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Archive for October 20th, 2013

Black Women Targeted With Eugenics Drug, a Deadly Carcinogen Offered as a ‘Contraceptive’

Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on October 20, 2013

How do we “cut” the planet’s population by 90 percent? Even genocidal mass murderers Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao combined did not come close to attaining such a “lofty” goal. As always, the devil is in the details. Forum participant Barbara Marx Hubbard may already have provided some of the devilish answer. In The Book of Co-Creation she writes: “Out of the full spectrum of human personality, one-fourth is electing to transcend …. One-fourth is destructive [and] they are defective seeds. In the past they were permitted to die a ‘natural death.’ … Now as we approach the quantum shift from the creature-human to the co-creative human — the human who is an inheritor of god-like powers — the destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body …. Fortunately, you are not responsible for this act. We are. We are in charge of God’s selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.” ~ William F. Jasper

 

It has been on the U.S. drug market since the early 1990s, and population control organizations like Planned Parenthood continue to push it heavily on black women and other ethnic minorities as a form of contraception. But the injectable contraceptive drug Depo-Provera, manufactured by Pfizer, has an extensive track record of causing serious harm to women, including its tendency to trigger the development of cancer.

Most people are unaware of this and many of the other long-term side effects of Depo-Provera, because eugenics groups like Planned Parenthood erroneously claim the drug is “safe, effective and convenient.” But the non-profit Rebecca Project for Human Rights (RPHR) recently issued a groundbreaking report outlining the adverse effects of this insidious birth control shot, which currently bears a “black box warning” issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) back in 2004.

This warning clearly states that women who receive Depo-Provera could develop significant and irreversible bone mineral density loss, for instance. The drug can also lead to blood clots in arms, legs, lungs and eyes and may also cause stroke, bleeding irregularities, weight gain, ectopic pregnancy and delayed return to fertility. In some cases, women who get jabbed with Depo-Provera become permanently sterile.

Perhaps most concerning is the fact that Depo-Provera has been shown to more than double a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer. A 2012 study out of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle found that, compared to women who had never received a Depo-Provera shot, jabbed women were about 220 percent more likely to develop the disease, regardless of their family and medical histories.

Gates Foundation, USAID behind ongoing Depo-Provera eugenics conspiracy

But according to RPHR, none of these catastrophic risk factors has deterred groups like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Columbia University and others from aggressively pushing this horrific jab on unsuspecting women both domestically and abroad. The group’s report draws attention to the fact that these organizations have committed medical violence against women, particularly in third-world countries, by administering the shot time and time again without informed consent.

“The story of Rebecca Project for Human Right’s struggle to unmask Depo Provera as a deadly contraceptive for women is important, because it demonstrates the deeply rooted cultural hegemony of population control and corporate profits put before humanity at any cost,” explains the report, entitled Depo-Provera: Deadly Reproductive Violence Against Women. It goes on to highlight numerous Depo-Provera experiments that have taken place against women in the U.S., Ghana and elsewhere.

You can read the full RPHR report on Depo-Provera here: http://www.rebeccaproject.org

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Is There Some Connection Between God & Mathematics?

Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on October 20, 2013

ETHIOPIAN BINARY MATH

EthioLoveToday, a witch doctor practices computer arithmetic. The University of Houston’s College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.

The scene is a remote Ethiopian village in 1940. A Farmer offers his herd of 34 goats for sale. One goat is worth, say $7. The villagers don’t know how to multiply, so they call in a shaman. They ask him to set a fair price for the whole herd.

The shaman digs two rows of small holes in the hard dry earth. He reaches into his sack of pebbles and goes to work. He puts 34 stones in the first hole on the left — one for each goat. He puts half that, or 17, in the next — half 17, or 8, in the next — and so on. He keeps dividing by two and dropping the remainder, until the sixth hole has only one stone in it.

Now he goes to the other row. He puts 7 stones — the value of one goat — in the first hole. He puts twice that, or 14 stones in the next hole, and so on. Now his deliberations begin.

He goes down the left-hand side, seeing whether the holes are good or evil. An even number of stones makes the hole evil. An odd number makes it good. Two holes are good. The holes next to them, in the right row, contain 14 stones and 224 stones. He adds those numbers together. The result is the fair market value of the herd. It’s $238.

You and I know about multiplication. So we multiply the number of sheep, by the value of a sheep — 7 times 34. When we do that, we get $238. But that’s just what the shaman got! So what in the world was all the business with the holes? And would he get the right answer with different numbers?

We try it with other numbers. It works every time. So we turn to a mathematician. He says it’s not at all obvious. He puzzles for a long time. Finally he sees it. This Ethiopian shaman has created a remarkable algorithm.

All that business with the holes identifies the numbers in their binary form. That lets the shaman reduce multiplication to simple addition. He’s multiplied just the way a digital computer does. Where did his method come from? How long have his forbears carried this rote tradition?

An anonymous genius lurks somewhere in the haze of his history. So we look at our own multiplication and realize that we too use ritual to find what 7 times 34 is. It makes no more sense to most people who use it than the shaman’s holes. Our multiplication algorithm was also given us by an anonymous genius. He is also lost in rote tradition.

So how do we and that Ethiopian shaman differ? Very little, I reckon. Very little indeed. Of course, I wouldn’t be surprised if he makes fewer mistakes than we do.

I’m John Lienhard at the University of Houston, where we’re interested in the way inventive minds work.

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Computers Prove Existence of God

Kurt Gödel proposed an argumentation formalism to prove the necessary existence of God. In a current collaboration we have succeeded to formalise, mechanize and (partly) automate Gödel’s ontological argument with modern higher-order theorem provers on a computer. This work has attracted significant media attention in recent weeks.

Attempts to prove the existence (or non-existence) of God by means of abstract, ontological arguments are an old tradition in Philosophy. Before Gödel, already St. Anselm, Descartes und Leibniz have presented similar arguments. What motivated Gödel as a logician was the question, whether it is possible to deduce the existence of God from a small number of (debatable) foundational axioms and definitions, with a mathematically precise and logically formal argumentation chain.

The core proposition, the necessary existence of God, was divided in our work in four argumentation steps, as proposed by Gödel, and each step was proved and verified with an automated theorem prover. Also the consistency of the axioms and definitions was analyzed and established automatically with the help of a computer.

In theoretical philosophy, formal logical confrontations with ontological arguments had been so far limited to pen and paper. Up to now, the use of computers was prevented, because the “logics” of the available theorem proving systems were not expressive enough to formalize the abstract concepts adequately. Gödel’s proof uses, for example, a complex higher-order modal logic to handle concepts such as “possible” and “necessary”.

Recent works of Benzmüller and Larry Paulson (Cambridge University, UK) show that many expressive logics, including higher-order modal logics, can be embedded into the classical higher-order logic, which can be seen as a universal logic. For this universal logic, efficient automated theorem provers have been developed in recent years, and these systems were now employed in our work on Gödel’s proof.

Our approach opens up new perspectives for a computer-assisted theoretical philosophy. The critical discussion of the underlying concepts, definitions and axioms remains a human responsibility. But the computer can help to avoid mistakes of a logical nature: the computer can check the argumentation chain and partially fulfill Leibniz’ dictum in case of logical disputes: Calculemus — Let us calculate!

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Know Your World: British Legacy

Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on October 20, 2013

There are 196 countries in the world. Hard to believe; the Only 22 Countries in the World Britain Has Not Invaded (not shown: Sao Tome and Principe) are these:

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Map by The Telegraph

Other Interesting Facts & Figures

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