Widespread power outages reported in New York City July 13, 2019 | https://www.foxnews.com/us/power-outages-reported-in-new-york-city Widespread power outages reported in Manhattan A transformer fire may be to blame in a surge of power outages hitting Manhattan. A large-scale power outage in parts of New York City was reported Saturday evening, knocking out traffic lights and limiting subway service. Con Edison reported that nearly 39,000 customers were without power in an area that included Midtown Manhattan and the Upper West Side. The Metropolitan Transit Authority said it received reports of power outages in various Manhattan train stations. "We're working to identify causes and keep trains moving. More information to come," the MTA tweeted. The agency said trains were bypassing stations impacted by the power failure and service into Manhattan from Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx will be limited. Straphangers tweeted photos of blacked-out train stations and non-working traffic lights. Social media was full of reports of ordinary citizens directing traffic at some Midtown intersections. Police officers were directing traffic at other major thoroughfares. The New York Fire Department said it received reports of people stuck in elevators on the Upper West Side. Saturday marked the 42nd anniversary of the 1977 blackout, which affected much of the city and resulted in widespread looting, arson and other criminal activities. [A very strange coincidence.] This is a developing story; check back for more updates.
Interesting.....the summation at the end of this referenced Poem by Kipling, but read the whole thing: As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man — There are only four things certain since Social Progress began — That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the Fire; And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, The Men Lost Reason And Faith Posted on July 13, 2019 by Baron Bodissey 3 It’s Poetry Day, and today’s featured poem is “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” by Rudyard Kipling. I’ve posted this poem at least twice before, most recently just two years ago. However, it’s worth revisiting for two reasons: (1) This is its centennial — it was written in 1919 — and (2) the dénouement outlined in the final two stanzas is that much closer to becoming a grim reality. It’s a remarkable work. It was written at the dawn of the Socialist Age, after the Bolshevik Revolution but before the height of the Red Terror. The welfare states of the West were in their earliest phase, as were the Culture Wars, as exemplified by the emancipation of women. The poet refers to the confluence of these trends as the “brave new world” — more than a decade before Aldous Huxley borrowed the phrase from Shakespeare (The Tempest, Act V, Scene 1) as the title of his novel. As we look back on “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” a century later, Mr. Kipling seems to have had an uncanny sense of the shape of things to come (to borrow a title from H.G. Wells, one of the renowned Progressives of his time). Normally I don’t explain poetry, but a hundred years have passed since it was written, so a little context is in order. The underlying social fabric is that of the Edwardian era, which still ruled the British zeitgeist immediately after the Great War, even though George V was by then on the throne. The great changes that lay ahead in the twenties had already been mapped out by the fashionable intellectual preoccupations of the early 20th century. A “copybook heading” was an inspirational adage or quote from literature that was written at the top of the page of a schoolboy’s notebook. He would be required to copy it repeatedly in order to improve both his penmanship and his character. The Gods of the Copybook Headings are here contrasted with the Gods of the Market-Place. Rather than the modern economic meaning of the latter term, think of the agora— the central public space in a city-state where commerce, culture, ideas, and personalities meet and mix. The Gods of the Market-Place were thus the gods of fashions and fads, as opposed to the timeless wisdom and common sense of the Gods of the Copybook Headings. Three specific fashionable trends are laid out in successive stanzas in the middle of the poem. The first is the disarmament movement, which was just getting up a head of steam after the end of the war. Pacifism became a major political force later on in the twenties and thirties, so much so that it inhibited British rearmament, and thus allowed Adolf Hitler to act out his ambitions more forthrightly than he might otherwise have been able to do. The second trend was “Free Love”, which was intertwined with the early feminist movement. Sexual freedom was considered a major factor in the liberation of women from the shackles of tradition. The Bloomsbury Group and the Fabians were rife with libertinism, H.G. Wells being a notable example. The fashionable sexual ideas that developed among intellectuals in the Edwardian period spread throughout the culture in the ensuing decades. The third trend was redistributive socialist governance. Modern socialism was in its infancy in 1919, but the Fabians once again had mapped out the process in advance. As the Labour Party took form in the 1920s, the Fabians and other upper-middle-class socialists looked to the Soviet Union for inspiration. All of this was just getting started when Mr. Kipling wove it into his poem in 1919. And everything has unfolded as he described in the hundred years since. The same foolishness that was fashionable in 1919 is still fashionable in 2019 — only in a much more deranged and nihilistic form. The burned fool’s bandaged finger just keeps wobbling back to that fire, over and over again. Rudyard Kipling did not include in his poem what has become the major accelerant of the collapse of Western Civilization: mass immigration from the Third World. But it may be implicit the lines “when we disarmed They sold us / and delivered us bound to our foe”. In this post-modern world we live in a hundred years later, our foe is being delivered to us in our bound and helpless state. And now for the poem: The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all. We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn: But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind, So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind. We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace, Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market-Place; But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome. With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch. They denied that the moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch. They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings. So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things. When the Cambrian measures were forming, they promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.” On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life (Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife) Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.” In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.” Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew, And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true, That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four — And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man — There are only four things certain since Social Progress began — That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the Fire; And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/07/the-men-lost-reason-and-faith/#more-48573
My my ..... looks like they don't provide a local anesthetic ..... that could eliminate a few of the otherwise willing! Swedes are getting implants in their hands to replace cash, credit cards A man receives his implanted microchip in Stockholm, Sweden.AFP/Getty Images Thousands of people in Sweden are having futuristic microchips implanted into their skin to carry out everyday activities and replace credit cards and cash. More than 4,000 people have already had the sci-fi-ish chips, about the size of a grain of rice, inserted into their hands — with the pioneers predicting millions will soon join them as they hope to take it global. “It’s very ‘Black Mirror,’” Swedish scientist Ben Libberton told The Post of the similarity to the TV series highlighting futuristic scenarios. Like glorified smartwatches, the chips help Swedes monitor their health and even replace keycards to allow them to enter offices and buildings. They have particularly caught on, however, by enabling owners to pay in stores with a simple swipe of the hand, a big deal in a forward-looking country that is moving toward eliminating cash. The microchips were pioneered by former body piercer Jowan Österlund, who calls the technology a “moonshot” — and who told Fortune magazine that he’s been hit up by hopeful investors “on every continent except Antarctica.” “Tech will move into the body,” the Biohax International founder told the mag. “I am sure of that.” Österlund insists the technology is safe — but that has not stopped alarm bells from ringing, with some fearing a link to a doubling in cybercrime in the country over the last decade. Libberton, a British scientist based in Sweden, praised the “definitely exciting” potential health benefits of accurate health metrics taken from inside the body. “Think if the Apple Watch could measure things like blood glucose,” he told The Post. But he also fears the mass of highly personalized data and how it could be used. “The problem is, who owns this data?” he asked. “Do I get a letter from my insurance company saying premiums are going up before I know I’m ill? If I use the chip to buy lunch, go to the gym and go to work, will someone have all of this info about me? Is this stored and is it safe?” Libberton added, “It’s not just about the chip, but integration with other systems and data sharing.” And he fears Swedes are not giving enough thought to the potential dangers. “People have shown they’re happy to give up privacy for convenience,” he said. “The chip is very convenient, so could we accept our data being shared very widely before we know the risks?” The trend coincides with Sweden’s march toward going cashless, with notes and coins making up just 1 percent of Sweden’s economy. At the same time, the country has seen a dramatic decrease in some crimes — with just two bank robberies last year compared to 110 in 2008. https://nypost.com/2019/07/14/swedish-people-are-getting-chip-implants-to-replace-cash-credit-cards/
Anti-Christian Attacks in France Quietly Quadrupled. Why? LAVAUR, France – Late one night a few months ago, two teenage boys crept into the massive 13th century Cathedral of Saint-Alain in Lavaur, a postcard town in southwest France. There, they set fire to an altar, turned a crucifix upside down, threw another one into the nearby Agout River, and deformed a statue of Jesus into what the town's mayor called “a grotesque pose.” The Cathedral of Saint-Alain in Lavaur, France: Inside, repairs to recent vandalism of a Gothic structure there 700 years. Top photo: Security at SacreCoeur basilica in Paris, Christmastime 2015. Richard Bernstein RealClearInvestigations Top photo: AP/Christophe Ena Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians, based in Vienna, documented 275 anti-Christian incidents in Europe in 2017, up from 250 the year before. And yet, what may be the oddest aspect to these attacks is the relative quiet that has greeted them. Individuals, mayors of affected cities and towns, some priests and bishops have spoken out, as have a few Catholic organizations, notably a group called The Observatory of Christianophobia, which publishes an almost daily chronicle of incidents. But the official French Catholic Church has chosen to downplay the attacks. “We do not want to develop a discourse of persecution,” Georges Pontier, the head of the French Bishops Conference, told the National Catholic Register. “We do not wish to complain.” Notre-Dame ablaze in April. The first time many Americans heard of anti-Christian attacks in France was when some French wondered whether this fire was another. It was not. But the cathedral has long been a security concern. AP Photo/Thierry Mallet desecration of a Jewish cemetery in eastern France drew the concern of President Francois Hollande, right, and the Israeli ambassador, Yossi Gal, center. A commentator wrote that attacks against Christian sites “haven't caused all that much of a disturbance.” AP Photo/Vincent Kessler, Pool "Fragile Glory: A Portrait of France and the French." Most major media outlets in France have also downplayed the uptick in attacks. Among the major French newspapers, only the conservative Le Figaro has published a substantial front-page investigation. Others have published a few scattered articles on individual incidents. The absence of palpable public alarm led one magazine, Causeur, which specializes in a certain irreverent skepticism regarding the conventional wisdom, to run a series of articles on the attacks under the overall headline “Explosion of Anti-Christian Acts: The Victims that Nobody's Talking About.” This, in turn, helps explain meager coverage of the attacks in other countries, including the United States. The first time that many Americans heard of the incidents was when some French people wondered whether the fire that engulfed the Notre-Dame Cathedral in April was another act of anti-Christian violence. (It was not.) But why are these attacks escalating — and who’s behind them? The answers are complicated and, in a very French way, depend on the lens one chooses to see the events through. Those downplaying the vandalism, which include most leading newspapers and politicians, point to evidence that the attacks are the small-bore crimes of small-time miscreants. Those concerned that the attacks pose a more serious threat expressly dismiss that perspective. “Vandalism in our churches: From simple graffiti to desecration” was the headline of an investigation into anti-Christian attacks in Le Figaro in March. “Stained glass windows broken, statues decapitated, graffiti on the walls -- this is not the work of petty thieves.” Not surprisingly, both views have merit. What’s clear is that the attacks – and the debate over their meaning – illuminate a range of fundamental questions roiling France and Europe involving populism, national identity and immigration. The attacks also highlight the paradoxical role of the Church, which remains a symbol of power – a bulwark of tradition and authority – even as declining attendance and a series of sexual scandals involving priests have made it seem a weak and easy target. A Series of Shocking Murders Memorial to Father Jacques Hamel in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy. AP Photo/Francois Mori desecration of a Jewish cemetery in eastern France drew the concern of President Francois Hollande, right, and the Israeli ambassador, Yossi Gal, center. A commentator wrote that attacks against Christian sites “haven't caused all that much of a disturbance.” AP Photo/Vincent Kessler, Pool Nevertheless, some observers certainly have noted a kind ranking of alarm when it comes to ethnic or religious conflicts, wherein attacks on other groups arouse more shock and grief than attacks on Christian sites. “While every attack against a synagogue, a mosque, or a Jewish or Muslim cemetery is abundantly reported in the media and unleashes a chorus of denunciation of the ‘We will never yield’ variety,” Elizabeth Levy, the editor of Causeur, has written, the attacks against Christian sites “haven't caused all that much of a disturbance.” There are reasons for this, having to do with the vulnerability of minority groups, especially Jews, compared to the relative historical security of the majority. While religious observance has sharply declined, Catholics and people of Catholic heritage remain the large majority in France. The memory of France's collaboration with the Nazis during World War II also plays a role in this. It gives a special horror to an attack on a synagogue, or to the drawing of a swastika on a Jewish tombstone. (cont'd below)
(cont'd from above) It happens also that, whether by coincidence or some deeper reason, the rise in anti-Christian attacks is occurring in a period of deep tension and uncertainty in France, where other events and trends have seemed more urgent and worthy of immediate attention. Among these has been the pedophilia scandal inside the Catholic Church, which was intensely covered by the French press. There has also been the series of sometimes violent demonstrations held across the country over the last half year by the anti-tax populist movement known as the Yellow Vests, who, according to the Ministry of the Interior, are at least partially responsible for the rise in anti-Semitism. The confusion extends to a strong degree of uncertainty as to what are the basic questions about the anti-Christian vandalism: Just how important is it? Does it truly represent a rise in hatred of Christians, in which Christianophobia would be a kind of counterpart to anti-Semitism or Islamophobia? Or might it reflect something less steeped in prejudice, including a political fury at the church along with other groups? In its annual listing of anti-Christian acts, for example, Fantini's group includes protests by what she calls “radical feminists.” Last summer, in the Grotto at Lourdes, one of Catholicism’s holiest sites, a woman from Luxembourg posed nude in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary, a gesture that outraged some religious groups but didn't attract a great deal of attention otherwise. “These are not isolated acts,” the Christian journal Avenir de la Culture wrote in an account of the incident at Lourdes. “They testify to a climate in France that is profoundly anti-Christian.” Speaking of the woman protester, the magazine said, “It would be astonishing if she dared to do the same thing in a mosque.” In those instances in France when perpetrators have been found and arrested, many of them appear to be disaffected young people, or the psychologically disturbed or homeless, rather than members of organized groups advancing a political agenda. In one week earlier this year, six churches across France were vandalized, and the perpetrators who were caught were the two youths who set fire to the altar in Lavaur and a 35 year-old homeless man who desecrated a church in Yvelines. French press reports say that of the perpetrators who are identified, more than 60% of them are minors. Are All Hate Crimes the Same? The newspaper Liberation, for example, found that about 60% of incidents involved graffiti – satanic inscriptions, anarchist symbols, swastikas, or nationalist or neo-Nazi slogans – which would seem to represent a kind of ugly desperate social fringe than a general growth of anti-Christian hatred. Virtually none of the reported attacks have been against people; they are all against buildings, cemeteries or other physical objects. Still, even if many anti-Christian acts are not hate crimes intended to intimidate a community of believers, the fact is that there are a large number of attacks on Christian sites that are sacred to many people. Communities are shocked and made to feel vulnerable, in part by the sense that the incidents have proliferated so dramatically over the past few years, and they are taking place in virtually every corner of France: urban and rural areas, large towns and small villages alike. In June, for example, more than 100 tombstones were overturned in the main Catholic cemetery of Toulouse, just 25 miles from Lavaur – yet the desecration produced almost no national press coverage. When I visited the cemetery last month to witness the damage, guards there refused to talk about the incident or even to tell me where in the vast space of the cemetery the overturned tombs could be found. One guard told me the concern was to protect the privacy of the families of the people whose tombs were desecrated. A few weeks earlier, vandals set fire to the massive southern door of the Saint-Sulpice church in the heart of Paris, destroying a stained glass window and a 17th century bas-relief. In the Roman-era tourist city of Nimes, a 21-year-old man allegedly defaced a cross with human excrement in which he inserted pieces of the consecrated host. In Villeneuve-de-Berg, in the foothills of the Alps, a group of young people urinated in the baptismal fount of the local church. Few of the perpetrators of these assaults have been apprehended, but even if most of them were simply juvenile delinquents, the question remains: Why are they attacking the church? One mundane reason cited in a recent conversation with Pierre Manent, a French political philosopher and intellectual, is opportunity. “This vandalism is drawn to Christian sites because they're less defended and present little risk, and there are a lot of them,” he said. Above, mourners of Father Hamel. Is a Christian church just another buiilding in a country where many feel nothing is sacred? AP Photo/Francois Mori But Manent argues that the attacks also reflect the church’s broader loss of moral authority even as it is deemed the preserver of values and ways of life that to many in France are old-fashioned and irrelevant. In this sense, the attacks on Christian churches and cemeteries seem related to what is often termed the more general “crisis of the church.” There is, most conspicuously, a decline in attendance, but there have also been the scandals over pedophilia and a larger sense among many people that the church is somehow retrograde. “There's the impression that the church is an obstacle to contemporary life,” Manent said. “And that nourishes a certain hostility. The church suffers from ill will.” Or, as Jean-Francois Colosimo, a historian and publisher, has said of the increase in anti-Christian attacks: “Is it Christianophobia? No. Is it a loss of the sense of the sacred? Yes.” In the general rebellion against traditional authority in France, Colosimo seems to be saying, the church no longer occupies the special, sacrosanct and inviolable place it once had in France. It has become just another building, and the mere fact that it is sacred to some people makes it all that much more of a target for those who no longer feel that anything is sacred. (cont'd below)
(cont'd from above) 'Not Just Another Building' The disagreement about the meaning of the attacks extends to Lavaur, where the long-serving mayor, Bernard Carayon, makes no secret of his anger at the relative silence of the French media and of the tendency of the church to forgive what he deems unpardonable. “It is Christianophobia,” he said during an interview at his office in Lavaur City Hall. “At the school here, we have a constant problem of kids putting graffiti in the bathrooms. That's just misbehaving kids. But the church is different. The church is not just another building. It's not the City Hall.” Indeed, the region in which Lavaur is located was the territory of the 12th and 13th century Cathar rebellion, which was savagely suppressed by the church, after which immense cathedrals – most famously in the larger nearby town of Albi, but in Lavaur as well – were built. Their construction, which took centuries, represented the depth of the French attachment to the Catholic faith. “The Cathedral of Saint-Alain is the chief symbol of the identity of our town, born in tragedy but nourished by generations that did good here,” Carayon said. For that reason, he said, as mayor he undertook an ambitious, expensive five-year renovation of the cathedral — the walls repaired, paintings restored, ancient stones replaced – that was almost complete. “Everybody knows this,” he said. “The two boys who set fire to the altar and defaced the statue of Christ weren't just drunk; they carried out their attack purposefully, taking their time, and then, after they left to tell their friends what they'd done, they went back inside, no doubt to check the results.” “The church's priority is inter-religious dialogue, to avoid conflict,” he said, making clear his view that that is not an adequate response to what he sees as an epidemic of vandalism directed against the chief symbols of French history and culture. “The church pardons,” he wrote in an article in Causeur. “Not me.” Father Joseph Dequick at Lavaur's weekend market. He extended forgiveness to the church desecrators, but the mayor demurred. Richard Bernstein RealClearInvestigations Why anyone would deface a 700-year old religious landmark is difficult to say. But whatever the reason, the Lavaur priest, Joseph Dequick, extended forgiveness to them, though only after they had turned themselves in and, by helping to clean up the mess they'd made, shown some penitence. For Father Dequick, the rise in anti-Christian incidents represents more than a rise in a generalized juvenile delinquency. It is a product of the weakened moral order that has made the church a target. “There a mood against the church, against faith,” he said. It's a fashion to say, 'I'm an atheist.' The media are anti-Catholic. There a discourse against the church. In France, in particular, there's an anti-clerical feeling that goes back a long time. It's not so much a religious argument as a political one. It's a reaction against the moral limitations that the church represents.” Father Dequick was interviewed at the parish stand set up every week at the sprawling Lavaur weekend market. He spoke as he extended cheerful greetings to a parade of parishioners. “There's been both vandalism and theft,” he said. “The police don't make a difference between them, so it's not easy to tell how much of this is just criminals stealing artifacts and selling them and people expressing hostility to the church. “But when somebody turns a cross upside down, that's an anti-Christian expression. That represents a society that no longer transmits respect for values. It's a loss of the sense of the sacred. It's consumerism. Young people can do whatever they want now, have whatever they want. Where are the limits? Where are the parents”? https://www.realclearinvestigations...tian_sites_in_france_have_quadrupled_why.html
One thing to note is that Kipling's son John died at the beginning of the war, in 1915. John had been rejected for military service 3 times due to poor eyesight, and his father pulled strings with friends to get his son admitted to the Irish Guards. Kipling apparently felt no small amount of guilt over having worked to get his son into the military, and much anger towards the British politicians who declared that Britain was ready for war because we're British, when they most decidedly were NOT prepared for war.
Elon Musk wants to hook your brain directly up to computers — starting next year The Tesla and SpaceX founder announced a goal of implanting chips into human brains as early as next year to create direct human connections to computers. Elon Musk, the futurist billionaire behind SpaceX and Tesla, outlined his plans to connect humans' brains directly to computers on Tuesday night, describing a campaign to create "symbiosis with artificial intelligence." He said the first prototype could be implanted in a person by the end of next year. Arriving at that goal "will take a long time," Musk said in a presentation at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, noting that securing federal approval for implanted neural devices is difficult. But testing on animals is already underway, and "a monkey has been able to control the computer with his brain," he said. Musk founded Neuralink Corp. in July 2016 to create "ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers." The company said in 2017 that its initial goal was to devise brain interfaces to alleviate the symptoms of chronic medical conditions. It's widely presumed, however, that Musk is characteristically after something much larger. He has frequently warned that the rapid advance of artificial intelligence, or AI, threatens to leave humanity in the dust, calling it an existential risk. Elon musk speaks at a Neuralink Livestream event Tuesday night at the the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.Neuralink via YouTube Musk repeated Tuesday night that one of the goals of Neuralink was to treat brain disorders, saying, "We can solve that with a chip." But he went on to say that it also sought to help you "preserve and enhance your own brain" and to "create a well-aligned future." As he has before, Musk warned that as it stands, humanity is at risk of being left behind by the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, or AI — "even in a benign AI scenario — hopefully, it is a benign scenario." Addressing that, Musk said Tuesday, will require finding a way for the brain to "merge" with AI, most likely through tiny wireless chips implanted in the brain through a 2-millimeter incision to create what he called "some sort of symbiosis with artificial intelligence," with a goal of no less than securing "humanity's future as a civilization relative to AI." The biggest technical hurdle is bandwidth, Musk said, meaning the tools humans use to interface with computers, like current hardware systems and smartphones. While Neuralink "aspirationally" hopes to implant the first chip in a human patient before the end of 2020, Musk acknowledged that the larger goal will take a long time. Still, the ultimate hope is for "some sort of symbiosis with artificial intelligence," which he said would take root "at the civilizational scale." "With a high-bandwidth brain interface, I think we can have the option of merging with AI," he said. Asked how Neuralink could make such an advance system affordable and widely available, Musk said the infrastructure would be so simple that it wouldn't need expensive neuroscientists to implant and maintain. "I think it's safe to say you could repay the loan with superhuman intelligence," he said. "I think it's a safe bet." In November, Musk touted "an AI extension of yourself" in an interview with comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan, saying: "If you can't beat it, join it. "From a long-term existential standpoint, that's, like, the purpose of Neuralink, to create a high-bandwidth interface to the brain such that we can be symbiotic with AI," he said. "Because we have a bandwidth problem. You just can't communicate through your fingers. It's just too slow." Such an interface, he claimed, would allow "anyone who wants to have superhuman cognition — anyone who wants." At some point, he said, people would be able to "upload into a new unit, literally," when they die. Those high-flying promises have convinced some heavy hitters. Neuralink's most recent Form D securities notice to filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, filed in May, disclosed that the company had raised more than $39 million from seven investors — more than three-quarters of its goal. Musk, 48, whom Forbes lists as the 40th-richest person in the world, founded or co-founded PayPal Inc., the electric car company Tesla Inc., SpaceX (which wants to start commercial space flights by 2021) and The Boring Co. (which seeks to build an underground "hyperloop" allowing commuters to travel between New York and Washington, D.C., in a half-hour). He also co-founded OpenAI LP, initially a nonprofit venture seeking to "ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity." Earlier this year, OpenAI shifted from a being a nonprofit to being a so-called capped-profit company, which would allow it to make profits "while including checks and balances to actualize our mission." Tesla and SpaceX are widely seen as successes that have fundamentally advanced technology in green transportation and space exploration. But other of Musk's efforts have stumbled: Last August, in an attempt to reduce pressure from investors and critics, Musk tweeted that he was taking Tesla private at $420 per share without first consulting his board or notifying shareholders. The announcement ran afoul of SEC regulations after it turned out that Musk hadn't struck an agreement with private investors to finance the move. The SEC ordered him and Tesla to pay $20 million each in penalties, and Musk had to step down as chairman for three years. In September, the significance of Musk's $420-a-share price became clear when Musk smoked marijuana on the air during his appearance on Rogan's podcast. Tesla's stock plunged by 9 percent as investors questioned his stability. Then, in November, The Boring Company announced that it was withdrawing plans to develop a "test tunnel" of its hyperloop systemin Los Angeles. State and local officials said Musk's plans hadn't been submitted for review or permits — formally or even informally. https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/tech/e...-directly-computers-starting-next-ncna1030631
Yet one more grave sign of the Antichrist in our midst working to implement his diabolical plan to chip all his slaves eventually, by using his willing minions who gladly will serve the beast and the beast system.
And the empowered elitists so centered on profit and control are unaware of the web they are entangling themselves in.....until it might be too late. How Satan works.
That is the biggest indication I have seen so far of something that could be a potential mark of the beast on the forehead that could conceivably lead to hell. That chip could cause the person to lead a life of great sin through pleasure or to a complete breakdown of parts of our brain that are needed to communicate with the spiritual, who knows but its bad.
A few of the several pointed messages to Luz de Maria about this subject: THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY 01.14.2019 HUMANITY WILL EXPERIENCE PURIFICATION, IN WHICH IT WILL BE SERIOUSLY TESTED BY EVIL; it will tempt it as never before, it will lead it to cruel instants, trying to make you deny being a child of God. Evil's striving will reach its culmination with the goal of leading My children to evade the pain of that cruel instant, offering themselves to be marked in order to obtain the benefits of those who will have whatever is necessary in order to live without needing anything. =================================================================== THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY 07.07.2017 MY SON’S PEOPLE REMAIN INERT, THEY REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE THE INSTANT IN WHICH THEY ARE LIVING, AND THE ENEMY OF THE SOUL, WITH HIS CUNNING, IS TAKING HOLD OF HUMANITY AT EVERY INSTANT. Technological inventions are praised by the vast majority of Humanity without proper knowledge. This brings man closer to accepting any technological innovation without reservations. Thus Humanity will accept the use of the microchip with great trust, this ingenious and miniscule artifact being the greatest controller that has ever existed. THROUGH THE MICROCHIP, MAN’S THINKING WILL BE NULLIFIED, AND THE FREEDOM THAT MY SON HAS GIVEN TO MAN SHALL BE DEFINITIVELY TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM. THE MICROCHIP IS A PERTINENT SIGN PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC APPEARANCE OF THE ANTICHRIST. Parents: your children, inert creatures, are the product of technology created to dominate man and FIND THEMSELVES DOMINATED BY THE DEVIL’S TECHNOLOGY. EVERY INNOVATION THAT YOU PLACE IN THE HANDS OF YOUR CHILDREN BRINGS YOUR CHILDREN NEARER, WITH YOUR AWARENESS, TO IMPLANTING THE MICROCHIP AND BEING AMONG THE WORSHIPERS OF THE ANTICHRIST. =================================================== OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST 04.14.2016 MY CHILDREN WILL BE HUNTED TO IMPLANT IN THEM THE MICROCHIP AS I ANNOUNCED TO YOU SEVERAL YEARS AGO. =================================================== (edited to add one more)...... OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST 01.21.2016 At this instant, the economy is one of the strong strategies of the antichrist with which he will destabilize the Nations until he makes them succumb, and he will buy the souls of those who do not want to suffer because of lack of money. At this technological instant in which humanity lives, man has been led to see as normal to have a chip implanted, but My children must not accept it, it is the sign of the beast by means of which they will become the beast’s slaves.
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This whole 5G and microchiping is coming to us stealthly, under the radar. So few will even know its diabolical power before they accept its mark. Yet, when things collapse all around the world, like a "thief in the night", they will gladly have themselves marked so they can buy and sell under the beast system. With the slightest research one can see that the technology for this is already here. We have all been conditioned to use the chip on a card already, so wouldn't it be handy to have it under the skin of your hand, so you can use it more efficiently? The Beast is gaining power by the day and by the night, as the Church is becoming smaller every day in number and in faith. Well, we can't blame God for this, as he has revealed as much through his prophets of today, especially within the past decade or so. Many who have yet to accept the Antichrist is in the world seem to have no explanation for why the Church is seemingly collapsing under bad leadership, why the world governments are at odds against one another, why country after country in our world are collapsing under socialism/communism. Most want to assume this is just all fear mongering talk, yet it is getting more clear by the day that evil is having its day and there is no indicators that neither the church or the world governments are able to stop this diabolical mess we are in. So where is the hope in all of this? I believe if one study what the past two holy popes have said on this time in history, you will have the answer. Pope Benedict https://aleteia.org/2016/06/13/when-cardinal-joseph-ratzinger-predicted-the-future-of-the-church/ Many years have passed since Saint John Paul II, then Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, attended that Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia and prophetically proclaimed those prophetic words which I began with and offer once again in conclusion: "We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has ever experienced. I do not think that the wide circle of the American Society, or the whole wide circle of the Christian Community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-church, between the gospel and the anti-gospel, between Christ and the antichrist. The confrontation lies within the plans of Divine Providence. It is, therefore, in God's Plan, and it must be a trial which the Church must take up, and face courageously."
Just look at what is already controlling the minds in the current run up to THE instant of AC total control.....all of the deliberate erasure of the truth tellers on the social search engines in order to manage just what people know by providing the propaganda arm of the NWO and eliminating any facts contrary to that. Look at the "I know nothing" excuses by such as Zuckerberg w/ FACEBOOK.....all of the banning of the normal discourse when it includes faith/morals/tradition/historical facts et al in all of the main centers of social exchange. Then we have the "efficiency" of the developing center for delivery of all products, Amazon, whose head himself has, I believe, also mentioned the chip, (right now it's only "PRIME" that is necessary for that convenience) and who is already getting the masses used to the convenience of fulfilling their every need with the utmost speed and convenience. And the authorities who should see this control by the few w/ $$$$ are only discussing things like trust busting at the moment while such a one like Bezos is allowed to continue his growth and control. Why the hesitancy? Is it also because those in authority have been lured by that same convenience and gotten used to it themselves? Like the LdM messages say.....w/ each techy device that the children have become allowed by their parents and to which they've become attached, the need for the next device w/ additional gadgets becomes an addiction to the point that such an ultimate means for "convenience" like the chip will seem like just another step to the delusional "brave new world" fantasy while the surrender of self/soul/mind has already been conditioned by those at the top. (Edited to add this LdM message which I found compliments my comment here): THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY 09.09.2015 I have warned you so much about the one who would take over humanity and control you! … You expected a man… You have him with you all day, you reveal your intimate information, you expose your family, you have yielded control of your works and acts to those who manipulate power in evil’s name. You have given yourselves to a misused technology; you supply your own data and everything that happens in your lives in social networks. Do not wait for the microchip to control you; they already control you, and this way they condition you to accept being sealed with the microchip. (and WOW this one too....also to Luz de Maria): THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY 10.08.2015 VERY SOON THEY WILL BEGIN THE OBLIGATION AND THE IMPLANTATION OF THE MICROCHIP SO EACH ONE OF YOU WILL ACCEPT IT. YOU KNOW WELL THAT THIS IS SATAN’S SEAL, through which they will not only follow your steps and control your social life, but also your economic aspect, and even your mind, so that, even if you interiorly want to pray, you will not be able to utter one word of prayer, you will not be able to ask My Son for help. (Ap. 13, 16-17)
There was a very controversial Drag Queen Story Hour in St. Mary's County, MD on June 23. (note the name of the county) There was heavy police security hired for the event. One protester was arrested. The St. Mary's County Commissioners are making the library pay for the cost of security. Justice has been served. If you read in the link, the St. Mary's County librarian posted online at a national library association's website: "ways to sneakily fit {LGBT} stuff into current programming." The words "secret librarian advocate operative" were used. http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0...-security-costs-of-drag-queen-story-hour.html
