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  1. GuruFateh......I agree Truth can't be destroyed but since this Truth (Guru Granth Sahib Jee) existed even before time "Sargun Nirgun Nirankaar Sunnn Samadhiee Apppp Appaan Kiaaa Nanaka......." So do we conclude no need to preserve just enjoy the fruits till you can...and .......Rabb Rakhaaaa (God forbid) Well done......
  2. Sangat Jeeoo please read below article and it's for PANTH to decide how will we keep ETERNAL KNOWLEDGE SUPREME GURU-GRANT-SAHIB-JEE untouched by these DIGITAL revolution. Escaping The Digital Dark Age Escaping The Digital Dark Age By Stewart Brand Published in Library Journal vol. 124. Issue 2, p46-49 6-20-3 Due to the relentless obsolescence of digital formats and platforms, along with the ten-year life spans of digital storage media such as magnetic tape and CD-ROMs, there has never been a time of such drastic and irretrievable information loss as right now. If that claim seems extravagant, consider the number of literate people in the world and how much work is "knowledge" work, which increasingly means computer work. The world economy itself has become digital. This is a civilizational issue. Information lives in two major dimensions-space and time. With digitization and the Internet, all information is now potentially global. The space dimension for data will keep exploding, but the time dimension is shrinking. The half-life of data is currently about five years. There is no improvement in sight because the attention span of the high-tech industry can only reach as far as next year's upgrade, and its products reflect that. But civilizational time is measured in centuries. A major disconnect is in progress. Loss of cultural memory has become the price of staying perfectly current. Nothing Like Acid-Free Paper The loss is already considerable. You may have noticed that any files you carefully recorded on 5l/4" floppy disks a few years ago are now unreadable. Not only have those disk drives disappeared, but so have the programs, operating systems, and machines that wrote the files (WordStar in CP/M on a Kaypro?). Your files may be intact, but they are as unrecoverable as if they never existed. The same is true of Landsat satellite data from the 1960s and early 1970s on countless reels of now-unreadable magnetic tape. All of the early pioneer computer work at labs such as MIT Artificial Intelligence is similarly lost, no matter how carefully it was recorded at the time. The pioneer work of today is just as doomed, because the rate of digital obsolescence keeps accelerating, and the serious search for a long-term strategy for storage has yet to begin. There is still nothing in the digital world like acid-free paper. Former University of California, Berkeley librarian Peter Layman points out, "When we know a book is important, we...tell a publisher: print it on acid-free paper. And with decent library air-conditioning it will last 500. years If you want to preserve something else, like a newspaper, microfilm it. We know there is a 500-year life to microfilm properly cared for. But what do we do with digital documents? What we do today is we refresh them every time there's a change in technology-or every 18 months, whichever comes first. This is an expensive approach! We need a digital equivalent to microfilm, a 500-year solution." Losing Our Collective Memory Supercomputer designer Danny Hillis also put the problem in perspective at a conference on "Digital Continuity" held at the Getty Center in Los Angeles in February 1998. "Back when information was hard to copy" said Hillis, "people valued the copies and took care of them. Now, copies are so common as to be considered worthless, and very little attention is given to preserving them over the long term." He noted that thousands of years ago we recorded important matters on clay and stone that lasted thousands of years. Hundreds of years ago we used parchment that lasted hundreds of years. As a result, Hillis suggests, we are now in a period that may be a maddening blank to future historians--a Dark Age--because nearly all of our art, science, news, and other records are being created and stored on media that we know can't outlast even our own lifetimes. We arrived at this situation partly because digitization otherwise offers so many profound benefits. We can now store, search, and cross-correlate literally everything. In fact, according to estimates by Bellcore's Michael Lesk, who calculated the total amount of data there is in the whole world, storage has now surpassed data, probably permanently. There is more room to store stuff than there is stuff to store. We need never again throw anything away. That particular role of archivists and curators has become obsolete. A New History If raw data can be kept accessible as well as stored, history will become a different discipline, closer to a science, because it can use marketers' data-mining techniques to detect patterns hidden in the data. You could fast-forward history, tease out correlated trends, zoom in on particular moments. Watershed events might be studied in the original--the actual force-feedback virtual-reality experiment that showed a new way to fold a protein that transformed medicine, plus the lab surveillance camera images of the event, as well as the phone calls, E-mail, and web searches that surrounded the discovery. Note, there are both passive and active digital records in that example. The E-mail, phone calls, and photographs are passive; all you have to do is keep them readable. But the virtual-reality experiment is active--it was probably run on some experimental one-off piece of cobbled together lab equipment. Without that complex of then-current hardware, you can't replay the experiment. Preservation of such hardware-dependent digital experiences is nearly impossible. For instance, the elaborate virtual-reality model of Berlin that has been used for planning that city for years will almost certainly be lost, as will the U.S. Army's famous computer model of the pivotal tank battle in the Gulf War. Storage Vs. Preservation Digital storage is easy; digital preservation is not. Preservation means keeping the stored information cataloged, accessible, and usable on current media, which requires constant effort and expense. Furthermore, while contemporary information has economic value and pays its way, there is no business case for archives, so the creators or original collectors of digital information rarely have the incentive-- or skills, or continuity-to preserve their material. It's a task for long-lived nonprofit organizations such as libraries, universities, and government agencies, which may or may not have the mandate and funding to do the job. University of California, Berkeley, archivist Howard Besser points out that digital artifacts are increasingly complex to revive. For starters you've got the viewing problem--a book displays itself, but the contents of a CDROM are invisible until opened on something. Then there's the scrambling problem--the innumerable ways that files are compressed and, increasingly, encrypted. There are interrelationship problems--hypertext or web site links active in the original but now dead ends. And translation problems occur in the way different media behave--just as a photograph of a painting is not the same experience as the painting, looking through a screen is not the same as experiencing an immersion medium; watching a game is not the same as playing the game. For all these reasons, archivists now encourage tagging all digital artifacts with a rich supply of "metadata" --digital information about the artifact telling what it is and how it works. A number of professional organizations are working on setting consistent (and expandable) standards for metadata. Gradually a set of "best practices" is emerging for ensuring digital continuity: use the most common file formats, avoid compression where possible, keep a log of changes to a file, employ standard metadata, make multiple copies, and so forth. And don't forget atomic backup--while the durability of bits is still moot, the atoms in ink on paper have great stability. Net: Haven Or Horror? What about the net? Everything can be dumped there, everything can be retrieved there, and fairly universal standards such as TCP/IP emerge there. New talents emerge there as well. The net is responsible for the legions of "emulators" who keep finding new ways to revive old games such as "Pac Man" and "Frogger" for play on new computers. Vernacular archivists such as the emulators are one hopeful wave of the future. Massively distributed research like that can convene enormous power. Another example: thanks to the current interest in family genealogy, the thousands of users of a program called "Family Tree Maker" are linking their research into a "World Family Tree" on the web. So far it has tied together 75,000 family trees, a total of 50 million names. The goal, once unthinkable, is to eventually document and link every named human who ever lived. With the net, preservation goes fractal--infinitely branched instead of centralized. But that leaves the question: Is the net itself profoundly robust and immortal, or is it the most ephemeral digital artifact of all? At present the web has a "memory" of about two months, says web archivist Brewster Kahle. What is the solution? We cannot reverse the digitization of everything. What we have to do is convert the design of software from brittle to resilient, from heedlessly headlong to responsible, and from time-corrupted to time-embracing. These are intractable problems. For certain, none of them can be solved in a year, but all of them can yield to decades of focused work, if the health of civilization is understood to be at stake. Thinking In The Long Term "The real problem" says computer designer Hillis, "is not technological. We have the technical understanding to solve problems such as digital degradation. What we don't have yet in our digital culture is the habit of long-term thinking that supports preservation .... In the early 2000s people will realize that we're not at the end of something-we're at the beginning. There really will be a year 3000 and 4000 and so on. Once that idea is more widely accepted, the engineers who are thinking about the next digital medium will naturally think about how it lasts .... " Hillis is more of an optimist than I am. I think it will take insistent, knowledgeable, unremitting demand from librarians and archivists for long-lived digital media, or the engineers will never take the problem seriously enough. If that happens, then librarian Lyman's hope might be realized: "I'd say that what's motivating us is not just a fear of losing what we have, but of being able to build something new out of this digital rubble that we've created-to build something that's really quite amazing, that may be as much of a landmark on our civilization as the Library of Alexandria was in the ancient world."
  3. gSikh/Khalsa religion of Future!!!!!!! (existing in present) After reading below article dass was not only startled but also amazed with Guru's Supreme Gift given to Sikhs. Well my brothers, I may not be able to explain all the benefits/virtues of UN-SHORN HAIR but in an attempt to unravel Guru's precious Gift "KESH", I’m compelled to look towards future!! The future for Spiritual progress and Material edge. It's been over 500 years when seeds of Sikh/Khalsa were being sowed by Guru NANAK Gee. One of the Gifts give to Sikhe/Khalsa was "KESH" - Unshorn Hair. Apart from un-seen/un-known benefits to present human, there are plethora of virtues with it. Future is gradually unraveling the Far-Sighted-ness of our Gurus. AS PROMISED BY OUR GURUS UNSHORN-HAIR “KESH” will act as a STAMP in protecting us from un-thinkable/speak-able horrendous fruits of Human Science Endeavors. "Kharkaa Gaa Jaarooorr KHANDA Kharkagaaaaaaaaaaa" Radio Controled Brain Wave is on the WAY !!!! I urge you all to read this in full.......I assure your time spent will enlighten you. THE SHOCKING MENACE OF SATELLITE SURVEILLANCE by John Flemming 2003-06-19 Unknown to most of the world, satellites can perform astonishing and often menacing feats. This should come as no surprise when one reflects on the massive effort poured into satellite technology since the Soviet satellite Sputnik, launched in 1957, caused panic in the U.S. A spy satellite can monitor a person's every movement, even when the "target" is indoors or deep in the interior of a building or traveling rapidly down the highway in a car, in any kind of weather (cloudy, rainy, stormy). There is no place to hide on the face of the earth. It takes just three satellites to blanket the world with detection capacity. Besides tracking a person's every action and relaying the data to a computer screen on earth, amazing powers of satellites include reading a person's mind, monitoring conversations, manipulating electronic instruments and physically assaulting someone with a laser beam. Remote reading of someone's mind through satellite technology is quite bizarre, yet it is being done; it is a reality at present, not a chimera from a futuristic dystopia! To those who might disbelieve my description of satellite surveillance, I'd simply cite a tried-and-true Roman proverb: Time reveals all things (tempus omnia revelat)... As extraordinary as clandestine satellite powers are, nevertheless prosaic satellite technology is much evident in daily life. Satellite businesses reportedly earned $26 billion in 1998. We can watch transcontinental television broadcasts "via satellite," make long- distance phone calls relayed by satellite, be informed of cloud cover and weather conditions through satellite images shown on television, and find our geographical bearings with the aid of satellites in the GPS (Global Positioning System). But behind the facade of useful satellite technology is a Pandora's box of surreptitious technology. Spy satellites--as opposed to satellites for broadcasting and exploration of space--have little or no civilian use--except, perhaps, to subject one's enemy or favorite malefactor to surveillance. With reference to detecting things from space, Ford Rowan, author of Techno Spies, wrote "some U.S. military satellites are equipped with infra-red sensors that can pick up the heat generated on earth by trucks, airplanes, missiles, and cars, so that even on cloudy days the sensors can penetrate beneath the clouds and reproduce the patterns of heat emission on a TV-type screen. During the Vietnam War sky high infra-red sensors were tested which detect individual enemy soldiers walking around on the ground." Using this reference, we can establish 1970 as the approximate date of the beginning of satellite surveillance--and the end of the possibility of privacy for several people. The government agency most heavily involved in satellite surveillance technology is the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), an arm of the Pentagon. NASA is concerned with civilian satellites, but there is no hard and fast line between civilian and military satellites. NASA launches all satellites, from either Cape Kennedy in Florida or Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, whether they are military- operated, CIA-operated, corporate-operated or NASA's own. Blasting satellites into orbit is a major expense. It is also difficult to make a quick distinction between government and private satellites; research by NASA is often applicable to all types of satellites. Neither the ARPA nor NASA makes satellites; instead, they underwrite the technology while various corporations produce the hardware. Corporations involved in the satellite business include Lockheed, General Dynamics, RCA, General Electric, Westinghouse, Comsat, Boeing, Hughes Aircraft, Rockwell International, Grumman Corp., CAE Electronics, Trimble Navigation and TRW. The World Satellite Directory, 14th edition (1992), lists about a thousand companies concerned with satellites in one way or another. Many are merely in the broadcasting business, but there are also product headings like "remote sensing imagery," which includes Earth Observation Satellite Co. of Lanham, Maryland, Downl Inc. of Denver, and Spot Image Corp. of Reston, Virginia. There are five product categories referring to transponders. Other product categories include earth stations (14 types), "military products and systems," "microwave equipment," "video processors," "spectrum analyzers." The category "remote sensors" lists eight companies, including ITM Systems Inc., in Grants Pass, Oregon, Yool Engineering of Phoenix, and Satellite Technology Management of Costa Mesa, California. Sixty-five satellite associations are listed from all around the world, such as Aerospace Industries Association, American Astronautical Society, Amsat and several others in the U.S. Spy satellites were already functioning and violating people's right to privacy when President Reagan proposed his "Strategic Defense Initiative," or Star Wars, in the early 80s, long after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 had demonstrated the military usefulness of satellites. Star Wars was supposed to shield the U.S. from nuclear missiles, but shooting down missiles with satellite lasers proved infeasible, and many scientists and politicians criticized the massive program. Nevertheless, Star Wars gave an enormous boost to surveillance technology and to what may be called "black bag" technology, such as mind reading and lasers that can assault someone, even someone indoors. Aviation Week & Space Technology mentioned in 1984 that "facets of the project [in the Star Wars program] that are being hurried along include the awarding of contracts to study...a surveillance satellite network." It was bound to be abused, yet no group is fighting to cut back or subject to democratic control this terrifying new technology. As one diplomat to the U.N. remarked, "`Star Wars' was not a means of creating heaven on earth, but it could result in hell on earth." The typical American actually may have little to fear, since the chances of being subjected to satellite surveillance are rather remote. Why someone would want to subject someone else to satellite surveillance might seem unclear at first, but to answer the question you must realize that only the elite have access to such satellite resources. Only the rich and powerful could even begin to contemplate putting someone under satellite surveillance, whereas a middle- or working-class person would not even know where to begin. Although access to surveillance capability is thus largely a function of the willfulness of the powerful, nevertheless we should not conclude that only the powerless are subjected to it. Perhaps those under satellite surveillance are mainly the powerless, but wealthy and famous people make more interesting targets, as it were, so despite their power to resist an outrageous violation of their privacy, a few of them may be victims of satellite surveillance. Princess Diana may have been under satellite reconnaissance. No claim of being subject to satellite surveillance can be dismissed a priori. It is difficult to estimate just how many Americans are being watched by satellites, but if there are 200 working surveillance satellites (a common number in the literature), and if each satellite can monitor 20 human targets, then as many as 4000 Americans may be under satellite surveillance. However, the capability of a satellite for multiple-target monitoring is even harder to estimate than the number of satellites; it may be connected to the number of transponders on each satellite, the transponder being a key device for both receiving and transmitting information. A society in the grips of the National Security State is necessarily kept in the dark about such things. Obviously, though, if one satellite can monitor simultaneously 40 or 80 human targets, then the number of possible victims of satellite surveillance would be doubled or quadrupled. A sampling of the literature provides insight into this fiendish space-age technology. One satellite firm reports that "one of the original concepts for the Brilliant Eyes surveillance satellite system involved a long-wavelength infrared detector focal plane that requires periodic operation near 10 Kelvin." A surveillance satellite exploits the fact that the human body emits infra-red radiation, or radiant heat; according to William E. Burrows, author of Deep Black, "the infrared imagery would pass through the scanner and register on the [charged-couple device] array to form a moving infrared picture, which would then be amplified, digitalized, encrypted and transmitted up to one of the [satellite data system] spacecraft...for downlink [to earth]." But opinion differs as to whether infrared radiation can be detected in cloudy conditions. According to one investigator, there is a way around this potential obstacle: "Unlike sensors that passively observe visible-light and infra-red radiation, which are blocked by cloud cover and largely unavailable at night, radar sensors actively emit microwave pulses that can penetrate clouds and work at any hour." This same person reported in 1988 that "the practical limit on achievable resolution for a satellite-based sensor is a matter of some dispute, but is probably roughly ten to thirty centimeters. After that point, atmospheric irregularities become a problem." But even at the time she wrote that, satellite resolution, down to each subpixel, on the contrary, was much more precise, a matter of millimeters--a fact which is more comprehensible when we consider the enormous sophistication of satellites, as reflected in such tools as multi- spectral scanners, interferometers, visible infrared spin scan radiometers, cryocoolers and hydride sorption beds. Probably the most sinister aspect of satellite surveillance, certainly its most stunning, is mind-reading. As early as 1981, G. Harry Stine (in his book Confrontation in Space), could write that Computers have "read" human minds by means of deciphering the outputs of electroencephalographs (EEGs). Early work in this area was reported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1978. EEG's are now known to be crude sensors of neural activity in the human brain, depending as they do upon induced electrical currents in the skin. Magnetoencephalographs (MEGs) have since been developed using highly sensitive electromagnetic sensors that can directly map brain neural activity even through even through the bones of the skull. The responses of the visual areas of the brain have now been mapped by Kaufman and others at Vanderbilt University. Work may already be under way in mapping the neural activity of other portions of the human brain using the new MEG techniques. It does not require a great deal of prognostication to forecast that the neural electromagnetic activity of the human brain will be totally mapped within a decade or so and that crystalline computers can be programmed to decipher the electromagnetic neural signals. In 1992, Newsweek reported that "with powerful new devices that peer through the skull and see the brain at work, neuroscientists seek the wellsprings of thoughts and emotions, the genesis of intelligence and language. They hope, in short, to read your mind." In 1994, a scientist noted that "current imaging techniques can depict physiological events in the brain which accompany sensory perception and motor activity, as well as cognition and speech." In order to give a satellite mind-reading capability, it only remains to put some type of EEG-like-device on a satellite and link it with a computer that has a data bank of brain-mapping research. I believe that surveillance satellites began reading minds--or rather, began allowing the minds of targets to be read--sometime in the early 1990s. Some satellites in fact can read a person's mind from space. Also part of satellite technology is the notorious, patented "Neurophone," the ability of which to manipulate behavior defies description. In Brave New World, Huxley anticipated the Neurophone. In that novel, people hold onto a metal knob to get "feely effects" in a simulated orgy where "the facial errogenous zones of the six thousand spectators in the Alhambra tingled with almost intolerable galvanic pleasure." Though not yet applied to sex, the Neurophone--or more precisely, a Neurophone-like-instrument--has been adapted for use by satellites and can alter behavior in the manner of subliminal audio "broadcasting," but works on a different principle. After converting sound into electrical impulses, the Neurophone transmits radio waves into the skin, where they proceed to the brain, bypassing the ears and the usual cranial auditory nerve and causing the brain to recognize a neurological pattern as though it were an audible communication, though often on a subconscious level. A person stimulated with this device "hears" by a very different route. The Neurophone can cause the deaf to "hear" again. Ominously, when its inventor applied for a second patent on an improved Neurophone, the National Security Agency tried unsuccessfully to appropriate the device. A surveillance satellite, in addition, can detect human speech. Burrows observed that satellites can "even eavesdrop on conversations taking place deep within the walls of the Kremlin." Walls, ceilings, and floors are no barrier to the monitoring of conversation from space. Even if you were in a highrise building with ten stories above you and ten stories below, a satellite's audio surveillance of your speech would still be unhampered. Inside or outside, in any weather, anyplace on earth, at any time of day, a satellite "parked" in space in a geosynchronous orbit (whereby the satellite, because it moves in tandem with the rotation of the earth, seems to stand still) can detect the speech of a human target. Apparently, as with reconnaissance in general, only by taking cover deep within the bowels of a lead-shielding fortified building could you escape audio monitoring by a satellite. There are various other satellite powers, such as manipulating electronic instruments and appliances like alarms, electronic watches and clocks, a television, radio, smoke detector and the electrical system of an automobile. For example, the digital alarm on a watch, tiny though it is, can be set off by a satellite from hundreds of miles up in space. And the light bulb of a lamp can be burned out with the burst of a laser from a satellite. In addition, street lights and porch lights can be turned on and off at will by someone at the controls of a satellite, the means being an electromagnetic beam which reverses the light's polarity. Or a lamp can be made to burn out in a burst of blue light when the switch is flicked. As with other satellite powers, it makes no difference if the light is under a roof or a ton of concrete--it can still be manipulated by a satellite laser. Types of satellite lasers include the free-electron laser, the x-ray laser, the neutral-particle-beam laser, the chemical- oxygen-iodine laser and the mid-infra-red advanced chemical laser. Along with mind-reading, one of the most bizarre uses of a satellite is to physically assault someone. An electronic satellite beam--using far less energy than needed to blast nuclear missiles in flight-- can "slap" or bludgeon someone on earth. A satellite beam can also be locked onto a human target, with the victim being unable to evade the menace by running around or driving around, and can cause harm through application of pressure on, for example, one's head. How severe a beating can be administered from space is a matter of conjecture, but if the ability to actually murder someone this way has not yet been worked out, there can be no doubt that it will soon become a reality. There is no mention in satellite literature of a murder having been committed through the agency of a satellite, but the very possibility should make the world take note. There is yet another macabre power possessed by some satellites: manipulating a person's mind with an audio subliminal "message" (a sound too low for the ear to consciously detect but which affects the unconscious). In trying thereby to get a person to do what you want him to do, it does not matter if the target is asleep or awake. A message could be used to compel a person to say something you would like him to say, in a manner so spontaneous that noone would be able to realize the words were contrived by someone else; there is no limit to the range of ideas an unsuspecting person can be made to voice. The human target might be compelled to use an obscenity, or persons around the target might be compelled to say things that insult the target. A sleeping person, on the other hand, is more vulnerable and can be made to do something, rather than merely say something. An action compelled by an audio subliminal message could be to roll off the bed and fall onto the floor, or to get up and walk around in a trance. However, the sleeping person can only be made to engage in such an action for only a minute or so, it seems, since he usually wakes up by then and the "spell" wears. It should be noted here that although the "hypnotism" of a psychoanalyst is bogus, unconscious or subconscious manipulation of behavior is genuine. But the brevity of a subliminal spell effected by a satellite might be overcome by more research. "The psychiatric community," reported Newsweek in 1994, "generally agrees that subliminal perception exists; a smaller fringe group believes it can be used to change the psyche." A Russian doctor, Igor Smirnov, whom the magazine labeled a "subliminal Dr. Strangelove," is one scientist studying the possibilities: "Using electroencephalographs, he measures brain waves, then uses computers to create a map of the subconscious and various human impulses, such as anger or the sex drive. Then. through taped subliminal messages, he claims to physically alter that landscape with the power of suggestion." Combining this research with satellite technology--which has already been done in part--could give its masters the possibility for the perfect crime, since satellites operate with perfect discretion, perfect concealment. All these satellite powers can be abused with impunity. A satellite makes a "clean getaway," as it were. Even if a given victim became aware of how a crime was effected, noone would believe him, and he would be powerless to defend himself or fight back. And this indeed is the overriding evil of satellite technology. It is not just that the technology is unrestrained by public agencies; it is not just that it is entirely undemocratic. The menace of surveillance satellites is irresistible; it overwhelms its powerless victims. As writer Sandra Hochman foresaw near the beginning of the satellite age, though seriously underestimating the sophistication of the technology involved: Omniscient and discrete, satellites peer down at us from their lofty orbit and keep watch every moment of our lives... From more than five-hundred miles above earth, a satellite can sight a tennis ball, photograph it, and send back to earth an image as clear as if it had been taken on the court at ground zero. Satellites photograph and record many things...and beam this information, this data, back to quiet places where it is used in ways we don't know. Privacy has died." This terror is in the here and now. It is not located in the mind of an eccentric scientist or futurologist. Satellite surveillance is currently being abused. Thousands of Americans are under satellite surveillance and have been stripped of their privacy. And presently they would have little or no recourse in their struggle against the iniquity, since technology advances well ahead of social institutions. The powers of satellites, as here described, especially lend themselves to harassment of someone. The victim could be a business or political rival, an ex-spouse, a political dissident, a disliked competitor, or anyone who for whatever reason provokes hatred or contempt. Once the target is a "signature," he can almost never escape a satellite's probing eyes. (As an article in Science explained, "tiny computers...check the incoming signals with computerized images, or `signatures,' of what the target should like.") As long as his tormentor or tormentors--those with the resources to hire a satellite--desire, the victim will be subject to continuous scrutiny. His movements will be known, his conversations heard, his thoughts picked clean, and his whole life subjected to bogus moralizing, should his tormentor diabolically use the information gained. A sadist could harass his target with sound bites, or audio messages, directly broadcast into his room; with physical assault with a laser; with subliminal audio messages that disturb his sleep or manipulate persons around him into saying something that emotionally distresses him; with lasers that turn off street lights as he approaches them; with tampering with lamps so that they burn out when he hits the switch; and in general with the knowledge gained acquired through the omniscient eyes and ears of satellites. In short, a person with access to satellite technology could make his victim's life a living nightmare, a living hell. How you could arrange to have someone subjected to satellite surveillance is secretive; it might even be a conspiracy. However, there seem to be two basic possibilities: surveillance by a government satellite or surveillance by a commercial satellite. According to an article in Time magazine from 1997, "commercial satellites are coming online that are eagle-eyed enough to spot you-- and maybe a companion--in a hot tub." The Journal of Defense & Diplomacy stated in 1985 that "the cost of remote sensors is within the reach of [any country] with an interest, and high-performance remote sensors (or the sensor products) are readily available. Advances in fourth-generation (and soon fifth-generation) computer capabilities. especially in terms of VHSIC (very-high-speed integrated circuits) and parallel processing, hold the key to rapid exploitation of space-derived data. Wideband, low-power data relay satellites are, at the same time, providing support for communication needs and for relay of remote sensor data, thus providing world-wide sensor coverage." In addition, The New York Times reported in 1997 that "commercial spy satellites are about to let anyone with a credit card peer down from the heavens into the compounds of dictators or the back yards of neighbors with high fences." "To date [the newspaper further noted] the Commerce Department has issued licenses to nine American companies, some with foreign partners, for 11 different classes of satellites, which have a range of reconnaissance powers." But this last article discussed photographic reconnaissance, in which satellites took pictures of various sites on earth and ejected a capsule containing film to be recovered and processed, whereas the state of the art in satellite technology is imaging, detection of targets on earth in real time. Currently, industry is hard at work miniaturizing surveillance satellites in order to save money and be in a position to fill the heavens with more satellites. Yet no source of information on satellites indicate whether the abuse of satellite surveillance is mediated by the government or corporations or both. More telling is the following disclosure by the author of Satellite Surveillance (1991): "Release of information about spy satellites would reveal that they have been used against U.S. citizens. While most of the public supports their use against the enemies of the U.S., most voters would probably change their attitudes towards reconnaissance satellites if they knew how extensive the spying has been. It's better...that this explosive issue never surfaces." Few people are aware of the destruction of the rights of some Americans through satellite surveillance, and fewer still have any inclination to oppose it, but unless we do, 1984 looms ever closer. "With the development of television and the technical device to receive and transmit on the same instrument, private life came to an end." Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields Cause DNA DamageFrom Klaus Rudolph Citizens' Initiative Omega Star.Mail@t-online.de 6-19-3 Intermittent Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields Cause DNA Damage In A Dose-Dependent Way By Ivancsits S, Diem E, Jahn O, Rudiger HW. Division of Occupational Medicine, University Hospital/AKH, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria. OBJECTIVES. Epidemiological studies have reported an association between exposure to extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields (ELF-EMFs) and increased risk of cancerous diseases, albeit without dose-effect relationships. The validity of such findings can be corroborated only by demonstration of dose-dependent DNA-damaging effects of ELF-EMFs in cells of human origin in vitro. METHODS. Cultured human diploid fibroblasts were exposed to intermittent ELF electromagnetic fields. DNA damage was determined by alkaline and neutral comet assay. RESULTS. ELF-EMF exposure (50 Hz, sinusoidal, 1-24 h, 20-1,000 MicroTesla, 5 min on/10 min off) induced dose-dependent and time-dependent DNA single-strand and double-strand breaks. Effects occurred at a magnetic flux density as low as 35 MicroTesla being well below proposed International Commission of Non-Ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) guidelines. After termination of exposure the induced comet tail factors returned to normal within 9 h. CONCLUSION. The induced DNA damage is not based on thermal effects and arouses concern about environmental threshold limit values for ELF exposure. Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 2003 Jun 12 in print http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.f...e&db=PubMed&lis _uids=12802592&dopt=Abstract and Evaluation Of Rat Thyroid Gland Morphophysiological Status After Three Months Exposure To 50 Hz Electromagnetic Field By Rajkovic V, Matavulj M, Gledic D, Lazetic B. Department of Histology and Embryology, Institute of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovica 2, 21000, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia Objective of our study was to use morphophysiological criteria in order to determine the sensitivity of male rat thyroid gland to an extremely low frequency electromagnetic field (ELF-EMF) influence and the ability of the gland to repair after period of exposure. Animals were exposed to 50Hz, 50-500 MicroTesla ELF-EMF for 3 months when a part of them (group I) were sacrificed, while the rest of animals were subjected to recovery evaluation of the gland and sacrificed after 1 (group II), 2 (group III) and 3 (group IV) weeks. Histological and stereological analyses were performed on paraffin and semifine thyroid gland sections. Serum T3 and T4 were also determined. Histological and stereological analyses showed that the volume density of follicular epithelium and thyroid activation index decreased, while the volume density of colloid and capillary network increased in group I, II and III. The values of all these parameters in group IV were similar to corresponding controls. Serum T3 and T4 concentrations were significantly lower in all exposed animals, except in group I. Results of this study demonstrate that after significant morphophysiological changes caused by ELF-EMF exposure thyroid gland recovered morphologically, but not physiologically, during the investigated repair period. Tissue Cell. 2003 Jun;35(3):223-231. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.f...1&dopt=Abstract and Childhood Leukemia: Electric And Magnetic Fields As Possible Risk Factors By Brain JD, Kavet R, McCormick DL, Poole C, Silverman LB, Smith TJ, Valberg PA, Van Etten RA, Weaver JC. Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Numerous epidemiologic studies have reported associations between measures of power-line electric or magnetic fields (EMFs) and childhood leukemia. The basis for such associations remains unexplained. In children, acute lymphoblastic leukemia represents approximately three-quarters of all U.S. leukemia types. Some risk factors for childhood leukemia have been established, and others are suspected. Pathogenesis, as investigated in animal models, is consistent with the multistep model of acute leukemia development. Studies of carcinogenicity in animals, however, are overwhelmingly negative and do not support the hypothesis that EMF exposure is a significant risk factor for hematopoietic neoplasia. We may fail to observe effects from EMFs because, from a mechanistic perspective, the effects of EMFs on biology are very weak. Cells and organs function despite many sources of chemical "noise" (e.g., stochastic, temperature, concentration, mechanical, and electrical noise), which exceed the induced EMF "signal" by a large factor. However, the inability to detect EMF effects in bioassay systems may be caused by the choice made for "EMF exposure." "Contact currents" or "contact voltages" have been proposed as a novel exposure metric, because their magnitude is related to measured power-line magnetic fields. A contact current occurs when a person touches two conductive surfaces at different voltages. Modeled analyses support contact currents as a plausible metric because of correlations with residential magnetic fields and opportunity for exposure. The possible role of contact currents as an explanatory variable in the reported associations between EMFs and childhood leukemia will need to be clarified by further measurements, biophysical analyses, bioassay studies, and epidemiology. Environ Health Perspect. 2003 Jun;111(7):962-970. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.f...9&dopt=Abstract Informant: Reinhard Rueckemann -------- Mechanism Please look at this text on the mechanisms of the EMF (too many scientists 'officials' say still " there are no explanations "!) http://www.csif-cem.org/hspen.html Here is the abstract : EMF and Stress proteins (Hsp) or Heat shock proteins Richard GAUTIER (Dr en pharmacie), Roger SANTINI (Dr es sciences) http://www.csif-cem.org le 17/06/2003 Abstract: Increase of synthesis of Hsp by the electromagnetic fields (EMF) generally or by the radio frequencies of the mobile telephony in particular was widely demonstrated. By studying works relative to the cellular biochemistry we realizes that these mechanisms are known (activation of the way of the MAP Kinase and Hsp, deregulation of the protein synthesis, apoptose pathway) and consequences in sanitary terms established, whether it is in term of resistance in anti-cancerous treatments, of confusions of the intellectual activity, infringement of the BHE, the deficit of the immunity, the development of cancer. Informant: Dr Richard Gautier
  4. Faridaa Deekh Pariee Choopriaa naa tarsai jee !!! :arrow: Fried Food Ingredient Mutates DNA, Study Finds Reuters June 18, 2003 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Acrylamides, cancer-causing agents recently found in some fried and baked foods, damage DNA by causing a spectrum of mutations, researchers reported on Tuesday. Swedish researchers caused a global furor in 2000 when they reported that acrylamides, used to purify water and in other industrial processes, could be found in a range of baked and fried foods. They seem to be formed by exposing high-carbohydrate foods to high temperatures such as those found in baking and frying. The chemicals can cause cancer in laboratory animals but have never been linked to human cancer. Ahmad Besaratinia and Gerd Pfeifer of the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California found that acrylamides can mutate DNA. Cells exposed to acrylamide had more adducts -- specific types of mutations in the DNA -- than untreated cells, they reported in this week´s issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. They noted that they treated mouse cells only, not human cells. They said the best way to find out if acrylamide causes cancer in people is to do epidemiological studies -- studies of populations to see if people who eat more foods containing acrylamides have higher rates of cancer. One such study, published by U.S. and Swedish researchers last January, found no link between acrylamide consumption and the risk of bladder or kidney cancer. Acrylamide experts Fredrik Granath of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and Margareta Tornqvist of Stockholm University in Sweden, said the risk to any one person from eating acrylamides is small and they would not recommend changing nutritional guidelines. "However, the situation for vulnerable groups, e.g., pregnant women and children, should always be carefully considered," they wrote in a commentary on the work, also published in the journal. But a U.S. group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, is lobbying for limits on acrylamide in food. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has tested baby food, cereals, cookies, crackers, infant formulas and other foods, and found the levels of acrylamides vary greatly.
  5. Italy Gives Shoot-To-Kill Orders To Stop Illegals SkyNews.com 6-18-3 Italian navy and coast guard vessels are to be ordered to open fire with live rounds on boats carrying illegal immigrants. The radical approach to Italy's asylum problem was outlined by a senior minister in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's coalition government. Reforms Minister Umberto Bossi said he was sick of illegal immigrants and wanted to hear "the blast of cannons". "After the second or third warning, bang... we fire the cannon," Mr Bossi told Corriere della Sera newspaper. "Without too much talking. A cannon to knock out whoever may be there. "Otherwise, we're never going to put an end to this problem." Asked whether it would be right to fire on immigrants who are generally unarmed women and children, Mr Bossi was firm. "Whether they're good or bad, one way or the other illegal immigrants have got to be chased away," he said. "The navy and coastguard should defend our shores and use their cannons to do it. "That's the best way to enforce the law. No deferring or turning back." Until now, the Italian navy has only been permitted to board boats at sea and escort them back to port, in line with international practice. Mr Bossi's comments come in the wake of a recent surge in illegal immigration from north and central Africa. More than 1,000 people have landed in southern Italy in the last three days and nearly 3,000 so far in June. Mr Bossi, who heads the right-wing Northern League party, threatened that if the government didn't start taking a harder line, he would pull his support for the coalition. "Whether the government's allies agree or not, I want to hear the sound of the cannons by the end of the week or I'm off," he said. http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3000...960,00.html<
  6. link: :arrow: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030609/punjab.htm
  7. Positive thoughts can be put in action anywhere. At-least you can expect this anywere but in INDIA. A true Sikh school Anirudh Gupta Ferozepore The school established with the help of funds by some Sikhs settled in different parts of the world at the birthplace of Guru Nanak Dev in Nankana Sahib has created quite a different identity for itself in Pakistan. Students of this school, irrespective of caste, creed and culture are excelling not only in academics and sports, but they could also recite Japji Sahib, Sukhmani Sahib and other religious prayers with great confidence. At present, there are 142 Sikh, 410 Muslim and around 120 other students belonging to weaker sections of society who are provided free education. The school, which was established in 1999, has vast playgrounds, excellent academic results and above all, feeling of oneness and a spirit of secularism. Mr Ajgar Bhatti, who is the Headmaster of the school, told the Sikh pilgrims who recently visited Nankana Sahib that all children in the school irrespective of religion and belief were taught Gurmukhi language. Bhai Mastan Singh, Managing Director of the school said although there were eight government and 14 other private schools in Nankana Sahib yet parents feel proud to get their wards admitted to this school. He said the major financial assistance for the running expenditure of the school was being extended in the form of donations by the Sikhs living in Europe and some other parts of the world. He said six students had been selected for the MBBS and four for engineering course. He said that the motto of the school was based on the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev i.e “Kirat Karni, Naam Japna, Vandke Chhaknaâ€. He expressed the hope that soon it will become one of the biggest schools in the region for which a master plan for its extension was being drafted. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- moderator note: Provide reference link to it. It has no reference. We don't support hearsay.
  8. "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." http://www.hermes-press.com/restore1.htm
  9. Actually it was posted on other forum but this is good for discussion.....HOW MASANDS at Akaal Takth want PANTH TO DIVIDE and CHANGE THEIR VIEWS....about black sheeps.... Check the new politics Dear Virs.....Point needs to be noted...if it's for below reason Kala Afghana is being Tankhiya....then what has AKAAL Takth to SAY for all the supporters of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindernwale....all the Sikh Samaj.... http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030511/main6.htm Therefore the point these new Masands at AKaal Takth want to convey is that actually Kala Afghana is DARDIE/MASSIHA/ NEW SAINT.......we all know about Mr. Kala (black sheep).......and Masands of Akaaal Takth... Mr Kala Afghana had pleaded that he could not appear in person at Akal Takht due to ill health and his close links with Sant Jarnail Singh Bhinderanwale. Kala Afghana declared ‘tankhaiya’ Tribune News Service Amritsar, May 10 A Canada-based Sikh scholar, Gurbaksh Singh Kala Afghana, who has authored a set of 10 books, “Bipran Ki Rit Sach Da Marg†has been declared ‘tankhaiya’. He had pointed an accusing finger on Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti for editing a book “Gurbilas Patshahi 6â€, which was later banned by the SGPC. The meeting of the Sikh clergy, held at the Akal Takht secretariat, unanimously resolved that Mr Kala Afghana had indulged in blasphemous activities and contents of his books were against the Sikh tenets. The Sikh high priests said Mr Kala Afghana had failed to turn up to clarify his position, though he was given enough time. The deadline fixed for his appearance at Akal Takht ended today. Mr Gurtej Singh, a Professor of Sikhism, described the decision of the Sikh clerics as ‘unfortunate’. He said the decision was not as per the Sikh traditions. Mr Gurtej Singh said he had called a meeting of Sikh intellectuals in Chandigarh tomorrow to discuss the matter at length. Earlier, the Sikh high priests had accepted the plea of Mr Kala Afghana and allowed him to give his explanation through videoconferencing, which was later cancelled. Mr Kala Afghana had pleaded that he could not appear in person at Akal Takht due to ill health and his close links with Sant Jarnail Singh Bhinderanwale. He had pleaded that the moment he entered India he could be arrested by security agencies. However, the Sikh clergy justified the decision of backing out on the videoconferencing option granted to Mr Kala Afghana saying that they had the right to change such decisions. In his last letter written to Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti, Jathedar, Akal Takht, Mr Kala Afghana had used derogatory language describing him as a ‘liar’ and ‘maha pappi’. Taking serious note of the language used, Jathedar Vedanti said it was unpardonable. The Sikh high priests said if Mr Kala Afghana failed to appear before Akal Takht by July 10, he would be punished as per the Sikh ‘maryada’. In such a case Mr Kala Afghana could be declared excommunicated from the Panth. The meeting was attended by Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti, Giani Balwant Singh Nandgarh, Giani Tarlochan Singh, Jathedars of Akal Takht, Damdama Sahib and Kesgarh Sahib, respectively, Giani Bhagwan Singh, Head Granthi, Akal Takht, and Giani Jagtar Singh, Granthi, Golden Temple. Asked Mr Kala Afghana had pleaded that he could not appear due to ill health, which had already been accepted by the Sikh clergy, Giani Bhagwan Singh quipped he was misleading the Panth. In yet another significant development, Akal Takht decided to send a reminder to the state government for banning the activities of controversial godman Ashutosh. UNI adds: Akal Takht also endorsed the ongoing efforts for unity between Mr Parkash Singh Badal and Mr Gurcharan Singh Tohra. Talking to reporters, Jathedar Vedanti said he favoured the unity move between the two Akali groups and was of the firm belief that misgivings, confusions and misunderstandings should be sorted out through dialogue. On the issue of contradiction between the SGPC traditions and his recent visits to different deras, Jathedar Vedanti said he believed that there was no harm in visiting those deras, which had been propagating teachings of the gurus and gurbani. On the issue of release of Sikh youths detained in different jails, he said he would make efforts after the receipt of the list of such persons.
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