¿LAS PIRÁMIDES SON OBRA DE UNA SUPERCIVILIZACIÓN?

Se usaron bloques de 100 y hasta 200 T. traídos de una cantera a 30 km. Están alineadas perfectamente con los puntos cardinales y el Cinturón de Orión. Los egipcios de esa época ni siquiera conocían el Hierro.

SOLUCIONES

Tú no puedes solucionar unos problemas con el mismo nivel de CONSCIENCIA que los creó. -Albert Einstein

EL HOMBRE QUE PIENSA POR SÍ MISMO

El hombre más peligroso para cualquier gobierno es el capaz de reflexionar... Casi inevitablemente, llegará a la conclusión de que el gobierno bajo el que vive es deshonesto, loco e intolerable. -H. L. Mencken

ESTRUCTURA SOCIAL PIRAMIDAL

Nuestro mundo está organizado de tal modo que una pequeña élite controla al resto a través de una jerarquía de jefes sobre otros jefes hasta llegar a los obreros en la base. El nivel de conocimiento separa a unos niveles de otros. -David Icke

GOBIERNO MUNDIAL O NUEVO ORDEN MUNDIAL

El objetivo de las élites es crear un gobierno mundial dictatorial, fascista, donde el Estado Policial es omnipresente y las libertades individuales no existen. -David Icke

NEGACIONISMO O ESCEPTICISMO CÍNICO

Condenar algo sin investigarlo previamente es la cota más alta de la ignorancia. -Albert Einstein

MEDIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN

La Opinión Pública lo es todo. Si está a tu favor, nada podrá salir mal. Si está en tu contra, nada podrá tener éxito. El que moldea la Opinión Pública tiene un mayor poder que el que hace las leyes. -Abraham Lincoln

RESPONSABILIDAD PERSONAL

Tú debes convertirte en el cambio que quieres ver en el mundo. -Mahatma Gandhi

EL PODER DE LA PROPAGANDA

Debe hacerse tan popular y tan simple que hasta el más estúpido la pueda entender. A la gente se la puede convencer de que el Paraíso es el Infierno, o a la inversa, de que la vida más horrible es el Paraíso. -Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf"

REPETIDORES

La mayoría de la gente es OTRA gente. Sus pensamientos son la opinión de otros, sus vidas una imitación, sus pasiones una cita de un libro. -Oscar Wilde

CREENCIAS

En religión y política, la gente casi siempre las adquiere, sin examinarlas, de autoridades que tampoco las han examinado y que, a su vez, las han adquirido de unos terceros cuyas opiniones no valen UNA PUTA MIERDA. -Mark Twain

PIRÁMIDE DE PODER

Es fácil que una pequeña élite controle a una amplia mayoria a través de estructuras jerárquicas donde cada uno se está en su sitio sin moverse y sin interesarse nunca por nada. -David Icke

DEBER

La cobardía pregunta si es seguro, la conveniencia si es cortés, y la vanidad si es popular. Pero la Consciencia pregunta si es JUSTO. Y siempre llega un tiempo donde uno debe tomar una postura que no es nada excepto JUSTA. -M. L. King

911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB!!

¿El atentado del 11-S fue ejecutado por el Gobierno en la Sombra de EEUU a través de infiltrados y aliados al más alto nivel en el ejército, los servicios secretos y los medios de comunicación?

¿MAGOS NEGROS CONTROLAN LA ECONOMÍA MUNDIAL?

¿El Dinero es el único Dios de este mundo porque lo controla TODO? ¿Los banqueros son los nuevos sacerdotes? ¿Los símbolos sagrados y ocultistas en los billetes atraen energías adecuadas a los fines de este clero?

¿EL 11-M FUE UN GOLPE DE ESTADO A FAVOR DEL PSOE?

Hay hechos documentados de sobra que demuestran que ciertos policías, miembros del servicio secreto, periodistas y jueces trabajaron para "dar un golpe de estado mediático" mintiendo, destruyendo pruebas o creando pruebas falsas.

¿ESTAMOS SOLOS EN EL UNIVERSO?

¿Otras especies y civilizaciones nos visitan con frecuencia? ¿Algunos son benéficos, otros son malvados, y la mayoría parece neutral o indiferente? ¿Los gobiernos cierran beneficiosos tratos mientras lo niegan todo?

¿NUESTRAS ÉLITES NO SON HUMANAS?

Con fama de endogámicos, herméticos, arrogantes, de "sangre azul", ¿nuestros líderes y reyes pertenecen a una raza distinta, con amplios y ancestrales conocimientos sobre la Realidad y lo Oculto?

¿NUESTROS POLÍTICOS SON TÍTERES?

¿Gente tan increíblemente estúpida e incompetente trabaja para "Amos Ocultos" que mueven sus hilos y a los que deben pagar los favores recibidos? ¿El "juego político" es una farsa para anestesiarnos?

¿SUPERTECNOLOGÍA EN LA ANTIGÜEDAD?

Es un hecho científico demostrable que ESTO no lo pudieron hacer tipos con lianas, troncos y herramientas de bronce. Tampoco podemos reproducirlo con nuestra tecnología actual.

lunes, 26 de mayo de 2014

US-Led NATO’s War on Humanity

Fuentes:

http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/us-led-natos-war-on-humanity/

http://www.activistpost.com/2014/05/us-led-natos-war-on-humanity.html

Información:

US-Led NATO’s War on Humanity

Monday 26 May 2014
‘US-led NATO threatens humanity. It’s an imperial tool. It’s a global killing machine. It prioritizes war. It deplores peace. Humanity’s survival hangs in the balance.
It includes 28 member nations, 22 Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) ones, seven Mediterranean Dialogue countries, and four Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) states. They comprise nearly one-third of world nations. NATO plans exponential expansion. It wants new members and partners.
It wants them on all continents. It wants them virtually everywhere. It wants a global military established.’

Sunday, May 25, 2014


US-Led NATO's War on Humanity

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Stephen Lendman
Activist Post

US-led NATO threatens humanity. It's an imperial tool. It's a global killing machine. It prioritizes war. It deplores peace. Humanity's survival hangs in the balance.

It includes 28 member nations, 22 Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) ones, seven Mediterranean Dialogue countries, and four Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) states. They comprise nearly one-third of world nations. NATO plans exponential expansion. It wants new members and partners.

It wants them on all continents. It wants them virtually everywhere. It wants a global military established.

It wants unchallenged control. It wants all outliers eliminated. It wants pro-Western vassal states replacing them. Its strategy prioritizes war on humanity. It's ravaging and destroying one country after another.

Ukraine is in the eye of the storm. On Friday, Putin said it may join NATO. Washington may take full advantage. It may deploy nuclear-armed missiles on Russia's borders. It may target its heartland.

Ukraine's coup occurred, said Putin. "(T)hey (won't) talk to us." They obey orders from Washington.
The next step will be Ukraine's membership in NATO. They never ask us about that…
(A)nd they do not engage in dialog with us…'No dialog,' they say…
(I)t is none of your business, and it does not concern you.' "
"Ukraine may become a member of NATO tomorrow," said Putin. Under US control.

Doing so threatens Russia. Cooperative relations with Moscow ended. Minimal contacts alone continue. Putin said Western countries elevated Kiev putschists to power. They have no legitimacy whatever.

"There was a coup d'etat backed by American and European partners," he explained. "Then there was chaos, and now we are witnessing a full-scale civil war."

Washington imposed sanctions on Russia to gain economic advantage, Putin said. They're counterproductive. They won't work.

On the one hand, Chinese investors will replace EU companies if they're squeezed out. So will other global businesses. On the other, Russian economist/Putin advisor Andrey Belousov said Moscow prepared retaliatory measures in response. At different levels, he explained. It depends on US policy going forward. Moscow will respond in kind.

In its own way. Its own timing. "(W)e know exactly how to react," said Belousov.

On May 23, Reuters headlined "Exclusive: EU weighs Russia sanctions from caviar to oil and gas," saying:
EU leaders will hold their first detailed discussion next week of specific steps they can take against Russia if Ukraine's elections are not free and fair, including restrictions ranging from luxury goods imports to an oil and gas ban.
Reuters cited a two-page document. It explains three scenarios - low, medium and high-intensity sanctions.

Low ones target Russian diamonds, precious metals, furs, vodka, caviar, and other luxury goods.

Medium ones aim at fertilizers, chemicals, tires, vessels to Russia, as well as weapons imports and exports.

High-intensity ones target investments, capital markets, other financial operations, as well as importing oil and gas.

At the same time, said Reuters, "there is no (EU) unanimous backing for (this) move." German and other European business interests strongly oppose it.

They want no restrictions imposed. They want nothing interfering with bottom line interests.

"Unless there is unanimous backing for stricter sanctions, the EU will not be able to move ahead - a hurdle that has been frustrating for the United States, which is keen for Europe to move further in imposing restrictions on Moscow," said Reuters.

On May 24, Itar Tass headlined "Lugansk Republic head says provocations possible during Ukrainian presidential elections."

A false flag attack may be planned. Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) Governor Valery Bolotov said:
I recommend LPR nationals not go to the polling stations as we have information about provocations being prepared by the Ukrainian government and National Guard.
They will be conducted to later accuse the Army of the Southeast of disrupting the elections.
May 25 voting began. It remains ongoing. Kiev's sham electoral process won't change things.

Putschist-approved aspirants alone are competing. Billionaire bandit Petro Poroshenko looks sure to win. A previous article explained. He made his money the old-fashioned way. He stole it. He supported Maidan putschists. He ignored their violence. He helped bankroll them. He wants Ukraine plundered for profit. He's up to his old tricks again. He's paying 1,000 hryvnyas per day (about $84) for anti-Eastern Ukrainian freedom fighter volunteers. He admitted it publicly. Their "life and health will be insured for one million hryvnyas," he said. Ukrainian forces receive 600 hryvnyas per month.

Results are predetermined for Poroshenko to win. Perhaps on two rounds. Ballot choices exclude democracy. Expect worse than ever policies to follow.

Fascist regimes operate this way. Ukraine is Europe's worst. Putschists threaten regional security and stability.

Voice of Russia (VOR) interviewed Ukrainian Dennis Schedrivy. He participated in Maidan protests. He supported them. No longer.

Kiev-instigated violence continues, he said. He expects more ahead. He called coup-appointed Kiev officials "junta" governance.

"I don't see (May 25) elections as anything," he said. "The whole thing with Maidan revolution is not successful."
According to the law they have adopted, even if the small village (alone) votes…elections will be considered successful.
"I am sure that at least part of the sane world will not accept these elections," he added.

"(T)hey are bombing…civilians…(T)his is a farce. (T)hey will try to (legitimize) this whole circus…"

Growing thousands of Ukrainians express similar views. Nothing ahead looks encouraging.

War without mercy rages. Ukrainian forces target civilians. They're killing them in cold blood.

Freedom is on the chopping block. Fascists want it entirely eliminated. They want unchallenged top-down hardline rule replacing it. They want it enforced. They want junta power institutionalized. Gangsterism is planned. Democracy is prohibited. They want what most Ukrainians oppose. It remains to be seen how they'll react. Civil war rages. National rebellion may follow.

Nothing ahead looks promising. What kind of government usurps power? What kind establishes itself by force?

What kind rules extrajudicially? What kind by intimidation? What kind of legitimacy do ultranationalist, xenophobic, neo-Nazi, anti-Semites have?

What kind substitutes unrestrained coercion for rule of law principles? What kind prohibits opposing views?

What kind mandates its message alone getting out? The same kind substituting despotism for democracy!

The battle for Ukraine's soul didn't end with putschists usurping power. It just began. It continues. Ukraine's future is up for grabs. Ordinary people alone will determine it. They have every right to do so. Hopefully they'll take full advantage. They'll have themselves to blame if not.

A Final Comment 

On May 24, RT International headlined "Russian journalists being banned entry to Ukraine to cover presidential election." They're accredited to do so. It doesn't matter. They're refused entry. RT's press service said:
Without explaining the reason for refusal, the members of (Ukraine's) border service forced the RT crew to buy return tickets at their own expense.
It's not the first time. It won't be the last. Fascist regimes operate this way. Expect more of the same ahead. Expect police state ruthlessness enforced.

RT's Anna Knishenko, Elderra Khaled ad Konstantin Bolshakov arrived at Kiev's Borispol International Airport. Knishenko explained what followed, saying:
At the border control, they immediately took our passports. An hour later, we - one by one - were invited to a special room for an interview.
They were denied entry. For falsified reasons. For not properly explaining why they came, they were told.

Echo of Moscow correspondent Ilya Azar was treated the same way. So were Russian TV channel reporters.

Everyone denied entry had press cards. Ukraine's Central Electoral Committee accredited them to cover its election earlier. It didn't matter. Fabricated reasons denied them. Kiev wants its message alone reported. It wants truth suppressed.

"A whole range of Russian media outlets, including Channel One, NTV, TVC and Zvezda channels have been denied entry to Ukraine headed by the coup-appointed authorities," said RT.

Kiev putschists wage war on media freedom. Russian journalists are targeted. So are others not putschist-approved.

On May 23, The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) headlined "Russian journalists barred from entering Ukraine," saying:

CPJ "condemns the move…(It) call(ed) on Ukrainian authorities to allow all journalists to carry out their job without harassment."

CPJ's Europe and Central Asia program researcher Muzaffar Suleymanov added:
If Ukrainian authorities are looking to build a democratic state, they must stop barring the press from covering public events in the country, especially the presidential vote.
Openness and transparency are vital for democracy.
We urge Ukraine to grant entry to all journalists, no matter their nationality or affiliation, or their newsroom's editorial line.
It "equate(s)" legitimate conflict reporting "with terrorism," he added. CPJ denounced what media scoundrels ignore.

They support Sunday's sham process. They equate putschist rule with democracy.

They turn truth on its head claiming it. Don't expect them to explain.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book is titled How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening. http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/

Godzilla – The Mutant Reptilian Release Valve

Fuentes:

http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/godzilla-the-mutant-reptilian-release-valve/

http://www.zengardner.com/godzilla-mutant-reptilian-release-valve/

Información:

Godzilla – The Mutant Reptilian Release Valve

Monday 26 May 2014
‘This convoluted new movie “Godzilla” just wreaks of fear, confusion and social programming. It’s being regaled as some sort of anti global warming alarmism movie, but it’s really about allaying anyone’s concerns about geoengineering and the nuclear madness humanity is being bombarded with, along with everything else they’re perpetrating. According to this latest dose of pulp propaganda it doesn’t matter what we do, nature will aright itself. In fact, even the most ghastly horrors we unleash are fine and dandy.
Talk about seditious half truths.
As usual, it’s all surreptitiously layered in scene after horrific scene to keep the audience traumatized and in the alpha receptive mode to allow them to implant their (not so) subtle messages. That it appeals to the anti-global warming alarmism crowd is but playing on another concurrent theme to bring on more receptivity, as well as controversy. Even the reviews pack a wallop of disinfo, and it’s so very telling.’

Godzilla – The Mutant Reptilian Release Valve

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by Zen Gardner
This convoluted new movie “Godzilla” just wreaks of fear, confusion and social programming. It’s being regaled as some sort of anti global warming alarmism movie, but it’s really about allaying anyone’s concerns about geoengineering and the nuclear madness humanity is being bombarded with, along with everything else they’re perpetrating. According to this latest dose of pulp propaganda it doesn’t matter what we do, nature will aright itself. In fact, even the most ghastly horrors we unleash are fine and dandy.
Talk about seditious half truths.
As usual, it’s all surreptitiously layered in scene after horrific scene to keep the audience traumatized and in the alpha receptive mode to allow them to implant their (not so) subtle messages. That it appeals to the anti-global warming alarmism crowd is but playing on another concurrent theme to bring on more receptivity, as well as controversy. Even the reviews pack a wallop of disinfo, and it’s so very telling.
But first the trailer so you can taste the mixed-up madness:

Social Engineering At Work

I stumbled on this while checking out the news this morning and just had to say something. They’re more blatant all the time, yet those under the spell will dutifully imbibe this trash, have their minds screwed with, and walk away saying how cool the graphics were and have no idea how their viewpoints and lives were just altered. Amazing.
Then I got to this review. How stunningly revealing:
The film opens at a huge quarry, where humanity’s insatiable thirst for fossil fuels (or diamonds or platinum or something) has uncovered a terrifying secret: a pair of radioactive MUTOs (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms). The point here, nominally, is that man brings about his own destruction by despoiling the planet. However, it’s worth noting that the one of the MUTOs immediately attacks a nuclear power plant, while the other, later, attacks a repository of nuclear waste. In this, the MUTOs feel like close cousins of the worst of the greens, those folks who demand action on climate change yet mindlessly attack nuclear power—the sole technology that could allow us to maintain our standard of living while reducing carbon emissions.
Nothing going on here. Just some arrogant ultra nuclear power propaganda. It sets the stage for the next segment:
As the film progresses, the intellectual center of the picture is revealed to be Dr. Ichiro Serizawa (Ken Watanabe), who takes an almost zen-like approach to the MUTOs. He believes that Godzilla, who he has been searching for his entire adult life, is not a threat to humanity but a part of Earth’s natural biosphere. The giant lizard exists to “restore balance.”
“Good reptilian! Here, boy!” Never mind the fact that nuclear insanity brought this mutant into being…
Serizawa also laments the “arrogance of man” for thinking he can control nature; the good doctor believes that the only way to stop the rampaging MUTOs is to let Godzilla fight them and kill them, to let nature run its course.
Well that’ll surely appeal to the semi-conscious new agers and polarized drones playing in the right/left paradigm. But see the subtle justification of all of their psychopathic earth altering programs? That’s the release valve technique – address the issue so people can let go of their angst by thinking the issue’s covered. “No worries, nature is just balancing itself.” Sure, there’s truth to that, but why deliberately create environmental (and otherwise) monsters that destroy and feed off of humanity?
The leaders of men disagree, opting to try and gather all three of the giant creatures into the same area off America’s west coast, where they will be destroyed by a thermonuclear warhead. This plan backfires, leading to a nuke threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of San Franciscans.
They always have a release valve for the anti-war sentiment as well. No matter how Dr. Strangelove they make the West’s fascist militarization out to be, the general populace keeps backing the very same actions that were just highlighted as being insane. This goes on worldwide on a daily basis. Again,  trauma based mind twisting, with a good dose of cognitive dissonance thrown in to further sink the mixed messages in.
There’s a lot going on here, but think about it this way: Serizawa, the only man who seems to grasp the true nature of the issue facing humanity, believes that the ecosphere will heal itself, will restore its own balance. He denounces mankind’s belief that we are able to drastically impact the environment in such a way that would make it uninhabitable. In other words, the Earth is a massively complex system, one that we can’t really damage by pumping a little excess carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. We can, however, make things radically worse for mankind by arrogantly believing in our own ability to ruin, then fix, the world.  (source)
It ends up seemingly addressing what you’ve been led to wonder about, even rightly criticizing man’s arrogance to coat the message with credibility.
Amazing, yet a very cunning and powerful technique.

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Warner Brothers “Mortal Kombat” logo

Warner Brothers, Warring Brothers, Whoring Brothers = Warning, Brothers!

Movie propaganda is some of the most powerful programming out there. Emotionally charged anticipation, ear splitting sounds, mind blowing graphic displays, gratuitous violence and destruction, and always gobs of fear…and then the stroke of the ultimate message, usually some feel good salve after you’ve just taken a massive psychic beating. And that’s exactly how trauma based mind control works.
While only a small sliver of audiences are even aware of the massive geoengineering programs under way, be it chemtrail aerosols, weather manipulation using massive electromagnetic and plasma generators that steer the metallic charged atmosphere and even split the earth’s crust, algae blooms to change water temperature and currents, and much more, most are aware of the GMO issue and other genetic and food manipulations well under way and sense something is seriously wrong.
And they’re rightfully concerned.
Now mix in the nuclear nightmare that sits at the edge of everyone’s conscience and there’s serious pressure building. And films like this are meant to release that pressure so that full conscious awareness doesn’t set in and thereby no action is taken. Now back to your couches and cubicles everyone.
This movie gives them a distracting false hope to hold on to, and thus not take action. It’s the ultimate panacea – “no worries, the good Doctor is right – all will be well, even if there’s some craziness out there…” And people “flock” to productions such as these, never mind get bombarded at home with the same programming day in and day out.
To be aware of these techniques is to stay free of them. Do your best to bring this awareness to others to help them break out of the spell.
And don’t subject yourself to this stuff. There’s embedded symbolism and other messages throughout these productions with even more insidious intention. Everything is meticulously planned. Steer clear of their “dainties” lest they infect you. The trailer already told me more than I wanted to know. I just had to respond once I saw it.
Be well, awake and aware, and activated.
Much love, Zen

Study: New Technology Development Pushed by Feds Allows for Data Collection on Every Child

Fuentes:

http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/study-new-technology-development-pushed-by-feds-allows-for-data-collection-on-every-child/

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/22/Study-New-Technology-Development-Pushed-By-Feds-Allows-For-Data-Collection-on-Every-Child

Información:

Study: New Technology Development Pushed by Feds Allows for Data Collection on Every Child

Monday 26 May 2014
‘A new study released by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute finds that new technology development that has been encouraged through the use of federal grants has served to threaten children’s privacy by allowing the collection of data on every child.
Authors of the study Emmett McGroarty, Joy Pullmann, and Jane Robbins make the case that by means of the nationalized Common Core standards, which states were lured into adopting through competitive grants in the Obama administration’s Race to the Top (RttT) stimulus program in 2009, the federal government has used grant funds to induce states to build identical, increasingly sophisticated student data systems.
McGroarty, executive director of the Education Project at the American Principles Project (APP), said the study, entitled “Cogs in the Machine: Big Data, Common Core, and National Testing,” exposes “an idea that dates back to the Progressive era.”’

STUDY: NEW TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT PUSHED BY FEDS ALLOWS FOR DATA COLLECTION ON EVERY CHILD


A new study released by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute finds that new technology development that has been encouraged through the use of federal grants has served to threaten children’s privacy by allowing the collection of data on every child.

Authors of the study Emmett McGroarty, Joy Pullmann, and Jane Robbins make the case that by means of the nationalized Common Core standards, which states were lured into adopting through competitive grants in the Obama administration’s Race to the Top (RttT) stimulus program in 2009, the federal government has used grant funds to induce states to build identical, increasingly sophisticated student data systems.
McGroarty, executive director of the Education Project at the American Principles Project (APP), said the study, entitled “Cogs in the Machine: Big Data, Common Core, and National Testing,” exposes “an idea that dates back to the Progressive era.”
“It is based in a belief that government ‘experts’ should make determinations about what is successful in education, what isn’t,” he said, “and what sorts of education and training are most likely to produce workers who contribute to making the United States competitive in the global economy.”
Though violations of citizen privacy have become major news stories of late, the federal government has urged private sector design of student data collection systems at the same time it encourages individual states to participate in data collection initiatives such as theData Quality Campaign, the Early Childhood Data Collaborative, and the National Student Clearinghouse, all of which help to increase the collection and sharing of children’s data.
In addition, the National Education Data Model suggests that states provide for the collection of over 400 data points on every child in the construction of their data systems.
Last year, Congress gutted the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), leaving protections for student data significantly weakened. As more private companies donate education apps to schools in exchange for children’s information, the increasing threat of hacking the data of vulnerable children has become very real.
The U.S. Department of Education (USED), however, in its report published last year and titled "Promoting Grit, Tenacity and Perseverance," expressed a strong interest in monitoring students’ “beliefs, attitudes, dispositions, values and ways of perceiving oneself” and to measure non-cognitive attributes such as their “psychological resources.”
USED goes on to suggest that researchers employ “functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and physiological indicators [that] offer insight into the biology and neuroscience underlying observed student behaviors.”
“This sort of character development and monitoring has traditionally been the domain of parents,” says “Cogs in the Machine” co-author Pullmann, research fellow of the Heartland Institute. “But the Grit report clearly implies that families can’t be trusted to inculcate values and attitudes.”
In addition, co-author Robbins, an attorney and senior fellow with APP, observed the “fine-grained” data that can be collected on non-cognitive attributes through children’s interaction with certain digital-learning platforms.
“The manufacturers of these technologies certainly know what they mean for classrooms,” Robbins said. “But few teachers are aware of it and even fewer parents are.”
Pioneer Institute notes the connections between the Common Core standards and the student data collection.
“Any information from the data initiatives mentioned above that is given to the two federally funded national assessment consortia aligned with the Common Core State Standards will be made available to the USED,” Pioneer observes.
The national standards will also create a unified “taxonomy” that facilitates creation of common instructional materials and data-collection technology. Because Common Core focuses not on academic knowledge but rather on “skills” that involve attitudes and dispositions, it paves the way for national assessments and digital platforms that measure such attributes.
Authors McGroarty, Pullmann, and Robbins suggest that, to protect children’s privacy, parents should ask the types of information that are being collected on digital-learning platforms and whether the software will record data about their children’s behavior and attitudes as well as academic knowledge. Parents should opt out if they object to such data collection.
Furthermore, the authors urge state lawmakers to pass student privacy laws and Congress to correct the 2013 relaxation of FERPA.
“A person’s right to his own information must be considered a property right. Especially in the area of education, laws must change to grant parents control over the collection and disclosure of their children’s data,” the authors write. “And parents must educate themselves about what is really happening in the schools, so that they can know what types of data are being collected and what is done with it. Parents must be empowered to draw the line.”

Russian researchers want to replace your physical body with a holographic avatar

Fuentes:

http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/russian-researchers-want-to-replace-your-physical-body-with-a-holographic-avatar/

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/16/3024138/russia-2045-avatar-immortality

Información:

Russian researchers want to replace your physical body with a holographic avatar

Monday 26 May 2014
‘A social initiative called Russia 2045 wants to put an end to death by creating robots that can replace our physical bodies and store our personalities on artificial brains — and they believe it will happen in the next few decades. Led by Russian media mogul Dmitry Itskov, the Avatar program — not to be confused with DARPA’s project of the same name — includes four different avatars, each of which will steadily advance our march towards immortality.
By 2020 the group hopes to create a humanoid robot that can be controlled with your brain, while 2025 will see a human brain actually transplanted into such a robot. A decade later the group believes that its avatar will be able to host a human personality in an artificial brain, and by 2045 that brain will be part of a “hologram-like avatar.” And they have high hopes for just how great their creation will be:
“Before 2045 an artificial body will be created that will not only surpass the existing body in terms of functionality, but will achieve perfection of form and be no less attractive than the human body.”‘

Russian researchers want to replace your physical body with a holographic avatar



A social initiative called Russia 2045 wants to put an end to death by creating robots that can replace our physical bodies and store our personalities on artificial brains — and they believe it will happen in the next few decades. Led by Russian media mogul Dmitry Itskov, the Avatar program — not to be confused with DARPA's project of the same name — includes four different avatars, each of which will steadily advance our march towards immortality. By 2020 the group hopes to create a humanoid robot that can be controlled with your brain, while 2025 will see a human brain actually transplanted into such a robot. A decade later the group believes that its avatar will be able to host a human personality in an artificial brain, and by 2045 that brain will be part of a "hologram-like avatar." And they have high hopes for just how great their creation will be:
"Before 2045 an artificial body will be created that will not only surpass the existing body in terms of functionality, but will achieve perfection of form and be no less attractive than the human body."
Of course, this all sounds rather far-fetched, and so far the group is a long way from its goal. While researchers have built a realistic-looking android, right now it can't do much more than blink and move its fingers — it seems unlikely that in less than a decade it will be a functioning mind-controlled robot. Then again, the group's goals for beyond 2045 are even more outlandish, including everything from allowing humans to "control reality by thought" and "manage the course of history" to making it possible for everyone to "create a personal universe." While these dreams will very likely remain just that for the foreseeable future, at the very least the project has the support of the Dalai Lama.