and 2018 is the year of much rebellion.

Al Ed gave you the post doctoral definition.

... She told him that there was to be a nuclear attack warning test on the 2nd instead of the usual tsunami warning. ...

I suppose they're also using the gear from the original Cold War that they loved so much at the time that they can't ever let it - and the kick-backs and investment returns from the profits - go? And the same advice to crawl under a desk and kiss your ass goodbye 'you'll be safe here'?

We'll have to remember that Obama said the plan was to shut down internet in the event of any major disaster, without mentioning that this cuts out independent reports to leave only The Official Story on the corporate media for the next False Flag they'll use to obliterate planetary life. If not stopped, of course. Unfortunately, I doubt that most people realize that, at this point.

But what a cruel thing to do, shutting down communications among the public in a major emergency, just when most needed, even if not in order to further confuse, hazard and disinform the victims...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11736545

Should Obama's 'internet kill switch' power be curbed?
By Daniel Nasaw BBC News, Washington

24 November 2010

Under a World War II-era law, the US president appears to have authority to disconnect computer systems and servers from the internet in the event of a national emergency. But the next US Congress is poised to change that. ...

... But although the 1942 law makes no mention of the internet - merely of "any facility or station for wire communication" - the Obama administration in June told Congress it would cite it in an emergency. ...

... Civil liberties campaigners are concerned at the potential for the power to be abused. ...

... Among several shortcomings in the 1942 law's application to the online world, it does not specify what constitutes cyber war - as opposed to a commercial hacking job. Nor is it even clear the law would treat a cyber attack by a foreign power as an act of war - a precondition of the president's use of the emergency powers. ...

Nevertheless, the debate over the president's cyber war authority comes amid growing evidence that nations are deploying cyber weapons against adversaries.

The powerful internet worm Stuxnet, discovered this year to have infected computers across the globe, appears to have been designed specifically to target Iranian nuclear sites, causing alarm within the US and UK governments. Some analysts say it was so sophisticated it could only have been launched by a sovereign nation state. ...

There, now, isn't that reassuring? Especially knowing that there is that steadying influence actually running government in the direction desired by them, no matter who sits in the hot seat? And knowing that good old Stuxnet was made in the USA?

And is that the real reason that there's been so much desperation among warmongers hating Americans for having internet freedom to access and share information outside of their ever-more-frantic-and-idiotic propaganda campaigns to have cute puppy and BLM ads and Twitter accounts declared an Act of War by Russia? As an excuse to shut down the internet in the process of privatizing an essential public utility so that controlling corporations can take over 'security' on the internet for the elimination of any news they don't want the public hearing or discussing?

Not that this is news to anyone here but to add:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/stuxnet-was-work-...

National Security
Stuxnet was work of U.S. and Israeli experts, officials say
By Ellen Nakashima and Joby Warrick June 2, 2012

A damaging cyberattack against Iran’s nuclear program was the work of U.S. and Israeli experts and proceeded under the secret orders of President Obama, who was eager to slow that nation’s apparent progress toward building an atomic bomb without launching a traditional military attack, say current and former U.S. officials.

The origins of the cyberweapon, which outside analysts dubbed Stuxnet after it was inadvertently discovered in 2010, have long been debated, with most experts concluding that the United States and Israel probably collaborated on the effort. The current and former U.S. officials confirmed that long-standing suspicion Friday, after a New York Times report on the program.

The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe the classified effort code-named Olympic Games, said it was first developed during the George W. Bush administration and was geared toward damaging Iran’s nuclear capability gradually while sowing confusion among Iranian scientists about the cause of mishaps at a nuclear plant. ...

...The cyberweapon took months of testing and development. It began to show effects in 2008, when centrifuges began spinning at faster-than-normal speeds until sensitive components began to warp and break, participants said. ...

https://www.rt.com/news/mossad-iran-nuclear-programme-851/

Mossad and CIA concur: Iran isn’t seeking nukes
Published time: 18 Mar, 2012 14:04
Edited time: 18 Mar, 2012 18:04

Israel’s intelligence service Mossad has acknowledged, just like their American counterparts, there is no proof Tehran is carrying out a nuclear weapons program, a source in US intelligence told the New York Times.
Trends
Israel vs Iran

­An unnamed former senior US intelligence official told the paper “Mossad does not disagree with the US on the [Iranian] weapons program.” The consensus among US spy agencies remains that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons research several years ago.

“There is not a lot of dispute between the US and Israeli intelligence communities on the facts,” the official continued.

Such recognition comes in stark contrast with Israeli politicians, who have continually insisted on an immediate military strike on Iran’s nuclear installations to prevent it from evolving into an “existential threat” to the Jewish state. ...

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/has-iran-really-pursued-...

Has Iran Really Pursued Nukes?
Gareth Porter's new book challenges years of the West's claims about Tehran's nuclear program.
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos • April 1, 2014

... Gareth Porter knows the narrative. He has worked tirelessly to pursue the truth of the matter. His conclusion: Iran never had a nuclear weapons program and, frankly, it doesn’t want one.

Can he prove it? Well he’s got 300 pages representing at least six years worth of work to try to get you over to his side. Manufactured Crisis: the Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, published this year by Just World Books, is not just some ham-fisted polemic. It’s a journalist’s read: dense with interviews, reports, citations, notes. He finds obscure sources that would otherwise be lost to history. He pokes holes in unquestioned news stories, and exposes what he believes is an orchestrated campaign by the U.S. and its ally, Israel, dating back to the 1979 Islamic revolution, to prevent Iran from developing a non-weaponized nuclear power program. ...

... Of course, he’s not the only one to reach this conclusion. Paul Pillar, a National Intelligence Officer for the Middle East between 2000 and 2005, tells TAC that Porter is on the right track. “All indications are that Iran is not developing a nuclear weapon,” he said in an e-mail. “Gareth Porter’s book provides a useful service in demonstrating that common worse-case assumptions about Iranian motivations and objectives are invalid.” ...

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/leaks-netanyahu-misled-iran-nuclea...

Mossad contradicted Netanyahu on Iran nuclear programme
by Will Jordan & Rahul Radhakrishnan
23 Feb 2015

... That view tracks with the 2012 US National Intelligence estimate, which found no evidence that Iran had thus far taken a decision to use its nuclear infrastructure to build a weapon, or that it had revived efforts to research warhead design that the US said had been shelved in 2003. ...

... However, the document leaked to Al Jazeera makes clear that the Mossad's formal assessment of Iran's nuclear capacity and intentions differs from the scenario outlined by the prime minister at the UN.

The cable was relayed to South Africa's State Security Agency (SSA) shortly after the September 2012 address in which Netanyahu had displayed a cartoonish diagram of a bomb with a fuse, marked with a 70 percent line and another "red line" at 90 percent.

The markers represented progress milestones in Iran's uranium enrichment work. He argued that medium-enriched uranium (which Iran had begun producing, saying it was needed to fuel a research reactor producing isotopes to fight cancer) took Iran 70 percent of the distance to enriching weapons-grade material. ...