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Combat Diaries Supplement for 10th March 2010

Ufology as Art Form
 
“NSA is able to see approximately 27 hours 42 minutes
and 33 seconds INTO THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD. This is done through a
satellite. The satellite is able to take images of earth, a selected
number of video and audio broadcasts (the majority of it is news) routed
to the satellite by communications on the ground up, to roughly 27 hours
before it happens. As every second goes by it is slowly gaining the
ability to see further into the future.” 

http://abc.go.com/shows/flash-forward 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashForward 

Dear Victor Martinez,
 
Thank you so much for your highly entertaining e-mailing: "CONSPIRACY Theory! Pentagon Shooter had UFO Book on his Wishlist!"  That was the most amusing conspiracy theory so far.  I just hope that there's no one out there in cyberspace who actually believes in this sort of crap.  Only the craziest of conspiracy theorists would maintain that there's even a shred of truth in this demented spiel.
This is a prime example of what I call FISH (False Information Supplied by Hoaxer) and the Internet is teeming with FISH.  Very often the hoaxer will aim his FISH at a well known target such as some of those who feature on Coast-to-Coast.  Conspiracy theorists and those who are blindly eager to believe in such things lap it up and spread the word.  In this way various modern myths --such as the ludicrous "Project Camelot" nonsense-- gain some currency when they should really be firmly placed in the 5F basket (fantasy, fraud, fiction, fabrication and flapdoodle).
I loved this bit:  "The NSA is able to see approximately 27 hours 42 minutes and 33 seconds INTO THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD.  This is done via a satellite."   Good grief!  If the NSA can do that, then the satellite can check the Lotto Powerball Jackpot numbers on the Internet and transmit them back to Fort Meade before the lotto draw actually takes place.  Knowing the guys who work there --who consider themselves underpaid-- I doubt if they could really resist collecting that $20 million+ jackpot twice a week every week.  This piece of FISH was inspired stuff !
 
For those of you who choose to believe in FISHy stuff that's fine with me but then you are going to have to decide if I am:
(a) a disinformation specialist      
(b) a senior NSA operative
(c) a virtual machine somewhere in cyberspace
(d) an alien e-mailing from a UFO
(e) George W Bush
 
Sincerely,
GW 
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 4:44 AM

Subject: CONSPIRACY Theory! Pentagon Shooter Had UFO Book On Wishlist!

http://www.ufomystic.com/2010/03/05/pentagon

-shooter-had-ufo-book-on-wishlist/   

CONSPIRACY BOMBSHELL: PENTAGON SHOOTER JOHN PATRICK BEDELL HAD
UNDERGROUND UFO BESTSELLER "EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE" ON HIS AMAZON.COM
"WISHLIST" OF BOOKS! 

HAS "EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE" BY Capt ROBERT COLLINS REPLACED J D
SALINGER's "CATCHER IN THE RYE" AS THE MUST-HAVE BOOK FOR ALL USG
MIND-CONTROLLED ASSASSINS?!  

http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2010/03/bedell.html  

"The BLACK WORLD OF UFOs: EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE," 3rd ed, 2010 
/
http://www.amazon.com/Black-World-Ufos-Exempt-Disclosure

/dp/B003A045FI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267277745&sr=1-2 
/  
http://www.ufoconspiracy.com/reports/efd_book.htm

The CORE of a COVER-UP:  

"The ET craft was manufactured using ET technology. This craft was built
many years before we developed flight. They used a different physics
principle that we still don't fully understand. We cannot duplicate the
craft's material. We have nothing similar to that material on Earth." 

CONSPIRACY THEORY BOMBSHELL #2: WHAT HAD THESE 2 "DERANGED LONE-NUT
KILLERS" UNCOVERED? WHAT THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY HOPES YOU NEVER
FIND OUT ... READ THE STUNNING TRUE STORY BELOW!  

"BLACK WORLD" NEWS FLASH: 

The NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY and THE SINISTER LINK BETWEEN "LONE-NUT"
SHOOTERS JOE STACK and JOHN PATRICK BIDELL ... THERE's SO MUCH MORE TO
THE STACK-BIDELL STORY THAN MEETS THE EYE! / YOU'LL BE RUBBING YOUR LI'L
EYES IN UTTER DISBELIEF AFTER YOU READ THE FOLLOWING ...

SET-UP: For those who do not know, Joe Stack was the guy who flew an airplane into the IRS building in
Austin, Texas. And Joe Bedell was the guy who shoot a guard at the Pentagon.
/  
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/pentagon-shooter-dead-cops-hospital/story?id=10017089

JOHN BEDELL and JOE STACK were NOT "terrorists," ... they were good
friends of mine. 

BACKGROUND: In 1996, we met at an embedded systems conference in
Sacramento. I do not feel like typing out all the details, but we hit it
off right from the beginning. We began analysing networks together and
by 2002, Joe and I were able to penetrate just about any network
connected to the Internet. The correspondence between John, Joe, and I
eventually came to a halt, but in February, 2007 I got a call from Joe
telling me that we needed to talk in person. 

NARRATIVE: I met with him and he spilled his guts to me. He told me
about all the unlawful and clandestine operations our government was
involved with and also informed me of the level of corruption that has
manifested itself in Capitol Hill. He suggested that we find out what
was going on by infiltrating the CIA's as well as the NSA's networks.

To read the rest of these spindrift pages click HERE 
 

Combat Diaries Supplement for 9th March 2010

Cyberwar declared as China hunts for the West’s Intelligence secrets

It is estimated that in the past year the number of attacks on US government agencies rose to 1.6 billion per month.
Systems in the EU are even more vulnerable
Michael Evans, Giles Whittell
 

Urgent warnings have been circulated throughout Nato and the European Union for secret intelligence material to be protected from a recent surge in cyberwar attacks originating in China.
The attacks have also hit government and military institutions in the United States, where analysts said that the West had no effective response and that EU systems were especially vulnerable because most cyber security efforts were left to member states.
Nato diplomatic sources told The Times: “Everyone has been made aware that the Chinese have become very active with cyber-attacks and we’re now getting regular warnings from the office for internal security.” The sources said that the number of attacks had increased significantly over the past 12 months, with China among the most active players.
In the US, an official report released on Friday said the number of attacks on Congress and other government agencies had risen exponentially in the past year to an estimated 1.6 billion every month.The Chinese cyber-penetration of key offices in both Nato and the EU has led to restrictions in the normal flow of intelligence because there are concerns that secret intelligence reports might be vulnerable.
Sources at the Office for Cyber Security at the Cabinet Office in London, set up last year, said there were two forms of attack: those focusing on disrupting computer systems and others involving “fishing trips” for sensitive information. A special team has been set up at GCHQ, the government communications headquarters in Gloucestershire, to counter the growing cyber-threat affecting intelligence material. The team becomes operational this month.
British and American cyber defences are among the most sophisticated in the world, but “the EU is less competent”, James Lewis, of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, said. “The porousness of the European institutions makes them a good target for penetration. They are of interest to the Chinese on issues from arms sales and nuclear non-proliferation to Tibet and energy.”
The lack of routine intelligence sharing between the US and the EU also contributes to the vulnerability of European systems, another analyst said. “Because of Britain’s intelligence-sharing relationship with America our systems have to be up to their standards in a way that some of the European systems don’t,” he explained.
Jonathan Evans, Director-General of MI5, warned in 2007 that several states were actively involved in large-scale cyber-attacks. Although he did not specify which states were involved, security officials have indicated that China now poses the gravest threat. Beijing has denied making such attacks.

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See also

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/20/china-removed-top-priority-spies//print/

Combat Diaries Supplement for 8th March 2010

Boeing’s Phantom Ray UAV
By Stephen Trimble

The Boeing Phantom Ray will start taxi tests in July ahead of first flight in late December, but the future of the unmanned strike aircraft after a one-year series of 10 flight tests remains uncertain. Boeing has delayed taxi tests from the second quarter to July because the Phantom Ray's exhaust system had been diverted to a classified programme, says Daryl Davis, president of Boeing advanced systems.
 

The exhaust has now been returned from the classified programme, which Davis described as technology tests to demonstrate reliability and maintainability, among other things. Although the start of taxi testing has shifted three months, Boeing nevertheless plans to complete first flight on schedule in late December this year, he says.
Boeing plans to conduct 10 flight tests with Phantom Ray to open the entire flight envelope.
 

Hacking Culture is Here

How Data Centers Handling Cyber Terrorism

Trash Cosmology is Here

 Trash Cosmology: superior to Einstein, more profound than Hawking, and certainly funnier than Jesus.

Joe Crowther - 7th March 2010

Botox mother Sarah Burge is sex party organiser 'Madame Pink'. The mother of Britain's youngest Botox user, self proclaimed 'Botox barbie' Sarah Burge organises sex parties across the globe for 'beautiful hipsters'.

Sarah Burge with daughter Hannah Burge, Britain's youngest Botox user

Sarah Burge has shelled out over £500,000 on cosmetic surgery so far, and assisted her 15-year-old daughter in becoming Britain's youngest Botox user.

Though the self-styled 'Human Barbie' also calls herself Madame Pink and advertises her £500-an-hour services on sex websites, claiming she will be "whatever you want me to be".

Her sex parties are for couples or singles who wish to "soak in the erotic ambience". They take place across the globe, with the next party taking place in Thailand, costing £750 per person, per night.

She likened herself to a real-life doll who "squeals with delight" when poked in all the right places, according to the Daily Star.

The website describes her parties as "high profile and glamorous" and the guests at her first one, last year as: "Young, beautiful hipsters. Rich. Cool. The kind of people everyone wants to have sex with."

The New Cosmology throws all in doubt.

Gordon Ramsay to have Botox on ‘goolies’?

Susan: Botox left me like an ape

Rachel Weisz calls for Botox ban

Probe finds DIY botox on internet

eBay alert over ‘DIY Botox’ kits

Geek Barbie BBC

How does tech support Barbie match up to real life? BBC

Girl With Cerebral Palsy Dies From Botox ABC News

Combat Diaries Supplement for 7th March 2010

Mike Adams of NaturalNews comments on the commercial exploitation of medical technology.

Ever wonder how the drug companies REALLY want to sell pharmaceuticals? Here's the answer: Through vending machines! Bypass the doctors, advertise drugs directly to consumers, and get them to insert their credit cards into drug-dispensing machines that pretend to "diagnose" diseases by asking people to take an instant survey.
Do you sometimes feel like life is too much to handle? Do you ever start projects but fail to finish them? Have you ever felt sad about something? If so, you may be suffering from a brain chemistry disorder that requires pharmaceutical treatment! Here, just insert your credit card, push the "BrainZac" button, and this machine will issue you a diagnosis AND deliver your "treatment."
The small print, of course, says you'll be billed $12 per pill, and dispensed 100 pills for a total of $1200 dollars, 90% of which will be billed to the federal government and paid by taxpayers. What a scam, huh? This is where the industry is headed. CVS Pharmacies already have in-house clinics that can diagnose diseases and prescribe drugs for them all in the same minute! If retail pharmacies are going to play doctor, diagnosing fictitious "diseases" and then prescribing dangerous pills to "treat" those diseases, then why do we need doctors in the loop at all? Big Pharma has figured out it would be a lot more profitable to just skip the doctors and sell drugs directly to consumers.
This is why they are lobbying the FDA so strongly to move hundreds of popular prescription-only drugs to over-the-counter (OTC) status. That way, the doctors are taken completely out of the loop, and consumers can buy all these high-profit pharmaceuticals themselves, like mind slaves responding to direct-to-consumer drug advertising.
The FDA recently admitted it hopes to convert 50% of blockbuster prescription drugs to OTC status. That list even includes dangerous, deadly drugs like statins and antidepressants.
Keep in mind this is all happening in a political environment where the FDA claims herbs, supplements and superfoods are so dangerous that zero health claims should be allowed by the companies selling them. But deadly prescription drugs are so safe, the FDA says, that even children should be able to walk into a Wal-Mart and buy unlimited bottles of statins and antidepressant drugs, completing the purchase through a self checkout lane that doesn't even require the oversight of a pharmacist.
It's an amazing world we live in, huh? Just remember: When you someday see prescription drugs being sold in vending machines, we predicted it first right here on NaturalNews.
 

The Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape Book

Anyone following the UFO spy games knows there are no clear-cut answers to the question: why is the American Intelligence Community involved with paranormal weirdness?

After reviewing some of the reporting we provided over the past several years, I decided it was time to bring together a handful of our feature articles, blog posts, quotes from named and unnamed sources, both witting and unwitting, and the complete series "Knowing the Future: CIA, 9/11, UFOs, and the Extraterrestrial Presence," and publish a book, for the record.

I am pleased to announce the print edition is now available.

The book begins with the question of CIA's extraterrestrial affair: hidden UFO "X-files" locked up in the alleged "weird desk," and the birth of the CORE STORY of government involvement with the aliens. The story of government psychic Ingo Swann -- his encounters with extraterrestrials, psychically on the moon, and allegedly here on Earth, at the behest of a deep black operation -- sets the stage.

Shortly after our investigation of Swann's involvement, author Gus Russo told us of a new government psychic-spy operation in a deep black program run by the National Security Agency. According to Russo's source, NSA has experienced "extraterrestrial interference" in their operations to remote view foreign governments. (Confirmation provided by an independent source, who was tested by NSA, identified nuclear related targets in Iran.)

While exploring the "Dark Matters of Dark Energy," we were able to find documentation of official interest in the United States and in Great Britain in exotic zero point energy and anti-gravity. Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet H-bomb, once declared, "Such research should be forbidden!"

Apparently the Hunt for Zero Point intensified when the DIA psychic spy effort zoomed in on an extraterrestrial presence in the mid 1980s. At this point it seemed clear: in addition to the reported NASA investigation of alternative energy and UFO technology sponsored by Internet millionaire Joe Firmage, the CIA was also involved, and a man named Ron was keeping watch from behind the scenes. We then set out on the trail of the psychic goat killers, following behind clues left by author Jon Ronson in his book The Men Who Stare at Goats. Grabbing the reins from Ronson, we continued the hunt for the elusive Ron. According to Uri Geller, it was Ron who had reactivated his psychic powers for the Bush War on Terror, following 9/11.

Memorandums for the Record from the real-life CIA STAR GATE files proved the psychic spies were concerned about nosy journalists ferreting information.

Our own ferreting efforts to get to the source of the CORE STORY were interrupted when Caryn Anscomb, acting as a key source to STARstream Research, was accused of being an operative for Britain's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service.

Ms. Anscomb had partnered with Dan Smith, son of President Eisenhower's tax adviser from Harvard, in a plan to promote disclosure of a disturbing tale hidden within the core of the extraterrestrial "Trickster Tales." It was Mr. Smith's belief, reinforced by his personal relationship to Ron at the CIA, that the CORE STORY involved eschatology -- the end of the human race.

Digging through the historical record, we uncovered a memo from Director of Central Intelligence W.B. Smith, who asked if the UFO phenomena could be used for psychological warfare and counterintelligence. We discovered that the "Ron and Dan" show -- the eschatological Internet theater antics blogged by Dan Smith about his friend Ron at the CIA -- provided usable intelligence about an investigation of high frequency gravity wave research -- a year before an official government document confirmed our suspicions.When Dan's friend Ron released a series of email exchanges concerning Rick Doty, a key source behind the cover story for the CORE STORY, we knew a new spy game was afoot. As we published our suspicions about the spies and the lies on the Internet, more sources came out of the woodwork.

One source provided a covertly recorded phone conversation made around 1992. At one point in the conversation, Ron admits to having been a member of the secret government UFO Working Group which had been revealed by Howard Blum in his book Out There.

Conducting our own informal experiment with psychic remote viewing, we passed information about a suspected nuclear terrorist target through the CORE STORY network, and by a small coincidence, the head of Homeland Security soon appeared at the location we provided, to speak about the government's response to a nuclear attack.

High Strangeness, unconventional methods, or strange goings on in high places?

This book is dedicated to those who have lived on the edge of the twilight zone between reality and fantasy:

Jack Sarfatti, Dan T. Smith, “Deep Thought,” Ron and the White House Hamsters, and the rest of the gang; you know who you are.

Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape -- Knowing the Future: The UFO Spy Games

Combat Diaries Supplement for 6th March 2010

Poof's Fascist Charter Proposed for Kids

UK Govt’ to Impose “Hate Registers” for British Children who Make Gay Comments
 

The advance of “political correctness” in Britain 

UK Govt’ measures against “homophobic bullying” 

By Hilary White
LONDON, March 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Britain’s “surveillance culture” is about to take a step forward with the introduction of “hate registers” for children who use anti-homosexual epithets in and out of school.
Late last year, Schools minister Vernon Coaker said that as of September 2010 all schools will be legally required to report all “hate incidents” no matter how small, and keep records on offending children. Serious cases were to be reported to local councils.
At the time, the homosexualist group Stonewall welcomed the “proposed duty for schools to record and report all incidents of homophobic bullying.”
“Schools will need support, confidence and training to identify and tackle homophobic bullying, as well as prevent it from happening, and we look forward to working through our Education Champions programme to help provide this.”
The plans include lessons for children on “transphobic” bullying as part of the upcoming sex-education bill.
It is now revealed that plans include a database of incidents to be kept by the local authorities and made available to ministers to inform future anti-bullying campaigns. These “hate registers” will include incidents involving children as young as five.
A spokesman for the Department for Children, Schools and Families said, “Schools should take a common-sense approach to dealing with alleged racist or homophobic incidents by pupils.
“If a young child uses a slur, it should be judged whether or not they understand the meaning of the word and should be told why these words are hurtful as well as being appropriately disciplined.
If bullying is not dealt with in schools, then this will send a powerful message to children that discrimination is acceptable not only in schools but in society as a whole.”
But common sense has been notably lacking among British authorities in the application of “equalities” rules in recent years, and Christian and children’s rights groups are alarmed at the prospect of children being under constant scrutiny and threat.
The Daily Mail editorial comment page said, “Racism and homophobia are wrong. But these registers are a monstrous overreaction. They are a negation of common sense and a victory for the lunacy of political correctness.”
The Mail notes the case of one boy who has already been placed on such a registry for calling another pupil a “gay boy.” The mother of ten year-old Peter Drury, of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, was told that her son’s name would be placed on a register and permanent school record following a complaint about the comment by another student.
Penny Drury told the Daily Mail, “He doesn’t even understand about the birds and the bees, so how can he be homophobic?
“Peter is a very naive boy who didn’t know what he was doing and is now very upset as he is now in trouble. It doesn’t mean he is going to turn into a homophobic attacker when he is older. He must have picked up the word from somewhere and thought it to mean stupid.”
Michele Elliott of the children’s charity Kidscape told the Daily Express, “Children are being criminalized and singled out from a very early age when they don’t know what they’re doing.”
 

Ufology as Art Form

Newly Released: The Black World of UFOs: Exempt from Disclosure, 3rd edition, 2010

http://www.amazon.com/Black-World-Ufos-Exempt-Disclosure/dp/

B003A045FI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267277745&sr=1-2

http://www.ufoconspiracy.com/reports/efd_book.htm

Meme formation

The Alien is Under Construction. Here is the embryo-plasma. (CB)

Major updates and changes from prior editions and simplified, significant changes to certain chapters, new material added, old material removed. The book description does not cover all the changes.
The Core of a Cover-up
“The ET craft was manufactured using ET technology. This craft was built many years before we developed flight. They used a different physics principle that we still don’t fully understand. We cannot duplicate the craft’s material. We have nothing similar to that material on Earth.”
--Why is  Los Alamos (LANL) having so many problems with the reverse-engineering? A Top Secret/Umbra 5 November 1961 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) states that propulsion studies were being conducted at LANL Details of the propulsion studies are provided.
--Who was at the core of the cover-up? What foundations were laid by CIA Directors Allen Dulles and Richard Helms? Then James Jesus Angleton as CIA counter intelligence (CI), and Richard C. Doty as Air Force CI. Richard Helms, before he died (2002), divulged some of the classified information on EBE-1.
--Rick Doty was later selected to play a central role in President Reagan's UFO disclosure program and a 1986 government Abduction study before retiring in 1988.
--According to Tim Cooper's father an oval shaped object was found buried in the  New Mexico sand in March of 1947, well before  Roswell . What did they find inside that predated the Hebrew of Moses? Two well known NSA Cryptographers did a detailed linguistic analysis (1954-'55) and later perhaps broke the Alien Codex described in a JFK Executive Mj-12 Jehovah document supported by FOIA.
--What is the Crystal Rectangle (CR, very, very classified) according to those DIA TS/Code word documents.
--From the Roswell Incident of July 1947: where were the recovered artifacts kept at Wright-Patterson AFB? Was there a disc at WP and/or bodies? According to the Air Accident Report and other credible sources there was.
--EBE-2 & those CIA Secret/Top Secret memos said to be real by a number of sources. Kit Green as a former CIA employee claimed he saw the same type of stationary used for the memos and some of the key acronyms.
--Did Area 51 get started in 1955 or, was it really 1951 as the new evidence shows.
--Rick Doty as a contributor confirms many of Bob Lazar's stories and gives a breakdown of S4.
 

Combat Diaries Supplement for 5th March 2010

Men Without Women

Yet another homosexual scandal rocks the Vatican

Cardinals in the Clementine Hall at the Vatican. Photograph: Max Rossi/AFP/Getty Images

Note that they appear to be in full drag for the occasion.  Love the earring on the second from the left

The Vatican was today rocked by a sex scandal reaching into Pope Benedict's household after a chorister was sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for a papal gentleman-in-waiting.
Angelo Balducci, a Gentleman of His Holiness, was caught by police on a wiretap allegedly negotiating with Thomas Chinedu Ehiem, a 29-year-old Vatican chorister, over the specific physical details of men he wanted brought to him. Transcripts in the possession of the Guardian suggest that numerous men may have been procured for Balducci, at least one of whom was studying for the priesthood.
The explosive claims about Balducci's private life have caused grave embarrassment to the Vatican, which has yet to publicly comment on the affair.
While Catholicism does not condemn homosexuality outright, its teaching is that homosexual acts "are intrinsically disordered". The Catechism of the Catholic church states unequivocally: "Under no circumstances can they be approved."
Balducci was arrested on 10 February, suspected of involvement in widespread corruption. A senior Italian government official, he is alleged to have to steered public works contracts towards favoured bidders. He has not been charged.
It was during this investigation into corruption that wiretaps revealed his alleged sexual activity. In one conversation, Ehiem tells Balducci: "I saw your call when I was in the Vatican, because I was doing rehearsals … in the choir … in St Peter's." He then suggests Balducci meet a man who he describes is "two metres tall … 97 kilos … aged 33, completely active."
Balducci is also a senior adviser to the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, the department that oversees the Roman Catholic church's worldwide missionary activities.
Since 1995, he has been a member of one of the world's most exclusive fraternities – the Gentlemen of His Holiness, or Papal Gentlemen, the ceremonial ushers of the papal household. In the words of a 1968 ordinance, they are expected to "distinguish themselves for the good of souls and the glory of the name of the Lord".
According to a report by the Carabinieri for prosecutors in Florence investigating the corruption scandal, there was a hidden side to Balducci's life. "In order to organise casual encounters of a sexual nature, he availed himself of the intercession of two individuals who, it is maintained, may form part of an organised network, especially active in [Rome], of exploiters or at least facilitators of male prostitution."

Schwarzenegger’s Army is Coming

By GREGORY M. LAMB

ABC News  Feb. 21, 2010

Science fiction sometimes depicts robot soldiers as killing machines without conscience or remorse. But at least one robotics expert today says that someday machines may make the best and most humane decisions on the battlefield. Insurgents in Iraq have used equipment to hack U.S. drones. Guided by virtual emotions, robots could not only make better decisions about their own actions but also act as ethical advisers to human soldiers or even as observers who report back on the battlefield conduct of humans and whether they followed international law. As militaries around the world invest billions in robotic weapons, no fundamental barriers lie ahead to building machines that “can outperform human soldiers in the battlefield from an ethical perspective,” says Ronald Arkin, associate dean at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. The result would be a reduction in casualties both for soldiers and civilians, he says.

Virtual Ethics Based on Concept of Guilt

Dr. Arkin has begun work on an ethical system for robots based on the concept of “guilt.” As a robot makes decisions, such as whether to fire its weapons and what type of weapon to use, it would constantly assess the results and learn.

If the robot established that its weapons caused unnecessary damage or casualties, it would scale back its use of weapons in a future encounter. If the robot repeatedly used excessive force, it would shut down its weapons altogether – though it could continue to perform its other duties such as reconnaissance.

“That’s what guilt does in people, too, at least in principle,” Arkin says. “Guilty people change their behaviour in response to their actions.”

Though “Terminator”-style warriors will likely remain fictional long into the future, thousands of military robots are already operating on land, sea, and in the air, many of them capable of firing lethal weapons. They include missile-firing Predator and Reaper aircraft used by the American military in Iraq and Afghanistan, remotely controlled by human soldiers.

Some Skeptical About Ethical Robots

Naval ships from several nations employ Phalanx gun systems (sometimes called “R2D2s” on American ships, referring to the robot from “Star Wars”), capable of shooting down incoming planes or missiles without command or targeting from a human.

South Korea has deployed armed robotic systems along its demilitarized zone with North Korea. The Israeli army patrols its borders with Gaza and Lebanon with roving unmanned ground vehicles, see below.

Among systems being developed for the future by the US military are the Vulture, a pilotless helicopter that could stay aloft for up to 20 hours, and an unmanned ground combat vehicle.

But Arkin’s sunny forecast for the future of ethical robot warriors has met with deep skepticism among some in his field.

New laws will be needed to constrain the use of autonomous (without a human operator) robot weapons on the battlefield, argues Noel Sharkey, a professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at Britain’s University of Sheffield, in an essay last year.

Artificial Intelligence Expert: Can Robots Distinguish Between Friend and Foe?

He sees two huge ethical hurdles in the way: One is the unproven ability of robotic weapons to discriminate between friend and foe, avoiding hitting civilians and other noncombatants. The other questions a computer’s ability to judge “proportionate” force, enough to gain military advantage while minimizing civilian casualties.

Both these concepts are seen as essential to waging ethical warfare.

“Humans understand one another in a way that machines cannot,” Dr. Sharkey writes. “Cues can be very subtle and there are an infinite number of circumstances where lethal force is inappropriate.” International talks on the use of autonomous robots in warfare “are needed urgently,” he says.

What experts do agree on is that today’s robots fall far short of the kind of artificial intelligence (AI) they need to operate effectively on their own, let alone act ethically.

“When it comes to high-stakes decisions that hinge on understanding subtle human preferences and intentions, we still have a bunch of research to do at the level of basic science to give AI systems the same common sense that people have,” says Eric Horvitz, principal researcher at Microsoft Research and immediate past president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

Lost Nukes, Bioweapons and Strange Deaths

From the Palestine Telegraph

Stuff The Guardian won’t le you in on!

Note a refreshing lack of the respectful voice here.

THURSDAY, 04 MARCH BY PT EDITOR MAYSAA JAROUR

As we discussed in Part 1 three nuclear weapons went missing from the US and now our focus must turn to the three that went missing from under the nose of the good old Brits. Don't you think it is ironic that over one million Iraqis may have died because of our gross neglect? Let's not also forget the thousands of troops who also died for nothing!

We have to turn the clock back to 1989 when a very young, wet behind the ears, David Cameron broke the stringent embargo on South Africa and paid a quick but purposeful visit to the Deep South. He was also accompanied by another illustrious Conservative figure who had a little bit more technical know how under his belt.

So why did dear Maggie take such a risk in sending her cavalry all the way down to South Africa? Was there something big to look at? Was their an opportunity for some shonky arms dealer to make big money and in turn possible slip a few thousand in the kitty fund of the Conservative Party? You bet there was!

Ok so lets look into this cloak and dagger operation that went terrible wrong and resulted in the assassination of dear Dr. David Kelly (Oh sorry I shouldn't have let that slip out it was suicide wasn't it?). Did this implicate David Cameron and his side kick in not only breaking international law but also in high level corruption? Surely no politician would put his reputation at risk, all for the sake of party funds donation? You've got to be joking; they would sell their mother for much less!

What was going on in South Africa that basically became the source of going to war in Iraq and why haven't these culprits been punished and who else knew about this British monumental stuff up? Did the British Labour Party also know about this mess that Maggie Thatcher got us into?.....you bet they did......Dear Dr. Kelly also knew in great detail!

It all comes down to a nuclear weapons programme that was kept hidden from the United Nations by both the US and UK governments....starting to get the picture? The South African Government hid an awful lot of extremely nasty stuff from the world but good old US of A and the UK knew everything....just like partners in crime.

Let's just turn the clock back a little further at the time when Rhodesia ceased to exist and became Zimbabwe. It was in Rhodesia that Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) were fine tuned and eventually moved lock stock and barrel to South Africa along with its team of experts.

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Combat Diaries Supplement for 4th March 2010

Hacking the Climate Change

"Early speculation that the release of the emails and documents came from a one-off hack also appear to be wrong. Digital forensic analysis shows that the zipped archive of emails and documents was not produced on a single date. Instead it was created by copying the files over a number of weeks, with bursts on 30 September 2009, 10 October and 16 November. On the last date a folder of computer analysis code by Osborn was added to the package. The digital forensics on the files indicate that they were created on a computer set at some times four hours behind GMT, and at others five hours behind – plants the hacker on the eastern seaboard of Canada or the US. Then early on 17 November, RealClimate’s blog was hacked, locking out legitimate administrators, and the hacker tried to create a blogpost claiming that global warming was a myth, and enclosing the emails and documents."

Figuring out who was behind the hack of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia requires some digital forensic skills – and an insight into the mindset of those who were trying to get at CRU’s files at the time.

 Analysis by the Guardian and digital forensics experts suggests that an outside hacker gained access to a server at the UEA which held backups of CRU emails and a collection of staff documents. It also suggests the access occurred over a period of days, if not weeks, and was carried out from a computer based on the east coast of north America.

 The release of hacked emails and documents came just months after climate change sceptics had filed more than 50 freedom of information requests querying the CRU’s refusal to release of raw data and program code during the summer.

 Egged on by a group of sceptical bloggers, the requests almost all began with the words “I hereby make a EIR/FoI request in respect to any confidentiality agreements restricting transmission of CRUTEM data to non-academics involving the following countries.” Others sought “a copy of any digital version of the CRUTEM station data set that has been sent from CRU to Peter Webster and/or any other person at Georgia Tech”. All were refused under FoI exemptions because of commercial confidentiality.

 Into that silence came the release of the archived “zip” file by someone with clear hacking skills: first they grabbed the files, then they broke into the RealClimate blog to upload the archive and prepare a draft post; then, when that was thwarted, they uploaded it to a Russian website, and posted links to it on climate sceptics’ blogs using web servers located in Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

 That sequence of events led Sir David King, the government’s former chief scientist, to say that it must have been “carried out by a team of skilled professionals, either on behalf of a foreign government or at the behest of anti-climate change lobbyists in the United States”. But he quickly backed away from that statement, admitting he had no inside information.

 The Guardian’s analysis shows that a small group of just four of the scientists from among the dozens employed at the CRU were targeted in the sifting of email. They are: Phil Jones, the head of the CRU; Professor Keith Briffa, who studied tree rings; Tim Osborn, who worked on climate modelling for modern and archaeological data; and Mike Hulme, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. All are either recipients or senders of all but 66 of the 1,073 emails, and almost all the rest are sent from mailing lists, such as the Met Office’s “scenarios” listing, to which at least one of the four would certainly belong.

 A few remaining emails are sent by, or to, other CRU staff – indicating that the hacker had access to a backup server holding CRU emails dating back to 1996. That it is a backup is confirmed by the presence of a duplicate sent to Osborn: separated by one second, both have the same document attached, but from different machines. That suggests that the UEA’s system administrators had backed up emails from CRU staff’s machines onto a server – and that the hacker got into it, and also at a set of documents held on the same machine.

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