pamelagellerreport--2019-02-09--Why Can Muslims Be Jew-Haters Without Comment from Media

Why Can Muslims Be Jew-Haters Without Comment from Media?

It used to be that an American politician could not get away . But how times have changed since the 2018 election, which brought us two newly elected Muslim Congresswomen into office.  By the lack of media outrage, it appears that they can say just about anything about how Jews are just not so good for the world. Well, since 74 long years have now passed since Auschwitz was liberated on January 27, 1945—maybe the message of media silence today means that Jews should just be less sensitive to racial libel smears by now.  Or, is this media silence instead of outrage only granted as a Muslim “privilege?” Or a Democratic Party “privilege?” Or perhaps it is a double privilege, if the politician fits both categories?  On the other hand, if a demented old Holocaust-denier happens to run for Congress as a Republican, and won’t leave him be. “Are you a Nazi?” Is the question asked of the elderly white supremacist? “You’re a Nazi,” is the mainstream media charge tossed at him. Well, if the shoe fits.  But, in the interest of full reporting, “This guy is a fringe candidate who has been doing this for over a decade with no real connection to the GOP,” wrote Jesse Hunt, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. So sanity returns to the election field, via the voice of the GOP, which is ready and willing to throw its own outrageous politicians under the bus, whenever mainstream media comes calling to ask about the outrage.  Now, on the other hand, what if you get elected as a lovely, albeit , (side digression, with a frantically-waving red-flag: one who ran , and, according to her own father , registered to vote from a false address when she ran for office the first time)? Well, then if you are that kind of politician, you can if they dare to oppose your racist boycotts of Israel; you can cover the state of Israel on your Congressional office world map with a sticky note reading “Palestine” in red ; you can be a member of Facebook groups which also deny the Holocaust, and call Jews “Satanic. ”  And the magic trick is that the mainstream channels CNN, MSNBC, HuffPo, The New York Times, Salon, Vox, and The Washington Post won’t even notice such outrageous things. When you are running under the banner of the Democratic Party, and your name is an Islamic one, like , the mainstream media will grant you the magic powers of a master illusionist.  They will be completely blind to outrageous awards and donations you receive from terror-related groups, while you in turn praise their “invaluable” and “vital” “advocacy efforts.” They will not be outraged by your support of “a young girl” whose “voice should be lifted,” as you wrote to your followers—that girl being a terrorist whom Israeli authorities had recently incarcerated for assaulting an IDF soldier and for proclaiming that “everyone must” attack Israeli Jews by means of “stabbings, martyrdom-seeking operations [i.e. suicide bombings], throwing stones.”  But that’s only the warm-up act, from one Islamic master illusionist. If you’re a and somebody out of the blue shockingly alleges that you tried to rape her in 1982, but she can’t remember enough basic facts to even begin to support her stunning claims, or to find any witnesses or evidence against you, then mainstream media will be awash in Leftist outrage, as the mob against you tries to break down the doors of the Supreme Court , to whatever end which comes by way of outraged mobs who won’t let facts or reason get in their way.  But, if you run for political office in America on the Democratic Party ticket as a charming, yet , who wears a , you can be the second headline act in the magic show. To your self-fooled mainstream media audience, you have become a master illusionist. You have them all so enraptured by the exotic charm of your foreign headcover that you can get away with all sorts of outrages.  For example, you can ask for clemency on behalf of men on trial for trying to join ISIS ; you can say that “Drawing attention to the apartheid Israeli regime is far from hating Jews ”; you can promote the illusion that you are the first “refugee” ever to be elected to Congress (when you were really only the fifth or so of a set which includes two Jews elected long before you, and the first was actually a Jew who escaped the Nazis); and you can bizarrely .  You are so good at pulling your civilization jihadist illusions on them, that you can make Poppy Harlow of CNN look just a little bit baffled , as she seems too hopelessly seduced by that anachronistic cloth wrapped about your head for no sanely explicable reason of feminist rights logic in the 21st Century. What’s more, if you pretend to apologize for the anti-Jewish things you have said, the blinded will you immediately, and Jewish Democrats on Capitol Hill will you onto the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  Your illusions are so seductive to a willfully blind mainstream media, that CNN, MSNBC, HuffPo, The New York Times, Salon, Vox, and The Washington Post will barely notice—minus an op-ed here and there—the jihadist things you say and do—things that should outrage our civilization. There seems to be little limit to the outrageous things you can get away with, when you are , a master illusionist performing to the mainstream media, as they fail to see the civilization jihad on stage in front of them.  So, are the illusions being performed by these elected civilization jihadis really that masterful? Or is the truth more that the mainstream media blindness is that willful? One interesting point is that, contrary to popular myth, The New York Times has inside information that Holocaust-deniers are not all Republicans.  Another point would be that journalists, beyond being Leftist Democrats, understand that criticizing Muslims gets you called racist. (Or slaughtered by jihad)  But on a more insidious level, while the Leftists of mainstream media are not inclined to be warned by the civilization threat of , they are quite inclined to embrace at least the sentiment of it. In other words, they might agree entirely with the Islamic Movement that the traditions of the Western world must be destroyed, to be replaced by the utopian collective that they each fantasize can take its place. And so if hateful double standards help the society to get there, then, well, screw the Jews, if the Muslims openly express a problem with them.  In politics, everything is a tool, a means to an end—politicians and their journalistic compatriots will often have an endgame in mind, but they are not known for consistently applying any deeply held, humanistic moral principles to get there. Mainstream “journalists” today are clearly aligned with Leftist politicians on one side of the culture war. By application or exclusion of selective outrage, they have become adept at weaponizing morality against the culture they want to take down; and alternatively, to boost the alien elements they want to build up into power against their native culture.  So, the president can attempt to enact a temporary travel ban preventing unvetted people (not all of them Muslim) who originate from dangerous enemy nations from entering the country until the administration can figure out how to plausibly vet them. On the Left side of the culture war,  that’s deemed worthy of enough to immobilize airports, and is provided the requisite mainstream coverage to promote the narrative.  As a civilization jihadist, Islamic supremacist Congresswoman can outrageously accuse mildly pro-Israel politicians of not being loyal to the United States—but only a handful of Jews (or non-Jews) in the media will find themselves capable of being outraged by the antisemitism, or by the activist supremacy, or by the blatant jihad against our traditional way of life and freedoms.  The problem is not even that Islamic supremacists Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are openly pushing their bigoted, supremacist Islamic agenda of conquest. It is not even that the Left has lowered the bar of tolerance to the point that almost anybody, domestic or foreign, can be an anti-American bigot in public and get away with it. The problem is that the people whose job it is in journalism to not cover up for them, are doing so, systematically with destructive intent, or willful blindness.  Muslims are commanded by Allah to wage civilizational war against our society; If hijab-wearing members of the Islamic Movement actually adhere to the system they publicly choose to represent, then Allah’s command of them, , is not really a choice. But a Leftist, socialist journalist writing an article about “rising anti-Semitism” which doesn’t mention the civilization jihadist, Islamic supremacist Congresswomen in the room, is really quiet a choice that journalist does make. Our society will rise or fall on that choice.


pamelagellerreport--2019-06-03--Muslim Doctor Subjected to Hate Campaign by Muslim Jew-Haters Over Charity Work With Jews

They’d rather sick ‘Palestinian’ children die than having anything to do with Jews. Beastly.  The charity was named after Rozana Salawhi, a Palestinian girl  who was saved by doctors at Hadassah after falling from an apartment block in the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the West Bank.  Project Rozana was originally set up six years ago by the Jewish women’s group Hadassah Australia, which has strong links with Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital. The group’s goal as stated on its website is to “build better understanding between Israelis and Palestinians through health.”  Dr. Jamal Rifi’s support for Project Rozana has led to him being branded an “enemy” by pro-Iranian and pro-Hezbollah activists in his local community because the charity has Jewish members, Australian news outlets reported on Friday.  A Muslim doctor in Sydney, Australia, has become the target of an antisemitic, anti-Zionist hate campaign because of his work helping sick Palestinian children obtain treatment in Israeli hospitals.  Project Rozana says its aim is build bridges between Israelis and Palestinians through medicine.  Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.  Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.  Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.  Please contribute to our ground-breaking work here.  Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.


pamelagellerreport--2019-10-07--Muslims hurl firebombs, burn tires as Jews pray at Joseph’s Tomb

This is the hatred, bigotry and barbarity in which Rep. Rashida Tlaib was raised. Palestinian terrorism and Palestinian incitement against the Jews must be debated in the United States Congress.  Palestinian media reports 7 wounded as Israeli security forces disperse rioters during pilgrimage of 1,000 Jews to the tomb ahead of Yom Kippur. Dozens of Palestinians rioted on Sunday night following the pilgrimage of some 1,000 Jews, under Israeli security escort, to the Tomb of Joseph in Shechem to pray. The rioters threw firebombs and burning tires at security personnel. There were no Israeli reports of casualties during the incident, however the PA’s Wafa news agency reported that seven rioters had been wounded after “Israeli forces escorted a convoy of buses packed with over a thousand fanatic Jewish settlers to the site, located in the Palestinian-controlled area, sparking confrontations with Palestinian residents.” Wafa stated that the injured Palestinians had been “protesting” the “raid” and “attempting to block settlers’ access to the site”. “Among the settlers who raided the site were Israeli Minister of Economy and Industry Eli Cohen, leader of the council of settlers in the occupied West Bank Yossi Dagan, and Knesset member Moshe Arbel,” Wafa reported.  Watch close to 1000 Jews praying at Joseph’s Tomb moments before they were attacked  The Truth Must be Told Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more. Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible. Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too. Please contribute to our ground-breaking work here.    Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.


pamelagellerreport--2019-11-01--U.S. Muslim and Left-Wing College Students Call for ‘Slaughter of Jews’ and ‘Bloodshed’

It’s the bloody Nazis all over again. They were leftists too.And they partnered with with Muslims. Same hate, next century.  Meet the activists behind the host chapter of this year’s conference, and see the vile and deplorable things they have said on social media.  The Truth Must be Told  Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.  Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.  Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.  Please contribute to our ground-breaking work here.  Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.


sputnik--2019-01-05--UK Mosque Cancels Event Honouring Muslims Who Saved Jews Amid Backlash

The exhibition at the London mosque, which was devoted to Muslims who helped save Jewish lives during the Holocaust, has been cancelled without an official explanation, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported. The cancellation of the event, held by the Centre for Islamic Understanding in Golders Green, was preceded by Muslim protests that were largely fuelled by statements of Roshan Salih, the editor of a Muslim media outlet called "5 Pillars".  The man slammed the organisers of the exhibition for preparing it "in conjunction with Israeli oppressors ", suggesting that the Centre shouldn't have done it in collaboration with Yad Vashem, a Jewish holocaust memorial organisation. Salih praised the mosque for "responding to community concerns" and cancelling the event.  A Jewish activist who helped the Centre for Islamic Understanding organise the exhibition, Rabbi Natan Levy, stressed the importance of remembering how "Jewish and Muslim communities have historically always supported each other". Levy hopes that by spending time together and better understanding their "commonalities and differences", Jews and Muslims will learn to stand as "united front against hatred".  The Arab-Israeli conflict broke out upon the foundation of the Jewish state in 1948, resulting in several major armed conflicts and numerous minor clashes on the Israeli border that led to thousands of deaths and left many more displaced. While certain Muslim states have abandoned the rivalry, others, like Iran, have vowed to destroy Israel, denying its right to exist.


thinkprogress--2019-05-14--Ilhan Omar Jan Schakowsky call on Jews and Muslims to stand united against white nationalism

Ilhan Omar, Jan Schakowsky call on Jews and Muslims to stand united against white nationalism

Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar (MN) and Jan Schakowsky (IL) penned a joint op-ed on Tuesday, calling for Muslim and Jewish communities to stand together in the face of resurgent white nationalism.  “White nationalists win when our two communities are divided,” the two, who are Muslim and Jewish themselves, wrote on CNN. “They seek to exploit our divisions and grievances to further an agenda of hate. But we know that when we are united, we are stronger. We know this because in our own communities, Jewish and Muslim constituents have joined hands in solidarity and denounced these hate-filled massacres.”  “We may not see eye to eye on all issues, but we must acknowledge that attacks on our faiths are two sides of the same bigoted coin,” they continued.  “As Americans, we must all stand together in rejecting hate and embracing one another to create a country and a culture of unity and justice.”  Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who is also Muslim, have faced repeated bad-faith attacks over their supposed anti-Semitism in recent months. In February, Omar faced a firestorm of accusations, particularly from the right, after she tweeted that Republican support for Israel is “all about the Benjamins” and that pro-Israel groups like AIPAC were influencing the United States’ pro-Israel stance.  The Minnesota congresswoman later apologized for her comments “unequivocally,” saying she was “listening and learning, but standing strong.”  Over the weekend, Tlaib faced her own round of anti-Semitism accusations from Republicans, who falsely suggested that Tlaib had spoken warmly of the Holocaust during a Yahoo News podcast. In reality, Tlaib had suggested she felt a “calming feeling” when remembering how her Palestinian ancestors had provided refuge to Jews after World War II.  Experts say there has been a worrying uptick in white nationalism and far-right extremism over the past two years and numerous studies support this claim. As Omar and Schakowsky noted in their column Tuesday, there has been a sharp increase in both anti-Semitic incidents — which have more than doubled from 2017 to 2018 according to the ADL — and anti-Muslim incidents, which have risen from 260 in 2017 to 300 in 2018, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations.  The latest example of this surge in hate crimes occurred at the Diyanet Mosque in New Haven, Connecticut, on Sunday, where a fire broke out, rendering the mosque uninhabitable. On Monday, the New Haven Fire Department announced that the fire had been set intentionally. According to The New Haven Register, local churches have offered to hold services for the displaced Muslim worshipers while the mosque undergoes repairs.  Republicans, including President Donald Trump, have largely avoided commenting on or providing solutions for the rise in far right extremism.  Following an attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March, Trump was asked whether he saw white nationalism as a growing threat around the globe. “I don’t really,” he said. “I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems.”  Trump has also infamously praised the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who attended the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, describing them as “very fine people” and more recently as people who simply “felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee.”  This apathy has trickled down to rank-and-file Republicans as well. During a congressional hearing on white nationalism in April, Republicans repeatedly yielded their time to conservative commentator Candace Owens, who in turn spent most of her time talking about how the hearings were a waste of time and that Democrats were the real racists.  This point is not lost on Reps. Omar and Schakowsky. “Addressing this hate should not be a partisan issue in the United States,” they wrote Tuesday. “Yet the current administration has manifestly failed to address its rise.”  They added, “White nationalism is on the rise. And we must defeat it — together.”


thesun--2019-10-15--Bella Hadid is the most beautiful woman in the world because her face shape, lips and chin are ‘perf

Bella Hadid is the most beautiful woman in the world because her face shape, lips and chin are ‘perfect’, according to the’ Golden Ratio’ equation

SUPERMODEL Bella Hadid has been named as the most beautiful woman in the world – according to the ‘Golden Ratio of Beauty’.  The 23-year-old was found to be a 94 per cent match to the ratio, a mathematical equation known as Beauty Phi devised by the ancient Greeks.  They calculated the perfect face shape, including the size and position of the lips, nose, chin and jawline – with Bella’s features most closely matching the ideal ratio.  The top ten list was compiled by a Harley Street clinic surgeon, Dr Julian De Silva, who used digital facial mapping to see how modern celebs matched up.  Bella came out on top with a 94.35 per cent match, although her sister, fellow supermodel Gigi Hadid, 24, failed to make the top ten.  In second place was Beyoncé was who was a 92.44 per cent match, and taking third place was Amber Heard with 91.85 per cent.  Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift made up the top five, and the only Brit on the list was Kate Moss in sixth place, with a 91.05 per cent match.  Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, Katy Perry and Cara Delevigne also made the top 10.  Dr De Silva, who runs the Centre For Advanced Facial Cosmetic And Plastic Surgery, in London, said: “Bella Hadid was the clear winner when all elements of the face were measured for physical perfection.  “She had the highest overall reading for her chin which, with a score of 99.7%, is only 0.3% away from being the perfect shape.  "Bella also came second behind Scarlett Johansson for the positioning of her eyes.  “Beyoncé ran her a close second, scoring the highest marks for the shape of her face (99.6%) and getting very high scores for her eyes, brow area and lips.  “These brand new computer mapping techniques allow us to solve some of the mysteries of what it is that makes someone physically beautiful and the technology is useful when planning patients’ surgery.”  The software also ranked stars by their most perfect feature, with Amber’s nose rated the best, Scarlett’s eyes were a near-perfect match, and Cara’s lips and eyebrows came out on top.  Beyoncé had the highest ranking face shape, Kate Moss’s forehead was the closest to perfect, while Bella’s chin came out best overall.  And we revealed how Bella Hadid is among stars who've transformed the granny cardigan into a sexy garment.  In other fashion news, we told you how one woman’s ‘atrocious’ engagement ring was bizarrely compared to a ‘sad penis’ by wedding shamers.  Plus Dunelm is selling Teddy Bear fleece slippers and dressing gowns priced from £5 – and they’ve got dozens of five-star reviews.


bbcuk--2019-10-03--The triangulation points that mapped Britain

In 1936, the Ordnance Survey began to construct concrete triangulation pillars, or trig points, to aid accurate measurement and map-making using the principles of trigonometry. By 1962, more than 6,000 had been built. And Stephen McCoy and Stephanie Wynne are trying to photograph the 310 primary pillars still standing.  The pillars were built in positions where at least two other points could be seen in order to form triangles for accurate measurement.  McCoy and Wynne's work comprises large 360-degree panoramic photographs produced by placing the camera on top of the triangulation pillar, alongside a picture of the pillar itself.


sottnet--2019-09-23--Googles quantum supremacy to render all cryptocurrency and military cryptography breakable

Google's "quantum supremacy" to render all cryptocurrency and military cryptography breakable

Supercomputer breakthrough will allow Big Tech giant to control the world.The Big Tech corporation's new quantum processor took a mere 200 seconds to complete a computing task that would normally require 10,000 years on a supercomputer.The 53-qubit quantum computer can break any 53-bit cryptography in seconds, meaning Bitcoin's 256-bit encryption is vulnerable once Google scales its quantum computing to 256 qubits, something their own scientists say will be possible by 2022.Modern military cryptography will also eventually be rendered obsolete given that the number of qubits in Google's quantum computers will double at least every year, according to the report, growing at "double exponential rate," which is even faster than Moore's Law.At this rate, Google will be able to break all military encryption by 2024, a frightening prospect given the company's close ties to China.The prospects of Google controlling such vast supercomputer power when it applies to the field of surveillance is also chilling."Google will rapidly come to dominate the world, controlling most of the money, all speech, all politics, most science and technology, most of the news media and all public officials," writes Mike Adams."Google will become the dominant controlling authoritarian force on planet Earth, and all humans will be subservient to its demands. Democracy, truth and freedom will be annihilated."Read Adams' full article for a comprehensive breakdown of what this means for the future - a beast system controlled by Google that makes Skynet look amateur in comparison, controls all secrets, communications and financial transactions.Google has come a long way from "don't be evil" to establishing a monopoly over technology that will literally allow them to become the most dominant force on the planet.


tass--2019-11-01--Cryptography Experts of Penta Security Release PALLET Z

SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Penta Security Systems Inc. has officially launched PALLET Z, the world's first rugged book cold wallet for enterprises, following PALLET X, which launched in March. PALLET Z is a digital asset management solution that utilizes a hardware security module based on PALLET framework, a crypto algorithm blockchain protocol developed by Penta Security.  Along with PALLET Card and PALLET Bridge, Penta Security managed to demonstrate its 22-year experience in cybersecurity and cryptography by releasing the safest enterprise-level digital asset management environment.  Built upon a common technical foundation, PALLET framework, PALLET Z is designed to protect against the biggest asset management threats, critical for maximizing systematic efficiency in managing digital assets.  PALLET Z is best optimized for institutions that are not only in need of the Two-Factor Authentication function for rigorous asset management but also Segregation of Duties (SoD) function that prevents any independent asset abuse and a smooth payment system for transaction transmissions. It allows users to block all external access by separating from all network environments except PALLET Z Card, including blocking access of all untrusted devices and preventing against independent wallet restoration through Secret Sharing function. Together, the features and keys are operated in a trusted execution environment (TEE) that enables 6 multi-functions including multi-signature and multi-party computation.  PALLET Z was first introduced at Fintech & Blockchain 2019 Japan this month in Tokyo. At the event, Penta Security seized the opportunity to showcase PALLET products and explained usage through demonstration.  "With an increasing number of countries accelerating blockchain development, we're more than thrilled to be introducing PALLET products across the world," said SangGyoo Sim, CTO of Penta Security. "As the top cybersecurity vendor in Asia, we're hoping to initiate the movement towards the DeFi ecosystem with digital asset management, node, and custody services via our PALLET products."  Penta Security Systems Inc. is a leader in data, IoT, and blockchain security solutions and services. With 22 years of expertise in powering secured connections, Penta Security is the top cybersecurity vendor in Asia, as recognized by Frost & Sullivan, and APAC market share leader in the WAF industry. Penta Security continues its push for innovation as a pioneer in securing blockchain-based environments. For more information on Penta Security, visit . For partnership inquiries, email .


instapundit--2019-07-04--WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT The Geometry of Liberty

“WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT”: The Geometry of Liberty….

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yahoonews--2019-09-13--A traffic jam around the moon Physicist Michio Kaku on aliens space travel and his search for th

'A traffic jam around the moon': Physicist Michio Kaku on aliens, space travel and his search for the 'God Equation'

BARCELONA, Spain — In 1955, when Michio Kaku was 8 years old growing up in San Jose, Calif., he somberly studied the front page of the evening newspaper. Below the photograph of a book on a desk, he read the caption “This is the unfinished manuscript of the greatest scientist of our time” — Albert Einstein, who died without realizing his dream of unifying all the known physical forces into one theory. Kaku decided then and there to dedicate his life to finishing it. The theoretical physicist and futurist, who teaches at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and collaborates with scientists outside Geneva at CERN, home to the Large Hadron Collider, believes that more than six decades later, physicists are almost there.  In Barcelona to speak at the third annual Ufology World Congress, Kaku, whose most recent book is “The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth,” spoke with Yahoo News on topics from the state of human evolution to the upcoming traffic jam around the moon.  The interview has been lightly edited for space and clarity:  Yahoo News: Fifty years ago, UFOs were front-page news, but now there’s a stigma when people talk about them seriously, particularly scientists. What’s behind that?  Michio Kaku: Traditionally, there’s been the giggle factor. Every time you talk to a physicist or a scientist about UFOs, their eyes kind of roll and they start to giggle. Science is based on things that are testable, reproducible and falsifiable.  So when scientists hear stories about UFOs, they’re thinking…  You mention that the game is changing. What’s causing that?  First, we have military pilots who have given us testable evidence, evidence we can now look at to calculate the parameters. Before, it was “something sailed over the sky!” What does that mean? We now know they travel between Mach 5 and Mach 20, we now know they zigzag such that the centrifugal force would crush any living tissue — so they must be cybernetic or robotic.  So there are two possibilities. … They could be hypersonic drones [which are being developed by Russia, the U.S. and China]. The other possibility that now has to be put on the table is that they’re extraterrestrial — which used to be the subject of the giggle factor. But now we’ve located 4,000 exoplanets around other stars in the galaxy.  For the first time in history, we have a census of the galaxy. We now know on average every star has a planet going around it — and about one in five has an Earth-like planet. That means there are billions of Earth-like planets orbiting other stars in our backyard, not even other galaxies.  That makes the chances seem somewhat higher that life could be out there somewhere. In the case that we do encounter aliens, should we assume they’re more advanced than we are?  I’m a physicist. We rank civilizations by energy. So one day when we intercept messages from alien civilizations, we’ll ask, What level are they?  A Type 1 civilization is planetary. They control the weather. They can modify volcanoes and earthquakes. Anything planetary, they control.  A Type 2 civilization is stellar. They control the star; they control the energy output of the entire star. They colonize nearby solar systems. They are immortal. Nothing known to science can destroy a Type 2 civilization. Meteors and comets can be deflected. If their star becomes unstable, they just leave and move to another star.  A Type 3 civilization, which is galactic, they can roam the galaxy.  Now, if we are visited by aliens from outer space, they’re possibly Type 2, more than likely Type 3, meaning they are thousands of years ahead of us in technology. Scientists giggle because a starship going between stars isn’t imaginable with our technology. What’s the mistake? The mistake is to assume extraterrestrials are only 100 years more advanced than us.  Where does our civilization fit on that scale?  If we grow at 3 percent per year in energy consumption … we will be a Type 1 civilization in 100 years, around 2100.  What is the internet? The first planetary technology to be developed. By 2100, we’ll have many planetary technologies. We’re seeing the beginning of a planetary language. English and Mandarin Chinese are the two most popular languages on the internet. The European Union is the beginning of a planetary economy. Rock and roll, the beginning of planetary youth culture. Chanel and Gucci, the beginning of planetary high fashion.  So we’re seeing the beginning of a planetary civilization, right in our own lifetime.  In 100 years, we will have our first starship. That’s already planned — to build a starship within 100 years, but it’s a primitive starship, very clunky, it looks like a Model T and is based on fusion.  By the time you’re a Type 2 or Type 3 civilization, you have other ways to travel. So when scientists giggle, it’s because they’re ignorant of the fact that these can be Type 2 or Type 3 civilizations, in which case their technology is far beyond what we can even imagine. That’s why we have to keep our eyes and ears open.  In your writings, you talk about how 99.99 percent of all species become extinct and that we need a Plan B or Planet B.  The dinosaurs didn’t have a space program, and that’s why they’re not here today. We do have a space program. And people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. When they were children, they dreamed of going to the stars. Now they have billions of dollars. They can take out their checkbook now and create a moon rocket.  We’re going to have a traffic jam around the moon very soon. Starting next year.  What do you mean — all those satellites that Musk is planning to launch?  All the satellites, and NASA has the SLS [Space Launch System] booster that next year will be test-fired. If all goes well, it will orbit around the moon unmanned and a few years after that humans will board the SLS booster rocket with the Orion space capsule. Elon Musk has a parallel program where he creates his own rockets, the Falcon Heavy, fully capable of going to the moon. And Jeff Bezos has the Armstrong rocket. Then the Chinese have the Long March rocket. So think about that — not one, not two, not three, but four moon rockets. We’re going to have a traffic jam around the moon.  And Elon Musk would like to take it one step further and go to Mars. Then again, he has the rocket to prove it. It’s called the BFR — “B” for big, “R” for rocket, “F” for your imagination. It’s been dubbed “The Starship,” and it’s the biggest rocket on the books right now.  We need Plan B, an insurance policy. I don’t think we should move our civilization to Mars — that’s too expensive. [But] the cost is going down.  It costs $10,000 a pound [to put] anything into orbit around the Earth. To put you on the moon, it’s about $100,000 a pound. To put you on Mars, about $1 million a pound. But the prices are dropping — that’s the key.  And now Elon Musk has a reusable rocket. Why’s that important? Because if cars were not reusable, every time you took your car on a ride, you junked your car, cars would be prohibitively expensive. That’s what we do with rockets. We junk them. Once rockets become fully reusable, that’s going to open up space.  Beyond scientists, what’s behind the knee-jerk reaction to dismiss any talk of alien life as tinfoil-hat blather? Is it a human distrust of “the unknown” or what?  Look at the year 1600, when the monk Bruno was burned alive in Rome for proclaiming there were aliens up there. The Catholic Church was threatened by the idea that you could have a civilization outside of the Catholic Church. Do they have the sacraments, do they have saints, do they have Jesus Christ, do they have the Trinity? It’s better just to burn people rather than confront that.  [Johannes] Kepler wrote the first science fiction story, believe it or not. It was called “The Dream” — he had to say it was a dream. He dreamed about going to the moon and visiting moon people. So he wrote the first modern science fiction story, but he had to write it as a dream because he knew what happened to Bruno.  So we’ve always been frightened of “the other.” As Arthur C. Clarke said, “Either they’re out there, or they’re not. Either way, the thought is frightening.”  If they’re not out there, that means we’re alone in the universe — that’s frightening. And if they’re there, it’s frightening because then we wonder, “Who are they? What do they want?”  My colleague Stephen Hawking, the late physicist, said we should be careful announcing our existence. Because look what happened to Montezuma when he met Cortés — he thought Cortés was a god. In fact, Cortés was a pirate and a plunderer of civilizations. He just wanted gold.  So what would aliens want?  That’s the other question. Do they want gold, minerals, water?  Well, we don’t have anything that they would want. Gold is not precious for an extraterrestrial civilization. It’s a rather useless metal as a conductor of electricity. Water? There’s plenty of ice in outer space. We don’t have anything they would want to plunder. So I think for the most part, they’re going to be peaceful.  If they’re already Type 2 or Type 3, they’ve had plenty of time to work out sectarian, religious and racial differences. So I think for the most part, they’ll be peaceful. But we should still be a little bit careful. We don’t really know what their opinions are.  So tell us about your work in string field theory. You’re trying to finish Einstein’s equation?  That’s right. We want to find the “God Equation” — the ultimate theory that explains the entire universe. We want an equation that’s maybe 1 inch long that would allow us to “read the mind of God” — those are Einstein’s words.  And how’s it going?  We think we have it! It’s called string theory. It’s not in its final form, and it’s not testable yet, [but] we have the Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva.  We’re testing the periphery of the theory, but the theory itself is a theory of the universe — so it’s very hard to test. But we physicists are optimistic. We think we will be able to test the theory. And we think it is the final theory. So physics ends at that point. Another era opens up, but one era ends when we finally prove this is the Theory of Everything.  What’s your office like? How do you work?  It’s like how a musician works. Musicians have melodies playing in their heads. And they look out the window and once in a while they sit down at the piano and pluck out melodies. Then they go back to staring out the window again. Because they’ve memorized all the notes, all the tunes, and they’re just dancing in their head.  For us, it’s equations, not melodies. I’ve memorized all the equations of string theory — they’re just floating in my head. And I have to piece them together like a jigsaw puzzle, just like a musician pieces together notes to create a symphony. So it’s close to music.  If string theory is correct, it means that all the subatomic particles — the electrons, the protons — are nothing but musical notes on a tiny vibrating rubber band. So that physics is nothing but the harmonies of the vibrating rubber bands. Chemistry is nothing but the melodies you can create from the vibrating strings. The universe is a symphony of strings.  And the mind of God is cosmic music resonated through hyperspace.  With all your parallel universes, where does death fit into that model?  Within a few decades, we will have, first of all, digital immortality — that will come very fast — and eventually, genetic immortality. Digital immortality is when we digitize everything known about you — there are several companies advertising to digitize your relatives, so you can talk to your parents forever. It’s not science fiction anymore.  I would love to talk to Einstein. One day somebody will digitize everything known about him — his memoirs, diaries, tapes, interviews, everything. One day we may be digitized and our descendants, even our great-great-grandchildren, will want to talk to us because we have been digitized. So I think when we meet aliens from outer space, they’ll be immortal.  Genetic immortality is further down the line, but already we’ve identified many genes, about 60 so far, linked to the aging process. But with what’s called CRISPR technology, we’ll have genetic engineering, and we’ll be able to edit out a lot of the mistakes that cause aging. Aging, by the way, is error — a buildup of error in our DNA — that’s what aging is: the accumulation of error. But we can correct these errors.  So genetic engineering will be possible. I think our grandkids might reach the age of 30 and stop. They may like being 30 for a few hundred years. This is coming very fast.  When we meet aliens from outer space, I think they’re probably be part genetic, part cybernetic, because the rigors of outer space are pretty severe.  I find your books are like a drug that pulls readers into a different world. Why do you write them? Why bother to explain all these things to the masses?  When I was 8 years old, something happened which changed my whole outlook on life. They announced that a great scientist had died and in the evening newspaper they put a picture of his desk with an open book. And the caption said, “This is the unfinished manuscript of the greatest scientist of our time.” So I said to myself, what could be so hard that a great man couldn’t finish it?  So I went to the library over the years and read up on this strange man and his desk. It turns out his name was Albert Einstein, and that unfinished book was the unified field theory. I said this is better than any adventure story. I wanted to read that book that he couldn’t finish. So today I can read that book — and I see all the dead ends and frustrations he had; today we can solve many of the equations that he couldn’t because we have string theory.  So it’s sad that Einstein died in 1955 because the string revolution was several decades later.  Do you think humanity is still evolving?  With civilization, the smallest unit of history is the decade. Anything smaller and you get random fluctuations, and you go crazy trying to figure out all these blips and bumps. But if you look at it decade by decade, then you see the sweep of technology. You realized our grandparents lived before telephones, radios, the telegraph was just coming in, high speed travel was the horse, and long distance communication was yelling out the window. And people didn’t live very long — for most of human history, life expectancy was about 30 or under. So today, when you look at it decade by decade, you see the enormous progress that was made. Every time I read the newspaper, I see the birth pangs of a Type 1 [planetary] civilization. It’s not going to be easy, there are ups and downs, but that, I think, will be the greatest transition in modern civilization, when we hit Type 1 and have a planetary system — not necessary a planetary government, we’ll have many governments —but a planetary society, planetary thinking, a planetary culture. I think that’s beginning already.  In that sense, yes. I read political commentaries and they act like one little blip is the end of the world. And I say, it’s just a blip you’re talking about.  Look at the march of history.  Download the Yahoo News app to customize your experience.


lifesitenews--2019-10-18--Bishop Schneider dedicates new book to faithful who feel abandoned by silent and errant shepherds

Editor’s note: The following address was delivered at the Rome launch of the first book-length interview with Bishop Athanasius Schneider, titled Christus Vincit: Christ’s Triumph Over the Darkness of the Age, held at the Palazzo Cardinal Cesi on Monday, October 14. The book, published by Angelico Press, is now available through Amazon.  From different sides I was asked several times to consent to the publishing of a book length interview. In doing so, my first thought was directed to the brave lay faithful, to fathers and mothers of families, to young men and young women, who are living amid the darkness of our unbelieving, hubristic and decidedly anti-Christian age. Unbelief and human hubris towards God and His supernatural Revelation have already penetrated widely into the life of the Church in our time. The brave lay faithful, the “little ones” in the Church, feel abandoned, since the vast majority of the shepherds seek their refuge in silence, while other shepherds for different motives have passed over to the enemies, thereby becoming wolves in sheep’s clothing.  While speaking in my book as clearly as possible, I wanted to share something of my experience of the Catholic Faith and life, primarily with those who truly constitute the existential periphery within the Church of our time, that is to say: the “little ones,” who are confused, scandalized, and marginalized by worldly minded churchmen, who unscrupulously sell in the temple of God the white doves, i.e. the simple faithful. One can recall in this regard the following commentary of Origen from the beginning of the third century:  To the current situation within the Church one can fully apply the following lucid words of Pope Pius X:  The relentless enemy of mankind never sleeps; according to the events of the times, and the occurrence of events, he tactically changes language, but is always ready for the fight. Indeed, the more that error pursued by the truth is condemned to hide, the more one must fear for the perilous ambushes behind which it will not be long that he will re-establish his always deadly artilleries. Therefore, we can never abandon ourselves to a false security without incurring those anathemas launched against the false prophets who announced peace where peace was not and sang the victory when everything called us to fight. It is therefore necessary in all times, and especially in this one, when the great conspiracy is hatched directly against our Lord Jesus Christ, against his supernatural and revealed religion, against the people, whose false teachers say evil is good and good is evil, calling darkness light and light darkness, vocantes tenebras lucem et lucem tenebras, seducing many minds that bend to every wind of doctrine. That is why we believe the time to speak, the tempus loquendi,has come (Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Epistolae ad principes. Positiones et minutae157 (1907-08), fascicolo 35a).  In modern times we possess an admirable example of the fidelity to one’s baptismal vows in Blessed Karl of Austria, the last Emperor of Austria. In the extremely difficult times of the First World War and occupying the highest political and social position, he nevertheless denied any compromise which would undermine the validity of the commandments of God in public life and which would dethrone Jesus Christ from His influence over social life. Blessed Karl categorically refused any collaboration with sin and with godless powers. During his Swiss exile, more than once high-level exponents of Freemasonry had offered Emperor Karl to work for the recovery of the throne under the condition of a freer marriage legislation, a freer school education and the admission of Freemasonry in Austria. The response of the Blessed Karl to this offer was truly exemplary. He answered: “What I have received from God, I cannot accept from the hand of the devil” (Summ. test. p. 145, § 221, Anna Francesca Lamich).  What a glaring contrast we see between such a heroic testimony of fidelity to his baptismal vows on the part of a lay faithful, in this case of Blessed Emperor Karl of Austria, and those churchmen who, in our day, actively collaborate with the promotion of sin and with anti-Christian and freemasonic powers. Such churchmen betray not only their baptismal vows, but even more the vows of their episcopal ordination. Indeed, many influential churchmen in our days engage in promoting the equality of all religions and the substitution of active evangelization with interreligious dialogue. In this way they not only betray Christ, but commit a great sin against the love for their neighbor. Those, however, who are bringing to the people of our dark age the light of Christ’s truths and the sweetness of His kingdom, are, in fact, the greatest benefactors of humankind. In that sense we may understand and recall also the following prophetical words of Pope Pius XII: “Precisely because of this apocalyptic foresight of disaster, imminent and remote, We feel We have a duty to raise with still greater insistence the eyes and hearts of those in whom there yet remains good will to the One from Whom alone comes the salvation of the world — to One Whose almighty and merciful Hand can alone calm this tempest — to the One Whose truth and Whose love can enlighten the intellects and inflame the hearts of so great a section of mankind plunged in error, selfishness, strife and struggle, so as to give it a new orientation in the spirit of the Kingship of Christ” (Encyclical Summi Pontificatus, 24).  Christus vincit! Thank you for your attention!