January 2010
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Domesticating the Enemy →
There is an arms race in progress between humans and bacteria. It started in earnest just before World War 1 with Salvarsan and really got going during World War 2 with the wide-spread use of Penicillin. In response to human aggression, resistant strains of bacteria evolved. Superbugs.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is the current star child. Harmless when carried on the skin, it...
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zinelibrary.info | revolution in the streets! →
Here you will find hundreds of radical zines ready to print. You can also upload zines to the site ( zines with file sizes bigger than 7mb can be uploaded to http://indymedia.org and linked here). Feel free to comment and contribute.
Many categories, quite a resource for resistance thinking and doing.
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Remote Control Bomb for 17 US dollars →
Although it is just a toy for RC planes, it drops the ‘bomb’ when you want AND you can still put a payload in the bomb compartment. Hmm…
If flying remote control planes doesn’t sound like fun to you… imagine dropping remote controlled bombs while flying a remote control plane. Sounds a whole lot more exciting, doesn’t it? That’s what the makers of the $17 Quanum RC Bomb...
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Failed end of the world predictions from 30 to... →
some of my favorites:
992: Good Friday coincided with the Feast of the Annunciation; this had long been believed to be the event that would bring forth the Antichrist, and thus the end-times events foretold in the book of Revelation. Records from Germany report that a new sun rose in the north and that as many as 3 suns and 3 moons were fighting. There does not appear to be independent...
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China's 'black jails' shove complaints into the... →
Yet Shi knows well the perils of speaking her mind in China, where undercover police and mercenary thugs wait to pounce. She has twice been snatched off the street, held incommunicado on the assumption that she would eventually abandon her cause and go home.
Shi is a victim of the secretive realm of “black jails” — unlawful detention facilities that have sprung up across China...
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The Recession Generation →
This division between capital and labor and the permanently high unemployment that it seems to encourage not only depresses wages, it depresses people; a large body of research shows they tend to withdraw from their communities and societies after being laid off (their spooked neighbors, encouraged to work ever harder, do too). Parental unemployment has huge negative consequences for children,...
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Human civilisation 'will collapse' unless greed... →
The world’s population is burning through the planet’s resources at such a reckless rate – about 28 per cent more last year - it will eventually cause environmental havoc, said the Worldwatch Institute, a US think-tank.
In its annual State of the World 2010 report, it warned any gains from government action on climate change could be wiped out by the cult of...
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Inaugural issue of the Journal Consciousness... →
The Inaugural Issue of the Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research is available for free download. Haven’t had time to grok this, but looks like some pretty interesting work.
From the TOC:
Editorial
Let All Truth Seekers Be the Vessels to Carry Consciousness Research to New Heights Huping Hu, Maoxin Wu 01-04
Articles Cognitum Hypothesis & Cognitum Consciousness: How Time...
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The Forty-Year Drone War →
azspot:
There’s something viral about the wondrous new weaponry an industrial war system churns out. In World War I, for instance, when that system was first gearing up to plan and produce new weapons by the generation, such creations — poison gas, the early airplane, the tank — barely hit the battlefield before the enemy had developed countermeasures and was cranking up his own production...
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Report: Economic growth 'cannot continue' →
The New Economics Foundation (Nef) said “unprecedented and probably impossible” carbon reductions would be needed to hold temperature rises below 2C (3.6F).
Scientists say exceeding this limit could lead to dangerous global warming.
“We urgently need to change our economy to live within its environmental budget,” said Nef’s policy director.
Andrew Simms added:...
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Gates confirms Blackwater & drones presence in... →
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirms that American security firms Xe Services LLC, formerly known as Blackwater, and DynCorp have been operating in Pakistan.
The two firms are operating in private capacities, Gates said on Thursday, adding that the companies were abiding by Pakistani laws.
However, he said that if the Pakistani parliament votes for a ban on the presence of the firms,...
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DROP HAITI'S DEBT - Sign the petition →
As Haitian families search for survivors and relief rolls in, Haiti is still staggering under $1 billion in old debts racked up by unscrupulous lenders and unelected governments of the past. But in recent days, a worldwide outcry has grown to cancel Haiti’s debt — and while some key lenders are rumoured to be holding out, the IMF and some key governments have indicated that debt...
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Man arrested over saying he was going to blow up... →
LONDON (AFP) - A man was arrested by anti-terrorism police and suspended from his job after he sent a Twitter message joking that he was going to blow up an airport, a report said Monday.
When heavy snow at Robin Hood airport in Doncaster, northern England, threatened to ruin Paul Chambers’ plans to fly to Ireland, he vented his frustration by tapping out a message on the social...
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Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981... →
ANKARA, Turkey - The Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II nearly 29 years ago emerged from prison and declared himself a messenger from God, then spent his first night of freedom in a luxury hotel room.
“I will meet you in the next three days,” Agca said. “In the name of God Almighty, I proclaim the end of the world in this century. All the world will be destroyed, every...
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US Security Company Offers to Perform "High Threat... →
iisabelle:redguard:
Here we go: New Orleans 2.0
By Jeremy Scahill
We saw this type of Iraq-style disaster profiteering in New Orleans and you can expect to see a lot more of this in Haiti over the coming days, weeks and months. Private security companies are seeing big dollar signs in Haiti thanks in no small part to the media hype about “looters.” After Katrina, the number of private...
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“The Net as a medium is not for anything in particular — not for making calls,...”
– Joho the Blog (via azspot)
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"How Cosmic Forces Shape Our Destinies" by Nikola... →
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance. There is no constellation or nebula, no sun or planet, in all the depths of limitless space, no passing wanderer of the starry heavens, that does not exercise...
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Inventor Nikola Tesla Is Back in Tech Fashion -... →
Decades after he died penniless, Nikola Tesla is elbowing aside his old adversary Thomas Edison in the pantheon of geek gods.
When California engineers wanted to brand their new $100,000 electric sports car, one name stood out: Tesla. When circuit designers at microchip producer Nvidia Corp. in 2007 launched a new line of advanced processors, they called them Tesla. And when videogame writers...
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Permaculture to help Haiti →
Evan details the efforts to build a permaculture relief corps to help with disasters like the Haitian earthquake.Basically the idea of leaving people economically improved after a disaster is pretty cool (as opposed to our current razor/razor blade model). For example: Building sewage systems, composting toilets, compost and recyclying centers, rocket and solar stoves, temporary shelters...
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“Going through the wrong door shuts down massive airport terminal at JFK for...”
– Global Guerrillas: 17 JAN 10
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Etheric Sky Creatures
borderlandsciences:
A. Reader says:
That translucent blob (previous post) looks more like a sky creature / biological UFO than it does an ether ship…
We’ll get back to you after we review this “Quick and Dirty Intro to Sky Creatures and Etheric Critters”.
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“God Helmet” Inventor, Dr. Michael Persinger... →
Claims of telepathy, ESP and other psi phenomena are a mainstay of popular culture but taboo in neuroscience research circles. Fortunately, Dr. Michael Persinger of Canada’s Laurentian University has never been afraid to venture where other researchers fear to go. In the 1980’s Persinger made headlines with his “God Helmet”, a device that stimulates temporal lobes with a weak magnetic field in...
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The Great Joe Rollino, Last of Old Coney Island... →
Joe Rollino once lifted 475 pounds. He used neither his arms nor his legs but, reportedly, his teeth. With just one finger he raised up 635 pounds; with his back he moved 3,200. He bit down on quarters to bend them with his thumb.
People called him the Great Joe Rollino, the Mighty Joe Rollino and even the World’s Strongest Man, and what did it matter if at least one of those people was Mr....
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Proof of Martians 'to come this year': Scientific... →
Final proof that Mars has bred life will be confirmed this year, leading NASA experts believe. The historic discovery will come not on Mars itself but from chunks of the red planet here on Earth. David McKay, chief of astrobiology at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, says powerful new microscopes and other instruments will establish whether features in martian meteorites are alien...
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Italy: All videos posted on Internet must be first... →
New rules to be introduced by government decree will require people who upload videos onto the Internet to obtain authorization from the Communications Ministry similar to that required by television broadcasters, drastically reducing freedom to communicate over the Web, opposition lawmakers have warned.
The decree is ostensibly an enactment of a European Union (EU) directive on product...
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The Heretic’s “10 New England Esotericists to... →
Here then, is my list of the busiest folks we know in the worlds of offbeat science publishing, UFOlogy, cryptozoology and the occult — even comics. Ghost-hunting? That is sooo last decade. But keep these peeps on your radar in 2010. They make for an eclectic mix, alright, but I think the list somehow works:
1. Marc Abrahams. Few can match the wit, charm and energy of this singular Cambridge,...
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Obama wants record $708B for military next year →
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on top of a record $708 billion for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned - a request that could be an especially hard sell to some of the administration’s Democratic allies.
The extra $33 billion in 2010 would mostly go...