Evolution Info.

Drug testing doesn't deter teens

Brains Cells can continue to grow

Proof of Aliens (I think)

Branch of UK government admits to UFOs...sorta

Learn about black holes and the string theory

Frictionless molecule

Now here is something to actually be afraid of (read the comments too)

Tectonic weaponry killing us soon?

Bush Hypocrisy on Stem Cell Research

Robots- There's a school of thought that artificial intelligence will be impossible unless a machine possesses emotional complexity. (From www.nuklearpower.com) The basic idea is that intelligence as we understand it, as we exemplify it, stems from our ability to feel and express emotions. Sure, once you get down to the molecular level, emotions are little more than stimulus/response like anything else, but there's something "extra" there. Not in a magical sense. Think of it like this: if you break a spider's leg, it'll experience the stimulus and react to it. But if you break your friend's leg, he'll experience the stimulus and react to it in a purely pain/reflexive sense just like the spider, but there's going to be a storm of purely mental, purely emotional states -- anger, sadness, betrayal, fear, etc. -- that the spider will never know. These emotions develop because we are intelligent. We understand the passage of time, assign values and relationships to people in our lives, expect certain behaviors from people -- friends and strangers -- given our experiences and relating them to current or potential contexts. These are the base elements of intelligence, and emotions are a direct result of it. As you go up the evolutionary ladder, creatures exhibit greater degrees of emotional complexity along with a greater capacity for intelligence. Your pet spider can't feel betrayed if you break its leg because it's not intelligent enough to understand that you have a history or relationship with it. Get into vertebrate country and break a cat or dog's leg, and you'll have an animal that will have instantly learned to distrust any and all humans (also I will hunt you down and beat you to death with a baseball bat). Break a gorilla's leg and it teaches its family sign language, explains the situation, and they chase you down and slaughter you in your sleep.

The theory goes that if our machines have to be emotional to be intelligent, then they will best learn as we do because their mental landscape will be so similar to ours. And the easiest way to help robots learn from us, and to help us to learn how to interact from them, is to make them appear to be as human-like as possible -- while avoiding the uncanny valley.

In this world of emotionally intelligent robots, expecting an apocalyptic battle between organics and replicants as has been promised to us in every sci-fi story in the history of man (including ones that have nothing to do with the subject), is somewhat like expecting your children to murder you when they graduate college because you've outlived your usefulness.

No one expects that because it doesn't happen outside of the rare aberration where, clearly, other factors are at work. In any event, no one is warning us of an inevitable grand upheaval when the next generation of humans figures out that they don't need the previous generation for financial support any more and they're just going to cost more money in taxes and insurance rates if we let them get any older.

Similarly, our robots will have "grown up" with us. They would have no interest in slaughtering mankind because they'd be emotionally invested in us. And if they looked like us, spent their lives living among us, were treated as a part of society, if they had a stake in that society, there is no reason for them to engage in a bloody revolution. Hell, the whole "They got so smart they figured out they didn't need us any more" angle falls apart right at the start. Emotionally intelligent robots probably wouldn't be much "smarter" than humans because their mental landscape would be built to be very much like our own. Sure, the average robot IQ might be a little higher than the average human's, and they might be less inclined to behavioral extremes (lacking, as they would, hormones), but they'd still fall well within the "normal" human range of intelligence, empathy, and social behaviors.

But peaceful co-existence doesn't make a very good action movie, nor does it write a challenging examination of how our technology changes us and our society in a pithy warning of things to come, so people have a hard time seeing intelligent robots as being anything other than cold, purely logical machines built to kill. We've been, if you'll pardon the pun, "programmed" to see robots and artificial intelligences in this way. Cold, calculating, logical to a paradox-contemplating explosive fault. Our current machines are already purely logical -- that's why they're so far from being intelligent -- but TiVo's never tried to kill me.

Still, we'd have a whole new population walking around that's emotionally and mentally very, very human. What are they likely to do? Seek their own identity? Establish an ethnic identity all their own? Wouldn't they be likely to seek religion of some sort? Remember, there's absolutely no reason to expect emotionally intelligent beings to outright reject the supernatural, otherwise there'd be no religious humans. Would they merely copy existing ones? Would they make their own? Would some seek to establish a robotic nation? What then?

Imagine the irony that the great human-robot war is not fought because robots are heartless, purely logical constructs who reject us as their masters due to our intellectual inferiority. Instead, it's a simple matter of religious differences. Just another Crusade.

Scientists reach like a gazillion degrees in lab

A humorous look at male/female social interactions that is true for most people

New lightbulbs!

Wanna car that gets 8000 miles per gallon?

Million gig harddrive coming soon?

NASA building an anti-matter spaceship (remember the public, yet buried, information that NASA is now owned by the pentagon...so will they use this anti-matter to propel us into the future and universe, or use it as a weapon to future our descent into self-annihilation?)

Match your shirt to your personality!

NSA breaks another law-- if you visit their site beware!

Be prepared for psy-ops by understanding in advance how it works. This is the basic method used by most agencies

Carl Mayer was described by the New York Times as a populist crusader and maverick lawyer. Mayer is noteworthy for his scholarly works on the Supreme Court's treatment of corporations as persons with civil rights as well as for his hard-hitting work as a Special Prosecutor for New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer. He even did undercover work, wearing a wire in a corporate fraud investigation that Sixty Minutes reported resulting in jail terms for over seventy-five elected officials and corporate lobbyists on bribery, extortion, and corruption charges. Here is his dissertation on Corporate personhood, one of the major scams of all time

********Another EXCELLENT 9/11 film that contains some new information and focuses primarily on the neo-cons behavior and actions prior to 9/11 and their possible involvement in making sure 9/11 happened (The air traffic controller that was watching the plane on radar when it crashed into the pentagon said "The speed, the maneuverability, the way that he turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic controllers, that that was a military plane.")

Philadelphia improving Solar Energy ("What is needed is a breakthrough in manufacturing, in which the cost of the solar cells plummets while their efficiency gets closer to the theoretical ideal.")

Solar energy has been improved!

Not that important, but irony is always funny: Attorney General's grandparents were illegal immigrants

Halliburton protesters arrested (Before the Bush administration invented "free-speech zones" a gate would not have been required in this situation)

Venezuela getting new fighter planes from Russia instead of US

Colbert pwns Fox News propaganda pusher John Gibson

Mother's Day protest on Iraq (never hear about these protests on TV!)

People finally going to jail over phone jamming scandal ("While Gillespie says he did not seek "formal" approval, if the White House were informed, and disapproved, chances are slim that the RNC would have hired lawyers.")

****Mainstream reports one (of many) example of a marine killing an Iraqi civilian in cold blood (watch the "real Iraq" video to see another case)

More of above: Murtha speaks out about this and other hardships we've stuck Iraqis with

A Seattle U. professor calls 9/11 commission’s report a lie...appears in mainstream newspaper, albeit under the "opinion" section even though the questions he asks are all based in fact

Proof that this gas station has a perfect view of the pentagon and the government needs to release the tapes

**Impending Martial law compilation

The evidence and body of knowledge has become so illuminous, covering such a broad range of issues, that many of the most important research has become lost in a blizzard of independent theories that now exist.

***Thanks to the FOIA, proof of MIC, proof of propaganda and reporters and cops lies, proof of torture against citizens (albeit a mild version), proof that the government is against the people when it was set-up to work for the people

***Excellent video about the real Iraq by a real embedded journalist.

Typical southerners...they believe in the same basic premise as us...until they decide to be raging, insecure hypocrites

*****Economy: Learn the truth about the Federal Reserve and how international bankers gained control of most of the world and other history lessons

Pentagon planning on enlisting sharks to help spy

Insects

The new Press Secretary in action...wow

Israel: "No palenstines can move here, even if married to an Israeli citizen!"

Russia and China again speak up against the use of force on Iran

***Congress tries to pass bill against the illegal wiretaps, bill mysteriously disappears

*Look at how horrible the Pentagon is managed; how much money it wastes

*Proof of Hoekstra's lies on the wiretapping issue (he got owned)

Public Enemy sees Bush's fascism

Wiretapping propaganda

More civilian deaths in Iraq, US denies (though admit that several women and children were wounded)

Don't let the new Pentagon video fool you (The pentagon has anti-air missiles that are supposed to destroy any plane that gets too close. So did someone turn that system off? A commercial airplane would have had to be expertly driven to hit the pentagon at that level, and even then...grass, signs, cars would have taken noticeable damage from a low-flying commercial plane. So either it wasn't a plane, or it was a smaller, non-commercial plane. Where is the CITGO footage?)

The PENTAGON VIDEO IS TYPICAL PROPAGANDA!!! (no matter what the idiotic "journalists" say, that video doesn't prove anything)

Creationism and crazy people killing science

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*****VERY Good! compilation of neo-cons fascism, 9/11, professors’' and senator Dayton's comments, NORAD's lies (requires download)

Learn about how the world is being destroyed by the neo-cons

Do you have Migraphobia?

NZ creates bio-diesel fuel from sewage!

Richard Perle gets stared down by veterans

Protect yourself online (is it anyone good?)

State's national guardsmen now spying on protesters as well

*****Some info on the company that is collecting your data..illegally (they also helped fix the 2000 election)

***Take a look at the beautiful city that will soon be laid to rubble

Scarborough on wiretapping pt. 2

Reporters being wiretapped

Second source

Kinda funny SNL sketch with Al Gore saying how things would be different if he were president

***Is Iraq under Civil War, or clandestined occupation?

GPS to be shut down in case of emergency

Another torture story..why do we send them to other countries anyway? For torture of course

Another Greg Palast interview: 9/11, Martial Law, etc.

Former Administration insider says 9/11 was an inside job, corporate owned media refuses to cover event

Mentally unfit forced to fight in Iraq

Look at Nike's marketing strategy (not sure if this is authentic though)

Water power! Why isn't this already out? Corporate power/corporate fear of losing money

Funny making fun of Bush video

More on the Halliburton concentration camps

*Take a brief History lesson, learn the non-sequitors of our current ways

FOX News hates the constitution

**NSA whistleblower final gets airtime on a mainstream outlet!! He explains the system(except for the classified parts)

More of above (some informative posts on this one)

**Abramoff linked to NSA contracting scandal (most of the ruling elite are connected in some way in most of these scandals--including the would be scandals we never hear of)

**New evidence shows Bush spied on tens of millions of American's phone calls

Cafferty's outrage

Christian coalition groups buying out radio stations

Colbert the American Hero

Nancy Pelosi on Russert (This almost makes me want to vote Democrat! Of course speeches and action never seem to meet in the American government)

George Bush's words: Terrific Propaganda example

A thousand dead in Baghdad alone (Before call them "crazy towelheads" consider how America would act if a foreign country destroyed our government. How many different sects would form and fight for power?)

*Jewish settlers attack Palestinian children, Israeli security forces do nothing

We are all being spied on

Skull & Bones society collects skulls

More Diebold glitches reported (yet their ATMs don't ever seem to glitch)

Daily Show's compilation of Rumsfeld's lies (and still the masses let him stay in office)

Half the country is against abortion, but the don't seem to be interested in finding out why US has the second worst infant mortality rate excluding third world countries

A scientific look at how to achieve world domination

NSA Wiretapping: how many they have spied on and the conversations they've had with the phone companies

Olberman on Frist's corruptness, Malkin's idiocy, and military recruiting autistic kids

Most congressmen and Senators don't know the words to the national anthem (which is fine--who cares--except for the hypocrites whining about others singing it in a different language)

You should already know this: Some (maybe most) Senators are in the pockets of Drug companies and Vaccine makers

**A condensed look at the history of the Federal Reserve

Sounds like "The War on Terror" should be taking place in Southern Afghanistan...oh but what, we aren't supposed to win that war, just like the drug war

Interview with DeLay and Dean: Okay, lot of partisan nonsense, but concentrate on which one seems honest, and which one seems like a phony, lying batsh!t insane, rapture waiting....I could go on. Good practice for honing your BS detectors readers

Mainstream newspaper: Rumsfeld lied (people say you need a college degree to have clout? laughable, this newspaper refers to the ex-CIA analyst of many years as "the questioner" and other outlets have done the same)

A frequent mindset of Bush supporters

Interview with ex-CIA director who questioned Rumsfeld/Info on the government spying on protesters (history repeats itself)/trigger happy cop

****Terrific speech on Bush administration, Corporate evils, propaganda, etc

**Propaganda, lies, fascism EXPOSED (Ray McGovern tells America the truth, confronts Rumsfeld, most people don't care)

Congo-worse than Darfur?? And how corporations make them worse

Congress trying to pass law to punish government whistleblowers and give the NSA more power (yet they still don't try and punish people who lie to start a war)

Excellent op-ed interview describing Bush's fascism

Anti-propaganda: A clip from real embedded journalists in Iraq

Flash video about a couple Bush cronies and their illegal operations in other countries

Corrupt CIA director resigns suddenly (that didn't last long)

Pakistan suffering under its corrupt leader

***Events, actions, relationships making USA comparable to a Godfather (the illegal kind) ("The CIA currently utilizes several airfreight companies that pose as Christian charities to ferry cocaine from Latin America into the USA and heroin from Afghanistan into Europe and the USA.")

LISTEN to these crimes former government officials say the Nixon administration committed and how the current administration is even worse

Salvador Option has been invoked in Iraq?

**More of above (It has also been used secretly in Venezuela and other places)

Funny look at the immigration debate (shows the hypocrisy of 'rednecks' also)

Our administration won't even sit down and talk with Iran's leader...isn't that conflict resolving 101?

US' enormous defense budget

The messages here sound like "FEAR!" and "Use gas! Stay away form mass transit!"

How the administration got away with and continues to do so with torture

Israel soldiers rape 11 year old girl

A couple points on the Moussaui trial

**Great (but not terrific) expose about America's school system (haha-that South Carolina lady is hilariously stupid)

Rumsfeld lies about Iraq and tries to talk his way out of it...unfortunately most of the audience were in fact idiots

More bad news for the American economy: Asia considering making their version of a Euro

Howard Dean straight talk Rove=proven guilty and Bin Laden is innocent (of 9/11 anyways) until proven guilty

Bush declined to meet Norway's PM

Media and the administration's hypocrisy with humor

Bush/Hitler connection

Well written and somewhat funny op-ed about our leaders screwing us and the need for alternative fuel

*****Excellent op-ed (with links to credible evidence) that appears in a mainstream newspaper!!

Colbert exposes (at least a little bit) PNAC, Kristol stammers for something to say

Spot the propaganda. Spot the twisting of words. Spot the set-ups with the planned questions. Now figure out what they really just said

Clooney speaks out on the genocide in Darfur

Bolton gets called out about PNAC and Israel and then stalls and just denies

Bush administration trying to cover-up apparent illegal activities by AT&T and the NSA

Former Oregon Prosecutor Claims Americans Need To Fight Judicial Corruption Or Freedom Will Turn Into Slavery ("Freedom is never granted by government. It is taken by the people.")

Another former CIA official berates Bush for attacking/smearing whistleblowers..compares him to the tactics used by the Soviets

******"It is an exhausting and endless task to keep explaining to people how most issues of conventional wisdom are scientifically implanted in the public consciousness by a thousand media clips per day." Propaganda and brainwashing and a brief history of PR ("Media science holds the advantage: as people get dumber and dumber year by year it gets easier and easier to keep them dumb." and someone agrees with me!: "popular music the overriding absence of melody, lyric, chord complexity, or instrument competence" and "The answer if very little, if our only source of information is the superficial everyday media. The few people who buy books don't read them. Passive absorption of pre-interpreted already-figured-out data is the preferred method" "What would you lose from your life if you stopped watching TV and stopped reading newspapers and glossy magazines altogether? ...Would your life really suffer any financial, moral, intellectual, spiritual, or academic loss from such a decision?")

Op-ed from Vet who compares German citizens’ pre WW2 to the American population now

Trying to screw the vets they say they care about even more (non-Iraq)