In this video Luke Rudkowski, WeAreChange, looks into the claim of 2016 being the worst year ever with media companies and social media accounts sharing this message we decided to investigate. With 2017 coming up its important how we really examine the past and understand it with scientific fact and documentation.
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Janus – The Start of a New Year
Armstrong Economics Blog/Ancient Economies
Re-Posted Jan 1, 2017 by Martin Armstrong
The Roman god Janus was the god of the beginning and ending of conflict, and hence war and peace. In ancient Rome, the Temple of Janus stood in the Roman Forum with doors on both ends, and inside was a statue of Janus, who is always represented as the two-faced god. The doors of his temple were open in time of war and closed to mark peace. This represented that things could change politically during war.
Janus (Ianuarius) was depicted as having two faces, because he looks to the future and to the past simultaneously. British historian Howard Hayes Scullard (1903-1983) argued that the Roman farmers’ almanacs named January after the god Juno. I disagree with that because he refers to the Republic period prior to Caesar’s revisions. The month of June is named after Juno and January is named after Janus.
Janus presided over the beginnings, gates, transitions, time, and endings but was primarily seen as the god who began and ended conflicts, and thus war and peace. So when we celebrate New Year’s Eve, and we say goodbye to the past and hello to the future, which is a concept stemming from Janus.
This year is indeed a beginning. Should the doors be open for civil unrest?
What Jesus Christ Said | Duke Pesta and Stefan Molyneux
Published on Dec 30, 2016
What happens when you get an atheist and a christian together to discuss the teachers of Jesus Christ, where they agree and where they disagree? Stefan Molyneux and Dr Duke Pesta discuss why Christianity promotes free will, compulsion in matters of virtue, the politicization of modern religion, why atheism trends towards collectivism and much much more!
Steve Bannon Interview: “Hobbits and Deplorables Should Hold Us All Accountable”…
President-elect Donald Trump’s top strategist sat for a rare radio interview Friday morning, urging conservative voters to ‘hold people accountable’ in the White House – including…
Source: Steve Bannon Interview: “Hobbits and Deplorables Should Hold Us All Accountable”…
Trump Derangement Syndrome – TRIGGERED!
I good discussion on how to argue with an idiot!
Trey Gowdy DESTROYS PUPPET Megyn Kelly !!! IDC ABOUT WHAT YOU’RE SAYING !
Mostly old information but still interesting.
EU and its Migration Crises
Its really very simple you can not have mass movement of people flowing across borders and countries at will as George Soros would have us believe that is the future. What it really is is a total collapse of civil society which is what Soros wants so that he can remake it into his vision of a new Word Order. Further he does not want we the vulgarians to have any say in this as we don’t have the ability to see his big picture. We George guess what we do see where you are trying to take us and we aren’t going there! .
Senator John McCain Demands “Act of War” Against Russia…
Some things never change. In full alignment with President Obama, the ever faithful war monger Senator John McCain calls for a declaration of war against Russia. …and if you disagree with hi…
Source: Senator John McCain Demands “Act of War” Against Russia…
Could AI Become Predictable?
Armstrong Economics Blog
Re-Posted Dec 30, 2016 by Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: Marty,
It occurs to me that some of the most persuasive individuals of history (good or bad) have been so effective because they possessed a keen understanding of Human Nature allowing them to predict the response of their audience, and in turn, coerce them toward a desired action. The question I would like your thoughts on is this: Do artificially intelligent systems have a “nature” in common making their responses predictable, and therefore exploitable? Thanks for all that you do, there are few opinions I value as highly as yours.
P
ANSWER: First, you have a lot of charlatans who claim to be using AI (Artificial Intelligence) that is really just a program following a predetermined script. That is not the real thing by any shape of the imagination. Real AI takes an awful lot of money, time, and resources no matter what fancy name they give their program. That type of “expert system” masquerading as AI is very predictable and can be easily reversed engineered.
If we are talking about the real thing, the answer is no possible way. I wrote the code for our system. It took me decades. To accomplish something that can accurately forecast BREXIT, Trump, Italy, and Hollande stepping down in France, would be absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to code or reverse engineer. Oh, I could feed in the US election data and come up with an isolated cyclical forecast. But how do you do BREXIT with no past track record of such referendums or that of Italy? These types of forecasts are extrapolations based completely upon all trends globally. There is no single line of code that would read IF-THIS-THEN that ELSE this over here. It is weighing so many variables it is really impossible to reverse engineer that.
The result of a real AI system, or better described as machine learning, is really giving the computer the capacity to learn and in doing so we create a real thinking process, minus the emotion. How it will arrive at a decision on say BREXIT is different from Trump winning. Each process is a different branch. Very interesting from a programming viewpoint.
Obama’s Desperate Attempt to Save the Democratic Party By Blaming Russia
Armstrong Economics Blog
Re-Posted Dec 29, 2016 by Martin Armstrong
President Obama has made a desperate attempt to blame Russia for hacking the Democratic National Party (DNC) in an amazing partisan abuse of power. First of all, the DNC is a PRIVATE organization and NOT part of the government. I seriously doubt if it were the Republican Party that was hacked and Hillary won, Obama would take the same steps. Secondly, even if we assumed Russia hacked the DNC, there would be no allegation that they tried to “influence” the election had the Democrats not been trying to manipulate everything and act in a corrupt manner to begin with. If the DNC was clean, there would not have been anything to hack that would have “influenced” the election. Why do you think Bill Clinton is so mad? The Clinton money machine has collapsed.
Why has Obama blamed Russia? First of all, the big donors to Hillary have privately said they want an audit of where she spent $1.5 billion and they have threatened not to donate to the DNC ever again without that audit. This attack on Russia is all a smoke screen to try to placate the big donors – not middle class America, Spanish, or African Americans. This is the “super-rich” they are trying to distract from any audit by changing the focus to Russia.
Since the DNC is a private organization, Obama’s retaliation is an abuse of power by ejecting 35 suspected Russian intelligence operatives from the USA and imposing sanctions on Russia’s two leading intelligence services. Obama claims that the military intelligence unit known as the G.R.U. Intelligence agencies ordered the attacks on the DNC with the approval of the Kremlin. Obama will not reveal the PROOF.
Furthermore, Obama also announced the closing of two waterfront estates — one in Glen Cove, N.Y., and another on Maryland’s Eastern Shore . Obama says they were used for Russian intelligence activities. Demonstrating how this is all smoke and mirrors to personally help the DNC, Obama has refused to say whether these two places were specifically used in the election-related hacks he still insists took place.
Even if Russia hacked the DNC, if there was nothing there, then there would have been nothing to leak. Obama is angry that the Democrats simply got caught. If you have not seen the movie Snowden, I highly recommend it. Snowden explained that he left a marker to show it was him to protect his co-workers. There would have been no possible way the government would have been able to identify WHO without investigating everyone. Snowden wanted to protect his co-workers – a very honorable thing to do. This is the real world and any actual proof of a Russian hack seems questionable given they have the knowledge of how to do such a thing and would never have left a trail.
There is ABSOLUTELY no possible way Obama has any evidence that proves it was a hack rather than a leak. Additionally, Snowden was very concerned because the US Intelligence placed cyberbombs inside the power grids and everything of allies, just in case some day in the future they did not do what the Administration told them so the US government could turn them completely dark. They did that to countries like Japan and Austria. That is far more serious activity for which Obama maintains that Snowden is a traitor for exposing the lies of the Obama Administration and being the real dangerous hackers.
This is a pathetic move by Obama and it really demonstrates just how dishonest his entire Presidency has been. History will remember him not only for a failed healthcare system insurers are abandoning and his support of ISIS and Al–Qaeda in a failed attempt to overthrow Syria for Saudi Arabia, but for his resurrection of the cold war and now this attack on Russia to booster the DNC and distract their donors from any audit of where the $1.5 billion went. This is an abuse of power and there is no possible way Obama would take the same action had the Republican’s been hacked and that benefited Hillary. Not a single mainstream newspaper is calling Obama out for this obvious partisan abuse of power to save the DNC from a revolution internally.
The DNC is a PRIVATE organization – it is NOT a government agency any more than the Republicans, Green Party, or Communist Party. Period! There is no way Obama would have done this if any other party was “hacked” proving this is an abuse of power to benefit only the Democrats. Russia would normally respond throwing out Americans. That is just SOP (standard operating procedure). However, Putin has come out and said he will NOT expel any Americans. Instead, he understands this is a personal matter with Obama and he will await Donald Trump taking office.
Putin said that he “regrets that the Obama administration completes its time in power in this way.” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has previously accused the outgoing Obama administration of trying to “definitely destroy” relations between the US and Russia, the worst since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Centinel2012 