"So the totality of humanity, with all of its biologic messiness, wasn't wanted. And to this machine-god, forgiveness just did not compute. Only cold retribution for the sins of the past." - Frakes, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
April 11, 2011–Roman Yampolskiy is Assistant Professor and Head of Cyber Security Lab at University of Louisville. In an article posted at Innovation News Daily, "Humanity Must 'Jail' Dangerous AI to Avoid Doom, Expert Says", Dr. Yampolskiy was quoted as warning: "..."If such software manages to self-improve to levels significantly beyond human-level intelligence, the type of damage it can do is truly beyond our ability to predict or fully comprehend,"
We catch up with him to talk about A.I. (artificial intelligence), cyberspace privacy and security, and why he believes that computers can outstrip human performance. As he tells us: "Very little is known about how to protect ourselves from such technologies." ~Randy Maugans
Source: NewWorldNextWeek.com, corbettreport.com, mediamonarchy.com Story #1: DHS/Navy Award Contract to Hack Gaming Systems
Spy Games - Homeland Security Is Trying to Hack Into Your Xbox
Feds Want Way to Hack Xboxes and Wiis for Evidence
"R & D Effort for the Development and Delivery of Computer Forensic Tools for Analyzing Network Traffic and Stored Data Created During the Use of Video Game Systems"
Background: Full Spectrum Information Warfare - Information Operation Roadmap
Flashback: PlayStation Network Hack Leaves Credit Card Info at Risk
Story #2: FBI Efforts Keep Whistleblower's Book Unpublished
FBI Attempts to Hold Sibel Edmonds' Book Hostage
Flashback: A Patriot Silenced, Unjustly Fired but Fighting Back to Help Keep America Safe
Story #3: Future Riots 'May Be' Controlled With Chemicals
Background: Sunshine Project - Online Clearinghouse of US 'Non-Lethal' Weapons Documents
Video: Alex Jones Loses It Over 'Robot Helicopters with Airborne Ebola'
Television Tropes and Idioms - Knockout Gas
Indonesia's Geophysical Agency says a fresh aftershock of 8.2 magnitude has hit off the Sumatra province of Aceh following an earlier 8.6 magnitude quake. A new tsunami warning has been issued. Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency is sending a rescue team to Aceh, after the quake knocked out the province's electricity and sent locals scrambling for higher ground, Reuters says.
Update: Warning center: "The threat has diminished or is over for most areas"
Jason Bermas talks the Military hacking game consoles and Beta Testing Drone technology on Pirates. He also discusses the DHS purchase of 450 Million rounds of hollow point ammunition and more in this latest Intel Hub News Brief.
Recently, the investigative journalist James Bamford wrote a report for Wired magazine about a spy center that is being built in America. This is a project of the National Security Agency and it's goal is the protection and safety of American citizens. All media and citizen in the world will be monitored. Is that security worth the loss of freedom?
Kevin Ryan, a former site manager for Environmental Health Laboratories and a whistleblower on Underwriters' Laboratories involvement in the discredited NIST report on the WTC destruction, joins us to discuss his latest article on the anomalous actions of the secret service on 911, and what it tells us about possible government foreknowledge of the attacks. ~James Corbett
Aztlán is the mythical ancestral home of the Nahua peoples, one of the main cultural groups in Mesoamerica and, by extension, is the mythical homeland of the Uto-Aztecan peoples. Aztec is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlan".
While Aztlán has many trappings of myth, similar to Tamoanchan, Chicomoztoc, Tollan and Cibola, archaeologists have nonetheless attempted to identify the geographic place of origin for the Mexica.
At the equinox of 2009 began the search for Aztlán in Ojuelos, Jalisco. The Nahui Ollin Association has found traces of a civilization that might be related to Aztlán.
Source: veritasradio.com, ComeBackAlive.comSynopsis
Robert Young Pelton is into extreme journalism. Extreme travels. Extreme conflict zones. So one might expect this media mercenary to have extreme political opinions. But he doesn't. His answers to Mel's questions are measured. Informed. Based upon total immersion observations. He treats America's history of self-serving behavior gently. He's rather gentle about everyone's behavior, in fact. Pelton's wild adventures seem to have bestowed a patient wisdom about mankind. Or maybe it was that horrid Canadian boys' school they sent him to as a child.
But whatever assembly of elements made this man who he is, it is utterly refreshing to gain perspective of geo-political realities from an intelligent world traveler uncompromised by allegiance to any one cause or country.
Pelton's Veritas discussion -- he's on the phone from Nairobi, on his way to Somalia -- touches upon realities on the ground in Egypt, Syria, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Equatorial Guinea, South Africa, Turkey, Israel, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan...He talks about Russia's history in Afghanistan, China in Africa, the African Union in theory and practice, North Korea, Cuba, Georgia, Chechnya, Venezuela, the EU, Bin Laden, 9-11, Obama, Clinton, the shrubs...This man packs a productive semester of information into two quick hours.
Despite his wealth of first hand knowledge, Pelton calls himself the world's worst expert on the U.S. government. "I don't know why they do what they do."
Source: redicecreations.com April 5, 2012–Mike Cross, author of Freedom from Conscience - Melanie's Journey discusses psychopaths and their relation to politics, society and personal relationships. Mike, a former Oregonian now a resident of Stockholm, teaches psychology and international finance.
We begin the first hour commenting on the Nordic model of government and society. Mike talks about how conformity within a society is an ideal system for the psychopath.
We'll also discuss how a "reverse Freud" is used to overthrow tradition and create revolution. Then, we'll discuss repression within a society, which creates a sort of schizophrenia. Later, Mike tells us about the psychopath within government. He compares the politician's psychopathy to arrested development. ~Red Ice Creations
Source: coasttocoastam.com, espresearch.com April 4, 2012–Writer and physicist Russell Targ discussed his involvement in creating the Remote Viewing program at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) during the Cold War, as well as various remote viewing applications and experiments. After two decades of research at SRI, they demonstrated that ordinary people visiting their laboratory could learn to accurately describe and experience what was going on at distant places, and that in fact, with practice most people can learn to "remote view."
After learning the skill from psychic Ingo Swann, he and Hal Puthoff trained a team of Army Intelligence officers in the 1970s, and under a classified program, they were given directives by the CIA to find and gather information on operational targets, particularly about the Soviets. They also looked at the Chinese, atomic bomb tests, and the American hostages in Iran. Interestingly, during this time the Russians were interested in remote behavior modification, such as getting an American leader to misspeak, but it was unknown how successful they were in that regard, he reported. While providing their findings to the government who was funding the program, Targ was also able to publish his research about the validity of ESP in peer journals, though at the time they had to keep the military involvement a secret.
A remote viewing experiment was conducted by Targ on the air. He placed an object behind him on a chair, and asked listeners to sketch what they saw in their mind on paper, without being analytical or naming it at first. It turned out to be a globe of the world placed on a tall, conical wooden pedestal, and several people emailed somewhat accurate descriptions of it before Russell announced what it was.
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