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Aiming to continue the work that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was doing when he was assassinated 50 years ago, a new Poor People's Campaign officially launched on Monday with advocates for economic justice rallying in Washington, D.C. and more than 30 state capitols nationwide.
Gathering here in front of the Capitol for the #PoorPeoplesCampaign’s first Moral Monday of our sustained season of nonviolent moral action! We’ll be here with freedom on our minds for the next 6 weeks! pic.twitter.com/K9TyGfNSei
— Poor People's Campaign (@UniteThePoor) May 14, 2018
The campaign, with an emphasis on voter mobilization and civil disobedience, will include 40 days of demonstrations culminating in a massive protest on June 23 in Washington, D.C. The movement calls for wage laws that are "commensurate for the 21st century economy," a repeal to the tax plan the Republican Party pushed through Congress last year, universal healthcare, and the expansion of public housing as well as guaranteed "fair and decent housing."
Led by the Rev. William Barber, organizer of North Carolina's Moral Mondays protests, the Poor People's Campaign will focus on weekly themes under the larger issue of poverty and economic inequality, including women and children in poverty, voting rights, healthcare, and housing.
"We cannot continue to have a democracy that engages in the kind of policy violence that we see happening every day," Barber told Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! on Monday. "All over this country we continue to see what is not often seen or talked about in our politics, in our political debates, or even in the media...250,000 people are dying every year from poverty and low wealth."
King's Poor People's Campaign aimed to petition the government to pass an Economic Bill of Rights, guaranteeing Americans an annual wage and full employment, allocating $30 billion to combat poverty, and establishment of low-cost housing for the poor.
Today, Barber and the Institute for Policy Studies estimate that 140 million Americans are living in poverty—about 100 million more than the census estimates.
The new Poor People's Campaign demands far-reaching policy changes that aim to alleviate the economic burdens placed on poverty-stricken Americans.
The movement follows a widespread national focus on the labor movement, as teachers across the country have staged walkouts to protest chronically low wages and underfunded schools, and Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) introduction of a bill to strengthen the nation's unions.
On Democracy Now!, Barber stressed that the prevalence of poverty in the U.S.—one of the world's wealthiest countries—and the abandonment of American workers indicates a profound moral failing of the government.
"It is time for a moral confrontation, a non-violent moral confrontation," Barber said. "It is immoral to have 37 million people without healthcare, it is immoral not to pay living wages when we know we can do it...Our first goal is to break through the moral narrative to where we're talking about it. We're not even talking about these issues in the country."
The 40 days of protests will be the launch of a "multi-year campaign," Barber added.
On social media, participants in cities across the country shared images and videos of the Poor People's Campaign's launch.
Washington, D.C.
Everybody’s got a right to live!! Here in DC with @TheRAC at the Poor People’s Campaign!! @UniteThePoor #PoorPeoplesCampaign pic.twitter.com/PnCnxdqcwb
— Evan Traylor (@EvanTraylor) May 14, 2018
Massachusetts
Rev Vernon Walker: we have 140 million poor and low income people and it's gone on far too long. We're here united around justice, in a fusion movement. Change begins to happen pic.twitter.com/PoNE8zVM74
— Massachusetts Poor People's Campaign (@MA_PPC) May 14, 2018
Pennsylvania
“I have spent the last 15 years of my life fighting for justice for...the 29% of prisoners with mental health issues” #PoorPeoplesCampaign pic.twitter.com/LmAv5S26Ho
— PA Poor People's Campaign (@PennsylvaniaPPC) May 14, 2018
Florida
@FLGovScott we want you to listen to the voices of the #PoorPeoplesCampaign @UniteThePoor @BRepairers pic.twitter.com/eK1dWvwSWQ
— Florida Poor People's Campaign (@FloridaPPC) May 14, 2018
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an Arab country in 25 years, includes establishing embassies and exchanging ambassadors, trade and investment in the Israeli economy, direct flights between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi, investment in Israeli efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine and cooperation in matters of energy and water.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the agreement “ushers in a new era of peace between Israel and the Arab world," and that he was very optimistic that other countries would join "this expanding circle of peace.”
In January 2020 following the Soleimani drone strike, the Zetas stated that peace in the Middle East would continue to be elusive. Can the Zetas now share their insights into this August 2020 peace agreement and how it relates to the ongoing battle against the Cabal?
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Israel, UAE reach historic peace deal: ‘We can make a wonderful future’
Israel and the UAE agreed to full normalization of relations in a phone call with US President Donald Trump on Thursday, marking the first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab country in 25 years.
Israel agreed to suspend its planned extension of sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria to facilitate relations with the UAE and potentially other Arab and Muslim countries.
The agreement will include establishing embassies and exchanging ambassadors, investments into the Israeli economy, trade, direct flights between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi, an investment in Israeli efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine – as first reported in The Jerusalem Post last month – and cooperation in matters of energy and water. An important element of the deal for the UAE is the expectation that its citizens would be able to visit the Al-Aksa mosque in Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the deal “full, formal peace” with “one of the strongest countries in the world.”
“Together we can bring a wonderful future. It is an incomparably exciting moment,” Netanyahu said. “I have the great privilege to make the third peace treaty between Israel and an Arab country, the UAE.”
Netanyahu wished Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohamed bin Zayed “Salam Aleykum v’Shalom Aleynu – peace unto you and peace unto us.”
Trump said in a statement posted to his twitter account: “Opening direct ties between two of the Middle East’s most dynamic societies and advanced economies will transform the region by spurring economic growth, enhancing technological innovation, and forging closer people-to-people relations.”
In subsequent remarks in the Oval Office, Trump alluded to “many more countries” in the region normalizing ties with Israel, and “some very exciting things including, ultimately with the Palestinians.”
Netanyahu said he has “reason to be very optimistic that today’s announcement w the UAE will be joined by more countries in this expanding circle of peace.”
The agreement “ushers in a new era of peace between Israel and the Arab world,” he said.
Netanyahu thanked the leaders of the Arab world for supporting the agreement on Friday, writing on his Twitter account, "I thank Egyptian President al-Sisi, and the governments of Oman and Bahrain for their support of the historic peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates."
"The agreement expands the circle of peace and benefits the entire region," Netanyahu wrote.
Sources in Washington and Jerusalem said the Trump administration is in talks with other Gulf States to reach normalization agreements with Israel. Bahrain is likely to be next, to the extent that there was a chance they would have announced normalization before the UAE.
The US president also mentioned Iran, about which the UAE and other Gulf States share concerns with Israel, saying that he will make a deal with them “within 30 days” if he wins the election. Trump said the Iranians are “dying to make a deal,” but would prefer that it be with the Democratic candidate for president, Joe Biden, “because that would be like a dream” for them. Trump's Special Adviser Jared Kushner clarified that the deal would not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.
Netanyahu remarked that the moves towards normalization were kept tightly under wraps because Iran would have liked to sabotage them.
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The Trump peace team’s efforts gained steam in July and led to Israel’s decision to skip the original July 1 date that Netanyahu had discussed for sovereignty moves. The administration felt that the opportunity for Israel to normalize ties with the UAE was a “better choice.”
“In the long term, this will solidify security,” one American official said. Peace between Israel and the UAE presented an opportunity for “real peace” unlike the cold peace it has with Egypt and Jordan, since Israel and the UAE were never enemies that fought a war against each other.
Sovereignty moves would have stopped the momentum towards normalization with Gulf States, another source said.
The American source said: “Israel was presented with two opportunities and chose one. They’re aggressively pursuing [normalization] and not complicating it by doing sovereignty.”
Trump called the diplomatic breakthrough a “labor of love for a lot of people in the room,” speaking to how it is also an achievement for Special Adviser to the President Jared Kushner, who heads the Middle East peace team, and Special Representative for International Negotiations Avi Berkowitz, who worked behind the scenes in recent months to promote normalization between Israel and the Arab world, and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.
Friedman said “the normalization of relations between Israel and the UAE will make Israel stronger and safer and will likely lead to additional exciting opportunities and incremental prosperity for Israel, its neighbors and the entire region.”
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ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for January 31, 2020
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Bibi in hiding
Bibi has not been executed but has a double standing in for him during public events. He fears for his life. He has lost most of his power during the persistent cleanup of the Khazarian Mafia’s Moloch worship and their use of blackmail against those they have caught in pedo traps, thus leaving his threats toothless. The western banks are failing in the face of the reach and success of the BRICS banking network. Thus he lacks financial clout. Satanism has thus been proved worthless in the quest for power and money. Bibi hides underground in Israel, but those who hate or were hurt by him are legion, so it is only a matter of time before he is killed.
Soleimani drone strike
Soleimani had convinced himself that he was invincible, actually believing the reassurances from Obama’s shadow government that President Trump was soon to be removed and business as usual would return. Even Pelosi, during her cooperation with coup attempts, felt the US Military would turn on President Trump. Where does this leave Iran? Iran does not want war with the US, nor do China and Russia wish to see this outcome. Meanwhile, where the head of the snake among both Sunni and Shia backed terrorists has been removed, peace in the Middle East will continue to be elusive.
Iran role
This is a Holy War, with many tentacles. President Trump and his Junta, and associates such as the UK Marines, are aggressively fighting this war on many fronts – pedophilia and blackmail of those caught in this net, money laundering of stolen funds, gun and drug running for profit and the promotion of terrorism, and human trafficking. The horror of rape and murder of toddlers during Moloch worship shows the depths to which those worshiping Satan will descend.…
disarray by allegations of sexual harassment and corruption.
In the eyes of its members, there is no more important cultural institution in the world than the Swedish Academy. The members, who call themselves The Eighteen (always in capitals), are elected for life by their peers, and meet for a ritual dinner every Thursday evening at a restaurant they own in the heart of the old town in Stockholm. And once a year, at a ceremony brilliant with jewels and formality, the permanent secretary of the academy hands out the Nobel prize in literature and all the world applauds.
But this year there will be no prize and no ceremony. In November 2017, it was revealed in the Swedish press that the husband of one of the academy members had been accused of serial sexual abuse, in assaults alleged to have taken place over more than 20 years. Jean-Claude Arnault, a French photographer and cultural entrepreneur, is married to the poet and academician Katarina Frostenson. In addition to assault accusations against him, the pair are accused of misusing academy funding. Arnault has denied all accusations, and Frostenson has refused to comment.
The academy is paralysed by the scandal, which was followed by a slew of resignations and expulsions. Six of The Eighteen have withdrawn from any part in its deliberations; another two were compelled to do so. The statutes say that 12 members must be present to elect any new ones, so with only 10, no important decisions can be taken and no new members elected. The vacuum has been filled with invective.
According to one senior academy member, the man responsible for the moral decay of the institution – through his “rotten macho values and arrogant high-handedness” – is the critic and historian Horace Engdahl, a former secretary of the academy. Engdahl, a close friend of Arnault, has in turn called the current secretary the worst the academy has ever had.
The scandal broke when the Stockholm daily paper Dagens Nyheter published the testimonies of 18 women who said that they had been assaulted or exploited by Arnault. Even if many were anonymous, the cumulative effect was impossible to ignore. In two cases the allegations amounted to rape.
What made the matter a wider global scandal is that it seemed to reveal something rotten at the heart of the Swedish Academy: many of the attacks were said to have taken place in luxurious apartments owned by the academy, in Stockholm and in Paris. Arnault and Frostenson also profited for years from academy subsidies to an arts club they owned and ran together. In addition, Frostenson has been accused of leaking the names of literature prize winners to Arnault, with the result that large bets were placed with bookies in Paris. Arnault’s lawyer, Björn Hurtig, told Expressen that his client was “disturbed and resigned … He says this is totally wrong and he is innocent of the allegations.”
Soon after the scandal broke, the secretary of the academy, Sara Danius, announced that she had herself been sexually harassed by Arnault. She called in lawyers and attempted to expel Frostenson from the academy. Arnault, meanwhile, has powerful defenders. His great friend Engdahl campaigned to have Danius expelled in turn. In an article for the national tabloid Expressen, Engdahl deprecated the vulgarity of his opponents in the academy, and called them “a clique of bad losers … who plotted to wound and humiliate Katarina Frostenson”
In the event, both women stepped down. Enough members resigned in support of Danius that the academy was left inquorate, with Engdahl in control of the rump. It seems possible that the king of Sweden, who has ultimate responsibility for the academy, will simply close the whole thing down this summer, with potentially disastrous consequences for the Nobel prize in literature. The Nobel Foundation, which funds the prize, is refusing to keep doing so until the academy is cleaned up.
The scandal has elements of a tragedy, in which people who set out to serve literature and culture discovered they were only pandering to writers and the people who hang around with them. The pursuit of excellence in art was entangled with the pursuit of social prestige. The academy behaved as if the meals in its clubhouse were as much an accomplishment as the work that got people elected there.
The academy had thought it stood for the culture of TS Eliot: somewhat masculine and unashamedly elitist, in which power is channelled in the service of tradition. It turns out to be much more like the culture of an ageing rock star: smug, macho, with its cool self-importance armoured by money and fame. The destruction of the academy’s reputation is not just damaging to an old, odd, Swedish institution, but also to the ideals it upheld, and to the dream of a global high culture that the Nobel prize represents
Swedish academy member Katarina Frostenson and her husband, Jean-Claude Arnault, who has been accused of multiple sexual assaults. Photograph: IBL/REX/Shutterstock
The Academy was, from its inception in 1786, an elitist institution. It was to contain the best writers and scholars in Sweden, and to guard and nourish the language. It puts out an official list of all the recognised words in Swedish and is still working, after more than a century, on the definitive dictionary of the language. Members are elected for life, and inducted at a banquet with a fanfare of trumpets. It is rich, with investments worth an estimated £110m. Membership brings considerable financial advantages: there are a great many perks in the way of apartments in the loveliest parts of Stockholm, dinners, and the use of delightful offices. The members’ compensation is not published, but according to an investigation of their tax returns by one Stockholm paper, they receive around £40,000 a year when they are active participants. To be the secretary is a full-time post, and while the salary is unknown, the pension increases by £10,000 for every year served.
It’s harder to discover what the academy’s use to contemporary Sweden is. The kind of literature it exists to nourish is kept alive largely by subsidy. With a few exceptions, its members could not make a living from writing. This is, of course, true of writers everywhere today, but in a world dominated by a few global languages, the chief of them English, a language like Swedish – with only 9 million speakers – can’t sustain many writers economically. The books that sell in Sweden are almost always those that can be profitably translated, which means crime novels, with the occasional quirky literary breakout such as the novel Popular Music from Vittula.
In the 1970s, the idea that the academy was the pinnacle of Swedish culture came under attack, at the same time as the wider belief that European – and particularly Swedish – culture represented the peak of human achievement was looking rather unconvincing. To the academy, this was a slowly growing but existential threat. The extraordinary ambition of the academy’s judges was not just to read foreign literature in the original language but, beyond that, to judge their originality and importance within their own traditions. However, as the world of literature expanded to include Latin America, Africa, India, Japan and China, this aspiration began to look unrealistic.
The academy had been established to embody and to strengthen the claim that Swedish was one of the great languages of European civilisation, as worthy of respect as any other. In 1974 the academy put this belief to the test by choosing two of its own members, the poets Harry Martinson and Eyvind Johnson, for the prize – a choice that was greeted with a storm of derision. (Four years later, Martinson killed himself.) This criticism seems unduly harsh: Martinson is a much better poet than, for example, Bob Dylan, who was awarded the prize in 2016. But the dismissive reaction was a warning of things to come
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trates a close-up view of a cool brown dwarf. Objects like this, drifting just beyond our solar system, have been imaged by NASA‘s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and could be discovered by Backyard Worlds: Planet 9. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA is inviting the public to help search for possible undiscovered worlds in the outer reaches of our solar system and in neighboring interstellar space. A new website, called Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, lets everyone participate in the search by viewing brief movies made from images captured by NASA‘s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer () mission. The movies highlight objects that have gradually moved across the sky.
“There are just over four light-years between Neptune and Proxima Centauri, the nearest star, and much of this vast territory is unexplored,” said lead researcher Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “Because there‘s so little sunlight, even large objects in that region barely shine in visible light. But by looking in the infrared, WISE may have imaged objects we otherwise would have missed.”
WISE scanned the entire sky between 2010 and 2011, producing the most comprehensive survey at mid-infrared wavelengths currently available. With the completion of its primary mission, WISE was shut down in 2011. It was then reactivated in 2013 and given a new mission assisting NASA‘s efforts to identify potentially hazardous near-Earth objects (NEOs), which are asteroids and comets on orbits that bring them into the vicinity of Earth‘s orbit. The mission was renamed the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE).
The new website uses the data to search for unknown objects in and beyond our own solar system. In 2016, astronomers at Caltech in Pasadena, California, showed that several distant solar system objects possessed orbital features indicating they were affected by the gravity of an as-yet-undetected planet, which the researchers nicknamed “Planet Nine.” If Planet Nine—also known as —exists and is as bright as some predictions, it could show up in WISE data.
The video will load shortly Join the search for new worlds in the outer reaches of our solar system and in nearby interstellar space at Backyard Worlds: Planet 9. Credit: NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab/Krystofer D.J. Kim
The search also may discover more distant objects like brown dwarfs, sometimes called failed stars, in nearby .
“Brown dwarfs form like stars but evolve like planets, and the coldest ones are much like Jupiter,” said team member Jackie Faherty, an astronomer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. “By using Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, the public can help us discover more of these strange rogue worlds.”
Unlike more distant objects, those in or closer to the solar system appear to move across the sky at different rates. The best way to discover them is through a systematic search of moving objects in WISE images. While parts of this search can be done by computers, machines are often overwhelmed by image artifacts, especially in crowded parts of the sky. These include brightness spikes associated with star images and blurry blobs caused by light scattered inside WISE‘s instruments.
Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 relies on human eyes because we easily recognize the important moving objects while ignoring the artifacts. It‘s a 21st-century version of the technique astronomer Clyde Tombaugh used to find Pluto in 1930, a discovery made 87 years ago this week.
A previously cataloged brown dwarf named WISE 0855?0714 shows up as a moving orange dot (upper left) in this loop of WISE images spanning five years. By viewing movies like this, anyone can help discover more of these objects. Credit: NASA/WISE
On the website, people around the world can work their way through millions of “flipbooks,” which are brief animations showing how small patches of the sky changed over several years. Moving objects flagged by participants will be prioritized by the science team for follow-up observations by professional astronomers. Participants will share credit for their discoveries in any scientific publications that result from the project.
“Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 has the potential to unlock once-in-a-century discoveries, and it‘s exciting to think they could be spotted first by a citizen scientist,” said team member Aaron Meisner, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in analyzing WISE images.
Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 is a collaboration between NASA, UC Berkeley, the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Arizona State University, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, and , a collaboration of scientists, software developers and educators who collectively develop and manage citizen science projects on the internet.
NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, manages and operates WISE for NASA‘s Science Mission Directorate. The WISE mission was selected competitively under NASA‘s Explorers Program managed by the agency‘s Goddard Space Flight Center. The science instrument was built by the Space Dynamics Laboratory in Logan, Utah. The spacecraft was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colorado. Science operations and data processing take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at Caltech, which manages JPL for NASA.
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NASA wants you — to find a missing planet
December 16, 2019
NASA has helped fund a website called Backyard Worlds, where citizen scientists can search for new planets. Video provided by Newsy Newslook
An artists‘ conception of the mysterious Planet 9.(Photo: NASA)
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Want to work for NASA from the comforts of your couch? The space agency is looking to fulfill an amateur astronomer‘s dream — credit for the discovery of a new planet.
NASA is looking for help to find the mysterious and as-yet undiscovered Planet 9, which astronomers think may be the most distant planet in our solar system.
A new website — — lets people comb through footage captured by the agency‘s (WISE) mission a few years ago.
The footage shows objects gradually moving across the sky. “There are too many images for us to search through by ourselves,” NASA said.
In this case, people are better than computers at spotting and identifying objects, such as a planet, in the footage. Human eyes can easily recognize the important moving objects while ignoring the background stars and other objects that computer programs would flag.
Astronomers believe the planet exists because of strange orbits of other distant objects that spin beyond Neptune. If Planet 9 — also known as — is there and is as bright as some predictions, it could show up in the WISE movies taken in 2010 and 2011.
This “has the potential to unlock once-in-a-century discoveries, and it‘s exciting to think they could be spotted first by a citizen scientist,” said Aaron Meisner, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in analyzing WISE images.
If an average citizen spots something that leads to a discovery, he or she will get shared credit with the professional astronomers.
“There are just over four light-years between Neptune and Proxima Centauri, the nearest star, and much of this vast territory is unexplored,” said lead researcher Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Planet 9 could have a mass about 10 times that of Earth and an orbit about 20 times farther from the sun, on average, than Neptune, NASA said. It may take between 10,000 and 20,000 Earth years to make one full orbit around the sun, NASA suspects.
Pluto used to be the ninth planet before its demotion to dwarf planet status 10 years ago. NASA said the search for Planet 9 is a 21st-century version of the technique astronomer Clyde Tombaugh used to find Pluto in 1930, a discovery made 87 years ago this week.
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reate sentient life? Will it end like the Terminator movies before Niburu comes in![and from another] Was Sam Altman's Sacking by OpenAI's Board over 'Q-Star' Breakthrough Seen as Threat to Humanity?November 23, 2023https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/was-sam-altman-sacking-openais-board-over-q-star-breakthrough-seen-threat-humanityIn the days before Altman was sent off into exile, several staff researchers penned a letter to the board about a significant breakthrough - called Q* and pronounced Q-Star - that allowed the AI model to "surpass humans in most economically valuable tasks." The AI milestone was one of the significant factors that led to the board's abrupt firing of Altman last Friday. Another concern was commercializing the advanced AI model without understanding the socio-economic consequences. AGI has the potential to surpass humans in every field, including creativity, problem-solving, decision-making, language understanding, etc., raising concerns about massive job displacement. A recent Goldman report outlines how 300 million layoffs could be coming to the Western world because of AI.[and from another] Goldman Sachs Predicts 300 Million Jobs Will Be Lost March 29, 2023https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2023/03/31/goldman-sachs-predicts-300-million-jobs-will-be-lost-or-degraded-by-artificial-intelligence/?sh=4f1efa91782bGoldman Sachs maintains that if generative AI lives up to its hype, the workforce in the United States and Europe will be upended.[and from another]Bill Gates Teases the Possibility of a 3-day Work Week where 'Machines can Make all the Fod and Stuff'November 23, 2023https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-teases-possibility-3-121847610.htmlForget the four-day week—Microsoft founder Bill Gates is anticipating a three-day work week could be possible thanks to artificial intelligence. Amid fears that mankind will struggle to compete against computers leading to mass unemployment, Gates is refreshingly predicting a utopian world where “machines can make all the food and the stuff, and we don’t have to work as hard”.[and from another]OpenAI Researchers Warned of AI breakthrough that could Threaten Humanity' ahead of CEO Sam Altman's Ousterhttps://www.disclose.tv/id/077mc5dtpl/Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
SOZTDuring the Industrial Revolution there was panic over lost jobs, as there had been prior to that when farm labor was replaced by tractors and combines. The panic at present is due less to the possibility that more repetitive labor will be replaced by robots than it is to what is being revealed about the pending death rate likely to occur during Nibiru’s passage. We have explained that even apparent Thinking Machines https://www.zetatalk.com/rules/r47.htmare only following their programming. https://www.zetatalk.com/rules/r50.htmUnlike the movie Terminator, https://www.zetatalk.com/ning/31de2021.htmno AI to date can fully replace human workers.
AI could affix two pieces of lumber together, adjusting lengths to widths and inserting screws for the resulting hold needed, but could not raise an Amish barn. AI can examine the components of a blood sample but cannot insert a needle into every arm of every patient without creating injury. The panic over Sam Altman's statements was due to the elite fearing their expectations had been revealed. Why the rush when there is already a job shortage during a time of food and materials shortage? The elite envision a time of riots and societal collapse, and plan to shield themselves from the populace by AI workers and militia. EOZT
Prior 1995 ZT: https://www.zetatalk.com/rules/r17.htmA goal of research scientists is to create robots so effective at running matters that all of mankind in essence becomes akin to the upper class - waited on hand and foot. To be effective in these roles, robots would have to repair and reproduce themselves, or each other, i.e. propagate; be able to adapt to changing circumstances, i.e. learn; and, since mankind can't be bothered, make logical determinations, i.e. think. Mankind, in short, is too dumb to create a handy-dandy version of intelligent, sentient life. One, per their desires, which would never break down or talk back, would always look good, be compliant in bed, foresee one's needs, repair the car, be infinitely loyal, smart as a whip but never look down on the master, and never suffer from neglect. The child's dream.
Prior 1997 ZT: https://www.zetatalk.com/rules/r47.htmRobots were first thought of during human development as workers, other humans. With the advent of programmable machines such as computers, the thought of having machines as slaves is irrepressible. They don’t require wages, never demand a day off, and can be relied upon to be consistent and do what they were told to do! Such a cooperative slave. Robots are developed and used up to but not beyond the point where they could be considered sentient or conscious, as the Council of Worlds does not allow thinking machines, in essence biorobots, to be developed and enslaved by other intelligent species. The line is drawn where including the components of life would enter in - DNA capable of self initiated thought, emotion, and most particularly a conscious sense of the self as separate from the surroundings.
Prior 1997 ZT: https://www.zetatalk.com/rules/r50.htmComputer programs are not considered brains by most humans only because they can gaze at and understand the program, and can see that the computer is simply following instructions. Robots, however, are bounded in what they can address. Even where robots are designed to repair themselves and make minor adjustments to their surroundings, they are still operating within their original programming.
Prior ZT: https://www.zetatalk.com/ning/31de2021.htmThe new fascination with Transhumanism is due to the elite facing the near future of the Nibiru passage with white knuckle fear. The populace will no longer listen to the establishment, who failed to warn them or to arrange a shelter for them. Machines such as Drones can be used by the Military for surveillance or even in combat, but drones do not cover all the functions the elite need under their control. The Manchurian Candidate concept - whereby hypnotic suggestion directs human drones has been tried and failed. Telepathy is innate and natural in humans, despite the efforts of Remote Viewers to control the soul or the innate agenda of the human.
Now what? The popularity of the TV series Planet of the Apes is based on a real desire of the establishment to increase the intelligence of non-human animals to the point where they would be a controllable slave class. Thus Transgenic Monkeys where human tissue is inserted into monkeys, or Frankenrobots - putting living tissue into machines. Our use of implants in our human contacts is akin to an on-board phone system, not to control the human. And where we use living tissue in our sky computers this is akin to mankind's use of cow leather for shoes.
The elite, who desperately want to create a human slave class, are stuck with the human body and brain. Mankind is not intelligent enough to genetically engineer a super race. Mankind cannot even eliminate genetic diseases or increase intelligence. Outside of selective breeding, whereby the defective genes are blocked or the desired genes encouraged, there is little mankind can do at present. The elite cannot cage or capture the human soul, nor can they direct the human will. Instead, a time of perfect karma for the elite awaits.…
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uth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I am currently reading The Collapse of Western Civilization, A View from the the Future by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway and it got me thinking. The “book” is in fact a mere booklet, a 52-page essay the size of a postcard but it packs a lot in its tiny package. The authors imagine a future historian in the year 2393 looking back on our present time to discern and explain “how we — the children of the Enlightenment — failed to act on robust information about climate change and knowledge of the damaging events that were about to unfold.”
They write:
“Our historian concludes that a second Dark age had fallen on Western civilization, in which denial and self-deception, rooted in an ideological fixation on ‘free’ markets, disabled the world’s powerful nations in the face of tragedy.”
I have thought about this issue on a daily basis for the last nine years and continue to seek new words to express my perplexity. Oreskes and Conway write, “While analysts differ on the exact circumstances, virtually all agree that the people of Western civilization knew what was happening to them but were unable to stop it. Indeed, the most startling aspect of this story is just how much these people knew and how unable to act upon what they knew. Knowledge did not translate into power.”
Or to put it differently, knowledge did not lead to wisdom and without wisdom, the people were lost. How did this happen? As the title of this blog suggests, it was not an accident. The science was and is completely uncontroversial. The accumulated science from the 1950s to the late 1980s led to the uncomplicated understanding that what was long predicted — human-caused global warming — had leaped from the science journals and the climate models and was now present in the world.
Still, what was extremely controversial was the implications of our folly. We had begun to alter the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere and the biosphere. And all blame pointed to human civilization’s addiction to fossil fuels. Oreskes and Conway correctly identify industrialists, bankers and politicians as the culprits in the creation of a cult of denial that soon developed to confuse the consensus and muddy the minds of a conservative portion of the public who were remarkably easy to sway.
As the chart below shows, even as late as 1998, there was very little difference among Americans as regards how seriously they took this issue. A mere seven points (46-53%) divided Democrats, Independents and Republicans when asked if global warming was already happening. Only fifteen years later, however, the gap quadrupled to 28 percentage points as Republicans reacted to the denial soup they were fed on a constant basis by conservative lies and propaganda disguised as journalism.
From 1998 to 2013, the fix was clear. If you were a Republican, you were taught to distrust science and deny the truth. No evidence was ever given for the denial and happily for the Kochs and ExxonMobil, they discovered their gullible followers were easy to fool. They did not require any proof. They still don’t.
Regarding the cause of temperature increases, the gap between D’s and R’s went from 16 points in 1998 to 39 points in 2013. Twice as many Democrats understood the science than did Republicans. What could account for this except for the successful selling of a lie by a motivated campaign to manipulate perceptions of conservatives?
When asked if global warming would pose a serious threat to you in your lifetime, the gap between D’s and R’s again doubled from 1998 to 2013 from 16 to 32 percent.
Finally, we find that when Republicans were asked in 1998 if the seriousness of global warming was exaggerated by the news about one-third agreed. As they were sauteed in denial sauce for a decade and a half, however, we find the number of GOP deniers nearly doubled to close to two-thirds. The science did not change. If anything, it became more certain. But the message of denial and deception became more bold, more strident and more shameless until the hope of effective action to prevent the Great Collapse became all but lost.
I don’t know how this story ends but I know where it is going and I know who is driving the bus. There is no controversy here except for the one carefully crafted by conservatives who are terrified by what might happen if the public truly understood what is coming.
Oreskes and Conway write, “But as it was, by the early 2000s, dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system was under way. Fires, floods, hurricanes and heat waves began to intensify. Still these effects were discounted. Those in what we might call active denial insisted that the extreme weather events reflected natural variability, despite a lack of evidence to support their claim. Those in passive denial continued life as they had been living it, unconvinced that a compelling justification existed for broad changes in industry and infrastructure.”
Looking back from the future, it will be easy to blame the Kochs, the Republicans, the coal, oil and gas companies, Fox News and the conservative think tanks. Their crimes will be damning and clear. What is less clear are the millions of us in passive denial, those of us standing by and watching this disaster unfold as if we had no part in it, as if our children’s horror is not just as much our fault.
The truth cannot be accepted and acted upon when it has been so hopelessly distorted in false controversy. That is how our future historian may come to understand our cowardly impotence. We were afraid to speak out for fear of what others would think. So we went along and watched it all collapse and acted surprised when we realized it was too late.
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e reason for the flooding remains a mystery. The water started coming up in December, but residents say it hasn't been this bad in 20 years.
It has inundated Danny Midkiff's yard and is now creeping up to his door. Flood victims met with Mayor Neil Johnson and he decided to take immediate action.
"I just want to thank the mayor and everybody for coming to my rescue because this has been a nightmare," Midkiff said.
Now, a temporary pumping system has been hooked up, sending 1,000 gallons a minute from the continually rising waters in this neighborhood's natural bowl over to Lake Tapps.
But it's proving to be quite the challenge for the city crews at Bonney Lake. They have to run piping all the way from the flooded area across a busy roadway and all the way down to the lake.
Bob Woolard gave permission for the pipes to cross his property.
"It's becoming a lake down there," he said. "They don't know. They're going to pump it out and hopefully that'll fix the problem."
While the city tries to figure that out, residents are having to cope with rowboats and a newly-built emergency footpath.
The mayor ordered this emergency action even though the city engineer doesn't believe it's their fault.
"No, but sometimes it's the right thing to do," said city engineer John Woodcock. "We actually have some funds that can be a benefit to the city and that's what we're here for. We're here to serve the citizens."
Midkiff is one who will benefit from the pumps.
"The city engineer and the mayor, they're my heroes," Midkiff said.
He added that he is so happy, he's agreed to allow the giant pump and generator to be set up in his front yard. And he's willing to put up with the noise that'll be running 24/7 for the next several weeks, which means while he's trying to sleep.
"I'll sleep better, guaranteed," he said. "It's better than dreaming about drowning."
The city is going to go all out starting Monday and they figure it could run 6-8 weeks at a cost of $20,000, paid for by the city.
North Carolina - Feb 22
A mysterious source of groundwater is percolating to the surface along more than a dozen residential yards and flooding two portions of a street within the Gates Four community.
Leaders of the gated golfing community in western Cumberland County say they hope to find the cause of the water, because it's creating a hazard. The water pools over two sections of South Staff Road - even when the weather has been dry - and it has iced over during the winter.
The Gates Four Homeowners Association has hired an engineer to look for a solution, which could cost the association and property owners several hundred thousand dollars to fix.
"We need to get the water off South Staff Road," said Mike Molin, the association's secretary. "That's our main goal right now."
Most of Gates Four is outside the city limits, and the association and homeowners are responsible for maintaining the development's streets and other infrastructure.
The water pools one or two inches deep in the front yards of several of the homes along South Staff Road and runs over the street like a small stream in two places, even in dry weather. The street in those two locations has more water after a rainstorm. Molin said the problem was first noticed about a year ago.
Some homeowners are casting a leery eye toward a new residential development next door as the possible cause for the excess groundwater seeping into Gates Four.
That development, called Legacy at Traemoor, was approved by city engineers and annexed into the city in 2013. It was built according to a city ordinance designed to control the amount of storm runoff that leaves property after it is developed, said Rob Stone, the city's director of Engineering & Infrastructure.
The Legacy developer, Jackie Hairr of Hope Mills, said he doesn't believe his development is the source of the problem. He said he thinks the above-average rainfall of the past several months has spawned new underground springs in the high water table in Cumberland County. He said when Gates Four leaders shared their concerns late last year, an engineer for Hairr and the Gates Four property manager walked the development's perimeter.
"There was no obvious sign of water leaving the site," Hairr said.
The Fayetteville area received about 55 inches of rainfall in 2015, or 10 inches more than normal.
Stone said the city has received numerous calls about flooding in recent months, and the city has a plan to improve inadequate storm-drainage systems.
"A lot of our complaints are about groundwater flooding," Stone said. "Unfortunately, there is not a whole lot we can do about it. We still investigate."
Before the Legacy was developed, trees - and later scrub oaks - were razed, leaving some Gates Four homeowners to ponder if the deforestation has contributed to the flooding problem.
Hairr said he cleared the trees about 10 years ago and doesn't believe that is the cause.
The Legacy development borders the backyards of homes on one side of South Staff Road. Much of the new development lies about 20 feet higher than South Staff Road, which was partially excavated through a hillside when Gates Four was developed.
The development will have about 100 lots, said Hairr, who has been developing land for three decades. The new development has stormwater retention ponds that were required by the city, Hairr said.
Today, some of the Legacy streets off Lakewood Drive have been paved, and seven homes have been built. A sign says homes for sale starting in the $300,000's.
Charlie Wilson, a 71-year-old retired DuPont chemical engineer, lives in a 3,500-square-foot home on the other side of South Staff Road. His back yard borders the No. 5 hole of the golf course. Many of the yards on his side of the road have low-lying land that drains into the lake at Gates Four.
Earlier this week, Wilson showed a reporter his soggy back yard, where it hadn't rained in about a week.
"It's never been this wet," said Wilson, who has lived in his home since 1988. "It's just not draining well. I won't be able to cut the grass."
Leaders of the Gates Four Homeowners Association aren't attributing any blame for the flooding and have refused to comment on concerns by others about the Legacy development.
"I can't go down that path," said Jason Cook, president of the Gates Four Homeowners Association.
But Fayetteville developer Joe Riddle thinks the new development is more than a coincidence to the unexplained flooding in adjoining properties along South Staff Road. His late father developed Gates Four, and his family owns the undeveloped land, the golf course and clubhouse.
"These people did not have a problem until that development started," Riddle said of the Legacy. "I am not saying Jackie did anything wrong, because he has a plan approved by the city."
Cumberland County Commissioner Kenneth Edge, who lives in Gates Four on Towbridge Road, isn't sure that any outside development is to blame. He said he is experiencing flooding problems for the first time, and he has lived in Gates Four since 1979.
"It's been very wet," Edge said.
Sources
http://komonews.com/news/local/this-has-been-a-nightmare-bonney-lak...
http://www.fayobserver.com/news/local/gates-four-homeowners-baffled...…
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Hillary Clinton returned to her alma mater, Wellesley College, on Friday - and her cough returned to the public stage too
The Democratic loser was there to deliver the commencement address
But within minutes she stopped because of a coughing fit like the ones which bedeviled her campaign and demanded water and a cough lozenge
She blamed allergies - the same as she had for months in her campaign before she collapsed from pneumonia
Suggested President Trump would be impeached - but didn't mention that her own husband was too
27 May 2017
Hillary Clinton made a dramatic return to the public stage on Friday - and so did her cough.
The Democratic presidential campaign loser gave the commencement address at her alma mater Wellesley - but had barely started her speech when she had a coughing fit.
After first trying to stifle the cough, Hillary eventually had to stop talking to cough. She was eventually handed a bottle of water by another woman on stage.
She then chalked up the cough to allergies.
Eventually the fit, which resembled those she had on the campaign trail, subsided and she was able to deliver her speech, in which she predicted Donald Trump would be impeached.
The then candidate had frequent coughing fits on the campaign trail last year - which she blamed on pollen.
The real cause of the coughing became the subject of huge speculation about her health, and months of denial of any long-term problem ended in embarrassment when she collapsed at a 9/11 memorial in New York and hours later her doctor said she was being treated for pneumonia.
She had kept her diagnosis from her staff - and voters - for days.
Clinton used the speech to suggest her campaign rival President Trump will get impeached, in sharp remarks where she brought up 'obstruction of justice' and warned of the steps to authoritarianism.
Speaking to gowned graduates at the school where she addressed students in 1969, Clinton brought up Richard Nixon – but it was clear to graduating students what she was referencing.
'We were furious about the past presidential election of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his impeachment for obstruction of justice,' the defeated presidential candidate said – as members of the crowd at the liberal campus erupted into cheers.
Then she brought up Nixon's 'firing the the person running the investigation into him at the Department of Justice' – a line that brought laughs and more cheers.
Both were obvious shots at Trump, who fired FBI Director James Comey in the midst of an agency probe of Russian meddling in the U.S. elections.
She never mentioned her husband - who was impeached but whose trial ended in acquittal.
As she addressed students, Clinton also made references to 'authoritarian' regimes, in a criticism of Trump's constant attacks on the media and critics.
'When people in power invent their own facts and attack those who question them, it can mark the beginning of the end of a free society,' she warned. 'That is not hyperbole, it is what authoritarian regimes throughout history have done.'
'You are graduating at a time when there is a full-fledged assault on truth and reason,' she told graduates, referencing White House counselor Kellyanne Conway's defense of 'alternative facts.'
In yet another shot at Trump, Clinton said: 'Some were even denying things we see with our own eyes, like the size of crowds.'
'We got through that tumultuous time,' she told the students.
'We revved up the engine of imagination and innovation. We turned back a tide of intolerance and embraced inclusion,' she said.
'It was millions of ordinary citizens, especially young people, who voted, marched and organized' to bring changes, she said.
Clinton began with remarks about the 'amazing futures' of school grads. She encouraged them to seek office and take other steps to make the world better.
It didn't take long for her to break into a coughing fit, something that happened frequently during her campaign.
'And I’ve gotta get a lozenge,' she said, as the crowd clapped in support.
'Whatever your path, you dreamed big,' she told graduating students.
Back in 1969, Clinton spoke about the push and pull of politics to fellow graduates of her school.
'We've had lots of empathy; we've had lots of sympathy, but we feel that for too long our leaders have viewed politics as the art of the possible,' she said. 'And the challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible possible.'
Even as she went after President Trump by alluding to crimes, she also made light of her defeat.
'You may have heard that things didn’t go exactly the way I’ve planned. But you know what, I’m doing okay,' she said to laughs.
'I’ve gotten to spend time with my family, especially my amazing grandchildren,' she said.
'Long walks in the woods ... Organizing my closets ... I won’t lie, chardonnay helped a little too,' she quipped.
ZetaTalk Newsletter - Issue 516, Sunday August 21, 2016
http://www.zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue516.htm
Per the Zetas, Hillary’s cough is caused by heart failure, the lungs starting to fill with water on occasion.
ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for July 2, 2016
Bill Clinton ambush of Lynch
http://www.zetatalk.com/ning/02jy2016.htm
What is the cause of Hillary’s mysterious cough, her reported fatigue, and on-and-off bloat and edema? She has heart failure, a result of her almost constant anger over the years. The major symptoms of heart failure are edema, a cough as the failing heart puts fluid into the lungs, and fatigue. We have previously stated that Hillary also has MS, the reason for her occasional use of Fensel lenses for double vision. She takes steroids to counteract the MS, a move that aggravates her heart failure as steroids cause the body to hold water. Where is this heading, as her health and the looming indictment collide? Potentially hospitalization, or a sudden death from a fibrillating heart.
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