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  1. HeavenlyHosts

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    This is truly horrendous and heart rending
    I can’t imagine how the parents must feel
    losing their daughter this way
     
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    Pressure on FBI mounts after failure to pursue tip on Florida suspect

    Even before the startling disclosure that the FBI failed to investigate a warning that the suspect, Nikolas Cruz, could be plotting an attack, the bureau was facing unprecedented criticism from President Trump and other Republicans, who have accused it of partisan bias.

    The agency and its supporters had been able to dismiss past criticism as just politics, but this time it had no option but to admit it made a disastrous mistake.

    The FBI's acknowledgment that it mishandled the tip prompted a sharp rebuke from its boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and a call from Florida's Republican Gov. Rick Scott, a Trump ally who is expected to run for U.S. Senate, for FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pressure-on-fbi-mounts-after-failure-to-pursue-tip-on-florida-suspect/

    And it's not the first time that the FBI has dropped the ball in Florida; the FBI also dropped the ball in the Orlando shooter incident. The Russians also alerted the FBI about the Boston Marathon, Tsarnaev brothers, well before the Boston Marathon. So why is it that the FBI keeps ignoring these tips? Is it incompetence?
    If they are that incompetent, then Gov. Scott is correct, fire the lot of them beginning with the head, Wray!

    Of course our Marxist deep state uses these events and is pushing the gun control agenda.
     
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  3. Scientists create first human-sheep hybrids - paving the way for organs to be grown in animals for transplant even providing a cure for diabetes

    • The Stanford University project grew embryos which had sheep and human cells
    • Scientists plan to implant stem cells into sheep and hope human organs grow
     
  4. Steve79

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    There may be an agreement between the Syrian and the Kurdish sides to defend Afrin together against the Turks.

    The things get even more complicated. Whether it happens we should know tomorrow. What will Russia do if the regular Syrian army fights directly against Turkey? What will Israel and America do?

    Kurdish Sources: Syrian Army To Enter Afrin Area In 24 Hours
    https://southfront.org/kurdish-sources-syrian-army-to-enter-afrin-area-in-24-hours/



     
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  5. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

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  6. HeavenlyHosts

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    just think how many blinded people will praise this accomplishment
     
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    No! Don't you see? We've been talking about this for YEARS!

    They're turning us into ... sheeple.
     
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    :D:ROFLMAO::LOL:
     
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    The dossier claims United Nations aid workers have raped 60,000 people and estimate that the organisation employs 3,300 paedophiles
     
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    :cry:
     
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    Oops, beware! That link brings you to a website with indecent images :eek:
     
  12. Steve79

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    Sorry didn´t recognize that!!
    I read about the dossier in German and searched an English link. Can´t edit/delete it anymore.
    For ALL, better DON´T FOLLOW the LINK of "THE SUN"!!!
     
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    Thanks for the heads up. This is right in line with exactly what Q has been saying all along.
    Mighty interesting the amount of human traffickers that have been arrested since Trump was elected. The media virtually ignores this which tells me it is much more significant than we think.
     
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  14. Earthquake shakes southern Mexico for second time in three days


    A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck southern Mexico early on Monday, sending frightened residents into the streets as seismic alarms echoed across the capital, although there were no immediate reports of damage.

    The quake hit 32 km (20 miles) east of Santa Catarina Mechoacan in the state of Oaxaca at a depth of 40 km at 12.57am (6.57am GMT), the US Geological Survey said, revising its strength down slightly from an initial 6.1 magnitude.

    The tremor was strong enough to trigger earthquake alarms in Mexico City, more than 200 miles (320 km) away, but was shorter and less intense than one of Friday in the same area that damaged about 1,000 houses.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/19/earthquake-shakes-southern-mexico-second-time-three-days/
     
  15. Many predict that the AC will use advanced technology in order to help mold the mind of the public:

    Fake videos are on the rise. As they become more realistic, seeing shouldn't always be believing

    All it takes is a single selfie.

    From that static image, an algorithm can quickly create a moving, lifelike avatar: a video not recorded, but fabricated from whole cloth by software.

    With more time, Pinscreen, the Los Angeles start-up behind the technology, believes its renderings will become so accurate they will defy reality.

    "You won't be able to tell," said Hao Li, a leading researcher on computer-generated video at USC who founded Pinscreen in 2015. "With further deep-learning advancements, especially on mobile devices, we'll be able to produce completely photoreal avatars in real time."


    The technology is a triumph of computer science that highlights the gains researchers have made in deep neural networks, complex algorithms that loosely mimic the thinking of the human brain.

    Similar breakthroughs in artificial intelligence allowed University of Washington researchers to move President Obama's mouth to match a made-up script and the chipmaker Nvidia to train computers to imagine what roads would look like in different weather.

    What used to take a sophisticated Hollywood production company weeks could soon be accomplished in seconds by anyone with a smartphone.

    Not available for a video chat? Use your lifelike avatar as a stand-in. Want to insert yourself into a virtual reality game? Upload your picture and have the game render your character.

    Those are the benign applications.

    Now imagine a phony video of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un announcing a missile strike. The White House would have mere minutes to determine whether the clip was genuine and whether it warranted a retaliatory strike.

    What about video of a presidential candidate admitting to taking foreign cash? Even if the footage proved fake, the damage could prove irreversible.

    In some corners of the internet, people are using open-source software to swap celebrities' faces into pornographic videos, a phenomenon called Deep Fakes.

    It's not hard to imagine a world in which social media is awash with doctored videos targeting ordinary people to exact revenge, extort or to simply troll.

    In that scenario, where Twitter and Facebook are algorithmically flooded with hoaxes, no one could fully believe what they see. Truth, already diminished by Russia's misinformation campaign and President Trump's proclivity to label uncomplimentary journalism "fake news," would be more subjective than ever.

    The danger there is not just believing hoaxes, but also dismissing what's real.

    "If anything can be real, nothing is real," said a Reddit user in a manifesto defending the Deep Fakes forum, which has since been banned for producing porn without consent from the people whose faces were used.

    The consequences could be devastating for the notion of evidentiary video, long considered the paradigm of proof given the sophistication required to manipulate it.

    "This goes far beyond 'fake news' because you are dealing with a medium, video, that we traditionally put a tremendous amount of weight on and trust in," said David Ryan Polgar, a writer and self-described tech ethicist. "If you look back at what can now be considered the first viral video, it was the witnessing of Rodney King being assaulted that dramatically impacted public opinion. A video is visceral. It is also a medium that seems objective."

    To stop the spread of fake videos, Facebook, Google and Twitter would need to show they can make good on recent promises to police their platforms.

    Last week's indictment of more than a dozen Russian operatives and three Russian companies by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III showed how easily bad actors can exploit the tech companies that dominate our access to information. Silicon Valley was blindsided by the spread of trolls, bots and propaganda — a problem that persists today.

    Tech companies have a financial incentive to promote sensational content. And as platforms rather than media companies, they've fiercely defended their right to shirk editorial judgment.

    Critics question whether Facebook, Google and Twitter are prepared to detect an onslaught of new technology like machine-generated video.

    "Platforms are starting to take 2016-style misinformation seriously at some levels," said Aviv Ovadya, chief technologist at the Center for Social Media Responsibility. "But doing things that scale is much harder."


    Fake video "will need to be addressed at a deeper technical infrastructure layer, which is a whole different type of ballgame," Ovadya said.

    (Facebook and Twitter did not respond to interview requests. Google declined to comment.)

    The problem today is that there isn't much in the way of safeguards.

    Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert at Dartmouth College who often consults for law enforcement, said watching for blood flow in the face can sometimes determine whether footage is real. Slight imperfections on a pixel level can also reveal whether a clip is genuine.

    Over time, though, Farid thinks artificial intelligence will undermine these clues, perpetuating a cat-and-mouse game between algorithms and investigators.

    "I've been working in this space for two decades and have known about the issue of manipulated video, but it's never risen to the level where everyone panics," Farid said. "But this machine-learning-generated video has come out of nowhere and has taken a lot of us by surprise."

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    "Of course you can hire any digital effects team to make Donald Trump or Kim Jong Un look like they're starting a new war if you wanted to," Li continued. "What's different now is it becomes very easy to do these things and it can get into the hands of anyone. The important thing is to educate people. People will get used to it just like Photoshop."

    MORE: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-fake-videos-20180219-story.html

    Maybe solar flares, interrupting communications, will be a blessing!
     
  16. Steve79

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    Yes there will be times when all you can trust is only what you already know. No picture, no speech will be verified. Most of it is almost possible and needs only a little more time to perfection.
    Face2Face: Real-time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos
    Lyrebird is a voice mimic for the fake news era

    I can well imagine how the AC will use technology to manage the predicted miracles. He will be the prince of the world and the earthly technology.
    For example defeating the hunger problem is not really difficult. If we use only a little of the investments in military equipment there would be billions of dollars/euros etc. Technology to make water accessible for everyone already exists. Also the western world is throwing away two-thirds of the food produced. Let´s use our military planes, helicopters and transport ships to bring that food where it is needed, until the technology is installed...To make peace only fails at will etc...
    Everything is ready to work "wonders" only with what is possible today.
     
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    Credible messages from God has the AC controlling the buying and selling with an embedded chip. Taking the chip will enslave one to the AC with no return. Yes technology will be the demise of man until the 3 days of darkness and into the Era of Peace.
     
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    Steve, I've seen that video before and it is beyond frightening!

     
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    There will be ways to tell the difference. Technologists are not well known for their honesty or humility when it comes to self assessment of their work and love to hype it up. It brings in investors and many of these companies are start ups.
    Not saying that it won't be a problem, just that they simply aren't as smart as they are portrayed.
     
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    The following sounds similar to one of Saint Paisios' prophecies...

    World War 3: Turkish politician promises to INVADE GREECE if victorious in the election 2/20/2018
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/921193/World-War-3-Turkey-threaten-invade-Greece-Aegean-Sea

    "Mr Erdoğan was keen to relive the glory days of the Ottoman Empire, also known as the Turkish Empire, and hinted that he could take back some of the lands that were lost when it collapsed in the early twentieth century."

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    For 8 Days, Syria Felt More Like World War III
    https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000005734767/wolrd-war-one-week-syria.html?src=twr

    Syria war: Dozens of civilians killed in Eastern Ghouta strikes 2/20/2018
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43121547
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    World War 3: Lebanon THREATENS all out WAR with Israel 'at any cost' in SHOCK warning 2/20/2018
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/worl...ebanon-world-war-3-benjamin-netanyahu-warning

    "In an interview with Al-Arabiya TV, Saudi’s Gulf affairs minister said Lebanese administration would now be “dealt with as a Government declaring war on Saudi Arabia”.
    He claimed Hezbollah’s actions "were considered acts of a declaration of war against Saudi Arabia by Lebanon and by the Lebanese Party of the Devil”. "
     
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