This is not a joke. This is how Big Pharma has become just another self-serving global industry. Join Gwen; fight back. | more |

Rob Argento launched the sillyConValley(); project after an exhilarating career in Silicon Valley spanning three decades. Working in Technical Publications for Valley heavyweights like Microsoft and Oracle he arrived during the Eighties a firm believer in the Information Revolution. But by the dawn of the new millennium he became increasingly dismayed by a steadily rising sense that Her Highness Technology was gradually turning a revolution all Her own. The Valley that once reviled Big Brother in 1984 was chillingly becoming His most loyal ally. | read more |

"Perhaps by means of injections and drugs and chemicals the population could be induced to bear whatever its scientific masters may decide to be for its good…All these are possibilities in a world governed by knowledge without love, and power without delight."
— Bertrand Russell, The Scientific Outlook

But, a race to where?