Bernard D. Tremblay: COINTELPRO/Psy-Ops Agent

[Laura]

See first:
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=5246.msg38934#msg38934
and
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=2886.msg38925#msg38925
and
http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=5715.msg38941#msg38941

Where Bernard D. Tremblay drops in on SOTT to sell his snake oil.

Interesting coincidence: when I first set up my page on psychopathy (very early on in the web's development, 1995) I called it "Fallen Angels"!
_http://bentrem.sycks.net/fallen_angels.html (Bit rot in process, so lots of 404 ... "Information that is not consummed just rots.")

But I have to wonder: is it generally accepted that disease (bubonic plague here) is divine retribution? I'm all in on the concept of "karma", but that doesn't include anything about intervention by some external agent.

Hmmm.... a search on the internet archive turns up not a single page from the past that you claim existed. A check of network solutions doesn't give any return either.

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# Name: Bernard D. Tremblay
# Bio: CMC since '72; compulsively tech_doc; anarcho-geek _kusulu_
# Location: Edmonton, AB

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Bernard D. Tremblay

Posted April 3, 2007 19:11

"so many blog communities that are so unkind."
*sigh*

Anonymity ... the impunity of things "cyber" ... and no immediately obvious down-side to joining in on the cruelty.

But, more deeply, the by-product of passivity and quiessence, apathy at least ... cynical pessimism at worst.

But say: don't you think it gives us a precious view-port into the social dynamics of our IRL world?

stay well

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This item and these comments are proof positive that huge slabs of our country are allergic not only to alternative life-styles but to the basics of thought. You put communities in quotes, for God's sake? Now you're going to argue that anything promoting community is a communist plot? ("Well, just look at the words! Obviously "community" is a concept produced by communists!")
Pathological ... anti-social in the most basic sense (except for those who push your buttons, I'm sure; they are your clan and tribe, right? It's called /fascism/ dumb-ass ... look to where that word came from to see just how true it is.)
A nation united by hatred.

Posted by Bernard D. Tremblay at April 15, 2003 5:52 PM

[...]

Solypin, great post. You are, of course, right.

"A nation united by hatred." How does one begin to answer such self-pitying stupidity?

The great 50 year search to ferret out bigotry is now one of our greatest problems. Sanctimonious self-righteousness is now like an opiate for those who want to luxuriate in the status of victimhood.

The U.S. is such a great country, and Americans are remarkably friendly, warm and good people. The last refuge of the scoundrel is now the great search for bigotry. Nothing will make the whining fools who bathe in their victimhood happy. We must watch and listen endlessly to their self-pity and cry great crocodile tears for them.

To say that Bernard D. Tremblay is a poser and a fool is a dramatic understatement. I'm looking forward to the day when the sort of statements he's uttered cause him to be the butt of jokes everywhere. When that happens, we will know that our country has returned to a semblance of sanity.

Posted by Stephen at April 15, 2003 7:08 PM

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Golly it's a lot of work to have properly formatted text when it's anything other than dead-simple!

Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) said:

Linda "Experiencing Gulu!" Nowakowski said: > As of today I started a PhD here in Buddhist Economics > and Sustainable Development. Congratulations! (If you're geekishly inclined then I hope you look into Grameen's "MiFos" project ... MicroFinance, OpenSource. It's a Java.net project.)

> Thinking in terms of Buddhist Economics, HBP could > be Humanity Before Profits. I like it very much! huh huh ... properly lateral thinking.

Google "humane governance" ... quite a meme!

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CMC since '72; compulsively tech_docs
Online, I can be found at:

* Gnodal
My "Participatory Deliberation" project blog at LiveJournal
* Vox WillowBear
For fun ... Vox is a lovely system.
* MozDawg on DAV and Docs
IT in the service of the unknown gods?
* Participatory Deliberation
It's about discourse! *grin*

Sites I enjoy:

* NetVibes - Web2.0 and Ajax at work
* Kevin Burton's "TailRank"
* Kevin Burton's blog
* NewsVine
* Museum of Modern Betas

The above mentioned "Participatory Deliberation" site is quite interesting.

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"The Purpose of computing is insight, not numbers."
-- Richard Hamming
Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers

"The greatest good of man is daily to converse about virtue."
-- Plato
Apology

"Innumerable challenges await us, but we can expect success if we begin with a will to succeed."
-- Raymond Klassen
Overcoming the Gravity of Comfort

"The power of computers to collect, store and manipulate numbers has increased dramatically since Hamming's pointed observation. Much of this increased power, however, is wasted because humans are poor at gaining insight from data presented in numerical form. As a result, visualization research takes on great significance, offering a promising technology for transforming an indigestible mass of numbers into a medium which humans can understand, interpret and explore.

The transformation from numbers to insight requires two stages. As shown in Figure 1, the first maps from numbers (data/processes) to images by means of some algorithmic technique. The second maps from images to insight by means of perception. A true science of visualization must incorporate both a formal theory of computer graphics and a theory of human perception."
Marc Green, Ph. D.
Toward a Perceptual Science of Multidimensional Data Visualization:
Bertin and Beyond

As Green suggests concerning computation and scientific visualization, so we are proposing (along with others) with regards to computation and discourse: the processes and methods that would enchance creativity, collaborative decision making and group discernment are at hand. --Ben Tremblay, 26JULY04

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I have for all my mature life been impressed by people's tenacity, and in no specific more than discussion, whether in electronic forums or newspapers' letters to the editor; as though the deep urge to gather by the fire moving us to congregate and exchange views ... as Y. Bar Hillel put it: "I am reasonably sure that humanity spends more time on argumentation in natural languages than on the pursuit of scientific knowledge." !Q!

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For more information and to signify interest or support please contact Bernard D. Tremblay (Ben) | ab006 AT chebucto.ns.ca

Also see _http://bentrem.sycks.net/gnodal/selections.html

Based on his profile as assembled from his net activities (the above being only a selection), it looks like Tremblay is either a paid psy-ops dude or he's just another pathetic deviant trying to find his place in cyberspace.

 

[Laura]

from _http://hfx-ben.livejournal.com/804764.html

Bernard D. Tremblay goes fishing:

Togo of Grand Smials (hfx_ben) wrote,
@ 2007-04-07 18:36:00

I'm so discouraged my bones ache
"Many2Many", "Ground Zero", "VibeWise" ... evidently I'm wasting my time.

I threw away a military communications career to struggle directly for civil sanity? Evidently I'm a fool an idiot.
I left broadcasting to study philosophy and political science? I must be an ass.
I stepped aside from IT contracting to study cognitive psychology and historiography? I was deranged.

I didn't write books and essays and theatre because all they do is give yuppies a "feelin' good" buzz.

I found a way of getting to the roots of greed and ambition and psychopathy and injustice ...
... so I'm ignored.


I had a whole 5 days of decent connectivity, so I did a bit of a project: for a dozen years I've been honing my bookmarks. Forums, papers, archives, lists, all categorized and arrayed.

I downloaded the new Firefox extension that works del.icio.us and yesterday I uploaded my bookmarks collection. My page at del.icio.us had 1804 before the upload, over 6000 after.

My dear aulde 300MHz laptop just can't support the extension. It just runs too slowly for me to adjust the tags on those bookmarks, so now my del.icio page is almost useless.

What I do is ignored, what I try to do makes things worse, and day by day my hardware becomes less usable.

I swore by communality and solidarity ... what in the name of God was I thinking?!

woe ...

... and hooks a few:

I say you left all those things because you are a genuine person and also an honest person, and you wanted to live an authentic life. And I admire and respect you for it. I am sorry that others do not.

He sets the hook:

You're kind ... I appreciate what you've written. But I don't see myself achieving any good ends. Just spinning my wheels and burning myself out in the process.

I miss-played my hand.
I should have stayed military ... gone into diplomatic ... maybe I could have made good use of those credentials.

I really didn't think asking for so very little collaboration was hubris. And I don't mean to devalue the little I've gotten; it's come to me in the most inspriring of ways. But ... it's not about my self-flattery or self-pity: it's about stopping the nonsense about unavoidable doom and inevitable powerlessness. And that's key, you know, the realization that comes from biting through this apparently paradoxical knot: people's professed sense of powerlessness licenses their self-indulgence. Zen 101.