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JUST BEFORE 21/12/12 Reprinting by Peter Braveheart
Here are some of the very interesting articles from the
excellent ENDTIME site: www.peopleofthekeys.com
You will find all of the following in the EDITORIAL for this
week.
“Hear, O ye my beloved, saith the Lord: behold, the
days of trouble are at hand, but I will deliver you from the same.” (2 Esdras 16:74)
I Will Deliver You
Dear Friends,
Greetings. As we approach the end of 2012, not really knowing if or when the prophecies of the Bible and many other sources may come to pass, we do know certain truths. If we are truly prepared with Jesus in our hearts, with faith in His Word, then we can surely say, 'que sera sera', 'whatever will be will be', knowing God will see us through and keep us with what ever is to be, whether the rise of the antichrist, the confirming of the covenant, the breaking of the covenant, the Great Tribulation, or the return of Jesus at the end of the Tribulation.
If we are about to head into a time of great trouble, the above verse from the Apocrypha, we felt pretty much is another confirmation to many of the promises of God found in the Bible. A good example to hold onto being Psalm 91, “He that dwelleth in the secret place
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(shelter) of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
We think you will find the material below both relevant and interesting. Included are two interviews with Joseph Candel – 'Fallen Angels' and 'The Great Deception'. Joseph has done a very good job outlining future events as predicted in the Bible and the possibilities of what may lay ahead.
There is also a rallying call to Christians in general by Paul McGuire entitled “Prophecy, predictive programming and the overthrow of the Luciferian elite.”
We'll leave you this week by saying have a great week, and remember “God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able...to bear.” 1 Corinthians 10:13
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NewsWithViews.com (Edited from longer article.)
PROPHECY, PREDICTIVE PROGRAMMING & THE
OVERTHROW OF THE LUCIFERIAN ELITE
By Paul McGuire -
December 3, 2012 -
The bottom line in all this is that the ruling
elite, which is heavily involved in Satanic
practices is using mind control or sorcery
to destroy the Middle Class and establish a
Luciferian elite and their worker slaves.
Aldous Huxley made these remarks at a
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speech at a university in California:
"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the
all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of
managers control a population of slaves who do not have to
be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them
love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to
ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and
schoolteachers.... The greatest triumphs of propaganda have
been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining
from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical
point of view, is silence about truth."
“And it cast down the TRUTH to the ground Daniel 8.12”.
Occult philosophy is essential to this totalitarian state because
it teaches that man is not made in the image of God,
therefore he has no intrinsic value. This opens the gates of
hell to enslave man with economics, (wealth redistribution)
mass mind control and the real goal of social engineering,
which is to control mass consciousness, so that masses or the
people on the bottom of the pyramid live as controlled puppets
and economic debtors to the ruling elite. The present
economic crisis is simply the mechanism for creating
slaves!
The Bible, both Old Testament and New Testament, I believe
is God's inspired and inerrant Word, the problem is that many
of the people talking about it, have no idea what it is actually
saying. But, the power of truth in the Bible is like a cosmic
tsunami smashing the strongholds of hell on the beaches of
human consciousness. It is clear starting in Eden, that God
made man, male and female to be the rulers of Paradise. Man
was never created to be a slave! Adam and Eve lost the
power of their ruler-ship by entering into a dialogue with
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the consciousness of evil, embodied by the serpent. In its
simplest terms, Adam and Eve lost their ruler-ship by
rejecting God's Word, in favour of the evil philosophy of
the serpent. The serpent was the most powerful of fallen
angels, whose name was Lucifer, which means the "shining
one." He wanted to be god and led a revolution against God,
along with one third of the angels, which is still continuing to
this present day.
Lucifer's plan was to enslave mankind, which he did when he
deceived Adam and Eve. All those who have chosen to serve
Lucifer, hope to gain power by enslaving others and that is
the world system. The dictatorial rule of Satan is manifested
in physical models of society and power. Beginning at the
Tower of Babel, then under the Pharaoh system, where God's
people were made slaves. Every time mankind rejected the
precepts of God for a philosophy like Communism,
Fascism or humanism, men and women became slaves
under a cruel and dictatorial ruler, like Lenin, Stalin,
Hitler and Mao, where hundreds of millions were put in
slave camps and murdered. There is a vast difference
between the workers' paradise of Karl Marx and the paradise
of God in Eden.
In a cosmic sense we are now approaching crunch time! The
prophecies and predictions of the Biblical prophets are
coming true before our very eyes. The world is being ruled
by a Satanic elite, which are herded us like slaves to the
one world government, one world economic system and
one world religion predicted in Revelation Chapter 13. Men
and women who reject God as their Ruler, will receive the
ultimate mark of a slave, the Mark of the Beast, which is a
microchip or biochip implant where no one can buy or sell,
without this electronic mark of the beast.
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The planned destruction of the dollar and the manufactured
economic collapse is intended to bring in the coming one
world economic system, by around 2018. Then the mass
population of planet earth, who chose to reject God, will
choose to worship the Antichrist as God. We are in the birth
pains described by Jesus Christ as the signs of the times in
Matthew 24. Christ and the Apostle Paul warned of Satanic
elite that would rise to rule the world in the last days. They
clearly said that the spiritual deception in mankind would be
so intense that they would be under a Great Delusion of Great
Apostasy. This is global mass mind control that is first
spiritual and also drug oriented and technological.
Through so-called secular predictive programming mankind
has been programmed to accept a world authoritarian leader,
accept the loss of freedoms, accept being slaves and accepting
a mark and embrace the idea that all resistance in useless. The
Satanic elite is openly killing off, or "culling the herd," of
"useless eaters," by taking the world's population from 7
billion to 500 million. They are using the Science of
Eugenics first developed by the Rockefeller Foundation in the
1920's and then adopted by Hitler in the 1930's as the
scientific justification for their goals.
On a theological level, a superficial reading of Bible prophecy
would lead one to conclude that we are to be fatalistic, accept
our role as victims and do nothing until Christ returns. Yet the
Bible teaches that we are to, "rightly divide the Word."
That means we are to take great care to interpret it
correctly. Now, based on my personal experience, of teaching
Bible prophecy to millions of people through mass media, I
know that many will instantly misinterpret what I am about to
say.
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But, within the Evangelical Community there is almost an
unconscious death wish when it comes to Bible prophecy.
Nowhere in the Bible does it ever teach Christians to become
fatalists and do nothing until Christ returns. Nowhere! In fact,
the Bible teaches at great length the responsibility of those
who claim to know Christ, to actively engage the world
and the culture. For example, in the Parable of the Talents,
Christians are told to use their talents, abilities and
resources for God, or suffer severe penalties for becoming
apathetic and doing nothing! Christians often talk about the
preaching the Gospel, which of course is what they should
do. However, the words of Jesus Christ, "Occupy until I
come," are omitted by many Christians as if it were an
obscenity!
Yet, Jesus Christ is specifically telling us that we are to
"Occupy until I come!" Occupation implies maintaining your
position and even advancing it! Yet, we see the majority of
Christians adopting a non-Biblical theology or retreatism or
escapism. The most often used excuse is that we are in the last
days and we are not to interfere with God's end time program.
Essentially, the argument goes we are to just hang in there
until the Rapture. The non-Biblical idea is that if we attempt
to do anything, we might be interfering with God's Sovereign
plan. Thus passivity and fatalism are promoted as the ultimate
will of God for the truly spiritual Christian.
All of the above so-called theological reasons for apathy,
passivity and fatalism, are the direct opposite of what Christ is
actually teaching. In fact, they are a complete defiance of His
stated will! When Jesus Christ said that we are to, "Occupy
until I Come," that is precisely what He meant. He said,
"occupy and not hide, retreat and sleep!
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The idea that by taking action based on a sound mind is an
attempt to overrule God's Sovereignty is the exact opposite of
what Christ taught. It is impossible to for any man to overrule
God's Sovereignty through prayer or action. God's Sovereign
plan will unfold exactly as He planned and He did not create
man to live in a fatalistic universe. That is why God most
often works in partnership with His people. Many times
you will hear the false theological argument that this is the
last days and everything is supposed to get worse, therefore
we should not attempt to do anything about it, because we
might interfere with God's plan. This is theological insanity! It
has been the last days ever since the time of the Apostle Paul
over 2,000 years ago. During the last days, which we are still
in, there have been countless revivals like the Reformation,
First Great Awakening and Third Great Awakening. There
has been global evangelism where hundreds of millions have
accepted the truth of Christ's message. Empires of great evil
like the Third Reich, Lenin, Stalin and others have been
destroyed or restrained.
By God's grace technological achievements such as the light
bulb, electricity, air travel, television, computers, medical
advances and countless other scientific breakthroughs have
alleviated great suffering. The American Revolution with its
unique Constitution and Bill of Rights produced the greatest
Middle Class in the history of mankind, along with the most
freedoms, including religious freedoms. All of this and much,
much more has happened during the last days!
We are still in the last days and the signs of the times are
intensifying every day. The danger of global thermonuclear
war, plagues, famines, wars, economic collapse, earthquakes,
freak weather and asteroid impact are just a few of the dangers
the human race faces. However, in the face of the warnings
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given to us by the ancient prophets, scientists, Apostles and
Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ emphatically commanded us to,
"Occupy until I Come!" That is our prime directive! "And
I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I
will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it." Matthew 16:18
It is important that you accurately understand what I am
saying. I am not calling for some kind of Christian
Reconstruction movement or the establishment of a Christian
theocracy. I am simply advocating that what Christ taught be
established in relationship to our present moment. When the
church is in obedience to the words, "Occupy until I come,"
the gates of hell cannot prevail against the church. At this
present moment, which is in the last days, the church is to
move forward as the spiritual armies of light and engage
the armies of spiritual darkness. That conflict or spiritual
war is to continue until Christ returns.
The reason spiritual darkness, chaos and the armies of evil
appear to triumph in our present hour, is because the church
has rejected its mandate from its Lord to, "Occupy until I
come." The correct interpretation of the "gates of hell
cannot prevail," is to be understood in the sense, that the
gates of hell represent hell's kingdom on earth. But, the
church, if viewed properly is to be seen as a divine battering
ram, smashing down the gates of hell! When the individual
Christian and church come into divine alignment with
God's intention, there will be a release from heaven of
spiritual power that has the power to overturn the earthly
kingdoms of spiritual darkness and drive the powers of
darkness from the land. This is ground zero in the spiritual
war. All economic, political, social, spiritual, technological
and institutional control will turn on this one truth. Everything
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we are experiencing in America and around the world will be
impacted by an eternal force. This is the game changer and it
must begin today.
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Fallen Angels
Endtime Interview part 1-3 between Joseph Candel and Simon
Peter, which I highly recommend you watch, as it explains our
current world situation very succinctly. See:
http://endtimeinfo.com/category/podcasts/
http://english.audioconectate.net/night-light-shows/
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The Great Deception
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(Taken from Raiders News Update - Tom Horn.)
The False Prophet And The Antichrist Are Here
Petrus Romanus, the Antichrist, and the Years 2012 &
2016
Posted: March 11, 2012
Contemporaneous to the arrival of the
False Prophet (Petrus Romanus) is a
prophecy from what is widely considered
the most important work of Jewish
Kabbalah, the Zohar, a collection of books
written in medieval Aramaic over seven
hundred years ago containing mystical
commentary on the Pentateuch (five books
of Moses, the Torah). In addition to
interpreting Scripture, the "Vaera" section
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(volume 3, section 34) includes "The signs heralding
Mashiach," or "The coming of the Messiah." The fascinating
date for "his" appearance is set in the Zohar in late 2012!
Given the rejection of Jesus by orthodox Jews as Messiah,
Christians understand this "coming" would herald the
unveiling of Antichrist in 2012.
J. R. Church of Prophecy in the News called our office a
couple years back and led us through verses 476 - 483 of this
part of the Zohar to point out what nobody in the 2012
research community had written before--that the time of
Jacob's trouble (the Great Tribulation, which some Catholic
scholars say begins with the election of Petrus Romanus) will
commence according to this ancient text in the year 2012
when the "kings of the earth" gather in Rome, possibly during
a papal conclave, and are killed by fiery stones or missiles
from the sky.
The prophecy in the Zohar, given by Jews hundreds of years
separate from the divination of "the last pope," is amazing
when compared with the Catholic prediction. The final pope,
"Peter the Roman," whose reign ends in the destruction of
Rome, will assume authority during a time of great
tribulation, and then "the city of seven hills will be destroyed,
and the terrible and fearsome Judge will judge his people."
But Dr. Church pointed out how in the Jewish Zohar, this
vision of the destruction of Rome is repeated, though one
prophecy connects it to the coming of the False Prophet, and
the other, the Antichrist:
This ancient rabbinical dissertation claims that Rome will be
destroyed in the Jewish calendar year 5773, which, in our
calendar begins with the new moon of September 2012 and
concludes a year later:
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"In the year seventy-three [2012/2013] the kings of the world
will assemble in the great city of Rome, and the Holy One
will shower on them fire and hail and meteoric stones until
they are all destroyed, with the exception of those who will
not yet have arrived there."
Is he hinting at the destruction of Mystery Babylon? He notes
that not all kings will be destroyed. Of those remaining, he
says: "These will commence anew to make other wars. From
that time the Messiah will begin to declare himself, and round
him there will be gathered many nations and many hosts from
the uttermost ends of the earth."[i]
Thus the false messiah (antichrist) is predicted in a seven-
hundred-year-old Jewish prophecy to appear in 2012.
Similarly, the nine-hundred-year-old Prophecy of the Popes
looks to be unfolding in parallel fashion to provide Petrus
Romanus in 2012. To these, we could add numerous other
strange attractors from throughout history that also assigned
apocalyptic importance to the year 2012, including:
· The Mayan calendar ends in 2012 with the return of their
flying dragon god Kulkulkan.
· The Aztec calendar ends in 2012 and their flying dragon god
Quetzalcoatl returns.
· The Cherokee Indian calendar ends in the year 2012 and
their flying rattlesnake god returns. The "Cherokee
Rattlesnake Prophecies," also known as the "Chickamaugan
Prophecy" or the "Cherokee Star Constellation Prophecies,"
are part of a series of apocalyptic prophecies made by
members of the Cherokee tribe during 1811 - 1812. Like the
Maya, the Cherokee calendar ends mysteriously in the year
2012 when astronomical phenomena related to Jupiter, Venus,
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Orion, and Pleiades cause the "powers" of the star systems to
"awaken."
·According to ancient Mayan inscriptions, in 2012, the Mayan
underworld god Bolon Yokte Ku also returns.
· The Hindu Kali Yuga calendar ends in the year 2012 at the
conclusion of the age of "the male demon."
· According to the book, Apollyon Rising 2012, the prophecy
of the Cumaean Sibyl on the Great Seal of the United States
(novus ordo seclorum) points to the coming of the Antichrist
in 2012. (more notes on this below)
· Over two hundred sixty years ago, the leader of the first
Great Awakening in America, Jonathan Edwards, tied the
arrival of the Antichrist and Great Tribulation period to the
timeframe 2012 and 2016.
· One hundred thirty years after that, in 1878, Reverend
William J. Reid did the same, writing in his "Lectures on the
Revelation" concerning the papal system: "...we are prepared
to answer the question, When will the Papal system come to
an end? [It] will be destroyed in the year 2012."[ii]
· Also of interest is the Web Bot Project, which was
developed in the late 1990s for tracking and making stock
market predictions. This technology crawls the Internet, much
like a search engine does, searching for keywords and
following "chatter" in order to tap into "the collective
unconscious" of the global community for tipping points
regarding past, current, and future buying patterns. In 2001,
operators began noticing what looked like more than
coincidences, and that the "bot" was taking on a mind of its
own, accurately predicting more than just stock market
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predictions, including June of 2001 when the program
predicted that a life-altering event would be felt worldwide
and would take place within sixty to ninety days. On
September 11, 2001, the Twin Towers of the World Trade
Center fell. The Web Bot also predicted the 2001 anthrax
attack on Washington DC; the earthquake that produced the
December 26, 2004, tsunami; Hurricane Katrina; and more.
The Web Bot has now foretold global devastation for late
December 2012.
· In 2008, Henry Kissinger predicted the arrival of the New
World Order in four years - 2012
· In 2012, the United States elects a President.
· In 2012, the United Nations gets new leaders.
· And in 2012, Petrus Romanus is set to materialize during a
Final Conclave.
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Before It's News
Mayan End Date for CERN Largest Experiment Ever
December 5, 2012
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This year, CERN is beginning another set of experiments in
hopes to getting that much closer to completing the Standard
Model. Scientists at CERN have announced test dates for the
rest of the year, as well as some curious dates can be found in
the upcoming schedule. Starting Monday, December 17,
2012 and going through Friday, December 21, 2012, CERN
will be launching and running a series of collisions, which are
predicted to break records in high voltage collisions already
set by the LHC. With these experiments, the scientists are
hoping to create atomic reactions that would provide further
information about anti-matter, and the big bang.
The test set for the week of December 17-21, 2012 is the final
test before the LHC will shutdown operations for upgrades
and will resume operation in 2014, assuming something
doesn’t go wrong, in the minds of some of the scientists,
terribly right, which causes the end of the world. I guess we
will just have to see what happens. Let us know what you
think, is CERN guilty of a self-fulfilling prophecy of
destruction here?
Coincendence? Let’s hope so.. I really hope the scientists
who deal with the LHC know what they are doing and have
some kind of stopping mechanism in place in case something
like that were to occur. I doubt they do.. ~Ophelia
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Scientific American
Next year's "brightest comet in modern times" to be
"once in a civilization" event
Sat, 06 Oct 2012
File photo
As it flares out of the distant
Oort Cloud, the newly
discovered comet C/2012 S1
(ISON) appears to be
heading on a trajectory that
could make for one of the
most spectacular night-sky
events in living memory. Why
is this comet expected to be so unique? Two reasons:
Astronomers predict that the comet will pass just 1.16 million
miles from the Sun as it swings around its perihelion, or
closest approach. (This may seem like a lot, but remember -
the Sun is big. If we were to scale the Sun down to the size of
Earth, the comet would pass well within the orbits of dozens
of satellites.) The close approach will melt enormous amounts
of the comet's ice, releasing dust and gas and forming what
should be a magnificent tail.
After it loops around the Sun and forms this tail, the comet
should then pass relatively close to Earth - not near enough to
cause any worry, but close enough to put on a great show.
Viewers in the Northern Hemisphere will get the best view as
the comet blooms in the weeks approaching Christmas 2013.
The comet could grow as bright as the full moon.
Of course, comets have a habit of not living up to
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expectations. This one could be sucked into the Sun during its
close approach, or not grow as much of a tail as astronomers
hope.
But that hasn't dampened enthusiasm for what Astronomy
Now is awkwardly calling "a once-in-a-civilisation's-lifetime"
event. The comet expert John E. Bortle is already comparing
ISON with the Great Comet of 1680, which, according to
contemporary accounts, caused the people of New York's
Manhattan Island to be "overcome with terror at a sight in the
heavens such as has seldom greeted human eyes.... In the
province of New York a day of fasting and humiliation was
appointed, in order that the wrath of God might be assuaged."
We can only hope for such a show.
Here is the full text of the 1680 comet description quoted
above:
The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America by John Fiske
Chapter XI, 'New York in the Year 1680'
Late in the autumn of 1680 the good people of Manhattan
were overcome with terror at a sight in the heavens such as
has seldom greeted human eyes. An enormous comet, perhaps
the most magnificent one on record, suddenly made its
appearance. At first it was tailless and dim, like a nebulous
cloud, but at the end of a week the tail began to show itself
and in a second week had attained a length of 30 degrees; in
the third week it extended to 70 degrees, while the whole
mass was growing brighter. After five weeks it seemed to be
absorbed into the intense glare of the sun, but in four days
more it reappeared like a blazing sun itself in the throes of
some giant convulsion and threw out a tail in the opposite
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direction as far as the whole distance between the sun and the
earth. Sir Isaac Newton, who was then at work upon the
mighty problems soon to be published to the world in his
Principia, welcomed this strange visitor as affording him a
beautiful instance for testing the truth of his new theory of
gravitation. But most people throughout the civilized world,
the learned as well as the multitude, feared that the end of all
things was at hand. Every church in Europe, from the grandest
cathedral to the humblest chapel, resounded with
supplications, and in the province of New York a day of
fasting and humiliation was appointed,in order that the wrath
of God might be assuaged.
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MailOnline
From sci-fi to reality
The computer-blitzing drone that can cripple
a nation's electronics at the touch of a button
Aircraft manufacturer Boeing have created a weapon that can
knock out computers.The missile is thought to be able to
penetrate bunkers and caves.Experts warn, in the wrong
hands, could bring Western cities to their knees
By BEN ELLERY
1 December 2012
Down the years and across the universe, the heroes of science-
fiction classics from Dan Dare to Star Wars and The Matrix
have fought intergalactic battles with weapons that wipe out
enemy electronics at the touch of a button.
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Now scientists have turned fantasy into reality by developing
a missile that targets buildings with microwaves that disable
computers but don't harm people.
Aircraft manufacturer Boeing successfully tested the weapon
on a one-hour flight during which it knocked out the
computers of an entire military compound in the Utah desert.
Pre-programmed filghtpath: Aircraft manufacturer
Boeing has successfully tested a missile which knocked out
an entire military compound in the Utah desert
It is thought the missile could penetrate the bunkers and
caves believed to be hiding Iran's suspected nuclear facilities.
But experts have warned that, in the wrong hands, the
technology could be used to bring Western cities such as
London to their knees.
During Boeing's experiment, the missile flew low over the
Utah Test and Training Range, discharging electromagnetic
pulses on to seven targets, permanently shutting down their
electronics.
Boeing said that the test was so successful even the camera
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recording it was disabled.
Codenamed the Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave
Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP), it is the first time a
missile with electromagnetic pulse capability has been tested.
For security reasons, Boeing declined to release film of the
test, but instead issued an artist's impression of it on video. In
the clip, a stealth aircraft deploys a missile that emits radio
waves from its undercarriage which knock out the computer
systems inside the buildings below.
Stealth mission: The missile is launched from a stealth
bomber and is thought to be able to penetrate the bunkers
and caves believe to be hiding Iran's suspected nuclear
facilities
The company did release real film showing a row of
computers that can be seen shutting down when the
electromagnetic pulse is switched on.
Although the project is shrouded in secrecy, experts believe
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the missile is equipped with an electromagnetic pulse cannon.
This uses a super-powerful microwave oven to generate a
concentrated beam of energy which causes voltage surges in
electronic equipment, rendering them useless before surge
protectors have the chance to react.
Keith Coleman, CHAMP programme manager for Boeing's
prototype arm Phantom Works, said the technology marked 'a
new era in modern warfare'.
He added: 'In the near future, this technology may be used
to render an enemy's electronic and data systems useless
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even before the first troops or aircraft arrive.
'We hit every target we wanted and made science fiction into
science fact. When the computers went out, it actually took
out the cameras as well. It was fantastic.'
The project has cost £24 million and has been developed
on behalf of the US Air Force Research Laboratory following
a request from the Pentagon four years ago.
Lead test engineer Peter Finlay said: 'We're not quite at the
place where the Star Trek and Star Wars movies are but this is
definitely an advancement in technology able to give us an
opportunity to do things we could not do before.' James
Dodd, vice-president of Advanced Boeing Military Aircraft,
said there was a real need for a weapon that could knock out
a target but not cause harm to people and structures.
He said: 'We know this has capabilities and impact. We're
trying to see if we can get it implemented sooner rather than
later.'
However, experts fear that the project could create an arms
race, with countries scrambling to build their own
electromagnetic pulse weapons.
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Wiped out: Boeing's film shows computers before (left)
and after (right) the attack by the drone but experts have
warned that, in the wrong hands, the technology could be
used to bring Western cities such as London to their knees
Professor Trevor Taylor, Professorial Fellow at the Royal
United Services Institute, said the Western world would be
much more vulnerable to such an attack because of our
increased reliance on electronics. He added: 'This is a
challenging area in political and military terms. Ideally there
would have been an arms-control agreement to cover this
field, because once technology is actually developed, control
becomes harder.
'The historical record shows that important technologies
developed in one country are developed elsewhere within a
relatively short period - look what happened with regard to the
USSR and nuclear weapons.
'Should the US be known to have developed such a
technology to the production stage, it would drive others to
try to act similarly.
'Western countries are more dependent on electronics-based
IT than others and would be vulnerable to extensive
disruption.'
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The Blaze
HOW TO CREATE A MIND: THE SECRET OF
HUMAN THOUGHT REVEALED
RAY KURZWEIL
Ray Kurzweil authored The New York Times
bestseller "The Singularity Is Near" and the
national bestseller "The Age of Spiritual
Machines," among other titles. One of the
leading inventors of our time, Kurzweil was
inducted into the National Inventors Hall of
Fame in 2002. He's the recipient of many
honors, including the National Medal of
Technology, the nation's highest honor for technological
achievement.
We are now at the dawn of an era of radical possibilities that
could allow us--as we merge with our technology--to
effectively address the world's grand challenges.
That's one of the conclusions drawn by Ray Kurzweil, the
bold futurist and author of the New York Times bestseller The
Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology.
Kurzweil can easily make such statements.
After all, he's probably the most influential technological
visionary on earth.
A pioneering inventor and theorist, Kurzweil has explored for
decades how artificial intelligence can enrich and expand
human capabilities.
Now, in his much-anticipated How to Create a Mind: The
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Secret of Human Thought Revealed, Kurzweil takes this
exploration to the next step: reverse-engineering the brain to
understand precisely how it works, then applying that
knowledge to create vastly intelligent machines.
Drawing on the most recent neuroscience research, his own
research and inventions in artificial intelligence, and
compelling thought experiments, Kurzweil describes his new
theory of how the neocortex (the thinking part of the brain)
works: as a self-organizing hierarchical system of pattern
recognizers.
Kurzweil, who also authored The Age of Spiritual Machines,
shows how these insights will enable us to greatly extend the
powers of our own minds and provides a road map for the
creation of super-intelligence--humankind's most exciting
next venture.