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these Mad hatters ... ask again WHEN did THE AMERICAN PEOPLE become the ENEMY ! folks WE gotta get these KOOKS outta here, OUR Country IS fighting WARS EVERY WHERE !!! & with EVERYONE !!! ...& these NUT JOBS R looking 2 START 1 ...HERE at HOME !!! .........their fucking NUTS !!! WTF ??? ......r we so blind ! ..that you don't c it ?
Report Prepared for Obama’s DHS & DOJ targets Survivalists, Patriots & Conservatives as Terrorist Threats
The
Southern Poverty Law Center, a group who regularly attacks patriotic
Americans by masquerading as a civil rights group, is compiling lists
and conducting surveillance
on what it calls “patriots”, “survivalists”, and “conspiracy
theorists”. Even more disturbing, is the access this group has to the
Obama administration’s Department of Justice.
In a report prepared for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, the Southern Poverty Law
Center (SPLC) is asking the Federal Government to create a new
inter-agency task force which will be dedicated to tracking and taking
down conspiracy theorists, survivalists, “Patriot groups” and the
“American radical right”.
The Government Supported Attack Group, who is actively creating lists
and conducting surveillance on Americans, says the following people
need to be tracked by the Federal Government.
Those who talk about, or believe in Conspiracy Theories.
Those who talk about or believe in Agenda 21 — a United Nations
sustainability plan that was signed by President George H.W. Bush and is
part of a plan to impose socialism on America and strip away private
property rights.
Those who believe that the government is poised to take their guns.
Those who believe the President is trying to impose Socialism on the American people.
Those who call themselves Survivalist or belong to Patriot Groups.
Right-wing groups like the Tea Party, the Constitution Party, the Oath Keepers, or other “conspiracy-oriented Patriot groups”
The report was written by J. Richard Cohen, President of the SPLC and a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Violent Extremism Working Group.
The fact that our government entertains the thoughts of a raving
madman is a testament to how far this country has fallen from its
founding doctrines. How a person who labels patriotic Americans as a
terrorist threat is allowed to work with the federal government,
especially at a time when the DHS is in the middle of so many Spying & Drone Scandals, is a complete mystery that should scare the hell out of every American in this country.
We have a government who is declaring war on the thoughts, opinions
and principles that founded this country. When a man who declares
Patriots to be a “terrorist group” is allowed such high level access to
our leaders, there is something seriously wrong with our system.
11 Things That The Obama Administration Is Doing To Promote More Illegal Immigration
By Michael, on March 10th, 2013
Why
does it seem like Barack Obama has been doing everything that he can to
sabotage our border security and promote more illegal immigration? The
number one responsibility of the president of the United States is to
defend our nation, and yet Obama stubbornly refuses to secure our
borders. In fact, he has been doing quite a bit to make it even easier
for millions more drug runners, gang members and welfare parasites to
enter our country illegally. This is utter insanity. Today, the U.S.
government makes it exceedingly difficult for law-abiding people to
enter this country legally through the “front door”, but meanwhile we
leave the “back door” completely wide open. What sense does that make?
And now Obama is using the sequester cuts as an excuse to totally gut
our border security. 60,000 border agents are going to be forced to
take mandatory furloughs and thousands of illegal immigrants are being
released from federal detention facilities due to “budget constraints”.
Yet Michelle Obama still has enough taxpayer money to have Adele and Beyonce
come out and sing for her 50th birthday celebration, and the Obamas
continue to take extravagant vacations that cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars.
And most Americans don’t even realize that the U.S. government will
still spend more money in 2013 than it did in 2012 even after the
sequester cuts are factored in. So the government still has plenty of
money to do everything that it needs to do. Obama is just using the
sequester cuts as an excuse to gut the programs that he does not like,
and that includes border security and immigration enforcement.
The sad truth is that Barack Obama never cared about protecting our
borders or enforcing our immigration laws. In fact, he has done
basically everything that he can within the constraints of the law to
make things even easier for illegal immigrants.
The following are 11 things that the Obama administration is doing to promote more illegal immigration… #1 The Obama administration is using the sequester cuts as an excuse to cut border security to the bone. CNN is reporting that 60,000 border agents will soon be facing mandatory furloughs…
The U.S. government on Thursday notified 60,000 federal
workers responsible for securing borders and facilitating trade that
they will face furloughs due to government-wide spending cuts.
Customs and Border Protection said it expects furloughs and other
austerity will cause delays at ports of entry, including international
arrivals at airports, and reduce the number of border patrol officers on
duty at any one time.
#2 The Department of Homeland Security says that it
will release approximately 10,000 illegal immigrants that are currently
being held in detention centers around the nation. The Obama
administration says that there is not enough money to hold them any
longer. The following is from a recent Fox News article…
The Department of Homeland Security has started releasing
hundreds of illegal immigrants held in local jails in anticipation of
automatic budget cuts, in a move one Arizona sheriff called politically
motivated — and dangerous.
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said Tuesday that Immigration and
Customs Enforcement released more than 500 detainees in his county alone
over the weekend. A spokesman for Babeu told FoxNews.com that ICE
officials have said they plan to release a total of nearly 10,000
illegal immigrants.
If you are outraged by this, you are not alone. In fact, the
official at the Department of Homeland Security that was in charge of
immigration enforcement and removal operations actually resigned because of all this. #3 The head of the Department of Homeland Security,
Janet Napolitano, has implemented a case-by-case review of all
deportation cases involving illegal immigrants. Cases involving those
that have committed crimes will be prioritized and almost all the rest
will be thrown out. In essence, this is a form of “backdoor amnesty”
that the Obama administration has put into place without going through
Congress. I discussed the details of this “backdoor amnesty” in a previous article…
Government officials have now been given a list of 19
factors to use when deciding whether to use “prosecutorial discretion”
in deportation cases.
Essentially, what is going to happen now is that illegal immigrants
are going to get to stay in the United States if any of the following
apply….
-arrival in the U.S. as a young child
-actively “pursuing an education”
-serving or served in the U.S. military
-spouse of someone in the U.S. military
-18 years old or younger
-”elderly”
-pregnant or nursing
-victim of a “serious crime”
-serious disability or health problem
-caring for a family member with a serious disability or health problem
As you can see, these categories are so broad that almost all illegal immigrants will be able to fit into at least one of them.
#4 The Obama administration wants immigrants to know
that just because they are getting food stamps that does not mean that
it will hurt their chances of becoming United States citizens. The
following is from a recent Daily Caller article…
The United States Department of Agriculture has been
working to dispel immigrants’ concerns that getting on Food Stamps will
harm their chances of becoming U.S. citizens.
The USDA addresses those fears in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program, or food stamp, brochures it distributes to Mexican consulates
as part of its “partnership” with the Mexican government “to help
educate eligible Mexican nationals living in the United States about
available nutrition assistance.”
In one portion of the brochure, USDA’s text asks, “If I get on SNAP
benefits, will I be a ‘public charge?’” The brochure then answers: “No.
You and your family can apply for and receive SNAP benefits without
hurting your chance of becoming U.S. citizens.”
#5 The federal government actually has a website that teaches immigrants how to sign up for welfare programs
once they arrive in the United States. On WelcomeToUSA.gov, immigrants
are encouraged to sign up for all of the “government benefits” that
they are eligible for. Here is an excerpt from that page…
Depending on your immigration status, length of time in
the United States, and income, you may be eligible for some federal
benefit programs. Government assistance programs can be critically
important to the well-being of some immigrants and their families.
Frequently, however, there is a lack of information about how to access
such benefits. Benefit programs can be complicated and you may be given
misleading information about how they operate.
Sadly, once immigrants get on welfare they tend to stay on it for a very long time. For example, one study found that 43 percent of all immigrants that have been in the United States for at least 20 years are still on welfare. #6 Barack Obama sees the upcoming “immigration reform” bill being pushed through Congress as an opportunity to grant amnesty to millions upon millions of immigrants that have come into the United States illegally…
“‘A bad sequel’ is how American Legion National Commander
James E. Koutz described President Obama’s proposal to grant amnesty to
people who are in the United States illegally,” according to an
American Legion press release from Jan. 30.
“Whether it’s called ‘Pathway to Citizenship’ or some other
euphemism, it’s still amnesty,” said Koutz. “It didn’t work when
President Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
and it will be even more disastrous if we repeat that mistake again.”
Koutz added that those who came to the United States illegally should not receive the special title of “American citizen.”
#7 An increasing number of U.S. states are now allowing illegal immigrants to get driver’s licenses. This is being done with the blessing of the Obama administration. #8 Since entering the White House, Barack Obama has steadfastly refused to go after “sanctuary cities” even though there is a federal law that requires him to do so. #9 Obama has not been afraid to appoint women with
links to pro-illegal immigration organizations to very high positions in
his administration…
After assuming office, President Obama appointed
Congresswoman Hilda Solis as Labor Secretary and Celia Munoz as Director
of Intergovernmental Affairs. Both of these women have strong
pro-amnesty histories with affiliations with groups such as the National
Council of La Raza (The Race).
#10 Recently, the Obama administration announced the very first “unmanned” border station along the Texas-Mexico border…
Get ready for the very first “unmanned” border station on
the U.S.-Mexico border. Slated to open at the end of this month, the
Big Bend National Park in Texas will be staffed by, you guessed it,
computers.
If nobody is manning those stations, who will stop illegal immigrants from coming across? #11 Not only has the Obama administration refused to
secure our borders and enforce our immigration laws, they have also
sued individual states such as Arizona that have tried to crack down on illegal immigration.
Are you starting to get the picture?
Meanwhile, it looks like illegal immigration is on the increase again in many areas. For example, La Joya Police Chief Julian Gutierrez recently said that he is “seeing more people coming across and in bigger groups.”
And of course it is ridiculously easy to get across the border if you know where to do it.
Recently, Alex Jones went down to the Texas border and shot quite a bit of footage of illegal immigrants crossing the border without any problem whatsoever.
Today, far more people move into the United States illegally than come in through the legal immigration process.
Our immigration enforcement is a complete and total joke. Illegal
immigrants know that if they do happen to get picked up, they will just
get sent back over the border where they can just try again.
And now we are even releasing many of the illegal immigrants that we
have captured inside the United States itself due to “budget cuts”. The
Department of Homeland Security insists that they still plan to deport
all of them, but once they release them they will have a heck of a time
trying to find them again.
And Barack Obama has shown time and time again that he will use the
legal immigration process to benefit certain groups that he wants to
favor while using it to hurt groups that he does not like.
For example, Obama wants to deport
a German homeschooling family that is seeking political asylum in the
United States, but he authorized an 80,000 increase in immigration from
Islamic nations in 2011. Obama said that the increase from Islamic
countries was “justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.”
So what do you think that Barack Obama is trying to accomplish with his immigration policies?
Please feel free to post a comment with your opinion below…
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Hackers release financial records for vice president, attorney general, FBI director and others
Hackers have published what are alleged to be the
personal financial records for several politicians and celebrities,
including US Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Eric Holder and
musicians Jay-Z and Beyoncé.
Gossip website TMZ reported on Monday that hackers have leaked
sensitive information pertaining to a list of prominent Americans,
including celebrities Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Mel Gibson and
Ashton Kutcher, as well as public figures Joe Biden, Robert
Mueller, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck,
but elected to not share the information with their audience. “A website -- we're not disclosing the name -- has posted
social security numbers, mortgage amounts, credit card info, car
loans, banking and other info of major celebs,” the website
wrote.
RT has learned that the website is Exposed.Su.
The documents, contained on a page titled ‘The Secret Files,’
were made known to RT on Monday afternoon. The page contains simply
a link to the figures allegedly hacked, an image of a girl holding
her forefinger up to her mouth and a quote from the television
program Dexter: "If you believe that God makes miracles, you
have to wonder if Satan has a few up his sleeve.”
Among the specific details included in the data dump are the
Social Security numbers and alleged home addresses and contact
information for most of the figures profiled, as well as credit
reports and other financial figures for a select bunch.
For former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
hackers have released only her Social Security Number and places of
residence. For other targets, though, the information leaked allows
for much more of a glimpse into their finances.
According to the documents hosted on Exposed.Su, Hollywood actor
Ashton Kutcher was spending $981 each month for a car he leased
from Chase Auto Finance in 2004. Rapper Jay-Z, real name Sean
Carter, has been reported to a collections agency on at least one
occasion. As of this month, he also has a HSBC bank account with a
balance of $816,882 — and a credit line of over five-and-a-half
million. The page for his wife, performer Beyoncé Giselle
Knowles-Carter, includes the singer’s SSN, a list of homes and a
handful of phone numbers, as well as bank transaction
information.
RT called one of those numbers listed as Beyoncé to confirm
authenticity, but was transferred to two separate operators that
claimed that they’ve been receiving a number of calls. That number
was discovered as registered to Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman,
"a leading full-service business
management firm for entertainers, executives and select high net
worth individuals."
Just seconds after the trigger of a gun is squeezed,
police officers in cities and towns across America are alerted thanks to
the latest and greatest state-of-the-art technology. Up-to-the-moment
accuracy isn’t always enough, though.
Programs like the ShotSpotter system were already in place in 44
US cities by 2009, and in recent years the company has only added
more names to its list of customers that can learn about gun
activity the second shots are fired. ShotSpotter’s developers
describe it as “a gunfire alert and analysis
solution” that uses specialized sensors and software to
triangulate and pinpoint the precise location of each spent round
within seconds, and dozens of law enforcement agencies across the
United States have signed-on.
When it’s a matter of life or death, though, seconds can mean
all the difference. That’s the reasoning, at least, for why a
number of police departments across America are relying not just on
systems like ShotSpotter but other, more Orwellian surveillance
techniques to spy on citizens and predict problems before they even
occur. The result, depending on who you ask, means a drop in crime.
It also, however, could mean no one is safe from the ever watching
eye of Big Brother.
Predictive policing programs that rely on algorithms and
historic data to hypothesize the location and nature of future
crimes are already being deployed New York City and other towns.
Last month, in fact, Seattle, Washington Mayor Mike McGinn announced that two precincts there were
starting to use predictive policing programs, promising “This
technology will allow us to be proactive rather than reactive in
responding to crime.” “The Predictive Policing software is estimated to be twice as
effective as a human data analyst working from the same
information” Seattle Police Chief John Diaz told reporters.
“It’s all part of our effort to build an agile, flexible and
innovative police department that provides the best service
possible to the public.”
But specialized software and sensors aren’t the only tools law
enforcement officers are using to look into suspicious activity. In
Los Angeles, one police department has at least one officer on the
clock 24 hours a day patrolling social media sites for unusual
activity.
Tweets, Facebook posts and even Instagram photos are all subject
to surveillance, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Capt. Mike
Parker admits to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. Parker works with
the eight-member Electronic Communications Triage, or eComm Unit
that monitor public social media posts at all hours of the day in
order to see if advertised parties and other get-togethers could
benefit from a surprise visit by the police. "They're watching social media and Internet comments that
pertain to this geographic area, watching what would pertain to our
agencies so we can prevent crime, help the public," Parker
says. "And now they're going to be ramping up more and more with
more sharing and interacting, especially during crises, whether
it's local or regional."
Tribute writer Brenda Gazzar cites unspecified incidents in LA
where teenagers attend parties, drink heavily and engage in illegal
activity. “The partygoers usually get high, get a girl drugged
up and then sexually assault her,” Gazzar quotes Capt. Parker.
“Often gang members will show up, start fighting over a girl and
end up shooting or stabbing someone.” "We are absolutely and completely convinced that we are
preventing wild assaults from our efforts with these illegal social
media advertised parties,” Capt. Parker says, adding that the
eComm unit has already thwarter around 250 “illegal parties”
in Los Angeles County.
So-called “illegal parties” aren’t the only thing being
searched for, though. The Tribune goes on to say that
“unsanctioned protests” are also put under the magnifying
glass by officers with the eComm unit who actively scour to Web to
see what demonstrations are being planned and by whom.
Capt. Parker says the eComm unit doesn’t search for specific
people, just certain activity, and stands by the system so far.
With a number of other law enforcement agencies using
state-of-the-art technologies to try and stop crime, though, it’s
forcing more and more Americans to submit to a society where the
police become privy to their personal activity, whether they like
it or not.
Karen North, director of the University of Southern California’s
Annenberg Program on Online Communities, tells the Tribune that
scouring social media sites for suspicious activity is “a smart
move” on behalf of law enforcement, and that "All people
should know that anything you put up on social media is
public.” “Even if you put it up on your private Facebook feed, you
should still assume it's public" she tells the Tribune. When
social media analysts have access to other implements, however, it
raises all sorts of questions about what activity is fair game for
the fuzz.
Evgeny Morozov, a Bulgarian writer and researcher, reports for the UK’s Observer this week that
police agencies are starting to combine more and more of the data
that enters eComm divisions and other units in agencies across the
United States. In New York City, for example, Morozov acknowledges
that the NYPD’s recently rolled-out Domain Awareness System doesn’t
start and end with real-time gunshot alerts. That system, he says,
“syncs the city's 3,000 closed-circuit camera feeds with arrest
records, 911 calls, licence plate recognition technology and
radiation detectors.” “It can monitor a situation in real time and draw on a lot of
data to understand what's happening. The leap from here to
predicting what might happen is not so great,” he says.
The thousands of surveillance cameras on the island of Manhattan
alone have existed for years, and the American Civil Liberties
Union and other groups have led relentless campaigns against the
NYPD’s all-watching spy system and other
constitutional-questionable behavior that brings every step in the
City that Never Sleeps subject to police scrutiny. On the other
side of the country, though, Seattle, Washington is soon becoming
the surveillance capital of America. Earlier this year it was
revealed that the major Pacific Northwest hub is in the midst of
installing 30 surveillance cameras that will create a “wireless
mesh network security system” on the city’s harbor that can be monitored by law enforcement
agencies across the region. Coupled with other activity, though,
Seattle’s eye-in-the-sky programs might be more serious than once
suspected.
When Seattle recently signed onto the ShotSpotter system at a
cost of $950,000 over two years for installation and operation, the
city agreed to install 52 mobile gunshot locators that can collect
intelligence up to 600 feet away using high-tech microphones and
cameras. “Having a private corporation control more than fifty
audio/video surveillance stations in Seattle is likely to attract
external interest,” security researcher Jacob Appelbaum
tweeted over the weekend. A resident of Seattle, Appelbaum wrote on
Twitter that he was looking for more information about the
on-the-rise spy program being constructed in his city. “I find
it rather depressing that surveillance/dataveillance programs are
created and are used without so much as a public discussion,”
he tweeted. “It would be interesting to learn how much money it
costs to spin up the system and to FOIA the real data as input into
the system.”
With public discourse on the subject sparse in many cities,
though, obtaining, processing and sharing information with other
concerned residents isn’t as commonplace as Appelbaum and others
might want it to be. When many cities sign contracts with
ShotSpotter, press write-ups are few and far between. In other
locales, cameras that monitor car traffic are accepted as a
necessity to curb red-light runners and other haphazard drivers.
Rarely, however, is it discussed what other intelligence these
cameras collect, and with whom it’s being shared with.
Predictive policing “may very well end up reducing crime to a
certain degree,” Loyola Law School professor Stan Goldman told
National Public Radio in a 2011 interview. “The question is at
what cost, at what price?”
According to a CBS
report, a predictive policing program in an area of Los Angeles
drove burglaries down by one-third in a matter of only five months.
And when ShotSpotter was first installed in Saginaw, Michigan,
crime soon dropped by 30 percent. As for the price,
however, consider this: if each of the 52 ShotSpotter sensors in
Seattle can collect data within a radius of 600 feet, then roughly
58,780,800 square feet of the city under surveillance — or over 2
square miles where privacy ceases to exist. That, of course, isn’t
even taking into account the other surveillance systems in place,
including the one on the city’s harbor.
And don’t even think about sharing this story on Facebook.
How medicine is killing us all: Antibiotics, superbugs and the next global pandemic
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) While globalists like Bill Gates are feverishly working on ways to reduce human population
through vaccines, GMOs and abortions, an even more effective population
killer is now emerging: drug-resistant strains of "gram-negative"
bacteria: Superbugs.
The global abuse of antibiotics and
the rise of drug-resistant superbugs has become an urgent issue of
survival for the human race, and even mainstream medical experts are now
describing microbiological doomsday scenarios if the situation isn't
reversed. As The Guardian reported today:
Antibiotic-resistant
bacteria with the potential to cause untreatable infections pose "a
catastrophic threat" to the population, the chief medical officer for
Britain warns in a report calling for urgent action worldwide.
Big Pharma causes the problem, then walks away
How
did it get this bad? After Big Pharma polluted the medical landscape
with a flood of antibiotics that caused drug-resistant strains to
emerge, it has since abandoned any new research on antibiotics, claiming
"there's no profit in it."
The antibiotics pipeline is empty.
But drug-resistant bacteria aren't asleep at the wheel; they're rapidly
mutating, developing new biological defenses against Big Pharma's drugs.
With each passing month, the superbugs get stronger. "No new classes of
antibiotics have been developed since 1987, and none are in the
pipeline across the world," reports The Independent.
It
continues, "...for Big Pharma, there is little money in expensively
developing new compounds which will only be taken in short courses,
compared to a drug for blood pressure, say, which may have lifelong use
for patients."
Even if it were profitable to develop new antibiotics, it's a losing game anyway
because a drug that takes 10 years to develop can become useless in as
little as one year in the real world. That's thanks to the rapid
mutation capabilities of gut bacteria.
The net result is that the western medical system that was built on chemicals as the weapons of war against disease has run out of chemicals to fight superbugs.
The "end game" of modern medicine is upon us, and the drug industry
openly admits it's not even working on solutions to this problem.
Natural remedies for superbugs have been suppressed and censored
Meanwhile,
the governments and medical institutions of the world have, for an
entire century, suppressed the natural antibiotics cures that can very
effectively kill superbugs. Natural remedies like colloidal silver, aloe
vera, garlic, medicinal herbs and high-potency nutritional therapies
have been attacked, censored and criminalized. This has left the
population with a problem that's best stated in three parts:
#1) A wave of antibiotic-resistant superbugs is accelerating toward humanity. #2) Big Pharma has run out of chemicals to treat them. #3) The corrupt medical system has censored natural antibiotics.
The result is that the people are left with no solutions other than to lay down and die.
Not coincidentally, that may be exactly what the system wants you to do.
Modern medicine IS population control
It turns out that the entire system of medicine has been veering aggressively toward population control for the past decade.
For
example, vaccines were once widely known to be dangerous for pregnant
women, but the medical authorities "flipped the script" just a few years
ago and said that pregnant women now need more vaccines than everybody else. The upshot is that vaccines cause huge increases in spontaneous abortions (i.e. population reduction). For example, Gardasil is reportedly linked to more stillbirths
than any other vaccine. Eugenicists like Bill Gates refer to this as
"reproductive health," by the way. That's code for "population
reduction."
Chemotherapy would have never been given to pregnant women in years past, but now it's actually recommended as a preventive cancer therapy for expectant mothers.
Chemotherapy, of course, is a chemical weapon that kills unborn babies
and causes spontaneous abortions, organ damage and birth defects.
The aggression behind today's big vaccine push is also largely a population control measure. Vaccines cause infertility due to the mercury, aluminum and formaldehyde chemicals they contain. All of these chemicals interfere with fertility and gestation.
Most of the pharmaceuticals being heavily pushed today (statin drugs, blood thinners, etc.) are at least partially designed to kill you before you can collect social security.
The
idea is to make sure the population only lives long enough to keep
working and paying into the system, but not long enough to actually
collect benefits which are bankrupting the nation. Before long, "dying
early" is going to be pushed as "patriotic" and "good for the country."
You can fully expect the socialist government to start spreading guilt
about longevity. If you live long enough to collect money from the
government, they're going to make sure you feel incredibly guilty about
it. ("How dare you live long enough to collect some of the money we
stole out of your paycheck during your working years!")
Superbugs
are a key ally to the system in all this because they create a
convenient scapegoat to take the blame for a failed medical system. A
patient who is over-medicated, immuno-suppressed and taken over by an
aggressive superbug infection can be written off as another casualty of a
"fatal infection." Never mind the fact that the person was made
vulnerable to infections by all the toxic therapies and prescription
drugs that serve as the foundation of western chemical medicine.
Superbugs
are the new Lee Harvey Oswalds of medicine: they take the blame for the
killing and prevent people from asking in-depth questions about what
really happened.
Probiotics remain completely ignored
What's
really astonishing in all this is the delusional belief that only Big
Pharma can "discover" new drugs that kill these drug-resistant bacteria.
In all of western medicine, there is never any discussion of the
all-important role of probiotics in establishing healthy gut
flora, thereby crowding out the dangerous strains. If "anti" biotics are
the problem, then "pro" biotics are the solution.
It is
absolutely astonishing that modern medicine refuses to advocate
probiotics, and it reveals how the entire system of modern medicine
remains stuck in a 1940's mentality where the body was a "battleground" and medicines were "weapons" to be unleashed against "the enemy."
This
delusional metaphor is what has driven the failed system of modern
medicine for nearly a century, and it's the reason superbugs and
antibiotics have reached a point of such insanity that the entire
population is now threatened with the possibility of a runaway global
pandemic.
The medical system also doesn't understand synergistic phytonutrients and how a concert of plant-based chemicals work together in ways that are far more powerful than any one isolated chemical could ever be. Big Pharma is always looking for the next great isolated molecule
but can never embrace the idea that isolated chemicals are always less
effective and more dangerous than full-spectrum phytochemicals from the
natural world. (A drug can never be as powerful as a plant, because a
drug doesn't have the phytonutrient complexity of a plant.)
Eliminating gram-negative
superbugs from the gut of a patient is easy if you aren't medically
ignorant (i.e. trained in medical school). Simply embracing the power of
antibacterial superfoods like garlic -- combined with the
health-protective powers of probiotics -- yields phenomenal results.
Food choice also impacts gut health (obviously), yet doctors rarely talk
to their patients about what they should eat. Somehow, modern medicine
has isolated food choice from health outcomes, creating a truly
delusional health care system in which patients are treated with deadly
chemicals rather than food as medicine.
This is what got us to
this crisis in the first place: doctors functioning as chemical
pushers... and patients surrendering their personal power to the failed
medical system.
Why humanity's superbug crisis can't be solved with chemicals
To
get out of this crisis, we can't approach it with the same type of
thinking that caused the problem in the first place. This isn't a
situation that can be solved with "another chemical." This is going to
require transcending the failed age of chemical medicine and embracing
the factors of healthy gut flora -- and that has everything to do with diet, supplements, superfoods, etc.
The
Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), not
surprisingly, can only see a future based on more chemicals. "More still
needs to be done and we believe that for there to be a continual supply
of effective antibiotics, a comprehensive review of the R&D
[research and development] environment and good stewardship are required
urgently," they say (Guardian source, above).
This is a classic example of medical insanity.
It's the chemicals that brought us to this crisis, and the only
solution they can think of is coming up with more chemicals. (Remember
the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again
while expecting different results...)
This is exactly like the Federal Reserve observing a global currency confidence crisis and deciding the best solution is to print more money. It's like a heroin addict reasoning that the way to quit heroin is to take just one more hit.
When
it comes to superbugs and medicine, we are living in an age of
outright, runaway insanity that has infected nearly all the doctors,
hospitals, drug companies and health authorities. Unless they wake up
and finally recognize the error of their ways, this situation is only
going to spiral into an ever-expanding crisis that may soon lead to a
runaway superbug plague.
They don't want to cure you; they want to kill you (slowly)
Yet
the failed battle cry continues: "Just one more chemical!" Little do
the doctors realize the system doesn't want to find cures for infections
and disease... the system wants people to die as early and as often as
possible (but not before doctors, cancer clinics and drug companies
extract their share of revenues from their human victims).
What
they're waiting for now is the spread of superbugs from hospital
patients to home families, communities and neighborhoods. This is where
things really accelerate in terms of disease transmission and population
reduction. The doctors pump grandma full of antibiotics and drugs,
destroy her intestinal flora and immune system, expose her to the deadly
superbugs circulating around the hospital, then send her home with
family where she can infect everyone else.
That's modern
medicine. That's how the system really works, and that's why medicine is
a very real threat to the survival of the human race.
Remember: Big Pharma created the superbug problem. And now humanity stands on the brink of medical self-destruction because of it.
TSA confession describes security screenings as 'a complete joke'; 'It's all for show'
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) Last week, an undercover TSA inspector managed to quite
easily sneak a mock explosive device through airport security and onto
an airplane. He simply stuffed the fake bomb down his pants and went
right through the screenings, including a pat-down. Out of several
covert TSA agents attempting to sneak mock explosive devices onto the
airplane, only one was pulled aside, and she was carrying a child's doll
with wires hanging out the back, making it ridiculously obvious. (SOURCE)
"This
episode once again demonstrates how Newark Airport is the Ground Zero
of TSA failures," said a source published in the NY Post, a newspaper
that's been breaking huge news on the TSA (and actually doing a far
better job reporting on this than the NYT).
But the real news
isn't the fact that, time and time again, government officials can
easily sneak explosives onto airplanes. The real story is what happened a
few days later, when a TSA employee who works at Newark went public
with allegations that the TSA is nothing more than pure theater and that TSA employees have no ability or motivation to catch any terrorists whatsoever.
"A LOT of what we do is make-believe."
That's how the confession begins. It's a confession of a TSA agent, published once again in the New York Post. And it continues:
We're
not any big deterrent. It's all for show. Most TSA screeners know their
job is a complete joke. Their goal is to use this as a stepping stone
to another government agency. We work in a culture where common sense
has no place. All but a very few TSA personnel know they're employed by a bottom-of-the-barrel agency.
Although
TSA agents can't seem to catch bombs or terrorists, TSA supervisors are
apparently really good at catching TSA officers chewing gum:
Supervisors
play absolutely no role in day-to-day functions except to tell you not
to chew gum. Gum chewing is a huge issue with management.
TSA tests are rigged and sneaking devices onto airplanes "happens all the time"
Those of us who pay attention to reality know that the TSA is a complete joke
when it comes to stopping terrorism. The entire purpose of the TSA is
not to stop terrorists but to indoctrinate the American population with
"prisoner training" -- to get people used to having their children
undressed and touched by strangers while government agents stick their
hands down your pants and literally go inside your body wearing the same
pair of gloves they used on their previous victim. (Hygiene be damned!)
TSA is an affront to human dignity. Its very existence is wholly unconstitutional, unethical and completely ineffective from a security
point of view. When asked about the recent failure of TSA to catch a
mock explosive device carried onto the airplane by a federal
investigator, this TSA confessor said, "That's not even news to anyone who works there. It happens all the time. The failure rate is pretty high, especially with federal investigators, and the pat-down itself is ridiculous."
He then went on to explain how all the Newark airport internal TSA security tests are a hoax:
When
there are internal tests, conducted by the Newark training department,
it's easy to cheat because they use our co-workers. You could be working
with someone all morning, and then they're gone. Word gets around the
checkpoint. Someone will come over to you and say, "Hey, it's Joe. He's
got a blue duffel bag."
TSA was also recently caught handing out security badges to workers with criminal records. As reported in CNS News:
[The
TSA issued] security badges to aviation employees resulted in at least
11 individuals with criminal backgrounds obtaining badges that allowed
access to secure areas of U.S. airports.
[The DHS Office
of Inspector General] concluded that there still may be individuals with
criminal records who are working in secured areas of airports.
The new class of incompetent, lazy, pathetic government workers
TSA
is the perfect example of the problem with big government. According to
this TSA confession, TSA workers are "bottom of the barrel" employees
but are compensated almost like royalty:
[They are] only there
for the paycheck and generous benefits. For every 40 hours you work,
you receive four hours of vacation and four hours of sick time. These
are the employees who could never keep a job in the private sector. I
wouldn't trust them to walk my dog.
And then there are the power-hungry zealots, he says:
A
small number of screeners are delusional zealots who believe they're
keeping America safe by taking your snow globe, your 2-inch pocket
knife, your 4-ounce bottle of shampoo and performing invasive pat-downs
on your kids.
TSA officers also spend a lot of time visually dressing-down female passengers, he says:
There
is also a lot of ogling of female passengers by the male screeners. So,
ladies, cover up when you get to the airport. These guys are checking
you out constantly.
See the hilarious "TSA Help Wanted" video that turns out to be amazingly accurate in its depiction of TSA officers:
Political
analyst Michel Chossudovsky tells Press TV that US is supporting
terrorism in Syria under the guise of ‘war on terrorism’.
The US and Europe have supplied militants fighting
inside Syria against President Bashar al-Assad with arms from Croatia, a
new report by Croatian newspaper Jutarnji List says. The report said
weapons, which date back to the time of former Yugoslavia, have been
paid for by Saudi Arabia at the request of the US. The Syrian crisis
began in March 2011, and many people, including large numbers of army
and security personnel, have been killed.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Michel
Chossudovsky, with the Centre for Research on Globalization (Montreal),
to further discuss the issue of war on Syria.
What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview with Michel Chossudovsky .
Press TV: Thirteen million dollars worth of weapons
for the militants are being provided by the UK. Meanwhile, training is
also being provided by France as well as the US.
Now, why don’t these countries just come out and say
it that they are basically waging a proxy war in Syria, the prime
objective being not human rights, not democracy, but just the removal of
Bashar al-Assad at any cost?
Chossudovsky: I think what we are witnessing is the
criminal nature of US foreign policy where covert support is being
supplied to terrorists to wage their war. It is their war and it is a
very cynical and criminal process.
It was my understanding that when John Kerry were to
take over the position of Secretary of State that he would seek a
diplomatic path but what has happened is the heightened support to
al-Nusra terrorists which in fact are the foot soldiers of the western
military alliance.
And we have to bear in mind that this is something
which has occurred from day one in Dara, almost two years ago in the
middle of March 2011 when death squads came in from neighboring
countries involved in killing civilians.
And the only way which the United States and its
allies can sustain their legitimacy is to the blatant manipulation of
the facts by the western media.
The al-Nusra terrorist is the only military entity,
the FSA (Free Syrian Army) as a military entity, as a faction, it was
defeated and what the United States and its allies providing so-called
non-lethal military aid to Syria but in effect bringing in thousands of
tons of weapons, plane loads from Croatia is tantamount to war crimes
and acts which are bordering on a genocide because it is directed
against an entire civilian population.
Press TV: Absolutely. Now the UN refugee agency’s
head is right now in Turkey and he spoke of violence spilling over
causing “an explosion” in the Middle East.
Do you think the US and its allies have calculated that in or are they willing to take that risk?
Chossudovsky: They have various scenarios. Direct
military intervention has been on the drawing board of the Pentagon, in
liaison with Turkey, Israel for months now.
It is important to point out that recent
consultations between Israel and NATO in Brussels are precisely in that
direction that was last week when the President of Israel Shimon Peres
with the delegation met with the NATO executives behind closed doors.
But we are in a situation whereby the United States
is supporting terrorism under the disguise of a so-called war on
terrorism and the media lies which sustain this are absolutely
mind-boggling that people do not realize that these al-Nusra terrorists
are in fact an instrument of the western military alliance.
And what I think is happening is a process of
actually destroying Syria as a sovereign nation state. That is the
objective of the western military alliance, Washington, Brussels, and
its allies Turkey, Israel and of course the front-line Arab states,
Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Press TV: OK and very quickly if you can, Mr.
Chossudovsky, this does seem a lot like what we saw taking place in
Afghanistan when the US armed groups to fight the soviets who had
invaded Afghanistan and then later those groups became the Taliban, the
al-Qaeda which have become “a problem” for the US and their so-called
war on terror.
Do you think that this is the end game for the US?
Chossudovsky: Well, you know, the recruitment of
death squads is part of a well-established US military agenda. It has a
very long history.
It is a gruesome process of funding and supporting
terror brigades and it goes back to the Vietnam war, it precedes the war
in Afghanistan. But yes, al-Qaeda is a creation of the CIA. Everybody
knows that.
And al-Qaeda continues to be a US-sponsored
intelligence asset which is being used to destabilize sovereign
countries as well as wage terror activities on behalf of the western
military alliance.
We are dealing with the criminalization of the
American State where dealing with governments which have abandoned any
commitment to the value of human life, we can see it with the targeted
assassinations which are now ongoing in the United States and which are
legal and so on.
So this is the agenda of the United States of America. It is a very sad period in the world history.
The Precious Art of Assassinating “Legally”: Hugo Chávez on the Hit List of “United States Inc.”
I once wrote about Chilean president Salvador Allende: Washington knows no heresy in the Third World but genuine
independence. In the case of Salvador Allende independence came clothed
in an especially provocative costume – a Marxist constitutionally
elected who continued to honor the constitution. This would not do. It
shook the very foundation stones upon which the anti-communist tower is
built: the doctrine, painstakingly cultivated for decades, that
“communists” can take power only through force and deception, that they
can retain that power only through terrorizing and brainwashing the
population. There could be only one thing worse than a Marxist in power –
an elected Marxist in power.
There was no one in the entire universe that those who own and run
“United States, Inc.” wanted to see dead more than Hugo Chávez.
He was worse than Allende. Worse than Fidel Castro.
Worse than any world leader not in the American camp because he spoke
out in the most forceful terms about US imperialism and its cruelty.
Repeatedly. Constantly. Saying things that heads of state are not
supposed to say. At the United Nations, on a shockingly personal level
about George W. Bush. All over Latin America, as he organized the region
into anti-US-Empire blocs.
Long-term readers of this report know that I’m not much of a
knee-reflex conspiracy theorist. But when someone like Chávez dies at
the young age of 58 I have to wonder about the circumstances.
Unremitting cancer, intractable respiratory infections, massive heart
attack, one after the other … It is well known that during the Cold War,
the CIA worked diligently to develop substances that could kill without
leaving a trace. I would like to see the Venezuelan government pursue
every avenue of investigation in having an autopsy performed.
Back in December 2011, Chávez, already under treatment for cancer,
wondered out loud: “Would it be so strange that they’ve invented the
technology to spread cancer and we won’t know about it for 50 years?”
The Venezuelan president was speaking one day after Argentina’s leftist
president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, announced she had been
diagnosed with thyroid cancer. This was after three other prominent
leftist Latin America leaders had been diagnosed with cancer: Brazil’s
president, Dilma Rousseff; Paraguay’s Fernando Lugo; and the former
Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
“Evo take care of yourself. Correa, be careful. We just don’t know,”
Chávez said, referring to Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales, and Rafael
Correa, the president of Ecuador, both leading leftists.
Chávez said he had received words of warning from Fidel Castro,
himself the target of hundreds of failed and often bizarre CIA
assassination plots. “Fidel always told me: ‘Chávez take care. These
people have developed technology. You are very careless. Take care what
you eat, what they give you to eat … a little needle and they inject you
with I don’t know what.” 1
When Vice President Nicolas Maduro suggested possible American
involvement in Chávez’s death, the US State Department called the
allegation absurd. 2
Several progressive US organizations have filed a Freedom of
Information Act request with the CIA, asking for “any information
regarding or plans to poison or otherwise assassinate the President of
Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, who has just died.”
I personally believe that Hugo Chávez was murdered by the United
States. If his illness and death were NOT induced, the CIA – which has
attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders, many successfully
3 – was not doing its job.
When Fidel Castro became ill several years ago, the American
mainstream media was unrelenting in its conjecture about whether the
Cuban socialist system could survive his death. The same speculation
exists now in regard to Venezuela. The Yankee mind can’t believe that
large masses of people can turn away from capitalism when shown a good
alternative. It could only be the result of a dictator manipulating the
public; all resting on one man whose death would mark finis to the process.
It’s the end of the world … again
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) recent
convention in Washington produced the usual Doomsday talk concerning
Iran’s imminent possession of nuclear weapons and with calls to bomb
that country before they nuked Israel and/or the United States. So once
again I have to remind everyone that these people – Israeli and American
officials – are not really worried about an Iranian attack. Here are
some of their many prior statements:
In 2007, in a closed discussion, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni
said that in her opinion “Iranian nuclear weapons do not pose an
existential threat to Israel.” She “also criticized the exaggerated use
that [Israeli] Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is making of the issue of the
Iranian bomb, claiming that he is attempting to rally the public around
him by playing on its most basic fears.” 4
2009: “A senior Israeli official in Washington”, reported the Washington Post
(March 5), asserted that “Iran would be unlikely to use its missiles in
an attack [against Israel] because of the certainty of retaliation.”
In 2010 the Sunday Times of London (January 10) reported
that Brigadier-General Uzi Eilam, war hero, pillar of the Israeli
defense establishment, and former director-general of Israel’s Atomic
Energy Commission, “believes it will probably take Iran seven years to
make nuclear weapons.”
January 2012: US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told a television
audience: “Are they [Iran] trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No, but
we know that they’re trying to develop a nuclear capability.” 5
Later that month we could read in the New York Times
(January 15) that “three leading Israeli security experts – the Mossad
chief, Tamir Pardo, a former Mossad chief, Efraim Halevy, and a former
military chief of staff, Dan Halutz – all recently declared that a
nuclear Iran would not pose an existential threat to Israel.”
Then, a few days afterward, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, in
an interview with Israeli Army Radio (January 18), had this exchange:
Question: Is it Israel’s judgment that Iran has not yet decided to turn its nuclear potential into weapons of mass destruction? Barak: People ask whether Iran is determined to
break out from the control [inspection] regime right now … in an attempt
to obtain nuclear weapons or an operable installation as quickly as
possible. Apparently that is not the case.
In an April 20, 2012 CNN interview Barak repeated this sentiment:
“It’s true that probably [Iranian leader] Khamenei has not given orders
to start building a [nuclear] weapon.” 6
And on several other occasions, Barak has stated: “Iran does not constitute an existential threat against Israel.” 7
Lastly, we have the US Director of National Intelligence, James
Clapper, in a January 2012 report to Congress: “We do not know, however,
if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons.” … There are
“certain things [the Iranians] have not done” that would be necessary to
build a warhead. 8
So why, then, do Israeli and American leaders, at most other times,
maintain the Doomsday rhetoric? Partly for AIPAC to continue getting
large donations. For Israel to get massive amounts of US aid. For
Israeli leaders to win elections. To protect Israel’s treasured status
as the Middle East’s sole nuclear power.
Listen to Danielle Pletka, vice president for foreign and defense
policy studies at America’s most prominent neo-con think tank, American
Enterprise Institute:
The biggest problem for the United States is not Iran
getting a nuclear weapon and testing it, it’s Iran getting a nuclear
weapon and not using it. Because the second that they have one and they
don’t do anything bad, all of the naysayers are going to come back and
say, “See, we told you Iran is a responsible power. We told you Iran
wasn’t getting nuclear weapons in order to use them immediately.” … And
they will eventually define Iran with nuclear weapons as not a problem. 9
Militarization of Local Law Enforcement Erodes Civil Liberties, Encourages Overly Aggressive Policing
American Civil Liberties Union affiliates in 23 states today
simultaneously filed more than 255 public records requests to determine
the extent to which local police departments are using federally
subsidized military technology and tactics that are traditionally used
overseas.
“Equipping state and local law enforcement with military weapons and
vehicles, military tactical training, and actual military assistance to
conduct traditional law enforcement erodes civil liberties and
encourages increasingly aggressive policing, particularly in poor
neighborhoods and communities of color,” said Kara Dansky, senior
counsel for the ACLU’s Center for Justice. “We’ve seen examples of this
in several localities, but we don’t know the dimensions of the problem.”
The affiliates filed public records requests with local law enforcement agencies seeking information on the use of:
Special Weapons and Tactics teams, including:
Number and purpose of deployments
Types of weapons used during deployments
Injuries sustained by civilians during deployments
Training materials
Funding sources.
Cutting edge weapons and technologies, including:
GPS tracking devices
Unmanned aerial vehicles, or “drones”
Augmented detainee restraint, or “shock-cuffs”
Military weaponry, equipment, and vehicles obtained from or funded
by federal agencies such as the Departments of Defense and/or Homeland
Security.
Affiliates filed a second request with state National Guards seeking information regarding:
Cooperative agreements between local police departments and the National Guard counter-drug program.
Incidents of National Guard contact with civilians.
“The American people deserve to know how much our local police are
using military weapons and tactics for everyday policing,” said Allie
Bohm, ACLU advocacy and policy strategist. “The militarization of local
police is a threat to Americans’ right to live without fear of
military-style intervention in their daily lives, and we need to make
sure these resources and tactics are deployed only with rigorous
oversight and strong legal protections.”
The affiliates which filed public records requests are: Arizona,
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North
Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah,
Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Once the information has been collected and analyzed, if needed, the
ACLU will use the results to recommend changes in law and policy
governing the use of military tactics and technology in local law
enforcement.
URL http://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/aclu-launches-nationwide-investigation-police-use-military-technology-tactics
March 6, 2013
CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org
ACLU - The Militarization of Policing in America
American neighborhoods are increasingly being policed by cops armed with the weapons and tactics of war.
Federal funding in the billions of dollars has allowed state and
local police departments to gain access to weapons and tactics created
for overseas combat theaters – and yet very little is known about
exactly how many police departments have military weapons and training,
how militarized the police have become, and how extensively federal
money is incentivizing this trend. It’s time to understand the true
scope of the militarization of policing in America and the impact it is
having in our neighborhoods.
On March 6th, ACLU affiliates in 23 states filed over 255 public
records requests with law enforcement agencies and National Guard
offices to determine the extent to which federal funding and support has
fueled the militarization of state and local police departments. Stay
tuned as this project develops.hnology & Tactics
The popular game EVE Online is set to enjoy a boost from the world’s
favorite file-sharing protocol. Developer CCP Games has announced that
work is underway to improve the EVE Launcher so that EVE client updates
may be rolled out more frequently and reliably. In future, more than
500,000 EVE Online subscribers will have BitTorrent under the hood. When
BitTorrent was invented it solved a problem, that of shifting large
amounts of data round the Internet in a speedy, efficient and reliable
manner.
For more than a decade it has achieved that task admirably but due to its great potential it still manages to feel somewhat under utilized at times.
BitTorrent Inc. is certainly doing its part to open up fresh avenues and applications
for the protocol and today we learn of another company making use of
BitTorrent to improve efficiencies and enhance end-user experience.
CCP Games is the Icelandic studio behind EVE Online,
the space-based MMORPG game that first appeared in 2003. While
BitTorrent enjoyed its 10th birthday a couple of years ago, EVE Online
will celebrate its first decade this May, but not before a few changes
have been made.
EVE Online currently has around 500,000 subscribers who are each required to run the EVE Launcher,
a tool which installs, patches and repairs the EVE client. However, the
company reports that they are not happy with aspects of the Launcher
and how it behaves in certain situations.
“It is at times a bit cumbersome when it comes to updating the EVE
client – how many of you had to download a full client install because
the EVE Launcher patching failed? Quite a few according to our
statistics,” CCP begins.
“Combined with our own desire to be able to push out EVE client
updates more frequently and reliably, we have decided to go back to the
drawing board and rethink some of the things we are doing; trying to
find ways on how to improve the overall user experience,” they add.
To do so CCP are working on improving the Launcher’s self-update
mechanism and its ability to download and update the EVE client. For
this they will rely on an old friend.
“After careful investigation of a lot of different distribution and
update mechanisms we have decided to base the EVE Launcher’s future
download mechanism on the widely used and battle-tested BitTorrent
protocol,” CCP reveal.
“The main reason why we are doing this is that BitTorrent itself can
utilize a number of different transport channels at the same time and is
thus less prone to failing on that level. Our current mechanism is
built on HTTP 1.1 only, which is a protocol that was not designed for
transferring large amounts of data.”
Due to this design shortcoming, HTTP transfers – especially partial
ones – are prone to errors which can corrupt the EVE client. With Bram Cohen‘s baby, this isn’t an issue.
“With BitTorrent we do not have this problem as it can run on top of a
number of different protocols. Furthermore the protocol does a double
validation of transferred data, ensuring that it is actually what we
wanted to download and not some digital garbage,” CCP explain.
“Eventually it is also possible to prioritize files over others when
downloading which opens up a whole lot of possible future improvements
to the user experience – for instance the ability to create your
character while the game is still installing.”
While the BitTorrent implementation will be transparent, there are
bound to be plenty of EVE users who understand the protocol and how it
functions, and might therefore be worried about it greedily eating up
available upload bandwidth as it seeds the client to other users. CCP
say they have that covered.
“By default the new EVE Launcher will only make you share the data
required for installing the client while you are downloading; once your
download is complete you will not be distributing it to others, unless
you explicitly enable this in the options – after all it might be useful
for sharing the installation across your local network. We are also, by
default, limiting the upload rate so that it should not affect your
normal internet usage. This can be adjusted within the settings, should
you wish to do so,” CCP conclude.
Facebook and Twitter
previously revealed that BitTorrent is doing wonders for them too, so
it’s great to hear of another successful application taking place
outside the regular file-sharing space.
The forcing of St. Malachy prophecy to come to pass over the years
Unready for takeoff: The five worst PC game launches (that aren’t SimCity)
From Anarchy Online to Diablo III, early server issues are nothing new.
Electronic Arts is the most recent publisher to run into serious problems with its online server architecture screwing up the launch of a new game, but
it's definitely not the first. Throughout the last decade or so, plenty
of game makers have seen otherwise promising games marred at their
debut by early problems surrounding game and server performance. To
refresh your memory, here are five of the most memorably screwed-up
launch experiences to hit the PC.
These days, Steam is the de facto way many of us get most of our PC
games, and the system provides a generally good experience. But those
around for its launch in 2004 remember it wasn't always this way. Even
before the service launched alongside the long-delayed blockbuster
release of Half-Life 2, there were plenty of people complaining
about the onerous "permanent Internet connection" that would be
required to play even single-player games on the service (though it's
worth noting that an "offline mode" was available after the first
authentication, even in those early days).
Despite weeks of pre-load downloads for online customers, when the
game actually launched, the authentication servers for the retail
version got hammered to the point of being useless for many customers.
The BBC reported
on the problems, noting the (then) new and unusual fact that "even
gamers that only intend to play the game by themselves must authenticate
their copy." Forum threads
complained loudly about server overload preventing them from playing
the game they purchased. As if that weren't enough, gamers who were able
to play complained about graphical stuttering even on high-end systems (for the time).
Things calmed down rather quickly, though, as Valve increased its server capacity a few days after launch. Half-Life 2
went on to win pretty much every laudatory award the industry could
throw at it, and Steam went on to dominate the world of digital
game distribution. It just goes to show you that even successful
services and games can sometimes get off to bumpy starts.
Final Fantasy XIV
Launch date: September 22, 2010
This wasn't so much a case of a problematic launch server as it was a
launch of a fundamentally unfinished product. Things got off to a bad
start even before the launch, when the public beta was delayed to fix "critical bugs."
That beta was then cut short a month earlier than expected so Square
Enix could, for some reason, rush to launch with a game still riddled
with massive issues. PC Gamer summed up the issues in its 30/100 initial review.
The kindest thing that can be said about the Final Fantasy
MMO is that it has a good intro movie. That movie doesn’t take 10
minutes to load, it maintains a constant framerate, and you don’t have
to traverse a labyrinth of menu screens to play it. In short, it’s
everything the game isn’t.
Square publicly apologized and committed to fixing these major
technical and gameplay issues, offering early players a 30-day free
trial while it got things in order. But the publisher keptextending that trial as the game failed "to achieve the level of enjoyability that Final Fantasy
fans have come to expect from the franchise," as the producer put it.
Square Enix didn't feel comfortable charging for the game until January
6, 2012, more than a year after that bug-filled initial launch.
To Square's credit, they stuck with the game, slowly adding features
and fixing problems with patches even as the title became a significant
drag on their resources. The game is now being given the full relaunch
treatment with A Realm Reborn, an overhaul that has just started
closed beta and is already looking much better than the complete mess
that doubled as the original game. The whole debacle seems to have been a
humbling lesson for a company that probably figured that extending its
popular single-player RPGs into the multiplayer world would be a lot
easier.
World of Warcraft
Launch date: November 23, 2004
You'd think that Blizzard would have known it had a hit on its hands when first launching World of Warcraft
in 2004. Apparently, though, the company severely underestimated just
how many people would be flooding into Azeroth's virtual worlds when the
company flipped on those servers on November 23.
In the days after that launch, server queues routinely reached into the thousands,
random disconnections were common, and latency issues famously trapped
people in a "looting" animation for a half hour. Problems were still
frequent by January 2005, when GameSpot reported that 20 of the game's 88 servers were offline for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend. Blizzard's Mike Morhaime publicly apologized for the problems and offered four days of free play time for the disruption (street value: about $1.50).
The server problems got so bad that Penny Arcade revoked their game of the year award
for the title. "Every week, there is some new calamity that
necessitates some huge response on their part, servers are coming down,
but if you think that the servers coming back up again will represent an
improvement in the basic functionality of the game you’re mistaken,"
the site wrote.
Blizzard seemed to learn its lesson quickly, and the game was much
more stable as it saw extreme subscriber growth through 2005 and beyond.
It went on to become the world's most popular MMO by a good margin for
years to come. But to those who were there at the troubled start, those
lofty heights seemed like a long, long way away.
You'd think that Blizzard would have learned to over-budget for servers after the World of Warcraft launch issues, but the launch of the always-online Diablo III
shows it didn't. As millions of players tried to log in on launch day, a
good portion ran into the now-infamous "error 37" (or the related
"error 73") before being booted back to the launch screen. Those who
could get in often faced synchronization problems and random
disconnects.
Blizzard initially downplayed the problem, but as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube filled with over-the-top rage (not to mention countless jokes) about not being able to log in, Blizzard quickly offered a formal apology.
"Despite very aggressive projections, our preparations for the launch
of the game did not go far enough," the company said. "We're continuing
to monitor performance globally and will be taking further measures as
needed to ensure a positive experience for everyone."
Just when Blizzard thought the problems were behind them, servers were again hammered on May 31, when a new patch rollout led to widespread login errors yet again.
By that point, many players had already given up on a game that by most
accounts failed to live up to a decade of heightened expectations.
Though the game still has a devoted following, the pain of that negative
first impressions seems to have taken its toll.
The
name of this early MMO became oddly ironic as its release became the
primary example of how not to launch an online-connected game. In a 2010 interview with Massively, Anarchy Online
lead Colin Cragg described the stories still told by the old-timers
that were at Funcom for the troubled launch as "pretty frightening.
Tales of bouncing servers, crashing and just about everything that is
possible to go wrong did." As one Amazon reviewer put
it at the time, "the sooner Funcom closes the lights on the few
remaining players in this flaming wreck of a game, the better."
How bad was it? Something Awful's hilarious launch day write-up captures the battles with empty environments, low frame rates, constant lag, and frequent crashes:
I returned to the fray. The cleaning robot had come back
as well, so I ran over to it and began apologizing profusely... No
response. I asked if the cleaning robot was perhaps lagging and unable
to read my messages, and if he too was routinely getting disconnected.
He didn't answer me, so I assumed that he was lagged. I decided to take
advantage of his poor connection by trying to make out with him. The
game then crashed.
Anarchy Online's problems weren't limited to empty gameplay servers—they extended to registration and billing as well. Players reported multiple registration confirmations,
problems getting their credit cards to go through, and even issues with
accepting the registration keys that came with the retail copies of the
game (remember those?).
In a newsletter two weeks after the launch,
Funcom apologized for what it called "some significant issues that our
customers have been dealing with the last few days," while also
trumpeting 35,000 registered accounts. The company also publicly asked
the press to "hold back on a full review until we have solved these
problems." This was a problem for many of the magazines that had already
gone to print, but also for many websites that flat-out ignored the request and reviewed the game in its initial broken state.
While it took months for Funcom to get its prematurely released game
into a playable state, the persistence seems to have paid off. Anarchy Online
is now one of the longest-running MMOs still in service, and it has
attracted millions of subscribers over its lifetime. While the launch
disaster still gets mentioned, reviews of subsequent expansions are
generally much more positive and forgiving of the early struggles. Will
we be saying the same thing about SimCity in a decade's time?
Bonus console launch disaster: Sega Saturn
Launch date (US): May 11, 1995
Sega needed to make a splash with the Saturn after a string of
hardware failures including the Sega CD and 32X (not to mention strange
side projects like the Pico). That splash came at E3 1995 when the
company announced that the Saturn, which at that point had been planned
for a holiday release in the US, was already on shelves at four select
retailers. It must have seemed like a good idea at the time; a way to
cut off Sony's upstart PlayStation before it could even get off the
ground. But the early release simultaneously angered the retail partners
that didn't get early hardware and the third-party publishers that
missed their chance to get in on the lucrative launch. Not to mention
that the lineup of the six Sega-made games that came with the system
didn't really set the world on fire (Clockwork Knight, anyone?).
The surprise launch also may have been too much of a surprise to
consumers, who had been softened up by the kind of saturation
advertising and point-of-purchase marketing that came along with the
better-planned PlayStation launch. Speaking of which, Sony took a lot of
the wind out of Sega's sails by getting up on stage immediately after
the Sega press conference and announcing that the PlayStation would
launch at $299—a full $100 less than the Saturn. Surprise!
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