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The crowds were amazed and entertained. It was pretty but nothing compared to what is to come in the near future. We are now deep into what I will call the Age of Deception and diving deeper at an accelerating pace.
It seemed to me like the drone light displays were a new thing, but we often mistake what is new to us as being new in a more absolute sense. It turns out it has been done before. Below you can see similar types of drone light displays - in China nonetheless. Who would ever guess?
One of the first things I thought of when I saw the drone images from the Coroniation Concert was some of the pictures of UFOs that I've seen. Some of those could have been created the same way. I've long suspected that some of those could be optical phenomena.
Years ago I saw a speech presented by a very realistic holographic image of a movie star at Universal Studios. It was pretty amazing, and I started thinking about how easily that could be misused, especially with continued development of the technology.
In doing a little research, I just learned the term deepfake technology. Here is the link.
Of course the impact is greatest when the fake goes undetected, so who is to say how much it has effected us so far, but it seems we are being plunged into a world of deception in politics, economics and many other aspects of life,
Referring to the Antichrist, the Bible says, "It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived." Revelation 13:13 - 14. Interesting chapter and verse numbers!
Below is an interesting illustration of deception provided by the frontiersin.org site (link above).
In the video published on October 29, 2020, Mexican author and journalist Javier Valdez prompts president López Obrador and his administration, to fight harder against corruption and organized crime. Javier Valdez was murdered on May 15, 2017, as his digital alter ego explains in the beginning of the video. Presumably he was killed as a consequence of his investigations into organized crime. For 1 min and 39 s, the “Defending Voices Program for the Safety of Journalists” brought Mr. Valdez back to life using deepfake technology to demand justice for killed and missing journalists. The Defending Voices Program for the Safety of Journalists is a cooperation between the Mexican human rights NGO “Propuesta Cívica” and the German journalists association “Reporter ohne Grenzen” (Journalists without Borders) (Reporter ohne Grenzen, 2020). You might want to read more of that article.
As coin shooters and collectors we should be aware of the problem of counterfeiting coins and currency, but the problem is bigger than that.
Online estimates reveal that consumers spend millions of dollars buying valuable or rare coins, but most receive near-worthless foreign-made counterfeits. An increasing number of counterfeit coins are being seized at US ports-of-entry. For example, in April 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Chicago’s international mail facility seized 279 shipments from China containing counterfeit coins and currency. In 2020, CBP seized over $1.64 million in counterfeit cash and coins at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. (Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) | The FBI Warns the Public of Counterfeit Coin Scams)
History has shown that when a society becomes morally corrupt, civility is destroyed, the society becomes unstable, and inevitably the nation slides towards collapse. Religion delineates the line between right and wrong, drawing the line in an indelible ink that cannot be altered as the society matures and grows. (How the decline of moral values promote the failure of civilizations - Bible Blender)
There are those who are actively promoting the decline of America at a time when the technology of deception is being perfected and the morals necessary to hold the decline in check have eroded. The desire to deceive and the technology that makes it increasingly possible in so many areas of life puts new demands on the individual to be intently informed and discerning.
Deception is all around. You will be affected in many ways whether you want to take notice or not. So will your children.
As they say, the best way to learn to identify a counterfeit is by becoming more familiar with the real thing. Make it a habit to study the truth.
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| Dollar Bill With Interesting Serial Number. |
As I've said before, I like checking bills, and especially the serial numbers. I just found the one shown above. The serial number is 76667660. A complete 666 and an incomplete 666. Transformation anyone?
(You might want to read E. W. Bullinger's huge book, Number in Scripture. It is a huge book, like the other genius books by Bullinger.
Below is what the serial number checker says about the serial number of my one dollar bill.
Ok. So that serial number is fairly rare and certainly interesting, but not really into the big money. What if the last number was a seven instead of a zero.
Here is what the serial number checker says about the 76667666 serial number. That would be a definite "repeater," but the numbers are interesting and symbolic numbers. Seven is generally regarded as the number of perfection and six the number of the world (days of creation of the world).
As long as I've been checking the bills I get, I haven't found what I would call a valuable one yet. Still, I keep looking.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com |
A little more surf, but nothing very exciting coming up.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net
