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Daily Archives: March 29, 2017
MSNBC In Cover-Up Of Manifestly Provable Population …
Posted: March 29, 2017 at 11:39 am
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, June 16, 2010
As part of his obsessive drive to smear anti-big government activists as insanely paranoid and dangerous radicals, Chris Matthews and his guest, establishment neo-lib David Corn, previewed tonights Rise of the New Right hit piece by claiming that the elites agenda to enact dictatorial population control measures was a conspiracy theory.
As we have documented on numerous occasions, while Matthews points fingers at his political adversaries for preparing to engage in violence, the only real violence were witnessing out on the streets is being committed by Obama supporters, MSNBC thugs and other leftists who refuse to tolerate free speech that counters their propaganda.
However, MSNBCs goal is not just to demonize the Tea Party and anti-big government activists as dangerous radicals as an avenue through which to sick the police state on them and crush their free speech, theyre also desperate to prevent Americans from lending any credence to what people like Alex Jones have to say by acting as gatekeepers to prevent such information from becoming mainstream.
A perfect example of an issue that Matthews and his ilk want to sideline is the manifestly provable fact that elitists have for decades publicly stated their desire to reduce global population by around 80 per cent and as much as 99 per cent.
During MSNBCs Hardball show on Tuesday, Corn characterized the notion that there is a planetary elite that literally has a secret plan to kill 80 to 99 percent of the population, as a conspiracy theory.
Watch the clip.
Corns role in covering-up the depopulation agenda is unsurprising given his habitual tactic of trying to discredit anyone who exposes government criminality and corruption. One critic labeled Corn as someone who serves, As a Neo-Con-lite version of someone who dismisses those who have investigated the crimes of the U.S. government, in reference to how he tried to undermine the work of the late Gary Webb, an award-winning investigative journalist who exposed the CIAs involvement in the drug trade.
Despite Corns claims to the contrary, the global elite have been forthright, public, and unashamedly enthusiastic about their open intention to cull at least 80 per cent of humanity in the name of saving the planet.
There are still large numbers of people amongst the general public, in academia, and especially those who work for the corporate media, who are still in denial about the on-the-record stated agenda for global population reduction, as well as the consequences of this program that we already see unfolding.
We have compiled a compendium of evidence to prove that the elite have been obsessed with eugenics and its modern day incarnation, population control, for well over 100 years and that goal of global population reduction is still in full force to this day.
The Worlds Elite Are Discussing Population Reduction
During a recent TED conference, an organization which is sponsored by one of the largest toxic waste polluters on the planet, Gates told the audience that vaccines need to be used to reduce world population figures in order to solve global warming and lower CO2 emissions to almost zero.
Stating that the global population was heading towards 9 billion, Gates said, If we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services (abortion), we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 per cent.
Quite how an improvement in health care and vaccines that supposedly save lives would lead to a lowering in global population is an oxymoron, unless Gates is referring to vaccines that sterilize people, which is precisely the same method advocated in White House science advisor John P. Holdrens 1977 textbook Ecoscience, which calls for a dictatorial planetary regime to enforce draconian measures of population reduction via all manner of oppressive techniques, including sterilization.
Gates eugenicist zeal is shared by his fellow Bilderberg elitists, many of whom have advocated draconian policies of population control in their own public speeches and writings. Indeed, the Rockefeller family funded eugenics research in Germany through the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institutes in Berlin and Munich. The Rockefeller Foundation praised Hitlers sterilization program in Nazi Germany. David Rockefeller attended the first Bilderberg meeting in 1954 and is now the head of Bilderbergs steering committee.
A joint World Health Organization-Rockefeller inoculation program against tetanus in Nicaragua, Mexico and the Philippines in the early 1990s was in fact a covert trial on using vaccines to medically abort womens babies.
Comite Pro Vida de Mexico, a Roman Catholic lay organization, became suspicious of the motives behind the WHO program and decided to test numerous vials of the vaccine and found them to contain human Chorionic Gonadotrophin, or hCG, writes historian F. William Engdahl in his article, Bill Gates And Neo-Eugenics: Vaccines To Reduce Population. That was a curious component for a vaccine designed to protect people against lock-jaw arising from infection with rusty nail wounds or other contact with certain bacteria found in soil. The tetanus disease was indeed, also rather rare. It was also curious because hCG was a natural hormone needed to maintain a pregnancy. However, when combined with a tetanus toxoid carrier, it stimulated formation of antibodies against hCG, rendering a woman incapable of maintaining a pregnancy, a form of concealed abortion. Similar reports of vaccines laced with hCG hormones came from the Philippines and Nicaragua.
Gates recently announced that he would be funding a sterilization program that would use sharp blasts of ultrasound directed against a mans scrotum to render him infertile for six months. The foundation has funded a new sweat-triggered vaccine delivery program based on nanoparticles penetrating human skin. The technology is described as a way to develop nanoparticles that penetrate the skin through hair follicles and burst upon contact with human sweat to release vaccines, writes health researcher Mike Adams.
As was reported last year by the London Times, a secret billionaire club meeting in early May 2009 which took place in New York and was attended by David Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Bill Gates and others was focused around how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the worlds population.
We questioned establishment media spin which portrayed the attendees as kind-hearted and concerned philanthropists by pointing out that Ted Turner has publicly advocated shocking population reduction programs that would cull the human population by a staggering 95%. He has also called for a Communist-style one child policy to be mandated by governments in the west. In China, the one child policy is enforced by means of taxes on each subsequent child, allied to an intimidation program which includes secret police and family planning authorities kidnapping pregnant women from their homes and performing forced abortions.
Of course, Turner completely fails to follow his own rules on how everyone else should live their lives, having five children and owning no less than 2 million acres of land.
In the third world, Turner has contributed literally billions to population reduction, namely through United Nations programs, leading the way for the likes of Bill & Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet (Gates father has long been a leading board member of Planned Parenthood and a top eugenicist).
The notion that these elitists merely want to slow population growth in order to improve health is a complete misnomer. Slowing the growth of the worlds population while also improving its health are two irreconcilable concepts to the elite. Stabilizing world population is a natural byproduct of higher living standards, as has been proven by the stabilization of the white population in the west. Elitists like David Rockefeller have no interest in slowing the growth of world population by natural methods, their agenda is firmly rooted in the pseudo-science of eugenics, which is all about culling the surplus population via draconian methods.
David Rockefellers legacy is not derived from a well-meaning philanthropic urge to improve health in third world countries, it is born out of a Malthusian drive to eliminate the poor and those deemed racially inferior, using the justification of social Darwinism.
As is documented in Alex Jones seminal film Endgame, Rockefellers father, John D. Rockefeller, exported eugenics to Germany from its origins in Britain by bankrolling the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute which later would form a central pillar in the Third Reichs ideology of the Nazi super race. After the fall of the Nazis, top German eugenicists were protected by the allies as the victorious parties fought over who would enjoy their expertise in the post-war world.
As Dr. Len Horowitz writes, In the 1950s, the Rockefellers reorganized the U.S. eugenics movement in their own family offices, with spinoff population-control and abortion groups. The Eugenics Society changed its name to the Society for the Study of Social Biology, its current name.
The Rockefeller Foundation had long financed the eugenics movement in England, apparently repaying Britain for the fact that British capital and an Englishman-partner had started old John D. Rockefeller out in his Oil Trust. In the 1960s, the Eugenics Society of England adopted what they called Crypto-eugenics, stating in their official reports that they would do eugenics through means and instruments not labeled as eugenics.
With support from the Rockefellers, the Eugenics Society (England) set up a sub-committee called the International Planned Parenthood Federation, which for 12 years had no other address than the Eugenics Society. This, then, is the private, international apparatus which has set the world up for a global holocaust, under the UN flag.
In the latter half of the 20th century, eugenics merely changed its face to become known as population control. This was crystallized in National Security Study Memorandum 200, a 1974 geopolitical strategy document prepared by Rockefellers intimate friend and fellow Bilderberg member Henry Kissinger, which targeted thirteen countries for massive population reduction by means of creating food scarcity, sterilization and war.
Henry Kissinger: In the now declassified 1974 document, National Security Memorandum 200, Kissinger outlines the plan to use food scarcity as a weapon in order to achieve population reduction in lesser-developed countries.
The document, declassified in 1989, identified 13 countries that were of special interest to U.S. geopolitical objectives and outlined why population growth, and particularly that of young people who were seen as a revolutionary threat to U.S. corporations, was a potential roadblock to achieving these objectives. The countries named were India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines, Thailand, Egypt, Turkey, Ethiopia and Colombia.
The study outlined how civil disturbances affecting the smooth flow of needed materials would be less likely to occur under conditions of slow or zero population growth.
Development of a worldwide political and popular commitment to population stabilization is fundamental to any effective strategy. This requires the support and commitment of key LDC leaders. This will only take place if they clearly see the negative impact of unrestricted population growth and believe it is possible to deal with this question through governmental action, states the document.
The document called for integrating family planning (otherwise known as abortion) with routine health services for the purposes of curbing the numbers of LDC people, (lesser-developed countries).
The report shockingly outlines how withholding food could be used as a means of punishment for lesser-developed countries who do not act to reduce their population, essentially using food as a weapon for a political agenda by creating mass starvation in under-developed countries.
The allocation of scarce PL480 (food) resources should take account of what steps a country is taking in population control as well as food production, states the document.
Later in the document, the idea of enforcing mandatory programs by using food as an instrument of national power is presented.
The document states that the program will be administered through the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), thereby avoiding the danger that some LDC leaders will see developed-country pressures for family planning as a form of economic or racial imperialism; this could well create a serious backlash.
As Jean Guilfoyle writes, NSSM 200 was a statement composed after the fact. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the U.S. had worked diligently behind the scenes to advance the population-control agenda at the United Nations, contributing the initial funding of $1 million.
A Department of State telegram, dated July 1969, reported the support of John D. Rockefeller III, among others, for the appointment of Rafael Salas of the Philippines as senior officer to co-ordinate and administer the UN population program. The administrator of the UN Development Program reported confidentially that he preferred someone such as Salas who had the advantage of color, religion (Catholic) and conviction.
A comprehensive outline of what is contained in the National Security Memorandum document can be read at http://www.theinterim.com/july98/20nssm.html
Evidence of the actual consequences of this program can be found with the link between vaccines and sterilization, as well as other diseases such as cancer, in both the west and the third world.
In the following video clips, women of the Akha tribe who live predominately in Thailand, describe how they miscarried shortly after taking vaccines when they were eight months pregnant. The videos below highlight the efforts of supporters of the Akha tribe to get answers from the University of Oregon and the United Nations, who provided funding for the vaccination and sterilization programs.
Further evidence of the link between vaccinations, birth control, cancer and other diseases can be researched here.
In the 21st century, the eugenics movement has changed its stripes once again, manifesting itself through the global carbon tax agenda and the notion that having too many children or enjoying a reasonably high standard of living is destroying the planet through global warming, creating the pretext for further regulation and control over every facet of our lives.
As we have tirelessly documented, the elites drive for population control is not based around a benign philanthropic urge to improve living standards, it is firmly routed in eugenics, racial hygiene and fascist thinking.
According to the The London Times report, the secret billionaire cabal, with its interest in population reduction, has been dubbed The Good Club by insiders. This couldnt be further from the truth. Anyone who takes the time to properly research the origins of the population control movement will come to understand that the Rockefeller-Turner-Gates agenda for drastic population reduction, which is now clearly manifesting itself through real environmental crises like chemtrails, genetically modified food, tainted vaccines and other skyrocketing diseases such as cancer, has its origins in the age-old malevolent elitist agenda to cull the human chattel as one would do to rodents or any other species deemed a nuisance by the central planning authorities.
Sterilization And Eugenics Returns In Popular Culture
We are now seeing the return of last centurys eugenicist movement through the popular promotion of sterilization as a method of birth control.
A popular womens magazine in the UK recently featured an article entitled, Young, Single and Sterilized, in which women in their 20s discussed why they had undergone an operation to prevent them from ever having children. The article is little more than PR for a womens charity called Marie Stopes International, an organization that carries out abortions and sterilizations and was founded by a Nazi eugenicist who advocated compulsory sterilization of non-whites and those of bad character.
In the article, sterilization is lauded as an excellent method of birth control by Dr. Patricia Lohr of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service.
The article includes an advertisement that encourages women to seek more information about sterilization by contacting Marie Stopes International. We read that, Over the past year, a quarter of the women who booked a sterilization consultation with womens charity Marie Stopes were aged 30 or under.
Marie Stopes was a feminist who opened the first birth control clinic in Britain in 1921 as well as being Nazi sympathizer and a eugenicist who advocated that non-whites and the poor be sterilized.
Stopes, a racist and an anti-Semite, campaigned for selective breeding to achieve racial purity, a passion she shared with Adolf Hitler in adoring letters and poems that she sent the leader of the Third Reich.
Stopes also attended the Nazi congress on population science in Berlin in 1935, while calling for the compulsory sterilization of the diseased, drunkards, or simply those of bad character. Stopes acted on her appalling theories by concentrating her abortion clinics in poor areas so as to reduce the birth rate of the lower classes.
Stopes left most of her estate to the Eugenics Society, an organization that shared her passion for racial purity and still exists today under the new name The Galton Institute. The society has included members such as Charles Galton Darwin (grandson of the evolutionist), Julian Huxley and Margaret Sanger.
Marie Stopes, the Nazi and pioneering eugenicist who sent love letters to Hitler, honored recently by the Royal Mail.
Ominously, The Galton Institute website promotes its support and funding initiative for the practical delivery of family planning facilities, especially in developing countries. In other words, the same organization that once advocated sterilizing black people to achieve racial purity in the same vein as the Nazis is now bankrolling abortions of black babies in the third world.
While the issue of abortion is an entirely different argument, most would agree that no matter how extreme it sounds, a woman has the right to sterilize herself if she so chooses, just as a man has the right to a vasectomy.
But when a magazine aimed primarily at young women all but encourages girls as young as 20 to have their fallopian tubes tied in order to prevent the irritation of children entering their lives and then advertises an organization founded by a Nazi eugenicist that can perform the operation, something has to be amiss.
Even more shocking than this is the fact that the majority of people in the UK routinely express their support for societys undesirables to be forcibly sterilized by the state, harking back to a time when such a thing was commonplace right up to the 1970s in some areas of America and Europe.
As we highlighted at the time, respondents to a Daily Mail article about Royal Mail honoring Marie Stopes by using her image on a commemorative stamp were not disgusted at Royal Mail for paying homage to a racist Nazi eugenicist, but were merely keen to express their full agreement that those deemed not to be of pure genetic stock or of the approved character should be forcibly sterilized and prevented from having children.
A lot of people should be sterilized, IMO. Its still true today, wrote one.
Just imagine what a stable, well-ordered society wed have if compulsory sterilisation had been adopted years ago for the socially undesirable, states another respondent, calling for a satellite-carried sterilisation ray to be installed in space to zap the undesirables.
Shockingly, another compares sterilization and genocide of those deemed inferior to the breeding and culling of farmyard animals, and says that such a move is necessary to fight overpopulation and global warming. Here is the comment in full from Karen in Wales;
We breed farm animals to produce the best possible stock and kill them when they have fulfilled their purpose. We inter-breed pedigree animals to produce extremes that leave them open to ill-health and early death. It is only religion that says humans are not animals. The reality is that we are simply intelligent, mammalian primates.
The world population of humans has increased from 2 billion to 6.5 billion in the last 50 years. This planet can support 2 billion humans comfortably. 6.5 billion humans use too many resources and leads to global warming, climate change and a very uncertain future for all of us humans and all other life sharing this planet with us.
Marie Stopes believed in population control and in breeding the best possible humans. So did Hitler. Neither of the aims are bad in themselves. It is how they are achieved that is the problem. The fact that we still remember Marie Stopes is an achievement in itself.
The nature of these comments is so fundamentally sick and twisted that one is tempted to dismiss them as a joke but these people are deadly serious. Presumably they would also agree with Chinas one child policy, which is routinely enforced by intimidation as young pregnant women are grabbed off the streets by state goons and taken to hospitals where forced abortions are carried out.
Now with popular womens magazines advising women in their 20s where they can go to be sterilized and ensure a lifetime of partying and carefree sex, its no surprise that experts predict that by 2010 one in four western women will be child free for life.
The yearning to have children is the most beautiful, natural and innate emotion either a man or a woman can possibly experience. That is not to say that its always wrong for some people not to have children extreme circumstances can justify such a decision. But to have yourself sterilized because you find children to be an irritant and want to live a life free of responsibility or consequences is an awful message to send to young women, especially in the sex-saturated entertainment culture that we are now forced to endure.
Furthermore, the outright promotion of Marie Stopes International as the place to go to get sterilized if youre under 30 is stomach-churning considering the fact that the origins of this organization can be found in Nazi ideology, racist and backward early 20th century eugenics and a long-standing agenda to cull the population of undesirables, an abhorrent belief still held by elites across the planet today.
Genocidal Population Reduction Programs Embraced By Academia
One such individual who embraces the notion that humans are a virus that should be wiped out en masse for the good of mother earth is Dr. Eric R. Pianka, an American biologist based at the University of Texas in Austin.
Dr Erik Pianka, the American biologist who advocated the mass genocide of 90% of the human race and was applauded by his peers.
During a speech to the Texas Academy of Science in March 2006, Pianka advocated the need to exterminate 90% of the worlds population through the airborne ebola virus. The reaction from scores of top scientists and professors in attendance was not one of shock or revulsion they stood and applauded Piankas call for mass genocide.
Piankas speech was ordered to be kept off the record before it began as cameras were turned away and hundreds of students, scientists and professors sat in attendance.
Saying the public was not ready to hear the information presented, Pianka began by exclaiming, Were no better than bacteria!, as he jumped into a doomsday malthusian rant about overpopulation destroying the earth.
Standing in front of a slide of human skulls, Pianka gleefully advocated airborne ebola as his preferred method of exterminating the necessary 90% of humans, choosing it over AIDS because of its faster kill period. Ebola victims suffer the most tortuous deaths imaginable as the virus kills by liquefying the internal organs. The body literally dissolves as the victim writhes in pain bleeding from every orifice.
Pianka then cited the Peak Oil fraud as another reason to initiate global genocide. And the fossil fuels are running out, he said, so I think we may have to cut back to two billion, which would be about one-third as many people.
Later, the scientist welcomed the potential devastation of the avian flu virus and spoke glowingly of Chinas enforced one child policy, before zestfully commenting, We need to sterilize everybody on the Earth.
At the end of Piankas speech the audience erupted not to a chorus of boos and hisses but to a raucous reception of applause and cheers as audience members clambered to get close to the scientist to ask him follow up questions. Pianka was later presented with a distinguished scientist award by the Academy. Pianka is no crackpot. He has given lectures to prestigious universities worldwide.
Indeed, the notion that the earths population needs to be drastically reduced is a belief shared almost unanimously by academics across the western hemisphere.
In 2002, The Melbourne Age reported on newly uncovered documents detailing Nobel Peace Prize winning microbiologist Sir Macfarlane Burnets plan to help the Australian government develop biological weapons for use against Indonesia and other overpopulated countries of South-East Asia.
From the article;
Sir Macfarlane recommended in a secret report in 1947 that biological and chemical weapons should be developed to target food crops and spread infectious diseases. His key advisory role on biological warfare was uncovered by Canberra historian Philip Dorling in the National Archives in 1998.
Specifically to the Australian situation, the most effective counter-offensive to threatened invasion by overpopulated Asiatic countries would be directed towards the destruction by biological or chemical means of tropical food crops and the dissemination of infectious disease capable of spreading in tropical but not under Australian conditions, Sir Macfarlane said.
The Victorian-born immunologist, who headed the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, won the Nobel prize for medicine in 1960. He died in 1985 but his theories on immunity and clonal selection provided the basis for modern biotechnology and genetic engineering.
Controversy surrounding the comments of another darling of scientific academia, geneticist James Watson, who told a Sunday Times newspaper interviewer that black people are inherently less intelligent than whites, should come as no surprise to those who are aware of Watsons role in pushing the dark pseudo-science of eugenics.
Watson told the interviewer that he was inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa because all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours whereas all the testing says not really.
Watson was the Head of the Human Genome Project until 1992 and is best known for his contribution to the discovery of DNA, an achievement that won him the Nobel Peace prize in 1962.
But what most people are unaware of is the fact that Watson has played an integral role in advancing the legitimacy of the eugenics/population reduction movement for decades.
Watson is a strong proponent of genetic screening, a test to determine whether a couple is at increased risk of having a baby with a hereditary genetic disorder.
Since such screening obviously increases the rate of abortions of babies considered imperfect, many have slammed its introduction as nothing more than a camouflage for eugenics or voluntary eugenics as British philosophy professor Philip Kitcher labeled it.
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These 6 Trends Are Retooling Manufacturing as We Know It – Singularity Hub
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Lets be honest sometimes manufacturing gets a bad rap. The industry can be seen as a behemoth stuck in the past and slow to innovate, the victim of outsourcing and the purveyor of consumerism. Thankfully, in 2017 these stereotypes couldnt be further from the truth.
Global organizations like GE and Caterpillar are investing in new technologies and innovation methods. Startups like Local Motors and Carbon are creating their own breakthroughs from the ground up. And organizations like the US Council on Competitiveness are working to keep these innovators moving forward. The future of manufacturing is bright.
Thats why weve put together this list of trends to watch in 2017. If you want to learn more about the technologies fueling these trends, meet the people leading the charge, and connect with fellow leaders, join us at Exponential Manufacturing May 1719 in Boston.
People around the world are talking a lot about recent and impending policy changes. How will these changes impact innovation in the coming years? And how will policy keep pace?
AI and robots continue automating factories. Self-driving trucks and ships aim to automate the transportation of materials and finished products. Even biotech is beginning to offer new ways to make things. These and other emerging technologies will impact how we live, work, and trade.
Some jobs will disappear while others take their place, efficiencies will improve, entire sub-industries (shipping, for example) could be upended by unexpected technologiesand all this will happen faster than expected.
Can society keep the pace? How do we regulate innovation without suffocating progress? How do we adopt an open-minded yet ethical approach to new opportunities? Planning for the future now is how organizations and policymakers will move toward the best scenarios and avoid the worst ones.
If youre reading Singularity Hub, youre aware of some amazing advances happening across research fields and industries.
The deep analytical powers of machine learning are transforming raw data into useful insights. Some robots can now safely interact with people and more nimbly navigate messy work environments. 3D printers are giving physical form to digital designs. And biotechnology is beginning to make living systems, such as engineered bacteria, into microscopic chemical-producing factories.
While these are incredible innovationsand more arrive every dayone could argue the greatest challenge will be anticipating, timing, and creatively implementing the latest breakthroughs into business strategies. Those who recognize which technologies will serve their organization best, lead a culture of change, and navigate rough political waters, will come out on top.
Data has always played a critical role in manufacturing. The entire industry, from sourcing to production runs to sales forecasting, has relied on data for decades. However, the amount of data is growing exponentially larger by the day. Thanks to cheap, connected, and increasingly ubiquitous sensors (the Internet of Things), companies are able to monitor more than ever before things like machinery, deliveries, even employees.
Companies need to leverage the latest in artificial intelligence to make the most of these incredibly large and powerful data sets. For those who do adopt new tools, smart decision-making will become clearer, easier and faster.
Historically, the product creation process has been notoriously long. Market research, focus groups, R&D, short runs, testing, sourcing, long runs...the list goes on. What if you could make a part thats exactly like the finished product, in a series of one? What if you could design, build, test, and iterate in real life, before ramping up large-scale production?
You can, and in fact, GE is.
GEs FirstBuild program is a state-of-the-art, community-sourced lab that lies outside their main campus and is used for the rapid prototyping of new ideas. If a product proves its worth in a sample market, the design is transferred to the main campus for full production.
These are the changes that technologies like additive manufacturing and materials science are bringing to product design. When a giant like GE creates a spinoff group to act like a startup, it becomes obvious that power is being democratized, innovation times are being slashed, and long-held competitive advantages are evaporating.
Like design, new technologies are cutting the time and cost required to get products to market. However, there are larger shifts happening in the overall production process as well. Robots are becoming more nimble, more versatile and smarter. Computer-guided fabricationboth additive and subtractiveis getting faster, cheaper, and more precise. Factories are becoming more efficient, while raw material waste is decreasing. All of this increases competition, making success without these technologies nearly impossible.
On the other end of the spectrum, the spread of additive manufacturing, the boom of the maker movement, and a reduction in small machinery cost are allowing individuals to build mini-factories in their homes. What was once only possible in the largest factories is now doable in your neighbors garage. And while some may discount the innovative potential of the non-professionals, consider the incredible amount of human capital unlocked by this change.
One of the most difficult sectors of manufacturing is the supply chain, from sourcing raw materials around the world to delivering finished goods on time. Supply chain managers are responsible for coordinating with hundreds, if not thousands, of partners and service providers to make sure products are delivered on time, on budget, and in good condition.
While it may not be the sexiest piece of the puzzle, its certainly a critical one and its ripe for improvement. Self-driving trucks and ships, AI-powered planning software, and localized manufacturing facilities are all converging to reshape the very nature of supply chains.
So, weve highlighted six trends currently impacting the global manufacturing landscape. What does it mean, though? How do we stay ahead of these shifts? How do we know which technologies will stick and which will end up as the Betamax of the year?
Some of these questions are yet unanswerable, while some gain more clarity each day. What we do know is that this is just the beginning. As technologies converge, they will continue creating ever stronger advances, thus compounding the rate of improvement.
Manufacturing leaders should incorporate ongoing, future-oriented education as part of their annual development to stay up-to-date on new breakthroughs, learn where the industry is headed, and discover how to bring these competitive advantages into their own organizations.
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Ashes of the Singularity Developer Has Lots Of Exciting Things … – GamingBolt
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I wont say never.
Real time strategy gameshave so far been the purview almost exclusively of gaming PCs. Theyre just really hard to get right on consoles- ask Microsoft, who have now tried twice withHalo Wars andHalo Wars 2. Especially for someone like Stardock, whose games are even more nuanced and complex than the average strategy game, and borrow liberally from 4X strategy titles, its hard to imagine those working on PS4 and Xbox One.
But when we sat down with Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock, for a chat, we did decide to ask him what the odds of seeing a console Ashes of the Singularity port were- yes, a lot is stacked against that ever happening, but has the company completely ruled it out yet? What about the companys excellent Nitrous Engine?
Nitrous will run on consoles, we plan on bringing it over to consoles, Wardell said. Ashes of the Singularity, that would be tough. I remember- you remember when they tried to do Supreme Commander 2 on a console, and the sacrifices they had to make to try to get that to work were pretty tough. But I wont say never- I just think it depends on how consoles evolve.
That said, even without a console port planned any time soon, it looks like the future is bright forAshes of the Singularity. In 2017, were trying to add a lot of stuff, I would say features that many RTS players would expect in the genre, but features that were pretty hard at first because of the nature of our engine- such as replays, better modding support, new types of units, that kind of stuff. And were starting to try to create other kinds of environments like oceans, so we can eventually have ships and other races, and that kind of thing.
So, you may not be playing this with a controller any time soon (honestly, thats a good thing)- but the game will be growing and evolving in a major way this year. I think that should make all fans ofAshes of the Singularity happy.
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Ascension’s Government Complex gives a modern look for a growing parish – Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
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ASCENSION PARISH GOVERNMENTAL COMPLEX 615 E. Worthey Road, Gonzales
Photography by Tim Mueller
Owner: Ascension Parish Architect: Mougeot Architecture Contractor: SBS Construction Cost: $6.5 million Completed: November 2015 Use: Ascension Parish now has one of the newest, sleekest government office complexes in the Capital Region. Opened in November 2015 on the site of a former parish hospital, theAscension Parish Government Complex consolidates multiple parish departments into one building measuring 33,500 square feet.Glass throughout the complex allows for plenty of natural light, which creates an inviting and modern feel.A large-scale parish map on one of the lobbys walls highlights important landmarks in Ascension. The Parish President Conference Room includes an exterior deck with views of a cypress-lined pond, which East Ascension High School seniors jump into every spring as part of a school tradition.
FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION:When we started the project with the parish government, one thing that they told us was that our parish is growing aggressively, and we want to give that sort of connection to our parish buildings, just to have a progressive, updated look, whereas all their current buildings are old, 70s, 80s, 90s buildings. We wanted it to have an inviting feel to it to where it draws people in, and we have two clerestories on it that pop up and give natural light.
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Tax assessor begins surveys of flood-damaged property in Ascension – WBRZ
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ASCENSION The tax assessor is going door-to-door in Ascension Parish, surveying residents' property that were impacted by the August flood.
Justin Champlin, the chief deputy tax assessor says they plan on going to more than 6,000 flood-damaged properties in the parish.
"All houses are different, so each house you have to knock on each door," Champlin said.
The chief assessor made a stop to the home of Robert Boudreaux, who is remodeling after his home that was hit by 16 inches of water.
"We're probably 60-70 percent done re-building. We're waiting on some cabinets and some flooring," Boudreaux said.
Champlin said the damaged properties will be taxed on the portion of repairs that have been completed.
"We want to know where they're at. What the status is and how much work have they done at this point," Champlin said.
Homeowners who are not able to move back in may not have to pay any property taxes for the year.
The tax assessor plans to wrap up the surveys by mid-June.
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Specialty meat market opening new location in Ascension Parish – Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
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Editors note: This story has been corrected since its original publication. An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Heberts Specialty Meats Ascension Parish location is 24,000 square feet. The building is 2,400. Daily Report regrets this error.
An Acadiana specialty meat market is expanding into the Baton Rouge market, with plans to open its first location this summer at 13375 La. 73 in Geismars Dutchtown Crossing Shopping Center.
Franchisees Jesse Benedetto and Michael Stone are bringing Maurice-based Heberts Specialty Meatshome of the deboned stuffed poultryto the Baton Rouge metro area. They also own the rights to open franchises in Baton Rouge and Livingston Parish.
Benedetto says he and Stone, his father-in-law, have plans to open several more locations in Baton Rouge over the next two years, though sites have yet to be selected.
They do get a lot of business from our area already, Benedetto says. People will go to Lafayette and stock up coolers and make a trip. They know there is definitely a market here.
Heberts specializes in the Cajun food market, selling fully prepared, seasoned meats that customers can take home and put directly into the oven or on the stove top. Benedetto says the Ascension location also will sell daily plate lunches, boudin, stuffed chickens, gumbo, crawfish etouffee, steaks and other products.
They do just have meat thats not seasoned, but really more of the concept is for everything to be ready to take home, he says.
Benedetto says he was introduced to Heberts specialty meats by Stone, who was living in Lafayette and raved about the products. Plans to open Heberts Specialty Meats in the Baton Rouge area began last year, but they were stalled by the August flood.
The goal, Benedetto says, is to open the 2,400-square-foot location in Ascension Parish as early as June and no later than July.
The company has other locations in Broussard and Lake Charles and several franchises in Texas.
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Ascension – Huffington Post
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It took my breath away a little bit. The rumble down the tarmac. The fearless roar of the engine. The quiet enormity of the of the moment. I didn't expect it... It took my breath away. It was my first flight in five years. It was the first flight since we had heard that unspeakable word, Cancer. It was the first flight since that moment the world exploded beneath us. I felt the plane move forward. I felt my heart beat faster and faster. I felt the engine's force. I felt tears rushing down my face. I couldn't stop them. It was the quiet enormity of the moment. And then all of a sudden, we ascended. We ascended, weightless into the air. We ascended like birds to the open sky above. My heart beat even faster. It felt like freedom. I felt like magic. It felt like a miracle. My son turned to me. Our eyes met, smiles beaming across our face. And then, laughter! The kind that comes from your soul and makes your belly ache. Freedom at last! So many things about this journey led us to darkness. So many things about this journey brought us to our knees. But, now, in this one moment, soaring above on the sky, there was only joy. It feels like magic. It feels like a miracle. Step by step, we move forward. Step by step, we turn the page. We chase our endless summer. We let the magic flow in. And then we simply close our eyes... and take flight. To, my love, Matthew, who gives me wings.
Nothing wrong with a little heartbeat fade...
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Banking bots should get their version of Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics – TNW
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Writing more and more about chatbots, robots and AI, I can see a day coming in the not too distant future where we wont be able to tell the difference between the human and the machine. Thats not scary science fiction, as its now almost science fact. However, there is still a long way to go, as demonstrated byIBMs Watson Avatar.
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Their AIhuman agent usually a woman, as all the folks creating chatbotsare sexist looks human-ish, but no avatar or chatbot today feels properly human. In IBM Watsons case, its the mouth movements that give away shes a machine, even though shes in HD. Fifteen years ago, AT&T were working on exactly the same ideas, but with scripts for avatars.
As you can see, the idea and sexism hasnt changed much in that time. What is changing however, is the technology behind this idea and, as with all great technological innovation, if something looks worthwhile to develop biometrics, communicators, health technologies, life sciences, artificial intelligence, robots and so on then eventually these technologies will develop sufficiently to become mainstream and acceptable.
That will be somewhere over the next 10-25 years to achieve. It feels nearer, but when a group of experts on Artificial General Intelligence were asked this question in 2012, their view was that it would not be achieved until 2040. The question here being:When will achieve the Singularity?FromWikipedia:
The technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity) is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization. According to this hypothesis, an upgradable intelligent agent (such as a computer running software-based artificial general intelligence) would enter a runaway reaction of self-improvement cycles, with each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing an intelligence explosion and resulting in a powerful superintelligence that would, qualitatively, far surpass all human intelligence. John von Neumann first uses the term singularity (c. 1950s), in the context of technological progress causing accelerating change: The accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, give the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, can not continue. Subsequent authors have echoed this viewpoint. I. J. Goods intelligence explosion, predicted that a future superintelligence would trigger a singularity. Science fiction author Vernor Vinge said in his 1993 essay The Coming Technological Singularity that this would signal the end of the human era, as the new superintelligence would continue to upgrade itself and would advance technologically at an incomprehensible rate.
As I thought about these things, it made me think along the lines of other science fiction authors and visionaries, such asIsaac Asimov. An amazing thinker about the future, he wrote a fantastic series about robots, and came up with the Three Laws of Robotics:
This makes so much sense, and has been used in many other places, notably in the filmRobocopwho has three prime directives:
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This means that Robocop can kill humans, but only if it conforms to the above.
It made me wonder what the three rules for banking robots should be? We need to have some, otherwise they may run away with our money. After all, robots wont adhere to national laws and rules, only the way they program and reprogram themselves. So, heres my speculative take on three rules for banking robots:
I think they speak for themselves, but happy to take comments or questions.
Finally, if you missed it, this was my favorite recent article about robots:
Why no job is safe from the rise of therobots
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Man on Mars: NASA Plans to Test Deep Space Exploration With New Spaceport Orbiting the Moon – Newsweek
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NASA is looking to explore the area of space near the moon for clues on how to travel to Mars and even farther into the solar system, the space agency announced Tuesday. Acrucial part of that mission could be a newcrew-tended spaceport circling the moon that could be used to test how the agency mightsend astronauts to other planets, NASA said.
"NASA is working with domestic and international partners to solve the great challenges of deep space exploration. Missions in the vicinity of the moon will span multiple phases as part of NASAs framework to build a flexible, reusable and sustainable infrastructure that will last multiple decades and support missions of increasing complexity," NASA said in a statement.
The reusable spaceport could be used to support robotic missions to the moon and toother destinations in the solar system, NASA said. If the project works as envisioned, the spaceportwould rely onelectric and chemical propulsion totake a crewto their destination and thenreturn them to the gateway.
I envision different partners, both international and commercial, contributing to the gateway and using it in a variety of ways with a system that can move to different orbits to enable a variety of missions, said William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
It wasn't immediately known how much the project would cost. A test flight could lift off in late 2018.
NASA's previous space exploration plan under the Obama administration called for using achunk of an asteroid to test missions to deep space. The Trump administration killed the projectreportedly because it didn't sound exciting enough compared with a return to the moon by 2020.
NASA will investigate approaches for reducing the costs of exploration missions to enable a more expansive exploration program, a White House 2018 budget proposal released earlier this month said.
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VIDEO: EdWatch: Massive Mars map has Christina students considering space exploration careers – WDEL 1150AM
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A massive map of the surface of Mars takes up most of the floor inside the gym at Jennie E. Smith Elementary School in Brookside.
Advanced Academics teacher Julia Dooley attended the Honeywell Educator Space Academy last summer in an astronaut training facility in Huntsville, Alabama. Through that, she connected with the Buzz Aldrin ShareSpace Foundation to bring the giant Mars map to her school.
"My students, right now, are driving rovers on Mars, so they've had to calibrate their rovers and choose the speed and targets that they want to go and visit," said Dooley.
The map is 25'-by-25'--too large for any classroom--and Jennie E. Smith Elementary is one of just 50 schools in the country that received the map. It was rolled out on the floor for two weeks to inspire hands-on learning, but it's not just for science students. Students in every class at every grade level, kindergarten through 5th, are using the map, which itself is aimed at promoting space exploration through a variety of disciplines, including science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM).
"In music, they're investigating the physics of sound, so thinking about radio telescopes and how sound and science go together," explained Dooley. "In the library, they're creating landers that are going to be dropped on the surface....in art, they are creating Mars posters...encourage Mars travel."
The colorful, topographical vinyl map shows students the landscape and distant hot water flow patterns of Mars, and has gotten them excited about space exploration.
"I learned that Mars is a really big planet, and it's really far from Earth. If you see it, it looks like a dot--like a star--compared to the Moon cause the Moon is closer," said fifth grade student Amatullah Wilson."It just looks really different."
"That map is really big, and it's really cool...I thought it was going to be small for everyone to hold," said fifth grader Marcai Reed. "My Mars rover was made out of card stock, marshmallows...a paper cup and straws."
Reed and Wilson learned the hard way how difficult it can be to land on Mars.
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"I learned that I could've done it better like putting on the straws on the bottom so it could land all flat," he said.
"In real life, they might take someone to Mars, and in real life, you need to think about your plan because if one little thing goes wrong, and you land wrong, you don't know what's going to happen to that person," she said.
Reed was excited to learn that at some point there may have been some life on Mars--and that maybe life could exist there again.
"I would want to go to Mars, but right now, I wouldn't because we don't know a lot about it, and if I go on a spaceship, I wouldn't be able to get back because I don't have a lot of fuel, so I would try to go in the future."
But it's that future that Dooley wants her students to be thinking about as they consider future careers.
"This is the generation that will be going to Mars, it's anticipated in the next 15 years that people will step foot in Mars," she said. "So it's wonderful to think about any of these students being one of those people."
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