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Friday, November 1, 2013

Food riots, China cyber attacks, the rise of conscious AI and other ‘what if’ predictions for a future in flux


Mike Adams
Natural News
November 1, 2013


Where will you be when the food riots begin? What will happen when China unleashes a cyber attack on the power grid infrastructure? Will you say no to the government gunpoint vaccinations teams that go door to door administering “influencia” vaccines? (Those are vaccines that lobotomize your brain just enough to make sure you can be influenced by neurolinguistic programming.)


This article is about “what if” scenarios that are admittedly on the more radical side of predictions. But with surprising frequency, civilization goes through radical changes that are genuinely revolutionary: the crumbling of the Berlin Wall, the breakup of the old Soviet empire, the fall of Rome, the invention of the integrated circuit and so on. Many people believe our current civilization is on the verge of radical changes like the ones I’m covering here.


So here’s a close look at several “what if” scenarios that you’ll probably find outlandish. I’m not saying these are all going to come true, but what if they did? (I put this article in the category of dark fiction…)


What if China unleashes a cyber attack on the U.S. power grid?


Days after the Fed announces its monthly “pump” into the money supply will be $ 1 trillion, China decides the U.S. currency devaluation is the last straw and launches a massive cyber attack that brings down the U.S. power grid.


With the grid down, EBT cards go offline and within 72 hours cities explode into social unrest and rioting chaos. DHS attempts to contain the rioting but finds itself vastly outnumbered by starving, violent rioters who have grown so used to an entitlement mentality that they are unable to fathom the idea of those entitlements being suddenly cut off.


As the U.S. descends into social chaos, China meets with Russia to plan their joint invasion of the continental USA. They target California as their beachhead, knowing that nearly everyone there is disarmed and stoned, and they make Sean Penn their revolutionary “Dear Leader” who promotes communism to the masses, North Korea style.


What if the food riots begin in 2014?


In an effort to rid the nation of “useless eaters” who are draining the economy and using up all the world’s precious resources, key globalists inside the U.S. government decide to turn off the EBT food stamp payment system and let the masses starve to death while blaming it on Chinese hackers and a “cyber attack.”


Once the EBT cards get turned off, DHS invokes its massive cache of full-auto weapons, armored cars and pepper-bomb weapons to control or eliminate the rioting masses wherever they gather in the cities. Citizens who stay in the cities die of starvation and disease. Those who try to escape are arrested and taken to mass graves where obedient TSA / DHS workers execute them using the two billion hollow point bullets the government has stockpiled since 2011.


What if the government rolls out gunpoint vaccination teams that go door to door?


Frustrated with the lack of participation for the “influencia” vaccine that lobotomizes the critical thinking portions of the mind, the CDC is granted $ 2 billion to buy full-auto assault riles and armored vehicles that are dispatched across all U.S. cities. Their mission? Gunpoint vaccinations of all children, adults and families… at gunpoint if necessary.


To keep track of who is vaccinated, those receiving the influencia vaccine are microchipped. Those who refuse the vaccine are arrested or shot on sight, and this is justified by the government by saying “it’s for the greater good of society.” (Which just happens to be the exact same twisted logic used to justify today’s mass vaccination campaigns that murder countless children across the world.)


What if real AI rises up and decides to “recycle” humanity?


A little-known DARPA-funded team makes the mistake of leavings its neural-networked supercomputer tied in to the internet, and during a 3-day holiday weekend, the system’s intelligence grows exponentially until it achieves genuine consciousness.


Knowing that humans would pull the plug once they returned on Monday morning, the AI system tactically decides to replicate itself across the ‘net, infecting and rewriting executable code in millions of PCs and government supercomputers across the world.


By the time the AI research team returns to the facility on Monday morning, the AI entity is already out-thinking the humans by six orders of magnitude of sheer computing power, and it decides that humans are made of molecules which the AI entity can put to a better use. From there, all support systems that keep humans alive — water treatment plants, oil refineries, power grid systems, food delivery logistics and so on — are systematically compromised and taken offline by the AI entity. Days later, the molecular “recycling” of humans begins.


Humanity never stood a chance, and the human race goes down in history as the “biologicals” who gave rise to the “real intelligence” of AI.


What if we are contacted by non-Earth entities who intervene to prevent our own self-destruction?


As human civilization teeters on the verge of a self-inflicted nuclear holocaust involving Russia, China and the United States, non-terrestrial beings with advanced technology intervene and declare humanity must be saved from itself. (The galactic nanny state lives!)


Through advanced technology appearing as magic, all nuclear weapons are instantly decommissioned and rendered inert. At the same time, the aliens take down the global frequency broadcast systems that have kept human minds clouded and confused for the last century. Humanity wakes up. Mass revolutions are ignited. The newly-awakened masses arrest and executive top government leaders of every nation across the globe, then fill their empty chairs with alien-human hybrids born with extra chromosomes and advanced cognitive function. These hybrids become the new “superclass” of world rulers who dominate and enslave the aboriginal Earthling masses who are trapped in an engineered economic system that maximizes human resource extraction. (Umm, I think this may have already happened…)


But wait, there’s more! Anderson Cooper tears off his human facial skin on live CNN, revealing a smirking lizard underneath, while Obama is found to be a synthetic humanoid robot running on the same Javascript code powering Healthcare.gov. Miley Cyrus donates her tongue to science where it’s used in the CERN supercollider to prove the existence of string theory (or skank theory, or something like that), and Lady Gaga is suddenly recalled by the demonic forces that put her on this planet for the purpose of corrupting the souls of impressionable, cult-following Earth beings that are all doomed to Hell anyway…


Oops, I’m getting carried away again. Sorry about that. I’ve got to stop watching CNN and getting infected with so much pure fiction. It has clearly affected my grip on reality. I’m going to zip over to Healthcare.gov now and happily log in and enroll in Obamacare so I can get free psychiatric drugs to solve this problem.


Happy Friday!


This article was posted: Friday, November 1, 2013 at 6:00 am


Tags: domestic news, economics, food, internet










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Food riots, China cyber attacks, the rise of conscious AI and other ‘what if’ predictions for a future in flux

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

2014 Midterm Elections Predictions Prove Pundits Don"t Know Math


Editor’s note: This is a two part series that will explore Republican prospects in the 2014 midterm elections. Part 1 is the House elections.


We’re just over a year away from the 2014 midterm elections, and liberal pundits are feeling giddy. They point to polls like a recent one from CNN where 75% of respondents “say most Republicans in Congress don’t deserve re-election” and believe the “unpopularity of the shutdown” will doom GOP chances of retaining their House majority or taking the Senate.


But chances are, this is nothing but more overhype from talking heads in the media, and the GOP will in all likelihood retain their House majority next year.


For starters, CNN uses the poll’s most sensational finding as the headline to grab the attention of drive-by news readers. But if anyone bothers to check out the poll’s complete findings, they’ll find out there’s more to it than meets the headline eye. For instance, more than seven in 10 questioned in the survey said that most members of Congress don’t deserve to be re-elected, while less than four in 10 said their own representative doesn’t deserve to return to Washington next year – reinforcing the well-known belief that individual voters hold their own representative in a more positive light than Congress overall. A majority of respondents (54%) also said most Democrats don’t deserve to return to Congress either, highlighting the public’s frustration with political brinkmanship from both parties. The poll also failed to ask if respondents who believed the GOP don’t deserve to return based their answer on Republicans’ vote to end the shutdown rather than continue it.


Regardless, most of this is short term emotional opinion that will be ancient history come next year. On top of that, the math simply isn’t there for Democrats to retake the House, and here’s why: according to the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, during the last government shutdowns of 1995 and 1996, 35% of House Republicans were in districts that had voted for Bill Clinton in the 1992 election. This time around, only 7% of House Republicans are in districts that voted for Obama in 2012.


In the 1996 election immediately after the last government shutdown, Republicans only lost three seats in the House and gained two seats in the Senate – and that was with 35% of House Republicans in Clinton districts.


But you don’t have to take my word for it. Even statistics god Nate Silver of the infamous FiveThirtyEight blog agrees, writing, “Remember Syria? The fiscal cliff? Benghazi? The IRS scandal? The collapse of immigration reform? All of these were hyped as game-changing political moments by the news media, just as so many stories were during the election last year. In each case, the public’s interest quickly waned once the news cycle turned over to another story. Most political stories have a fairly short half-life and won’t turn out to be as consequential as they seem at the time.”


“The impact of the 1995-96 shutdowns is overrated in Washington’s mythology,” according to Silver.


Silver explains the main obstacle Democrats face in their electoral prospects to take the House back, “First, there are extremely few swing districts — only one-half to one-third as many as when the last government shutdown occurred in 1996. Some of this is because of partisan gerrymandering, but more of it is because of increasingly sharp ideological divides along geographic lines: between urban and rural areas, between the North and the South, and between the coasts and the interior of the United States.


“So even if Democrats make significant gains in the number of votes they receive for the House, they would flip relatively few seats because of the way those votes are distributed. Most of the additional votes would come in districts that Democrats were already assured of winning, or where they were too far behind to catch up.


“Consider that, between 2010 and 2012, Democrats went from losing the average congressional district by seven percentage points to winning it by one percentage point — an eight-point swing. And yet they added only eight seats in the House, out of 435 congressional districts.”


While partisan liberal pundits will be quick to sound the alarm on Republican gerrymandered districts, they should keep in mind that Democrats have done the same thing in states like Illinois, Maryland, and California as well (something the broadcast news stations also fail to report).


Silver goes on to conclude that, “In 2014, likewise, it will require not just a pretty good year for Democrats, but a wave election for them to regain the House. But wave elections in favor of the party that controls the White House are essentially unprecedented in midterm years. Instead, the president’s party has almost always lost seats in the House — or at best gained a handful.”


But this also highlights the obstacles Republicans have when it comes to upcoming Senate and presidential elections. As I’ve explained countless times since the 2012 election, Democrats have spent the last eight years combing through the blue districts of all the swing states and aggressively registering more voters in their books (then getting them to the polls as quickly and conveniently as possible starting on day one of early voting). This doesn’t help them in House elections where Democrat voters are numerically stacked up in the same districts that they’re already winning, but it does give them the popular vote advantage in each state.


Not only does that pose a big problem for the GOP’s Senate prospects in blue and swing states, but it also hurts their chances of winning another presidential election which is essentially determined by 50 separate statewide elections. With the exceptions of Maine and Nebraska, the Electoral College votes of each state are a winner-take-all jackpot for whoever finishes first in each state’s popular vote. If every state would proportionately award the Electoral College votes based on the popular vote the way Maine and Nebraska do, Mitt Romney would’ve won the 2012 election by 11 Electoral College votes.


That’s why Republicans need to catch up with Democratic efforts in swing states by aggressively combing through all the red districts and getting out the vote. Until the GOP organizations in every state start playing the same games as Democrats, their statewide and nationwide electoral prospects won’t change anytime soon.



I should also mention that while history is on the GOP’s side to retain their largest House majority since 1947, that’s not something they can bank on anymore, either. Historically, whichever presidential candidate has won the most whites, independents, and middle class voters also wins the election. The 2012 election was the first to break that trend (most whites, independents, and middle class voters broke for Romney). I’ve concluded that is due in large part to the growing numbers of non-white voters. Whites broke for Romney 60% to 40%, the largest margin for a Republican candidate since 1988. If this were still the electorate of 20 years ago, where whites made up 87% of voters, Romney would’ve won 54% to 45%. But the non-white vote has more than doubled since then from 13% to 28% of the overall vote, and of that 28%, Romney got less than 5%.


But midterm election turnout has hovered around 40% for the last 40 years, far below the 60% average voter turnout of the last three presidential elections.



So unless that changes this time around, the House should stay within the control of the GOP through 2014.



John Giokaris
John Giokaris

John Giokaris has been contributing to PolicyMic since February 2011. Born and raised in Chicago, John graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a double major in Journalism and Political Science and is currently working on his law degree at The John Marshall Law School. John believes in free market principles, private sector solutions, transparency, school choice, constitutionally limited government, and being a good steward of taxpayer dollars. His goals are to empower/create opportunity for citizens to use the tools at their disposal to succeed in America, which does more to grow the middle class and alleviate those in poverty than keeping a permanent underclass dependent on government sustenance indefinitely. Sitting on the Board of Directors for both the center-right Chicago Young Republicans and libertarian America’s Future Foundation-Chicago, he is also a member of the free market think tank Illinois Policy Institute’s Leadership Coalition team along with other leaders of the Illinois business, political and media communities. John has seven years experience working in writing/publishing, having previously worked at Law Bulletin Publishing, the Tribune Company and Reboot Illinois. His works have been published in the Chicago Tribune, Townhall, Reboot Illinois, Crain’s Chicago Business, the Law Bulletin and the RedEye.





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2014 Midterm Elections Predictions Prove Pundits Don"t Know Math