Man strives to become GOD!

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer.

Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of "wet artificial life."

"It's going to be a big deal and everybody's going to know about it," said Mark Bedau, chief operating officer of ProtoLife of Venice, Italy, one of those in the race. "We're talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways -- in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict."

That first cell of synthetic life -- made from the basic chemicals in DNA -- may not seem like much to non-scientists. For one thing, you'll have to look in a microscope to see it.

"Creating protocells has the potential to shed new life on our place in the universe," Bedau said. "This will remove one of the few fundamental mysteries about creation in the universe and our role."

And several scientists believe man-made life forms will one day offer the potential for solving a variety of problems, from fighting diseases to locking up greenhouse gases to eating toxic waste.

Bedau figures there are three major hurdles to creating synthetic life:


A container, or membrane, for the cell to keep bad molecules out, allow good ones, and the ability to multiply.


A genetic system that controls the functions of the cell, enabling it to reproduce and mutate in response to environmental changes.


A metabolism that extracts raw materials from the environment as food and then changes it into energy.

One of the leaders in the field, Jack Szostak at Harvard Medical School, predicts that within the next six months, scientists will report evidence that the first step -- creating a cell membrane -- is "not a big problem." Scientists are using fatty acids in that effort.

Szostak is also optimistic about the next step -- getting nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA, to form a working genetic system.

His idea is that once the container is made, if scientists add nucleotides in the right proportions, then Darwinian evolution could simply take over.

"We aren't smart enough to design things, we just let evolution do the hard work and then we figure out what happened," Szostak said.

In Gainesville, Florida, Steve Benner, a biological chemist at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution is attacking that problem by going outside of natural genetics. Normal DNA consists of four bases -- adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine (known as A,C,G,T) -- molecules that spell out the genetic code in pairs. Benner is trying to add eight new bases to the genetic alphabet.

Bedau said there are legitimate worries about creating life that could "run amok," but there are ways of addressing it, and it will be a very long time before that is a problem.

"When these things are created, they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab," he said. "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen."

~U.S RayGun Deployment on Iraqi Citizens~

Throughout the Iraq war, U.S. generals have repeatedly requested to use a new ultrasecret ray gun to dispel large, dangerous crowds by making each person in its firing range feel like their 'skin is on fire'.

What basically occurs is that the 95Ghz frequency causes the water in your body to heat to 55 degrees centigrade causing a sensation not dissimilar to placing a hot lightbulb on your skin.

There is some concern for the use on civilians to disperse crowds and riots because the test subjects adhered to strict safety precautions, such as, removal of watches, glasses, contact lenses etc to prevent any 'hotspots'.

Perched on a Humvee or a flatbed truck, the 'Active Denial System’s' invisible beam doesn’t kill or even permanently maim (according to official rhetoric).

However, the Pentagon has refused to deploy the device for fear that the U.S. would be seen as aggressors on TV, even though that left our troops no option (cough, NO OPTION?!?!) but to 'fire' on armed insurgents mixing with unarmed passersby.

Yes, the military is afraid its use would look like torture on CNN and would rather see innocent civilians massacred than risk another P.R. failure.

“How this has been handled is kind of a national scandal,” Gene McCall, the former top scientist at Air Force Space Command in Colorado, told the Associated Press.

The World of EyeCeyE strongly believes it is now only a matter of time before space-age weaponry will be used against innocent civilians. More and more evidence is being discovered about how much electomagnetic waves are being used as a potential weapon, with little regard for human rights, liberties or even safety.

The fact that the 'Active Denial's System' (great name!) can easily be modified by its users highlights a potential for abuse, and increases the potential for it to be used in hostage situations and persecution of whoever the American Government chooses to target next in the War on Oil.

Angelfire.com have published a full (or 'disclosed') list of, supposed, non-lethal weaponry on the following link:

http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/nonlethal.html

Miss Teen USA (Uneducated Americans)

H.A.A.R.P (The Truth)

How Heroin/Opium became Illegal

Electronic Frontier Foundation vs AT+T

For more information click http://www.eff.org/

Heroin (CAUSE and EFFECT)

~CAUSE~



~EFFECT~

Horrific Film on Effects of Chemical Warfare

L.A Riots (Result of Police Brutality)

Italian Police Brutality ! ! !

Rodney King, remember him?!?

Police Brutality due to Skateboarding!!!!

Police Brutality in Los Angeles

Transhumanism vs Solution for Human Deficits

The Transhumanism movement advocates the use of technology to allow humans to evolve from human to transhuman, or posthuman.

Companies such as Primo Posthuman have been planning since the turn of the century to create smart skin that can allow humans to become H+, or better than human.

Their website highlights their plan to allow us to be super human, and highlights various parts of the human skeleton that could be enhanced using present and future technologies.

They quote the histories of our eyesight, and how we have moved on since magnifying glasses, to basic glasses, to contact lenses, cataract removal, corneal sculpting to the use of silicon retinal implants in 1999. They use this history to assume there has to be a forward trend that includes total bionic eyes to see 'better than human'.

The company sites the history of human hearing from technological advancements like speaking tubes in the 1700's, ear trumpets in the 1800's to hearing aids in the 1900's, cochlear bionic implants in the 1960's to digital signal processing in 1984. Again, they assume we must continue this trend and completely replace our 'sub-standard' human ears with more advanced, finely tuned digital frequency hearing systems allowing much improved 'parabolic' hearing.

We apparently need to have total skin augmentation because our history has shown the use of dyes, tatoos, piercings, and skin tissue was the first to be engineered and grafted. Therefore according to the transhumanists, we must completely replace our human skin with synthetic active skin, that does not require the need of clothing. It will be multi textured, and can change its colour, just like 'real' skin!!

They even go so far as to suggest that we require a spinal upgrade by using a
1,000,000 terabit/sec optical backbone (one billion times more capacity than a human spinal cord). We will require an in vivo fibre optics communication back bone to allow us to 'hear our body speaking'.

Due to the fact that at some stage in our history the human race shrunk down to only 10,000 separate blood lines, we have a limited gene pool, and therefore suffer to this day from DNA mutations, the most common being, myopia (short-sightedness), and as humans we do suffer from blindness, deafness, and disablilities. These are problems that prevent people experiencing full human functionality. These are the areas that I believe technology can help. Those of us who wear glasses, contact lenses, hearing aids, pace makers, cochlear implants are not posthuman, we are repairing the faults of mutated DNA.

The difference between this argument for Solutions for Human Deficits vs Transhumanism needs establishing. On one hand you are making yourself more human, if you like, and the other is making you more artificial, more robot.

The transhumanist movement will continue unabaited with their ideological future of immortality, but as human beings we need to be very careful that we do not stray too far from our natural path. Yes, we need to evolve and we will, but we do not need technology to do this, just patience.

Appeals Court may let NSA lawsuit proceed!

SAN FRANCISCO--A federal appeals court on Wednesday appeared unwilling to end a pair of lawsuits that claim the Bush administration engaged in widespread illegal surveillance of Americans.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals repeatedly pressed Gregory Garre, the Bush administration's deputy solicitor general, to justify his requests to toss out the suits on grounds they could endanger national security by possibly revealing "state secrets."

Judge Harry Pregerson wondered: "We just have to take the word of members of the executive branch that it's a state secret. That's what you're saying, isn't it?"

A moment later Judge Michael Hawkins suggested that granting the request could mean "abdication" of our duties.

A room in this AT&T switching center in downtown San Francisco at 611 Folsom St. is alleged to be a place where the National Security Agency taps Internet andtelephone communications.
AT&T has neither confirmed nor denied these allegations, which surfaced
in a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. At the heart of both cases is the U.S. Justice Department's argument that any lawsuit claiming illegal activity on behalf of AT&T and the National Security Agency--even if the eavesdropping is known to have taken place--cannot proceed because it could let enemies and terrorists know how the government's surveillance apparatus works.

It "could compromise the sources, methods and operational details of our intelligence gathering capabilities," Solicitor General Garre said.

In the first case, called Hepting v. AT&T, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other attorneys had filed a class action lawsuit against AT&T saying it unlawfully opened its networks to the NSA. Last summer, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco ruled that it could proceed.

The second case, Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. President Bush, is unique: it involves a classified document that the U.S. Treasury Department accidentally turned over to an attorney for the foundation. The top-secret document showed, according to the group, "Al-Haramain and its attorneys had been subjected to warrantless surveillance in violation of (federal law)." They responded by filing another lawsuit in February 2006 alleging violations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

The Justice Department says the Al-Haramain case must be thrown out because it, too, could endanger state secrets. The foundation's attorneys must not even be allowed to refer to it, government attorney Thomas Bondy said Wednesday, because their "mental recollections of the documents are also out of the case."

"I'm feeling like Alice in Wonderland," replied Judge M. Margaret McKeown.

While no decision was announced Wednesday, and a final ruling might not be reached for months, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit pressed prosecutors to justify asking that the case be dismissed based on declarations submitted by senior Bush administration officials. (All three judges are Democratic appointees.)

"The bottom line here is that once the executive declares that certain activity is a state secret, that's the end of it?" Pregerson asked. "No cases, no litigation, absolute immunity? The king can do no wrong?"

Appeals Court Battle Over NSA Surveillance on August 15

~Government Aims to Block Accountability for Illegal Spying on Americans~

San Francisco - In the wake of Congress approving a dramatic expansion of U.S. warrantless wiretapping powers, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments on the future of two critical lawsuits over illegal surveillance of Americans. The hearing is set for August 15, at 2 p.m. in San Francisco.

The government is fighting to get the cases thrown out of court, contending that the litigation jeopardizes state secrets. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is representing the plaintiffs in Hepting v. AT&T, which accuses the telecom giant of collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in illegal electronic surveillance of millions of AT&T's customers. The court will also hear the arguments on the future of Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. Bush, a case alleging that the government illegally wiretapped calls between the charity and its lawyers.

"At issue here is whether the courts have any meaningful role to play in protecting Americans' privacy from Executive branch abuses of its surveillance powers," said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. "If the claim of 'state secrets' is allowed to shut down litigation, then the courts will never be able to exercise their Constitutional duty to hold the White House accountable for illegal and even unconstitutional abuses of power."

The court has scheduled one hour of arguments for Hepting v. AT&T, and 40 minutes for Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. Bush. Because of the large number of attendees expected at Wednesday's hearing, the court will provide an overflow room with audio and video of the proceedings for spectators who cannot get a seat in the courtroom itself.

For more information about attending the hearing, contact press@eff.org.

WHAT:
Hepting v. AT&T
Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. Bush

WHEN:
2 p.m.
Wednesday, August 15

WHERE:
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Courtroom 1, 3rd Floor
95 Seventh Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

For more on EFF's case against AT&T:
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att

Contacts:

Rebecca Jeschke
Media Coordinator
Electronic Frontier Foundation
press@eff.org

Cindy Cohn
Legal Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation
cindy@eff.org

Lisa Jaskol
Attorney for the Al-Haramain plaintiffs
ljaskol@earthlink.net

Bush eradicates law to protect foreign nationals!

CAMP DAVID, Md. - President Bush on Sunday signed into law an expansion of the government’s power to eavesdrop on foreign terror suspects without the need for warrants.

The law, approved by the Senate and the House just before Congress adjourned for its summer break, was deemed a priority by Bush and his chief intelligence officials.

Bush signed the bill into law on Sunday afternoon at his retreat at Camp David, Md.

“When our intelligence professionals have the legal tools to gather information about the intentions of our enemies, America is safer,” Bush said. “And when these same legal tools also protect the civil liberties of Americans, then we can have the confidence to know that we can preserve our freedoms while making America safer.”

The administration said the measure is needed to speed the National Security Agency’s ability to intercept phone calls, e-mails and other communications involving foreign nationals “reasonably believed to be outside the United States.”

The law is designed to capture communications that pass through the United States.

Civil liberties groups and many Democrats say it goes too far, possibly enabling the government to wiretap U.S. residents communicating with overseas parties without adequate oversight from courts or Congress.

The new law updates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and it will expire in six months unless Congress renews it. Bush wants deeper, permanent changes.

“We must remember that our work is not done,” Bush prodded. “This bill is a temporary, narrowly focused statute to deal with the most immediate shortcomings in the law.”