Sunday, February 2, 2014

Google’s Grand Plan to Make Your Brain Irrelevant

Google is on a shopping spree, buying startup after startup to push its business into the future. But these companies don’t run web services or sell ads or build smartphone software or dabble in other things that Google is best known for. The web’s most powerful company is filling its shopping cart with artificial intelligence algorithms, robots, and smart gadgets for the home. It’s on a mission to build an enormous digital brain that operates as much like the human mind as possible — and, in many ways, even better.
Yesterday, Google confirmed that it has purchased a stealthy artificial intelligence startup called DeepMind. According to reports, the company paid somewhere in the mid-hundreds of millions of dollars for the British outfit. Though Google didn’t discuss the price tag, that enormous figure is in line with the rest of its recent activity.

Lifelike robots, sentient machines, the Jetsons’ smart home in the sky. Google is spending billions to make itself the place where these fantasies become facts.

The DeepMind acquisition closely follows Google’s $3.2 billion purchase of smart thermostat and smoke alarm maker Nest, a slew of cutting-edge robotics companies, and another AI startup known as DNNresearch.
Google is looking to spread smart computer hardware into so many parts of our everyday lives — from our homes and our cars to our bodies — but perhaps more importantly, it’s developing a new type of artificial intelligence that can help operate these devices, as well as its many existing web and smartphone services.
Though Google is out in front of this AI arms race, others are moving in the same direction. Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft are doubling down on artificial intelligence too, and are snapping up fresh AI talent. According to The Information, Mark Zuckerberg and company were also trying to acquire DeepMind.

The New AI

Google’s web search engine already uses a powerful type of artificial intelligence to find what you’re looking for in the chaos of the web, and it has built an insanely profitable ad business atop this engine. But recently, the company has been bulking up its roster of geniuses as it seeks to explore a new branch of artificial intelligence known as “deep learning.”
Basically, the idea is to mimic the biological structure of the human brain with software so that it can build machines that learn “organically” — that is, without human involvement.
Google is already working to apply these insights to its familiar consumer products and services. Deep learning can help recognize what’s in your photos without asking you to tag them yourself, and it can help understand human speech, a key tool for its smartphone apps and Google Glass computerized eyewear. But Google also sees the new AI as a better way to target ads — the core of its business.
The DeepMind acquisition is one more step down this road. And though the company has not said as much, you can bet that this new form of AI will also play into things like Nest smart thermostats, the Google self-driving cars, and its big push into robotics.

A Century of Sci-Fi Dreams Come True

At the moment, it seems, no other institution on earth has the concentration of brain power — coupled with the money, technology, and freedom — to chase the dreams that have fueled a century of science-fiction speculation. Lifelike robots, sentient machines, the Jetsons’ smart home in the sky. Google is spending billions to make itself the place where these fantasies become facts.
In a profile of deep-learning pioneer and now part-time Googler Geoff Hinton, WIRED’s Daniela Hernandez writes that the key difference between deep learning and other approaches to artificial intelligence is that it aims to free machines from the need for human intervention, to give them a human-like understanding of our environment. By building so-called neural networks that approximate the brain, Hinton and company are trying to make it possible for Google to understand language, speech, and the physical world without having to be told what its machines are seeing, hearing, or touching.
For many of us, Google already functions as an important part of what WIRED columnist Clive Thompson has called our outboard brain. The more Google “knows,” the less we have to remember. We just Google it. Now imagine that same kind of intelligence Google applies to the web set loose on your personal existence, not just online but out in the real world.
If its artificial intelligence dreams come true, Google might end up knowing you better than you know yourself. As we export more and more of our intelligence to Google, the question might become: What are our own brains for?

Marcus Wohlsen is a staff writer for Wired Business and the author of Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life

The NFL - owned by billionaires, led by millionaires, financed by the public

By Laurie Bennett

September 24, 2013

National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell makes $30 million a year as a nonprofit CEO.
That’s right. The NFL is a nonprofit organization made up of teams owned by millionaires and billionaires. (The interactive Muckety map below shows the league’s billionaire owners.)

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As the Atlantic points out in a story headlined “How the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers,” many of those teams play in stadiums financed with big government handouts.

Roger Goodell

The Seattle Seahawks, owned by Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, play in a stadium for which taxpayers paid $390 million of the $560 million construction cost.
In New Orleans, the Atlantic notes, the public has chipped in $1 billion to build and then renovate the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, home of the Saints. The team’s owner, Tom Benson, is worth $1.2 billion, according to Forbes.
The NFL itself is tax exempt.
Oh, and did we mention that Roger Goodell makes $30 million a year? According to the league’s 2011 tax return (the most recent publicly available), other employees collected seven-figure salaries.
Former Commissioner Paul Tagliabue received nearly $8.6 million in 2011. Five executive vice presidents received multi-million-dollar compensation, ranging from $1.5 million to $8.8 million.
As Gregg Easterbrook writes in the Atlantic:

Perhaps it is spitting into the wind to ask those who run the National Football League to show a sense of decency regarding the lucrative public trust they hold. Goodell’s taking some $30 million from an enterprise made more profitable because it hides behind its tax-exempt status does not seem materially different from, say, the Fannie Mae CEO’s taking a gigantic bonus while taxpayers were bailing out his company.

It’s Super Bowl Sunday! Roman Ritual, American Style

The Undercurrents of Fake Patriotism and Imperial Rhetoric

By Dr. Robert P. Abele

Global Research, February 02, 2014

Region: USA

Theme: Culture, Society & History

As we prepare to celebrate the true American National Holiday, known as the Super Bowl, there are a few things that it might behoove us to keep in mind as we watch the gods of the gridiron inflict their violence on one another. (For full disclosure, I must admit that I am a sports fan, but a fan who is critical of the sports culture. Dave Zirin has written extensively from this point of view as well. See his book Bad Sports for a good example of writing from this point of view.)

1) Nationalism. Inflected with heavy emotion, the war-whooping national anthem is the call to Sunday Super Bowl worship, and the 100-yard American flag stretched out over the field is meant to remind us not only that the “USA is the best nation on earth,” but more importantly that our pastime of national violence and our arrogance at “being the best in the world” is being channeled directly into our politics: “USA! USA!” That is what all this faux patriotism is doing in a football game.
2) Militarism. Notice those military jets flying overhead during the national anthem? Notice the heavy military presence within the general playing arena area during football games? Such militarism is readily taken in by the networks that broadcast the games, and dutifully celebrated by announcers for the game. Camera shots are frequently framed so as to include the man or woman in uniform who “just happens” to be in the end zone or behind the players’ bench when a play is made there.
3) Capitalism. The celebration of football games now includes a mandatory celebration of the capitalist individualist who owns the team, singing his praises. Aside from the Green Bay Packers, which is owned by the citizens of Green Bay, no one group owns any one team: only individuals do, and for their own profit alone. Thus, there is no true community representation in the game at all, except the geographical accident that some people for each team happens to live within the artificial boundaries of the city in which the millionaire’s team plays.
4) Character. How many players actually have a character that parents would want their children to emulate? Richard Sherman, who plays for the Seattle Seahawks? Pete Carroll, his coach? Not likely. The arrogance and bravado they display every week, combined with a lack of respect for their opponents, makes them the unlikeliest of role models. What about Peyton Manning, the all-American quarterback-capitalist, who appears during every time out on commercials with Papa John, who owns Papa John Pizzas? Papa John was one of the first capitalists who, once the Affordable Health Care Act was passed, reduced his fulltime workers to thirty hours a week, so that he didn’t have to pay for their insurance. Yet, he and Manning are all smiles engaging in frivolity on the commercials. And why wouldn’t they be? They are faring very well in this economy, even if the 99% aren’t. So why do we admire them? Second, of the millions Manning makes from these commercials alone, how much of that money does he give to charity? How much does Papa John. From what I have been able to gather, the answer is a very low percentage of their total income.
5) Ethics. First, the obvious ethical issue is that, as the players themselves have frequently said, the aim is to inflict great violence, to the point of injury, on the other players on the field; and oh yes, in the process, win the game. Second, the NFL is in the midst of a massive scandal regarding their cover-up of their knowledge that the players were suffering repeated concussions and that as a result of these repeating violent hits to their head, the cumulative effect was permanent brain damage.
This brain damage got so bad that for a number of ex-players, it reached the point of suicide (perhaps the most prominent example here is Junior Seau, former linebacker for the New England Patriots and the San Diego Chargers, but there have been many more of them as well). Further, the bigotry of the owners is on display regularly, the most prominent example here being the capitalist owner of the “Washington Redskins,” Daniel Snyder, who refuses to change the racist “Redskins” name, and who has actually been consulting with Republican Party public relations firms to mount a counter-offensive to the public perception that the team needs a name change. Add to all of this the reduced jail sentences for athletes in trouble with the law, and you have a culture that displays a lack of ethical values. For example, in the latest episode of players receiving reduced sentences, John Brent of the Dallas Cowboys received 180 days of jail time for intoxicated manslaughter of his teammate. He’ll be out in a few months. If it was you or me, we’d be in for years, not a few months.
6) Social-political—the economic elite gather at the game in their luxury suites, both in their hotels and at the game itself, for fun and profit, just like the recent economic summit of world elite at Davos, Switzerland. And just like at Davos, so at the Super Bowl, “the people” are not invited, and simply are not represented. In general, the exorbitant ticket cost for attending the Super Bowl alone makes it an event for the wealthy. When combined with the celebration of capitalism during the game, which will be inlaid into numerous announcer comments, camera shots, and commercials, taken all together, it can be summarized not only as a game for only the wealthy to attend and increase their profit. The people have to stay home and watch the capitalists and their splendor displayed on their home TV’s.
So by all means, let’s enjoy the Super Bowl pomp and pageantry, while the billionaires make more billions by telling us in cutesy ways what we should purchase from them. But let’s remember a few things about the event that should bring us pause before participating in this Roman ritual, American style.
Dr. Robert P. Abele holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Marquette University He is the author of three books: A User’s Guide to the USA PATRIOT Act (2005); The Anatomy of a Deception: A Logical and Ethical Analysis of the Decision to Invade Iraq (2009); Democracy Gone: A Chronicle of the Last Chapters of the Great American Democratic Experiment (2009). He contributed eleven chapters to the Encyclopedia of Global Justice, from The Hague: Springer Press (October, 2011). Dr. Abele is a professor of philosophy at Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California, His web site is www.spotlightonfreedom.com

Conspiracy Theory

By Robert P. Abele

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The term “conspiracy theory” has become a derisive term for those who believe that some secretive group is responsible for a tragic event. The result of painting people with such a broad brush has been that media elites, both local and national, dismiss such groups before allowing them to present their argument.
For Americans the primary reference to conspiracy theories today comes in discussions of the events of 9/11/01. Let us begin by making an important distinction. There is a difference between rejecting official government and media explanations of events, and maintaining that there was a sinister collusion of secret, unnamed parties. Any objective observer can see that the 9/11 Commission Report was clearly either hurriedly or incompetently done, or they are covering something with it. But to conclude from that, that the cover-up is the specific one of a nefarious government inside job in the destruction of the World Trade Centers is a different issue, and requires a high standard of evidence. This is not only because of the nature of the charge—it involves the charge of mass murder if not treason—but because it charges that particular parties did the deed rather than that particular institutional structures were dysfunctional that day. Beyond that, it is a demand that such individuals be arrested and brought to trial. So it is both the grandiose nature of the charges, in conjunction with the hypothesis that given individuals within our own government did it, and in conjunction with bringing such ghost figures to justice, that such hypotheses are called “conspiracy theories.” Consequently, many political party and media elites shut the parties holding this view out of the debate.
But let us discuss this conspiracy perspective a bit further. There are four possible approaches to analyses of significant social and political events today: conspiratorial, institutional, “agency and structure,” and what I will call “the ignoratii.” This term refers to those who not only don’t know the distinction between these modes of analysis, but more importantly have not examined the evidence produced by these three modes of investigation, but who nonetheless think themselves expert enough to scoff at one or both positions. Usually this occurs by the ignoratii heaping their ignorant disdain on the conspiracy folks through name-calling or through mocking their position by condescendingly mischaracterizing it as a form of psychological malady; for example, not seeing that real airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center towers on 9/11. Through such simplistic smearing of others, they perform the elite institutional role of keeping dissenting voices out of the public discussion.
The institutional analysts take the structural approach, ignoring human agency. Noam Chomsky, for example, operates strictly from a paradigm of institutional analysis, and that logically entails that he consistently deny that human agency plays any appreciable role in significant political events. The result is that he a priori dismisses the very possibility that any individual or small group could engage in dastardly deeds such as the assassination of President Kennedy, and, more to our point, the possibility that there were specific agents involved in the demolition of the towers beyond those who piloted the planes on that fateful day. But Chomsky’s institutional analysis, as legitimate as it is, is unwarrantably suspicious about evidence that might indicate the role of human agency beyond the pilots of the planes. His commitment to institutional analysis results in his own ideology of belittling human agency as of little merit in significant events.
The conspirators take the agency side, often ignoring the structural side. The conspiracists spend much time and energy trying to establish their assumption that someone or some group committed a high crime, and then additionally attempt to show who did what, how, and why. They tend to ignore institutional patterns of organization and norms that open up and perhaps even encourage such behavior. For example, David Ray Griffin regularly engages in vocabulary that 9/11 was what he calls “an inside job,” and then proceeds to show how some nefarious agents had to be involved in the events of 9/11. Additionally, Griffin consistently encourages a wider understanding of the term “conspiracy theorist” so that everyone in essence becomes a conspiracy theorist.
But the conspiracy theorist viewpoint, like the institutional one, is unduly narrow. By focusing on agents, it ignores institutional norms and mechanisms that would allow the possibility of persons engaging in the actions at issue and even covering them up. The latter is an important issue for conspiracy theorists: without institutional analysis, they pay the high cost of not being taken seriously. They could make their case stronger if they challenge the structuralists such as Chomsky by demonstrating how the institutional operations could conceivably have been configured so as to allow agents to operate in such rogue fashion. A purely conspiratorial theory would require tracing the evidence of their hypothesis directly to the guilty parties for prosecution. The chances of that happening are slim, at best. To be taken more seriously, the conspiracy analysis should go past the allegedly guilty party or parties of the deeds of 9/11 to the mechanisms of an institution that would generate such actions. To the degree that they do this, they combine the best of structure and agency analysis, which would be the preferred option.
The result of this reflection is that if one combines an agency and structural analysis, one must conclude that the question concerning whether 9/11 was an inside job is too narrow, because it focuses not just on agency, but on government agency. Further, the question itself is framed in terms that favor a conspiracist analysis over an institutional one.
But if those who want to be taken seriously in the media debate, they should change not only their vocabulary, but also their focus, from “inside job” to, for example, “structures of agency.” They should also take seriously such analyses as Peter Dale Scott, who certainly sides with the “9/11 Truthers,” but who takes a more institutional approach to his political analyses. Finally, they should drop the name “9/11 Truthers.” That sounds like either or a cult, convinced that they and only they have the truth on their side. Such adjustments in method, focus, and vocabulary would go a long way to reopening the debate about the events of 9/11, and would make it more difficult for the media elites to keep them out of the debate by hook and by crook.

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More than this, if conspiracy theories remain simply at the level of conspiracy—i.e. who did it and why—they run into further problems. First, a complex agency analysis, with all the levels of evidence that would be required, would be difficult at best, and would take many years to compile. It would also be incomplete and largely circumstantial. As a consequence, such evidence will never convince skeptics. Third, it ultimately won’t matter for prosecution sake, since the agents will be dead by the time they are revealed. Finally, using the Kennedy assassination as an example, the case is still not closed, fifty years after the fact. Thus, it would be much more beneficial and important to discuss what was done by the Bush and now Obama administrations in the wake of the events of 9/11 instead of trying to focus on who did it.
The “agency and structure” analysis asserts that human agency is too closely intertwined with institutional structures and norms to lessen the importance of individual intention to a second-class standing in analysis. This analysis maintains both the individuals sought to cause a catastrophic event and that the institutional structures were in place to either permit or encourage it to be done. It sees agency as important and instructive on a micro level, and to be used where needed. It sees institutional analysis as a macro approach, generally valid where group movements and institutional patterns are discernible. The two approaches are not contradictory, and can even be mutual. But it denies the tendency of the institutional approach to maintain that human actions are in some way predetermined or at least generated by the institutional organization itself. It also denies that only rogue agents of some sort acted outside of the institutional structures. It is a “both-and” approach, compared to Chomsky’s “either-or” approach.
If the conspiracy approach widened their investigative concerns over 9/11 to institutional structures and then to the agents they want to maintain were behind 9/11, they may be taken more seriously by the media, and be less subject to the ridicule and scorn from the liberal intelligentsia that has kept them out of the media debate about this critical question of our generation: “What indeed happened on 9/11?”
© Robert P. Abele, Spotlight on Freedom, Inc., 2011

Conspiracy Theory II

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According to political scientist Michael Barkun, conspiracy theory was once a general definition for any conjoint operation of persons, whether it was civil, criminal, or political (Barkun, p. 7). But particularly after the events in the United States on September 11, 2001, the term has become a derisive one for those who believe that some secretive group is responsible for a significant and/or tragic event. Thus, for example, University of Florida Law School professor Mark Fenster defines conspiracy theory as “the conviction that a secret, omnipotent individual or group covertly controls the political and social order or some part thereof” (Fenster, p. 1).
Central to much of the discussion of conspiracy theory today are the events of 9/11/01 in the U.S. Those whom Fenster calls “conspiracy theorists” reject the official 9/11 Commission Report on the grounds that the actual events could not have been perpetrated in the manner the Report describes: that nineteen men hijacked planes and flew them into the towers and Pentagon, causing the former to collapse and causing massive damage to the latter. The “conspiracy” dimension occurs when an analyst maintains that the events of 9/11 were intended to serve as a “precipitating event for some larger, more nefarious project” (Fenster, p. 241).

Perhaps the best example of a conspiracy theorist today—one connected directly with 9/11 analysis—is David Ray Griffin, emeritus professor of philosophy and religion at Claremont School of Theology, in Claremont, California. As a self-proclaimed reluctant conspiracy theorist, Griffin regularly engages in vocabulary that portrays 9/11 as was what he calls “an inside job” (Griffin, 2004, xvii-xviii; Griffin and Scott, 2007, Chapter One). From there, he attempts to show how some nefarious agents, likely governmental, had to be involved in the events of 9/11.
Fenster responds to this by saying that conspiracy theorists are paranoid because they draw conclusions that are too strong on the basis of the scant evidence they provide, and their explanations of events are either too simplistic or too complex to explain the phenomena they seek. In essence, they bring totalizing explanations to events that move well beyond the standard norms of inference. Thus, conspiracy theory is paranoid because it explains events through a master narrative. In fact, for Fenster, conspiracy theories really function to replace political engagement with a circular narrative of conspiracy, propelled by its insatiable need to find information to justify conspiratorial assertions.
Adding to Fenster’s criticisms, Noam Chomsky and Michael Albert reject conspiracy theory on the grounds that a “proper” leftist critique concerns institutional analysis only. For both authors, there is an exclusive disjunction between conspiracy theory and their own preferred method that scrutinizes structural or institutional phenomena. For them, conspiracy theorists fail to recognize how “the normal operations of some institutions generate the behaviors and motivations” that lead to events such as 9/11. As Albert puts it, the primary assumption of his model (and that of Chomsky) is that “if the particular people hadn’t been there to do it, most likely someone else would have.” Thus, individual agents and their interests are only facts about the institutions. Policies arise from institutions, not persons, in this perspective.
But the institutional analysis of Chomsky and Albert, as legitimate as it is, is unwarrantably suspicious about evidence that might indicate the role of human agency within institutional activities. Their commitment to institutional analysis results in their own reduction of human agency to little or no merit in significant events.
This brings us to the position of Peter Dale Scott, whom Fenster identifies specifically as a conspiracy theorist. Scott argues empirically that the events of 9/11 and after demonstrate the “deep politics” that have been expanding in U.S. government operations since the end of World War II. The institutional movement in this direction was precipitated by individuals who sought to increase their own wealth and power. If Scott is correct in his analysis, then the confidence that Fenster, Chomsky, and Albert have in institutional analysis is misplaced, as are their criticisms of conspiracy theories.
What differentiates the conspiracy analysis of Peter Dale Scott, in comparison to the features of conspiracy theory delineated and rejected by analysts like Barkun and Fenster, is that Scott does not presume a totalizing narrative. Nor does he seek an endless loop of information to support a position that can never be proven definitively anyway. But what makes him a conspiracy theorist, according to Fenster’s analysis, is that he aims to trace out historically the movements, events, and “secret” decisions that “small cabals” of persons within our (public) governmental institutions. These secret decisions of persons are deliberately intended to replace the “public” dimension of U.S. foreign (and domestic) policy with what Scott calls the “deep state:” an elite, authoritarian politics whose concern is with global hegemony. By this blending of agency and institution, Scott produces a narrative that has historical and factual documentation, and finishes with the kind of conclusion that so repulses Fenster and Chomsky. Because Scott’s analysis is at once historical, factual, non-totalizing, and non-paranoid, his analysis is plausible. And if his analysis is plausible, his may represent the most cogent place to situate oneself between Fenster’s rejection of conspiracy theories and those who embrace conspiracy alone, such as David Ray Griffin.
In conclusion, whatever one’s views of justice are the practices of dominance and the self-interested motives of power and wealth will be repudiated as incongruent with justice. But if conspiracy theory aims at anything, it aims to expose the actions of a powerful elite engaging in nefarious activities for their own benefit, and this is an element of political analysis that all parties of the debate can agree to in order to begin dialogue about what needs to be done.
Robert P. Abele
Diablo Valley College
USA
Further Reading

Albert, Michael, “Conspiracy Theory,” Z Magazine, August, 1995.
Barkun, Michael. A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).
Chomsky, Noam, “9-11: Institutional Analysis vs. Conspiracy Theory,” Z Magazine, October, 2006.
Clark, Steve. “Conspiracy Theories and the Internet: Controlled Demolition and Arrested Development,” Episteme 4, 2, 2007, 167-180.
Coady, David. Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate (London: Ashgate Publishing, 2006).
Fenster, Mark, Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008).
Griffin, David Ray, and Richard Falk. The New Pearl Harbor (Northampton, Massachusetts: Interlink Publishing Group, Inc., 2004).
Griffin, David Ray, and Peter Dale Scott. 9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out (Northampton, Massachusetts: Interlink Publishing Group, Inc., 2007).
Hofstadter, Richard. The Paranoid Style in American Politics (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966).
Keeley, Brian L., “Of Conspiracy Theories,” Journal of Philosophy, 96, n. 3, 1999, 109-126.
Parenti, Michael. Dirty Truths (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1996).
Scott, Peter Dale. The Road to 9/11 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007).

Scalar Weather Wars

folks if you don't think we & "others" have some "stuff " & "they" aren't "playing" around wit it ??? ....welll maybe just maybe ...you haven't gone outside ...lately ! :o ... nawwwwwwwwwwww that shits just in the "movies" huh WE BETTER WAKE the FUCK UP & SOON :o

by Stefan Grossmann

www.gallerize.com
August-29-2005

from CloakAndDagger Website

recovered through WayBackMachine Website

The Bush Jr. regime is a hair’s breadth away from collapsing in chaos, infamy and insanity

...as the Cloakanddagger.de truth radio is about to break the story how G. W. Bushfraud bribed his way into the White House in late 2000.

What happens in such situations is: News diversions are orchestrated in order to take away the public’s attention from the homespun disasters. Such as, a whale strands in the arctic and all the oil-soaked spy-riddled mainstream media babble about stranded whales for days or even weeks until the news about the actual catastrophe at home is forgotten and, for practical purposes, suppressed.

This well-known routine is happening again. As the to-be-covered-up news event (Bush bribed his way into the White House) is so huge, the cover-up ploy is also huge: A scalar-engineered hurricane named Katrina.

The shadow government has decided to sacrifice an entire city, New Orleans, to cover up the coming news of bribery and in order to further rig the price of oil.

Weather engineering includes the blow-up of small hurricanes into large ones

The technology is zealously denied by so-called meteorologists and physicists, but it exists anyhow. It has been described, for example, by veteran Pentagon scientist and scalar researcher Col. Tom Bearden.

Here are some quotes (in finer print):

Soviet Weather Engineering over North America

This taped presentation, which was made in 1985, is included for historical reference purposes only. Since then, the technology has been developed into more rigorous longitudinal EM wave interferometry, which is the exact nature of those earlier weather engineering weapons.

The foundations of scalar electro-magnetics are well explained in this presentation.

U.S. Defense Secretary Cohen expresses concern about eco-terrorism using scalar electromagnetic weapons.

"Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves...

So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations...It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts.“

Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn.

Quoted from DoD News Briefing, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Q&A at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy, University of Georgia, Athens, Apr. 28, 1997.

Examples of anomalous cloud formations in the year 2000

Complex "wheel-spoke“ pattern, a forerunner of which was first observed around 20 years ago. 28 November, 2000. See http://www.flashradar.freeservers.com/FLASH20229.html

Hexagonal shaped patterns - possible tests of containment barriers for areas contaminated by biological warfare. 16 November, 2000. See http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/radar/utahex.html

Source of foregoing quote by Tom Bearden:
(see video 'Soviet Weather Engineering Over North America')

On this slide we diagrammatically represent the Soviet woodpecker interference grid over the U.S. This grid can easily be used to influence and control the weather, and for over a decade the Soviets have manipulated the weather over the U.S. and other parts of the world.

By the peculiar title of this slide, we wish to call attention to the fact that, in the exothermic mode of scalar interferometry riding on the woodpecker radar signals, each of the woodpecker grid interference cells can act as a little "virtual transmitter.“

It's exactly as if the Soviets had been permitted to enter the U.S. and build thousands of EM transmitters at regular intervals all over the country!

And of course it's even worse. In the endothermic mode, it's as if the Soviets had been permitted to enter the U.S. and build thousands of "cold generators“ all over the U.S. That is, in that mode, each of the "transmitters“ can actually extract electromagnetic energy.

These two modes have enabled the Soviet Union to drastically manipulate the weather at will over the U.S. during the last decade (and similarly, for other places as well.)

(For a full disclosure of the Soviet weather control operations over the U.S., see T. E. Bearden, Soviet Weather Engineering Over North America, 1-hr. videotape, 1955, available from POB 1472, Huntsville, Alabama 35807, $40.00 U.S. postpaid, VHS or BETA format. We will only summarize here.).

Briefly, inside various reference level zeros on the ordinary EM woodpecker carriers, scalar "channels“ are established. Scalar beams, signals, and interferometer pulses and transmissions can be transmitted through these reference channels as if directly through a wire. Phasing, pulse shaping, and Fourier expansion formation of geometric forms are then the key to be used in scalar interferometry through the internal scalar channels of the Soviet woodpecker signals.

By choosing one or more grid cells and using scalar interference there in the exothermic continuous mode, local heating and expansion of the air, and formation of a high pressure area, occurs.

By choosing one or more grid cells and using scalar interference there in the endothermic continuous mode, local cooling and shrinking of the air, and formation of a low pressure area, occurs.

By electromagnetic ''rotation“ of the interfering scalar beams, the hotspots and cold-spots can be moved along a desired path and at a desired speed.

By these methods the entire jet-stream across the U.S. can be deviated and controlled to a large degree. Moisture can be drawn from the Pacific beyond Southern California and Mexico, and collided over the southern U.S. with extremely cold air brought down from Canada, producing ice storms such as those in and around February 1, 1985.

Violent thunderstorm activity can be induced and directed. By adding "spin“, these same storms can be induced to form extensive tornados.

By sustained weather engineering operations, drought or excessive rain and flooding can be induced in areas of the U.S. as desired. Crops can be destroyed or heavily damaged by severe and unseasonal weather.

If the grid is placed in the ground on scalar EM carriers instead of normal EM carriers (and the woodpecker "radars,“ can switch to, or add, scalar carrier mode whenever they wish), it can be used as an anti-submarine weapon, as we shall see later. It can also be used to cause substantial ocean effects that have drastic consequences on the world's weather -- such as the anomalous El Niño of 1982-83.

By localizing one spot of heating at the top of a thunderstorm anvil, and another spot of cooling at its side, a localized downburst can be created. Our weather satellites have detected just such an anomalous combination heating and cooling of thunderstorm anvils over the U.S. While there may exist natural mechanisms to cause this anomalous dual pattern, it may also be caused by Soviet weather engineering, which can cause either broad-area or highly localized effects.

All these types of weather engineering incidents have been deliberately created over the U.S. by the Soviet Union.

Perhaps the greatest weather effects can be induced by altering some of the large scale normal mechanisms that influence and control our weather. Thus the artificially induced El Niño of 1982-83 was a case in point, causing drastic weather upsets worldwide for a year or more.

The last decade has seen weather so anomalous that it could only occur once in 1200 years by chance. It has not been due to normal chance, but by Soviet weather engineering, particularly since the advent of the Woodpecker transmitter complexes.

ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND FOR THE BRIEFER:

The Woodpecker transmitters can carry scalar components which, in addition to biological strikes, can be used for many other purposes such as to:

influence and control the weather

deviate the giant jet-streams of the upper atmosphere

detect, track and destroy missiles shortly after launch

detect, track and destroy strategic bombers and other aircraft

attack land and ocean surface targets by large aerial electromagnetic explosions: the EM explosion produces the fireball, the thermal effects, and the blast wave of a nuclear explosion without the nuclear radiation and radioactive fallout contamination

attack surface land and ocean targets by large "cold explosions“, where living things freeze almost instantly, leaving the surface facilities and equipment intact

attack land and ocean surface targets by severe internal electromagnetic disruption, so that all electronics are dudded

attack personnel on land and sea by direct destruction of their nervous systems with an internally induced strong EMP

disrupt the operation of distant facilities, equipment, and personnel or destroy food crops in large areas by severe cold or severe heating, or even startling oscillation between the two.

In addition, the scalar aspects of the Woodpecker transmitters can be beamed through the earth and ocean as surface waves or at a given depth to intersect at a distant region.

This mode can be used to:

cause distant earthquakes in a distant fault zone by depositing energy in the rocks there, increasing the plate stress until slippage occurs at a fault zone

cause large, anomalous rocking of an entire plate or large area, by depositing and extracting energy from alternate areas, causing buckling of the large rock plate

set up an interference grid under the water, so that underwater submarines can be detected, tracked, and destroyed on station and with their missiles still unfired

attack naval vessels and task forces through the water and through their hulls, without warning

attack missile silos and nuclear storage sites "before launch“, directly through the earth itself

initiate the full nuclear explosion of implosion-type nuclear warheads on-board missiles on station

initiate full nuclear explosion of implosion-type nuclear warheads in storage sites and ready reserve

destroy seaborne and ocean-bottom-mounted mines and underwater sensors, even including entire "fields“ of them

detect and destroy hostile torpedoes, ship-to-underwater anti-submarine missiles, and dumped anti-submarine munitions and charges

"pump“ the electrical grounding of distant electrical power distribution and generation systems so that the system catastrophically fails

"pump“ the electrical grounding of distant electrical power systems so that radio and television transmitters, power grids, and wiring complexes in buildings and facilities radiate a desired scalar wave component or signal complex at equipment and personnel

All in all, the woodpecker transmitter complexes and other associated scalar EM weaponry are most useful in the major missions required in war.

Source of foregoing quote by Tom Bearden:

Today, weather engineering is also part of the Pentagon’s military arsenal and is at the command of America’s public enemy Nr. 1, the shadow government.

Basically, the U.S.A. lost the cold war - contrary to all newspaper allegations - against the Soviet Union because of scalar weapons and weather controlling technology. This is one of the key reasons for the multi-trillion dollar Pentagon black budget and secret arms program, namely to catch up in the scalar arms race.

The main part of this technology was developed for the Pentagon by Israel and its ultra-secret scalar weapons program and is the reason why the U.S.A. has basically lost its sovereignty to a clique of internationalist scalar terrorists with hyper-tech abilities (such as also demonstrated in the "plane“ deceptions on 9-11-1).

Much fine print would need to be added here to explain the exact meaning of the terms "Israel“ and "Pentagon“ in the foregoing context. The terms are not identical with the alleged constitutional governments of Israel and the U.S.A. Essentially, the body of people involved is one and the same.

It has close ties with the international central banking cabal.

Bank of England

Vatican/Jesuits

Federal Reserve Bank/Alan Greenspan

AIG/Starr International/Maurice Greenberg

Citibank/David Rockefeller

Carlyle Group

Blackstone Group/Henry Kissinger/Maurice Greenberg/Pete Petersen

Council on Foreign Relations

Trilateral Commission

Bilderberg Group

World Bank

Zionist Neocon cabal, et al.

also with alleged Rothschild banking interests involved from the European side

Politically, there is a tight control group with its center being, purportedly, the four: Kissinger, Bush Sr., Hillary Clinton, William Rockefeller-Clinton. In brief, the Bush-Rockefeller Crime Syndicate (if Bill’s family name "Clinton“ is corrected, according to the alleged fatherhood [Winthrop Rockefeller, former Arkansas governor and some say Clinton look-alike], into "Rockefeller“). Many details are omitted here due to time and space restrictions.

For specific (but not all) analytical details, see book by Tom Bearden, "Fer de Lance“ (updated 2nd edition 2002).

For insightful details of the multi-trillion dollar Pentagon black budget as a secret second Manhattan Project see especially:

In Search of the Pentagon's Billion Dollar Hidden Budgets

The Black Budget Report - An Investigation Into the CIA's 'Black Budget' and The Second Manhattan Project

Gradually, we are finding out which weaponized horror of Satanic control freaks these many shiploads of money have gone to pay over decades!

Category 5 mega-hurricane Katrina bears signature marks of being rigged and magnified using scalar weather engineering

There has been a suspicious increase in frequency of otherwise very rare category 5 hurricanes. Before hurricane Andrew (1992, apparently a time when scalar technology was available) there were only two recorded category 5 hurricanes in the U.S.A. Katrina is actually more than category 5; it is category 5+ (the scale has no category 6).

It originated as a small medium hurricane, but suddenly and inexplicably over the Gulf of Mexico it exploded into a monster of category 5 (allegedly due to the "warm Gulf waters“ that have never behaved this way any time before).

Then, the next item of suspicion is the target: New Orleans, shaped like a basin and beneath sea level, also conveniently a center of oil refining for the U.S.A. and located near the Gulf of Mexico oil production.

The mainstream media have turned away from normal news reporting and are hypnotized by the orchestrated mega-hurricane. A well-known pattern of diversion and orchestrated tragedy is once more staged with a chilling routine. The oil price has risen steeply over $70 dollars a barrel due to the hurricane Katrina news reports.

The city is being evacuated, a large volume of domestic American crude oil and gas production has been shut down.

The war on the American people is ongoing

11-22-63, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yugoslavia and 9-11-1 were merely episodes to break the force of the Republic.

Traitors are manipulating the events from behind the screen. Vigilant networks of concerned citizens have watched for the usual "mock drills“ as reported recently by Webster G. Tarpley, and have most likely blocked this customary venue for the shadow regime’s orchestrated routine tragedies.

The regime is upping the ante by resorting to its secret weapons of stealth and deception in its frantic death fight.

What Sherlock’s Text Messages Tell Us About Ourselves

By Graeme McMillan
02.01.14
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2014/02/sherlock-tech/

Nearly four years ago, “A Study in Pink,” the first episode of the BBC’s Sherlock, aired. And just five minutes into the episode, it became clear that the new series would be a new take not just on the Sherlock Holmes mythos, but on television drama as a whole. In the middle of a press conference where a beleaguered Inspector Lestrade was answering questions from reporters, the viewer heard a number of text message alerts—and then, as each reporter checked their phone, saw all their text messages appearing onscreen.
Since then, that technique—floating words representing text messages, Internet searches, or some other form of technological interface—has become a core element of the series’ identity. And while there are plenty of tech-savvy shows out there, it’s that technique that makes Sherlock so incisive: not only is it reflective of our practices, but more importantly, it says as much about us as it does about its characters.
Echoes of that first-season press conference scene abound in a similar scene from this season’s “The Empty Hearse”: Multiple Twitter hashtags flood the screen as word spreads that Holmes is far more alive than had been previously believed. “It was really as simple as [director] Paul McGuigan not wanting to do close ups of a whole load of phones whilst we read the texts,” producer Sue Vertue tells WIRED about the origins of the show’s visualization of social media and text messaging. (McGuigan directed four episodes of the series across its first two seasons, and developed the idea during preparation for “The Great Game,” which was actually shot before “A Study in Pink.”)
“Episode 1 was written and shot last, and so could make the best use of onscreen text as additional script and plot points, such as the text around the screen of the pink lady,” Vertue explains. “If you notice, ‘The Blind Banker’ doesn’t use [floating text] a great deal, as it had already been written, and the script didn’t lend itself so easily to the style in post-production.”
Overall, Vertue says, “the writers have genuine fun playing around with the text stuff now. I love the drunk, out-of-focus texts that we’ve used in ‘The Sign of Three’—it really adds to the richness of the storytelling, I think.”
That may be true, but as with so many aspects of Sherlock, there’s an element of misdirection going on here, with the fun, eye-catching slickness of the visualization distracting from a deeper commentary the show is making about its characters’ relationship with technology—and, by extension, our own relationship with it, as well.
“In a modern-day Sherlock Holmes series, we had to incorporate social media—it would seem weird and old fashioned not to,” Vertue says. Such an attitude is in keeping with the spirit of Holmes—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original incarnation of the hero was both modern and populist in his use of technology at time of publication, after all—but Sherlock takes the character’s reliance on props and outside elements to a new level.
Sherlock isn’t alone in that—Internet and cellphone usage abounds throughout the cast, especially as a shorthand for emotional connections (or the lack thereof). Whether it’s characters refusing to answer certain peoples’ calls, or Sherlock nagging Watson into submission via text onslaught, we all know what these things mean because we do them ourselves. The show is, unlike nearly everything else on television, reflecting our own reality back to us.
But that’s truly crystallized in Sherlock himself. The show repeatedly emphasizes that for all the man’s deductive prowess, he’s noticeably lacking in more basic areas of life. “The Great Game,” for example, made light of this by revealing that he didn’t know that the Earth revolved around the sun. At first that seems like an unforgivable contradiction, but consider of how ubiquitous web searching is on the show. This Sherlock doesn’t need to be an infallible repository of objective information; he has the Internet for that.
Yet, the fact that the show’s extends its visual text effect to Sherlock’s thought process tells us that Sherlock is himself a computer. Consider what Sherlock said when Watson was making fun of him for not knowing about the Earth revolving around the sun: “Listen. This [pointing to his head] is my hard drive and it only makes sense to put things in there that are useful.”
The crux of Sherlock has always been the ongoing question about how “human” Sherlock is, and how his relationship with John Watson has made him a more relatable, “better” man. But just as every season likes to reveal a mystery hidden in plain sight, it’s worth wondering: Is this a show that’s also been secretly pointing out the ways in which we’ve all outsourced parts of ourselves to our technology? Is Sherlock actually about how transhuman we’ve all become without even noticing?

NJ gives NFL super tax break for Super Bowl, and pays for security

Customs helicopter keeps watch on Super Bowl

NJ agreed to give the NFL an $8 million tax break on Super Bowl tickets and parking at MetLife Stadium, along with a pass on all security costs, to bring the big game to the state. (John O'Boyle/The Star-Ledger)

By Ted Sherman/The Star-Ledger
http://www.nj.com/super-bowl/index.ssf/2014/02/nj_gave_nfl_8_million_tax_break_and_pass_on_security_costs_to_land_the_2014_super_bowl.html
on February 02, 2014 at 7:30 AM, updated February 02, 2014

Call it an $8 million gift.
When New Jersey landed this year’s Super Bowl, it gave the National Football League a major tax break. The state agreed to suspend the sales tax on all tickets and parking for today’s big game — a gift that will cost the state $8 million in lost revenues, officials said.
And that’s not the only cost the state is picking up.
All the security and police presence needed for the game — including the estimated 700 New Jersey state troopers who will be patrolling in and around MetLife Stadium today — will also not cost the NFL a dime. The state said it is covering all of its public safety expenses for the game, which is expected to include hundreds of hours in overtime.
Officials say the cost of the game is worth it, pointing to the additional business and economic activity that will be generated by the game, including sales at local restaurants and bars, as well as increased hotel taxes. However, with an event straddling two states, and many fans staying across the river in New York, no one can yet calculate the economic impact on New Jersey of staging the Super Bowl in the Garden State.
But with the millions already being shelled out by the state in lost tax revenue, overtime costs, traffic, transportation and personnel costs — as well as the bitter disappointment by many New Jersey towns that canceled Super Bowl events because of a lack of support from organizers and the NFL — some might wonder whether the first cold weather Super Bowl should be the last for New Jersey.

Officials In NYC Hold News Conference On Counterfeit Super Bowl Merchandise

A ticket for the 2014 Super Bowl, which will not include a sales tax surcharge.Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The league, which pays no federal taxes because of its tax-exempt status, receives 100 percent of the revenues from the sale of all Super Bowl tickets and parking, and has long gotten a pass on state and city sales taxes when it comes to the championship game.
"One of the standard conditions that the NFL asks of all host communities for Super Bowls is to provide sales tax relief on the sale of tickets to the game and certain associated events as well as parking at those events," said Christopher Santarelli, a spokesman for the state Treasury Department. "New Jersey agreed to provide this tax relief to the NFL."
Brian McCarthy, an NFL spokesman, said there was nothing new about the request for sales tax relief.
"This has been part of a Super Bowl host committee bid package since the 1990s," he said.
Indeed, the bid specifications for the host committees that had been vying for the 2014 Super Bowl — Tampa, Miami and New York/New Jersey — made it clear that the NFL would not award the game to any site that did not give the league a pass on sales taxes. According to the bidding requirements, a 127-page document obtained by The Star-Ledger, the NFL spells out the requirement that all revenue on Super Bowl and Super Bowl-related event tickets "be exempt from sales, amusement, or entertainment taxes, and other surcharge obligations."

Other tax breaks

The tickets sold for tonight’s game carried a face value ranging from $500 all the way up to $2,500 for the club seats, according to a league spokesman. In addition, the NFL’s allotment of MetLife Stadium’s 218 luxury boxes (the league gets at least half of them, according to the bidding specs) sold for $400,000 each. Game-day parking, which was also exempted from the state sales tax, went for $150.
In addition, the league also required it not be subject to any state, county, city or other local taxes in connection with the game.
Taxes, meanwhile, are not the only expenses the NFL won’t get saddled with during the Super Bowl. According to the bid specifications, the league also insists there will be no charge for any public security or safety services. The host committee must also guarantee that police escorts for the teams and news media to and from all events leading up the game will be provided at no cost to the league.
"The league is not responsible and we’re not charging them for the costs associated with public safety and security services around the stadium," confirmed Paul Loriquet, a spokesman for the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office.
He said about 700 state troopers will be working the stadium today, but said it was premature to discuss total security costs.
"There are too many variables," said Loriquet, while acknowledging "there will be overtime." He said local and federal police agencies, including the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, will be manning the game as well, incurring their own costs without any reimbursement from the NFL, under the agreement that brought the game to New Jersey.
Loriquet said the Attorney General’s Office was working to lessen the burden on taxpayers and will be receiving some federal assistance to offset costs, including equipment and technology that the state will be allowed to keep after the game.
Mitchell Fillet, a professor of finance and business economics at the Fordham Schools of Business, said from the state’s perspective, the sales tax relief is actually not a bad bargain.
"You give up $8 million, but look what you’re getting," he said. "You’re getting taxes on hot dogs, on sports jerseys, on bar tabs and restaurant bills. You’re getting more income tax from those hired to serve all the people coming to the game."
While the tax relief ultimately ends up in the pocket of the NFL, he said the additional business generated more than offsets the cost given up by the state.
"Will New York get more? Yeah, probably. But Jersey will make out really well," he said. "At $8 million, it’s a slam dunk."
Some, though, are questioning why the NFL and other sports organizations enjoy any sort of tax exemption.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has legislation pending that would revoke the tax-exempt status of sports leagues such as the NFL. His bill would strip tax-exempt status from any league making more than $10 million a year.
The NFL, registered with the IRS as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization, generates billions in broadcast and licensing deals for its member teams and brings in about $255 million in revenues annually. It paid its commissioner, Roger Goodell, $29.4 million in 2011, the most recent figures available.

Little support

A recent national survey from Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind found few support the use of public funds and tax breaks for the NFL. In fact, most were unaware the NFL is a not-for-profit entity, said Krista Jenkins, director of PublicMind and a professor of political science at FDU.
"When you think of the NFL, you think of a lot of revenues being generated," she said. "With billions likely to flow from the Super Bowl, it would seem a contradiction that the organization behind it all would be technically a not-for-profit, but that is indeed true about the NFL."

NFL: Microcosm of the Corporate Class

Billions stolen from tax payers
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
February 2, 2014

Why No Smart City Would Want the NFL

Alexis Garcia has produced a video for Reason.tv showing how an NFL franchise is not a good idea, especially for cash-strapped cities.

“The NFL is good at fleecing taxpayers,” ESPN columnist Gregg Easterbrook and the author of The King of Sports: Football’s Impact on America told Garcia. “It’s about a billion dollars a year I’ve calculated in public subsidies to NFL owners and this is a group that consists almost entirely of billionaires and yet receiving significant public subsidies every year.”

The organization closely resembles the corporate class sucking the life blood out of America. Like banksters and transnational companies, it depends of corporate socialism. It buys politicians who agree to use tax dollars to subsidize operations and build lavish stadiums. It is owned by billionaires. (See an interactive Muckety map here.)

“Judith Grant Long, a Harvard University professor of urban planning, calculates that league-wide, 70 percent of the capital cost of NFL stadiums has been provided by taxpayers, not NFL owners. Many cities, counties, and states also pay the stadiums’ ongoing costs, by providing power, sewer services, other infrastructure, and stadium improvements,” Easterbook writes.

The NFL does not pay a dime in taxes. The IRS says it is a 501(c)(6) tax-exempt organization. Like the Rockefellers and the elite, the NFL exploits the tax code to avoid paying taxes the rest of us pay at gunpoint. The tea party may have difficulty gaining tax exempt status, but it is not a problem for the billionaire owned NFL.

But the NFL is hardly run like a charity on a shoestring with a volunteer staff. Roger Goodell, the current NFL commissioner, for instance pulls down $30 million a year. Former Commissioner Paul Tagliabue received nearly $8.6 million in 2011. Five executive vice presidents received multi-million-dollar compensation, ranging from $1.5 million to $8.8 million, notes Laurie Bennett.

“Goodell’s taking some $30 million from an enterprise made more profitable because it hides behind its tax-exempt status does not seem materially different from, say, the Fannie Mae CEO’s taking a gigantic bonus while taxpayers were bailing out his company,” writes Easterbrook.

In September, Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn introduced legislation to put an end to the NFL’s tax exemption.

Coburn’s bill, however, is not a sure deal.

“Once tax breaks, subsidies, mandates or whatever goodies Washington comes up with are in place, it’s almost impossible to get rid of them,” notes Bonner Cohen, a senior fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research.

This article was posted: Sunday, February 2, 2014 at 10:05 am

Barry Soetoro I.D.’s and Miscellaneous Photos–Hoaxes or Genuine? (Large Photo Collection and “Shocking” Video)

Saturday, February 1, 2014

(Before It's News)

According to what I have seen, this photo has been taken off Facebook over and over again. It is his “Foreign Student” identification. Is it real, and being called a hoax because the Obama Admin wants to keep it secret? Or, is it simply, as many believe, a hoax? (photo first in collection below)

By all standards, our president fits all the criteria to be removed from office—proven dishonesty in his re-election regarding votes, Benghazi, fake birth certificate, actions that are unconstitutional and communist in nature, taking away our rights and our freedoms, and more. What else needs said? Why is this monster still in office?

With all that has been reported in relation to this man’s past, as well as his multiple identities, there is ‘motive’ for this identification photo to be labeled as a mere hoax. However, with the vast number of people who hate Obama, there is just as much cause, if not more, for this image to indeed be fake.

A few websites claim this image is a hoax, while others state it is real.

Regarding this image, About.com states:

Analysis: This is a hoax aimed at convincing the gullible that Barack Obama attended college as a foreign student, and therefore could not have been born in the U.S., and therefore is ineligible to be president.

The first clue that it’s a fake is the name, “Barry Soetoro.” Though Soetoro was his stepfather’s last name and Obama did attend grade school in Indonesia under that name, there’s no evidence he used any name other than Barack (or “Barry”) Obama while attending college (for example, see the byline of an essay by Obama published in Columbia University’s weekly magazine, The Sundial, in 1983).

One of his fellow classmates states:

I am President Obama’s classmate at Columbia University, Class of ’83. I am also one of the most accurate Las Vegas oddsmakers and prognosticators. Accurate enough that I was awarded my own star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars. And I smell something rotten in Denmark. Obama has a big skeleton in his closet. It’s his college records. Call it “gut instinct” but my gut is almost always right. Obama has a secret hidden at Columbia- and it’s a bad one that threatens to bring down his presidency. Gut instinct is how I’ve made my living for 29 years since graduating Columbia.

Obama and his infamous strategist David Axelrod understand how to play political hardball, the best it’s ever been played. Team Obama has decided to distract America’s voters by condemning Mitt Romney for not releasing enough years of his tax returns. It’s the perfect cover. Obama knows the best defense is a bold offense. Just keep attacking Mitt and blaming him for secrecy and evasion, while accusing him of having a scandal that doesn’t exist. Then ask followers like Senator Harry Reid to chase the lead. The U.S. Senate Majority Leader appears to now be making up stories out of thin air, about tax returns he knows nothing about. It’s a cynical, brilliant, and vicious strategy. Make Romney defend, so he can’t attack the real Obama scandal. —The Blaze, Wayne Allyn Root

And then, Waffles At Noon declares:

Columbia ID Cards
The design of the card shown in the image did not exist in 1981. The design was announced in 1996 in the February 2, 1996 edition of the Columbia University Record. The cards were first issued on March 1, 1996. Prior card designs included the student’s social security number.

Original Card
The image from which the fake Obama ID image was created belongs to Thomas Lugert, who posted his college ID in an article entitled, “My study of the English Language at Columbia University in New York City from Juli 20, 98 – August 14, 98.” The scan of his ID card has the same card number, and even the same shadowing in the scan as seen on the fake Obama ID. See the original, full-sized image here. Lugert’s ID was issued in 1998.

The photo of Obama on the fake card does not depict the future President in the early 1980′s but during his time at Harvard, which he attended from 1988 through 1991.

Yet another source, Help Free the Earth, reports that he never even went to Columbia University. But, does that mean that he never attended as Barack Obama? Barry Soetoro? Or, not at all?

Why are Obama’s college records still “sealed” (hidden). No one can investigate what classes he took, what subjects he studied, or what papers he wrote. Nobody knew him or even remembers him from Columbia University.

Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims he was there, but none remembered him. None ever heard of him at the class reunion. Obama’s photograph isn’t in the school yearbook. Obama consistently refuses to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or names of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia. Why? Because he was never there!

Obama’s real name is Barry Soetoro. He used the name “Barry Soetoro” to receive financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate. The OFFICIAL transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order.

Obama Conspiracy Theories says:

First, there is no way a name and address from the 1980’s is going to appear in for the first time in some skip-tracing database in 2010 unless somebody intentionally created a transaction, such as a credit application, for the purpose of inserting the record. This is obviously a birther trick and only somebody hopelessly naive would fail to recognize this.

For the benefit of readers who have never been to college in the US, this is how things work. When you apply to a college, you have your high school submit a transcript. Well President Obama went high school in Hawaii under the name of Barack (or Barry) Obama, not Soetoro. Lots of people remember him from high school. Some of his friends even wrote a book about it. Obama is in the Punahau yearbook, and Punahou School proudly celebrates its famous alumnus named Obama, not Soetoro.

Barack Obama graduated from high school as Barack Obama, ergo, he entered Occidental College as Barack Obama. There are many references and published interviews confirming the President at Occidental, under the name Obama. Occidental College proudly celebrates its famous alumnus named Obama, not Soetoro.

I think we can all agree that there have been and is an overwhelming amount of proven evidence that Obama is a fake, a liar, and definitely not fulfilling what is necessary, just, and pure in order to be a leader of the United States of America. And we know that he has been involved in activiites that are criminal in nature, including Benghazi.

Whether or not this photo is fake is yet to be proven. What do you believe?

What documents here are real, and which ones are hoaxes? Find the image below you KNOW positively is a fake. Can you guess? Hint: It’s going to be very difficult to figure out! Trust me!