About 4 or 5 years ago there was a bit of noise around the scientific community about a mysterious very big object being detected around the vicinity of Pluto's orbit. An object travelling on an eliptical orbit around the sun which had been predicted by numerous astronomers trying to explain anomolies in the orbits of the various planets in the solar system. As the object came to its closest point a few years back, a bunch of disinfo was thrown up to distract the public. --Calming bullshit reports on the various 'Learning Channels', plus a bunch of culty nonsense from the 'Planet X' contingent. All horseshit designed to keep the public quiet or confused while the global elite prepared for the approaching calamity, (and for which they seem to think the proper preparation includes building a one-world government, killing a ton of people, and managing the whole affair from underground. Or some Dr. Strangegloves nonsense to that effect. Either way, nonsense stories clouded the issue with almost perfect success. --Including the interestingly sudden reassurances (which I never heard when I was a kid), from governments and government owned media that, "No, No. Rocks are constantly falling into the atmosphere. This is all perfectly normal." --Well sure, stuff is always falling, but there are certain scales of averages which are being ignored here. ..)
Works like this. ..
Basically, every 3600 years we go through a cloud of rocks, and every 360,000 years, that cluster is replenished thanks to said big object, (a ball of hydrogen which never got quite big enough to ignite, but which plays binary to the sun), which passes through the Kuiper belt and knocks new debris down to the Earth's orbital plane. The last year or so of comet stories and such were, I suspect, elements of the old cluster, and now we're beginning to see the first arrivals from the new one.
The pattern expected is that it will be like a rain shower. A few drops here and there as it begins. Then a short pause where everybody half-relaxes. Then the downpour.
Should be interesting, to say the least! --Espeically in conjunction with the dozen or so other massive things going on. So much to do, so little time!
Keep alert, folks! You don't get to experience stuff like this every lifetime!
-FL
Actually, a lot of stuff has been falling recently
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Four actual impacts since May, and an unverified fifth. Plus this fireball thing.
About 4 or 5 years ago there was a bit of noise around the scientific community about a mysterious very big object being detected around the vicinity of Pluto's orbit. An object travelling on an eliptical orbit around the sun which has been predicted by numerous astronomers trying to explain anomolies in the orbits of the various planets in the solar system. As the object came into 'view' a few years back, a bunch of disinfo was thrown up to distract the public. --Calming bullshit reports on the various 'Learning Channels', plus a bunch of culty nonsense from the Planet X contingent. All horseshit designed to keep the public quiet while the global elite prepared for the approaching calamity, (and for some reason they seem to think that proper preparation is to build a one-world government, kill a ton of people, and manage the whole affair from underground. Or some shit like that. Either way, bullshit stories clouded the issue with almost perfect success.)
Works like this. ..
Basically, every 3600 years we go through a cloud of rocks, and every 360,000 years, that cluster is replenished thanks to said big object, (a ball of hydrogen which never got quite big enough to ignite, but which plays binary to the sun), which passes through the Kuiper belt and knocks new debris down to the Earth's orbital plane. The last year or so of comet stories and such were, I suspect, elements of the old cluster, and now we're beginning to see the first arrivals from the new one.
The pattern expected is that it will be like a rain shower. A few drops here and there as it begins. Then a short pause where everybody half-relaxes. Then the downpour.
Should be interesting, to say the least! --Espeically in conjunction with the dozen or so other massive things going on. So much to do, so little time!
Keep alert, folks! You don't get to experience stuff like this every lifetime!
I realized when I made the speaker/microphone comparison that it was very blunt, and I said as much. In the strictest sense, it is innacurate, as you pointed out. However, it has also been demonstrated that while the street is not exactly straight, it does run in both directions.
The brain's function is affected by low power EM. Those who genuinely question whether or not this is true only do so because they haven't explored the masses of available data thoroughly enough.
But don't feel bad. It's the same one the Air Force was selling to its soldiers who worked the early radar arrays, and its the first line of defense which was adopted and which has been used ever since by big business and the government. The argument being, "If the power is too low to cause damage through heating, then there is no danger."
If only this were true!
There is a mountain of science which has recognized the following. ..
1. Biological nervous systems are electrochemical in nature. This is why EEG scanners work; they are able to pick up on EM activity generated by the brain. This being the case, electromagnetic signals MUST be able to also cause an effect. --To be very blunt, speakers and microphones are interchangeable.
2. There are documented mechanisms through which low power, non-ionizing EM fields can affect the function of the nervous system.
3. Very small currents are all that are needed to causes these effects.
4. High frequency signals which are modulated to replicate lower frequencies, (As seen in Cell phone technology), are sufficient to cause effects.
5. The ocean of EM we live in DOES have an effect. Sleep, reproductive and various other biological cycles have been shown to be deeply affected, and often reliant upon ambient EM from the Earth and sky.
Here's an article with some photos of slices of brain tissue taken from rats exposed to cell phone EM. The effects are real.
There is no concensus yet to which I am privy at this point, but the whispers, (and my suspicions,) say that the power outages are linked to the increasing number of breakdowns, bleedthroughs, and the general de-stabilizing of the current physical paradigm. This has been an increasing issue over the last couple of decades. There are whole patches of the Earth's surface which exist now entirely on other planes of existence, and those spots are expanding. Military controlled tracts of land.
Anyway, the big outage in '65 was accompanied by several significant UFO reports over the power installation at ground zero. This kind of activity is often 'observed'.
Expect more as things continue to accelerate. All of this stuff is a reflection of the human experiential cycle. (That is, as humans heat up their activities through war and such, the rest of the Earth and solar system likewise heats up. We are all mirrors of each other.)
One of the more interesting aspects is the cluster of comet debris the Earth is just now entering. Every 3600 years we go through a cloud of rocks, and every 360,000 years, that cluster is replenished thanks to a big object, (a ball of hydrogen which never got quite big enough to ignite, but which plays binary to the sun), passes through the Kuiper belt which knocks new debris down to the Earth's orbital plane. And guess which end of that 360,000 year period we're on at the moment? Exactly. We just won the galactic lottery for 'interesting times'.
Anyway, space-rock impacts are on the increase, and will be for a time. Since spring, these stories about actual impacts have appeared. ..
The pattern expected is that it will be like a rain shower. A few drops here and there as it begins. Then a short pause where everybody half-relaxes. Then the downpour.
Should be interesting, to say the least! --Espeically in conjunction with the dozen or so other massive things going on. So much to do, so little time!
Keep alert, folks! You don't get to experience stuff like this every lifetime!
Don't exist as anything more than a deliberate fabrication encouraged by secret government.
Research, think, conclude.
If you bother to do the work, you will find the knowledge. Most people don't know what they are talking about because they haven't spent the few thousand hours necessary digging, reading and cross referencing. You seem to be yet another one of these.
These power outages are a curious phenomenon which I suspect has something to do with cracks in the current physical paradigm. I could be wrong; there is no concensus yet to which I am privy.
But the 'terrorist' explanation has several flaws, one of the biggest being that the Bush administration, if it had been able, would have benefitted if it could have demonstrated that the cause really was terrorism. But it could not and so did not. Rather, the cause, if examined too closely, would have likely raised other questions which the Bush admin would much rather not see asked.
-FL
You really seem to believe this stuff. . .
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I'm tempted to just walk away from this; you are clearly too deeply programmed for me to make a dent with, but I've got a little time to kill before hitting the sack tonight, so I'll address the grossest of your points.
OK, just go and convince Osama bin Ladin that he should bend over for McDonalds and E! True Hollywood Stories with rational, logical arguments and I'll accept that war is pointless in the modern age.
What makes you think that Osama Bin Ladin had anything to do with 9-11?
Right. TIA doesn't stop the arms industry from existing. It does cut down on the fraction of the resources expended by American society in constructing and maintaining conventional armed forces, and on the number of Iraqs that we have to run at great cost to Iraq and the United States.
Well, I'm not entirely certain what you were trying to say here, but as I prefer not to penalize somebody simply because they happen to commit typos use poor grammar, (which everybody does from time to time), I'll just let it pass with the question. . . "What?"
I'm not qualified to argue about environmental trends. I don't think you are either. If I happen to be debating a climate scientist, I shall apologize. I do not deny the numerous negative effects of Western capitalism on humanity and the environment alike - but I do believe that these effects are counteracted by a whole raft of benefits to humanity and to the environment and that, as Western society becomes more and more affluent, negative effects will continue to be eliminated simply because we will start to be able to spend money on it.
I don't know what you are grounding this lovely 'belief' on, but as I am fairly well tuned into world developments, and as I have seen nothing which leads me to think that 'Technology will save us', I suspect your viewpoint is constructed largely from Wishful Thinking. And you are quite right, I am not a climate scientist. As such, I am forced to base my beliefs on the hundreds of reports from those who ARE qualified environmental scientists who point to the massive melt-back of glaciers all around the world, killer heat waves in Europe, ancient rivers like the Sava, Drava, Kupa and Danube drying up, continuing ozone destruction, ocean fish stocks vanishing, coral reefs dying off, dropping sperm counts, rising psychological birth defects, etc, etc, etc.
although poverty is still a terrible problem, the advent of Western industrialized society has greatly reduced its incidence and, statistically, made human lives better in a very fundamental way.
You and your ad hominems! Where do you come up with this stuff? I can show you my sources. Show me one which says that, "Statistically, poverty has been reduced by Western industrialized society and made better in a very fundamental way." Define better? If you know your CIA fact history, or the history of the IMF, you would also know that much of this 'better society' comes at the cost of many a flourishing democratic country which has been toppled by the West's ambition to destroy competition and beggar whole nations. --And that it remains 'better' only for a portion of Americans. I stand by my stats, thank you very much. --1 in 4, or about 9 million kids under the age of 10 go hungry every day in America. Look it up. Google will spit back a mountain of data confirming this.
Perhaps. Or you could say that the continual appearance of black spots will give them more than enough to deal with as it stands. Or you could say that the secret police could allow a wide enough margin of dissent to keep most of society bumbling happily along.
"Perhaps??" You haven't lived in a fascist country, have you? Like Iraq, China or one of the old Soviet bloc countries. Most black spots are fabrications manufactured by the power brokers in order that people like you will actually fight to give up, not just your rights,
Why are you wrong? Give me strength. . .
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First of all, to say that TIA is the only alternative to an arms race in order to deter global war is to accept without question that global warfare is a natural end. A lot of people have been brought up to believe that this is a basic truth. How very convenient for the arms industry.
Not to mention that TIA wouldn't stop the arms industry in the slightest. --Look at Cold War Soviet practices; the entire population was engaged in reporting on itself; maids reporting on their their ladies, ladies reporting on their lovers, lovers reporting on their employers, ad infinitum. (I have friends who grew up in that world.) And how did any of that shit prevent the Soviet bloc from arming itself to the teeth? It didn't. In fact, it was key in promoting it.
You say, "Use of technologies like TIA is the best option we have available to defend the comfortable lives we lead and to provide hope for improving the lives of people around the world through economic prosperity driven by the engine of Western markets."
Holy shit. There is so much wrong with that statement, I'm not even sure where to begin. It's all wrong. All of it. Holy shit. Even if we were to assume that the posperity brought by the, 'Engine of the Western markets' is NOT a self-destroying myth, (the world is rapidly dying as a direct result of those engines, for goodness sake!), then the claim that TIA technologies is a panacea is by itself a stinking, rotton lie.
The use of TIA technologies is the chief way in that our 'comfortable' lives will cease to be comfortable. People in the West are so incredibly ignorant. --You can't buy child-like innocence of that sort! It's almost pretty. I think the most arrogant part is you blanket claim that Americans really are comfortable. Approximately 1 in 4 children in the U.S. does not get enough food, for crying out loud! But I digress. ..
Very simply. . . After the secret police finish hunting down and getting rid of all the black spots in society, then the grey spots which remain will begin to look black. Then the blue and the green and the yellow spots.
Secret police are like any government agency; very quickly, they become self-serving. Its officers become fearful that their jobs will end and they lose their priviledges and power; that they will face unemployment. And so, they ALWAYS work to maintain their neccessity. Sounds simple to the point of being ridiculous, but the truth is that EVERYBODY reacts to the possibility of losing their line of income and support with gut-based fear. And most people over-react to that fear with vast irrationality; Lump into that the tendency for people to believe their own comfortable lies, and the spiral into police state mentality becomes terminal.
Furthermore, NOBODY in the current seats of American power have ANY interest in handling any of the current situations in the world, (which they created!), with any regard to. . , how did you put it, "the seriousness of the moral issues involved".
Please! Bush and his people are psychopathic liars. Period.
The world-view you painted was very pretty, full of the possibility and the hope that everything "might work out okay." It won't. Unless the American people haul the current administration out of their offices and put them in jail forever, it simply won't.
Use of technologies like TIA is the best option we have available to defend the comfortable lives we lead and to provide hope for improving the lives of people around the world through economic prosperity driven by the engine of Western markets.
you may have mis-spelled your sig. Should be, "Dream Weaver".
I watched a few episodes of, Queer as Folk. (Chick roommate dumped by asshole boyfriend; apparently, girl-power dictates that you can get back at the opposite sex by watching guys fuck each other. Who knew? So I got to watch male actors fake orgasms for the camera while I ate dinner. I am now able to digest food under battle field conditions.)
Anyway. . . Billed as something arty and deep, the show was actually pretty silly. -Oh, but they really, really tried to make it arty and deep! Unfortunately, the show came off like an over-dramatic film school project; Campy dialogue, over-dramatic performances, and stereotypical plot lines. Imagine Six Feet Under or Northern Exposure but done by 19 year olds who were never cool for five seconds in their lives, whose idea of 'daring adventure' was to skip class and go to the movies, and whose only exposure to literature were the cruddy books they throw at you in high school English, (plus maybe a Stephen King novel or two. I don't know what kids read in England).
Anyway. . . That being said, I think the series chief will probably do a good job with Doctor Who. --Russell T. Davies is an uncool dork with lots of conventional, high school science class wisdom, no doubt. --None of it questioned, because that's how things are done when you're a timid, light-weight trying as hard as you can to ape intensity and depth.
Hint: Coolness is individuality, and individuality only begins to grow when you stop trying to earn gold stars from authority figures, be they teachers, or the Alphas in the gay community. (Though, come to think of it, I don't imagine that Alpha males would exactly show up very often in the massage parlors. Hmm.)
Doctor Who was, for some reason, perfect fodder for kids struggling like this. Campy dialogue, over-dramatic performances. Strict adherence to orthodox reality. . . It'll probably work out really well.
(For those who can't see how this trick works: The pinball is a steel ball bearing. So, plop the magnet down at the bottom near the pit and when you loose, you just drag the ball back up and keep playing:-D. HD magnets are nice and strong and does the trick quite nicely.)
Oh my god! I can't believe I never thought to try that. --As Tesla once said, "The answer was so simple I almost overlooked it."
You are my new hero.
Remember those super cool tables? The Star Trek TNG, Indiana Jones and Star Wars tables? I seem to recall the glass being rather far away from the game surface on those. . . Oh well. Those games were more than worth the coinage! My fave was the Indy table.
With best Sean Connery accent. . . "And this is how we say 'Goodnight' in German!" -Followed by fist against jaw noise. Ka-Pow!
Sigh. My geek side comes out to play. Nothing truly cool has happened since those days. Except perhaps the Fellowship of the Rings extended DVD, and Miyazaki's Spirited Away.
Everything else is simply pale when compared to a silver pinball going up a time-sensitive ramp.
If contrails get your conspiracy bones jittery, check out this piece our local weekly did on chemtrails and the people who love them.
Okay. ..
First off, this article was written by one of those AAN papers. --That is to say, a cookie-cutter pop-culture weekly owned by a family of millionaires. One brother is currently the mayer of Raleigh, N.C., and their father was the U.S. ambassador to Romania during the Ceausescu / Nixon years.
I've spent enough time with diplomatic families to know a few things. ..
1. Diplomat = Spy.
2. Spies in hotzone countries during the Cold War, are PLUGGED THE HELL IN.
3. Sons and daughters of Plugged-The-Hell-In spies have been well versed in how the world really works.
4. Richard Meeker, (the owner of the paper in which your story was printed), isn't going to hire a staff of people who are going to get him in trouble by exposing what the secret military is up to. --If he's as smart as his Dad, who was smart enough to last across two decades in a crucial game piece country during the cold war, then he'll know how to run a safe paper.
Sorry. Your posted story is pretty much useless. Thanks for playing.
Did they compare temperature changes in the cities to temperature changes in areas of low population? If not, their results are meaningless, or at least the conclusion they draw is meaningless. This is another example of mixing up association with causation.
I love how you ask the question, and then before even pausing to find the answer, you leap to your pre-determined conclusion; (That the science must be bad.)
Next time you stick your fingers in your ears, try also singing, "La La La." Works better.
3. Social mood fluctuates between polarities of primitive emotional states, such as confidence/fear, skepticism/credulity, optimism/pessimism, benevolence/malevolence, etc. These fluctuations are not effected by outside events, but move according to their own internal logic. They appear to arise in a dynamic that is endogenous to the social system.
Sorry, but no.
When one looks at a herd of cattle functioning to the tune of its own internal social dynamic, all I need do is throw a bunch of firecrackers into the feed bin to demonstrate that outside events can very much change things.
Only extreme arrogance or blindness would assume that the same isn't also true of human culture.
First we get an article on Astrology. Then we get this.
Slashdot editors are certainly crafty enough, methinks. An attempt to give a rational examination of some very interesting forces at play within society, --from two different perspectives.
While Vi is probably what I'd use were I running Linux, I'm not running Linux for a variety of reasons. (No CYMK, no legacy support for half my hardware, and QuarkExpress is 'it' when it comes to industrial press jobs.)
When running Windows, Abiword is an excellent little open source editor with all kinds of features, but at under 5 megs, no bloat. Version 2.0 just came out. Go download a copy today.
But, aside from the statistics of how effective they are, meteorology passes two tests that astrology does not: there is a plausible explanation given for why it should work; and the results are falsifiable.
Of course the parallel between weather and astrology ends at this point. There are, to my knowledge, only theories as to why Astrology works. Some of them sound fairly reasonable, but none is testable in a lab setting with the current knowledge allowed by orthodox science. --Which is not to say that there is not available a lot of otherwise good science which might be used to explain the hows and whys behind human behavior patterns. (For instance, how biological life is affected by electromagnetism and gravity is a wide and largely untapped area of study. Robert O. Becker has raised many observations which might be worth considering.) People have indeed been studying this stuff for a good long time in a variety of arenas. But certain areas of knowledge are very much off-limits to the public realm. Becker, for instance, despite his long and respected career, his many contributions to science and medicine, the inherent value of his work in these 'off-limits' areas is largely ignored.
As well, it is true that most 'astrologers' are jokers, so of course they are going to play the non-falsifiable game. I don't argue with that at all, but then I don't consider them important to any discussion about Astrology except in recognizing that they are part of the fog bank which helps to obscure things.
It would be nice if public arena science could hand out answers regarding the mysterious forces upon which Astrology is based. --Heck, it would be nice if public arena science could hand out answers regarding the mysterious forces upon which Quantum Physics is based. But at the moment, public domain science can do neither. --It does not stop, however, those forces from being both predictable, and useful areas of study.
Very simply, just because something cannot be explained does not mean it isn't there. There are a lot of things which cannot yet be explained but which I am sure could be, (and very probably have been), given enough time and proper study.
There are two problems with Astrology and Energy practices; 1. They are derived from periods of history which came before the arise of scientific doctrine, and as such, have the dubious honor of falling under the same umbrella as religion and dark-age belief systems; that is, they are treated as toys and subjects put away with the childhood of the human race. And 2., were they acknowledged and taken seriously by the modern world, they would prevent the current power structure from being able to direct and control humanity in quite the way it does.
Becker again is an example. --Cellphone radiation is a hot button topic, as we all know. In Becker's study of Acupuncture, (which the American military first turned him on to, because, "We don't know why, but gosh Darn it! It sure seems to work! We want to use it on the battle field. See what you can come up with." --Through researching this, Becker discovered that the function of the human body is enormously affected by micro-currents of DC electricity. (When those acupuncture needles are inserted and set to rotating in the air, they generate micro currents which go on to affect the body in certain ways.) This led into wider areas of research, including everything from how non stem-cells can and do dedifferentiate, to the understanding of certain mechanics through which EM radiation affect the human nervous system in a multitude of ways entirely ignored, and worse, actively rejected by the media, corporate and government bodies, and by those in academia.
Here's an article on Cell phone radiation and how it has been shown to cause the blood-brain barrier to become permeable; something previously claimed impossible by many in respected science. I
Well, Randi may be a showman and out to sell books, but his science is still good.
No. The example used was a clever test. Good science is something else entirely. Do some digging. The man is about as critically objective as any New Age buffoon. He just has superior PR.
You say "Babies and bathwater and all that", as if to say that throwing out the all the predictions of astrology is a bad idea because it throws out the good predictions as well as the bad.
Actually, that's not exactly what I meant. --While you make a good point about not being able to tell in advance which predictions are good or bad, I was not talking about predictions, (and that astrology is all about predictions is another huge misnomer in my opinion.), but rather discarding the concept of so-called 'magic', (areas of reality not yet understood or recognized by orthodox science), simply because there are so many charlatans about is foolish.
It just takes a little work. --Watch the patterns. When one system or writer proves to have a poor return on accurate 'predictions' drop it/him/her. Indeed, most will prove to be worthless. The single largest mistake, I think, is in believing that Astrology is about predicting to people what will happen to them in the future. That's not it at all. Rather it's about forecasting 'weather' patterns in the forces which will influence their lives.
Sound the same? Think of it this way. ..
A weather forecaster telling you that, "You will get wet on Wednesday," is obviously being presumptuous. (What good is that kind of report to people who won't go outside on Wednesday? Or how useful is that kind of prediction for people who wash regularly?) Unfortunately, this is the way most 'astrologers' present their work. On the other hand, a weather forecaster can tell you that "It will rain on Wednesday." --And that's better. But it still isn't entirely responsible because even an expert meteorologist doesn't know for sure. Nobody lives in the future, and the future is variable. It's stupid, both for meteorologists and astrologers to make such predictions.
Now what a weather forecaster can say with real authority is, "These patterns of high and low pressure exist in these areas, and they are moving in these directions. In the past, these patterns have led to precipitation."
Now THAT is responsible reporting.
And what you do with that information, wear a rain coat or not, is up to you. Choice is still very much a vital factor. (Another huge misconception is that Astrology precludes choice.)
Interestingly, I have found that the patterns of influence examined in Astrology are in fact far less fickle than those observed in weather patterns. Weather patterns are determined by very quickly changing chaotic systems, whereas Astrologers look at planetary motion, which while also chaotic, are so on a much slower scale. Through mathematics, a good astrologer can tell you years in advance what sort of forces are going to be influencing the world on a given day.
If you are at all interested in looking at this stuff in any real depth, I would recommend the work of two women who, in my opinion, are not fools or charlatans.
And Theodora Lau, for Asian astrology, which works on the higher, year-by-year cycle. Yes, you need to pick up a book to read her work, but it's foolish to think that the mode of information distribution automatically voids one's research. (Trust Randi to suggest such faulty logic.) What mode of mass-communication doesn't cost money to maintain?
I can't STAND horseshit astrology. Astrology is a powerful gateway to higher awareness which is bogged down and virtually impossible to find thanks to the infernal fog of bullshit created by this kind of crap.
Susan Miller does some reasonably good work. Look into Asian astrology, as well. Theodora Lau is also pretty sharp. --And don't be just another one of those damned twerps who condemns without even bothering to properly examine the question. "I don't need to because I already know it's bunk."
Cowards. --Just scared people will laugh at you for not going along with the popular concensus of your group. Puh-lease. Grow a spine and do some of your own investigation.
Anybody who doesn't realize that humans are linked to the rest of reality is a damned fool. If unexplained, paradoxical forces can exist at the quantum level, which they clearly do, then what makes people think that unseen forces can't also express themselves at the macro level?
Jeez. Our universe is just one massive, fractal-like expression. Think of it this way; if you are living as one part of that expression, then you should, logically, be able to learn about yourself by examining other parts of that same expression. Just because they don't appear linked in an obvious way only suggests that your means of observation are limited.
What arrogance. And from supposedly learned people, no less!
You discovered that 80% of people are idiots. (Including James Randi.) --Frankly, I'd have expected that number to be higher.
Doesn't prove anything about astrology one way or the other, however. (Except that perhaps 80% of 'astrologists' are probably also idiots.)
Babies and bathwater and all that.
You're a teacher and you're bringing Randi-isms into the classroom? Jeezus. You might want to check your sources a little more thoroughly. That guy is one of the most witch-hunting, bad-science, over-extended egos in the biz. Here's a logic problem for you:
When your career and self-worth are intimately tied up with your point of view being the right one, what do you think is likely to happen to objectivity? Man, even he points out that one of the big problems with 'magic' is that people mostly just want to sell books. Randi is no different, except that he's a bloody hypocrite.
With everybody giving their uninformed 2 cents, I now have enough to buy a small coffee.
(Funny, though, how the uninformed "La La La, I Can't Hear You, Global Warming Is A Myth," crew were mysteriously silent today.)
But seriously. Global Warming is just one small piece. The human experiential cycle is mirrored by world and extra-planetary events. Things are heating up big-time. Hasn't anybody noticed? California is in the process of falling into the ocean. --And it may even happen in a physical sense some day.
I mean, Bush himself recently declared that there were no WMD's in Iraq, but it only made news deep within the covers of the various big journals which even bothered carrying the little item.
But this one, voting corruption in the world flagship of 'Democracy', is going to be the real indicator.
I mean, it seems this voting machine problem is in fact well known and understood by millions. People have time to raise a proper stink and prepare. I very much look forward to seeing if America will DO something about it or if they'll just grunt and roll over to a new sleeping position.
Unfortunately, it doesn't really matter very much in a political sense. At this point, it doesn't matter who gets into office. They're all a bunch of dangerous bastards who can be expected to play ball to the New World Order agenda. Those who can actually make a difference have a strange tendency to die tragically in King Air A-100 plane crashes.
I had no idea that Arnie was royalty! He's married to a Kennedy, his mom is married into high-level Austrian politics, and his pappy was in the SS. The boy terminator declared himself the loyal friend of a convicted Nazi war criminal, no less. --Oh yes, and the all-white, all-male, all-billionaire Bohemian Club which has a habit of determining who gets to be the president of the United States, (among other things), has agreed to make Arnie a king of some standing, possibly THE king. Sheesh. Thank goodness California put the brakes on when they did!
My only hope is that if America does manage to wake up enough to fix this voting machine horseshit, that it'll take the next step and realize that the current administration, and all current potential administrations, are corrupt to the core, put ALL of them in jail, and start fresh. I mean, sure, they'll have no functioning government for the next year, and people will panic, and the dollar will vaporize, and the really evil bastards will all hide out until everything blows over, but. ..
Who am I kidding?
More likely? This voting machine problem will be looked and:
1. People ignore it, and what difference does it make after that?
2. People 'fix' the problem and then wait patiently to see which monster gets properly elected to continue the destruction of the universe.
Americans don't have the awareness or the spine for a real revolution.
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About 4 or 5 years ago there was a bit of noise around the scientific community about a mysterious very big object being detected around the vicinity of Pluto's orbit. An object travelling on an eliptical orbit around the sun which had been predicted by numerous astronomers trying to explain anomolies in the orbits of the various planets in the solar system. As the object came to its closest point a few years back, a bunch of disinfo was thrown up to distract the public. --Calming bullshit reports on the various 'Learning Channels', plus a bunch of culty nonsense from the 'Planet X' contingent. All horseshit designed to keep the public quiet or confused while the global elite prepared for the approaching calamity, (and for which they seem to think the proper preparation includes building a one-world government, killing a ton of people, and managing the whole affair from underground. Or some Dr. Strangegloves nonsense to that effect. Either way, nonsense stories clouded the issue with almost perfect success. --Including the interestingly sudden reassurances (which I never heard when I was a kid), from governments and government owned media that, "No, No. Rocks are constantly falling into the atmosphere. This is all perfectly normal." --Well sure, stuff is always falling, but there are certain scales of averages which are being ignored here. .
Works like this. .
Basically, every 3600 years we go through a cloud of rocks, and every 360,000 years, that cluster is replenished thanks to said big object, (a ball of hydrogen which never got quite big enough to ignite, but which plays binary to the sun), which passes through the Kuiper belt and knocks new debris down to the Earth's orbital plane. The last year or so of comet stories and such were, I suspect, elements of the old cluster, and now we're beginning to see the first arrivals from the new one.
The pattern expected is that it will be like a rain shower. A few drops here and there as it begins. Then a short pause where everybody half-relaxes. Then the downpour.
Should be interesting, to say the least! --Espeically in conjunction with the dozen or so other massive things going on. So much to do, so little time!
Keep alert, folks! You don't get to experience stuff like this every lifetime!
-FL
Link-O-Rama. .
About 4 or 5 years ago there was a bit of noise around the scientific community about a mysterious very big object being detected around the vicinity of Pluto's orbit. An object travelling on an eliptical orbit around the sun which has been predicted by numerous astronomers trying to explain anomolies in the orbits of the various planets in the solar system. As the object came into 'view' a few years back, a bunch of disinfo was thrown up to distract the public. --Calming bullshit reports on the various 'Learning Channels', plus a bunch of culty nonsense from the Planet X contingent. All horseshit designed to keep the public quiet while the global elite prepared for the approaching calamity, (and for some reason they seem to think that proper preparation is to build a one-world government, kill a ton of people, and manage the whole affair from underground. Or some shit like that. Either way, bullshit stories clouded the issue with almost perfect success.)
Works like this. .
Basically, every 3600 years we go through a cloud of rocks, and every 360,000 years, that cluster is replenished thanks to said big object, (a ball of hydrogen which never got quite big enough to ignite, but which plays binary to the sun), which passes through the Kuiper belt and knocks new debris down to the Earth's orbital plane. The last year or so of comet stories and such were, I suspect, elements of the old cluster, and now we're beginning to see the first arrivals from the new one.
The pattern expected is that it will be like a rain shower. A few drops here and there as it begins. Then a short pause where everybody half-relaxes. Then the downpour.
Should be interesting, to say the least! --Espeically in conjunction with the dozen or so other massive things going on. So much to do, so little time!
Keep alert, folks! You don't get to experience stuff like this every lifetime!
-FL
The brain's function is affected by low power EM. Those who genuinely question whether or not this is true only do so because they haven't explored the masses of available data thoroughly enough.
-FL
If only this were true!
There is a mountain of science which has recognized the following. .
Here's an article with some photos of slices of brain tissue taken from rats exposed to cell phone EM. The effects are real.
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Interesting how the whole thing is being kept hush-hush. Engineers have eveb been made to sign nondiscolsure agreements.
Tsk!
What could be going on? If not terrorism, then. . , what?
-FL
There is no concensus yet to which I am privy at this point, but the whispers, (and my suspicions,) say that the power outages are linked to the increasing number of breakdowns, bleedthroughs, and the general de-stabilizing of the current physical paradigm. This has been an increasing issue over the last couple of decades. There are whole patches of the Earth's surface which exist now entirely on other planes of existence, and those spots are expanding. Military controlled tracts of land.
Anyway, the big outage in '65 was accompanied by several significant UFO reports over the power installation at ground zero. This kind of activity is often 'observed'.
Expect more as things continue to accelerate. All of this stuff is a reflection of the human experiential cycle. (That is, as humans heat up their activities through war and such, the rest of the Earth and solar system likewise heats up. We are all mirrors of each other.)
One of the more interesting aspects is the cluster of comet debris the Earth is just now entering. Every 3600 years we go through a cloud of rocks, and every 360,000 years, that cluster is replenished thanks to a big object, (a ball of hydrogen which never got quite big enough to ignite, but which plays binary to the sun), passes through the Kuiper belt which knocks new debris down to the Earth's orbital plane. And guess which end of that 360,000 year period we're on at the moment? Exactly. We just won the galactic lottery for 'interesting times'.
Anyway, space-rock impacts are on the increase, and will be for a time. Since spring, these stories about actual impacts have appeared. .
The pattern expected is that it will be like a rain shower. A few drops here and there as it begins. Then a short pause where everybody half-relaxes. Then the downpour.
Should be interesting, to say the least! --Espeically in conjunction with the dozen or so other massive things going on. So much to do, so little time!
Keep alert, folks! You don't get to experience stuff like this every lifetime!
-FL
Research, think, conclude.
If you bother to do the work, you will find the knowledge. Most people don't know what they are talking about because they haven't spent the few thousand hours necessary digging, reading and cross referencing. You seem to be yet another one of these.
These power outages are a curious phenomenon which I suspect has something to do with cracks in the current physical paradigm. I could be wrong; there is no concensus yet to which I am privy.
But the 'terrorist' explanation has several flaws, one of the biggest being that the Bush administration, if it had been able, would have benefitted if it could have demonstrated that the cause really was terrorism. But it could not and so did not. Rather, the cause, if examined too closely, would have likely raised other questions which the Bush admin would much rather not see asked.
-FL
I'm tempted to just walk away from this; you are clearly too deeply programmed for me to make a dent with, but I've got a little time to kill before hitting the sack tonight, so I'll address the grossest of your points.
OK, just go and convince Osama bin Ladin that he should bend over for McDonalds and E! True Hollywood Stories with rational, logical arguments and I'll accept that war is pointless in the modern age.
What makes you think that Osama Bin Ladin had anything to do with 9-11?
Right. TIA doesn't stop the arms industry from existing. It does cut down on the fraction of the resources expended by American society in constructing and maintaining conventional armed forces, and on the number of Iraqs that we have to run at great cost to Iraq and the United States.
Well, I'm not entirely certain what you were trying to say here, but as I prefer not to penalize somebody simply because they happen to commit typos use poor grammar, (which everybody does from time to time), I'll just let it pass with the question. . . "What?"
I'm not qualified to argue about environmental trends. I don't think you are either. If I happen to be debating a climate scientist, I shall apologize. I do not deny the numerous negative effects of Western capitalism on humanity and the environment alike - but I do believe that these effects are counteracted by a whole raft of benefits to humanity and to the environment and that, as Western society becomes more and more affluent, negative effects will continue to be eliminated simply because we will start to be able to spend money on it.
I don't know what you are grounding this lovely 'belief' on, but as I am fairly well tuned into world developments, and as I have seen nothing which leads me to think that 'Technology will save us', I suspect your viewpoint is constructed largely from Wishful Thinking. And you are quite right, I am not a climate scientist. As such, I am forced to base my beliefs on the hundreds of reports from those who ARE qualified environmental scientists who point to the massive melt-back of glaciers all around the world, killer heat waves in Europe, ancient rivers like the Sava, Drava, Kupa and Danube drying up, continuing ozone destruction, ocean fish stocks vanishing, coral reefs dying off, dropping sperm counts, rising psychological birth defects, etc, etc, etc.
although poverty is still a terrible problem, the advent of Western industrialized society has greatly reduced its incidence and, statistically, made human lives better in a very fundamental way.
You and your ad hominems! Where do you come up with this stuff? I can show you my sources. Show me one which says that, "Statistically, poverty has been reduced by Western industrialized society and made better in a very fundamental way." Define better? If you know your CIA fact history, or the history of the IMF, you would also know that much of this 'better society' comes at the cost of many a flourishing democratic country which has been toppled by the West's ambition to destroy competition and beggar whole nations. --And that it remains 'better' only for a portion of Americans. I stand by my stats, thank you very much. --1 in 4, or about 9 million kids under the age of 10 go hungry every day in America. Look it up. Google will spit back a mountain of data confirming this.
Perhaps. Or you could say that the continual appearance of black spots will give them more than enough to deal with as it stands. Or you could say that the secret police could allow a wide enough margin of dissent to keep most of society bumbling happily along.
"Perhaps??" You haven't lived in a fascist country, have you? Like Iraq, China or one of the old Soviet bloc countries. Most black spots are fabrications manufactured by the power brokers in order that people like you will actually fight to give up, not just your rights,
Not to mention that TIA wouldn't stop the arms industry in the slightest. --Look at Cold War Soviet practices; the entire population was engaged in reporting on itself; maids reporting on their their ladies, ladies reporting on their lovers, lovers reporting on their employers, ad infinitum. (I have friends who grew up in that world.) And how did any of that shit prevent the Soviet bloc from arming itself to the teeth? It didn't. In fact, it was key in promoting it.
You say, "Use of technologies like TIA is the best option we have available to defend the comfortable lives we lead and to provide hope for improving the lives of people around the world through economic prosperity driven by the engine of Western markets."
Holy shit. There is so much wrong with that statement, I'm not even sure where to begin. It's all wrong. All of it. Holy shit. Even if we were to assume that the posperity brought by the, 'Engine of the Western markets' is NOT a self-destroying myth, (the world is rapidly dying as a direct result of those engines, for goodness sake!), then the claim that TIA technologies is a panacea is by itself a stinking, rotton lie.
The use of TIA technologies is the chief way in that our 'comfortable' lives will cease to be comfortable. People in the West are so incredibly ignorant. --You can't buy child-like innocence of that sort! It's almost pretty. I think the most arrogant part is you blanket claim that Americans really are comfortable. Approximately 1 in 4 children in the U.S. does not get enough food, for crying out loud! But I digress. .
Very simply. . . After the secret police finish hunting down and getting rid of all the black spots in society, then the grey spots which remain will begin to look black. Then the blue and the green and the yellow spots.
Secret police are like any government agency; very quickly, they become self-serving. Its officers become fearful that their jobs will end and they lose their priviledges and power; that they will face unemployment. And so, they ALWAYS work to maintain their neccessity. Sounds simple to the point of being ridiculous, but the truth is that EVERYBODY reacts to the possibility of losing their line of income and support with gut-based fear. And most people over-react to that fear with vast irrationality; Lump into that the tendency for people to believe their own comfortable lies, and the spiral into police state mentality becomes terminal.
Furthermore, NOBODY in the current seats of American power have ANY interest in handling any of the current situations in the world, (which they created!), with any regard to. . , how did you put it, "the seriousness of the moral issues involved".
Please! Bush and his people are psychopathic liars. Period.
The world-view you painted was very pretty, full of the possibility and the hope that everything "might work out okay." It won't. Unless the American people haul the current administration out of their offices and put them in jail forever, it simply won't.
-FL
you may have mis-spelled your sig. Should be, "Dream Weaver".
And no, I don't mean that in a nice way.
-FL
Anyway. . . Billed as something arty and deep, the show was actually pretty silly. -Oh, but they really, really tried to make it arty and deep! Unfortunately, the show came off like an over-dramatic film school project; Campy dialogue, over-dramatic performances, and stereotypical plot lines. Imagine Six Feet Under or Northern Exposure but done by 19 year olds who were never cool for five seconds in their lives, whose idea of 'daring adventure' was to skip class and go to the movies, and whose only exposure to literature were the cruddy books they throw at you in high school English, (plus maybe a Stephen King novel or two. I don't know what kids read in England).
Anyway. . . That being said, I think the series chief will probably do a good job with Doctor Who. --Russell T. Davies is an uncool dork with lots of conventional, high school science class wisdom, no doubt. --None of it questioned, because that's how things are done when you're a timid, light-weight trying as hard as you can to ape intensity and depth.
Hint: Coolness is individuality, and individuality only begins to grow when you stop trying to earn gold stars from authority figures, be they teachers, or the Alphas in the gay community. (Though, come to think of it, I don't imagine that Alpha males would exactly show up very often in the massage parlors. Hmm.)
Doctor Who was, for some reason, perfect fodder for kids struggling like this. Campy dialogue, over-dramatic performances. Strict adherence to orthodox reality. . . It'll probably work out really well.
-FL
I'm not sure that anybody was.
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Oh my god! I can't believe I never thought to try that. --As Tesla once said, "The answer was so simple I almost overlooked it."
You are my new hero.
Remember those super cool tables? The Star Trek TNG, Indiana Jones and Star Wars tables? I seem to recall the glass being rather far away from the game surface on those. . . Oh well. Those games were more than worth the coinage! My fave was the Indy table.
With best Sean Connery accent. . . "And this is how we say 'Goodnight' in German!" -Followed by fist against jaw noise. Ka-Pow!
Sigh. My geek side comes out to play. Nothing truly cool has happened since those days. Except perhaps the Fellowship of the Rings extended DVD, and Miyazaki's Spirited Away.
Everything else is simply pale when compared to a silver pinball going up a time-sensitive ramp.
-FL
You had to work weekends for the last year in order to keep you from looking around too much. Sluuurp! There goes your 'energy'.
-FL
Okay. .
First off, this article was written by one of those AAN papers. --That is to say, a cookie-cutter pop-culture weekly owned by a family of millionaires. One brother is currently the mayer of Raleigh, N.C., and their father was the U.S. ambassador to Romania during the Ceausescu / Nixon years.
I've spent enough time with diplomatic families to know a few things. .
Sorry. Your posted story is pretty much useless. Thanks for playing.
-FL
I love how you ask the question, and then before even pausing to find the answer, you leap to your pre-determined conclusion; (That the science must be bad.)
Next time you stick your fingers in your ears, try also singing, "La La La." Works better.
-FL
Sorry, but no.
When one looks at a herd of cattle functioning to the tune of its own internal social dynamic, all I need do is throw a bunch of firecrackers into the feed bin to demonstrate that outside events can very much change things.
Only extreme arrogance or blindness would assume that the same isn't also true of human culture.
-FL
Slashdot editors are certainly crafty enough, methinks. An attempt to give a rational examination of some very interesting forces at play within society, --from two different perspectives.
Kudos, guys!
I'm very impressed.
-FL
When running Windows, Abiword is an excellent little open source editor with all kinds of features, but at under 5 megs, no bloat. Version 2.0 just came out. Go download a copy today.
-FL
But, aside from the statistics of how effective they are, meteorology passes two tests that astrology does not: there is a plausible explanation given for why it should work; and the results are falsifiable.
Of course the parallel between weather and astrology ends at this point. There are, to my knowledge, only theories as to why Astrology works. Some of them sound fairly reasonable, but none is testable in a lab setting with the current knowledge allowed by orthodox science. --Which is not to say that there is not available a lot of otherwise good science which might be used to explain the hows and whys behind human behavior patterns. (For instance, how biological life is affected by electromagnetism and gravity is a wide and largely untapped area of study. Robert O. Becker has raised many observations which might be worth considering.) People have indeed been studying this stuff for a good long time in a variety of arenas. But certain areas of knowledge are very much off-limits to the public realm. Becker, for instance, despite his long and respected career, his many contributions to science and medicine, the inherent value of his work in these 'off-limits' areas is largely ignored.
As well, it is true that most 'astrologers' are jokers, so of course they are going to play the non-falsifiable game. I don't argue with that at all, but then I don't consider them important to any discussion about Astrology except in recognizing that they are part of the fog bank which helps to obscure things.
It would be nice if public arena science could hand out answers regarding the mysterious forces upon which Astrology is based. --Heck, it would be nice if public arena science could hand out answers regarding the mysterious forces upon which Quantum Physics is based. But at the moment, public domain science can do neither. --It does not stop, however, those forces from being both predictable, and useful areas of study.
Very simply, just because something cannot be explained does not mean it isn't there. There are a lot of things which cannot yet be explained but which I am sure could be, (and very probably have been), given enough time and proper study.
There are two problems with Astrology and Energy practices; 1. They are derived from periods of history which came before the arise of scientific doctrine, and as such, have the dubious honor of falling under the same umbrella as religion and dark-age belief systems; that is, they are treated as toys and subjects put away with the childhood of the human race. And 2., were they acknowledged and taken seriously by the modern world, they would prevent the current power structure from being able to direct and control humanity in quite the way it does.
Becker again is an example. --Cellphone radiation is a hot button topic, as we all know. In Becker's study of Acupuncture, (which the American military first turned him on to, because, "We don't know why, but gosh Darn it! It sure seems to work! We want to use it on the battle field. See what you can come up with." --Through researching this, Becker discovered that the function of the human body is enormously affected by micro-currents of DC electricity. (When those acupuncture needles are inserted and set to rotating in the air, they generate micro currents which go on to affect the body in certain ways.) This led into wider areas of research, including everything from how non stem-cells can and do dedifferentiate, to the understanding of certain mechanics through which EM radiation affect the human nervous system in a multitude of ways entirely ignored, and worse, actively rejected by the media, corporate and government bodies, and by those in academia.
Here's an article on Cell phone radiation and how it has been shown to cause the blood-brain barrier to become permeable; something previously claimed impossible by many in respected science. I
No. The example used was a clever test. Good science is something else entirely. Do some digging. The man is about as critically objective as any New Age buffoon. He just has superior PR.
You say "Babies and bathwater and all that", as if to say that throwing out the all the predictions of astrology is a bad idea because it throws out the good predictions as well as the bad.
Actually, that's not exactly what I meant. --While you make a good point about not being able to tell in advance which predictions are good or bad, I was not talking about predictions, (and that astrology is all about predictions is another huge misnomer in my opinion.), but rather discarding the concept of so-called 'magic', (areas of reality not yet understood or recognized by orthodox science), simply because there are so many charlatans about is foolish.
It just takes a little work. --Watch the patterns. When one system or writer proves to have a poor return on accurate 'predictions' drop it/him/her. Indeed, most will prove to be worthless. The single largest mistake, I think, is in believing that Astrology is about predicting to people what will happen to them in the future. That's not it at all. Rather it's about forecasting 'weather' patterns in the forces which will influence their lives.
Sound the same? Think of it this way. .
A weather forecaster telling you that, "You will get wet on Wednesday," is obviously being presumptuous. (What good is that kind of report to people who won't go outside on Wednesday? Or how useful is that kind of prediction for people who wash regularly?) Unfortunately, this is the way most 'astrologers' present their work. On the other hand, a weather forecaster can tell you that "It will rain on Wednesday." --And that's better. But it still isn't entirely responsible because even an expert meteorologist doesn't know for sure. Nobody lives in the future, and the future is variable. It's stupid, both for meteorologists and astrologers to make such predictions.
Now what a weather forecaster can say with real authority is, "These patterns of high and low pressure exist in these areas, and they are moving in these directions. In the past, these patterns have led to precipitation."
Now THAT is responsible reporting.
And what you do with that information, wear a rain coat or not, is up to you. Choice is still very much a vital factor. (Another huge misconception is that Astrology precludes choice.)
Interestingly, I have found that the patterns of influence examined in Astrology are in fact far less fickle than those observed in weather patterns. Weather patterns are determined by very quickly changing chaotic systems, whereas Astrologers look at planetary motion, which while also chaotic, are so on a much slower scale. Through mathematics, a good astrologer can tell you years in advance what sort of forces are going to be influencing the world on a given day.
If you are at all interested in looking at this stuff in any real depth, I would recommend the work of two women who, in my opinion, are not fools or charlatans.
Susan Miller for western astrology.
And Theodora Lau, for Asian astrology, which works on the higher, year-by-year cycle. Yes, you need to pick up a book to read her work, but it's foolish to think that the mode of information distribution automatically voids one's research. (Trust Randi to suggest such faulty logic.) What mode of mass-communication doesn't cost money to maintain?
-FL
I can't STAND horseshit astrology. Astrology is a powerful gateway to higher awareness which is bogged down and virtually impossible to find thanks to the infernal fog of bullshit created by this kind of crap.
Susan Miller does some reasonably good work. Look into Asian astrology, as well. Theodora Lau is also pretty sharp. --And don't be just another one of those damned twerps who condemns without even bothering to properly examine the question. "I don't need to because I already know it's bunk."
Cowards. --Just scared people will laugh at you for not going along with the popular concensus of your group. Puh-lease. Grow a spine and do some of your own investigation.
Anybody who doesn't realize that humans are linked to the rest of reality is a damned fool. If unexplained, paradoxical forces can exist at the quantum level, which they clearly do, then what makes people think that unseen forces can't also express themselves at the macro level?
Jeez. Our universe is just one massive, fractal-like expression. Think of it this way; if you are living as one part of that expression, then you should, logically, be able to learn about yourself by examining other parts of that same expression. Just because they don't appear linked in an obvious way only suggests that your means of observation are limited.
What arrogance. And from supposedly learned people, no less!
-FL
Doesn't prove anything about astrology one way or the other, however. (Except that perhaps 80% of 'astrologists' are probably also idiots.)
Babies and bathwater and all that.
You're a teacher and you're bringing Randi-isms into the classroom? Jeezus. You might want to check your sources a little more thoroughly. That guy is one of the most witch-hunting, bad-science, over-extended egos in the biz. Here's a logic problem for you:
When your career and self-worth are intimately tied up with your point of view being the right one, what do you think is likely to happen to objectivity? Man, even he points out that one of the big problems with 'magic' is that people mostly just want to sell books. Randi is no different, except that he's a bloody hypocrite.
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(Funny, though, how the uninformed "La La La, I Can't Hear You, Global Warming Is A Myth," crew were mysteriously silent today.)
But seriously. Global Warming is just one small piece. The human experiential cycle is mirrored by world and extra-planetary events. Things are heating up big-time. Hasn't anybody noticed? California is in the process of falling into the ocean. --And it may even happen in a physical sense some day.
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I mean, Bush himself recently declared that there were no WMD's in Iraq, but it only made news deep within the covers of the various big journals which even bothered carrying the little item.
But this one, voting corruption in the world flagship of 'Democracy', is going to be the real indicator.
I mean, it seems this voting machine problem is in fact well known and understood by millions. People have time to raise a proper stink and prepare. I very much look forward to seeing if America will DO something about it or if they'll just grunt and roll over to a new sleeping position.
Unfortunately, it doesn't really matter very much in a political sense. At this point, it doesn't matter who gets into office. They're all a bunch of dangerous bastards who can be expected to play ball to the New World Order agenda. Those who can actually make a difference have a strange tendency to die tragically in King Air A-100 plane crashes.
I had no idea that Arnie was royalty! He's married to a Kennedy, his mom is married into high-level Austrian politics, and his pappy was in the SS. The boy terminator declared himself the loyal friend of a convicted Nazi war criminal, no less. --Oh yes, and the all-white, all-male, all-billionaire Bohemian Club which has a habit of determining who gets to be the president of the United States, (among other things), has agreed to make Arnie a king of some standing, possibly THE king. Sheesh. Thank goodness California put the brakes on when they did!
My only hope is that if America does manage to wake up enough to fix this voting machine horseshit, that it'll take the next step and realize that the current administration, and all current potential administrations, are corrupt to the core, put ALL of them in jail, and start fresh. I mean, sure, they'll have no functioning government for the next year, and people will panic, and the dollar will vaporize, and the really evil bastards will all hide out until everything blows over, but. .
Who am I kidding?
More likely? This voting machine problem will be looked and:
1. People ignore it, and what difference does it make after that?
2. People 'fix' the problem and then wait patiently to see which monster gets properly elected to continue the destruction of the universe.
Americans don't have the awareness or the spine for a real revolution.
-FL