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Wednesday, December 27, 2017

WAT HET DESCARTES NOU WEER GESÊ...

WHY YOUR INTUITION MAY BE THE HIGHEST FORM OF INTELLIGENCE

December 14, 2017

Our intuition develops when we are babies, long before we are indoctrinated into Newtonian physics – which largely prohibits us from understanding the quantum world. Ironically, one of our first intellectual abilities – intuition – may be one of the greatest forms of intelligence we will ever experience in a “grown-up” world.
In the quantum world, there are no “positions” nor “speed.” These are classical, mechanical terms for a world that doesn’t really exist. Yet, as tiny babies we understand how things work without having a clear grasp of certain intellectual realities.
Psychologists Susan Hespos from Northwestern University, and Renee Baillargeon of University of Illinois found that this physical intuition kicks in as early as two and a half months, and other scientists think that intuition is probably present from birth.
Gerd Gigerenzer, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, argues that intuition is less about suddenly “knowing” the right answer and more about instinctively understanding what information is unimportant and can thus be discarded, but even if we have intuition at birth, one could argue that we have yet to develop the intellectual capacity to learn which information can be discarded.
Yet innate notions, plus “elaborations” born from watching and interacting with the world, add up to a sort of “naïve physics” that we all grasp before having a single physics lesson.
Max Born, who received the 1954 Nobel Prize for his contributions to the foundation of quantum mechanics, felt that our minds just weren’t up to the task of “intuiting” quantum physics. As he wrote in “Atomic Physics,” first published in English in 1935,
“The ultimate origin of the difficulty lies in the fact (or philosophical principle) that we are compelled to use the words of common language when we wish to describe a phenomenon, not by logical or mathematical analysis, but by a picture appealing to the imagination. Common language has grown by everyday experience and can never surpass these limits.”
Aristotle’s 2,300-year-old theories, in which heavy objects fall faster than light ones, and objects in motion ease to a stop unless you keep pushing them have been our assumption until now, but in the quantum world there is no friction. Objects can appear and disappear merely with our observation of them.

Some of Our Biggest Life Decisions are Based on Intuition

The fact that our minds have evolved past avoiding being eaten so that we can also appreciate a great symphony or a breath-taking sunset might also account for the development of our intuition – or be explained further by quantum consciousness.
Gerd Gigerenzer, author of the book Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, says that he is both intuitive and rational. He states,
“In my scientific work, I have hunches. I can’t explain always why I think a certain path is the right way, but I need to trust it and go ahead. I also have the ability to check these hunches and find out what they are about. That’s the science part. Now, in private life, I rely on instinct. For instance, when I first met my wife, I didn’t do computations. Nor did she.”
In fact, some of our biggest life decisions are based on a “hunch” and not some Newtonian calculation of reality. And that hunch is often extremely successful at telling us what to do in many varied, hands-on, real-life applications. Why?

Quantum Computing Merely Mimics Quantum Intuition

It all makes more sense once we understand the latest research into quantum computing.
Regular computers use bits for processing. Everything is either a 1 or a 0, and from this foundation all letters and numbers can be created, and mathematical and logical problems solved.
When an atom replaces the bit, however, a 1 or 0 can be both a 1 or 0 at the same time. This means that complex mathematical calculations which might take millions of bits, and take up tons of storage space in a regular computer, can be compacted and done simultaneously, thus freeing up memory, and performing calculations at an unbelievable speed. However, out innate intuition may work in the very same way – tapping into the Quantum Intelligence that permeates all things.
If the Universe is indeed fractal, and connected and holographic, it would mean that a single atom contains the information of every Universe.
Since we are nothing more than a compilation of atoms (the wave-particle phenomenon notwithstanding) then we can tap into a quantum information/energy field. To use quantum computing terms, we could intuitively process large pieces of information or complex information in the blink of an eye because we are utilizing this field rather than some clunky 1s and 0s.

Physicists Use Human Intuition to Develop Better Quantum Computing

Interestingly, and quite a slap in the face to Max Born who proposed we were incapable of quantum intuition, physicists recently used human intuition and intelligence to create a better quantum computer.
150,000 people played a game called Quantum Moves several million times to help physicists to best determine real-world questions in their field.
Just playing a game, players solved real research questions in quantum physics, and found solutions that were better than trained physicists or state-of-the-art algorithms could find.
That’s worth a moment of reflection.
While this proves human intelligence is still better than AI, it also suggests that intuition is likely derived from the quantum field, of which we are all a part.
About the Author
Christina Sarich is a staff writer for Waking Times. She is a writer, musician, yogi, and humanitarian with an expansive repertoire. Her thousands of articles can be found all over the Internet, and her insights also appear in magazines as diverse as Weston A. PriceNexusAtlantis Rising, and the Cuyamungue Institute, among others. She was recently a featured author in the Journal, “Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and Healing Arts,” and her commentary on healing, ascension, and human potential inform a large body of the alternative news lexicon. She has been invited to appear on numerous radio shows, including Health Conspiracy Radio, Dr. Gregory Smith’s Show, and dozens more. The second edition of her book, Pharma Sutra, will be released soon.
This article (Why Your Intuition May Be the Highest Form of Intelligencewas originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Christina Sarich and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution and author bio.


Tuesday, July 25, 2017

OPE BRIEF AAN HENDRIK GROBLER

Beste Hendrik

(Ek haal jou skrywe aan die einde van die brief aan.)

Aangesien ek nie oor 'n Facebookblad beskik nie, het my goeie kameraad my goedgunstiglik oor jou besondere skrywe op die GRENSOORLOG/BORDER WAR 1966 - 1989-blad ingelig.

Aangesien ek verder minstens tien jaar ouer is as jy, het ons SAW-betrokkenheid nie presies dieselfde verloop nie, maar tóg naby genoeg dat ek met jou kan identifiseer, veral met verwysing na 101 Bn - ek is in 1977 saam met sersante Selwyn Gray en Lawrie Evans van 2 Regiment Algoabaai op "afgedeelde diens" na die oorspronklike 1 Owambo Bataljon gestuur om die eerste inname Owambos by die opleidings- en administratiewe basis in Ondangwa op te lei.

Al wás die meeste Owambotroepe (waaronder die latere genl Karel Ndjoba) daar vir die geld, was die vordering wat ons binne enkele weke met die "rou Owambos uit die bos" gemaak het, fenomenaal.

Aan die einde van die 3-maande kamp het ek, terug in die "States", tot die regsberoep toegetree as staatsaanklaer in Port Shepstone en ses maande later as prokureursklerk by die firma Van onselen & Lewies op Potgietersrus - die twee beste prokureurs waarmee ek in my lewe te doene gekry het, maar baie kort na die aanvang van my klerkskap het ek besef dat dit in die regsberoep primêr oor geld gaan en dat die res bysaak is.

Terwyl ek my prinsipaal bygestaan het in 'n saak van onwettige jag deur 'n polisiesersant in die landdroshof op Messina, het ek besef dat ek moes ontsnap aan dié situasie en aangesien die werk wat ek by 1 Ow Bn gedoen het vir my só sinvol was, het ek kortdiens aangesluit op voorwaarde dat ek teruggaan na 1 Ow Bn.

Ek is einde-1978 terug na Ondangwa, maar intussen het 1 Ow Bn se naam verander na 35 Bn. Gelukkig was maj Willie Snyders, wat nou kommandant Snyders was, nog steeds die bevelvoerder.

Hulle kon my ongelukkig nie weer as instrukteur aanwend nie en ek is na die operasionele basis te Omahanene gestuur waar ek as KSM waargeneem het onder bevel van kapt André Meier.

Gedurende 'n "plaaslik-georganiseerde" operasie (ek dink dit is "Ops Baksteen" genoem) het die 2ib, luit André Scholtz, my in die Suide van Angola met sy "ge-gyppo-de" outomatiese R1 in die regter bo-arm en in die maag geskiet.

Terwyl ek in die ou 1 Mil was, het ek aansoek gedoen vir 'n oorplasing na militêre inligting, maar dis geweier "aangesien my fisieke toestand nie na wense was nie" - as gevolg van 'n grootliks verlamde linkerbeen kon ek nog nooit weer sedert 1 Julie 1979 hardloop of draf nie...

My lewe was in 'n warboel en ek is van 1 Mil af terug na my ouerhuis in PE waar ek ek my klerkskap by die Jodefirma Burman, Blumberg & Saks voltooi het en is later in Pretoria as prokureur toegelaat.

Ek is in 1981 met my (Suid-Afrikaansgebore) Vlaamse meisie van universiteitsdae getroud en in 1991 het ons ná FW de Klerk en die Nasionale Party se verraad teenoor die Afrikanervolk (ernstig teen my sin) uitgewyk na Vlaanderen met ons drie seuntjies van 1, 2 en 3 jaar, met dien verstande dat ek "in 'n oogwink terug sal wees, die dag wanneer ek 'benodig' word.
Ek het my vrou gewaarsku dat dit waarskynlik binne ses maande sou wees...

Inmiddels is al drie seuns al "huisuit" en het ek al oupa geword en nog steeds word ek nie "benodig" nie, maar my lewe hier was hoegenaamd nie sinneloos nie.

Ek het híér agtergekom hóé rég PW Botha en Magnus Malan was oor die "totale aanslag".
Dit was nie net 'n totale aanslag teen "Blank Suid-Afrika" en die Afrikaner nie, maar weliswaar teen die gehele blanke ras.
Suid-Afrika was die eerste proeflopie vir 'n latere globale aanslag wat vandag wêreldwyd in alle felheid gevoer word.

Om tot hierdie insig te kom, was ek egter verplig om 'n hele paar "seders in Waterkloof" te laat val en 'n klompie heilige Kaapse koeie te slag.
Só het ek tot die besef gekom dat die Afrikaner sélf deel is van die BMWS: Bedrog, Misleiding, Wanvoorstelling en Swendelary waardeur die destydse Boerevolk se aartsvyand, te wete die Britte, deur middel van hulle geheime agente, Louis Botha, JBM Hertzog en Jan Smuts oorgegaan het tot die kunsmatige skepping van die Afrikanervolk om die Boerevolk finaal te vernietig en sy plek in te neem.

Indien jy so voel, kan ons in 'n volgende gesprek besin oor die bedenklike rol wat die kerk deur middel van die Joods-Christelik-Islamitiese Drie-Eenheidsgodsdiens gespeel het om die Boerevolk te kondisioneer en selfs te indoktrineer en sodoende ten gronde te rig...

Groete 

Petrus Potgieter 

Goeie dag almal,
Hierdie is my eerste plasing op hierdie groep. Kortliks my diensplig rekord; 1984: 2 SAI Rooikop, Infanterieskool,
1985: 101 Bn, RM 6
Al my kampe voltooi.
Ek bly en werk in die VSA waaroor ek al verskeie negatiewe aanklagtes gekry het. My standpunt is egter dit:
In my eie land was my werksloopbaan en opsies in my lyn van ervaring in n doodloop straat, ek bly egter patrioties en is in n oogwink terug, die dag wanneer ek "benodig" word..
Ek sal soveel moontlik konstruktiewe kommentaar op die volgende waardeer:
Gedurende diensplig was ons opgelei en geleer in die doelstellings en beginsels van die rewolusionere aanslag teen ons land en volk, ek dink ek hoef hieroor of oor die 3Susterskerke se ondersteuning hiervan uit te brei nie. Iets wat my ernstig geraak het en wat almal van ons ervaar het was n spesifieke doelstelling en ek kan nie die woorde onthou nie, maar dit was iets soos "kill the innocent recentlessly and run from the strong shamelessly"
N ernstige bekommernis tans vir my is die byna weeklikse plasings op fb oor die verdwyning van jong kinders in SA, studente wat doodgemaak word en die grondbesettings dreigemente deur n nuwe groep millitantes..
Verskeie mense se vir my die meeste van dit is vals nuus of waardelose dreigemente.
Ek is nie n rassis nie (per spesifieke definisie) en ek glo die meerderheid mense oor die wereld wil maar net die basiese dinge he (Maslow) maar ek was in die weermag en ek weet hoe maklik word mense geindoktrineer.
My vraag is dit..
Hier is n groep met duisende lede, die plasings is meestal maar van n klein groepie, die wat ek sien ieg, wat moet gedoen word? Ons hoor niks meer van die rewolusionere aanslag nie, als word geregverdig deur n apartheidsverskoning.. wat is hierdie stadige en verspreide aanslagte anders as rewolusionere oorlogvoering?
Ek het kinders in SA wat daar wil bly en daar n toekoms wil begin, maar is dit nog moontlik? Ek is so telleurgesteld in ons kerke, behalwe die voetewas eskapade, word die huidige demoniese aanslag teen ons volk totaal ontken..
Ek glo in gebed, maar ek glo ook in objektiwiteit en realisme en ek glo in die respek vir alle lewe, dit is tog deur ons God geskep.
Wat staan ons te doen? Ek het pyn in my hart elke keer as ek die fb plasings sien oor ons kinders wat so verdwyn, oor boere wat vermoor word, ek plaas nie n "amen" of n "like" ek huil in my hart en ek wonder oor die groot vraag in die Bybel, die een wat eendag vir ons elkeen gevra gaan word - "wat het jy gedoen?""


Monday, May 15, 2017

HOOG TYD

THERE IS NO TIME. THERE NEVER WAS AND THERE NEVER WILL BE

February 3, 2015
Josh Richardson, Prevent Disease

Everything exists in the present moment and it’s a fundamental principle of the Universe that many of our scientists are still trying to grasp. Time does not actually exist and Quantum Theory proves it. There are things that are closer to you in time, and things that are further away, just as there are things that are near or far away in space. But the idea that time flows past you is just as absurd as the suggestion that space does.
The trouble with time started a century ago, when Einstein’s special and general theories of relativity demolished the idea of time as a universal constant. One consequence is that the past, present, and future are not absolutes. Einstein’s theories also opened a rift in physics because the rules of general relativity (which describe gravity and the large-scale structure of the cosmos) seem incompatible with those of quantum physics (which govern the realm of the tiny).
According to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, there is no way to specify events that everyone can agree happen simultaneously. Two events that are both “now” to you will happen at different times for anyone moving at another speed. Other people will see a different now that might contain elements of your's but equally might not.
The result is a picture known as the block universe: the universe seen from that impossible vantage point outside space and time. You can by all means mark what you think is “now” with a red dot, but there is nothing that distinguishes that place from any other, except that you are there. Past and future are no more physically distinguished than left and right.
The equations of physics do not tell us which events are occurring right now – they are like a map without the “you are here” symbol. The present moment does not exist in them, and therefore neither does the flow of time. Additionally, Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity suggest not only that there is no single special present but also that all moments are equally real.
Some four decades ago, the renowned physicist John Wheeler, then at Princeton, and the late Bryce DeWitt, then at the University of North Carolina, developed an extraordinary equation that provides a possible framework for unifying relativity and quantum mechanics. But theWheeler-­DeWitt equation has always been controversial, in part because it adds yet another, even more baffling twist to our understanding of time.
“One finds that time just disappears from the Wheeler-DeWitt equation,” says Carlo Rovelli, a physicist at the University of the Mediterranean in Marseille, France. “It is an issue that many theorists have puzzled about. It may be that the best way to think about quantum reality is to give up the notion of time – that the fundamental description of the universe must be timeless.”
One might say that when we better understand consciousness we will better understand time. Consciousness is the formless, invisible field of energy of infinite dimension and potentiality, the substrate of all existence, independent of time, space, or location, of which it is independent yet all inclusive and all present. It encompasses all existence beyond all limitation, dimension, or time, and registers all events, no matter how seemingly miniscule, such as even a fleeting thought. The interrelationship between time and consciousness from the human perspective is limited, when in fact it is unlimited.
There Is No Such Thing As Time
Julian Barbour’s solution to the problem of time in physics and cosmology is as simply stated as it is radical: there is no such thing as time.
“If you try to get your hands on time, it’s always slipping through your fingers,” says Barbour. “People are sure time is there, but they can’t get hold of it. My feeling is that they can’t get hold of it because it isn’t there at all.” Barbour speaks with a disarming English charm that belies an iron resolve and confidence in his science. His extreme perspective comes from years of looking into the heart of both classical and quantum physics. Isaac Newton thought of time as a river flowing at the same rate everywhere. Einstein changed this picture by unifying space and time into a single 4-D entity. But even Einstein failed to challenge the concept of time as a measure of change. In Barbour’s view, the question must be turned on its head. It is change that provides the illusion of time. Channeling the ghost of Parmenides, Barbour sees each individual moment as a whole, complete and existing in its own right. He calls these moments “Nows.”
“As we live, we seem to move through a succession of Nows,” says Barbour, “and the question is, what are they?” For Barbour each Now is an arrangement of everything in the universe. “We have the strong impression that things have definite positions relative to each other. I aim to abstract away everything we cannot see (directly or indirectly) and simply keep this idea of many different things coexisting at once. There are simply the Nows, nothing more, nothing less.”
Barbour’s Nows can be imagined as pages of a novel ripped from the book’s spine and tossed randomly onto the floor. Each page is a separate entity existing without time, existing outside of time. Arranging the pages in some special order and moving through them in a step-by-step fashion makes a story unfold. Still, no matter how we arrange the sheets, each page is complete and independent. As Barbour says, “The cat that jumps is not the same cat that lands.” The physics of reality for Barbour is the physics of these Nows taken together as a whole. There is no past moment that flows into a future moment. Instead all the different possible configurations of the universe, every possible location of every atom throughout all of creation, exist simultaneously. Barbour’s Nows all exist at once in a vast Platonic realm that stands completely and absolutely without time.
Our illusion of the past arises because each Now contains objects that appear as “records” in Barbour’s language. “The only evidence you have of last week is your memory. But memory comes from a stable structure of neurons in your brain now. The only evidence we have of the Earth’s past is rocks and fossils. But these are just stable structures in the form of an arrangement of minerals we examine in the present. The point is, all we have are these records and you only have them in this Now.”
Time, in this view, is not something that exists apart from the universe. There is no clock ticking outside the cosmos. Most of us tend to think of time the way Newton did: “Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably, without regard to anything external.” But as Einstein proved, time is part of the fabric of the universe. Contrary to what Newton believed, our ordinary clocks don’t measure something that’s independent of the universe.
The word “Mechanics” used in the term “Quantum Mechanics” indicates a machine like predictable, buildable, knowable thing. The Quantum Universe in which we live, whether we want to accept it or not, may seem on the surface to be mechanical and linear but it is not. It is probably better described as an infinite multitude of possible linear actions. If we must give this still mystical process a name lets call it “Quantum Ecology” rather than “Quantum Mechanics” because it is built from within it’s self. Everything comes out of the invisible in the same way as any living organism does.
In quantum mechanics all particles of matter and energy can also be described as waves. And waves have an unusual property: An infinite number of them can exist in the same location. If time and space are one day shown to consist of quanta, the quanta could all exist piled together in a single dimensionless point.
The current predominant world paradigm is that if a thing cannot be explained, detailed, analysed and documented by linear scientific thought processes then it’s mumbo jumbo. If you have a spiritual explanation for human existence then your'e crazy, you’re in dream land. The scientific mindset says everything in the universe must be capable of explanation either now or at some point in the future by scientific analytic methods alone. Science says “In the absence of scientific proof it’s not worth the time discussing. If it cannot be put in a box with a label then forget it. Go figure out what box you can put it in, label it, then come back to us and we’ll see if we agree”. Can you see the limitations that this puts on human development?
Quantum particle behavior cannot be explained in terms of science alone, that is to say, it cannot be explained in terms of the mind because the mind by it’s nature functions on the basis that reality consists of things, things that can be broken down into individual bits of information and explained in a linear mechanical fashion. To realise how flawed this mindset is you must first accept that this is a relative world in which we live and on the conscious level we interact with other human beings and the rest of the universe in a linear fashion. This is the nature of the mind. We must go beyond the mind to access the answers.
According to physics, your life is described by a series of slices of your worm; you as a baby, you as you ate breakfast this morning, you as you started reading this sentence and so on, with each slice existing motionless in its respective time. We generate time’s flow by thinking that the same self that ate breakfast this morning also started reading this sentence.
So do we really need to mourn time’s passing? Einstein, for one, drew solace from the view of the timeless universe he had helped to create, consoling the family of a recently deceased friend: “Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

Friday, March 17, 2017

SKOPPENSBOER*

My goeie kameraad het onlangs die onderstaande bydrae op 'n GRENSOORLOG FaceBookgroep met meer as 40 000 lede geplaas en presies zero, zilch, nul kommentare daarop ontvang...as dít nie veelseggend is nie!




Ek wonder al lankal waarom walvisse en dolfyne so dwaas is, want hulle is veronderstel om so intelligent te wees:


...en die mens is die "kroon van die skepping":



Why didn't the Europeans oppose these Invaders? First off they were told they would be receiving women and children in much smaller number for Syria. But…

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...nou haal die "Christene" van Europa se sondes van die afgelope 2 millennia hulle ín en word presies dieselfde gewelddadige taktiek, metodes en strategie wat dié Asiatiese godsdiens ten opsigte van die destydse inheemse godsdiens van die Europeërs gebruik het, op hulle toegepas - die uiteinde is 'n uitgemaakte saak. 



...en dít ook nog (dankie my goeie kameraad):

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dutch-elections-netherlands-geert-wilders-freedom-party-turkey-fascist-no-difference-rallies-islam-a7632571.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/world/europe/erdogan-turkey-future-of-europe.html

Marthinus Nel "Belewe en Onthou"

Daar het ‘n doringboompie

vlak by die pad gestaan,
waar lange ossespanne
met sware vragte gaan.

En eendag kom daarlangs
‘n ossewa verby,
wat met sy sware wiele
dwars-oor die boompie ry.

“Jy het mos, doringstruikie,
my anderdag gekrap;
en daarom het my wiele
jou kroontjie plat getrap.”

Die ossewa verdwyn weer
agter ‘n heuweltop, 
en langsaam buig die boompie
sy stammetjie weer op.

Sy skoonheid was geskonde;
sy bassies was geskeur;
op een plek was die stammetjie
so amper middeldeur.

Maar tog het daardie boompie
weer stadig reggekom, 
want oor sy wonde druppel
die salf van eie gom.

Ook het die loop van jare
die wonde weggewis – 
net een plek bly ‘n teken 
wat onuitwisbaar is.
,
Die wonde word gesond weer
as jare kom en gaan, 
maar daardie merk word groter 
en groei maar aldeur aan.

TOTIUS (J.D. DU TOIT) (1877-1953)


Marthinus Nel "Wat ek hier gaan meedeel, is die geskiedenis van die volgende twee eeue.
Ek beskryf wat kom, wat onvermydelik móét kom:
DIE OPKOMS VAN DIE NIHILISME. Dit kan nou reeds vertel word, want die noodwendigheid sélf is hier aan die woord. Daar word reeds oo
r dié toekoms gepraat deur honderde tekens; dié noodlot kondig sigself oral aan; alle ore is al gespits vir dié toekomsmusiek. Die hele Europese beskawing beweeg al lank met gespanne pyniging, wat jaar na jaar toeneem, in die rigting van 'n katastrofe: onrustig, geweld(dad)ig, haastig; soos 'n rivier, wat na sy einde toe wil, onbesonne, wat báng is om te besin." 
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1901.





Marthinus Nel Moenie mý glo nie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prAVrVojDFM


Marthinus Nel Hier's die bewys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEclL5-mKbc

Friday, January 6, 2017

REËEL, REËELER, REËELSTE

Exit Obama in a Cloud of Disillusion, Delusion and Deceit 

I had promised myself and my family that on this holiday I would do nothing but relax. However events have overtaken my good intentions. I find myself in the unusual position of having twice been in a position to know directly that governments were lying in globe-shaking events, firstly Iraqi WMD and now the “Russian hacks”.
Anybody who believes the latest report issued by Obama as “proof” provides anything of the sort is very easily impressed by some entirely meaningless diagrams. William Binney, who was Technical Director at the NSA and actually designed their surveillance capabilities, has advised me by email. It is plain from the report itself that the Russian groups discussed have been under targeted NSA surveillance for a period longer than the timeframe for the DNC and Podesta leaks. It is therefore inconceivable that the NSA would not have detected and traced those particular data flows and they would be saved. In other words, the NSA would have the actual hack on record, would be able to recognise the emails themselves and tell you exactly the second the transmission or transmissions took place and how they were routed. They would be able to give you date, time and IP addresses. In fact, not only do they produce no evidence of this kind, they do not even claim to have this kind of definite evidence.
Secondly, Bill points out that WikiLeaks is in itself a top priority target and any transmission to WikiLeaks or any of its major operatives would be tracked, captured and saved by NSA as a matter of routine. The exact route and date of the transmission or transmissions of the particular emails to WikiLeaks would be available. In fact, not only does the report not make this information available, it makes no claim at all to know anything about how the information was got to WikiLeaks.
Of course Russian hackers exist. They attack this blog pretty well continually – as do hackers from the USA and many other countries. Of course there have been attempted Russian hacks of the DNC. But the report gives no evidence at all of the alleged successful hack that transmitted these particular emails, nor any evidence of the connection between the hackers and the Russian government, let alone Putin.
There could be no evidence because in reality these were leaks, not hacks. The report is, frankly, a pile of complete and utter dross. To base grave accusations of election hacking on this report is ludicrous. Obama has been a severe disappointment to all progressive thinkers in virtually every possible way. He now goes out of power with absolutely no grace and in a storm of delusion and deceit. His purpose is apparently to weaken Trump politically, but to achieve that at the expense of heightening tensions with Russia to Cold War levels, is shameful. The very pettiness of Obama’s tongue out to Putin – minor sanctions and expelling some diplomatic families – itself shows that Obama is lying about the pretext. If he really believed that Russia had “hacked the election”, surely that would require a much less feeble response. By refusing to retaliate, Russia has shown the kind of polish that eludes Obama as he takes his empty charisma and presentational skills into a no doubt lucrative future in the private sector.