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Friday, February 20, 2015
THE REASON OBAMA WON’T USE ‘ISLAMIC EXTREMIST’
Feds more concerned about gun owners than terrorists
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by INFOWARS.COM | FEBRUARY 19, 2015
The federal government has ignored Islamic threat while obsessing about domestic “extremism,” including veterans and gun owners, for years.
The Establishment’s Most Shocking Crimes
Criminal elite caught in outrageous crimes against humanity
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Although the American public is unfortunately becoming more desensitized to the establishment’s outright criminality, some scandals remain so brazen that they continue to shock the system years later.
While scandals such as global NSA spying are clearly the most grand in their scope, others less talked about represent the most evil inclinations of the power elite.
U.S. Military Contractor Caught Running Sex Slavery Ring
Military contractor Dyncorp, a subsidiary of Halliburton, was found to be kidnapping woman and children and selling them into sex slavery rings.
Former Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney confronted Donald Rumsfeld over the revelation in 2005 during a congressional hearing and demanded to know why the United States was continuing to provide contracts to the company.
As expected, Rumsfeld provided a lackluster answer that shielded the company from its abhorrent behavior.
Bayer Pharmaceuticals Knowingly Sells HIV-Tainted Medicine
Pharmaceutical giant Bayer knowingly sold millions of dollars worth of HIV-tainted medication designed for hemophiliacs to multiple countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia during the 1980s.
Unsurprisingly, FDA regulators worked hand and hand with the company to keep the sales hidden from “Congress, the medical community and the public.”
The company faced minimal punishment and continues to work with near-impunity like most major pharmaceutical companies.
Government Hides Nazi War Criminals Inside United States
A New York Times report published last October revealed new details on the federal government’s deep history of supporting Nazis following World War II.
According to unsealed documents, F.B.I. officials hid information about 16 suspected Nazis living inside the US from the Justice Department in the 1980s.
Similarly, a CIA lawyer demanded U.S. prosecutors drop an investigation into an ex-spy involved in the massacre of tens of thousands of Jews in Lithuania in 1994.
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The Internet isn’t broken. Obama doesn’t need to ‘fix’ it.
FCC and FTC members' give the president some sharp advice: Leave the Internet alone
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by AJIT PAI & JOSHUA WRIGHT | CHICAGO TRIBUNE | FEBRUARY 19, 2015
If you like your wireless plan, you should be able to keep it. But new federal regulations may take away your freedom to choose the best broadband plan for you. It’s all part of the federal government’s 332-page plan to regulate the Internet like a public utility — a plan President Barack Obama asked the Federal Communications Commission to implement in November and that is coming up for a vote Feb. 26.
While the plan contains no shortage of regulations, the most problematic may be the new “Internet conduct” rule. It’s a vague rule that gives the FCC almost unfettered discretion to micromanage virtually every aspect of the Internet, including the choices that consumers have for accessing it. If a company doesn’t want to offer an expensive, unlimited data plan, it could find itself in the FCC’s cross hairs.
But restricting service plan options is inherently anti-competitive and anti-consumer. The inevitable results will be higher prices and less service for consumers along with an especially adverse impact on small providers and upstart competitors trying to differentiate themselves in a crowded market.
Consider that activists promoting this rule had previously targeted neither AT&T nor Verizon with their first net-neutrality complaint but MetroPCS — an upstart competitor with a single-digit market share and not an ounce of market power. Its crime? Unlimited YouTube. MetroPCS offered a $40-per-month plan with unlimited talk, text, Web browsing and YouTube streaming. The company’s strategy was to entice customers to switch from the four national carriers or to upgrade to its newly built 4G Long Term Evolution network.
The Internet isn’t broken. Obama doesn’t need to ‘fix’ it.
Ajit Pai & Joshua Wright
Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:37:43 GMT
Why the Free and Open Internet Is Never Going to Die
Joshua Krause
Activist Post
It appears that the Internet's Wild West days are coming to an end, much to the chagrin of pretty much everyone who uses it. Last week, the FEC announced their desire to regulate websites like Drudge, and President Obama called for the government to rein in the Internet, and regulate it like a utility. Obviously, these developments have the potential to destroy everything that makes the Internet great.
The masses have spent the last 15 years ditching television, radio, and newspapers, and turning to the Internet for their news, because it offers an almost infinite number of opinions. Meanwhile, the mainstream media continues to wallow in lies and propaganda, as they pump a steady stream of bland and sterile entertainment into our homes. If the government has its way, in 20 years your computer will become nothing more than a television with a million channels. How novel?
The Internet has also radically changed commerce for the average person by giving small businesses an affordable way to sell their goods and services to the world, while giving customers an incredibly wide selection that would have never been available to them in brick-and-mortar stores, and shopping magazines. You can say goodbye to that as well. While Obama claims these measures are meant to prevent corporations from monopolizing the Internet, I think we all know better. Governments and corporations work hand in hand, and everything thing they touch turns into a monopoly. Somehow I doubt the mom-and-pop shops of the Internet will survive this regulation.
Oh well. I guess it’s time to pack it up guys. We had a really nice run, but I guess the bad guys won. The Internet as we know it dead. Hammer the last nail and shovel in the dirt. We’ll just have to go back to watching CNN and shopping at Walmart.
I’m kidding of course. Put the noose down and listen up folks. The free Internet isn’t going to disappear. It’s just going underground. Even in countries like China, dissidents and businessmen have found some pretty creative ways to work around their government’s strict censorship of the Internet. And people of Cuba have gone so far as to build their own Internet infrastructure, separate from the government’s overpriced service. Even Mexico’s drug cartels have built a sprawling clandestine communication system that allow them to evade and spy on the authorities.
The ingredients are all there for a new decentralized and secure Internet that is impossible for the government to regulate. It’s only a matter of time before people begin to put it together.
Just a couple of days ago, famed Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom announced his plans to build a new Internet service that will piggyback existing providers, and will likely use cell phones as the infrastructure. It will be anonymized with the same blockchain technology that has made Bitcoin so thoroughly difficult to hack.This is just the beginning. We already have all the tools at our disposal, it’s just a matter of time. And the more effort the government puts into censoring and dumbing down the Internet, the more they’ll push people into freer alternatives. The new decentralized Internet will grow in size, create more connections, become more user-friendly, and more affordable. It’s just how the world works. Whenever the government tries to restrict something that the people want, the free market will build them an underground alternative.
In short, this technological cat is out of the bag, and there’s no turning back. The people know what they want, and they’re not going back to the pre-Internet days. At least, not without a fight.
Let’s assume for moment that this hypothetical free Internet fails to take hold. Maybe the technology just isn’t there, or the government successfully stamps it out. In the long run, this may be the best thing that could happen to us. The Internet has woken up so many people to the truth. It’s given us the ability to communicate with each other like never before, and has allowed us to share ideas that we would have never heard of otherwise. But it may also be holding us back. It’s keeping us firmly planted in our seats, and in the comfort of our homes. It brings awareness to the problems of the world, but it may also be stifling real-world action.
Though it may be taken away, the truths we’ve learned cannot be removed from our minds. If we lose the freedoms the Internet has given us, then our only choice is to take action in the real world. If the government destroys the Internet as we know it, then free-minded people will have no choice but to voice their concerns in the real world. So, if our controllers succeed in their efforts to regulate the Internet, it may put the fire under our asses and drive us into the streets.
Your move G-man.
Joshua Krause is a reporter, writer and researcher at The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared. He was born and raised in the Bay Area and is a freelance writer and author. You can follow Joshua’s reports at Facebook or on his personal Twitter. Joshua’s website is Strange Danger .
Why the Free and Open Internet Is Never Going to Die
Activist
Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:20:00 GMT
DARPA Develops Implant With “Terminator” Vision: “Plugs directly into a person’s DNA and visual cortex”
Mac Slavo
Activist Post
For now, the technology is in “crude” form undergoing R&D through animal testing, specifically with the neural connections of a zebrafish.
In the longer term, DARPA researchers (the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) believe the gene modifying optical technology will be able to restore vision to the blind and impaired, and replaced current conceptions of virtual reality, with an internal display that will provide vital stats and more about the target, err, object in view.According to CNET, the DARPA boffins are reportedly working on a device known as a ‘cortical modem’ that plugs directly into a person’s DNA and visual cortex. Not only does this unique device help someone overcome blindness or poor eyesight, it generates a built-in heads-up display (HUD) that appears right in before their very eyes.The implants create an augmented reality projection that appears like magic in your natural vision and without the need for helmets or special eyeglasses. (source)The visual overlay could be developed, as in the Schwarzenegger Terminator films, like an automatic panel of information that meshes seamlessly with the real world, or it could integrate interactive Minority Report-style panels, but internally. Regardless, the implications are fantastic, and perhaps, unsettling.
Though it is hardly the first DARPA foray into brain implants, this technology represents a new breakthrough, as it requires modification to a person’s DNA, an application of optogenetics that bypasses our natural visual sensory system and makes use of what is, for now anyway, a simple $10 devices that produces the LED-like display:
“The implications of this project are astounding,” wrote Peter Rothman of Humanity+ Magazine, who was in attendance at the event. “First, this technology could be used to restore sensory function to individuals who simply can’t be treated with current approaches. Second, the device could replace all virtual reality and augmented reality displays.”“Bypassing the visual sensory system entirely, a cortical modem can directly display into the visual cortex enabling a sort of virtual overlay on the real world,” he added.“Moreover, the optogenetics approach allows both reading and writing of information. So we can imagine at least a device in which virtual objects appear well integrated into our perceived world.” (source)Researchers believe that, though still far from completion, this would make science fiction tech possible, even opening the door to telekinesis and telepathy:
The possibilities go even further, though, Rothman said. The cortical modem could potentially make electronic telepathy and telekinesis possible, and could make the neural interfaces made popular by science fiction writer’s a reality. Those advances are still a long way off, however, as the cortical modem in its current form is still, in Rothman’s words, a “crude” device.While it might be billed as an incredible cure for blindness, the implications for the military battlefield are immense.
As many dystopic films and futurists like Ray Kurzweil have long predicted, these neural implants, modifications and “upgrades” are ripe for the making of super-soldiers, capable of making human warriors more-human-than-human and capable of given autonomous robots and AI computers a lopsided advantage against conventional enemies in any conflict.
Before you daydream about the “cool” visions of the future to be, keep in mind that the computer geeks have once again warned that the rise of AI and nanotechnology literally threatens the survival of civilization. A Global Challenges Foundation report was concerned about the extinction of the human race and a coming mass unemployment of the human workforce:“Such extreme intelligences could not easily be controlled (either by the groups creating them, or by some international regulatory regime), and would probably act to boost their own intelligence and acquire maximal resources for almost all initial AI motivations,” suggest authors Dennis Pamlin and Stuart Armstrong.“And if these motivations do not detail the survival and value of humanity, the intelligence will be driven to construct a world without humans. This makes extremely intelligent AIs a unique risk, in that extinction is more likely than lesser impacts.”The report also warns of the risk that “economic collapse may follow from mass unemployment as humans are replaced by copyable human capital”, and expresses concern at the prospect of AI being used for warfare: “An AI arms race could result in AIs being constructed with pernicious goals or lack of safety precautions.”So what is closer on the horizon: the end of life as we know it, or the next big thing?
You can read more from Mac Slavo at his site SHTFplan.com, where this first appeared.
DARPA Develops Implant With “Terminator” Vision: “Plugs directly into a person’s DNA and visual cortex”
Activist
Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:52:00 GMT
EXPOSED: Viral Pro-Vaccine Campaign Tied to Big Pharma
Thursday, February 19, 2015
EXPOSED: Viral Pro-Vaccine Campaign Tied to Big Pharma
By Dan Dicks
It turns out that Jennifer Hibben-White who posted a viral Facebook post worried that her new born baby may have contracted the measles do to the "anti- vaxxers" has large ties to big pharma. In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth exposes the links that prove that this was nothing more than a marketing campaigned designed to counter the work of the so called "anti-vaxxers". It's also interesting that Facebook allows certain hate-filled rants to go viral while mere skepticism seems to be squashed.
Visit PressForTruth.ca
EXPOSED: Viral Pro-Vaccine Campaign Tied to Big Pharma
Activist Post
Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:03:00 GMT
Coming Soon: The Department of the Internet
Activist Post
Who opposes a free and open Internet? Answer: government. Who do activists beg to protect Internet freedom? Government.
Trusting the government to run the Internet is like trusting the NSA to never spy on Americans.
If the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet is so wonderful, why can't the American people read it before it goes into effect?
A new video by Project Internet Freedom highlights the absurd "solution" to a problem that doesn't exist.
Visit ProjectInternetFreedom.com
Coming Soon: The Department of the Internet
Activist Post
Wed, 18 Feb 2015 18:27:00 GMT
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
US to base four warships in Singapore as China flexes military muscles
US to base four warships in Singapore as China flexes military muscles
The four combat ships are designed to fight in coastal areas and represent further signs of America’s military tilt to Asia
Agence France-Presse
Tuesday 17 February 201522.11 ESTLast modified on Tuesday 17 February 201522.31 EST
Four US warships designed to fight in coastal areas similar to south-east Asian waters will operate out of Singapore by 2018, a senior US Navy official said Tuesday, further underscoring Washington’s military tilt to Asia.
The “rotational deployment” of the vessels, called littoral combat ships (LCS), comes as China continues to flex its muscles in the South China Sea and tensions remain on the Korean Peninsula.
“We will soon see up to four LCS here in Singapore as we rotationally deploy Seventh Fleet ships,” said Rear Admiral Charles Williams.
“We envision four ships here by May 2017 to sometime in 2018... but I think what you have is that by 2018, four LCS ships will be rotationally deployed here to Singapore.”
Williams, commander of the Seventh Fleet’s Task Force 73, was speaking to reporters aboard the USS Fort Worth, an LCS on a 16-month deployment to south-east Asia.
It replaced another LCS, the USS Freedom, which recently ended an eight-month tour of duty.
The USS Fort Worth is set to take part in exercise Foal Eagle, a joint military drill with South Korea from 24 February - 6 March.
It will also join regional navies in the annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training exercises and the International Maritime Defence Exhibition.
“The role of the US navy in both south-east Asia and north-east Asia is about presence. It’s about being where it matters when it matters,” Williams said.
Fast and agile, LCS vessels can be adapted for specific missions through a system of interchangeable modules and crew.
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The US Navy plans to build 52 LCS vessels at a total cost of $37 billion but the programme has become controversial due to cost inflation, design and construction issues.
In 2012 the then-US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that Washington would shift the bulk of its naval fleet to the Pacific by 2020 as part of a new strategic focus on Asia.
China is embroiled in a maritime dispute with four south-east Asian countries - Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam - as well as with Taiwan over territorial claims in the South China Sea.
While not a claimant, the United States has said it has an interest to ensure freedom of navigation in the area.
US to base four warships in Singapore as China flexes military muscles
Mikael Thalen
Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:43:16 GMT
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