November 2009
October 2009
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First_Earth_Battalion.pdf →
thestandingpost:
Read up on the real story of psychic warriors with this PDF of the actual First Earth Battalion’s manual.
This is the “true weird” in the military, but others might just call it siddhi development.
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mills:
Lachrymarum - Stan Douglas
This, from...
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New Moon Rising →
OAKLAND, California - This month, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon went to Washington to introduce As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen, his autobiography that, according to the Moon-owned Washington Times, “recounts the joys and challenges, the teachable moments and the monumental experiences of his life - much of it spent as a...
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9/11 passport 'found in Pakistan' →
Pakistan’s army says it has found in South Waziristan the passport of a man linked to two hijackers involved in the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US.
The passport of Said Bahaji, a German of Moroccan origin, was among weapons, documents and jihadi literature seized by troops in the conflict zone.
The BBC’s Orla Guerin says there is no way of knowing if this passport is a genuine...
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U.N. Can’t Account for Millions Sent to Afghan... →
The United Nations cannot account for tens of millions of dollars provided to the troubled Afghan election commission, according to two confidential U.N. audits and interviews with current and former senior diplomats. (Read both [1] audits [2].)
As Afghanistan prepares for a second round of national voting, the documents and interviews paint the fullest picture to date of the finances of the...
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Revel and Ritual in the Post-Prosperity Age: The... →
In America, one of the lingering legacies of our Puritan roots is a simultaneous mistrust and economic exploitation of holidays and festivals. It really wasn’t until the late 19th Century that holidays like Christmas and Halloween became popular- or even tolerated in some quarters. But there’s still a strange sense of impropriety about it all, as if we should feel guilty about the act...
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“The National Security Archive has requested information held by the U.S....”
– Musicians Seek Secret U.S. Documents on Music-Related Human Rights Abuses at Guantanamo (via thedaytheytriedtokillme)
aka the Guantanamo Jukebox.
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Stimulus dollars going to crooked contractors →
President Obama and members of Congress told federal agencies earlier this year to avoid awarding funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to contractors with troubled histories of work for the federal government.
But that isn’t happening at numerous agencies, a Washington Post analysis shows. So far, 33 federal departments and agencies have awarded more than $1.2 billion in...
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Saudis drop major oil contract →
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday decided to drop the widely used West Texas Intermediate oil contract as the benchmark for pricing its oil, dealing a serious blow to the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The decision by the world’s biggest oil exporter could encourage other producers to abandon the benchmark and threatens the dominance of the world’s most heavily traded oil futures contract. It is the main...
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Gardasil Researcher Drops A Bombshell →
Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have been no efficacy trials in children under the age of 15.
Dr. Harper, director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research...
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Senior Civilian Official Resigns Over U.S.... →
Matthew Hoh, a political officer in the foreign service and a senior civilian officer in Zabul, Afghanistan, wrote a four-page letter to Ambassador Nancy Powell, director general of the foreign service at the State Department, to express his “doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy,” as first reported by the Washington Post today.
“I feel...
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Chemicals found that turn ants into warriors →
A research team of UC scientists has decoded the words in the secret chemical language of Argentine ants - a discovery that could lead to an environmentally benign pesticide against the insects that march into Bay Area homes every time the weather turns cold or wet.
The researchers found special signaling chemicals on the bodies of one aggressive group of the ants, and then synthesized the...
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Signs That the American Empire Is Coming to an... →
In November 2008, the National Intelligence Council (NIC), an affiliate of the Central Intelligence Agency, issued the latest in a series of futuristic publications intended to guide the incoming Obama administration. Peering into its analytic crystal ball in a report entitled Global Trends 2025, it predicted that America’s global preeminence would gradually disappear over the next 15 years...
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Iceland says bye to Big Mac →
The Big Mac, long a symbol of globalisation, has become the latest victim of Iceland’s overexposure to the world financial crisis.
The northern European nation’s three McDonald’s restaurants - all in the capital Reykjavik - will close on October 31, as the franchise owner gives in to falling profits caused by the collapse in the Icelandic krona.
“The economic situation...
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The Bush Connection in a Chinese Oil Deal →
China has gotten a lot of bad press for its companies’ investments in Africa. Meanwhile, one famous American family is involved in trying to help pave the way for one such company.
The Bush family may be better known for Texas barbeque than Peking duck, but nonetheless has long-reaching ties to China. Now, Dow Jones reports that Neil Bush, the younger brother of former U.S. President George W....
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Glossary of New Weapons Technology →
Full spectrum dominance? Directed energy weapons? Hafnium gamma bombs? Find out what they all mean with our comprehensive glossary
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Speak up to save the Internet →
azspot:
Who do you want to decide which websites you can visit or what Internet content you can access — you or a big telecom company?
That’s what the fight about network neutrality is all about. Net neutrality is the principle that Internet users, not Internet service providers, should be in control.
SIGN THE PETITION!
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Report: Cyberterror Not a Credible Threat? →
But that’s not to say that terrorist groups won’t one day be capable of launching such attacks. Just the opposite, in fact. There’s no reason to believe that organized, well-financed terrorist groups won’t soon acquire the ability to launch sophisticated attacks, Lewis concludes.
“A very rough estimate would say that there is a lag of three and eight years between...
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US soldier commits suicide in Indiana movie... →
A National Guard soldier home on a 15-day leave from the war in Afghanistan committed suicide in a Muncie, Indiana, movie theater October 12. Jacob W. Sexton, a 21-year-old from rural Farmland, Indiana, shot himself in the head, approximately 20 minutes into the violent comedy Zombieland, with friends and siblings sitting around him. The suicide underscores once again the psychological damage...
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Philosopher Stephen Stich: 4 Lectures on Moral... →
looking forward to watching this!
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UFO alert: police officer sees aliens at crop... →
Crop circle researcher Andrew Russell, who is investigating the bizarre sighting on behalf of the officer, described the moment his sighting was made.
He said: ”At first he thought they were forensic officers as they were dressed in white coveralls. He stopped his car and approached the field.
”The figures were all over 6ft and had blond hair. They seemed to be ...
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Violence against Sufis in Pakistan →
Amid rapidly deteriorating security conditions in Pakistan, cultural activity has been one of the worst affected aspects of life. The increasing threat of attacks on musical and theatrical performances and other cultural events have made the authorities wary of gatherings that could provide terrorists with attractive targets.
Recently, the shrines of locally revered Sufi mystic saints – where...
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“When I was young I read a lot of books, observed people around me, and came to...”
– Paul Lutus (via azspot)
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Judge Refuses to Dismiss War Crimes Case Against... →
On Wednesday, a federal judge rejected a series of arguments by lawyers for the mercenary firm formerly known as Blackwater seeking to dismiss five high-stakes war crimes cases brought by Iraqi victims against both the company and its owner, Erik Prince. At the same time, Judge T.S. Ellis III sent the Iraqis’ lawyers back to the legal drawing board to amend and refile their cases, saying...
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Two feasible Future Scenarios: A high-tech Utopia... →
azspot:
The current political and ideological climate does not encourage launching and discussing of truly long-range goals for societies (in this paper “long-range” means “a century or two”). Such topics are discouraged for several reasons:
1. The dramatic and complete collapse of attempts at socialist societies.
2. Related disillusionment also because of revealed theoretical and ideological...
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Dream job 2: Exotic psychologist →
reclusland:
You’re sitting back with your eyes covered, blocking out the red light that illuminates the room. The white noise hissing in your ears further dulls your already deprived senses. Now your mind is open and ready to receive the telepathic message your friend is sending you from the next room.
Nicola Holt isn’t an ordinary scientist. She specialises in parapsychology, anomalous...
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Twitter and the G.O.P. - The Real Internet... →
Apparently some Republicans in Connecticut have gotten their hands slapped by Twitter for creating fake “handles” to send out messages that portend to be written by Democrats. The company shut down 33 such sites with names like “MeetRepDonovan” and “MeetRepUrban,” which appear to belong to Democrats running for the state Legislature, and told state Republicans to cease and desist on the fakery.
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