very interesting stuff, don’t agree with everything though… esp. not the known shills like Russo at the bottom.
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From: Eddie
Date: Feb 28, 2008 2:12 PM

One day… we will all be chipped, cloned, hard wired into the internet, turned into cyborgs by nano-DNA-bots, and turned into products and slaves. We will no longer be born. We will all be harvested by the machines.

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Five Large-Scale Attempts To Change The Course Of
Human Evolution
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Charles Darwin first explained the principles of sexual selection in his controversial book The Descent of Man (1871). Ever since then, people have wanted to tinker with human evolution via artificial sexual selection. Dictators, mad doctors, and crazed social scientists have proposed — and even carried out — human breeding experiments aimed at improving the species. For some definition of “improving.” Here are five of the most bizarre and tragic experiments with human evolution from the last century.

The Eugenics Movement

The most famous example of eugenics in action is Adolf Hitler’s forced breeding program, in which SS officers systematically impregnated women deemed to be appropriately Aryan. The children, bred in a program called Lebensborn, were supposed to be the beginning of a new master race. Hitler’s evolutionary intervention also involved genocides of “undesirables,” because while you’re building a new race, why not get rid of the supposedly undesirable ones too? The Eugenics movement didn’t start with Hitler, though. It had a long, rich history that began in the nineteenth century and was very popular in the United States. Early twentieth-century country fairs in the U.S. often featured eugenics contests at country fairs, with awards going to the most “genetically sound” white families. Below, you can see a group of girls from a 4H club who won in a genetic fitness contest circa 1925.

Nicolae Ceausescu’s Decree No. 770

In the late 1960s, Romanian dictator Ceausescu decided that the population of his country needed to grow much larger to provide strapping workers for industrial labor. First he tried to reward women who had several babies, but that program didn’t work quickly enough. So in 1966, he outlawed abortion. Women were forbidden from using contraception, and underwent fertility checks at work. In 1967, the birth rate in the country doubled. The children born that year were called Decreteii, or children of the decree. Many suffered or died young because they were unwanted or had been born under adverse circumstances.

Chinese 1 Child Per Couple Policy

To cut back on its population, the Chinese government in the early 1980s mandated that each couple may have only one child or suffer penalties. There have been widespread reports of couples choosing to abort or abandon girl children. In some areas of the country, this breeding program has turned homo sapiens into a species whose male population exceeds its female population by 163.5 to 100. Apparently the UN recommends a “normal” ratio is no more than 107 to 100.

Clonaid

Clonaid is a company that purports to be engaging in human cloning, specifically to change the human species. They were embroiled in scandal when it was revealed that many Clonaid “scientists” were members of the Raelian cult (or religion, depending on how you feel about it) that believed humans were descended from cloned aliens. Scientists from Clonaid claim to have cloned a human, though they offer no concrete proof. So far, they have had zero impact on human evolution, but get points for trying to achieve evolutionary intervention via publicity.

Fertility Treatments and IVF

Two years ago, 3 million babies had been born world-wide thanks to IVF and other fertility treatments. In a scenario of pure, wild Darwinian sexual selection, none of those babies would have been born. Those 3 million plus babies represent a dramatic shift in human evolution that we are only beginning to understand.

CLoning

The public’s often skewed view of nanotechnology is shaped by illustrations like this speculative - and, to a physicist, highly implausible - rendition of a “nanorobot” inside a human vein. The nanorobot is pictured removing a blockage from the blood vessel using nano-scale cutters and vacuum cleaners. Credit: Julian Baum/Science Photo Library.

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Machines ‘to match man by 2029′
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Science reporter, BBC News, Boston
16 February 2008
By Helen Briggs

Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.

Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people’s brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil.

The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health.

“It’s really part of our civilisation,” Mr Kurzweil explained.

“But that’s not going to be an alien invasion of intelligent machines to displace us.”

Machines were already doing hundreds of things humans used to do, at human levels of intelligence or better, in many different areas, he said.

Man versus machine

“I’ve made the case that we will have both the hardware and the software to achieve human level artificial intelligence with the broad suppleness of human intelligence including our emotional intelligence by 2029,” he said.

“We’re already a human machine civilisation; we use our technology to expand our physical and mental horizons and this will be a further extension of that.”

Humans and machines would eventually merge, by means of devices embedded in people’s bodies to keep them healthy and improve their intelligence, predicted Mr Kurzweil.

“We’ll have intelligent nanobots go into our brains through the capillaries and interact directly with our biological neurons,” he told BBC News.

The nanobots, he said, would “make us smarter, remember things better and automatically go into full emergent virtual reality environments through the nervous system”.

Mr Kurzweil is one of 18 influential thinkers chosen to identify the great technological challenges facing humanity in the 21st century by the US National Academy of Engineering.

The experts include Google founder Larry Page and genome pioneer Dr Craig Venter.

The 14 challenges were announced at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston, which concludes on Monday.

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From: Eddie
Date: Feb 15, 2008 2:12 PM

The new Nazi swastika - RFID microchips

RFID VeriChip ready to be injected into you and your newborn upon ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

The six-storey Paul Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering will be the setting for the study.

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Future Of Social Networking Explored In UW’s Computer Science Building
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Seattle WA (SPX) Feb 13, 2008

Contact: Hannah Hickey
hickeyh@u.washington.edu
206-543-2580
University of Washington

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/uow-fos021208.php

If you need information, the Internet offers a wealth of resources. But if you’re hunting down a person or a thing, a computer’s not much help. That may soon change. Electronic tags promise to create what some call the “Internet of things,” in which objects and people are connected through a virtual network.

To see what this future world would be like, a pilot project involving dozens of volunteers in the University of Washington’s computer science building provides the next step in social networking, wirelessly monitoring people and things in a closed environment.

Beginning in March, volunteer students, engineers and staff will wear electronic tags on their clothing and belongings to sense their location every five seconds throughout much of the six-story building. The information will be saved to a database, published to Web pages and used in various custom tools. The project is one of the largest experiments looking at wireless tags in a social setting.

The RFID Ecosystem project aims to create a world that many technology experts predict is just on the horizon, said project leader Magda Balazinska, a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering. The project explores the use of radio-frequency identification, or RFID, tags in a social environment. The team has installed some 200 antennas in the Paul Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering.

Early next month researchers will begin recruiting 50 volunteers from about 400 people who regularly use the building.

“Our goal is to ask what benefits can we get out of this technology and how can we protect people’s privacy at the same time,” Balazinska said. “We want to get a handle on the issues that would crop up if these systems become a reality.”

The Ecosystem can alert users when they have left something behind.

Many businesses already use RFID tags to track products in the supply chain. Now the tool is moving to other areas. Some transit agencies use radio tags in bus and train passes. The new U.S. passports incorporate RFID tags. Technology experts predict that RFID tags will soon be incorporated in consumer devices, such as cell phones, laptops and music players.

Each tag, which looks a bit like a thin, flexible credit card, costs about 20 cents to produce. A specialized reader can scan the card through any non-metal barrier and from up to 30 feet away, depending on the type of tag. RFID tags are miniature computer chips that contain far more information than a barcode. Also, you can write to an RFID tag–meaning the signal could not only identify the item, but what group it belongs to, when it was last seen, and other information.

The technology has already proven its use in tracking goods. A manufacturer can identify a cart of hamburger patties and know which plant it came from, when it shipped out and a history of its temperature during transit. UW computer-science staff members have already requested to participate in the study so that they will be able to track their equipment as it is moved through the building.

But for people, the technology’s power raises questions. An RFID card can be read from a distance and without the wearer’s knowledge. The associated databases archive vast amounts of information.

“What if RFID readers were everywhere, and everything had RFID tags? What are the pluses and minuses? What do you do with all that data?” said Gaetano Borriello, a UW professor of computer science and engineering. “In computer science, we try to create a future world that doesn’t exist yet. We’d like to get some experience rather than just conjecture about this.”

Separate tags are attached to a purse, book, name badge and laptop adaptor (clockwise from top left).

The researchers received human subjects approval to conduct the trial. Each participant will be able to control who can see his or her data, and can delete any data or opt out of the study at any time without explanation or penalty. Researchers also note that they have not placed any RFID readers near bathrooms or eating areas, because these are considered personal spaces.

Study volunteers will be interviewed periodically. The researchers will be assessing both positive aspects, such as keeping track of everything from where you lost your laptop charger to where your friends are meeting for coffee, and negative aspects in terms of loss of privacy.

“Even if you wanted to study just privacy, or just utility, you’d have to study the other as well,” said Evan Welbourne, a UW doctoral student in computer science and engineering. “People are more likely to give out information if there’s a benefit to them. You can’t really separate issues of privacy from issues of utility.”

Research members have been testing the system on themselves. Over the past year, all 10 members of the group have worn the tags on their necks and placed them on certain belongings. Balazinska set the system so that she can’t see her students, but she allows them to access her data. The students occasionally used the alerts to catch their adviser on her way out of the building. Many members of the team reported using the database to find out where they had left their belongings.

The pilot study will incorporate two new student-developed features that aim to exploit the system’s potential benefits. One invention is a tool that records a person’s movements in Google Calendar. Study participants can set the system to instantaneously publish activities on their Web calendar, such as arrival at work, meetings or lunch breaks.

“It’s a perfect memory system that records all your personal interactions throughout the day,” Welbourne said. “You can go back a day later, a month later, and see, ‘What did I do that day?’ or, ‘Who have I spent my time with lately?’”

Another tool is a friend finder, named RFIDder (pronounced “fritter”). This sends instant alerts to participants’ e-mail addresses or cell phones telling them when friends are in certain places. With RFIDder, each user can specify who is allowed to see their data. They can change the settings at any time, and can easily turn it off whenever they don’t want to be found. The system will link to Twitter, an online blog that lets people post their whereabouts online.

“We want to observe how a group of people uses these tools, whether they find them useful, how they adapt them,” Balazinska said.

Researchers are also devising ways to deal with the many technical challenges involved in sorting RFID data. As data floods in, the researchers would like to make sense of it. They also want to develop a main database where people can find the information they need, but can’t abuse it by looking at too much of other people’s personal information. Proposals include systems that would impose a cost for looking up certain types of information, or that would let people see who is accessing their data.

A major research focus is extracting information from imperfect data. Metal can block the RFID signal and using the data to figure out people’s actual position is tricky. Current systems combine artificial intelligence and database techniques to produce usable information, Balazinska said.

“This is a major project that has many facets,” Balazinska said. “We worry that these technologies are being implemented too quickly, and with this system we want to explore it in a controlled environment, to inform the public and policymakers about issues we might face.”

The project is funded by the National Science Foundation, Microsoft Research and the UW’s College of Engineering.

The late Aaron Russo warned of Rockefeller bankers plan to RFID tag EVERYONE

IBM, VeriChip and the 4th Reich

US military already implanted our soldiers with RFID VeriChips

What is VeriChip? What will it do to you?

Exquisite Mind

what was I thinking?

^obviously with that dude running as Nader’s VP, he’s not gonna be “objective” but uh, Nader is way better than Fall and Obama.

What a big waste of time presidential selections are, no?

The monsters never stop.

And the muslims everywhere are suffering from subversive, sellout puppets. Abbas is no different, this despicable goon is working for them

Palestinians woke up early Thursday on what it seemed to be their regular alarm, the sound of Israeli rockets and raids. And instead of bidding farewell to nine martyrs, now they have to mourn 28, including eight children.

Israeli occupation security forces struck a range of targets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing a total of 15 Palestinians, including four children. The deaths come a day after the occupation army martyred 13 Palestinians. Early Thursday evening, an Israel Air Force helicopter attacked a police roadblock near the Gaza City home of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, in which Palestinian officials said one person was martyred and four others wounded.

Four children - all under the age of 16 and three from the same family - were martyred in an IAF strike in Jabalya, a refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Another IAF attack in northern Gaza a short while later martyred a Hamas resistance fighter. Earlier, IAF aircraft struck northern Gaza, killing another Hamas member and one other person.

On Thursday morning, three resistance fighters were martyred in an Israeli strike in the Gaza neighborhood of Sajaiya. Two of the men martyred belonged to the Popular Resistance Committees’ military wing and the third was a Hamas fighter. Palestinian sources reported that another fighter was wounded in the strike.

In the Gaza City neighborhood of Zeitoun, an IAF strike martyred two Hamas members, including son of senior Hamas lawmaker, Khalil al-Haya. The group said he had commanded a rocket-launching squad in northern Gaza. Al-Haya is one of Hamas’ top figures in Gaza, and has escaped assassination attempts, including an IAF strike that killed his brother last year.

Visiting the morgue at Gaza City’s Shifa hospital Thursday, Khalil al-Haya said he was proud that his son had lost his life for the Hamas cause, like many of his relatives. “I thank God for this gift, he said. This is the 10th member of my family to receive the honor of martyrdom.”

Two other Palestinian resistance fighters were martyred by the occupation army during an operation in the West Bank town of Nablus, local sources reported. One of the martyrs belonged to the Popular Front’s armed wing – the Abu Mustafa Brigades, and the other was a member of Fatah’s military wing, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Six other Palestinians were injured in the attack.

Moreover, overnight Israeli aircraft struck the empty office of Haniyeh and nearby premises of his Interior Ministry, killing a 6-month old baby and wounding more than 30 other people. Earlier on Wednesday, three Palestinian children were killed in an Israeli strike in the northern Gaza Strip. The children were aged 10, 12, and 14. Occupation army also killed nine Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank; five of the martyrs belonged to Hamas military wing.

Hamas retaliated for the Israeli crimes by launching more 50 Qassam rockets in 24 hours into the western Negev town of Sderot and the surrounding communities killing one Israeli settler and wounding several others. Many settlers were treated for shock.

One of the wounded was an officer belonging to Israeli Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter’s protection detail. The security officer was at the place for preliminary scouting of the area in preparation for the minister’s visit.

ABBAS: ARMED ‘RESISTANCE’ NOT RULED OUT
On Thursday, PA President Mahmoud Abbas said that he does not rule out returning to the path of armed “resistance” against Israel and took pride in the fact that he had been the first to fire on Israel in 1965. In an interview with the Jordanian daily al-Dustur, Abbas said that he was opposed to an armed struggle against Israel - for the time being. “At this present juncture, I am opposed to the armed struggle because we can’t succeed in it, but maybe in the future things will be different,” he said.

Probably not.

Even if I am, Nader is still WEIGH better.

you know it’s POSSIBLE obama hasn’t been fully corrupted by washington and is toeing the line to get elected…

but he did vote to fund a war he didn’t support EVERY TIME

here’s an interesting take

although i never trusted this guy Raimando either

i tossed obama a heartfelt prayer regardless, we can all hope he’s gonna pull a kennedy so if that’s the case, may allah be his protector…

http://www.etherzone.com/2008/raim021508.shtml

the part that stuck out to me which i did NOT know about was this:

The Clintons are desperately trying to spin this away, with President Priapus denouncing Obama’s antiwar record as “a fairy tale” and The New Republic rather more subtly suggesting “Obama himself may understand that the issue is more complicated than his condemnations of Hillary Clinton’s judgment.” That’s the last line of a rather curious piece by Michael Crowley, whose microscopic examination of Obama’s public pronouncements on the war question might have been published by Antiwar.com – except for that last line.

It is a piece that starts out by chronicling Obama’s memorable performance at a 2002 antiwar rally in Chicago – when very few mainstream politicians were showing up at antiwar events – and charts his subsequent equivocations, wobbles, and doubts, slyly implying that he’s not really all that far away from being a calculating Clintonian himself. Crowly cites the Clintonites’ contention that the liberal district he hailed from in Chicago meant he wasn’t really going out on a limb in opposing the war early on, an argument that makes no sense when one remembers he was getting ready to run for US Senate. Statewide, support for the war, while not as fervent as in some other regions of the country, was generally reflective of the post-9/11 hysteria that made warmongering such a lucrative profession for so many. As Thomas B. Edsall pointed out in the Huffington Post:

“Among all Illinois voters, 17 percent said the U.S. should attack Iraq with or without allied support, 51 percent said an attack should be initiated only with the backing of allies, and 18 percent said the U.S. should not attack at all. Among Democrats, only 8 percent backed a unilateral invasion of Iraq, 59 percent said the US should attack only with broad allied support and 23 percent opposed any military action.”

People wanted more evidence that an attack was necessary – 52 percent – but, in general, the good people of Illinois went along with the national zeitgeist, which was all about “taking out” Saddam Hussein and showing those Ay-rabs who’s in charge. After all, a mere 23 percent opposed going to war at all, and that’s where Obama was. The only reason he avoided paying the political price was due to extraordinary luck: his principal opponent in the Democratic primary was hit with a major scandal and effectively knocked out of the race. The same fate befell his putative Republican opponent – and the eventual GOP nominee, Alan Keyes, was never a credible opponent to begin with.

So, yes, it took courage to come out against the war at that point. Remember, the post-9/11 Bizarro Effect still had most of the country in its hallucinatory grip, and the War Party and the “mainstream” media were collaborating on a propaganda campaign of unprecedented ferocity, broadcasting brazen lies as if they were fact and trying to bully anyone who defied them, e.g. Democrats Mike Thompson, Jim McDermott and David Bonior.

Yet there was more than courage on display at that rally. There was also Obama’s prescience. It’s odd that Crowley opens his piece with the scene from that rally, but somehow neglects to report what Obama said:

“What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne….

“I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He’s a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.

“But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history. I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.” (Obama, 2002)

With most of the rest of the country swept up in an emotional rush of belligerence-in-search-of-a-target, Obama kept his cool and clearly perceived the facts as most of us would later come to see them. This is called judgement – another name for it is leadership.

That’s why he’s winning, beating Hillary and her much-vaunted “machine,” and why the Clintonites have half-unveiled their ultimate weapon: the dreaded “super-delegates,” primed to snatch the nomination away from Obama and his majority of pledged (i.e. elected) delegates at the last moment. Furthermore, he looks, acts, and sounds like a president, whereas Hillary merely reminds one of a high school class president (and Edwards the prom king).

he’s apparently scarin some hardcore pro-war Yahudis.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/953566.html

I’m not gonna “support” someone who will bend over backward for ashkeNAZIs but I will say that there is an outside chance he hasn’t been sufficiently blackmailed and he’s just toeing the line. I don’t wanna hold optimism in the process though, as I’ve thought myself that Clinton was the choice long ago.

we’ll see what happens…

The rapid spread of factual information is the only true solution at this point other than Allah