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HANNAH COX: "Here's Why You Aren't Allowed To Watch The Ghislaine Maxwell Trial"
The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite who stands accused of procuring young girls for the sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, began last week. Though the mainstream media has not focused as heavily on this case as other high-profile trials in recent months, the proceedings have certainly not been forgotten by the general public. But much to the chagrin of that public, the trial will not be filmed.
Has anyone seen one picture or video of Ghislaine Maxwell in custody or in court? I've only seen drawings, like the one above, and I wonder why there hasn't been ONE picture or video coming out since she was allegedly arrested.
Some have even painted this fact in a conspiratorial light, a tint that has surrounded much of the story around Epstein, his death, and now Maxwell's trial.
More specifically, many believe high-ranking officials across multiple governments and celebrities were caught up in the sex ring Epstein allegedly ran, and that the powers that be within our government are invested in preventing these details from coming to light.
So Ghislaine Maxwell is on trial for sex trafficking for Jeffrey Epstein but media are banned from the courtroom, no live stream because of "sensational" elements, the judge is an Obama appointee just promoted by Biden, & the prosecutor is James Comey's daughter. FISHY. 👀
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) November 29, 2021
BREAKING: "Judge In Ghislaine Maxwell Trial Issues Media-Wide Gag Order: All Press & Spectators Barred From Courtroom."
We know who they are protecting and we can't allow it!
— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyMMA) November 28, 2021
The Ghislaine Maxwell Trial should livestreamed on every news station in the world. But it isn't because powerful people in her black book will do anything to keep the truth from the people.
— Maxwell Trial Tracker (@TrackerTrial) November 29, 2021
Conspiracy, Or Regular Government Corruption?
People will be forgiven for having little to no faith in our government or our systems, and this wouldn't be the first trial with foul play by the system (a fact supporters of our justice system, capital punishment, and qualified immunity would do well to remember when they approach public policies).
But, the vast majority of these reports have been flatly false. Maxwell's trial will not be filmed for one reason and one reason alone: cameras have been banned in federal courts for decades, which is the level at which she will be tried. Media will still be allowed in the courtroom, as will a certain number of spectators.
According to the United States Courts website:
"Electronic media coverage of criminal proceedings in federal courts has been expressly prohibited under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53 since the criminal rules were adopted in 1946. Rule 53 states: "[e]xcept as otherwise provided by a statute or these rules, the court must not permit the taking of photographs in the courtroom during judicial proceedings or the broadcasting of judicial proceedings from the courtroom."
Furthermore:
"In 1972 the Judicial Conference of the United States adopted a prohibition against 'broadcasting, televising, recording, or taking photographs in the courtroom and areas immediately adjacent thereto.'"
Now, this isn't to say there's nothing fishy going on in this case, just that there's nothing especially fishy going on with this practice in this case. It also does not mean there's nothing wrong with the protocol, evenly applied though it may be.
Indeed, there is a very good argument to be made for why cameras should be allowed in all trials, but the courts, prosecutors, and judges all continue to argue stringently against it.
Some of their arguments are more valid than others, like the need to protect witnesses and victims. That's a valid concern in a case like this one.
The victims have all already suffered greatly, and the global attention on the case could be enough to scare away even the strongest of individuals from choosing to participate.
But, there are better ways of addressing this concern than banning cameras from the courtroom. Witnesses could be allowed to testify remotely, utilizing technology that could obscure their identity, as one example.
As a whole, this is just another way the government avoids accountability and transparency. And knowing what we know about the justice system, there is nowhere that this scrutiny is needed more.
Ex-Reddit CEO On Ghislaine Maxwell: 'We Knew About Her Supplying' Children for Sex.
The Need for Transparency
The Founding Fathers were well aware of the need for transparency in government. As James Madison once said:
"A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
It is essential that the American people have access to information about the inner workings of our government if we should ever hope to be able to hold its actors accountable. Without this essential component, our civil liberties will not stand for long — and this is already evident in our crumbling legal system.
As Thomas Paine said:
"A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody."
The rate of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct ought to be enough to back up this statement.
So as Americans are becoming more aware of the abuses in our justice system, we should demand that practices like prohibiting recordings be abandoned so all citizens have a greater ability to hold government actors accountable.
~via HumansAreFree.com
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PAUL ROMANO: "To Answer the Q-uestion… It's the Great Trumpkin, Charlie Brown"
Comments from the thread:
"I can't believe anyone can still believe in Q at this point. Grow up"
"I wonder if that Charlie Brown episode was part of the inspiration for Q. The great Trumpkin."
"Orange man Trump is the great pumpkin! Thanks Charlie Brown"
"HE WAS MY FAVORITE CLOWN IN 'THE GREAT AMERICAN CIRCUS'… THE NEW CLOWN'S FUNNY TOO!!"
"Definitely the best analogy for those clowns."
"They prefer the term Qlowns"
"The false left-right political paradigm has directed people far, far away from reality. The candidates are selected, not elected, and the only purpose is to divide the people, instead of bringing them together to fight their biggest enemy, the government."
"Pumkin patch bad"
"Q followers = Linus"
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WHITNEY WEBB: "The Military Origins of Facebook"
"Facebook's growing role in the ever-expanding surveillance and 'pre-crime' apparatus of the national security state demands new scrutiny of the company's origins and its products as they relate to a former, controversial DARPA-run surveillance program that was essentially analogous to what is currently the world's largest social network."
~Whitney Webb
In mid-February, Daniel Baker, a US veteran described by the media as "anti-Trump, anti-government, anti-white supremacists, and anti-police," was charged by a Florida grand jury with two counts of "transmitting a communication in interstate commerce containing a threat to kidnap or injure."
The communication in question had been posted by Baker on Facebook, where he had created an event page to organize an armed counter-rally to one planned by Donald Trump supporters at the Florida capital of Tallahassee on January 6. "If you are afraid to die fighting the enemy, then stay in bed and live. Call all of your friends and Rise Up!," Baker had written on his Facebook event page.
Baker's case is notable as it is one of the first "precrime" arrests based entirely on social media posts—the logical conclusion of the Trump administration's, and now Biden administration's, push to normalize arresting individuals for online posts to prevent violent acts before they can happen. From the increasing sophistication of US intelligence/military contractor Palantir's predictive policing programs to the formal announcement of the Justice Department's Disruption and Early Engagement Program in 2019 to Biden's first budget, which contains $111 million for pursuing and managing "increasing domestic terrorism caseloads," the steady advance toward a precrime-centered "war on domestic terror" has been notable under every post-9/11 presidential administration.
This new so-called war on domestic terror has actually resulted in many of these types of posts on Facebook. And, while Facebook has long sought to portray itself as a "town square" that allows people from across the world to connect, a deeper look into its apparently military origins and continual military connections reveals that the world's largest social network was always intended to act as a surveillance tool to identify and target domestic dissent.
Part 1 of this two-part series on Facebook and the US national-security state explores the social media network's origins and the timing and nature of its rise as it relates to a controversial military program that was shut down the same day that Facebook launched. The program, known as LifeLog, was one of several controversial post-9/11 surveillance programs pursued by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that threatened to destroy privacy and civil liberties in the United States while also seeking to harvest data for producing "humanized" artificial intelligence (AI).
As this report will show, Facebook is not the only Silicon Valley giant whose origins coincide closely with this same series of DARPA initiatives and whose current activities are providing both the engine and the fuel for a hi-tech war on domestic dissent.
DARPA's Data Mining for "National Security" and to "Humanize" AI
In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, DARPA, in close collaboration with the US intelligence community (specifically the CIA), began developing a "precrime" approach to combatting terrorism known as Total Information Awareness or TIA. The purpose of TIA was to develop an "all-seeing" military-surveillance apparatus. The official logic behind TIA was that invasive surveillance of the entire US population was necessary to prevent terrorist attacks, bioterrorism events, and even naturally occurring disease outbreaks.
The architect of TIA, and the man who led it during its relatively brief existence, was John Poindexter, best known for being Ronald Reagan's National Security Advisor during the Iran-Contra affair and for being convicted of five felonies in relation to that scandal. A less well-known activity of Iran-Contra figures like Poindexter and Oliver North was their development of the Main Core database to be used in "continuity of government" protocols. Main Core was used to compile a list of US dissidents and "potential troublemakers" to be dealt with if the COG protocols were ever invoked. These protocols could be invoked for a variety of reasons, including widespread public opposition to a US military intervention abroad, widespread internal dissent, or a vaguely defined moment of "national crisis" or "time of panic." Americans were not informed if their name was placed on the list, and a person could be added to the list for merely having attended a protest in the past, for failing to pay taxes, or for other, "often trivial," behaviors deemed "unfriendly" by its architects in the Reagan administration.
In light of this, it was no exaggeration when New York Times columnist William Safire remarked that, with TIA, "Poindexter is now realizing his twenty-year dream: getting the 'data-mining' power to snoop on every public and private act of every American."
The TIA program met with considerable citizen outrage after it was revealed to the public in early 2003. TIA's critics included the American Civil Liberties Union, which claimed that the surveillance effort would "kill privacy in America" because "every aspect of our lives would be catalogued," while several mainstream media outlets warned that TIA was "fighting terror by terrifying US citizens." As a result of the pressure, DARPA changed the program's name to Terrorist Information Awareness to make it sound less like a national-security panopticon and more like a program aiming specifically at terrorists in the post-9/11 era.
The TIA projects were not actually closed down, however, with most moved to the classified portfolios of the Pentagon and US intelligence community. Some became intelligence funded and guided private-sector endeavors, such as Peter Thiel's Palantir, while others resurfaced years later under the guise of combatting the COVID-19 crisis.
Soon after TIA was initiated, a similar DARPA program was taking shape under the direction of a close friend of Poindexter's, DARPA program manager Douglas Gage. Gage's project, LifeLog, sought to "build a database tracking a person's entire existence" that included an individual's relationships and communications (phone calls, mail, etc.), their media-consumption habits, their purchases, and much more in order to build a digital record of "everything an individual says, sees, or does." LifeLog would then take this unstructured data and organize it into "discreet episodes" or snapshots while also "mapping out relationships, memories, events and experiences."
LifeLog, per Gage and supporters of the program, would create a permanent and searchable electronic diary of a person's entire life, which DARPA argued could be used to create next-generation "digital assistants" and offer users a "near-perfect digital memory." Gage insisted, even after the program was shut down, that individuals would have had "complete control of their own data-collection efforts" as they could "decide when to turn the sensors on or off and decide who will share the data." In the years since then, analogous promises of user control have been made by the tech giants of Silicon Valley, only to be broken repeatedly for profit and to feed the government's domestic-surveillance apparatus.
The information that LifeLog gleaned from an individual's every interaction with technology would be combined with information obtained from a GPS transmitter that tracked and documented the person's location, audio-visual sensors that recorded what the person saw and said, as well as biomedical monitors that gauged the person's health. Like TIA, LifeLog was promoted by DARPA as potentially supporting "medical research and the early detection of an emerging epidemic."
Critics in mainstream media outlets and elsewhere were quick to point out that the program would inevitably be used to build profiles on dissidents as well as suspected terrorists. Combined with TIA's surveillance of individuals at multiple levels, LifeLog went farther by "adding physical information (like how we feel) and media data (like what we read) to this transactional data." One critic, Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, warned at the time that the programs that DARPA was pursuing, including LifeLog, "have obvious, easy paths to Homeland Security deployments."
At the time, DARPA publicly insisted that LifeLog and TIA were not connected, despite their obvious parallels, and that LifeLog would not be used for "clandestine surveillance." However, DARPA's own documentation on LifeLog noted that the project "will be able . . . to infer the user's routines, habits and relationships with other people, organizations, places and objects, and to exploit these patterns to ease its task," which acknowledged its potential use as a tool of mass surveillance.
In addition to the ability to profile potential enemies of the state, LifeLog had another goal that was arguably more important to the national-security state and its academic partners—the "humanization" and advancement of artificial intelligence. In late 2002, just months prior to announcing the existence of LifeLog, DARPA released a strategy document detailing development of artificial intelligence by feeding it with massive floods of data from various sources.
The post-9/11 military-surveillance projects—LifeLog and TIA being only two of them—offered quantities of data that had previously been unthinkable to obtain and that could potentially hold the key to achieving the hypothesized "technological singularity." The 2002 DARPA document even discusses DARPA's effort to create a brain-machine interface that would feed human thoughts directly into machines to advance AI by keeping it constantly awash in freshly mined data.
One of the projects outlined by DARPA, the Cognitive Computing Initiative, sought to develop sophisticated artificial intelligence through the creation of an "enduring personalized cognitive assistant," later termed the Perceptive Assistant that Learns, or PAL. PAL, from the very beginning was tied to LifeLog, which was originally intended to result in granting an AI "assistant" human-like decision-making and comprehension abilities by spinning masses of unstructured data into narrative format.
The would-be main researchers for the LifeLog project also reflect the program's end goal of creating humanized AI. For instance, Howard Shrobe at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and his team at the time were set to be intimately involved in LifeLog. Shrobe had previously worked for DARPA on the "evolutionary design of complex software" before becoming associate director of the AI Lab at MIT and has devoted his lengthy career to building "cognitive-style AI." In the years after LifeLog was cancelled, he again worked for DARPA as well as on intelligence community–related AI research projects. In addition, the AI Lab at MIT was intimately connected with the 1980s corporation and DARPA contractor called Thinking Machines, which was founded by and/or employed many of the lab's luminaries—including Danny Hillis, Marvin Minsky, and Eric Lander—and sought to build AI supercomputers capable of human-like thought. All three of these individuals were later revealed to be close associates of and/or sponsored by the intelligence-linked pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who also generously donated to MIT as an institution and was a leading funder of and advocate for transhumanist-related scientific research.
Soon after the LifeLog program was shuttered, critics worried that, like TIA, it would continue under a different name. For example, Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation told VICE at the time of LifeLog's cancellation, "It would not surprise me to learn that the government continued to fund research that pushed this area forward without calling it LifeLog."
Along with its critics, one of the would-be researchers working on LifeLog, MIT's David Karger, was also certain that the DARPA project would continue in a repackaged form. He told Wired that "I am sure such research will continue to be funded under some other title . . . I can't imagine DARPA 'dropping out' of a such a key research area."
The answer to these speculations appears to lie with the company that launched the exact same day that LifeLog was shuttered by the Pentagon: Facebook.
Thiel Information Awareness
After considerable controversy and criticism, in late 2003, TIA was shut down and defunded by Congress, just months after it was launched. It was only later revealed that that TIA was never actually shut down, with its various programs having been covertly divided up among the web of military and intelligence agencies that make up the US national-security state. Some of it was privatized.
The same month that TIA was pressured to change its name after growing backlash, Peter Thiel incorporated Palantir, which was, incidentally, developing the core panopticon software that TIA had hoped to wield. Soon after Palantir's incorporation in 2003, Richard Perle, a notorious neoconservative from the Reagan and Bush administrations and an architect of the Iraq War, called TIA's Poindexter and said he wanted to introduce him to Thiel and his associate Alex Karp, now Palantir's CEO. According to a report in New York magazine, Poindexter "was precisely the person" whom Thiel and Karp wanted to meet, mainly because "their new company was similar in ambition to what Poindexter had tried to create at the Pentagon," that is, TIA. During that meeting, Thiel and Karp sought "to pick the brain of the man now widely viewed as the godfather of modern surveillance."
Soon after Palantir's incorporation, though the exact timing and details of the investment remain hidden from the public, the CIA's In-Q-Tel became the company's first backer, aside from Thiel himself, giving it an estimated $2 million. In-Q-Tel's stake in Palantir would not be publicly reported until mid-2006.
The money was certainly useful. In addition, Alex Karp told the New York Times in October 2020, "the real value of the In-Q-Tel investment was that it gave Palantir access to the CIA analysts who were its intended clients." A key figure in the making of In-Q-Tel investments during this period, including the investment in Palantir, was the CIA's chief information officer, Alan Wade, who had been the intelligence community's point man for Total Information Awareness. Wade had previously cofounded the post-9/11 Homeland Security software contractor Chiliad alongside Christine Maxwell, sister of Ghislaine Maxwell and daughter of Iran-Contra figure, intelligence operative, and media baron Robert Maxwell.
After the In-Q-Tel investment, the CIA would be Palantir's only client until 2008. During that period, Palantir's two top engineers—Aki Jain and Stephen Cohen—traveled to CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia, every two weeks. Jain recalls making at least two hundred trips to CIA headquarters between 2005 and 2009. During those regular visits, CIA analysts "would test [Palantir's software] out and offer feedback, and then Cohen and Jain would fly back to California to tweak it." As with In-Q-Tel's decision to invest in Palantir, the CIA's chief information officer during this time remained one of TIA's architects. Alan Wade played a key role in many of these meetings and subsequently in the "tweaking" of Palantir's products.
Today, Palantir's products are used for mass surveillance, predictive policing, and other disconcerting policies of the US national-security state. A telling example is Palantir's sizable involvement in the new Health and Human Services–run wastewater surveillance program that is quietly spreading across the United States. As noted in a previous Unlimited Hangout report, that system is the resurrection of a TIA program called Biosurveillance. It is feeding all its data into the Palantir-managed and secretive HHS Protect data platform. The decision to turn controversial DARPA-led programs into a private ventures, however, was not limited to Thiel's Palantir.
The Rise of Facebook
The shuttering of TIA at DARPA had an impact on several related programs, which were also dismantled in the wake of public outrage over DARPA's post-9/11 programs. One of these programs was LifeLog. As news of the program spread through the media, many of the same vocal critics who had attacked TIA went after LifeLog with similar zeal, with Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists telling Wired at the time that "LifeLog has the potential to become something like 'TIA cubed.'" LifeLog being viewed as something that would prove even worse than the recently cancelled TIA had a clear effect on DARPA, which had just seen both TIA and another related program cancelled after considerable backlash from the public and the press.
The firestorm of criticism of LifeLog took its program manager, Doug Gage, by surprise, and Gage has continued to assert that the program's critics "completely mischaracterized" the goals and ambitions of the project. Despite Gage's protests and those of LifeLog's would-be researchers and other supporters, the project was publicly nixed on February 4, 2004. DARPA never provided an explanation for its quiet move to shutter LifeLog, with a spokesperson stating only that it was related to "a change in priorities" for the agency. On DARPA director Tony Tether's decision to kill LifeLog, Gage later told VICE, "I think he had been burnt so badly with TIA that he didn't want to deal with any further controversy with LifeLog. The death of LifeLog was collateral damage tied to the death of TIA."
Fortuitously for those supporting the goals and ambitions of LifeLog, a company that turned out to be its private-sector analogue was born on the same day that LifeLog's cancellation was announced. On February 4, 2004, what is now the world's largest social network, Facebook, launched its website and quickly rose to the top of the social media roost, leaving other social media companies of the era in the dust.
A few months into Facebook's launch, in June 2004, Facebook cofounders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz brought Sean Parker onto Facebook's executive team. Parker, previously known for cofounding Napster, later connected Facebook with its first outside investor, Peter Thiel. As discussed, Thiel, at that time, in coordination with the CIA, was actively trying to resurrect controversial DARPA programs that had been dismantled the previous year. Notably, Sean Parker, who became Facebook's first president, also had a history with the CIA, which recruited him at the age of sixteen soon after he had been busted by the FBI for hacking corporate and military databases. Thanks to Parker, in September 2004, Thiel formally acquired $500,000 worth of Facebook shares and was added its board. Parker maintained close ties to Facebook as well as to Thiel, with Parker being hired as a managing partner of Thiel's Founders Fund in 2006.
Thiel and Facebook cofounder Mosokvitz became involved outside of the social network long after Facebook's rise to prominence, with Thiel's Founder Fund becoming a significant investor in Moskovitz's company Asana in 2012. Thiel's longstanding symbiotic relationship with Facebook cofounders extends to his company Palantir, as the data that Facebook users make public invariably winds up in Palantir's databases and helps drive the surveillance engine Palantir runs for a handful of US police departments, the military, and the intelligence community. In the case of the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Palantir was also involved in utilizing Facebook data to benefit the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign.
Today, as recent arrests such as that of Daniel Baker have indicated, Facebook data is slated to help power the coming "war on domestic terror," given that information shared on the platform is being used in "precrime" capture of US citizens, domestically. In light of this, it is worth dwelling on the point that Thiel's exertions to resurrect the main aspects of TIA as his own private company coincided with his becoming the first outside investor in what was essentially the analogue of another DARPA program deeply intertwined with TIA.
Facebook, a Front
Because of the coincidence that Facebook launched the same day that LifeLog was shut down, there has been recent speculation that Zuckerberg began and launched the project with Moskovitz, Saverin, and others through some sort of behind-the-scenes coordination with DARPA or another organ of the national-security state. While there is no direct evidence for this precise claim, the early involvement of Parker and Thiel in the project, particularly given the timing of Thiel's other activities, reveals that the national-security state was involved in Facebook's rise. It is debatable whether Facebook was intended from its inception to be a LifeLog analogue or if it happened to be the social media project that fit the bill after its launch. The latter seems more likely, especially considering that Thiel also invested in another early social media platform, Friendster.
An important point linking Facebook and LifeLog is the subsequent identification of Facebook with LifeLog by the latter's DARPA architect himself. In 2015, Gage told VICE that "Facebook is the real face of pseudo-LifeLog at this point." He tellingly added, "We have ended up providing the same kind of detailed personal information to advertisers and data brokers and without arousing the kind of opposition that LifeLog provoked."
Users of Facebook and other large social media platforms have so far been content to allow these platforms to sell their private data so long as they publicly operate as private enterprises. Backlash only really emerged when such activities were publicly tied to the US government, and especially the US military, even though Facebook and other tech giants routinely share their users' data with the national-security state. In practice, there is little difference between the public and private entities.
Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower, notably warned in 2019 that Facebook is just as untrustworthy as US intelligence, stating that "Facebook's internal purpose, whether they state it publicly or not, is to compile perfect records of private lives to the maximum extent of their capability, and then exploit that for their own corporate enrichment. And damn the consequences."
Snowden also stated in the same interview that "the more Google knows about you, the more Facebook knows about you, the more they are able . . . to create permanent records of private lives, the more influence and power they have over us." This underscores how both Facebook and intelligence-linked Google have accomplished much of what LifeLog had aimed to do, but on a much larger scale than what DARPA had originally envisioned.
The reality is that most of the large Silicon Valley companies of today have been closely linked to the US national-security state establishment since their inception. Notable examples aside from Facebook and Palantir include Google and Oracle. Today these companies are more openly collaborating with the military-intelligence agencies that guided their development and/or provided early funding, as they are used to provide the data needed to fuel the newly announced war on domestic terror and its accompanying algorithms.
It is hardly a coincidence that someone like Peter Thiel, who built Palantir with the CIA and helped ensure Facebook's rise, is also heavily involved in Big Data AI-driven "predictive policing" approaches to surveillance and law enforcement, both through Palantir and through his other investments. TIA, LifeLog, and related government and private programs and institutions launched after 9/11, were always intended to be used against the American public in a war against dissent. This was noted by their critics in 2003-4 and by those who have examined the origins of the "homeland security" pivot in the US and its connection to past CIA "counterterror" programs in Vietnam and Latin America.
Ultimately, the illusion of Facebook and related companies as being independent of the US national-security state has prevented a recognition of the reality of social media platforms and their long-intended, yet covert uses, which we are beginning to see move into the open following the events of January 6. Now, with billions of people conditioned to use Facebook and social media as part of their daily lives, the question becomes: If that illusion were to be irrevocably shattered today, would it make a difference to Facebook's users? Or has the populace become so conditioned to surrendering their private data in exchange for dopamine-fueled social-validation loops that it no longer matters who ends up holding that data?
Part 2 of this series on Facebook will explore how the social media platform has grown into a behemoth that is much more extensive than what LifeLog's program managers had originally envisioned. In concert with military contractors and former heads of DARPA, Facebook has spent the last several years doing two key things: (1) preparing to play a much larger role in surveillance and data mining than it currently does; and (2) advancing the development of a "humanized" AI, a major objective of LifeLog.
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THE EVOLUTION OF THE MONKEES BACKED UP BY SONGS WRITTEN BY THE LIKES OF NEIL DIAMOND, THE MONKEES HAVE LASTED LONGER THAN MOST EXPECTED. AND TODAY THEY APPEAL TO TWO GENERATIONS -- THE NOSTALGIC AND THE YOUNG.
At first, it was just another good idea to win advertisers' dollars; a slickly packaged product to lure in consumers, then sell them lipstick and washers and dryers.
The Monkees was never intended as someone's artistic vision. Group members Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz, didn't join forces out of creative or artistic desire or need. They were thrown together by fate and a couple of TV producers who saw the moneymaking potential of spinning off an American version of the Beatles' films Help and A Hard Day's Night.
The Monkees were just like any successful enterprising idea: a premeditated, prefabricated, disposable product designed for maximum profit.
Producers Bert Schneider and Bob Rafelson weren't looking for the best musicians when they auditioned more than 400 young men for the TV quartet. If musical talent were the criteria, then perhaps the producers wouldn't have cared about a gap between Stephen Stills' teeth. Maybe the Lovin' Spoonful would have gone on to TV fame; the whole band auditioned. So did Danny Hutton, who eventually formed one of the most successful groups of the '70s, Three Dog Night.
No, the Monkees were calculated to sell soap, not ideas.
Monkee drummer and singer Dolenz, now 41, won't argue with that.
"That's what this industry is all about -- putting people together, packaging. But no one knows at the time if something is going to last," Dolenz says during a phone call from Wichita, Kan. "The entertainment industry is success-geared. That's the motivation behind everything. The motivation behind the Monkees was the same as any group -- success."
But something happened. The Monkees delivered more than anyone intended. Nobody knew that the Monkees would endure like Tupperware.
The producers, along with music publisher Don Kirshner, added one magical ingredient to the show's production team, though perhaps they didn't know it at the time.
Kirshner asked people like Neil Diamond, and the teams of Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, and Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart to write songs for the show.
These people were serious, hungry artists, not Madison Avenue hype artists. And they created the enduring part of the show: the music. Aside from the West Coast-based Boyce-Hart team, these were the same people who were crammed into the legendary Brill Building in Manhattan churning out hits for the Drifters, the Righteous Brothers, Jay and the Americans, Paul Revere and the Raiders, the Animals, Herman's Hermits, the Ronettes and the Shirelles.
Their efforts produced classics such as Last Train to Clarksville, I'm A Believer, (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone, A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You, Pleasant Valley Sunday, Daydream Believer and Valerie for the Monkees, now being referred to as the first video band.
That music, that art is the muscle behind the current 120-date, 20th anniversary Monkees reunion tour, which is scheduled to stop July 6 at Flagler Race Track in Miami.
Three of the original four members have reunited and are backed by an eight- piece band. Michael Nesmith, who runs a video music production company, declined to participate.
The silly, slapstick plots, zany personalities and cute faces alone couldn't have rekindled this Monkees revival. Nor could the hype, aided, supposedly coincidentally, by book and record companies and a TV network also seeing value in a 20th anniversary.
The timing, however, also is right. There are now two Monkees audiences -- the nostalgic and the young.
And entrepreneurs are capitalizing on that.
MTV, the 24-hour cable music video network, has been rerunning The Monkees TV episodes since February. On two occasions MTV aired 45 of the half-hour episodes back-to-back.
Rhino Records, already boasting six Monkees albums in their rerelease catalog, recently released two more Monkees albums -- More of the Monkees, Headquarters -- complete with original artwork. By the end of July, Rhino will have released another two albums, The Monkees and Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd.
Arista Records already is enjoying renewed success with a 10-year-old Monkees greatest hits album, No. 70 on Billboard charts and rapidly moving up. This week the company released Then and Now, The Best of the Monkees. The album includes three new songs, including the Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil classic, Kicks, which Dolenz, Jones and Tork recorded in May.
A Monkees biography, The Monkees Tale, by Eric Lefcowitz, also has been published. And the producers of the original Monkees TV show are looking to repeat their success with a show called (what else?) The New Monkees.
In true consumer fashion all these things feed off one another creating a groundswell of curiosity and publicity for the tour.
Dolenz says he never expected a revival of this magnitude, adding, "But then we never really totally disappeared. The show was always playing somewhere in the world for the past 20 years."
Still, Dolenz rejected initial invitations to regroup. He had become a successful TV director and producer in England and was content to leave the past behind. He says his wife, Trina, talked him into it so she and their three young children (and "a nanny") could see the United States.
He has no regrets. Enthusiasm is running high.
As a TV director, Dolenz has tried to analyze the show's success.
"Nothing is a guaranteed success. There are certain things you don't do. You don't have your heroes do evil things.
"On the TV show, the comedy wasn't topical or satirical, no special knowledge was needed. We were like the Marx Brothers. And we were surrounded by very good songwriters. Some weren't that well-known then: David Gates, Harry Nilsson, Carole King. They wrote very melodic tunes.
"And, in all modesty, the producers chose four guys with a certain amount of talent and charm. Then there was a spirit of the times that made it click and the big unknown, a little luck."
The Monkees were more than talented and charming. They also were ambitious, something the show's producers may not have foreseen.
The Monkees wanted to be more than cartoon characters. They wanted to be more than charming personalities and pretty faces.
The boys in the band, especially Nesmith and Tork, wanted to write more songs, play more during recording sessions.
Nesmith turned out solid, serviceable album cuts. Though none were smash hits, some had hit potential. Some were certainly better than some of the hollow, irritating album filler penned by others. In 1967, Nesmith wrote Linda Ronstadt's first Top 20 hit, Different Drum.
Dolenz says that the oft-reported story that the band didn't play on its first couple of albums is not completely true.
"Peter and Mike played on the records right from day one. They were musician-actors. Davy and I were actor-musicians. It didn't bother me at all that we didn't play or write all the material. You've got to remember The Monkees was a TV show about a group. It was like Star Trek.
"I hate to disappoint you but Leonard Nimoy was not really a Vulcan.
"We always did our own vocals. We quickly became a group. Within weeks we clicked on the show. Eventually we all started writing and playing. But Mike and Peter wanted to be constantly involved in the music."
Dolenz, however, didn't want to be left out of the instrumental part of things.
"At the time, I played guitar and had a group called Micky and the One Nighters. So they cast me as a drummer. I went out and took drum lessons and became passable. You don't need to be a brain surgeon to learn drums."
Brain surgeons or not, the Monkees had a lot of help making it to the top. This wasn't the typical, dues-paying, all-American Horatio Alger story. The "pre-fab four" had a lot handed to it, including songs, publicity, a record deal and visibility.
That generated a lot of resentment, from real bands and pop music critics, who saw the group as manufactured frauds.
Dolenz, asked if the Monkees are ensured a place in pop music history, answers this way: "The validity of the songs does ensure a place in pop history. But it's a difficult question because we weren't a real group, we were never intended to be.
"We hold a unique place in the entertainment world. We transcended the pop music industry and the TV and radio and record industry because we were the first act that used all of those mediums as a concerted assault on the consumer. Now it happens all the time.
"Honestly, we ticked off a lot of people because we didn't pay dues or need the press like other groups. We didn't have to go to certain radio stations or promoters. Most acts had to do that. We came out of left field and didn't need any of those people. We exploded. We took everybody by surprise.
"Our position will remain unique, but it's wrong to say we were a genuine rock group.
"But we were more than just a TV show. You could compare us to other supergroups created by promoters."
And promotion is the name of the game. Except this time, perhaps everybody came out a winner in what was initially a con game, a quick-hit Beatles rip- off.
All the fast talkers, money men and dealmakers couldn't have manufactured this year's Monkee-mania without something legitimate supporting the whole affair.
The public may get the last laugh.
Good art doesn't get old. The show, the band, the concept turned into a vehicle for classic pop tunes that still endure. And, as Dolenz says, the right people were in the right place at the right time.
That's why he thinks Rafelson's and Schneider's search for four young guys to cast in a future TV series called The New Monkees won't work.
"The New Monkees is a mistake. They're trying to duplicate a formula, but won't necessarily get the same results.
"It's not like chemistry class. It doesn't work like that. It's more like gambling."
Dolenz may be right; the last train to Clarksville left a long time ago. Then, again, in America, where gambles often pay off, all Clarksville may need is a face lift and a name change.
The Monkees perform along with the Grass Roots, Herman's Hermits and Gary Puckett and the Union Gap at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 6 at the Flagler Race Track at Northwest 37th Avenue and Seventh Street in Miami. Tickets, available at BASS outlets, are $13.50 plus service charge.


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I walked into a trendy hipster café the other day – the kind where dishevelled man buns are the norm and the furniture is uncomfortable. I saw a black croissant on the counter. I was impressed with the barista's confidence that he could flog it off as edible. To add to the ridiculous selection, there was charcoal-containing fruit juice being sold as a 'shot'. Elsewhere, I opened a pizza menu and saw an option for a charcoal crust. Some weeks later when meeting a friend for dinner, I found her sipping a pitch black mocktail made with charcoal. The next day my sister showed me a bottle of activated charcoal pills from Holland & Barrett and asked me, "does this work"?
Let me begin by first saying that if you hear the word 'detox' in conjunction with having to take a pill or potion, you are most likely being conned.
We have all looked for a quick fix to wellness, something to cut the link between hard graft and gratification. Maintaining stamina, eating well and exercising can be difficult to balance in our busy lives. This is where pernicious charlatans seize the opportunity to sell you snake oil, tricking you with pseudoscience and the paralogism of celebrity endorsements.
When in doubt, ask for the evidence or do some research yourself. Don't settle for an anecdote, such as 'my friend took it and noticed a difference'. I'm talking about empirical evidence in academic journals. If that's venturing in unknown territory for you, seek advice from your doctor.
What is activated charcoal, anyhow?
It sounds like something you'd use to fire up the barbecue, but there's a difference. Activated charcoal is made from carbon-containing material, like wood, coal and coconut shells, which is heated at high temperatures. The carbonised material is then exposed to oxidising atmospheres, a process called 'activation', which increases its overall surface area and adsorptive capacity.
Activated charcoal has long been used in emergency medicine for the treatment of drug overdose or poisoning. It is a gastrointestinal decontaminant that avidly adsorbs contents of the stomach. It is beneficial if administered to the patient within an hour of ingestion, or later if the ingestion involves an agent that delays gastric emptying or slows gut motility.
It's not difficult to see why activated charcoal has been associated with detoxifying the body. If it's used in emergency medicine to reduce toxic load, then it must be good for everyday use as well. However, this is false reasoning and a deep misinterpretation of its application.
Is it safe to eat activated charcoal?
Consuming activated charcoal may seem like an innocuous health fad, but it may be doing more harm than good.
The issue is that activated charcoal is not selective in its binding properties, meaning that some of the vitamins, minerals and antioxidants in your food will also be removed (along with the supposed 'toxins').
I mentioned the charcoal-containing fruit juice being sold as a shot. If you think about it, the absorption of the vitamins in the fruit would be impaired because of the charcoal. There is literally no good reason for it to be in the drink.
On a more serious note, activated charcoal can bind with some oral medications and impair their bioavailability. This is not mentioned on the bottles or packaging of activated charcoal products, despite it potentially having serious health consequences for some people.
There is also a prevalent belief that it will help cure a hangover by detoxifying the alcohol and kebab you had last night on the lash. But considering activated charcoal will bind with the contents of your stomach or intestines, it would be useless in this case because the alcohol and dodgy food would have already been absorbed into your bloodstream.
The detox industry is vast and highly deceptive. The products don't work, despite anecdotal claims to the contrary. You may want to dabble in it anyway for some harmless fun but consume with caution if you are on prescription medication. There is a possibility that it will make your medication less effective.
Here's some food for thought: instead of implementing useless detox cycles, it is better to adopt a 'clean' eating plan – not as a temporary diet, but a lifestyle change. There is a lot of evidence to show that a whole-food, plant-based diet does wonders for our health. This entails eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, plant proteins, and healthy fats such as olive oil.


Our eyesight is one of our most valuable assets, so it's only natural that some LASIK patients would feel apprehensive or nervous about undergoing surgery. But the fact is, LASIK eye surgery is an extremely safe procedure that has helped millions of individuals enjoy crisper and clearer vision. As with any surgical procedure, there are risks with LASIK, but thanks to advancements in laser technology, the procedure has a high success rate.
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LASIK is not for everyone. Before recommending LASIK, your surgeon will evaluate your eye health and eyes to determine whether you are a suitable candidate for the procedure. Risk factors that may disqualify you from LASIK (e.g., severe dry eye, thin corneas) are detected using advanced diagnostic tools. If your surgeon determines that you are not a candidate for LASIK, they can recommend an alternative laser vision correction procedure.
When you think of LASIK, what comes to mind? Do you envision a long and painful procedure? If you do, you're not the only one. But many patients are happily surprised to find out that LASIK actually involves little-to-no pain and discomfort during the procedure. Prior to surgery, special numbing eye drops will be used to keep your eyes comfortable while being treated. The procedure itself takes less than 30 minutes to complete.
There is no need to worry about a long or painful recovery with LASIK. Minor side effects like dry eye and blurry vision are temporary and should subside after a few days. Most patients are able to return to work the day after surgery. In addition, the majority of patients notice an improvement in their vision one day after having LASIK.
According to a study published in the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, LASIK has a 96 percent patient satisfaction rate, the highest of any elective procedure.
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Our hostel have excellent location. Just 7 minutes taxi ride from Lisboa's Airport and 15 minutes walk to an old town. Of course you can use a public transport to get to us. Closest metro station is Anjos of a green line and it's only 160 meters from our door. Also we have a stop of a night bus in front of the hostel that goes from city's center to Airport and Oriente train station all night long.
The Ambiente Hostel is located on one of principal avenues of Lisboa, only 15 minutes' walk from the city's downtown. The hostel provide accommodation in comfort shared dormitory rooms or in spacious and beautifully decorated private rooms.
Either you stay in dorm or in your own room all of the hostel space is for you too use. That's including fully equipped kitchen when you can cook and also some free snacks all over the day (and the breakfast is always included). All hostel area are covered with a free modern 2,4/5GHz wifi network with a speed up to 1 Gbps.
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Addis Ababa: Interview with Yididiya Damtew #WomenCrushWednesday
This #WomenCrushWednesday we are celebrating Yididiya Damtew, a Women4Climate from Addis Ababa and a founder of Sheba Threads that currently goes by Aklill (a garland gown in Amharic), a lifestyle brand that blends a unique Ethiopian design with eco-friendly bamboo fibres.
Read on to find out about Yididiya's motivation behind Aklill and her journey as an emerging climate leader.
W4C - What's the story behind Aklill and what inspired you to start it?
Yididiya - For a long time now, I've been using upcycled or recycled materials to create beautiful, exciting and unique items of jewellery or decorations, and Aklill is simply a natural progression of my passion and hobby. At Aklill, we work with bamboo, an underutilized and indigenous resource in Ethiopia, to create unique products. With the clothing industry being the second largest polluter, choosing bamboo as the main resource was a conscious decision to reduce the environmental footprint of our business. Compared with other resources, the crop requires very little water and does not need pesticides or fertilizers to grow. It also releases 35 per cent more oxygen into the air compared to trees of the same size. On top of the environmental aspect, our mission is to spread awareness about the African and Ethiopian cultural heritage. The source of inspiration for our design is in the culture. We take a piece of it and show it in our designs while maintaining the contemporary look. The end product aims to start a conversation about environmental issues and inspire others to live sustainably. Currently, we make rugs, blankets, pillowcases with a hope to integrate more sustainable products to people's lives but our focus has been placed on socks as an everyday essential. In that way, people who wear them are reminded on a daily basis about environmental issues and hopefully, take action on climate themselves while celebrating the Ethiopian heritage through our unique designs.
When we first showcased our products, the feedback we received from our customers was overwhelmingly positive. Our customers loved it and were eager to find out more about the environmental impact of the clothing industry, bamboo as a novel resource and share this knowledge with their friends and family - this has been the biggest achievement of this project. According to our research, about 80% of our customers had no prior knowledge about bamboo and its benefits and its variety of applications. Our focus now is to integrate the indigenously grown bamboo into our business. In order to do that we are investing in research that will hopefully allow us to develop efficient methods of processing bamboo into fibre and threads. This, in turn, would allow us to generate local employment opportunities which is something I'm strongly passionate about.
W4C - What message do you have from your own journey of being a Women4Climate, for aspiring women leaders working towards a sustainable, greener and an ever-unpredictable future?
Yididiya - The Women4Climate journey has given me lots of insights and direction in terms of where I'm right now and where I need to be. The programme really helped me in connecting me with women who are working in the field of environment and climate and opened me to their ideas. It connected me with like-minded women who were facing similar issues and challenges. It exposed me to new information, knowledge, and training that helped me shape my ideas and guide the direction of Aklill.
My biggest takeaway from this programme and what I will continue to share with other emerging climate leaders is not to be afraid to take the first step, independently of the issues they may face. It is also important to connect and create or join a network of people to bounce off ideas, understand their perspectives and grow together personally and professionally. I myself am still in the process of learning and working towards improving the way Aklill works. I would advise aspiring women leaders to be open-minded and continue their learning process to improve constantly. Sometimes, when we have an idea, we want it to be perfect at first but it's important to know that our ideas can't be perfect at the start instead we have to learn from our target audience to create and pivot according to their needs. And don't forget to have fun in the process! This will maintain your excitement and drive your passion! Being part of the Women4Climate community helped me stay energised and motivated. I will definitely continue to be part of the community and maintain a close relationship with my mentor, Mahlet Teklemariam.
W4C - Where do you see our cities in 10 years' time? What is your vision?
Yididiya - When I think of Addis Ababa in 10 years time, I think of a greener, eco-friendly and nature-oriented city. My city has significantly changed in the last two years. More sustainable initiatives were kicked-off and many green spaces were created. This already positive process started in the city and combined with the national drive to make urban spaces greener and healthier will definitely accelerate the change in the near future. The number of environmentally conscious people will increase, people will change the way they consume. Addis in 10 years time or even earlier will definitely be a better and greener place.

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Redmi 10 X Price in Nepal with Specifications
Bipisha Bajracharya
Xiaomi has launched the Redmi 10 X series and the whole internet is talking about it. The phone has a 5G variant as well. However, in Nepal, the 4G variant may launch as we do not have 5G yet.
There are also rumours of Xiaomi launching the 10 X series in a different name in India. Moreover, the 10 X series is the cheapest smartphone series to have 5G. It also offers two active 5G connections.
Xiaomi Redmi 10 X Specifications, Features
10 X runs on the Android 10 with MIUI 11. The phone is powered by an Octa-core (2×2.0 GHz Cortex-A75 & 6×1.8 GHz Cortex-A55) processor. Similarly, the phone runs on the MediaTek Helio G85 chipset.
10 X Performance:
Chipset MediaTek Helio G85 (12nm)
Processor Octa-core (2×2.0 GHz Cortex-A75 & 6×1.8 GHz Cortex-A55)
OS Android 10, MIUI 11
GPU Mali-G52 MC2
Ram 4/6 GB RAM
The phone has a dimension 162.3 x 77.2 x 8.9 mm and weighs 199 g. Similarly, it has a 6.53 inches IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, which feels comfortable while using. It is protected with gorilla glass 5. In place of the notch, it has a small punch hole on the left side of the screen. Not having a notch makes the display of the phone even bigger.
The rear camera has 4 cameras which include, 48 MP wide camera,
8 MP ultrawide lens, 2 MP macro lens 2 MP sensor for depth effects. It also has a LED.
Similarly, the front camera has single 13 MP normal camera.
Rear Camera: 48 MP, f/1.8, 26mm (wide), 1/2.0″, 0.8µm, PDAF
8 MP, f/2.2, 118˚ (ultrawide), 1/4.0″, 1.12µm
2 MP, f/2.4, (macro), AF
Front Camera: 13 MP, f/2.3, (wide), 1.12µm
Similarly, the battery of the phone is a 5020 mAh with 9W charger. The phone supports 18 W of charging. The battery lasts a day or maybe more.
Removable No
Quick Charging Yes Fast, 18 W
USB Type-C Yes
The phone has up to 128GB storage and has expandable memory i.e micro SD slot. Moreover, network connectivity options on the phone include Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot, Dual Nano-SIM, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS with dual-band A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO. Likewise, it has a 2.0, Type-C USB and 3.5mm headphone jack.
The phone is available in Blue, Green and White colour.
Display- 6.53 inches
Front Camera: 13 MP, f/2.3, 29mm (wide), 1/3.1″, 1.12µm
Back Camera: Quad cameras
48MP f/1.7 Samsung GW1 primary sensor,
8MP f/ 2.2 ultra-wide sensor,
2MP f/2.4 macro lens and
2MP f/2.4 sensor for depth effects
RAM- 4/6 GB
Storage- 128 GB
Battery capacity- 5020 mAH
Operating system: Android 10
Resolution- 1080 x 2340 pixels, 19.5:9 ratio (~395 ppi density)
Price and Availability details in Nepal
The approx price of Redmi 10 X in Nepal is around Rs,22000 to Rs 30000. Nothing has been confirmed about the release of the phone in Nepal.
Likewise, the 10 X 4G is the same as Note 9 with one or 2 difference. this explains the rumours about 10 X being rebranded as Note 9. Note 9 has 3/4 GB ram whereas 10 X 4G has 4/6 GB ram. The front camera is normal on the front in Note but the front camera is wide in 10 X 4G.
Moreover, the 10 X 5 G is different than the 4 G version. The 5G version seems more interesting and I'm hoping that Xiaomi launches a 4G version similar to 10 X 5G. Otherwise, we have to wait for 5G in Nepal to be able to use 10 X 5G ad 10 X pro which is also in 5G.
Also check out: MI Mobile Phone price in Nepal | Updated List 2020
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Hotel Zum Storchen
Zurich, Switzerland.
The name is something of a mystery, although legend has it that it comes from when two rare storks nested on its roof many centuries ago. Although it has a history of hospitality stretching back more than half a millennium, the building today is largely the product of a reconstruction during the 1930's.
It should be noted, though, that the likes of Richard Wagner have stayed here. Moreover, it is also proudly boasts that the extraordinarily-named Theophrastus Bombastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim (often referred to simply as Paracelsus) who was a renowned physician and philosopher during the early 16th century was a guest in 1535.
Hotel Storchen today features 67 rooms and suites, most with views of either the River Limmat or the old city of Zurich. Its restaurant, La Rotisserie, specializes in Swiss and French cuisine.
See the Historic Hotels in Switzerland index
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Order-to 17 days (Moscow). Track to track, packed in bag and carton box. Quality is good, can withstand the weight of your tablet 9,6 inch. Seller recommend!
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Is Mt. Mantap Suffering from "Tired Mountain Syndrome?"
By: 38 North
A 38 North exclusive with analysis by Frank V. Pabian and Jack Liu.
There have now been three detected and reported earthquake-like events subsequent to the most recent, very large (~6.1 magnitude) underground nuclear test conducted by North Korea on September 3, 2017 at its Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site. Recent media reporting has suggested that, as a result, the site may no longer be suitable for further underground nuclear testing. The three earthquakes were likely induced by the ~250 kiloton nuclear test; however, US nuclear test history at the Nevada Test Site provides evidence that such post-test tremors are not unusual. Furthermore, even in the face of what has been dubbed "Tired Mountain Syndrome,"[1] abandonment of the site for nuclear testing should not be expected. Such historical precedent, combined with the presence of two other, as yet unused tunnel complexes within the test site, leads us to conclude that there is no valid reason to assume that the Punggye-ri test site is unable to contain additional underground nuclear tests.
Figure 1. An interferometric SAR (InSAR) derived graphic, obtained through the processing of radar imagery from the Japanese Advanced Land Observing Satellite 2 (ALOS-2) of the area encompassing the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, overlain on Google Earth. The overall centralization of the radar-detected displacements encompassing all of Mt. Mantap provides additional empirical evidence that the sixth nuclear test occurred directly under the peak. Note that pixels with correlation less than 0.1 are transparent.
Source: Dr. Meng "Matt" Wei
On September 3, 2017, a 4.6 magnitude earthquake-like event was detected at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site only eight minutes after North Korea's sixth and largest underground nuclear test had been conducted. Its seismic waveform, together with the nominal "five kilometers" depth, rule out a nuclear test explosion (the likely deepest depth of burial under Mt. Mantap is 800 meters, see Figure 1). It has generally been speculated that the first post-test earthquake-like event was somehow related to a structural collapse or cave-in, but this remains unverified at this time. Another similar event of 3.5 magnitude having "earthquake characteristics" was detected at essentially the same location on September 23. Most recently, on October 12, a 2.9 magnitude earthquake with similar waveform and depth (~5 kilometers) was detected.[2] These three earthquakes were not caused by human intervention and hence were not related to new nuclear testing. Moreover, in terms of scale, all three earthquakes were smaller (two significantly so) in magnitude than North Korea's second nuclear test in 2009, which had a magnitude of 4.7 and an estimated explosive yield of about 5 kilotons.
Media Speculation on Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site's Unsuitability
As a result of these nuclear test-induced earthquakes, new media reporting has appeared with headlines such as "North Korea's Nuclear Test Site Could Be Unstable" and "Has N. Korea nuked itself out of a nuclear test site?" While these do make for eye-catching headlines, there was little substance in the articles to back them up beyond quoting the speculative fears of "civilian experts." Nonetheless, based on the severity of the initial blast, the post-test tremors, and the extent of observable surface disturbances,[3] we have to assume that there must have been substantial damage to the existing tunnel network under Mt. Mantap. If North Korea were to attempt to continue testing under this mountain (such as, in the area more to the eastern side), then we would expect to see new tunneling in the future near the North Portal, still under Mt. Mantap. A lack of new tunneling in this area would provide evidence that this mountain has been abandoned for future testing. However, complete abandonment of the test site as a whole remains unlikely.
For comparative purposes, we can look to the US Nevada Test Site's experience with multiple underground tests. A United States Geological Survey (USGS) report on nuclear test-induced earthquakes conducted at this site concluded:
…increases in seismic activity in the Nevada region were common following underground nuclear explosions at the US Nevada Test Site with equivalent seismic magnitude of 5.0 or greater. Periods of time before and after 21 explosions were examined. Most of the increased activity appears to have originated within 20 kilometers of the test shot-point. The time history of this activity indicates that it was directly related to the nuclear explosions. Most of the seismic events (earthquakes) following underground tests were very small. The decay of post-shot activity and its relationships to the equivalent magnitude of the explosion provided confirmation of the determinative (causal) role of the nuclear event. For the most part, this activity was confined to the test site.[4]
However, despite the numerous post-test earthquakes, the Nevada Test Site was not abandoned for nuclear test purposes until the nuclear test moratorium that took effect in October 1992.
At Punggye-ri, the presence of two other test tunnel complexes, accessible via the South and West Portals, provides sufficient means to continue testing at the site irrespective of test-induced effects to Mt. Mantap.
Nuclear tests previously conducted at the US Nevada Test Site (as well as at the former Soviet nuclear test sites) show that test-induced seismic events (small post-test earthquakes), associated with tests having magnitudes of 5.0 or more, are not unusual. Moreover, such activity did not lead to site abandonment prior to the general test moratorium in 1992. Because Mt. Mantap has been the location for the last five of six of North Korea's declared underground nuclear tests (via the North Portal) and has undergone widespread observable surface disturbances resulting from the most recent test, it is not surprising that there were a number of post-test earthquakes. This may have caused some concern both inside and outside North Korea about "Tired Mountain Syndrome." For the time being, however, given the presence of additional test portals, we see no reason that the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site as a whole has or will be abandoned for future underground nuclear testing.
"Tired Mountain Syndrome" derives from the underground detonation of (multiple) nuclear explosions that considerably alter the properties of the surrounding rock mass. Fracturing and rock breakage are extensive and markedly increased, and permeability is appreciably increased both in the rock mass itself and along isolated tectonic faults. The zone of inelastic deformations of structural fractures can extend hundreds of meters, and specifically for North Korea's sixth test, could extend out to ~1.4 kilometers from the shot-point cavity. Source: Vitaly V. Adushkin and William Leith, The Containment of Soviet Underground Nuclear Explosions, USGS Report 01-312, p.35, September 2001, https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/0312/report.pdf.
NORSAR put the latest event a little higher than USGS—3.2—but their conclusion was the same. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000aqsx#executive.
See https://www.38north.org/2017/09/punggye090517/ and https://www.38north.org/2017/09/punggye091217/.
Gary Boucher, Alan Ryall, Austin E. Jones, "Earthquakes associated with underground nuclear explosions," July 15, 1969. Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 74, Issue 15, Version of Record online: 20 SEP 2012 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/JB074i015p03808/abstract.
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jack liu
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Ronald K. Chesser and Samantha J. Pitz
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Modifications to North Korea's Taechon Reactor Site
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import java.math.*;

import javax.annotation.Generated;

import com.amazonaws.services.chimesdkmessaging.model.*;
import com.amazonaws.transform.SimpleTypeJsonUnmarshallers.*;
import com.amazonaws.transform.*;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonToken;
import static com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonToken.*;

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