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December 28th, 2018

12/28/2018

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We will end a segue into next week's discussion of CRIME BILL/SAFE COMMUNITY policies reminding our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE just who will fall under this global policing and security structure------and it will be those ever-increasing 99% of citizens pushed to unemployment-----unable to access safety net programs -----unable to access retirement and savings accounts-----as SS, SS DISABILITY, MEDICARE.


REAL left social progressives do not discuss the rise in people on disability because we think people on disability are BAD. Global banking 1% and their 5% freemason/Greek players are deliberately creating ECONOMIC and DEVELOPMENT policies geared to throw all US 99% black, white, and brown citizens into a deep impoverishment status.


So, we educate often our 99% of young and mid-age adults being pushed to these DISABILITY programs in order to have an income----please work to get off these programs and back to employment. Left social progressives work to install FUNCTIONING ECONOMIES------with goals of REAL FULL EMPLOYMENT.



THAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT IS MOVING FORWARD.

We want to remind people that UNEMPLOYMENT stats also do not include a tremendous number of citizens being rotated through constant JOB TRAINING classes-----our global labor pool 99% getting many of those jobs actually created are not reported as UNEMPLOYED when they lose a job.


Medicare solvent until 2030, Social Security until 2033


Published 12:15 PM ET Mon, 28 July 2014 Updated 1:33 PM ET Mon, 28 July 2014 Reuters



Slower growth in U.S. healthcare spending and expected savings from Obamacare are shoring up the funding outlook for the federal Medicare program that covers the hospital bills of the elderly, trustees of the program said on Monday.


The program's trust fund for hospital care will run out of money in 2030, four years later than previously estimated, the trustees said in a report. When the fund runs dry, Washington would only be able to partially cover its obligations.

THERE IS NO INTENT OF MAKING PARTIAL PAYMENTS IN THESE PROGRAMS---THESE PROGRAMS WILL END IN 2030S.


The trustees said the fund would last longer than previously thought because ``expenditures in 2013 were significantly lower than the previous estimate.'' They said changes to Medicare under President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul appeared to be creating "substantial savings.''


At the same time, trustees for the country's Social Security program repeated their warning that Washington would run out of the money needed to fully pay disability benefits by 2016.
At a news conference, the trustees called for congressional action to address both Medicare and Social Security.


"Both of these vitally important programs are fiscally unsustainable over the long run and will require legislative intervention to correct,'' said trustee Robert Reischauer.

"The sooner the policymakers address these challenges, the less disruptive the unavoidable adjustments will be ... The sooner the lawmakers act, the broader will be the array of policy options that they can consider.''


Added sole Republican trustee Charles Blahous: "It's getting very late in the game to forge a bipartisan compromise to sustain Social Security's finances.''

LET'S SEE----A FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1% CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA SS TRUSTEE-----WORRIED ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY?


Charles Paul "Chuck" Blahous III is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution,  


OH, REALLY???  STANFORD AND HOOVER INSTITUTION HAS WANTED TO END THESE TRUSTS ALL LAST CENTURY.



The report's conclusions largely mirrored those made earlier this month by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which also pushed back to 2030 its projection of when Medicare's main trust fund would be exhausted.



Depletion of the Medicare and Social Security trust funds does not mean that all benefits would stop. At the current rate of payroll tax collections, Medicare would be able to pay about 85 percent of costs in 2030, declining to 75 percent by 2050.


Social Security would be able to pay about 80 percent of disability benefits starting in "late 2016,'' the Treasury Department said in a statement. In 2033, the Social Security program would only have money to cover about three-quarters of the pensions that it pays, Treasury said.

GLOBAL BANKING 1% WILL NOT BE PAYING 80% OR 75% OR 60% ----

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The second condition fueling safety and crime tied to global banking 1% MASTER PLAN of US CITIES AS FAILED STATES these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA----is what we discuss often----hundreds of thousands of people forced into a black market economy because they cannot get a job----they cannot get a job paying a LIVING WAGE---or offering a QUALITY OF LIFE. Let's face it----most people DO NOT want to be charity cases. Baltimore City has seen these crime stats around SHOOTING/DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE for several decades-----we see the same level of violence today -----300 deaths from violence------hundreds wounded. How do we FIX BALTIMORE and its crime?


Global banking 1% want our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE whether in counties or cities to think getting rid of poor people is the solution to community crime and violence. For those US 99% black, white, and brown citizens still employed---being told they were not LEFT BEHIND ------if we allow the solution to these deep poverty issues become SENDING THOSE POOR AWAY-----then without a doubt it will become this family, that family, those families, OUR FAMILIES. The goals of MOVING FORWARD is taking down all US 99% WE THE PEOPLE---no population group will WIN.



The solution to Baltimore's crime and violence several decades ago was REBUILD A LOCAL DOMESTIC SMALL AND REGIONAL BUSINESS ECONOMY after those manufacturing and technology corporations were pushed to OVERSEAS FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES. That was the solution then---this is the solution NOW. PLEASE DO NOT FALL FOR THINKING THESE POLICING/SECURITY POLICIES WILL ONLY EFFECT THIS/THAT POPULATION GROUP.



So, Baltimore does have communities with SAFETY AND CRIME issues. Those are the same communities allowed to DECAY because the MASTER PLAN was always to rebuild after ROBBER BARON sacking and looting of America-----taking those communities to being GLOBAL CORPORATE CAMPUS/GLOBAL FACTORIES/INDUSTRIAL SITES. No 'communities' being built in MOVING FORWARD BALTIMORE.



CEASE FIRE is a fine slogan------but it is not backed by REAL 99% WE THE PEOPLE economic and development policies so, it will be unlikely a CEASE FIRE will occur.

It's easy to blame our poor citizens until all US 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens ARE those POOR PEOPLE.



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Three Wounded Friday In Two Baltimore Shootings: Police


Shootings occur Friday afternoon on the east and west sides of Baltimore, wounding three people, say police.

By Chris Gaudet, Patch Staff | Nov 24, 2018 2:38 pm ET


BALTIMORE, MD — Baltimore police detectives are investigating a pair of shootings on Friday afternoon that occurred within 20 minutes of each other. Three people were wounded in the two shootings, according to a police report.


At about 1:38 p.m. Friday, police officers heard gunshots while patrolling an area near East 20th Street, the report stated.


They began searching the area and found a woman in the 1000 block of East 20th Street, suffering from a gunshot wound to the arm. She was taken to a local hospital for treatment, the police said.


At about 1:54 p.m. Friday, in the other end of town, officers were dispatched to a shooting reported at the intersection of West Baltimore Street and Carey Street.
When they arrived, they spotted a man in the 1200 block of West Baltimore Street who was "suffering from a non-life threatening gunshot wound," the police said in a report. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment.


Another shooting victim, also an unidentified man, walked into a local hospital seeking treatment for a gunshot wound to the leg. Police detectives "determined the second victim was shot at the Baltimore Street incident," the police said.


Anyone with information on these two shootings is urged to call the Baltimore Police Department's Citywide Shooting detectives at 410-396-2221.


Those who wish to remain anonymous can call the Metro Crime Stoppers tip line at 1-866-7LOCKUP (1-866-756-2587). You can also submit a tip by texting 443-902-4824.

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When we establish a BALTIMORE CITY STAT -----which we discuss often as never having PUBLIC INTEREST as a goal-----and we look at a map like this -----please think about global banking 1% FAKE DATA------FAKE NEWS-----filling all of our US county/city media outlets and global NGOS ------we do not want to lessen the existence of REAL violent crime and death---we KNOW that what is being reported is being JUKED.......some call it FALSE FLAGS-----some call it global banking 5% freemason/Greek FAKE CIVIL UNREST CIVIL WAR players creating acts of riot and violence-----but the goals of MOVING FORWARD are to install a massive network of DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE surveillance and security and to install MARTIAL LAW-----far-right wing, authoritarian, militaristic, extreme wealth extreme poverty GLOBAL MILITARY JUNTA.

The goals are to end GUN OWNERSHIP--------whether folks think that is good or bad-----the goals are to create environments of fear, intimidation, making our US citizens paranoid of our neighbors, family members, friends.  THAT IS WHAT FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL CORPORATE HITLER, STALIN, MAO FASCISM looks like.

We are not GUN people but we KNOW the crime and violence stats.......if someone wants to kill another person ----they will do it whether they have a gun or not.  So, the problem is the attack upon our strong US civil society-----not people owning guns.




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What is happening in those US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES made FAILED STATES?  Well, decades of gang freemasonry tied to drugs and guns still existing today are still at it-------AND there is a whole lot of FAKE CIVIL UNREST CIVIL WAR led by 5% freemason/Greek players happening.


REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES ARE SHOUTING TO OUR US CITY GANG-BANGERS-------CEASE FIRE IS NOT A BAD SLOGAN.  WORSE TIMES ARE MOVING FORWARD.  MAKE A CHANGE.


Chicago violence: At least 21 people were shot Monday in the
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www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/us/chicago-shootings...

On Monday, at least 21 people were shot in Chicago. Two of them -- including a teenager -- were killed.



Chicago shootings in one weekend: 66 shot, 12 fatally, police
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www.cnn.com/2018/08/05/us/chicago-weekend-shootings


Chicago police records show 44 people were shot on Sunday, including five who were killed. In three hours beginning at 1:30 a.m., records show, 30 were shot and two killed in 10 incidents.


Craig vows response to bloody holiday weekend

James David Dickson and George Hunter, The Detroit News Published 9:33 a.m. ET May 29, 2018 | Updated 12:05 a.m. ET May 30, 2018



Detroit — Police Chief James Craig vowed to respond Tuesday after a wave of mostly gun-related violence left nine people dead over the Memorial Day weekend.
Eight people were fatally shot during the holiday weekend, while a ninth person died of blunt-force trauma.



Craig said he's mapping out a strategy to prevent such an outbreak from reoccurring.


"We've seen an overall decline in violent crime, but this weekend was clearly troubling," he said. "We are developing another strategy to combat this. If anybody wants to come downtown and create problems, we will respond."


Six of the eight shootings took place on the city's west side; two of the shootings and the blunt force trauma death happened on the east side. In only one of the nine deaths was a suspect immediately detained.


While there were more killings during the four-day period than most weekends in Detroit, it wasn't markedly higher than previous Memorial Day periods. During last year's four-day weekend from Friday to Memorial Day, there were six homicides; there were three during the 2016 holiday period, and seven in 2015.


By comparison, the Chicago Tribune reported that 39 people were shot over the long Memorial Day holiday there — seven fatally.



Although some studies have suggested warmer weather makes people more violent, higher temperatures don’t appear to have had a marked impact on homicides in Detroit last year. In 2017, the highest number of killings occurred in March, when there were 32. The second-highest number of homicides was in August, when there were 30.


Of the six warm-weather months last year, May through October, there were 152 homicides, which was 56 percent of the 267 total — not a dramatic difference from the colder months.



Homicides are still down year-over-year in Detroit. To this point in 2018, 98 people have been killed in Detroit, compared with 107 in 2017 and 116 in 2016, said Sgt. Nicole Kirkwood, head of the public information office.
Still, the number of killings during the four-day 2018 Memorial Day period represent a huge jump over last weekend, when there were only two homicides from May 18 through May 21, according to online Detroit police crime data.



Just after midnight Tuesday, four people were hit in a shootout in Greektown, and three of them were left in critical condition.


 Craig said part of his strategy to address crime downtown will be to meet with business owners.


"There have been some businesses that have been troubled locations, and we'll sit down with them," he said. "Basically, we want to set a tone of not tolerating this kind of violent behavior."


Detroit police recently addressed crime near three "problem spots" downtown: The Bleu Club, the Annex and St. Brigids Bathtub Pub, all of which were sanctioned last month for various violations, including selling alcohol to minors and operating without a license. From January through April, police had been called 49 times to address problems at the three clubs.
Craig said he was satisfied with the number of officers deployed downtown during the holiday weekend.



"There was no problem with the staffing," he said. "It wasn't a matter of us not responding quickly to these incidents; in both cases, our officers were on the scene within seconds. I think we just need a more focused approach so that people who create problems will be addressed sooner instead of later."



The quadruple shooting in Greektown also comes after a string of high-profile violent incidents in the neighborhood last year, including an April 16, 2017, brawl that was captured on video and a triple shooting in June outside a parked party bus.



This weekend's violence started early Saturday morning, less than an hour after midnight when a 38-year-old woman was killed on the 5400 block of Seneca, which is south of Gratiot and east of Van Dyke. 
Saturday at 2:30 p.m., on the 1300 block of Ethel, a black male, believed to be in his mid-20s, was fatally shot in his head in a drive-by.



The victim was sitting in his gray Dodge Charger when a black vehicle pulled up alongside, and someone inside the vehicle fired multiple shots. The black vehicle was last seen headed south on Ethel toward Schaefer, said Dontae Freeman, a Detroit Police Department spokesman.



Saturday, just before 9 p.m. at El Capri Lounge on the 1600 block of East Grand Boulevard, police were called to the scene of a bar owner's death.


Surveillance video recovered from the bar shows a suspect enter the building, climb over the bar and toward the office, where the victim was found. The entry to the bar triggered its alarm, and the owner responded to that alarm.


By the time police reached the victim, he was dead. Authorities identified him as 60-year-old Michael Webb.
About 12:30 a.m. Sunday, a 38-year-old man was gunned down at a block party on the 2000 block of Dearing, which is south of East Davison and east of Dequindre.
The man had been at a party when shots were fired, hitting him multiple times. After being privately conveyed to an area hospital, the victim died.



Five more people were killed in separate shootings Monday.
At midnight, on the 9900 block of Freeland — south of Plymouth, west of Schaefer — a black male believed to be about 20 years old was found in the middle of the street, dead from multiple gunshot wounds.


At 8 a.m. on Memorial Day, an 18-year-old black male was shot in the head on the 15700 block of Mansfield, which is north of Fenkell and west of Greenfield. 
A witness in the area reported hearing shots fired and saw someone trying to flee the area before police arrived. 



When police arrived at the scene, they found the victim dead. An 18-year-old man was detained for questioning.


About 90 minutes later, on the 9600 block of the Southfield Freeway Service Drive just south of Interstate 96, a 30-year-old man was found with a gunshot wound to the chest. Medics arrived, but the man died at the scene.

Monday at 4:10 p.m., in the area of Greenfield and Schoolcraft, a 30-year-old black male was driving a passenger in a Chevy SUV. The two then got into an altercation with someone inside an unknown vehicle who fired multiple shots, hitting the driver multiple times. 


The victim tried to drive away from the scene but had to stop on the 16000 block of Grand River. By the time medics arrived, the 30-year-old man was dead. 



The witness has refused to cooperate.
The last fatal shooting of the three-day weekend happened about 10 minutes before midnight, on the 15700 block of Carlisle, which is south of East Eight Mile and east of Gratiot on the city's east side.


The victim is a 32-year-old man who was shot multiple times while sitting on his couch.


Police believe that the suspect, described only as a black male wearing dark-colored clothes, a red hat, and carrying an assault rifle, shot through the home's front door, fatally striking the victim, who was declared dead at the scene.

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As global banking 1% try to completely kill our US civil society-------when we look a crime and violence----public safety we do not want to forget our FAMILY PETS. No doubt there are dogs tied to DRUG houses trained to attack. No doubt our police officers are indeed in danger or threatened. What we are seeing as global banking 1% installs global military/security policing ignoring CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS/PROPERTY RIGHTS and being trained to be AGGRESSIVE AND INTIMIDATING ----is the fact that MOST drug raids are left EMPTY. FALSE ALARMS ending with families frightened and as we see below ------pets as VICTIMS.



Somehow through last century we were able to have law enforcement take the time to handle these investigations with stake outs----waiting for evidence------respecting the rights of property owners when entering homes-----we are watching as MOVING FORWARD is dismantling these CIVIL LIBERTIES AND RIGHTS-----often with goals of intimidation and fear.

Our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE do not want LAWSUITS-----we want a rebuilding of our strong US public safety and justice agencies and courts.

Detroit Police Shot 54 Dogs Last Year—Twice as Many as Chicago


More than a third of those shootings were by a narcotics unit at the center of several civil rights lawsuits.

C.J. Ciaramella|Sep. 4, 2018 2:45 pm


Detroit police officers shot 54 dogs last year, according to public records obtained by Reason. That's a marked increase over the number reported by the department in 2016 and 2015, and more than twice as many as Chicago, a city with roughly 2 million more people.


The rise occurred at the same time Detroit is trying to fend off lawsuits from residents who say police wantonly killed their dogs during drug raids. Such incidents, given the grim moniker "puppycide," regularly make local and national headlines across the country, and in recent years they've cost cities hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal settlements.
In response, several states have passed laws mandating new training, and police departments have begun teaching officers how to properly read canine behavior. Chicago police, for instance, shot 24 dogs last year, according to the Chicago Tribune. The number of dogs shot by Chicago police has been steadily falling—67 percent over the past three years, the city says—and officials attribute it to better training.



Detroit, meanwhile, went from 25 dog shootings in 2015 to more than twice that in 2017, although several reports were missing from previous records provided by the city.



There are, of course, vast differences between cash-strapped Detroit and other major U.S. cities. In 23 of those shootings, Detroit police were responding to reports of aggressive dogs running loose on the street, sometimes menacing and attacking residents.

According to city data, Detroit's 911 service received 5,999 animal complaints and vicious animal reports in 2017. In one case, a police officer saved a child who was being mauled by two pit bulls. Officers sometimes tried to lure dogs with food and treats or use a control stick, according to police reports. In others, they waited in vain for animal control before taking the situation into their own hands.



But more than one-third of those dog shootings involved a Detroit narcotics unit that has been at the center of numerous media reports and costly lawsuits.
A 2016 Reason investigation found that the Detroit Police Department's Major Violators Unit, which conducts hundreds of drug raids a year in the city, had a nasty habit of leaving dead dogs in its wake.


One officer had killed 69 dogs over the course of his career, public records showed. That officer has now shot 80 dogs, according to "destruction of animal" reports filed by Detroit police officers in 2017 and obtained by Reason.


Of the 54 dogs destroyed by the department in 2017, 19 were killed during drug raids conducted by the Major Violators Unit. That's more animal shootings than the entire Los Angeles Police Department performed—14 total—in 2016, the latest year for which summary statistics of LAPD use-of-force incidents are available.


The Major Violators Unit was responsible for an April 26, 2017, narcotics raid on Detroit resident Renee Attles' house that ended with her pit bull being shot dead. Speaking to a local television news channel, Attles said the police stormed into her home and killed her dog during a wrong-house drug raid:


"I am so hurt," said Renee Attles. "You all you don't understand, I am so freaking hurt. That was my dog."
Renee Attles says she ran out to her sister's car to decide where they were going to celebrate their deceased mother's birthday. All of a sudden Detroit police stormed her Ryan Street home.


"I said what do you want," she said. "They handcuffed me and her sister at her car before we even got right there. All I heard was pop, pop, pow. Just like that. I told them let me get my dog."


The only drug confiscated from the scene was a small bottle of Attles' medical marijuana.
Another destruction of animal report shows that several hours earlier that same day, the same Major Violators Unit crew executed another narcotics search warrant on a house a mile and a half away and shot another pitbull. Again, the only drug recovered was marijuana.


This February, the Detroit City Council approved a $225,000 settlement to Kenneth Savage and Ashley Franklin. The couple filed a federal civil rights lawsuit last July against the city and several Detroit police officers, alleging the officers shot Savage and Franklin's three dogs while the animals were enclosed behind an 8-foot-tall fence—all so the officers could confiscate several potted marijuana plants in the backyard.



In 2015, the city of Detroit approved a $100,000 settlement to a man after police shot his dog while it was securely chained to a fence.


Two other federal civil rights lawsuits stemming from Detroit drug raids are currently being considered by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. In one, Detroit resident Nikita Smith alleges that narcotics officers shot her three pitbulls, including one that was secured behind a bathroom door. Smith was initially charged with a marijuana offense, but the charges were dismissed when police failed to appear at her court hearing.



In the second lawsuit, Nicole Motyka and Joel Castro say narcotics officers raided their house and shot two of their pitbulls, despite the dogs being behind a barrier in the kitchen. The officers found 26 marijuana plants inside, which shouldn't have been a surprise. Castro was a state-licensed medical marijuana caregiver. Marijuana charges against the couple were later dropped.


"I don't want anything to do with the Detroit police anymore," Motyka told Reason in an interview. "You grow up being taught these are the people you're supposed to trust, and then they come in and kill your family. I have no love for them. None. They probably sleep well at night. We don't."


To try and combat these lawsuits, the city of Detroit has adopted the novel legal argument that, if a dog is unlicensed, as in Smith's case, it is considered "contraband" and not protected from unreasonable police seizure—read: killing—under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.



Two lower federal judges have come to opposite conclusions on the issue. One dismissed Smith's case, ruling that her unlicensed dogs amounted to contraband. The other federal judge rejected Detroit's argument in Motyka's lawsuit and ruled that the couple's unlicensed dog was still legitimate property.



The Sixth Circuit Court now has the unenviable task of determining whether a pet's property status lies in its owner's compliance with city regulations, and if that means a police officer can shoot it with impunity.


The Detroit Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. However, in an interview last March with a local news channel, Detroit Police Assistant Chief James White defended the department from charges that it is needlessly shooting dogs.



"This isn't Fluffy the family pet in many instances," White told the news station. "Door comes off the hinges. There's pandemonium. People are running. Perpetrator, in many instances, has a weapon himself, can start shooting. Sometimes the dog is used as a tactic to get the advantage over the officers, and I just don't think it would be acceptable to an officer to put their life at risk to try to stop a dog from attacking them during a drug raid."


Officers were found in compliance with department regulations in every single destruction of animal report reviewed by Reason.


As I've written several times, better police training on how to read dogs' body language would help in some cases, but these stories will inevitably continue as long as the Detroit police continue to perform aggressive drug raids on a daily basis.

The lawsuits will inevitably continue, too.

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HUNGARY is of course that former USSR satellite and is indeed MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE -----far-right wing, authoritarian, militaristic, extreme wealth extreme poverty LIBERTARIAN MARXISM as here in US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES-----that good old global banking 1% corporate HITLER/STALIN/MAO fascism........
AKA-----YOU 99% ARE ENSLAVED.
Now, last century's overseas FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES in Asia allowed for a merely rich small percentage of professional workers because they wanted people able to be CONSUMERS. MOVING FORWARD inside these Asian, Arabic, African as well as our Eastern/Western Europe/UK/THE AMERICAS ------has global banking 1% ENDING consumption by the 99% of people building a ONE WORLD ECONOMY for only the global 1% and their consumption.
There may be a global 2% able to capture some wealth these few decades ---but the goals of global 1% are to end consumption by ending the ability of all 99% to access MONEY.
So, what THE NATION is reporting here in HUNGARY is simply MOVING FORWARD bringing those Eastern block nations back to being USSR------under a PUTIN LIBERTARIAN MARXISM.

Oh, you mean MOVING FORWARD here in US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES!--------same thing.


 YES, THAT MEANS THOSE 99% OF WE THE RUSSIAN CITIZENS AS WELL.


THE NATION is far-right wing global banking 1% CLINTON NEO-LIBERAL media outlet-----they are not LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE so these articles are not REAL INFORMATION...........

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.........Well CITIZENS OVERSIGHT MARYLAND and REAL left social progressive Democrats have been writing about a coming TRUMP since 1990s. Predicting TRUMP/PENCE----was easy peasy.

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Hungary’s ‘Slave Law’ Has Sparked Nationwide ProtestsNew legislation allows businesses to impose a massive amount of overtime on workers—and citizens are furious.By Jordan StancilDecember 21, 2018


Hungarians take part in a protest against the proposed new labor law in Budapest, December 16, 2018. (Reuters / Bernadett Szabo)
The first time I talked with Botond Doszpoly, in early April, he was running for a seat in the Hungarian parliament in the eastern city of Miskolc on the ticket of a small green party with the hopeful name Politics Can Be Different. Doszpoly, back then, was very sure of one thing: He wasn’t interested in cooperating with the Socialists, whom he called Hungary’s “biggest problem.”
But when I spoke with Doszpoly this week, his tune had changed. Now the biggest problem was getting people into the streets to protest Hungary’s authoritarian leader, Viktor Orbán. What’s happening in Hungary now, he said, shows that “guys can have a very different view of things but can go together to the street without wanting to eat each other.” And people have been in the street for the past week now—as many as 15,000 in Budapest, with smaller contingents in numerous cities all around Hungary.
A shift like Doszpoly’s is an example of why opposition leaders and activists are sensing new possibilities in Hungary, as a new protest movement seems to be building against Orbán and his Fidesz party. In Orbán’s “illiberal democracy,” as he proudly calls it, opposition parties are allowed to operate, but the system is transparently rigged against them. Building an illiberal democracy has been made easier for Orbán by infighting among the opposition parties, which is why any new sign of cooperation across parties makes observers of Hungary wonder if something big could be afoot.
The current protests erupted on December 12, when a group of parliamentarians from across the political spectrum tried to filibuster a legal change that opponents say would allow Fidesz to enhance its already-impressive manipulation of elections, as well as a bill that would increase from 250 to 400 the number of annual overtime hours businesses can “ask” their employees to work.
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Critics have termed this second bill “the slave law,” and it seems to have galvanized Orbán’s opponents in a way nothing else could so far, in part because the government tried to sell the law by arguing that it would help relieve purported labor shortages in Hungary’s big auto factories. These factories are, truth be told, German auto factories located in Hungary, where the going rate for labor just happens to be significantly lower than it is in places like Bavaria. This has allowed some protesters to turn Orbán’s nationalism against him: He claims to defend Hungary, but he’s really making you work overtime for the Germans. “Rumors are spreading all around the country that this is the reason for the law,” Andras Pulai, a pollster with Publicus Research in Budapest, told me.
László Andor, an economist close to the Socialist Party and a former European Commissioner, told me that the slave law, an attempt to deal with a labor shortage by getting the current labor force to work more hours, is the logical outcome of Orbán’s broken labor-market policies, which have featured anti-union measures that have “facilitated wage stagnation and boosted emigration.” Andor thinks the slave law runs afoul of the EU Working Time Directive anyway, but rather than waiting to get it overturned in court, “apparently for trade unions, like for many others in Hungary, this was the last drop in the glass, and anti-Orbán emotions have erupted.”
Those emotions have demonstrators feeling excited but also unsure that they can successfully keep the government under pressure. Ambrus Halász, an activist and former communications director for Politics Can Be Different, told me that “the most important thing” about the rallies he attended in Budapest was that the protesters “accepted all the speakers: There were liberals, greens, conservatives, socialists, and people were applauding for the [far-right] Jobbik speaker as well, which couldn’t have happened one or two years ago.” For the first time, the main thing was unity against Fidesz, but Halász said he was “afraid of the opposition parties’ ability to keep this topic alive.”

Keeping it alive might depend on drawing the previously apathetic into the streets. Whether that is happening is not clear yet. Doszpoly, in Miskolc, told me he doesn’t think he’s seeing anybody beyond the hard-core base of activists, the true believers who always show up. But many observers have noted their surprise that protests, after starting in Budapest, have also broken out in a number of provincial cities. Adam Sanyo, a data analyst and opposition activist based in Budapest, told me that even his conservative hometown, the eastern city of Debrecen, a Fidesz stronghold, had seen demonstrations and that some of his friends “who have never been ‘political’ have been getting in touch asking [him] for tips about protests, like how to deal with tear gas.” (Sanyo said he tells the novitiates “to stay in the back” their first few times on the street.)
Pulai, the pollster, argues that “what’s most important is that the public see unity and that Orbán has to respond, which might change the attitude of people watching,” even if they don’t participate. He tells me “the Hungarian opposition has reached a milestone because the voters are listening to them now, adding to the credibility of these leaders.”

FOLKS, THESE ARE NOT OPPOSITION LEADERS---THEY ARE MORE GLOBAL BANKING 5% PLAYERS AS FAKE 99% POPULIST LEADERS.

To understand why these protests could be a milestone, it’s important to know a bit about how Hungary got into this mess in the first place. In fact, the last time public anger really boiled over in the country was in 2006, but the object of that anger was the then-ruling Socialist Party, whose leader, Ferenc Gyurcsány, was recorded telling a party meeting in a rambling, unhinged, and profanity-laced speech that of course he had lied about the country’s real economic condition in order to stay in office. As protests have now broken out against “the slave law,” back then they broke out over what everyone in Hungary calls “the lie speech.” The lie speech destroyed the credibility of the left in Hungary, and the global financial crisis two years later, during the government of Gyurcsány’s successor, the charisma-poor technocrat Gordon Bajnai, didn’t exactly help.
Orbán’s Fidesz party was the beneficiary of all this, coming back into power after the 2010 elections. So far, so good—but from that point on, Fidesz slowly but surely chipped away at the institutional foundations of democracy to make it nearly impossible for it ever again to be voted out of office. Orbán’s project was made all the easier by the opposition’s very obliging tendency to remain both fractured and unstable, with no clear, strong leaders emerging anywhere else on the political spectrum. The current protest movement still hasn’t produced a charismatic single figure for opponents of Fidesz to rally around.

This recent history has been interlaced with a deeper skepticism in Hungary about democracy and a suspicion that maybe not much good really comes of it anyway. I asked Gergely Karácsony, the Dialogue party candidate for prime minister in the last national election, about this. Karácsony had just given an important address, one day before the election, but had not said anything about the threat Fidesz poses to democracy. I asked him why he hadn’t. Karácsony replied: “You will never win votes in Hungary campaigning on democracy. Democratic periods in Hungary were always very short and followed by problems. And by 2010, democracy was perceived as a failure here.” Karácsony argued that his campaign needed to focus on concrete issues and social justice instead. Indeed, the so-called slave law has seemed to motivate the protesters more than the other bills at issue. After all, technical judicial matters can’t focus the mind the way extra overtime work can, in Hungary or any other country. But the shallowness of democratic experience in Hungary is clearly an important backdrop to Orbán’s project, and it’s hard to imagine a top-of-the-ticket politician in countries further west making these kinds of comments about democracy.
But Bernadett Szél, an independent member of parliament who was the prime-minister candidate for Politics Can Be Different in the last election, told me that the popular mood in Hungary might now be changing, that maybe Orbán has overreached this time. “They have two-thirds of the seats, but without having two-thirds of the votes,” she said, alluding to the egregious gerrymandering that has benefited Fidesz. “And people are starting to see that the game is rigged.”

SORRY, SZEL IS A FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING PLAYER AS WELL-----NOT INDEPENDENT.



Szél’s optimism is supported by the most recent poll, released December 20 by Publicus Research for the newspaper Népszava. Sixty-six percent of the respondents—and even 38 percent of Fidesz voters—said they supported the protesters.
More rallies are planned in the upcoming days, including a demonstration in Budapest on New Year’s Eve and labor walkouts in mid-January. Clearly, the opposition isn’t finished yet; but this also isn’t the first time Orbán has faced a challenge from the street. The 2014 protests against a tax on Internet usage were successful in getting the tax repealed, but did nothing to stop Orbán’s consolidation of power. Orbán has shown that he knows how to lose a battle while still winning the war.

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Next week we will discuss in detail these two bills being pushed through US CONGRESS by global banking 1% CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA neo-liberals neo-cons.

It's no coincidence these bill originate in very BUSH NEO-CON states tied to HOMELAND SECURITY ----with goals of building FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE global military and policing structures in a FIRST WORLD FREE DEMOCRATIC NATION when these several decades these structures were built in third world undeveloped nations.

We often remind our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE of goals in US cities deemed FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE development.  All those low-income and decayed communities left undeveloped for decades are to become GLOBAL CORPORATE CAMPUSES/FACTORIES.  There is no intent of having 'COMMUNITIES'-----there will be housing for workers tied to corporations with a steady stream of global labor pool 99% moving in and out.  These will not be AMERICAN COMMUNITIES.

We notice the people promoting all this CRIME-FIGHTING are the same global banking 5% freemason/Greek players having brought these few decades of ROBBER BARON massive and systemic frauds sacking and looting our government coffers and our 99% PEOPLE'S POCKETS.  So, none of all this CRIME-FIGHTING infrastructure is aimed at the CRIMES at the top.





'Help Communities Fight Violent Crime Act'.



H.R.1616 - Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime Fighting Act of 2017


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Sponsor: Rep. Ratcliffe, John [R-TX-4]

(Introduced 03/17/2017) Committees: House - Judiciary; Homeland Security | Senate - Judiciary Latest Action: 11/02/2017 Became Public Law No: 115-76. (TXT | PDF)  (All Actions) Roll Call Votes: There has been 1 roll call vote


So, yes our US cities have been allowed to decay filling with black market economies-----yes, we all want those communities made CIVIL.  As SMART CITIES makes more and more and more citizens UNEMPLOYED----as global banking 1% make all jobs FREE LABOR breaking down our developed nation wages to third world levels-----that structure will bring higher levels of people pushed into black market trying to survive---and those people will be all of our 99% WE THE PEOPLE----black, white, and brown citizens.
Thinking that a community is made SAFE by very, very DEEP DEEP REALLY DEEP STATE policing and security ----is to kill every freedom, liberty, justice structure installed in our US 300 year history.



Below we see an article written by BROOKINGS INSTITUTE-----yes, that is the global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS CLINTON NEO-LIBERAL THINK TANK-----and THE URBAN INSTITUTE also controlled by global banking 1% central in these US cities as FAILED STATES decay and stagnant economies.


'Real Estate and Urban Policy. Before coming to NYU, Professor Ellen held visiting positions at the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution...'

This article is not written in REAL LEFT SOCIAL BENEFIT----it is not written in REAL RIGHT WING CONSERVATIVE LAW AND ORDER----it is written with the goal of installing FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE infrastructure and human management.


Are we really investing in LOW-INCOME communities or citizens when MOVING FORWARD SMART CITIES has a goal of eliminating all human employment?



Crime and Community Development

by Ingrid Gould Ellen
children, public safety, race

Community development has traditionally focused on investments in housing, commercial revitalization, and physical improvements. Although all three are clearly critical to communities, the field has largely ignored (or paid too little attention to) one of the key factors that shape the quality of the everyday life: public safety.


Yet there is growing evidence that families care a great deal about safety and prioritize it above many other community attributes. Concern about safety and crime was one of the main reasons why families participating in the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) demonstration program accepted the option to move out of their high-poverty neighborhoods. Moreover, participating families who received vouchers and assistance to move to lower-poverty environments relocated to safer neighborhoods. At the outset of the study, nearly half of all of the participating households in Boston reported feeling unsafe or very unsafe. Among those offered vouchers to move to lower poverty areas, that share fell to only 24 percent several years later.1 (Crime was falling during this period, so control group members who received no mobility assistance also reported feeling more safe in their neighborhoods at the time of the follow-up survey; however, the improvement for these individuals was far smaller.)



A recent New York University study of 91 cities found suggestive evidence that housing voucher holders weighted crime and safety more heavily than poverty levels when choosing a neighborhood in which to live.2 As of 2000, the average voucher household lived in a significantly lower-crime neighborhood than the average tenant participating in the Low Income Housing Tax Credit program, although members of both sets lived in communities with nearly identical poverty rates and minority population shares. In other words, individuals with greater residential choice--that is, voucher recipients—chose to live in neighborhoods with markedly lower crime rates but not lower poverty rates or different racial compositions.


Recent research shows that families have good reason to worry about the safety of their environment. Most directly, people who live in high-crime neighborhoods are more likely to be victims of crime. In addition, there is strong evidence to indicate that such unsafe environments affect families and children in other ways. People who live in high-crime environments are more likely to witness a violent crime or know someone who has been victimized; this can profoundly shape one’s outlook on the world and level of ambition. Fear of crime can lead individuals to withdraw from their communities and live more sheltered and isolated lives. Finally, a growing number of studies are finding that exposure to crime, and especially violence, can heighten stress in children and lead to lower cognitive test scores and diminished performance in school.3



In addition to causing fear and stress,
which can shape individual outcomes, crime may also profoundly affect the social structures of communities through high levels of incarceration. In neighborhoods where violence and crime are particularly prevalent, incarceration removes large numbers of young adults—fathers, in particular—from the community, disrupting social networks, breaking up families, and weakening local institutions.4



In short, the evidence is strong that community development practitioners should increase the attention paid to safety and crime. The more difficult question, of course, is how: what tools do community development practitioners and policymakers have to fight crime? Most obviously, they can and should work with law enforcement to ensure that police are responsive to local calls and maintain a presence in problem areas. In addition, there are at least three other strategies community development practitioners and policymakers might adopt. The first and perhaps easiest is to combat physical blight. The “broken windows” theory of George Kelling and James Q. Wilson argues that signs of physical disorder, such as uncollected garbage, graffiti, and broken windows, signal to potential offenders that local residents are not invested in the community and would be unlikely to intervene in or report any crime.5 Although few studies have been able to pinpoint the direction of causality, there is strong evidence that physical disorder is at least associated with higher levels of crime; thus, community members should act quickly to address such signs of disorder.


A second and arguably more fundamental approach is to develop the collective efficacy of a community, which is the willingness of residents to monitor public spaces, intervene when those spaces are threatened, and help neighbors in need. Robert Sampson and his colleagues showed that collective efficacy is highly predictive of crime, and they argue that building collective efficacy is far more important to controlling crime than fixing signs of physical blight.6 Their study recommends strategies to organize community residents and encourage collective work on social control. A partnership with local law enforcement may be useful when implementing this strategy, but the residents of a community must drive this effort.


Finally, while impacts of such programs have not yet been rigorously evaluated, community courts such as the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn appear to be a promising way to engage communities and address low-level crime.7 These courts bring the justice system closer to citizens and aim to make it more responsive to everyday concerns. Community residents are involved in identifying public safety concerns and priorities, and they help to determine community service assignments for convicted offenders that both reconnect these individuals tothe community and help to address neighborhood problems. Many community courts also house a variety of social service programs (such as job training and placement, drug treatment, and tutoring) to address the root causes of criminal behavior. Although each community court employs a different approach, they all seek to promptly administer punishments for nonserious offenses that can serve to benefit the community, provide services to address some of the root problems that contribute to crime, and forge meaningful partnerships with the neighborhoods they serve.



We are only just beginning to understand the costs that crime—and fear of crime—can impose on communities and their residents. Crime can lead to social isolation, encourage unhealthy behaviors by changing perceived risks, and heighten stress levels. Such elevated stress may make it difficult for children to focus in school and to learn, and in the long-run it may compromise their immune systems and increase vulnerability to disease. The latest findings from the MTO demonstration indicate that providing an opportunity for very poor families to move to neighborhoods with lower levels of poverty can lead to improvements in physical and mental health.8 Although the mechanism of this effect is unclear, the opportunity to live in a safer neighborhood may be the critical ingredient in ending the cycle of poverty for many families.

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We discuss in detail why these few decades our US UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES no longer represent REAL US UNEMPLOYMENT-------these figures we see in our US national media are FAKE DATA---FAKE NEWS.  If a city says it has a 3-4% unemployment rate-----we can bet that figure is NOT TRUE.  As in Baltimore where unemployment is reaching 60-65% but reported as 3.7%-----those US citizens having lost employment in 2008 economic crash are no longer being counted as too those losing jobs since.  Here we are 10 years later----where are all those left unemployed?  They are those being labelled DISABLED-----many with MENTAL HEALTH DISABILITIES.

This shift from a very strong thriving US economy most of last century almost having that FULL EMPLOYMENT to a nation of UNEMPLOYED----DISABLED ----is of course MASTER PLAN OF MOVING FORWARD bringing the US to colonial status installing ONE WORLD FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.

Here in Baltimore we have never seen so much DISABILITY-----so, are these citizens EMPLOYED?  No, and they make up much of that 60-65% in Baltimore.  This number will soar-----the goal is having all US 99% WE THE PEOPLE displaced from job market here in US ----hitting the global labor pool.



This is where global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS work those 5% freemason/Greek players making them feel they are keeping those jobs now existing ---when of course they will be under the bus as well.


Unfit for
Work



The startling rise of disability in America


By Chana Joffe-Walt




In the past three decades, the number of Americans who are on disability has skyrocketed. The rise has come even as medical advances have allowed many more people to remain on the job, and new laws have banned workplace discrimination against the disabled. Every month, 14 million people now get a disability check from the government.



The federal government spends more money each year on cash payments for disabled former workers than it spends on food stamps and welfare combined. Yet people relying on disability payments are often overlooked in discussions of the social safety net. The vast majority of people on federal disability do not work.[1] Yet because they are not technically part of the labor force, they are not counted among the unemployed.



In other words, people on disability don't show up in any of the places we usually look to see how the economy is doing. But the story of these programs -- who goes on them, and why, and what happens after that -- is, to a large extent, the story of the U.S. economy. It's the story not only of an aging workforce, but also of a hidden, increasingly expensive safety net.


For the past six months, I've been reporting on the growth of federal disability programs. I've been trying to understand what disability means for American workers, and, more broadly, what it means for poor people in America nearly 20 years after we ended welfare as we knew it. Here's what I found.

In Hale County, Alabama, nearly 1 in 4 working-age adults is on disability.[2] On the day government checks come in every month, banks stay open late, Main Street fills up with cars, and anybody looking to unload an old TV or armchair has a yard sale.


Sonny Ryan, a retired judge in town, didn't hear disability cases in his courtroom. But the subject came up often. He described one exchange he had with a man who was on disability but looked healthy.


"Just out of curiosity, what is your disability?" the judge asked from the bench.
"I have high blood pressure," the man said.
"So do I," the judge said. "What else?"
"I have diabetes."
"So do I."

There's no diagnosis called disability. You don't go to the doctor and the doctor says, "We've run the tests and it looks like you have disability." It's squishy enough that you can end up with one person with high blood pressure who is labeled disabled and another who is not.



I talked to lots of people in Hale County who were on disability. Sometimes, the disability seemed unambiguous.
"I was in a 1990 Jeep Cherokee Laredo," Dane Mitchell, a 23-year-old guy I met in a coffee shop, told me. "I flipped it both ways, flew 165 feet from the Jeep, going through 12 to 14,000 volts of electrical lines. Then I landed into a briar patch. I broke all five of my right toes, my right hip, seven of my vertebrae, shattering one, breaking a right rib, punctured my lung, and then I cracked my neck."


Other stories seemed less clear. I sat with lots of women in Hale County who told me how their backs kept them up at night and made it hard for them to stand on the job. "I used to cry to try to work," one woman told me. "It was so painful."


People don't seem to be faking this pain, but it gets confusing. I have back pain. My editor has a herniated disc, and he works harder than anyone I know. There must be millions of people with asthma and diabetes who go to work every day. Who gets to decide whether, say, back pain makes someone disabled?


As far as the federal government is concerned, you're disabled if you have a medical condition that makes it impossible to work. In practice, it's a judgment call made in doctors' offices and courtrooms around the country. The health problems where there is most latitude for judgment -- back pain, mental illness -- are among the fastest growing causes of disability.


In Hale County, there was one guy whose name was mentioned in almost every story about becoming disabled: Dr. Perry Timberlake. I began to wonder if he was the reason so many people in Hale County are on disability. Maybe he was running some sort of disability scam, referring tons of people into the program.


After sitting in the waiting room of his clinic several mornings in a row, I met Dr. Timberlake. It turns out, there is nothing shifty about him. He is a doctor in a very poor place where pretty much every person who comes into his office tells him they are in pain.


"We talk about the pain and what it’s like," he says. "I always ask them, 'What grade did you finish?'"


What grade did you finish, of course, is not really a medical question. But Dr. Timberlake believes he needs this information in disability cases because people who have only a high school education aren't going to be able to get a sit-down job.


Dr. Timberlake is making a judgment call that if you have a particular back problem and a college degree, you're not disabled. Without the degree, you are.

  • In Hale County, there was one guy whose name was mentioned in almost every story about becoming disabled: Dr. Perry Timberlake, shown in an examination room at the Hale County Hospital Clinic in Greensboro, Alabama. Credit: Brinson Banks for NPR
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Over and over again, I'd listen to someone's story of how back pain meant they could no longer work, or how a shoulder injury had put them out of a job. Then I would ask: What about a job where you don't have to lift things, or a job where you don't have to use your shoulder, or a job where you can sit down? They would look at me as if I were asking, "How come you didn't consider becoming an astronaut?"



One woman I met, Ethel Thomas, is on disability for back pain after working many years at the fish plant, and then as a nurse's aide. When I asked her what job she would have in her dream world, she told me she would be the woman at the Social Security office who weeds through disability applications. I figured she said this because she thought she'd be good at weeding out the cheaters. But that wasn't it. She said she wanted this job because it is the only job she's seen where you get to sit all day.


At first, I found this hard to believe. But then I started looking around town. There's the McDonald's, the fish plant, the truck repair shop. I went down a list of job openings -- Occupational Therapist, McDonald's, McDonald's, Truck Driver (heavy lifting), KFC, Registered Nurse, McDonald's.



I actually think it might be possible that Ethel could not conceive of a job that would accommodate her pain.

There's a story we hear all the time these days that doesn't, on its face, seem to have anything to do with disability: Local Mill Shuts Down. Or, maybe: Factory To Close.


Four years ago, when I was working as a reporter in Seattle, I did that story. I stood with workers in a dead mill in Aberdeen, Washington and memorialized the era when you could graduate from high school and get a job at a mill and live a good life. That was the end of the story.


But after I got interested in disability, I followed up with some of the guys to see what happened to them after the mill closed. One of them, Scott Birdsall, went to lots of meetings where he learned about retraining programs and educational opportunities. At one meeting, he says, a staff member pulled him aside.


"Scotty, I'm gonna be honest with you," the guy told him. "There's nobody gonna hire you … We're just hiding you guys." The staff member's advice to Scott was blunt: "Just suck all the benefits you can out of the system until everything is gone, and then you're on your own."


Scott, who was 56 years old at the time, says it was the most real thing anyone had said to him in a while.
There used to be a lot of jobs that you could do with just a high school degree, and that paid enough to be considered middle class. I knew, of course, that those have been disappearing for decades. What surprised me was what has been happening to many of the people who lost those jobs: They've been going on disability.

Scott tried school for a while, but hated it. So he took the advice of the rogue staffer who told him to suck all the benefits he could out of the system. He had a heart attack after the mill closed and figured, "Since I've had a bypass, maybe I can get on disability, and then I won't have worry to about this stuff anymore." It worked; Scott is now on disability.



Scott's dad had a heart attack and went back to work in the mill. If there'd been a mill for Scott to go back to work in, he says, he'd have done that too. But there wasn't a mill, so he went on disability. It wasn't just Scott. I talked to a bunch of mill guys who took this path -- one who shattered the bones in his ankle and leg, one with diabetes, another with a heart attack. When the mill shut down, they all went on disability.



I don't know what that rogue staffer meant when he told Scott Birdsall they were trying to hide those mill guys. But signing up for disability benefits is an excellent way to stay hidden in one key way: People on disability are not counted among the unemployed.

Source: Social Security Administration
Credit: Lam Thuy Vo / NPR


"That's a kind of ugly secret of the American labor market," David Autor, an economist at MIT, told me. "Part of the reason our unemployment rates have been low, until recently, is that a lot of people who would have trouble finding jobs are on a different program."



Part of the rise in the number of people on disability is simply driven by the fact that the workforce is getting older, and older people tend to have more health problems.


But disability has also become a de facto welfare program for people without a lot of education or job skills. But it wasn't supposed to serve this purpose; it's not a retraining program designed to get people back onto their feet. Once people go onto disability, they almost never go back to work. Fewer than 1 percent of those who were on the federal program for disabled workers at the beginning of 2011 have returned to the workforce since then, one economist told me.



People who leave the workforce and go on disability qualify for Medicare, the government health care program that also covers the elderly. They also get disability payments from the government of about $13,000 a year. This isn't great. But if your alternative is a minimum wage job that will pay you at most $15,000 a year, and probably does not include health insurance, disability may be a better option.



But, in most cases, going on disability means you will not work, you will not get a raise, you will not get whatever meaning people get from work.[3] Going on disability means, assuming you rely only on those disability payments, you will be poor for the rest of your life. That's the deal. And it's a deal 14 million Americans have signed up for.[4]
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While this systematic goal of labeling as many US CITIZENS as DISABLED-----MENTAL ILLNESS-----or simply NOT SMART ENOUGH to attend vocational tracking global corporate schools K-CAREER APPRENTICESHIPS-----we want to take a few days to look broadly at what it means to be MAD/DISABLED/FEEBLE-MINDED.  It will not take much if we keep MOVING FORWARD.

Raise your hands if you KNOW sending our US military troops overseas on ACTIVE DUTY in war zones for a DECADE ---would result in tremendous numbers of VETS with DISABILITIES----not only physical---but a tremendous amount of EMOTIONAL AND STRESS DAMAGE.  The US had historically limited active tours to 4 years-----our involvement in wars -----while ILLEGAL----usually made sure our military troops only engaged actively for 4 year tours.

BUSH/CHENEY WITH THEIR GLOBAL PRIVATE MILITARY CORPORATIONS IN THE MAKE----IGNORED ALL THOSE TROOP SAFETY STANDARDS----

Today, with those VETS from earlier continuous wars-----our US military VETS are those showing large with DISABILITY AND MENTAL HEALTH.


The stats for our DISABLED VETS are NOT to be believed.......these numbers are far-higher

Veterans statistics: PTSD, Depression, TBI, Suicide.


The following veterans statistics are from a major study done by the RAND Corporation (full pdf of study), a study by the Congressional Research Service, the Veterans Administration, the Institute of Medicine, the US Surgeon General, and several published studies.



PTSD statistics are a moving target that is fuzzy: do you look only at PTSD diagnosed within one year of return from battle? Do you only count PTSD that limits a soldier's ability to go back into battle or remain employed, but that may have destroyed a marriage or wrecked a family? Do you look at the PTSD statistics for PTSD that comes up at any time in a person's life: it is possible to have undiagnosed PTSD for 30 years and not realize it--possibly never or until you find a way to get better and then you realize there is another way to live. When you count the PTSD statistic of "what percentage of a population gets PTSD," is your overall starting group combat veterans, veterans who served in the target country, or all military personnel for the duration of a war?




And veterans PTSD statistics get revised over time. The findings from the NVVR Study (National Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Study, in Four Volumes) commissioned by the government in the 1980s initially found that for "Vietnam theater veterans" 15% of men had PTSD at the time of the study and 30% of men had PTSD at some point in their life. But a 2003 re-analysis found that "contrary to the initial analysis of the NVVRS data, a large majority of Vietnam Veterans struggled with chronic PTSD symptoms, with four out of five reporting recent symptoms when interviewed 20-25 years after Vietnam." (see also NVVR review)



There is a similar problem with suicide statistics. The DoD and their researchers tend to lose track of military personnel once they retire, and do not track veteran suicides for all branches of the military (see September 2015 New York Times articles on Marine suicides and a battalion-wide suicide epidemic). And, not all suicides will be counted as a military suicide (plus, is a person who drinks themselves to death committing suicide?). A recent study found U.S. veteran suicide rates to be as high as 8,000 a year. See suicide statistics (below and bottom of Suicide Prevention page).



Summary of Veterans Statistics for PTSD, TBI, Depression and Suicide.
  • As of September 2014, there are about 2.7 million American veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (compared to 2.6 million Vietnam veterans who fought in Vietnam; there are 8.2 million "Vietnam Era Veterans" (personnel who served anywhere during any time of the Vietnam War)
  • According to RAND, at least 20% of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have PTSD and/or Depression. (Military counselors I have interviewed state that, in their opinion, the percentage of veterans with PTSD is much higher; the number climbs higher when combined with TBI.)
    Other accepted studies have found a PTSD prevalence of 14%; see a complete review of PTSD prevalence studies, which quotes studies with findings ranging from 4 -17% of Iraq War veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder).
    A comprehensive analysis, published in 2014, found that for PTSD: “Among male and female soldiers aged 18 years or older returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, rates range from 9% shortly after returning from deployment to 31% a year after deployment. A review of 29 studies that evaluated rates of PTSD in those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan found prevalence rates of adult men and women previously deployed ranging from 5% to 20% for those who do not seek treatment, and around 50% for those who do seek treatment. Vietnam veterans also report high lifetime rates of PTSD ranging from 10% to 31%. PTSD is the third most prevalent psychiatric diagnosis among veterans using the Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals.”PTSD and comorbid AUD", Subst Abuse Rehabil. 2014; 5: 25–36, Ralevski, et al.
  • 50% of those with PTSD do not seek treatment
  • out of the half that seek treatment, only half of them get "minimally adequate" treatment (RAND study)
  • 19% of veterans may have traumatic brain injury (TBI)
  • Over 260,000 veterans from OIF and OEF so far have been diagnosed with TBI. Traumatic brain injury is much more common in the general population than  previously thought: according to the CDC, over 1,700,000 Americans have a traumatic brain injury each year; in Canada 20% of teens had TBI resulting in hospital admission or that involved over 5 minutes of unconsciousness (VA surgeon reporting in BBC News)
  • 7% of veterans have both post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury
  • rates of post-traumatic stress are greater for these wars than prior conflicts
  • in times of peace, in any given year, about 4% (actually 3.6%) of the general population have PTSD (caused by natural disasters, car accidents, abuse, etc.)
  • recent statistical studies show that rates of veteran suicide are much higher than previously thought, as much as five to eight thousand a year (22 a day, up from a low of 18-a-year in 2007, based on a 2012 VA Suicide Data Report). (See suicide prevention page). Contrary to the impression many media articles give, veteran suicide rates, although definitely higher, are not astronomically higher than civilian rates. See New York Times 2013 article, "As Suicides Rise in US, Veterans are Less of total," by James Dao.
  • PTSD distribution between services for OND, OIF, and OEF: Army 67% of cases, Air Force 9%, Navy 11%, and Marines 13%. (Congressional Research Service, Sept. 2010)
  • recent sample of 600 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan found: 14% post-traumatic stress disorder; 39% alcohol abuse; 3% drug abuse. Major depression also a problem. "Mental and Physical Health Status and Alcohol and Drug Use Following Return From Deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan." Susan V. Eisen, PhD
  • Oddly, statistics for veteran tobacco use are never reported alongside PTSD statistics, even though increases in rates of smoking are strongly correlated with the stress of deployment and combat, and smoking statistics show that tobacco use is tremendously damaging and costly for soldiers.
  • More active duty personnel die by own hand than combat in 2012 (New York Times)
  • According to September 2015 New York Times articles, some branches of the military do not keep fine-grained data, or any data at all on the suicide rates (and this must mean on the mental health as a whole) of their veterans. There are "battalion epidemics" of suicide in the military, which much higher rates of suicide and mental health problems.
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Another pathway to being a person diagnosed as DISABLED/MENTAL ILLNESS-----is that thousands of years natural body chemistry change as we age------MID-LIFE CRISIS. This manifests differently in MEN and WOMEN----but both are caused by changes in body chemistry---hormonal---endocrine ---weakened organ functions.

Speaking again personally, I went through a double-dose of MID-LIFE CRISIS-----Seasonal Affect Disorder SAD from lack of sun in beautiful NORTHWEST----and ordinary MENOPAUSE---with symptoms of depression. Together they brought CLINICAL DEPRESSION for several years. These are all normal, natural body actions----yet, over these few decades they have hit the MENTAL/DISABILITY category---loaded with PHARMA-----and diagnosed as MENTAL ILLNESS.

One would think our US 99% of WE THE WOMEN are quite the weak and mentally ill-----------women do experience depression more then men------again it is often hormonal. All of the disorders listed below occur in both MEN and WOMEN----


'Depression in women: Understanding the gender gap - Mayo Clinic

www.mayoclinic.org/.../depression/art-20047725

Women with depression often have other mental health conditions that need treatment as well, such as: Anxiety. Anxiety commonly occurs along with depression in women. Eating disorders. There's a strong link between depression in women and eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. Drug or alcohol abuse'.


Men have MID-LIFE crisis including eating disorders, drug and alcohol abuse, and mood-swings.


How the Midlife Crisis Came to Be


Over the course of a few years in the 20th century, the midlife crisis went from an obscure psychological theory to a ubiquitous phenomenon.


Pamela Druckerman
May 29, 2018


The midlife crisis was invented in London in 1957. That’s when a 40-year-old Canadian named Elliott Jaques stood before a meeting of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and read aloud from a paper he’d written.

HERE COMES THE AGE OF BIG PHARMA!!



Addressing about a hundred attendees, Jaques claimed that people in their mid-30s typically experience a depressive period lasting several years. Jaques (pronounced “Jacks”)—a physician and psychoanalyst—said he’d identified this phenomenon by studying the lives of great artists, in whom it takes an extreme form. In ordinary people symptoms could include religious awakenings, promiscuity, a sudden inability to enjoy life, “hypochondriacal concern over health and appearance,” and “compulsive attempts” to remain young.



This period is sparked by the realization that their lives are halfway over, and that death isn’t just something that happens to someone else: It will happen to them, too.



He described a depressed 36-year-old patient who told his therapist, “Up till now, life has seemed an endless upward slope, with nothing but the distant horizon in view. Now suddenly I seem to have reached the crest of the hill, and there stretching ahead is the downward slope with the end of the road in sight—far enough away, it’s true—but there is death observably present at the end.”

Jaques didn’t claim to be the first to detect this midlife change. He pointed out that, in the 14th century, Dante Alighieri’s protagonist in The Divine Comedy—who scholars say is 35—famously declares at the beginning of the book, “Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark / For the straightforward pathway had been lost.”



But Jaques offered a modern, clinical explanation, and—crucially—he gave the experience a name: the “mid life crisis.”



As he addressed the meeting in London, Jaques was nervous. Many of the leading psychoanalysts of the day were sitting in the audience, including the society’s president, Donald Winnicott, renowned for his theory of transitional objects, and Jaques’ own mentor, the famed child psychologist Melanie Klein.


It was an acrimonious group, which had split into competing factions. Attendees were known to pounce on presenters during the questioning period. And Jaques wasn’t just presenting an abstract theory: He later told an interviewer that the depressed 36-year-old patient he described in the paper was himself.

When he finished reading the paper, titled “The Mid Life Crisis,” Jaques paused and waited to be attacked. Instead, after a very brief discussion, “there was dead silence,” he recalled later. “Which was very, very embarrassing, nobody got up to speak. This was new, this is absolutely rare.” The next day, Melanie Klein tried to cheer him up, saying, “If there’s one thing the Psychoanalytic Society cannot cope with, it’s the theme of death.”



Chastened, Jaques put “The Mid Life Crisis” aside. He went on to write about far less personal topics, including a theory of time and work. “I was certainly utterly convinced that the paper was a complete failure,” he recalled.



But he didn’t forget how it felt to be that troubled man standing on the crest of the hill. About six years later, he submitted the paper to The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, which published it in its October 1965 issue under the title “Death and the Mid-life Crisis.”


This time, instead of silence, there was an enormous appetite for Jaques’ theory. The midlife crisis was now aligned with the zeitgeist.


If you were a man born in 1900, you had only about a 50 percent chance of living to age 60. The average life expectancy for men was around 52. It was fair to think of age 40 as the beginning of the end.



But life spans in rich countries were increasing by about 2.3 years per decade. Someone born in the 1930s had nearly an 80 percent chance of living until age 60. That gave age 40 a new vitality. Life Begins at Forty was the best-selling American nonfiction book of 1933. Walter Pitkin, the journalist who wrote it, explained that “before the Machine Age, men wore out at forty.” But thanks to industrialization, new medicines, and electric dishwashers, “men and women alike turn from the ancient task of making a living to the strange new task of living.”


By the time Elliott Jaques published “Death and the Mid-life Crisis” in 1965, the average life expectancy in Western countries had climbed to about 70. It made sense to change your life in your 30s or 40s, because you could expect to live long enough to enjoy your new career or your new spouse.



And it was getting easier to change your life. Women were going to work in record numbers, giving them more financial independence. Middle-class professionals were entering psychotherapy and couples counseling in record numbers and trying to understand themselves. People were starting to treat marriage not just as a romantic institution, but as the source of their self-actualization. Divorce rules were loosening, and the divorce rate was about to surge. And there was dramatic social upheaval, from the civil-rights movement to the birth-control pill. It wasn’t just individuals who had midlife crises. The whole society seemed to be having one, too.



The idea that a midlife crisis is inevitable soon jumped from Jaques’ academic paper to popular culture. And according to the new conventional wisdom, the 40s were the prime time for it to occur. In her 1967 book, The Middle-Age Crisis, the writer Barbara Fried claimed the crisis is “a normal aspect of growth, as natural for those in their 40s as teething is for a younger age group.”

THERE IS THAT GLOBAL BANKING 1% SELLING A NEW FAD!!!


The midlife crisis, which had scarcely existed five or six years earlier, was suddenly treated like a biological inevitability that could possess and even kill you. “A person in the throes ... does not even know that something is happening inside his body, a physical change that is affecting his emotions,” a 1971 New York Times article explained. “Yet he is plagued with indecision, restlessness, boredom, a ‘what’s the use’ outlook and a feeling of being fenced in.”


The crisis soon expanded from Jaques’ original definition to include practically any inner strife. You could have one because you’d achieved everything you’d intended to, but couldn’t see the point of it all. Or you could have one because you hadn’t achieved enough.


Management theorists urged companies to be sensitive to their crisis-stricken workers. In 1972, a U.S. government task force warned that midlife crises may be causing an uptick in the death rate of men aged 35 to 40. “A general feeling of obsolescence appears to overtake middle managers when they reach their late thirties. Their careers appear to have reached a plateau, and they realize that life from here on will be a long and inevitable decline.”



Despite some biological claims, the midlife crisis was mainly viewed as a middle- and upper-class affliction. Classic sufferers were white, professional, and male, with the leisure time to ruminate on their personal development and the means to afford sports cars and mistresses. People who were working-class or black weren’t supposed to self-actualize. Women were assumed to be on a separate schedule set by marriage, menopause, and when their children left home.



But women soon realized that the midlife crisis contained a kind of liberation story, in tune with the nascent women’s movement: If you hated your life, you could change it. This idea found a perfect messenger in the journalist Gail Sheehy. Sheehy was the daughter of a Westchester advertising executive. She had obediently studied home economics, married a doctor, and had a baby. But that life didn’t suit her. By the early 1970s, she was divorced and working as a journalist.


In January 1972, Sheehy was on an assignment in Northern Ireland when the young Catholic protester she was interviewing got shot in the face. The shock of this experience soon combined with the shock of entering her mid-30s. “Some intruder shook me by the psyche and shouted: Take stock! Half your life has been spent.”



Researchers she spoke to explained that panicking at 35 is normal, since adults go through developmental periods just like children do. Sheehy traveled around America interviewing educated middle-class men and women, ages 18 to 55, about their lives. In the summer of 1976 she published a nearly 400-page book called Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life. By that August, it was the New York Times’ number one nonfiction bestseller, and it remained in the top 10 for over a year.



Sheehy had gone hunting for midlife crises in America, and she’d found them. “A sense of stagnation, disequilibrium, and depression is predictable as we enter the passage to midlife,” she writes in Passages. People can expect to feel “sometimes momentous changes of perspective, often mysterious dissatisfactions with the course they had been pursuing with enthusiasm only a few years before.” Ages 37 to 42 are “peak years of anxiety for practically everyone.” She said these crises happen to women, too.



With Sheehy’s book, an idea that had been gathering force for a decade simply became a fact of life. Soon there were midlife crisis mugs, T-shirts, and a board game that challenged players—Can You Survive Your Mid-Life Crisis Without Cracking Up, Breaking Up, or Going Broke?


But were midlife crises actually happening?

The anthropologist Stanley Brandes had his doubts.
In the 1980s, as he approached age 40 himself, he noticed that many self-help books in his local bookshop, in Berkeley, warned that he was about to experience a major life upheaval.



Brandes thought about Margaret Mead’s classic 1928 book, Coming of Age in Samoa, in which Mead argues that Americans expect teenage girls to have an adolescent crisis, and many of them do. But Samoans don’t expect the teenage years to be filled with emotional upheaval, and in Samoa they aren’t.


Brandes reasoned that the midlife crisis might be a cultural construct, too. “It was kind of a trick that my culture was playing on me, and I didn’t have to feel that way,” he decided, laying out his theory in the 1985 book Forty: The Age and the Symbol.


Brandes didn’t have much data to go on, but soon researchers were analyzing findings from studies including a massive one called “Midlife in the United States,” or MIDUS, that began in 1995. What did all this reveal about the midlife crisis?



“Most people don’t have a crisis,” says Margie Lachman of Brandeis University, a member of the original MIDUS team. Lachman says midlifers are typically healthy, have busy social lives, and are at the earnings peaks of their careers, so “people are pretty satisfied.”


Some of those who report having a midlife crisis are “crisis prone” or highly neurotic, Lachman says. They have crises throughout their lives, not just in midlife. And about half of those who have midlife crises say it’s related to a life event like a health problem, a job loss, or a divorce, not to aging per se.


Just 10 to 20 percent of Americans have an experience that qualifies as a midlife crisis, according to MIDUS and other studies.
As this data rolled in, most scientists abandoned the idea that the midlife crisis is biological. They regarded it mostly as a cultural construct. The same mass media that had once heralded the midlife crisis began trying to debunk it, in dozens of news stories with variations on the headline “Myth of the Midlife Crisis.”



But the idea was too delicious to be debunked. It had become part of the Western middle-class narrative, offering a fresh, self-actualizing story about how life is supposed to go.


Another reason for the idea’s success, Lachman says, is that people like attaching names to life stages, such as the “terrible twos” for toddlers, whereas “most people I know say their two-year-olds are delightful.” The midlife crisis persists, in part, because it has a very catchy name.


Elliott Jaques watched with amazement at the avalanche that his paper caused. Requests for reprints of “Death and the Midlife Crisis” came in from around the world.


Jaques had long since moved on to other topics. He became a specialist in workplace relations, and devised a way to measure workers according to the amount of time they’re given to complete tasks. He consulted for the U.S. Army and the Church of England about their organizational structures, and wrote more than 20 books. He never wrote about the midlife crisis again.



Jaques died in 2003. His second wife, Kathryn Cason, who co-founded an organization dedicated to propagating Jaques’s ideas about the workplace, told me that the midlife crisis was “a tiny little early piece of work that he did” and something Jaques “didn’t want who to talk about after 20 or 30 years.” She urged me to read his later writings.


I have to admit that I never did. Jaques had lots of big ideas, but the whole world was mostly interested in his small one. The headline of his obituary in the New York Times read “Elliott Jaques, 86, Scientist Who Coined ‘Midlife Crisis.’”
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These few decades of global banking 1% CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA have seen PHARMA as the GATEWAY MEDICINE----with MENTAL ILLNESS/DISABILITY soaring ---and even our US 99% WE THE CHILDREN have been captured to early diagnosis ----MOVING FORWARD these health characterizations   and diagnoses will be used against those children AS ADULTS trying to find employment in a MOVING FORWARD SMART CITIES----NO EMPLOYMENT FOR YOU economy.

We took the time yesterday to share a personal discussion regarding MENTAL ILLNESS when talking about THE NETWORK-----talking about how easy it is to create an environment of POLITICAL DEFINITION OF MADNESS. 

We are shouting in these discussions as we said yesterday-----far-right wing global banking 1% STALINIST/HITLER/MAO FASCISM is LOOSEY-GOOSEY with these definitions and how these categories can be used for employment, for free expression, for ability to secure LIBERTY AND JUSTICE.



Generation at risk: America's youngest facing mental health crisis

American children’s mental health is worrying experts, with one in five kids suffering from a diagnosable mental, emotional or behavioral disorder.

Dec. 10, 2017 / 12:21 PM EST / Updated Dec. 11, 2017 / 3:52 PM EST
By Kate Snow and Cynthia McFadden


Alex Crotty was just 11 when things started feeling wrong.

It wasn't just a matter of being unhappy. She always felt empty and miserable — never content or connected to other children. For years, she suffered alone, filled with shame. She switched schools, but that didn't help.

"I didn't feel unloved. I just felt numb to the world. Like, I was surrounded by great things, but just I couldn't be happy. And I didn't know why that was," Alex told NBC News.


Finally, at 14, she decided to break her silence. "I can't feel anything," Alex simply told her mother, Heather Olson of New York. "So she just gave me a hug, cradled me in her arms on the bed, and was like, 'Well can you feel me? Can you feel my love?'"


"A hug and kisses was the only thing that came to mind at the spur of the moment, but that was precisely what she needed to start the journey forward," Olson said.

Alex Crotty was diagnosed with depression and is now on treatment and feeling better. She urges other young people to speak out about their depression or anxiety. 'I am so much stronger after coming out of this,' she says. Courtesy Heather Olson



Alex was diagnosed with major depression and anxiety. Now 16, she is in therapy and on medication. She's far from alone.


There is an acute health crisis happening among members of the youngest generation of Americans, with critical implications for the country's future.

NBC News

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 1 in 5 American children ages 3 through 17 — about 15 million — have a diagnosable mental, emotional or behavioral disorder in a given year.


Only 20 percent of these children are ever diagnosed and receive treatment; 80 percent — about 12 million — aren't receiving treatment.


Recent research indicates that serious depression is worsening in teens, especially girls, and the suicide rate among girls reached a 40-year high in 2015, according to a CDC report released in August.



"Child and adolescent mental health disorders are the most common illnesses that children will experience under the age of 18. It's pretty amazing, because the number's so large that I think it's hard to wrap our heads around it," said Dr. Harold Koplewicz, founding president of The Child Mind Institute, a nonprofit children's mental health advocacy group.



Over the next few months, NBC Nightly News will examine the state of American children's mental health, including reports on what has led to this increase — especially in anxiety and depression — treatment obstacles, promising research and innovative programs to help children.

Is your toddler depressed?


Mental health problems may actually start much earlier than previously thought.




A toddler who is crying for hours and angrily stomping his or her feet may not be having a temper tantrum, but showing signs of depression. Research suggests that 1 percent to 2 percent of children 2 to 5 years old have depression, said Dr. Joan Luby, director of the Early Emotional Development program at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and a pioneer in the study of the condition in preschoolers.


She believes untreated depression in toddlers can lead to more depression later in life.



"Young children are more cognitively sophisticated, more emotionally sophisticated, than we previously understood. They have complex emotions. They're aware of emotions in their environment. They feel emotions like guilt," Luby said. "They have all the prerequisites of what depressive symptoms are."


That may show up as constant sadness and low self-esteem. A child may not want to play with a favorite toy or with friends over a sustained period of time.


Vickey Harper of St. Louis became worried when her 2-year-old daughter, Myla, began having "scary" tantrums that sometimes lasted almost an hour. The girl would scream, kick and hit her mother in the face.


"My gut was just telling me that something was not right," Harper said. Mental illness runs in the family, but she was surprised when doctors suggested Myla had depression.


The girl is taking part in Luby's research to see whether early intervention can make a difference. Parents are coached on how to play with and respond to their kids — exercises meant to help kids recognize their emotions, like being sad, angry or nervous. The hope is that will help them learn to control those feelings and "change a lifelong trajectory," or prevent episodes of depression later in life, Luby said.


Now, Myla's long tantrums are gone.
"She is not the same kid that walked into those therapy sessions," Harper said. "She can tell me when she's feeling something. She still yells sometimes, but it's on a much smaller scale."


Why adolescents are so vulnerable

Teens are known for their moodiness, and adolescence — a particularly turbulent time of life — is one of the most vulnerable periods to develop anxiety and depression. About 50 percent of cases of mental illness begin by age 14, according to the American Psychiatric Association. A tendency to develop depression and bipolar disorder nearly doubles from age 13 to age 18.



But for teens like Alex Crotty, depression is very different from adolescent angst, Koplewicz said.


"Teenagers have a different kind of depression. They don't seem sad. They seem irritable," he said. "This really has an effect on your concentration, which will affect school. It will affect your desire to continue playing sports. It'll affect your desire of being with your friends."



Warning signs also include the duration and the degree of symptoms, he said. Take notice if your teen is experiencing moodiness or irritability for more than two weeks and it's occurring every day, for most of the day, and if you see a change in sleep patterns and a change in desire to work and socialize.


Teenagers also think about suicide more often — and 5,000 young people take their own lives every year in the United States, Koplewicz added.


For years, Alex was too scared to reach out for help because she thought that if she told her parents about her depression, they wouldn't believe her or they would overreact and send her to a "psych ward," she said.


It's why The Child Mind Institute is collecting brain scans from 10,000 children and teens, hoping to identify biological markers of psychiatric illness. The project could improve the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.



After medication and therapy, Alex is doing great.

"I am so much stronger after coming out of this," she said, urging other kids to speak up. "If you always feel like something's wrong, talk to somebody. If you feel like you're blaming things on yourself all the time, talk to somebody. Just if things don't feel good, talk to somebody."

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Today, as we watch a seguing from US 99% WE THE PEOPLE losing jobs because of ROBBER BARON BOOM AND BUST global neo-liberal economics-----US CITIES as FAILED STATES moving our US corporations to overseas FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES------the goals MOVING FORWARD these next few decades will be a massive detachment of US 99% of citizens black, white, and brown citizens from any ability to attain A PAYING JOB---and the structures being built via AFFORDABLE CARE ACT---and CRIME BILL ---are geared to capture that declining employment.

The term WINNERS AND LOSERS we heard all the time after that 2008 economic crash pushing tens of millions of our US 99% out of work----will soon capture those thinking they are WINNERS.

There is absolutely NO INTENT at building structure to include HAPPINESS---PEACE, LOVE, AND UNDERSTANDING.





WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

SuMM Ary



Mental health and well-being are fundamental to
our collective and individual ability as humans to
think, emote, interact with each other, earn a
living and enjoy life. They directly underpin the
core human and social values of independence of
thought and action, happiness, friendship and
solidarity. On this basis, the promotion, protection
and restoration of mental health can be regarded
as a vital concern of individuals, communities and
societies throughout the world.


However, current reality presents a very different
picture. The formation of individual and collective
mental capital – especially in the earlier stages of
life
– is being held back by a range of avoidable
risks to mental health, while individuals with
mental health problems are shunned,
discriminated against and denied basic rights,
including access to essential care. Accentuated
by low levels of service availability, the current
and projected burdens of mental disorders are of
significant concern not only for public health but
also for economic development and social
welfare.


In this report, potential reasons for this apparent
contradiction between cherished human values
and observed social actions are explored with a
view to better formulating concrete steps that
governments and other stakeholders can take to
reshape social attitudes and public policy.
The report shows that a strong case can be
made for investing in mental health – whether to
enhance individual and population health and
well-being, protect human rights, improve
economic efficiency, or move towards universal
health coverage. The report also identifies a
number of barriers that continue to influence
collective values and decision-making – including
negative cultural attitudes towards mental illness
and a predominant emphasis on the creation or
retention of wealth (rather than the promotion of
societal well-being).



In partnership with all relevant stakeholders,
governments have a lead role to play in reshaping
the debate about mental health, addressing
current barriers and shortcomings, and
responding to the escalating burden of mental
disorders. Key actions that would mark a
renewed commitment to promote, protect and
restore mental health include: better information,
awareness and education about mental health
and illness; improved health and social services
for persons with mental disorders;
and enhanced
legal, social and financial protection for persons,
families or communities adversely affected by
mental disorders.



These 10 cities will lose the most jobs to automation


Low-wage cities including Las Vegas, Orlando, and El Paso are most at risk of losing jobs to automation, according to a new report from the Institute for Spatial Economic Analysis.


By Alison DeNisco Rayome | May 10, 2017, 6:40 AM PST


Low-wage cities such as Las Vegas, Orlando, and El Paso will be hit the hardest by job automation, according to a recent report from the Institute for Spatial Economic Analysis (ISEA). And the impact of automation on job losses is likely to be more severe than previously predicted, the report stated: Due to advances in machine learning and mobile robotics, jobs such as truck driving, healthcare diagnostics, and education are more likely to be affected.

"The replacement of jobs by machines has been happening continuously since the Industrial Revolution, but it's expected to significantly accelerate in the coming 10 or 20 years," said Johannes Moenius, founding director of ISEA, in a press release. "Pretty much everyone will be affected, but some metropolitan areas will see a lot more jobs vanish than others."




ISEA examined Oxford University research on the probability of automation for a number of occupations, as well as employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of the 100 metropolitan areas in the US with more than 250,000 people employed, the following 10 cities have the largest share of jobs that may become automated:



1. Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV
65.2% of jobs automatable
2. El Paso, TX
63.9% of jobs automatable
3. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
62.6% of jobs automatable
4. Greensboro-High Point, NC
62.5% of jobs automatable


5. North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL
62.4% of jobs automatable
6. Bakersfield, CA
62.4% of jobs automatable
7. Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
61.8% of jobs automatable
8. Fresno, CA
61.5% of jobs automatable
9. Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin, SC
61.3% of jobs automatable
10. Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN
61.3% of jobs automatable



Almost all large metropolitan areas in the US could lose more than 55% of their current jobs due to automation, the report stated. High-tech hubs such as Silicon Valley and Boston are least likely to be affected.



At-risk occupations include office and administrative support occupations, food preparation and serving related occupations, and sales and related occupations. These three categories account for half of the automation potential in the largest metro areas. Meanwhile, transportation and material moving positions contribute to potential employment losses in Riverside, Louisville, and Greensboro.


However, the probability of automation does not equal future unemployment rates, said ISEA faculty fellow and report co-author Jess Chen. A recent report from Forrester Research estimated that automation and robotics will displace 24.7 million US jobs by 2027—but that the technology will create 14.9 million new jobs in the same time period, leading to a net loss of 9.8 million jobs.



"Technical feasibility does not imply that automation necessarily makes economic sense. And historically, automation went hand in hand with new job creation both in skilled and less skilled labor," Chen said in the release. "However, the speed and the high share of automation in less skilled jobs raises many questions about whether the economy will be able to make up for the expected job losses. What we do expect is that automation will create winners and losers among cities and regions of the U.S., where losers may not recover to their original employment levels within even a decade's time."
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This is a short week before another holiday so we will be doing simply public policy discussions seguing into next week's topic---AFFORDABLE CARE ACT----MENTAL HEALTH---and this bill just passing through CONGRESS ----HELPING COMMUNITIES FIGHT CRIME-----

As usual the far-right wing global banking 1% CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA players are PRETENDING these bills are SOCIAL BENEFIT when they are THE OPPOSITE.  MOVING FORWARD far-right wing, authoritarian, militaristic, extreme wealth extreme poverty LIBERTARIAN MARXISM ---as dictatorship and global military junta------will be using these policies to create the same global banking corporate HITLER, STALIN, MAO FASCISM as existed last century and will take our US and European citizens back to conditions far more oppressive.


So, today these laws just being passed are building a global corporate infrastructure that will in a decade or two be used to find all kinds of ways to identify reasons to use MENTAL HEALTH to attain goals they want to achieve.


H.R.3013 - Help Communities Fight Violent Crime Act115th Congress (2017-2018) | Get alerts
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Help Communities Fight Violent Crime Act

This bill authorizes appropriations to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for Violent Crime Reduction Partnerships in the most violent U.S. cities.


It permits the ATF to transfer appropriated funds to another agency or instrumentality of the U.S. government for the purpose of conducting activities under such a partnership.

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We discuss often the concerns over goals of these AFFORDABLE CARE ACT MENTAL HEALTH policies and now those attached to CONGRESSIONAL NEW CRIME BILL.  These policies are FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1%----they are NOT ---REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITY BENEFIT policies.  We saw all last year the PROPAGANDA surrounding these policies in all our US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES----but now we see this same PROPAGANDA taking the suburbs and our US rural counties and towns.  All of this is the same installation of MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GLOBAL MILITARY JUNTA----and yes, people are no longer CITIZENS with RIGHTS-----they are open to being institutionalized at any time for any reason-----no matter if those reasons are TRUE.

Our rural counties and suburbs tend towards being RIGHT WING and LAW AND ORDER so our US 99% who are US right wing conservative REPUBLICANS are the easiest to fool in these FAKE SOCIAL BENEFIT policing and mental health policies.  No one hates having their FREEDOMS taken away more than those 99% WE THE RIGHT WING CONSERVATIVES----no less so then our US LEFT WING SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS. 

Please know our discussions on public policy will be coming to YOUR NECK OF THE WOODS-----so let's come together as a 99% VS global banking 1% and those dastardly 5% freemason/Greek players.




Lake County


Why suburbs could use more police social workers

Madhu Krishnamurthy
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Sue Blechschmidt of the Lake in the Hills Police Department is the only police social worker in McHenry County. John Starks | Staff Photographer
Suburban police officers dealing with an increase in mental health and substance abuse calls are not equipped to handle such crises, experts say. That's why social workers at police departments are essential to helping bridge the gap between law enforcement and the myriad human problems they encounter. Yet, few suburban police departments have them, and the shortage is especially pronounced in the Fox Valley area.



From more than 85 towns examined, only 33 suburban police departments have a social worker on staff, according to the Association of Police Social Workers. The number of such workers ranges from one to five.
Towns with police social workers in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake and McHenry counties:



Arlington Heights

Aurora

Carol Stream

Carpentersville

Deerfield

Des Plaines

Ela Township

Elgin

Elk Grove Village

Glendale Heights

Hanover Park

Lake in the Hills

Mount Prospect

Naperville

Palatine

Rolling Meadows

Schaumburg

Streamwood

Tower Lakes

West Chicago

Wheeling

Source: Association of Police Social Workers



 
"Every police department should be equipped with a police social worker," said Kristin Eby, association president, police social worker and victims coordinator for Arlington Heights. "When I look at the association, the number of social workers that we have involved are very much saturated in the North and Northwest suburbs.



"There is definitely a need in Kane and McHenry counties," she added. "You need to work as a team with other social workers or even your local law enforcement agency ... (be a) bridge between local law enforcement and the court system making sure that our victims don't get lost. A lot of times people don't know we exist."



Sue Blechschmidt, a Lake in the Hills police social worker for 23 years, is the only one in McHenry County. She sees her job as essential to good police work.



"It really assists the officers in being able to do their jobs because there's so much of what they have to deal with on the streets," she said. "Their short interface with the calls and with the people isn't always enough. They have other pressing matters to get to."
Officers give victims the basic information and resources, but can't follow up in their time of crisis, she added.


Crisis intervention


Whether it's counseling victims in the aftermath of a house fire or dealing with suicide, unexpected deaths, homelessness, alcohol and gambling addiction, having social workers on hand allows police departments to show victim sensibility, said Lark Syrris, Elgin's domestic violence case manager.


Handling victims well is key to preventing "the kinds of tragedies we are seeing in other police departments across the nation where they are mistreating people," she said. "Because we have practiced community-oriented policing and done prevention programs and nurtured relationships in the community, that is impactful. It has helped police officers understand the community and be more humane."


Smaller police departments that can't afford to hire their own social workers often contract out for crisis counseling services.


The nonprofit Association for Individual Development in Elgin provides victim services to police and fire departments in Aurora, North Aurora, Batavia, Geneva, Huntley, St. Charles and Lombard. The agency staffs a 24/7 crisis hotline for the Fox Valley area year-round and has a 30-minute response window, except in Lombard and Huntley.



"We use experts in the field, different agencies that deal with specific problems," said Joanne Furnas, AID's vice president of behavioral health services, who runs the crisis intervention team. "We do trainings about mental illness, stress management, suicide prevention intervention, and then we also offer debriefings for police and fire departments. There are very few calls that don't involve mental illness."


In Lake County, where there aren't any police social workers, law enforcement and social service agencies work together when responding to any domestic situation involving violence.


"Mental health is a big thing that the sheriff's office is really leading the charge on as far as our deputies being trained on crisis intervention," said Lake County Sheriff's Det. Christopher Covelli. "Our primary function when we respond to one of these incidences is stabilizing the environment and ensuring everybody's safety."


Authorities partner with social service agencies such as A Safe Place in Mundelein, OMNI Youth Services in Buffalo Grove and Nicasa behavioral health services, which provide necessary intervention and counseling for victims.


Last year, several sheriff's deputies, detectives, court security officers and jail personnel also received specialized crisis intervention training. Eventually, all members of the sheriff's office who interact with the public will go through the training, Covelli said.



Diversity challenges

With the increasing diversity of the suburbs, there also is a growing need for bilingual and multilingual social workers and those able to work with different cultures.


"It's incredibly important," said Natalia Mercado, a social worker Rolling Meadows hired to help with the town's growing Latino population. "Lots of police departments don't have bilingual social workers. There is a humongous need for people that speak more of the Asian languages. That's where the assistance of other agencies/nonprofits comes in. There's no way I can do this completely alone."


Mercado said she fields roughly 150 calls per week matching people with resources in the community.


"I can't do the therapy," she said. "Social services is a more intense thing. You have to spend more time with people. It's not just having an interpreter. It's building a relationship and connecting."

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Now, this article points to this MOVING FORWARD policy here in US as it was installed in USSR these few decades bringing STALINISM into power.  HITLER/MUSSOLINI/FRANCO---all those far-right wing DICTATORS----use these mental health issues for power against political enemies-----business enemies----or just to FLEX MUSCLES.  All last century those nations as in Eastern Europe, Arabia, Africa having those far-right DICTATORS installed were using these tactics HEAVILY.

We will look at these public policy issues in detail next week---but simply want to post information helpful in seguing to this subject.



"Politically defined madness"

How the Soviets used their own twisted version of psychiatry to suppress political dissent

George Dvorsky
9/04/12 10:00am




Over the course of its 69-year history, the Soviet Union was notorious for its heavy-handed suppression of political dissent — most infamously through its use of the Siberian GULAGs. But it was during the 1960s and 1970s that the Communist Party took their intolerance for ideological deviance to extremes by diagnosing and institutionalizing so-called counterrevolutionaries with mental illness. It was a frightening episode in Soviet history in which perfectly healthy citizens could be deemed psychotic simply on account of their political views.



And indeed, what better way to deal with activists and naysayers than to diagnose them as being mentally unstable. Dissenters, who were often seen as both a burden and a threat to the system, could be easily discredited and detained.


Moreover, it served as a powerful and disturbing way to convince the masses that they needed to adhere to the party line — and that any deviant thinking was surely a sign of mental instability. As Nikita Khrushchev noted in 1959, it should be impossible for people in a communist society to have an anti-communist consciousness, and "Of those who might start calling for opposition to Communism on this basis, we can say that clearly their mental state is not normal."



Consequently, it was around this time that Soviet definitions of mental disease were expanded to include political disobedience. But in the end, all it ever amounted to was a form of political abuse and repression. Anti-Soviet activists were not mentally ill — but instead the victims of politically inspired pseudoscience and the misuse of psychiatric diagnosis.




"Politically defined madness"



The advent of Soviet psychoprisons coincided with the rise in power and influence of the KGB, the infamous secret service wing of the Communist Party. They started to take an interest in medicine as a potential instrument of control as early as 1948 under the Stalin regime. The use of GULAGs was starting to fall out of favor, so it was around this time that the high-ranking KGB officer Andrey Vyshinsky ordered the use of psychiatry as a way to both quash dissent and still send a message to any would-be activists.



Indeed, psychiatry had great potential as a control mechanism — more so than other areas of medicine. The Communist Party was eager to take advantage. They knew that a diagnosis of mental illness could confer them broad powers by allowing them to detain persons against their will conduct therapy — all while proclaiming it to be within the interest of the "patient" and the broader interests of society.



Called psikhushkas, Soviet psychiatric wards were a place where dissenters could be both confined and treated for their perceived conditions. Psikhushkas soon became an integral part of the larger psychiatric system, in which genuine psychiatric science worked in parallel with the politically imposed version. To a degree, it became part of a two-tiered system in which psychiatry was used as a form of political repression (primarily operating out of the Moscow Institute for Forensic Psychiatry) and a more genuine psychiatry (as practiced in the Leningrad Psychoneurological Institute). Once in full swing, the new system became integrated in hundreds of hospitals across the Soviet Union.



The campaign adopted a greater sense of mission during the late 1960s when open dissention started to become more commonplace, most notably through the agitation of such thinkers and activists as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. KBG chairman Yuri Andropov, who went on to become Premier, called for a renewed struggle against "dissidents and their imperialist masters." To that end he outlined and implemented a plan that went into effect in 1969. Looking to wipe out political dissent in the Soviet Union once and for all, Andropov made sure that psychiatry would continue to be used as a tool in the struggle.



Specifically, he issued a decree on "measures for preventing dangerous behavior (acts) on the part of mentally ill persons." Consequently, psychiatrists were both empowered and expected to diagnose and confine anyone who fit the description of a political agitator. Doctors were even told to "haul" or "entrap" suspected dissenters, thus making them not only de facto arresting officers, but interrogators as well. Psychiatrists were compelled to come-up with diagnoses, allowing the police and the state to forego inconveniences such as due process and court judgments (such that they were at the time).



Sluggish schizophrenia


That said, Soviet doctors did use formal procedures to diagnoses their patients. The state, with the help of some overzealous psychiatrists, was considerate enough to provide a list of symptoms that could be used to make a diagnosis.



The most common of these was a condition called "sluggish schizophrenia," a psychological disorder that was developed by Andrei Snezhnevsky at the Moscow School of Psychiatry. Snezhnevsky agreed with the Communist Party's sentiment that citizens who opposed the Soviet regime must be mentally unwell since there could be no other logical rationale why anyone would oppose the world's greatest sociopolitical system.



Consequently, he came up with a form of schizophrenia that not only characterized political deviance as a failure to properly grasp reality, but one that could very easily be applied to anyone exhibiting contrarian tendencies. Specifically, they described it as "a continuous type [of schizophrenia] that is defined as unremitting, proceeding with either a rapid ("malignant") or a slow ("sluggish") progression and has a poor prognosis in both instances."



In other words, it was a pervasive, subtle, and pernicious kind of schizophrenia that couldn't be cured. Moreover, psychotic symptoms were not required for the diagnosis. Psychiatrists were told to look for other underlying conditions, such as psychopathy, hypochondria, and anxiety. But they were also on the lookout for such socially reprehensible traits like pessimism, poor social adaptation, conflict with authorities, "reform delusions," perseverance, and "struggles for truth and justice" — traits that could, on their own, be sufficient for a diagnosis.



According to Snezhnevsky, patients with sluggish schizophrenia could go unnoticed by the untrained eye and pass for regular folk — that they were "quasi-sane." It was only through a proper diagnosis by a trained professional that they could be identified.



In reality, it was a tool to isolate and imprison hundreds or thousands of political prisoners from the rest of society, discredit their ideas, and break them physically and mentally. It was nothing less than torture.


The imprisoned


The human toll inflicted by Soviet psychoprisons is one that's largely lost in history, but significant nonetheless. Some survivors, such as Viktor Nekipelov, have gone on to suggest that the those involved were "no better than the criminal doctors who performed inhuman experiments on the prisoners in Nazi concentration camps."

Other prominent dissidents included renowned Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov, poet Joseph Brodsky, Pyotr Grigorenko, Valery Tarsis, and Natalya Gorbanevskaya.



As for the exact scale of the practice, it is difficult to discern the numbers — but as work by historians continues a picture is starting to emerge.


According to the archives of the International Association on the Political Use of Psychiatry, no less than 20,000 citizens were hospitalized for political reasons — a number that most historians agree is likely low on account of unreleased documentation (there are a lot of people alive today who could be badly implicated by this information).


What is known is that, with the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s, the practice was (mostly) discontinued, leading to the release of many political prisoners. The year 1986 saw the release of 19 prisoners, followed by 64 in 1987. In 1988, it was announced that, of the 5.5 million Soviets listed on the psychiatric register, over 30% would be taken off the list. A year later the number was revised and shown to be closer to 10.2 million people registered at "psychoneurological dispensaries" — along with a whopping 335,200 hospital beds set aside.


And sadly, the practice has not gone completely out of favor in today's Russia, with some concerned that punitive psychiatry is making a comeback.



Disturbing episode for all of psychiatry



While it might be easy to dismiss this chapter of Soviet history as an interesting consequence of totalitarian and authoritarian politics, it also serves as a disturbing reminder of the normative nature of psychiatry and the assessment of psychiatric disorders. Mental health is a culturally sanctioned thing. Our definitions of mental health change over time depending on the values and morals of the society in question.



Today, our concerns are with those people who pose a threat to themselves and impose a burden on society, and in turn we've come to pathologize such things as gambling, depression, anxiety, and overeating. Looking to the future, it's not ridiculous to think we might do the same for shyness, extreme religious beliefs, or racial bigotry. But given the diversity of human culture and individual experience, could we ever in all fairness agree upon and impose a singular vision of what's mentally normal?

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Below we see several ideas of what MADNESS means to our 99% WE THE PEOPLE ----from several different people---we will remind our 99% WE THE WOMEN that sending a wife to a mental institution so a man could remarry was quite common and pyschiatric doctors were often obliged.

We all know MARCH MADNESS in basketball is indeed INSANE----well, maybe to some.  These definitions are called POLITICAL MADNESS because when we allow our local, state councils and assemblies do whatever a national CONGRESS tells it---as is MOVING FORWARD today-----then these DEFINITIONS OF MADNESS becomer LOOSEY GOOSEY.

We relate to the SCIENTIST at one time being thought MAD------today they are thought to be GENIUSES--



How is madness defined?

Before defining madness let's learn some quick facts:


  • Copernicus explained the sane guys that earth orbits the sun. Was declared insane.
  • Kepler explained the sane guys that Solar system is heliocentric. Was declared insane.
  • Avogadro explained the sane guys his gas laws. Rejected. Was declared insane
  • Oscar Wilde showed the sane guys his work. Died bankrupt. Was declared insane
  • Mendel gave his revolutionary laws of inheritance to the sane guys. Was declared insane.
  • Look at those mad guys trying to preserve nature rallying in front of your house. Asking for charity. Insane, huh?
  • Einstein, Boltzmann, Bill Gates, Zuckenberg at some point in their lives all of them were considered mad.
The time has come to define madness.
The degree or extent of any random emotion expressing craziness for your passion is called madness :) Period.
P.S. A person might be mad wrt a person but might be totally normal wrt some other. Find someone who understands you :)


Repeating the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.
A person in their personal behavior is much like a business/country/society. They need to pause at times and look back (so as not to go mad repeating something that isn’t working or won’t work). This is the basis of “conservative rational thinking”.

Can a society go mad?
Part of America being a historically conservative country, is that America looks back to see what succeeded here (and elsewhere) and what didn’t. This prevents repeating behaviors that ended with tragic results or prevented progress (which is like social madness).
And, that’s the core of conservativism…..doing unbiased research of what worked and what didn’t in the past and understanding why. It keeps us from going mad (inadvertently, at times, because research could have prevented it but that was not done).
Of course, we must teach our youth unbiased history too, so they don’t succumb to a utopian story when there is good historic research on that topic, avaialable.
I am actually a political centrist (I believe in letting people “discover and become themselves”) but there is little doubt that looking back can prevent a future disaster.
Looking back can also give excellent clues as to how to proceed in the future (that’s part of research and as an engineer, I believe in truly objective research…but not biased research).
Unproven utopian theories almost never work because they are inherently, too limited in scope and discard essential realities, thus they remain utopian.


Nothing defines madness, it is just a state of mind!
You might define madness differently, than what i think about it. Everyone has a specific limit for everything, and that limit decides what madness is!
Walking naked on the street might be just normal for someone, but for you it might be madness. This difference in our understanding is what defines it for everyone personally.
Everybody has a different “mind” nurtured differently, someone might be highly functional, not being able to understand the rules of this society and do something beyond its limit, most of the people might call him mad, or his act madness. It does not make him mad. While someone just completely dumb and people will call him mad.
Eventually there will be a time when a person will do something new, everyone will start calling him mad, but slowly they will follow and what they called madness will be perfectly normal.
People called scientist mad but now they call them geniuses.

MADNESS!!!
You ask me how would one define it?
HAHAHA!! I would say I’m the answer for your question buddy…
I’Am the answer…
Actually I would rather prefer to be crazy, not madness.
Cause If I would have not been crazy i would have been insane.
madness is when you have no plans but just do things.
be like a dog chasing a car who has no idea what to do with it if it caught it.
just do whatever you feel like doing just dont give a second thought to it,
and if you have to give a second thought to it never do it. Trust me you not gonna wanna do it and thats why you got yourself into dilemma .
When you’ll start doing this you you’ll fall in love with life and other will get jelly.
Why?
Cause they cant do what you are doing they can only think or dream of doing it.
and you’ll be living what they dream of.
and they call you crazy or mad.
peace



I don’t. I consider it an archaic word. I think Herman Melville mentions madness when writing about Captain Ahab’s monomania for Moby Dick. I’ll leave it there, in literature, for its dramatic effect.


madness can be better defined as utter confusion and restlessness.


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We NEVER use our personal experiences in our public policy discussions because we are speaking for all our US 99% identifying as REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES----but we want to use a few personal examples that allow our 99% to recognize a CANARY IN THE MINE----as people SPEAKING TRUTH are targeted by these far-right wing global banking 1% military/policing structures.

Our FB and WEBSITE followers come from all walks of life----some are wealthy----some middle class---some poor.  Some are 5% freemason/Greek players, some are not tied to these organizations----so we try to open discussion for all these population groups.


As a political group shouting against FREEMASONRY/GREEK as partners to global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS doing whatever EMPIRE ALICE says----killing our US and global 99% of citizens black, white, and brown citizens.  So, we hear bits and pieces from all kinds of places what THE NETWORK -----the freemasonry/Greek talking groups are saying.

A FEW WEEKS AGO WE HEAR THAT A WRITING ATTACK AGAINST A CINDY WALSH OF CITIZENS' OVERSIGHT MARYLAND WOULD OCCUR----AND VIOLA-----WE ARE HEARING MUCH OF WHAT THE NEGATIVE ATTACKS INCLUDE.


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Remember, this MOVING FORWARD global military junta including using MENTAL HEALTH to send people to a GULAG---or INSTITUTION is not happening now although our 99% of black citizens have faced these structures more than our white 99% in the past.

WE ARE IN NO WAY THREATENED BY THESE WRITTEN ATTACKS---WE ARE 'STICKS AND STONE'S PEOPLE AS ARE OUR REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES.

Cindy Walsh is a typical SCIENTIST/SCHOLAR-------I spend time alone-----always reading and writing-----never wanted to take time to have husband because my personality is one having me always wanting to spend time LEARNING NEW THINGS.

So, below we see just such a person----although he was quite the genius------his life devoted in these same ways.  The term MAD SCIENTIST stems from people so passionate for learning and discovery they forget all that everyday life around them.


Personally, Cindy Walsh is that HERSHEL scholar. Let's think how other people feeling they like being ALONE may be political defined as MAD.



AMERICAN MINUTEScience of the stars: 'An undevout astronomer is mad'Bill Federer recounts life, faith of man who discovered UranusPublished: 08/24/2018 at 8:19 PM
Bill Federer 
Sir William Herschel
William Herschel discovered the first planet since ancient antiquity in 1781. He desired to name the planet after King George III, though others wanted to give it his name, as Thomas Jefferson wrote from Paris to John Page, Aug. 20, 1785: “You will find in these the tables for the planet Herschel, as far as the observations hitherto made. … You will see … that Herschel was … the first astronomer who discovered it to be a planet.”
Born in Germany, Nov. 15, 1738, William Herschel was a musician like his father, who was bandmaster in the Hanoverian guard. A contemporary of Mozart, William Herschel fled to England during the Seven Years War. He was hired as the first organist at St. John the Baptist Church in Halifax, and then organist at the prestigious Octagon Chapel in Bath, eventually writing 24 symphonies.
William Herschel pursued astronomy on the side, building his own telescope to observe, not just the solar system, but “the construction of the heavens.” He taught himself how to grind and polish telescopic mirrors, becoming preeminent in that field.
William Herschel constructed over 400 telescopes, including the largest reflecting telescopes of his day, using them to catalog over 90,000 new stars, as well as nebulae and galaxies.
After discovering Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, King George III granted William Herschel a permanent salary as a royal astronomer. William Herschel identified double-stars, coined the word “asteroid,” meaning star-like, and discovered infrared radiation.
“The Scientific Papers of Sir William Herschel” (published by the Royal Society in 1912), recorded his diary entry of an argument over naturalistic philosophy: “The First Consul … asked in a tone of exclamation … when we were speaking of the extent of the sidereal heavens ‘and who is the author of all this.’ … LaPlace wished to shew that a chain of natural causes would account for the construction. … This the First Consul rather opposed. Much may be said on the subject; by joining the arguments of both we shall be led to ‘Nature and Nature’s God.'”
The Royal Society editor wrote in a footnote of Herschel’s missing letters: “Some 400 pages … are still extant. … We are informed that Herschel in them interweaves his philosophy and even his musical studies with references of an earnest kind to the Creator as a beneficent Deity, expressing his gratitude and addressing him in a prayerful spirit.”
William Herschel was made a Knight of the Royal Guelphic Order by Prince Regent, George IV, in 1816.
Sir William Herschel died in his observatory, Aug. 25, 1822. He was buried in St. Laurence Anglican Church in Slough, England, where a stained-glass “Herschel Window” commemorates his astronomical discoveries and another window quotes Psalm 8: “When I consider the heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained, what is man, that Thou art mindful of him?”
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A contemporary of Sir William Herschel was the famous English poet, Edward Young (1681-1765), whose poem “Night Thoughts” was published in 1742. The poem became so popular it was translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish and Magyar, and quoted throughout Europe and America.
Line 771 of Edward Young’s poem “Night Thoughts,” possibly referred to by Sir William Herschel, was:
By mortal ear, the glorious Architect,
In this His universal temple hung
With lustres, with innumerable lights,
That shed religion on the soul; at once,
The temple, and the preacher! O how loud
It calls devotion! genuine growth of Night!
Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!
An undevout astronomer is mad.

William Herschel’s sister, Caroline, assisted him and also discovered six comets herself, for which she was honored by royalty. William Herschel’s son, Sir John Frederick Herschel, took his father’s telescope to South Africa where he cataloged hundreds of new stars and nebulae seen from the southern hemisphere. When the HMS Beagle landed at Cape Town, South Africa, on June 3, 1836, the young Charles Darwin visited Sir John Frederick Herschel.
Sir John Frederick Herschel was quoted by Marcel de Serres in “On the Physical Facts in the Bible Compared with the Discoveries of the Modern Sciences” (The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1845, Vol. 38, 260): “All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the Sacred Writings.”
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We hear lots of writing attacks these few weeks aimed at making CINDY WALSH sound MAD--- these public policy discussions are not TRUE-----she is CRAZY.

One ongoing issue is my liking to wear a THICK SWEATER/LAYERS rather than wearing a COAT.  We want to say this----different regions of the US have different climates----different outdoor activities------many people in NORTHWEST/NORTHEAST/WESTERN MOUNTAINS are like me----they wear layers ---they wear THICK WOOLEN SWEATERS-----and not a coat. 

Now, when not wearing those sweaters ---we do wear a coat----the point is this----WE KEEP OURSELVES WARM.

The other issue over COAT VS SWEATER is public transportation vs car.  It is easy to take off a coat and leave in car------it is a pain in the neck to carry a coat while on public transit.

My mother was very dutiful--------she never allowed me to leave home without coat/gloves/hat----but as an adult I preferred different.

Why do I not wear a HAT?  Simply because it messes my HAIR---FLAT HAIR----simple vanity.

Do I get sick from all this?  NO. I have long periods with NO COLDS----I have ONE COLD a season often caught from a fellow commuter.




GearIt’s Time to Bring Wool Sweaters BackBy Abbie Barronian   |   October 3, 2017
The most-mocked member of the outdoor community isn’t, as you might believe, the kook or the jerry. It isn’t the stoned liftie or the suburnt tourist. It’s the classic wool sweater, maybe with a deer or a few skiers knitted into it. You only see them when they rear their cozy, nubby heads at gaper day, at parties dedicated to laughing at how ugly they are, or stacked up in thrift stores with rear-entry ski boots and decomposing wetsuits.
They used to be the layer of choice for everyone from Yosemite climbers of lore to Aspen skiers of the 1980s, but somewhere along the line they fell out of vogue, replaced by synthetic, machine-washable quarter zips misleadingly known as “fleeces,” despite the fact that they usually come from a derivative of plastic rather than, you know, an actual sheep.
I religiously wear wool socks skiing and hiking. Unless I’m running (which usually means I won’t be out in the wilderness for more than a few hours), I wouldn’t dare let anything else touch my feet. Wool keeps me warm even when it’s wet, it lasts forever, it (usually) doesn’t smell, and–bonus!–it’s possible to harvest sustainably. (Ever trace polyester to the source? It’s most commonly made out polyethylene terephthalate, a plastic derived from crude oil. Gross.)
ADVERTISEMENTSo when and why did we leave wool sweaters to grandparents’ closets and costume parties? It’s time to re-introduce the most classic layering piece to your outdoor wardrobe, because it never should have left.
ADVERTISEMENTLast winter, I was at an outerwear test in Utah and our massive group took a mellow, in-bounds evening tour to eat fondue atop Brighton mountain at sunset (and, of course, to test out gear on the uphill). Everyone was kitted out in the newest, techiest ski clothing out there. Except my friend Caitlin, a ripping skier from the Adirondacks with a penchant for anything low-maintenance, and brightly colored. She had a giant hand-knitted, wildly patterned wool sweater in her pack. When the sun went down, everyone shivered in their featherlight down and Gore-Tex, and Caitlin grinned in her chunky, super-cozy sweater. It wasn’t lightweight or slick, but it was warm, comfortable, fit in her pack, and looked awesome.
Cotopaxi crowd-funded a modern take on the do-anything wool sweater, the Libre Sweater, made of llama wool, for those of you who aren’t quite ready to jump on the throwback, hand-made train. It’s lightweight and packable–I’ve carried it into the backcountry on multiple occasions–with a super-classic design. Tiny holes in the back knit to keep your back cool and well-ventilated with a pack on (or when you’re just in that weird cold-but-still-sweating place). It’s awesome for skiing, hiking, hanging around camp, cold climbing days, and bike rides around town, it doesn’t pick up smell, and when I sweat in it, it still keeps me warm. No, it’s not some super-technical mid-layer with vents and special panels of down and taped zippers. But you know what? That’s why I like it.
In fact, you don’t even need to buy a wool sweater from a dedicated outdoors brand to benefit from what the Libre’s got going on. The best part about a wool sweater, just like a flannel shirt, is that it’s just a normal piece of clothing. I like technical clothing that makes me look like a way better athlete than I am just as much as the next gal, but it’s easy to get just a little sick of slick. Sometimes I just want to wear clothes, not gear. And the wool sweater, weather you’re layering up at the campfire, setting out on a brisk alpine start, or spinning in-bounds laps, will do you proud. Reindeer and pom-pom hat wearing skiers not necessary–but they certainly spice things up a bit.

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One of the most COMMON mis-uses of POLITICALLY DEFINED MADNESS is aimed at people who seem to be alone----seem to have no family or friends. We hear this constantly on THE NETWORK in describing Cindy Walsh. I have lots of relationships with people from early years ----from times in living in cities across the country-----so being a LONE WOLF-----is not who I am. This STIGMA is very, very often used when mental health policy goes FAR-RIGHT HITLER/STALINIST FASCIST.



We discussed in detail how these new mental health policies of POLICE AS SOCIAL WORKER do indeed target those vulnerable and alone. We shout loudly against MOVING FORWARD goals tied to targeting people alone.
Again, CINDY WALSH is not fearful from these few weeks of writing attacks on THE NETWORK----we know these policies will not come in force for a decade or two. THEY WILL KILL HER we hear-----KNOW WHAT? The chances of MY getting killed in Baltimore -----HIGHLY UNLIKELY but not a surety---because we have shootings almost every day tied to our Baltimore 99% poor trying to survive CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA US CITIES AS FAILED STATE ECONOMICS.


Please don't allow all this propaganda aimed squarely at creating FEAR stop us from STANDING UP AND BEING US CITIZENS----we need to simply STOP MOVING FORWARD.

Please be careful how all these global banking 1% FADS are now making people think they are LONERS WITH NO SUPPORT.



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No matter the religion or even lack of it-------WINTER has had a FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS built into communal society for thousands of years. LOVE AND LIGHT-------

Know what? Even paganism is tied to PEACE, LOVE, AND UNDERSTANDING-----CIVIL SOCIETIES.


CITIZENS' OVERSIGHT MARYLAND does indeed bring lots of HOBBE GOBBLINS FROM FILLORY into play but don't allow all this public policy discussion keep our US and global 99% from

HAVING VISIONS OF SUGARPLUMS DANCING IN OUR HEADS----GOOD HAS ALWAYS CONQUERED EVIL.


We will be out of town until after XMAS be back later next week.

BLESSED TIMES WHATEVER YOUR RELIGION OR LACK OF IT.
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We are discussing FINANCIAL public policy tied to BUILDING THE INTERNET OF EVERYTHING----5G----looking at the 4 WAVES OF DEVELOPMENT.  Below we see the SECOND WAVE----this is everything from GROCERY DISCOUNT CARDS we swipe to save money----to ATM data---to electronic data from automobile operations and maintenance.  We have cars tied to COMPUTERS we all know make the car more expensive to maintain---less dependable in operations and dependability----but that computer MOVED FORWARD the development of SMART BUSINESS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.   When global banking 1% makes it a FAD to move all our 99% WE THE PEOPLE small businesses online-------it is creating the SECOND WAVE OF BUSINESS A.I-------all that online small business creating data being feed for SUPER-DUPER COMPUTER BIG DEAD HEADS-----busy INTERGRATING all this business transaction data.



'The second wave is “business A.I.” Here, algorithms can be trained on proprietary data sets ranging from customer purchases to machine maintenance records to complex business processes—and ultimately lead managers to improved decision-making'

A TV show like YOUR FIRED-------HELL'S KITCHEN ----COOKING SHOWS created detailed data for HOW TO RUN A BUSINESS.  Those shows were never created to DEMOCRATIZE TV----they were created to set the stage for MEGA-DATA ----BUSINESS A.I.  Today, AMAZON.COM requires its employees to wear movement  SMART wands just to capture every movement done on any one job.  Most of our INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING has captured these DATA and today SUPER-DUPER BIG DEAD HEADS are creating networks to train ROBOTICS -----to build BIO-MIMACRY/BIO-FABRICATION/BIO-HYBRID into that SMART CITIES infrastructure creating proper channels.

THIS SECOND WAVE RAN THROUGHOUT THESE FEW DECADES OF CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA AND MUCH OF THAT DATA IS CAPTURED.



'The fourth wave is the most monumental but also the most difficult: “autonomous A.I.” Integrating all previous waves, autonomous A.I. gives machines the ability to sense and respond to the world around them, to move intuitively, and to manipulate objects as easily as a human can'.

We have discussed these past few days much of where this 4TH WAVE is today and as we stated most jobs are geared and ready for replacement by robotics.  BUILDING THE NETWORK OF INTEGRATING for basic tasks are a near reality.


THE NEXT STEP IN INTEGRATION 4TH WAVE------having robots working along side HUMANS where HUMAN actions and activities are shared and transferred.

As usual ------the statement below is a LIE.



'humans will always be needed for tasks that require manipulation, and to tell the robots what to do'.



IT Infrastructure



More Robotics Are Moving into the Work Place

– But Humans Don’t Have to Worry



As robotics are appearing in more workspaces, humans are morphing their relationship with these technologies to complete tasks faster and more efficiently.


December 27, 2017 Jessica Messier





According to Wired, buying your holiday gifts through online retailers like Amazon is putting more robotics to work.




“Robots shuttle cabinets of goods around warehouses. Other robots scan barcodes to do inventory. And, increasingly, robotic arms do what once only humans could: Sort through a vast array of oddly-shaped objects to compile large orders, all to be shipped to you,” the article says.



While these robots are working more, they are also evolving. For example, Wired says that the new robots in Amazon’s fulfillment centers are more advanced, nuanced and collaborative with their human co-workers.

However, human workers don’t have to worry about robots taking over their jobs; robots still don’t have the physical capability to do some tasks, such as moving items from bins into boxes – something the human hand can do. Robots also don’t have the ability to listen and vocalize as they work.


What decision makers need to know:



Even though robots aren’t expected to take over human work completely, businesses are starting to consider how robotics can fit into their workflows. For example, Wired reports that a startup called Kindred is teaching warehouse robots two techniques: one, called imitation learning, involves engineers steering the robot to show how best to grasp a wide range of objects found at a marketplace like Amazon; the second, called reinforcement learning, involves robots taking what they’ve learned and through trial and error further hone in their new skills, both for speed and accuracy. These skills, among others, help businesses complete their tasks and fulfill orders, such as a shopper’s Christmas list, faster and more effectively; Amazon uses 100,000 robots to fill customers’ orders, Wired says.



Decision makers also don’t have to worry about choosing between hiring human employees and hiring more robotic help – humans will always be needed for tasks that require manipulation, and to tell the robots what to do. The robot-human working relationship will continue to change and differentiate – humans might move into more creative roles in the future, while robots take on more tasks that require automation.
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This stage of 4TH WAVE may take another decade----not much longer. The science of channeling data is further developed because it is tied to INTERNET structures----

When will robotics control the assembly line of manufacturing robots?  As soon as all that DATA from our K-university technology classes and vocational workshops are channeled into a new NETWORK.  So, RACE TO THE TOP COMMONER CORE online courses are designed to educate ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE more than our 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens.


'Trading off exploration and exploitation'

As our K-12 public school students work hard in technical vocational classes with all that THINKING AND DOING----it is all being captured as MEGA DATA with a goal of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REPLACING HUMANS.

This is called EXPLOITATION.


The job of FAR-RIGHT WING global banking 5% freemason/Greek players as academics is to write and create FAKE DATA selling all these IMMORAL/UNETHICAL/ATTACKS ON COMMON GOOD policies as having SOCIAL BENEFIT.



Bioethics


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bioethics is the study of the ethical issues emerging from advances in biology and medicine. It is also moral discernment as it relates to medical policy and practice. Bioethics are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, and philosophy. It includes the study of values ("the ethics of the ordinary") relating to primary care and other branches of medicine. Ethics relates to many other sciences and bio sciences.

BEFORE global banking 1% send in CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA to dismantle and corporatize our strong US PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES------we had REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE LOCKEAN academics as BIOETHICISTS publishing the 5Ws of whether corporate research was PUBLIC GOOD.  This is why last century most industrial development was COMMON GOOD.  These few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA killed that LEFT COMMON GOOD VOICE-----and filled our US universities with far-right wing global banking 1% players PRETENDING CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT was COMMON GOOD when it was not.

MIT is top gun for FAKE DATA hiding and lying for global banking 1% in research and development ---especially surrounding ONE WORLD ONE SMART ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID.


This is why today in US we have no REAL LEFT BIOETHICISTS----ergo, we have US national media and universities filling our heads with FAKE DATA ---FAKE NEWS. The technology for channeling human movement and actions is well in place----this part of 4TH WAVE will end soon.


Model helps robots navigate more like humans do


MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY



When moving through a crowd to reach some end goal, humans can usually navigate the space safely without thinking too much. They can learn from the behavior of others and note any obstacles to avoid. Robots, on the other hand, struggle with such navigational concepts.



MIT researchers have now devised a way to help robots navigate environments more like humans do. Their novel motion-planning model lets robots determine how to reach a goal by exploring the environment, observing other agents, and exploiting what they’ve learned before in similar situations. A paper describing the model was presented at this week’s IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).



Popular motion-planning algorithms will create a tree of possible decisions that branches out until it finds good paths for navigation. A robot that needs to navigate a room to reach a door, for instance, will create a step-by-step search tree of possible movements and then execute the best path to the door, considering various constraints. One drawback, however, is these algorithms rarely learn: Robots can’t leverage information about how they or other agents acted previously in similar environments.


“Just like when playing chess, these decisions branch out until [the robots] find a good way to navigate. But unlike chess players, [the robots] explore what the future looks like without learning much about their environment and other agents,” says co-author Andrei Barbu, a researcher at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines (CBMM) within MIT’s McGovern Institute. “The thousandth time they go through the same crowd is as complicated as the first time. They’re always exploring, rarely observing, and never using what’s happened in the past.”


The researchers developed a model that combines a planning algorithm with a neural network that learns to recognize paths that could lead to the best outcome, and uses that knowledge to guide the robot’s movement in an environment.




In their paper, “Deep sequential models for sampling-based planning,” the researchers demonstrate the advantages of their model in two settings: navigating through challenging rooms with traps and narrow passages, and navigating areas while avoiding collisions with other agents. A promising real-world application is helping autonomous cars navigate intersections, where they have to quickly evaluate what others will do before merging into traffic. The researchers are currently pursuing such applications through the Toyota-CSAIL Joint Research Center.




“When humans interact with the world, we see an object we’ve interacted with before, or are in some location we’ve been to before, so we know how we’re going to act,” says Yen-Ling Kuo, a PhD in CSAIL and first author on the paper. “The idea behind this work is to add to the search space a machine-learning model that knows from past experience how to make planning more efficient.”



Boris Katz, a principal research scientist and head of the InfoLab Group at CSAIL, is also a co-author on the paper.


Trading off exploration and exploitation


Traditional motion planners explore an environment by rapidly expanding a tree of decisions that eventually blankets an entire space. The robot then looks at the tree to find a way to reach the goal, such as a door. The researchers’ model, however, offers “a tradeoff between exploring the world and exploiting past knowledge,” Kuo says.



The learning process starts with a few examples. A robot using the model is trained on a few ways to navigate similar environments. The neural network learns what makes these examples succeed by interpreting the environment around the robot, such as the shape of the walls, the actions of other agents, and features of the goals. In short, the model “learns that when you’re stuck in an environment, and you see a doorway, it’s probably a good idea to go through the door to get out,” Barbu says.



The model combines the exploration behavior from earlier methods with this learned information. The underlying planner, called RRT*, was developed by MIT professors Sertac Karaman and Emilio Frazzoli. (It’s a variant of a widely used motion-planning algorithm known as Rapidly-exploring Random Trees, or  RRT.) The planner creates a search tree while the neural network mirrors each step and makes probabilistic predictions about where the robot should go next. When the network makes a prediction with high confidence, based on learned information, it guides the robot on a new path. If the network doesn’t have high confidence, it lets the robot explore the environment instead, like a traditional planner.



For example, the researchers demonstrated the model in a simulation known as a “bug trap,” where a 2-D robot must escape from an inner chamber through a central narrow channel and reach a location in a surrounding larger room. Blind allies on either side of the channel can get robots stuck. In this simulation, the robot was trained on a few examples of how to escape different bug traps. When faced with a new trap, it recognizes features of the trap, escapes, and continues to search for its goal in the larger room. The neural network helps the robot find the exit to the trap, identify the dead ends, and gives the robot a sense of its surroundings so it can quickly find the goal.



Results in the paper are based on the chances that a path is found after some time, total length of the path that reached a given goal, and how consistent the paths were. In both simulations, the researchers’ model more quickly plotted far shorter and consistent paths than a traditional planner.



Working with multiple agents


In one other experiment, the researchers trained and tested the model in navigating environments with multiple moving agents, which is a useful test for autonomous cars, especially navigating intersections and roundabouts. In the simulation, several agents are circling an obstacle. A robot agent must successfully navigate around the other agents, avoid collisions, and reach a goal location, such as an exit on a roundabout.


“Situations like roundabouts are hard, because they require reasoning about how others will respond to your actions, how you will then respond to theirs, what they will do next, and so on,” Barbu says. “You eventually discover your first action was wrong, because later on it will lead to a likely accident. This problem gets exponentially worse the more cars you have to contend with.”


Results indicate that the researchers’ model can capture enough information about the future behavior of the other agents (cars) to cut off the process early, while still making good decisions in navigation. This makes planning more efficient. Moreover, they only needed to train the model on a few examples of roundabouts with only a few cars. “The plans the robots make take into account what the other cars are going to do, as any human would,” Barbu says.


Going through intersections or roundabouts is one of the most challenging scenarios facing autonomous cars. This work might one day let cars learn how humans behave and how to adapt to drivers in different environments, according to the researchers. This is the focus of the Toyota-CSAIL Joint Research Center work.


“Not everybody behaves the same way, but people are very stereotypical. There are people who are shy, people who are aggressive. The model recognizes that quickly and that’s why it can plan efficiently,” Barbu says.


More recently, the researchers have been applying this work to robots with manipulators that face similarly daunting challenges when reaching for objects in ever-changing environments.
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We want to return to yesterday's article which was indeed written by a global banking 5% freemason/Greek player to plant SEEDS for coming events.  Global banking 1% have always kept HIDDEN the wheeling and dealings in MINERALS AND ORES ----when CONGRESS passes funding for major infrastructure projects ----the cost of those METALS AND MINERALS soar.  They will say OH, CHINA HAS ALL THOSE MINERALS---WE NEED TO GO TO WAR-----or they will say THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE has used all its MINERALS -----NO PRODUCTS FOR YOU. 


'Is the Era of Mass Manufacturing Coming to an End?

hbr.org/2014/12/is-the-era-of-mass-manufacturing-coming-to-an-end Dec 5, 2014 ...



After two or three centuries during which manufacturing consolidated into larger and larger enterprises, technology is restoring opportunities for
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The truth is this:  if we return to building our 20th century electric/phone/TV/Radio infrastructure we would conserve what are LIMITED RARE EARTH MINERALS and have all the UTILITIES we need.  RARE EARTH MINERALS are indeed becoming more scarce----MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE SMART ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID will deplete those RARE EARTH minerals likely by the end of this century ----definitely next century.

THOSE GLOBAL BANKING 1% OLD WORLD KINGS BUILDING INDUSTRY FOR ONLY THE GLOBAL 1% ----SERVICES, PRODUCTS BECAUSE THEY KNOW THESE RESOURCES ARE LIMITED.

So, this article states the obvious-------we cannot have CELL PHONES/SMART PHONES for 99% of WE THE PEOPLE in the future-----SMART PHONES were only research and development to build a CONTROL PANEL.






'High-Tech can’t last: Limited minerals & metals essential for wind, solar, microchips, cars, & other high-tech gadgets

Posted on February 26, 2014 by energyskeptic




Metals and minerals aren’t just physically limited, they can be economically limited by a financial collapse, which dries up credit and the ability to borrow for new projects to mine and crush ores. Economic collapse drives companies and even nations out of business, disrupting supply chains'.


There is no intention of our 99% or those global banking 5% to own and operate SMART SELF DRIVING VEHICLES beyond development stages.

So, global banking 1% and its US NATIONAL FAKE DATA AND MEDIA outlets are fast selling the idea of WINNERS AND LOSERS----when even the global 2% WILL BE LOSERS.

Just as with every continuous war these several decades, global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS KNIGHTS OF MALTA TRIBE OF JUDAH are already creating FAKE reasons for what we knew decades ago is the coming WW3------where Asia will be involved in wars ---not only Eastern and Western Europe---Arabia/Africa.

CHINA has fueled the supply these few decades of TECHNOLOGY industry in metals and minerals. They have as limited supply as WEST but the WEST has its fair share.



China can’t control the market in rare earth elements because they aren’t all that rare

 You can’t handle the truth (about rare earth elements)



By James Vincent@jjvincent Apr 17, 2018, 12:03pm EDT


If you need to know one thing about rare earth metals, it’s that they’re crucial to modern technology, helping power everything from MRI machines and satellites to headphones and nuclear reactors. If you need to know two things, it’s that despite their name, they’re not at all rare.


This second fact is crucial when putting recent headlines about these 17 oddly named elements in proper context. Last week, many publications covered the news that a Japanese team of scientists had found a huge trove of rare earth elements off the coast of the country’s Minamitori Island. Some 16 million tons were estimated to be lurking in the deep-sea mud, enough to meet global demand on a “semi-infinite basis,” said the researchers.


This news was positioned as having great geopolitical significance. China currently produces more than 90 percent of the world’s supply of rare earth materials (the exact figure tends to fluctuate year-by-year), and in the event of a conflict, said reports, it could jack up prices for the West and its allies, or even shut them out altogether. In this eventuality, the Minamitori hoard would be a lifeline. “It is important to secure our own source of resources, given how China controls the prices,” Professor Yutaro Takaya Waseda, who led the Japanese research team, told The Wall Street Journal.




But experts say the narrative here is wrong. Despite appearances, the Minamitori find is not as significant as headlines have implied. And although China seems to wield great power over this critical global supply chain, the truth is that the country can’t just bring the West to its knees by limiting the export of rare earth elements. We know this pretty conclusively because it tried this in 2010, and it didn’t work out. In both cases, the overlooked factor is just how difficult it is to produce rare earth elements, compared to how easy it is to find them.


An aerial view of Minamitori Island taken in 1987. The rare earth ores were discovered in the seabed near the island.


 
The name “rare earth” is a historical misnomer, stemming from that when they first discovered, they were difficult to extract from surrounding matter. The USGS (United States Geological Survey) describes rare earth elements as “moderately abundant,” meaning that although they’re not as common as elements like oxygen, silicon, aluminum, and iron (which together make up 90 percent of the Earth’s crust), they’re still well dispersed around the planet.

OH, REALLY?????

The rare earth element of cerium, for example, is the 25th most abundant on Earth, making it about as common as copper. But unlike copper and similarly well-known elements, such as gold and silver, rare earths don’t clump together in single-element lumps. Instead, because of their similar chemical composition (15 of the 17 rare earth elements occupy consecutive places on the periodic table), they bond freely with one another in minerals and clays.

WE SUGGEST THAT RARE EARTH MAY BE AS COMMON AS COPPER---BECAUSE THESE COMMON METALS ARE ALMOST DEPLETED.



As the academic David S. Abraham explains in his book The Elements of Power, this makes for a grueling extraction process. To create rare earths from the ore that contains them, this material has to be dissolved in solutions of acids, over and over again, then filtered, and dissolved once more. “The goal is not so much to remove rare earths from the mix as to remove everything else,” writes Abraham.


Rare earth ore goes through these steps hundreds and hundreds of times, and for each new mining location, the concentration of the acids used has to be recalculated in order to target the specific impurities in the soil. To top it off, the whole process produces any number of nasty chemical byproducts and is radioactive.



Processing rare earths involves a lot of time, acid, and radioactivity

The whole process is “expensive, difficult, and dangerous,” says former rare earth trader and freelance journalist Tim Worstall. He tells The Verge that, because of this, the West has been more or less happy to cede production of rare earths to China. From the 1960s to the ‘80s, the US did actually supply the world with these elements; all extracted from a single mine in California named Mountain Pass. But in the ‘90s, China entered the market and drove down prices, making Mountain Pass unprofitable and leading to its closure in 2002.


Worstall says there are many reasons production moved overseas. Some of these are familiar: cheap labor costs and a willingness to overlook environmental damage, for example. But there’s also the fact that rare earth production in China is often a byproduct of other mining operations. “The biggest plant there is actually an iron ore mine which extracts rare earths on the side,” says Worstall. This means that, unlike the Mountain Pass mine, producers aren’t reliant on a single product. “If you are trying to only produce rare earths, then you’re subject to the swings and roundabouts of the market.”

Global production of rare earth oxides from 1950 to 2000.



Image: USGS
All this looks like it gives China immense power over the market, but the truth is the world is benefiting at China’s expense. Proof of this came in 2010 when China did actually start limiting rare earth exports because of a dispute with Japan. This threat to the supply chain caused prices to rise, and so investment flowed into new and old rare earth mining projects. Meanwhile, consumers of rare earths like Hitachi and Mitsubishi altered their products to use less of each substance.


In other words, when China tried to take advantage of its monopoly and limit supply, the rest of the world picked up the slack. As a think tank report on the fallout from the 2010 incident put it: “Even with such apparently favorable circumstances, market power and political leverage proved fleeting and difficult [for China] to exploit.” Markets responded and “the problem rapidly faded.” (Money even flowed back into Mountain Pass for a while, although the company in charge, Molycorp, collapsed in 2015 when rare earth prices fell back to 2010 levels.)



The Minamitori find just isn’t as significant as it first appearsSo what does all this mean for last week’s news? Well, mostly that it’s not as important as it might first appear. There are plenty of other sources for these elements, and ways to circumvent China’s control of the global supply. Worstall, writing for The Continental Telegraph, points out that last week’s find is nearly identical to one announced by some of the same Japanese scientists in 2011, and he tells The Verge that although the sea bed is most likely home to many rare earth elements, there’s still the challenge of processing the stuff and actually getting it out of the sea and into a usable form.



In a paper describing the Minamitori find published in Nature Scientific Reports, the Japanese suggest a hydrocycle could use centrifugal forces to quickly separate out a lot of the unnecessary materials in the sea mud. But this method is unproven.



“Nobody has ever done it before, and no-one has proved it can work at an industrial scale,” says Professor Frances Wall of the Exeter University’s Camborne School of Mines. Wall tells The Verge that the Japanese team are doing “some nice work,” but says a huge amount of research has yet to be done before the seabed becomes a reliable source of these important elements. “There have been literally hundreds of exploration projects [that have found rare earth metals] and they’ve not been able to go forward through production because they can’t prove they’ll make any money,” says Wall .




Worstall sums up the situation by saying “in mining, there are just two things: dirt and ore. Your back garden contains dirt, because it would cost more to extract the rare earths from it then you would make selling them on. The moment it costs less to extract those rare earths, that dirt becomes ore. But what have the Japanese have found? At the moment, it’s still dirt.”

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When we shout to our global 99% of WE THE PEOPLE living overseas that those dastardly global banking 1% ASIAN OLD WORLD KINGS are as much a SHIP OF FOOLS as our Western OLD WORLD KINGS-----this is what we mean.  Yes, China has the same LIMITED amount of RARE EARTH minerals needed to build ONE WORLD ONE SMART ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID----but so too does the WEST.  We have CALIFORNIA'S PGE burning down mountain forests to get to them---we have burning of AMAZON FORESTS to get to them---we have burning of NORTHWEST TERRITORY BOREAL FORESTS to get to them---we have watched continuous wars in Afghanistan TO GET TO RARE EARTH MINERALS.  So, the European/Russian OLD WORLD KINGS have the same as CHINESE---and BOTH SHIPS OF FOOLS will deplete all those nations have to MOVE FORWARD these SMART CITIES because both are tied to PLANETARY MINING SLAVE COLONIES.

So, the global 1% ASIAN OLD KINGS are NOT enemies of global 1% of Western OLD WORLD KINGS---they are playing the FOOLS in FOLLOW THESE BLIND AMBITION LEADERS.

REMEMBER, MOVING FORWARD SMART CITIES AS FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES HAVE A GOAL OF DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS---PUSHING SEVERAL BILLION OF WORLD'S POPULATION INTO WHAT WILL BE A DEADLY----TOXIC----ENSLAVING ENVIRONMENT.



Five Chinese smart cities leading the way


China’s cities are using AI-directed traffic, smart parking and cashless payments to improve citizen services.

By Chia Jie Lin
10 Jul 2018
Security


Across the world, over a thousand smart city pilots have been launched. China is home to half of these cities, amounting to a staggering 500 pilots.



The country’s smart city ambitions have been predominantly powered by private-sector giants, which has enabled cities across China to rapidly enhance their tech and innovation capabilities to meet citizen needs.



GovInsider shares five Chinese cities leading the way.


1. Hangzhou’s “City Brain”


Launched in 2016, the Hangzhou “City Brain” project, created by Chinese retail and tech company Alibaba, uses cameras systems and sensors across the city to collect data on road conditions in real-time. The data is fed to an AI hub, which then manages traffic signals at 128 intersections, and helps city officials make better decisions at a faster rate.


By pulling from traffic and weather data, the City Brain analyses real-time traffic flow to regulate traffic signals at over 100 intersections.


For instance, the system tracks ambulances en-route to hospitals and turns all red lights in its path to green, allowing patients to receive timely emergency care. The City Brain has since halved travelling times for ambulances and commuters, and cut travel times on highways by 4.6 minutes.



The programme has also allowed the city’s traffic police to work more efficiently. They use data from the AI hub to arrive at accident sites and respond to traffic violations faster. “The City Brain can detect accidents within a second, and we can arrive at the site in 5 minutes,” said Zheng Yijiong, China’s first traffic policeman to control traffic flows with an AI partner.


2. Cloud platforms and smart parking in Shanghai

Shanghai is streamlining government services for their residents through Citizen Cloud, a cloud-based platform that doubles as a mobile app. The cloud platform aggregates and provides easy access to over 100 government services for Shanghai residents, which includes drivers’ license information, healthcare records and a wide range of community services.



By December 2017, approximately one-third of Shanghai’s population, or seven million users, have begun using the platform and app to access essential public services.



The city has also developed a big data exchange platform, where companies can purchase open data collected from the city’s cameras and sensors. These companies will then use the data to develop public information tools, dashboards and other services to improve the quality of life in the city.


Parking has also become an important issue in urban cities as car populations continue to skyrocket, outpacing the supply of available public parking spots.
To solve Shanghai’s public parking woes, Chinese tech giant Huawei launched a smart parking network that allows car users to find, book and pay for nearby parking spots, simply from an all-in-one smartphone app.


Chip-sets are embedded beneath parking spaces in over 300 parking lots across the city, which collate and transmit real-time information on the occupancy rate of parking lots to car drivers through the app. Rather than search for available parking spots while driving through town, drivers can look up nearby vacancies on the app and then pay to use them.



The smart parking network eases potential congestions caused by frustrated drivers who seek parking spaces, and lowers manpower costs traditionally incurred from hiring toll collectors and parking supervisors.


3. Go cashless in Beijing


Why commute with subway tickets or use cash when you can pay with your phone?


Beijing is leading the front on cashless payments, pioneering the use of mobile payments for public transport and retail. For one, Huawei has rolled out mobile payments across major cities like Beijing through the Huawei Pay app.


The app directly links to public transport cards, or preloaded fares, and credit cards, allowing commuters to pay by simply tapping their smartphones at metro gantries, convenience stores and retail shops.


Since August 2017, all Beijing subway lines, which see a total ridership of 10 million daily, have begun supporting mobile payments for metro rides. Rather than buy subway tickets, passengers can enter the subway by swiping their phones.



4. Guangzhou, China’s startup capital


Home to 140,000 technology enterprises, Guangzhou is spearheading China’s innovation and startup movement. “Over 11,000 businesses are nurtured by various incubators and group innovation space,” said Gong Hongwu, Director General of Guangzhou Science, Technology and Innovation Commission.



The city is developing tech and innovation capabilities through various ambitious projects. For instance, construction is currently underway for the Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City, which will comprise of hi-tech business parks, commercial and public amenities, and housing for 500,000 residents.



The city has also launched a regional health information platform that collects patient records from five municipal hospitals and another five grassroots institutions. It currently stores over 8 million electronic health records of Guangzhou residents. The platform allows hospitals and patients to easily access relevant healthcare records when needed.



Major hospitals in Guangzhou have launched a smart medical app, a one-stop online platform where citizens can make appointments, pay hospital fees and access other healthcare services. People can also have prescription medicines delivered to their home, after paying for them through WeChat Pay.



“Medical services are just one click away; you can just stay at home and have all these services come to you”, said Cai Chaolin, Vice Mayor of Guangzhou, in an exclusive interview with GovInsider.



Guangzhou has also launched the “Digital Education City” platform, a smart campus pilot at the primary and secondary levels, reports the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union (ITU).


The campus cloud platform integrates over 30 education application systems, and stores over 90% of teacher data, as well as all student records. The system allows teachers to manage their teaching and research materials, while students can access homework and student records. It has been implemented in 78 schools, providing essential campus services for 150,000 students and teachers.



5. Managing migrations to Xi’an

China is in the midst of its largest rural to urban migration yet, and cities are learning to respond to these demands.



Xi’an is using big data analytics to track population movements from rural towns to the city itself, ITU reports. By understanding the backgrounds and occupations of their new citizens through data analytics, the city government hopes to create public services that cater to the needs of their new migrants.


As Chinese cities continue to rapidly urbanise, private sector innovation can help cities become smarter, faster, and more inclusive for citizens.
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The 4TH WAVE of SMART DEVELOPMENT includes the problem of getting HUMANS to MARS PLANETARY MINING COLONIES alive------and keeping them alive long enough to do some work.

We have discussed in detail often the goals of TELEMEDICINE not being COMMON GOOD but to advance these BIOMIMICRY/BIOFABRICATIONS/BIOHYBRID medicine to create a structure they think will allow a HUMAN to survive transport----and live a short time on these MARS COLONIES.

Deliberately exposing HUMANS to 5G ground level saturation of MICROWAVES does two things.  First, it will bring an early death to those several billion world citizens pushed inside SMART CITIES GLOBAL FACTORIES----but as important it allows MEDICAL STUDIES of HUMANS exposed to high-level microwaves----that is the atmosphere of MARS.


Global banking 1% have a RUSH ORDER to complete the parts of SMART CITIES bringing all that saturated microwave atmosphere---ergo, all of what is today---5G infrastructure.  Technology development for THESE 5G installations are ready to go-----global banking 5% freemason/Greek players simply have to keep PRETENDING there is 99% COMMON GOOD in MOVING FORWARD.

INFRASTRUCTURE FOR 5G SMART CITIES CAN BE INSTALLED IN A FEW DECADES IF WE CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD.

There is almost NO PUBLIC HEALTH benefit in these 5G structures-----lots and lots and lots of PUBLIC HEALTH DEVASTATION.




  • 04.01.11
Innovative Nature: Baking Biomimicry In


Mother Nature has a product development process we would do well to emulate, she has in effect solved many sustainable design questions already if we examine her systems.


By Jody Turner


I met Jake Cook after sharing content at the
innovative HatchFest.org, a creativity/film
festival gathering held in Bozman, Montana. Innovation can happen anywhere and
developing communities on their talents is something I have a strong passion
for. Jake is a talent within a talented community that I am willing to support.

Biomimicry. At Nike I worked on a science and design exhibit
brought in by Janine Benyus and her team. Over the years this discipline has
influenced Nike’s product development and led to many environment-saving
practices including Nike Considered. Please enjoy Jake’s guest post below, his latest foray into design with layered meaning.





Innovative Nature: Baking Biomimicry In
by Jake Cook (Cofounder of Digital Wax Works)

The term biomimicry and biomimetics come from the Greek
words bios, meaning life, and mimesis,
meaning to imitate. (See examples of companies already using Biomimicry.)




Up until recently, getting biomimetic ideas put into design
practice in industry has been tough due to a lack of curriculum development at
the educational level. Put another
way, to have biomimicry-trained designers would require educational programs to
start at the primary school level, continue through to university, and beyond
to professional development programs. With this in mind, educators from
around the world came together at Autodesk headquarters in San Francisco last
year to discuss and share how to blend biomimicry into K-12 and college-level
curriculums, as well as forging relationships with industry.





Janine Benyus is often cited as the founder of the biomimicry
movement through the publishing of her landmark book, Biomimcry:
Innovation Inspired by Nature
. Ms. Benyus has made a remarkable career by pointing out what’s been under all our noses. However, these ideas have been slow to be
adopted into engineering and design curriculums in accredited universities.




Yet all this is changing. As Janine states; “The time is coming
when engineering and design students will finally be able to take a class in
biology-based design principles. Amazingly enough, for the people who
make our world, usually they take no biology.”




Mashing Up Education and Industry Partners

Making products that allow you to immerse yourself in, and enjoy
nature is what Bozeman, Montana based Pacific Outdoor
Equipment
loves to do. In 2010 they partnered with students across the
nation to meet the challenge of bringing nature more fully into the story via
biomimicry design.




The design challenge: A quilt that could be used for sleeping on
the ground when camping. A relatively simple product in theory, but fraught
with big challenges when working with real-world considerations such as
materials, purpose constraints, manufacturing costs, construction methods,
retail price points, and carbon footprint.

Designs and collaboration poured forth via Skype, email and
Wordpress over a six-week period. The Biomimicry Institute‘s
staff lent a guiding hand to the students, professors, and professionals as
they followed the BiologyDesign Spiral.

“The Biology Design Spiral is a methodology bringing
nature’s wisdom not just to the physical design, but also to the manufacturing
process, the packaging, the shipping, distribution, and take-back
decisions. We use a spiral to emphasize the reiterative nature of the
process–that is, after solving one challenge, then evaluating how well it meets
life’s principles, another challenge often arises, and the design process
begins anew.”





The outcome?


Design briefs with ideas ranging from how bats stay
warm to recycling garbage as an insulation layer. Many of these were inspired
by the recently launched AskNature.org
website that serves as a wiki-style site for researching applications of
biomimicry to design problems.

Below are the product renderings courtesy of Pika Designs showing a potential sleep
system inspired by how bat and butterfly wings insulate. The user can simply
fold over another “wing” if they would like more insulation based on whatever
the ambient temperature might be.




A Profound Impact On All Involved.


Students at the conference professed to have deep insights into where they
wanted to go with their careers, namely avoiding “designing for the landfill.”
Professors were ecstatic that students had a real-world challenge and were
exposed to the grey areas within product design.

Whether the product will appear on store shelves remains to be
seen via Pacific Outdoor Equipment, but all schools involved, as well as the
2011 facilitator of the project, Pika Designs, have pledged to do another
student design challenge in 2011.




A Business Case for Biomimicry


Business professor Dr. Jakki Mohr of the University of Montana, who also
presented at the Education Summit, included a section on biomimicry in her
co-authored book Marketing High
Technology, which is used in MBA courses around the world.



“Biomimicry
offers a unique methodology for new insights into innovation. As authors
of a book on marketing for technology and innovation, the biomimicry process
captured us and we wanted to pioneer this important methodology in our book.
Looking to nature for solutions to design and engineering problems offers a new
source of competitive advantage and sustainable innovation, both of which are
key to success in business today.”



Refreshing the Design Palette

Applying these lessons, the startup Calera, which is backed by the noted VC Vinod Khosla of Khosla
Ventures, has a process that produces building products with a negative carbon
footprint by using inspiration from biological process in the ocean coral
reefs. The company has generated considerable buzz to date.

Watch a fascinating video from the founder Calera, Brent
Constantz, speaking recently at Stanford on how he’s founded four companies
whose core technology is based around principles found in nature.



Biomimicry Inspired Design for the Masses


On a consumer product level, Nervous
System
is a small company using bio-inspired
designs to create various lines of jewelry and housewares. Founders Jessica
Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg have backgrounds in biology,
architecture, mathematics, and computer science. Their designs draw inspiration
from items such as leaves, hard corals, sand dunes, and algae.



In speaking with co-founder Jesse
Louis-Rosenberg about what Nervous System is all about, he states; “Our
work is not simply about mimicking biological forms but trying to understand
the processes by which those forms come about. We then abstract those processes
into a distinctly non-biological context to create designed objects.”




This process starts
with Nervous System researching and reading scientific papers to truly
understand how nature’s process works, before generating an object. Next, they
code up a virtual system to digitally grow a similar pattern on a 3-D surface.
Finally, these designs are pushed to a 3-D printer and come out in a variety of
materials such as stainless steel.




The results are
elegant yet organic and Nervous System’s products were recently picked up by
the MoMA store in NYC.

What, in his
education background, prepared Jesse and partner Jessica to work across such
diverse areas? “Educators don’t quite yet have the expertise across all these
areas. So, you have to do it on your own,” Jesse explains.




Biomimicry Going Forward

This begs the question–how much longer will students have to go
it on their own?

Ms. Benyus’ reply: “Biomimetic design labs are going to start
appearing in schools. The future is that biologists will have a seat at the
design table. But it starts with education and then trickles out to the
workplace. Looking back, we had human factors, and now that’s commonplace
in a design conversation. I’m optimistic biomimicry will enjoy the same
consideration in the coming years.”




Indeed, industry and the planet need biomimicry integrated into
the design process and it’s going to take employees trained in how to apply
these ideas to today’s design problems. This could prove to be both
profitable and innovative for companies and universities alike.



As biomimicry continues to gain mainstream acceptance, with
institutions and collaborations blossoming, Benyus remarks, “Somehow there must
have been an earthquake in San Francisco because all the silos have fallen
down.”

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We know this is a global banking 1% FAKE NEWS media outlet because it fails to discuss all of the GORILLA-IN-ROOM issues in MOVING FORWARD SMART CITIES----it focuses in on WEAPONS and SMART METER radiation----without ever discussing the effects of HIGH-LEVEL GROUND SATURATION with microwaves having a goal of studying HUMAN reactions to MARS PLANETARY MINING SLAVE COLONIES.

Neither MERCOLA nor UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA are creating REAL COMMON GOOD data and news.


These is no need for a SPECIAL MICROWAVE WEAPON----it will be the entirety of the atmosphere inside SMART CITIES. It will be equivalent to dropping atomic bombs on JAPAN and then studying the effects of RADIATION exposure.

This is why CHINA, EAST INDIA, ARABIA, AFRICA are all one board in building SMART CITIES.

Here is the 4TH WAVE of SMART TECHNOLOGY unfolding.  The BIOMIMICRY/BIOFABRICATION/BIOHYBRID research needed in transporting HUMANS in ELON MUSK'S SPACE X -----the HUMAN research in how those humans if they make it to MARS alive-----will survive after.

EXPOSING MASS POPULATIONS TO SURFACE SATURATION OF MICROWAVES CAN OCCUR IN A FEW DECADES IF WE CONTINUE MOVING FORWARD.

But, it will take several decades of MEDICAL study of  MICROWAVE TOXICITY of these billions of people to create those BIOMIMICRY/BIOFABRICATION/BIOHYBRID systems to advance HUMAN SPACE TRAVEL and HUMAN living in a MARS SMART COLONY.


Did this article tied to MERCOLA----and UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA discuss all these gorilla-in-room goals of ONE WORLD ONE ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID? No, they simply focus on a few real problems.

Can New 5G Technology and Smart Meters be Used as Weapons?



4 September 2018       by John P. Thomas      Health Impact News




Promoted as beneficial technology for electric consumers and marketed to satisfy the public’s never-ending demand for faster internet communication, the combination of the new 5G microwave technology and smart meters might just become an all-in-one weapons and surveillance system.



This technology, when fully implemented, could intrude into people’s privacy by revealing their location to those who want to know where and when someone travels. In addition to tracking one’s movements, it has the potential for providing access to everything one does with cell phones, computers, or other electronic devices that are in our homes.



Beyond the intrusion into our private lives, it could be used to alter the way one thinks, used to weaken one’s health, and even used to facilitate death.



Undoubtedly the rationalization of using this technology in such a way would be to fight “terrorism.” But what would stop law enforcement and government agencies from using it against U.S. citizens who are political dissidents, or oppose the government’s position on issues like mandatory vaccines, or GMO foods, for example?



Before I go on to explain how such claims could be true, I want to thank two people who commented on my first article on 5G technology. Their comments propelled me to begin my own research on the dark and shady side of 5G cellular communication and smart meters. This is a portion of the comments that these readers shared by using the “Join the Discussion” link on the article.



Our readers stated:
[Commenter 1:] Thanks for this illuminating article. Unfortunately, it is also true that 5G millimeter wave technology is being used for crowd control and defense purposes by the army in its ‘Active Denial System.’ Though many deny the health and biological effects of directed energy beam technologies as well as the indiscriminate atmospheric pollution from wireless microwaves, there is a reason the defense departments of many countries are developing these types of weapons.



[Commenter 2:] 5G can also use “spot beam” technology where bandwidth is increased by focusing a personal beam of RF at your device at a distance. This is done through phased array antennas on the tower. [1]



The Focus of this Article: How 5G and Smart Meter Technology Could be Used as Weapons

This is part 3 of a series on 5G and smart meters. See the first two articles:



New 5G Cell Towers and Smart Meters to Increase Microwave Radiation – Invade Privacy

Telecom Companies are Going Green, but Their Version of Green will cause Illness and Death


by John P. Thomas
Health Impact News



When the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) approved the use of 5-G microwave communication technology in 2016 and approved the use of microwave frequencies in the 30 Ghz range, [1], they opened the door to even higher levels of human illness and severe disability for American children and adults.



Microwave radiation such as that currently being used in cell phones, Wi-Fi routers, and smart meters has already been linked to numerous health effects.


The introduction of even more intense levels of microwave exposure at higher frequencies will push many people into life-threatening chronic illness. High frequency microwave radiation is often overlooked as a causative factor in illness, because most conventional healthcare providers, government regulators, telecom companies, and electric utilities believe microwave radiation used in communication technology is harmless. [2]



Despite the warnings being raised by scientists, well informed healthcare providers, and grassroots organizations about existing and future microwave hazards, [3, 4, 5] telecom companies are planning to implement 5G technology throughout every urban area in America. They are already testing this new generation wireless telecommunication infrastructure in Boston, Austin, Palo Alto, and Mountain View California. [6, 7]


In a January 2017 announcement, AT&T described their plan for future technology deployment. The announcement stated:


Our 5G Evolution plans will pave the way to the next-generation of higher speeds for customers. We’re not waiting until the final standards are set to lay the foundation for our evolution to 5G. We’re executing now,” said John Donovan, chief strategy officer and group president, Technology and Operations. [8] [emphasis added]


The Battle to Implement 5G has begun in California

Proposed legislation in California would permit telecom companies to erect 50,000 new microwave antennas in residential and commercial areas without municipal approval.


The 5G microwave antennas would be placed on top of existing utility poles or on public infrastructure such as schools, libraries, bus shelters, and in public parks. The placement of this equipment will be at the discretion of the telecom companies. [9, 10, 11]


Health Dangers of Microwave Radiation have been Well Documented


The symptoms of microwave radiation exposure include fatigue, headaches, heart palpitations, high pitched ringing in the ears, dizziness, disturbed sleep at night, sleepiness in daytime, moodiness, irritability, unsociability, feelings of fear, anxiety, nervous tension, mental depression, memory impairment, pain in muscles, pain in the region of the heart, and breathing difficulties, to name a few.


Inflammation (caused by excess histamine in the blood), oxidative stress, autoimmune responses, reduced blood flow to the region of the thalamus, pathologic leakage of the blood-brain barrier, and a deficit in melatonin metabolic availability have all been observed.



There is evidence that existing and new frequencies of microwave radiation are associated with cancer, heart disease, neurological dysfunction, immune system suppression, cataracts of the eyes, and sperm malformation. [12, 13]


5G Microwaves have Harmful Biological Effects


In her testimony before the California legislature, Dr. Ann Lee, M.D., indicated that there are 20,000 well established scientific studies on the bio-effects of radio frequency radiation.


She confirmed that microwave radiation such as that from the proposed 5G wireless facilities that would be deployed in California has been shown to cause neurological damage, cardiac dysfunction, reproductive harm, immune compromises, and cancer. [14]



Dr. Ronald Powell, Ph.D., expands upon these concerns. Dr. Powell received his doctorate in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 1975, and has worked for the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards on energy policy research and R&D program evaluation.



He is uniquely qualified to interpret the junction between the physics of electromagnetic fields and the biological effects these fields produce. [15]



In a letter to the FCC, Dr. Ronald Powell stated:


It would greatly extend FCC’s current policy of the mandatory irradiation of the public without adequate prior study of the potential health impact and assurance of safety. It would irradiate everyone, including the most vulnerable to harm from radio frequency radiation: pregnant women, unborn children, young children, teenagers, men of reproductive age, the elderly, the disabled, and the chronically ill. [16]



AT&T: Let Us Install Microwave Transmitter on Your Home or Lose Service


Now that more than 50% of homes are wireless, telecom companies plan to abandon copper phone lines used for their phone service and create a wireless phone system. For example, Michigan has passed a law permitting this, and AT&T is working with all 21 states in its service territory to bring this about. [17, 18, 19]


As an alternative to the wired system, telecom companies plan to install wireless microwave transmitters on homes as a method of providing traditional phone service. In the case of AT&T customers, the only way you will be able to prevent them from installing such devices on your home is to remove AT&T as your service provider. [20]



In addition, telecom companies plan to install microwave antennas on top of electrical power poles near homes and businesses, and on top of public buildings throughout every urban area and in every neighborhood.



California Legislators Consider Bill to Allow More Microwave Radiation

But this is not just about offensive looking antennas!



Nina Beety described the situation in the article she wrote for StopSmartMeters.org. She is the moderator of the Wireless Radiation Alert Network and distributes her research about the harmful effects of electromagnetic fields and the dangers of smart meters on her website, SmartMeterHarm.org.



Nina Beety stated:
Spaced approximately every 10-20 homes, cell antennas will hang in one or more clusters on utility or light poles. Equipment cabinets the size of refrigerators, with cooling fans and back-up generators, will sit on sidewalks. Towers will be located in the public right of way a few feet from bedroom windows, offices, schools, hospitals and nursing homes.


Called “small cells,” there is little difference in size for many of these antennas; the chief difference is the location on utility poles versus large towers. Measurements of these cell towers recently taken in Palo Alto found high levels of radiation on the sidewalk below them — levels higher than those associated in research with breaches in the blood-brain barrier, free radical formation, DNA damage, cancer and tumors, and heart rhythm disturbances. [21]


Nina Beety is specifically describing the proposed system that would be implemented in California if the telecom companies get their way. Currently, a bill permitting the establishment of the 5G system has been passed by the California Senate. A legislative committee will be considering the bill on July 12, 2017. A rally at the State House in Sacramento is planned for July 12th. Please see the following urgent call for action and related links for the details.


Urgent Call to Action for Californians

The announcement from StopSmartMeters.org states:
The Assembly Local Government Committee voted 6-1 to approve SB 649 on Wednesday June 28th (even after hearing the below testimony). It goes next to the Communications and Conveyance Committee at 1:30pm on July 12th. People are coming from all over the state to be there on this day to speak out against SB 649, including mayors, and regular people opposed to the bill. Will you be one of them? [23]



More details about SB 649 and the rally in Sacramento can be found here.
Dr. Ann Lee, M.D., testifies about the Dangers of the Proposed 5G Network:
10-Year Old Child Testifies about how Wireless Communications Equipment Affects His Heart:
Nina Beety’s Testimony about the Proposed 5G System from the Perspective of an EMF Disabled


Person:

Why do Telecom Companies Want a 5G Network?

The Merging of Telecommunications with Electric Utilities



Telecom giants plan to take their 5G technology nationwide. It is part of a long-term plan to integrate telecom activities with electrical service providers. A 2015 white paper written by telecom companies, electric utilities, and technology developers published in the European Union describes their vision for the future.



As I interpret the images that these European visionaries are creating, I believe they are foreseeing a day when electrical power production and distribution will be controlled by the 5G network.


In this future vision, large-scale power production facilities will be replaced by hundreds of thousands of small power producers, which could even include personal power production in our homes from solar and wind.


Centralized Power and Control

Wireless technology allows you more control of your home, but at what cost?


The 5G system will monitor not just consumption of power, but will monitor and control the redistribution of electrical power across the entire electrical grid.

The 5G network will be the nerves and sense organs of a massive organism that has a central brain somewhere, which controls all forms of information exchange and electric utilization/production.



Electricity will be used for all aspects of household and business activities, and the 5G network and its centralized brain will control everything. [24]



In the beginning, the speed of the 5G network will be marketed to consumers and businesses who want super-fast internet service. This will allow for instant access to videos and webpages with as little as a 5-millisecond delay from the moment a start button is pressed.


Transmission speeds will be hundreds of times faster than current internet connections. It will be so fast that it will be able to instantaneously project images on the lenses of smart enabled eye glasses to create virtual reality images that blend with the environment.


People will be able to watch videos or even read email simply by looking through the lenses of their glasses. The speed will be so phenomenal that it will make available self-driving cars, which can safely drive passengers to their destinations. [25]


Ultimately, the greatest benefit of the 5G system will be for utility companies. It will give them the ability to take total control of electric production, distribution, and consumption.


Smart Meters and Smart Appliances: Your Home is no Longer Private

New Smart Meters.


The smart meters that electric utilities are now installing throughout the U.S. are the nerve endings for what will become a highly complex centrally controlled information and energy exchange system.


The 5G network will use the smart meter system (being implemented throughout the U.S.) and the new generation of smart appliances to reach into our homes and make decisions for us.


Current smart meter technology enables electric utilities to read electric meters without sending a human being to physically read the meters.


Electric providers have been quietly installing these smart meters throughout the U.S. They insist that these meters are harmless even though they broadcast intense bursts of high frequency microwave radiation several times per minute 24-hours per day every day.


Currently, smart meters record electric consumption and transmit the information to the utility company for billing and electric distribution purposes.


The bursts of microwaves are used to communicate with other smart meters in the neighborhood and with wireless routers mounted on top of electric poles. The routers send even more powerful microwave signals several thousand times per hour to the utility company.
Smart appliances such as heating/cooling equipment, washers/dryers, refrigerators/freezers, stoves/microwave ovens, dishwashers, hot water heaters, and even electric coffee makers will each be able to broadcast and receive microwave signals.



These appliances and our smart meters will constantly communicate with one another all day long and all night long – they will never stop transmitting microwave radiation.


Everything that uses electricity will be potentially monitored and controlled by the power companies.
If desired, the electric providers can even independently turn off any appliance they wish whenever they wish to conserve energy consumption. [26, 27]


The need for smart appliances will be a boon for appliance manufacturers and microwave technology producers. The fusion of 5G with the electrical grid will require everyone to buy new appliances that are smart meter enabled or have our existing appliances retrofitted with microwave transmitters.



Is it Green or Just a Way for Corporations to Make More Money and Control Our Lives?

The 5G system goes hand-in-hand with the smart meter system. Together, these systems will be used to create “smart cities.”


These cities will be blanketed in high frequency microwave radiation and will provide the means for enabling a wide variety of new technology.


It is considered to be part of the green revolution. It is part of national technology priorities that were established at the beginning of the first Obama administration. [28]


It is green, because the technology will allow utility providers to closely control energy usage and implement billing systems that will benefit those who reduce energy consumption.



During times of peak energy usage, they will be able to control our appliances and even cut off certain appliances, so that available energy can be directed to high priority uses.
Such a system would supposedly prevent the need for building additional power production facilities, thus avoiding additional fossil fuel emissions or the creation of additional nuclear waste.


It is green, because telecom companies will no longer need to maintain thousands of miles of copper phone lines and switching equipment. Even though the telecom companies will discontinue the network of copper wire, they will still be using fiber optics for some activities.


There are Serious Health Risks Beyond the 5G Hype

As exciting as a future of blended telecommunications and electrical service technology might be for corporations and some consumers, there are very serious health risks, which the FDA and corporations are ignoring.


They believe that microwave technology used for communication does not affect human health. They believe that it doesn’t matter how much microwave radiation is put into the air and what frequencies are used to transmit information.


It doesn’t matter, because the single criterion that they use to judge safety is not affected by the new 5G system.
The criterion that is of interest to regulators is heating. Does the technology cause the human body to heat up and is that heating excessive? [29]


Almost anyone who has spoken on a cell phone pressed against their ear for a long phone call will notice that their ear and even the side of their head will feel warm by the time they end the call.


This is the heating effect of microwaves. This is why iPhones come with a warning to keep the phone 15 mm away from the body. [30]


Microwave Radiation Produces Cellular Disruption


Even if it is Not Felt


At the beginning of this article, I mentioned a long list of health effects, medical conditions, and chronic illnesses that are associated with microwave exposure.



I plan to look at this research in more detail in my next article. I will address the effect of microwave radiation on heart function and nerve function, and examine the reality of electromagnetic hypersensitivity, which is already disabling hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. even before the 5G network is implemented.


At this point, I want to finish up with a powerful quote from a recent article on anxiety disorders prepared by Dr. Joseph Mercola, D.O.


In part, the article mentioned microwave exposure as being a potential contributing factor for anxiety disorders. These comments offer additional evidence that the health effects of microwave exposure are profound and are being completely overlooked by regulators.


Dr. Mercola’s article stated:


Due to the pioneering work of Dr. Martin Pall, we know that voltage gated calcium channels are over 7 million times more sensitive to microwave radiation than the charged particles inside and outside our cells. This means that the safety standards for this exposure are off by a factor of 7 million.



When the EMF from the above listed devices [cellphones and cordless phones, Wi-Fi routers, baby monitors, smart meters and cellphone towers] hit your voltage gated calcium channels, nearly 1 million calcium ions per second are released into the cell, which then causes the cell to release excessive nitric oxide that then combines with superoxide to form peroxynitrate, which then forms the dangerous hydroxyl free radical that causes massive mitochondrial dysfunction.


Guess which tissues have the greatest density of voltage gated calcium channels? Your nerves and tissues, like the pacemaker in your heart and, of course, your brain. When the channels in the brain are activated, it causes a major disruption in neurotransmitter and hormonal balance that can radically increase the risk for not only anxiety and depression but arrhythmias, autism and Alzheimer’s. [31]


Final Question: Is the Technology Worth the Harm to Our Health and Loss of Privacy?

There is a very basic question that we must all consider.


Are the dreams of mega-corporations to create smart cities saturated in high frequency microwave electromagnetic fields worth the harm that this technology will create for the people who live in those cities?


In smart cities, no one will be exempt from microwave exposure. We won’t be able to opt out, because the 5G microwave system is designed to reach every space in a city.


Those who experience microwave related illness and disability will have few options. They will either stay in the smart city and stay sick or they will need to try to find a place to live in some sparsely populated off the grid location where the 5G system does not reach.


Which future do you want for America? Super-fast internet and corporate control of every aspect of your life, or good health and longevity?
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We want to be clear---------these global banking 5% freemason/Greek FAKE RELIGIOUS LEADERS who always come out AFTER these planned disasters occur-----KNOW TODAY these are the goals MOVING FORWARD in all FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES tied to being SMART CITIES.



This man on the video if alive today----already KNOWS what MOVING FORWARD SMART CITIES has as a goal. Living in ground level saturated MICROWAVE atmosphere is WORSE than exposure to ATOMIC BOMBING OF JAPAN.



This is what our US cities deemed FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES are MOVING FORWARD-----it is what our US public and global hedge fund former IVY LEAGUE CORPORATIONS are MOVING FORWARD all while they create far-right wing global banking 1% FAKE DATA ---FAKE NEWS to PRETEND all this has 99% COMMON GOOD.



The financial costs of building these SMART CITY ZONES is tremendous-----the natural costs to our resources tied to MINERALS AND ORES is tremendous ====the need for any of this energy/technology development supposedly saving us from a future EARTH and depleted resources IS MANUFACTURED AND FAKE.



Our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens----and our new to US immigrants need to STOP MOVING FORWARD----we need to rebuild our 20th century utility infrastructure. WE CAN AND WE WILL.


Please get these FILLORY FAKE RELIGIOUS players out of our REAL 99% religions-----those global banking 5% freemason/Greek players pretending to be JEWISH/PROTESTANT/CATHOLIC/MUSLIM/HINDI/BUDDHIST/SEIK------because all those leaders KNOW THESE GOALS.


 Do you hear PRAGER U shouting today in 2014 against MOVING FORWARD SMART CITIES? No, he is tied to far-right wing global corporate HITLER nationalist FASCISM



'Why You Should Be a Nationalist
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Was it Wrong to Drop the Atom Bomb on Japan?



PragerU
Published on Sep 8, 2014

In recent years, many academics and others have condemned President Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as unnecessary and immoral. Yet this interpretation relies on a poor understanding of history that both lacks perspective and ignores context. Dropping the bomb shortened the war and saved countless lives -- both American and Japanese. In five minutes, Professor of History at Notre Dame, Father Wilson Miscamble, explains.

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PRAGER is of course a professor at NOTRE DAME being a global banking 5% freemason/Greek player working for OLD WORLD KNIGHTS OF MALTA----while LEV is working for that TRIBE OF JUDAH. NOT RELIGIOUS.

PRAGER U and FAKE freemason/Greek religious players bring us back to LEV GROSSMAN---THE MAGICIAN and those FILLORY GRADS lamenting the death of FILLORY.


FILLORY with its TREE having ROOTS going all directions bringing all kinds of INDUSTRY/FINANCE to those grads of FILLORY is dying we are told in THE MAGICIAN. Of course all that represents TRINITY COLLEGE/TRINITY EVANGELICAL DIVINITY---OXFORD and its centuries of sending out SECRET society grads of all sorts.

LEV GROSSMAN uses this novel to create the FAD of our Western HEMISPHERE finance and economy dying----you know, that FLIPPING OF EARTH'S ECONOMIC AXIS from WESTERN HEMISPHERE TO EASTERN HEMISPHERE.



The characters in THE MAGICIAN are simply our young citizens fighting to be those global banking 5% freemason/Greek players ---the magic simply being all this INTERNET OF EVERYTHING/SCIENCE MANIFEST DESTINY.



The characters QUENTIN/PLUM are at the end of this trilogy using MAGIC to build a KINGDOM ON EARTH-----that Scythian dream of KIEVAN KINGDOM -----EASTERN EUROPE.

Do you hear PRAGER U shouting today in 2014 against MOVING FORWARD SMART CITIES? No, he is tied to far-right wing global corporate HITLER nationalist FASCISM





'Why You Should Be a Nationalist
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FILLORY will die-----that INTERNATIONAL DATELINE running through OXFORD and THE VATICAN is being killed in MOVING FORWARD---but LEV wants those future global banking 5% players to think there will be a NEW WIZARD OF OZ MAGICAL KINGDOM waiting for them in EASTERN EUROPE.




The Magicians

(The Magicians #1)
by
Lev Grossman (Goodreads Author)


A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel for adults about a young man practicing magic in the real world.

Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the craft of modern sorcery.

He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. Something is missing, though. Magic doesn’t bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he dreamed it would. After graduation he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin’s fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined. His childhood dream becomes a nightmare with a shocking truth at its heart.

At once psychologically piercing and magnificently absorbing, The Magicians boldly moves into uncharted literary territory, imagining magic as practiced by real people, with their capricious desires and volatile emotions. Lev Grossman creates an utterly original world in which good and evil aren’t black and white, love and sex aren’t simple or innocent, and power comes at a terrible price.



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Anyone following GREEN TECHNOLOGY research tied to the 4 WAVES of INTERNET OF EVERYTHING you KNOW what is often tied to HUMAN MEDICAL BIO-SYSTEMS is almost totally tied to the GRID NETWORK being developed as a LIVING SYSTEM. Lots and lots of internet cable------laced with internet microchips filled with NANO-TECHNOLOGY living systems BIO-HYBRID systems. ONE WORLD ONE ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID is being built with BIO-HYBRID systems of industrial cable, metal supports, transductors that on a micro level respond to energy transfer and movement much as our human body transmits neurological responses. BIOHYBRID does not only refer to HUMAN MEDICAL structures----it refers most commonly to CHEMICAL STRUCTURES tied to building the INTERNET OF EVERYTHING.



Sadly, because global banking 1% ALWAYS PRETENDS these goals have SOCIAL BENEFIT sending all our US FEDERAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL FUNDING-----all our US MILITARY FUNDING tied to VETERAN'S health care -------to developing what is a CHEMICALLY-INDUCED NETWORK OF CABLES to serve as the infrastructure for the ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID.




Will any REAL medical devices come from all these BIO-HYBRID research other than making our 99% humans partly machines? Of course there will be some REAL medical products -------for ONLY THE GLOBAL 1%.



BUT THAT IS NOT THE GOAL MOVING FORWARD.




BIO-MIMICRY IS MAKING A MACHINE ACT AS A HUMAN----NOT MAKING A HUMAN BETTER USING BIO-HYBRID MEDICINE.

As we often say----TELEMEDICINE FOR ALL is just another FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1% corruption of our REAL LEFT social progressive public access for all health care------TELEMEDICINE is simply pretending to be social benefit to send all US Federal funding to research in building the infrastructure for ONE WORLD ONE ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID.

THIS IS NOT ENTIRE ARTICLE----PLEASE GOGGLE.



Biomimicry, Biofabrication, and Biohybrid Systems: The Emergence and Evolution of Biological Design


Ritu Raman
Rashid Bashir
First published: 07 September 2017



Abstract



The discipline of biological design has a relatively short history, but has undergone very rapid expansion and development over that time. This Progress Report outlines the evolution of this field from biomimicry to biofabrication to biohybrid systems’ design, showcasing how each subfield incorporates bioinspired dynamic adaptation into engineered systems. Ethical implications of biological design are discussed, with an emphasis on establishing responsible practices for engineering non‐natural or hypernatural functional behaviors in biohybrid systems. This report concludes with recommendations for implementing biological design into educational curricula, ensuring effective and responsible practices for the next generation of engineers and scientists.




1 Introduction


Dynamic problems require adaptive solutions. Since most engineered systems function in environments with constantly variable conditions, there is a great need for responsive systems that can adjust and perform in new surroundings. This is the underlying motivation for utilizing the responsive biological materials that make up the natural world. Dynamically adaptive functional behaviors such as self‐assembly, self‐healing, and environmental adaptation are inherent to biological materials. The discipline of biological design encompasses understanding of the mechanisms of these adaptive behaviors, and utilizing these capabilities in forward design of synthetic, natural, and biohybrid systems.



Biological design has a relatively short history, but has undergone very rapid expansion and development over that time. In this progress report, we will outline the evolution of this field from biomimicry to biofabrication to biohybrid systems, showcasing how the need for engineered environmental adaptation is prevalent in all subfields. First, we shall trace how the concept of bioinspiration, or imitating biological design and functionality in synthetic materials, created a new class of “smart” biomimetic materials. Then, we shall discuss how the continuing development of enabling manufacturing technologies, such as 3D printing and microfluidics, has established the separate subdiscipline of biofabrication for tissue engineering, or “building with biology.” Finally, we shall investigate the convergence of these two fields into the emerging discipline of biohybrid design, the use of biological materials to power non‐natural functional behaviors in synthetic machines.




Throughout this report, we will revisit a single class of materials, hydrogels, as a case study of biological design in the context of each subfield, and discuss how the constraints, underlying principles, and end‐use applications differ in each case. We will also discuss ethical considerations of biological design, with a special focus on forward engineering non‐natural or hypernatural functional behaviors in biohybrid systems. We will conclude with recommendations for implementing biological design into educational curricula, ensuring effective and responsible practices for the next generation of engineers and scientists.



2 Biomimicry and Bioinspired Design



A deeper understanding of the underlying design principles that govern biological systems has inspired the field of biomimicry.1, 2 Observing adaptive phenomena in nature, scientists and engineers have sought to extract the components of biological design responsible for this behavior and replicate the behavior in synthetic materials. Fundamentally, this involves understanding the building blocks or base units from which a biological material is built, the hierarchical assembly of these building blocks, and the interactions and interfaces between them.



In this section, we will discuss strategies that engineers and scientists have employed to engineer bioinspired hierarchy, from bottom‐up self‐assembly and top‐down engineered assembly. We will present several key demonstrations of stimulus‐responsive hydrogels ranging from the micro‐ to the macroscale, and investigate novel demonstrations in biomimetic actuation and movement. We will conclude with the remaining challenges in the field of biomimicry and discuss the potential future impact of bioinspired design.



2.1 Engineering Bioinspired Hierarchy


The chief prerequisite to designing a biomimetic material is a fundamental understanding of the function of the biological systems by which it is inspired. As this is the aim and responsibility of the discipline of biology, it is not within the scope of this report on biological forward design. Assuming, however, that this fundamental understanding is present, the next step is to extract the functional parts of the natural systems, and assess a manufacturing approach and base synthetic material with which to replicate adaptive functionality.



During this stage of design, scale is a key factor. The base functional units of biological systems, living cells, are generally on the order of 1–100 µm, and the functional units within cells, proteins, are nanoscale. It is thus unsurprising that the rise and widespread popularity of micro‐ and nanoscale fabrication across many field of science and engineering has inspired mimicking biological design at this scale.3 By removing, or at least mitigating, the difficulty of replicating small‐scale features at the sizes in which they are present in natural systems, microfabrication and nanofabrication have been fundamental toward the creation of smart synthetic materials.




While manufacturing imitations of functional base units, or building blocks, can be readily accomplished in most cases, there exists an unresolved dichotomy in the approach used to assemble the units into a functional whole. Biological systems rely on an autonomous process, namely self‐assembly, to hierarchically organize these building blocks and coordinate communication between them. Mimicking biological materials is, however, an inherently top‐down approach that relies on reverse engineering adaptive functionality. This type of engineered assembly treats each subunit as a “black box,” where the form and composition of the box are less important than the function it performs. In this section, we will investigate the motivations underlying both self‐assembly and engineered assembly, and present significant recent advancements generated by both approaches.




2.1.1 Self‐Assembly of Bioinspired Materials



By definition, self‐assembly requires that the design of the building blocks that make up a system autonomously drives formation from a disordered grouping into a functional whole and that this formation be reversible.4 Again, novel fabrication approaches that allow for morphological control and patterning of surface properties are crucial to designing such building blocks and forward engineering their interactions with each other.




One promising approach toward self‐assembly is self‐folding, essentially engineering the phenomena of autonomous origami. In general, these approaches rely on incorporating internal stresses within flexible materials and using these stresses to transform 2D material sheets into 3D structures.5 Hydrogels, the soft hydrophilic polymers that we will use as a case study throughout this report, have tunable mechanical properties that can be modulated by chemical composition and crosslinking density.6 This renders them an ideal base material for tuning internal stresses, as spatially segregating the degree of swelling in different regions of the hydrogel generates such stresses in a precise and controllable manner.7




Gracias and co‐workers have utilized this principle of patterned differential swelling to drive self‐folding of poly (ethylene glycol) (PEG)‐based hydrogel bilayers.8 Their approach, relying on conventional photolithography to pattern PEG‐based hydrogels, has broad applicability toward the manufacturing of microscale and macroscale 3D geometries. Precise tuning of hydrogel molecular weight and thickness in each layer allowed for the patterned self‐folding of a range of geometries, including spheres, helices, and cylinders. Gracias and co‐workers also demonstrated that each of these structures could be designed to include microscale surface features, such as posts and holes, which could be used to regulate interactions and interfaces with other base units of an assembly.




An important criterion of self‐assembly is, of course, that the autonomous formation of a functional whole should be reversible. Yang and co‐workers have demonstrated pH‐triggered reversible self‐folding of hydrogel bilayers into hollow microscopic spheres, with potential applications as drug delivery devices or microrobots.9 These spheres are composed of an active hydrogel layer, poly(2‐hydroxyethyl methacrylate‐co‐acrylic acid), and a passive hydrogel layer, poly(2‐hydroxyethyl methacrylate). At basic pH levels, the active layer swelled, forming a closed hollow microsphere. Reducing pH triggered a decrease in the degree of swelling demonstrated by the active layer, opening the microspheres and releasing internal contents.




The most successful approaches toward self‐assembly of synthetic materials and systems rely on imitating assembly processes and geometries present in nature, such as spheres and helices. These have served to demonstrate that autonomous, reversible, and precisely controllable formation of a functional whole from a set of base units can be forward engineered, matching the criteria imposed by the definition of self‐assembly.

2.1.2 Engineered Assembly of Bioinspired Materials



The engineered assembly of adaptive materials draws inspiration on base unit structure from biological systems, but relies on both bioinspired and man‐made manufacturing approaches to combine the base units into a functional whole. A promising approach toward engineered assembly is based on shape memory polymers, which depend on external cues, such as heat‐ or electrical activation, to trigger conformational changes between stable states.10 These shape memory polymers can be assembled into complex 3D structures using manufacturing approaches such as 3D printing and textile‐inspired fiber weaving and knitting.11-13




Returning to the case study of hydrogels, there have been several significant examples of shape memory hydrogels in recently published literature. Osada and Matsuda demonstrated that heating and cooling of a thermo‐responsive polymer, formed by co‐polymerization of acrylic acid and n‐stearyl acrylate, could be used to mimic shape memory behaviors in hydrogels.14 When heated, the polymer became soft and flexible, allowing for ready deformation into complex 3D shapes. Subsequent cooling of the polymer increased rigidity, promoting retention of the 3D shape despite the removal of external forces driving deformation. Hao and Weiss have built on this work by developing a thermoresponsive shape memory hydrogel that switches between two flexible states, allowing for exploitation of soft and hydrophilic material properties both below and above the switching temperature.15 This quad‐polymer material was shown to effectively fix and recover shape, triggered by changes in temperature, and retain flexibility, hydrophilicity, and mechanical toughness throughout. Li and co‐workers have extended the range of potential transition mechanisms in shape memory hydrogels by incorporating light and pH‐triggered switches, in addition to thermally triggered switches, into their materials.16 This allows for dual and triple shape memory effect, enabling reversible switching between several stable states.




Shape memory hydrogels serve as significant demonstrations of engineered assembly in smart synthetic materials, and they can be combined with other approaches to further increase the complexity of functional output behaviors. For example, supramolecular interactions have been used to expand the biomimetic capabilities of such materials by giving them the ability to rapidly self‐heal and exhibit high mechanical strength in addition to demonstrating shape memory.17, 18 The triggered changes in conformation and functional behavior demonstrated in engineered assembly approaches are also reversible, similar to the self‐assembly approaches described above, providing an attractive alternative for manufacturing more complex 3D structures.

2.1.3 Interfaces in Bioinspired Materials



Both self‐assembly and engineered‐assembly approaches depend heavily on understanding and designing interfaces between building blocks, ensuring coordinated interaction and functional output. Often, this is accomplished by combining building blocks with different surface functionalization and properties.19 This provides each base unit with a specific place and function within the whole, and also allows for the feedback between units that are essential for reversible assembly and disassembly, and adaptation to dynamic environmental cues.





2.2 Bioinspired Environmental Feedback and Adaptation




The primary motivation for designing bioinspired materials is to replicate their ability to adapt to constantly changing environments. This involves understanding and utilizing the internal and external feedback loops inherent within biological systems. Some of the greatest strides in engineering adaptation into synthetic materials have been demonstrated in hydrogels, perhaps because the porous structure and diverse chemical compositions of these materials make them especially responsive to a range of environmental conditions.6 Programing specific mechanical and biochemical behaviors within hydrogels is simply a question of regulating the design of the polymer backbone and the mode of synthesis.20 In this section, we will discuss bioinspired approaches to engineering environmental adaptation in synthetic materials, with a focus on forward design of biomimetic behaviors in smart hydrogels.




2.2.1 Stimulus‐Responsive Hydrogels within Microfluidic Systems



Microfluidic devices allow for precisely controllable flow and delivery of liquids to embedded materials and systems, rendering them uniquely suited to studying the response of hydrogels to environmental stimuli.21 A variety of approaches employing chemical, mechanical, optical, electrical, and thermal stimuli to trigger responsive functional behaviors in smart hydrogels have been demonstrated within microfluidic devices.



Early studies in this field employed responsive hydrogels as valves for controlling flow inside microfluidic systems. Jo and co‐workers photopolymerized microscale hydrogel cylinders within microfluidic channels that are capable of reversible expansion and contraction in response to environmental pH.22 This tunable swelling allowed them to open and close channels autonomously, enabling the design of a self‐regulated flow sorter (Figure 1A). Similar microfluidic valves have also been demonstrated by West and co‐workers, who demonstrated optical control over swelling in gold‐colloid composite hydrogels.23 This allowed for greater spatiotemporal precision and more independent external control of valve opening and closing. Smart hydrogel components for microfluidic flow control have also been engineered to respond to other forms of external control, such as electrical and thermal stimuli.24, 25
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Our US national FAKE NEWS media and our far-right wing global banking 1% global hedge fund former US research universities have academics and reporters making MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING-------using words like BIO-HYBRID/BIOFABRICATION while speaking of human medical procedures. BIO-HYBRID is a CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING term ------meaning the goals of copying human nervous system transition of information in the construction of ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY HARDWARE INFRASTRUCTURE-----that is what is our electrical circuitry tied to corner circuitry boxes in our communities. What are pump/circuit regulators-----pump/circuit conductors tied to electrical hardware have goals of being replaced by CHEMICAL SYSTEMS that mimic our human nervous and circulatory system.




'The researchers also expect that their methodology could have considerable potential for translation into areas such as robotics, computing, and healthcare'.



All of this is for ONE WORLD ONE ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID----not for US 99% WE THE PEOPLE health care.


BIOLOGICAL DESIGN is that goal of replacing HUMANS with artificial intelligence and robotics -----exploiting our HUMANITY to build a working work that ELIMINATES HUMANITY.


OUR FAKE NEWS MEDIA AND GLOBAL BANKING 1% HEDGE FUND CORPORATE UNIVERSITIES ARE DELIBERATELY CONFUSING THIS ONCE ANIMAL/HUMAN RESEARCH IN BIOMIMICRY/BIOFABRICATION/BIOHYBRID RESEARCH NOW BEING MACHINERY.

So, why should our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE care about these research goals MOVING FORWARD?




'Biomimicry, Biofabrication, and Biohybrid Systems:

The Emergence and Evolution of Biological Design



Ritu Raman
Rashid Bashir
First published: 07 September 2017'





Smart materials get SMARTer


July 11, 2012



Self-powered, homeostatic nanomaterials that actively self-regulate in response to environmental change


Living organisms have developed sophisticated ways to maintain stability in a changing environment, withstanding fluctuations in temperature, pH, pressure, and the presence or absence of crucial molecules. The integration of similar features in artificial materials, however, has remained a challenge—until now.




In the July 12 issue of Nature, a Harvard-led team of engineers presented a strategy for building self-thermoregulating nanomaterials that can, in principle, be tailored to maintain a set pH, pressure, or just about any other desired parameter by meeting the environmental changes with a compensatory chemical feedback response.




Called SMARTS (Self-regulated Mechano-chemical Adaptively Reconfigurable Tunable System), this newly developed materials platform offers a customizable way to autonomously turn chemical reactions on and off and reproduce the type of dynamic self-powered feedback loops found in biological systems. The advance represents a step toward more intelligent and efficient medical implants and even dynamic buildings that could respond to the weather for increased energy efficiency. The researchers also expect that their methodology could have considerable potential for translation into areas such as robotics, computing, and healthcare.




Structurally, SMARTS resembles a microscopic toothbrush, with bristles that can stand up or lie down, making and breaking contact with a layer containing chemical “nutrients.”



“Think about how goose bumps form on your skin,” explains lead author Joanna Aizenberg, Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard. “When it is cold out, tiny muscles at the base of each hair on your arm cause the hairs to stand up in an insulating layer. As your skin warms up, the muscles contract and the hairs lie back down to keep you from overheating. SMARTS works in a similar way.”





Natural materials like skin are incredibly dynamic and can maintain control in a wide range of environments through self-regulation. By contrast, synthetic materials cannot easily replicate homeostasis. Even the “smartest” materials—like eyeglasses that darken in sunlight, or a piezoelectric sensor that converts the vibrations of an acoustic guitar into a digital audio signal--typically only react to one specific environmental stimulus and do not self-regulate.




“By building dynamic feedback loops into SMARTS from the bottom up, we were able to integrate the desired regulatory features into the material itself,” says co-lead author Ximin He, a postdoctoral fellow in the Aizenberg lab at SEAS and at the Wyss Institute. “Whether it is the pH level, temperature, wetness, pressure, or something else, SMARTS can be designed to directly sense and modulate the desired stimulus using no external power or complex machinery, giving us a conceptually new robust platform that is customizable, reversible, and remarkably precise.”



To demonstrate SMARTS, He, Aizenberg, and the team chose temperature as the stimulus and embedded an array of tiny nanofibers, akin to little hairs, in a layer of hydrogel. The hydrogel, similar to a muscle, can either swell or contract in response to changes in the temperature.

When the temperature drops, the gel swells, and the hairs stand upright and make contact with the nutrient layer; when it warms up, the gel contracts, and the hairs lie down. The key aspect is that molecular catalysts placed on the tips of the nanofibers can trigger heat-generating chemical reactions in the nutrient layer.



“The bilayer system effectively creates a self-regulated on-and-off switch controlled by the motion of the hairs, turning the reaction on and generating heat when it is cold. Once the temperature has achieved a pre-determined level, the hydrogel contracts, causing the hairs to lie down, interrupting further generation of heat. When it cools again below the set-point the cycle restarts autonomously. It’s homeostasis, right down at the materials level,” says Aizenberg.



The researchers anticipate that with further refinement the technique could be integrated into materials for medical implants to help stabilize bodily functions, perhaps sensing and adjusting the level of glucose or carbon dioxide in the blood. Furthermore, the oscillating mechanical motion of the hairs could be put to work or used for propulsion, like cilia in a living organism.



Beside its technological applications, SMARTS is also an ideal “laboratory” to study the fundamental properties of biological and chemical systems, such as how living systems are able to so efficiently convert between chemical and mechanical processes.



“We found a new way to think about materials and created a fascinating system to look at some fundamental, deep questions about how living things maintain a stable state,” says Aizenberg.



Aizenberg and He collaborated with Michael Aizenberg, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard; Olga Kuksenok and Anna Balazs, University of Pittsburgh; and Lauren D. Zarzar and Ankita Shastri, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University.
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When our communities have an electrical circuitry box on a corner with a network connected to one service area which is then tied to another service area ----we maintain that circuitry -----we regulate that circuitry-----we control the operations of that circuitry. Our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE and our engineers know how to build infrastructure ---they have access to the materials to fashion pumps, regulators, transmitters ------




WE HAVE THE KNOW-HOW AND CAN DO OF BUILDING 20TH CENTURY INFRASTRUCTURE ----ELECTRICITY/PHONE/GAS/WATER.




Here is the problem: what is being designed today in MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID using technology that will be too hard to replicate-----too expensive to buy and replace-----makes it impossible for our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE to use this technology for OUR 99% WE THE PEOPLE SUSTAINABILITY.



This system is being built as ONE GRID with NO LOCAL control-----the entire US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE can be shut down with one switch and remain DARK. It is the same as that RED BUTTON a US President has on his desk for NUCLEAR WAR.





EXCEPT-----THIS IS OUR VITAL ENERGY/WATER RESOURCE GRID.



What we are NOT HEARING is this:


this ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID is being built for GLOBAL CORPORATE CAMPUSES/FACTORIES ONLY. When we see articles discussing CUSTOMER PARTICIPATION/SATISFACTION----that is not in this equation.


This is NOT an ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID being built for access of our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE -----and we will NOT get CUSTOMER SERVICE or SATISFACTION.



U.S. Department of Energy |September
2014

Customer Participation in the Smart Grid - Lessons Learned
The Importance and Challenges of Customer
Communications




Effective customer communication is paramount for any utility installing smart meters and
customer-based systems,
but can present challenges for both the utility and the customer. In
many cases, customers have little experience with smart meters, the hourly data they provide,
or how
to manage their electricity use and costs daily or even hourly during critical peak events.
Likewise, these technologies are new
to utilities and many are gaining technology expertise as
they deploy the systems while simultaneously communicating with their customers.
Complicating this challenge is the sheer number of new and interdependent technologies and
techniques that utilities are introducing, including time-based rate and load management
programs; new devices such as in-home displays (IHDs), programmable communicating
thermostats (PCTs), and home area networks (HANs); and information systems such as web
portals, bill comparison calculators, and energy management software.


Getting customer communications “right” is
essential for success.

It empowers customers to
increase their involvement in electricity markets
by participating in demand-side management,
and even installing distributed energy resources such as rooftop photovoltaic arrays and
combined heat and power systems.
Utilities understand that more frequent and informative customer communications are
needed

--
either face-
to-face, on the phone, or most often electronically, using automated
messages and responses. Internet and web-based tools, including social media, are being
heavily used, as they are in virtually all marketing activities
. Traditional techniques such as
public meetings, mailings, and phone calls are also important

. Pilot projects have found that
there is no single right way,
and several communication methods are often needed. The job of
smart grid customer education is never done.
Three communications activities are particularly noteworthy for the opportunities they provide
in addressing specific customer needs, and are explored individually in this report:

Customer notification methods and education strategies:
This includes electronic and
other notifications of both billing status and “day before” announcements of critical
peak event days. For these efforts to work properly,
messages need to be successfully
delivered and received.

Community outreach and public meetings:
These meetings play a valuable role in the
early stages of smart meter deployments to raise awareness and bring potential issues
to the surface
. Public concerns about smart meters have led several states to offer “opt
-

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2014
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out” programs
. Community outreach efforts, in several instances, have shown benefits
in addressing customer concerns
.

Call centers, web portals, and customer devices:
These techniques are used extensively
by electric utilities and in other business sectors, but the challenges of smart metering
and customer systems have caused many of the SGIG projects to test new ideas and
implement approaches they have never tried before.
Collectively, utilities that are piloting smart metering and customer system projects have
climbed learning curves, identified mistakes, and determined best practices as they test and
assess a variety of approaches to customer communications. Some notable project experiences
are shared in this report; others will be included in subsequent reports, and all are made public
on
www.smartgrid.gov

____________________________________________



MYTH ONE-------ALL 99% OF WE THE PEOPLE WILL BENEFIT.

MYTH TWO-------THIS IS CHEAPER------


Global banking 1% FAKE NEWS DATA and academics sending out all kinds of articles telling us all this ONE WORLD SMART GRID is going to save all kinds of money. Less worker salaries-------less frequent repairs-----less frequent replacement-------except-----NONE OF THAT IS TRUE.



When we discuss the 4 WAVES of development for ONE WORLD ONE ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID and a TIMELINE for all of what these global banking 1% players are saying is the end goal-----the timeline for getting this COMPLEX SYSTEM OF BIOMIMACRY/BIOHYBRID/BIOFABRICATION to where it works with EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY------is NOWHERE IN SIGHT.



So, our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE will be forced as an only-resort to face the INEFFICIENCY----THE INEFFECTIVENESS of this SMART GRID for all of 21st century. They will install it and tell us to STOP WHINING as none of it is ready for PRIME TIME.



CUSTOMER SATISFACTION ------CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS ----FORGET-ABOUT-IT.

If we think our 20th century energy/technology grid left to decay without repair caused the most effective/efficient system to FAIL TOO OFTEN----just wait as a SMART GRID system is installed before it is EVEN READY.


 SERVICE DOWN FOR DAYS---DON'T WORRY WE ARE WORKING ON THAT!



Biological signalling processes in intelligent materials


Date:
July 18, 2018
Source:
University of Freiburg



Summary:




Researchers are developing innovative biohybrid systems with information processing functionality.


Scientists from the University of Freiburg have developed materials systems that are composed of biological components and polymer materials and are capable of perceiving and processing information.



These biohybrid systems were engineered to perform certain functions, such as the counting signal pulses in order to release bioactive molecules or drugs at the correct time, or to detect enzymes and small molecules such as antibiotics in milk. The interdisciplinary team presented their results in some of the leading journals in the field, including Advanced Materials and Materials Today.




Living systems (such as cells and organisms) and electrical systems (such as computers) respond to different input information, and have diverse output capabilities. However, the fundamental property these complex systems share is the ability to process information. Over the past two decades, scientists have applied the principles of electrical engineering to design and build living cells that perceive and process information and perform desired functions. This field is called synthetic biology, and it has many exciting applications in the medical, biotechnology, energy and environmental sectors.



"Thanks to major progress in our understanding of the components and wiring of biological signalling processes, we are now at a stage where we can transfer biological modules from synthetic biology to materials," explains lead researcher Prof. Wilfried Weber from the Faculty of Biology and the BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies. A critical step in the development of these smart materials systems was to optimally align the activity of the biological building blocks. Similar to computers, incompatibility of individual components might crash the overall system. Key to overcoming this challenge were quantitative mathematical models developed by Prof. Jens Timmer and Dr. Raphael Engesser from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics.



"A great thing about these synthetic biology-inspired materials systems is their versatility," says Hanna Wagner, the first author of one of the studies and a doctoral candidate in the Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM). The modular design concept put forth in these studies provides a blueprint for engineering biohybrid materials systems that can sense and process diverse physical, chemical or biological signals and perform desired functions, such as the amplification of signals, the storage of information, or the controlled release of bioactive molecules. These innovative materials might therefore have broad applications in research, biotechnology and medicine.
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Here is what we KNOW about the EFFICIENCY/EFFECTIVENESS of ONE WORLD ONE ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID.  It is not only MORE expensive to build and maintain-----it is SUPER-DUPER MORE expensive.  It is not only NOT GREEN but it will deplete all of our EARTH'S NATURAL RESOURCES especially our MINERALS AND ORES------it is not only LESS likely to have episodes of FAILURE-----it is guaranteed a system as COMPLEX as this WILL BE FAILING ALL THE TIME.

So why are those dastardly global banking 1% SHIP OF FOOLS MOVING FORWARD a totally INEFFECTIVE and INEFFICIENT model for something as important as our VITAL ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID?

All of this BIOMIMACRY/BIOFABRICATION/BIOHYBID  technology is needed for SPACE COLONY INFRASTRUCTURE.  The atmosphere on planets like MARS---moons like CERES are TOO HARSH to install a fully functioning INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING PLANT.  What global banking 1% HOPES to do is build structures that replicate themselves ---repair themselves to CIRCUMVENT this inability to have INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING ON A PLANET.

This is the TOTALITY of the goals behind installing ONE WORLD ONE ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID.  The only side of this goal our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE will see is the DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE global military junta security and policing-----DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS.


Here is a great big global banking 1% FAKE NEWS media giving us a hint as to these goals----but they PRETEND all this may happen by 2030.  Why do they do this?  To make our US and global 99% of citizens think all these trillions of dollars and raping of all our EARTH's natural ores and minerals will see SOCIAL BENEFIT.  Got to make those EARTHLINGS think we really can replace EARTH'S minerals and ores REALLY FAST.



Global banking 1% will DEPLETE our EARTH'S natural MINERALS AND ORES before they even figure out how to build a planetary space colony.


OH, REALLY??????

Is that last century's PUBLIC SPACE program or ELON MUSK'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT??????


'Humans will be living and working on Mars in colonies entirely independent of Earth by the 2030s, Nasa has said'.


Nasa planning ‘Earth Independent’ Mars colony by 2030s
  • Sarah Knapton, Science Editor

9 October 2015 • 5:30pm THE TELEGRAPH Humans will be living and working on Mars in colonies entirely independent of Earth by the 2030s, Nasa has said.

OH, REALLY?????

The US space organisation today released its plan for establishing permanent settlements on the red planet, setting out in detail plans to create ‘deep-space habitation facilities’ which will act as stepping stones to Mars.



In a new report entitled ‘Journey to Mars’ Nasa said the mission was ‘historic pioneering endeavor’ similar to the early settlers in America and Moon landing.


“Like the Apollo programme, we embark on this journey for all humanity,” the report states. “Unlike Apollo, we will be going to stay.


“In the next few decades, Nasa will take steps toward establishing a human presence beyond Earth.


“We seek the capacity for people to work, learn operate and sustainably live beyond Earth for extended periods of time. Any journey to Mars will take many months each way and early return is not an option.


“Efforts made today and in the next decade will lay the foundation for an Earth Independent, sustained presence in deep space. Living and working in space require accepting risk and the journey is worth the risk.”



Nasa has divided the challenge of getting to Mars into three stages; Earth reliant, proving ground and Earth independent.


In the coming decades the space agency will continue to gather information from experiments aboard the International Space Station, so that crews can live in deep space without health problems from radiation and the effects of micro-gravity.



Currently the amount of time astronauts can spend in space is limited because of fears that space radiation causes cancer. Many crew members also need glasses after returning from space because the effects of micro-gravity causes pressure to build up in the optic nerve. There are also fears that astronauts could develop dementia or suffer fertility problems.


The first experiments away from the ISS will take place in cislunar space – the area of space around the Moon – before missions begin venturing further afield.



The final step will see human missions sent into Mars’ orbit or one of its moons, before crews eventually land on the Martian surface and set up colonies using modular architecture and 3-D printing.


“NASA is closer to sending American astronauts to Mars than at any point in our history,” said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.



“Today, we are publishing additional details about our journey to Mars plan and how we are aligning all of our work in support of this goal. In the coming weeks, I look forward to continuing to discuss the details of our plan with members of Congress, as well as our commercial and our international and partners, many of whom will be attending the International Astronautical Congress next week.”



Nasa says it is also committed to designing ‘a new and powerful transportation’ system which will involve solar electric propulsion, using the Sun’s energy to take spacecraft deeper into space. Cargo ships will being shuttling supplies to Mars, months or even years before the first humans land.


It is hoping that the upcoming Asteroid Redirect Mission, which seeks to bring an asteroid into lunar orbit where it can be studied, will be using solar propulsion, and Mars scientists will be following its progress closesly.


“NASA’s strategy connects near-term activities and capability development to the journey to Mars and a future with a sustainable human presence in deep space,” said William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations at NASA Headquarters.”


Probes and robotic rovers like Curiosity have already been on or around Mars for 40 years and Nasa will continue to send new landers in the coming decades to gather more information about the planet ahead of landing. Recent discoveries have shown that salt water which could sustain life is likely to be flowing on Mars. The remains of ancient lakes and river beds are also present.


The report concludes: “NASA and its partners are working on the solutions every day so we can answer some of humanity’s fundamental questions about life beyond Earth: Was Mars home to microbial life? Is it today? Could it be a safe home for humans one day? What can it teach us about life elsewhere in the cosmos or how life began on Earth? What can it teach us about Earth’s past, present and future?”


However Nasa may be beaten. The Mars One project, set up by a nonprofit organization based in the Netherlands has proposed to land the first humans on Mars and establish a permanent human colony there by 2027.

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Below we see an article written by a FAR-RIGHT WING  global banking 5% freemason/Greek player that looks like it is written for SOCIAL BENEFIT--------it certainly is HAZARDOUS to our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE health to be made PLANETARY MINING SLAVES living in PLANETARY COLONIES-----but DANIELLE'S job as a FAKE DATA scientist from HARVARD-----is to plant that SEED of what may not be possible maybe can be possible.  So, she writes an article stating just what global banking 1% want our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE to believe-----all that's needed to make that HOLY GRAIL DREAM come true for global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS-----is just what is MOVING FORWARD with ONE WORLD ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID.  This is the description we have been discussing these few days---all that BIOMIMACRY/BIOFABRICATION/BIOHYBRID self-contained system.

'But a colony on Mars would need to be a nearly perfectly self-contained, resource neutral system that harvests energy from the sun and is rarely or never re-supplied'

What makes DANIELLE a FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING PLAYER rather than a REAL left social progressive scientist and BIOETHICIST------is this:  she does not say reaching this goal will be next to impossible------she doesn't say that even such a self-contained system will PROTECT PLANETARY MINING SLAVES.  A RESPONSIBLE physician would not deliberately plant the SEED to goals we already know will harm and kill 99% of US and global citizens black, white, and brown citizens.



THIS IS ALL TOO PENN AND TELLER-------


Penn & Teller: Fool Us



By Danielle Teller

October 30, 2015

Physician and researcher


Danielle Teller is a physician specializing in intensive care and lung medicine. She has been a faculty member of the University of Pittsburgh and Harvard University

The TIMELINE for actually building a MARS planet colony using ONE WORLD ONE SMART ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID------likely not this 21st century and most likely NEVER.




MARSFORMING



It’s completely ridiculous to think that humans could live on Mars



By Danielle TellerOctober 30, 2015
Physician and researcher



Our 12-year-old daughter who, like us, is a big fan of The Martian by Andy Weir, said, “I can’t stand that people think we’re all going to live on Mars after we destroy our own planet. Even after we’ve made the Earth too hot and polluted for humans, it still won’t be as bad as Mars. At least there’s plenty of water here, and the atmosphere won’t make your head explode.”



What makes The Martian so wonderful is that the protagonist survives in a brutally hostile environment, against all odds, by exploiting science in clever and creative ways. To nerds like us, that’s better than Christmas morning or a hot fudge sundae. (One of us is nerdier than the other—I’m not naming any names, but his job title is “Captain of Moonshots.”) The idea of using our ingenuity to explore other planets is thrilling. Our daughter has a good point about escaping man-made disaster on Earth by colonizing Mars, though. It doesn’t make a lot of sense.


Mars has almost no surface water; a toxic atmosphere that is too thin for humans to survive without pressure suits; deadly solar radiation; temperatures lower than Antarctica; and few to none of the natural resources that have been critical to human success on Earth. Smart people have proposed solutions for those pesky environmental issues, some of which are seriously sci-fi, like melting the polar ice caps with nuclear bombs. But those aren’t even the real problems.



The real problems have to do with human nature and economics. First, we live on a planet that is perfect for us, and we seem to be unable to prevent ourselves from making it less and less habitable. We’re like a bunch of teenagers destroying our parents’ mansion in one long, crazy party, figuring that our backup plan is to run into the forest and build our own house. We’ll worry about how to get food and a good sound system later. Proponents of Mars colonization talk about “terraforming” Mars to make it more like Earth, but in the meantime, we’re “marsforming” Earth by making our atmosphere poisonous and annihilating our natural resources. We are also well on our way to making Earth one big desert, just like Mars.



Maybe a silver lining is that we have already proven ourselves capable of one aspect of terraforming Mars—heating up the planet. We have been warming Earth at a good clip by dumping enormous amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. On the other hand, the atmosphere of Mars is already 95% carbon dioxide, and despite centuries of vigorous efforts to deforest our planet and burn all of the fossil fuel we can lay our hands on, humans have raised carbon dioxide levels by a paltry 0.01% on Earth. It may be enough to cook us all to death,

OH, REALLY???


but staging a second industrial revolution on Mars—or exploding a few nuclear bombs (we’ve tried that here)—probably won’t raise those chilly temperatures much.



A second problem presented by human nature is that we don’t enjoy prolonged periods of extreme duress, and we don’t function particularly well under those conditions. It seems romantic to grow potatoes in a “hab” on Mars, but when you look at harsh environments on Earth, a different picture emerges. Antarctica has the closest temperatures to the red planet, an average of -56°F (-49°C) compared to an average of -67°F (-55°C) on Mars. Despite having a completely breathable atmosphere and plenty of fresh water, Antarctica has no permanent residents. Nobody wants to live there. Scientists who work at Antarctic bases suffer from a mental health disorder called Winter-Over syndrome, characterized by symptoms such as depression, irritability, aggressive behavior, insomnia, memory deficits, and the occurrence of mild fugue states known as the “antarctic stare.” Since it must be a bit like living with a colony of zombies, it’s no wonder that they want to stay drunk all winter (pdf). Living on Mars would be way, way more miserable than living in Antarctica. Imagine how much more expensive it would be to stay drunk for your entire life on Mars.




This brings us to the economic problem with colonizing Mars. It is extraordinarily expensive to ship goods to Mars, and at least right now, Mars has nothing to offer in return. There are no cod, no beavers to make hats from, no gold, no forests, none of the treasures that drew Europeans to colonize new continents. The wealth required to fund the colonies would need to come exclusively from here. We haven’t even colonized the Sahara desert, the bottom of the oceans or the moon, because it makes no economic sense. It would be far, far easier and cheaper to “terraform” the deserts on our own planet than to terraform Mars. Yet we can’t afford it. What makes us think that we could afford to colonize a barren rock 250 million miles (402 million km) away after we have used up all of our local resources?



Astro spends his days evaluating audacious ideas at X, Alphabet’s (formerly Google’s) “moonshot factory.” About six months ago, an ex-DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) program manager pitched a moonshot proposal: he wanted to set up a permanent manned colony on Mars. Astro suggested that for the amount of money and creativity necessary to set up a colony on Mars, we could help thousands of times as many people here on Earth. Sadly, this scientist wasn’t interested in projects on Earth. He said that he was a “space cadet,” and that nothing that didn’t have to do with space exploration interested him.




There is nothing wrong with being excited about exploring space. There’s nothing wrong with dreaming about setting up colonies in space either. But a colony on Mars would need to be a nearly perfectly self-contained, resource neutral system that harvests energy from the sun and is rarely or never re-supplied. That is currently beyond the reach of science and human ingenuity. Yet we are hurtling through a vast emptiness right now on a giant space station, and we won’t survive unless we learn to live in a resource neutral way. Our space station is way less boring than Mars—it is teeming with fascinating life forms and covered with mind-blowing geographic features. It even comes equipped with snacks that aren’t freeze-dried. The problems our space station faces aren’t boring either. To quote Mark Watney from The Martian, to avoid catastrophe, we’re going to have to science the shit out of this. Maybe if we got excited enough to treat Earth as though it were Mars, some of the energy currently pointed towards the stars could be repurposed to doing something even more audacious—ensure that the space station we already have can take us into the next millennium.

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Hard as FILLORY grads try casting magical spells on our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE with goals of bringing a highly educated population of people back to 1000BC-----so we will believe all that global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS tell us------AKA-----gods and goddesses---

What global banking 1% via ELON MUSK will be doing maybe by 2030 is forcing humans into planetary space travel experiments -------trying to figure out how to keep a HUMAN alive to simply GET TO MARS.



BUT ELON MUSK HAS LEV GROSSMAN'S MAGIC COINS INVENTED BY IMPRISONED RUSSIAN GENIUS SAY GLOBAL BANKING 5% FREEMASON/GREEK PLAYERS!



All of that DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE of SMART CITIES will help achieve THAT goal.



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Well, say global banking 1%---we have to PRETEND there is a social benefit to move $21 trillion of US 99% WE THE PEOPLE'S wealth to all this R AND D after all.

High-Tech can’t last: Limited minerals & metals essential for wind, solar, microchips, cars, & other high-tech gadgets

Posted on February 26, 2014 by energyskeptic


Metals and minerals aren’t just physically limited, they can be economically limited by a financial collapse, which dries up credit and the ability to borrow for new projects to mine and crush ores. Economic collapse drives companies and even nations out of business, disrupting supply chains.


Supply chains can also be disrupted by the coming oil shocks and natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes. The more complex, the more minerals, metals, and other materials, machines, chemicals, a product depends on, the greater the odds of disruption.


Minerals and metals can also be politically limited.  China controls over 90% of some critical elements.


The next war over resources is likely to be done via cyber-attacks that take down an opponent’s electric grid, which would affect nearly all of the other essential infrastructure a nation depends on:


Agriculture and food; defense industrial base; energy; healthcare and public health; banking and finance; drinking water and water treatment systems; chemical; commercial facilities; dams; emergency services; commercial nuclear reactors, materials, and waste; information technology; communications; postal and shipping; transportation and systems; government facilities; critical manufacturing (NIPP)


Microchips

These are nearly as essential as fossil fuels to maintaining civilization, yet depend on 60 minerals & metals, chemicals, high-tech machines, etc., making them more vulnerable than any other product to supply chain and cascading failures.


According to the National Mining Association “Minerals: America’s Strength”, while just 12 minerals were used to fabricate microchips initially, now over 60 different kinds of minerals are required. The title ought to be “Minerals: America’s weakness” because:
  • This report says we’re in trouble: the U.S. is 100% dependent on imports for 19 different minerals and over 50% for another 43 minerals.  These trends are unsustainable in a highly competitive world economy in which the demand for minerals continues to grow and supply stability is a growing concern.
  • Many of these minerals are both rare and past peak production
  • Many of them come from only one country (single-source failure)
  • China is the sole source for many of these minerals, and other countries such as failed nations like the Democratic Republic of Congo are not a reliable source.
Laptops need many minerals from 27 Countries

Antimony, Arsenic, Barium, Beryllium, Bismuth, Boron, Bromine, Cadmium, Chromium, Cobalt, Europium, Ferrite, Gallium, Germanium, Gold, Indium, Lead, Lithium, Magnesium, Manganese, Nickel, Niobium, Palladium, Petroleum, Phosphorus, Platinum, Rhodium, Ruthenium, Selenium, Silver, (Stainless) steel, Tantalum, Terbium, Tin, Titanium, Vanadium, Yttrium,  Zinc


Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Democratic Republic Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Israel, Japan, Kazahkstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Namibia, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sudan, Ukraine, USA
Source: laptop supply chain assembly process documented in Bonanni et al (2010):
We’re dependent on China for 100% of these metals and minerals: Arsenic Asbestos Bauxite Alulmina Cesium Fluorspar Gallium, Graphite (natural) Indium Manganese Mica (sheet, natural) Niobium (columbium) Quartz crystal (industrial) Rubidium Strontium Tantalum Thallium Thorium Vanadium Yttrium



Percent dependency on imports for these minerals: 99% gemstone 96% Vanadium 92% Bismuth 91% Platinum 90% Germanium 88% Iodine 85% Diamond (natural industrial stone) 87% Antimony 86% Rhenium 83% Barite 77% Titanium mineral concentrates 81% potash (essential fr agriculture) 78% cobalt 78% Rhenium 75% Tin 73% Silicon carbide (crude) 72% Zinc 70% Chromium 65% Garnet (industrial) 64% Titanium (sponge) 62% Peat 57% Silver 54% Palladium 49% Nickel 46% magnesium compounds 42% Tungsten 36% silicon 35% copper 35% Nitrogen (fixed, Ammonia: essential for industrial agriculture)



Rare Earth Elements

Rare earth elements (and platinum group metals) are essential for high-tech technology: i.e. hybrid cars, computers, cell phones, television — anything with a microchip, even toasters.  They are finite, mostly controlled by China (up to 97% by some estimates), the last resources are mainly in war-torn failed states in Africa, Afghanistan, etc., and vulnerable to supply chain failure.



“To provide most of our power through renewables would take hundreds of times the amount of rare earth metals that we are mining today,” according to Thomas Graedel at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.



So renewable energy resources like windmills and solar PV can not ever replace fossil fuels, there’s not enough of many essential minerals to scale this technology up.


There are no substitutes for rare earth minerals and metals.


Computer chips are dependent on 60 minerals, many rare, which is why this will be one of the first technologies to fail in the future as a series of cascading failures, supply chain breakdowns, and other problems arise when fossil fuels start to decline at exponential rates within the next decade.  Computer chips are also vulnerable to Liebig’s Law of the Mininum, since if even one of these 60 minerals is missing, the chip can’t be manufactured.



Since mining is one of the most energy intensive and polluting enterprises, the decline of fossil fuels will cause many mines to shut down, hastening the end of hi-tech products as needed rare metals — even common ones at some point down the energy ladder — are no longer available. We mined the highest concentration ores at a time when fossil fuels were plentiful, now we’re down to low-grade ore at a time when the RATE of fossil fuel extraction is about to exponentially decline.



China controls many of these rare metals, Russia has 80% of palladium supplies, another potential source of supply chain breakdowns if they’re withheld from world markets.



Why are rare metals rare?



By and large they make up a few parts per billion of Earth’s crust, and we don’t know where they are, according to Murray Hitzman, an economic geologist at the Colorado School of Mines.  Some of these minerals are byproducts of mining for aluminium, zinc and copper.


An element’s price isn’t the only problem. The rare earth group of elements, to which many of the most technologically critical belong, are generally found together in ores that also contain small amounts of radioactive elements such as thorium and uranium. In 1998, chemical processing of these ores was suspended at the only US mine for rare earth elements in Mountain Pass, California, due to environmental concerns associated with these radioactive contaminants. The mine is expected to reopen with improved safeguards later this year, but until then the world is dependent on China for nearly all its rare-earth supplies. Since 2005, China has been placing increasingly stringent limits on exports, citing demand from its own burgeoning manufacturing industries.



That means politicians hoping to wean the west off its ruinous oil dependence are in for a nasty surprise: new and greener technologies are hardly a recipe for self-sufficiency.



So what can we do?


Finding more readily available materials that perform the same technological tricks not likely, says Karl Gschneidner, a metallurgist at the DoE’s Ames Laboratory. Europium has been used to generate red light in televisions for almost 50 years, he says, while neodymium magnets have been around for 25. “People have been looking ever since day one to replace them, and nobody’s done it yet.”





Technological concerns and environmental permits can delay extraction for 15 years after an ore deposit is discovered.



Rare Earth metals are used in many products:
  1. Magnets (Neodymium, Praseodymium, Terbium, Dysprosium): Motors, disc drives, MRI, power generation, microphones and speakers, magnetic refrigeration
  2. Metallurgical alloys (Lanthanum, Cerium, Praseodymium, Neodymium, Yttrium): NimH batteries, fuel cells, steel, lighter flints, super alloys, aluminum/magnesium
  3. Phosphors (Europium, Yttrium, Terbium, Neodymium, Erbium, Gadolinium, Cerium, Praseodymium): display phosphors CRT, LPD, LCD; fluorescent lighting, medical imaging, lasers, fiber optics
  4. Glass and Polishing (Cerium, Lanthanum, Praseodymium, Neodymium, Gadolinium, Erbium, Holmium): polishing compounds, decolorizers, UV resistant glass, X-ray imaging
  5. Catalysts (Lanthanum, Cerium, Praseodymium, Neodymium): petroleum refining, catalytic converter, diesel additives, chemical processing, industrial pollution scrubbing
  6. Other applications:
  • Nuclear (Europium, Gadolinium, Cerium, Yttrium, Sm, Erbium)
  • Defense (Neodymium, Praseodymium, Dysprosium, Terbium, Europium, Yttrium, Lanthanum, Lutetium, Scandium, Samarium)
  • Water Treatment
  • Pigments
  • Fertilizers
  • Fuel cells (SOFC use lanthaneum, cerium, prasedymium)




8 Rare Earth Metals are used in hybrid electric vehicles



Source: Ree applications in a hybrid electric vehicle. Molycorp Inc. 2010
  1. Cerium: UV cut glass, Glass and mirrors, polishing powder, LCD screen, catalytic converter, hybrid NiMH battery, Diesel fuel additive
  2. Dysprosium: Hybrid electric motor and generator
  3. Europium: LCD screen
  4. Lanthanum: Catalytic Converter, Hybrid NiMH battery, diesel fuel additive
  5. Neodymium: magnets in 25+ electric motors throughout vehicle, Headlight Glass, Hybrid electric motor and generator
  6. Praseodymium: Hybrid electric motor and generator
  7. Terbium: Hybrid electric motor and generator
  8. Yttrium: LCD screen, component sensors





Cerium (see Lanthanum) is used in catalytic converters, oil refining


Dysprosium  has magnetic properties that don’t go away in high temperatures, essential for high-performance magnets in turbines, hard discs, and many other products. The US navy has used it in an advanced active sonar transducer, producing and then picking up high-powered “pings” underwater.




According to the US DoE, there are no suitable replacements, and so it’s the most critical element for emerging clean energy technologies. China is the only country with significant known deposits, Mines in Australia and Canada only have small quantities  Shortfall of dysprosium are expected before 2015.



Erbium  is a essential for the optical fibers used to transport light-encoded information around the world because they amplify light as it’s lost along the way.
Europium  is essential for lighting, so far no substitutes have been found. Everything from fluorescent light bulbs to laptop and iPhone screens relies on small but critical amounts of europium to generate a pleasant red color and terbium to make green.




“There are only 100 elements known to man, and we know what colors all of them produce, and those are the only ones that produce those particular shades,” says Alex King, director of Ames Laboratory, a rare-earth research center.


Europium and terbium combined help to produce the images on most television screens. Yttrium plays a supporting role as well.



According to the DoE, europium could be in short supply as early as 2015 – and terbium even sooner. For yttrium we have already reached crunch time: demand outstripped supply in 2010.


Gadolinium (Gd) is used in TV screens, X-ray and MRI scanning systems. In nuclear power plants it’s used in boiling water reactors to even performance.  Gadolinium oxide is also used to absorb neutrons as the uranium oxide fuels gets used up.



Hafnium  has amazing heat resistance so it was used as part of the alloy used in the nozzle of rocket thrusters fitted to the Apollo lunar module. It’s also used in the transistors of powerful computer chips because hafnium oxide is a highly effective electrical insulator. Compared with silicon dioxide, which is conventionally used to switch transistors on and off, it is much less likely to let unwanted currents seep through. It also switches 20% faster, allowing more information to pass. This has enabled transistor size to shrink from 65 nanometres with silicon dioxide  to 32 nm.  Such innovations also keep smartphones small.



Indium is used in touchscreens, PV thin films, and solar cells.  China has 73% of the world’s Indium reserves and refines half of it. China limits indium exports. The USA has been 100% dependent on indium imports since 1972.



Without expanded production after 2015, the DoE says reductions in “non-clean energy demand” will be needed “to prevent shortages and price spikes”. In other words, we might need to choose which is the more important – smartphones or solar cells.



Lanthanum   
  • Is the metal in nickel-metal-hydride batteries used in hybrid cars.
  • Used as a catalyst in oil refining to separate oil into products like gasoline, jet fuel and heating oil
  • Added to swimming-pool cleaner as an algae remover; it absorbs phosphate from the water, starving algae of its fundamental food source
  • camera and telescope lenses, carbon lighting in studios and  cinema projection
Lithium-ion batteries are unsurpassed in energy density, and dominate the market in laptops, cellphones and other devices where a slimline figure is all-important.



Yet they are also rather explosive characters: computer manufacturer Dell recalled four million lithium laptop batteries in 2006 amid fears they might burst into flames if overheated. That risk makes them unsuitable for use in electric and hybrid electric cars, leaving the market to the less explosion-prone nickel-metal-hydride batteries.



This is where lanthanum and cerium come in. They are the main components of a “mischmetal” mixture of rare earth elements that makes up the nickel-metal-hydride battery’s negative electrode. The increased demand for electric cars, and the elements’ subsidiary roles as phosphorescents in energy-saving light bulbs, place lanthanum and cerium on the US DoE’s short-term “near-critical” list for green technologies – a position also assumed by lithium in the medium term.




Neodymium (Nd) 
  • Used in magnets in generators in wind turbines, hybrid cars, laptops, loudspeakers, and computer hard drives
  • Used in high-temp dry film lubricant that works at 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit
  • Used in welding goggles to cut out the yellow-green wavelength of light, which would burn your retina
Neodymium is used in the magnets that keep the motors of both wind turbines and electric cars turning. When mixed with iron and boron, neodymium makes magnets 12 times stronger than conventional iron magnets.




These numerous uses make for a perfect storm threatening future supplies. In its Critical Materials Strategy, which assesses elements crucial for future green-energy technologies, the US Department of Energy estimates that wind turbines and electric cars could make up 40 per cent of neodymium demand in an already overstretched market. Together with increasing demand for the element in personal electronic devices, that makes for a clear “critical” rating.



Praseodymium (Pr) Creates strong metals for aircraft engines and in the glass used to protect welders and glass makers
Promethium (Pm)
Rhenium is used in compact fluorescent light bulbs, and is a byproduct of copper. It’s one of the scarcest elements, and helps steel retain its shape and hardness even under extreme force and high temperatures.
Samarium (Sm)
Scandium (Sc)
Technetium is very rare because technetium, though present within uranium ores in Earth’s crust, quickly falls apart through radioactive decay. Globally, around 30 million medical procedures involving technetium are performed each year. But two new Canadian reactors which were to secure supplies of technetium and other medical isotopes have been mothballed. So it questionable whether these procedures can continue at the same rate (New Scientist, 16 January 2010, p 30).




For now, a handful of aging reactors supplies the world’s hospitals.

Tellurium  In 2009, solar cells made from thin films of cadmium telluride became the first to undercut bulky silicon panels in cost per watt of electricity generating capacity. That points to a cheaper future for solar power – perhaps.


Both cadmium and tellurium are mining by-products – cadmium from zinc, and tellurium from copper. Cadmium’s toxicity means it is in plentiful supply: zinc producers are obliged to remove it during refining, and it has precious few other uses.



For tellurium, the situation is reversed. Because the global market for the element has been minute compared with that for copper – some $100 million against over $100 billion – there has been little incentive to extract it. That will change as demand grows, but better extraction methods are expected to only double the supply, which will be nowhere near enough to cover the predicted demand if the new-style solar cells take off. The US DoE anticipates a supply shortfall by 2025.


Terbium (Tb) (see Europium) Used in energy-efficient lighting
Yttrium (Y) (also see Europium)
  • Used in ceramic called yttria-stabliized-zirconia, or YSZ, which has the structural strength of a diamond and is used to make wind-turbine blades
  • Powderized YSZ is used as an electrolyte in fuel cells
  • Yttrium phosphors are used in fluorescent lamps





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December 18th, 2018

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We want to take this week to look at what are called FOUR WAVES of bringing artificial intelligence to the point of doing all human work--------this being the goal these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA.  Those global banking 5% freemason/Greek players worked hard to meet the goal of US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES and FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES globally being DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS------but no bad guys here though says FORTUNE MAGAZINE.

'No bad guys here, though'.

'How To Play Star Wars Dungeons And Dragons Like A Pro With These Accessories'

All of what was these few decades of REALITY TV---CALL IN RADIO-----SOCIAL MEDIA AND ITS GAMES ---TALK SHOWS had nothing to do with DEMOCRATIZING AIR WAVES----putting ordinary people on camera telling JUDGE JUDY their civil cases----telling DR PHIL their family problems, telling OPRAH why they are depressed about their bodies and relationships, BIG BROTHER showing relationships---SURVIVOR showing humans making life and death decisions.

All of our calls to CALL CENTERS describing service problems-----all those telephone conversations we were told were private----all this data has been streaming into SUPER-DUPER BIG DEAD HEADS with the goals of creating a memory-bank that allows a machine to respond just like a human.



'A.I. APPLICATIONS can be categorized into four waves, which are happening simultaneously, but with different starting points and velocity:

The first stage is “Internet A.I.” Powered by the huge amount of data flowing through the web, Internet A.I. leverages the fact that users automatically label data as we browse: buying vs. not buying, clicking vs. not clicking'.

Notice OBAMA as CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA did all this using EXECUTIVE ORDER-------with no response from our LEGISLATIVE BRANCH----no response from our JUDICIAL BRANCH.  Our US THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT---CHECKS AND BALANCES sat back and allowed our 'US' PRESIDENT working for FOREIGN SOVEREIGNTY OF MALTA----to authorize MOVING FORWARD DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE -----DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS.



This is what the $20 trillion US TREASURY BOND fraud by OBAMA had as its goal----killing all that is social safety net, all that is our fully-funded til the end of 21st century MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY TRUSTS----killing all public sector pensions---military pensions----killing all public K-UNIVERSITY ----just to fund the development and building of these 4 WAVES of INTERNET OF EVERYTHING.

Remember----it is NOT TRUMP as the MADMAN-----it was CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA--------working for global banking 1%----OLD WORLD KINGS

'President Obama has signed an executive order authorizing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI)',

Obama signs executive order authorizing development of exascale supercomputers



A viable path forward for future HPC (high-performance computing) systems even after the limits of current semiconductor technology are reached (the "post-Moore's Law era")



August 3, 2015

President Obama has signed an executive order authorizing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI), with the goal of creating the world’s fastest supercomputers. The NSCI is charged with building the world’s first-ever exascale* (1,000-petaflops) computer — 30 times faster than today’s fastest supercomputer.


The order mandates:
  1. Accelerating delivery of a capable exascale computing system that integrates hardware and software capability to deliver approximately 100 times the performance of current 10 petaflop systems across a range of applications representing government needs.
  2. Increasing coherence between the technology base used for modeling and simulation and that used for data analytic computing.
  3. Establishing, over the next 15 years, a viable path forward for future HPC systems even after the limits of current semiconductor technology are reached (the “post-Moore’s Law era”).
  4. Increasing the capacity and capability of an enduring national HPC ecosystem by employing a holistic approach that addresses relevant factors such as networking technology, workflow, downward scaling, foundational algorithms and software, accessibility, and workforce development.
  5. Developing an enduring public-private collaboration to ensure that the benefits of the research and development advances are, to the greatest extent, shared between the United States Government and industrial and academic sectors.
Regaining number 1
In 2013, the U.S lost its position as having the world’s fastest supercomputer — Titan, with 17.59 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) Rmax on the Linpack benchmark — to China with its Tianhe-2, a supercomputer with 33.86 petaflop/s, developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, according to the TOP500 lists of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.
There are three lead agencies for the NSCI:  the Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the National Science Foundation (NSF).  There are also two foundational research and development agencies for the NSCI:  the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
* Exa: 1018; peta: 1015

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Before OBAMA era super-computers did not have the ability to consolidate all that mega data effectively to allow for building a network to EDUCATE robotics to think, feel, and perform as a human.  The SUPER-DUPER COMPUTERS installed in former US IVY LEAGUE now global hedge fund corporations like Johns Hopkins is MOVING FORWARD the end of the FIRST WAVE-----consolidation of mega-data and building networks for each human function------so, FORTUNE MAGAZINE'S photos of those global banking 5% freemason/Greek players made rich from what was our 99% ASSETS/RETIREMENT/MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS------became these global TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONS.  

REMEMBER---THE GOAL IS HAVING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DOING ALL HUMAN FUNCTIONS TIED TO WORK------NO JOBS FOR YOU.



There really isn't any more need for all that DEMOCRATIZING of TV/SOCIAL MEDIA/RADIO/CALL CENTERS for consumer complaints------there are tons of DATA now needing to be channeled to the correct human function NETWORK.


This is very basic AI ------we simply need our US 99% of citizens to understand when FAR-RIGHT WING pretends to be SOCIAL BENEFIT-----it ends in creating societal structures doing the opposite.

ALL OF THOSE REALITY SHOWS---WERE NEVER ABOUT GIVING POWER TO OUR 99% WE THE PEOPLE ON AIR WAVES-----


Contrary to public perception, AI will create opportunity. Pedro Domingos, Professor at University of Washington and well-known machine learning researcher said, “Some jobs will be automated, so some will disappear, but many new jobs will appear as well.”

TWO FICTIONS in these FORTUNE MAGAZINE articles------SMART CITIES 5G is going to be DEMOCRATIZING and helpful to the 99% WE THE PEOPLE----and that for jobs eliminated ---jobs will be created. 

THIS IS LYING---MYTH-MAKING AND PROPAGANDA.




July 20, 2018

The Tipping Point for Artificial Intelligence


Mahe Bayireddi(kasiastock/Shutterstock)


Artificial intelligence is at a critical point in its evolution.
Over the last 500 years, human knowledge and intelligence has originated from evolution, experience, culture, and computers. In the not-so-distant future, most of the knowledge in the world is going to be extracted by machines and will reside in machines.



At this point, you might be imagining a future full of Terminators and I, Robot, but that’s a long, long way off from where we are today.



Coined in 1956 by Dartmouth Assistant Professor, John McCarthy, “AI is a general term that refers to hardware or software that exhibits behavior which appears intelligent.” AI is designed around how people think. It’s an emulation of human intelligence.


Where Are We Today?


AI has been in its alpha version for the last 60 years, and the next 10 years it will be in its beta version. We are living in a world where innovation is moving from a process-centric mindset to a human-centric mindset.



Whether you know it or not, you are using AI every day. Human-centric products are popping up everywhere. Think about it: Your dad is shopping on Amazon.com, your listening to music on Spotify, your children are watching cartoons on Netflix, and thousands of commuters are using Waze to navigate to their destinations daily.


These companies have invested the time and energy into developing a highly personalized user experience powered by AI-driven technology. We see the same trend in other companies like Uber, Airbnb, Spotify, and Netflix as they cater to changing human expectations.



AI is at its tipping point – its inflection point. The expectation? We’re either going to see an exponential increase or a catastrophic decline. We’re in what I call the AI Boom.



Why Now?


This AI Boom we are experiencing as a society ties back to five key reasons.


Extensive Data: Presently, there are 50 companies with over 300 million users. Think Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Alone, Instagram has 800 million monthly and 500 million daily active users. The data being collected on a daily basis is limitless.



Improved Algorithms: We are seeing further advancements in algorithms with machine learning, voice and image recognition, and translation between languages. Machine learning, which is a subset of AI, is designed to help make algorithms smarter as they learn from the environment around them (i.e. user activity and behaviors).



Specialized Hardware: Hardware is getting lighter, smarter, and more efficient. We’ve seen this in GPU’s and sensory chips. We are going to continue to see this area evolving with AI.


Cloud Services: There’s increased accessibility, mobility, and scalability – all at a reduced cost.



Investment: Investments in AI have increased significantly by more than 5x since 2000. In addition, there’s a large amount of motivated entrepreneurs in the AI space. In fact, there has been a 14x increase in the number of active AI startups just since 2000.



What’s Happening to the Job Market?


There’s a common misconception out in the market place today. We’ve all seen the headlines: “Robots: Is Your Job at Risk?” or “You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot – and Sooner Than You Think.” If you look at the conversations happening on social media, there’s an actual consensus and fear about the future impact of AI on the job market.


(Joybakal/Shutterstock)
Contrary to public perception, AI will create opportunity. Pedro Domingos, Professor at University of Washington and well-known machine learning researcher said, “Some jobs will be automated, so some will disappear, but many new jobs will appear as well.”



Rudy Karsan, founder of Kenexa and a close mentor of mine, summed it up best in his keynote at the 2018 IAMPHENOM Conference. He spoke about the evolution of humans as economic engines. Historically, jobs have been eliminated as a result of economic advancements. Think about people plowing fields being replaced by horses pulling the plows. Just like the Industrial Revolution removed physical stress, AI will remove mental stress.



As a society, we’ve always adapted to the changing economy and job market. The truth is that jobs will continue to become redundant, but people will begin filling new roles that didn’t even exist ten years ago. Embrace it; It’s going to happen.


What’s Next?


We need AI. It is the ultimate accelerator of a human’s capacity to fill their own potential. Evolution is not assembling. We still only utilize about 10 percent of our total brain function. Think about the additional brain functioning potential we will have as AI continues to develop, improve, and advance.


To put things into perspective, AI can and will expand our neocortex and act as an extension to our 300 million brain modules. According to Ray Kurzweil, American author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist, “The future human will be a biological and non-biological hybrid.”

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It's important to know TODAY that those global banking 5% freemason/Greek players black, white, and brown players KNOW all jobs will be gone and no new one replacing them.


THAT WOULD BE LYING PEDRO

'Contrary to public perception, AI will create opportunity. Pedro Domingos, Professor at University of Washington'



Indeed all 4 WAVES of development are happening simultaneously -----we want to consider how long all this development will take.  When we read a novel by LEV GROSSMAN ---THE MAGICIAN we are reading about those GENIUSES located by STANFORD IQ and INTELLIGENCE TESTING working in these US IVY LEAGUES completely sequestered from their families---their communities-----saturated with all this FANTASY-MYTH-MAKING of being ROYALTY-----not being like all the rest of our 99% WE THE PEOPLE. 

GENIUSES in the past were always part of our society----they were MADCAP---they were LONERS-----but they lived and interacted within our WORLD.  As we read THE MAGICIAN-----HARRY POTTER ---we start to see where these GENIUSES are totally disenfranchised from family and community----just as MOVING FORWARD CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA has done these few decades.




SMARTS: Self-regulating Artificial Material Systems



Living organisms exhibit unique homeostatic abilities, maintaining tight control of their local environment through inter-conversions of chemical and mechanical energy and self-regulating feedback loops organized hierarchically across many length scales. In contrast, most synthetic materials are incapable of undergoing continuous self-monitoring and self-regulating behavior. Applying the concept of homeostasis to the design of autonomous materials would have transformative impacts in areas ranging from medical implants that help stabilize bodily functions to smart materials that regulate energy usage. We have explored a versatile strategy for creating self-regulating, self-powered, homeostatic materials capable of precisely tailored chemo-mechano-chemical feedback loops at the nano/microscale. 

We design a bilayer system with hydrogel-supported, catalyst-bearing microstructures, which are separated from a reactant-containing “nutrient” layer. Reconfiguration of the gel in response to a stimulus induces the reversible actuation of the microstructures in and out of the nutrient layer and serves as a highly precise “on/off” switch for chemical reactions. We apply this design to trigger a variety of processes—fluorescence quenching, catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide, or a complex enzymatic reaction—that undergo reversible, repeatable cycles synchronized with the motion of the microstructures and the driving external chemical stimulus. 

In this manner, we create exemplary internally-regulated, self-sustained homeostatic systems, SMARTS (Self-regulated Mechano-chemical Adaptively Reconfigurable Tunable System), that maintain a user-defined parameter—temperature—by exploiting a continuous feedback loop between various exothermic catalytic reactions in the nutrient layer and the mechanical action of the temperature-responsive gel. The experimental results were validated using computational modeling that qualitatively captured the essential features of the self-regulating behavior and provided additional criteria for the optimization of the homeostatic function, subsequently confirmed experimentally. This design is highly customizable due to the broad choice of chemistries, tunable mechanics, and physical simplicity, thus promising exciting applications in autonomous systems with chemo-mechano-chemical transduction at their core. 

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NO JOBS WILL BE FOUND IN NETWORK OPERATION-----IT IS BEING BUILT TO BE SELF----OPERATING.


Indeed all 4 WAVES of development are happening simultaneously -----we want to consider how long all this development will take.  When we read a novel by LEV GROSSMAN ---THE MAGICIAN we are reading about those GENIUSES located by STANFORD IQ and INTELLIGENCE TESTING working in these US IVY LEAGUES completely sequestered from their families---their communities-----saturated with all this FANTASY-MYTH-MAKING of being ROYALTY-----not being like all the rest of our 99% WE THE PEOPLE. 

GENIUSES in the past were always part of our society----they were MADCAP---they were LONERS-----but they lived and interacted within our WORLD.  As we read THE MAGICIAN-----HARRY POTTER ---we start to see where these GENIUSES are totally disenfranchised from family and community----just as MOVING FORWARD CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA has done these few dec


Thermostats, Self-Driving Cars, and Self-Operating Networks™


Updated Mar 14, 2017
Mansour Karam




Modern automation systems have two fundamental characteristics — they are Intent-Based and they are Closed-Loop. Yet it is only today, and with Apstra’s Intent-Based Self-Operating Network™ that these concepts are being introduced to network infrastructures!




Intent-based “Intent-based” is the notion that the user interfaces with the system by specifying their intent, in the context of a specific function.

Let’s take the example of a simple automation system — a climate control system. You interact with a climate control system using a thermostat. The thermostat allows you to input your desired temperature — that is, your “intended outcome”, or your intent.

Before climate control was automated, we had a more painful system. You would have to struggle with various knobs in an attempt to achieve your intent: should I turn on the AC, or should I turn on the heater? What speed would I like the fan to run at? Do I like the air to be recycled or not? In those older systems, you tweaked those various knobs that control specific components in an effort to get you close to your desired intent — in short, you were asked to be involved in the “how”, not the “what”.

Because of this, there were several problems: It was hard to tell whether you reached the right temperature. Often the system over-cooled, or over-heated the room, and the user had to continuously adjust accordingly. In short, those older systems were time-consuming, hard to use, and error prone.





Closed-loop Once you have specified your intent, the climate control system goes about implementing your intent, that is implementing the specifics involved in “how” it will deliver on your intent. In order to do so, the system configures some components — either the heating system, or the air conditioning system. But critically, it also needs to measure the current temperature — that is collect information on the current state, and then compare it continuously to the desired state (your intent, that is the temperature that you have specified).

Measuring the state continuously is a critical step in achieving your intent. The job of the climate control system is now focused on ensuring that actual state (the actual temperature in the room) matches your desired state (your desired temperature). It does that by simply injecting the appropriate configurations into the right components. Namely, if the actual state indicates the temperature is too low, then it will go ahead and configure the heating system appropriately to heat up the room; and if the temperature is too high, then climate control will configure the air conditioning system to cool the room. When the actual temperature (as measured by the system) matches your desired temperature, then the climate control will stop its process of configuration.

It doesn’t stop here. After desired state matches actual state, the climate control system continues to monitor the actual state. That is because at any point, the desired state and actual state could diverge. The actual state could change — i.e. the room temperature could deviate from your intent — say because the sun sets and outside temperatures cool. Or, you may choose to change your intent, and would like the desired temperature to be different by simply changing the setting on the thermostat.

In both cases, the climate control automatically and in real-time detects deviations from the desired state. Automated climate control systems automatically adjust both heating and cooling systems to achieve the desired outcome — smart ones take into account outside factors such as changes in weather, sunlight exposure, and time of day to be increasingly predictive and autonomic.





Anomalies Let’s assume that in the example above, your desired temperature is lower than the actual temperature, but the air conditioning system is broken so that configuration of that component does not yield a reduction in temperature. In this event, the climate control system detects its inability to adjust the temperature to match your intent. When the system detects this anomaly, it sends the user an alert. Anomaly detection is when the user needs to get involved — in this case to restart the A/C system or schedule to get it repaired.



What about self-driving cars?


Those concepts we described in the context of a relatively simple climate control system are in fact ubiquitous in automation systems. I bet that if you looked around you, you would find many examples of intent-driven, closed-loop automation systems: the video camera hiding in your microwave oven (joking), your refrigerator, your GPS-based navigation system you use to get to your destination, your water heating system, just to name a few.

Self-driving cars are of course much more sophisticated than climate control systems — yet they use the same intent-driven, closed-loop approach.

The driver interfaces with the car by specifying their intended destination (the intent). Ideally, the driver is not concerned with “how” the car gets them to their destination. They only concern themselves with the “what”. And this interface is incredibly simple — you don’t have to steer, or brake, or accelerate, or decelerate. You simply enter your destination.

The car “machinery” is concerned with the “how” of getting you to your destination. And in order for the car to achieve this, it too collects telemetry, and continuously measures actual state with desired state making the appropriate adjustments to all the components involved — the steering, the engine or electric motor, the brakes, the suspension, etc. to match actual state and desired state.

In order to achieve the desired intent, a self-driving car measures hundreds if not thousands of parameters continuously in real-time and compares actual state and desired state at an extremely fast rate of thousands of times a second for all those parameters.

And if the car detects a failure in a component or any other situation that prevents it from achieving the goal of ensuring that actual state matches desired state, then it detects an anomaly and alerts the user — in this case the driver, who will then need to intervene manually.

This machinery is truly an operating system for the car, enabling the car to act as one intent-driven system, operating all components — the engine, brakes, suspension, and transmission in a harmonic whole in service of user intent. And as is demonstrated from Intel’s $15B acquisition of Mobileeye, this type of self-driving technology is extremely valuable, and the way of the future.

A self-driving car is a lot more complex than a climate control system, yet the approach to automation is the same: intent-driven and closed-loop.




What if closed-loop systems didn’t exist?

It is interesting to consider for a moment how complex a thermostat would have to be to function without monitoring; without this closed-loop. It would have to compute how long and how frequently to run the furnace based on the thermal output of the furnace, the volume of the environment being heated and the thermal loss/gain of the environment, a much more sophisticated and complicated device, further complicated if it also handles cooling.

This task becomes that much more complicated, if not impossible, when you factor in equipment degradation and failure as well as variations in the controlled environment. In sum, without closed-loop, a relatively simple device like a thermostat becomes amazingly complicated to carry out your intent.




State of networking today Surprisingly, this is where we are with networking today! Data center networks are highly complex and mission critical. Yet legacy automation system approaches focus on helping users automate the complex minutia of the “how”. Telemetry and configurations have traditionally been disjoined, and there have been no attempts to close the loop in the context of network intent.

Well no longer. The Apstra Operating System (AOS®) is a distributed operating system for the data center network, the same way self-driving software acts as an operating system for the car. AOS delivers a self-operating network — enabling the user to operate their network at the intent level as one system as opposed to box-by-box. 





You can now state your intent for the network e.g. “I’d like to connect 1000 virtual machines in the most cost-effective way”, or “I’d like to connect 5 compute racks, and 1 storage rack with 1Tb/s of east west bandwidth”. Or “I’d like to create five groups, drag and drop endpoints into these groups dynamically, and set the policies using which these groups can communicate.” Once the network is operational, you can then make changes by stating your intent — “I’d like to swap a Cisco switch with an equivalent Arista switch”; or “I’d like to create a new virtual network”. In all cases, AOS takes care of the “how”, including generating cabling diagrams and specific configurations for all devices in the network. And AOS then validates through continuous closed-loop telemetry that your intent has indeed been realized.

We have been excited by the industry’s reception to the Apstra Self Operating Network™ concept defined in my earlier blog, and have seen other industry leaders concur, including Arista and Juniper, as well as industry forums such as the Stanford Computer Forum.






By deploying AOS, you gain the ubiquitous benefits of an intent-driven, closed-loop approach — applied to your own data center network infrastructure. As with the self-driving car and automatic climate control and our other examples, a self-operating network frees up your time to focus on what you want to achieve rather than how to achieve it. It also offloads you from the error-prone task of dealing with the minutiae of how, including across different vendors’ switches. And, it involves you intelligently when failures or other changes truly require your intervention.

The result is a more reliable and more agile network that demands far less of your time while providing you with all the benefits of a multi-vendor network.


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Somehow our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE lived all through 20th century with ENERGY technology rarely causing us to lose ELECTRICITY-----PHONE-----TV/RADIO-----a power-outage was rare until these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA dismantling all that was a strong PUBLIC SECTOR ELECTRICAL GRID workforce keeping our 20th century grid maintained and repaired.  It was not until these few decades that we started having MORE and LONGER power-outages.  This was DELIBERATE------

We want to be sure to KNOW------all this technology filling our ONE WORLD ONE ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID this article showing us the goals of SELF-REPAIR----no maintenance people needed------is designed for a SMART SYSTEM IN THE CLOUDS doing the work needed ONLY for GLOBAL CORPORATE CAMPUSES/GLOBAL FACTORIES.




'The Self-Healing Smart Grid
'A self-healing smart grid can best be built if its architects try to fulfill three primary objectives. The most fundamental is real-time monitoring and reaction. An array of sensors would monitor electrical parameters such as voltage and current, as well as the condition of critical components. These measurements would enable the system to constantly tune itself to an optimal state'.



So, while today's Baltimore City Council and MAYOR PUGH are pretending as always to be all about JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, telling us SMART CITIES will be DEMOCRATIZING ---open to all creating all kinds of businesses-----all kinds of need for regulating, operations, repair, and building more components-----

MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD SMART CITIES ALWAYS HAD THE GOAL OF ELIMINATING ALL NEED FOR HUMAN EMPLOYMENT.


So, preventing BLACKOUTS--------or as FORTUNE MAGAZINE IRONICALLY states -------all these networks will be used to stop GLOBAL BANKING FRAUDS------as if the same people behind systemic and massive banking frauds are designing structures to stop that.


Self-regulating, self operating, self reparations, self-duplication into new machine parts-----no assembly-line needed. What in the world is a 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens TO DO?

Energy

Preventing Blackouts: Building a Smarter Power Grid


A smarter power grid that automatically responds to problems could reduce the rising number of debilitating blackouts
  • By Massoud Amin, Phillip F. Schewe on August 14, 2017

Times Square, New York City during the east coast blackout on August 14, 2003.


Editor's Note: This story was originally published in the May 2007 issue of Scientific American and is being reproduced here on the occasion of the fourteenth anniversary of the 2003 blackout in the northeast United States.




August 14, 2003, was a typical warm day in the Midwest. But shortly after 2:00 P.M. several power lines in northern Ohio, sagging under the high current they were carrying, brushed against some overgrown trees and shut down. Such a disturbance usually sets off alarms in a local utility’s control room, where human operators work with controllers in neighboring regions to reroute power flows around the injury site.




On this day, however, the alarm software failed, leaving local operators unaware of the problem. Other controllers who were relaying, or “wheeling,” large amounts of power hundreds of miles across Ohio, Michigan, the northeastern U.S. and Ontario, Canada, were oblivious, too. Transmission lines surrounding the failure spot, already fully taxed, were forced to shoulder more than their safe quota of electricity.




To make matters worse, utilities were not generating enough “reactive power”—an attribute of the magnetic and electric fields that move current along a wire. Without sufficient reactive power to support the suddenly shifting flows, overburdened lines in Ohio cut out by 4:05 P.M. In response, a power plant shut down, destabilizing the system’s equilibrium. More lines and more plants dropped out. The cascade continued, faster than operators could track with the decades-old monitoring equipment that dots most of the North American power grid, and certainly much faster than they could control. Within eight minutes 50 million people across eight states and two Canadian provinces had been blacked out. The event was the largest power loss in North American history.




The 2003 disaster was a harbinger, too. Within two months, major blackouts occurred in the U.K., Denmark, Sweden and Italy. In September 2003 some 57 million Italians were left in the dark because of complications in transmitting power from France into Switzerland and then into Italy. In the U.S., the annual number of outages affecting 50,000 or more customers has risen for more than a decade.




In addition to inconvenience, blackouts are causing major economic losses. The troubles will get worse until the entire transmission system that moves power from generating plants to neighborhood substations is overhauled. More high-voltage lines must be built to catch up with the rising demand imposed by ever more air conditioners, computers and rechargeable gadgets.



But perhaps even more important, the power grid must be made smarter. Most of the equipment that minds the flow of electricity dates back to the 1970s. This control system is not good enough to track disturbances in real time—as they happen— or to respond automatically to isolate problems before they snowball. Every node in the power grid should be awake, responsive and in communication with every other node. Furthermore, the information that operators receive at central control stations is sparse and at least 30 seconds old, making it impossible for them to react fast enough to stop the large cascades that do start. A self-healing smart grid—one that is aware of nascent trouble and can reconfigure itself to resolve the problem—could reduce blackouts dramatically, as well as contain the chaos that could be triggered by terrorist sabotage. It would also allow more efficient wheeling of power, saving utilities and their customers millions of dollars during routine operation. The technology to build this smart grid largely exists, and recent demonstration projects are proving its worth.




Overwhelmed by Progress


The transmission system has become vulnerable to blackouts because of a century-long effort to reduce power losses. As power moves through a wire, some of it is wasted in the form of heat. The loss is proportional to the amount of current being carried, so utilities keep the current low and compensate by raising the voltage. They have also built progressively longer, higher-voltage lines to more efficiently deliver power from generation plants to customers located far away. These high-voltage lines also allow neighboring utilities to link their grids, thereby helping one another sustain a critical balance between generation supply and customer demand.


Such interconnectedness entails certain dangers, however, including the possibility that a shutdown in one sector could rapidly propagate to others. A huge 1965 blackout in the Northeast prompted utilities to create the North American Electric Reliability Council—now called the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)—to coordinate efforts to improve system reliability. Similar bodies, such as Europe’s Union for the Coordination of Transmission of Electricity, exist around the world.



Why, then, had the U.S. grid become vulnerable enough to fail massively in 2003?

One big reason is that investment in upgrading the transmission system has been lacking. Sharply rising fuel prices in the 1970s and a growing disenchantment with nuclear power prompted Congress to pass legislation intended to allow market competition to drive efficiency improvements. Subsequent laws have instigated a sweeping change in the industry that has come to be called restructuring. Before restructuring began in earnest in the 1990s, most utilities conducted all three principal functions in their region: generating power with large plants, transmitting it over high-voltage lines to substations, then distributing it from there to customers over lower-voltage lines. Today many independent producers sell power near and far over transmission lines they do not own. At the same time, utilities have been selling off parts of their companies, encouraged by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to further promote competition. Gradually the transmission business has become a confusing mixture of regulated and unregulated services, with various companies controlling fragmented pieces.



Investors have found generation, now largely deregulated, to be attractive. But because the transmission system has been only partially deregulated, uncertainty over its fate makes investors wary. (Deregulation of distribution is still in its infancy.) Meanwhile, even though wheeling occurred in the past, since the 1990s much larger amounts of power have been moved over great distances. As a result, massive transfers are flowing over transmission lines built mostly by utilities for local use decades ago.




Proposed federal legislation might encourage more investment, but even if transmission capacity is added, blackouts will still occur. The entire power grid has to be refurbished, because the existing control technology—the key to quickly sensing a small line failure or the possibility of a large instability—is antiquated. To remain reliable, the grid will have to operate more like a fighter plane, flown in large part by autonomous systems that human controllers can take over if needed to avert disaster.



A Need for Speedmodern warplanes are so packed with sophisticated gear that pilots rely on a network of sensors and automatic controls that quickly gather information and act accordingly. Fortunately, the software and hardware innovations required to fly the power grid in a similar fashion and to instantly reroute power flows and shut down generation plants are at hand.

Reconfiguring a widely interconnected system is a daunting challenge, though. Most power plants and transmission lines are overseen by a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. This system of simple sensors and controllers provides three critical functions— data acquisition, control of power plants, and alarm display—and allows operators who sit at central control stations to perform certain tasks, such as opening or closing a circuit breaker. SCADA monitors the switches, transformers and pieces of small hardware, known as programmable logic controllers and remote terminal units, that are installed at power plants, substations, and the intersections of transmission and distribution lines. The system sends information or alarms back to operators over telecommunications channels.




SCADA technology goes back 40 years, however. Much of it is too slow for today’s challenges and does not sense or control nearly enough of the components around the grid. And although it enables some coordination of transmission among utilities, that process is extremely sluggish, much of it still based on telephone calls between human operators at the utility control centers, especially during emergencies. What is more, most programmable logic controllers and remote terminal units were developed before industry-wide standards for interoperability were established; hence, neighboring utilities often use incompatible control protocols. Utilities are operating ever closer to the edge of the stability envelope using 1960s-era controls.




The Self-Healing Smart Grid


The result is that no single operator or utility can stabilize or isolate a transmission failure. Managing a modern grid in real time requires much more automatic monitoring and far greater interaction among human operators, computer systems, communications networks and data-gathering sensors that need to be deployed everywhere in power plants and substations. Reliable operation also requires multiple, high-data-rate, two-way communications links among all these nodes, which do not exist today, plus powerful computing facilities at the control center. And intelligent processors—able to automatically reconfigure power flows when precursors to blackouts are sensed—must be distributed across the network.



Flying the grid begins with a different kind of system design. Recent research from a variety of fields, including nonlinear dynamical systems, artificial intelligence, game theory and software engineering, has led to a general theory of how to design complex systems that adapt to changing conditions. Mathematical and computational techniques developed for this young discipline are providing new tools for grid engineers. Industry working groups, including a group run by one of us (Amin) while at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto, Calif., have proposed complex adaptive systems for large regional power grids. Several utilities have now deployed, at a demonstration scale, smart remote terminal units and programmable controllers that can autonomously execute simple processes without first checking with a human controller, or that can be reprogrammed at a distance by operators. Much wider implementation is needed.



A self-healing smart grid can best be built if its architects try to fulfill three primary objectives. The most fundamental is real-time monitoring and reaction. An array of sensors would monitor electrical parameters such as voltage and current, as well as the condition of critical components. These measurements would enable the system to constantly tune itself to an optimal state.



The second goal is anticipation. The system must constantly look for potential problems that could trigger larger disturbances, such as a transformer that is overheating. Computers would assess trouble signs and possible consequences. They would then identify corrective actions, simulate the effectiveness of each action, and present the most useful responses to human operators, who could then quickly implement corrective action by dispatching the grid’s many automated control features. The industry calls this capability fast look-ahead simulation.



The third objective is isolation. If failures were to occur, the whole network would break into isolated “islands,” each of which must fend for itself. Each island would reorganize its power plants and transmission flows as best it could. Although this might cause voltage fluctuations or even small outages, it would prevent the cascades that cause major blackouts. As line crews repaired the failures, human controllers would prepare each island to smoothly rejoin the larger grid. The controllers and their computers would function as a distributed network, communicating via microwaves, optical fibers or the power lines themselves. As soon as power flows were restored, the system would again start to self-optimize.




To transform our current infrastructure into this kind of self-healing smart grid, several technologies must be deployed and integrated. The first step is to build a processor into each switch, circuit breaker, transformer and bus bar—the huge conductors carrying electricity away from generators. Each transmission line should then be fitted with a processor that can communicate with the other processors, all of which would track the activity of their particular piece of the puzzle by monitoring sensors built into their systems.




Once each piece of equipment is being monitored, the millions of electromechanical switches currently in use should be replaced with solid-state, power-electronic circuits, which themselves must be beefed up to handle the highest transmission voltages: 345 kilovolts and beyond. This upgrade from analog to digital devices will allow the entire network to be digitally controlled, the only way real-time self-monit-oring and self-healing can be carried out.




A complete transition also requires digitization of the small, low-voltage distribution lines that feed each home and business. A key element is to replace the decades-old power meter, which relies on turning gears, with a digital meter that can not only track the current going into a building but also track current sent back out. This will allow utilities to much better assess how much power and reactive power is flowing from independent producers back into the grid. It will also allow a utility to sense very local disturbances, which can provide an earlier warning of problems that may be mounting, thereby improving look-ahead simulation. And it will allow utilities to offer customers hour-by-hour rates, including incentives to run appliances and machines during off-peak times that might vary day to day, reducing demand spikes that can destabilize a grid. Unlike a meter, this digital energy portal would allow network intelligence to flow back and forth, with consumers responding to variations in pricing. The portal is a tool for moving beyond the commodity model of electricity delivery into a new era of energy services as diverse as those in today’s dynamic telecommunications market.


The EPRI project to design a prototype smart grid, called the Complex Interactive Networks/Systems Initiative, was conducted from 1998 to 2002 and involved six university research consortia, two power companies and the U.S. Department of Defense. It kicked off several subsequent, ongoing efforts at the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the DOD and EPRI itself to develop a central nervous system for the power grid. Collectively, the work shows that the grid can be operated close to the limit of stability, as long as operators constantly have detailed knowledge of what is happening everywhere. An operator would monitor how the system is changing, as well as how the weather is affecting it, and have a solid sense of how to best maintain a second-by-second balance between load (demand) and generation.



As an example, one aspect of the EPRI’s Intelligrid program is to give operators greater ability to foresee large-scale instabilities. Current SCADA systems have a 30-second delay or more in assessing the isolated bits of system behavior that they can detect—analogous to flying a plane by looking into a foggy rearview mirror instead of the clear airspace ahead. At EPRI, the Fast Simulation and Modeling project is developing faster-than-real-time, look-ahead simulations to anticipate problems—analogous to a master chess player evaluating his or her options several moves ahead. This kind of grid self-modeling, or self-consciousness, would avoid disturbances by performing what-if analyses. It would also help a grid self-repair—adapt to new conditions after an outage, or an attack, the way a fighter plane reconfigures its systems to stay aloft even after being damaged.




Who Should Pay


Technologically, the self-healing smart grid is no longer a distant dream. Finding the money to build it, however, is another matter.


The grid would be costly, though not prohibitively so given historic investments. EPRI estimates that testing and installation across the entire U.S. transmission and distribution system could run $13 billion a year for 10 years—65 percent more than the industry is currently investing annually. Other studies predict $10 billion a year for a decade or more. Money will also have to be spent to train human operators. The costs sound high, but estimates peg the economic loss from all U.S. outages at $70 to $120 billion a year. Although a big blackout occurs about once a decade, on any given day 500,000 U.S. customers are without power for two hours or more.




Unfortunately, research and development funding in the electric utility industry is at an all-time low, the lowest of any major industrial sector except for pulp and paper. Funding is a huge challenge because utilities must meet competing demands from customers and regulators while being responsive to their stakeholders, who tend to limit investments to short-term returns.




Other factors must be considered: What terrorism threat level is the industry responsible for and what should government cover? If rate increases are not palatable, then how will a utility be allowed to raise money? Improving the energy infrastructure requires long-term commitments from patient investors, and all pertinent public and private sectors must work together.



Government may be recognizing the need for action. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently declared a “self-healing infrastructure” as one of three strategic thrusts in their National Plan for R&D in Support of Critical Infrastructure Protection. National oversight may well be needed, because the current absence of coordinated decision making is a major obstacle. States’ rights and state-level public utility commission regulations essentially kill the motivation of any utility or utility group to lead a nationwide effort. Unless collaboration can be created across all states, the forced nationalization of the industry is the only way to achieve a smart grid.



At stake is whether the country’s critical infrastructures can continue to function reliably and securely. At the very least, a self-healing transmission system would minimize the impact of any kind of terrorist attempt to “take out” the power grid. Blackouts can be avoided or minimized, sabotage can be contained, outages can be reduced, and electricity can be delivered to everyone more efficiently.




Had a self-healing smart grid been in place when Ohio’s local line failed in August 2003, events might have unfolded very differently. Fault anticipators located at one end of the sagging transmission line would have detected abnormal signals and redirected the power flowing through and around the line to isolate the disturbance several hours before the line would have failed. Look-ahead simulators would have identified the line as having a higher-than-normal probability of failure, and self-conscious software along the grid and in control centers would have run failure scenarios to determine the ideal corrective response. Operators would have approved and implemented the recommended changes. If the line somehow failed later anyway, the sensor network would have detected the voltage fluctuation and communicated it to processors at nearby substations. The processors would have rerouted power through other parts of the grid. The most a customer in the wider area would have seen would have been a brief flicker of the lights. Many would not have been aware of any problem at all.
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When our energy grids are expanded outside of our counties----outside of our states ------outside of our regional areas -----made national------then global ----each stage kills our local domestic economy.  We went from our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE having public works workers from each of our communities working on community networks-----lots of regulation, operation, repair, and assembly-line rebuilding of replacement parts.  This is REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE CAPITALISM------where economies are designed to EMPLOY the citizens the duty of the rich to do so. 

This was what had our 300 years of US FINANCE tied to building infrastructure not only employing citizens to work BUILDING that infrastructure----but employing our 99% WE THE PEOPLE in all aspects of operating these structures.  As well, those 20th century energy/technology structures were built with the goals of equal opportunity and access-----where MOVING FORWARD has the ONE GOAL of building a structure only ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE global 1% and these global online corporations will access.


So, we don't need to train our 99% WE THE PEOPLE to do any of this work----what is RACE TO TOP COMMONER CORE K-CAREER VOCATIONAL EDUCATION going to do after SMART CITIES are built?

WE ARE GOING BACK TO 3000BC HINDI BRAHMIN------THE NEOLITHIC AGE HAD NO EDUCATION----


'A self-healing smart grid can best be built if its architects try to fulfill three primary objectives. The most fundamental is real-time monitoring and reaction'.


'The second goal is anticipation. The system must constantly look for potential problems that could trigger larger disturbances, such as a transformer that is overheating'.

'The second goal is anticipation. The system must constantly look for potential problems that could trigger larger disturbances, such as a transformer that is overheating'.

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These 4 WAVES of development of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE will have one wave being developed faster than another-------one wave may need to sit waiting for another wave to catch up.  What we KNOW is ready to MOVE FORWARD is the DEEP, DEEP REALLY DEEP STATE-------of global military junta ----thanks to CONTINUOUS WARS and trillion-dollar DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE industry setting the stage for FAR-RIGHT WING, AUTHORITARIAN, MILITARISTIC, EXTREME WEALTH EXTREME POVERTY HITLER, STALIN, MAOIST GULAG societal structures.

ALL THAT IS NEEDED FOR SMART CITIES DEEP AUTHORITARIAN STATE WAS THE FIRST OF THESE 4 WAVES TO ADVANCE THROUGH DEVELOPMENT.


When our 99% WE THE PEOPLE think about where all these goals of SMART CITIES ONE WORLD ONE ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID designed for CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY only------when will all this hit------what will it look like-----we are watching today in our US cities deemed FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES the installation of first phase of SMART CITIES-----that is the DEEP DEEP REALLY DEEP STATE SURVEILLANCE, POLICING, what we call the HOB-NOBBING WITH HOBBE-GOBBLINS-------this is the DARK side of development.

When global banking 1% has goals of killing US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens making sure there will be no memory of all that MAGNA CARTA---all that AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT----all of that CITIZENS thinking they have rights------all of that CITIZENS being highly educated-----then the first phase of SMART CITIES is the DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS.

So, we need to have the HITLER/STALIN MADMEN building all that death, destruction/martial detention------setting the stage for a SMART CITIES operation still needing humans to be FREE LABOR in all GLOBAL FACTORIES/white collar professional workers as well as blue-collar workers.

THIS PHASE IS MOVING FORWARD TODAY-----AND CAN LIKELY BE INSTALLED WITHIN THE COMING DECADE OR TWO------THIS IS WHY THE 2030 ESTIMATE CAN BE MET ----IF OUR US 99% WE THE PEOPLE ALLOW MOVING FORWARD TO CONTINUE.


Dawn of the smart surveillance cameras



The rise of the machines may start with the eyes of the machines. But first, businesses and governments will be able to tap into surveillance cameras that can identify and remember bad actors.



By Ross Rubin | April 24, 2018 -- 16:10 GMT (09:10 PDT) | Topic: Artificial Intelligence




Sensors are the nervous system of smart homes and buildings and indeed the whole Internet of Things, relaying a continuous stream of information about generally specific information such as humidity, temperature, motion, pollutants, and smoke. Because much of the data that they provide is easily quantifiable, it's easy to set rules to determine what should be triggered once a condition is met.

That's not necessarily the case for cameras, which are at once some of the most sophisticated of sensors but whose data is often among the most inscrutable. Sure, it's relatively simple to detect differences from one frame to the next, allowing cameras to provide their own method of motion sensing, but that's that's a very limited application based on the considerable amount of data that cameras can collect.


That's why cameras are uniquely positioned among other information-monitoring sensors to be imbued with more intelligence. Unsurprisingly, we are already seeing a flavor of this in smartphones, where depth-sensing information combined with strong computing power is enabling functionality such as face-based unlocking, and brands such as Huawei and Motorola are using machine-trained models to improve camera settings depending what's in frame.




There's also the crowdfunded DSLR add-on Arsenal, which aims to optimize DSLR settings to produce photos that better approximates the output of pros. At a conference panel I moderated last year, longtime photo industry entrepreneur and blogger Allen Murabayashi advised pro photographers that the time was soon approaching that camera AI would be good enough to overcome the advantage they had in the technical operation of cameras to produce superior photos.

But on the business side of cameras, IP surveillance systems have mostly been reliable pushers of video across cables, a modern extension of the CCTV systems that have existed for decades. That is about to change, though. Kogniz recently announced what it calls the first artificial intelligence surveillance cam. The camera aims high in both its optical and computing capabilities. Its 30x optical zoom and f2.8 Sony sensor relay video to a quad-core ARM processor and Nvidia Pascal GPU with 356 CUDA cores.




Kogniz claims that its camera can maintain watchlists of known criminals, behaviors such as loitering, and even potentially dangerous objects such as weapons. The company claims that it is working with others toward recognizing "unique facial structures," with the goal of removing racial bias that may creep into its algorithms. While Kogniz claims that it ultimately plans to support a range of cameras at different price points, its first product costs $995 but is also available on an installment plan of $99 per month. The company identifies Japanese business tech giant NEC as its main competitor, but Panasonic and Samsung are also active in the business surveillance camera space.

And competition is poised to intensify. Last month, high-profile imaging companies Sony and Nikon teamed up with startup Scenera to launch NICE, the Network of Intelligent Camera Ecosystem.



Smarter surveillance cameras could have great benefits in terms of keeping corporate assets and the public safer and dubious capabilities such as facilitating stuffing one's face with fried chicken. But, of course, it could also be used by governments to identify dissidents or punish the most trivial of crimes. Regardless of your intent, you may still be able to run, but it's going to get much harder to hide.


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Baltimore as a US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE is MOVING FORWARD as fast as our global banking 5% freemason/Greek players can to install this first phase----think about what US national FAKE NEWS keeps giving us as a date for depletion of SOCIAL SECURITY/MEDICARE TRUSTS----right around 2030.

No matter how much FAKE DATA our US national FAKE NEWS media gives our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE on how long global banking 1% is going to PRETEND to be trying to save our US PUBLIC TRUSTS------it is not.  How long global banking 1% keep paying these benefits is tied to when SMART CITIES DEEP STATE is installed.  The percentage of our US black, white, and brown citizens pushed into deep poverty will PEAK right around that PARTY LIKE IT'S 2030.



Party Like It’s 2030 - massmutualatwork.comwww.massmutualatwork.com/.../party-like-it-s-2030



That means fewer people paying into Social Security and more people drawing benefits. The Social Security Trust Fund for “old age” benefits, initially created to help provide the necessary funding as America’s population ages, is expected to be depleted by 2035.




Good News For Boomers: Medicare’s Hospital Trust Fund Appears ...khn.org/news/medicare-trustees-say-fund-will...

Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, which finances about half the health program for seniors and the disabled, won’t run out of money until 2030, the program’s trustees said Monday.

All of this leads to our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE being no longer CITIZENS------but REFUGEES------having all those global UNITED NATIONS NGOS ready to swoop in and make FILLORY DISAPPEARS.






Surveillance, Smart technologies
and the development of Safe City
solutions:



The case of Chinese
ICT firms and their international
expansion to emerging markets


IBEI WORKING PAPERS
2017/52

Surveillance, Smart technologies and the development of Safe City solutions: the case of Chinese ICT firms and their international expansion to emerging markets


© Álvaro Artigas
© Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), of this edition




IRONICALLY, what is a PUBLIC POLICY tied to making CITIZENS FEEL SAFE-------is of course DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE-----HITLER/STALIN/MAOIST far-right authoritarian------keeping people fearful and UNSAFE from HOBBES------GOBBLINS.

We want to discuss all 4 WAVES of SMART CITIES----we simply want to be clear though the development of these 4 waves will take a few decades if not all of 21st century-----the structure needed for US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES ----GLOBAL FACTORIES filled with FREE LABOR humans doing the work until those ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/ROBOTICS are ready.

BUILDING THE STRUCTURES DESIGNED TO KILL FUTURE HUMAN EMPLOYMENT-----WELL, SAY THE GLOBAL BANKING 5% FIGHTING FOR THESE LAST FEW DECADES OF JOBS----WE DON'T CARE.


All US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES getting that SMART CITY swag by first installing the DEEP DEEP REALLY DEEP STATE of it all. Our humans may have employment for a few more decades---but it will be FREE LABOR.




A smart city is a city where people feel safe
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Stories of Axis network video
solutions on the job.


Aug
28


Cities across the country are installing "free" spying Smart City Kiosks (Updated)


image credit: Startland News

Two years ago, I wrote an article warning NYC residents that City Bridge was installing spying Smart City Kiosks (SCK) throughout the city.

The SCK's came equipped with cameras, microphones and sensors that created the largest urban spying system in the country.

SCK's collect lot's of personal information, like a person's MAC address, IP address, browser type and version and their destination IP address to name a few.

Updated 10/4:

 LinkNYC uses design firm to convince public that open source data is safe

GovTech revealed that LinkNYC is using design firm Reboot.org to convince the public that open source data is safe.

"This September, however, users of the more than 1,700 active LinkNYC kiosks throughout the city might have noticed something new on the screens: brightly colored blue and yellow features, almost like testimonials for open data. These testimonials are simple, featuring the faces of real people, their job titles or affiliations, and a quick list of what they accomplished with open data as well as the data sets they used."

"To date, New York City has published more than 2,000 data sets, with an ongoing release of more. This has led to more than a million users accessing New York City open data, many of whom create projects like the ones described above."

Who is behind SCK's?

Two years ago it was revealed that Google acquired Control Group, which is CityBridge's parent corporation.

"Control Group and Titan Outdoor are both behind an effort called LinkNYC, the Wi-Fi hotspots will offer charging stations for cell phones and free calls to anywhere in the US."

Why is the mainstream media silent about Google's involvement with SCK's?

Google and Qualcom have invested hundreds of millions of dollars to fuel SCKs' expansion.

Qualcomm's 410 SnapDragon processor and Vision Intelligence Platform are designed with one thing in mind, Smart City surveillance.

How have SCK's grown?

Fast forward two years and companies like CityPost are offering cities free SCK's.

"Among other terrific benefits, we are particularly thrilled to bring free Wi-Fi hotspots to downtown, as well as improved wayfinding, and enhanced safety and security," LDP Executive Director Rebecca Matheny said in the release. (To learn more about spying kiosks click here & here.)

Why everyone should be concerned about free SCK's.

Louisville Downtown Partnership Executive Director Rebecca Matheny said, “There are a lot of things we’ve wanted to have in our downtown that this great product brings in one place. They are Wi-Fi hotspots that are camera-enabled, have great wayfinding, and are a terrific help identifying restaurants, directions and all kinds of metro resources. We hope to eventually have 100-150 within all of downtown, so we will be rolling them out fast and furious.”


OH, YEAH!  IT'S ALL ABOUT THE FREE WIFI--------AND OF COURSE HELPING OUT THOSE TOURISTS!

Free SCK's are spying on users


Kiosk Industry.org has a created an updated list of places and things that SCK's are collecting.
  • August
    • US Army
    • Mecklenburg
    • Northern Colorado
    • Ontario
  • July
    • Virgina , Newport News – Smart City Initiative
    • San Diego Initiative for Next Generation Transportation Plan — Meeting Slides
    • 16:9 Podcast with Gordon Feller & real potential
    • Coral Gables, Florida two outdoor kiosks
    • Austin TX Smart City Kiosks project
    • Kansas City Comprehensive Smart City Partnership with Kansas City, Missouri. The City seeks to partner with a firm to provide a fully integrated suite of sensors, networks, and data and analytics platforms that will result in the City becoming the first true Smart City in the world. Due Date: Extended to August 7, 2pm.
  • May
    • 5/11 — St. Louis — new due date of March 2019
    • Orange County LED Smart Touch Displays – link
    • West Hollywood questions — Questions
    • West Hollywood — Smart City Public Safety Pilot Project (Cameras + Sensors). Up to 4 firms will be selected. April 10 dl. WH Bid
  • March
    • Atlanta RFP — Separate Smart City request  (3/2/2018)
    • St. Louis V3 — St. Louis smart city request
    • Detroit Smart City request
    • Deadline for Charlotte extended. Charlotte-kiosks-12210601
  • Pittsburgh Convention Center Digital Signage Project — participants sign in  Pittsburg-Addendum 1 – Pre-proposal sign in sheet _
  • Pittsburgh Convention Center Digital Signage Project — Pittsburgh-FINAL Signage Design RFP 12.28.2017
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  • New Jersey – Smart City – Kiosk_RFP_11.6.17
  • LA County digital signage [Samsung] LA-RFB-IS-18200469_Specifications-Final
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There are at least eight companies that are responsible for installing SCK's in cities across the country. They are, CIVIQ Smartscapes, IKE Smart City, Smart City Media, SmartLINK, Soofa , Verizon and LG-MRI. (For a complete list of Request For Proposal SCK Projects click here.)

SCK's are part of the Smart City surveillance network

image credit: Kiosk Industry
As you can see from the diagram, SCK's are part of a giant web of Smart City surveillance devices.

If you still have any doubts about SCk's being part of a Smart City surveillance network, checkout the diagram below.

image credit VTARA Energy Group

Soon, nowhere will be safe from Big Brother's spying eyes.

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FIRST PHASE OF MISSION IMPOSSIBLE-------HAS BEEN COMPLETED



'A.I. APPLICATIONS can be categorized into four waves, which are happening simultaneously, but with different starting points and velocity:

The first stage is “Internet A.I.” Powered by the huge amount of data flowing through the web, Internet A.I. leverages the fact that users automatically label data as we browse: buying vs. not buying, clicking vs. not clicking'.




SECOND PHASE OF MISSION IMPOSSIBLE------INSTALLING DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE TO CAPTURE 350 MILLION PEOPLE ONCE CITIZENS INTO FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL CORPORATE FASCIST STRUCTURE. MADMEN BEING RECRUITED.




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So, taking our US and Western Europe WE THE WOMEN back to CHAUCER'S AGE with all those global banking 5% HILLARY NASTY LADIES tied to #METOO pretending the HANDMAID'S TALE is happening because of a TRUMP/PENCE and not all manufactured these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA.  MOVING FORWARD indeed takes our US 99% of men and women back to DARK AGES-----but not THIS CHAUCER -ERA-----we are talking about STONE AGE.


Geoffrey Chaucer


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Portrait of Chaucer (19th century)
Bornc. 1343

London, England
Died25 October 1400 (aged 56–57)
Resting placeWestminster Abbey, London
OccupationAuthor, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, diplomat
PeriodLate Middle Ages
SpousePhilippa Roet
Children
  • Elizabeth Chaucer
  • Thomas Chaucer


Arms of Geoffrey Chaucer: Per pale argent and gules, a bend counterchanged

Arms of Chaucer (modern), as adopted by his son Thomas Chaucer and as later quartered by his heirs de la Pole Dukes of Suffolk: Argent, a chief gules overall a lion rampant double queued or. Seemingly a differenced version of Burghersh, the family of his heiress wife
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) is known as the Father of English literature[1] and is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. He was the first to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.




Chaucer achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his 10 year-old son Lewis. He also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier, and diplomat. Among his many works are The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, and Troilus and Criseyde. He is best known today for The Canterbury Tales. His work was crucial in legitimising the literary use of the Middle English vernacular at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin.


CHAUCER WAS MEDIEVAL 1300-1400S---------MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID TAKES OUR US 99% BACK TO STONE AGES.


Our #METOO is global banking 1% UNITED NATIONS FAKE global NGO pretending to be fighting for our 99% of WE THE WOMEN----if they were they would be using descriptions of women being dragged by HAIR by that neolithic CAVE DWELLER.

Seems like global banking 1% freemason STAR ATWOOD setting the stage for what is indeed a LACK OF FERTILITY------never mention the goals of UNITED NATIONS/WORLD BANK/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS' forced implanting of remote-controlled CONTRACEPTION MICROCHIPS detailed in AFFORDABLE CARE ACT as the source of MAD HATTERS.




What Mike Pence, The Handmaid's Tale and Mad Men have in common


Emily Chamlee-Wright and Sarah Skwire, Opinion contributors Published 5:00 a.m. ET Dec. 18, 2018


The difficult truth is that it is all too easy to find oneself halfway to Gilead or returned to "Mad Men" before we even notice.


(Photo: George Kraychyk/Hulu)


Earlier this month in Bloomberg Business, Gillian Tan and Katia Porzecanski explained the logic behind the “Pence Effect.” Named for Vice President Mike Pence, who refuses to dine alone with any woman other than his wife, the Pence Effect is the chilling effect that such segregation can have on women in the workplace when Pence’s logic extends to business trips, one-on-one meetings, mentoring, and so on.



At the same time we also learned that Margaret Atwood would soon release a sequel to her acclaimed feminist dystopian novel "The Handmaid’s Tale," which has found its way to a new generation through Hulu’s recent adaptation. The culture of Gilead in "The Handmaid’s Tale" is bound by a totalitarian code of purity and modesty laws that make Pence’s restrictions look like child’s play.



But as often as Pence comes to mind as we eagerly anticipate Atwood’s sequel, so too does the AMC series "Mad Men." The connection is not merely the appearance of award-winning actor Elisabeth Moss as a lead in both productions. "The Handmaid’s Tale" also offers a cautionary tale of how easy it is to go off course when correcting cultural problems like the sexism depicted in "Mad Men."

Moss’s role as Mad Men’s Peggy Olson took viewers on the journey of the liberal feminist. Peggy was not the fully formed feminist later generations would raise from birth. She was the self-made kind. In the anonymity and independence of the working world of New York City, Peggy learned what kind of woman she wanted to be, mostly by making mistakes and learning from them.



As Peggy navigated a vulgar and often demeaning office culture, we winced at the indignities she endured and at many of the choices she made in response. Young professional women asked their mothers, grandmothers, and mentors, “Was that really what it was like?” They nodded in the affirmative. With its backward gaze, the series exposed the thicket of constraint, discrimination, humiliation and injustice women faced in the workplace. It caused some of us to ask, with “#MeToo!” ringing in our ears, “Why is so much of this still so familiar?” 



But for all its libidinous, patronizing shortcomings, we recognized Peggy’s working world as a site of liberation. Peggy’s employer, Sterling Cooper advertising agency — as lousy as it was — was nonetheless the place where Peggy discovered new capacities in herself, learned to utilize them and fought to be respected for them. And over the course of seven seasons, we saw her emerge as a tough and thoughtful professional woman succeeding despite the culture around her.



Protecting women too much erodes their liberty



In Moss’s latest series, "The Handmaid’s Tale," the dystopian society of Gilead faces plummeting fertility rates. In response to the fertility crisis and to a "Mad Men"-like culture deemed libertine and demeaning to women, the leadership implements severe restrictions, all designed, presumably, to keep women safe. Women and men are forbidden all private social interaction, women wear uniforms that indicate their fertility status, are assigned jobs based on this status, and fertile women are commandeered as breeding stock for the ruling military elite. “Handmaids” like June Osborne are subjected to every humiliation imaginable, including repeated rapes in the guise of religious ceremony. 



In flashbacks to June’s life before Gilead, we learn that this oppression didn’t start with enslavement and state-sponsored rape. It was subtler than that. Gilead’s systemic persecution began slowly, for example, by cutting off women’s access to their bank accounts, prohibiting purchases unauthorized by their husbands, and eliminating their ability to earn an independent income. It is measures like these — the erosion of mundane bourgeois economic liberties — that keep women from making independent choices, like fleeing to the Canadian border, as life in Gilead continued to get more restrictive. And it is measures like these that make it possible to erode all their liberties.



Pence Effect isn't correction, it's over-reaction


Gilead’s moral code, like the Pence Effect, aspires to correct "Mad Men"-style libertinism — to block pathways that lead to error, to constrain action so that the only available course is the moral one. But such responses are over-reactions. Such rigid and restrictive thinking leaves us without a moral code. What’s needed instead, to solve the problems of Gilead, of "Mad Men," or of the modern business world, are the core values of Enlightenment-era liberalism, like individual liberty and respect for the inherent worth and dignity of every human being.



Hmmmmm, Mike PENCE being that global banking 1% 33rd degree FREEMASON working for the same goals as global banking 1% freemason STAR-----ATWOOD.  We think ATWOOD'S protesting is TOO MUCH----FAKERY.  PLEASE TELL ATWOOD AND #METOO THAT ALL THAT AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT WAS DISMANTLED THESE FEW DECADES OF CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA.


Individual liberty leaves us enough scope — like Peggy Olson — to navigate morally difficult terrain on our own, to make some mistakes, and to learn. Respect for the inherent dignity of every human being is the compass we need to avoid confusing oppression with protection, and making women into Handmaids.



The difficult truth is that it is all too easy to find oneself halfway to Gilead or returned to "Mad Men" before we even notice. In our effort to impose purity as a response to the revelations of the #MeToo Movement or in an overreaction against that purity, we seem to be losing our grip on these core ideas of Enlightenment liberalism — the principles and values that serve as the foundation of a free, self-governing people capable of making reasonably good judgments.



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We want to take this week to discuss FINANCIAL PUBLIC POLICY------seguing from all that HOBBE-NOBBING about HOBBE-GOBBLINGS-----to educate our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE the difference between DARK AGES LAISSEZ FAIRE NEO-LIBERALISM----and our US 300 years of left social progressive capitalism.  When someone says-----IT'S EASY TO EARN MONEY BUT HARD TO KEEP----they are referring to DARK AGES LAISSEZ FAIRE-----when someone says BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE FOR OUR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES----they are referring to our US 300 years of left social progressive capitalism.

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR OUR US YOUNG ADULTS AND NEW TO US IMMIGRANTS HEARING ONLY FAR-RIGHT DARK AGES LAISSEZ FAIRE THESE FEW DECADES TO KNOW HOW TO BUILD AN ECONOMY WHERE PEOPLE CAN BUILD THAT BETTER LIFE.

We will look at a few of those global banking 1% media outlets this week------FORTUNE MAGAZINE ------and LEV GROSSMAN'S WIZARD SERIES.

Our US 99% are told lots of breakthroughs in TECHNOLOGY are occurring----it will build a SMART CITY as a MAGIC KINGDOM-----rather than the goal of DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS. 


'No bad guys here, though'.



We chose this issue of FORTUNE MAGAZINE because it segues from our education public policy discussion to ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE goals needing a ton of MYTH-MAKING AND PROPAGANDA to MOVE FORWARD this HOBBE HOBBLING policy of ONE WORLD ONE ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID. It is very hard for our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE to know FAKE NEWS and FALSE FLAGS surrounding goals of INTERNET OF EVERYTHING because the STEM is very, very difficult to understand. Global banking 1% are indeed capturing all our global GENIUSES with those dastardly IQ/education testing research at an early age---too young to develop naturally into DR GOOD.

We simply want to repeat-----a FORTUNE MAGAZINE is a sister to PLAYBOY/PENTHOUSE. We look at the pictures and read the captions for names of global banking 5% players with BLIND AMBITION and corporations tied to them ----but we know the articles in PLAYBOY/FORTUNE MAGAZINES are FLUFF/PUFFERY.





25 Ways A.I. Is Changing Business
Fortune Staff
Oct 22, 2018

IT’S TIME TO GET REAL ABOUT A.I.’S FUTURE, a subject in desperate need of discipline. The technology’s mind-blowing possibilities have apparently inebriated various seers, who take two routes to fantasyland: propagating boldly precise forecasts of jobs to be spawned and destroyed years hence, or spinning tales of A.I. transforming our world into a heaven (or hell). Instead, we wanted to confront the realities of how A.I. is changing business—minus the melodrama.

It's always funny to hear concerns of REAL LEFT BIOETHICISTS ----and REAL LEFT HUMANITARIAN academics being continually called MELODRAMA ----



On the chief source of A.I.-induced anxiety—employment effects--the reality is that no one knows or can know what’s ahead, not even approximately. The reason is that we can never foresee human ingenuity, all the ways in which millions of motivated entrepreneurs and managers worldwide will apply rapidly improving technology. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield predicted confidently in 1959 that mail would soon be delivered by packing letters into guided missiles, the wonder tech of the day. A growing economy meant more letters, and the future for postal workers seemed bright. It was, for a while. The possibility that mail would cease to be written on paper never occurred to Summerfield, though the necessary technologies for email, texting, and the cell network existed in rudimentary form or were being developed. We risk missing the boat in the same way with A.I.

Hmmmm, human ingenuity-------we know for a fact that MOVING FORWARD is pure blind ambition---no human ingenuity ALLOWED.

The second reality to remember is that A.I.’s eventual uses will be determined largely by market forces. Earnest discussions of how A.I. can be directed to make the world a utopia miss that point. They recall RCA chief David Sarnoff’s long-ago prediction that the coming of color TV would enable people to see fine art in their homes. That sounded wonderful, but nobody wanted it for such high-minded uses. A.I. will be used by companies and consumers for countless practical purposes, most of them modest, and the cumulative effect can’t be foreseen. As we try to guess A.I.’s future, the key will be to think like self-interested people (including both good and bad guys) in the real world.


No bad guys here, though.

These 25 examples of A.I. at work are beneficial, even inspiring—and they’re real. Click the images below to learn more. —Geoff Colvin


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We want to take this week to discuss FINANCIAL PUBLIC POLICY------seguing from all that HOBBE-NOBBING about HOBBE-GOBBLINGS-----to educate our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE the difference between DARK AGES LAISSEZ FAIRE NEO-LIBERALISM----and our US 300 years of left social progressive capitalism. When someone says-----IT'S EASY TO EARN MONEY BUT HARD TO KEEP----they are referring to DARK AGES LAISSEZ FAIRE-----when someone says BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE FOR OUR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES----they are referring to our US 300 years of left social progressive capitalism.

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR OUR US YOUNG ADULTS AND NEW TO US IMMIGRANTS HEARING ONLY FAR-RIGHT DARK AGES LAISSEZ FAIRE THESE FEW DECADES TO KNOW HOW TO BUILD AN ECONOMY WHERE PEOPLE CAN BUILD THAT BETTER LIFE.

We will look at a few of those global banking 1% media outlets this week------FORTUNE MAGAZINE ------and LEV GROSSMAN'S WIZARD SERIES.

Our US 99% are told lots of breakthroughs in TECHNOLOGY are occurring----it will build a SMART CITY as a MAGIC KINGDOM-----rather than the goal of DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS.

'No bad guys here, though'.

We bring LEV GROSSMAN and his MAGICIANS novels into this week's discussion because these few decades of saturation into FANTASY/HOLY GRAILS OF BEING KINGS AND QUEENS OF MAGICAL KINGDOMS has killed our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE'S thinking steeped in LOGIC AND REASON.

GLOBAL BANKING 1% HAS DONE THIS DELIBERATELY ESPECIALLY AIMED AT THOSE 5% FREEMASON/GREEK PRIVATE SCHOOLS.


Jul 27, 2018, 06:47am

How To Play Star Wars Dungeons And Dragons Like A Pro With These Accessories

Don Reisinger Contributor Forbes Finds Contributor Group

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There’s something happening in the world of entertainment culture and gaming. And it’s taking the world by storm.



As you undoubtedly know, Star Wars and the Dungeons and Dragons series are iconic. The former is one of the most popular and awe-inspiring movie franchises ever and the other is a table-based role-playing game that delivers unique and spellbinding experiences each time you play.



But what if you could combine the worlds of Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons? What if, with a little help from the community, you could create an entirely new Star Wars experience inside Dungeons and Dragons?



The good news is, that’s exactly what’s happening right now. In fact, a quick YouTube search reveals a slew of people playing Star Wars Dungeons and Dragons and experiencing the two worlds like never before.




But if you want to be a real pro and take your game to the next level, read on for a look at some of the best Star Wars Dungeons and Dragons accessories:



It’s not Dungeons and Dragons without dice. And that’s precisely why the Smartdealspro 5 x 7 die series is so important.


The kit comes with a variety of dice options for when you play and each 7-die set includes one d20, one 212, two d10, one d8, one d6, and one d4. There will be no overlap in colors, which is a good thing, and the dice are made from acrylic materials that are both durable and hard to wear, according to Smartdealspro.



Best of all, the die set comes with a 30-day money back guarantee and a free replacement without needing to return any die if you find them to be defective or missing sets.

The Fifth Edition Options: Optional Rules and Mechanics book is a must-have if you’re playing the fifth edition game and want to tweak things a bit.


The book, which is available in paperback, comes with hundreds of optional rules that let you customize games on the fly. For instance, you can choose a new alignment system, swap skills, and decide on equipment rules. There are also a host of combat options and variants, as well as new campaign templates.


Simply put, if you want a customized D&D experience, this book is for you.

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Our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE and global 99% are being made to believe that MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD for only the global 1% will reward all those MEDIEVAL 5% player families having been these few decades of ROBBER BARON SACKING AND LOOTING of civil societies just as pre-Christian NERO/CATO/SENECA has done from 1000BC to today.  We constantly educate the goals of 3000BC HINDI-BRAHMIN because there will be no ROYALITY----no DUKES, EARLS, BARONS, MAIDS IN WAITING-----all of the FANTASY of LEV GROSSMAN-----and below ETHAN HAWKE in trying to maintain this OLD WORLD ROMAN STRUCTURE is FAKE NEWS.

This is why our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE must not fall for the idea of EUGENICS/SOCIAL DARWINISM in today's MOVING FORWARD.  While it fueled these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA-----it absolutely has no existence in 3000BC HINDI-BRAHMIN -----THE FIRE OF INDUSTRY IN THE CLOUDS.



We discussed in detail how CERVANTES in his tales of KNIGHTS as a dying breed being written in 1400s as global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS installed KNIGHTS OF MALTA as a SECRET SOCIETY------the KNIGHTS were not disappearing---they were being transformed into BUILDERS AND FAKE RELIGIOUS LEADERS.

This is exactly what ETHAN HAWKE'S RULES FOR A KNIGHT are ------he published a novel he clearly states is FICTION-----in perpetuating this MYTH-MAKING of OLD WORLD ROYALTY AND FAMILIES ------when all of that is DISAPPEARING just as LEV GROSSMAN'S -----KINGDOM OF FILLORY.



ETHAN HAWKE being that global banking 1% freemason STAR making his HOLLYWOOD millions doing exactly the OPPOSITE of what his FICTIONAL account of BEING A KNIGHT says.


Ethan Hawke’s 20 rules on how to behave like a knight

posted by Jason Kottke   Aug 29, 2016


Late last year, actor Ethan Hawke published a book called Rules for a Knight. The book consists of a letter from one of Hawke’s ancestors, a 15th-century Cornish knight, written to his children outlining the rules for being a good person. The letter and ancestor are fictional, but Hawke wrote the book as a guide on living a virtuous life for his own children.



A knight, fearing he may not return from battle, writes a letter to his children in an attempt to leave a record of all he knows. In a series of ruminations on solitude, humility, forgiveness, honesty, courage, grace, pride, and patience, he draws on the ancient teachings of Eastern and Western philosophy, and on the great spiritual and political writings of our time. His intent: to give his children a compass for a journey they will have to make alone, a short guide to what gives life meaning and beauty.



I missed this when it came out, but I’ve run across it twice in the past two weeks, so it appears to be one of those books — perhaps like The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up — that’s hanging around and resonating with people. Shane Parrish of Farnam Street wrote about the book last week and shared the book’s 20 rules for being a knight.



2. Humility. Never announce that you are a knight, simply behave as one. You are better than no one, and no one is better than you.


6. Friendship. The quality of your life will, to a large extent, be decided by with whom you elect to spend your time.


10. Grace. Grace is the ability to accept change. Be open and supple; the brittle break.


14. Discipline. In the field of battle, as in all things, you will perform as you practice. With practice, you build the road to accomplish your goals. Excellence lives in attention to detail. Give your all, all the time. Don’t save anything for the walk home. The better a knight prepares, the less willing he will be to surrender.


“Don’t save anything for the walk home.” That’s a nice little homage to Gattaca, in which Ethan Hawke’s genetically flawed character is asked by his brother how he’s been able to excel in society and Hawke answers, “I never saved anything for the swim back.”
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'BECAUSE A.I. CAN BE PROGRAMMED to maximize profitability or replace human labor, it adds immediate value to the economy'.

This article below is correct in saying the goals of INTERNET OF EVERYTHING is to create $17 TRILLION IN GLOBAL CORPORATE PROFITS by interjecting AI into every facet of industry-----we are told both white-collar and blue collar jobs will disappear.

These few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA were designed to create MEGA-DATA SUPER-DUPER COMPUTERS to feed all that data from our TV/RADIO/SOCIAL MEDIA ------think OPRAH and the REALITY SHOW crew having our US 99% pouring out all those HUMAN EMOTIONS on TV.  This is indeed being used to create ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE about to duplicate human emotions, thoughts, giving the ability to analyze.

All of that was a MASTER PLAN from the 1980-90s----and we KNEW then the goals of ONE WORLD ONE ENERGY/TECHNOLOGY GRID would be using it to eliminate our US 99% and global 99% from JOBS/BUSINESSES/ABILITY TO EARN MONEY.

Many people use the term 3000BC HINDI-BRAHMIN to describe what was PRE-INDUSTRY when our 99% were roaming NOMADS---HUNTING and doing small agriculture.  So, that is to where global banking 5% freemason/Greek players black, white, and brown are taking US 99% WE THE PEOPLE -----while PRETENDING SMART CITIES are MAGICAL KINGDOMS bringing a BETTER LIFE for all ----black, white, and brown citizens.


THE ECONOMY of course as we say often will be ONLY FOR THE GLOBAL 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.


THE CHANGES YET TO COME

'BECAUSE A.I. CAN BE PROGRAMMED to maximize profitability or replace human labor, it adds immediate value to the economy. A.I. is fast, accurate, works around-the-clock, doesn’t complain, and can be applied to many tasks, with substantial economic benefit. How substantial? PwC estimates that the technology will contribute about $16 trillion to worldwide GDP by 2030.

But that gift doesn’t come without challenges to humanity. The first and foremost is job displacement: Since A.I. can perform single tasks with superhuman accuracy—and most human jobs are single-task—it follows that many routine jobs will be replaced by this next-generation tech. That includes both white-collar and blue-collar jobs. A.I. also faces questions with security, privacy, data bias, and monopoly maintenance. All are significant issues with no known solution, so governments and corporations should start working on them now.

But one concern we don’t have to face quite yet is the one that may be most common these days, cast in the image of science-fiction movies—that machines will achieve true human-level (or even superhuman-level) intelligence, making them capable presumably of threatening mankind.

We’re nowhere near that. Today’s A.I. isn’t “general artificial intelligence” (the human kind, that is), but rather narrow—limited to a single domain. General A.I. requires advanced capabilities like reasoning, conceptual learning, common sense, planning, cross-domain thinking, creativity, and even self-awareness and emotions, which remain beyond our reach. There are no known engineering paths to evolve toward the general capabilities above.

OH, REALLY?????  FOUR PATHWAYS LEADING TO WHAT AGAIN???

How far are we from general A.I.?

I don’t think we even know enough to estimate. We would need dozens of big breakthroughs to get there, when the field of A.I. has seen only one true breakthrough in 60 years. That said, narrow A.I. will bring about a technology revolution the magnitude of the Industrial Revolution or larger—and one that’s happening much faster. It’s incumbent upon us to understand its monumental impact, widespread benefits, and serious challenges'.


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The LEE FAMILY is to ASIAN OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS as our BEOWULFS global 2% here in Western Europe/UK and THE AMERICAS



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The Four Waves of A.I.


By Kai-Fu Lee
October 22, 2018




THE TERM ‘ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE” was coined in 1956, at a historic conference at Dartmouth, but it has been only in the past 10 years, for the most part, that we’ve seen the first truly substantive glimpses of its power and application. A.I., as it’s now universally called, is the pursuit of performing tasks usually reserved for human cognition: recognizing patterns, predicting outcomes clouded by uncertainty, and making complex decisions. A.I. algorithms can perceive and interpret the world around us—and some even say they’ll soon be capable of emotion, compassion, and creativity—though the original dream of matching overall “human intelligence” is still very far away.



What changed everything a decade or so ago was an approach called “deep learning”—an architecture inspired by the human brain, with neurons and connections. As the name suggests, deep-learning networks can be thousands of layers deep and have up to billions of parameters. Unlike the human brain, however, such networks are “trained” on huge amounts of labeled data; then they use what they’ve “learned” to mathematically pick out and recognize incredibly subtle patterns within other mountains of data. A data input to the network can be anything digital—say, an image, or a sound segment, or a credit card purchase. The output, meanwhile, is a decision or prediction related to whatever question might be asked: Whose face is in the image? What words were spoken in the sound segment? Is the purchase fraudulent?



This technological breakthrough was paralleled with an explosion in data—the vast majority of it coming from the Internet—which captured human activities, intentions, and inclinations. While a human brain tends to focus on the most obvious correlations between the input data and the outcomes, a deep-learning algorithm trained on an ocean of information will discover connections between obscure features of the data that are so subtle or complex we humans cannot even describe them logically. When you combine hundreds or thousands of them together, they naturally outstrip the performance of even the most experienced humans. A.I. algorithms now beat humans in speech recognition, face recognition, the games of chess and Go, reading MRIs for certain cancers, and any quantitative field—whether it’s deciding what loans to approve or detecting credit card fraud.



Such algorithms don’t operate in a vacuum. To perform their analyses, they require huge sets of data to train on and vast computational power to process it all. Today’s A.I. also functions only in clearly defined single domains. It’s not capable of generalized intelligence or common sense—AlphaGo, for example, which beat the world’s masters in the ancient game of Go, does not play chess; algorithms trained to determine loan underwriting, likewise, cannot do asset allocation.



With deep learning and the data explosion as catalysts, A.I. has moved from the era of discovery to the era of implementation. For now, at least, the center of gravity has shifted from elite research laboratories to real-world applications. In essence, deep learning and big data have boosted A.I. onto a new plateau. Companies and governments are now exploring that plateau, looking for ways to apply present artificial intelligence capabilities to their activities, to squeeze every last drop of productivity out of this groundbreaking technology (see our next story). This is why China, with its immense market, data, and tenacious entrepreneurs, has suddenly become an A.I. superpower.



What makes the technology more powerful still is that it can be applied to a nearly infinite number of domains. The closest parallel we’ve seen up until now may well be electricity. The current era of A.I. implementation can be compared with the era in which humans learned to apply electricity to all the tasks in their life: lighting a room, cooking food, powering a train, and so on. Likewise, today we’re seeing the application of A.I. in everything from diagnosing cancer to the autonomous robots scurrying about in corporate warehouses.


A.I. APPLICATIONS can be categorized into four waves, which are happening simultaneously, but with different starting points and velocity:



The first stage is “Internet A.I.” Powered by the huge amount of data flowing through the web, Internet A.I. leverages the fact that users automatically label data as we browse: buying vs. not buying, clicking vs. not clicking. These cascades of labeled data build a detailed profile of our personalities, habits, demands, and desires: the perfect recipe for more tailored content to keep us on a given platform, or to maximize revenue or profit.



The second wave is “business A.I.” Here, algorithms can be trained on proprietary data sets ranging from customer purchases to machine maintenance records to complex business processes—and ultimately lead managers to improved decision-making. An algorithm, for example, might study many thousands of bank loans and repayment rates, and learn if one type of borrower is a hidden risk for default or, alternatively, a surprisingly good, but overlooked, lending prospect. Medical researchers, similarly, can use deep-learning algorithms to digest enormous quantities of data on patient diagnoses, genomic profiles, resultant therapies, and subsequent health outcomes and perhaps discover a worthy personalized treatment protocol that would have otherwise been missed. By scouting out hidden correlations that escape our linear cause-and-effect logic, business A.I. can outperform even the most veteran of experts.



The third wave of artificial intelligence—call it “perception A.I.”— gets an upgrade with eyes, ears, and myriad other senses, collecting new data that was never before captured, and using it to create new applications. As sensors and smart devices proliferate through our homes and cities, we are on the verge of entering a trillion-sensor economy. This includes speech interfaces (from Alexa and Siri to future super­smart assistants that remember everything for you) as well as computer-vision applications—from face recognition to manufacturing quality inspection.



The fourth wave is the most monumental but also the most difficult: “autonomous A.I.” Integrating all previous waves, autonomous A.I. gives machines the ability to sense and respond to the world around them, to move intuitively, and to manipulate objects as easily as a human can. Included in this wave are autonomous vehicles that can “see” the environment around them:




recognizing patterns in the camera’s pixels (red octagons, for instance); figuring out what they correlate to (stop signs); and then using that information to make decisions (applying pressure to the brake in order to slowly stop the vehicle). In the area of robotics, such advanced A.I. algorithms will be applied to industrial applications (automated assembly lines and warehouses), commercial tasks (dishwashing and fruit-harvesting robots), and eventually consumer ones too.


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Try as we might we have yet to READ a LEV GROSSMAN novel all the way through because it is REALLY BAD WRITING.  He earned millions of dollars as a global banking 1% freemason STAR selling FADS-------with writing with goals of recruiting those 5% freemason/Greek players black, white, and brown and educating them to have these DARK AGES HOBBES goals of accumulating wealth ANYWAY THEY COULD ----having images of themselves as SPECIAL/AIMING FOR ROYALTY.

LEV does a great job showing our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE how those once strong US IVY LEAGUES----now simply corrupt global hedge fund corporations sequester those 5% freemason/Greek players OUT OF OUR US COMMUNITIES and into what will be a TEMPORARY influx of some millions of dollars.

So, FILLORY is dead-----it will not be brought back-----FILLORY being our Western IVY LEAGUES and all those 5% from families tied to OLD WORLD MEDIEVAL ROYAL FAMILIES----those old world dukes, earls, barons, marquises.

SOME are diving off the EDGE OF EARTH------as FILLORY disappears------

The premise of these MAGICIAN novels is that our former US IVY LEAGUE school grads all start off thinking they are going to be BEOWULFS-------they find that is not happening so they enter the DARK WEB for jobs tied to LYING, CHEATING, AND STEALING----like becoming CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA 5% feemason/Greek player POLITICIANS and public agency ROBBER BARON fraud and corruption------and then when that fails they become ordinary teachers.  Sadly for our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE-----those 'ordinary teachers' are the ones filling our US public schools teaching all that OLD WORLD LAISSEZ FAIRE----HOBBE-NOBBING AND HOBBE-GOBBLING.



This is simply global banking 1% creating FADS with our US students left not even knowing how or what a REAL financial and economic system LOOKS LIKE.


Here is that global banking 1% freemason STAR ----BILLY JOEL selling the FAD of believing in FANTASY ------over THE REAL THING.


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Billy Joel - Sometimes a Fantasy (Official Video)
In 1980, Billy Joel released his album Glass Houses, which won one Grammy Award 'Best Male Pop Vocal…


 This is 1980s REAGAN era when our REAL STRONG THRIVING US FREE MARKET DOMESTIC ECONOMY was being staged to be KILLED.




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The Magicians


Quentin Coldwater is a high school senior, but he’s still secretly obsessed with a series of fantasy novels he read when he was little, about the adventures of five children in a magical land called Fillory. Compared to that, everything in his real life just seems gray and colorless. That changes when Quentin finds himself admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the practice of modern sorcery.



But magic doesn’t bring Quentin the happiness and adventure and meaning he thought it would--until he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. The Magicians is a grand, glittering fantasy that reinterprets the grand tradition of C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling in a brilliant novel for adults.



The Magicians was a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. It has now been published in more than 25 countries and adapted as an hour-long TV drama on Syfy.



Praise for The Magicians:“The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. … Grossman’s sensibilities are thoroughly adult, his narrative dark and dangerous and full of twists. Hogwarts was never like this.”



—George R. R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones

“Sad, hilarious, beautiful & essential to anyone who cares about modern fantasy.”


—Joe Hill, author of Horns, Locke & Key and NOS4A2

“Most people will like this book. But there’s a certain type of reader who will enjoy it down to the bottoms of their feet.”


—Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind

“If you like the Harry Potter books … you should also read Lev Grossman’s The Magicians series, which is a very knowing and wonderful take on the wizard school genre.”



—John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars

“Fiercely intelligent.”
—William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and The Peripheral



“The Magicians is the best urban fantasy in years.”
--The Onion AV Club



“Lev Grossman’s novel The Magicians may just be the most subversive, gripping and enchanting fantasy novel I’ve read this century.”



--Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

“The Magicians ought to be required reading for anyone who has ever fallen in love with a fantasy series, or wished they went to a school for wizards.”
—Kelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners and Get in Trouble

“Remember the last time you ran home to finish a book? This is it, folks. The Magicians is the most dazzling, erudite and thoughtful fantasy novel to date. You’ll be bedazzled by the magic but also brought short by what it has to say about the world we live in.”


—Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story and Little Failure

“This is my ideal escapist fantasy read, a Harry Potter book for grown-ups … I can’t imagine any lover of well-written classic fantasy, from C. S. Lewis’s Narnia books to the works of Diana Wynne Jones, who won’t absolutely adore it.”
—Lisa Tuttle, The London Times

“This gripping novel draws on the conventions of contemporary and classic fantasy novels in order to upend them, and tell a darkly cunning story about the power of imagination itself … An unexpectedly moving coming-of-age story.”


--The New Yorker

“Funny, suspenseful and sad, The Magicians ranks as one of the year’s best fantasy novels.”


--The San Francisco Chronicle

“Upon reading The Magicians, the first thing you want to do is shake Grossman’s hand and congratulate him for his courage … The Magicians blooms with grace and wit and imaginative brio. Grossman has a sense of humor as well as a sense of wonder.”



--The Chicago Tribune

“The Magicians is Harry Potter as it might have been written by John Crowley…This is one of the best fantasies I’ve read in ages.”



—Elizabeth Hand, Fantasy & Science Fiction

“The Magicians by Lev Grossman is a very entertaining book; one of those summer page-turners that you wish went on for another six volumes … Grossman is at the height of his powers.”


—The Chicago Sun-Times

“The Magicians is like Harry Potter if Harry Potter had explored sex, drugs, and existential frustration…The series constructs a unique magic world, in that it’s not really different from our own.”
--Vanity Fair

“Long ago, while in high school, I read two coming-of-age novels that stayed with me for the rest of my life … I’d not found another voice so rich in describing the adventure and confusion that is growing up in America until now. THE MAGICIANS, like those earlier books, tells that same journey; only its route is one of magic and fantasy.”


—Ron Fortier, The Denver Times

“Sly and lyrical … The Magicians is an homage to both J.K. Rowling and C.S. Lewis, as well as an exploration of what might happen if troubled kids were let loose in the supernatural realms they grew up reading about. Grossman captures the magic of childhood and the sobering years beyond.”


--Jeff Giles, Entertainment Weekly

“The Magicians is a triumph. It’s the real deal, guaranteed.”
—Michelle Kerns, The Examiner

“The Magicians is angst-ridden, bleak, occasionally joyous and gloriously readable. Forget Hogwarts: this is where the magic really is.”


—Jayne Nelson, SFX, 5 star review.

“I felt like I was doing peyote buttons with J.K. Rowling.”
—Mickey Rapkin, GQ

“For readers who have long since finished their seven years at Hogwarts, The Magicians is where higher education starts.”
—The Miami Herald

“Stirring, complex, adventurous … from the life of Quentin Coldwater, his slacker Park Slope Harry Potter, Lev Grossman delivers superb coming of age fantasy.”


—Junot Díaz, author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Grossman explores the boundaries between fiction and reality with great imagination … This is a dark, well-written book that takes the wizard genre into thoughtful places.”


—Audrey Niffenegger, author of the The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry

“The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what’s simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath. It’s like seeing the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter through a 3-D magnifying glass.”


—Naomi Novik, author of the Temeraire series

“Absolutely wonderful. Honestly. Do yerself a favour.”
—Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl series

“The Magicians is a spellbinding, fast-moving, dark fantasy book for grownups that feels like an instant classic. I read it in a niffin-blue blaze of page turning, enthralled by Grossman’s verbal and imaginative wizardry, his complex characters and most of all, his superb, brilliant inquiry into the wondrous, dangerous world of magic.”


—Kate Christensen, author of The Epicure’s Lament and The Great Man


“Anyone who grew up reading about magical wardrobes and unicorns and talking trees before graduating to Less Than Zero and The Secret History and Bright Lights, Big City will immediately feel right at home with this smart, beautifully written book by Lev Grossman. The Magicians is fantastic, in all senses of the word. It’s strange, fanciful, extravagant, eccentric, and truly remarkable–a great story, masterfully told.”

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Sadly, this is to what MOST of our US global banking 5% freemason/Greek players sent to PRIVATE HOBBES schools to learn how to HOBBE-NOB and grown to be HOBBE-GOBBLINGS are tied to ----all this OLD WORLD KINGS -------medieval ties to ROYALTY and of course global banking 1% freemason STARS were paid to create a FANTASY of those 5% freemason/Greek players being INSIDE WINNERS while simply being used to sack and loot a civilized society.


We often refer to our US players being played being CLANNING AROUND-----as that 15th generation three times removed on a father's side -----tied to wanting to be made KNIGHTS/EARLS/DUKES/BARONS.


IT'S WAS ALL JUST FANTASY---IT WAS NEVER THE REAL THING.



Hmmmm, dreaming of marrying a PRINCE----versus living in a REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE CAPITALIST society where equal protection, equal opportunity and access allows for REAL FREE MARKET, thriving small and regional business economy where our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE can earn, accumulate, AND KEEP our family wealth======LEV GROSSMAN'S THE MAGICIAN tells how those HOBBES PRIVATE FORMER IVY LEAGUES really capture our US global banking 5% freemason/Greek players to FANTASY.


As serious for our US STRONG LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE CAPITALIST ECONOMY ----was the capture as well of all our US WE THE GENIUSES AND GEEKS to these same DARK AGES HOBBE schools teaching them to be HOBBE-GOBBLING DR NO------not DR GOOD.



This was the result of all that STANFORD/BRIGHAM YOUNG IQ/EDUCATION TESTING with goals of identifying all our geniuses at early ages.



6 People Kate Middleton Is *Actually* Related To That Will Have Your Head Spinning
By Azure HallApr 10 2018




We better race out and get a DNA test to see if we are related to any of those MEDIEVAL ROYALS ----latching on to their coattails-----is the only ECONOMY. Only that is simply FANTASY.



Wills and Kate, kissing cousins! How the Royal lovebirds are related thanks to a Tudor tyrant so bloodthirsty he's been airbrushed from history


By Christopher Wilson
Updated: 03:26 EST, 3 August 2010




A dark and deliciously murky secret hovers over the continuing relationship between Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton  -  a skeleton so large that even a vast royal closet would struggle to contain it.


For the Mail can reveal that William and Kate are distant cousins. Not only that, the common ancestor who links the two lovers is a murderous despot whose bloody deeds have been deliberately forgotten by history. Until now.


The man who links William and Kate as kith and kin is Sir Thomas Leighton, an Elizabethan soldier, diplomat and, for 40 years, the cut-throat Governor of Guernsey.

He is William's 12th generation great-grandparent, and Kate's 11th, making them 12th cousins, once removed.


A despot and a dictator, Leighton brooked no argument and made life hell for those he ruled.



'He disregarded civil liberties and kept the people down by main force,' reads a rare account of his life.

This hard-nosed figure was, however, a gentleman; which will come as a timely snub to those critics of Kate Middleton who dismiss her antecedents as being working-class and  -  extraordinary in this day and age  -  therefore deem her unsuitable as a future princess.


So Kate may be relieved to learn of her posh ancestor. On the other hand, she might not be too keen to boast over the dinner table about his bloody modus operandi.
So hated was Leighton, that on his death in 1610, the official report on his demise was defaced by angry Guernsey residents. And uniquely for such an important figure in the Elizabethan court  -  his wife was the Queen's cousin  -  no portrait of him survives. All were destroyed or lost.



So what makes this gruesome fellow, whose blood courses through the veins of our future king and queen, into such a figure of hatred? Why do historians prefer to ignore his existence?



The answer lies in his despotic, nepotistic rule of Guernsey  -  a small but crucial stronghold during the days when Spain was amassing its armada against Britain.


Leighton had been a hugely successful soldier, serving with distinction in France and Ireland, and lustily enjoying the quelling of a revolt in northern England in 1569.
Some said he enjoyed the sight and smell of blood just a little too much. An enthusiastic supporter of hanging, drawing and quartering, Leighton never shied away from the meting out of justice, and the bloodier the better.
To reward him, or perhaps just to get this gentleman thug out of her way, Queen Elizabeth gave him Guernsey to govern in 1570  -  and so his reign of terror began.



From the moment he landed at St Peter Port on a blustery May day, he took a hearty dislike to the locals. 
For a century or more, the Channel Islands had determinedly maintained international neutrality, but this inspired in the warlike Leighton a deep contempt: 'a people cowardly in their courage and somewhat too kind to the French,' he snorted.


And, in an early warning of what was to follow, he added menacingly: 'I will keep them Her Highness's subjects maugre [despite] the instinct of their hearts.'
With the threat of Spanish invasion just around the corner, and discovering that the island's defences were paper-thin, Leighton started out as he meant to go along  -  lavishly spending Guernsey's revenues on fortifications without reference to the locals.


Within a year, sensing a growing well of resentment to his profligacy, he used his contacts in London to secure a royal Warrant to endorse his actions.

Voices raised against him were silenced. Civil liberties were curtailed, people were arrested and riots broke out: he responded with gusto, locking his opponents up without trial.


Word got back to London that the gout-ridden governor was out of control. The Bailiff and Jurats  -  distinguished elders of the community  -  complained to a visiting Royal Commission that Leighton alone was to blame for the riots.


The root of the problem was his misappropriation of funds, his tyranny, his taste for imprisonment without trial, and his press-ganging of Guernseymen to go to sea against their will to fight pirates (during which many lost their lives).

WOW--SOUND LIKE GLOBAL BANKING 1% CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA.




In fact, the Royal Commission  -  dispatched by the Queen to answer the locals' complaints  -  was a fix. The moment its members arrived, Leighton announced he would join their number, thereby sitting in judgment on his own actions.
It came as no surprise to the hard-pressed islanders that when the Commission reported, it exonerated their dictator.
Leighton's intransigence flourished: he dismissed local laws and democracy, turfing out the Bailiff and installing his nephew Thomas Wigmore as a puppet figurehead.
Years later, he made his son a Lieutenant of the island, too.
Surrounded by allies, Leighton felt emboldened to seize four French ships tied up in St Peter Port  -  even though Guernsey was supposed to be neutral.
The Royal Court in London, embarrassed by this act of brigandry, declared the seizure invalid: Leighton airily ignored their judgment. This was too much for his nephew Wigmore, who accused him of tyranny.


'In 1587 Leighton sailed to England to advise Sir Walter Raleigh on defence. In gratitude, the Queen gave him a knighthood, and her cousin Elizabeth Knollys' hand in marriage'


But Wigmore had miscalculated the power Leighton still wielded  -  and found himself being hauled back to London to explain himself.
Fearful for his life, Wigmore responded by hiring two hitmen to murder the prosecutor  -  just the kind of behaviour Leighton himself was capable of  -  and was jailed for his pains.


Later, Leighton was to dispatch further senior Guernseymen to London for disagreeing with him, their price usually being a spell in jail. Rough justice was the order of the day in Elizabethan times, and to the victor came the spoils.


Exonerated from the successive charges against him, in 1587 Leighton sailed to England to advise Sir Walter Raleigh on defence strategy in the face of the threat from the Armada. In gratitude, Elizabeth gave him a knighthood, and her cousin Elizabeth Knollys' hand in marriage.


Elizabeth Knollys had important connections: not only was she a cousin of the Queen, but also a relation of Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII. In her Tudor ruff, she rather resembled an early Kate Middleton, and soon became Sir Thomas Leighton's most valuable conquest, on or off the battlefield. Together the couple had three children  -  their son Thomas, and daughters Elizabeth and Anne.



It is from Elizabeth Leighton's side that Kate descends, while William's ancestor is her sister Anne. Curiously, there is not a single titled person on Kate's side of the family tree, yet on William's side he can count the earls of Rochester, Lords Lisburne, and a few baronets among his ancestors before his forbears marry into the Spencer family.


In fact, Kate's family slid decidedly downmarket for a few generations before picking itself up and becoming respectable again.


Sir Thomas and Elizabeth's daughter married one Sherrington Talbot, a member of an ancient and respectable family of landowners, but in a couple of generations' time, things were beginning to look decidedly iffy.



Sherrington and Elizabeth's granddaughter wed Henry Davenport, after which the bloodline began to sink slowly down society's totem pole until they reached the point at which Henry's great-granddaughter Sarah Davenport married Tom Ashford of Stratford-on-Avon  -  a lowly ironmonger and 'saddler's bridle cutter'.


The whole family lived in stables in the town  -  the only legacy Tom could leave his daughter Elizabeth when she married Robert Hobbes in 1800.


Hobbes, who described himself as a gentleman (others might not) was, in fact, an early property developer, buying up properties around Stratford; but the couple's daughter moved things upmarket again when she married an Oxford-educated clergyman, the Rev Thomas Davis.


Their daughter, Harriet, married into the Luptons, a rich upper-middle-class family of merchants and property owners around Leeds  -  and Harriet's daughter, Olive, married a successful Leeds lawyer, Richard Middleton. Richard's son Peter was a pilot, so too was his grandson Michael  -  the father of Kate.



For the heralds whose job it will be to come up with a convincing coat of arms for Kate when the Palace finally announces her engagement to William, this latest revelation of near-royalty in the family will come as a relief, given that so many of her ancestors were working men without, as they say, escutcheon.



On the other hand, not everyone would wish to be associated with an ancestor who cared so little for the sanctity of life.


The short official record of Sir Thomas, who is after all the blood-tie between our future king and queen, could hardly be more dismissive: 'Leighton is recalled in Guernsey with . . . rancour. In England, he is barely remembered at all.'


Perhaps that's about to change.

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This is the DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA------please STOP allowing global banking 1% create FADS with those freemason STARS-----whether literary, music, stage, arts-------to rebuild our US local FINANCE AND BUSINESS we need to DISCONNECT our children from FANTASY------filling our US PUBLIC SCHOOLS as COMMONER CORE.




'Hobnobbing With Hobbes - The Fable Wiki
fable.wikia.com/wiki/Hobnobbing_With_Hobbes

Hobnobbing With Hobbes is a quest in Fable III. There is a man in Millfields who wants to study hobbes in order to write a book about them. He asks you to take him to a cave in the north east corner of the map'.

As we FIX BALTIMORE we are rebuilding our local FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS ECONOMY taking out all that HOBNOBBING WITH HOBGOBLINS. That's the entirety of MARYLAND AND BALTIMORE economy -----

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Spider-Woman: Hobnobbing with Hobgoblin
Remembering some of the worst actions of Roderick Kingsley!


PUBLISHED November 30, 2016 by Tim Stevens



In SPIDER-WOMAN #14 on December 7, our titular hero will lock proverbial horns with the manic orange garbed cackler known as Hobgoblin. After seemingly blowing up Jessica’s friend and partner Porcupine on a New York City rooftop, he has more than proven his evil in one act.

However, Hobby—Roderick Kingsley under the mask—has long demonstrated he and “decent human being” never belong in the same sentence. If you don’t believe us, well, check out the list we put together below. The worst actions of Hobgoblin will certainly persuade you to side with us.



You Wanna Be the King, Gotta Blackmail the Princes


In addition to stealing Norman Osborn’s Goblin gear, Roderick also secured several of the Green Goblin’s personal files. Using those ill-gotten gains, he sought to blackmail the likes of J. Jonah Jameson. Only Kingpin’s intervention saved Spider-Man from Hobby killing the Webhead, and making Spidey have to get help from Fisk might be even worse a crime than blackmail.



Using a Patsy
Reporter Ned Leeds—through a mix of ambition, gumption, and journalistic skill—got closer than anyone to unraveling the mystery of Hobgoblin’s identity. Unfortunately, his work did not go unnoticed by Roderick. The villain kidnapped Leeds and brainwashed the investigative journalist into believing himself to be Hobgoblin.



Disposing of a Patsy
Repeated brainwashing taking their toll left Leeds increasingly erratic, slowly destroying his career and his marriage. Sensing his tool may be at the end of its usefulness, Kingsley leaked Leeds’ identity to the underworld and sent him off to Berlin, Germany, unpowered, to meet his demise at the hands of Foreigner.



The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #276
  • Published: May 10, 1986
  • Added to Marvel Unlimited: April 30, 2014
  • Writer: Tom Defalco
  • Penciller: Ron Frenz
  • Cover Artist: Tom Morgan


Handles Criticism Poorly
In the midst of using Leeds, Kingsley further muddied the waters of his true identity by framing Flash Thompson in the press after the #1 Spider-Man fan had the nerve to bad mouth Hobby. While not an event with a horrible fallout, that kind of thin skinned reactivity to critics cannot be anything but a really bad look for anyone, even a super villain.



Join the Dark Parade!
In general, joining with Mephisto to accomplish anything cannot not be considered anything but “bad behavior.” He may not be the devil of the Marvel Universe but he remains one of the most prominent demons, certainly. Add in that Hobgoblin joins not just with Mephisto but 98 other super villains and their mission revolves around stealing the Beyonder’s power? We’re talking really bad behavior.



Rent Your Super Suits Here
Content to let Phil Urich play the role of Hobgoblin, Kingsley decided to return to his business roots, renting out costumes and identities to various criminals, allowing even more super villain crime to occur with people far less experienced and in control perpetrating it.



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STANFORD UNIVERSITY is simply ground zero for a EUGENICS crowd that includes HARVARD/YALE/PRINCETON/COLUMBIA-----all those global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS former IVY LEAGUES.



Leviathan-----first, we want to remind from yesterday's discussion of HOBBES/LEVIATHAN/pre-Christian NERO/CATO/SENECA -----which is why we have been shouting this these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA-----EUGENICS what is sometimes called SOCIAL DARWINISM is used by a small group of people made paranoid by sacking and looting civil societies lying, cheating, stealing having attained extreme wealth extreme power. That is what MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD has brought these several decades. EUGENICS is defined by setting standards of what makes people GENETICALLY INFERIOR. ASIAN OLD WORLD KINGS use EUGENICS-----ARABIAN OLD WORLD KINGS use EUGENICS ----EUROPEAN OLD WORLD KINGS use EUGENICS.



The goals of global banking 1% back in early 1900s with education testing was only EUGENICS in that US citizens involved in research and development of testing were taken from our US MILITARY ----then almost all white 99% of WE THE SOLDIERS.



We need to be careful when global banking 1% tries to sell EDUCATION TESTING/DNA TESTING -----as RACIST.

No matter how often the far-right wing says EUGENICS was firmly implanted in US in early 1900s----that would be LYING. Throughout several centuries of left social progressive LOCKEAN morals and ethics HOBBES and the SOCIAL DARWINIST EUGENICS crowd were marginalized. EUGENICS and racism are two different things.

Stanford’s history with eugenics
by Claire Wang
December 7, 2016

Jordan Hall is named after the University's first president, a prominent eugenics proponent (RYAN COHEN/The Stanford Daily).


 Evidence that Stanford’s founding president David Starr Jordan, as well as former professors Lewis M. Terman and Elwood P. Cubberley, were active supporters of the eugenics movement have resurfaced amid recent efforts to rename schools in the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD).


Eugenics and Stanford


According to Mary Rorty, clinical associate professor at the Stanford Medical Center and fellow at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, the growth of the eugenics movement had both scientific and social implications.


As a scientific movement, Rorty said that eugenics was founded in “epidemiology, the development of the social sciences, and the expanding — and increasingly important — science of human (and animal) genetics.”


As a social movement, positive eugenics encouraged individuals deemed ‘fit’ – those who were the most physically attractive, healthy, and/or successful – to marry and have enormous families, while negative eugenics discouraged “the birth of children with heritable, potentially undesirable characteristics,” Rorty explained.


Even before the rise of Hitler and Nazism, perhaps its most infamous proponents, eugenics as a movement was highly popular in both America and Europe and was supported by prominent and respected figures in society such as George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Calvin Coolidge and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Support for the movement began to die in the 1930s as many people witnessed the horrors of Nazi-led mass sterilization, and scientific advances revealed errors in many of the founding principles behind eugenics.


Beginning in 1906, David Starr Jordan was chair of the Eugenics Section of the American Breeders Association, a member of the Human Betterment Foundation, and an advisory council member of the Eugenics Committee of the American Eugenics Society. In a 1902 publication titled “The Blood of the Nation: A Study in the Decay of Races by the Survival of the Unfit,” Jordan publicly advocated eugenics as a practice and suggested that talent and poverty could be inherited via blood.


“For a race of men or a herd of cattle are governed by the same laws of selection. Those who survive inherit the traits of their own actual ancestry,” Jordan wrote. “If we sell or destroy the rough, lean, or feeble calves, we shall have a herd descended from the best.”


Lewis M. Terman, also known as the father of modern IQ testing, was an early psychologist who conducted a study named Genetic Studies of Genius to examine intelligence in children. According to Rorty, he also served on the boards of several eugenics associations and may have been in favor of compulsory sterilization.


“It is more important,” Terman wrote in 1928, “for man to acquire control over his biological evolution than to capture the energy of the atom.” After the emergence of Nazism in the 1930s and the exposure of the scientific inaccuracies behind eugenics, Terman expressed his regret for his statements about “inferior races,” though he never publicly recanted like other prominent eugenics supporters such as psychologist Henry Goddard and SAT creator Carl Brigham.


Elwood P. Cubberley, a professor and eventual dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education, was also a proponent of eugenics. As an educator, Cubberley believed that children deemed to have greater ability than their peers should be allocated more resources, while the resources given to children with learning and physical disabilities might detract from the goal of cultivating the most “able.”


Like Jordan and Terman, Cubberley’s writings also revealed a racially-tinged view of humanity and nationhood. In her book “Eugenics and Education in America: Institutionalized Racism and the Implications of History, Ideology, and Memory,” Anne Gibson Winfield cited Cubberley’s claim “east European immigrants were ‘of a very different sort’ and were ‘wholly without Anglo-Saxon conceptions of righteousness, liberty, law, order, public decency, and government.’” He added that their immigration would corrupt American politics and “dilute” the population as a whole.


The renaming movement: “Honor role models, not California’s leading eugenicists!”


In the PAUSD as well as on Stanford campus, several landmarks bear Jordan, Terman and Cubberley’s names. Among others, Jordan Hall and Cubberley Auditorium were named in honor of the early school leaders.


While a University committee is working on recommendations for renaming buildings named after Junípero Serra following student objections last year, the buildings named after Jordan, Terman and Cubberley are not directly under consideration. According to Lisa Lapin, vice president for University Communications, the committee is still working on their report about the buildings named after Serra, which may yield guiding principles for similar cases.


Meanwhile, the PAUSD has seen a vocal campaign to rename David Starr Jordan Middle School, Terman Middle School, and Cubberley Community Center. Several parents and other members of the PAUSD have expressed their concern to the school board and held a petition and a town hall to address the possibility of renaming the buildings.


Lars Johnsson, who has three children attending schools in the district, has been a particularly outspoken advocate of renaming and has started an online petition on Change.org that has garnered over 400 supporters.
“David Starr Jordan and Lewis Madison Terman do not represent the values of 21st-century Palo Alto and the mission of its Unified School District,” Johnsson wrote in the petition.

OH, REALLY??????

  WE KNOW WHAT IS SILICON VALLEY IS THE WORST OF MOVING FORWARD DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE-----GMO HUMANS----NO EDUCATION FOR YOU RACE TO TOP COMMONER CORE.



Johnsson pointed out that the PAUSD’s mission was fundamentally egalitarian, aiming to ensure that “every student has the opportunity and access to programs, practices, and personnel that will empower every child to attain his or her highest intellectual, creative, and social potential.”


Two members of the Stanford community were asked to speak on a panel at the Nov. 7 Palo Alto town hall meeting regarding the controversy over renaming efforts. Rorty and Joseph Brown Ph.D. ’00, who serves as associate director of Stanford’s Diversity and First Generation (DGEN) Office, offered differing views on the drive to rename the buildings.


Brown emphasized the importance of naming in the psychology of stigma, stereotyping and prejudice.


“Renaming the schools [would create] an opportunity to engage in a process that would … convey to all students that they … are respected and valued members of the community,” he said.



Rorty agreed that students would be harmed by prejudice, but questioned whether the name of the school amounted to disrespect.


“Any form of incivility and denigration has a negative effect on our children,” she said. “I’m not sure that the name of the school they attend rises to that degree of disrespect, especially in light of the national ranking of Palo Alto schools.”


Beyond renaming: grappling with eugenics today


Ultimately, both Rorty and Brown thought that the problem at hand lies beyond the renaming of schools.
“Renaming or not renaming can’t be the only options,” Rorty said.


She encouraged members of the PAUSD to take an active role in researching the students’ views on the names of their schools, and to implement a curriculum unit that addresses “all the things these three men did, the good and the bad – and about the history of – both [the scientific and social] stories of the eugenics movement.”


Brown agreed that educating students and educators through “a complex, nuanced, open discussion of these historical figures” was necessary to deal with the implications of eugenics for the present day.
In fact, Brown suggested that the troubling ideas behind eugenics have not been safely relegated to the past, but continue to influence society today.


According to Brown, the concept of “gifted children” — children who are identified at a young age as intellectually superior to their peers — can have damaging long-term effects on women, low-income students, first-generation college students, and students from underrepresented minorities who have to face stereotypes about their intellectual potential.


In 1920, Cubberley wrote that “one [child] of superior intellectual capacity … may confer greater benefits upon mankind” than “a thousand of the feeble-minded children upon whom we have recently come to put so much educational effort and expense.”


Together with Jordan and Terman, one of the early pioneers of IQ testing, Cubberley was part of a movement that worked to distribute resources towards those they deemed able rather than those they deemed needy. While the PAUSD movement shows that most people would now judge their beliefs to be extremist and inegalitarian, the eugenics movement also shared some basic beliefs with the meritocratic ideal that underpins present-day America.

ACTUALLY, THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT BEING THOSE GLOBAL BANKING 1% SHIP OF FOOLS KILLED THE MERITOCRATIC IDEAL OF AMERICAN LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVISM BY INSTALLING THESE FEW DECADES OF CRONYISM.


“Those ideas that come from eugenics are woven into the fabric of our educational system,”
Brown said. “I don’t believe that it should be just about the naming of a new school. I believe that it should be part of a campaign and an effort.”


As an institution of elite higher education, perhaps the larger question for Stanford is whether or not the systems of education shaped by these individuals — Jordan, Terman and Cubberley — are ever truly free of the foundational legacies they left behind.


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We discuss often how for thousands of years global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS worked hard to identify genius to bring them under that OLD WORLD KINGS' control. That is what medieval trade guild workshops did----that is what global MITRE corporation does----and that was the goal of EDUCATION TESTING in early 1900s. Again, it focused on our US 99% WE THE WHITE citizens because of its research ties to the military.



The goals of ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE has always been -----ending our US and Western European AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT PUBLIC EDUCATION for all------and return to only educating those identified as most GIFTED.



REMEMBER, GLOBAL BANKING 1% OLD WORLD KINGS COULD CARE LESS IF A GENIUS IS BLACK, WHITE, OR BROWN -----NO RACISM IN THIS SEARCH.

Tying education testing to SAT and COLLEGE ENTRANCE simply persuaded our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE to be willing to install these tests in US K-UNIVERSITY.  SAT was a selling point for MOVING FORWARD this goal of developing a system to identify genius.


Is Your Child Gifted? What to Look for, Why You Should Know



Traditional screening methods aren't the only way to identify a gifted kid.



Posted May 01, 2011  PSYCHOLOGY TODAY




Gifted children's abilities may be related in part to these enhanced neural connections, either because:
  • They were born with a denser than normal thicket of neural connections associated with the traits in which they are gifted, and had the right kind of experiences to allow them to use and retain, or further develop, these connections; or
  • They were born with a sufficient amount of neural connections and had ample opportunity to form more and more efficient connections through an enriched environment.
The denser, more efficient neural connections shared by gifted children could help explain the common characteristics many of these children share. But keep in mind that not every gifted child will show all, or even most, of these characteristics, and some will show traits that are quite contrary to what you might expect in a gifted child. It's commonly known that Albert Einstein learned to speak at a late age and didn't read until he was 7. Gifted children can be as different from one another as they are from the rest of society. 




Below, I'll review some traits that gifted children may possess. But keep in mind that trying to identify gifted children by comparing their behaviors and traits against lists such as those presented here can be tricky. After all, many or even most children will show a lot of these same characteristics. The most important thing to do when considering your own child is to look at him or her in the context of other children of the same age. If there are consistent, noticeable differences, then advanced mental abilities may be present. Another clue may be that others — friends, relatives, teachers, neighbors — notice and comment on the same traits that you're seeing.



Language Skills



While most children are able to form recognizable sentences and understand complex language by about 2 years of age, gifted children often reach these milestones earlier. As they approach school age, other language skills may appear advanced or sophisticated.
Some of the traits of giftedness to look for when considering your child's language development in relation to others of a similar age include:



  • A highly developed vocabulary and the ability to learn new words easily
  • The tendency to speak quickly
  • The early use of longer, more complex sentences while using appropriate grammar
  • Early reading, if given some instruction and opportunity (Many gifted children have already learned how to read before entering school.)
  • Continually asking questions about what they see and hear, and wanting to receive thorough responses and explanations
  • The ability to understand and carry out multi-step directions at an early age (e.g., Go to the dining room, get the blue book on the table, and put it back on the shelf in your room, then bring me the clothes on your bed so I can wash them).
  • The ability to understand and participate in adult conversations (Gifted children often pick up nuances or double meanings early on — so watch what you say!)
  • The ability to change the language they use when speaking to different audiences (For example, a 4-year-old gifted child might use more advanced words and sentence structure when speaking to adults or older children, and then talk in a simpler, more childlike way when addressing his 3-year-old cousin.)
Learning Abilities


All children (all people, really, big and small) have an inborn desire to learn about the world around them — to seek out new experiences, figure out the relationship between themselves and their surroundings, to discover, and to learn. What distinguishes gifted children from others is the apparent natural ease and joy with which they go about doing this. Their brains appear to be mental sponges, effortlessly absorbing and incorporating new information and ideas.



Many gifted children are natural learners who show some of the following characteristics:

  • The ability to learn quickly and efficiently — to pick up ideas and skills effortlessly
  • A tendency to become highly focused on certain areas of interest (e.g., bugs, space, animals) and independently seek out information on these topics
  • The ability to ask questions that show advanced insight or understanding
  • A deep fund of knowledge — They know more about the world around them than you would expect
  • Excellent memory and easy recall of what they previously heard, saw, or learned
  • A tendency to read often on their own and to frequently prefer reading to more physical activities
  • Little need for direction or instruction when beginning a new activity, learning a new game, or acquiring a new skill — They may also insist on doing things on their own, or in their own way.
  • Early development of motor skills involving balance, coordination, and movement — Gifted children may also be advanced in some purposeful fine-motor activities, such as assembling small objects (e.g., legos, transforming toys, blocks) or putting puzzles together. However, other fine-motor skills may not be advanced. Some gifted children are poor at handwriting, although this may be more related to a lack of attention to detail or impatience with the slow and tedious task of handwriting practice than to problems with fine-motor control.
  • Pleasure in talking to older children and adults about topics that interest them
  • An understanding of their own thinking and learning processes — They may have preferred ways of learning and resist using other methods suggested by a teacher or adult. They are able to sense how much and what kind of studying they need in order to master a skill or topic.
  • Creative thinking — Gifted children may enjoy coming up with their own ways to solve problems and take delight in complexity and making connections between seemingly unrelated ideas or concepts.
  • The ability to concentrate on a topic of interest for an unusually long period of time — However, gifted children may quickly shift their attention or appear unfocused when doing something they perceive as unchallenging or uninteresting.
  • An inclination to see learning as fun — They take joy in discovering new interests or grasping new concepts.
Emotional and Behavioral Traits


Gifted children are often more emotionally intense than others. They can also be more sensitive to others' feelings and circumstances, and may display a great deal of empathy in situations where others their age appear indifferent.
Other emotional or behavioral traits to look for include:
  • A high activity level — Gifted children can appear to have an endless source of energy, constantly moving, talking, asking, and exploring.
  • The tendency to think and talk fast — Because they may be trying to speak as quickly as they think, gifted children are often asked to "slow down" so that the listener can understand them. They can also become frustrated when they feel that others are talking too slowly or taking too long to "get to the point."
  • Strong leadership qualities — Gifted kids often make natural leaders who take charge and guide others in new directions.
  • Ability to relate to older kids and adults — Because their cognitive skills and interests can be advanced for their years, gifted kids have an easier time connecting with and learning from those older than themselves.
  • Enjoyment of alone time — While gifted children may enjoy spending time with others, including mental mates (whether their own age or adults), they can also enjoy spending time on more solitary activities, such as reading, writing, daydreaming, observing, or just thinking.
  • Appreciation of natural beauty and — Gifted children may particularly enjoy being around and pointing out trees, sunsets, flowers, the ocean, animals, and other things of inherent beauty. They can also show a deep interest in certain forms of art (paintings, sculptures, or music, for example).


Hidden Gifts
Some gifted children show only a few of the signs listed above, or show traits that are quite the opposite of what you'd expect. For example, some will start to speak late rather than early, some will be emotionally reserved rather than intense, and some appear to think and speak slowly rather than quickly.



Also, keep in mind that there are children who show gifted qualities when it comes to language or emotional traits, but who do not appear exceptional when it comes to learning or academics. While some of these kids may have a specific learning disability getting in the way of their performance at school, others may have learned early on to hide their abilities in order to better fit in with others their age, or to avoid the pressures of higher expectations. And of course there are children who show many of the signs here who do not measure in the gifted range once they are tested. Does that mean they are not gifted? Not necessarily. Many kids don't shine on IQ tests due to test anxiety — or sometimes because of the very qualities associated with giftedness. For example, IQ tests typically have timed subtests, meaning that the faster a child responds or correctly completes a task, the more points she earns. However, gifted children who are perfectionists may respond more slowly than others, taking their time, working carefully and methodically, and checking their responses for accuracy. A gifted child with a high energy level who has a hard time focusing attention on structured tasks may also be at a disadvantage when it comes to performing in the rigidly structured atmosphere of an IQ test.



In addition, it's true that children can be gifted in one area (verbal skills, for example), but show only average ability in others (such as perceptual or nonverbal reasoning skills, which are important for math achievement). While these children's full-scale IQ score might not measure in the gifted range, they may still demonstrate some common traits of giftedness. For example, a verbally gifted child with average nonverbal reasoning skills may still be emotionally sensitive and have an excellent memory.



Identifying giftedness can be tricky, particularly regarding those who test right around that "magic" cutoff point of 130 or so. And IQ tests are certainly imperfect instruments and only one piece of the puzzle. Your insight and instincts, along with those of your child's teachers, can often be the most important pieces needed to truly understand your child's unique gifts and potential.



How do you tell if your child is gifted?



Schools that have programs for gifted students are often able to identify them by using traditional screening methods, like group IQ tests, review of achievement test scores and past grades, observation, and getting input from teachers and parents. So, when it comes to discovering if your own kid is gifted, one option is to wait and see whether teachers or others at your child's school recommend testing for a gifted education program.




Yet you shouldn't be entirely dependent on the schools when it comes to identification. Keep in mind that many teacher training programs require little (if any) course work in giftedness, so some teachers and school administrators may not have all the information they need to recognize gifted children. For this reason, your insights are important, and the more knowledge you have, the better position you're in to partner with others when selecting the best programs for your child.


In fact, parents should become familiar with the signs of giftedness even before their child starts school. Most school districts do not even start identifying children for gifted programs until the second or third grade, and parents of exceptionally bright or gifted children may want to consider private testing or alternative placement options (such as a private preschool school program or early grade acceleration) before that time.



Early testing and identification can be a controversial subject, but many advocates of gifted children believe that they should be identified as soon as possible, so that their unique needs and talents can be acknowledged and nurtured right from the start.


Early identification is also important when a young child is showing behavioral or social differences — not fitting in, being highly focused on unusual interests, appearing more distractible or inattentive than others of the same age — and parents want to understand the cause.


These characteristics may be features of giftedness, or they may be signs of an emotional problem, a condition like Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), or an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), such as Asperger's Syndrome. Knowing a child's IQ can allow insight into their atypical development and help to avoid potentially harmful misdiagnoses.



Under-Identified Children


Some gifted children may not be particularly high achievers in the classroom. These students may have problems with attention (which may or may not be related to ADHD), have poor organizational skills, or simply not "mesh" with the teaching style in the classroom, and therefore may be overlooked when it comes to the selection of gifted program candidates.



I recall one boy I tested privately at the request of his mother. The boy, Mike, was in the fourth grade at the time. His mother was concerned, because Mike was getting poor grades, having conflicts with the teacher, and becoming more and more disinterested in school. He was having social conflicts too, being teased and picked on by other students who liked to see his "overreactions" when they provoked him. It had gotten to the point where home schooling was being considered, since it was getting harder to even get Mike out the door to go to school, which he considered "torture."



The school had never tested Mike for giftedness. Whatever screening process was in place had missed him. Possibly because he didn't fit the high-achieving, cooperative, wunderkind image that some teachers look for when making recommendations for gifted screening. Yet it turned out that his IQ measured in the in the Exceptionally Gifted range (fewer than 1 of 1000 kids score this high on an IQ test). His problems at school were not atypical for such children. Had he been identified earlier and placed in an alternative program, many of his academic and social problems might have been avoided. At the very least, Mike's parents and teachers would have had a better understanding of his problems and been able to collaborate from a more informed perspective to come up with solutions.



These types of scenarios are not unusual. In fact, some estimate that the majority of gifted children in the schools are never identified. That may not be a tragedy for some, but it very well could be for others, like Mike, who truly need special programming and support to get through school successfully.



Parents who are aware of the signs of giftedness can better collaborate with the schools to help assure that their own child's potential and learning needs are not overlooked.



How Can You Tell If Your Child Is Gifted?

As you've probably guessed, without proper assessment, there is no easy answer. There are no universally accepted traits that you can look for and no definitive signs that will tell you for sure whether your child is gifted. However, many gifted children share some common characteristics, and knowing these is a good place to start.


The reason for these common traits may have a lot to do with the physical characteristics of the brain. Giftedness is the result of both environmental and genetic factors, and both of these influences can lead to differences in the way that the brain works and develops. Some researchers believe that gifted children's advanced cognitive skills actually result — at least in part — from the ability of their brains to process information faster and more effectively than others their age.



The brain is made up of billions of nerve cells, or neurons, which communicate with each other by releasing and receiving chemicals called neurotransmitters. These chemicals travel through dendrites, root-like structures which branch out and seek connections with nearby neurons at junctures called synapses. The more of these dendrites and synapses we have, the greater our "brain power" — our ability to process information, to perceive, interpret, reason, problem-solve, remember, and do all kinds of tasks associated with learning. It appears that every time we do or experience something — read a book, have an emotion, look at a picture — a specific group of neurons associated with that activity "lights up," stimulating the growth of more dendrites and "exercising" those already in place, making them better processors of information. All else being equal, the denser and more efficient these neural connections, the easier it is to do the thing that is associated with that area of the brain.
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EDUCATION TESTING back in early 1900s advances the same goals of MOVING FORWARD as today's DNA testing. Where EDUCATION TESTING was enfolded in the hopes of going to college------DNA testing is ROMANTICIZED by selling to our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE----it's all about finding our roots.
GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT THINKING EUGENICS IS OK------SAME MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD STANFORD/BRIGHAM YOUNG.



There is far more EUGENICS tied to DNA-TESTING than was ever in EDUCATION TESTING.


The research of finding how our brain developed---as DARWIN'S research on EVOLUTION was driven mainly by AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT KNOWLEDGE---it is a very small group of people who then use that research to twist it into SOCIAL DARWINISM.


REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES loved research tied to understanding how our body and brain works-----today we do not like it because we have FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1% who DO want to use this information for EUGENICS.

When the US allowed our BASIC RESEARCH to be taken by far-right wing-----CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA----we went from being a DR GOOD nation---to being a DR NO nation. Taking a break from basic research until we get rid of far-right wing global banking 5% freemason/Greek players is NOT A BAD IDEA.

OH, REALLY?????



'Instead of being driven by a desire to “improve” the species, new eugenics is driven by our personal desire to be as healthy, intelligent and fit as possible'



DNA screening is part of the new eugenics—and that’s okay
Jon Entine | Genetic Literacy Project | July 8, 2013



CREDIT: sashkin/Shutterstock





A provocative, heartfelt but ultimately misguided article in the Denver Post decried “the rise of a new eugenics.” It was written by two prominent, thoughtful people, Lloyd Lewis and Julie Reiskin, officers with the Colorado Cross Disability Coalition (CCDC).



My issue is not with their stated mission to advocate for social justice for people with all types of disabilities—but with their simplistic and counterproductive demonization of DNA screening tests reflected in this opinion piece. Their premise is this: Over the past decade, technological advances have led to the development of simple and inexpensive genetic screening tests that can determine whether a fetus has a genetic disorder. If a disorder is identified—and if the laws of the state or country in which the pregnant woman resides allow—the fetus can be aborted. This is all very much like amniocentesis, which is widely embraced around the world. The CCDC focuses on fetuses with Down syndrome (DS) to argue that modern DNA screening techniques (but not amniocentesis) present a moral hazard.


Abortion is a prickly issue, contentious and personal, entangled with legal and moral standards that vary from community to community. Lewis and Reiskin advance a moral argument as a backdoor way to promote changes in the legal landscape, and I believe they do so disingenuously. If successful, their efforts would lead to curtailments in abortion rights and limit genetic health screens.



Amniocentesis, abortion, and DNA screening


Almost all communities in the United States, Europe and most other Western countries allow for the termination of pregnancies when the mother is found to be carrying a fetus with a genetic disease. The raw truth is that prospective parents would prefer having children with no genetic defects. As the Denver Post article states, 80 to 90 percent of women who receive a positive amniocentesis test for DS choose to terminate their pregnancy.



There is already broad national support for screening fetuses to determine whether they contain genetic abnormalities: amniocentesis. It involves inserting a needle through the uterus to withdraw fluid and fetal cells from the amniotic sac. Although controversial in its early days, it’s now a broadly accepted procedure that ultimately results in the termination of tens of thousands of pregnancies every year. But amniocentesis is an invasive test; some women refuse to ask for it for that reason alone.

The CCDC’s opposition to genetic screening is based on its belief that because genetic screening is a non-invasive technique (and now booming in popularity), it will result in even more terminations. “To be blunt, this test will likely result in a rapidly decreasing population of people with DS,” write Lewis and Reiskin. That’s almost certainly accurate.



It appears the CCDC is a responsible organization that promotes the rights of the disabled. They are good guys. Most of the people linked to CCDC have or are associated with children with one form of genetic disability or another, often DS. They have a compelling, deeply personal moral argument that’s not unlike the one promoted by anti-abortion groups—terminating human life in any form and at any stage of development is wrong. The CCDC however appears to take no position on abortion—which means in effect it voices no concerns about terminating healthy pregnancies—but it wants to establish unique moral and legal rights for fetuses with genetic defects.



Lewis, Reiskin, and the CCDC have the right to advance any policy position. Their engagement is part of how democratic societies have chosen to work through this moral thicket. But positions should be based on sound science and reasoning, not on appeals to emotion and hyperbole.



Playing the anti-biotechnology hysteria card


My concern is that the CCDC’s framing of the issue undermines support for genetic testing, particularly pre-conception. Lewis and Reiskin deploy the word “eugenics” as if it’s a synonym for genocide. It’s a reckless, socially fraught way to manipulate historical facts, and is an all-too-common distortion of the social history of genetics policy in the United States. They write:



“Adolf Hitler’s embrace of eugenics would discredit the movement, but unfortunately it didn’t disappear… Today, in fact, we see the rise of a new eugenics, made possible by the rapid development of bioscience and biotechnology, especially from the mapping of the human genome. This is obviously technology and philosophy that the American eugenicists in the 1920s would have embraced, along with their counterparts in Nazi Germany.”



The authors are either ignorant of history or willing to misrepresent it to promote their cause. Eugenics is typically portrayed as morally repugnant by today’s standards, but classical eugenics (meaning “good genes”) has its roots in the progressive era at the turn of the twentieth century, not in Hitler’s twisted vision of a Final Solution. The scientists who formulated these ideas were very much mainstream, and their proposition sounded reasonable to an American and European establishment trying to come to terms with waves of ill-educated immigrants from Southeastern Europe.



Scientists offered what they considered to be a progressive solution: “positive eugenics,” which focused on better pre-natal and natal and health and encouraged society’s healthiest citizens to have more children, thus improving the overall health of society. The founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, along with many major Protestant and Jewish clergy were eager proponents of positive eugenics. Those eugenic views remain a central tenet of modern society today.



The “negative” wing of eugenics, which was popular in the late 20s and early 30s but never widely embraced, wanted to legally prevent the mentally ill, poor, immigrants and non-whites from having children. Some Social Darwinists also propagated the belief that progress could only be attained by phasing out “undesirable genes.” Again, we practice mild versions of this today—that’s what amniocentesis accomplishes. It was only later however, that ideologues of the far right twisted eugenics to justify Nazism and genocide. Their exploitation and abuse of the concept led to the “eugenics movement,” but this movement casts a shadow over the modern focus on improving individual and societal genetic health in a non-coercive way.



Nathaniel Comfort, professor at the Institute of the History of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University, addressed many of the complicated moral and legal issues raised by in the eugenics movement his book The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine, published last year. As Comfort argues, the impulse to use genetic screening reflects complex motivations:



“The eugenic impulse drives us to eliminate disease, to live longer and healthier, with greater intelligence and a better adjustment to the conditions of society. It arises whenever the humanitarian desire for happiness and social betterment combines with an emphasis on heredity as the essence of human nature. It is the aim of control, the denial of fatalism, the rejection of chance. The dream of engineering ourselves, of reducing suffering now and forever.”



We are in the “second age of eugenics” wrote Discover blogger Razib Khan, citing the growth in the number of terminated DS pregnancies. Because of advances in genetic screening, we are in a position to reduce the prevalence of many Mendelian diseases caused by single gene mutations (e.g. sickle-cell anemia, cystic fibrosis, PKU, Huntington’s disease). The mostly small, start-up genetics companies that Lewis and Reiskin mischaracterize as “Wall Street backed corporations” are actually marshalling their resources to educate the public on these thorny issues. For example, we are now able to identify mutation carriers before conception so diseased embryos are never conceived and abortion is never a question. And yes, that would mean fewer babies born with Down syndrome.



New eugenics, old fears


The potential power of the “new eugenics” has put both the far left and right on edge. They share a quasi-religious belief that nature and life should be considered inalterable. Pro-life groups and activist groups on the left that argue for the dignity of people with disabilities often campaign vigorously against aborting fetuses known to carry debilitating diseases.


Their case has been taken up by activist writer Alex Knapp who holds that no one is “eugenically unfit” and society has advanced too far scientifically and morally to allow such practices. He focuses solely on negative eugenics and not the positive impact that family planning and genetic screening have already had on society.




His focus on negative eugenics is rampant on the hard-edged ideological left, promoted most vociferously by the Center for Genetics and Society, which considers itself a progressive advocacy group but is actually the opposite on many genetics issues. It takes every opportunity to conflate prenatal testing and gene therapy with negative eugenics, arguing that it is socially and ethically reprehensible to alter the genes that we pass on to our children.



It’s an odd argument given that CGS supports planned parenting—which attempts to achieve the same goal as preventative screening but with far less precision and more unintended consequences. Their fear stems as much from the tool itself (biotechnology) than its intended consequences.



The limits of eugenics



Scientist and blogger Gerhard Adams, writing last year at Science 2.0, raised more sophisticated cautions about eugenics and genetic fetal screenings. The concept itself is potentially flawed, he maintains, because there is no way to determine whether what appears to be a negative mutation may confer unexpected or unknown benefits. The sickle cell mutation, for instance, protects people from contracting malaria. Eliminating the mutation entirely would put many populations at suddenly increased risk of malaria infection.



“Some may argue that we have plenty of evidence from our experiences in animal domestication,” he writes, “yet who would claim that these results are an improvement of the original species?  The modifications [may] have made these animals more compliant with human demands, but improved the original species?” If given a choice, he writes, humans will converge toward genetic homogeneity—which is also bad for the species.



One key problem with Adams’s line of reasoning is that screening and abortions do not necessarily eliminate a trait—it would be very difficult to actually wipe out many genetic diseases. Eugenics-inspired screening in the Jewish community has all but ended Tay Sachs among Orthodox Jews, but the frequency of the mutation in the larger non-Jewish population has not changed. Furthermore, Down syndrome is a spontaneous, not inherited, trait—screening and abortions would have no direct impact on its prevalence.



The Gattaca argument: more “fi” than “sci”?


In the grand scheme, the biggest bugaboo haunting personal genomics is the specter of Gattaca: as more people adopt genetic screening, the choice to use it could become less voluntary—or at least harder to turn down. Science 2.0 founder and editor Hank Campbell argues that once it becomes possible to engineer “superior” qualities in human beings, then a parent’s only moral choice would be to have genetically superior children. That’s the ominous theme behind the Lewis and Reikin’s Denver Post opinion piece.



It may sound like a real argument but it’s sci-fi in the extreme. The CCDC, Knapp, CGS and Campbell may believe they are warning against Big Brother but their positions would seem to favor Big Brother-like restrictions.


Should we limit personal choice, including the right of prospective parents to terminate their pregnancies? In a post from last year about prenatal sex selection and reproductive rights, science blogger Cameron English struck a sensible balance:


“There’s no doubt that we need to consider the difficult ethical questions that arise as our ability to manipulate nature improves… But making ominous predictions and restricting personal choice shouldn’t be a part of that discussion, at least not without evidence.”



Modern eugenic aspirations are not about the draconian top-down measures promoted by the Nazis and their ilk. Instead of being driven by a desire to “improve” the species, new eugenics is driven by our personal desire to be as healthy, intelligent and fit as possible—and for the opportunity of our children to be so as well. And that’s not something that should be dismissed lightly.
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Here is the same STANFORD UNIVERSITY today ------that is where ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE was founded------the source of using EDUCATION TESTING-----SAT to limit who goes to college last century now having the TALKING POINT of leading COLLEGE FOR ALL.

FDR'S NEW DEAL built public schools and universities across the nation.  Not every child has the ability of HIGHER EDUCATION.  We paid the TRADES a good salary to adjust for this two-tiered education system.  Some children are good with TRADES----some children good with ACADEMICS.  All last century our US public universities were doing research into how humans learn-----we created tests----but we have that HOBBES KRACKEN in  former US IVY LEAGUES----so EDUCATION TESTING research used by left social progressives to lift all 99% of WE THE PEOPLE into a professional status ------had its STANFORD/BRIGHAM YOUNGS only seeking to cull the GENIUSES.

So, EDUCATION TESTING last century had left social benefit goals ------but those marginalized SOCIAL DARWINISTS were indeed advancing research MARGINALIZE.  Global banking 1% CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA------brought what were marginalized SOCIAL DARWINISTS to capture our US government.  Who led this capture by FAR-RIGHT WING global banking 1%-----OLD WORLD KINGS KNIGHTS OF MALTA---TRIBE OF JUDAH.  Who is tied to STANFORD/BRIGHAM YOUNG?  SAME very small group of 1000BC corrupted DNA----SHIP OF FOOLS.



STANFORD is not working to open college for all----it is MOVING FORWARD the end of our K-high school structure replacing it with DARK AGES K-career child apprenticeships. This is FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1% dismantling our US left social progressive K-UNIVERSITY public school system.

This is the OUR REVOLUTION for only the global 1% crowd------MOVING FORWARD depopulation will use lots of EUGENICS.


College for All: Creating a New Deal in Higher Education

EducationFinance & WealthRoosevelt @
By Aman Banerji


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“Higher education” is a vague term. It describes a sector that is hardly uniform, with over 4,000 degree-granting institutions eligible for federal funding but serious disparities among them. A college education from one of these institutions continues to serve as a prerequisite to moving up the income ladder in our narrative about economic mobility. Yet, this narrative assumes that a degree from the University of Phoenix delivers the same returns as one from Harvard University or your local community college, despite the fact that each offers radically different opportunities for mobility.



The large disparities in outcomes across the institutions that make up “higher education” as a field demonstrate that the industry suffers from monopoly pressures. Consider, for example, that just 25 institutions hold about half of the total endowment assets in the industry. Or that:


Investments from community colleges’ endowments, combined, earn $27.6 million a year, according to the American Association of Community Colleges. That’s how much Harvard alone makes from its $32.7 billion endowment about every two and a half days.



Further, the overwhelming majority of low-income students do not attend the few well-endowed private sector institutions that almost guarantee a path to the middle class. In fact, a new study finds that ‘less than one-half of 1 percent of children from the bottom fifth of American families attend an elite college’. Moreover, the share of students from the bottom 40% at elite universities has remained relatively stable over the last decade. Low-income students overwhelmingly attend public schools, despite narratives that admission is based purely on merit.

After these few decades of attacks on our US public K-university by CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA ----yes, our US public schools have been left decayed and dysfunctional---the poor always get the worst of this.



Meanwhile, vast declines in state and national appropriations have imperiled the public university system. State appropriations accounted for just 24% of median public university revenue in 2016. That’s a historically low level—between 1989 and 2014, state and local governments decreased spending per student by 25 percent on average (adjusted for inflation). In response to declining funding, public schools meet funding shortfalls directly out of the pockets of their students. Average net tuition and fees for full-time in-state undergraduate students at public four-year institutions soared by 54.6% from 1996-2016.




The concentration of private monopoly power in the industry ensures that few private practitioners hold the keys to the to the American dream of middle class status—and they dole out that access to a select few, usually those with racial and class privilege. This prevents higher education from truly being a “public good.” A public good, like access to water, heat, or electricity, is one that is meant to be “non-excludable,” or universally accessible, and “non-rivalrous,” where use by one party does not limit access to the good by another. It’s time that we stopped building a system where access to the public good of quality college education is limited to only the top private schools.



How then do we fight the large inequities built into today’s higher educational system? We ought to heed the lessons from progressive reformers a century ago. One of the key approaches they used to counter the issue of overwhelming private power for public goods was to strengthen the public option. As Roosevelt’s Sabeel Rahman emphasizes, ‘a high quality public option would provide more equitable and accessible alternatives that compete with private companies and induce higher standards for nondiscrimination, fair prices, and openness.’ A focus on drastically improving the infrastructure and support for public and community colleges, and their students, ought to be our prime response to this crisis of monopoly power.


TEDDY ROOSEVELT AKA ECONOMIC PROGRESSIVES ARE THE OPPOSITE OF FDR LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY.  SO, THE CONSTANT CALL FOR MORE PUBLIC OPTIONS IS A GLOBAL BANKING 1% MARKET POLICY-------AS SEEN BELOW



That’s why we at the Roosevelt Institute are excited to see the rapidly growing interest in proposals for free public higher education through the College for All Act sponsored by Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Pramila Jayapal in the Senate and House respectively. This legislation would eliminate tuition and fees at public four year colleges and universities for families making up to $125,000, and would make community college tuition and fees entirely free for all. Increasing accessibility to a high quality, accessible public education, as the Act proposes, would ensure that public university students are less mired in debt and more likely to graduate as a result. A 2015 Federal Reserve board survey finds that student debt was the cause of 24% of college dropouts. Just as importantly, creating a real public option for higher education could reduce the discrimination and barriers to entry plaguing the private education sector. It could even trigger the demise of the predatory for-profit educational industry, which profits from the fact that college degrees are necessary in our economy but largely inaccessible to most. The for-profit industry has been exposed for its exploitation of students of color in particular.



Sanders’ bill does not just offer tuition support, it creates structural changes within the increasingly corporatized higher education industry.



AS WE CONTINUE TO SHOUT-----THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTION TIED TO STANFORD UNIVERSITY IS NOT A PUBLIC GOOD NGO AND BERNIE SANDERS AND HIS OUR REVOLUTION FOR ONLY THE GLOBAL 1% KNOW THIS


The bill sets up a host of federal funding requirements for public universities, including maintaining spending on academic instruction and need-based aid; reducing reliance on adjunct faculty; and preventing the use of funding toward administrator salaries, merit based aid, and construction of non-academic buildings like stadiums. Here, it appears, the bill attempts to counter some of the most destructive trends in higher education, including the severe tilt toward insecure, poorly compensated labor through adjuncts, the ballooning of administrator salaries, and the shift in funding priorities toward non-instruction related activities. For instance, more than half of all interest spending on paying down debt at public institutions in 2012 fell into two Department of Education categories: ‘student services’ and ‘auxiliary services,’ which are those that include stadiums, cafeterias, and recreation centers. These trends are part of the reason college has become so unaffordable for the vast majority of the student population, and it is commendable that the bill addresses them.




The College for All Act provides a vital framework for curbing the vast inequality across public and private sectors in our higher educational system. Moving forward, key avenues for future reform must focus on ensuring equity in refinancing across student loan borrowers, building a wider conception of student costs beyond tuition and fees (cost of college textbooks, for instance, have increased by 73% in the past ten years) into progressive reform models, and focusing on desegregating the higher education sector through an explicit racial equity lens. Yet, by reminding us of higher education’s value as a public good freely accessible and available to all, the College for All Act is a huge step in pushing us along this path.

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ATLAS SHRUGGED ----the AYN RAND crowd were of course those FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1% OLD WORLD KINGS ------STANFORD/BRIGHAM YOUNG EUGENICS crowd-----this article about AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT ---JEFFERSON written as JEFFERSON the humanist.



Jefferson promoted the policy of equal opportunity and access PUBLIC EDUCATION and proposed a two-track system which became our US K-university/vocational/academic higher education. Those graduating high school wanting TRADES were open to MASTER TRADES classes---those wanting academic professions were open to public universities. EDUCATION TESTING had widespread support becausse of the need to identify the 5Ws of opening equal opportunity to all 99% WE THE PEOPLE.





So, EDUCATIONAL TESTING WAS NOT EMBRACED FOR EUGENICS/RACIAL DISCRIMINATION/SOCIAL DARWINISM----IT WAS SIMPLY CO-OPTED BY GLOBAL BANKING 1% TO DO SO MOVING FORWARD.


We take the time to discuss these policies broadly because when we rebuild our public K-UNIVERSITY we do not want to throw these policies out because they were corrupted by a few people on FAR-RIGHT WING.

The Life-Centered Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson
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April 01, 2003
Robert James Bidinotto



In Atlas Shrugged, Dr. Robert Stadler finds it "outrageous" that a genius such as John Galt would have "performed a major revolution in the science of energy, just as a means to an end." "Why," Stadler demands, "did he want to waste his mind on practical appliances?" Dagny Taggart answers: "Perhaps because he liked living on earth."



That reply summarizes the attitude of the American Enlightenment, most especially the attitude of the man whose birthday we celebrate on April 13: Thomas Jefferson.



Jefferson is best known as the leading "classical liberal" in American history. As the author of the Declaration of Independence, he outlined the political principles that launched the new nation. As the framer of the Virginia Statute for Religious Liberty, he spearheaded early efforts to separate church and state. As president of the United States, he fostered the fledgling country's continental expansion, setting the stage for America to become a global power.



Jefferson was America's first life-centered philosopher.

But Jefferson was much more than a philosopher and statesman of freedom. His omnivorous appetite for the facts of nature (including human nature) is reflected in his only book, Notes on the State of Virginia , which contains exhaustive observations on every aspect of his state's natural and social environment: its flora, fauna, populations, mountains, rivers, geology, manufactures, and laws.


Even as president, Jefferson conducted botanical expeditions on which "he would climb rocks, or wade through swamps to obtain any plant he discovered or desired and seldom returned from these excursions without a variety of specimens." In his Washington residence "we see him not only with his beloved flowers, plants, books, and pet mocking-bird, but also with carpenter's tools, garden implements, maps, globes, charts, a drafting board, and scientific instruments" (I. Bernard Cohen, Science and the Founding Fathers , New York: Norton, 1995, p. 64). The East Room was cluttered with a huge fossil collection, while on the lawn frolicked young grizzly bears brought back by Lewis and Clark.


But this is not to say Thomas Jefferson was a scientific dilettante or dabbler. Far from it. After all, Jefferson is surely the only president who read Newton's Principia in Latin and could correct the leading astronomer of his day on its interpretation. But Jefferson liked to live on earth, and whenever he writes of his scientific activities, one is struck by the predominantly practical rather than contemplative cast of his mind.


Thus, what one sees at Jefferson's Monticello estate is a powerful mind bent to practical difficulties. An indefatigable gadgeteer, Jefferson filled Monticello—which he himself designed—with mechanical innovations: a complex clock in the front hallway, dumbwaiters, a revolving bookstand, a portable writing table, an invention to duplicate letters as he wrote, even a special ventilation and cooling system. The surrounding grounds serve as an elegant showcase for his interests in botany and scientific agriculture.



This very Jeffersonian attitude—that knowledge should enhance human life—was more broadly an Enlightenment attitude. Thus, in the year of Jefferson's birth, Benjamin Franklin established a "philosophical" organization with a strikingly life-centered agenda: to conduct "all philosophical Experiments that let Light into the Nature of Things, tend to increase the Power of Man over Matter, and multiply the Conveniences or Pleasures of Life." In 1769, this scientific organization became the American Philosophical Society.


From Jefferson, the society received designs for new inventions, observations on establishing weights and measures, and correspondence on everything from meteorology to fossils. He was perfectly at home discussing the heavens or mechanics with David Rittenhouse, an ingenious inventor and America's foremost astronomer; medicine and anatomy with the peerless Dr. Benjamin Rush; flora and fauna with Benjamin Smith Barton, the nation's leading botanist and anthropologist; or chemistry, physic, and electricity with the renowned Joseph Priestley.



Jefferson came to be held in such esteem by these eminent scientists that he was elected the society's president in 1796, a post they then refused to let him quit for nearly two decades. Historian Daniel J. Boorstin writes that this "was simple recognition of his leadership in American intellectual life" ( The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948, p. 23).



Why did this generalist command the enduring respect of specialists? Why, as Boorstin puts it, was Thomas Jefferson "the human magnet who drew them together and gave order and meaning to their discrete investigations" (p. 23)? Because Jefferson "possessed a mind more catholic than theirs and better able to see nature as a whole. Being a statesman, he persistently demanded the human implications of their science" (p. 23).



It is precisely because of his concern with the "human implications" of intellectual pursuits that Thomas Jefferson became the leader of the American Enlightenment. In countless arenas—scientific, cultural, and political--he focused the thinking of the nation's best and brightest toward the task of advancing not pure reason, but human life as an end in itself.


So, on his birthday this month, let us remember him not just as a Founding Father, architect, inventor, or scientist. Thomas Jefferson was all that, and something more. He was America's first life-centered philosopher.

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REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE LOCKEAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS began with US FOUNDING FATHERS who were indeed 'elitists'----they found themselves as leaders of a colonial state because they were connected to OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.  The policies taking hold in US in colonial years as a result of AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT were expanding this educational ELITISM ------to all citizens under EQUAL PROTECTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY.



  Whether a JEFFERSON actually said 'racking a few geniuses from the rubbish' is as questionable as if he is tied to compulsory attendance and literacy tests.  Remember, back in early sovereign US our 99% WE THE PEOPLE were largely uneducated and policies back then were used to encourage PUBLIC LEARNING.  So, as the history of JEFFERSON as AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT father of US public education seems to be a bit REVISIONIST these few decades by the FAR-RIGHT WING------the goals of EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND ACCESS started with JEFFERSON'S understanding that America would need public education for both TRADES AND ACADEMICS.

The US went through all of last century having those two tracks in high-schools.  Our TRADES were valued as much as our ACADEMICS -----our TRADES were paid a strong wage -----our TRADES had higher-education through MASTER TRADES higher education as academics attended university.




'Jefferson’s attitude toward compulsory attendance laws — a cornerstone of modern public education — is worth noting. Some historians have maintained that Jefferson, in his early proposals, implicitly favored compulsory attendance for three years of elementary education. But Jefferson never said this, and it cannot legitimately be inferred from his words'.

Where today GOGGLING JEFFERSON and PUBLIC EDUCATION will lead to lots of far-right wing LIBERTARIAN writing revisionist goals -------below is what our REAL US history gave as the goal of US PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY. 




Rather than squabbling, Adams and Jefferson knew that public education was at the heart of democracy. “The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it,” wrote Adams


MASONRY back in early colonial America was filled with those OLD-SCHOOL MASONS and those global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS FREEMASONRY-----so, please do not allow the REAL goals of our US public education be corrupted in today's myth-making and propaganda.




Founding Fathers agreed: Funding public education is not a debate
  • Brad Desnoyer
  • Mar 10, 2014








Two of our greatest Founding Fathers, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, were fierce political adversaries. But in the first years of our nation, these rivals — with vastly different backgrounds and disparate political views — shared common ground. They both believed in the importance of funding public education.




Rather than squabbling, Adams and Jefferson knew that public education was at the heart of democracy. “The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it,” wrote Adams.


“There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.”


Jefferson, witness to the Revolution, drafter of the Declaration of Independence, and founder of the nation’s first public university, rightfully believed that it was the government and citizenry’s duty to invest tax dollars in public education: “[T]he tax which will be paid for this purpose [education] is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.”



More than 200 years later, Missouri currently underfunds education based upon the very funding formula our fiscally conservative Legislature created. And the school year has been bizarre at best: Unaccredited Normandy and Riverview Gardens are busing students to neighboring school districts. The entire Kansas City School District is unaccredited, and current proposals call for the dissolution of the KCSD so that it may be replaced by private entities.



Gov. Jay Nixon recently proposed increasing state spending for K-12 education, moving us closer to meeting the state’s education funding formula. And yet certain members of the Legislature are resisting. Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, called the budget proposal “bloated” and questioned the need for more spending.
There has always been fear of bloated government. There will always be concerns of over-encroaching authority. Rightfully so. And there is a valid argument that our modern schools have failed at their mission, with high dropout rates and graduates who are barely ready for college. There is some truth to this: In recent years, American schools have been surpassed by other nations’. But a big reason for this is inequality — the wealthiest students from the wealthiest school districts still perform well. The poorest students from the poorest school districts — and there are a lot more of them — bring the average way down.



The distress of our underfunded districts does not dismiss our Founding Fathers’ call for public education. Rather it highlights the need for citizens at every level to revitalize public education. This includes parents and lawmakers, teachers and students. It includes taxpayers. And it is in everyone’s self-interest. As Adams wrote, “[E]ducation of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.” Benjamin Franklin put it more succinctly: “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”




Public schools by their nature require tax dollars. Spending money on public schools does not inherently make them bloated, it makes them public. And while money is not the sole solution, funding will benefit our children. Any time an issue requires tax dollars, the Legislature instinctively screeches, “Money won’t help!” They are right that money alone will not miraculously fix our schools. It is not the magic cure. But necessary public funds will help our students to receive the education they, as American citizens, deserve.




Sadly lawmakers favor talking points to wisdom. They seek arguments with their supposed rivals, even in matters that great adversaries like Adams and Jefferson would never spar over — not when our children’s future is the collateral damage of their political battles.



So let me end with a few talking points in hopes of reaching wary lawmakers: Funding our public schools is the duty of our state. At the founding of this nation, the Framers of the Constitution believed in publicly educating our children. Those wise men knew funding public education was an investment in our democracy and in our future. To argue against adequately funding our schools rejects Adams and Jefferson and Franklin. Failing our students in this way is simply un-American.

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So, what did global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS----STANFORD/BRIGHAM YOUNG do with education testing research? They made it into global education testing corporations sent overseas to look for all those GENIUSES. Meanwhile, our US public schools where being used as CASH-COWS for a corrupted goal of education testing. None of this is the original goal of REAL left social progressive research and development of how our children learn.




OBAMA era super-sized this far-right wing use of education testing as simply a CASH COW with RACE TO TOP COMMONER CORE. This saturation of education testing was done to make our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE move away from K-UNIVERSITY public education.



Are SAT educational tests RACIST? Any of our new to US IMMIGRANTS coming from third world nations would find it hard to jump right into US HIGHER EDUCATION.



PLEASE DO NOT ALLOW GLOBAL BANKING 1% GOALS OF MAKING PARENTS/STUDENTS HATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCLUDE THE IDEA THAT EDUCATION TESTING DID HAVE A REAL LEFT SOCIAL BENEFIT GOAL AS WELL.

So, STANFORD and global banking 1% took their brand of EDUCATION TESTING overseas in search of global black, white, and brown GENIUSES and left our US public schools with CORRUPTED GOALS IN EDUCATION TESTING------using our schools as CASH COWS.

Education


Study says standardized testing is overwhelming nation’s public schools

By Lyndsey Layton
October 24, 2015



The number of standardized tests U.S. public school students take has exploded in the past decade, with most schools requiring too many tests of dubious value, according to the first comprehensive survey of the nation’s largest districts.



A typical student takes 112 mandated standardized tests between pre-kindergarten classes and 12th grade, a new Council of the Great City Schools study found. By contrast, most countries that outperform the United States on international exams test students three times during their school careers.




In a video posted to Facebook by the White House on Saturday, President Obama pledged to take steps to reduce testing overload.



In “moderation, smart, strategic tests can help us measure our kids’ progress in school, and it can help them learn,” Obama said. “But I also hear from parents who, rightly, worry about too much testing, and from teachers who feel so much pressure to teach to a test that it takes the joy out of teaching and learning, both for them and for the students. I want to fix that.”



  The heaviest testing load falls on the nation’s eighth-graders, who spend an average of 25.3 hours during the school year taking standardized tests, uniform exams required of all students in a particular grade or course of study. Testing affects even the youngest students, with the average pre-K class giving 4.1 standardized tests, the report found.


The study analyzed tests given in 66 urban districts in the 2014-2015 school year. It did not count quizzes or tests created by classroom teachers, and it did not address the amount of time schools devote to test preparation.




It portrays a chock-a-block jumble, where tests have been layered upon tests under mandates from Congress, the U.S. Department of Education and state and local governments, many of which the study argues have questionable value to teachers and students. Testing companies that aggressively market new exams also share the blame, the study said.



“Everyone is culpable here,” said Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools. “You’ve got multiple actors requiring, urging and encouraging a variety of tests for very different reasons that don’t necessarily add up to a clear picture of how our kids are doing. The result is an assessment system that’s not very intelligent and not coherent.”



Ahead of the study’s release, the U.S. Department of Education offered a mea culpa of sorts, issuing a 10-page “action plan” to states and local districts that spells out ways to reduce redundant and low-quality testing. The department pledged to make money and staff available to help and promised to amend some of its policies.




“At the federal, state and local level, we have all supported policies that have contributed to the problem in implementation,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement. “We can and will work with states, districts and educators to help solve it.”



The agency is recommending that states cap the amount of time devoted to test-taking to no more than 2 percent of class time. A similar proposal is part of the bill pending in the Senate to replace No Child Left Behind. Casserly cautioned against an arbitrary limit, saying he is concerned that states would indiscriminately lop off tests to meet a federal testing cap. A better approach, he said, would be a coordinated effort among all players — federal, state and local — to come up with a more thoughtful system.



The council’s report adds fuel to the national debate about testing that has spurred various “opt out” movements among parents and students and has put growing political pressure on Congress and state legislatures to cut back.



In one of the most notable attempts to reduce testing, Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho earlier this year cut the number of district-created end-of-course exams from 300 to 10 and eliminated them entirely for elementary schools.


“I believe in accountability,” said Carvalho, who runs the nation’s fourth-largest school district. “But fewer assessments of higher quality are better. . . . What we have now across the country is confusing, hard to navigate and, I believe, abusive of both teacher and student time.”



California eliminated its high school graduation test three weeks ago, joining Minnesota, Mississippi, Alaska, Rhode Island and South Carolina. Virginia has reduced its number of state-level tests, and Montgomery County, Md., last month put an end to its high school final exams.



Standardized testing has caused intense debate on Capitol Hill as lawmakers work to craft a replacement for No Child Left Behind. Testing critics tried unsuccessfully to erase the federal requirement that schools test in math and reading. Civil rights advocates pushed back, arguing that tests are an important safeguard for struggling students because publicly reported test scores illuminate the achievement gap between historically underserved students and their more affluent peers.

But even testing supporters agree about an overload.
“For those of us who support annual assessments, it doesn’t mean we support this craziness,” said Kati Haycock, president of the Education Trust, an advocacy group focused on reducing the achievement gap. “There’s a clear problem here.”



Testing tends to be concentrated between February and May. The council’s study found numerous examples of redundancy, with students often taking an end-of-course test, an Advanced Placement test and a final exam for the same course.



In 40 percent of districts surveyed, test results aren’t available until the following school year, making them useless for teachers who want to use results to help guide their work in the classroom, Casserly said.



Jeffrey Cipriani teaches second grade at Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School in Boston. Even though his students are not in a grade that is required by federal law to be tested, the Boston Public Schools has him administer reading tests to his students three times a year. Because the tests are individual and can be as long as 90 minutes, it takes Cipriani about three weeks to test the whole class.


“It’s a colossal amount of time,” he said. “I probably spend about 60 hours not teaching reading but just sort of giving those assessments. They’re valuable but not that valuable.”



The study found no correlation between the amount of testing in a district and the way its students perform on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a federal test given every two years that is the only consistent measure of student achievement across state lines.


“We can’t assess our way to academic excellence,” Carvalho, of the Miami-Dade school system, said.


While public schools have been administering standardized tests for generations, the current buildup began after Congress passed No Child Left Behind in 2001 and required states to test all students in math and reading annually from third grade through eighth grade, and once in high school.


States that failed to make academic progress faced a series of consequences. States and districts responded by adding new tests during the school year to ensure students were on track.



“You prepare for the test to prepare for the test to prepare for the test,” said Robert Schaeffer of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, a nonprofit organization critical of standardized testing.



And, the study found, Obama administration policies have escalated the issue.


To win a grant under the competitive Race to the Top program, or to receive a waiver from No Child Left Behind, states had to evaluate teachers based in part on student test scores. Since federal law required standardized tests only in math and reading in certain grades, states added tests in social studies, science, languages — even physical education — to have scores they could use to evaluate teachers.



“Many of the appalling things reported on here are the direct result of the way the federal government has approached this,” said Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy. “The accountability system is what’s driving this and it’s fundamentally flawed.”


In its new guidance to states, the U.S. Department of Education tries to soften its emphasis on using test scores to evaluate teachers and urges states and local districts to cut down on redundant and low-quality tests.



The agency also pledged to work with states to amend waivers they have received under No Child Left Behind “to reduce testing in grades and subjects that are not subject to federal testing requirements and/or find alternative ways” to judge student achievement and use that to evaluate teachers.


“The time is now to take some new and meaningful steps to help schools deal with testing where it is unnecessary,” said John King, who is slated to succeed Duncan in January. “This is something the president and I have talked about, and it will be a key priority for me in our work with states and districts over the next 14 months.”

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As throughout these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA far-right wing global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS neo-liberals and neo-cons were simply using policy to send as much US Federal spending to global corporations as possible---anyway they could. Whether US Federal public school funding were illegally rerouted to building global private education corporations or whether creating more and more reasons to TEST CHILDREN expanding education testing to INDIVIDUALIZED/PERSONALIZED education----the corruption of EDUCATIONAL TESTING from early 1900s to today ----went from wanting to find GENIUSES----to creating policy to make our US Federal agencies CASH COWS for global educational testing corporations.



THAT WAS THE GOAL OF RACE TO TOP ---COMMONER CORE----MAKING OUR US 99% WE THE PEOPLE AND STUDENTS SICK OF WHAT WAS THE BEST IN WORLD HISTORY REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY SYSTEM.


Not racist---not eugenics----just yet another way of LYING, CHEATING, and STEALING our US Federal agency funding directing it to global MITRE EDUCATION TESTING CORPORATIONS.



Obama’s real education legacy: Common Core, testing, charter schools
By Valerie Strauss
October 21, 2016

President Barack Obama pretends to take a selfie during an event at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School on Oct. 17, 2016, in Washington, D.C. President Obama delivered remarks to highlight the progress he has made to improve education across the country, including a rise in high school graduation rates. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)


President Obama went to a high-performing D.C. high school this week to tout the “progress” his administration has made in public education, America’s most important civic institution. To mark the legacy moment, he brought along the two men who have served as his education secretaries — Arne Duncan and John King Jr., along with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Gen. Colin Powell and his wife Alma.




It’s what he didn’t say that was most revealing. A fuller evaluation of the Obama education legacy would look somewhat different from the one he offered.


Obama charmed the student audience at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School, joking with them and telling them he remembers some of the awkward social moments of being a high school student. As the White House text shows:


So, by now you’ve settled into the new year. Right? Adjusted to classes. You’re preparing for Spirit Week. (Applause.) Learning how to ballroom dance. (Laughter.) I remember having to do that. Getting the nerve to text that cute girl or boy in your English class. (Laughter.) I don’t remember that; we did not have texts. We had to send little notes. And then we used to actually have to go up to somebody if we liked them and talk to them. So that may happen to you someday. (Laughter.)



He reminded the kids that he had visited Banneker in 2011 and was so impressed that he wanted to return “because you’re an example of a school that’s doing things the right way.” Later he said he wanted every school to be “as great as this one.”



Students take photos of U.S. President Barack Obama following remarks at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 17, 2016. (Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post)There’s no denying that Banneker is a top-performing school in the nation’s capital, and that 100 percent of its seniors graduate. But it’s unclear if Obama knows that if every school did what Banneker does, the high school graduation rate might plummet. That’s because Banneker is a magnet school where students must apply to get in — but the only entry grades are ninth and tenth. And they must maintain a B- average to stay. Kids who can’t cut it leave, but that attrition isn’t counted against the school’s graduation rate.



Obama did touch on graduation rates, touting the newly announced, highest-ever national high school graduation rate of 83 percent. He noted that “D.C.’s graduation rates grew faster than any other place in the country” this past year. He didn’t say that that “fastest-growing” designation would include D.C. charter schools in the mix with traditional public schools, perhaps because he didn’t mention charter schools at all.


Why is that strange in a speech dedicated to talking up his education legacy? Because the growth of charter schools was a key priority in his administration’s overall school reform program. Promising to promote the expansion of charter schools was one of the ways that states could win some of the money in Obama’s signature $4.3 billion Race to the Top funding competition. Today, 6 percent of U.S. public school students attend charter schools, up from about 3 percent when he took office in 2009. (It was 2 percent in 2004.) And he was standing in a city that has one of the most successful charter school sectors in the country.



Charter schools — which are funded by the public but allowed to operate outside traditional districts — have become highly controversial in the world of education, with supporters saying they promote educational equity by giving students in failing systems an alternative, and opponents saying that they operate without accountability to the public and rob traditional schools of resources they need to educate the neediest students, which charters don’t enroll in the same percentages.



While some charter schools do an excellent job, scandals — especially with for-profit companies allowed to operate charters — have become common in the sector because of little or no oversight by states. A recent audit by the Education Department’s Inspector General’s Office found that the department — which awards multi-million-dollar grants to states for the creation and expansion of charters — had failed to provide adequate oversight of some of its relationships with charter management organizations.
Meanwhile, as charter schools grow with administration support, charter supporters and opponents are in a scorched-earth war of words, with both sides claiming the civil rights mantle and accusing the other of harming children. When the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, last week ratified a referendum calling for a moratorium on new charters until new accountability measures can be instituted, critics accused of it being no better than the racist former governor of Alabama, George Wallace.



That wasn’t the only controversial subject Obama barely mentioned. He did not mention by name the Common Core State Standards initiative, another big priority for the administration during Duncan’s seven-year tenure running the Education Department, during which he wielded more power than any previous education secretary while also attracting more opposition than his predecessors.


Adopting common standards was also on Race to the Top’s list of preferred reforms Duncan sought from applying states, and the administration spent some $360 million for two multi-state consortia to develop new Core-related standardized tests. Duncan himself promised that the new tests would be “an absolute game-changer” in public education.




It didn’t work out that way. The tests were nowhere as sophisticated as originally promoted. The rush to get them into schools led to computer troubles in some states, some of them severe. One of the tests, known as PARCC, was abandoned by most of the states that had agreed to use it, and the overall idea behind the standards and aligned testing — that test results would be comparable across states — has not been accomplished.



The Education Department’s ties to the Gates Foundation, which funded the creation and implementation of the Core, also sparked criticism that the administration was too close to wealthy philanthropists who were intent on driving their own personal vision of school reform.


Another priority of the administration’s was creating teacher evaluation systems that were linked to student standardized test scores — yet another part of Race to the Top. This policy was also part of waivers that the Education Department gave to states seeking to avoid the most onerous parts of the flawed No Child Left Behind law. If a state wanted a waiver, it had to agree to specific reforms, including linking educator evaluations with test scores.


High-stakes tests for students are questionable enough, but the idea of putting a teacher’s job and salary at risk based on how well their students do on test scores raises a host of other problems. Assessment experts have repeatedly warned that methods used to link student test scores to teacher evaluations are largely unfair and invalid. Those experts include the American Statistical Association, the largest organization in the United States representing statisticians and related professionals, as well as the Board on Testing and Assessment of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences.



But the administration pushed the practice anyway and the problems that developed would be amusing if the consequences weren’t so serious.



Remember that kids are tested in English Language Arts and math. So how do teachers of other subjects get linked to test scores? Some districts considered and even experimented with standardized tests in other subjects; in North Carolina, one district even tried a test in Yearbook class.

Another method was to evaluate teachers in non-tested areas by exam averages of their entire school — or by either English or math test averages. As a result, many teachers were evaluated in part on how well students they didn’t teach do on exams, as well as on test scores from subjects they didn’t teach. One superintendent lauded by the Obama administration was Michelle Rhee, who led D.C. Public Schools from 2007 to 2010 and was a pioneer in test-based assessment systems.



She was so enamored with test scores that she required every adult in every school building — including the custodians and lunch ladies — to be evaluated in part by them. Duncan liked her so much that when rumors rose that she was quitting in 2010, he (unsuccessfully) tried to get her to stay.



The elevation of standardized test scores as the chief accountability metric had other insidious consequences. Under a philosophy that nearly every student could and should take some version of a standardized test to show progress, some kids were forced to take tests who couldn’t possibly know what was going on. That included a boy in Florida named Michael who was born with a brain stem but not a complete brain, who was forced to “take” an alternative version of the standardized Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. Blind and unable to talk or understand basic information, his state-funded teacher literally moved his hand to the right answers. While Michael’s disability was exceptional, he was not the only child with extremely severe disabilities to be forced to take tests because Education Department officials decided every student should be assessed with a standardized exam.


The administration’s obsession with standardized tests led to a rebellion by parents, students, teachers, principals and even superintendents. Many spoke out against testing policies — and many parents refused to allow their students to take exams mandated by states for federal accountability purposes. In New York, with the most active movement, 22 percent of students “opted out” of at least one test, and opt-outs were reported in numerous other states. It was only after the “opt out” movement began to grow that the administration conceded that kids were being tested too much.



The New York State commissioner of education who pushed the test-based teacher accountability system — which has been crashing and burning for years — was John King Jr., who left the job early after 3 1/2 years, essentially getting a public shove by Gov. Andrew Cuomo not only for the teacher evaluation fiasco but for a botched implementation of Common Core. The reason this is worth mentioning is that King — who has an inspirational personal story — is now Obama’s second education secretary.


Such micromanaging of education by the administration — traditionally seen as a local function — is what led Congress, in November 2015, to pass a successor to NCLB, called the Every Student Succeeds Act.  Obama did mention the new law in his speech at Banneker:




So teachers deserve more than just our gratitude — they deserve our full support. And we’ve got to make their lives easier, which is why we enacted a law to fix No Child Left Behind, which gives teachers more flexibility to spend more time teaching creatively than just spending all their time teaching to a test. Give your teachers a big round of applause.  (Applause.) They deserve it.



What he didn’t mention was that Congress was finally inspired to replace NCLB — eight years after it was supposed to be rewritten — because members of both parties wanted to stop the administration’s unprecedented exercise of federal power in education. Sen. Lamar Alexander, the Tennessee Republican who heads the Senate education committee and was a prime mover behind the new law, called the Education Department under Duncan “a national school board.” By exercising federal power in questionable ways, the administration gave an opening to Congress to send back a great deal of education of power to the states, many of which never covered themselves in glory in how they approached public education.



The notion of giving teachers “our full support” is likely welcome to them, many of whom have felt they were being targeted by the Obama administration. The 2012 MetLife Survey of the American Teacher found that teacher job satisfaction had plummeted from 62 percent of teachers feeling “very satisfied” in 2008 to 39 percent by 2012. This was the lowest in the 25-year history of the survey.



And the percentage of students who apply for teacher preparation programs has significantly dropped in recent years. He told the students to appreciate their teachers:


 You all know how hard they work. They stay up late grading your assignments. That’s why you got all those marks all over your papers. They pull sometimes money out of their own pockets to make that lesson extra special. And I promise you, the teachers here and the teachers around the country, they’re not doing it for the pay — because teachers, unfortunately, still aren’t paid as much as they should be. They’re not doing it for the glory. They’re doing it because they love you, and they believe in you, and they want to help you succeed.



Actually, teachers who use their own money for their classrooms usually aren’t doing it “to make that lesson extra special.” They are doing it because without it, their kids might not have paper or books or other essentials. Equitable school funding, however, wasn’t a priority of the administration in a country where funding is largely based on property taxes, leaving school systems in wealthy areas with more to spend on education than districts in poor areas, where kids need more support. For that matter, Obama did take note of the administration’s interest in early childhood education — though he didn’t mention that it became a priority only in his second administration, by which time there was little surplus money to spend on it.


When Obama first took office, many of the people who voted for him had hoped he would make educational equity the focus of school reform policy. His selection of Stanford University Professor Linda Darling-Hammond, an expert on equity and teacher preparation, as the education leader of his transition team was a hopeful sign.

OH, REALLY?????  STANFORD AS A SOURCE OF EQUITY IS A HOPEFUL SIGN!  THAT IS REALLY FAKE NEWS




Then, instead of naming her as education secretary, as many believed would happen, he instead selected Duncan, a friend from Chicago who was deeply steeped in the corporate reform movement that embraced the Core standards, tests, data and school “choice” as the way to close the achievement gap. Darling-Hammond wrote a book, “The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future,” about authentic educational equity and had two copies printed in hardback, one for her and one sent to President Obama, an effort to try to steer his reform policies toward equity.



The White House did not answer a query about whether he ever read it.


Corporate reform didn’t work as planned, and perhaps that is why Obama’s speech meant to talk about his education accomplishments didn’t mention it in a substantive way. His major educational initiatives were around standards, testing and charter schools — not the kind of broad-based school reform that attempts to meet the most basic needs of students, many of whom come to school hungry, exhausted and sick. What happens in classrooms is indeed important, but reform critics argued that schools cannot systemically overcome the effects that poverty have on children.



Obama summed up his legacy this way:


So bottom line is: higher graduation rates, higher college attendance rates, more money for Pell grants and work to make sure that the interest rate on student loans haven’t gone up; working to expand early childhood education and preschool; continuing to watch and work with states as they try to implement reforms to make K-12 better; holding colleges more accountable for giving information so that students can make good decisions. We’ve made a lot of progress. We have made a lot of progress in terms of making sure that young people across the country get the kind of great education that you’re getting here at Banneker.
That’s not the important education legacy many Obama supporters had hoped he would leave.

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The goals of ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE 3000BC HINDI BRAHMIN are to depopulate EARTH and doing it with EQUAL OPPORTUNITY for all global 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens. HOBBES and pre-Christian OLD WORLD KINGS NERO/CATO/SENECA never cared who was taken down in continuous wars---sacking and looting civil societies----if people were taken down they were not FIT FOR SURVIVAL. EUGENICS is used to create social tensions------the goals are to marginalize one population then another and the far-right wing global corporate FASCIST using EUGENICS do not need EDUCATIONAL TESTING or DNA TESTING to create a system of HATE, FEAR, IDENTIFYING 'FEEBLE-MINDED/FEEBLE-BODY' in depopulation.



The goals of MOVING FORWARD are for global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS not to have to rely on a global 2% or 5% freemason/Greek PLAYER to hold power and wealth-----that is why they are building DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE SMART CITIES. This eliminates the need for ANY PLAYERS. The second goal of MOVING FORWARD is to eliminate any need to identify GENIUSES -----they are building the super-duper big dead head to be that TEMPLE PRIEST GENIUS.



ANYONE THINKING THE GOALS OF GLOBAL BANKING 1% ARE TIED TO RACISM-----EUGENICS-------ARE LOOKING FOR EXCUSES TO FEEL THEIR POPULATION GROUP WILL BE 'WINNERS'. THERE WILL BE NO WINNERS IN MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD FOR ONLY THE GLOBAL 1% EXCEPT-----GLOBAL 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.

All of this MYTH-MAKING AND PROPAGANDA surrounding goals of social Darwinism or eugenics is simply FOOLING population groups into thinking they will be WINNERS in MOVING FORWARD.


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Survival Theories Social Darwinism and Eugenics


GMO HUMANS is the opposite of eugenics and social Darwinism------which identifies natural human deficiencies--------MOVING FORWARD GMO HUMANS builds that ideal of what a perfect human will be

So, GMO HUMANS end the need for global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS to search for that genius with EDUCATION TESTING----it ends the need for thinking about SOCIAL DARWINISM---EUGENICS------it does not matter----the genetic manipulation of what will be test tube sperm and egg fertilization will have no need for our 99% WE THE PEOPLE.

The goals of DEPOPULATION include all 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens-----it will unfold in coming throwing of global banking 5% freemason/Greek players under the bus------getting rid of those talented in lying, cheating, and stealing------it will unfold in continuous wars civil unrest civil war WW3----it will unfold in capturing billions of people to these SMART CITIES FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES----and finally, it will unfold when ROBOTICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is fully installed making all 99% of WE THE PEOPLE ------UNNECESSARY. That goal has its timeline as the 21ST CENTURY ECONOMY.


Genetically Modified Humans Are Coming:

U.S. Scientists Just Backed Permanent Gene Editing In Humans



Published
February 16, 2017By
Kalee Brown

“Genetically modified humans” sounds like a term that belongs in Hollywood, but it’s actually a very real possibility, and one that’s being heavily discussed in the scientific community. Contributing to one of the most controversial topics to date, a panel of science experts in the U.S. just examined and gave their support for germline editing. This means that in the future, parents will likely be able to tamper with the genetics of their children pre-birth.




Germinal choice technology refers to reprogenetic technologies that enable parents to alter the genetic constitutions of their children. One of the ways this can be done is through germline editing, which is a fancier term for human genetic engineering. Germline editing alters the genes of a sperm or an egg, but it then changes the future DNA of every single cell in the embryo. This means that the genetic changes made to the embryos will then affect all future generations within that family lineage.



Germline Editing Will Likely Be an Option in the Future



The panels were made up of experts from two of the most prestigious scientific institutions in the U.S., both of which recommended that germline editing be viewed as a serious option in the future and not be prohibited outright (source).




This is a dramatically different stance than the last assessment given in December 2015 by an international summit of scientists, who stated that it would be “irresponsible to proceed” with germline editing given the controversy surrounding the subject and the safety issues involved, all of which have yet to be resolved.



The panels’ discussions can be further analyzed in a report released earlier this week by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine. The panel recommended that germline editing of early embryos, eggs, or sperm should only be permitted to prevent serious disease or disability if there’s significant scientific evidence illustrating that the procedures are safe.




“Human genome editing holds tremendous promise for understanding, treating, or preventing many devastating genetic diseases, and for improving treatment of many other illnesses. . . . However, genome editing to enhance traits or abilities beyond ordinary health raises concerns about whether the benefits can outweigh the risks, and about fairness if available only to some people,” explained Alta Charo, co-chair of the study committee and Sheldon B. Lubar Distinguished Chair and Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.



One of the illnesses the panel specifically mentioned that germline editing could be used to prevent is Huntington’s disease, a progressive brain disorder that can result in uncontrollable movement, emotional issues, and loss in cognition, most commonly appearing in a person’s thirties or forties. However, the panel was quick to note that with these alterations could come some very serious side effects.


One of the potential risks includes developing new conditions, diseases, or mutations. If this happened, parents would have no idea until their babies are born and begin to mature.



Perhaps the most obvious risk is the societal implications associated with the genetic engineering of humans. If it’s an expensive process, meaning it will likely only be made available to upper class citizens who can afford it, it could create a “designer class” of babies with preferred qualities and genes.


“These kinds of scenarios used to be science fiction; they used to be seen as far-off hypotheticals… But actually, right now, I think they’re urgent social justice questions,” said biotechnologist Marcy Darnovsky from the Center for Genetics and Society to Rob Stein at NPR.


“[W]e’re going to be creating a world in which the already privileged and affluent can use these high-tech procedures to make children [with] biological advantages,” she continued. “And the scenario that plays out is not a pretty one.”



“Previously, it was easy for people to say, ‘This isn’t possible, so we don’t have to think about it much,’ ” said MIT researcher Richard Hynes, who helped lead the committee, to The New York Times. “Now we can see a path whereby we might be able to do it, so we have to think about how to make sure it’s used only for the right things and not for the wrong things.”



Will Genetic Engineering Mark the Birth of Transhumanism? 


Transhumanism is a futuristic ideology which purports that humans will be altered and improved using sophisticated technologies in the future to upgrade our intellectual, physical, and mental capabilities. Many scientists are actually in favour of this, especially as we become more technologically advanced, making this seem more realistic.


Elon Musk supports this movement, in fact, as he believes that human beings will eventually use technology to enhance our inherent natural capabilities.



“Over time we will see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence. It is all about the band width of the brain,” Musk said.


“Some high band width interface to the brain will be something which helps achieve symbiosis between human and machine intelligence, which solves a control and usefulness problem,” he continued.


Musk has spoken about this topic on several occasions. For example, last year he explained that we should consider getting brain implants in the future because, without them, we may not be able to compete with artificial intelligence (AI). He also has strong opinions about AI, arguing it could pose a threat to us if we become too dependent on it (source).


I believe that genetically engineering human beings could serve us in a way, but it could also do more harm than good. Germline editing could seriously improve the lives of many if it could prevent certain diseases, but at what cost?



In addition, the fact that a man and a woman can mate and create offspring together that’s made up of a mixture of their genes is truly beautiful. Do we really want to alter something that’s already such an incredible gift in nature?


I don’t think there’s a right or a wrong answer here. However, there are certainly some risks involved with genetically modifying humans. It’s easy to imagine how the elite could use this to further manipulate the general population, or how it could create an even greater divide between high income and low income families. The idea of creating an Aryan or superior race could even be proposed again, which would only further perpetuate the illusions of separatism and hierarchy.


Then again, it could potentially help us further advance our consciousness and awaken our inner capabilities, especially if the technology or alterations have absolutely no health risks (zero radiation/EMF exposure, no increased risk in disease, etc.).



In either case, I believe our time would be better spent further advancing our collective consciousness. If that can be done through AI, then that’s incredible and I’m all for it. However, we must remember that, if we truly dial in and get in touch with ourselves energetically, we have the power to heal ourselves from within. We don’t need to rely on technology to save us and prevent diseases. Yes, technology plays an important role in society, but that doesn’t mean we should let it overshadow our own capabilities as spiritual beings.
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The idea global banking 1% is interested in creating an ARYAN RACE of GMO HUMANS is ridiculous-----they are gender-blending---race-blending away all those natural human differences

'The idea of creating an Aryan or superior race could even be proposed again, which would only further perpetuate the illusions of separatism and hierarchy'.


THERE IS NO EUGENICS OR SOCIAL DARWINISM AT PLAY IN GMO HUMANS---ALL 99% OF WE THE PEOPLE WILL BE DEEM UNNECESSARY BLACK, WHITE, AND BROWN CITIZENS.


Eugenics - Wikipedia

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Positive eugenics is aimed at encouraging reproduction among the genetically advantaged; for example, the reproduction of the intelligent, the healthy, and the successful. Possible approaches include financial and political stimuli, targeted demographic analyses, in vitro fertilization, egg transplants, and cloning.


As global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS like to say----they are not going to wait around for NATURAL SOCIAL DARWINISM. 
This is why global banking 1% are recruiting 5% freemason/Greek players as the WE DON'T CARE crowd-----

Social darwinism | Define Social darwinism at Dictionary.com



www.dictionary.com/browse/social-darwinism

Social darwinism definition, a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.


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We want to stay today with CALVIN AND HOBBES as global banking 1% creating FADS about our US public schools being tied to CALVINISM-----not LOCKEAN HUMANIST MORALS AND ETHICS.  We see a devilish young child as CALVIN and a cute, fuzzy tiger named HOBBES.

We see these global banking 5% freemason cartoon STARS making an appearance in REAGAN era---1980s just as global banking 1% were creating those FAKE RIGHT WING MORAL MAJORITY politicians.

Our last century baby boomers remember our US public schools were steeped in FAMILY VALUES.  We valued educating our students the importance of having children inside marriage because it creates an environment for community stability ----we also taught the ethics of helping those mothers and children in single-parent homes.

THE LOCKEAN AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT HUMANIST MORALS AND ETHICS PUBLIC SCHOOLS WERE CREATED TO END THEOCRACY----SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE-----THEY WERE NOT INTENDED TO BE GODLESS.

So, Bill Watterson was simply that global banking 1% freemason STAR creating FADS making us believe our US public schools were CALVINIST -----



'Bill Watterson - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson

William Boyd "Bill" Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is a former American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes at the end of 1995 with a .... thieves and vandals have made money on Calvin and Hobbes merchandise'.

So, CALVIN AND HOBBES as a cartoon ran from REAGAN era to CLINTON era setting the stage for the return of HOBBES to capture the hearts of our 99% WE THE PEOPLE.


But HOBBES is so cute and cuddly

------OH, REALLY???????



'Calvin and Hobbes' just turned 30 — here's the history of the strip and its mysterious creator Bill Watterson
Anjelica Oswald
Nov. 18, 2015, 4:36 PM


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Thirty years ago, the comical adventures of a six-year-old boy named Calvin and his tiger best friend named Hobbes captivated readers.
Named after theologian John Calvin and philosopher Thomas Hobbes as "an inside joke for poli-sci majors," as its creator said, "Calvin and Hobbes" was first published November 18, 1985.



Creator Bill Watterson had graduated from Kenyon College with a degree in political science in 1980 and promptly started working as a political cartoonist for the Cincinnati Post. The paper fired him after three months, but he continued drawing, even as he struggled to create a comic strip that worked.



He pitched a comic to United Feature Syndicate, publisher of "Peanuts," in which a little boy and his toy tiger were supporting characters. The company recommended that he focus on those characters, and though it ultimately rejected the strip, Universal Press Syndicate accepted it.



Within a year, "Calvin and Hobbes" was being published in roughly 250 newspapers. By the time Watterson ended the strip in 1995, it was appearing in more than 2,400 newspapers. It had become a beloved classic.



But through it all, Watterson remained an enigmatic figure. Find out more below.

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At the same time CALVIN AND HOBBES was released here come those FAKE RIGHT WING MORAL MAJORITY-------Fallwell being a global banking 1% FAKE religious freemason----NOT RELIGIOUS.  All of a sudden we see those right wing global banking freemasons shouting against US PUBLIC SCHOOLS that do not allow PRAYER in schools. 

Somehow for 200 years of public schools where family values were central in education during CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA they became GODLESS SCHOOLS. 

THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE did not have a goal of fighting religion---it was partnered with RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS.  The goal of ending THEOCRACY was needed in order for our AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT I AM MAN to bring EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER LAW----EQUAL RIGHTS AS CITIZENS.  US PUBLIC SCHOOLS were about educating our students to be CITIZENS----the duty of CITIZENS was to HOLD POWER ACCOUNTABLE---to fight to protect our AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT rights----our US citizens were free to attend any religious instruction they wanted outside of PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION.


'The following paper will provide insight as to how and why the Moral Majority became a force in
American politics, the main policy goals of this movement, and its accomplishments in the Reagan
administration'.


Most US citizens understand today REAGAN era was about far-right wing global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS----extreme wealth and power-----NOT RELIGIOUS.

THE MORAL MAJORITY was created to PRETEND REAGANOMICS was a CHRISTIAN thing to do.....HOBBES killing LOCKE


133
Western Illinois Historical Review
© 2013
Vol. V, Spring 2013
ISSN 2153
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1714
Jerry Falwell, the Rise of the Moral Majority, and the 1980 Election
Doug Banwart


Jerry Falwell, the leader of a movement called the Moral Majority that arose in the late 1970s,
was mad and he was going to let everyone know it: “We’re fighting a holy war,” he said at his Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1980. “What’s happened to America is that the wicked are bearing rule. We have to lead the nation back to the moral stance that made America great...we need to wield influence on those who govern us.”

Falwell was spearheading a coalition of conservative,
evangelical voters angered about a variety of social issues and other ills that plagued America.


The Moral Majority


The Moral Majority was the term given to a political action group that consisted mainly of evangelical Christians that sought to influence public policy. Officially formed in 1979, this group wielded considerable influence in American politics, especially after the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980.

The following paper will provide insight as to how and why the Moral Majority became a force in
American politics, the main policy goals of this movement, and its accomplishments in the Reagan
administration.
The formation and growth of this movement can be
mainly attributed to the conservative backlash against the many upheavals of the 1960s, but the 1970s provided the main issue, the legalization of abortion, that stoked the movement’s grassroots activism. Throughout this decade, other related issues-such as women’s liberation, the gay rights movement, the sexual revolution, secularism in schools, and fears of social disintegration-also provided fodder for evangelical and fundamentalist Christians. They saw these disturbing trends as the moral decline of the nation, the possible formation of a modern-day

Eileen Oginitz, “Evangelicals Seek Political Clout,”
Chicago Tribune
, January 3, 1980.
Gomorrah in America, and a general departure from what they believed used to be a God
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fearing nation:

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Here is where our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE attending PUBLIC SCHOOLS were slowly pushed away------made to feel PUBLIC SCHOOLS were not moral or ethical---were not pro-family.

If we read this article one would think the graphic SEX ED hitting our US PUBLIC SCHOOLS during CLINTON era was what our public schools taught in early 1900s.  It is true------the ending of WW2 brought some of our US soldiers home with STDs ----there was a need to educate what these diseases were---how they were transmitted.  Our public school discussions on HIV AIDS needed to educate against sexual contact for our PUBLIC SCHOOL children.

SEX ED IN US------was not the graphic sex education hitting public schools in Clinton era 1990s---it was based on students waiting to have sex---not HANDING OUT CONDOMS in K-12 public schools.



'Sex education in the United States
- Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_education_in_the_United_States

Sex education in the United States is taught in two main forms: comprehensive sex education ... Sex education programs in the United States teach students about sexual .... In 1999, six Yale undergraduate students began teaching health workshops in New Haven public schools to bridge the funding gap in health programs'.


So, the 1980s ---90s saw FAR-RIGHT WING  global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS creating NGOS promoting policies geared towards our PUBLIC SCHOOLS not seen throughout these few hundred years of PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION.


Our adolescent children have been taught the basics of sexuality in schools for thousands of years----it was left to family to instruct the detail they saw fit for each child.


Education

A Brief History of Sex Ed in America

By Johannah Cornblatt On 10/27/09 at 8:00 PM

"To prevent the immense evils of self-pollution, therefore, in our boys and students ... They should always subsist on a plain, simple, unstimulating, vegetable, and water diet; and care should be taken that they do not eat too fast, and are not excessive, in quantity. They should never be kept too long a time in a sitting, confined, or inactive posture. They should never sleep on feathers."


—Sylvester Graham, Lectures on Chastity (1834)



America's recent experience with abstinence-only sex education is merely the latest chapter in our long, sometimes ridiculous (to modern eyes, anyway) history of efforts to control humankind's most basic drive. While the earliest sex-ed pamphlets in the U.S. addressed theology and nutrition, they were also obsessed with the "immense evils" of masturbation. Graham (who used wheat flour to create the cracker that now bears his name) traveled the East Coast in the 1830s warning audiences that "self pollution" was responsible for everything from warts and constipation to insanity and death. Health reformers in 19th-century America associated bodily discipline with ideal manhood, and used sex-ed manuals to propagate that message. The Reverend John Todd's highly popular 1835 Student's Manual encouraged young men to overcome the "secret vice" of masturbation because ejaculation decreased energy and productivity. An article in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal that same year likewise warned that ejaculation "should be made but sparingly," since "sturdy manhood ... loses its energy and bends under too frequent expenditure of this important secretion."



The rapid urbanization of the late 1800s and early 1900s was accompanied by an increased interest in organized sex ed. As Americans moved from farms—where children might politely observe the mating of the family livestock—to cities rife with temptation, public officials began to see a greater need for classroom instruction about the facts of life. The National Education Association first discussed the subject in 1892, passing a resolution that called for "moral education in the schools." In 1913, Chicago became the first major city to implement sex ed for high schools. The program didn't last long, though. The Catholic Church soon launched a campaign against the initiative, helping force Ella Flagg Young, the superintendent of schools, to resign.


It took rampant STDs during WWI to get the federal government involved in sex ed. In 1918, Congress passed The Chamberlain-Kahn Act, which allocated money to educate soldiers about syphilis and gonorrhea. During this time, Americans began to view sex ed as a public-health issue. The American Hygiene Association, founded in 1914 as part of the Progressive-era social purity movement, helped teach soldiers about sexual hygiene throughout the war. Instructors used a machine called the stereomotorgraph to show soldiers microscopic slides of syphilis and gonorrhea organisms, as well as symptoms of the diseases on the body of an actual soldier.


The earliest sex-education film, Damaged Goods, warned soldiers of the consequences of syphilis. In the film, a man has sex with a prostitute the night before his wedding, gets syphilis, passes the disease on to his newborn baby, and then commits suicide. The film received positive reviews, with one critic writing, "American boy(s)...should be made to see it for they are to become the American manhood, and the cleaner physically, the better." A 1919 report from the U.S. Department of Labor's Children's Bureau likewise suggested that soldiers would have been better off if they had received sex instruction in school. "The worries and doubts and brooding imposed on boys and girls of the adolescent period as a result of lack of simple knowledge is a cruelty on the part of any society that is able to furnish that instruction," wrote the author of the report.


The military's sex-ed programs inspired similar instruction in secondary schools. During the 1920s, schools began to integrate sex ed into their curriculums. Like the military, the schools experimented with using film to enhance sex ed. The American Social Hygiene Association produced The Gift of Life, which explicitly warned students about the "solitary vice": "Masturbation may seriously hinder a boy's progress towards vigorous manhood. It is a selfish, childish, stupid habit." Schools also tried using older media, like literature, to teach students about the birds and the bees. In 1920, an English teacher named Lucy S. Curtiss wrote an influential article called "Sex Instruction through English Literature" that encouraged teachers to draw on classical literature when explaining sex to students. "Read to them Lancelot's wild, passionate quest for the Holy Grail," she wrote, "and they will enter into the bitter experience of a soul which has rendered itself incapable of receiving the full spiritual blessing through the sin of yielding to impure desire." During the so-called "roaring" decade, between 20 and 40 percent of U.S. school systems had programs in social hygiene and sexuality.


Sex ed exploded over the next three decades. In the 1930s, the U.S. Office of Education began to publish materials and train teachers. In the 1940s and '50s, courses in human sexuality began to appear on college campuses. In 1964, Mary Calderone, a physician who had been the medical director at Planned Parenthood, founded the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS). SIECUS was created in part to challenge the hegemony of the American Social Hygiene Association, which then dominated sex-education curriculum development. In 1968, The U.S. Office of Education gave New York University a grant to develop graduate programs for training sex-education teachers.


Oddly enough, some of the greatest resistance to sex ed arose during the sexual revolution of the late '60s and early '70s. Sex ed became a political issue during this time, as religious conservatives built a movement based, in part, on their opposition to sex instruction in the public schools. Groups like the Christian Crusade and the John Birch Society attacked SIECUS and sex education overall for promoting promiscuity and moral depravity. In the widely distributed 1968 pamphlet entitled "Is the School House the Proper Place to Teach Raw Sex?" Gordon Drake and James Hargis framed sex ed as communist indoctrination: "[If] the new morality is affirmed, our children will become easy targets for Marxism and other amoral, nihilistic philosophies—as well as V.D.!" Rumors spread that sex instructors were encouraging students to be homosexuals or even stripping and having sex in front of their classes. "Religious conservatives began using sex ed to their political advantage," says Janice M. Irvine, author of Talk About Sex: The Battles Over Sex Education in the United States. "They had this really scary rhetoric." In school districts across the country, groups of parents started protesting sex-ed programs.


When the AIDS and HIV pandemic began in the 1980s, however, proponents of sex ed found their position strengthened. By the mid-1990s, every state had passed mandates for AIDS education (sometimes tied to general sex ed and sometimes not). But as some form of sex ed became inevitable in the era of HIV and AIDS, conservatives launched a movement to rebrand sex education as "abstinence education." Religious conservatives helped add provisions for abstinence education to the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, and the Federal government directed tens of millions of dollars to abstinence-education programs for the first time.



Although people stopped referring to it as self pollution, masturbation was still pretty much taboo 160 years after Sylvester Graham railed against it. At the 1994 United Nations conference on AIDS, then surgeon general Jocelyn Elders was asked about promoting masturbation to prevent young people from engaging in riskier sexual behavior. "I think that it is a part of human sexuality," Elders replied. "And perhaps it should be taught." Her answer, and the reaction to it, ultimately forced her to resign. "The U.S. is really paradoxical," Irvine says. "We have this massive sexualization of the media (just think of the movie American Pie), but we're not allowed to talk about masturbation with teenagers."


As for Graham, if he were to suddenly come back from the dead, he would surely be horrified. Nabisco's version of his cracker is now made with the very white flour that he blamed for increasing the "excitability and sensibility" of the genital organs.

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Absolutely none of this SEX EDUCATION in kindergarten is LOCKEAN HUMANIST MORALS AND ETHICS------LOCKEAN MORALS AND ETHICS are tied to building healthy communities and families-----it is the FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING as with PLANNED PARENTHOOD tied to installing SOCIAL BENEFIT to allowing CONTRACEPTIVE MICROCHIPS to be implanted-----it is a MORAL choice says global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS FAKE RELIGIOUS SCHOOL----GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY.

Once our US public schools were allowed to be taken to HOBBES-----killing LOCKE ------these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA have seen our US public schools used to bring out our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE to support MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD killing their futures ------sending our US citizens back to DARK AGES-----and nothing is more DARK -----more AUTHORITARIAN-----than pretending there is SOCIAL BENEFIT----in implanting our children with CONTRACEPTIVE MICROCHIPS.  Making our US 99% FEARFUL of planning a family---

HOW THIRD WORLD CHINESE MAO MARXIST---ONE CHILD IS THAT?


So, these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA------has HOBBES taking over our US public schools------chasing AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT LOCKE away.





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Of course the NETHERLANDS are MOVING FORWARD these policies----and of course it is PBS tied to PRETENDING this is all SOCIAL BENEFIT. Our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE pushed from our PUBLIC SCHOOLS by global banking 1% corruption of our morals and ethics LOCKEAN schools -----had better WAKE UP.


ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH is a WORLD BANK/WORLD HEALTH UNITED NATIONS global NGO---they are not working for our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE.



By --Saskia de Melker

The case for starting sex education in kindergarten

Health May 27, 2015 1:44 PM EST


“Who here has been in love?” Anniek Pheifer asks a crowd of Dutch elementary school students.


It’s a Spring morning in Utrecht, and the St. Jan de Doper elementary school gym is decked in heart-shaped balloons and streamers. Pheifer and Pepijn Gunneweg are hosts of a kids television program in the Netherlands, and they’re performing a song about having a crush.


Kids giggle at the question. Hands — little and bigger — shoot up.


Welcome to “Spring Fever” week in primary schools across the Netherlands, the week of focused sex ed classes… for 4-year olds.


Of course, it’s not just for 4-year-olds. Eight-year-olds learn about self-image and gender stereotypes. 11-year-olds discuss sexual orientation and contraceptive options. But in the Netherlands, the approach, known as “comprehensive sex education,” starts as early as age 4.



You’ll never hear an explicit reference to sex in a kindergarten class.In fact, the term for what’s being taught here is sexuality education rather than sex education. That’s because the goal is bigger than that, says Ineke van der Vlugt, an expert on youth sexual development for Rutgers WPF, the Dutch sexuality research institute behind the curriculum. It’s about having open, honest conversations about love and relationships.



By law, all primary school students in the Netherlands must receive some form of sexuality education. The system allows for flexibility in how it’s taught. But it must address certain core principles — among them, sexual diversity and sexual assertiveness. That means encouraging respect for all sexual preferences and helping students develop skills to protect against sexual coercion, intimidation and abuse. The underlying principle is straightforward: Sexual development is a normal process that all young people experience, and they have the right to frank, trustworthy information on the subject.



“There were societal concerns that sexualization in the media could be having a negative impact on kids,” van der Vlugt said. “We wanted to show that sexuality also has to do with respect, intimacy, and safety.”


Beyond risk prevention


The Dutch approach to sex ed has garnered international attention, largely because the Netherlands boasts some of the best outcomes when it comes to teen sexual health. On average, teens in the Netherlands do not have sex at an


earlier age than those in other European countries or in the United States. Researchers found that among 12 to 25 year olds in the Netherlands, most say they had  “wanted and fun” first sexual experiences. By comparison, 66 percent of sexually active American teens surveyed said they wished that they had waited longer to have sex for the first time. When they do have sex, a Rutgers WPF study found that nine out of ten Dutch adolescents used contraceptives the first time, and  World Health Organization data shows that Dutch teens are among the top users of the birth control pill. According to the World Bank, the teen pregnancy rate in the Netherlands is one of the lowest in the world, five times lower than the U.S. Rates of HIV infection and sexually transmitted diseases are also low.



“We have to help young people navigate all the choices they face and stand up for themselves in all situations, sexual and otherwise,”


There are multiple factors that likely contribute to these numbers. Easy access to contraception is one. Condoms, for example, are available in vending machines, and the birth control pill is free for anyone under age 21. But there’s also a growing body of research that specifically credits comprehensive sexuality education. A recent study from Georgetown University shows that starting sex ed in primary school helps avoid unintended pregnancies, maternal deaths, unsafe abortions and STDs.



Proponents of the Dutch model argue that their approach extends beyond those risks. Their brand of sex ed reflects a broader emphasis on young people’s rights, responsibility and respect that many public health experts say is the foundation of sexual health.


A 2008 United Nations report found that comprehensive sex ed, when taught effectively, allows young people to “explore their attitudes and values, and to practice the decision-making and other life skills they will need to be able to make informed choices about their sexual lives.” Students who had completed comprehensive sex education in the Netherlands were also found to be more assertive and better communicators, according to an independent health research agency that conducted a study of the Dutch programs.



“We have to help young people navigate all the choices they face and stand up for themselves in all situations, sexual and otherwise,” said Robert van der Gaag, a health promotion official at Central Holland’s regional public health center.


‘Little butterflies in my stomach’

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We want to make one more point on PUBLIC SCHOOL education policy tied to HOBBES VS LOCKE by noting our article from yesterday told us how AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT LOCKEAN I AM MAN never reached LATIN AMERICA even as public schools were built----the same for our 99% WE THE EAST INDIAN citizens having those PUBLIC SCHOOLS but never seeing our WESTERN AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT------both LATIN AMERICA and EAST INDIA saw HOBBES ONLY.

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL did indeed keep the SPANISH INQUISITION alive-----it is tied to global banking 1% FOREIGN SOVEREIGNTY OF MALTA---KNIGHTS OF MALTA and this is why our LATIN AMERICAN 99% of citizens were faced with continuous wars, sacking and looting, death and destruction of families back in 1970s.

We encourage our 99% of immigrants especially those from Latin America and East India coming to NORTH AMERICA for all that FREEDOM, LIBERTY, JUSTICE, PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS-----for all that strong PUBLIC SCHOOL education ----to fight for our NORTH AMERICAN AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT----shake all that HOBBES DARK AGES from education.




'In contrast, the intellectual backpacks of the Spanish and Portuguese colonizers of Latin America are more closely associated with the ideas of another 17th-century English philosopher: Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). Unlike Locke, Hobbes argues for unlimited government, and the absolute authority of the sovereign. For Hobbes, citizens’ value order and security above all, thus he develops his version of social contract theory in which we give up our rights to the state in exchange for the order and security that the state can provide To this day, Locke is relatively unknown in Latin America'.

So, HOBBES is behind all that global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS KNIGHTS OF MALTA---TRIBE OF JUDAH-----continuous wars-----extreme wealth extreme power MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE for only the global 1%.  Of course HOBBES was not an AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT creation----HOBBES simply represented the OLD WORLD KINGS DARK AGES way of doing things.
MOVING FORWARD US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES AS DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE------IS SIMPLY HOBBES ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY.

We like the image of YALE as GNOSTIC WARRIOR since YALE has been the source of far-right wing OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS KNIGHTS OF MALTA.  Our 99% of WE THE CHINESE AND ASIAN citizens need to know this is from where MAOISM came-----fight to bring LOCKEAN AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT to our Asian nations!


The Sovereign Power of Leviathan
by Moe | Meaning of Symbols
“There is no power on earth to be compared to him.” – Job 41 . 2


Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civil. 


London by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. He was one of the founders of modern political philosophy and political science. It was printed for Andrew Crooke, at the Green Dragon in 1651.


Hobbes published Leviathan in 1651. It builds on and extends his earlier works, Elements of Law (1640), and De Cive (1642), in which he had attempted to establish the foundations for a civil science, a science of political life. Hobbes’ intention is to show that man must subject himself to a sovereign power, a power greater than any other power known to man, save God.


The idea that we authorize those who govern us and that we are committed to obey precisely because we do so is so simple and yet so powerful, in part because of the intricate way in which Hobbes manages to drive a wedge between the origin and the exercise of sovereign power. He treats of the so-called Kingdom of Darkness, the conceptions of civil order which arise through the misguided or even misleading interpretation of Scripture.


According to Hobbes, society is a population beneath a sovereign authority, to whom all individuals in that society cede some rights for the sake of protection. Any power exercised by this authority can not be resisted because the protector’s sovereign power derives from individuals’ surrendering their own sovereign power for protection.



The individuals are thereby the authors of all decisions made by the sovereign. 



“He that complaineth of injury from his sovereign complaineth that whereof he himself is the author, and therefore ought not to accuse any man but himself, no nor himself of injury because to do injury to one’s self is impossible”. There is no doctrine of separation of powers in Hobbes’s discussion. According to Hobbes, the sovereign must control civil, military, judicial, and ecclesiastical powers.



The State, it now seemed to Hobbes, might be regarded as a great artificial man or monster (leviathan), composed of men, with a life that might be traced from its generation under pressure of human needs to its dissolution through civil strife proceeding from human passions. The work closed with a general “Review and Conclusion”, in direct response to the war, which raised the question of the subject’s right to change allegiance when a former sovereign’s power to protect was irrevocably lost.(wikipedia)

Thomas Hobbes’ Magnus Opus, is one of the finest achievements of the modern mind. It has shaped political modernity in a way that only a few other texts have, both in the way it has been understood and the way in which it has been misunderstood.



In my article, The Secrets of Leviathan, I show that Leviathan is the dragon that devours the sun (eclipses) in Job 26:13, and the symbol of the political power we cannot tell; but we find an analogous case in the word Rahab as a symbol for Egypt (see on ch. Isaiah 30:7). In the Exodus of the Israelites, Leviathan is connected to the allusion of miracles and is described as a crocodile, the emblem of the ‘Pharaoh of Egypt, the great dragon (tanntvi) that lieth in the midst of his rivers’ (Ezk 29s). ‘The people inhabiting the wilderness’ (l’s, I.e.) are the wild beasts of the desert, to which Pharaohs host when they were in Egypt, “servants (serpents) to the house of Pharaoh.”
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Tomorrow we will look again at global banking 1% revisionist history of our US PUBLIC EDUCATION by looking at the comment below-----that EDUCATION TESTING regime we are told was geared to prove IMMIGRANTS were FEEBLE-MINDED.

Education testing was started by far-right wing global banking 1% to WEED OUT THE GENIUSES from the rabble as stated earlier in this article.  BRIGHAM YOUNG as STANFORD UNIVERSITY both far-right wing global banking institutions were NOT tied to PUBLIC EDUCATION---PUBLIC SCHOOLS or AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT LOCKEAN education ---they have always been HOBBES extreme wealth extreme power for only the global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.




Historical Timeline of Public Education in the US

On November 6, 2013
Applied Research Center (ARC) was rebranded as Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation.


'These testing services continued the work of eugenicists like Carl Brigham (originator of the SAT) who did research "proving" that immigrants were feeble-minded'.


All of that EDUCATION TESTING starting to hit our US public schools as SAT university testing SOARED into our public K-12 these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA.  Education testing is the OPPOSITE of left social progressive PUBLIC EDUCATION.


STANFORD AND BRIGHAM YOUNG were indeed the source of education testing so, yes, California is ground zero.  Who do we blame asked WASHINGTON POST full well? We blame HOBBES taking an AX to LOCKE----he's been trying to do that for several centuries!

Confirmed: Standardized testing has taken over our schools. But who’s to blame?

By Valerie Strauss
October 24, 2015



Who’s to blame?

A new two-year study on testing in U.S. big-city public schools reveals what many students, parents and teachers have been screaming about for years: Kids take too many mandated standardized tests. What’s more, there is no evidence that adding testing time improves student achievement, it says.


The average student in America’s big-city public schools takes some 112 mandatory standardized tests between pre-kindergarten and the end of 12th grade — an average of about eight a year, the study says. That eats up between 20 and 25 hours every school year, the study says. As for the results, they often overlap. On top of all that are teacher-written tests, sometimes taken by students along with standardized tests in the very same subject.

In 66 school systems studied by the Council of the Great City Schools, a  nonprofit organization that represents the largest urban public school systems in the country, students in the 2014-15 school year sat over 6,500 times for tests, taking tests with 401 different titles. (See all the major findings below.)

GREAT CITY SCHOOLS is a global banking 1% stock market school rating corporation-------the intent is to use these tests as reasons to close all US PUBLIC SCHOOLS.


High-stakes standardized testing has become a hallmark of modern school reform for well over a dozen years, starting with the use of these exams in the 2002 No Child Left Behind law to hold schools “accountable.” The stakes for these exams were increased with President Obama’s $4.3 billion Race to the Top funding competition, in which states could win federal education funding by promising to undertake specific reforms -- including evaluating teachers by test scores and adopting “common standards.”



In early 2012, Robert Scott, a Republican who was then the commissioner of education in Texas, rocked the education reform world when he declared that school accountability systems based on high-stakes standardized tests  had led to a “perversion” of what a quality education should be and he called “the assessment and accountability regime” not only “a cottage industry but a military-industrial complex.”

Hmmmmm, BUSH NEO-CONS tied to STANFORD/YALE were the champions of educational testing---now Texas Republicans find all that a 'perversion'? 

The new study, which looks at the testing practices of the big-city school systems, was ordered by the council’s board of directors in 2013 amid protests about the exams, which led to a national “opt-out” movement in which students refused to take standardized tests. The Common Core State Standards initiative — with new federally funded tests — only fueled the protests, which included teachers refusing to administer the tests and superintendents calling for a change in their states’ testing requirements.


The anti-testing rebellion became so loud that even some of the strongest proponents of testing started to say it was time to scale back on the number of assessments students must take. In August 2014, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said finally that he “shared” teachers’ concerns about too much standardized testing and test prep, and that he believed “testing issues today are sucking the oxygen out of the room in a lot of schools.”



This past spring, 20 percent of students in New York state opted out of mandated standardized tests, the scores of which are used to evaluate teachers through highly controversial assessment methods.

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Here's the LYING AND HIDING behind goals of EUGENICS-----global banking 1% FAKE NEWS media worked hard to tie HITLER FASCISM to racism----HITLER was simply a global banking 5% CIVIL UNREST CIVIL WAR player working for OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS to create continuous wars ------the use of race, creed, et al is simply POPULATION TENSION.  EUGENICS is pushed by A SHIP OF FOOLS-----having no talent other than lying, cheating, and stealing.  It is tied to maintaining EXTREME WEALTH AND EXTREME POWER by declaring everyone else UNWORTHY.

THE RACIST ROOTS OF SAT-------OH, REALLY????????



'Social Origins of Eugenics
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E.L. Thorndike and Leta Hollingworth popularized eugenics to generations of prospective classroom teachers. Using flawed racial interpretations of the intelligence test data after the First World War, psychometricians such as Carl Brigham and Robert Yerkes added to eugenics' unjustified luster in the public eye'.



Remember, these are the OLD WORLD KINGS SHIP OF FOOLS working hard to build a SUPER-DUPER BIG DEAD HEAD computer so it can stop relying on geniuses from our 99% WE THE PEOPLE.


Monday, November 7, 2011
The Monday Excerpt: The Racist Roots of the SAT


Every other Monday, give or take, I will post a brief excerpt from my upcoming book, Choose Wisely: the SAT, the ACT, and You. This is good for you because you get to read, for free, what other people will have to pay for later. This is good for me because it means I have to actually write the book if I'm going to have anything to post! So, win-win.


Today's excerpt continues the story from a few weeks ago. One of the psychologists who worked on the Army Alpha and Beta tests - the first-ever standardized tests administered on a mass scale - has gone on to create the SAT. I'd like you to meet Carl Brigham, the man behind the test.

In Search of Guinea Pigs... er, Students 

The year is 1926. World War One is a faint echo, lost in the din of the Roaring '20s. Our psychologists have moved on from the army because there are no-longer millions of fresh-faced recruits to test. Where can they possibly find a large group of young people to do science on? Why—in school, of course. 


Carl Brigham is a dashing young Princeton-educated psychologist who helped to administer the Alpha and Beta tests and then wrote a popular book about them. He is determined to give his own updated version of the Alpha test to high-school students, in order to see whether he can predict anything useful about those students' performance in college. On June 23, 1926, eight thousand students take the very first Scholastic Aptitude Test, or SAT.



Young Brigham: handsome, racist
Eugenics: a Fancy Way to Say “Racism”

Carl Brigham holds some beliefs that, today, might seem a little odd. He was positive that Alpha and Beta really do measure “intelligence”, an innate quality unrelated to education. This claim, as we've just seen, is rather silly. Brigham is also sure that intelligence is hereditary: smarter parents have smarter kids, and dumber parents have dumber kids. A debatable point, perhaps, but not a crazy one. Brigham, however, takes it to the next level: he is certain that some races are smarter than others. Specifically, he thinks that white people are smarter than non-white people, and whites from northern Europe (i.e. Scandanavians and the English) are smarter than whites from southern Europe (i.e. Italians and Jews). He worries that if the smarter races mix with the dumber races, Americans will become mediocre en masse. In Brigham's own words: “American intelligence is declining, and will proceed with an accelerating rate as the racial admixture becomes more and more extensive.”



What's Wrong with America (according to Carl)



Brigham isn't some fringe nutcase, either. Eugenics – the idea that society can be improved by the segregation or elimination of those who are genetically “inferior” – is all the rage. In 1921 and 1924, Congress passed laws strictly limiting the number of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe (who, according to Brigham, are stupid), while still permitting immigrants from northern Europe (who, according to Brigham, are smart). Theodore Roosevelt went even farther when he said:


I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. … Feebleminded persons [should be] forbidden to leave offspring behind them...


REMEMBER, THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTION IS TIED TO STANFORD UNIVERSITY AND TEDDY ROOSEVELT---NOT FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT---FDR.  THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTION IS HOME OF ALL THOSE WORLD BANK/KNIGHTS OF MALTA.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. took ol' Teddy at his word. In Buck vs. Bell, an infamous Supreme Court decision, Holmes and his fellow justices made it legal to sterilize men and women who got low scores on IQ tests and had other signs of “feeblemindedness”. Let that fact sink in for a moment: the United States Supreme Court gave the green light to the spaying and neutering of human beings, just as if they were dogs or cats. As a result, about 60,000 low-IQ Americans were sterilized over the next few decades. The Nazis approvingly cited this practice in justifying their own policies of enforced sterilization and murder, especially of Jews—many of whom might have escaped, were it not for America's restrictive immigration laws.

Brigham's interpretation of IQ testing – his insistence that IQ was an innate quality, and that some populations had more of it – paved the way for the horrifying policies implemented by his contemporaries. As Stephen Jay Gould sadly noted, “the paths to destruction are often indirect, but ideas can be agents as sure as guns and bombs.”

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