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JUST BEFORE 21/12/12 Reprinting by Peter Braveheart

Here are some of the very interesting articles from the

excellent ENDTIME site: www.peopleofthekeys.com

You will find all of the following in the EDITORIAL for this

week.

“Hear, O ye my beloved, saith the Lord: behold, the

days of trouble are at hand, but I will deliver you from the same.” (2 Esdras 16:74)

I Will Deliver You

Dear Friends,

Greetings. As we approach the end of 2012, not really knowing if or when the prophecies of the Bible and many other sources may come to pass, we do know certain truths. If we are truly prepared with Jesus in our hearts, with faith in His Word, then we can surely say, 'que sera sera', 'whatever will be will be', knowing God will see us through and keep us with what ever is to be, whether the rise of the antichrist, the confirming of the covenant, the breaking of the covenant, the Great Tribulation, or the return of Jesus at the end of the Tribulation.

If we are about to head into a time of great trouble, the above verse from the Apocrypha, we felt pretty much is another confirmation to many of the promises of God found in the Bible. A good example to hold onto being Psalm 91, “He that dwelleth in the secret place

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(shelter) of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”

We think you will find the material below both relevant and interesting. Included are two interviews with Joseph Candel – 'Fallen Angels' and 'The Great Deception'. Joseph has done a very good job outlining future events as predicted in the Bible and the possibilities of what may lay ahead.

There is also a rallying call to Christians in general by Paul McGuire entitled “Prophecy, predictive programming and the overthrow of the Luciferian elite.”

We'll leave you this week by saying have a great week, and remember “God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able...to bear.” 1 Corinthians 10:13

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NewsWithViews.com (Edited from longer article.)

PROPHECY, PREDICTIVE PROGRAMMING & THE

OVERTHROW OF THE LUCIFERIAN ELITE

By Paul McGuire -

December 3, 2012 -

The bottom line in all this is that the ruling

elite, which is heavily involved in Satanic

practices is using mind control or sorcery

to destroy the Middle Class and establish a

Luciferian elite and their worker slaves.

Aldous Huxley made these remarks at a

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speech at a university in California:

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the

all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of

managers control a population of slaves who do not have to

be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them

love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to

ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and

schoolteachers.... The greatest triumphs of propaganda have

been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining

from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical

point of view, is silence about truth."

“And it cast down the TRUTH to the ground Daniel 8.12”.

Occult philosophy is essential to this totalitarian state because

it teaches that man is not made in the image of God,

therefore he has no intrinsic value. This opens the gates of

hell to enslave man with economics, (wealth redistribution)

mass mind control and the real goal of social engineering,

which is to control mass consciousness, so that masses or the

people on the bottom of the pyramid live as controlled puppets

and economic debtors to the ruling elite. The present

economic crisis is simply the mechanism for creating

slaves!

The Bible, both Old Testament and New Testament, I believe

is God's inspired and inerrant Word, the problem is that many

of the people talking about it, have no idea what it is actually

saying. But, the power of truth in the Bible is like a cosmic

tsunami smashing the strongholds of hell on the beaches of

human consciousness. It is clear starting in Eden, that God

made man, male and female to be the rulers of Paradise. Man

was never created to be a slave! Adam and Eve lost the

power of their ruler-ship by entering into a dialogue with

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the consciousness of evil, embodied by the serpent. In its

simplest terms, Adam and Eve lost their ruler-ship by

rejecting God's Word, in favour of the evil philosophy of

the serpent. The serpent was the most powerful of fallen

angels, whose name was Lucifer, which means the "shining

one." He wanted to be god and led a revolution against God,

along with one third of the angels, which is still continuing to

this present day.

Lucifer's plan was to enslave mankind, which he did when he

deceived Adam and Eve. All those who have chosen to serve

Lucifer, hope to gain power by enslaving others and that is

the world system. The dictatorial rule of Satan is manifested

in physical models of society and power. Beginning at the

Tower of Babel, then under the Pharaoh system, where God's

people were made slaves. Every time mankind rejected the

precepts of God for a philosophy like Communism,

Fascism or humanism, men and women became slaves

under a cruel and dictatorial ruler, like Lenin, Stalin,

Hitler and Mao, where hundreds of millions were put in

slave camps and murdered. There is a vast difference

between the workers' paradise of Karl Marx and the paradise

of God in Eden.

In a cosmic sense we are now approaching crunch time! The

prophecies and predictions of the Biblical prophets are

coming true before our very eyes. The world is being ruled

by a Satanic elite, which are herded us like slaves to the

one world government, one world economic system and

one world religion predicted in Revelation Chapter 13. Men

and women who reject God as their Ruler, will receive the

ultimate mark of a slave, the Mark of the Beast, which is a

microchip or biochip implant where no one can buy or sell,

without this electronic mark of the beast.

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The planned destruction of the dollar and the manufactured

economic collapse is intended to bring in the coming one

world economic system, by around 2018. Then the mass

population of planet earth, who chose to reject God, will

choose to worship the Antichrist as God. We are in the birth

pains described by Jesus Christ as the signs of the times in

Matthew 24. Christ and the Apostle Paul warned of Satanic

elite that would rise to rule the world in the last days. They

clearly said that the spiritual deception in mankind would be

so intense that they would be under a Great Delusion of Great

Apostasy. This is global mass mind control that is first

spiritual and also drug oriented and technological.

Through so-called secular predictive programming mankind

has been programmed to accept a world authoritarian leader,

accept the loss of freedoms, accept being slaves and accepting

a mark and embrace the idea that all resistance in useless. The

Satanic elite is openly killing off, or "culling the herd," of

"useless eaters," by taking the world's population from 7

billion to 500 million. They are using the Science of

Eugenics first developed by the Rockefeller Foundation in the

1920's and then adopted by Hitler in the 1930's as the

scientific justification for their goals.

On a theological level, a superficial reading of Bible prophecy

would lead one to conclude that we are to be fatalistic, accept

our role as victims and do nothing until Christ returns. Yet the

Bible teaches that we are to, "rightly divide the Word."

That means we are to take great care to interpret it

correctly. Now, based on my personal experience, of teaching

Bible prophecy to millions of people through mass media, I

know that many will instantly misinterpret what I am about to

say.

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But, within the Evangelical Community there is almost an

unconscious death wish when it comes to Bible prophecy.

Nowhere in the Bible does it ever teach Christians to become

fatalists and do nothing until Christ returns. Nowhere! In fact,

the Bible teaches at great length the responsibility of those

who claim to know Christ, to actively engage the world

and the culture. For example, in the Parable of the Talents,

Christians are told to use their talents, abilities and

resources for God, or suffer severe penalties for becoming

apathetic and doing nothing! Christians often talk about the

preaching the Gospel, which of course is what they should

do. However, the words of Jesus Christ, "Occupy until I

come," are omitted by many Christians as if it were an

obscenity!

Yet, Jesus Christ is specifically telling us that we are to

"Occupy until I come!" Occupation implies maintaining your

position and even advancing it! Yet, we see the majority of

Christians adopting a non-Biblical theology or retreatism or

escapism. The most often used excuse is that we are in the last

days and we are not to interfere with God's end time program.

Essentially, the argument goes we are to just hang in there

until the Rapture. The non-Biblical idea is that if we attempt

to do anything, we might be interfering with God's Sovereign

plan. Thus passivity and fatalism are promoted as the ultimate

will of God for the truly spiritual Christian.

All of the above so-called theological reasons for apathy,

passivity and fatalism, are the direct opposite of what Christ is

actually teaching. In fact, they are a complete defiance of His

stated will! When Jesus Christ said that we are to, "Occupy

until I Come," that is precisely what He meant. He said,

"occupy and not hide, retreat and sleep!

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The idea that by taking action based on a sound mind is an

attempt to overrule God's Sovereignty is the exact opposite of

what Christ taught. It is impossible to for any man to overrule

God's Sovereignty through prayer or action. God's Sovereign

plan will unfold exactly as He planned and He did not create

man to live in a fatalistic universe. That is why God most

often works in partnership with His people. Many times

you will hear the false theological argument that this is the

last days and everything is supposed to get worse, therefore

we should not attempt to do anything about it, because we

might interfere with God's plan. This is theological insanity! It

has been the last days ever since the time of the Apostle Paul

over 2,000 years ago. During the last days, which we are still

in, there have been countless revivals like the Reformation,

First Great Awakening and Third Great Awakening. There

has been global evangelism where hundreds of millions have

accepted the truth of Christ's message. Empires of great evil

like the Third Reich, Lenin, Stalin and others have been

destroyed or restrained.

By God's grace technological achievements such as the light

bulb, electricity, air travel, television, computers, medical

advances and countless other scientific breakthroughs have

alleviated great suffering. The American Revolution with its

unique Constitution and Bill of Rights produced the greatest

Middle Class in the history of mankind, along with the most

freedoms, including religious freedoms. All of this and much,

much more has happened during the last days!

We are still in the last days and the signs of the times are

intensifying every day. The danger of global thermonuclear

war, plagues, famines, wars, economic collapse, earthquakes,

freak weather and asteroid impact are just a few of the dangers

the human race faces. However, in the face of the warnings

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given to us by the ancient prophets, scientists, Apostles and

Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ emphatically commanded us to,

"Occupy until I Come!" That is our prime directive! "And

I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I

will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail

against it." Matthew 16:18

It is important that you accurately understand what I am

saying. I am not calling for some kind of Christian

Reconstruction movement or the establishment of a Christian

theocracy. I am simply advocating that what Christ taught be

established in relationship to our present moment. When the

church is in obedience to the words, "Occupy until I come,"

the gates of hell cannot prevail against the church. At this

present moment, which is in the last days, the church is to

move forward as the spiritual armies of light and engage

the armies of spiritual darkness. That conflict or spiritual

war is to continue until Christ returns.

The reason spiritual darkness, chaos and the armies of evil

appear to triumph in our present hour, is because the church

has rejected its mandate from its Lord to, "Occupy until I

come." The correct interpretation of the "gates of hell

cannot prevail," is to be understood in the sense, that the

gates of hell represent hell's kingdom on earth. But, the

church, if viewed properly is to be seen as a divine battering

ram, smashing down the gates of hell! When the individual

Christian and church come into divine alignment with

God's intention, there will be a release from heaven of

spiritual power that has the power to overturn the earthly

kingdoms of spiritual darkness and drive the powers of

darkness from the land. This is ground zero in the spiritual

war. All economic, political, social, spiritual, technological

and institutional control will turn on this one truth. Everything

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we are experiencing in America and around the world will be

impacted by an eternal force. This is the game changer and it

must begin today.

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Fallen Angels

Endtime Interview part 1-3 between Joseph Candel and Simon

Peter, which I highly recommend you watch, as it explains our

current world situation very succinctly. See:

http://endtimeinfo.com/category/podcasts/

http://english.audioconectate.net/night-light-shows/

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The Great Deception

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(Taken from Raiders News Update - Tom Horn.)

The False Prophet And The Antichrist Are Here

Petrus Romanus, the Antichrist, and the Years 2012 &

2016

Posted: March 11, 2012

Contemporaneous to the arrival of the

False Prophet (Petrus Romanus) is a

prophecy from what is widely considered

the most important work of Jewish

Kabbalah, the Zohar, a collection of books

written in medieval Aramaic over seven

hundred years ago containing mystical

commentary on the Pentateuch (five books

of Moses, the Torah). In addition to

interpreting Scripture, the "Vaera" section

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(volume 3, section 34) includes "The signs heralding

Mashiach," or "The coming of the Messiah." The fascinating

date for "his" appearance is set in the Zohar in late 2012!

Given the rejection of Jesus by orthodox Jews as Messiah,

Christians understand this "coming" would herald the

unveiling of Antichrist in 2012.

J. R. Church of Prophecy in the News called our office a

couple years back and led us through verses 476 - 483 of this

part of the Zohar to point out what nobody in the 2012

research community had written before--that the time of

Jacob's trouble (the Great Tribulation, which some Catholic

scholars say begins with the election of Petrus Romanus) will

commence according to this ancient text in the year 2012

when the "kings of the earth" gather in Rome, possibly during

a papal conclave, and are killed by fiery stones or missiles

from the sky.

The prophecy in the Zohar, given by Jews hundreds of years

separate from the divination of "the last pope," is amazing

when compared with the Catholic prediction. The final pope,

"Peter the Roman," whose reign ends in the destruction of

Rome, will assume authority during a time of great

tribulation, and then "the city of seven hills will be destroyed,

and the terrible and fearsome Judge will judge his people."

But Dr. Church pointed out how in the Jewish Zohar, this

vision of the destruction of Rome is repeated, though one

prophecy connects it to the coming of the False Prophet, and

the other, the Antichrist:

This ancient rabbinical dissertation claims that Rome will be

destroyed in the Jewish calendar year 5773, which, in our

calendar begins with the new moon of September 2012 and

concludes a year later:

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"In the year seventy-three [2012/2013] the kings of the world

will assemble in the great city of Rome, and the Holy One

will shower on them fire and hail and meteoric stones until

they are all destroyed, with the exception of those who will

not yet have arrived there."

Is he hinting at the destruction of Mystery Babylon? He notes

that not all kings will be destroyed. Of those remaining, he

says: "These will commence anew to make other wars. From

that time the Messiah will begin to declare himself, and round

him there will be gathered many nations and many hosts from

the uttermost ends of the earth."[i]

Thus the false messiah (antichrist) is predicted in a seven-

hundred-year-old Jewish prophecy to appear in 2012.

Similarly, the nine-hundred-year-old Prophecy of the Popes

looks to be unfolding in parallel fashion to provide Petrus

Romanus in 2012. To these, we could add numerous other

strange attractors from throughout history that also assigned

apocalyptic importance to the year 2012, including:

· The Mayan calendar ends in 2012 with the return of their

flying dragon god Kulkulkan.

· The Aztec calendar ends in 2012 and their flying dragon god

Quetzalcoatl returns.

· The Cherokee Indian calendar ends in the year 2012 and

their flying rattlesnake god returns. The "Cherokee

Rattlesnake Prophecies," also known as the "Chickamaugan

Prophecy" or the "Cherokee Star Constellation Prophecies,"

are part of a series of apocalyptic prophecies made by

members of the Cherokee tribe during 1811 - 1812. Like the

Maya, the Cherokee calendar ends mysteriously in the year

2012 when astronomical phenomena related to Jupiter, Venus,

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Orion, and Pleiades cause the "powers" of the star systems to

"awaken."

·According to ancient Mayan inscriptions, in 2012, the Mayan

underworld god Bolon Yokte Ku also returns.

· The Hindu Kali Yuga calendar ends in the year 2012 at the

conclusion of the age of "the male demon."

· According to the book, Apollyon Rising 2012, the prophecy

of the Cumaean Sibyl on the Great Seal of the United States

(novus ordo seclorum) points to the coming of the Antichrist

in 2012. (more notes on this below)

· Over two hundred sixty years ago, the leader of the first

Great Awakening in America, Jonathan Edwards, tied the

arrival of the Antichrist and Great Tribulation period to the

timeframe 2012 and 2016.

· One hundred thirty years after that, in 1878, Reverend

William J. Reid did the same, writing in his "Lectures on the

Revelation" concerning the papal system: "...we are prepared

to answer the question, When will the Papal system come to

an end? [It] will be destroyed in the year 2012."[ii]

· Also of interest is the Web Bot Project, which was

developed in the late 1990s for tracking and making stock

market predictions. This technology crawls the Internet, much

like a search engine does, searching for keywords and

following "chatter" in order to tap into "the collective

unconscious" of the global community for tipping points

regarding past, current, and future buying patterns. In 2001,

operators began noticing what looked like more than

coincidences, and that the "bot" was taking on a mind of its

own, accurately predicting more than just stock market

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predictions, including June of 2001 when the program

predicted that a life-altering event would be felt worldwide

and would take place within sixty to ninety days. On

September 11, 2001, the Twin Towers of the World Trade

Center fell. The Web Bot also predicted the 2001 anthrax

attack on Washington DC; the earthquake that produced the

December 26, 2004, tsunami; Hurricane Katrina; and more.

The Web Bot has now foretold global devastation for late

December 2012.

· In 2008, Henry Kissinger predicted the arrival of the New

World Order in four years - 2012

· In 2012, the United States elects a President.

· In 2012, the United Nations gets new leaders.

· And in 2012, Petrus Romanus is set to materialize during a

Final Conclave.

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Before It's News

Mayan End Date for CERN Largest Experiment Ever

December 5, 2012

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This year, CERN is beginning another set of experiments in

hopes to getting that much closer to completing the Standard

Model. Scientists at CERN have announced test dates for the

rest of the year, as well as some curious dates can be found in

the upcoming schedule. Starting Monday, December 17,

2012 and going through Friday, December 21, 2012, CERN

will be launching and running a series of collisions, which are

predicted to break records in high voltage collisions already

set by the LHC. With these experiments, the scientists are

hoping to create atomic reactions that would provide further

information about anti-matter, and the big bang.

The test set for the week of December 17-21, 2012 is the final

test before the LHC will shutdown operations for upgrades

and will resume operation in 2014, assuming something

doesn’t go wrong, in the minds of some of the scientists,

terribly right, which causes the end of the world. I guess we

will just have to see what happens. Let us know what you

think, is CERN guilty of a self-fulfilling prophecy of

destruction here?

Coincendence? Let’s hope so.. I really hope the scientists

who deal with the LHC know what they are doing and have

some kind of stopping mechanism in place in case something

like that were to occur. I doubt they do.. ~Ophelia

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Scientific American

Next year's "brightest comet in modern times" to be

"once in a civilization" event

Sat, 06 Oct 2012

File photo

As it flares out of the distant

Oort Cloud, the newly

discovered comet C/2012 S1

(ISON) appears to be

heading on a trajectory that

could make for one of the

most spectacular night-sky

events in living memory. Why

is this comet expected to be so unique? Two reasons:

Astronomers predict that the comet will pass just 1.16 million

miles from the Sun as it swings around its perihelion, or

closest approach. (This may seem like a lot, but remember -

the Sun is big. If we were to scale the Sun down to the size of

Earth, the comet would pass well within the orbits of dozens

of satellites.) The close approach will melt enormous amounts

of the comet's ice, releasing dust and gas and forming what

should be a magnificent tail.

After it loops around the Sun and forms this tail, the comet

should then pass relatively close to Earth - not near enough to

cause any worry, but close enough to put on a great show.

Viewers in the Northern Hemisphere will get the best view as

the comet blooms in the weeks approaching Christmas 2013.

The comet could grow as bright as the full moon.

Of course, comets have a habit of not living up to

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expectations. This one could be sucked into the Sun during its

close approach, or not grow as much of a tail as astronomers

hope.

But that hasn't dampened enthusiasm for what Astronomy

Now is awkwardly calling "a once-in-a-civilisation's-lifetime"

event. The comet expert John E. Bortle is already comparing

ISON with the Great Comet of 1680, which, according to

contemporary accounts, caused the people of New York's

Manhattan Island to be "overcome with terror at a sight in the

heavens such as has seldom greeted human eyes.... In the

province of New York a day of fasting and humiliation was

appointed, in order that the wrath of God might be assuaged."

We can only hope for such a show.

Here is the full text of the 1680 comet description quoted

above:

The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America by John Fiske

Chapter XI, 'New York in the Year 1680'

Late in the autumn of 1680 the good people of Manhattan

were overcome with terror at a sight in the heavens such as

has seldom greeted human eyes. An enormous comet, perhaps

the most magnificent one on record, suddenly made its

appearance. At first it was tailless and dim, like a nebulous

cloud, but at the end of a week the tail began to show itself

and in a second week had attained a length of 30 degrees; in

the third week it extended to 70 degrees, while the whole

mass was growing brighter. After five weeks it seemed to be

absorbed into the intense glare of the sun, but in four days

more it reappeared like a blazing sun itself in the throes of

some giant convulsion and threw out a tail in the opposite

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direction as far as the whole distance between the sun and the

earth. Sir Isaac Newton, who was then at work upon the

mighty problems soon to be published to the world in his

Principia, welcomed this strange visitor as affording him a

beautiful instance for testing the truth of his new theory of

gravitation. But most people throughout the civilized world,

the learned as well as the multitude, feared that the end of all

things was at hand. Every church in Europe, from the grandest

cathedral to the humblest chapel, resounded with

supplications, and in the province of New York a day of

fasting and humiliation was appointed,in order that the wrath

of God might be assuaged.

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MailOnline

From sci-fi to reality

The computer-blitzing drone that can cripple

a nation's electronics at the touch of a button

Aircraft manufacturer Boeing have created a weapon that can

knock out computers.The missile is thought to be able to

penetrate bunkers and caves.Experts warn, in the wrong

hands, could bring Western cities to their knees

By BEN ELLERY

1 December 2012

Down the years and across the universe, the heroes of science-

fiction classics from Dan Dare to Star Wars and The Matrix

have fought intergalactic battles with weapons that wipe out

enemy electronics at the touch of a button.

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Now scientists have turned fantasy into reality by developing

a missile that targets buildings with microwaves that disable

computers but don't harm people.

Aircraft manufacturer Boeing successfully tested the weapon

on a one-hour flight during which it knocked out the

computers of an entire military compound in the Utah desert.

Pre-programmed filghtpath: Aircraft manufacturer

Boeing has successfully tested a missile which knocked out

an entire military compound in the Utah desert

It is thought the missile could penetrate the bunkers and

caves believed to be hiding Iran's suspected nuclear facilities.

But experts have warned that, in the wrong hands, the

technology could be used to bring Western cities such as

London to their knees.

During Boeing's experiment, the missile flew low over the

Utah Test and Training Range, discharging electromagnetic

pulses on to seven targets, permanently shutting down their

electronics.

Boeing said that the test was so successful even the camera

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recording it was disabled.

Codenamed the Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave

Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP), it is the first time a

missile with electromagnetic pulse capability has been tested.

For security reasons, Boeing declined to release film of the

test, but instead issued an artist's impression of it on video. In

the clip, a stealth aircraft deploys a missile that emits radio

waves from its undercarriage which knock out the computer

systems inside the buildings below.

Stealth mission: The missile is launched from a stealth

bomber and is thought to be able to penetrate the bunkers

and caves believe to be hiding Iran's suspected nuclear

facilities

The company did release real film showing a row of

computers that can be seen shutting down when the

electromagnetic pulse is switched on.

Although the project is shrouded in secrecy, experts believe

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the missile is equipped with an electromagnetic pulse cannon.

This uses a super-powerful microwave oven to generate a

concentrated beam of energy which causes voltage surges in

electronic equipment, rendering them useless before surge

protectors have the chance to react.

Keith Coleman, CHAMP programme manager for Boeing's

prototype arm Phantom Works, said the technology marked 'a

new era in modern warfare'.

He added: 'In the near future, this technology may be used

to render an enemy's electronic and data systems useless

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even before the first troops or aircraft arrive.

'We hit every target we wanted and made science fiction into

science fact. When the computers went out, it actually took

out the cameras as well. It was fantastic.'

The project has cost £24 million and has been developed

on behalf of the US Air Force Research Laboratory following

a request from the Pentagon four years ago.

Lead test engineer Peter Finlay said: 'We're not quite at the

place where the Star Trek and Star Wars movies are but this is

definitely an advancement in technology able to give us an

opportunity to do things we could not do before.' James

Dodd, vice-president of Advanced Boeing Military Aircraft,

said there was a real need for a weapon that could knock out

a target but not cause harm to people and structures.

He said: 'We know this has capabilities and impact. We're

trying to see if we can get it implemented sooner rather than

later.'

However, experts fear that the project could create an arms

race, with countries scrambling to build their own

electromagnetic pulse weapons.

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Wiped out: Boeing's film shows computers before (left)

and after (right) the attack by the drone but experts have

warned that, in the wrong hands, the technology could be

used to bring Western cities such as London to their knees

Professor Trevor Taylor, Professorial Fellow at the Royal

United Services Institute, said the Western world would be

much more vulnerable to such an attack because of our

increased reliance on electronics. He added: 'This is a

challenging area in political and military terms. Ideally there

would have been an arms-control agreement to cover this

field, because once technology is actually developed, control

becomes harder.

'The historical record shows that important technologies

developed in one country are developed elsewhere within a

relatively short period - look what happened with regard to the

USSR and nuclear weapons.

'Should the US be known to have developed such a

technology to the production stage, it would drive others to

try to act similarly.

'Western countries are more dependent on electronics-based

IT than others and would be vulnerable to extensive

disruption.'

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The Blaze

HOW TO CREATE A MIND: THE SECRET OF

HUMAN THOUGHT REVEALED

RAY KURZWEIL

Ray Kurzweil authored The New York Times

bestseller "The Singularity Is Near" and the

national bestseller "The Age of Spiritual

Machines," among other titles. One of the

leading inventors of our time, Kurzweil was

inducted into the National Inventors Hall of

Fame in 2002. He's the recipient of many

honors, including the National Medal of

Technology, the nation's highest honor for technological

achievement.

We are now at the dawn of an era of radical possibilities that

could allow us--as we merge with our technology--to

effectively address the world's grand challenges.

That's one of the conclusions drawn by Ray Kurzweil, the

bold futurist and author of the New York Times bestseller The

Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology.

Kurzweil can easily make such statements.

After all, he's probably the most influential technological

visionary on earth.

A pioneering inventor and theorist, Kurzweil has explored for

decades how artificial intelligence can enrich and expand

human capabilities.

Now, in his much-anticipated How to Create a Mind: The

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Secret of Human Thought Revealed, Kurzweil takes this

exploration to the next step: reverse-engineering the brain to

understand precisely how it works, then applying that

knowledge to create vastly intelligent machines.

Drawing on the most recent neuroscience research, his own

research and inventions in artificial intelligence, and

compelling thought experiments, Kurzweil describes his new

theory of how the neocortex (the thinking part of the brain)

works: as a self-organizing hierarchical system of pattern

recognizers.

Kurzweil, who also authored The Age of Spiritual Machines,

shows how these insights will enable us to greatly extend the

powers of our own minds and provides a road map for the

creation of super-intelligence--humankind's most exciting

next venture.