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Thursday, December 29, 2016

Turkey's Erdogan Says U.S. Supports ISIL - 'We Have Evidence with Pictures & Videos'

Source: The Mind Unleashed

Published: December 27, 2016

Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan has come out swinging today. With the U.S. led coalition (Britain and France included) recently suffering an embarrassing defeat in Aleppo, Syria when Iranian and Russian forces helped to liberate the city from ISIL, this latest incident could be seen as Turkey throwing salt on the U.S. wound.

UPDATE - Successes of the Alliance, Details on Obama, the Russian Plane Crash, and Chimera Bases under Brazil and Africa

There has been a notable amount of reported progress toward global liberation and the elimination of the Cabal which formerly controlled the planet. Over the past few weeks and months, these criminals have seen their dreams of world domination crumble before their eyes.

Dr. Michael Salla - Partial Disclosure and Competing Secret Space Programs with Corey Goode

Source: Exopolitics

Published: December 12, 2016

By: Dr. Michael Salla

A secret space program run by the U.S. Air Force with the support of the National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office, has concluded that Corey Goode’s testimony of multiple secret space programs with interstellar spacecraft using temporal drive technologies is not disinformation. This is among the most recent claims of Goode in a December 11 update about information he recently acquired as a result of his abduction and interrogation by what he describes as a Military Industrial Complex Secret Space Program (MIC-SSP) comprising the above U.S. military intelligence entities.

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Dr. Michael Salla - Interview with Charles Hall - Motivations of Tall White ETs & Their Exopolitical Significance

Source: Exopolitics

Published: December 26, 2016

By: Dr. Michael Salla

In a December 11, 2016 report, secret space program whistleblower Corey Goode described an announcement of the existence of Tall White extraterrestrials as an option being considered for a limited disclosure initiative orchestrated by the U.S. Air Force, Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. Goode said:

President Obama Quietly Signs 2017 NDAA Over Holiday Weekend

Source: Zero Hedge

Published: December 27, 2016

By: Tyler Durden

Late on Friday, with the US population embracing the upcoming holidays and oblivious of most news emerging from the administration, Obama quietly signed into law the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes $611 billion for the military in 2017.

Monday, December 26, 2016

Facebook and Google Declare War on Free Speech in the Name of "Protecting" the Public

Published: November 18, 2016

By: Jake Anderson

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) This week three media goliaths — Facebook, Google, and Twitter, who collectively act as information gatekeepers for the Internet — announced they would begin implementing censorship practices against news sites they deem misleading.

The Coming War on Pedophilia? - Revealing the Numerous Efforts to Restore Functionality in American Justice

Source: Veterans Today

Published: December 18, 2016

By: Preston James, Ph.D

The late Jimmy SaVILE… Denny Hastert… behold the revolving door of nationally or internationally networked molesters. It was said that Sandusky was allegedly “just the driver for bigger fish”

What is Donald Trump’s best path to attain the full agenda that he energetically promised to the American voters?

Friday, December 23, 2016

Snopes, the Supposed Arbiter of ‘Fake News’ - Accused of ‘Defrauding Own Site to Pay for Prostitutes’

Published: December 22, 2016

By: Claire Bernish

Fraud, embezzlement, and using company funds to pay for prostitution are just a sampling of the accusations against the CEO of fact-checking website, Snopes — a site which, incidentally, is part of Facebook’s new panel to combat “fake news.”

Thursday, December 22, 2016

David Wilcock on Fade to Black with Jimmy Church - December 19, 2016

In the past, we have had the privilege and the challenge of processing the various disclosures of David Wilcock along with his insights, scientific discoveries, and insider testimony. This interview with Jimmy Church is no exception to Wilcock's mind-stretching material.

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

CIA Analyst Who Interrogated Saddam Hussein Just Blew the Lid Off the US ‘Official Story’

Published: December 20, 2016

By: Claire Bernish

A CIA analyst who interrogated Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has some damning words about the invasion, saying the United States “got it wrong” — and was ‘critically mistaken’ on its military action in the country.

A Closer Look - Reevaluating the Twitter Post from Mayor Rudy Giuliani - Examination and Commentary

Upon close observation of the Rudy Giuliani letter, there were a number of key observations noticed by both myself and others which revealed this letter to be questionable. I originally posted on this subject with the impression that the situation held a certain amount of simplicity to it.  However, further examination has revealed a number of unforeseen possibilities.

WikiLeaks Emails Show Colbert Report Gave Clinton Foundation Control Over Production

Source: The Free Thought Project

Published:  December 9, 2016

By: Jack Burns

“Money makes the world go around,” the old adage states, but when the worlds of politics and crony capitalism come together, a lot can get done, and as we know, a lot of money changes hands. Thanks to Wikileaks’ release of John Podesta’s emails (Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager), any average Joe can now peer into the way the world works, focusing on the Clintons’ politics and their strategic media partners, one of which appears to be Stephen Colbert and Comedy Central’s cable network.

US Government Just Legalized Operation Mockingbird - FBI Can Now Impersonate The Media

Published: September 22, 2016

By Claire Bernish

FBI agents conducting undercover investigations have now been given the green light to impersonate journalists, the Justice Department determined last week — effectively legalizing the government’s most notorious propaganda program, Operation Mockingbird.

Monday, December 19, 2016

Dutchsinse - Massive Wave of Energy from Unknown Source Currently Impacting Earth - 12/19/2016

It seems that we are living in historic times. Today, December 19, it appears that the Earth is experiences a massive energy wave of some type. This high-energy microwave pulse is more intense than the a largest class of solar flares known to science (X class), and this particular wave seems to originate from unknown sources (though the sun is a likely culprit). Even though the true nature of this energetic wave is unknown, there are a number of facts we can deduce from the data currently coming forward.

UPDATE - Giants, Final Battles for Planetary Freedom, and the Deaths of David Rockefeller and Nathaniel Rothschild

This update from Kent Dunn and Gary Larrabee may be among the most bizarre accounts we will hear on the subject of world events. The details within this interview range from what we may consider normal to situations which sound as though they come right out of a page-turning science fiction novel.

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Aleppo: How US & Saudi-Backed Rebels Target ‘Every Syrian’

Source: Mint Press News

Published: November 29, 2016

By: Eva Bartlett

‘We were living in security and peace. These areas are being targeted, they want to force us to leave. Every Syrian is being targeted,’ one Syrian religious leader told a delegation of reporters who visited Aleppo earlier this month.

ALEPPO, Syria — (OPINION) In early November, Fares Shehabi, a member of the Syrian parliament from Aleppo, organized a trip to Aleppo for 13 Western journalists, including myself, with security provided by forces in the Syrian Arab Army.

If only Half of America is Properly Vaccinated, Where are the Epidemics?

Source: The Hill

Published: September 13, 2016

By: Gretchen Dubeau

In 2014, an outbreak of whooping cough (pertussis) broke out in the San Diego area. Of the 621 individuals who were infected, nearly all of them were completely up to date on all preventive vaccinations. If vaccines are given to protect from disease, how could this happen?

Saturday, December 17, 2016

Arizona: Hillary Clinton’s Election Fraud Masterpiece

Source: Russia Insider

Published: March 23, 2016

By: Rudy Panko

She stole Iowa, Nevada and Massachusetts – but Arizona is Hillary Clinton’s election fraud masterpiece.

Desperate to prevent another “Michigan upset”, Hillary found an ingenious way to guarantee victory in Arizona.

FAA Says North Dakota Cops Committed Felony by Shooting Down DAPL Protester Drones - Video, Commentary and Links

At this point, we are all at least somewhat familiar with the ordeal of the Dakota Access Pipeline. At the height of this conflict between the Water Protectors of Standing Rock and Big Oil, there were reported to to be numerous instances of reckless abandonment of the American Constitution by police and security personnel. On multiple occasions, these security personnel ignored U.S. law, and instead chose to brutalized unarmed Natives in the name of corporate interests.

Words of Wisdom from Bruce William Powe

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Another Insider Democrat Arrested for Pedophilia… How Deep Does #PedoGate Actually Go?

Source: News Target

Published: December 14, 2016

By: JD Heyes

You won’t read about this in the real fake media outlets like the Washington Post because the mainstream press protects its chosen political ideology, no matter what they do, but yet another insider Democrat who has been arrested for sexually abusing a child.

NSA Whistleblower Says DNC Hack was Not Done by Russia, but by U.S. Intelligence - Links and Video Included

Source: The Duran

Published: August 1, 2016

By: Alex Christoforou

On Aaron Klein’s Sunday radio program, “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” (broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia’s NewsTalk 990 AM), US government whistleblower William Binney threw his hat into the DNC hack ring by stating that the Democratic National Committee’s server was not hacked by Russia but by a disgruntled U.S. intelligence worker.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Here’s What The Media Is Ignoring While Blaming Russia For Hillary Losing

Source: The Anti-Media

Publish: December 12, 2016

By: Darius Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA) — According to a “secret CIA assessment,” Russia intervened in the U.S. election to undermine confidence in the electoral system and boost support for Donald Trump. The president-elect has already rejected this notion, though the implications of claims regarding Russian involvement are still unclear.

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Update - Mass Arrests of World Political Leaders Taking Place, Leaders Being Placed Under House Arrest Pending Tribunals - Video Links, and Commentary

The developments just keep coming with regard to reports of the progress of the positive Earth Alliance and their efforts to corner and arrest the Cabal. It may seem difficult to believe just how much progress has been made over the past weeks and months, given the amount of disinformation and negativity coming from the corporate media.  Yet still, this progress is very real and is ever-expanding, according to multiple credible sources.

Cobra - Update for December 11, 2016 - The Process of World Liberation and Preparation for the Event

Source: 2012 Portal

Published: December 11, 2016

By: Cobra

Clearing of the Chimera group continues. We have entered the phase of the final clearing of the Yaldabaoth entity and all remaining plasma toplet bombs.

Monday, December 12, 2016

Sphere-Being Alliance - ENDGAME PART II - The Atlantis and Ancient Alien Ruins

Source: Sphere-Being Alliance

Published: December 11, 2016

By Corey Goode and David Wilcock

(Introduction by David Wilcock)

The truth is exploding across the internet. Millions are learning for the first time that there really is a “negative elite” running the planet, engaging in child trafficking among other heinous crimes.

The Cabal’s brazen efforts to completely destroy this information are quite surprising to the millions who are only now discovering the scope of the problem.

ENDGAME II: The Antarctic Atlantis and Ancient ET Ruins

Source: Divine Cosmos

Published: December 11, 2016

By Corey Goode and David Wilcock

The Establishment is threatened like never before. Are they about to disclose advanced, hi-tech ruins under the ice in Antarctica, and a limited secret space program, to try to save the New World Order agenda?

CIA: Washington Post Report Linking Russian Government to Trump & Election Hacking Is “Outright Lie”

Source: True Pundit

Published: December 12, 2016

The Central Intelligence Agency is declaring the Washington Post’s much-hyped story linking the Russian government to hacking the presidential election to help Donald Trump an “outright lie,” according to CIA personnel with direct knowledge of the case.

Sunday, December 11, 2016

The Succession of the Templars – Ancient Wisdom, Myth, and Distortion – Navigating the Journey from History to Modern Times

If we have familiarized ourselves with the history of the Knights Templar, chances are we will understand the significance and impact of this group over the centuries. We may have even noticed just how influential the Templars have been in modern times.

Michigan Recount Exposes Clinton Electoral Fraud: Half of Detroit Votes Show Signs of Tampering

Source: Russia Insider

Published: December 10, 2016

By: Rudy Panko

This is some next-level poetic justice: A Michigan recount backed by Jill Stein and the Democrats, and intended to deligitimize Trump's astonishing victory on November 8, has actually exposed widespread fraud in precincts which voted heavily for Clinton.

Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence

Source: The Intercept

Published: December 10, 2016

By: Glenn Greenwald

THE WASHINGTON POST late Friday night published an explosive story that, in many ways, is classic American journalism of the worst sort: The key claims are based exclusively on the unverified assertions of anonymous officials, who in turn are disseminating their own claims about what the CIA purportedly believes, all based on evidence that remains completely secret.

Friday, December 9, 2016

Update - Open ET Contact, UFO Battles, Galactic Alignments, a Planetary Shift into an Age of Abundance

This latest update from Kent Dunn and Gary Larrabee includes many different points to consider. The subjects range from skirmishes between ETs to  planetary and cosmic alignments, the Secret Space Program, and a number of points on the subject of archaeology and ancient civilizations.

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

False Flag Staged At Comet Ping Pong Pizza Restaurant To Shut Down Alt Media

Source: The Event Chronicle

Published: December 6, 2016

PIZZAGATE: Black Operation in D.C. to Foil Citizen Investigations Doesn’t Even Surprise

False Flag Alert! PizzaGate Threatens the Global Power Structure! Anything Goes in D.C. Until the Inauguration!

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

David Wilcock - ENDGAME: Disclosure and the Final Defeat of the Cabal

Source: Divine Cosmos

Published: December 6, 2016

By: David Wilcock

The Cabal is closer to exposure and defeat than ever before. The truth is blasting through the internet as a civilian-led investigation takes hold.

Does the Cabal have a final "Hail Mary Pass" to create a mass distraction and take the heat off? Could their final move actually be Disclosure?

Cosmic Disclosure with Corey Goode and David Wilcock - Law of One and the Secret Space Program - Technological Salvation

This episode of the series brought another opportunity to hear one of my favorite subjects discussed. This is the correlations between the Law of One and the various testimonies on the Secret Space Program from Corey Goode and numerous other whistleblowers.

DAPL Corporation Just Told The Army Corp They Will Do What They Want And Keep Building ILLEGAL Pipeline At Standing Rock - Links and Commentary

If the proverbial villain weren't persistent, the story wouldn't be worth reading. Nor would the end be as satisfying. We have already seen the people of the United States take the lead in ethical integrity far ahead of government in the situation at Standing Rock. We have witnessed our veterans stand up and defeat corporate corruption while State and Federal Officials sat back and did virtually nothing.

Veterans Apologize To Indigenous On Behalf Of U.S. Army At Standing Rock

Source: True Activist

Published: December 6, 2016

By: Amanda Froelich

Today, hundreds of veterans from across the United States took a knee and begged for forgiveness for crimes committed toward indigenous people in the name of the U.S. military.

A massive awakening is being realized, and it’s stemming from the Standing Rock protest camps located near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Since April, “water protectors” have been protesting the development of a four-state Dakota Access Pipeline.

Monday, December 5, 2016

BREAKING - Water Protectors Claim Major Victory Over Army Corp of Engineers at Standing Rock - Links and Commentary

On December 4th, a story was published by multiple sources about a significant victory for the Water Protectors of Standing Rock, North Dakota.  According to these sources, President Obama and the Department of the Army refused to grant approval for the continuation of the pipeline project under Lake Oahe (a portion of the Missouri River).

Sunday, December 4, 2016

2,000 Veterans Just Arrived At Standing Rock To Form “Human Shield” Around Protesters

Source: Occupy Democracy

Published: December 1, 2016

By: Colin Taylor

Over two thousand veterans have begun arriving at the Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp in North Dakota, intending to form a “human shield” protecting the protesters from the violent militarized police force that is defending the desecrating construction company.

Cosmic Disclosure with Corey Goode and David Wilcock – Troubling Encounters – Rushed Meetings and Unanswered Questions

Considering the theme of the last episode of Cosmic Disclosure, this discussion seems to fit in the same category. This category is on subjects that may not be the most pleasant among other topics, but which offer value in a different way. This discussion leans toward topics which at times, might be seen as negative at first glance. However, there are multiple lessons within the disclosures of Corey Goode which may prove to be valuable for each one of us.

Cosmic Disclosure with Corey Goode and David Wilcock - The Banished from Inner Earth - Uninvited Guests and Valuable Life Lessons

There have been numerous topics discussed on the Cosmic Disclosure series. Many of these topics have a way of lifting the spirits and giving the audience a fresh perspective of the world we want to see. Though this episode was of a different flavor than the usual, its discussion seemed to be beneficial in a different way.

Friday, December 2, 2016

Largest Pedophile Ring in History, 70,000 Members, Heads of State, the Rats Scramble - VT and Keshe Take the Lead in Breaking the Most Insidious Human Trafficking Gang on the Planet

Published: August 24, 2016

By: Gordon Duff

Millions read the news today, the pedophile ring “busted” or the earlier article about how the FBI actually ran it for several weeks, expanding it, drawing in tens of thousands. Those who read it thought they knew, thought they were getting the story but as is so often the case, the truth goes so much further.

BOOM! Navy Petty Officer Joins DAPL Protest with Upside Down Flag – “Our Greatest Enemies Are Right Here”

Source: The Free-Thought Project

Published: November 6, 2016

By: Claire Bernish

U.S. Navy veteran, Petty Officer 1st Class Kash Jackson came to North Dakota with one imperative in mind — to uphold the Constitution by protecting the American citizens he swore to defend, who are currently embroiled in a struggle with overly-militarized police acting on behalf of a twisted corporate-government alliance insisting on constructing the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Thursday, December 1, 2016

UPDATE - Mass Arrests Continue - Alliance Forces Targeting Pedophilia Rings, According to Reports - Video, Commentary and Links

Reports continue to come in about the ongoing efforts to arrest the Cabal wherever they may be hiding. This recent report comes to us once again from Gary Larrabee and Kent Dunn, and is on the subject of the massive pedophilia ring we have been hearing about from multiple media sources. According to Dunn, these pedophiles are being systematically arrested by Alliance forces.


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Assistant Manager terminated after Request for Workers’ Compensation Philadelphia – Lyle Goodman, former assistant manager, claims Wal-Mart Store Inc. wrongfully terminated his employment for inquiring about workers’ compensation for medical reasons. Last April, Goodman filed a wrongful termination complaint against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In… Read more »


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Feature Request: release version description

It would be helpful if I could have a version description against release version ident.
At the moment, my project versions are of the form "1.2.3" (major, minor, build) - which, on their own are a bit cryptic. Also, the version string is limited to 20 characters.

If there was an associated description, it would make it easier for users to assign the case to the appropriate version.
Anyone agree?

Michael Mayne
Wednesday, July 23, 2003

It couldn't hurt!

Eric Vitiello
Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Do you ever have bugs that aren't associated with a shipping version? (E.g. they were only on a private developers build, etc)

Joel Spolsky
Thursday, July 24, 2003

Yes, but I think we may be talking at cross purposes.
I'm saying that the drop down list which displays the version to be optionally assigned against the case should have 2 columns:
1 column with the version ident, the second with a desc. of what that version is e.g.

v2.3.7 - New reports and XML integration

That's easier to understand than "v2.3.7" on its own.

Michael Mayne
Friday, July 25, 2003

Got it. Thanks.

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Americans Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food

FoodWasteRobert Roy Britt writes on LiveScience:

U.S. residents are wasting food like never before.

While many Americans feast on turkey and all the fixings today, a new study finds food waste per person has shot up 50 percent since 1974. Some 1,400 calories worth of food is discarded per person each day, which adds up to 150 trillion calories a year.

The study finds that about 40 percent of all the food produced in the United States is tossed out.

Meanwhile, while some have plenty of food to spare, a recent report by the Department of Agriculture finds the number of U.S. homes lacking “food security,” meaning their eating habits were disrupted for lack of money, rose from 4.7 million in 2007 to 6.7 million last year.

About 1 billion people worldwide don’t have enough to eat, according to the World Food Program.

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  • stykkhades

    Doe's that also include the idiotic habit of food fighting too?

    • tonyviner

      Or eating contests?

  • Anonymous

    Or eating contests?


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Sir David Attenborough: Humans Stopped Evolving Because of Birth Control and Abortion.

human-evolution-by-South-ParkAttenborough says “the plague on Earth” has stopped evolving…

Via Guardian:

Sir David Attenborough has said that he is not optimistic about the future and that people should be persuaded against having large families.

The broadcaster and naturalist, who earlier this year described humans as “a plague on Earth”, also said he believed humans have stopped evolving physically and genetically because of birth control and abortion, but that cultural evolution is proceeding “with extraordinary swiftness”.

“We stopped natural selection as soon as we started being able to rear 90-95% of our babies that are born. We are the only species to have put a halt to natural selection, of its own free will, as it were,” he tells this week’s Radio Times.

“Stopping natural selection is not as important, or depressing, as it might sound – because our evolution is now cultural … We can inherit a knowledge of computers or television, electronics, aeroplanes and so on.”

Keep reading.

  • jasonpaulhayes

    So basically hes a Neo-Eugenicist.

    • Woobniggurath

      No, actually the writer of the bit sucks. Two ideas conflated without clarification: 1. We are no longer subject to natural selection because all of our babies survive (vs. state of nature, practically true.) 2. The earth is vastly overcrowded, please stop pushing out the bairns. I have no idea what the writer was trying to convey, but they gave us typical commercial newsthink instead.

      • jasonpaulhayes

        Human progress to overcome death is some how divorced from nature? How should you know how many people the earth can provide for?

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  • sonicbphuct

    i get really annoyed when people don’t get evolution but talk about like they do. If he wants to comment on abortion or birth control, then he should have said, they are influencing our evolution since they are selecting agents.

    • Woobniggurath

      If you see the article, the headline says “due to birth control and abortion,” but Attenborough says “when we became capable of having 95% survival of offspring.” Quite different. He is no meat puppet.

      • sonicbphuct

        actually, it’s not different at all. Either way is an agent of selection. Either we select for traits we deem worthy, or unworthy, but we’re still selecting. That we do it consciously has no bearing on the process; the process is the process and it exists regardless. Evolution isn’t a thing to believe in or imagine you’re not impacted by – it is, simply, like gravity.

  • BuzzCoastin

    We stopped natural selection as soon as we started being

    We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.

    sent from my Android Phone

    • Rob Lai

      Seems a bit discriminatory against those of us without any biological or technological distinctiveness. Well, I guess there’s always duty as spare parts…

    • jasonpaulhayes

      Buzz, you’re a man of few words but a man of great insight, foresight and hindsight.

  • atlanticus

    I will never understand why humans who should know better persist in the delusion that we or our technology are somehow outside of nature.

    • Eric_D_Read

      Collective narcissism is my guess.

  • InfvoCuernos

    What a strange thing for someone that has made a lifetime study of nature to say. You would think he would have a little better grip on the very things he spent his whole life scrutinizing. It seems like what he’s saying is “breed all you want” but then it says that people should be discouraged from having large families. Maybe Sir Attenborough is getting a little touch of the Alzheimer’s.

    • Rob Lai

      Dude’s 87. Even filmmakers go senile sometimes. Maybe especially filmmakers.

      • bsackamano

        He’s no scientist never has been. It’s sad how some guy who has only ever made propaganda films, and is deluded, is called a scientist.

        • Rob Lai

          You know, looked it up and you’re right. Made the correction. Thanks!

  • Calypso_1

    Dearest Sir Attenborough:

    Your Council Processing Center is pleased to inform You that all is prepared for the Honored event of Your Going Home.

    Your emanant arrival is forthwith enjoindered.

    • Rhoid Rager

      I agree. People who criticize or characterize the species wholesale foolishly present themselves as not being part of it.

  • Rhoid Rager

    “our evolution is now cultural … We can inherit a knowledge of computers or television, electronics, aeroplanes and so on.” What about the cultural mores of how we ought to treat each other? That’s culture too, ain’t it, Sir David? Where’s that evolution going?

    • bsackamano

      Their God is money and power.

    • Woobniggurath

      I believe he clarified that when he said “Man is a plague upon the planet earth.”

  • Bruteloop

    Am I reading a different article? Obviously we have stopped natural selection. Inevitably, given advances in medicine, abortion and birth control. I see nothing here that suggests he is a eugenicist. We are all eugenicists surely. We live in a society that condones it. We just don’t always like to admit it.
    Why do you think there is currently debate about Down’s Syndrome births? Because people are being encouraged to abort.
    Natural selection is exactly that. Influence it and it is no longer natural.
    He is saying we should think about breeding less. How is that not sensible?
    He does not condone China’s methods. In fact, he suggests that perhaps the best method would be to impress upon a populace so enmeshed in material gain and comfort that sensible population control through individual responsibility, rather than intervention by the state, will directly affect their experience of life positively (the resources that allow their lifestyle will be depleted less quickly etc) and the experience of their offspring. Alternatively, lack of individual responsibility in this area will lead to a world of hurt. A polite way of saying appeal to their greed and self absorption.
    We are a plague? Yes we are. We are on the planet but please don’t think the planet needs humanity any more than it needs shingle. It certainly doesn’t need too much of it.
    Unfortunately there really is no natural process that stops us proliferating. At least not at the moment. There is the talk of superbugs and so on. I grew up through the beginning of the AIDs epidemic and people thought it was the end of the world. Quarantine on islands was discussed seriously. Now, sadly, the disease is taken for granted because it can be controlled to an extent. Nothing, apart from ourselves, guarantees our demise.
    We want to point at disasters, disease or a vengeful god. We rarely point at ourselves. That is all he is doing. Saying things have changed. We have and are changing them. It is not happening naturally. We need to take responsibility for the consequences of this.
    Burroughs said it better – a virus with shoes.

    Is it going to get worse? I would imagine so. Hell, another war is possibly about to start. Why deal with the problems we are causing when you can just add another one to the shitpile?
    Seems to me a man who has travelled extensively, lived through massive cultural changes, involved himself with the natural world all his life dares to call it like he sees it and ruffles the feathers of those who probably have never travelled outside their own country and have yet to find something they feel so passionate about that they are willing to dedicate their life to it.

    • HowardBrazee

      So he doesn’t want to use the word “natural” because it is something that people do. It doesn’t change reality though. Some people will procreate more, others less. Those that procreate more are selected, along with their traits.

  • bobyouruncle

    this is a WHITE perspective and a problem created by white people. give Gia back to the aborigines of the earth.

  • Ted Heistman

    This is a good book about recent evolution:

    Basically a lot of artificial selection happened in Eurasia as hunter gatherers were forced to adopt agriculture and many people became slaves/peasants.

    Hunter Gatherers are generally anarchists and many got weeded out of the gene pool.

  • Ted Heistman

    The west is actually 1/3 or less of the planet. Even if you could argue that all natural selection has been removed from modern life, 2/3 of the people on Earth don’t live a first world lifestyle.

    But it is true that Europeans have accumulated more potentially harmful mutations than other populations.

    • Matt Staggs

      Very good point.

  • Ted Heistman

    What happened in Europe 5,000 years ago is basically an invasion of Agricultural People from the Middle East who killed off many of the scattered and diverse hunter gatherer groups and stole some of the women. We know this because of the prevalence of mitochondrial DNA from hunter gatherers and Y chromosomes from Neolithic farmers from the Middle east in various European populations.. So this created a genetic bottleneck. But then this limited gene pool was ballooned up in size due to the fact that intensive agriculture allows for larger populations than hunting and gathering.

    A similar thing happens when wild animals are domesticated.

  • howiebledsoe

    We evolve every day. Think about the amount of radiation, new poisons, pesticides, MGO’s, air, water and food polution. We have to evolve or we wont make it. Babies with HIV infected parents are coming into the world healthy. Sure, lots of us will die, but some of our offspring will survive, and this boils down to evolution.

  • Microhero

    Call it unnatural selection if you will. There’s still selection and still evolution both biological and cultural and still determined by the same principles. And like in the natural world there isn’t a single environment or adaptation but many, and many niches within each separate environment.
    Survival is no longer an absolute concept (in some populations), i.e. life or death, but lifestyles and genetic predisposition still influence it. and the way we chose mates, and our reproductive success are still quite relevant for human evolution. Even if eventually all of us get to choose a big part of the genetic traits of our children, you could consider that a form of natural selection being our choices will be the product of a “cultural and social environment” that privileges some traits over others.

    We’re messing with the form but not the content or essence of the natural rules.

    • Woobniggurath

      I believe that is Attenborough’s point – that we have hacked one of the fundamental systems of life with no concept of what will come of it, and we fuckin up, boy.

  • bsackamano

    I used to love his nature shows, but there is always such a misanthropic element and subtle brainwashing to them I can’t watch his stuff anymore. He does hate human beings and his whole life has been in service of brainwashing the public for his master Lord Rothschild and company. These people steal land for nature “conservatories” to both corner the resources market and for their own personal plunder. He’d have third world babies killed, and probably does in the satanic rituals, in the name of population control. Awful man.

  • Chaorder Gradient

    it is and always has been social selection….

  • Hux Leary McShulgin

    I’m usually 100% AGAINST government intervention in our personal lives, but reproduction is one exception. People should have to pass a psychological exam and prove that they have the income needed to raise a child. This issue is more about the well-being of the child and the effect of overpopulation on society than personal choice. This “I have a right to have as many babies as I want!!!1!1!1!” bullshit will be the end of us.

    Instead of picketing abortion clinics and railing against birth control, we should be protesting IVF clinics! What sense does it make to spend thousands to produce a test tube baby when millions of kids THAT ALREADY EXIST need loving homes? How selfish can you be?

    Downvote away.

    • sonicbphuct

      You contradict yourself. You state: “People should have to pass a psychological exam and prove that they have the income needed to raise a child.” and then suggest that we should be opposed to IVF because it makes no sense to spend thousands to produce.

      That is a contradiction. Those who can go to the IVF clinics have met your requirement of proving “they have the income needed to raise a child.”


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July 21, 2007

Peano's Axioms Part III: Making use of Haskell's Powerful Polymorphism

This time, we'll be looking at making use of the polymorphic capabilties of Haskell's type system.

In Haskell, Polymorphism is provided via type variables. That is, you may have a function

foo :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]

which requires a function of any type to any other type, and a list of elements of the first type, and it returns a list of elements of the second type. Most people call this function map, though it can represent others.

So in addition to getting the functions defined in the typeclass, we get all the prelude functions with variable type signatures.

But wait- theres more. When we define certain types of functions, we often want to limit the scope of the function to only operate on certain variables. Like defining an instance of an interface in Java, we can specify a "scope" (though thats an abuse of the term) for a type variable. As in the following:

foo2 :: Ord a => a -> a -> a

Here, we state that a must be an instance of the typeclass Ord (and by inheritance, an instance of Eq too.) So now we know that foo2 takes two comparable elements and returns a comparable element.

Polymorphism is nothing new to any language. However, I think that Haskell really has an advantage not in the area of semantics, which are pretty much uniform -- at least in the case of polymorphism. I think that Haskell's advantage is in the syntax of polymorphism. Type signatures are easily wonderfully simple ways to express polymorphism. Both this basic kind of polymorphism (called rank-1 polymorphism), as well as higher order polymorphism (rank-2, rank-3, rank-n).

The point of this post is to show the rich library of polymorphic functions which become available with just a few (I think we're up to 7, one derived, 6 implemented) type classes. This, as always, is a literate file, just cut and paste to a .lhs and run

$> ghci .lhs

> module Peano2 (Nat(..)) where
> import Peano
> import Data.Ratio

Continuing on which defining math in terms of Peano's axioms

Last time I noted that we'd be working on exp, div, mod, and some other
higher-level functions. I also mentioned that we "sortof" got exp for free, in

where k is an integer, works fine, but what if we k be a natural. we'll notice
readily that this will fail, with the error that theres no instance of
Integral Nat.

Why is that a problem? because (^) isn't in Num, its defined elsewhere, its
signature is

(^) :: (Num a, Integral b) => a -> b -> a

Okay, so now what we should do is define Nat to be an Integral Type. So, lets go
for it.

so, for Integral, we need quot, rem, and toInteger. We have the last of these, from the last time. Its quot and rem that we need. So, how do we define these?

well, we know that quot and rem are (effectively) just mod and div, in fact, not having negative numbers means that they are exactly the same. Lets then realize that mod is just repeated subtraction until we hit modulus > remnant. further, we relize that div is just the same, but the count of times we subtracted till we met that condition.

> quotNat :: Nat -> Nat -> Nat
> quotNat k m
> | k == m = 1
> | k < m = 0
> | otherwise = 1 + (quotNat (k-m) m)

> remNat :: Nat -> Nat -> Nat
> remNat k m
> | k == m = 0
> | k < m = k
> | otherwise = remNat (k-m) m

> quotRemNat :: Nat -> Nat -> (Nat, Nat)
> quotRemNat k m = ((quotNat k m), (remNat k m))

now, we just instantiate integral

> instance Integral Nat where
> toInteger = ntoi
> quotRem = quotRemNat
> -- this fixes a problem that arises from Nats not having
> -- negative numbers defined.
> divMod = quotRemNat

but now we need to instantiate Enum and Real, oh my. Lets go for Enum first.

Enum requires just toEnum and fromEnum, thats pretty easy, to and from enum are just to and from Integer, which we have.

> instance Enum Nat where
> toEnum = integerToNat
> fromEnum = natToInteger

Real is actually relatively easy, we're just projecting into a superset of the
Naturals, notably, the Rationals, so we do this simply by pushing the value
into a ratio of itself to 1, that is

toRational S(S(S(S(Z)))) ==> S(S(S(S(Z)))) % 1

> instance Real Nat where
> toRational k = (ntoi k) % 1

Next time, we'll go for primes.

oh- and by the way, pushing Nat into Integral gave us lots of neat things, notably even/odd, gcd/lcm, the ability to do ranges like [(Z)..], and all the appropriate functions that go with that.

So far, I've spent about 1 hour making all this work, you can imagine how this speed could be useful if you have defined your problem as having certain properties. Type classes are an extremely powerful tool, which can help make your code both clean, as well as powerful. In one hour, I've managed to build up a simple bit of code, based on some fairly primitive axioms, and create a huge amount of powerful math around it.

Imagine if you could define these same relations around data? What if you were able to define strings as having properties of numbers, heres an Idea:

Imagine you have some strings, you can define the gcd of two strings as the least common substring of two strings. If you can sensically define the product of two strings, then you can get a concept of lcm as well. Granted, the may not be the best example. But you can just imagine the power you can push into your data by defining an arithmetic, (not even an algebra!) on them. Imagine creating an arithmetic of music (been done, sortof, check out Haskore) or pictures? I use
arithmetic,because what I'm implementing here is only a little peice of the power you can instill. _This_ is why Haskell is powerful. Not because its purely functional, not even because its lazy. It's the _math_ that makes Haskell capable of doing this. The type theory upon which Haskell rests makes Haskell powerful.

Remember, next time, Primes and Totients and Number Theory, and a datatype
representing the Integers,
Oh my!

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