Deus Ex or Cocaine Addicts?

[RichardY]

In a lot of podcasts Stefan talk about the addictiveness of power ("The truth about Nixon", is one I remember)."Absolute power corrupting Absolutely". Moving up the hierarchy as being as addictive as cocaine. But what if there is an ulterior motive then just accumulating badges and property.

 

What if there are some people who want to seize control of particular pieces of technology and use it for their own benefit, with the goal being immortality? Why would you want to be the President or Prime Minister? When you could operate more behind the scenes like the Commissioners in Brussels or like Dick Cheney (USA) or Peter Mandelson (UK, aka The Dark Lord).

 

I know this is fairly speculative, but what if instead of Aliens being at Area 51 its human experimentation instead. With presumably strict laws on animal and human testing, would the research just get moved to some place underground, controlled by more shadowy members of the State? Something like the Manhattan Project was kept fairly quiet right? Given that the Nazi's conducted human experimentation and the State is much bigger now could this be possible? There was something called the Ultra Project.

 

Given some of the advances talked about in human genetics, is the information out there freely available or is it protected by companies and patents. Is immortality realistic? Couldn't scientists graft pieces of brain on to a subjects brain (I heard there was stem cell injections into the brain to cure Alzheimers) and gradually replace or clone more complex organs.

 

Keeping with the conspiracy kind of theme does anyone think Dr David Kelly was assassinated in a way that would appear obvious to his colleagues, but not so to the general public, possibly as a way of deterring whistle-blowers. In addition has anyone heard of a massive underground military base in Germany, possibly leftover from the Cold War? Or Princess Diana assassination Or detecting a nuclear signature, possibly from space or through some form of sensor grid. I know this is all hearsay, its rumoured that even driving test examiners sign an Official Secrets Act. Is there any laws that could be used about talking about such things?  

 

How would someone actually attempt to find out about such things in a methodical and empirical way? Why would someone hack the Pentagon when they could potentially get the information off of Hilary's hotmail account or through informal methods?