January 2009
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When Technology Fails: How to Survive the Long... →
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Real life DHARMA Initiative # 3: Esalen Institute... →
One of the various projects of the Esalen Institute was the Physics Consciousness Research Group, founded to study time travel, ESP, consciousness after death, and other fringe subjects. Various people have made the claim that Physics Consciousness Research Group was the inspiration for the movie Ghostbusters. Jack Sarfatti, one of the founders of the Physics Consciousness Research Group, is a...
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Recession is the birth pangs of a new global... →
Gordon Brown has insisted that the recession was just the ‘difficult birth pangs of a new global order’.
As a poll showed more voters are turning against him, the Prime Minister warned that countries must see the financial crisis as the chance to forge a new financial system.
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Teleportation Is Real – But Don't Try It at Home -... →
Love it when Time Magazine throws a shout out to yours truly…check it:
Physics and magic aren’t often mistaken, but increasingly, physicists themselves seem to be trying to change that. Last year, a team at the University of California, Berkeley, announced that it had developed materials that could lead to an invisibility cloak. Last month, a group of researchers at Harvard...
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Foreign Policy: The Next Iceland →
following today’s theme of things going down the toilet…a list of the next 5 potential european economies to collapse like Iceland did.
1. Great Britain
2. Latvia
3. Greece
4. Ukraine
5. Nicaragua
And we are all aware of the US being the biggest piece of poop to flush. It’s been in the works for years…
The government has known for decades that America is on a...
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Sun, Sea and Sewage in the Playground of the Rich... →
Following up on stuff swimming in toliets…
A noxious tide of toilet paper, raw sewage and chemical waste has transformed Dubai’s most prestigious stretch of shoreline into a foul-smelling health hazard.
A stretch of the exclusive Jumeirah Beach — a magnet for Western tourists and home to a string of hotels — has been closed. “It’s a cesspool. Our tests show too many E. coli to count....
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The Financial Crisis Is Too Dire to Be Left to... →
tens of thousands of activists from around the world gather in Belem, Brazil, for the World Social Forum, social movements everywhere are debating how to respond to the ever-deepening economic crisis. This article is excerpted from the longer discussion paper “Globalization From Below” Tackles the “Great Recession” prepared by Global Labor Strategies.
a nice tidbit from...
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FM 3-05.201: Special Forces Unconventional Warfare... →
FM 3-05.201: Special Forces Unconventional Warfare Operations is current US military doctrine (policy) on the use of indigenous or surrogate forces to overthrow a foreign government and the use of sabotage, subversion, intelligence, extra-territorial abductions and similar activities, the most well known example of which is the US involvement in Nicaragua. There is also a section on legalities,...
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Russian 'Cyber Militia' Takes Kyrgyzstan Offline? →
The Wall Street Journal now reports that the cyber-attack may have been orchestrated by a Russia-based “cyber militia,” although it provides few additional details about who, exactly, was responsible.
The story (subscription only), quotes cyber-security expert Don Jackson of Internet security firm SecureWorks as saying the denial-of-service attacks managed to shut down more than...
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Orgone Accumulator Handbook →
the book on how to build everything orgone, from blankets to boxes.
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Original Orgone Accumulator Building Plans --... →
here’s a weekend project.
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Sarah Palin's got her own Official PAC →
can someone please hack the living f@#k out of this?
2012 in your face!
SarahPAC believes the Republican Party is at the threshold of an historic renaissance that will build a better future for all. Health care, education, and reform of government are among our key goals….
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Entheogen The Movie - GUBA →
The film examines the re-emergence of archaic techniques of ecstacy in the modern world by weaving a synthesis of ecological and evolutionary awareness,electronic dance culture, and the current pharmacological re-evaluation of entheogenic compounds. Within a narrative framework that imagines consciousness itself to be evolving, Entheogen documents the emergence of techno-shamanism in the...
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Technology and solitude : The End of Cyberspace →
Can necessary solitude become compatible with a constant online presence? No easy answers. I am reminded of Douglas Ruskoff’s appeal for a tech fast (one day a week -nothing that plugs in to be used) as an answer that can give some relief from mental chatter and information overload. But, Why would you want relief?
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Trouble in Paradise? →
When you hear someone tout China as “the world’s leading renewable energy producer,” remember to put this fact (which includes lots of environmentally unfriendly hydro by the way) in context: China’s energy growth is primarily fired by coal.
Not good and I think James Lovelock would have something to say about this!
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Gates: Cash Cows of War Running Dry →
Harsh economic reality brings end to wars? Well, it sure wasn’t diplomacy that did it…
“One thing we have known for many months is that the spigot of defense funding opened by 9/11 is closing,” he said. “With two major campaigns ongoing, the economic crisis and resulting budget pressures will force hard choices on this department.”
The wars in Afghanistan...
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UN Crime Chief Says Drug Money Flowed Into Banks →
The United Nations’ crime and drug watchdog has indications that money made in illicit drug trade has been used to keep banks afloat in the global financial crisis, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Vienna-based UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa said in an interview released by Austrian weekly Profil that drug money often became the only available capital when the crisis...
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How to Read a Book: The Rules for Analytical... →
(via azspot)
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Indonesian Muslims banned from practicing yoga →
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Muslims in Indonesia are banned from practicing yoga that contains Hindu rituals like chanting, the country’s top Islamic body said Monday, echoing concerns by some religious groups elsewhere about its effect on their faith.
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One last chance to save mankind →
James Lovelock is the man behind Gaia theory. This idea is so ubiquitous now, you think it is almost common-sense. Basically the idea that the planet earth is a living, breathing thing, a complete system that needs all its parts, including us, to function with a high degree of cooperation for optimal survival. He is now saying we got one chance to fix what’s happening with the environment,...
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Iceland's government collapses →
Domino Effect for other EU members?
Geir Haarde, Iceland’s prime minister, has announced that his coalition government has fallen apart under the pressures of the country’s financial crisis and that he would hand in his resignation to the president.
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U.S. Soldiers Did ‘Dirty Work’ for Chinese... →
That Bush legacy is golden!
According to the report by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine, an FBI agent reported a detainee belonging to China’s ethnic Uighur minority and a Uighur translator told him Uighur detainees were kept awake for long periods, deprived of food and forced to endure cold for hours on end, just prior to questioning by Chinese interrogators.
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An ancient Athenian’s advice to President Obama →
So what advice might a time-traveling Athenian citizen have to offer [the] leader of a democratic nation confronted with war and economic crisis? Maybe something like this: “First, remember that the original meaning of democracy was not “majority rule.” When we Athenians invented it, democracy meant “the capacity of the Demos – that is, the People — to make things happen.” There is a big...
SORRY...
me: yeah, but did you do anything awesome?
Dave: that is up for consideration. They found me on the couch at 6am, non responsive with my boxers on my head and clapping together shoes on my hands with an empty bottle of Jagermeister btwn my legs
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The Canadian National Newspaper: Whistleblowers on... →
Evidence against NASA could scrap NASA’s case against UK hacker Gary McKinnon. Credible witnesses have claimed that NASA has altered or destroyed its photos containing images of UFOs. This could become a legal and public relations concern for NASA.
The space agency is attempting to prosecute McKinnon for hacking into NASA computer files. McKinnon has stated that he saw UFO-related files in...
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Global Guerrillas: BIGGER THAN A PRESIDENT →
[a shocking, graphical look at the current economy.]
First, there is the shadow banking system:
In short, it’s the massive pile of derivatives accumulated over the past decades. It’s also tightly coupled and extremely complex (worse, not understood). It isn’t regulated, nor is it liquid enough to price (which is why global banks are still able to “act” like...
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Newspaper claims suspect transformed into a goat →
I keep thinking of Sandler’s Talking Goat Skit now…
One of Nigeria’s biggest daily newspapers reported that police implicated a goat in an attempted automobile theft. In a front-page article on Friday, the Vanguard newspaper said that two men tried to steal a Mazda car two days earlier in Kwara State, with one suspect transforming himself into a goat as vigilantes cornered...
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“The use of the Internet to achieve social shaming, monitoring and ostracism, or...”
– China’s Internet Culture Goes Unchecked, for Now - WSJ.com
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Chaos Magic: The Misunderstood Path →
It is quite possible that no two chaos magicians would agree on this, but even despite that point, chaos magic is generally not what many people think it is. I would argue there is no such thing as chaos magic. There are no sets of techniques that make up chaos magic; therefore it is not a system in and of itself. Chaos magic is an attitude, a philosophy that promotes experimentation, play,...