May 2009
3 tags
2 tags
Governments Should Declare UFOs Exist, Says... →
“To reduce rumours and misinformation and to frame single or multiple UFO events, it would be advisable to announce that UFO’s exist as early as possible,” says Moroney, an instructor at the University of Calgary and author of The New Bridge – Planning for the Extraterrestrial Presence. “I am convinced that it is time for us to make a considerable effort to lift the veil of fear and uncertainty...
April 2009
2 tags
2 tags
Capitalism is Organized Crime →
Capitalism is a way of organizing crime in such a way that it can masquerade as something altogether different. But at bottom, they are the same. To understand this is to see that capitalism cannot be reformed; it has to be transformed into something else.
When we say this, what do we mean by “crime”? Crime is the willingness to seize whatever one can get without...
1 tag
Do You Have Swine Flu? →
Click above for the answer.
3 tags
“And the banks — hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a...”
– Top Senate Democrat: bankers “own” the U.S. Congress
1 tag
Spanish Judge Gives Go-Ahead on Torture... →
vruz:
by Nick Baumann, Mother Jones
The new investigation by Judge Baltasar Garzon (whom Mother Jones2004 and discussed again this January) comes after he was instructed earlier not to open an inquiry into six former Bush administration officials, including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Garzon’s latest ruling does not name specific individuals, but will “investigate both those who...
3 tags
Prehistoric Gene Reawakens to Battle HIV →
cultrvultr:
(via datn) This is some Michael Crichton shit for serious.
A group of scientists led by Nitya Venkataraman and Alexander Colewhether wanted to try a new approach to fighting HIV - one that worked with the body’s own immune system. They knew Old World monkeys had a built-in immunity to HIV: a protein called retrocyclin, which can prevent HIV from entering cell walls and starting...
3 tags
Humanity Close to Passing the Hofstadter-Turing... →
An entity passes the Hofstadter-Turing Test if it first creates a virtual reality, then creates a computer program within that reality which must finally recognise itself as an entity within this virtual environment by passing the Hofstadter-Turing Test. Spot the tricky circularity to this test? Players can only pass if they create a virtual intelligence which must then pass the test itself. And...
1 tag
Mothman Spotted in Mexico before Swine Flu? →
Date: April 10, 2009 Mexico: State of Chihuahua Terrorized by “Man-Bat” A Report By Prof. Ana Luisa Cid
According to information supplied by Ing. Francisco Prieto Torres, residents of La Junta, Guerrero (Chihuahua) have reported the appearance of a “Man-Bat”.
They describe it as a very tall entity, standing some 2 meters tall, with two pairs of wings (one pair larger...
3 tags
2 tags
“The part of life we really live is small.” For all the rest of existence is not...”
– On The Shortness of Life: An Introduction to Seneca
2 tags
Marvel Streams Animated X-Men, Japanese Spider-Man... →
you can embed the videys too.
and free comic book day is this Saturday!
2 tags
Vioxx maker Merck and Co drew up doctor hit list →
AN international drug company made a hit list of doctors who had to be “neutralised” or discredited because they criticised the anti-arthritis drug the pharmaceutical giant produced.
Staff at US company Merck &Co emailed each other about the list of doctors - mainly researchers and academics - who had been negative about the drug Vioxx or Merck and a recommended course of action....
Egypt orders slaughter of all pigs over swine flu... →
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt began slaughtering the roughly 300,000 pigs in the country Wednesday as a precaution against swine flu even though no cases have been reported here, infuriating farmers who resisted the move and demanded compensation.
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
4 tags
FREE- Ashby's book "Introduction to Cybernetics" →
a classic work on cybernetic theory. the world is increasing in complexity, figuring out how interconnections tick might provide insights to a better future.
1 tag
1 tag
China's 'black jails' uncovered →
Local officials in China are using secret “black jails” to imprison citizens who threaten to report corruption to central authorities, an Al Jazeera investigation has revealed…
Other victims of China’s “black jails” are also thought to have been abducted and held captive by agents working for local politicians who fear that any investigation into alleged...
3 tags
2 tags
Container of swine virus explodes on Swiss train →
A container of flu virus samples packed in dry ice exploded on a Swiss train, injuring one person but posing no other risks to humans, police said on Tuesday.
Whoops!
3 tags
Marijuana as a Cure for Swine Flu? →
Cannabis Science Inc., an emerging pharmaceutical cannabis company, reported today on the current state of development of its whole-cannabis lozenge in response to Homeland Security Administration Secretary Janet Napolitano’s declaration of a public health emergency to deal with the emerging Swine Flu pandemic. The Company’s non-toxic lozenge has...
4 tags
2 tags
1 tag
3 tags
US responding as if swine flu will be pandemic →
MEXICO CITY – The World Health Organization raised its global alert level on the spreading swine flu virus Monday, but stopped short of declaring a global emergency — even as the U.S. said it was acting as if the outbreak would grow into a full pandemic.
2 tags
The 2012 Apocalypse — And How to Stop It →
For scary speculation about the end of civilization in 2012, people usually turn to followers of cryptic Mayan prophecy, not scientists. But that’s exactly what a group of NASA-assembled researchers described in a chilling report issued earlier this year on the destructive potential of solar storms.
Entitled “Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts,”...
3 tags
3 tags
Dozens of CIA "Ghost Prisoners" Missing →
NEW YORK, Apr 24 - At least three dozen detainees who were held in the CIA’s secret prisons overseas appear to be missing – and efforts by human rights organisations to track their whereabouts have been unsuccessful.
In September 2007, Michael V. Hayden, then director of the CIA, said, “fewer than 100 people had been detained at CIA’s facilities.” One memo released last...
2 tags
jam band fan or taliban? →
this guy is logging in some serious hours regarding this problematic question.
2 tags
The Dying Fall by JG Ballard - The Final Short... →
3 tags
2 tags
The Alchemical Body →
Beginning in the fifth century A.D., various Indian mystics began to innovate a body of techniques with which to render themselves immortal. These people called themselves Siddhas, a term formerly reserved for a class of demigods, revered by Hindus and Buddhists alike, who were known to inhabit mountaintops or the atmospheric regions. Over the following five to eight hundred years, three types of...
2 tags
Jared Diamond Sued by New Guinea Natives for... →
Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, is being sued by two Papua, New Guinea, men who claim the award-winning science writer lied about their lives to prove that tribal culture is violent.
Diamond used the men’s story to illustrate a story from his own life, about how his father-in-law had the opportunity to kill the man responsible for murdering his family in a Polish prison...
1 tag
How to Make Spy Glasses And Video Tape Secretly →
2 tags
3 tags
Jackie Chan Said “Chinese Need To Be Controlled”,... →
Context is important, and with the context we have available, the current popular spin of Chan’s comments throughout the Western media suggesting him as supporting the control, repression, or oppression of the Chinese people is questionable at best and shamelessly distorted at worst. The subsequent outrage is understandable, but also silly. You can liken Chan’s comments to the same ignorant...
1 tag
3 tags
Torture Tape Implicates United Arab Emirates Royal... →
A video tape smuggled out of the United Arab Emirates shows a member of the country’s royal family mercilessly torturing a man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden planks with protruding nails.
As you can imagine, the video in the article above is quite harsh. Keep in mind how friendly the US is with the UAE.
1 tag
“You had your eight years, go away.”
– Meghan McCain to Cheney (via brooklynmutt) (via hono-lulu) (via freckledawesome)
4 tags
Feds Turn to 'Brain Music' to Boost Emergency... →
The DHS news item describes how it works. Each two– to-six-minute brain music track is performed on a single instrument, usually a piano. One tune would be tailored for relaxation (Burns says it might sound more like a “melodic, subdued Chopin sonata”), while the revving-up track might have “more of a Mozart sound.”
Neurofeedback soundtracks will be created by Human Bionics, a company that...
2 tags
2 tags
10 Countries in Deep Trouble →
Global Fall Watch 2009.
Mexico, Pakistan, Ukraine, Venezeula, Argentina, Latvia, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Vietnam and Belarus.
3 tags
2 tags
The Complex Universe of Games and Puzzles,... →
The image also shows the connections between all the various board games, puzzles, etc. Cocktail party conversationalists will be stoked.
3 tags
One in Three Children Fear Earth Won't Be Around... →
On a sliding scale of anxieties, minority kids have it worst; 75 percent of black children and 65 percent of Hispanic children believe that the planet will be irrevocably damaged by the time they reach adulthood.
Interestingly enough, kids vex over the state of the planet, especially when it came to safe and clean air and water, regardless of any pro-environmental measures on the part of their...
4 tags
Bush Officials More Evil than Nazis →
The parallels between the Foreign Office’s role in the SS deportations and the OLC’s role in the CIA’s torture regime are uncanny. Nothing is lost if we simply substitute “Yoo, Bybee, and Bradbury” for “Woermann and von Weizsaecker,” “OLC” for “Foreign Office,” and “torture” for “deportations.”
Indeed, in one critical...
2 tags
