Gee! China in the news. Again. With a creepy story about mutilating pigeons to control their minds. How peculiar.
What COULD it mean?
Okay. Two things.
First of all, the Americans, Germans, Russians, and heaven knows who all else have been deep into mind-control work since the forties and have not let up since.
The CIA's experiments in radio control of the brain are based on the development of the EEG in the 1920's. In 1934, doctor's Chaffee and Light published a pivotal monograph, "A Method for Remote Control of Electrical Stimulation of the Nervous System". Work along the same lines allowed Dr. Jose Delgado of Cordoba, Spain to climb into bull-ring and, with the push of a button, trigger an electrode in the head of a charging bull and stop the beast in it's tracks.
Further groundbreaking advances were made by L.L. Vasiliev, the famed Russian Physiologist and doyan of parapsychology, in "Critical Evaluation of the Hypnogenic Method". The article detailed the experiments of Dr. I.F. Tomashevsky in remote radio control of the brain "at a distance of one or more rooms and under conditions that the participant would not know or suspect that she would be experimented with...One such experiment was carried out in a park at a distance," Vasiliev reported, and "a post-hypnotic mental suggestion to go to sleep was complied with within a minute."
Some solid reading on the subject of the development of mind control through history can be read here.
Mind-controlled animals are not news. It's old. The only reason this is surfacing now is to mold public awareness.
Secondly. . .
China is being lined up to stand in as the new villain. The power-monsters in Washington made a lot of money in Iraq, raping the public purse; when the news headlines declare how many hundreds of billions of dollars it costs to be at war with Iraq, where do we think all that money goes? Into the sand? Into vapor? Nope. Yet, that's what everybody generally feels, that the money just goes away in the Middle East somewhere, but that's totally wrong. Nearly ALL of that money goes into the pockets of a small number of American industrialists. That money isn't lost. It's simply just been transferred from the public purse and into the bank accounts of the men who make bombs and guns and tanks and boats. War is wonderfully profitable!
So when the fun and games tie up in the Middle East, where is the next cash cow going to be? --After Iran and Syria, I mean. It's going to be China. A nice big cold war with china, so that billions more dollars can be raped from the American public and given to a small number of men with cigars.
The media is manipulated. --I've been hunting around for a story I read a couple of days ago, (and cannot find. Phooey), where an ex-secret services chief was commenting loudly that the propaganda build-up with regard to Iran was nearly identical to that used to pull us into war with Iraq.
I did however run across this story which illustrates the point.
I wonder what kind of "Bad Bad China" story will pop up next? Stay alert!
Yeah I mean China has such a great track record with human rights. So why should we believe something this crazy?!
That's not the point. The point is that China has been fascist for a very long time. The question we can benefit from asking is, "Why is China in the news now?" Five years ago, nobody cared what China did. It was a big blank spot on public perception. That's no longer the case. The spotlight of media attention doesn't swing around unless it is being pushed.
And what difference does it make? Reporting this stuff is just another way to say, "The hobbits at the other end of the shire are sort of queer. i.e., Let's support our government in spending billions to create a cold war when we could otherwise get on with our lives. All this peace business is bad for the bottom line."
Oooh. And the story comes direct from the Startribune news service. How shiek. They never report biased pre-fab crap because their bosses don't want to have the IRS come knocking or have their dog vanish or their job vaporize. Thank-you, the CIA. We love you ever so cuddly very much we do!
Errr, do you realize that the federal government encouraged the use of PCBs?
What is your point?
Okay, so let's compare corporate misdeeds against government misdeeds. How's about we start with the Iraq War?
Who is making all the money in Iraq right now? The U.S. Government and Corporate America are very tightly linked almost to the point of being the same beast.
A typical unshielded CFL puts out more electromagnetic radiation than your TV set, your microwave oven, and certainly your cell phone.
--Though, cell phones can afford to be low-power emitters, since you have to hold them right up to your head for your nervous system to be affected.
Yes, there are a hundred and one arguments out there which tell us that cell phone EM is non-ionizing and therefore totally safe. This is only half true. Low power EM won't cause heat damage to your brain, but this certainly does not mean that they are totally safe. There are more ways to have an effect upon the nervous system than to simply burn cells with microwaves.
Humans are affected by EM radiation. There is more information available on this now than ever before, but many still resist looking at it. The arguments I have seen against have been, without exception, flawed, limited by bias and willfully ignorant. Fair enough. While the arguments for include hysterical and scatter-brained claims, it is silly to throw the baby out with the bath water, so to speak. There are many far more serious studies which show that the brain is indeed affected by EM. (Here area fewfrom a simple Google search.)
The question in my mind is not whether EM radiation can affect the behavior of brain cells and perception, but how CLF's are doing it. --Because, given GE's long, long track-record of psychopathic tendencies, health and environmental violations and lying to the public, and above all, their long standing association with the military, it would be foolish to assume that they are not deliberate in their efforts to flood every Western household with harmful EM. --Granted, all their technicians and engineers need not be 'in on it', but that's how you make secrets work. You compartmentalize. I would be surprised, for instance, if many employees at GE were aware that the basic wall socket electrical current was a source of trouble.
Population control is entirely real, and it has been around for a long time. Science has known for many decades that reality and certainly human awareness are entirely the results of electromagnetic wave forms, and that manipulation within the EM spectrum is a great way to control people.
The CIA's experiments in radio control of the brain are based on the development of the EEG in the 1920's. In 1934, doctor's Chaffee and Light published a pivotal monograph, "A Method for Remote Control of Electrical Stimulation of the Nervous System". Work along the same lines allowed Dr. Jose Delgado of Cordoba, Spain to climb into bull-ring and, with the push of a button, trigger an electrode in the head of a charging bull and stop the beast in it's tracks.
Further groundbreaking advances were made by L.L. Vasiliev, the famed Russian Physiologist and doyan of parapsychology, in "Critical Evaluation of the Hypnogenic Method". The article detailed the experiments of Dr. I.F. Tomashevsky in remote radio control of the brain "at a
Why does nearly everyone on/. assume that every company is out to deceive them? or that every press release (unless it's from Google or Apple) is a marketing lie? Sure every company is out to make money, but not every company is an Enron.
The reason Slashdotters are suspicious is that a large number of, (if not all) corporations are out to deceive the public. This is not conjecture. It's cold fact. GE is a great example, btw. You should look into some of their criminal activities.
1 Feb 1977 D.C. - GE ordered to stop misleading ad claims on color televisions and other home appliances
16 June 1981 Lincoln NE- GE ordered to pay damages over storage of spent nuclear fuel $8.5 million
May 1985 D.C.- GE fined for defrauding Defense department on contracts $1.04 million
5 June 1987 Los Angeles CA- GE subsidiary fined $25.3 million for insider trading
20 Nov 1987 Cincinnati Ohio- GE ordered to pay damages on safety defects at Zimmer nuclear plant-$78 million
3 June 1988 San Francisco- GE and others ordered to cleanup groundwater contamination-$5.3 million initial settlement
29 March 1989 D.C.- GE fined for defrauding government on defense contracts $ 3.5 million
5 Oct 1989 Tennessee- GE ordered to refund overcharges on work at Brown's Ferry Plant-$2.6 million
23 March 1990 Shepherdsville KY- GE and others ordered to cleanup PCB contamination of soil and water
27 March 1990 Wilmington, NC - GE fined for discrimination against employees who report safety violations-$20,000
11 May 1990 Ft. Edward/Hudson Falls- GE ordered to cleanup PCB contamination of Hudson River -$10 million
27 July 1990 Philadelphia PA- GE fined for defrauding government in defense contacts-$30 million
11 Oct 1990 Waterford NY- GE fined for pollution at Silicone Products plant- $176,000
20 May 1991 D.C. - GE Ordered to pay damages over improperly tested aircraft parts for Air Force and Navy- $1 million
27 Feb 1992 Allentown, PA - GE ordered to pay damages on design flaws of nuclear plants -$80 million
4 March 1992 Orange County CA - GE fined for violation of worker safety rules on handling PCB's-$11,000
13 March 1992 Wilmington, NC- GE fined for safety violations at nuclear fuel plant $20,000
22 May 1992 Illinois - GE ordered to pay damages on design flaws of nuclear plants $65 million
22 July 1992 D.C.- GE fined for money laundering and fraud over illegal sale of fighter jets to Israel-$70 million
13 Sep 1992 Chicago, IL- GE ordered to pay damages for airplane crash-$1.8 million
12 Oct 1992 Nashville TN - GE ordered to pay damages from deceptive advertising on lightbulbs -$165,000 27 Oct 1992 D.C.-GE ordered to pay damages from overcharging on defense contracts $576,215
12 May 1992 D.C.-GE ordered to pay damages to whistleblower on illegal sale of fighter jets to Israel-$13.4 million
2 March 1993 Riverside CA - GE and others ordered to pay damages for contamination from dumping of industrial chemicals-$96 million
11 March 1993 Grove City PA - GE and others ordered to cleanup mining site $1.81 million
16 Sep 1993 NY - GE ordered to compensate commercial fisherman for PCB contamination of the Hudson River-$7 million
11 Oct 1993 San Francisco- GE ordered to offer rebates to consumers after deceptive light bulb advertising - $3.25 million
18 July 1993 Hudson Falls NY- GE ordered to clean up PCB contamination of Hudson River -$2.5 Million
2 Feb 1994 Perry OH - GE settles with utility companies on defective Perry Nuclear Plant.
14 Mar 1994 Ft. Edward NY - GE ordered to cleanup contamination of sediment from reaching Hudson River $100,000
14 Sep 1994 9.14.94 D.C.- GE fined for overcharges in defense contracts-$20 million
What partition plan are you referring to? The Oslo accords? The palestinians never lived up to their end.
Uh huh. And what *cough*American*cough* biased news service did you learn this from?
The Palestinians are NOT the only ones causing the problem. In fact, I would say that it's the other way around.
Israel is run by psychopathic lunatics. Have you ever talked with a fundamentalist Jew before? I went to high school with a lot of Jews and several of them were close friends. But a significant portion of the Jews I grew up with were, in my view, functionally insane. --The ones who were salivating about going to Israel to serve in the IDF were intensely fucked up, propagandized Jews who had zero rationality with regard to the facts and history in the Middle East, were filled with race hatred and I would be utterly terrified to be Palestinian around them if they were armed. And on drugs. --Did I mention they were also drugged-up assholes most of the time?
There are some very screwed up people out there, and they live on both sides of any given border.
The only difference is that the Jews happen to be armed to the teeth by the West, propagandized up the wazoo, and are being driven by the Christian Right to trigger Armageddon so that Christ will be forced to show up. The Palestinians are largely hapless bystanders in this insanity.
The Israelis have nukes as a form of deterrance against nuclear or non-nuclear attack by surrounding nations-it's that simple.
So I guess Belgium should have nukes too, since they are also surrounded by other nations.
Or perhaps the fact that the Israelis are committing genocide and have been behaving like dangerous lunatics is aggravating the situation somewhat. Saying that they need nukes to protect themselves from the people their power-brokers openly despise and regularly torment is kind of silly. In any case, it's not nearly so simple as you suggest. The world would be a much happier place if Israel would act with respect for their neighbors.
The picture of "Evil Islam" as presented by the Western media is a total falsehood. To suggest that one billion people on this planet are crazy fundamentalist terrorists is totally out of synch with reality.
The problem is that the leaders of nearly every nation are psychopathic. Only psychopaths crave power and have no moral limitations preventing themselves from getting what they want. We need to spot the psychos and remove them from power. That's the only way to undo the kind of chaos unfolding on the globe today.
The mind sees flickering even if the eye does not. What does this mean for perception?
It is true that the new bulbs oscillate at much higher frequencies than the tubes of old, but I have scoured the web and I have found zero study on the effects of high frequency strobing light on the brain.
At low frequencies, (televisions, 100-120 hz fluorescent tubes), you get all kinds of nasty side-effects, from low-level hypnosis which allows messages to enter deep into the subconscious, to epileptic seizures.
I've seen some people complain of migraines and other symptoms perhaps stemming from the cold cathode tubes in their flat screen monitors, which strobe at around 200 hz.
But these CF bulbs strobe at much higher rates of around 120000 hz.
What happens when a bulb flashing that fast is near a 60 hz wall power source? Can the electronics in the light be affected and thus allow the light pulsing to modulate and simulate a much lower frequency? --Microwave energy from Cell Phones does this by design and the brain notices. High frequency EM carrier waves which modulate down to lower frequencies fall into the brain wave ballpark and sympathetic resonance starts affect the function of the brain.
In the case of wall socket 60 hz power, in conjunction with the Earth's own magnetic field, something called cyclotronic resonance kicks in, whereby the molecule whose natural frequency profile matches up, starts to vibrate faster and move on a vector. The molecule in question happens to be lithium, which occurs naturally in the blood and plays a role in the regulation of brain chemistry. When it is energized and given a vector to move on, it more readily crosses the blood brain barrier, and delivers a medicinal effect. Lithium is one of the primary elements in many anti-depressant drugs. (So-called, "Lithium Drugs".)
This stuff is entirely by design. Keeps the human population buzzed out and feeble. In the Northern end of Nova Scotia, in Cape Breton, there is a large population directly descended from the Celts. The old women of that population described that when the electric light came, the second-sight many of them experienced as a matter of course, went away.
With all the deliberate control measures being heaped upon humanity, such a move as this fluorescent light thing smells. I'd love to know more about how high frequency strobe lights affect the brain and perception.
If instinct is any gauge, then the simple fact that the new bulbs make me feel queazy is probably a good indicator behind the scheme.
Any Canadians willing to sponsor a immigrating Brit?
Sure. But I think you'd be disappointed.
The population here in Canada is still under the same level of control, but it's just done more subtly. Seriously. EVERYBODY is already wire-tapped. Echelon takes care of that. It's just not discussed in parliament. And with the kind of Cell phone systems in place and RFID and satellite imaging, and heaven knows what else, (a lightbulb can function as a two-way EM transceiver if you have sensitive enough equipment, which they most certainly do, and have done for a long time), nobody has any privacy. Period.
The kind of surveillance and societal control each first world nation is pressed beneath is simply a different flavor of the same huge, planet-wide experiment. For some reason, Britain has been flagged as a nation for testing/using more provocative measures, but those measures are entirely cosmetic.
Anyway, we still have the Queen on our coins here in Canada.
This is not to say that I wouldn't look into altering your life in order to get out of the way of the speeding train. I just wouldn't recommend Canada as a particularly safe alternative. When Bush the Psychopath starts dropping nukes, I think it might be silly to assume that Canada will somehow avoid the big lock-down. --It might be marginally less insane. But I wouldn't count on it.
Dude, you have to update your conspiracy theories -- crop circles and UFOs are so 90s. If you must believe in hilariously silly crackpot idiocy, you can at least believe in the stuff that's trendy. My vote is for one of the 9/11 "alternative explanations". Fun for the whole family!
The extreme age of the universe and its vast number of stars suggest that extraterrestrial life should be common. Considering this with colleagues over lunch in 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi is said to have asked: "Where are they?" Fermi questioned why, if a multitude of advanced extraterrestrial civilizations exist in the Milky Way galaxy, evidence such as probes, spacecraft or radio transmissions has not been found. The simple question "Where are they?" (alternatively, "Where is everybody?") is possibly apocryphal, but Fermi is widely credited with simplifying and clarifying the problem of the probability of extraterrestrial life.
Okay then. Many people have pointed out the numerous and embarrassing flaws in this logic, but I really don't think Fermi was being stupid or ignorant at the time he posited his question. It was the 50's, after all, and people trusted their government. People did not yet grasp how the world worked with regard to government secrecy and population thought control. From our stance today, we have a great deal of available insight into this; we know about Joseph Goebbels, we know that advertising is incredibly effective, we know that the strobe effect of Television puts the human brain into a highly suggestive state. We know that what you teach kids at a young age shapes them for life. And if we dig deeper, we know that the human brain is easily manipulated in far more disgusting ways; (Greebaum).
It is easy to control people's beliefs. Churches have done it for centuries. For those who reject religious dogma, the media picks up the ball; ie, replace 'religion' with 'cult of science'. Real scientists don't care about embarrassment or being laughed at; they can't afford to because at some point every new and important idea posited by a scientist is going to be ridiculed and attacked by the layperson. So those who fear to talk about UFO's in an open manner, without any trace of fear or bias or mocking doubt in their tones, are not really scientists. They are just another brand of dogmatist.
As I've said, it is easy to control people's beliefs, --and by extension, their perceived realities.
So continuing Fermi's logic. . , If logic implies that the Milky Way is teeming with life, then perhaps it IS, and perhaps there is another reason we have not heard from that life.
Consider: There are UFO's constantly buzzing our skies. We have seen hundreds and hundreds of crop circles. We have countless reports from people who claim abduction experiences.
How can any rational person live in the same world as all of this and insist that there is no evidence? That's kind of strange. Crop circles are the perfect example; they are there in a manner which is available to anybody, (One recalls the old complaint of the sceptic, "I'll believe it when there is some evidence layed at my feet!"), they cannot be rationalized away; (the Ropes and Planks explanation falls hopelessly short when you get close enough to actually look at the details of the problem.) And yet, the world carries on as though nothing were happening.
It reminds me of a Douglas Adams creation; a system of invisibility where rather than bend light, you bend minds. --So that people ignore like crazy that which is right in front of them.
Aliens are already here, and they have been for centuries. The logic, if expanded to include this, might want to ask this little question...
How much effort do humans make to communicate with the cattle they raise? (As above, so below.)
Well, we've got the crop circle side of the equation. But we also have the abduction side. There are two different approaches to anyt
The only thing surprising here is that the RIAA have their own emergency task force jackets. If that had appeared in a Neal Stephenson novel, I'd have rolled my eyes.
Honestly, everything is growing so increasingly weird now that pretty much every day I run across one or more items which simply shouldn't exist because they are written too far over the top to be real. And yet, there they are.
Neal Stephenson is obviously smarter than me. But I don't have to like it!
Things are changing now rapidly on this world of ours.
Items of note:
1. Dangerous climate change. 2. UFO weirdness, crop-circles and continuing cattle mutilations. 3. War and the preparation for really big war with the apparent goal of the annihilation of all the Semites, (both Jew and Arabic; same blood and similar DNA qualities.) 4. Big rocks falling from the sky; enough to wipe out humanity. 5. Preparations in place for total military lock-down of North America.
Uh. . , what the heck?
So, in such times as these, what is one to do?
Here are a few ideas which will NOT work. ..
1. Ignore it by distracting yourself with TV and video games in the hope that it will all go away. This is silly for a couple of reasons, the first being that, obviously, it will not work, and secondly, that the coolest show on Earth is currently unfolding. Why would anybody want to miss watching it? The end of the world as we know it isn't the sort of thing happens every day!
2. Get down on your knees and pray to the holy whatchamacallit, mecca, guy on a cross, Jehovah lord of destruction. Religion is a BAD plan. In fact, it was mucked about with so that it became the plan to get all the silly humans to line up and shoot each other, (as we are witnessing in the Middle East.) Christ was a decent guy with a lot of great ideas, but very few of them survived in the bible and similar documents. Essentially, what he said was: "We are all one, all connected. Do unto your brother as you would do unto yourself. The kingdom of Heaven is not up in the sky. It's within you. We are all infinite creatures and though we live beneath the veil of forgetting, we have access to that infinity at all times. So love, forgive and do not judge, just do the best you can." He might well have added, "Do not go to church and don't expect anybody to 'rapture' you away. That's all a lie designed to distract you from working on the self. Nobody can deal with your baggage for you no matter how hard you 'believe'; your troubles in this world are your challenges to work through; they are your gifts to yourself and I'm certainly not going to take them away from you. How can you grow if somebody takes away your challenges, if you stop thinking for yourself? Do not follow. Not following is a key."
3. Trust in Science. Science is a great thing, but we're not going to be ducking out on the coming lessons through some kind of Star Trek quick-fix.
So what CAN be done?
Well. . , for starters, it would be a good idea to learn as much as you can about everything. Look into all those pesky conspiracy theories and happenings which are the focus of so much disdain among the sceptic-folk. I know a lot of people who haven't ever looked into any non-mainstream material because they don't want to look silly and instead quote lots of sceptic explanations for weird phenomenon which look great on paper and sound soothingly reasonable until you actually look closely at the material in question and realize that there is far, far more to it all than can ever be covered up by a few clever rationalizations. And it's precisely this weird stuff that orthodox culture doesn't want you looking at too closely at which is rapidly shaping our reality. That's the stuff to study, because without a full understanding of it all, you simply won't be able to deal with all the changes coming. Be warned, though: those who are not successfully turned away from looking are often caught up in the second tier of control; 95% of what you will find is twisted nonsense, much like the bible/koran/torah. You have to use your brain, trust your instincts and dis-trust your feelings. (Feelings can easily be manipulated.)
The second thing you need to do is to make a choice: Are you primarily here to serve yourself, or to serve others? Dark-side/Light-side. You have to choose and choose soon. Those who sit on the fence are doomed to repeat the whole ugly cycle on this planet in this lower vibra
It always bothers me when people compare Iraq and Vietnam. Have you checked the casualty rate between the two? Don't get me wrong, 3000 American combat casualties is nothing to sneeze at, but in 1968 alone there were 14000 soldiers and Marines killed in action. So basically, you're an idiot who chides people for being sheep and going along with the popular "let's go to war!" sentiment while being a sheep and going along with the "Let's bash the war!" sentiment, using the same "It's another Vietnam" line of bullshit as all the other sheep. Congratulations.
First and foremost, Americans aren't the only people losing their lives in Iraq. Racism is for fools.
Second of all, we are talking about a government which we know lies as a matter of course. So taking the body counts they offer as proof in any sort of argument makes little sense. --Having learned from their experiences with Vietnam, the government now conceals the number of U.S. Service people wounded or killed in Iraq. There have been more than 3000 American casualties.
Other commentators have noted the discrepancy between the number of wounded in combat listed by the military and the large number of service personnel medically evacuated from Iraq, an action, one would imagine, that the military does not encourage or take lightly. In passing, for example, an article in the November 5 European edition of Stars and Stripes noted that the Landstuhl military hospital in Germany had "treated more than 7,000 injured and ill servicemembers from Iraq." At that time, the military had recorded some 2,000 combat casualties.
Consider also that a significant part of the war is being fought by 'private contractors' (a fancy name for mercenaries) whose deaths are not recorded by the official stats and whose own public records are almost certainly false.
Body armor has also improved much over the last thirty years. Many of the same kinds of wounds received in Vietnam led to death whereas we now have thousands more American kids coming home missing arms and legs than we did from Vietnam.
The Pentagon reports deaths on a daily basis at although its own total always lags behind the wire services number because it insists survivors must be informed before a dead solider, marine, sailor or airman can be added to the casualty lists. [. ..] we can count U.S. military occupation forces casualties as more than 50,371 as of Dec. 27. The total includes 2,400 killed and 22,565 wounded (which includes both severely and less severely wounded) by what the Pentagon classifies as "hostile" causes. By that date, another 583 military personnel had died from "non hostile" causes such as accidents, suicides (there were 99 "self inflicted fatalities") and illness and, as of Dec. 2, another 24,823 had been injured or become ill seriously enough to require medical evacuation.
Thirdly, just because the official casualty statistics in Iraq and Vietnam do not happen to match on the front page of the New York Times does not mean that the two wars have no other significant parallels. Those who cannot see the parallels are either blind or are deliberately not looking.
Fourth, NONE of this discounts my primary points; that propaganda and ignorance on the part of the populace are what to war. --We are now seeing the same tactics with regard to China. These are my main points.
Fifth, and finally. . . You say that bashing the war is sheep-like behavior. Sorry. Wrong. The war was started by those who were blind and foolish. The Administration lied. This is an uncontested fact. (Or rather, the facts are only contested by fools who cannot see reality when is is posted directly in front of their noses. Not even the Bush Administration is trying to sell the WMD's line of bullshit anymore. Not that it matters; fools are willing to accept any new lie which they put forth.)
Sheep are NOT those who see the lies and refuse to believe them. Seeing a lie
The DOD doesn't have anything even remotely valuable on a system connected to the internet. I remember a technician speaking on this matter last year with regard to a story supposedly leaked from the military regarding UFO's or something. The leak turned out to be a honeypot lie, (of course), and he described multiple levels of computer/information security in place, and even the bottom-most layers involved computers which are linked only to themselves and which had solid doors between themselves and the outside world. The top-most layers could not even be dreamed about without security clearance.
I mean, come on. The military invented the internet. I'm sure with the professional level of paranoia with which the American military structure comes installed that there is simply no possibility that a bunch of internet hackers from China could have any effect whatsoever on the well-being of military security.
Which means only one thing. . .
This story is propaganda. The government wants the public to fear China and to herd people in whatever new direction they have planned.
Anybody who believes this crap is not just a fool, but a dangerous fool, because if you get enough fools believing in propaganda, you get wars.
Iraq was the result of too many fools not waking up soon enough. --And thank-you all for that, BTW. I remember a lot of fools cheering like crazy on this site and others when the troops were first rolling into Baghdad, posters here drunk on war and acting as though the whole thing was a game level of some Westwood production and that the troops would be home in 10 weeks and that it wouldn't end up being a multi-billion dollar Vietnam-esque quagmire which anybody with any real awareness could see coming from a mile away. You were FOOLS! The lies were obvious, and everybody and their dog fell for them. I hope there are fewer fools out there today. --If you were a fool and have woken up since then, THANK-YOU!!! If not, I hope you wake up soon. The world is screwed up enough without a cold-war with the Chinese!
However, based on the number of foolish responses to this story already posted on Slashdot, I don't see how we're going to avoid more dumb conflict. Few things make me angry these days, but fools making the same mistakes over and over when it comes to war and the lies which lead to war is definitely one of those things.
I am very hesitant about taking the word of a science journal at face value in a matter like this one. (Or any other for that matter, but in this particular instance prudence must be quadrupled.)
There is just WAY too much money invested in the current trajectory of the Cancer/Stem-cell research and medicine behemoth to let some upstart new ideas about curing people easily get in the way of the billions of dollars currently flowing.
Remember how Exon Mobile has been deliberately muddying the waters with regard to global warming using bad science and unscrupulous scientists. PR firms can be hired to pull this kind of illusion-casting for any issue if there is enough money and fear of change behind it.
The humble computer doesn't need to reach sentience to overpower humanity.
Every day, hundreds of millions of people have their energy sucked away by computers, in work places and living rooms equipped with game boxes. By the use of bank cards which give the government the ability to 'turn off' our money 'privileges' on an individual basis should they choose. Everybody seems now to have a cell phone. Aside from the mental health concerns associated with having your brain cells randomly stimulated by modulated microwave signals, having your time and attention on a telephone leash is enormously limiting. The only good of it all is the internet.
Humanity has been subverted, and it continues. The very saddest part is that EA sports games appear to be one of the primary culprits.
Sports games! I mean. . . For goodness sake.
I am glad that I don't understand the appeal of hefting foot balls as it renders me largely immune to the siren call of silicon.
i usually put trolls on my enemies list, but you're really quite good. after reading gems like this one, i just have to keep reading your baiting. in fact, i might say when it comes to being a baiter, you're a master.
Baiter? Trolling? Digging into my past posts? Enemies list?
Sheesh. I'm just holding up a mirror to your responses. If you don't like what you see, then jumping off topic into such fear reactions is certainly one way of dealing with things. . .
For my part, I always try to write what I believe, and I find it curious when people accuse me of 'trolling' for doing so. Only a dyed in the wool conformist could possibly have come up with such a term for speaking one's mind. I'd have thought a real troll is somebody who is simply fishing with nonsense with the aim of causing a fuss. That's not me. I am no different than most posters here; I just want to share my views by adding them to the discussion.
And the discussion, if I recall, had turned toward the interesting question of whether or not it is the seeker's responsibility to gather new knowledge or if it is the responsibility of somebody else to force new information down one's throat in some sort of test of wills which can be won or lost. I certainly know what I think the right answer to that is, and I said as much. You, however, have so far contributed nothing except to say that Carl Sagan is dead and that you think I might be a troll. Do you have anything better to add?
Satellites have been recording the Relative Gulf Stream velocity fields since 2003. --The Envisat, Jason-1, TOPEX/Poseidon, and GFO.
When the page loads, scroll to the bottom and click the link to see the animations. Select the animation for Jan 2003 to present. After the gif loads and the animation plays, please note the week between Dec 11th and 19th of 2006 only a couple of months ago when the Gulfstream actually stopped flowing toward Europe and flowed back South without completing its normal circuit.
Keep in mind that the Gulfstream is what keeps most of Europe out of the deep freeze. With all the non-saline melt water from shrinking ice packs due to Global Warming being introduced into the oceans, the saline-heavy Gulfstream is verging on sinking.
This is not fear-mongering. Times really are a-changing, and I'm betting that some wishful, 11th hour Star Trek solution is not likely going to save the human race from facing the consequences of its actions.
At least there will be good sledding on top of all that pack ice soon to be covering central Europe and the Northern U.S. --And remember; you don't have to wait a century for glaciers to crawl up to your front door. You just need a solid month or two of heavy snowfall to get the same net effect. Ice ages arrive WAY-faster than many think!
Instead, what we ought to be focusing on is internal work; get your personal baggage dealt with, root out your fears, raise your awareness and get powerful. Glaciers and comet showers are small-change compared to the other stuff on the way. Big opportunities await those who can get past their programming and embrace their higher selves. Look into it. Your instincts will guide you!
Too bad the Gulfstream isn't listening to the Czech president.
Satellites have been recording the Relative Gulf Stream velocity fields since 2003. --The Envisat, Jason-1, TOPEX/Poseidon, and GFO.
When the page loads, scroll to the bottom and click the link to see the animations. Select the animation for Jan 2003 to present. After the gif loads and the animation plays, please note the week between Dec 11th and 19th of 2006 only a couple of months ago when the Gulfstream actually stopped flowing toward Europe and flowed back South without completing its normal circuit.
Keep in mind that the Gulfstream is what keeps most of Europe out of the deep freeze. With all the non-saline melt water from shrinking ice packs due to Global Warming being introduced into the oceans, the saline-heavy Gulfstream is verging on sinking.
It's not fear-mongering. Times really are a-changing regardless of what the president from a deeply screwed-up old Warsaw Pact country has to say on the matter.
When industrial productivity gets to a certain level, the labor of children is no longer needed to produce vital goods and services, and child labor disapears.
Your vision is very nice, and I wish I lived in a world where such a thing could happen. Unfortunately, child and slave labor continues today at a more advanced level than ever before. It needn't, but the rich nations which have all the technology have decided that it's cheaper and easier to sabotage budding democracies and economies through the judicial use of the CIA and similar secret services thus reducing certain countries into third-world status in order to provide the West with lots of desperate slaves to build all the things which cannot be easily built through automated factories. Running shoes and dish racks come to mind.
Also on the agenda is the deliberate promotion of illiteracy, conformity and ignorance among the general populace; you need unthinking slaves to perform all those silly little jobs on the home front. --Like consuming gasoline and foods and running shoes and dish racks. Also carrying guns for the military is important apparently, and just generally maintaining the status quo so that the rich and powerful stay that way.
Greed and Evil at the top of the food chain are the cause of our current distress. It's got nothing to do with hippies thinking that love and healthy community living might be good ideas. I've yet to meet a hippie who is opposed to the idea of global communication and who supports the idea of racism. They do not teach their children to hate or to act like Ludites. Why should they? It's not a motion to go back to simpler times; it's a motion to evolve into something which works better using the best current knowledge available.
And finally, your claim that nuclear power is safe is false. --I have a friend who lived in a community which had a serious problem in that the local Candu reactor was leaking radioactive toxins into the surrounding land. --Not through any fault in the reactor design, but simply because the owners of the plant were too greedy and negligent and uncaring to bother replacing twenty-year-old parts when the expiry dates started coming up.
I'll trust in nuclear technology when I can trust faceless people with lots of money. Small communities, however, designed mindfully with specific goals, are easier to keep healthy because you can know everybody and can keep each other on track.
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Retarded? --Now put a civil tongue in your mouth or we'll grab our hockey sticks and burn down your Whitehouse. Again.
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What COULD it mean?
Okay. Two things.
First of all, the Americans, Germans, Russians, and heaven knows who all else have been deep into mind-control work since the forties and have not let up since.
Some solid reading on the subject of the development of mind control through history can be read here.
Mind-controlled animals are not news. It's old. The only reason this is surfacing now is to mold public awareness.
Secondly. . .
China is being lined up to stand in as the new villain. The power-monsters in Washington made a lot of money in Iraq, raping the public purse; when the news headlines declare how many hundreds of billions of dollars it costs to be at war with Iraq, where do we think all that money goes? Into the sand? Into vapor? Nope. Yet, that's what everybody generally feels, that the money just goes away in the Middle East somewhere, but that's totally wrong. Nearly ALL of that money goes into the pockets of a small number of American industrialists. That money isn't lost. It's simply just been transferred from the public purse and into the bank accounts of the men who make bombs and guns and tanks and boats. War is wonderfully profitable!
So when the fun and games tie up in the Middle East, where is the next cash cow going to be? --After Iran and Syria, I mean. It's going to be China. A nice big cold war with china, so that billions more dollars can be raped from the American public and given to a small number of men with cigars.
The media is manipulated. --I've been hunting around for a story I read a couple of days ago, (and cannot find. Phooey), where an ex-secret services chief was commenting loudly that the propaganda build-up with regard to Iran was nearly identical to that used to pull us into war with Iraq.
I did however run across this story which illustrates the point.
I wonder what kind of "Bad Bad China" story will pop up next? Stay alert!
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That's not the point. The point is that China has been fascist for a very long time. The question we can benefit from asking is, "Why is China in the news now?" Five years ago, nobody cared what China did. It was a big blank spot on public perception. That's no longer the case. The spotlight of media attention doesn't swing around unless it is being pushed.
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And what difference does it make? Reporting this stuff is just another way to say, "The hobbits at the other end of the shire are sort of queer. i.e., Let's support our government in spending billions to create a cold war when we could otherwise get on with our lives. All this peace business is bad for the bottom line."
Oooh. And the story comes direct from the Startribune news service. How shiek. They never report biased pre-fab crap because their bosses don't want to have the IRS come knocking or have their dog vanish or their job vaporize. Thank-you, the CIA. We love you ever so cuddly very much we do!
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What is your point?
Okay, so let's compare corporate misdeeds against government misdeeds. How's about we start with the Iraq War?
Who is making all the money in Iraq right now? The U.S. Government and Corporate America are very tightly linked almost to the point of being the same beast.
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A typical unshielded CFL puts out more electromagnetic radiation than your TV set, your microwave oven, and certainly your cell phone.
--Though, cell phones can afford to be low-power emitters, since you have to hold them right up to your head for your nervous system to be affected.
Yes, there are a hundred and one arguments out there which tell us that cell phone EM is non-ionizing and therefore totally safe. This is only half true. Low power EM won't cause heat damage to your brain, but this certainly does not mean that they are totally safe. There are more ways to have an effect upon the nervous system than to simply burn cells with microwaves.
Humans are affected by EM radiation. There is more information available on this now than ever before, but many still resist looking at it. The arguments I have seen against have been, without exception, flawed, limited by bias and willfully ignorant. Fair enough. While the arguments for include hysterical and scatter-brained claims, it is silly to throw the baby out with the bath water, so to speak. There are many far more serious studies which show that the brain is indeed affected by EM. (Here are a few from a simple Google search.)
The question in my mind is not whether EM radiation can affect the behavior of brain cells and perception, but how CLF's are doing it. --Because, given GE's long, long track-record of psychopathic tendencies, health and environmental violations and lying to the public, and above all, their long standing association with the military, it would be foolish to assume that they are not deliberate in their efforts to flood every Western household with harmful EM. --Granted, all their technicians and engineers need not be 'in on it', but that's how you make secrets work. You compartmentalize. I would be surprised, for instance, if many employees at GE were aware that the basic wall socket electrical current was a source of trouble.
Robert O. Becker wrote a definitive book which deals with EM pollution and its effect on the human mind and body. I have taken the liberty of scanning the pages which I think are highly relevant in terms of social engineering, specifically, the notes on , which illustrates how 60 htz AC current plays a role in keeping people lightly medicated with Lithium on a nearly permanent basis.
Population control is entirely real, and it has been around for a long time. Science has known for many decades that reality and certainly human awareness are entirely the results of electromagnetic wave forms, and that manipulation within the EM spectrum is a great way to control people.
The reason Slashdotters are suspicious is that a large number of, (if not all) corporations are out to deceive the public. This is not conjecture. It's cold fact. GE is a great example, btw. You should look into some of their criminal activities.
Uh huh. And what *cough*American*cough* biased news service did you learn this from?
The Palestinians are NOT the only ones causing the problem. In fact, I would say that it's the other way around.
Israel is run by psychopathic lunatics. Have you ever talked with a fundamentalist Jew before? I went to high school with a lot of Jews and several of them were close friends. But a significant portion of the Jews I grew up with were, in my view, functionally insane. --The ones who were salivating about going to Israel to serve in the IDF were intensely fucked up, propagandized Jews who had zero rationality with regard to the facts and history in the Middle East, were filled with race hatred and I would be utterly terrified to be Palestinian around them if they were armed. And on drugs. --Did I mention they were also drugged-up assholes most of the time?
There are some very screwed up people out there, and they live on both sides of any given border.
The only difference is that the Jews happen to be armed to the teeth by the West, propagandized up the wazoo, and are being driven by the Christian Right to trigger Armageddon so that Christ will be forced to show up. The Palestinians are largely hapless bystanders in this insanity.
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So I guess Belgium should have nukes too, since they are also surrounded by other nations.
Or perhaps the fact that the Israelis are committing genocide and have been behaving like dangerous lunatics is aggravating the situation somewhat. Saying that they need nukes to protect themselves from the people their power-brokers openly despise and regularly torment is kind of silly. In any case, it's not nearly so simple as you suggest. The world would be a much happier place if Israel would act with respect for their neighbors.
The picture of "Evil Islam" as presented by the Western media is a total falsehood. To suggest that one billion people on this planet are crazy fundamentalist terrorists is totally out of synch with reality.
The problem is that the leaders of nearly every nation are psychopathic. Only psychopaths crave power and have no moral limitations preventing themselves from getting what they want. We need to spot the psychos and remove them from power. That's the only way to undo the kind of chaos unfolding on the globe today.
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It is true that the new bulbs oscillate at much higher frequencies than the tubes of old, but I have scoured the web and I have found zero study on the effects of high frequency strobing light on the brain.
At low frequencies, (televisions, 100-120 hz fluorescent tubes), you get all kinds of nasty side-effects, from low-level hypnosis which allows messages to enter deep into the subconscious, to epileptic seizures.
I've seen some people complain of migraines and other symptoms perhaps stemming from the cold cathode tubes in their flat screen monitors, which strobe at around 200 hz.
But these CF bulbs strobe at much higher rates of around 120000 hz.
What happens when a bulb flashing that fast is near a 60 hz wall power source? Can the electronics in the light be affected and thus allow the light pulsing to modulate and simulate a much lower frequency? --Microwave energy from Cell Phones does this by design and the brain notices. High frequency EM carrier waves which modulate down to lower frequencies fall into the brain wave ballpark and sympathetic resonance starts affect the function of the brain.
In the case of wall socket 60 hz power, in conjunction with the Earth's own magnetic field, something called cyclotronic resonance kicks in, whereby the molecule whose natural frequency profile matches up, starts to vibrate faster and move on a vector. The molecule in question happens to be lithium, which occurs naturally in the blood and plays a role in the regulation of brain chemistry. When it is energized and given a vector to move on, it more readily crosses the blood brain barrier, and delivers a medicinal effect. Lithium is one of the primary elements in many anti-depressant drugs. (So-called, "Lithium Drugs".)
This stuff is entirely by design. Keeps the human population buzzed out and feeble. In the Northern end of Nova Scotia, in Cape Breton, there is a large population directly descended from the Celts. The old women of that population described that when the electric light came, the second-sight many of them experienced as a matter of course, went away.
With all the deliberate control measures being heaped upon humanity, such a move as this fluorescent light thing smells. I'd love to know more about how high frequency strobe lights affect the brain and perception.
If instinct is any gauge, then the simple fact that the new bulbs make me feel queazy is probably a good indicator behind the scheme.
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Sure. But I think you'd be disappointed.
The population here in Canada is still under the same level of control, but it's just done more subtly. Seriously. EVERYBODY is already wire-tapped. Echelon takes care of that. It's just not discussed in parliament. And with the kind of Cell phone systems in place and RFID and satellite imaging, and heaven knows what else, (a lightbulb can function as a two-way EM transceiver if you have sensitive enough equipment, which they most certainly do, and have done for a long time), nobody has any privacy. Period.
The kind of surveillance and societal control each first world nation is pressed beneath is simply a different flavor of the same huge, planet-wide experiment. For some reason, Britain has been flagged as a nation for testing/using more provocative measures, but those measures are entirely cosmetic.
Anyway, we still have the Queen on our coins here in Canada.
This is not to say that I wouldn't look into altering your life in order to get out of the way of the speeding train. I just wouldn't recommend Canada as a particularly safe alternative. When Bush the Psychopath starts dropping nukes, I think it might be silly to assume that Canada will somehow avoid the big lock-down. --It might be marginally less insane. But I wouldn't count on it.
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What makes it "crackpot idiocy" exactly?
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From wikipedia. .
Okay then. Many people have pointed out the numerous and embarrassing flaws in this logic, but I really don't think Fermi was being stupid or ignorant at the time he posited his question. It was the 50's, after all, and people trusted their government. People did not yet grasp how the world worked with regard to government secrecy and population thought control. From our stance today, we have a great deal of available insight into this; we know about Joseph Goebbels, we know that advertising is incredibly effective, we know that the strobe effect of Television puts the human brain into a highly suggestive state. We know that what you teach kids at a young age shapes them for life. And if we dig deeper, we know that the human brain is easily manipulated in far more disgusting ways; (Greebaum).
It is easy to control people's beliefs. Churches have done it for centuries. For those who reject religious dogma, the media picks up the ball; ie, replace 'religion' with 'cult of science'. Real scientists don't care about embarrassment or being laughed at; they can't afford to because at some point every new and important idea posited by a scientist is going to be ridiculed and attacked by the layperson. So those who fear to talk about UFO's in an open manner, without any trace of fear or bias or mocking doubt in their tones, are not really scientists. They are just another brand of dogmatist.
As I've said, it is easy to control people's beliefs, --and by extension, their perceived realities.
So continuing Fermi's logic. . , If logic implies that the Milky Way is teeming with life, then perhaps it IS, and perhaps there is another reason we have not heard from that life.
Consider: There are UFO's constantly buzzing our skies. We have seen hundreds and hundreds of crop circles. We have countless reports from people who claim abduction experiences.
How can any rational person live in the same world as all of this and insist that there is no evidence? That's kind of strange. Crop circles are the perfect example; they are there in a manner which is available to anybody, (One recalls the old complaint of the sceptic, "I'll believe it when there is some evidence layed at my feet!"), they cannot be rationalized away; (the Ropes and Planks explanation falls hopelessly short when you get close enough to actually look at the details of the problem.) And yet, the world carries on as though nothing were happening.
It reminds me of a Douglas Adams creation; a system of invisibility where rather than bend light, you bend minds. --So that people ignore like crazy that which is right in front of them.
Aliens are already here, and they have been for centuries. The logic, if expanded to include this, might want to ask this little question...
How much effort do humans make to communicate with the cattle they raise? (As above, so below.)
Well, we've got the crop circle side of the equation. But we also have the abduction side. There are two different approaches to anyt
Honestly, everything is growing so increasingly weird now that pretty much every day I run across one or more items which simply shouldn't exist because they are written too far over the top to be real. And yet, there they are.
Neal Stephenson is obviously smarter than me. But I don't have to like it!
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Things are changing now rapidly on this world of ours.
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Items of note:
1. Dangerous climate change.
2. UFO weirdness, crop-circles and continuing cattle mutilations.
3. War and the preparation for really big war with the apparent goal of the annihilation of all the Semites, (both Jew and Arabic; same blood and similar DNA qualities.)
4. Big rocks falling from the sky; enough to wipe out humanity.
5. Preparations in place for total military lock-down of North America.
Uh. . , what the heck?
So, in such times as these, what is one to do?
Here are a few ideas which will NOT work. .
1. Ignore it by distracting yourself with TV and video games in the hope that it will all go away.
This is silly for a couple of reasons, the first being that, obviously, it will not work, and secondly, that the coolest show on Earth is currently unfolding. Why would anybody want to miss watching it? The end of the world as we know it isn't the sort of thing happens every day!
2. Get down on your knees and pray to the holy whatchamacallit, mecca, guy on a cross, Jehovah lord of destruction. Religion is a BAD plan. In fact, it was mucked about with so that it became the plan to get all the silly humans to line up and shoot each other, (as we are witnessing in the Middle East.) Christ was a decent guy with a lot of great ideas, but very few of them survived in the bible and similar documents. Essentially, what he said was: "We are all one, all connected. Do unto your brother as you would do unto yourself. The kingdom of Heaven is not up in the sky. It's within you. We are all infinite creatures and though we live beneath the veil of forgetting, we have access to that infinity at all times. So love, forgive and do not judge, just do the best you can." He might well have added, "Do not go to church and don't expect anybody to 'rapture' you away. That's all a lie designed to distract you from working on the self. Nobody can deal with your baggage for you no matter how hard you 'believe'; your troubles in this world are your challenges to work through; they are your gifts to yourself and I'm certainly not going to take them away from you. How can you grow if somebody takes away your challenges, if you stop thinking for yourself? Do not follow. Not following is a key."
3. Trust in Science. Science is a great thing, but we're not going to be ducking out on the coming lessons through some kind of Star Trek quick-fix.
So what CAN be done?
Well. . , for starters, it would be a good idea to learn as much as you can about everything. Look into all those pesky conspiracy theories and happenings which are the focus of so much disdain among the sceptic-folk. I know a lot of people who haven't ever looked into any non-mainstream material because they don't want to look silly and instead quote lots of sceptic explanations for weird phenomenon which look great on paper and sound soothingly reasonable until you actually look closely at the material in question and realize that there is far, far more to it all than can ever be covered up by a few clever rationalizations. And it's precisely this weird stuff that orthodox culture doesn't want you looking at too closely at which is rapidly shaping our reality. That's the stuff to study, because without a full understanding of it all, you simply won't be able to deal with all the changes coming. Be warned, though: those who are not successfully turned away from looking are often caught up in the second tier of control; 95% of what you will find is twisted nonsense, much like the bible/koran/torah. You have to use your brain, trust your instincts and dis-trust your feelings. (Feelings can easily be manipulated.)
The second thing you need to do is to make a choice: Are you primarily here to serve yourself, or to serve others? Dark-side/Light-side. You have to choose and choose soon. Those who sit on the fence are doomed to repeat the whole ugly cycle on this planet in this lower vibra
How many new moons have been discovered lately around the gas giants?
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First and foremost, Americans aren't the only people losing their lives in Iraq. Racism is for fools.
Second of all, we are talking about a government which we know lies as a matter of course. So taking the body counts they offer as proof in any sort of argument makes little sense. --Having learned from their experiences with Vietnam, the government now conceals the number of U.S. Service people wounded or killed in Iraq. There have been more than 3000 American casualties.
Consider also that a significant part of the war is being fought by 'private contractors' (a fancy name for mercenaries) whose deaths are not recorded by the official stats and whose own public records are almost certainly false.
Body armor has also improved much over the last thirty years. Many of the same kinds of wounds received in Vietnam led to death whereas we now have thousands more American kids coming home missing arms and legs than we did from Vietnam.
Thirdly, just because the official casualty statistics in Iraq and Vietnam do not happen to match on the front page of the New York Times does not mean that the two wars have no other significant parallels. Those who cannot see the parallels are either blind or are deliberately not looking.
Fourth, NONE of this discounts my primary points; that propaganda and ignorance on the part of the populace are what to war. --We are now seeing the same tactics with regard to China. These are my main points.
Fifth, and finally. . . You say that bashing the war is sheep-like behavior. Sorry. Wrong. The war was started by those who were blind and foolish. The Administration lied. This is an uncontested fact. (Or rather, the facts are only contested by fools who cannot see reality when is is posted directly in front of their noses. Not even the Bush Administration is trying to sell the WMD's line of bullshit anymore. Not that it matters; fools are willing to accept any new lie which they put forth.)
Sheep are NOT those who see the lies and refuse to believe them. Seeing a lie
I mean, come on. The military invented the internet. I'm sure with the professional level of paranoia with which the American military structure comes installed that there is simply no possibility that a bunch of internet hackers from China could have any effect whatsoever on the well-being of military security.
Which means only one thing. . .
This story is propaganda. The government wants the public to fear China and to herd people in whatever new direction they have planned.
Anybody who believes this crap is not just a fool, but a dangerous fool, because if you get enough fools believing in propaganda, you get wars.
Iraq was the result of too many fools not waking up soon enough. --And thank-you all for that, BTW. I remember a lot of fools cheering like crazy on this site and others when the troops were first rolling into Baghdad, posters here drunk on war and acting as though the whole thing was a game level of some Westwood production and that the troops would be home in 10 weeks and that it wouldn't end up being a multi-billion dollar Vietnam-esque quagmire which anybody with any real awareness could see coming from a mile away. You were FOOLS! The lies were obvious, and everybody and their dog fell for them. I hope there are fewer fools out there today. --If you were a fool and have woken up since then, THANK-YOU!!! If not, I hope you wake up soon. The world is screwed up enough without a cold-war with the Chinese!
However, based on the number of foolish responses to this story already posted on Slashdot, I don't see how we're going to avoid more dumb conflict. Few things make me angry these days, but fools making the same mistakes over and over when it comes to war and the lies which lead to war is definitely one of those things.
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There is just WAY too much money invested in the current trajectory of the Cancer/Stem-cell research and medicine behemoth to let some upstart new ideas about curing people easily get in the way of the billions of dollars currently flowing.
Remember how Exon Mobile has been deliberately muddying the waters with regard to global warming using bad science and unscrupulous scientists. PR firms can be hired to pull this kind of illusion-casting for any issue if there is enough money and fear of change behind it.
Discretion!
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Every day, hundreds of millions of people have their energy sucked away by computers, in work places and living rooms equipped with game boxes. By the use of bank cards which give the government the ability to 'turn off' our money 'privileges' on an individual basis should they choose. Everybody seems now to have a cell phone. Aside from the mental health concerns associated with having your brain cells randomly stimulated by modulated microwave signals, having your time and attention on a telephone leash is enormously limiting. The only good of it all is the internet.
Humanity has been subverted, and it continues. The very saddest part is that EA sports games appear to be one of the primary culprits.
Sports games! I mean. . . For goodness sake.
I am glad that I don't understand the appeal of hefting foot balls as it renders me largely immune to the siren call of silicon.
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Baiter? Trolling? Digging into my past posts? Enemies list?
Sheesh. I'm just holding up a mirror to your responses. If you don't like what you see, then jumping off topic into such fear reactions is certainly one way of dealing with things. . .
For my part, I always try to write what I believe, and I find it curious when people accuse me of 'trolling' for doing so. Only a dyed in the wool conformist could possibly have come up with such a term for speaking one's mind. I'd have thought a real troll is somebody who is simply fishing with nonsense with the aim of causing a fuss. That's not me. I am no different than most posters here; I just want to share my views by adding them to the discussion.
And the discussion, if I recall, had turned toward the interesting question of whether or not it is the seeker's responsibility to gather new knowledge or if it is the responsibility of somebody else to force new information down one's throat in some sort of test of wills which can be won or lost. I certainly know what I think the right answer to that is, and I said as much. You, however, have so far contributed nothing except to say that Carl Sagan is dead and that you think I might be a troll. Do you have anything better to add?
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Satellites have been recording the Relative Gulf Stream velocity fields since 2003. --The Envisat, Jason-1, TOPEX/Poseidon, and GFO.
When the page loads, scroll to the bottom and click the link to see the animations. Select the animation for Jan 2003 to present. After the gif loads and the animation plays, please note the week between Dec 11th and 19th of 2006 only a couple of months ago when the Gulfstream actually stopped flowing toward Europe and flowed back South without completing its normal circuit.
Keep in mind that the Gulfstream is what keeps most of Europe out of the deep freeze. With all the non-saline melt water from shrinking ice packs due to Global Warming being introduced into the oceans, the saline-heavy Gulfstream is verging on sinking.
This is not fear-mongering. Times really are a-changing, and I'm betting that some wishful, 11th hour Star Trek solution is not likely going to save the human race from facing the consequences of its actions.
At least there will be good sledding on top of all that pack ice soon to be covering central Europe and the Northern U.S. --And remember; you don't have to wait a century for glaciers to crawl up to your front door. You just need a solid month or two of heavy snowfall to get the same net effect. Ice ages arrive WAY-faster than many think!
Instead, what we ought to be focusing on is internal work; get your personal baggage dealt with, root out your fears, raise your awareness and get powerful. Glaciers and comet showers are small-change compared to the other stuff on the way. Big opportunities await those who can get past their programming and embrace their higher selves. Look into it. Your instincts will guide you!
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Satellites have been recording the Relative Gulf Stream velocity fields since 2003. --The Envisat, Jason-1, TOPEX/Poseidon, and GFO.
When the page loads, scroll to the bottom and click the link to see the animations. Select the animation for Jan 2003 to present. After the gif loads and the animation plays, please note the week between Dec 11th and 19th of 2006 only a couple of months ago when the Gulfstream actually stopped flowing toward Europe and flowed back South without completing its normal circuit.
Keep in mind that the Gulfstream is what keeps most of Europe out of the deep freeze. With all the non-saline melt water from shrinking ice packs due to Global Warming being introduced into the oceans, the saline-heavy Gulfstream is verging on sinking.
It's not fear-mongering. Times really are a-changing regardless of what the president from a deeply screwed-up old Warsaw Pact country has to say on the matter.
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Your vision is very nice, and I wish I lived in a world where such a thing could happen. Unfortunately, child and slave labor continues today at a more advanced level than ever before. It needn't, but the rich nations which have all the technology have decided that it's cheaper and easier to sabotage budding democracies and economies through the judicial use of the CIA and similar secret services thus reducing certain countries into third-world status in order to provide the West with lots of desperate slaves to build all the things which cannot be easily built through automated factories. Running shoes and dish racks come to mind.
Also on the agenda is the deliberate promotion of illiteracy, conformity and ignorance among the general populace; you need unthinking slaves to perform all those silly little jobs on the home front. --Like consuming gasoline and foods and running shoes and dish racks. Also carrying guns for the military is important apparently, and just generally maintaining the status quo so that the rich and powerful stay that way.
Greed and Evil at the top of the food chain are the cause of our current distress. It's got nothing to do with hippies thinking that love and healthy community living might be good ideas. I've yet to meet a hippie who is opposed to the idea of global communication and who supports the idea of racism. They do not teach their children to hate or to act like Ludites. Why should they? It's not a motion to go back to simpler times; it's a motion to evolve into something which works better using the best current knowledge available.
And finally, your claim that nuclear power is safe is false. --I have a friend who lived in a community which had a serious problem in that the local Candu reactor was leaking radioactive toxins into the surrounding land. --Not through any fault in the reactor design, but simply because the owners of the plant were too greedy and negligent and uncaring to bother replacing twenty-year-old parts when the expiry dates started coming up.
I'll trust in nuclear technology when I can trust faceless people with lots of money. Small communities, however, designed mindfully with specific goals, are easier to keep healthy because you can know everybody and can keep each other on track.
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