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When confronted with a difficult surgical procedure, doctors have
worked blind, not knowing what to expect until an incision was made.
Recently, researchers have been making inroads with the use of 3D
printing to replicate organs for training, practice, pre-planning
surgery and patient education. Dr. Dinender Singla, professor of medicine at the Burnett School of Biomedical Science, College of Medicine at the University of Central Florida,
is at the forefront of this new technology. He is working on the
development of customized 3D printed heart models to aid surgeons in
complex pediatric procedures. Dr. Singla’s mission is to make advanced
3D heart models available to doctors. He says,
The goal is to give doctors a tool they can use that
accurately reflects what they will be seeing when they go into surgery.
It can make for better outcomes.
The 3D printed surgical models are becoming more complex, detailed
and customized for patients and specific conditions. Different colors
are being used to differentiate heart defects. The printing materials
are being adjusted, using soft materials for soft tissues and hard
materials for the external parts of organs.
Color-coded 3D Printed Heart
The anatomically correct hearts are customized using computer
tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. The 3D printed hearts are
already being used in the United States in surgical procedures and are
becoming accepted around the world. In China, a 3D printed heart was used for the first time to pre-plan
and successfully complete open heart surgery on a nine-month old baby
suffering from Total Pulmonary Venous Anomalous Drainage, a congenital
heart defect where one of the four pulmonary arteries is defectively
arranged. To plan for the surgery, the Chinese team used a 3D printed heart
replica to address the baby’s malpositioned pulmonary veins and atrial
septal defect. The surgery was a success and the baby is expected to
recover with no unwanted side effects.
A 3D Printed Heart
Doctor Zhang Xuegin, the child’s surgeon says,
With the model, we were able to know precisely where and
how we should cut, and how big the incision should be. And with such a
thorough plan, we spent only half the time we had expected to complete
the surgery.
The use of 3D printing is being used for other organs as well and is even being used in veterinary science. The goal is to eventually use printers to produce actual organs that
can be transplanted into patients; just replace the rubber and plastic
printer “ink” with human cells. 3D printing is revolutionary for medicine. The future is now.
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by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D. 24 Mar 2016
After
coming under fire from atheist groups for the distribution of free
Bibles, the Delta County School District (DCSD) has approved the
circulation of atheistic, secular and Satanic literature to middle and
high school students.
Several atheist organizations,
including The Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF), Western Colorado
Atheists and Freethinkers (WCAF) and the Satanic Temple, applied to
distribute their literature as a challenge to the school district’s
“open forum” policy that allows any group to distribute non-curricular
literature to students, as long as it conforms to policy guidelines.
Kurt
Clay, the Assistant Superintendent of the Delta School District, said
if they are going to make literature for things such as Boy Scouts, 4H
or other organizations available, they have to allow all types of
information to be available to students.
“This is the
other side of that,” explained Kurt Clay, the Assistant Superintendent.
“The policy says we cannot discriminate what is handed out, we just have
to follow the process.”
Certain exceptions exist, and
the materials can’t advocate criminal behavior, violence or drug use,
advertise commercial products, or be pornographic. The School District
has appealed to this policy as a justification for distributing Gideon
Bibles to students on school grounds during class hours.
In
December, 2015, a Delta Middle School student complained about the
offering of Gideon Bibles to students and the Western Colorado Atheist
and Freethinkers said that the distribution of those bibles prompted
their desire to distribute atheist material as well.
The
distribution of the atheistic materials will take place on April 1,
2016. The proponents of the new materials say that they are offering
Delta students an alternative way of thinking.
Some of
the brochures to be offered to students include “Top 10 Public School
State-Church Violations and How to Stop Them,” “What’s Wrong with the
Ten Commandments?” and “The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities.”
Ann Landman with the Western Colorado Atheist and Freethinkers says the issue in play here is freedom of speech.
“Students
are not only getting a lesson about the federal laws and our
constitution, but also a different point of view that you can find
around the world,” Landman contended.
But Western
Colorado Atheist and Freethinkers have said that what they are really
after is a change of policy, to separate religion and schools, and
believe that by handing out provocative literature they will achieve
this end.
The Delta School District has already stated
that they are looking into revising their policy to continue providing
materials that benefit students, but do not include material on religion
or beliefs.
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By Michael Snyder, on March 29th, 2016
Ten
years ago, a major Hollywood film entitled “Idiocracy” was released,
and it was an excellent metaphor for what would happen to America over
the course of the next decade. In the movie, an “average American”
wakes up 500 years in the future only to discover that he is the most
intelligent person by far in the “dumbed down” society that he suddenly
finds himself in. Sadly, I truly believe that if people of average
intellect from the 1950s and 1960s were transported to 2016, they would
likely be considered mental giants compared to the rest of us. We have a
country where criminals are being paid$1000 a month not to shoot
people, and the highest paid public employee in more than half the
states is a football coach. Hardly anyone takes time to read a book
anymore, and yet the average American spends 302 minutes a day watching
television. 75 percent of our young adults cannot find Israel on a map
of the Middle East, but they sure know how to find smut on the Internet.
It may be hard to believe, but there are more than 4 million adult
websites on the Internet today, and they get more traffic than Netflix,
Amazon and Twitter combined. What in the world has
happened to us? How is it possible that we have become so stupid?
According to a brand new report that was recently released, almost 10
percent of our college graduates believe that Judge Judy is on the
Supreme Court… The American Council of Trustees and Alumni publishes occasional reports on what college students know. Nearly
10 percent of the college graduates surveyed thought Judith Sheindlin,
TV’s “Judge Judy,” is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Less than 20
percent of the college graduates knew the effect of the Emancipation
Proclamation. More than a quarter of the college graduates did not know
Franklin D. Roosevelt was president during World War II; one-third did
not know he was the president who spearheaded the New Deal. It can be tempting to laugh at numbers like these until you realize that survey after survey has come up with similar results. Just consider what Newsweek found a few years ago… When
NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America’s official
citizenship test, 29 percent couldn’t name the vice president.
Seventy-three percent couldn’t correctly say why we fought the Cold War.
Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights. And 6
percent couldn’t even circle Independence Day on a calendar. Even worse were the extremely depressing results of a study conducted a few years ago by Common Core… *Only 43 percent of all U.S. high school students knew that the Civil War was fought some time between 1850 and 1900. *More
than a quarter of all U.S. high school students thought that
Christopher Columbus made his famous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean
after the year 1750. *Approximately a third of all U.S.
high school students did not know that the Bill of Rights guarantees
freedom of speech and freedom of religion. *Only 60 percent of all U.S. students knew that World War I was fought some time between 1900 and 1950. Of course survey results can be skewed, and much hinges on how the questions are asked. However,
even studies that are scientifically conducted confirm how stupid
America has become. In fact, a report from the Educational Testing
Service found that Americans are falling way behind much of the rest of
the industrialized world. The following comes from CBS News… Americans
born after 1980 are lagging their peers in countries ranging from
Australia to Estonia, according to a new report from researchers at the
Educational Testing Service (ETS). The study looked at scores for
literacy and numeracy from a test called the Program for the
International Assessment of Adult Competencies, which tested the
abilities of people in 22 countries. The results are
sobering, with dire implications for America. It hints that students may
be falling behind not only in their early educational years but at the
college level. Even though more Americans between the ages of 20 to 34
are achieving higher levels of education, they’re still falling behind
their cohorts in other countries. In Japan, Finland and the Netherlands,
young adults with only a high school degree scored on par with American
Millennials holding four-year college degrees, the report said. Out
of 22 countries that were part of the study, the Educational Testing
Service found that Americans were dead last in tech proficiency, dead
last in numeracy and only two countries performed worse than us when it
came to literacy proficiency… Half of American
Millennials score below the minimum standard of literacy proficiency.
Only two countries scored worse by that measure: Italy (60 percent) and
Spain (59 percent). The results were even worse for numeracy, with
almost two-thirds of American Millennials failing to meet the minimum
standard for understanding and working with numbers. That placed U.S.
Millennials dead last for numeracy among the study’s 22 developed
countries. So why has this happened? Why have we become such an extremely stupid nation? Well,
at least a portion of the blame must be directed at our system of
education. The following is an excerpt from an article written by
reporter Mark Morford. In this article, he shared how one of his
friends which had served for a very long time as a high school teacher
in Oakland, California was considering moving out of the country when he
retired due to the relentless “dumb-ification of the American brain”…
It’s
gotten so bad that, as my friend nears retirement, he says he is very
seriously considering moving out of the country so as to escape what he
sees will be the surefire collapse of functioning American society in
the next handful of years due to the absolutely irrefutable destruction,
the shocking — and nearly hopeless — dumb-ification of the American
brain. It is just that bad. Now, you may think he’s
merely a curmudgeon, a tired old teacher who stopped caring long ago.
Not true. Teaching is his life. He says he loves his students, loves
education and learning and watching young minds awaken. Problem is, he
is seeing much less of it. And of course things don’t
get much better when it comes to our college students. In aprevious
article, I shared some statistics from USA Today about the rapidly
declining state of college education in the United States… -“After
two years in college, 45% of students showed no significant gains in
learning; after four years, 36% showed little change.” -“Students also spent 50% less time studying compared with students a few decades ago” -“35% of students report spending five or fewer hours per week studying alone.” -“50% said they never took a class in a typical semester where they wrote more than 20 pages” -“32% never took a course in a typical semester where they read more than 40 pages per week.” I
spent eight years studying at some of the finest public universities in
the country, and I can tell you from personal experience that even our
most challenging college courses have been pathetically dumbed down. And
at our “less than finest” public universities, the level of education
can be something of a bad joke. In another previous article, I shared
some examples of actual courses that have been taught at U.S.
universities in recent years… -“What If Harry Potter Is Real?” -“Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame” -“Philosophy And Star Trek” -“Learning From YouTube” -“How To Watch Television” Could you imagine getting actual college credit for a course entitled “What If Harry Potter Is Real?” This
is why many of our college graduates can barely put two sentences
together. They aren’t being challenged, and the quality of the
education most of them are receiving is incredibly poor. But
even though they aren’t being challenged, students are taking longer to
get through college than ever. Federal statistics reveal that only 36
percent of all full-time students receive a bachelor’s degree within
four years, and only 77 percent of all full-time students have earned a
bachelor’s degree by the end of six years. Of course
our system of education is not entirely to blame. The truth is that
young Americans spend far more time consuming media than they do hitting
the books, and what passes for “entertainment” these days is rapidly
turning their brains to mush. According to a report put
out by Nielsen, this is how much time the average American spends
consuming media on various devices each day… Watching live television: 4 hours, 32 minutes Watching time-shifted television: 30 minutes Listening to the radio: 2 hours, 44 minutes Using a smartphone: 1 hour, 33 minutes Using Internet on a computer: 1 hour, 6 minutes When you add it all up, the average American spends more than 10 hours a day plugged into some form of media. And if you allow anyone to pump “programming” into your mind for 10 hours a day, it is going to have a dramatic impact. In
the end, I truly believe that we all greatly underestimate the
influence that the mainstream media has on all of us. We willingly plug
into “the Matrix” for endless hours, but then somehow we still expect
“to think for ourselves”. There are very few of us that
can say that we have not been exposed to thousands upon thousands of
hours of conditioning. And all of that garbage can make it very, very
difficult to think clearly. It is not because of a lack
of input that we have become so stupid as a society. The big problem
is what we are putting into our minds. If we continue to put garbage in, we are going to continue to get garbage out, and that is the cold, hard reality of the matter. http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/depressing-survey-results-show-how-extremely-stupid-america-has-become Literacy
is not a handy knack. It is a moral condition. The ability to read
attentively, reflectively, and judiciously is equally the ability to be
attentive, reflective, and judicious. For the sake of just and sane
living, literacy is not an optional adornment. It is a necessity. It is
the necessity. It is not a variety or portion of education. It is
education. It is the whole thing, the wholesome nourishment of the mind,
by which it may grow strong enough to be the master of the will and not
its slave, the judge of desire and not its procurer, the censor of
sentiment and not its tool, and the inquisitor of belief, and not its
flack. It is our only path to whatever wisdom we can have, which is our
only path to whatever goodness we can know, which is our only path to
whatever happiness we can enjoy. Richard Mitchell, Hunger in America
MUDDLE EARTH
MUDDLE EARTH
In February 1947, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd was in charge of a
massive operation in the Arctic that was called Operation Highjump.
Operation Highjump has become a topic among UFO conspiracy theorists,
who claim it was a covert US military operation to conquer alleged
secret underground Nazi facilities in Antarctica and capture the German
Vril flying discs, or, Thule mercury-powered spaceship prototypes. Operation “Highjump”, consisted of three Naval battle groups, which
were led by Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s command ship, the ice-breaker,
“Northwind,” and consisted of the catapult ship, “Pine Island,” the
destroyer, “Brownsen,” the aircraft-carrier, “Phillipines Sea,” the U.S.
submarine, “Sennet,” two support vessels, “Yankee” and “Merrick,” and
two tankers, “Canisted” and “Capacan,” the destroyer, “Henderson” and a
floatplane ship, “Currituck.” Some 13 ships and 4,700 men, which included an aircraft carrier, a
submarine, two destroyers, more than two-dozen aircraft and some 3,500
Marines in full battle gear were sent by the United States to Antarctica
on what was officially described as a “training” mission, departing
from Norfolk, VA, on December 2, 1946. Thus, Operation Highjump, began. The expedition was filmed by the
Navy and brought to Hollywood to be made into a commercial film called,
The Secret Land. It was narrated by Hollywood actor Robert Montgomery,
father of Bewitched star, Elizabeth Montgomery, who was, himself, an
officer in the Naval Reserve. It seems incredible that so shortly after a war that had decimated
most of Europe and crippled global economies, an expedition to
Antarctica was undertaken with so much haste (it took advantage of the
first available Antarctic summer after the war), at such cost, and with
so much military hardware – unless the operation was absolutely
essential to the security of the United States. Tensions across the globe were mounting as Russia and America edged
into a Cold War, possibly a Third World War that the US would have to
fight with “tragically few ships and tragically half-trained men.” This
made the sending of nearly 5,000 residual Navy personnel to a remote
part of the planet where so much danger lurked in the form of icebergs,
blizzards and sub-zero temperatures even more of a puzzle. The operation
was also launched with incredible speed, “a matter of weeks.” Perhaps
it would not be uncharitable to conclude that the Americans had some
unfinished business connected with the war in the polar region. Indeed,
this was later confirmed by other events and the operation’s leader,
Admiral Richard Byrd, himself. The official instructions issued by the then Chief of Naval
Operations, Chester W. Nimitz were: to (a) train personnel and test
material in the frigid zones; (b) consolidate and extend American
sovereignty over the largest practical area of the Antarctic continent;
(c) to determine the feasibility of establishing and maintaining bases
in the Antarctic and to investigate possible base sites; (d) to develop
techniques for establishing and maintaining air bases on the ice, (with
particular attention to the later applicability of such techniques to
Greenland) and (e) amplify existing knowledge of hydro graphic,
geographic, geological, meteorological and electromagnetic conditions in
the area. Very little information was released to the media about the mission,
although most journalists were suspicious of its true purpose given the
huge amount of military hardware involved. The US Navy also strongly
emphasized that Operation Highjump was going to be a Navy show; Admiral
Ramsey’s preliminary orders of 26th August 1946 stated that “the Chief
of Naval Operations only will deal with other governmental agencies” and
that “no diplomatic negotiations are required. No foreign observers
will be accepted.” Not exactly an invitation to scrutiny, even from
other arms of the government. Yet persistent rumors insisted the actual purpose of Highjump was to
find, and if occupied, engage the Nazis in their fortress determine the
location and purpose of the Nazi saucers or alleged “wunderweapons” and
also determine if the Nazis had an underground base or a base that was
established on the Moon. The very idea that the Nazis had technology that advanced sounds
outrageous to many people because it just doesn’t make the cut in the
history books. It was even more outrageous to think the advanced
technology of the Nazis could have found an opening into the hollow
Earth, or even allow for the Nazis to slip the binds of Earth and
establish colonies on the moon. The mission of Admiral Byrd was very serious and extensive. About a dozen of ships in Byrd’s flotilla arrived at three different
rendezvous points in the Southern Ocean inside the Antarctic Circle,
spread out over more than a month, with the first to arrive dropping
anchor on December 30, 1946. The plan was for the main body of men and equipment, the Central
Group, to go to Byrd’s Antarctic “home,” Little America on the Ross Ice
Shelf, where they would set up a base camp. There would be two other
groups of ships, each group composed of a seaplane tender, a destroyer
and a tanker. One group would begin to the east of the central group,
the other to the west. The Central Group consisted of the Mount Olympus, a communications
vessel; two supply ships, the Yancey and the Merrick; two icebreakers,
the Burton Island and the Northwind; and a submarine, the Sennet. There was also an East Group and a West Group. The East Group, under the command of Captain George J. Dufek, would
start on the opposite side of the continent from the base camp at Little
America. It would be East Group’s task to begin their mission by
reconnoitering Dronning Maud Land, the Norwegian name for the area
called Neuschwabenland by the Germans. They began to the east of
Neuschwabenland and swung around west, photographing all of the former
Deutsch Antarctica in the process. The East Group consisted of the
seaplane tender Pine Island, the destroyer Brownson and their refueling
ship, the Canisteo. The West Group, under Captain Charles A. Bond, was made up of the
Currituck, a seaplane tender, the Henderson, a destroyer, and the
Cacapon, a tanker. They in turn began in the center and ended their
voyage half-way around the Antarctic continent at Dronning Maud Land,
completing the circle. Captain George Dufek was believed to be the first American to set foot on the South Pole and planted the American flag there. Now, I will admit there is still no conclusive evidence of a
German/Alien base on Antarctica, It is beyond doubt that something
highly unusual was happening on, or around, the frozen continent. Again,
there is no evidence that Nazis were able to use their advanced saucer
technology to establish bases on the moon. However, there are some interesting things that need to be pointed
out that may lead us to speculate about the reality of such bases. Hundreds of thousands of Germans and a minimum of forty (40) U-boats
were missing at the end of the war. Documentation and eyewitness
accounts prove that at least a portion of these craft made it as far as
South America, in some cases, several months after the end of the war in
Europe. The Germans explored and claimed part of Antarctica on the very eve
of the war when the vast majority of their activity was geared towards
the rebuilding of the German economy and military infrastructure. This
activity began shortly before the recovery of the Bavarian “flying
disc”, in 1938, but picked up pace immediately afterward. There was ongoing ship and submarine activity in the South Atlantic
and polar regions throughout and after the war had apparently ended.
This activity continued well into the 1950s, and if some accounts are to
be believed, continues to this day, with what can only be considered
U-Boat sightings, and a very high incidence of Unidentified Flying
Object sightings in the South Atlantic and South Polar regions,
including the southern portions of South America. South America has always been a “hotbed” of Unidentified Flying
Object activity. Many of the reports coming out of the area are
unverified, and unverifiable, however, many have credence. In 1959, three large newspapers in Chile reported front-page articles
about Unidentified Flying Object encounters in which the crew members
appeared to be German soldiers. In the early 1960s, there were reports
in New York, and New Jersey, of flying saucer ‘aliens’ who spoke German,
or English with a German accent. Nor, can it be neglected to mention that in one of the most
spectacular legal cases of the Twentieth Century… the “atomic espionage”
trials… Julius and Ethel Rosenberg spoke of “warships of space.” Since
they had access to top secret information, and, at that point, no reason
to lie, what was it, exactly, that they meant? The US literally invaded the continent of Antarctica, itself, with
considerable naval resources leaving mainland America exposed and
vulnerable as the world edged into the Cold War. The task force limped
home as if defeated only weeks later, and the local South American press
wrote of such a defeat. This coincided with a substantial increase in
Unidentified Flying Object activity… generally attributed to the first
major “wave” of such activity in modern times, with an inordinate amount
of this activity taking place in the Southern Hemisphere, particularly
in South America. Admiral Byrd spoke of objects that could fly from pole to pole at incredible speeds being based on the continent of Antarctica. The claims that something extremely unusual was taking place around
the foreboding reaches of the frozen continent took a major leap forward
in the 1960s when the Argentine Navy was charged with the official
investigation into strange sightings in the sky. A 1965 official report prepared by Captain Sanchez Moreno of the
Naval Air Station Comandante Espora in Bahia Blanca stated that between
1950 and 1965, personnel of Argentina’s Navy alone made 22 sightings of
Unidentified Flying Objects that were not airplanes, satellites, weather
balloons or any type of known (aerial) vehicles. These 22 cases served
as precedents for intensifying that investigation of the subject by the
Navy. Following a series of sightings at Argentine and Chilean
meteorological stations on Deception Island, Antarctica, in June and
July 1965, Captain Engineer Omar Pagani disclosed at a press conference
that “Unidentified Flying Objects do exist. Their presence in Argentine
airspace is proven”. The report went on to state, however, “their nature
and origin are unknown and no judgment is made about them.” More details of these UFO sightings were given in a report in the
Brazilian newspaper, O Estado de Sao Paulo, in its 8th July 1965
edition: “For the first time in history, an official communiqué has been
published by a government about the flying saucers. It is a document
from the Argentine Navy, based on the statements of a large number of
Argentine, Chilean and British sailors stationed in the naval base in
Antarctica.” The communiqué declared that the personnel of Deception Island (left)
naval base saw, at nineteen hours forty minutes on 3 July, a flying
object of lenticular shape, with a solid appearance and a coloring in
which red and green prevailed and, for a few moments, yellow. The
machine was flying in a zig-zag fashion, and in a generally western
direction, but it changed course several times and changed speed, having
an inclination of about forty-five degrees above the horizon. The craft also remained stationary for about twenty minutes at a
height of approximately 5,000 meters, producing no sound. The communiqué
states moreover that the prevailing meteorological conditions when the
phenomenon was observed can be considered excellent for the region in
question and the time of year. The sky was clear and quite a lot of
stars were visible. The Secretariat of the Argentine Navy also states in
its communiqué that the occurrence was witnessed by scientists of the
three naval bases and the facts described by these people agree
completely. Barack Obama recently was in Argentina to rekindle business ties with
a country that has been marred with a dark history of CIA black ops,
creating death squads during what has been called the Dirty War. However, it was announced before his visit that rumors are swirling
about a secretive Chinese space station built deep in Argentina’s
Patagonia region. In 2012, leaders in Beijing and Buenos Aires inked a deal to build
the so-called “Deep Space Station,” and the facility is expected to be
completed by the end of 2016. While Argentina and China have said that “the ground station in the
Southern Hemisphere to support the program for moon exploration and
other space activities,” there is a concern among some that the Chinese
facility may have a more military purpose. During the recent
presidential election, the winner, Mauricio Macri, claimed that he would
make public the “secret clauses” that have been rumored to have been
added to the agreement. Unlike the other space station in the South American country – an
antenna in Argentina’s central-west Mendoza province built by the
European Space Agency – the Chinese facility will be operated by the
country’s military, political analyst Rosendo Fraga, director of the
consulting firm, New Majority. Officials in China have said that while military personnel would be
running it, the facility would be “totally civilian, and it is not
operated by military personnel.” The intended use of the giant antennae at the station is supposed to
monitor the moon – as China has ambitions of sending people there – but
some speculate that it could serve a dual purpose of watching celestial
bodies and also intercepting signals from other nation’s satellites. Despite the speculation, China has not given out much information to the public about the remote facility and its operations. There are some conspiracy theories that are saying that the station
located in the Patagonia region and another rumored to be in Mendoza
have been used to communicate with possible bases on the moon. Argentina’s Patagonia region seems like an ideal location for a space
facility as the area is relatively flat and remote, but can still be
accessed by roads. Have secret space stations or communication stations
been around since the 1940’s or the 1950’s? When I lived in Argentina in the 1980’s, I heard from a reliable
source that there were many space station bases in the Falkland Islands.
This lends itself to speculation that even after Operation Highjump
ended, there were other interested parties that knew of the UFO activity
in South America and the possible Nazi space programs in Antarctica. Furthermore, Ground Zero reported of an e-mail received showing
documents that allegedly, the Boeing Aerospace company along with the
U.S, government had military plans to build a space station on the moon
in 1964 and have it ready by 1969. The proposal was drafted in 1963 and
its consultant was none other than Admiral George Dufek, the very same
man who with Admiral Byrd was part of Operation Highjump; the mission
that allegedly sought after Nazi space technology, underground and
possible moon bases in the 1940’s. In 1961, US President John F. Kennedy pledged that America’s space
program would “place a man on the moon before the decade’s close.” However, it was just a cover in order to hide that the space program
had been planned since Project Horizon in the 1950’s and the military
had already arrived looking for other possible alien and familiar
enemies. NASA’s growing power, its protection by the Kennedy administration,
and the rise of the Right Stuff astronaut as celebrity hid the steady
growth of the Military-Industrial Complex that Eisenhower had warned
about. Perhaps he wanted to warn that the growth of the military
industrial complex was not only confined to earth, but extending to the
moon and beyond.
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http://gizadeathstar.com/2016/03/lockheed-martin-forms-new-energy-subsidiary/Mr.
J.H. caught this one, and it may be another of those articles
indicating that the slow drip of massive change is continuing. This
time, the trickle involves defense contractor Lockheed-Martin, and its
new "renewable energy subsidiary": SOLAR DAILY Lockheed Martin forms energy group Now, after the commercials that we were all subjected to in this
year's Stupor Bowl (for those of you living outside the USA, this is the
annual "playoff" in American football, which usually includes massive
halftime events featureing plastic patriotism, jingoism, and beer
commercials, only this year featured commercials from the USA's
military-industrial complex heavy hitters, stating, in effect, that "we"
won't believe what's coming, the clear implication being that "new
technologies" are just around the corner, ready to be rolled out), this
story may be a continuation of the "slow drip" model. There's a statement here that left me more or less speechless and
stunned, for it's a clear indicator that this "energy revolution" and
"end of the age of oil" is very really, and fraught with huge military
potentials:
"With our broad energy capabilities now under a single
organization, we'll focus our business growth strategy, enhance
collaboration, advance new technology and ultimately build Lockheed
Martin Energy into a true leader in the expanding energy market," he
said in a statement. The Department of Defense has called for the addition of 3
gigawatts worth of renewable energy to help meet the electricity demands
of military facilities. The mandate is part of a broader departmental
directive to use renewable energy resources for at least 25 percent of
its energy consumption.(Emphasis added)
Let that sink in: the US military wants no less than 3 gigawatts of
"renewable energy" - read nuclear, solar, fusion, and whatever else they
have up their sleeves - to power US military installations. The clear implication is that the military wants to be entirely free
of petroleum, and therefore, of any potential interdiction of its energy
supplies. This carries with it the disturbing question of why, and the
answer can only be because (1) it is predicting such an interdiction
attempt in the near, mid-term, or long-range future, and (2) it needs
such a secure energy supply to conduct military operations in the event
of a general war. Or to put it couontry simple: this is a war preparation move, but it
is one implying, inevitably, sources of energy rather different than
even the big (and targetable) nuclear power plants. And in this respect, let's recall that it was Lockheed, just a few
years ago, that revealed its experimental fusion reactor, and which also
announced it wants to put such reactors on the back of trucks....(see, for example,
5/5 (2) 5/52So many of you sent
articles regarding the Lockheed Martin fusion reactor story, that I am
compelled to offer my usual high octane speculations, with my thanks to
all of you who have been following this story so closely. One individual
who emailed me, echoed my own intuitions, by stating that she thought …
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Former Sen. Gary Hart, right, announces his withdrawal from the presidential race in 1987. (Photo: AP)
If
you’re tired of hearing Donald Trump go on about his ratings and polls,
if you’re mystified by the Twitter War of the Candidates’ Wives, if you
can’t understand why Wolf Blitzer interviews a former contestant on “The Apprentice” as if she were a political authority, then I’ve got a video you really need to watch.
The video I’m showing you here,
courtesy of C-Span’s archive, is of a presidential candidate speaking
in 1987, at a moment of tectonic upheaval in our politics and media.
Chances are pretty good you’ve never seen it, or even heard about it,
and there’s a reason for that.
Before I tell the remarkable story of that eight-minute speech, though, let’s put it in the context of our moment.
Recently, a bunch of commentators — among them the president
of the United States — seem to have latched on to the idea that the
media is culpable in enabling Trump’s antic march to the Republican
nomination. In the New York Times, my former colleagues Nicholas Kristof and Jim Rutenberg have both written columns in the past week asking whether we, as an industry, need to be more accountable.
Regular readers of this column know that I wrote early and often on this theme, including a column last December about the destructive “symbiosis” between Trump and the media — a term very much in fashion now.
In fact, not long ago I wrote an entire book
on the collision of entertainment and political journalism, called “All
the Truth Is Out,” which seems to have accidentally anticipated the
Trump phenomenon. I borrowed from the brilliant work of the social
critic Neil Postman, whose 1985 book “Amusing Ourselves to Death” feels
more relevant today than it probably did then.
But
the guy who really predicted all of this was Gary Hart, the protagonist
of “All the Truth Is Out.” And man, did he try to sound the alarm.
At
this time in 1987, Hart was rather like the Hillary Clinton of his day,
only more talented and more visionary; he had been the presumed nominee
of the Democratic Party since narrowly losing in 1984, and the Gallup
Poll had him beating George H.W. Bush — then the sitting vice president —
by double digits. A man of staggering intellect, he was talking even
then about the rise of stateless terrorism and the arrival of a
high-tech economy.
But
his campaign unraveled in the space of five surreal days, during which
reporters from the Miami Herald hid outside Hart’s home in order to
catch him spending time with a younger woman. Hart found himself undone
by the first modern political sex scandal — the inevitable result of
myriad forces that were just then reshaping the media, from the echoes
of Watergate to the birth of the mobile satellite.
What happened next is interesting and almost entirely forgotten.
Driven
from the campaign trail in New Hampshire, Hart repaired to his cabin in
the Denver foothills, where he and his family were literally penned in
by a fleet of satellite trucks and news choppers. His aides wrote him
the kind of withdrawal statement we’ve come to expect from scandalized
politicians — contrite, gracious, bland.
Hart
couldn’t sleep after reading that speech. It made him want to vomit. He
called his close friend Warren Beatty (who would later make the film “Bulworth,” not incidentally) and talked through what he wished he could say instead.
Then,
the next morning, Hart drove the canyon road down to Denver, stepped
before the national media and calmly delivered one of the most stinging
and prescient indictments of an American institution you will ever see.
“In
public life, some things may be interesting, but that doesn’t
necessarily mean they’re important,” Hart said, decrying a process that
he said reduced reporters to hunters and candidates to the hunted.
“And
then after all that, ponderous pundits wonder in mock seriousness why
some of the best people in this country choose not to run for high
office,” Hart went on. “Now I want those talented people who supported
me to insist that this system be changed. Too much of it is just a
mockery. And if it continues to destroy people’s integrity and honor,
then that system will eventually destroy itself.
“Politics in this country, take it from me, is on the verge of becoming another form of athletic competition or sporting match.”
He
closed by paraphrasing his idol, Thomas Jefferson: “I tremble for my
country when I think we may in fact get the kind of leaders we deserve.”
Whenever
I talk about my book to audiences around the country, I close with
those lines. Invariably, I look up to find shocked and silent voters
nodding their heads, amazed at how eerily that captures our present
reality.
So
why haven’t you heard anything about this seminal speech? I’ll tell you
why. Because within 24 hours of its delivery, despite the polls showing
that the public mostly sided with Hart over the reporters, America’s
elite media, led by its columnists and editorial boards, rose up in
unison to mock and discredit it.
“Instead
of saying goodbye with a measure of dignity, respect and
introspection,” A.M. Rosenthal, the Times’ former editor, wrote on the
paper’s op-ed page, “Gary Hart told us he had decided that Gary Hart was
a wonderful man after all and that everybody was responsible for Gary
Hart’s political demise except Gary Hart.” (Watch Hart’s speech and decide for yourself if that was the point.)
Hart’s
monologue was instantly buried in an avalanche of defensiveness and
moral posturing. “It wasn’t just that I was blaming the media,” Hart
recalled when we talked this week. “It was that I was a bad guy, and it
was good riddance to a bad politician.”
For
29 years after that moment, until I directed him to it this week, even
Hart hadn’t watched that video clip. Nor did he bother to continue
pressing his case, despite a stream of offers to give speeches or appear
on talk shows.
“I
was not put on earth to pick a fight with the media and carry it out,”
he told me. “I couldn’t repeat the theme of that talk without the
headline inevitably saying, ‘Hart attacks the press,’ and I just didn’t
want to do that for the rest of my life.
“There was no capacity for thoughtful reflection,” Hart said. “It was all me versus them.”
By
the time I got into the business of political journalism in the late
1990s, 24-hour cable news — mindless, sensational, personality-obsessed —
was driving the conversation. Then came the Internet, with its frenzied
competition for clicks. By 2007, Politico (which does some excellent
work, to be fair) was calling itself the ESPN of news, which is pretty
much exactly what Hart had prophesied.
And so we systematically created a process perfectly suited to a manipulative, reality-TV performer like Trump (or Sarah Palin before him) — and just as hostile to a guy like John Kasich,
who talks about governing as complicated work. We spend half of any
given debate talking about poll numbers and strategies, mean tweets and
sordid allegations, because the game of politics is so much more
alluring than the practice of statecraft.
I
asked Hart if, on a week like this one, when battery charges against
Trump’s campaign manager were vying for airtime against his war with Ted
Cruz over their spouses, he felt vindicated at last.
“No,”
he said quickly. “No. No.” After all, he explained, no one (other than
me) ever saw the need to revisit what he said all those years ago.
I
raise the Hart video this week because if you read this latest flood of
self-criticism, some of it from commentators who have worked in our
business for decades, you might come away thinking that something
transformative has just taken us by surprise. You might get the
impression that a tsunami of triviality has suddenly overwhelmed our
media, and we barely had time to suck in air and duck our heads.
But
don’t let anyone tell you that this is all just about Trump’s suckering
us, or about some convergence of recent trends we couldn’t have
foreseen. It is, in fact, a generational reckoning — the failure of
executives and anchors and reporters-turned-cable-personalities, many of
them in our most serious news outlets, who for decades refused to
confront the creeping realities of their industry, as surely as a
generation of political leaders refused to confront the realities of
fiscal and global instability.
Leslie Moonves, the chairman of CBS, did a pretty nice job of encapsulating that failure when he talked about Trump’s campaign this way last month: “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.”
We
can say, as Moonves surely would, that we were just responding to
market forces beyond our control. We can say that voters, and not us,
get to decide what matters and what doesn’t. We can point out that we’ve
gone to great lengths to expose the depth of Trump’s ignorance and
inconsistency.
What we can’t say is that we weren’t told it would happen.
