Bot-like scanning/indexing from Lockheed Martin

whois 192.31.106.34?

[Querying whois.arin.net]

NetRange:       192.31.106.0 – 192.31.106.255
CIDR:           192.31.106.0/24
OriginAS:
NetName:        LM-192-31-106
NetHandle:      NET-192-31-106-0-1
Parent:         NET-192-0-0-0-0
NetType:        Direct Allocation
NameServer:     NS2.LMCO.COM
NameServer:     NS3.LMCO.COM
NameServer:     NS1.LMCO.COM
RegDate:        1997-06-17
Updated:        2001-09-26
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-192-31-106-0-1

OrgName:        Lockheed Martin Corporation
OrgId:          LHMC
Address:        1401 Del Norte
City:           Denver
StateProv:      CO
PostalCode:     80221
Country:        US
RegDate:
Updated:        2010-01-21
Comment:        Unauthorized use of this system may be subject to disciplinary action, and
Comment:        if such use is violative of state and federal laws it may be subject to
Comment:        legal action as well. Reminder: Information transmitted to a foreign person
Comment:        on this network may be subject to US Export Control laws. Contact your
Comment:        Export Coordinator for assistance.
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/LHMC

OrgTechHandle: LMN-ORG-ARIN
OrgTechName:   Lockheed Martin Corporation
OrgTechPhone:  +1-303-430-2064
OrgTechEmail:  lm-nic@lmco.com
OrgTechRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/LMN-ORG-ARIN

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Maybe they’ll just kill me

I was pretty disturbed by the recent Telegraph article claiming the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, believes that 9/11 being an inside job is a “false conspiracy” (meaning that it’s not an inside job).

Cryptogon made a good point today that Wikileaks could be used as a honeypot, although I can’t possibly imagine it having been started by intelligence agencies like Facebook was, because some damaging material has been released there.  (Or is it?)   However Wikileaks could be co-opted by threats from intelligence agents.  For all we know that Telegraph article could have been planted to draw 9/11 truthers in to contact Wikileaks to be integrated into one of these shadow government AI threat assessment systems like the NSA Main Core.

From “The Last Roundup” by Christopher Ketcham:

The database can identify and locate perceived ‘enemies of the state’ almost instantaneously.” He and other sources tell Radar that the database is sometimes referred to by the code name Main Core. One knowledgeable source claims that 8 million Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially suspect.

I see the bots visiting my site from various .mil hosts.  I know their systems are scouring the web, building databases and profiling us.  But what are they going to do with all this data?

Well, I for one do not welcome our new robot overlords. The drone army the Elite are amassing and the wealth of private data they are processing ultimately can be used as an automated, selective extermination system. Systems like IBM CRUSH will be used to interface with the Main Core profiles for targeting individuals.

IBM Hollerith Machine

ARMONK - 21 Jul 2010: IBM today announced that Memphis Police Department (MPD) has enhanced its crime fighting techniques with IBM predictive analytics software and reduced serious crime by more than 30 percent, including a 15 percent reduction in violent crimes since 2006. MPD is now able to evaluate incident patterns throughout the city and forecast criminal “hot spots” to proactively allocate resources and deploy personnel, resulting in improved force effectiveness and increased public safety.

But of course IBM was a a pioneer of the human tracking industry from the onset.  They provided some of the earliest punch card computers to the fascist governments of Germany and Spain to track prisoners.

A combination of biological and chemical weapons (including slow-kill sterilants and toxicants like fluoridated water, GM foods, and metal aerosol in chemtrails) to sterilize and reduce population overall, and targeted drone or satellite beam weapon strikes against “high value” (dissident/subversive) targets– worldwide, on demand, and eventually under the autonomous control of their AI threat assessment systems, will be used to bring the world’s population down to “manageable” numbers.  In the eyes of many elitie eugenicist “sustainability” fanatics, around 10% of current population would be ideal.  But of course it’s not going to be easy to get 90% humans to kill each other.  That’s why they need the drones.

After the US invades a few more countries and goes completely bankrupt as it’s intended to, we’ll be begging for them to let us into the work camps so we can manufacture their robot army of death.  Most people on this planet are already serving the Western Military-Industrial Complex anyway, they just don’t realize it.

Eventually I may get hauled off in a van and nobody will hear from me again.  But people who are being called on to do the dirty work of the financial elite, the energy companies, defense contractors, and the whole machinery of this new Babylon system… you better do some soul searching.  None of us are going to escape this world. You might as well be on the side of freedom and individuality, not  techno-fascism, cause your life means nothing to them either way, and your kids will grow up to be slaves.

All I can say is I’m gona do what I have to to protect myself and my family.   And I’m not going to your fucking concentration camp.

Here’s my message to Wikileaks. Haven’t heard anything back yet (probably because it’s an intelligence operation)

Julian et al -

I’m puzzled by this article in the Belfast Telegraph in which they claim that you believe 9/11 is a false conspiracy and not really an inside job.

Since Wikileaks is familiar with the corruption in intelligence agencies and governments of the world, surely you would not be so quick to dismiss this possibility, with such a mountain of forensic evidence and credible eyewitness testimony supporting it.

If you truly haven’t started down that rabbit hole yet, I recommend you do some reading about WTC7.

I’d like to post an official response from Julian and Wikileaks on this issue.  My blog has a lot of info about wtc7 if you’d care to read it:  http://qbit.cc/tags/wtc7/

I believe Wikileaks’ position on this issue is very important.  A mod in your IRC channel (odin) says that since Wikileaks hasn’t received any leaked documents on this issue, thus has no official position on it.  However a neutral position is different from a dismissive one as the Guardian repoted.

Please study this issue and choose your position carefully.  Dismissing this mother of all conspiracies will not bode well for your credibility.  I would hate to see Wikileaks go down on the wrong side of history.

Best regards,

Qbit.cc

From the Telegraph article:

“I believe in facts about conspiracies,” he says, choosing his words slowly. “Any time people with power plan in secret, they are conducting a conspiracy. So there are conspiracies everywhere. There are also crazed conspiracy theories. It’s important not to confuse these two. Generally, when there’s enough facts about a conspiracy we simply call this news.” What about 9/11? “I’m constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.” What about the Bilderberg conference? “That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.”

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Facebook adds face detection for photos, only 1% of users have it so far

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by Jay Hathaway (RSS feed) Jul 2nd 2010 at 2:30PM

Facebook is testing out a new face detection feature in its photo app, according to AllFacebook.com. This is the first big change to Photos since Facebook bought up Divvyshot a couple of months ago. Face detection recognizes faces in photos, and gives you a prompt to tell FB whose faces they are. This reduces the amount of clicking required to go through and tag that huge album from last night’s party. Of course, this feature won’t help you identify the strangers who appear in those photos … that would be a bit creepy.

It doesn’t sound like this is full-on facial recognition and auto-tagging … yet. That seems like the obvious next step for Facebook, though. If they go that route, they’ll already have the ability to pick a face out of a photo, and then plenty of user data about who the faces belong to. Geez, it’s hard enough to untag my ugly mug in photos as it is!

If you don’t see face detection on your photos yet, don’t worry. Only 1% of users have it so far, according to Facebook.

Israeli team says it has developed software to spot depressed bloggers

Inventors say program could enable mental health workers to identify individuals in need of treatment and recommend they seek help.

(HAARETZ)   Israeli researchers have developed software that claims to identify depressed bloggers by analyzing their writing.

The program scours blogs for words and phrases, descriptions and metaphors that can indicate the writer’s psychological state.

The software’s initial test run, which was part of a research study headed by Professor Yair Neuman of Ben-Gurion University’s department of education, combed more than 1,000 blog posts written by American bloggers that were online in 2004.

As part of the research, the software was asked to determine what it perceived as the 100 “most depressed” bloggers and the 100 “least depressed.”

Neuman told Haaretz that the software diagnoses largely matched those of four clinical psychologists who made their own diagnoses based on the blog posts.

“We found an 80 percent match between the automatic identification mechanism of the software and the human diagnosis given by the psychologists,” Neuman said.

“A psychologist knows how to spot various emotional states through intuition,” he said. “Here we have a program that does this methodologically through the innovative use of ‘web intelligence.’”

Neuman said the software could enable mental health workers to identify individuals in need of treatment and to recommend that they seek help.

“What does all of this mean from a practical standpoint?” he asked. “First of all, it shows that the technology is here and available and that it could be put to use.”

“In the United States there is a wide-ranging problem with depression,” said Neuman. “Through this software it will be possible to contact a blogger and request a general examination of the contents of his blog. If the blogger agrees, he will know whether he needs to seek professional counseling for any possible distress.”

Neuman said the researchers had received permission to analyze the blog posts.

The research and development for the software was funded by the Defense Ministry, yet Ben-Gurion University officials said yesterday the project would not be used for military purposes.

The program is capable of spotting words that express various emotions, like the names of colors that the writer employs to metaphorically describe certain situations. Hence words like “black,” if combined with other terms that describe such symptoms of depression as sleep deprivation and loneliness will be recognized by the software as “depressive” texts.

The software can also spot love and vengefulness (or at least thinks it can ).

Men who write prose laden with imagery from nature as well as words like “fire” or “lightning” could be determined by the program to be in love, as could women citing poetry or words related to music.

“The software does not rely on a single context-dependent word, but on a series of words strung together, terms and images chosen by the writer,” said Neuman.

…

Neuman cautioned against utilizing the technology for corporate purposes.

“I will not be pleased if this is put to negative use, like advertising for a certain product,” he said. “But I am all for using it as a means to spot cases of emotional distress.”

Feds under pressure to open US skies to drones

By JOAN LOWY (AP/google) – 6 hours ago

WASHINGTON — Unmanned aircraft have proved their usefulness and reliability in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the pressure’s on to allow them in the skies over the United States.

The Federal Aviation Administration has been asked to issue flying rights for a range of pilotless planes to carry out civilian and law-enforcement functions but has been hesitant to act. Officials are worried that they might plow into airliners, cargo planes and corporate jets that zoom around at high altitudes, or helicopters and hot air balloons that fly as low as a few hundred feet off the ground.

On top of that, these pilotless aircraft come in a variety of sizes. Some are as big as a small airliner, others the size of a backpack. The tiniest are small enough to fly through a house window.

The obvious risks have not deterred the civilian demand for pilotless planes. Tornado researchers want to send them into storms to gather data. Energy companies want to use them to monitor pipelines. State police hope to send them up to capture images of speeding cars’ license plates. Local police envision using them to track fleeing suspects.

Like many robots, the planes have advantages over humans for jobs that are dirty, dangerous or dull. And the planes often cost less than piloted aircraft and can stay aloft far longer.

“There is a tremendous pressure and need to fly unmanned aircraft in (civilian) airspace,” Hank Krakowski, FAA’s head of air traffic operations, told European aviation officials recently. “We are having constant conversations and discussions, particularly with the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security, to figure out how we can do this safely with all these different sizes of vehicles.”

There are two types of unmanned planes: Drones, which are automated planes programmed to fly a particular mission, and aircraft that are remotely controlled by someone on the ground, sometimes from thousands of miles away.

Last year, the FAA promised defense officials it would have a plan this year. The agency, which has worked on this issue since 2006, has reams of safety regulations that govern every aspect of civilian aviation but is just beginning to write regulations for unmanned aircraft.

“I think industry and some of the operators are frustrated that we’re not moving fast enough, but safety is first,” Krakowski said in an interview. “This isn’t Afghanistan. This isn’t Iraq. This is a part of the world that has a lot of light airplanes flying around, a lot of business jets.”

One major concern is the prospect of lost communication between unmanned aircraft and the operators who remotely control them. Another is a lack of firm separation of aircraft at lower altitudes, away from major cities and airports. Planes entering these areas are not required to have collision warning systems or even transponders. Simply being able to see another plane and take action is the chief means of preventing accidents.

The Predator B, already in use for border patrol, can fly for 20 hours without refueling, compared with a helicopter’s average flight time of just over two hours. Homeland Security wants to expand their use along the borders of Mexico and Canada, and along coastlines for spotting smugglers of drugs and illegal aliens. The Coast Guard wants to use them for search and rescue.

The National Transportation Safety Board held a forum in 2008 on safety concerns associated with pilotless aircraft after a Predator crashed in Arizona. The board concluded the ground operator remotely controlling the plane had inadvertently cut off the plane’s fuel.

Texas officials, including Gov. Rick Perry, Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn, and Rep. Henry Cuellar, have been leaning on the FAA to approve requests to use unmanned aircraft along the Texas-Mexico border. FAA recently approved one request to use the planes along the border near El Paso, but another request to use them along the Texas Gulf Coast and near Brownsville is still pending.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has told lawmakers that safety concerns are behind the delays. Cornyn is blocking a Senate confirmation vote on President Barack Obama’s nominee for the No. 2 FAA job, Michael Huerta, to keep the pressure on.

Other lawmakers want an overall plan to speed up use of the planes beyond the border. A bill approved by the Senate gives FAA a year to come up with a plan; a House version extends the deadline until Sept. 30, 2013, but directs the transportation secretary to give unmanned aircraft permission to fly before the plan is complete, if that can be done safely.

Marion Blakey, a former FAA administrator and president of the Aerospace Industries Association, whose members include unmanned aircraft developers, said the agency has been granting approvals on a case by case basis but the pace is picking up. She acknowledged that there are still safety concerns that need to be addressed before the planes can be used more widely.

Some concerns will be alleviated when the FAA moves from a radar-based air traffic control system to one based on GPS technology. Then, every aircraft will be able to advise controllers and other aircraft of their location continually. However, that’s a decade off.

Michael Barr, a University of Southern California aviation safety instructor, said the matter should not be rushed.

“All it takes is one catastrophe,” Barr said. “They’ll investigate, find they didn’t do it correctly, there’ll be an outcry and it will set them back years.”

Related articles:

COMING SOON: Unmanned Aircraft All Over U.S. Skies Before It’s News

FAA under pressure to open US skies to drones AlterNet

FAA Experiments With Integrating Drones In Civil Airspace Wired

New Transistor Bridges Human-Machine Gap

By Stephanie Pappas, TechNewsDaily Contributor
livescience.com – 19 May 2010 02:22 pm ET

Humans and machines could be one step closer to merging thanks to a new transistor controlled by the molecule that powers biological cells.

The nano-sized device could be used in medical devices or prosthetics wired directly into the human body.

“Our devices make a bridge between the biological world and the electronic world,” said Aleksandr Noy, who developed the transistor along with colleagues at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in California. “In effect, we made a biological protein talk directly with a nanoelectronic circuit.”

Transistors are electronic components that can modulate or switch current on and off in a circuit. To make one that would respond to a biological molecule, Noy and his team borrowed from living cells.

First, they built the backbone of the transistor out of a carbon nanotube between two electrodes. Next, they insulated the electrodes and covered the nanotube with a mixture of fatty molecules called lipids and proteins. The covering formed a lipid “bilayer” — a double lipid membrane — much like those that make up the outer membranes of biological cells.

The researchers then poured a solution of sodium ions, potassium ions and adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, over the transistor while running a voltage through it. In cells, ATP is the primary source of energy. It fulfilled the same role in the transistor, powering the proteins embedded in the lipid bilayer.

These proteins began working, transferring sodium and potassium ions across the bilayer. The charges from the ions created an electrical field around the transistor, which then changed the ability of the transistor to conduct electricity by as much as 35 percent. The higher the concentration of ATP, the more the conductivity changed.

Getting a biological molecule to control the electric current in a transistor is a first step toward computers that would interface directly with the brain, Noy told TechNewsDaily.

That could include “futuristic” devices that would translate thought directly to typed words, he said, but could also have a more immediate application in the field of prosthetics.

To develop machines controlled by the mind, “we will need to have a way for our [brain cells] to talk to the electronic systems,” Noy said. “I think what we demonstrated is a first step towards that distant goal.”

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