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In 2013, the NSA started building a $3.6 billion super computer with the goal of predicting the moves of terrorist groups before those groups themselves knew what they were going to do. And after eight hours of operation, that super computer has finally tallied the results… but Republicans aren’t going to like what the machine has to say.
According to the computer, named “Providentia” after the Roman goddess of forethought, It isn’t ISIS that poses the greatest threat to Americans, nor is it another terrorist group, like Al Qaeda. It isn’t another country, like Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea, either. According to Providentia, the biggest threat to America is a bit closer to home… the Republican party.
On Monday, Providentia was tasked with completing its first-ever in-depth analysis, with the subject “The Top Ten Threats To The United States.” From there, the super computer calculated that the Republican Party was America’s worst threat, based on countless factors, and further reported that if Republicans win the White House in 2016, or if they manage to pick up more seats in the House or Senate, the results would be “catastrophic.”
“When we turned this machine on, none of us were expecting this to turn out the way it did,” says Mike Jacobs, the NSA’s chief researcher on the Providentia project and a self-described Republican. “It was pretty shocking, for sure. But it operated within its parameters precisely how it was supposed to. There wasn’t any partisan manipulation here. This just happens to be the result of the data [Providentia] crunched.”
The computer works by gathering information from all across the Internet, visiting and analyzing more than 12,000 web pages every second, while also combing through government records, surveillance reports, and other, more secret data. In this case, the computer determined that the Republican Party had a 93% threat level. Climate change, otherwise known as global warming, came in second place with a 69% threat level. ISIS, in case you’re wondering, only had a 21% threat level, and finished just barely in tenth place.
“Providentia is looking at the way Republicans act and what their agenda is,” explains Jacobs. “Their anti-diplomacy tactics with Iran, their undermining the President there and with diplomacy in Israel, their platform of cutting taxes and the spending cuts they want alongside that, their inaction in Congress and their efforts to stop the President at every turn, rather than trying to work with him or get anything substantial done. Their fight against education, their climate change denials, their war with science… the computer doesn’t see that stuff as political maneuvering. It just sees threats, and Republicans are apparently a big one.”
Republican Senator and 2016 GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz said he wasn’t surprised by the result. “The NSA is a Federal agency, which makes it Obama’s agency. Of course they’re going to insult Republicans and call us a threat. This just proves who the biggest threat is… scientists. They haven’t given our society anything of value, and they pull stuff like this on top of that. It’s despicable.”
- See more at: http://nationalreport.net/republicans-dangerous-isis-according-nsa-super-computer/#sthash.jPjSi7Jh.dpuf
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