The late 1980s sci-fi flick RoboCop featured a half-man,
half-robotic creature that was deployed to the mean, decaying streets of
Detroit in a bid to replace human police officers (and save money).
In
an early scene, a full robot was being demonstrated by its corporate
developers, but wound up short-circuiting and blowing away one of the
executives when it malfunctioned. The fix? Just tweak some software
programming and that would do it.
The thought of robotic police officers patrolling the streets of America did not vanish with the fading popularity of the RoboCop movie series, however. In fact, that concept is alive and well today, and its development is moving forward.
Meet
"TeleBot," created by researchers from Florida International University
(FIU) "to help disabled officers and veterans return to the field," the
Miami New Times (MNT) reported.
Built by FIU's Discovery
Lab, the university claims that TeleBot will be the first "functional,
mobile... and interactive" robot that could be patrolling the streets of
Miami in less than two years.
"Incredibly fast and very low-budget"
But rather than resemble RoboCop, its developers say TeleBot is more like the characters in the movie Avatar.
"In
Avatar, the disabled veteran got injured in the back, so he can't walk,
and he rebounds by connecting to a system," Janghoon Kim, director of
Discovery Lab and chief designer of TeleBot, told MNT. "We want to build
that kind of system."
Kim's team has been successful in a number
of realms. First, the prototype TeleBot was up and walking within 18
months, a huge feat in and of itself. But the team also developed the
cop aide with a budget of just $20,000.
As MNT further reported, the project was truly a team effort:
Besides
Kim, the project has been undertaken by Dr. Nagarajan Prabakar and Dr.
S.S. Iyengar, as well as 11 volunteer undergrad students and one intern
from MAST Academy High School. External support has come from U.S. Navy
Lt. Cmdr. Jeremy Robins and 3D designer and lab manager Mangai Prabakar.
"It is incredibly fast and also very, very low-budget," said Kim.
TeleBot
is about six feet tall, weighs 80 pounds and is equipped with cameras
that collect and transmit data, so it can provide its "TeleOperator" a
360-degree view.
And the goal is admirable -- providing a tool for helping disabled police officers and veterans who want to be police officers.
Robots
are also being developed by the military to perform all sorts of
functions, from sniffing out and disabling roadside bombs to replacing
troops on the battlefield.
The Pentagon's ultra-secret Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency has thus far spent decades researching
and developing battlefield-type drones and robots, but with limited success. As noted by RoboHub,
DARPA has funded several projects along these lines, "but they lack the
portable power source and intelligence that would allow them to act
beyond very limited non-combat roles."
They will assume moral agency at some point
One
approach has been the "cyborgazation" of soldiers -- that is, combine
humans with robotic features that allow them to become super-strong and
much more durable. And, some experts believe, similar technology could
eventually be utilized by police (if budgets permit).
"This
concept offers the best of both worlds: the quick reaction times,
precision, and strength of robotic systems and the control and superior
cognitive abilities of humans," reported RoboHub.
In
particular, the Army has been working on a concept known as "Land
Warrior," an integrated battlefield system that links individual
soldiers to a network "designed to cut through the fog of war," Popular Mechanics reported.
The
system includes eyepieces containing digital maps, advanced encrypted
radio communications with a 1-kilometer range and a specially designed
infantry rifle. But, as PopMech reported, it's much ado about nothing;
the soldiers who have tested the system don't care much for it.
"It's
just a bunch of stuff we don't use, taking the place of useful stuff
like guns," Sgt. James Young, who was leading a team of four M-240
machine-gunners during a recent field-testing exercise at Fort Lewis,
Wash. "It makes you a slower, heavier target."
But it's not the
gear itself that is problematic. There is an ethical consideration that
needs to be addressed as well, and soon.
As noted by The Economist,
robots are already so much a part of everyday life, it only follows
that someday they "are bound to end up making life-or-death decisions in
unpredictable situations, thus assuming--or at least appearing to
assume--moral agency."
Sources:
http://www.blacklistednews.com
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com
http://robohub.org
http://www.popularmechanics.com
http://www.economist.com
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Thursday, December 31, 2015
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Man Gets Prison Sentence For Collecting Rainwater On His Own Property
Collecting rainwater on your own property can now lead to jail time, as proven by a man from Oregon who was just sentenced to prison for doing just that. Who owns the rain? The US government, apparently, now. Not so long ago, it was common practice across much of the world to collect rainwater into man made wells on your property as a means of farming, irrigation, and having fresh clean water. It was just as common as canning your own food, having knowledge of at least some basic survival skills, and being self-sufficient.
It wasn’t even that many generations ago that all of this was common practice – people born before WWII were pretty adept at these skills, as they were a necessity to survival. One of the main (and easiest) ways to ensure survival? Collecting rainwater on your own property. The practical uses for storing and collecting rainwater are numerous and many people across the world in rural areas still do it today for all of the reasons listed above. However, over the past few years, laws making the collection of rainwater illegal have been causing an uproar across the US.
Now, a man from Grey Point, Oregon has been sentenced to thirty days in prison for storing collected rainwater on his very own property – and the public is outraged.
- See more at: http://yournewswire.com/man-gets-prison-sentence-for-collecting-rainwater-on-his-own-property/#sthash.ZUTF1FHQ.dpuf
It wasn’t even that many generations ago that all of this was common practice – people born before WWII were pretty adept at these skills, as they were a necessity to survival. One of the main (and easiest) ways to ensure survival? Collecting rainwater on your own property. The practical uses for storing and collecting rainwater are numerous and many people across the world in rural areas still do it today for all of the reasons listed above. However, over the past few years, laws making the collection of rainwater illegal have been causing an uproar across the US.
Now, a man from Grey Point, Oregon has been sentenced to thirty days in prison for storing collected rainwater on his very own property – and the public is outraged.
- See more at: http://yournewswire.com/man-gets-prison-sentence-for-collecting-rainwater-on-his-own-property/#sthash.ZUTF1FHQ.dpuf
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Illinois criminalizes citizen journalism (Hunger Games has arrived)
If you haven't already seen Hunger Games, Catching Fire I urge
you to watch it now. The movie, available for free on Amazon's PRIME
service, depicts a totalitarian centralized government ruling over
disarmed, oppressed subjects with outrageous cruelty and injustice.
The movie is a warning to what might happen to us all very soon if we don't stop the march of tyranny in America. You need to watch the film because America is headed straight for a similar outcome, and this fact was especially driven home today by one of the most outrageous new laws to ever be passed in any state. By a wide margin of support, Illinois just voted to criminalize citizens filming police in public spaces.
"The amendment has stripped away safeguards to free speech rights from the original legislation and instituted a blanket ban on recording officials in public," writes Steve Watson at InfoWars.com. [1] "It was passed by both the Illinois House and the Senate, with huge majorities, within two days of its introduction."
"Only a government that lives like cockroaches in the darkness would pass a law criminalizing the act of turning on the light," writes the Free Thought Project [2], which goes on to point out how the mainstream media is completely silent on this story. (The media censors all stories it doesn't want you to know about, including the CDC whistleblower story, Fukushima radiation in the USA and the worsening Ebola pandemic.)
You can view the actual text of this Illinois Senate bill amendment at this link (PDF), and there's a valuable write-up of the law published at the Illinois Policy website.
When the police activate their video recorders, they claim citizens have "no reasonable expectation of a right to privacy in a public space," and that's their justification for recording. But when a citizen does the same thing, they will now be arrested and charged with the felony crime of "wiretapping" police conversations.
America is now a two-class system, in other words. There are the OFFICERS who are granted an elevated set of "rights," privileges and powers; and then there are the SUBJECTS who are denied those same rights, privileges and powers.
Chicago is now a city where it is completely legal for a police officer to murder a citizen in plain sight, but it is a felony offense for a citizen to record the video of that event on their mobile phone. The citizen who witnesses the murder is now the criminal, you see, while the government employee who commits it is granted total immunity.
Similarly, when the government lies to the people, that's never considered a crime. After all, politicians lie all the time to get elected. (Remember "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" promise?) But when citizens lie to the government, that's a felony crime. That's why Martha Stewart went to prison, by the way: for lying to the government.
When police interrogate suspects, they are allowed to lie with impunity. But if that suspect makes one false statement to the police, even in the context of having been lied to by those same police, that's now a felony crime.
If a government commits accounting fraud and lies about its earnings and debt, nobody goes to jail at the Treasury. But if a small business owner does the exact same thing, he or she gets arrested and charged with felony fraud.
When militarized government police accidentally raid the wrong house and drop flashbang grenades in baby's cribs -- or shoot people dead -- nobody in law enforcement goes to jail. They are immune to the same laws that you and I must abide by.
The rules and laws are completely different, you see, depending on whether you are a Subject or an elite government "Officer."
This criminalization of citizen journalism is not very far away from North Korean laws where it is a crime to criticize the "dear leader" Kim Jong-Un. In North Korea, citizens are subjects of the dictator -- property of the state -- and they have no inherent rights or privileges other than what is granted by the state. More and more, this looks like where America is headed, and as a key component of this descent into absolute dictatorial control over the people, nearly all the socialist-leaning political leftists in America have, for years, tried to completely disarm the American people by gutting the Bill of Rights, leaving the masses defenseless against an increasingly oppressive, elitist and heavily armed government (where police militarization is out of control).
It is no coincidence that the very same state which has now criminalized citizen journalism is also where large cities like Chicago have for years criminalized private gun ownership and concealed carry by honest citizens. This pursuit of injustice is a predictable pattern: the criminalization of recording video in public goes hand in hand with trampling citizens' constitutional rights, police brutality and selective government prosecutions of political enemies. The fall of the republic doesn't take very long to become the rise of in-your-face tyranny, where a police officer can literally choke you to death on the sidewalk and simultaneously have his badge wearing buddies arrest anyone nearby who has the courage to try to video record your murder.
Most local law enforcement officers are honest, upstanding professionals who help keep the peace in cities and towns which might otherwise be overrun with gang violence. Yet this Orwellian desire by Illinois lawmakers to shroud the actions of police in total secrecy just smacks of a deeply-ingrained culture of corruption and criminality.
If the police are helping keep the peace, then what could possibly be wrong with recording them on video? And aren't police officers taxpayer-funded public servants in the first place? How can a member of the taxpaying public possibly be criminalized for recording the actions of a public servant who is essentially an employee of the People?
Even more fundamentally speaking, doesn't the U.S. government (via the NSA) covertly record all our phone calls, emails, web surfing destinations, phone texts, social media posts and bank transactions? How is this massive government surveillance of the People possibly justified when that same government criminalizes citizens who attempt to shed a little light on the public actions of government employees? In the United States today, it turns out, "transparency" is a one-way looking glass.
Other states aren't far behind, of course, but CA, IL and NY will be among the very first to collide with bankruptcy. All three of them are operating on the verge of imminent financial collapse, and all three are bastions of runaway socialism, elitist government arrogance and systemic oppression of constitutional rights and basic human liberty.
Only states that promote (or at least tolerate) individual responsibility and productivity will make it through the financial crash that's coming. Those states include Vermont, Maine, Texas, Wyoming, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Montana and several others. I very much doubt you'll see any of these states passing laws that turn citizen journalists into felons. (But keep in mind there is still a communist/socialist element in each of these states that's trying to seize power in every election.)
Like many states, over the last two decades Illinois has become a cesspool of political corruption and abuse of power. State retirement funds, to the great surprise of many Illinois retirees, have already been looted and will at some point evaporate overnight, leaving state pensioners with no incomes.
The state is so incredibly corrupt that it doesn't even have a state law requiring the gathering of statistics detailing citizen killings caused by police (justified or not). Those numbers remain completely hidden, just as the state's budget is also deliberately obfuscated and hidden from the public. Illinois, the political home base of Barack Obama, is truly the land of non-transparency and obfuscation. Is it any wonder the White House so closely parallels the political actions of Chicago?
Illinois has just made that perception far worse by criminalizing citizen journalism. Now, the honest citizens of Illinois don't merely suspect Chicago cops are corrupt criminals... they KNOW it! The Illinois legislature all but admitted it in the law. "Thou shall not video record our police crimes against the citizens..."
Every Illinois lawmaker who voted for this law needs to be immediately recalled and thrown out of office. This law needs to be immediately revolted against, challenged in the courts and openly denounced by all Illinois citizens... Gandhi style. It is an unjust law born out of a corrupt legislature that's terrified of what real transparency might reveal about their own criminal behavior. This abuse of government power has reached a breaking point across America, and the citizens have almost reached their tolerance limit for abuses of government power and the rapid erosion of their freedoms. (Or, those who are awake anyway. The mercury-injected masses will of course never regain real consciousness.)
But guess what? The U.S. Treasury is buying up emergency survival kits to be distributed to bankers across the nation [3], apparently in anticipation of something coming that might demand survival kits. With all the dead bankers being "suicided" lately -- i.e. winding up dead under suspicious circumstances -- I have no doubt there are forces at play behind the scenes that you and I can't even imagine.
What I do know is that everyone left holding U.S. dollars when the music stops will wish they had diversified into other assets.
Sources for this article include:
[1] http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/98/SB/PDF/09...
[2] http://ipweb-lb-1885590254.us-east-1.elb.ama...
[3] http://freebeacon.com/issues/treasury-depart...
The movie is a warning to what might happen to us all very soon if we don't stop the march of tyranny in America. You need to watch the film because America is headed straight for a similar outcome, and this fact was especially driven home today by one of the most outrageous new laws to ever be passed in any state. By a wide margin of support, Illinois just voted to criminalize citizens filming police in public spaces.
"The amendment has stripped away safeguards to free speech rights from the original legislation and instituted a blanket ban on recording officials in public," writes Steve Watson at InfoWars.com. [1] "It was passed by both the Illinois House and the Senate, with huge majorities, within two days of its introduction."
"Only a government that lives like cockroaches in the darkness would pass a law criminalizing the act of turning on the light," writes the Free Thought Project [2], which goes on to point out how the mainstream media is completely silent on this story. (The media censors all stories it doesn't want you to know about, including the CDC whistleblower story, Fukushima radiation in the USA and the worsening Ebola pandemic.)
You can view the actual text of this Illinois Senate bill amendment at this link (PDF), and there's a valuable write-up of the law published at the Illinois Policy website.
It's legal if the cops do it; it's a felony if you do it
To be clear, the Illinois law makes it a felony crime for citizens to do exactly what the police do: record audio and video in public places.When the police activate their video recorders, they claim citizens have "no reasonable expectation of a right to privacy in a public space," and that's their justification for recording. But when a citizen does the same thing, they will now be arrested and charged with the felony crime of "wiretapping" police conversations.
America is now a two-class system, in other words. There are the OFFICERS who are granted an elevated set of "rights," privileges and powers; and then there are the SUBJECTS who are denied those same rights, privileges and powers.
A nation of law has descended into a lawless land of tyranny
The idea that America is a nation of law where all men and women are created equal is shattered. The very idea that all laws apply equally to everyone, including government officers, officials and even Presidents, is now openly abandoned. The new rule is that laws are only selectively applied to Subjects, while Officers of the government are exempt from those same laws.Chicago is now a city where it is completely legal for a police officer to murder a citizen in plain sight, but it is a felony offense for a citizen to record the video of that event on their mobile phone. The citizen who witnesses the murder is now the criminal, you see, while the government employee who commits it is granted total immunity.
Similarly, when the government lies to the people, that's never considered a crime. After all, politicians lie all the time to get elected. (Remember "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" promise?) But when citizens lie to the government, that's a felony crime. That's why Martha Stewart went to prison, by the way: for lying to the government.
When police interrogate suspects, they are allowed to lie with impunity. But if that suspect makes one false statement to the police, even in the context of having been lied to by those same police, that's now a felony crime.
If a government commits accounting fraud and lies about its earnings and debt, nobody goes to jail at the Treasury. But if a small business owner does the exact same thing, he or she gets arrested and charged with felony fraud.
When militarized government police accidentally raid the wrong house and drop flashbang grenades in baby's cribs -- or shoot people dead -- nobody in law enforcement goes to jail. They are immune to the same laws that you and I must abide by.
The rules and laws are completely different, you see, depending on whether you are a Subject or an elite government "Officer."
Illinois criminalizes citizen journalism
The arrogance of a state legislative body that would criminalize a citizen's public filming of police is beyond astonishing. It is an open admission that lawmakers are so terrified of transparency that they would criminalize citizen journalism and thereby provide cover for yet more police abuse like we're witnessing across America.This criminalization of citizen journalism is not very far away from North Korean laws where it is a crime to criticize the "dear leader" Kim Jong-Un. In North Korea, citizens are subjects of the dictator -- property of the state -- and they have no inherent rights or privileges other than what is granted by the state. More and more, this looks like where America is headed, and as a key component of this descent into absolute dictatorial control over the people, nearly all the socialist-leaning political leftists in America have, for years, tried to completely disarm the American people by gutting the Bill of Rights, leaving the masses defenseless against an increasingly oppressive, elitist and heavily armed government (where police militarization is out of control).
It is no coincidence that the very same state which has now criminalized citizen journalism is also where large cities like Chicago have for years criminalized private gun ownership and concealed carry by honest citizens. This pursuit of injustice is a predictable pattern: the criminalization of recording video in public goes hand in hand with trampling citizens' constitutional rights, police brutality and selective government prosecutions of political enemies. The fall of the republic doesn't take very long to become the rise of in-your-face tyranny, where a police officer can literally choke you to death on the sidewalk and simultaneously have his badge wearing buddies arrest anyone nearby who has the courage to try to video record your murder.
Most cops are not bad guys
Sadly, this new law only furthers widespread public suspicion that police are badge-wearing thugs -- a belief which is almost entirely NOT true.Most local law enforcement officers are honest, upstanding professionals who help keep the peace in cities and towns which might otherwise be overrun with gang violence. Yet this Orwellian desire by Illinois lawmakers to shroud the actions of police in total secrecy just smacks of a deeply-ingrained culture of corruption and criminality.
If the police are helping keep the peace, then what could possibly be wrong with recording them on video? And aren't police officers taxpayer-funded public servants in the first place? How can a member of the taxpaying public possibly be criminalized for recording the actions of a public servant who is essentially an employee of the People?
Even more fundamentally speaking, doesn't the U.S. government (via the NSA) covertly record all our phone calls, emails, web surfing destinations, phone texts, social media posts and bank transactions? How is this massive government surveillance of the People possibly justified when that same government criminalizes citizens who attempt to shed a little light on the public actions of government employees? In the United States today, it turns out, "transparency" is a one-way looking glass.
Why the Illinois government is headed for imminent financial collapse
You may find it interesting to note that when the inevitable financial collapse comes, Illinois will be among the first three states to see their governments fall into financial ruin. Those three states are: 1) California, 2) Illinois, 3) New York.Other states aren't far behind, of course, but CA, IL and NY will be among the very first to collide with bankruptcy. All three of them are operating on the verge of imminent financial collapse, and all three are bastions of runaway socialism, elitist government arrogance and systemic oppression of constitutional rights and basic human liberty.
Only states that promote (or at least tolerate) individual responsibility and productivity will make it through the financial crash that's coming. Those states include Vermont, Maine, Texas, Wyoming, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Montana and several others. I very much doubt you'll see any of these states passing laws that turn citizen journalists into felons. (But keep in mind there is still a communist/socialist element in each of these states that's trying to seize power in every election.)
Like many states, over the last two decades Illinois has become a cesspool of political corruption and abuse of power. State retirement funds, to the great surprise of many Illinois retirees, have already been looted and will at some point evaporate overnight, leaving state pensioners with no incomes.
The state is so incredibly corrupt that it doesn't even have a state law requiring the gathering of statistics detailing citizen killings caused by police (justified or not). Those numbers remain completely hidden, just as the state's budget is also deliberately obfuscated and hidden from the public. Illinois, the political home base of Barack Obama, is truly the land of non-transparency and obfuscation. Is it any wonder the White House so closely parallels the political actions of Chicago?
In a state where the citizens are criminalized for watching the police, no one is safe
America's dissatisfaction with police seems to be at an all-time high. Recent events in Ferguson, MO and NYC reveal a seething undercurrent of anger and resentment toward what citizens increasingly see as police brutality, corruption and abuse of power.Illinois has just made that perception far worse by criminalizing citizen journalism. Now, the honest citizens of Illinois don't merely suspect Chicago cops are corrupt criminals... they KNOW it! The Illinois legislature all but admitted it in the law. "Thou shall not video record our police crimes against the citizens..."
Every Illinois lawmaker who voted for this law needs to be immediately recalled and thrown out of office. This law needs to be immediately revolted against, challenged in the courts and openly denounced by all Illinois citizens... Gandhi style. It is an unjust law born out of a corrupt legislature that's terrified of what real transparency might reveal about their own criminal behavior. This abuse of government power has reached a breaking point across America, and the citizens have almost reached their tolerance limit for abuses of government power and the rapid erosion of their freedoms. (Or, those who are awake anyway. The mercury-injected masses will of course never regain real consciousness.)
But guess what? The U.S. Treasury is buying up emergency survival kits to be distributed to bankers across the nation [3], apparently in anticipation of something coming that might demand survival kits. With all the dead bankers being "suicided" lately -- i.e. winding up dead under suspicious circumstances -- I have no doubt there are forces at play behind the scenes that you and I can't even imagine.
What I do know is that everyone left holding U.S. dollars when the music stops will wish they had diversified into other assets.
Sources for this article include:
[1] http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/98/SB/PDF/09...
[2] http://ipweb-lb-1885590254.us-east-1.elb.ama...
[3] http://freebeacon.com/issues/treasury-depart...
Saturday, December 6, 2014
U.S. Government Has a Secret System for Stalling Patents
Entrepreneurs
and established companies alike depend on the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office to legally protect their inventions. But the Patent Office has been using a secret system to withhold the approval of some applications.
Newly
released documents reveal that the office, tasked with evaluating and
protecting the rights to intellectual property, has a covert system for
delaying controversial or inconvenient patents. It’s a system that
attorneys say, if abused, could function as a way to limit or stomp out
emerging companies.
Before today, the program — named
the Sensitive Application Warning System (SAWS) — has been mentioned
only anecdotally by examiners who work in or with the office, and in a
government memo that was leaked in March 2006.
However, a new 50-page document obtained by a law firm’s Freedom of
Information Act request shows the sweeping scope and conflicting
interests of this particular set of rules. The law firm behind the
request, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, frequently represents major tech companies, including Apple, Google, Twitter, and Oracle.
Delays by design
When
an application is submitted for a patent from a major law firm, it
usually requires the approval of one or two examiners who work within
the Patent Office. For Thomas Franklin, a partner at Kilpatrick
Townsend, applications that he prosecutes typically issue as patents 22
months after filing. (Though the USPTO’s website estimates the
average patent pendency time to be 29.1 months, that figure considers
independent applicants who are not represented by powerhouse law firms.)
Any application that is
categorized in SAWS, however, is placed in a special type of patent
purgatory. SAWS-marked patents must be approved by anywhere from three
to nine people and can be delayed for years. There is no official
channel to notify an applicant once her patent is placed in the system,
and the Patent Office has denied requests to divulge what applications
are on the SAWS list...
Thursday, December 4, 2014
U.S. Government Test Run Successfully Blocks Independent News Websites For Californians
According to what I'm hearing from several sources in my network of
contacts, the U.S. government is putting systems in place to black out
online news sites like Natural News, Drudge Report, The Blaze and many
others. A practice run that took place earlier this week in California
has already achieved this result and confirmed the technical ability to
make it happen at will.
The recent outage of news sites experienced by internet users in California was reported by this article on BeforeItsNews.com and confirmed by The Washington Times, The Blaze and other sites. The Natural News reader service team also recorded numerous complaints from California users who were unable to reach our website even though our site was fully functional and serving pages worldwide.
What was especially telling about this outage is that it only affected online news sites while allowing other internet traffic to flow normally. This selective targeting of news websites could have been accomplished by "deep packet inspection used inside the routers that move information packets along the internet," reported Before Its News technical staff. "This technology allows ISP's to look inside the packets your computer sends and receives and then make a decision to allow the packets through, modify the packets or block them. This technique can also be used to slow or speed up traffic."
The selective targeting proves that this was not a general outage. The traffic blockage was specifically targeted to online news sites.
What sort of major event? The sort of major event where the government wants its official narrative to be the only information allowed to circulate, obviously. These tend to be either terrorism events or false flag events which are seized upon by the government to enact harsh new police state regulations and surveillance initiatives to spy on the American people. Similar events in recent U.S. history include Oklahoma City, Waco and of course 9/11 -- all of which were exploited to vastly expand police militarization and the surveillance reach of the federal government. (Patriot Act, anyone?)
What all governments know is the importance of "getting out in front of the narrative" and telling the government's story first, before anyone else can look at the facts and present a more rational explanation for what happened.
A widely-cited story published in the New York times just two weeks ago revealed that Guccifer obtained information that he believed indicated a nuclear bomb would be detonated in Chicago and / or Pennsylvania in 2015. As the New York Times explains it, these are "wild conspiracy theories," but the psychologist who interviewed Guccifer insisted the man wasn't crazy at all.
From the NYT, Nov. 21, 2014: [2]
The English-speaking prison psychologist, who attended my meeting with the hacker, rolled his eyes as Mr. Lazar started reading his explanatory text in good but heavily accented English. It was a compendium of wild conspiracy theories involving so-called Illuminati, a secret cabal that he believes runs the world. Most of the conspiracies were old hat, like ones relating to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, by Al Qaeda. But others, such as an alleged plan to set off a nuclear bomb in Chicago and an unnamed city in Pennsylvania next year, were clearly his own work.
The psychologist said he had heard them all before but nonetheless had no doubt about the state of Mr. Lazar's mental health. "He is not really crazy at all..."
It is widely speculated across the 'net that Guccifer stumbled across emails of high-level operatives who were discussing plans for nuking American cities. Speculation, of course, is not the same as proof, and it is entirely possibly this may be nothing more than Guccifer's attempts to attract attention.
Theories of what might be coming our way in 2015 tend to focus on the following speculative possibilities, ranging from "nearly certain" to "way out there:"
• Global financial collapse, where the 2008 bankster bailouts have finally come back to haunt us again in 2015, causing a cascading collapse of global derivatives debt and the fragile banking industry. This would obviously be followed almost immediately by mass social chaos, riots, revolutions and so on.
• Nuclear attack by Russia, in the aftermath of the current petrodollar disaster where Russia is getting economically crushed by plummeting oil prices. See this excellent article by Mac Slavo for a full explanation of the dynamics.
• Nuclear terrorism in America, carried out by whatever radicals with foreign-sounding names the mainstream media wants you to hate at the moment.
• False flag terrorism deliberately carried out on American soil for political purposes (usually to blame some convenient political group such as the Tea Party).
Of these, I personally think financial problems are the most likely. There are already recent signs in the stock market that something has gone terribly awry and a severe market correction is long overdue. The U.S. Treasury's recent creation of $1 trillion in new debt just to pay off old debt is downright shocking. Anyone who understands the power of compounding interest will immediately realize that the U.S. is plummeting toward certain financial insolvency.
I recommend this really good article on ZeroHedge.com which explains what's really happening with the debt situation:
"You have to think about a huge tower of debt on shaky foundations where central banks pump concrete in the foundations in an emergency effort to avoid the building from collapsing and at the same time builders are adding additional floors on top...
We all are in a Ponzi world right now. Hoping to be bailed out by the next person. The problem is that demographics alone have to tell us, that there are fewer people entering the scheme then leaving. More people get out than in. Which means, by definition, that the scheme is at an end. The Minsky moment is the crash. Like all crashes it is easier to explain it afterwards than to time it before. But I think it is obvious that the endgame is near.
1) Write down the IP address of NaturalNews.com: 108.168.157.185. This is our internet address which you can access without using the domain name "NaturalNews.com." Simply enter these numbers in the address bar of any browser, and you'll go straight to our website.
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The recent outage of news sites experienced by internet users in California was reported by this article on BeforeItsNews.com and confirmed by The Washington Times, The Blaze and other sites. The Natural News reader service team also recorded numerous complaints from California users who were unable to reach our website even though our site was fully functional and serving pages worldwide.
What was especially telling about this outage is that it only affected online news sites while allowing other internet traffic to flow normally. This selective targeting of news websites could have been accomplished by "deep packet inspection used inside the routers that move information packets along the internet," reported Before Its News technical staff. "This technology allows ISP's to look inside the packets your computer sends and receives and then make a decision to allow the packets through, modify the packets or block them. This technique can also be used to slow or speed up traffic."
The selective targeting proves that this was not a general outage. The traffic blockage was specifically targeted to online news sites.
Online news censorship being prepared in advance of large-scale event
This selective blocking that took place earlier this week is widely believed to have been a dry run for a planned online news site blockade by the federal government during an upcoming "major event."What sort of major event? The sort of major event where the government wants its official narrative to be the only information allowed to circulate, obviously. These tend to be either terrorism events or false flag events which are seized upon by the government to enact harsh new police state regulations and surveillance initiatives to spy on the American people. Similar events in recent U.S. history include Oklahoma City, Waco and of course 9/11 -- all of which were exploited to vastly expand police militarization and the surveillance reach of the federal government. (Patriot Act, anyone?)
What all governments know is the importance of "getting out in front of the narrative" and telling the government's story first, before anyone else can look at the facts and present a more rational explanation for what happened.
Guccifer hacker warned of nuclear bombs in American cities - New York Times
The infamous hacker Guccifer, now arrested, is well known for hacking into the email accounts of members of the Bush family in the United States. According to numerous stories in the mainstream media, Guccifer acquired emails which spoke of a nuclear detonation in a major city in Pennsylvania in 2015.A widely-cited story published in the New York times just two weeks ago revealed that Guccifer obtained information that he believed indicated a nuclear bomb would be detonated in Chicago and / or Pennsylvania in 2015. As the New York Times explains it, these are "wild conspiracy theories," but the psychologist who interviewed Guccifer insisted the man wasn't crazy at all.
From the NYT, Nov. 21, 2014: [2]
The English-speaking prison psychologist, who attended my meeting with the hacker, rolled his eyes as Mr. Lazar started reading his explanatory text in good but heavily accented English. It was a compendium of wild conspiracy theories involving so-called Illuminati, a secret cabal that he believes runs the world. Most of the conspiracies were old hat, like ones relating to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, by Al Qaeda. But others, such as an alleged plan to set off a nuclear bomb in Chicago and an unnamed city in Pennsylvania next year, were clearly his own work.
The psychologist said he had heard them all before but nonetheless had no doubt about the state of Mr. Lazar's mental health. "He is not really crazy at all..."
It is widely speculated across the 'net that Guccifer stumbled across emails of high-level operatives who were discussing plans for nuking American cities. Speculation, of course, is not the same as proof, and it is entirely possibly this may be nothing more than Guccifer's attempts to attract attention.
What event might be coming?
Regardless, there is no question whatsoever that the U.S. federal government has been accelerating its readiness for something big. During the recent Ebola scare (the first wave, because there's still more to come...), it was widely reported that the U.S. State Department put out a bid for 160,000 hazmat suits. Are these for Ebola? Or something else entirely?Theories of what might be coming our way in 2015 tend to focus on the following speculative possibilities, ranging from "nearly certain" to "way out there:"
• Global financial collapse, where the 2008 bankster bailouts have finally come back to haunt us again in 2015, causing a cascading collapse of global derivatives debt and the fragile banking industry. This would obviously be followed almost immediately by mass social chaos, riots, revolutions and so on.
• Nuclear attack by Russia, in the aftermath of the current petrodollar disaster where Russia is getting economically crushed by plummeting oil prices. See this excellent article by Mac Slavo for a full explanation of the dynamics.
• Nuclear terrorism in America, carried out by whatever radicals with foreign-sounding names the mainstream media wants you to hate at the moment.
• False flag terrorism deliberately carried out on American soil for political purposes (usually to blame some convenient political group such as the Tea Party).
Of these, I personally think financial problems are the most likely. There are already recent signs in the stock market that something has gone terribly awry and a severe market correction is long overdue. The U.S. Treasury's recent creation of $1 trillion in new debt just to pay off old debt is downright shocking. Anyone who understands the power of compounding interest will immediately realize that the U.S. is plummeting toward certain financial insolvency.
I recommend this really good article on ZeroHedge.com which explains what's really happening with the debt situation:
"You have to think about a huge tower of debt on shaky foundations where central banks pump concrete in the foundations in an emergency effort to avoid the building from collapsing and at the same time builders are adding additional floors on top...
We all are in a Ponzi world right now. Hoping to be bailed out by the next person. The problem is that demographics alone have to tell us, that there are fewer people entering the scheme then leaving. More people get out than in. Which means, by definition, that the scheme is at an end. The Minsky moment is the crash. Like all crashes it is easier to explain it afterwards than to time it before. But I think it is obvious that the endgame is near.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Obamacare shutdown theater: President holds entire nation ransom with contrived closings
(NaturalNews) The government "shutdown" is a hoax. It is pure theater
designed to make life as miserable as possible for Americans while the
government keeps collecting taxes, racking up debt expenditures, running
foreign wars and doing all the unconstitutional things government does
these days. It is now becoming obvious to nearly all Americans that the
Obama administration is running a pernicious, punitive, selective
"shutdown" that's designed to hold the American people hostage until
Obama gets his way. His "ransom demand" is total capitulation to his
demands for endless spending, the total takeover of medicine by
Obamacare, and the centralization of power in the hands of the few.
The Obama administration ran a similar gambit a few months back when it started releasing thousands of felony criminals from U.S. prisons, claiming it was forced to do so because of sequestration budget cuts.
Today, the Obama administration has barricaded World War II memorials, shut down access to private businesses, closed parts of the OCEAN, closed tourist viewing areas of famous landmarks and gone out of its way to attempt to inflict suffering and inconvenience upon the People of America. It has punitively blocked access to a private hotel and even kicked people off private lands as part of the government's shutdown theater.
The Obama administration ran a similar gambit a few months back when it started releasing thousands of felony criminals from U.S. prisons, claiming it was forced to do so because of sequestration budget cuts.
Today, the Obama administration has barricaded World War II memorials, shut down access to private businesses, closed parts of the OCEAN, closed tourist viewing areas of famous landmarks and gone out of its way to attempt to inflict suffering and inconvenience upon the People of America. It has punitively blocked access to a private hotel and even kicked people off private lands as part of the government's shutdown theater.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Government ‘Shut Down’ Doesn’t Prevent Opening of $2 Billion NSA Spy Center
Snooping on Americans; business as usual
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
October 1, 2013
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
October 1, 2013
The so-called “government shut down” and the furloughing
of thousands of non-essential federal employees has not prevented the
opening of a $2 billion dollar NSA spy center in Utah which will snoop
on Americans’ private emails, Google searches and phone calls.
As we highlighted yesterday, the shut down will only affect the tiny amount of services government provides that Americans actually like.
Rest assured, TSA grope downs, VIPR checkpoints, drone
attacks, SWAT team raids, tax collection, torturing terrorists at
Guantanamo Bay, arming jihadists in Syria and running guns to Mexican
drug dealers will all continue unimpeded – as will NSA domestic spying.
Although the NSA itself refuses to confirm it, to all
intents and purposes the agency’s mammoth new spy center in Bluffdale,
Utah “may be open already,” according to the Denver Post.
“The facility is expected this fall to quietly begin
sucking in massive amounts of information for the intelligence community
and storing it in the cavernous buildings in Bluffdale, Utah, according
to NSA officials — and it could be open now even as the agency faces
scrutiny over efforts to collect data on Americans domestically,” writes
Thomas Burr.
Read more: http://www.infowars.com/government-shut-down-doesnt-prevent-opening-of-2-billion-nsa-spy-center/
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security
US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of
the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to
protect the privacy
of their personal data, online transactions and emails, according to
top-secret documents revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security
Monday, September 2, 2013
Government agencies at all levels selling personal data to marketers
(NaturalNews) How many times have you gone to your mailbox and found it
stuffed with useless junk mail? If you're like most Americans, you find
that happens a lot.
One of the major reasons why as much as 60 percent of the mail we get is worthless to us - and why we tend to get more of it after major life events - is because government agencies at virtually all levels are selling your personal information to scores of direct marketers.
Per CBS4 in Denver:
Eric Meer is a small business owner who works out of his home in Denver's Stapleton neighborhood. Meer says he was deluged by direct mail after registering his small business with the Colorado Secretary of State. He says many of the ads he received were deceptive asking him to pay fees that he wasn't required to pay.
'It feels like betrayal'
Immediately Meer says he got a hunch that the Colorado Secretary of State's office sold his business info to marketing firms. The local CBS affiliate found out that his hunch was correct; last year, the Secretary of State's office raked in some $59,000 by selling business registration data.
Once again, so much for the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections. As usual, everyone except the government has to respect it.
"It feels like a betrayal," Meer said in what we believe is an understatement of epic proportions. "Because our government is supposed to protect us, not to sell our information and profit from us."
One of the major reasons why as much as 60 percent of the mail we get is worthless to us - and why we tend to get more of it after major life events - is because government agencies at virtually all levels are selling your personal information to scores of direct marketers.
Per CBS4 in Denver:
Eric Meer is a small business owner who works out of his home in Denver's Stapleton neighborhood. Meer says he was deluged by direct mail after registering his small business with the Colorado Secretary of State. He says many of the ads he received were deceptive asking him to pay fees that he wasn't required to pay.
'It feels like betrayal'
Immediately Meer says he got a hunch that the Colorado Secretary of State's office sold his business info to marketing firms. The local CBS affiliate found out that his hunch was correct; last year, the Secretary of State's office raked in some $59,000 by selling business registration data.
Once again, so much for the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections. As usual, everyone except the government has to respect it.
"It feels like a betrayal," Meer said in what we believe is an understatement of epic proportions. "Because our government is supposed to protect us, not to sell our information and profit from us."
Monday, August 5, 2013
U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans
By John Shiffman and Kristina Cooke
Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.
The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to "recreate" the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant's Constitutional right to a fair trial. If defendants don't know how an investigation began, they cannot know to ask to review potential sources of exculpatory evidence - information that could reveal entrapment, mistakes or biased witnesses.
"I have never heard of anything like this at all," said Nancy Gertner, a Harvard Law School professor who served as a federal judge from 1994 to 2011. Gertner and other legal experts said the program sounds more troubling than recent disclosures that the National Security Agency has been collecting domestic phone records. The NSA effort is geared toward stopping terrorists; the DEA program targets common criminals, primarily drug dealers.
"It is one thing to create special rules for national security," Gertner said. "Ordinary crime is entirely different. It sounds like they are phonying up investigations."
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-u-directs-agents-cover-program-used-investigate-091643729.html
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
The NSA Has Inserted Its Code Into Android OS, Or Three Quarters Of All Smartphones
Over a decade ago, it was discovered that the NSA embedded backdoor access into
Windows 95, and likely into virtually all other subsequent internet
connected, desktop-based operating systems. However, with the passage of
time, more and more people went “mobile”, and as a result the NSA had
to adapt. And adapt they have: as Bloomberg reports, “The NSA is quietly writing code for Google’s Android OS.”
Is it ironic that the same “don’t be evil” Google which went to such great lengths in the aftermath of the Snowden scandal to wash its hands of snooping on its customers and even filed a request with the secretive FISA court asking permission to disclose more information about the government’s data requests, is embedding NSA code into its mobile operating system, which according to IDC runs on three-quarters of all smartphones shipped in the first quarter? Yes, yes it is.
Google spokeswoman Gina Scigliano confirms that the company has already inserted some of the NSA’s programming in Android OS. “All Android code and contributors are publicly available for review at source.android.com.” Scigliano says, declining to comment further.
From Bloomberg:
Read more: http://www.infowars.com/the-nsa-has-inserted-its-code-into-android-os-or-three-quarters-of-all-smartphones/
Is it ironic that the same “don’t be evil” Google which went to such great lengths in the aftermath of the Snowden scandal to wash its hands of snooping on its customers and even filed a request with the secretive FISA court asking permission to disclose more information about the government’s data requests, is embedding NSA code into its mobile operating system, which according to IDC runs on three-quarters of all smartphones shipped in the first quarter? Yes, yes it is.
Google spokeswoman Gina Scigliano confirms that the company has already inserted some of the NSA’s programming in Android OS. “All Android code and contributors are publicly available for review at source.android.com.” Scigliano says, declining to comment further.
From Bloomberg:
Through its open-source Android project, Google has agreed to incorporate code, first developed by the agency in 2011, into future versions of its mobile operating system, which according to market researcher IDC runs on three-quarters of the smartphones shipped globally in the first quarter. NSA officials say their code, known as Security Enhancements for Android, isolates apps to prevent hackers and marketers from gaining access to personal or corporate data stored on a device.Eventually all new phones, tablets, televisions, cars, and other devices that rely on Android will include NSA code, agency spokeswoman Vanee’ Vines said in an e-mailed statement. NSA researcher Stephen Smalley, who works on the program, says, “Our goal is to raise the bar in the security of commodity mobile devices.”
Read more: http://www.infowars.com/the-nsa-has-inserted-its-code-into-android-os-or-three-quarters-of-all-smartphones/
Feds Expose Subway Riders to Chemical Gas, Admits Ignorance to Health Effects
We’re not sure about the health risks, but we’re going to gas you anyway.
Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
July 10, 2013
UPDATE: The Inhabitat.com article on the alleged MTA notice, which we previously linked to, is now gone. However, upon further research, the Brookhaven National Laboratory has information on the Perfluorocarbons used in the terrorist response drill. The intent of this article is to showcase how these Perfluorocarbons are not necessarily “harmless” to the public as other news articles and press releases have claimed.
The New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority supposedly released a notice to subway passengers not only thanking them for being gassed lab rats but also admitting that they weren’t fully aware what the gas exposure health effects could be.
They did admit, however, that the gas exposure could lead to early menopause for women.
As we reported previously via RT, the New York Police Department announced in April that they would release “harmless” gases into the city’s subway station this summer as a terrorist response drill.
The department explained that the drill would test first-responder readiness to a chemical terrorist attack and track the path of the released chemicals.
The full text of the alleged notice follows:
Read more: http://www.infowars.com/feds-expose-subway-riders-to-chemical-gas-and-admits-ignorance-to-health-effects/
Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
July 10, 2013
UPDATE: The Inhabitat.com article on the alleged MTA notice, which we previously linked to, is now gone. However, upon further research, the Brookhaven National Laboratory has information on the Perfluorocarbons used in the terrorist response drill. The intent of this article is to showcase how these Perfluorocarbons are not necessarily “harmless” to the public as other news articles and press releases have claimed.
The New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority supposedly released a notice to subway passengers not only thanking them for being gassed lab rats but also admitting that they weren’t fully aware what the gas exposure health effects could be.
Subway riders won’t be supplied masks as shown in photo.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Source: Wikimedia Commons
As we reported previously via RT, the New York Police Department announced in April that they would release “harmless” gases into the city’s subway station this summer as a terrorist response drill.
The department explained that the drill would test first-responder readiness to a chemical terrorist attack and track the path of the released chemicals.
The full text of the alleged notice follows:
Thank you for riding the MTA.This notice indicates that the PFC gas is not “harmless” and the program is a partnership between the NYPD and the Department of Defense.
At this time we would like to thank you for participating in a joint study conducted by the NYPD and Brookhaven National Laboratory, sponsored by the Department of Defense.
During the month of July riders will be randomly exposed to Per-fluorocarbon gas in five boroughs and on 21 subway lines in an effort to study airflow throughout the MTA subway system.
Per-fluorocarbons are colorless, odorless, and powerful man-made greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. They are emitted as a by-product during aluminum production, are used as solvents in the electronics industry, and as refrigerants in many cooling systems.
We still do not fully understand the health effects of Per-fluorocarbon gas exposure, though exposure to Per-fluorocarbons are linked to the early onset of menopause. Studies in animals have found these gases significantly alter liver and thyroid function, increase the risk for tumors, and cause failure in reproductive organs.
These gases are being dispersed as a test for your protection against an unwanted chemical attack.
Thank you for riding with the MTA and have a safe day.
Read more: http://www.infowars.com/feds-expose-subway-riders-to-chemical-gas-and-admits-ignorance-to-health-effects/
Saturday, June 22, 2013
11 Yr Old Autistic Girl Tasered by State Trooper
When police found a confused and naked 11-year-old girl wandering a
stretch of highway along the I-5 corridor in Oregon, they didn’t exactly
offer her a ride home. Instead the responding officer determined the
best course of action would be to Taser her.
This past Sunday morning, cab driver Adam Bednar was aghast when he came upon the adolescent walking down the highway seemingly confused. She was nude and threw Bednar a smile, indicating she wasn’t fully aware of where she was or what she was doing.
“I thought she was drugged. I thought she was on bath salts, too much meth, something,” said Bednar.
“Bednar says he drove alongside her while he called police,” KDRV.com reported. “He says the trooper who arrived called for her to stop, and when she didn’t respond threatened twice to taze her.”
According to the girl’s father, who has contacted Infowars.com, the girl was autistic and didn’t respond to officers due to her ailment. “After giving no response, two little red dots appeared on her back, then metal barbs,” KDRV wrote.
“She seized up, then she just fell face first on the ground,” Bednar described. “Just face first on the ground.”
Adding insult to injury, Oregon State Police officials initially defended the officer’s reaction saying Tasering the 11-year-old girl was necessary to prevent her from wandering further down the road “and putting herself in danger.”
But Bednar says that explanation doesn’t hold up. “She wasn’t going off the road, she was set on walking down the freeway,” Bednar told KDRV. “And I think that, had [the trooper] waited for back up, they could have gotten her without the Taser.”
The girl’s father also took issue with KDRV’s reportage, which frequently referred to the girl as a “young woman,” a “woman” and a “juvenile.” The report also neglected to give her age.
“They keep calling her a ‘woman’ …she is 11 years old. Since when is an 11-year-old kid with the mind of a 3-year-old a ‘woman’?” the girl’s father, who listens to Infowars, told us. “She is very gentle and non combative. If the police cannot apprehend a child who is cooperative without Tasing then what would be the alternative? Shooting her?”
Fortunately, police were gracious enough not to charge the girl or her family with a crime.
As we have detailed numerous times, Tasers are designed to be used only in emergency situations, as a last resort before lethal force; however, police frequently employ the sometimes deadly devices to force compliance.
KDRV’s account of the event also highlights the incestuous relationship between media and police. Instead of questioning authorities and pressing officers on why they would Tase an 11-year-old, the compliant reporters attempt to convince viewers they’re remaining objective and presenting all the facts.
As her father mentioned, the reporters also intentionally misled viewers over the girl’s age, referring to her as a “woman.”
http://www.infowars.com/oregon-state-police-taser-autistic-child-found-wandering-naked/
This past Sunday morning, cab driver Adam Bednar was aghast when he came upon the adolescent walking down the highway seemingly confused. She was nude and threw Bednar a smile, indicating she wasn’t fully aware of where she was or what she was doing.
“I thought she was drugged. I thought she was on bath salts, too much meth, something,” said Bednar.
“Bednar says he drove alongside her while he called police,” KDRV.com reported. “He says the trooper who arrived called for her to stop, and when she didn’t respond threatened twice to taze her.”
According to the girl’s father, who has contacted Infowars.com, the girl was autistic and didn’t respond to officers due to her ailment. “After giving no response, two little red dots appeared on her back, then metal barbs,” KDRV wrote.
“She seized up, then she just fell face first on the ground,” Bednar described. “Just face first on the ground.”
Adding insult to injury, Oregon State Police officials initially defended the officer’s reaction saying Tasering the 11-year-old girl was necessary to prevent her from wandering further down the road “and putting herself in danger.”
But Bednar says that explanation doesn’t hold up. “She wasn’t going off the road, she was set on walking down the freeway,” Bednar told KDRV. “And I think that, had [the trooper] waited for back up, they could have gotten her without the Taser.”
The girl’s father also took issue with KDRV’s reportage, which frequently referred to the girl as a “young woman,” a “woman” and a “juvenile.” The report also neglected to give her age.
“They keep calling her a ‘woman’ …she is 11 years old. Since when is an 11-year-old kid with the mind of a 3-year-old a ‘woman’?” the girl’s father, who listens to Infowars, told us. “She is very gentle and non combative. If the police cannot apprehend a child who is cooperative without Tasing then what would be the alternative? Shooting her?”
Fortunately, police were gracious enough not to charge the girl or her family with a crime.
As we have detailed numerous times, Tasers are designed to be used only in emergency situations, as a last resort before lethal force; however, police frequently employ the sometimes deadly devices to force compliance.
KDRV’s account of the event also highlights the incestuous relationship between media and police. Instead of questioning authorities and pressing officers on why they would Tase an 11-year-old, the compliant reporters attempt to convince viewers they’re remaining objective and presenting all the facts.
As her father mentioned, the reporters also intentionally misled viewers over the girl’s age, referring to her as a “woman.”
http://www.infowars.com/oregon-state-police-taser-autistic-child-found-wandering-naked/
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Skynet rising: Google acquires 512-qubit quantum computer
(NaturalNews) Most people don't know about the existence of quantum
computers. Almost no one understands how they work, but theories include
bizarre-sounding explanations like, "they reach into alternate
universes to derive the correct answers to highly complex computational
problems."
Quantum computers are not made of simple transistors and logic gates like the CPU on your PC. They don't even function in ways that seem rational to a typical computing engineer. Almost magically, quantum computers take logarithmic problems and transform them into "flat" computations whose answers seem to appear from an alternate dimension.
For example, a mathematical problem that might have 2 to the power of n possible solutions -- where n is a large number like 1024 -- might take a traditional computer longer than the age of the universe to solve. A quantum computer, on the other hand, might solve the same problem in mere minutes because it quite literally operates across multiple dimensions simultaneously.
Until now, most people believed this day was far away. Quantum computing is an "impractical pipe dream," we've been told by scowling scientists and "flat Earth" computer engineers. "It's not possible to build a 512-qubit quantum computer that actually works," they insisted.
Don't tell that to Eric Ladizinsky, co-founder and chief scientist of a company called D-Wave. Because Ladizinsky's team has already built a 512-qubit quantum computer. And they're already selling them to wealthy corporations, too.
Quantum computers are not made of simple transistors and logic gates like the CPU on your PC. They don't even function in ways that seem rational to a typical computing engineer. Almost magically, quantum computers take logarithmic problems and transform them into "flat" computations whose answers seem to appear from an alternate dimension.
For example, a mathematical problem that might have 2 to the power of n possible solutions -- where n is a large number like 1024 -- might take a traditional computer longer than the age of the universe to solve. A quantum computer, on the other hand, might solve the same problem in mere minutes because it quite literally operates across multiple dimensions simultaneously.
The ultimate code breakers
If you know anything about encryption, you probably also realize that quantum computers are the secret KEY to unlocking all encrypted files. As I wrote about last year here on Natural News, once quantum computers go into widespread use by the NSA, the CIA, Google, etc., there will be no more secrets kept from the government. All your files -- even encrypted files -- will be easily opened and read.Until now, most people believed this day was far away. Quantum computing is an "impractical pipe dream," we've been told by scowling scientists and "flat Earth" computer engineers. "It's not possible to build a 512-qubit quantum computer that actually works," they insisted.
Don't tell that to Eric Ladizinsky, co-founder and chief scientist of a company called D-Wave. Because Ladizinsky's team has already built a 512-qubit quantum computer. And they're already selling them to wealthy corporations, too.
Monday, June 17, 2013
IRS seizes medical records of 60 million Americans
It comes as no surprise that the IRS is now stealing people's sensitive
medical records. That's the case in California. A reported 60 million
medical records have been seized by 15 IRS agents. The House Energy and
Commerce Committee is now investigating a lawsuit initiated by a
California health care provider that purports that the IRS stole
"intimate and private information of more than 10,000,000 Americans
including the names and health records of prominent celebrities, sports
personalities, and CEOs, ultimately affecting roughly one out of every
twenty-five adult American citizens."
These power grabbers didn't fool around. They went for the entire company's IT system, telling the IT personnel "to transfer several servers of the medical records and patient records to the IRS for search and seizure, otherwise they would 'rip' the servers out of the building entirely."
After further investigation, the IRS agents used the stolen IT media system to even order pizza and watch basketball at their headquarters.
The charges also state that the IRS agents had initially obtained a search
warrant, but the warrant was designated to seize the financial records of a former employee of the company - not medical records, and certainly not 60 million confidential medical records from 10 million California residents.
These power grabbers didn't fool around. They went for the entire company's IT system, telling the IT personnel "to transfer several servers of the medical records and patient records to the IRS for search and seizure, otherwise they would 'rip' the servers out of the building entirely."
After further investigation, the IRS agents used the stolen IT media system to even order pizza and watch basketball at their headquarters.
The charges also state that the IRS agents had initially obtained a search
warrant, but the warrant was designated to seize the financial records of a former employee of the company - not medical records, and certainly not 60 million confidential medical records from 10 million California residents.
Monday, June 10, 2013
NSA spy grid whistleblower Ed Snowden steps forward in mind-blowing video interview with Glenn Greenwald
(NaturalNews) The NSA spy scandal has just exploded beyond the worst
fears of the highly-secretive U.S. government. The whistleblower behind
the leaked PRISM slides
has just stepped forward, offering a mind-blowing interview to
investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald, who broke this story in The
Guardian. (Wow, actual journalism is making a comeback! This is
legendary stuff!)
We have copied the video from The Guardian and placed it on TV.naturalnews.com to make sure it's safely archived on a network that can't be censored by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, YouTube, etc. -- all the top companies who conspired with the NSA to turn over private user data (emails, phone calls, videos, etc.) to government spooks.
The link to that video is:
http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=9988C0C07C1CF71E9ADE598760F70DA2
We have copied the video from The Guardian and placed it on TV.naturalnews.com to make sure it's safely archived on a network that can't be censored by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, YouTube, etc. -- all the top companies who conspired with the NSA to turn over private user data (emails, phone calls, videos, etc.) to government spooks.
The link to that video is:
http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=9988C0C07C1CF71E9ADE598760F70DA2
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Communications Companies Required By FISA Law To Lie About Surveillance
(NaturalNews) What do Google, AOL, Skype, Facebook, Apple, Hotmail and
Yahoo all have in common? They have all been caught turning over private
user data to the government's spy agency, the NSA. All these companies
routinely turn over the emails, voice calls, text chats, photos, files
and even logins and passwords of their users, including Americans.
"There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal," journalist Glenn Greenwald recently told Piers Morgan (who knows all about spying and hacking people's private data). "And that is to destroy privacy and anonymity not just in the United States but around the world."
But what nobody is yet revealing is that all these companies are required by law to LIE to their own customers about secret government surveillance.
"There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal," journalist Glenn Greenwald recently told Piers Morgan (who knows all about spying and hacking people's private data). "And that is to destroy privacy and anonymity not just in the United States but around the world."
Tech companies rush to issue (false) denials
Immediately after these revelations surfaced over the past few days, all these companies began denying any involvement with the NSA. "Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg are denying reports that depict two of the Internet’s most influential companies as willing participants in a secret government program that gives the National Security Agency unfettered access to email and other personal information transmitted on various online services," reports the San Francisco branch of CBS News.But what nobody is yet revealing is that all these companies are required by law to LIE to their own customers about secret government surveillance.
Friday, June 7, 2013
Spy state shock: Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Skype, AOL, Apple all secretly sharing private user communications with NSA
(NaturalNews) In a week that has already been rocked by one explosive
government spy scandal involving the NSA scooping up phone call data and
geographic locations of Verizon customers, another scandalous discovery
has just erupted that's sure to "wake up" millions of Americans who
have been living in denial.
"The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time," reports the Washington Post in an explosive investigative article.
Top secret documents obtained by the Washington Post show that nearly all the top internet services -- Microsoft Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Skype, AOL, Apple, Youtube and PalTalk -- are all sharing ALL your user communications with the federal government. Dropbox is reportedly "coming soon."
As the Washington Post explains:
Through a top-secret program authorized by federal judges working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. intelligence community can gain access to the servers of nine Internet companies for a wide range of digital data. Documents describing the previously undisclosed program, obtained by The Washington Post, show the breadth of U.S. electronic surveillance capabilities in the wake of a widely publicized controversy over warrantless wiretapping of U.S. domestic telephone communications in 2005.
The types of data these services allow the government to surveil include emails, audio chats, video chats, text chats, photos, usernames, passwords, file transfers, VoIP sessions and much more. Users of Google Drive will be shocked to learn that the NSA has full access to all their private files stored on Google Drive. In effect, these services take every communication initiated by their users and turn it over to the NSA. All these internet services are operating in conspiracy with a criminal government that believes there are absolutely no limits to its power and that it can spy and snoop on all Americans.
When you are calling friends on your iPhone, or chatting over Skype, or emailing someone on Gmail or Yahoo Mail, everything you type, speak, attach or send is being systematically siphoned up, databased and tracked by the U.S. government.
This is all revealed in "PRISM slide #4," which was leaked to the Washington Post. Here's the slide image, just in case it gets yanked from WashPo:
"The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time," reports the Washington Post in an explosive investigative article.
Top secret documents obtained by the Washington Post show that nearly all the top internet services -- Microsoft Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Skype, AOL, Apple, Youtube and PalTalk -- are all sharing ALL your user communications with the federal government. Dropbox is reportedly "coming soon."
As the Washington Post explains:
Through a top-secret program authorized by federal judges working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. intelligence community can gain access to the servers of nine Internet companies for a wide range of digital data. Documents describing the previously undisclosed program, obtained by The Washington Post, show the breadth of U.S. electronic surveillance capabilities in the wake of a widely publicized controversy over warrantless wiretapping of U.S. domestic telephone communications in 2005.
The types of data these services allow the government to surveil include emails, audio chats, video chats, text chats, photos, usernames, passwords, file transfers, VoIP sessions and much more. Users of Google Drive will be shocked to learn that the NSA has full access to all their private files stored on Google Drive. In effect, these services take every communication initiated by their users and turn it over to the NSA. All these internet services are operating in conspiracy with a criminal government that believes there are absolutely no limits to its power and that it can spy and snoop on all Americans.
When you are calling friends on your iPhone, or chatting over Skype, or emailing someone on Gmail or Yahoo Mail, everything you type, speak, attach or send is being systematically siphoned up, databased and tracked by the U.S. government.
This is all revealed in "PRISM slide #4," which was leaked to the Washington Post. Here's the slide image, just in case it gets yanked from WashPo:
Sources: US intelligence agencies tap servers of top Internet companies
U.S.
intelligence agencies have a direct tap into the servers of the U.S.'s
largest Internet companies where agents can troll for suspicious
activity, sources confirmed to NBC News on Thursday.
Intelligence officials disputed reports that the program was engaged in "data mining" and instead described the activities as "data collection." It was unclear what the distinction is in practical terms.
The program, code-named PRISM, was first publicly exposed Thursday evening by The Washington Post and The Guardian.
Read more: http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/06/18809021-sources-us-intelligence-agencies-tap-servers-of-top-internet-companies?lite
A
government program is examining suspicious email and Internet traffic.
According to The Washington Post, it allows the NSA and the FBI to tap
directly into computer servers at some of the largest Internet service
providers. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
The highly
classified program, designed to look at international communications and
run by the National Security Agency and the FBI, can peek at video,
audio, photos, emails and other documents, including connection logs
that let the government track people, according to the sources, who
spoke with NBC News on condition of anonymity.Intelligence officials disputed reports that the program was engaged in "data mining" and instead described the activities as "data collection." It was unclear what the distinction is in practical terms.
The program, code-named PRISM, was first publicly exposed Thursday evening by The Washington Post and The Guardian.
Read more: http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/06/18809021-sources-us-intelligence-agencies-tap-servers-of-top-internet-companies?lite
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