Articles & Links – July 25, 2010
- ‘Hidden US Afghan war details’ revealed by Wikileaks, (www.bbc.co.uk, July 26, 2010) – “More than 90,000 leaked US military records …” “…The reports come as Nato says it is investigating reports that as many as 45 civilians died in an air strike in Helmand province on Friday.” (War, Afghanistan, NATO)
- Why the future doesn’t need us (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html), by Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, (www.wired.com, April 2000) – “Our most powerful 21st-century technologies – robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech – are threatening to make humans an endangered species.” (Earlier article about his efforts towards “one huge computer” or “global nervous system”). (Technocracy, Genetics, Nanotech)
- Need a Job? Try the Skin Trade, (www.nbcbayarea.com, July 8, 2010) Cybernet Expo job fair in San Francisco. Wasn’t acceptable work a few years ago, but supposedly it is now. Bread & circuses as the economy collapses. (Pornography, Economy, Degradation, Toxic Culture)
- Cops Charge Irish Government With Treason, (oneworldscam.com, July 22 ’10) – The “President of the Garda Representative Association …, said at its annual conference … that the Irish Government had been ‘corrupted’ and had been ‘bought’ by developers and bankers.” (Banksters)
- Alternative news from Ireland: The Sovereign Independent
- More alternative news: The Corbett Report
- India unveils $35 computer for students, (cnn.com, July 23, 2010) – Broadband connectivity also. It’s funny how prices are whatever they want them to be as they bring down the “first world” economies. The computers are pushed by governments because the globalist post-industrial agenda is about making us totally dependent on computers for our survival, for credits, purchases, health care, etc. (Technocracy)
- ‘Virtual human’ Milo comes out to play at TED in Oxford (www.bbc.co.uk, July 13, 2010) – “Microsoft has shown off its “virtual human” that reacts to a person’s emotions, body movements and voice. … psychological techniques to make a person feel that Milo was real. …” “His mind is based in the cloud,” [Molyneux] told the audience. “As millions of people use it, Milo will get smarter.” While the people get dumber. (A.I., Virtual Reality, Bread & Circuses, Cloud Computing, Technology Alters Behavior)
- A Tale of Two Botanies, By Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins (www.wired.com, April 2000) – Dangers of transgenic manipulation. “…not to study nature but to restructure it”. “The USDA [back when the article was written] has already approved about 50 genetically engineered crops for unlimited release; US researchers have tested about 4,500 more. Over half the world’s soybeans and a third of the corn now contain genes spliced in from other forms of life.” (Transgenics, Technocracy, Chimera, GMO, Control of Food)