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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/2/2017 5:18:06 PM
	Not A Conspiracy Theory: Harvard Reveals Big Oil-Approved 'Stratospheric Injection' Engineering ByTrue Activist Posted on April 1, 2017 Officially kicking rumors of ‘chemtrails’ into overdrive, Harvard scientists announced the launch of a $20 million geoengineering program, set to kick off mere weeks from now — the first such project this comprehensive in scope — in a bid to stave off soaring global temperatures. By: Claire Bernish / The Free Thought Project Officially kicking rumors of ‘chemtrails’ into overdrive, Harvard scientists announced the launch of a $20 million geoengineering program, set to kick off mere weeks from now — the first such project this comprehensive in scope — in a bid to stave off soaring global temperatures. Geoengineering, in other words, just moved one colossal step closer to reality, on a massive scale, but what some scientists see as a viable, cost-effective solution, at an estimated $10 billion, others see as a nightmarish development — which could eventually spawn catastrophic drought. “Sometime next year,” MIT Technology Review explains, “Harvard professors David Keith and Frank Keutsch hope to launch a high-altitude balloon, tethered to a gondola equipped with propellers and sensors, from a site in Tucson, Arizona. After initial engineering tests, the ‘StratoCruiser’ would spray a fine mist of materials such as sulfur dioxide, alumina, or calcium carbonate into the stratosphere. The sensors would then measure the reflectivity of the particles, the degree to which they disperse or coalesce, and the way they interact with other compounds in the atmosphere.” *“We would like to have the first flights next year,”* asserted Professor David Keith during the Forum on U.S. Solar Geoengineering Research, held at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. According to MIT Technology Review, this expansive study will be one of the first to examine geoengineering as a potential palliative for the issue of global warming performed outside the confines of a laboratory or other controlled environment. “This is not the first or the only university study,” said project co-founder, Gernot Wagner, cited by the Guardian, *“but it is most certainly the largest, and the most comprehensive.”* Some scientists firmly contend rising temperatures and the onslaught of drastic weather events — as well as destruction of the overall ecosystem resulting from both — make advanced experimentation to manipulate the planet’s atmosphere and reduce solar impact a paramount priority. Keith feels so strongly about the potential for geoengineering — publishing on the topic since the early 1990s — he has attempted to garner approval for the project since 2014, when it was first proposed. An experiment planned for New Mexico, and slated to launch in 2012 never came to fruition; but, in early February 2013, the esteemed scientist and engineer argued it would be “negligent” not to conduct experiments, but added, “I’m not saying it will work, and I’m not saying we should do it [but] it would be reckless not to begin serious research on it. The sooner we find out whether it works or not, the better.” Keutsch expressed similar reservations on the implementation of solar geoengineering on a massive scale, terming it “a terrifying prospect” to be avoided unless all other avenues have been exhausted; however, he noted, “At the same time, we should never choose ignorance over knowledge in a situation like this. “If you put heat into the stratosphere, it may change how much water gets transported from the troposphere to the stratosphere, and the question is how much are you [creating] a domino effect with all kinds of consequences? What we can do to quantify this is to start with lab studies and try to understand the relevant properties of these aerosols.”. Creative Commons / True Activist / Report a typo Read More: http://www.trueactivist.com/not-a-conspiracy-theory-harvard-reveals-big-oil-approved-stratospheric-injection-engineering/
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/2/2017 6:12:03 PM
	’Assad must go’ no more: US gov’t shifts priorities in Syria Published time: 30 Mar, 2017 17:57 Edited time: 31 Mar, 2017 11:54 US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley © Mike Segar / Reuters Washington’s priorities in Syria have changed with the new administration, and the US will no longer focus on the removal of President Bashar Assad as a condition for ending the six-year civil war, a top official said. "Our priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out," Ambassador Nikki Haley told a small group of reporters on Thursday. "Our priority is to really look at how do we get things done, who do we need to work with to really make a difference for the people in Syria." Earlier in the day, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that the future of President Assad “will be decided by the Syrian people.” 30 Mar Ragıp Soylu ✔ @ragipsoylu US SE Brett McGurk and US Amb John Bass in Ankara during Cavusoglu - Tillerson presser pic.twitter.com/eWdLsdFeLN Follow Ragıp Soylu ✔@ragipsoylu Tillerson says Assad's long-term faith would be decided by the Syrian people. End of the "Assad must go" policy? 7:59 AM - 30 Mar 2017 22 Retweets 13 likes Tillerson was in Ankara meeting with his Turkish colleague Mevlut Cavusoglu. Some of their discussion involved Turkey’s support for the US-led coalition against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria. Read more Assad’s fate ‘to be decided by Syrian people,’ says Tillerson Since 2011, when the conflict in Syria began, Washington hasinsisted that “Assad must go” as the only acceptable solution for peace in the country. The US has provided weapons and training to what it called“moderate rebels” in Syria, ostensibly so they could fight IS rather than the government. Leaving the State Department in January, now former Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged that the Obama administration planned to oust Assad’s government by supporting the rebels, but “that whole ball game changed” when Russia intervened in September 2015. Turkey also intervened in Syria, launching Operation "Euphrates Shield” in August 2016. Ankara officially announced the operation’s end on Wednesday, but did not say if and when the Turkish army will withdraw from the zone it occupied in northern Syria. (RT)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/2/2017 6:21:10 PM
	‘Crushing news’: McCain, Graham furious over Syria policy change Published time: 31 Mar, 2017 18:10 Edited time: 1 Apr, 2017 16:07 US Senator John McCain (L) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R) © Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Following the announcement by top US diplomats that Washington will no longer pursue regime change in Syria, Republican senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham condemned the administration’s shift in priorities, saying it would empower ISIS and Al-Qaeda. On Thursday, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the future of President Bashar Assad “will be decided by the Syrian people.” Earlier in the day, US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said Washington’s “priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out.” Read more ’Assad must go’ no more: US gov’t shifts priorities in Syria “There is a political reality that we have to accept in terms of where we are right now,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters on Friday, explaining that the current administration“lost a lot of opportunity the last administration had with respect to Assad.” “We believe that there’s a need to de-escalate violence and to have a political process through which Syrians will decide their own political future, consistent with the principles that have been enshrined in the UN Security Council Resolution 2254,” Spicer added. Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), said he was “deeply disturbed” by Haley and Tillerson’s pronouncements, adding that their “suggestion that Assad can stay in power appears to be just as devoid of strategy as President Obama's pronouncements that ‘Assad must go’.” Syrian people can’t decide the future of their country “when they are being slaughtered by Assad's barrel bombs, Putin's aircraft, and Iran's terrorist proxies,”McCain said in a statement. He also said a “Faustian bargain with Assad and Putin” would betray US allies and partners and “empower ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other radical Islamist terrorists as the only alternative to the dictator that the Syrian people have fought for six years to remove.” Fellow committee member Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) joined McCain in denouncing the policy shift, calling it “crushing news to the Syrian opposition and to our allies throughout the Middle East.” “I fear it is a grave mistake,” Graham said, adding that the Syrian people want Assad gone and that leaving him in power would be “a great reward for Russia and Iran.” View image on Twitter Follow RT ✔@RT_com ‘Declaration of war?’ N. Korea enraged after McCain calls Kim Jong-un ‘crazy fat kid’ https://on.rt.com/87f0 1:00 PM - 30 Mar 2017 101 Retweets 133 likes McCain and Graham have been vocal critics of President Donald Trump throughout the 2016 campaign, and have since become two of the most prominently featured Republicans in the mainstream US media. Both have a reputation for being foreign policy hawks, championing US military interventions from the Balkans and Ukraine to the Middle East. When McCain ran for president in 2008, a recording emerged of him singing “Bomb, bomb Iran” to a tune of a 1960s pop song. Earlier this month, he accused Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) of “working for Vladimir Putin,” for expressing reservations about NATO’s expansion to Montenegro. Most recently, he called North Korean leader Kim Jong-un a “crazy fat kid.” (RT)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/3/2017 9:23:02 AM
	Russian Foreign Minister Implies NATO Collusion In Creating The Opioid Crisis APRIL 2, 2017 By Isaac Davis As more of the blame for the world’s exacerbating opiate overdose crisis is now being rightly put on the pharmaceutical industry, the dark side of this epidemic in the fact that the production of opium containing poppies has exploded since the military occupation of Afghanistan beginning in 2001. According to Russian diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, there are signs of collusion between NATO and drug producers and traffickers working to flood the world with opium. Remarking on how the mission to rid Afghanistan of terrorists quickly became distorted after the invasion, ultimately creating a never-ending supply of drugs to the West. During their operation in Afghanistan, the terrorist threat has not been rooted out, while the drug threat has increased many times over. The drug industry prospered. There is factual evidence that some of the NATO contingents in Afghanistan turned a blind eye to the illegal drug trafficking, even if they were not directly involved in these criminal schemes. ~Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister So, what exactly is the evidence? In a 2014 report, the UN notes that poppy production had reached an all-time global high, with shocking increases in heroin users worldwide. The amount of land used for cultivating opium poppies around the world is at an all-time high, says a UN report. Afghanistan is largely behind the increase, with its crop growing by 36 percent over a year, producing 80 percent of the world’s opium. A World Drug Report released by the UN’s Vienna-based Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has charted the global use of drugs. Although it says that global drug use is “stable,” it notes that the cultivation of opium has grown drastically. [Source] As noted by TDC: When the Untied Nations produces a report that reads like a corporate stock prospectus you know something is fishy. The UN report was very detailed about the number of new addicts, the flow of drugs out of Afghanistan and the final destination. [Source] In short, if a NATO country is overseeing the security and military occupation of Afghanistan, and suddenly poppy production explodes, then at the very least NATO is permissive of the cultivation and exportation of the world’s deadliest and most addictive street drug. Furthermore, as noted by Lavrov, there is a strategy of managed chaos in play at present in the Middle East and northern Africa, disrupting and ruining the lives of millions of people, for the benefit of America and those in positions to temporarily profit from unfettered access to the natural resources of targeted nations. The concept of managed chaos appeared long ago as a method of strengthening US influence. Its basic premise is that managed chaos projects should be launched away from the United States in regions that are crucial for global economic and financial development. ~Sergey Lavrov Lavrov’s comments on the opium crisis and managed chaos are included in the following video. This article (Russian Foreign Minister Implies NATO Collusion in Creating the Opioid Crisis) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Isaac Davis and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement. (activistpost.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/3/2017 9:51:41 AM
	WILL AI ROBOTS TURN HUMANS INTO PETS? BY KEVIN MANEY ON 4/2/17 AT 8:00 AM In a room at the United Nations overlooking New York’s East River, at a table as long as a tennis court, around 70 of the best minds in artificial intelligence recently ate a sea bass dinner and could not, for the life of them, agree on the coming impact of AI and robots. This is perhaps the most vexing challenge of AI. There’s a great deal of agreement around the notion that humans are creating a genie unlike any that’s poofed out of a bottle so far—yet no consensus on what that genie will ultimately do for us. Or to us. Will AI robots gobble all our jobs and render us their pets? Tesla CEO Elon Musk, perhaps the most admired entrepreneur of the decade, thinks so. He just announced his new company, Neuralink, which will explore adding AI-programmed chips to human brains so people don’t become little more than pesky annoyances to new generations of thinking machines. RELATED: How a 94-year-old genious may save the planet A few days before that U.N. meeting, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchinwaved away worries that AI-driven robots will steal our work and pride. “It's not even on our radar screen,” he told the press. When asked when we’ll feel the intellectual heat from robots, he answered: “Fifty to 100 more years.” Forecasting the Future At the U.N. forum, organized by AI investor Mark Minevich to generate discussions that might help world leaders plan for AI, Chetan Dube, CEO ofIPsoft, stood and said AI will have 10 times the impact of any technology in history in one-fifth the time. He threw around figures in the hundreds of trillions of dollars when talking about AI’s effect on the global economy. The gathered AI chiefs from companies such as Facebook, Google, IBM, Airbnb and Samsung nodded their heads. Is such lightning change good? Who knows? Even IPsoft’s stated mission sounds like a double-edged ax. The company’s website says it wants “to power the world with intelligent systems, eliminate routine work and free human talent to focus on creating value through innovation.” That no doubt sounds awesome to a CEO. To a huge chunk of the population, though, it could come across as happy-speak for a pink slip. Apparently, if you’re getting paid a regular wage to do “routine work,” you’re about to get “freed” from that tedious job of yours, and then you had better “innovate” if you want to, you know, “eat.” Garth Ballantyne, M.D., chief of Minimally Invasive Surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center navigates InTouch Health's RP-6 for Remote Presence robot, known as Mr. Rounder, at Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, New Jersey.SPENCER PLATT/GETTY The folks from IBM talked about how its Watson AI will help doctors sift through much more information when diagnosing patients, and it will constantly learn from all the data, so its thinking will improve. But won’t the AI start to do a better job than doctors and make the humans unnecessary? No, of course not, the IBMers said. The AI will improve the doctors, so they can help us all be healthier. Hedge fund guys said robot trading systems will make better investing decisions faster, improving returns. They didn’t seem too worried about their careers, even though some hedge funds guided solely by AI are already outperforming human hedge fund managers. Yann LeCun, Facebook’s AI chief and one of the most respected AI practitioners, says AI will be used to discover and help eliminate biases and bring people together—yet for now, AI gets accused of uncovering our individual biases and serving up content that confirms and hardens them, thereby making half the country mad at the other half. Grete Faremo, executive director of the United Nations Office for Project Services, beseeched technologists to slow down a bit and make sure the stuff they’re inventing solves the world’s great problems without making new ones. But another speaker, Ullas Naik of Steamlined Ventures, hinted at how quantum computing will soon greatly speed up development of thinking machines. He believes quantum computing is closer than most people think, and in case you don’t know, a quantum computer will be so freakishly powerful, it will make any computer today seem as old-fashioned as an Amish buggy. Put all this together, and AI might be the most wonderful technology we’ve yet created, helping humans get to a higher plane—if it doesn’t turn against humans, Terminator style. Though most likely, it will land somewhere in between. Same Old Innovation? Here’s a question worth considering: Is this AI tsunami really that different from the changes we’ve already weathered? Every generation has felt that technology was changing too much too fast. It’s not always possible to calibrate what we’re going through while we’re going through it. In January 1965, Newsweek ran a cover story titled “The Challenge of Automation.” It talked about automation killing jobs. In those days, “automation” often meant electro-mechanical contraptions on the order of your home dishwasher, or in some cases the era’s newfangled machines called computers. “In New York City alone,” the story said, “because of automatic elevators, there are 5,000 fewer elevator operators than there were in 1960.” Tragic in the day, maybe, but somehow society has managed without those elevator operators. That 1965 story asked what effect the elimination of jobs would have on society. “Social thinkers also speak of man’s ‘need to work’ for his own well-being, and some even suggest that uncertainty over jobs can lead to more illness, real or imagined.” Sounds like the same discussion we’re having today about paying everyone a universal basic income so we can get by in a post-job economy, and whether we’d go nuts without the sense of purpose work provides. So for every pronouncement that AI is different—that the changes it will drive are coming at us faster and harder than anything in history—it’s also worth wondering if we’re seeing a rerun. For all we know, 50 years ago a group of technologists might have got together at the U.N. and expressed pretty much the same hopes and concerns as the AI group.Just like now, back then no one knew how automation was going to turn out. “If America can adjust to this change, it will indeed become a place where the livin’ is easy—with abundance for all and such space-age gadgetry as portable translators…and home phone-computer tie-ins that allow a housewife to shop, pay bills and bank without ever leaving her home.” The experts of the day got the technology right, but whiffed on the “livin’ is easy” part. Except that was 1965. They would’ve talked over tuna casserole. At least the sea bass served at the U.N. confab represents progress. (Newsweek)
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