• USS Delphy (DD-261), the flagship in the column. 3 sailors died.
  
• USS S. P. Lee (DD-310)
  
• USS Young (DD-312) made no move to turn. She tore her hull open on submerged rocks. 20 sailors died.
  
• USS Woodbury (DD-309) turned to starboard, but struck an offshore rock.
  
• USS Nicholas (DD-311) turned to port and also hit a rock.
  
• USS Fuller (DD-297) stuck next to Woodbury.
  
• USS Chauncey (DD-296) ran aground while attempting to rescue sailors from the capsized Young.
  

Quote:Another way to assure AI safety, Musk felt, was to tie the bots closely to humans. They should be an extension of the will of individuals, rather than systems that could go rogue and develop their own goals and intentions. That would become one of the rationales for Neuralink, the company he would found to create chips that could connect human brains directly to computers.

What could Musk bring to the party? One asset was the Twitter feed, which included more than a trillion tweets posted over the years, 500 million added each day. It was humanity’s hive mind, the world’s most timely dataset of real-life human conversations, news, interests, trends, arguments, and lingo. Plus it was a great training ground for a chatbot to test how real humans react to its responses. The value of this data feed was not something Musk considered when buying Twitter. “It was a side benefit, actually, that I realized only after the purchase,” he says.

Inside Elon Musk's Struggle for the Future of AI (TIME, Sept 6, 2023)

Quote:While Sam is calling for regulation of future models, he didn’t think existing models were dangerous and thought it would be a big mistake to regulate or ban them. He reiterated his belief in the importance of open source and said that OpenAI was considering open-sourcing GPT-3. Part of the reason they hadn’t open-sourced yet was that he was skeptical of how many individuals and companies would have the capability to host and serve large LLMs.
OpenAI’s plans according to Sam Altman

Quote:2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and, ostensibly, the end of the Cold War. In light of this, Rich Hall embarks on an examination of the relationship between the West and the East, America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

In his unique way, Rich looks at the propaganda, ignorance, fear and secrecy, and the natural offspring of these, paranoia, and considers how a 40-year stand-off between the superpowers brought the US and Russia to the verge of nuclear war.

The documentary does not look at the Cold War from an American perspective alone. Rich Hall also delves into the psyche of those living in the Soviet Union, of those who took part in the machinations, plots and conspiracies, and of ordinary citizens who, like Rich, lived through this most tense of times.

The Cold War and America’s obsession with communism and the Soviet Union isn’t just about the race to produce the atom bomb and conquer space. It’s about spying, political scheming and the fear of communism in Hollywood, in literature and on television.

It was science fiction. It went from the absurd to the ridiculous. It even created incredible sporting drama. Rich uses the bizarre, the extraordinary and previously untold stories to give us his take on the Cold War and America’s hysterical preoccupation with the ‘Red Menace’.

Quote:Atlas V rocket launches the Space Force's Silent Barker 'watchdog' satellites

The exact capabilities of Silent Barker remain unknown. During Monday's teleconference, officials confirmed that Silent Barker will consist of multiple payloads, although neither the NRO nor Space Force are sharing exact numbers   — nor is either agency divulging the manufacturers and contractors with whom they are partnering to develop the Silent Barker spacecraft, Scolese said in response to a question from Space.com.

However, in 2021, Air Force Space and Missile Systems issued a contract modification to defense contractor L3 Harris, noting that the total value of its Silent Barker contract was over $283 million. A previous budget estimate conducted by the Government Accountability Office estimated the cost of the program to be $994 million, with a planned full operational capability scheduled for 2026.

Silent Barker's data will be processed by the National Space Defense Center in Colorado Springs, while the satellite itself will be operated by the NRO.

Silent Barker's launch comes after the U.S. Space Force has established units dedicated to tracking threats in orbit and even targeting enemy satellites.

Quote:Remember The First Time Colorado Tried Fracking With A Nuclear Bomb?

“We were whooping it up,” Beasley said. “We were really fortunate that we didn’t have that much damage.”

In the end the blast caused few problems for the locals. Some chimneys lost bricks, including Beasley’s. A few pickle jars fell to the ground in her pantry.

Several couples who lived within five miles of Hayward’s land ignored the evacuation and rode out the detonation. The wife of William Rankin told the Associated Press they planned to get their dogs into the station wagon and then “have a picnic down in the corn patch.”

As much as times change, the promise heard in many rural towns remains the same. There are much needed jobs and economic development underfoot, we need only unlock the riches from tight shale and other stubborn rocks. Rulison was perhaps the grandest vision of that ever put forward on the Western Slope.
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History is all that remains. The Plowshares Program faded away, its fate sealed by the lack of commercial success, public consciousness about radioactivity and the will of state voters. After the subsequent Project Rio Blanco experiment faced similar scrutiny, Coloradans approved a constitutional amendment in 1974 that requires voter approval before any nuclear device is detonated in the state. That leaves the Centennial State as a unique place where the people hold the power to grant permission for both new taxes and nuclear bombs.

Quote:Two stories are circulating about what Elon actually did:

    The Ukrainian military wanted to mount an underwater drone strike against Russia’s Black Sea Fleet and asked Elon to turn on Starlink to guide the drones. After consulting with Russian officials, Elon said no.
    The Ukrainian military mounted an underwater drone strike against Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, using Starlink to guide the drones. After consulting with Russian officials, Elon turned off Starlink in that area, and the drones drifted ashore.

As of yesterday, Elon presented the first version, but his biographer, Walter Isaacson, with whom Elon also consulted as to what to do, presented a version of the second. Intermediate versions exist in various news outlets. Today Isaacson turned and said he agreed with Elon.

Elon’s reasoning for both scenarios was that he didn’t want Starlink to be used for an act of war that might escalate to nuclear war.

All this has to do with Elon’s trying to preserve his image of himself as a brilliant and compassionate humanitarian. Unfortunately, there is no way he can maintain that.

The United States Congress, back around 1980, decreed that industry can do everything better than government and has been doing what they can to sell the government off to private industry. This has a number of downsides, particularly in regard to governmental functions that involve life and death, like war and prisons. But it makes great profits for Republican fat cats, so the balance is obvious!

What nobody seems to have anticipated was that one of those private corporations might be under the personal control of an addled, ignorant, and self-important manbaby. Wo here we are.

Whichever scenario actually happened, Elon is culpable. He is culpable of conducting foreign governmental affairs without consulting the US government. He is culpable of extreme manipulability by Russian officials. He is culpable of trying to shake down the US government for additional payments for Starlink. He is probably culpable of inappropriate handling of classified material. And that’s just for this incident.

New York Times explainer gift link.

Elon’s Excellent Adventure

Quote:

American loss at the Battle of Brandywine

On this day in history, September 11, 1777, the American loss at the Battle of Brandywine opens the door for the British to take the American capital, Philadelphia. British General William Howe landed 17,000 troops at Head of Elk, Maryland in late August to capture Philadelphia.

George Washington and the Continental Army were camped between the British and Philadelphia. For two weeks, the two armies maneuvered around one another, with only minor skirmishes taking place. As the British army began moving north, Washington made his stand at Chadd's Ford over the Brandywine Creek on the "Great Road" from Baltimore to Philadelphia.



Washington placed troops at all the fords from Pyle's Ford below Chadd's Ford, to Wistar's Ford north of Chadd's Ford. Washington had covered all the main crossings for several miles up and down the creek and believed this would force the British to cross at Chadd's Ford, which was the best defensible position. Unfortunately, Washington's intelligence of the area was not as good as Howe's.

General Howe's troops gathered at Kennett Square and, early on the morning of September 11th, rather than sending his entire force to fight the Continentals at Chadd's Ford, he split his army in two and sent only 5,000 men to the ford. The rest of Howe's army marched north under Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis and crossed further up the creek at fords Washington was unaware of, then marched south upon Washington's right flank.

The fighting began on the approach to Chadd's Ford when the Americans opened fire on the British. The British soldiers took cover on the grounds of a Quaker meetinghouse, while a church service was underway inside.  The fighting began mid-morning and the British eventually pushed the Americans back beyond the ford.

The great surprise took place, however, when Cornwallis' army fell on the right flank at about 2pm. The Americans were completely surprised and quickly took many casualties. Generals John Sullivan, Adam Stephens and William Alexander quickly repositioned their troops and held off the British for a few hours, while the rest of the army began a retreat. By 4pm, Washington and General Nathanael Greene arrived with reinforcements.

As darkness approached, Greene placed the troops of General George Weedon at Dilworth to block the British from advancing. This allowed the rest of the army to retreat to safety, most of whom arrived at Chester by midnight.

The Battle of Brandywine was a great loss for the Americans, but the Continental Army soldiers were not discouraged after the battle, even though they suffered more than 1,000 dead and wounded. Washington wrote to Congress that his army had survived to fight another day. For the next two weeks the armies continued to maneuver around one another, but on September 26, General Howe marched into Philadelphia unopposed. Congress had fled to York and Philadelphia would be occupied for the next 9 months.

Quote:Boom! Boom! Just like that.

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive "figurehead" -- or even dead, for all we know -- but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper.

Quote:He was asked to provide a container 6' 2" long, 3' wide, to carry a 'deadweight' of 200lb. Fraser-Smith, as usual, didn't ask why, but later learned that the container was used in Project Martin. Project Martin was immortalised in the film "The Man Who Never Was", starring Clifton Webb. The body of a man who died of pneumonia was provided with papers and personal effects of a 'Major Martin' of the General Staff, and the body and a briefcase containing the plans for an allied invasion of Sardinia was dumped in the sea off Spain. Copies of the plans duly fell into the hands of the Germans and they prepared for an attack - but the real attack, when it came, was targeted at Sicily!
Charles Fraser-Smith - The man who was 'Q'

Quote:Charles Fraser-Smith, Mr. Gadget For James Bond Tales, Dies at 88 (November 13, 1992)

Charles Fraser-Smith, the gadget-designing genius on whom the character "Q" in the James Bond novels and movies was modeled, died on Monday at his home in Bratton Fleming, in southwest England. He was 88 years old.

His family announced his death yesterday. The cause was not disclosed.

His early career was one detour after another. He was a prep-school teacher in Portsmouth, a motorcycle messenger rider and an aircraft factory worker. Then, one Sunday in 1939, he gave a sermon at the Open Brethren Evangelical Church in Leeds. 'A Funny Job in London'

In the congregation were two Ministry of Supply officials, who were impressed by his adventures when he bought a farm in Morocco and ran for the Moroccan royal family. The two officials offered him what he called "a funny job in London."

Quote:SURVIVORS TELL OF '54 SOVIET A-BLAST (September 15, 1994)

Last week, Defense Minister Pavel Grachev, visiting the Totsk testing range to inspect the first U.S.-Russian joint exercises here, condemned the atomic test as "barbaric" and "monstrous." But even with that change in official line, one 74-year-old survivor, who has suffered from skin cancer and other diseases she attributes to the blast, refused to give her name.

"I had to swear an oath that I would never discuss it, for the rest of my life," the woman said.

Quote:Finally, the Board observes that a single VA examiner authored seven negative nexus opinions in this case, dated September 2010, February 2011, September 2011, April 2012, June 2013, October 2013, and December 2013.  The Board finds that examiner's opinions to be inadequate because he made numerous inaccurate findings, and failed to consider the Veteran's  rapidly decreasing pattern of worsening behavior in service immediately following his documented B-52 stressor-as observed by VA clinical psychologists in December 2012 and March 2014.  For example, this examiner wrote in September 2010 that,

The Veteran was exposed to a situations [sic] where there was NO ACTUAL THREATENED DEATH.  Certainly the military plane caught fire.  It did not explode the ordinance or worse yet the nuclear weaponry.  Had that happened it would be an actual threatened death or serious threat to the physical integrity of self or others.  Also, his reaction is inconsistent with intense fear, horror or helplessness.  He acted properly while the others were described as cowards.  [Emphasis in original.]

This opinion is incomprehensible, as it is clearly facially reasonable to fear death when faced with an aircraft carrying nuclear weapons that catches fire.  The fact that the Veteran properly performed his duties under these stressful conditions is extraordinary and admirable, and not a reason to deny his claim.

Further, the examiner's September 2010 statement that "The Veteran appears to try to intimidate me from the very beginning of this examination....I did not want him to hurt me because I am just an examiner," conveys a troubling impression.  Likewise, the examiner opined in December 2013 that the Veteran "provided one of the most blatantly exaggerated protocols for the SIMS that I have ever seen....This, in my opinion, is not confusion, but rather blatant exaggeration for secondary gain."  In light of the Veteran's confirmed stressor, his reaction thereto during service, his multiple diagnoses of PTSD, and his multiple positive nexus opinions by VA and private clinicians, the Board finds that this examiner's opinions warrant no probative weight.

In light of the foregoing, the Board finds that the evidence is at least in equipoise as to whether the Veteran's PTSD is related to service.  Thus, resolving all reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor, the Board finds that service connection is warranted for his PTSD.  38 U.S.C.A. з 5107; 38 C.F.R. з 3.102.

ORDER

Service connection for PTSD is granted.

Quote:FIRE ON BOMBER IN 1980 POSED NUCLEAR RISK (Aug 13, 1991)

"You are talking about something that in one respect could be probably worse than Chernobyl," Batzel said, referring to the Soviet nuclear reactor accident that spread radiation over a wide area.

"Is that right?" said Sen. J. Bennett Johnston (D-La.).

"Yes, because you have plutonium in the soil and on the soil, which you have to clean up,'' Batzel said. ''I wouldn`t want either one."

Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.) asked: "That particular fire caused enough heat, then, that it would have caused this?"

Said Batzel: "Yes, the aircraft burned for hours."

Batzel said the "high explosives which are in those particular warheads would have detonated. It would have happened in that environment."

"Do you know that through testing?" DeConcini asked.

"Yes, sir," Batzel said.

Batzel, now retired, refused to be interviewed for this article. But Robert Peurifoy, a retired vice president of the Sandia nuclear testing lab in Albuquerque, N.M., confirmed the outline of his testimony.

Quote:What Do Weapons Sales to Russia Mean for North Korea’s Economy?

North Korea’s ties with Russia are in their steepest upswing since the Cold War. On Wednesday, September 13, Kim Jong Un held a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two are believed to have discussed expanding North Korean weapons exports to Russia. It is no coincidence that Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Kim Jong Un visited a weaponry exhibit together when Shoigu was in Pyongyang in late July of this year.

38 North

Quote:High-containment labs have layers upon layers of protection for scientists, the environment and the public. Machinery inside the labs keeps tainted air from being recirculated and thermal waste decontamination systems ensure that there’s no pathogens lurking in scientists’ trash. And though it may sound more like one of the Plum Island myths, it’s true that wild animals found on the island - such as the deer that sometimes swim there - are killed on-site by a sharpshooter employee that some call Grandma Deadeye.


“It sounds to me like what they are trying to do is take a gamble on getting a lot of money or maybe foot-and-mouth disease getting loose,” Democrat John Dingell of Michigan said in a 2008 congressional hearing titled “Germs, Viruses and Secrets.”

The Homeland Security Act of 2002, enacted in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, transferred control of Plum Island to DHS, while the USDA maintained its research and diagnostic programs. Two years later, a presidential directive issued by President George W. Bush tasked the heads of the USDA and DHS with developing a plan for “state-of-the-art agriculture biocontainment laboratories that research and develop diagnostic capabilities for foreign animal and zoonotic diseases,” according to the directive. To comply with that, it was announced that a new facility, to be called the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, or NBAF, would be erected.

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The group reached a very different conclusion: They put the probability of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak originating from the lab at 70% over the next half century. “Ultimately, policymakers will need to decide whether the risks of constructing the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas are acceptable,” it said.

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“In the end, DHS assures us that modern technology will make it perfectly safe to handle foot-and-mouth disease in a high-tech biolab in the heart of livestock country,” Dingell said during the 2008 hearing. “I wonder if history will confirm their judgment.”

Quote:The USS Zumwalt, named after Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, has embarked on its first open ocean trials after eight years of construction.

The $4bn Zumwalt is at the cutting edge of technology and will be the first of three in its class (originally there were going to be 32*). It looks like a cubist painting of a warship, or maybe the iPhone battery case of ships.

The joy of having Captain James A. Kirk (sorry, not a "T.") in charge has not been missed by the USN, with actor William Shatner even sending a signed photo of himself wishing the team god speed.

The Register (Dec 2015)

Quote:We know from that newspaper article, and from Masonic ritual, that Washington placed an inscribed silver plate under the cornerstone at the southeast corner of this building. However, we do not know whether that meant the southeast corner of the Senate wing, the first section of the building to be completed, or the southeast corner of the whole building as intended, which would locate it over on the House side. More than two centuries later, the Architect of the Capitol is still searching for that cornerstone. Metal detectors have failed to locate the silver plate.
George Washington Lays the Cornerstone of the Capitol

Quote:The newspaper invitation announcing the cornerstone ceremony was directed to the Masonic fraternity:

Quote:    The Capitol is in progression—the southeast is yet kept vacant that [the] cornerstone is to be laid with the assistance of the brotherhood [on] the 18th Inst. Those of the craft however dispersed are requested to join the work. The solemnity is expected to equal the occasion.

The procession joined Masonic lodges from Maryland and Virginia, and all marched two abreast, "with music playing, drums beating, colors flying, and spectators rejoicing," to the site of the Capitol about a mile and a half away. There the procession reformed and Washington, flanked by Joseph Clark (the Grand Master) and Dr. E. C. Dick (the master of the Virginia lodge), stood to the east of a "huge stone" while the others formed a circle west of it. Soon, the engraved plate was delivered and the inscription read:

This South East corner stone, of the Capitol of the United States of America in the City of Washington, was laid on the 18th day of September, in the thirteenth year of American Independence, in the first year of the second term of the Presidency of George Washington, whose virtues in the civil administration of his country have been as conspicuous and beneficial, as his Military valor and prudence have been useful in establishing her liberties, and in the year of Masonry 5793, by the Grand Lodge of Maryland, several lodges under its jurisdiction, and Lodge 22, from Alexandria, Virginia.

Thomas Johnson, David Stuart and Daniel Carroll, Commissioners
Joseph Clark, R. W. G. M.—P. T.
James Hoban and Stephan Hallate, Architects
Collen Williamson, M. Mason

The plate was handed to Washington, who stepped down into the foundation trench, laid the plate on the ground, and lowered the cornerstone onto it. With the president were Joseph Clark and three "worshipful masters" bearing the corn, wine, and oil used to consecrate the stone. Chanting accompanied Washington’s ascent from the trench. Clark gave a speech punctuated by numerous volleys from the artillery. Following the formal exercises, a 500 pound ox was barbequed and those in attendance "generally partook, with every abundance of other recreation." By dark, the festivities had ended.

Architect Of The Capitol

Quote:Upon all topics,-Political, Social, Moral and Religious, we intend that the paper shall speak for itself; and we only ask that it may be judged accordingly. We shall be Conservative, in all cases where we think Conservatism essential to the public good;—and we shall be Radical in everything which may seem to us to require radical treatment and radical reform. We do not believe that everything in Society is either exactly right or exactly wrong;—what is good we desire to preserve and improve;—what is evil, to exterminate, or reform.

A Word About Ourselves (NY Daily Times, Sept 18, 1851)

Quote:In the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, “Wild Bill” Donovan, the leader of the Office of Strategic Services—America’s wartime intelligence agency—told his scientists to find a way to “outfox” the Axis enemies. In response, the scientists produced a number of dirty tricks, including explosive pancake mix, incendiary bombs strapped to live bats, truth drugs for eliciting information from prisoners of war, and a foul-smelling spray that mimicked the repulsive odor of fecal matter. In other words, desperate times called for desperate measures. Among these outlandish strategies, Operation Fantasia was the most desperate—and peculiar—of them all.

Operation Fantasia was the brainchild of OSS psychological warfare strategist Ed Salinger, an eccentric businessman who had run an import/export business in Tokyo before the war. Salinger’s business dealings had given him a cursory introduction to Japanese culture; he learned the language, collected the art and studied the superstitions—which is why the OSS hired him. Operation Fantasia, he pitched the organization in 1943, would destroy Japanese morale by exposing soldiers and civilians to a Shinto portent of doom: kitsune, fox-shaped spirits with magical abilities. “The foundation for the proposal,” Salinger wrote in a memo outlining his idea, “rests upon the fact that the modern Japanese is subject to superstitions, beliefs in evil spirits and unnatural manifestations which can be provoked and stimulated.”
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The minutes of another OSS meeting that occurred near the end of the war reveal noticeable relief in the attendees, including Lovell, whenever the OSS cancelled the bizarre project. They concluded, “This problem of Fantasia has been mercifully completed.”

When Wild Bill Donovan had earlier told them to find a way to “outfox the Nazis and the Japs,” he didn’t mean it quite so literally.

The Unsuccessful WWII Plot to Fight the Japanese With Radioactive Foxes

Quote:“There’s a huge government cover-up, but I remain unconvinced that it’s a cover-up of actual knowledge,” Graff says. “This is more a cover-up of ignorance.” If the government is covering up anything, he adds, it’s the testing of its military technology and its knowledge of technology being tested by China and Russia. Still, he is sure strange things are among us.

“There’s almost certainly life out there in the universe,” he says. “The math of whether we’ll interact with it is incredibly challenging. What I hope readers take away from the book is this profound sense of wonder about where we rank in the universe. At a certain level, the least interesting question is, are there flying saucers visiting Earth?”

Jack Shafer, Politico’s senior media writer, worked with Graff at the publication in the 2010s, and Graff co-dedicated Watergate to him. “I don’t think I ever saw Garrett angry,” Shafer says. “He’s an even-tempered, positive guy. He’s got an extraordinary skill at taking difficult issues and making them digestible. He’s good at digging new silos and telling stories that aren’t derivative of old ones.”

Garrett M. Graff Knows the Truth Is Out There

Quote:George Washington's Farewell Address announced that he would not seek a third term as president. Originally published in David C. Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796, Washington devoted much of the address to domestic issues of the time, warning against the rise of political parties and sectionalism as a threat to national unity. In the area of foreign affairs, Washington called for America "to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." Although the ideas expressed were Washington's, Alexander Hamilton wrote a large part of the address. James Madison drafted an earlier version of the address in 1792.

Quote:The Iceman had type O blood, was lactose intolerant, and had a rare genetic anomaly that prevented his 12th pair of ribs from forming. He suffered from cavities, intestinal parasites, Lyme disease, and sore knees, hips, shoulders, and back. His 61 tattoos map onto the places where his bones and joints show wear and tear (as well as onto modern acupuncture points). Ötzi had broken several ribs and his nose during his lifetime, and horizontal grooves on his fingernails indicate had repeated bouts of physical stress—likely stemming from malnutrition—in the few months before his death. He was genetically predisposed to arteriosclerosis, and a CT scan confirms that his is the oldest known case of heart disease in the world.

Based on carbon dating, Ötzi lived roughly 5,200 years ago (3350–3110 B.C.)
Ötzi the Iceman: What we know 3 decades after his discovery

(09-20-2023, 05:50 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: Sammy Salvo - A Mushroom Cloud

Quote:The western world has a common dedication
To keep free people from Red domination
And maybe you can't vote, boy, but man your battle stations
Or there'll be no need for votin' in future generations

So over and over again, you keep sayin' it's the end
But I say you're wrong, we're just on the dawn of correction

There are buttons to push in two mighty nations
But who's crazy enough to risk annihilation?
The buttons are there to ensure negotiation
So don't be afraid, boy, it's our only salvation

You tell me that marches won't bring integration
But look what it's done for the voter registration
Be thankful our country allows demonstrations
Instead of condemnin', make some recommendations
I don't understand the cause of your aggravation
You mean to tell me, boy, it's not a better situation?

So over and over again, you keep sayin' it's the end
But I say you're wrong, we're just on the dawn of correction

You missed all the good in your evaluation
What about the things that deserve commendation?
Where there once was no cure, there's vaccination
Where there once was a desert, there's vegetation
Self-government's replacing colonization
What about the Peace Corp. organization?
Don't forget the work of the United Nations
So over and over again, you keep sayin' it's the end

But I say you're wrong, we're just on the dawn of correction
But I say you're wrong, we're just on the dawn of correction

Quote:The original technology behind Tor was developed by the US Navy and has received about 60% of its funding from the State Department and Department of Defense, although its other backers have included digital rights lobbyist the Electronic Frontier Foundation, journalism and community body Knight Foundation and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.

When it launched in 2002, the Tor project's emphasis was on protecting internet users' privacy from corporations rather than governments.

The Guardian