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Thursday, March 28, 2024
Humans are symbiotic with Trees
When you understand that trees give off oxygen and that they breathe in Carbon dioxide you can see first hand how they give us oxygen and we give them carbon dioxide which is what they need to live.
However, there is more to it than that as well. I found myself (in love) with trees always since I was very little in Seattle, Washington. If you have ever been there and to Lake Forest Park where I spent the first years of my life trees are everywhere. Big Trees like Pine trees and Fir Trees and many other kinds of trees. Though it can be very foggy and rainy there much of the year it also is something that the big trees like because they can grow big and tall in a climate like that. So, often as a child I would walk through the forests of Lake Forest Park and on Mt. Rainier with my father which is a really big mountain that stands out like Mt. Shasta and other large Mountains on the west coast of the U.S.
So, trees and mountains were always very important to me as well as the oceans of Puget Sound which is sort of an inland sea around Seattle connected to the Pacific Ocean so ships can easily travel in and out of the Sound into the Pacific Ocean and to places unknown around the world.
However, there is a very special relationship I have personally with trees beyond this because of their unconditional love of me always. This might be true of everyone but I know for sure it is especially true of me. I found that I was always telepathic with trees and I identified with them as a child. In fact, they helped me learn to be telepathic with human beings as a child and growing up too.
I have experienced in my life the most unconditional love towards me from trees more than from anyone or anything else but God and all Life on earth.
So, for this reason trees have always been very good to me and have shown me many things and if they have questions for me as an adult human I share telepathically what I know with them even though their perspective on what life is is somewhat different than ours (as you can imagine if you too stood alone in one place on earth always and hopefully surrounded by your friends and relatives who were mostly trees too.
By God's Grace
The last Civil War was about freeing the Slaves in the 1800s. This civil war now is about the enslavement of women
In the red states where abortion is banned women become the slaves of men. There was a saying about "Keeping women Barefoot and pregnant" (and uneducated) which might have been fine for men of that era but is not okay now.
The prevention of abortions in Red States is "ONLY" really about men enslaving women for all the wrong reasons.
Understanding this new civil war over the rights of women nationwide allows people to think about this in a more rational way.
IF you study about the Book burnings in Nazi Germany it reminds me of the book bans here in the U.S.
Our country is founded not only upon the Freedom of information and the Freedom of the press but also the freedom of obtaining knowledge about anything and everything.
When people interfere with that it causes people to be unprepared for many events in their lives and they become victims in many ways.
For example, in states where abortions are banned it also often causes those states to ban books about abortion and birth control pills as well as contraceptives of all kinds to prevent pregnancy.
When this happens women are not only enslaved because they have no control over what happens to their bodies it also impoverishes them often to not having a job because they become pregnant through rape or incest or other things that might happen in any kind of circumstances. Then because they do not have the freedom of getting an abortion ever and the the truth about contraceptives of all kinds are hidden from them if an accident occurs they are imprisoned by being forced to have that baby whether they can actually afford to have that baby or not. And since women can get their period sometimes as young as 10 years old women can be enslaved by men in this way through laws from a very young age and have their lives destroyed sometimes by age 10.
Experts war-gamed what might happen if deepfakes disrupt the 2024 election. Things went sideways fast.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/war-game-deepfakes-disrupt-2024-election-rcna143038
Experts war-gamed what might happen if deepfakes disrupt the 2024 election. Things went sideways fast.
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It’s Election Day in Arizona and elderly voters in Maricopa County are told by phone that local polling places are closed due to threats from militia groups.
Meanwhile, in Miami, a flurry of photos and videos on social media show poll workers dumping ballots.
The phone calls in Arizona and the videos in Florida turn out to be “deepfakes” created with artificial intelligence tools. But by the time local and federal authorities figure out what they are dealing with, the false information has gone viral across the country.
This simulated scenario was part of a recent exercise in New York that gathered dozens of former senior U.S. and state officials, civil society leaders and executives from technology companies to rehearse for the 2024 election.
The results were sobering.
“It was jarring for folks in the room to see how quickly just a handful of these types of threats could spiral out of control and really dominate the election cycle,” said Miles Taylor, a former senior Department of Homeland Security official who helped organize the exercise for the Washington-based nonprofit The Future US.
Dubbed “The Deepfake Dilemma,” the exercise illustrated how AI-enabled tools threaten to turbocharge the spread of false information in an already polarized society and could sow chaos in the 2024 election, multiple participants told NBC News. Rather than examining a singular attack by a group or hostile regime, the exercise explored a scenario with an array of both domestic and foreign actors launching disinformation, exploiting rumors and seizing on political divisions.
The organizers and participants in the war game spoke exclusively to NBC News about how it played out.
They said it raised worrisome questions about whether federal and local officials — and the tech industry — are prepared to counter both foreign and domestic disinformation designed to undermine public confidence in the election results.
Current U.S. officials say privately they share those concerns and that some state and local election agencies will be hard-pressed to keep the election process on track.
The exercise illustrated the uncertainty surrounding the roles of federal and state agencies and tech firms seven months before what is expected to be one of the most divisive elections in U.S. history. Does the federal government have the ability to detect an AI deepfake? Should the White House or a state election office publicly declare that a particular report is false?
Unlike a natural disaster, in which government agencies work through a central command, America’s decentralized electoral system is entering uncharted territory without a clear sense of who’s in charge, said Nick Penniman, CEO of Issue One, a bipartisan organization promoting political reform and election integrity.
“Now, in the last few years, we in America are having to defend assaults on our elections from both domestic and foreign forces. We just don’t have the infrastructure or the history to do it at scale because we’ve never had to face threats this severe in the past,” said Penniman, who took part in the exercise.
“We know a hurricane is eventually going to hit our elections,” said Penniman. But in the exercise, “because patterns of working together haven’t formed, few people understood exactly how they should be coordinating with others or not.”
In a mock “White House Situation Room” around a long table, participants played assigned roles — including as directors of the FBI, CIA and the Department of Homeland Security — and sifted through the alarming reports from Arizona and Florida and numerous other unconfirmed threats, including a break-in at a postal processing center for mail-in ballots.
Conferring with the tech companies, players who were “government officials” struggled to determine the facts, who was spreading “deepfakes” and how government agencies should respond. (MSNBC anchor Alex Witt also took part in the exercise, playing the role of president of the National Association of Broadcasters.)
In the exercise, it was unclear initially that photos and video of poll workers tossing out ballots in Miami were fake. The images had gone viral, partly because of a bot-texting campaign by Russia.
Eventually, officials were able to establish that the whole episode was staged and then enhanced by artificial intelligence to make it look more convincing.
In this and other cases, including the fake calls to Arizona voters, the players hesitated over who should make a public announcement telling voters their polling places were safe and their ballots secure. Federal officials worried that any public statement would be seen as an attempt to boost the chances of President Joe Biden’s re-election.
“There was also a lot of debate and uncertainty about whether the White House and the president should engage,” Taylor said.
“One of the big debates in the room was whose job is it to say if something’s real or fake,” he said. “Is it the state-level election officials who say we’ve determined that there’s a fake? Is it private companies? Is it the White House?”
Said Taylor, “That’s something that we think we’re also going to see in this election cycle.”
And although the war game imagined tech executives in the room with federal officials, in reality, communication between the federal government and private firms on how to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation has sharply diminished in recent years.
The once close cooperation among federal officials, tech companies and researchers that developed after the 2016 election has unraveled due to sustained Republican attacks in Congress and court rulings discouraging federal agencies from consulting with companies about moderating online content.
The result is a potentially risky gap in safeguarding the 2024 election.
State governments lack the resources to detect an AI deepfake or to counter it quickly with accurate information, and now technology companies and some federal agencies are wary of taking a leading role, former officials and experts said.
“Everybody’s terrified of the lawsuits and ... accusations of free speech suppression,” said Kathy Boockvar, former Pennsylvania secretary of state, who took part in the exercise.
The New York war game, plus similar sessions being carried out in other states, is part of a wider effort to try to encourage more communication between tech executives and government officials, said Taylor.
But in the world outside the war game, social media platforms have cut back teams that moderate false election content, and there’s no sign those companies are ready to pursue close cooperation with government.
State and local election offices, meanwhile, face a significant shortage of experienced staff. A wave of physical and cyber threats has triggered a record exodus of election workers, leaving election agencies ill-prepared for November.
Concerned about understaffed and inexperienced state election agencies, a coalition of nonprofits and good-government groups are planning to organize a bipartisan, countrywide network of former officials, technology specialists and others to help local authorities detect deepfakes in real time and respond with accurate information.
“We’re going to have to do the best we can — independent of the federal government and the social media platforms — to try to fill the gap,” said Penniman, whose organization is involved in the election security effort.
Boockvar, the former secretary of state, said she hopes nonprofits can act as a bridge between the tech companies and the federal government, helping to maintain communication channels.
Some of the largest AI tech firms say they are introducing safeguards to their products and communicating with government officials to help bolster election security before the November vote.
“Ahead of the upcoming elections, OpenAI has put in place policies to prevent abuse, launched new features to increase transparency around AI-generated content, and developed partnerships to connect people to authoritative sources of voting information,” said a spokesperson. “We continue to work alongside governments, industry partners, and civil society toward our shared goal of protecting the integrity of elections around the world.”
The internet, however, is filled with smaller generative-AI companies that may not abide by those same rules, as well as open-source tools that allow people to build their own generative-AI programs.
An FBI spokesperson declined to comment on a hypothetical situation, but said the bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force remains the federal lead “for identifying, investigating, and disrupting foreign malign influence operations targeting our democratic institutions and values inside the United States.”
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it’s working closely with state and local agencies to protect the country’s elections.
“CISA is proud to continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with state and local election officials as they defend our elections process against the range of cyber, physical, and operational security risks, to include the risk of foreign influence operations,” said senior adviser Cait Conley.
For many of those in the room for the exercise, the scenarios drove home the need to develop an ambitious public education campaign to help voters recognize deepfakes and to inoculate Americans from the coming onslaught of foreign and domestic disinformation.
The Future US and other groups are now holding talks with Hollywood writers and producers to develop a series of public service videos to help raise awareness about phony video and audio clips during the election campaign, according to Evan Burfield, chief strategy officer for The Future US.
But if public education campaigns and other efforts fail to contain the contagion of disinformation and potential violence, the country could face an unprecedented deadlock over who won the election.
If enough doubts are raised about what has transpired during the election, there’s a danger that the outcome of the vote becomes a “stalemate” with no clear winner, said Danny Crichton of Lux Capital, a venture capital firm focused on emerging technologies, which co-hosted the exercise.
If enough things “go wrong or people are stuck at the polls, then you just get to a draw,” Crichton said. “And to me that is the worst-case scenario. ... I don’t think our system is robust enough to handle that.”
Kevin Collier is a reporter covering cybersecurity, privacy and technology policy for NBC News.
Long term investing only works if you can live without that money for 5 or 10 years or more
This is because the market has it's ups and downs and you don't want to sell your stocks usually when they drop a lot. So, you should hold onto your stocks while there are recessions or even depressions. So, for example, if you were invested in 2009 in the Stock market it dropped all the way to ( The DJIA hit a low on March 6, 2009 of 6,469.95.)
United States bear market of 2007–2009 - Wikipedia
What I believe is actually happening with Hamas, Israel and Gaza
Presently after doing a lot of research I believe that Hamas attacked Israel when Hamas Leaders were Paid off by Russia and Iran who financed and planned this attack. It was authorized by Putin as a way of winning his war against Ukraine.
The other reason Putin would want to end Israel as a nation by doing this (which is what looks like is coming now) is that Putin wants control of all the Oil in the middle East. And I expect Israel to be destroyed and all the people gone who are Jewish out of the Middle East now within 10 years time.
Because the ONLY way Israel remains a Jewish State is if there is some sort of 2 state solution. This is the ONLY way Israel gets to continue to exist in the present world climate. It's no longer World War II and the world does not have sympathy for people who have killed about 25,000 Palestinians as victims of Israel's aggression against Palestine.
However, it must be remembered that Hamas acts more like a Drug Cartel or Terrorist Gang than a government.
So, one must recognize that this was all planned by Russia, Iran and Hamas to end Israel. And no matter how many Gazans Israel kills they are just digging their own graves by doing it the way they presently are.
It's not that Israel is wrong about defending against Hamas it's that the world won't put up with the extermination of so many Gazans by Israel while the world looks on in Horror!