More hysterical/desperate propaganda, which judging by the response, far too many of you are allowing past your 'smartypants' filters.
You have to stretch reality completely out of shape in order to perceive this law as having *anything* to do with gays, let alone as being repressive toward them as a social group. I wonder how far the TV talking heads in the West will pursue this canard?
The authors of this law were, it seems to me, (if I can depend on the translation being close to accurate), fairly rigorous in their definitions so as to make it clear that only conditions which actually affect one's ability to drive safely are listed. They even put qualifiers in brackets after point #1, which is probably the closest item which the propagandists can strive to thread their tenuous connection to.
Any interpretation beyond this being anything but a vanilla bit of road safety legislation is for Hysterics and True Believers.
But just you watch. This is one of those "repeated often enough" lies. A year from now, it can be pretty much guaranteed that most of the people you talk to who don't pay attention to things will actually believe that Putin is personally trying to keep gays off the road.
Sounds to me like you're smarting over something unfair which happened to you personally or through some situation close to you.
Be that as it may, it doesn't make all cases (or even most cases) of blaming the victim universally acceptable regardless of whatever your personal experience may be.
The characteristics of psychopathy and predatorial behavior don't change and understanding them remains a valuable tool for navigating reality. The devil is in the details.
The "Don't blame the victim" notion comes in response to this kind of (boiled down) common claim:
"It was her fault that we exploited her! It was impossible for us to choose to not exploit her. We take no responsibility for our own actions!"
Which is the way psychopaths operate. They're always blameless or their actions are 100% forgivable in their eyes.
Her ignorance and subsequent choices were on her; she could have protected herself better, but the crime is not her fault and the perps should get zero slack because of it.
That was just one website. The other half of the year was record cold as well depending on who you read.
Of course, Human Powers have a massive impact on the world, even on levels most people aren't largely aware of. I don't like pollution any more than you do, and I'm not looking for existentialist excuses to pour industrial toxins into the environment. I try to respect the world and its living things every day. But that doesn't make AGW and carbon taxes any less a scam. It's just the most immediately cognitively obvious place to look for answers (regarding climate change) on the table, -it makes all the sense in the world- at first, second and even third glance.
But it's still broken. There are far more interesting things going on.
One theory is that human behavior, how deeply we invest in psychopathic lies about our reality and how we behave on a national level, has a direct influence on planetary reactions and our experience of them. Insanity causes painful experiential feedback not just on the micro, but on the macro as well.
Personally, I tend to give credence to these sorts of ideas, but it's the kind of thing which wouldn't make sense to many here and which is impossible to prove either way in any material sense.
In this sucking mud swamp of a debate, it is entirely possible to get completely opposite claims with lots of supporting data depending on which Google search terms you use to fortify your position.
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Numbers released today by NOAAâ(TM)s National Climatic Data Center show that not only has July been abnormally cool in the USA, but so has 2014 in general. For the last 30 days, there have been 574 record highest temperatures in the USA, and 1,726 record lowest. A ratio of 3 to 1, indicating that July was very cool. But, the year so far has also been cool.
So far for the USA year to date, the numbers of record lows outpace the highs two to one.
This year, here have been been 12,644 daily record lowest temperatures versus 6,615 record highest temperatures in the USA, a ratio of 1.91 to 1.0. http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...
Remember the "Polar Vortex"? It was a cold damned Spring and Summer through 2014...
From Wikipedia:
The 2013-14 North American cold wave was an extreme weather event extending from December 2013 to April 2014, and was also part of an unusually cold winter affecting parts of Canada and the Eastern United States.[6] The event consisted of 2 episodes, the first one in December 2013 and the second in early 2014, both caused by southward shifts of the North Polar Vortex. Record cold temperatures also extended well into March. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...â"14_North_American_cold_wave
Though, of course, this is blamed on AGW once again. "The planet is warming up, which is why you're freezing your tail off. Obviously."
Back in the debate swamp, "True Believers" claim that the "Deniers" are funded by the petro-chem industry to fudge data. That may be true. Truthfully, I've not checked. I *have* however checked to see that the AGW side can be accused of similar things; their funding comes from those who would benefit from carbon tax scams. Driven by fear of unemployment and professional crucifixion, they engage in all sorts of funny business...
But the thing I find interesting is that, as per usual, *nobody* in the MSM or really anywhere in the debate is looking at or discussing the other parallel trends. We've seen massive increases in comet/fireball activity and volcanic activity
"If you plot data from the last 200 years, there's a clear increase in the number of eruptions over time," Siebert said, "but that's not a function of the actual number of eruptions but rather due to reporting effects." http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/are-volcanic-eruptions-increasing.htm
-You'll notice that while the up-trend is beyond denial every official volcano news site in the first few Google page returns races to assure us that incidence of mountains blowing up are not *actually* on the increase. -It's simply that we have only recently become better at noticing when MOUNTAINS BLOW UP.
You'll excuse me if I find this to be a rather tenuous bit of self-calming very likely (my opinion) linked to the official media directives telling us that any of the bad CO2 must be due to human activities and certainly not any natural events. -Which, please note, is NOT why I bring up volcanoes.
CO2 doesn't interest me because nobody has yet put forth a viable explanation for why it would cause any significant net heat capture. CO2 works in both directions. CO2 is opaque to IR; like the clouds of Nuclear
There are dozens of arguments which detail how people are poor observers, easily tricked, etc. -And this is true. But like neurons firing, when you get enough activity, a signal emerges and things tip.
I can be fooled dozens of ways into thinking that there are dogs in the park. I can be accused of all sorts of bias problems, etc. But the frailty of human perceptive abilities doesn't mean that there are actually no dogs in the park.
"Yes, but there is not enough evidence for the Spooky Shit."
Except there is.
Those who argue against the Spooky Shit out there existing have simply not bothered to read the reports or the history. There's more than enough signal to at least give pause to the truly open-minded skeptic.
Read Richard Dolan's first book, "UFOs and the National Security State" -He sifted through thousands of incidents from the 1940's to the 1970's, selecting only those which involved multiple witnesses who were also aviation, military or police professionals required to document things in the course of their jobs. Even with those filters in place, he offers a couple hundred astonishing reports. -Along with admissions from senior Air Force staffers who tell us point blank that they were charged with lying to the public in order to quell concerns.
The argument about cell phone camera proliferation proving a negative is lazy and ill-informed because, A) There are in fact hundreds of captures available for your viewing pleasure on YouTube, and B) most of those suck because photographing dots in the sky is hard and not worth much, and C) the really close encounters tend to mess with electronics, perceptions and time. If you can't keep your brain's bio-electrics running correctly, what chance does your smart phone have? -Let alone your car engine.
Also worth reading is pretty much anything by John Keel. -Old school journalism at its finest. I especially found his collection of newspaper clippings from the 1800's fascinating. This shit has been going on forever. (And for the record, he doesn't think it's about space aliens. He thinks it's something which is native to Earth, and which has the characteristics of a malevolent trickster of sorts.)
Crop circles, (though the genuine ones appear to have stopped now for a number of reasons), are also quite revealing. Check out the film, "Crop Circles; Quest for Truth" -It addresses all the usual skeptical brush-offs without particularly intending to. Magnetic seeds? Shit, dude! There are a variety of details which simply don't hold with assholes with ropes and planks. Not to mention the black helicopters and military clamp downs reported by witnesses.
Cattle Mutilation is another fascinating subject which has only been 'debunked' in the most wishful sense. The arguments against it, even from the premier skeptical websites, are astonishingly infantile and easily disproved with the most cursory research and basic logic.
So this is not a case of there not being ample proof; those who argue against are simply very ignorant or very willful in their denial. -And please note that when I say "Ignorant" I do not mean it as an insult. Ignorance is just a state of mind where the information has not yet been accessed. It's the *reason* for the ignorance which can sometimes be damning.
Personally, I don't understand why people wouldn't explore this material thoroughly. I mean, we're talking about the possibility of some truly amazing shit happening on our planet, right here and now. -It's safe to say that everybody on Slashdot is a sci-fi fan, so why wouldn't the possibility of the real thing be considered at least somewhat interesting and worthy of more attention than a half-baked brush-off?
I will say that Amazon has a long history of being self-interested scuzzes. The work involved in creating a decent book can be measured in the tens of hundreds of hours, and it is not at all unreasonable for a hard working author to want to receive enough compensation from his or her work to at least offset the cost of living, -like any other working person.
I have no problem with that.
If information wants to be free, then that's fine, but at some point if the tens of hundreds of hours of author investment are not respected and supported, then the system is running on slave coal. And it is particularly despicable if, as in this case, the middle management along the way are living fat.
The problem as I see it has as much to do with distribution than it has to do with saturation. More so, it's an indicator of where we are as a race.
As you point out (more gracefully than I'm about to), we're drowning in shit. There are good works out there, but the channel now is so wide and the signal so diffuse, publishing so easy and the megaphones so owned by The Man that supplying humanity with true gems of literature is not something which is likely to find immediate reward, if ever. I'm not sure anymore that enough people are even capable of receiving the signal for such a thing.
The long and short, fair or not, is that if you're an author today.., chances are you need a supplemental support system in order to keep going.
Any author who is going to have a positive effect on the world is more than likely going to do so by making like a butterfly.
The drug trade is one of the big sources of spy agency funding. (The kind of funding where you don't have to explain to any ministers what you're going to spend it on.)
Everybody remembers Ollie North, right?
The out of control secret government agencies never stopped selling drugs. So blaming Snowden for their lack of ability to catch.., themselves I suppose, is a bit unfair.
But everybody here seems to be wise to the fact that this story is a nonsense sales pitch for cameras in your bedroom. In case there are terrorists under your bed.
But I still can't help but feel that the whole common understanding (or lack thereof as it seems to be) is based on something broken.
Then I discovered Pilot Wave Theory, which suggested to me that a particle by its nature may be surrounded by a wave.
That is, it truly IS both at the same time; not particle and wave, but particle WITH a wave. -So that it carries both properties, but not in the magical-thinking "wooo" way. It's a particle which creates ripples as it moves and those ripples affect how it interacts with and bounces off things.
This would make it *not* magic. Not spooky. -Hard to calculate, sure, but it just means our math to this point has been trying to describe something we were visualizing incorrectly and making poor assumptions about. (And writing altogether too much bad sci-fi around.)
In other words.., according to the pilot wave theory, Schroedinger's cat really is dead OR alive. You still need probability maths to make educated guesses as to which it is, but it's no longer prudent (or excusable) to think that it is actually both at the same time until some egocentric scientist looks in the box. (As if the cat's opinion doesn't matter).
Replace "Socially retarded" with "Normal". This is something *done* to people to achieve exactly the observed results. Getting angry with those who have been hurt by the system is pointless.
The behavior is frustrating to deal with, but it's not solved by kicking those who are down.
I personally don't like the word "skeptic"; it carries the feel of that cynical and smug kid at the back of the class who is trying desperately to conceal social retardation and fear of rejection.
That kind of person is deeply interested in the value of labels and identifies with their own opinions on the ego level. -They have little else to derive confidence from other than their carefully polished sense of intellectual superiority. I've not met a self-professed skeptic who was free of this influence.
-And when I say self-professed, I am NOT talking about the person who accepts the label out of deference, thinking, "Yeah, so I guess I'm a skeptic because I'd like to reserve judgment and not jump on your bandwagon." -I'm talking about those rabid assholes. You know the ones. The ones who subscribe to the newsletter and put the word in their website banners and attend the meetings. Those guys are *damaged*.
People who have more clues and agility in thinking will usually cringe away from the term 'skeptic' and tend to not bother with self-labeling at all. I'd call such people, (if forced to identify them as a group), something like "Curious" or...
Nah. I'm already bored trying to come up with a label.
People with no emotional investment tend to find their way to the right answers (or at least the right-er answers) as a result of their basic approach. I want to know what those people think. -Not what a bunch of angry and socially traumatized post-adolescents are trying to hammer into place.
That's pure whitewashing. Like saying that if you don't buy endangered species souvenirs directly from the poacher makes it okay.
It's not perfect, as I already said, but it's the best one can do short of not using a computer at all, which isn't really an option today. But it's also not pure whitewashing. It's certainly better than thoughtlessly upgrading every time the whim hits.
How long have you been running your computer? My newest is 10 years old and I've learned how to service it myself. I'm keeping as much of my cash out of the slave trade as can be reasonably achieved. If everybody did the same, (and that's quite possible given the huge amount of old hardware floating around), Foxcon would have to close its doors.
For a permanent, meaningful fix, you'd need to outlaw the following:
1. Psychopaths holding positions of power and leadership.
2. Usury and the global banking elite.
Until then, all you can do on an individual level is make every choice you can to not play along. For computer equipment, buy used and learn how to repair it. It's not a perfect solution since no electronics are made without slaves, but it's better than Feeding the Beast directly. It honors the people who bled for your equipment by not throwing out their labor when it has lost its shine.
For everything else, save up and pay for products you know are fairly traded. Yes, you'll pay ten times what you would at Walmart, but that's the choice. Live with less, use efficiently, and guess what? It's not as hard as it sounds, you'll actually be proud of your possessions.
Are you still into the same stuff you were 30 years ago?
When you've exhausted the challenges of an activity, explored it to death, unless it still provides some genuine joy and excitement, then it makes sense to move on into different areas. The fact that Ford is being asked to cram his brain back into the person he was a long time ago is poor judgment on everybody's part.
Even the amazing Ray Bradbury was a snarky grump by the end of the line, (saw a talk he gave when he was very old). I think that's why people die; to escape expectations.
I think you're quite right, and if you'll forgive me, I'm going to jump in and blab about some of my own thoughts because it's a subject I love!
Stories are only half the equation; the audience is required to close the loop, so to speak. Sci-fi doesn't age well.
-Which is not to say that a well-told sci-fi story can't still be moving/entertaining years later. "The Forever War" is still a great read today, (I know because I read it for the first time only short while ago). But I think it's safe to say that it will never match the experiential juju created when you involve an unjaded audience learning certain concepts for the first time.
Back in the 70's, people were still coming to grips with the concept of time dilation resulting from light-speed travel. -I remember as a kid my (not a scientist) mom eagerly explaining the principle to me in order to make sense of "Planet of the Apes". -A movie which would probably not get made today because the big whammie ending wouldn't have a tenth of the impact on today's well-informed audiences.
So how do you make an engaging film today which pushes everybody's buzz-button?
What new concepts are not yet fully understood by everybody but which seem to hold massive power over the course of history and culture?
Answer that, and you'll have a new popular genre on your hands.
I find it interesting that zombie films are so big right now. Psychology in action.
If it weren't for easy access to TV through the internet, I'd watch none of their crap at all. I didn't for a long time until the cable company arbitrarily cranked my internet speed up from the slowest possible package I could buy from them. Apparently, it's no longer possible to get the really, really slow package for cheap bastards. Too bad.
So now downloading TV shows is possible.
TV is a drug filled with stupid, and now I'm somewhat addicted. That zombie show is distracting, and that guy who plays Agent Coulson is fun to watch. And there was some other crap out there... Oh yeah. Damn you, Stephen Moffat. You're a horrible writer.
But, sure let 'em shut it all down. I'll just get more social time and I'm sure my brain will be healthier for it.
How do they expect to control the masses through TV if they make people pay for it? I sure as hell won't.
Anybody who was watching it unfold knows that is simply not true. The government abandoned their posts, and then your man Yanukovych fled like a pussy. It doesn't matter what Washington said, we were all watching on live video. The fact that the CIA also has plots and goals is largely irrelevant.
It kind of simply IS true, though.
Ukraine is a complete disaster. They have worse infrastructure at the moment than freaking Palestine, they're in debt up to their eyeballs and there are house-to-house murders of civilians. I think that qualifies as "Driven into the ground".
Remember that video of the thugs actually bullying and pushing around the former minister in charge of media, mafia style? How low brow can a government get?
The whole thing struck me as a naked case of Western proxy regime change in all its ugly glory. -Well, obviously not naked enough, since people can't seem to recognize what happened. But I supposed that's excusable given the crap coverage our MSM gives this sort of thing. It takes a lot of work to find out what's really happening today.
Before all of this began, I couldn't care for Putin or Russia one way or the other, but the facts of the matter indicate that one pays attention to reality. If reality pointed the other way, I'd say things differently, (and probably be attacked for that also.)
The problem is that people en masse always tend to be dupes, to buy the lies even after the liars have been repeatedly exposed, not just in their lies, but in their basic nature which leads to them lying. Why the hell are people so incapable of basic behavioral pattern recognition???
Whatever. I stand ready to be modded into insignificance by the zombie hoard. At least I'm going down with my brain intact.
Paraphrased from a dozen or so people in this thread: "The unvaccinated are a threat to the rest of us! They must be ____ (punished, killed, forced, quarantined, etc.)
Okay.
Does anybody else see the problem with this common logic?
If the vaccines work and you've been medicated with them, then what have you got to worry about? How can anybody but those not vaccinated suffer from their choices?
I see this logical knot constantly. -It leads me to thinking that it's not about medicine and health at all with authoritarian follower types; It's about obedience. Those who think for themselves are threatening to those who choose not to, and this is on a deep level. "How DARE you disobey Father?! You are a BAD person and must be punished! See? I am the Good son!"
There is plenty of evidence that vaccines not only don't work, but that they make people sick. It is, however, very hard to come across because the media programming has been so powerful; ignorance can be forgiven, but with time and research it can be found.
Polio, for instance, was wiped out not by vaccinations. It was stopped by two things: 1. Pulling back on the neuro-toxic pesticide use in and around the epidemic areas, and 2. Re-defining the symptoms used to identify polio victims. The motivation for this came from two camps; leaders seeking to avoid political embarrassment and from the virology establishment which wanted desperately to justify their continued livelihoods and time/ego investments to that point. People lie for a whole lot less.
So they just instructed doctors to use the same symptom list to make a diagnosis of meningitis and other diseases instead of polio. The numbers of afflicted didn't change, but meningitis went from a few hundred to a few hundred thousand, and polio dropped accordingly.
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Quoted from "Fear of the Invisible"
Other cases previously diagnosed as polio would in future be classified as 'cerebral palsy', as 'Guillain-Barre syndrome' and even as 'muscular dystrophy.' Some were called 'Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease', which can also cause paralysis. (And recently the Coxsackie virus was found in cases of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), which is also sometimes associated with polio-like symptoms of muscle damage.)
But this reclassification of polio cases seemingly did not satisfy the regulatory authorities. Apparently there were still too many cases of the worst kind of polio,
"The diagnostic guidelines also specified that the patient must have, 'No history of immunisation' if they are to he diagnosed with the illness they were vaccinated against. ('Textbook of Infections Diseases' - University of Colorado School of Medicine. 1982). In other words, if they are vaccinated against an illness, it is presumed they cannot have already had it - so it was finally decided that these cases must also be removed from the polio case registry, thus eliminating nearly all the remaining cases of polio in the world - giving the heath authorities a stunning and utterly fraudulent victory.
This was achieved by instructing doctors that in future they were not to diagnose polio. This decision was to be left to the regulatory authorities. If patients came to them with the classic symptoms of paralytic polio, these were to be diagnosed as 'Acute Flaccid Paralysis' (AFP). The doctors were, and still are, told to send samples of two turds from such a patient to the official laboratories. There these turds are inspected to see if the poliovirus is in them. If signs of its presence are not found, it is declared not to be polio - no matter that the children have all the classic symptoms and distress found in the worst cases of polio during the great US epidemics.
This astonishingly revealed that the 'poliovirus' is rarely to be found in these paralysed children. Logically, one would think that this would force the health authorities to conclude that the virus could not be the cause of polio - but
-The relief convoys sent to aid the molested masses left in the wake of the actual self-described Nazi thugs which seized the elected government and drove it into the ground?
Or their make-believe invasion/s which Washington insists took place, but of which there is zero evidence? (If Russia decided to invade, Ukraine would be under Russian rule. Seems simple enough. Since that is not the case, there was no invasion.)
Careful what you read; the air is thick, thick, thick with psychopathic lies from an increasingly desperate Western elite. The US descent is picking up speed and the rats are getting squirrelly. Or the squirrels are getting ratty.
My take is that Putin's KGB days left him well aware of the CIA regime change tactics, and how they start with the infiltration and propagandizing of a target population by agents seeking to destabilze a country from within. If all your people are constantly being told that their government is evil and that they should rise up against it... Works like a charm unless you kill it at the bud. And what sane country would want a giant NSA organ working in their territory collecting data on their citizens?
Wow. The above was relegated to Flamebait, huh?
We're so screwed. -That was one of the most potently true things written on this whole thread and, bam! Flamebait. People still haven't worked out when they're being hit with propaganda. How many of you were taken in by the Saddam/Iraq con job? Fool me once, right?
General hint: If the U.S. Government is pushing an idea from the top level, it is a LIE. It is ALWAYS a lie. -Find one instance where it has not been a lie. (Well, leaving out JFK, of course. But they murdered him.)
That joke about politician's lips moving? Not really so funny.
-The relief convoys sent to aid the molested masses left in the wake of the actual self-described Nazi thugs which seized the elected government and drove it into the ground?
Or their make-believe invasion/s which Washington insists took place, but of which there is zero evidence? (If Russia decided to invade, Ukraine would be under Russian rule. Seems simple enough. Since that is not the case, there was no invasion.)
Careful what you read; the air is thick, thick, thick with psychopathic lies from an increasingly desperate Western elite. The US descent is picking up speed and the rats are getting squirrelly. Or the squirrels are getting ratty.
My take is that Putin's KGB days left him well aware of the CIA regime change tactics, and how they start with the infiltration and propagandizing of a target population by agents seeking to destabilze a country from within. If all your people are constantly being told that their government is evil and that they should rise up against it... Works like a charm unless you kill it at the bud. And what sane country would want a giant NSA organ working in their territory collecting data on their citizens?
Any scientific solutions which are based on the backwards assumptions of wishful thinkers and psychopaths is going to make you sicker.
Statin drugs are a prime and relevant example. Drugs designed to lower cholesterol in your body. -Based on the insanely backwards assumption that fat kills.
Fat doesn't kill. There is no 'good' and 'bad' cholesterol. (Well, I suppose the cholesterol which plaques up the arteries could be considered 'bad', but it's not there because you are eating eggs. It's there because you are eating sugars).
You want to not be fat anymore? You don't have to suffer. You don't need to starve yourself or run for miles. And you certainly don't need some screwed up toxic pill.
Eat fat. Cut out the sugars. -Bacon, not potatoes. Butter, not bread. No fruits or refined sugars. You'll look and feel like a superhero. You may even *want* to run, just because you'll be full of energy.
Caveat: Eat animal fat. Plant oils are not the same thing at all.
But pills from Big Pharma? Those people are completely nuts.
Spit and sputter all you like, but you're not even close to the top of the foodchain.
You'll learn the long way around. Assuming, of course, you even have a soul. If you don't then, well... I'm typing to a windup toy with a definite shelf life. -Which would go some distance in explaining your threat response.
Non-cooperation works in the short term, but it ends up laying waste to the entire system.
We're seeing right now what happens when psychopathology gains the upper hand in a social system. They live high and mighty for a time until their inability to cooperate for the greater good tanks everything and the empire falls apart. There's a long and colorful history of empires which have succumbed to this kind of 'game theory'.
Sounds to me like this study isn't taking the long view.
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Yep. Just as I thought.
More hysterical/desperate propaganda, which judging by the response, far too many of you are allowing past your 'smartypants' filters.
You have to stretch reality completely out of shape in order to perceive this law as having *anything* to do with gays, let alone as being repressive toward them as a social group. I wonder how far the TV talking heads in the West will pursue this canard?
The authors of this law were, it seems to me, (if I can depend on the translation being close to accurate), fairly rigorous in their definitions so as to make it clear that only conditions which actually affect one's ability to drive safely are listed. They even put qualifiers in brackets after point #1, which is probably the closest item which the propagandists can strive to thread their tenuous connection to.
Any interpretation beyond this being anything but a vanilla bit of road safety legislation is for Hysterics and True Believers.
But just you watch. This is one of those "repeated often enough" lies. A year from now, it can be pretty much guaranteed that most of the people you talk to who don't pay attention to things will actually believe that Putin is personally trying to keep gays off the road.
Sounds to me like you're smarting over something unfair which happened to you personally or through some situation close to you.
Be that as it may, it doesn't make all cases (or even most cases) of blaming the victim universally acceptable regardless of whatever your personal experience may be.
The characteristics of psychopathy and predatorial behavior don't change and understanding them remains a valuable tool for navigating reality. The devil is in the details.
Context, man!
The "Don't blame the victim" notion comes in response to this kind of (boiled down) common claim:
"It was her fault that we exploited her! It was impossible for us to choose to not exploit her. We take no responsibility for our own actions!"
Which is the way psychopaths operate. They're always blameless or their actions are 100% forgivable in their eyes.
Her ignorance and subsequent choices were on her; she could have protected herself better, but the crime is not her fault and the perps should get zero slack because of it.
That was just one website. The other half of the year was record cold as well depending on who you read.
Of course, Human Powers have a massive impact on the world, even on levels most people aren't largely aware of. I don't like pollution any more than you do, and I'm not looking for existentialist excuses to pour industrial toxins into the environment. I try to respect the world and its living things every day. But that doesn't make AGW and carbon taxes any less a scam. It's just the most immediately cognitively obvious place to look for answers (regarding climate change) on the table, -it makes all the sense in the world- at first, second and even third glance.
But it's still broken. There are far more interesting things going on.
One theory is that human behavior, how deeply we invest in psychopathic lies about our reality and how we behave on a national level, has a direct influence on planetary reactions and our experience of them. Insanity causes painful experiential feedback not just on the micro, but on the macro as well.
Personally, I tend to give credence to these sorts of ideas, but it's the kind of thing which wouldn't make sense to many here and which is impossible to prove either way in any material sense.
In this sucking mud swamp of a debate, it is entirely possible to get completely opposite claims with lots of supporting data depending on which Google search terms you use to fortify your position.
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Numbers released today by NOAAâ(TM)s National Climatic Data Center show that not only has July been abnormally cool in the USA, but so has 2014 in general. For the last 30 days, there have been 574 record highest temperatures in the USA, and 1,726 record lowest. A ratio of 3 to 1, indicating that July was very cool. But, the year so far has also been cool.
So far for the USA year to date, the numbers of record lows outpace the highs two to one.
This year, here have been been 12,644 daily record lowest temperatures versus 6,615 record highest temperatures in the USA, a ratio of 1.91 to 1.0.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/201...
Remember the "Polar Vortex"? It was a cold damned Spring and Summer through 2014...
From Wikipedia:
The 2013-14 North American cold wave was an extreme weather event extending from December 2013 to April 2014, and was also part of an unusually cold winter affecting parts of Canada and the Eastern United States.[6] The event consisted of 2 episodes, the first one in December 2013 and the second in early 2014, both caused by southward shifts of the North Polar Vortex. Record cold temperatures also extended well into March.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...â"14_North_American_cold_wave
Though, of course, this is blamed on AGW once again. "The planet is warming up, which is why you're freezing your tail off. Obviously."
Back in the debate swamp, "True Believers" claim that the "Deniers" are funded by the petro-chem industry to fudge data. That may be true. Truthfully, I've not checked. I *have* however checked to see that the AGW side can be accused of similar things; their funding comes from those who would benefit from carbon tax scams. Driven by fear of unemployment and professional crucifixion, they engage in all sorts of funny business...
BOM finally explains! Cooling changed to warming trends because stations "might" have moved!
http://joannenova.com.au/2014/...
But the thing I find interesting is that, as per usual, *nobody* in the MSM or really anywhere in the debate is looking at or discussing the other parallel trends. We've seen massive increases in comet/fireball activity and volcanic activity
"If you plot data from the last 200 years, there's a clear increase in the number of eruptions over time," Siebert said, "but that's not a function of the actual number of eruptions but rather due to reporting effects."
http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/are-volcanic-eruptions-increasing.htm
-You'll notice that while the up-trend is beyond denial every official volcano news site in the first few Google page returns races to assure us that incidence of mountains blowing up are not *actually* on the increase. -It's simply that we have only recently become better at noticing when MOUNTAINS BLOW UP.
You'll excuse me if I find this to be a rather tenuous bit of self-calming very likely (my opinion) linked to the official media directives telling us that any of the bad CO2 must be due to human activities and certainly not any natural events. -Which, please note, is NOT why I bring up volcanoes.
CO2 doesn't interest me because nobody has yet put forth a viable explanation for why it would cause any significant net heat capture. CO2 works in both directions. CO2 is opaque to IR; like the clouds of Nuclear
People who don't want to look, won't see.
There are dozens of arguments which detail how people are poor observers, easily tricked, etc. -And this is true. But like neurons firing, when you get enough activity, a signal emerges and things tip.
I can be fooled dozens of ways into thinking that there are dogs in the park. I can be accused of all sorts of bias problems, etc. But the frailty of human perceptive abilities doesn't mean that there are actually no dogs in the park.
"Yes, but there is not enough evidence for the Spooky Shit."
Except there is.
Those who argue against the Spooky Shit out there existing have simply not bothered to read the reports or the history. There's more than enough signal to at least give pause to the truly open-minded skeptic.
Read Richard Dolan's first book, "UFOs and the National Security State" -He sifted through thousands of incidents from the 1940's to the 1970's, selecting only those which involved multiple witnesses who were also aviation, military or police professionals required to document things in the course of their jobs. Even with those filters in place, he offers a couple hundred astonishing reports. -Along with admissions from senior Air Force staffers who tell us point blank that they were charged with lying to the public in order to quell concerns.
The argument about cell phone camera proliferation proving a negative is lazy and ill-informed because, A) There are in fact hundreds of captures available for your viewing pleasure on YouTube, and B) most of those suck because photographing dots in the sky is hard and not worth much, and C) the really close encounters tend to mess with electronics, perceptions and time. If you can't keep your brain's bio-electrics running correctly, what chance does your smart phone have? -Let alone your car engine.
Also worth reading is pretty much anything by John Keel. -Old school journalism at its finest. I especially found his collection of newspaper clippings from the 1800's fascinating. This shit has been going on forever. (And for the record, he doesn't think it's about space aliens. He thinks it's something which is native to Earth, and which has the characteristics of a malevolent trickster of sorts.)
Crop circles, (though the genuine ones appear to have stopped now for a number of reasons), are also quite revealing. Check out the film, "Crop Circles; Quest for Truth" -It addresses all the usual skeptical brush-offs without particularly intending to. Magnetic seeds? Shit, dude! There are a variety of details which simply don't hold with assholes with ropes and planks. Not to mention the black helicopters and military clamp downs reported by witnesses.
Cattle Mutilation is another fascinating subject which has only been 'debunked' in the most wishful sense. The arguments against it, even from the premier skeptical websites, are astonishingly infantile and easily disproved with the most cursory research and basic logic.
So this is not a case of there not being ample proof; those who argue against are simply very ignorant or very willful in their denial. -And please note that when I say "Ignorant" I do not mean it as an insult. Ignorance is just a state of mind where the information has not yet been accessed. It's the *reason* for the ignorance which can sometimes be damning.
Personally, I don't understand why people wouldn't explore this material thoroughly. I mean, we're talking about the possibility of some truly amazing shit happening on our planet, right here and now. -It's safe to say that everybody on Slashdot is a sci-fi fan, so why wouldn't the possibility of the real thing be considered at least somewhat interesting and worthy of more attention than a half-baked brush-off?
Nice history lesson. Thank-you!
I will say that Amazon has a long history of being self-interested scuzzes. The work involved in creating a decent book can be measured in the tens of hundreds of hours, and it is not at all unreasonable for a hard working author to want to receive enough compensation from his or her work to at least offset the cost of living, -like any other working person.
I have no problem with that.
If information wants to be free, then that's fine, but at some point if the tens of hundreds of hours of author investment are not respected and supported, then the system is running on slave coal. And it is particularly despicable if, as in this case, the middle management along the way are living fat.
The problem as I see it has as much to do with distribution than it has to do with saturation. More so, it's an indicator of where we are as a race.
As you point out (more gracefully than I'm about to), we're drowning in shit. There are good works out there, but the channel now is so wide and the signal so diffuse, publishing so easy and the megaphones so owned by The Man that supplying humanity with true gems of literature is not something which is likely to find immediate reward, if ever. I'm not sure anymore that enough people are even capable of receiving the signal for such a thing.
The long and short, fair or not, is that if you're an author today.., chances are you need a supplemental support system in order to keep going.
Any author who is going to have a positive effect on the world is more than likely going to do so by making like a butterfly.
What would be interesting is if it isn't found.
We've never yet had two big planes with 100+ passengers go un-recovered in a given year.
Also.., another Air Asia passenger jet made an emergency landing a few hours later.
Plenty for the connecting mind to chew on.
Whatever the case, hopefully there will be survivors found, (though statistically, that's not a good bet).
Hold on...
The drug trade is one of the big sources of spy agency funding. (The kind of funding where you don't have to explain to any ministers what you're going to spend it on.)
Everybody remembers Ollie North, right?
The out of control secret government agencies never stopped selling drugs. So blaming Snowden for their lack of ability to catch.., themselves I suppose, is a bit unfair.
But everybody here seems to be wise to the fact that this story is a nonsense sales pitch for cameras in your bedroom. In case there are terrorists under your bed.
Good redux.
But I still can't help but feel that the whole common understanding (or lack thereof as it seems to be) is based on something broken.
Then I discovered Pilot Wave Theory, which suggested to me that a particle by its nature may be surrounded by a wave.
That is, it truly IS both at the same time; not particle and wave, but particle WITH a wave. -So that it carries both properties, but not in the magical-thinking "wooo" way. It's a particle which creates ripples as it moves and those ripples affect how it interacts with and bounces off things.
This would make it *not* magic. Not spooky. -Hard to calculate, sure, but it just means our math to this point has been trying to describe something we were visualizing incorrectly and making poor assumptions about. (And writing altogether too much bad sci-fi around.)
In other words.., according to the pilot wave theory, Schroedinger's cat really is dead OR alive. You still need probability maths to make educated guesses as to which it is, but it's no longer prudent (or excusable) to think that it is actually both at the same time until some egocentric scientist looks in the box. (As if the cat's opinion doesn't matter).
So... Did that just kill all the science fairies?
Hm.
That was sucky of me. I apologize.
Replace "Socially retarded" with "Normal". This is something *done* to people to achieve exactly the observed results. Getting angry with those who have been hurt by the system is pointless.
The behavior is frustrating to deal with, but it's not solved by kicking those who are down.
I personally don't like the word "skeptic"; it carries the feel of that cynical and smug kid at the back of the class who is trying desperately to conceal social retardation and fear of rejection.
That kind of person is deeply interested in the value of labels and identifies with their own opinions on the ego level. -They have little else to derive confidence from other than their carefully polished sense of intellectual superiority. I've not met a self-professed skeptic who was free of this influence.
-And when I say self-professed, I am NOT talking about the person who accepts the label out of deference, thinking, "Yeah, so I guess I'm a skeptic because I'd like to reserve judgment and not jump on your bandwagon." -I'm talking about those rabid assholes. You know the ones. The ones who subscribe to the newsletter and put the word in their website banners and attend the meetings. Those guys are *damaged*.
People who have more clues and agility in thinking will usually cringe away from the term 'skeptic' and tend to not bother with self-labeling at all. I'd call such people, (if forced to identify them as a group), something like "Curious" or...
Nah. I'm already bored trying to come up with a label.
People with no emotional investment tend to find their way to the right answers (or at least the right-er answers) as a result of their basic approach. I want to know what those people think. -Not what a bunch of angry and socially traumatized post-adolescents are trying to hammer into place.
It's not perfect, as I already said, but it's the best one can do short of not using a computer at all, which isn't really an option today. But it's also not pure whitewashing. It's certainly better than thoughtlessly upgrading every time the whim hits.
How long have you been running your computer? My newest is 10 years old and I've learned how to service it myself. I'm keeping as much of my cash out of the slave trade as can be reasonably achieved. If everybody did the same, (and that's quite possible given the huge amount of old hardware floating around), Foxcon would have to close its doors.
There is no solution in a rigged economy.
For a permanent, meaningful fix, you'd need to outlaw the following:
1. Psychopaths holding positions of power and leadership.
2. Usury and the global banking elite.
Until then, all you can do on an individual level is make every choice you can to not play along. For computer equipment, buy used and learn how to repair it. It's not a perfect solution since no electronics are made without slaves, but it's better than Feeding the Beast directly. It honors the people who bled for your equipment by not throwing out their labor when it has lost its shine.
For everything else, save up and pay for products you know are fairly traded. Yes, you'll pay ten times what you would at Walmart, but that's the choice. Live with less, use efficiently, and guess what? It's not as hard as it sounds, you'll actually be proud of your possessions.
Agreed. -But can you blame him?
Are you still into the same stuff you were 30 years ago?
When you've exhausted the challenges of an activity, explored it to death, unless it still provides some genuine joy and excitement, then it makes sense to move on into different areas. The fact that Ford is being asked to cram his brain back into the person he was a long time ago is poor judgment on everybody's part.
Even the amazing Ray Bradbury was a snarky grump by the end of the line, (saw a talk he gave when he was very old). I think that's why people die; to escape expectations.
I think you're quite right, and if you'll forgive me, I'm going to jump in and blab about some of my own thoughts because it's a subject I love!
Stories are only half the equation; the audience is required to close the loop, so to speak. Sci-fi doesn't age well.
-Which is not to say that a well-told sci-fi story can't still be moving/entertaining years later. "The Forever War" is still a great read today, (I know because I read it for the first time only short while ago). But I think it's safe to say that it will never match the experiential juju created when you involve an unjaded audience learning certain concepts for the first time.
Back in the 70's, people were still coming to grips with the concept of time dilation resulting from light-speed travel. -I remember as a kid my (not a scientist) mom eagerly explaining the principle to me in order to make sense of "Planet of the Apes". -A movie which would probably not get made today because the big whammie ending wouldn't have a tenth of the impact on today's well-informed audiences.
So how do you make an engaging film today which pushes everybody's buzz-button?
What new concepts are not yet fully understood by everybody but which seem to hold massive power over the course of history and culture?
Answer that, and you'll have a new popular genre on your hands.
I find it interesting that zombie films are so big right now. Psychology in action.
Good post!
Thanks for the fun read.
If it weren't for easy access to TV through the internet, I'd watch none of their crap at all. I didn't for a long time until the cable company arbitrarily cranked my internet speed up from the slowest possible package I could buy from them. Apparently, it's no longer possible to get the really, really slow package for cheap bastards. Too bad.
So now downloading TV shows is possible.
TV is a drug filled with stupid, and now I'm somewhat addicted. That zombie show is distracting, and that guy who plays Agent Coulson is fun to watch. And there was some other crap out there... Oh yeah. Damn you, Stephen Moffat. You're a horrible writer.
But, sure let 'em shut it all down. I'll just get more social time and I'm sure my brain will be healthier for it.
How do they expect to control the masses through TV if they make people pay for it? I sure as hell won't.
It kind of simply IS true, though.
Ukraine is a complete disaster. They have worse infrastructure at the moment than freaking Palestine, they're in debt up to their eyeballs and there are house-to-house murders of civilians. I think that qualifies as "Driven into the ground".
Remember that video of the thugs actually bullying and pushing around the former minister in charge of media, mafia style? How low brow can a government get?
The whole thing struck me as a naked case of Western proxy regime change in all its ugly glory. -Well, obviously not naked enough, since people can't seem to recognize what happened. But I supposed that's excusable given the crap coverage our MSM gives this sort of thing. It takes a lot of work to find out what's really happening today.
Before all of this began, I couldn't care for Putin or Russia one way or the other, but the facts of the matter indicate that one pays attention to reality. If reality pointed the other way, I'd say things differently, (and probably be attacked for that also.)
The problem is that people en masse always tend to be dupes, to buy the lies even after the liars have been repeatedly exposed, not just in their lies, but in their basic nature which leads to them lying. Why the hell are people so incapable of basic behavioral pattern recognition???
Whatever. I stand ready to be modded into insignificance by the zombie hoard. At least I'm going down with my brain intact.
Paraphrased from a dozen or so people in this thread: "The unvaccinated are a threat to the rest of us! They must be ____ (punished, killed, forced, quarantined, etc.)
Okay.
Does anybody else see the problem with this common logic?
If the vaccines work and you've been medicated with them, then what have you got to worry about? How can anybody but those not vaccinated suffer from their choices?
I see this logical knot constantly. -It leads me to thinking that it's not about medicine and health at all with authoritarian follower types; It's about obedience. Those who think for themselves are threatening to those who choose not to, and this is on a deep level. "How DARE you disobey Father?! You are a BAD person and must be punished! See? I am the Good son!"
There is plenty of evidence that vaccines not only don't work, but that they make people sick. It is, however, very hard to come across because the media programming has been so powerful; ignorance can be forgiven, but with time and research it can be found.
Polio, for instance, was wiped out not by vaccinations. It was stopped by two things: 1. Pulling back on the neuro-toxic pesticide use in and around the epidemic areas, and 2. Re-defining the symptoms used to identify polio victims. The motivation for this came from two camps; leaders seeking to avoid political embarrassment and from the virology establishment which wanted desperately to justify their continued livelihoods and time/ego investments to that point. People lie for a whole lot less.
So they just instructed doctors to use the same symptom list to make a diagnosis of meningitis and other diseases instead of polio. The numbers of afflicted didn't change, but meningitis went from a few hundred to a few hundred thousand, and polio dropped accordingly.
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Quoted from "Fear of the Invisible"
Other cases previously diagnosed as polio would in future be classified as 'cerebral palsy', as 'Guillain-Barre syndrome' and even as 'muscular dystrophy.' Some were called 'Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease', which can also cause paralysis. (And recently the Coxsackie virus was found in cases of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), which is also sometimes associated with polio-like symptoms of muscle damage.)
But this reclassification of polio cases seemingly did not satisfy the regulatory authorities. Apparently there were still too many cases of the worst kind of polio,
"The diagnostic guidelines also specified that the patient must have, 'No history of immunisation' if they are to he diagnosed with the illness they were vaccinated against. ('Textbook of Infections Diseases' - University of Colorado School of Medicine. 1982). In other words, if they are vaccinated against an illness, it is presumed they cannot have already had it - so it was finally decided that these cases must also be removed from the polio case registry, thus eliminating nearly all the remaining cases of polio in the world - giving the heath authorities a stunning and utterly fraudulent victory.
This was achieved by instructing doctors that in future they were not to diagnose polio. This decision was to be left to the regulatory authorities. If patients came to them with the classic symptoms of paralytic polio, these were to be diagnosed as 'Acute Flaccid Paralysis' (AFP). The doctors were, and still are, told to send samples of two turds from such a patient to the official laboratories. There these turds are inspected to see if the poliovirus is in them. If signs of its presence are not found, it is declared not to be polio - no matter that the children have all the classic symptoms and distress found in the worst cases of polio during the great US epidemics.
This astonishingly revealed that the 'poliovirus' is rarely to be found in these paralysed children. Logically, one would think that this would force the health authorities to conclude that the virus could not be the cause of polio - but
Wow. The above was relegated to Flamebait, huh?
We're so screwed. -That was one of the most potently true things written on this whole thread and, bam! Flamebait. People still haven't worked out when they're being hit with propaganda. How many of you were taken in by the Saddam/Iraq con job? Fool me once, right?
General hint: If the U.S. Government is pushing an idea from the top level, it is a LIE. It is ALWAYS a lie. -Find one instance where it has not been a lie. (Well, leaving out JFK, of course. But they murdered him.)
That joke about politician's lips moving? Not really so funny.
What Russian actions in Ukraine?
-The relief convoys sent to aid the molested masses left in the wake of the actual self-described Nazi thugs which seized the elected government and drove it into the ground?
Or their make-believe invasion/s which Washington insists took place, but of which there is zero evidence? (If Russia decided to invade, Ukraine would be under Russian rule. Seems simple enough. Since that is not the case, there was no invasion.)
Careful what you read; the air is thick, thick, thick with psychopathic lies from an increasingly desperate Western elite. The US descent is picking up speed and the rats are getting squirrelly. Or the squirrels are getting ratty.
My take is that Putin's KGB days left him well aware of the CIA regime change tactics, and how they start with the infiltration and propagandizing of a target population by agents seeking to destabilze a country from within. If all your people are constantly being told that their government is evil and that they should rise up against it... Works like a charm unless you kill it at the bud. And what sane country would want a giant NSA organ working in their territory collecting data on their citizens?
Any scientific solutions which are based on the backwards assumptions of wishful thinkers and psychopaths is going to make you sicker.
Statin drugs are a prime and relevant example. Drugs designed to lower cholesterol in your body. -Based on the insanely backwards assumption that fat kills.
Fat doesn't kill. There is no 'good' and 'bad' cholesterol. (Well, I suppose the cholesterol which plaques up the arteries could be considered 'bad', but it's not there because you are eating eggs. It's there because you are eating sugars).
You want to not be fat anymore? You don't have to suffer. You don't need to starve yourself or run for miles. And you certainly don't need some screwed up toxic pill.
Eat fat. Cut out the sugars. -Bacon, not potatoes. Butter, not bread. No fruits or refined sugars. You'll look and feel like a superhero. You may even *want* to run, just because you'll be full of energy.
Caveat: Eat animal fat. Plant oils are not the same thing at all.
But pills from Big Pharma? Those people are completely nuts.
Oooh. Somebody's feeling threatened.
Spit and sputter all you like, but you're not even close to the top of the foodchain.
You'll learn the long way around. Assuming, of course, you even have a soul. If you don't then, well... I'm typing to a windup toy with a definite shelf life. -Which would go some distance in explaining your threat response.
Non-cooperation works in the short term, but it ends up laying waste to the entire system.
We're seeing right now what happens when psychopathology gains the upper hand in a social system. They live high and mighty for a time until their inability to cooperate for the greater good tanks everything and the empire falls apart. There's a long and colorful history of empires which have succumbed to this kind of 'game theory'.
Sounds to me like this study isn't taking the long view.