The splinternet: Elon Musk’s 42,000 StarLink 5G Satellites (SpaceX)

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7000 have already been launched.

Cyber-balkanization

  • Over the next few decades, Elon Musk is hoping to send 42,000 satellites to space.
  • He is hoping those satellites bring high-speed internet to every corner of the world— from the rainforest to Antarctica.

Foreign Policy writer, Evgeny Morozov, questions whether “the Internet brings us closer together”, and despite its early ideals that it would “increase understanding, foster tolerance, and ultimately promote worldwide peace”, the opposite may be happening.

Google, Twitter, Facebook—are U.S. companies that other governments increasingly fear as political agents. Chinese, Cuban, Iranian, and even Turkish politicians are already talking up “information sovereignty” a euphemism for replacing services provided by Western Internet companies with their own more limited but somewhat easier to control products, further splintering the World Wide Web into numerous national Internets. The age of the Splinternet beckons.[

Koch’s postulates & Bradford Hill criteria for causative epidemiologic evidence

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Koch’s postulates are the following:

  1. The microorganism must be found in abundance in all organisms suffering from the disease, but should not be found in healthy organisms.
  2. The microorganism must be isolated from a diseased organism and grown in pure culture.
  3. The cultured microorganism should cause disease when introduced into a healthy organism.
  4. The microorganism must be reisolated from the inoculated, diseased experimental host and identified as being identical to the original specific causative agent.

The list of the Bradford Hill criteria is as follows:

  1. Strength (effect size): A small association does not mean that there is not a causal effect, though the larger the association, the more likely that it is causal.
  2. Consistency (reproducibility): Consistent findings observed by different persons in different places with different samples strengthens the likelihood of an effect.
  3. Specificity: Causation is likely if there is a very specific population at a specific site and disease with no other likely explanation. The more specific an association between a factor and an effect is, the bigger the probability of a causal relationship.[1]
  4. Temporality: The effect has to occur after the cause (and if there is an expected delay between the cause and expected effect, then the effect must occur after that delay).
  5. Biological gradient (dose-response relationship): Greater exposure should generally lead to greater incidence of the effect. However, in some cases, the mere presence of the factor can trigger the effect. In other cases, an inverse proportion is observed: greater exposure leads to lower incidence.[1]
  6. Plausibility: A plausible mechanism between cause and effect is helpful (but Hill noted that knowledge of the mechanism is limited by current knowledge).
  7. Coherence: Coherence between epidemiological and laboratory findings increases the likelihood of an effect. However, Hill noted that “… lack of such [laboratory] evidence cannot nullify the epidemiological effect on associations”.
  8. Experiment: “Occasionally it is possible to appeal to experimental evidence”.
  9. Analogy: The use of analogies or similarities between the observed association and any other associations.
  10. Some authors consider, also, Reversibility: If the cause is deleted then the effect should disappear as well.

Legal decision: Portuguese court rules PCR test as unreliable

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The PCR test “is unable to determine, beyond reasonable doubt, that a positive result corresponds, in fact, to the infection of a person by the SARS-CoV-2 virus”, stated the Lisbon Court of Appeal on 11 November 2020.
Proc. Nº 1783/20.7T8PDL.L1

PROCESSO N.º 1783/20.7T8PDL.L1-3


Most importantly, the judges decided that a single positive PCR test cannot be used as an effective diagnosis of infection. If this decision is a precedent remains an open question.

The judges referred to the following publication:
Surkova, E., Nikolayevskyy, V., & Drobniewski, F. (2020). False-positive COVID-19 results: hidden problems and costs. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 8(12), 1167–1168. doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30453-7
Fulltext: www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30453-7/fulltext

In Germany this judgement is now debated (obviously not by the mainstream media – they prefer to ignore it as long as possible), but see: www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/faktenfuchs-irrefuehrende-meldungen-ueber-pcr-urteil-in-portugal,SHo3Nlm

Inattentional blindness: The 5G rollout and its ramifications

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This post is under construction…

 

Daniel J simon, C. F. C. (1999). Gorilla in our midst – reference. Gorillas in Our Midst: Sustained, Inattentional Blindness for Dynamic Events – Perception.
Simons, D. J. (2010).
Monkeying around with the Gorillas in Our Midst: Familiarity with an Inattentional-Blindness Task Does Not Improve the Detection of Unexpected Events. I-Perception, 1(1), 3–6. doi.org/10.1068/i03865

5G map: www.nperf.com/de/map/5g
5G has been developed by the US/Israeli military as a weapon to disperse crowds (directed energy beams which are harmful to biological organisms). It has been used twice during the illegal Irak-war. There are virtually no studies about the safety of 5G and it can be regarded as a social experiment without consensus and control-group. The 60Ghz frequency interferes with oxygen absorption of hemoglobin.

Tretyakov, M. Y., Koshelev, M. A., Dorovskikh, V. V., Makarov, D. S., & Rosenkranz, P. W. (2005). 60-GHz oxygen band: precise broadening and central frequencies of fine-structure lines, absolute absorption profile at atmospheric pressure, and revision of mixing coefficients. Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 231(1), 1–14. doi.org/10.1016/j.jms.2004.11.011


Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psycho-civilized Society by José M. R. Delgado. Publication date 1969

archive.org/details/PhysicalControlOfTheMindJosM.R.Delgado1969

Electronic technology has reached a high level of sophistication,
and two-way radio commJ’nication with automobiles, airplanes,
and outer space vehicles is commonplace today. The
notable lag in development of similar instrumentation for communciation with the depth of the brain reflects the already
mentioned unbalanced evolution of our technological civilization,
which seems more interested in accumulating power than
in understanding and influencing the basic mechanisms of the
human mind.
This gap is now being filled, and as Figures 4 and 5 show, it
is already possible to equip animals or human beings with
minute instruments called “stimoceivers” for radio transmission
and reception of electrical messages to and from the brain in
completely unrestrained subjects. Microminiaturization of the
instrument’s electronic components permits control of all parameters of excitation for radio stimulation of three different points
within the brain and also telemetric recording of three channels
of intracerebral electrical activity. In animals, the stimoceiver
may be anchored to the skull, and different members of a colony
can be studied without disturbing their spontaneous relations
within a group. Behavior such as aggression can be evoked or
inhibited. In patients, the stimoceiver may be strapped to the
head bandage, permitting electrical stimulation and monitoring
of intracerebral activity without disturbing spontaneous activities.

Covid propaganda as a trailblazer for the totalitarian transhumanist agenda

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Keywords: Population-wide genetic sequencing, eugenics on steroids, full-spectrum surveillance, bio-sensors, bio-hacking, bio-data, big-data, population control, population surveilance, brain-computer interfaces, nano-technology, scientific propaganda, technocratic agenda, silicon valley, ray kurzweil, singularity, academic prostitution, intellectual sell out.

Selected publications:
Huxley, J. (1968). Transhumanism. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. doi.org/10.1177/002216786800800107
Kurzweil, R. (2008). The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine. Scientific American Sp. doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0208-20sp
Sorgner, S. L. (2008). Nietzsche, the Overhuman, and Transhumanism. Journal of Evolution & Technology.
Carafides, J. L. (2003). Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism? Philosophical Inquiry, 25(1), 259–260. doi.org/10.5840/philinquiry2003251/222

See also Singularity University homepage: su.org


Further References

Mead, W. R., & Kurzweil, R. (2006). The Singularity Is near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Foreign Affairs. doi.org/10.2307/20031996
Kurzweil, R. (2013). How to create a mind: The secret of human thought revealed. New York Review of Books. doi.org/10.5860/choice.50-6167
Goertzel, B. (2007). Human-level artificial general intelligence and the possibility of a technological singularity. A reaction to Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near, and McDermott’s critique of Kurzweil. Artificial Intelligence. doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2007.10.011
Kurzweil, R. (2014). The Singularity is Near. In Ethics and Emerging Technologies. doi.org/10.1057/9781137349088_26
Kurzweil, R. (2004). The Law of Accelerating Returns. In Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05642-4_16
Kurzweil, R. (2010). How my predictions are faring. How My Predictions Are Faring.
Ray Kurzweil. (2010). In Talking About Life. doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511763328.033
Kurzweil, R. (2008). The singularity: The last word. In IEEE Spectrum. doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2008.4635038
Reed, C., & Galeon, D. (2017). Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045. Futurism.
Kurzweil, R. (2013). How to make mind. Futurist.
McDermott, D. (2006). Kurzweil’s argument for the success of AI. Artificial Intelligence. doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2006.10.006
Berman, A. (2016). Technology Feels Like It’s Accelerating — Because It Actually Is. In Singularity Hub.
Butler, D. (2016). Tomorrow ’ S Technological Change Is Accelerating Today At an Unprecedented World. Nature.
Calwalladr, C. (2014). Are the robots about to rise? Google’s new director of engineering thinks so…. The Guardian.

Gidley, J. M. (2019). Transhumanism. In Critical Terms in Futures Studies. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28987-4_49
Bostrom, N. (2005). A History of Transhumanist Thought. Journal of Evolution and Technology.
Persson, I., & Savulescu, J. (2010). Moral transhumanism. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhq052
Fukuyama, F. (2004). Transhumanism. In Foreign Policy. doi.org/10.2307/4152980
Porter, A. (2017). Bioethics and transhumanism. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (United Kingdom). doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhx001

Effectiveness of masks to prevent SARS-CoV-2: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Conclusion: The recommendation to wear surgical masks to supplement other public health measures did not reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate [i.e., no statistically significant difference between groups was found at the coventional α-level;  p = 0.38; (odds ratio [OR], 0.82 [CI, 0.54 to 1.23]; p = 0.33)]. (Content in brackets added)

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Johan Skov Bundgaard, Daniel Emil Tadeusz Raaschou-Pedersen, Christian von Buchwald, et al. Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Annals of Internal Medicine 0;0 [Epub ahead of print 18 November 2020]. doi:doi.org/10.7326/M20-6817

BibTex

@article{doi:10.7326/M20-6817,

title = {Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers},
journal = {Annals of Internal Medicine},
volume = {0},
number = {0},
pages = {null},
year = {0},
doi = {10.7326/M20-6817},
note ={PMID: 33205991},

URL = {
doi.org/10.7326/M20-6817

},
eprint = {
doi.org/10.7326/M20-6817

}

Abstract

Background:

Observational evidence suggests that mask wearing mitigates transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is uncertain if this observed association arises through protection of uninfected wearers (protective effect), via reduced transmission from infected mask wearers (source control), or both.

Objective:

To assess whether recommending surgical mask use outside the home reduces wearers’ risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection in a setting where masks were uncommon and not among recommended public health measures.

Design:

Randomized controlled trial (DANMASK-19 [Danish Study to Assess Face Masks for the Protection Against COVID-19 Infection]). (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04337541)

Setting:

Denmark, April and May 2020.

Participants:

Adults spending more than 3 hours per day outside the home without occupational mask use.

Intervention:

Encouragement to follow social distancing measures for coronavirus disease 2019, plus either no mask recommendation or a recommendation to wear a mask when outside the home among other persons together with a supply of 50 surgical masks and instructions for proper use.

Measurements:

The primary outcome was SARS-CoV-2 infection in the mask wearer at 1 month by antibody testing, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), or hospital diagnosis. The secondary outcome was PCR positivity for other respiratory viruses.

Results:

A total of 3030 participants were randomly assigned to the recommendation to wear masks, and 2994 were assigned to control; 4862 completed the study. Infection with SARS-CoV-2 occurred in 42 participants recommended masks (1.8%) and 53 control participants (2.1%). The between-group difference was −0.3 percentage point (95% CI, −1.2 to 0.4 percentage point; P = 0.38) (odds ratio, 0.82 [CI, 0.54 to 1.23]; P = 0.33). Multiple imputation accounting for loss to follow-up yielded similar results. Although the difference observed was not statistically significant, the 95% CIs are compatible with a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection.

Limitation:

Inconclusive results, missing data, variable adherence, patient-reported findings on home tests, no blinding, and no assessment of whether masks could decrease disease transmission from mask wearers to others.

Conclusion:

The recommendation to wear surgical masks to supplement other public health measures did not reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among wearers by more than 50% in a community with modest infection rates, some degree of social distancing, and uncommon general mask use. The data were compatible with lesser degrees of self-protection.

Primary Funding Source:

The Salling Foundations.


Fulltext: www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10.7326/M20-6817

 

The treason of the intellectuals / La trahison des clercs (Julien Benda, 1927)

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Prof. Shoshana Zuboff: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

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Faculty homepage: www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6582

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York: Basic Books

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Prof. Rainer Mausfeld: Fear and Power – The war against “X”

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“Under the pretext of a governmental war against “X”, democratic structures can be dismantled and authoritarian structures established.”

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title = {Angst und Macht – Herrschaftstechniken der Angsterzeugung in kapitalistischen Demokratien},
author = {Rainer Mausfeld},
publisher = {Westend-Verlag},
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year = {2019},
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p. 39
“Demselben Zweck einer Verdeckung eigener Ziele und Absichten dient eine Angsterzeugung durch propagandistische Deklaration einer großen Gefahr X, der die Bevölkerung durch einen »Kampf gegen X« entschlossen entgegentreten müsse. Eine derartige propagandistische Warnung begleiten die staat­lichen Apparate durch »die gegenwärtig alles beherrschende Verheißung des Schutzes vor Terrorismus und Bösem aller Art«.38 X kann dabei so ziemlich alles sein, was sich irgendwie wirksam zur Angsterzeugung nutzen lässt. X kann also für »Kommunismus« stehen, für Migranten, »Sozialschmarotzer«, Terrorismus, Fake News und Desinformation, Rechtspopu­lismus, Islamismus oder für irgendetwas anderes. Durch die propagandistische Ausrufung eines »Kampfes gegen X« lassen sich in »kapitalistischen Demokratien« gleichzeitig mehrere von den Zentren der Macht gewünschte Ziele erreichen: Zum einen wird der für Machtzwecke nutzbare Rohstoff »Angst« produziert, zudem lässt sich die Aufmerksamkeit sehr wirksam auf Ablenkziele richten, und schließlich lassen sich unter dem Vorwand eines Kampfes gegen X demokratische Strukturen abbauen und auf allen Ebenen der Exekutive und Legislative autoritäre Strukturen etablieren.”

Further References

Psychological warfare methods of the Stasi: Discredeting dissenters by “decomposition”

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Zersetzung (German for “decomposition”) is a psychological warfare technique used by the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) to repress political opponents in East Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. Zersetzung served to combat alleged and actual dissidents through covert means, using secret methods of abusive control and psychological manipulation to prevent anti-government activities.
The use of Zersetzung is well documented due to Stasi files published after East Germany’s Wende, with several thousands or up to 10,000 individuals estimated to have become victims,[3]:217 and 5,000 of whom sustained irreversible damage.[4] Special pensions for restitution have been created for Zersetzung victims.

Directive 1/76 lists the following as tried and tested forms of Zersetzung, among others:

a systematic degradation of reputation, image, and prestige on the basis of true, verifiable and discrediting information together with untrue, credible, irrefutable, and thus also discrediting information; a systematic engineering of social and professional failures to undermine the self-confidence of individuals; … engendering of doubts regarding future prospects; engendering of mistrust and mutual suspicion within groups …; interrupting respectively impeding the mutual relations within a group in space or time …, for example by … assigning geographically distant workplaces.

— Directive No. 1/76 of January 1976 for the development of “operational procedures”.[34]

Roger Engelmann, Frank Joestel: Grundsatzdokumente des MfS. In: Klaus-Dietmar Henke, Siegfried Suckut, Thomas Großbölting (Hrsg.): Anatomie der Staatssicherheit: Geschichte, Struktur und Methoden. MfS-Handbuch. Teil V/5, Berlin 2004, S. 287.

Als bewährte Formen der Zersetzung nennt die Stasi Richtlinie 1/76 unter anderem:

„systematische Diskreditierung des öffentlichen Rufes, des Ansehens und des Prestiges auf der Grundlage miteinander verbundener wahrer, überprüfbarer und diskreditierender, sowie unwahrer, glaubhafter, nicht widerlegbarer und damit ebenfalls diskreditierender Angaben; systematische Organisierung beruflicher und gesellschaftlicher Misserfolge zur Untergrabung des Selbstvertrauens einzelner Personen; […] Erzeugung von Zweifeln an der persönlichen Perspektive; Erzeugen von Misstrauen und gegenseitigen Verdächtigungen innerhalb von Gruppen […]; örtliches und zeitliches Unterbinden beziehungsweise Einschränken der gegenseitigen Beziehungen der Mitglieder einer Gruppe […] zum Beispiel durch […] Zuweisung von örtlich entfernt liegender Arbeitsplätze“

– Richtlinie Nr. 1/76 zur Entwicklung und Bearbeitung Operativer Vorgänge vom Januar 1976[31]

 

Die Zersetzung war eine vom Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS) der DDR eingesetzte geheimpolizeiliche Methode. Sie diente zur Bekämpfung vermeintlicher und tatsächlicher politischer Gegner. Die in der ab Januar 1976 in Kraft getretenen Richtlinie Nr. 1/76 zur Entwicklung und Bearbeitung Operativer Vorgänge (OV) definierten Zersetzungsmaßnahmen wurden vom MfS vornehmlich in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren in Operativen Vorgängen gegen oppositionelle Gruppen und Einzelpersonen eingesetzt. Fast durchgehend konspirativ angewandt, ersetzten sie den offenen Terror der Ära Ulbricht.

Als repressive Verfolgungspraxis bestanden die Zersetzungsmethoden aus umfangreichen, heimlichen Steuerungs- und Manipulationsfunktionen und subtilen Formen ausgeklügelten Psychoterrors bis in die persönlichsten Beziehungen der Opfer hinein. Das MfS griff dabei auf das Netz an „Inoffiziellen Mitarbeitern“ (IM), staatliche Einflussmöglichkeiten auf alle Arten von Institutionen sowie die „Operative Psychologie“ zurück. Durch gezielte psychische Beeinträchtigung oder Schädigung versuchte das MfS auf diese Weise, den als Gegner bzw. Feind wahrgenommenen Dissidenten und Oppositionellen die Möglichkeiten für weitere „feindliche Handlungen“, das hieß politische Betätigung, zu nehmen.

Durch die Offenlegung zahlreicher Stasi-Unterlagen nach der politischen Wende in der DDR ist der Einsatz von Zersetzungsmaßnahmen durch das MfS öffentlich bekannt geworden. Schätzungen gehen von einer insgesamt vier- bis fünfstelligen Anzahl von Personen aus, die mit Zersetzungsmaßnahmen belegt wurden.

Eine Definition der Zersetzung einschließlich deren Ziele und Methoden lieferte das MfS im Rahmen der zweiten Auflage ihres 1981 erarbeiteten und 1985 erschienenen Wörterbuchs zur politisch-operativen Arbeit. Die erste Auflage aus dem Jahr 1970 enthielt diesen Begriff noch nicht.[5]

„[Die operative Zersetzung ist eine] operative Methode des MfS zur wirksamen Bekämpfung subversiver Tätigkeit, insbesondere in der Vorgangsbearbeitung. Mit der Z. wird durch verschiedene politisch-operative Aktivitäten Einfluß auf feindlich-negative Personen, insbesondere auf ihre feindlich-negativen Einstellungen und Überzeugungen in der Weise genommen, daß diese erschüttert und allmählich verändert werden bzw. Widersprüche sowie Differenzen zwischen feindlich-negativen Kräften hervorgerufen, ausgenutzt oder verstärkt werden.
Ziel der Z. ist die Zersplitterung, Lähmung, Desorganisierung und Isolierung feindlich-negativer Kräfte, um dadurch feindlich-negative Handlungen einschließlich deren Auswirkungen vorbeugend zu verhindern, wesentlich einzuschränken oder gänzlich zu unterbinden bzw. eine differenzierte politisch-ideologische Rückgewinnung zu ermöglichen.
Z. sind sowohl unmittelbarer Bestandteil der Bearbeitung Operativer Vorgänge als auch vorbeugender Aktivitäten außerhalb der Vorgangsbearbeitung zur Verhinderung feindlicher Zusammenschlüsse. Hauptkräfte der Durchführung der Z. sind die IM. Die Z. setzt operativ bedeutsame Informationen und Beweise über geplante, vorbereitete und durchgeführte feindliche Aktivitäten sowie entsprechende Anknüpfungspunkte für die wirksame Einleitung von Z.-Maßnahmen voraus.
Die Z. hat auf der Grundlage einer gründlichen Analyse des operativen Sachverhaltes sowie der exakten Festlegung der konkreten Zielstellung zu erfolgen. Die Durchführung der Z. ist einheitlich und straff zu leiten, ihre Ergebnisse sind zu dokumentieren.
Die politische Brisanz der Z. stellt hohe Anforderungen hinsichtlich der Wahrung der Konspiration.“

– Ministerium für Staatssicherheit: Wörterbuch zur politisch-operativen Arbeit, Stichwort: „Zersetzung“[6]