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DARPA is making science fiction come true
by their efforts today.

June 6, 2010 –One of the most interesting departments in Uncle’s arsenal is that of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

These guys are the real deal, devising programs that push the envelope of traditional technology, often bordering on science fiction, and then making them happen. Some time ago there was a report regarding the creation of a quadruped platform that will carry equipment and serve the basic needs of soldiers in the field. DARPA has approved $32 million for this task and it sounds exciting.

The last paragraph of the press release is probably the most telling: “Following this initial LS3 design and build phase, DARPA and the Marine Corps will review the results and determine future program phases that may lead to full LS3 integration and experimentation with operational platforms.”

There is no doubt that we’re seeing science fiction ushered into real life by way of DARPA today. The plus side of this effort is that once they develop this technology into a fully operational model, and once they equip it with an advanced form of AI (artificial intelligence), soldiers no longer have to be put in harms way, such as in urban tactical ops where there can be an enemy lurking around the corner. They’ll be able to send in the AIs to deal with it.

Those of you who know my thinking know that I also see a dark side to this new development. Perhaps I’ll share it with you another time. For now, please read and be amazed with the following DARPA press release from this past February.

DARPA BEGINS LEGGED SQUAD SUPPORT SYSTEM PROGRAM IMMEDIATE RELEASE ARLINGTON, Va. (February 1, 2010) — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a contract on January 26, 2010, under the Legged Squad Support System (LS3) program. Boston Dynamics of Waltham, Massachusetts, will receive $32 million for a 30-month phase that includes trade studies, detailed design work, and building of initial prototypes. The LS3 program is a joint effort between DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office (TTO) and the U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Lab (MCWL). The program goal is to develop a walking quadruped platform that will augment squads by carrying traditional and new equipment autonomously. These platforms will be capable of managing complex terrain where tactical vehicles are not able to go—lightening the load of Marines and Soldiers and increasing their combat capability. LS3 will carry 400 pounds or more of payload, and provide 24 hours of self-sustained capability over as much as 20 miles of maneuver. LS3 will weigh no more than 1,250 pounds (including its base weight, fuel and payload of 400 pounds). Key LS3 program themes are: (i) Quadruped platform development: design of a deployable walking platform with sufficient payload capacity, range, endurance, and low noise signature for dismounted squad support, while keeping weight and volume scaled to the squad level. (ii) Walking control: develop control techniques that allow walking, trotting, and running/ bounding and capabilities to jump obstacles, cross ditches, recover from disturbances, and other discrete mobility features. (iii) User Interface (to include perception technologies): the ability for the vehicle to perceive and traverse its immediate terrain environment autonomously with simple methods of Marine/Soldier control. Boston Dynamics’ partners on the LS3 program include Bell Helicopter, AAI Corporation, Carnegie Mellon University, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Woodward HRT. Following this initial LS3 design and build phase, DARPA and the Marine Corps will review the results and determine future program phases that may lead to full LS3 integration and experimentation with operational platforms. Source: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

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5 June 2010 –For many years now, the anti-gun lobby has worked furiously to take your gun rights away. Historically speaking, this is not the first time that we’ve seen this kind of effort among both the well intentioned and politically dishonest for even in Thomas Jefferson’s day gun control had become an issue–and this was at a time when firearms was the norm and not the exception in our society.

1 March 2010: Gun Control Today and in Jefferson’s Day

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

Thomas Jefferson, Source: www.great-quotes.com

REPORT CONFIRMS MORE GUNS = LESS CRIME; NO PUBLIC SAFETY THREAT, SAYS SAF For Immediate Release: 3/24/2010 BELLEVUE, WA – A report published by MSNBC.com confirms “everything gun rights groups have been saying for years, that more armed citizens does not equate to increased violence, and actually coincides with a reduction in homicides,” the Second Amendment Foundation said today. The on-line news agency this morning released an investigative report that record numbers of American citizens are now legally carrying firearms for personal protection. Yet, the report also reveals that homicide rates have declined dramatically during a period when gun sales have skyrocketed. Further, the report noted that Washington, DC with its extreme gun control has the highest murder rate in the nation, while Utah, with very liberal gun laws, has the lowest rate. “This is further evidence that everything the gun prohibitionists have been claiming and predicting over the past two decades has been fundamentally fraudulent,” said SAF Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “They have repeatedly argued that more guns will equate to more crime and more firearms deaths, and MSNBC.com just let the air out of their sails with this exhaustive and well-balanced report.” Gottlieb said the public “has gradually, but steadily come to the realization that the gun ban lobby has built its campaign of citizen disarmament on a mountain of falsehoods, one heaped on top of another.” “This is why,” he said, “anti-gun groups have lost their momentum and their credibility. They failed to gain traction even with a Democrat-controlled Congress and an anti-gun White House. They are so desperate for attention that they have now declared war on private businesses just to generate publicity. Their high-profile campaign of hysteria against Starbucks for complying with state laws that allow concealed and open carry in their coffee shops is based on an issue they fabricated just to grab headlines and television face time, and the public knows it. “Every restrictive gun law, every ban, every gun-free-zone they have advocated and defended have one thing in common,” Gottlieb concluded. “They gave us a body count. The MSNBC.com report suggests America has had enough.” The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nations oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers and an amicus brief and fund for the Emerson case holding the Second Amendment as an individual right. Second Amendment Foundation 12500 NE Tenth Place • Bellevue, WA 98005 (425) 454-7012 • FAX (425) 451-3959 • www.saf.org

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TIMOTHY FITZGERALD

A time of turmoil: Timothy Fitzgerald faced, seemingly all at once, his climbing unchallenged walls in Yosemite Valley as a mountaineer; JFK standing down Russia in the world’s most terrifying power play; deaths of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobbie Kennedy; the rise of the Democratic Party Convention; conflict in South East Asia and the Vietnam War; the Cold War and the nuclear threat; and racial tensions at home. Added to all this was the powerful activities of San Jose State University students, like Fitzgerald, who searched for peace and answers.

San Jose was dominated by machine politics, bigotry and segregated off-campus housing. Mr. Fitzgerald’s book on the San Jose State campus revolt is a remembrance of that time, giving an account of the civil rights movement in the Bay Area, “when SJSU’s student body crossed the color line to elect the first black student to lead any campus in State College history,” offers Fitzgerald.

Thus began a 40 year quest for understanding that first took Fitzgerald to Joan Baez’s Institute for the Study of Non-Violence, before he embarked on his own venture to find the source of the democratic dream, the rationale of the Founding Fathers of America, and the pursuit of one’s Enlightenment.

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Planet X on Track

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JOHN DiNARDO

Mr. DiNardo earned his degree in science education, from Kean University, with electives in physics and biology, and he taught high school physics before returning to an electronics career during his 4-1/2 years in the Marine Corps; he graduated from the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Memphis,
Tennessee, as “scholastic honor man” in the aviation electronics
technicians school. He also completed evening college courses in electrical engineering, and in advanced mathematics (differential equations) at
Farleigh Dickinson University. Additionally, he performed troubleshooting, fault analysis, and design of electronic circuitry, working for numerous corporations, including Bendix Avionics and Dynalco in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and with McGraw-Edison Corp. and Industrial Timer Corp., both in New Jersey.

This, along with additional studies and his work for electronics companies, gained him diverse experience in the principles and analysis of electronic circuitry, and advanced design analog and digital electronic circuits. He worked twenty years with Bell Telephone Laboratories, and additional two years with Mobile-Vision Inc. (police car video systems).

He read Mark Hazelwood’s book, Blindsided; since then, he’s studied the evidence warning of the approach of that massive celestial body, named Planet X by the astronomical community. He offers, “In 2002, I researched ancient historical and modern scientific evidence about comet orbital intrusions into our solar system which provoke electrostatic, magnetic, and gravitational changes occurring about every 3,600 years.” He believes these recurring celestial assaults explain ongoing major global catastrophes happening throughout the ages, including:

- The Great Flood of Noah’s day

- The ten catastrophic plagues upon Egypt, described in the Book of Exodus

- The coming Earth catastrophes prophesied in the Book of Revelation.

He says, “I knew Hazelwood’s Blindsided was true, but mine was a spiritual realization–a kind of intuitive inspiration. I feel that my understanding and the compulsion to alert people was God influencing me to carry out the following principle of His scriptures: ‘Fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom,’ Proverbs 9:10.  For me, God has made this proverb imperative for all of humankind in our Last Days…with emphasis on inspiring people of our day to ‘Be a Noah. Be a Jonah.’”

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4/25/10 – For those who know me well as a trade journalist, usually I make every effort to separate my writing on GKO from that of the magazines I write for. The only time I politicize my technical content (which is usually on my own websites) is when lawmakers are hard at work to derail some aspect of what we do as professionals in the security and life safety markets.

Today I’m going to politicize the issue of Congress’, by way of the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), efforts to push everyone–both businesses and residents–off of common ordinary phone lines (called Plain Old Telephone Service, or POTS) and on to an IP-switched national infrastructure.

What I’m going to write today will be short, allowing what I have already written yesterday and many days and weeks before that to tell most of the tale. You will find a complete accounting of this issue, as complete as is possible to date, on Al Colombo’s Safety & Security Blog.

Go to: POTS, the FCC, and AT&T.

What I will say here that I did not say there is this: the fact that the Congress wants everyone on IP is significant. It says that there’s a technological reason for their madness, not just the stated intent, which is to see that everyone has access to affordable broadband Internet.

When you look at the overwhelming Leftish slant to almost everything this specific Congress is doing, you must know instinctively that this effort to rid society of one of the most solid communication systems on record must also have a Leftish slant.

The hard fact of the matter is this, the likelihood of greater mass track-ability among the populous via a hard-drive-stored audit trail is far more easily done using digital IP than it is analog circuit-switched technology. Read my work as well as the documents presented in my Safety & Security Blog post so you can gain a better understanding of what’s at stake here.

Of course, the security and life safety industry is on this like bees on honey. The general public, however, is largely unaware of what is transpiring in the hollow halls of the capital building. But frankly, I am willing to wager that the folks who really control the big man in the big house are calling the shots here.

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How much more will the American people take until they throw the bums out of power? Can we actually afford to wait? Impeachment would be a good beginning.

Here’s a good example of the kind of thing that Communists do as they seek to assume total control of a nation. They bring minorities together as a majority, giving something to everyone, bribing all if it were possible. Read the story of the Chinese takeover of Tibet and you will see similar tactics in use throughout.

Census Bureau Violates the Defense of Marriage Act; Urges Reporting of False Data FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 6, 2010 CONTACT: J.P. Duffy or Darin Miller, (866) FRC-NEWS Census Bureau Violates the Defense of Marriage Act; Urges Reporting of False Data WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 6, 2010) - Ignoring federal and state laws defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, the U.S. Census Bureau released videos on Monday encouraging homosexual couples who consider themselves “married” to list themselves as such on this year’s census forms. The videos also urge cross-dressers to identify themselves with whatever sex they prefer. *Family Research Council President Tony Perkins* responded with the following comments: “The law should count for something when the Census Bureau counts America’s population, but apparently it doesn’t on President Obama’s watch. The President’s Commerce Department is actively encouraging people to ignore U.S. marriage law and invent new definitions for their relationships. What kind of government actively lobbies citizens to lie on their forms? “When it comes to advancing the extreme homosexual agenda, this White House has no limits, not even the facts. The Defense of Marriage Act forbids the federal government from recognizing same-sex relationships as ‘marriages.’ If this video were honest, it would state, ‘If you are a same-sex couple, you should mark the box that says ‘unmarried partner,’ even if you are legally married according to the laws of the state in which you reside.’ “Homosexuals should fill out the census form and be counted, the same as any other Americans. But only Congress - not homosexual activists, not the Census Bureau, and not President Obama and his appointees acting unilaterally - can change federal law.” -30-

Various states talk of suing the Federal Gov’t with regards to unconstitutional mandates contained within the Obama(non)Care legislation, but with a largely leftist judicial element, how can we be sure that legal recourse will actually work?

For those who believe guns are the answer at this juncture, there are still legal ways to deal with this. One of the most compelling to Congressmen is an upcoming election. Another way to deal with this is to communicate your disdain for what the federal gov’t is doing to your Congressmen.

The thugs among gov’t have a keen eye on your firearms. Those of you who do not own a gun, you should recognize the benefit of others’ right to do this. Be sure to tell your Congressmen to support the Second Amendment as it was written. Remind them that firearms is crucial to the preservation of any free nation, and Lord knows there are not many left. American values and culture are under attack and you need to support it by voicing these ideas to your Congressmen.

Here’s how to contact your Congressmen:

>> House of Representatives
>> U.S. Senate

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April 4, 2010 – For a long, long time, the Democrat Party has touted itself as representing the “common man.” There was a day for sure when this was the case, but over the last half century, I’ve seen our beloved party go from a “champion among men” to an extremely radical, manipulative, left-leaning political force, one that almost seems under the control of Moscow or Beijing. I suspect that the truth here is that it’s under the control of the International bankers for it was Wall Street that funded the revolutions that brought Communism to Russia by 1917. It was Wall Street that, in the late 1800s, gave Trotsky and Lenin $21 Million.

It was in the early 60s or late 50s when I built my first shortwave radio that I began listening to Radio Moscow and Radio Havana Cuba, plus radio stations in other socialist nations. At first I was fearful of the communist rhetoric, but in due time I became accustom to it. The message quietly, subtly sank into the depths of my young mind to the point where I adopted its ideology.

It was in 1992, while living in Chicago–working for a magazine as a trade journalist–that I heard Comrade Clinton talk about eliminating the U.S. Constitution. If he and Gore were elected, he would get rid of this terrible document. He said, “It was a radical experiment that outlived its time.”

This caused me to later read the Constitution, cover to cover, including the Declaration of Independence. When I did this, I decided that this Constitution of ours is actually very good, as it has protected us for more than 200 years. The mere fact that presidential hopeful Clinton was willing to go on record opposing it was alarming and telling. It was the event that changed the political direction of my life, forever.

In a word, because of Comrade Clinton’s public admission, I switched sides from socialism/communism to that of capitalism. I will never switch back, either. Simply put, there can be no Utopia on Earth, so forget all the promises. Stop visualizing the perfect world that our Comrades want to create on the backs of the people.

The following article examines the reason why today’s Democrats are moving away from the party. If it’s any consolation, I applaud you for doing so. Those contemplating the move, I encourage you to do the same. In a word, “This is not our grandparent’s traditional Democratic Party.” Instead it looks like the European Social Democratic Party, which is a highly socialistic, left-leaning political force in Europe.

Disgruntled Democrats join the Tea Party
Grand Junction, Colorado (CNN) — They are not typical Tea Party activists: A woman who voted for President Obama and believes he’s a “phenomenal speaker.” Another who said she was a “knee-jerk, bleeding heart liberal.”

These two women are not alone. Some Americans who say they have been sympathetic to Democratic causes in the past — some even voted for Democratic candidates — are angry with President Obama and his party. They say they are now supporting the Tea Party — a movement that champions less government, lower taxes and the defeat of Democrats even though it’s not formally aligned with the Republican Party.

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When you link a commodity or service to the markets (AKA: Wall Street), you open things up to unethical behavior on the part of unscrupulous, unfeeling people who rationalize what they do by the all-too-common phrase, “It’s just business.” Somehow this doesn’t seem to work well for me, so I don’t get involved in this kind of thing, but there are many who do.

According to Kevin G. Hall with McClatchy Newspapers, Wall Street speculators are largely responsible for the price of a barrel of oil going up. In other words, by manipulating the system they’re able to force us to pay more.

Is there a better way? Is there a more fair way to base the price of a barrel of oil?

Of course: “What it cost to produce it!” When real costs go up, so will the price. When real costs go down, so will the price. To make this happen would require… REGULATION, which would take “price control” away from those who have found a way to cash in on such markets.

What’s driving up oil prices again? Wall Street, of course WASHINGTON — Oil consumption has fallen, demand from U.S. motorists for gasoline is flat at best and refiners that turn crude into fuel are operating well below capacity. Yet oil prices keep marching toward $90 a barrel, pushing gasoline toward $3 a gallon in many markets, and prompting American drivers to ask, “What gives?” Blame it on the same folks who brought you $140 oil and $4 gasoline in 2008: Wall Street speculators. Experts attribute much of the recent rise in prices to flows of speculative money into oil markets. These bets are fueled by investor expectations that the U.S. and global economies are poised to return to growth and thus spark increased use of oil. Strong growth in China supports the narrative of rising oil consumption and tightening supplies.

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25 March, 2010 – Congressmen who voted for Obama’s health care bill say they’ve received death threats and such. First of all, it was mostly democrats who stood up as constituents to complain about the heavy-handed tactics at Democrat Congressman’s rallies. The hard Left accused them of being radical Republicans.

Next you have a groundswell of discontent bubbling up into public expression all along the way as the citizens, both Republican and Democrat, tried to tell Congress NOT to do this. Again, the hard Left spins it, telling everyone that the only people who oppose this are radical, nut-job Republicans when the truth is anything but that.

My message to Congressmen who voted in this manner is this, “Is it right to threaten and destroy property? No, but what on Earth did you expect your constituents to do when you went against their will?”

Al Colombo

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