Month: August 2013
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Symbolism 101: ‘The I of the Radio’
Symbolism, may be, perhaps our internal representation of outside world? It’s important to have some understanding of symbols as they’ve been used since time immemorial to affect us? Symbols may access our unconscious mind directly. Brad Jaeger provides excellent exposition of, “The I of the Radio,” a drawing by Vasily Kafanov. While intended as…
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U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011
from washingtonpost.com: U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and war, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Washington Post. That disclosure, in a classified intelligence budget provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, provides new…
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Laid-Off Paraguay Bus Drivers Mount Crucifixion Protest
Eight Paraguayan bus drivers and a woman have submitted to crucifixion in a protest against being sacked.
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“Dow Chemical Resort Menu” Poem by Erik Moshe
One of our writers got a poem published recently on the Project Agent Orange site!
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#GMO corn banned decade ago found in Saudi Arabia
from RT.com: The Saudi Arabian food chain has been widely contaminated with GM ingredients, according to a new study. The findings include controversial StarLink maize banned for human consumption in the US over ten years ago. The study published in the journal Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology earlier this month found that genetically modified StarLink maize,…
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New World Next Week: The Syria Situation – August 29, 2013
DOWNLOAD MP3 – NewWorldNextWeek.com: The Syria Situation (This is an audio-only version of ‘New World Next Week’.) Welcome to the New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week, James and James continue last week’s…
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Why the Syrian Electronic Army loves to hack the American media
from washingtonpost.com: The New York Times web site went down on Tuesday afternoon in an external cyber attack that appears most likely committed by the Syrian Electronic Army. The informal pro-Assad hacker collective has made a habit of targeting prominent Western media outlets, typically by seizing their Twitter feeds but sometimes hitting their sites as…
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Syrians in capital hoard food, seek shelter as strike looms
from reuters.com: Syrians in the capital Damascus are racing against time to prepare for a foreign strike, with many hoarding supplies and others scrambling to find accommodation further away from potential military targets. In a city where dozens of military sites are mixed in among the civilian population, many worry Damascus could become an especially…
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Premature Post Mortems: George H W Bush and Prince Philip
It’s only natural to wonder if there’s something more to obituaries released prematurely? Yes, it’s tasteless to report someone died before they’ve actually passed, but how does this happen? Is it truly just a case of jumping the gun to report first? In late 2011, Prince Philip was reported as passing away only to be…
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Norman Dodd On Tax Exempt Foundations
G. Edward Griffin interviewed Norman Dodd in 1982, recording what Dodd learned, while producing Dodd Report on Tax Exempt Foundations in the early fifties. Viewer is granted a unique peek behind curtain of hidden history. Dodd was clearly part of eastern establishment, attending Andover, MA prep schools and Yale generations before George H.W. Bush. Perhaps,…
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The Lessons of the Bonus Army – 1932
Dr A. True Ott exposes America’s history of social injustice. In blog entry, “The Lessons of the Bonus Army – 1932,” Ott drives home point that most “….Americans believe we are still ruled by our Constitution, rather than a secret cabal of elitists.” The PBS documentary reveals several truths about our country, one astute observation…
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German email providers ‘seen as surveillance safe haven’
from BBC: #NewsFromElsewhere: Web users are turning to German email providers to avoid US state surveillance, it seems. Telecoms firm Freenet has reported an 80% increase in new users in the last three weeks, while web hosting company 1&1 says its email providers GMX and web.de have seen a six-figure increase, reports Der Spiegel. It…
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Were Prehistoric Cave Painters High On Hallucinogenic Plants?
from alternet.org: “Prehistoric cave paintings across the continents have similar geometric patterns not because early humans were learning to draw like Paleolithic pre-schoolers, but because they were high on drugs, and their brains—like ours—have a biological predisposition to “see” certain patterns, especially during consciousness altering states. This thesis—that humanity’s earliest artists were not just reeling…
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Pakistan: Mass mortality of fish at Karachi Port
from sott.com: Another case of fish mortality, mainly consisting of grey mullets surfaced within Karachi Port extending between Bab Island and Chinna Creek. This is the second such case in the month of August 2013, in which a huge quantity fish have died. This mortality was attributed to pollution brought in by rain water flowing…