Month: October 2013
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“Smoke Meth and Hail Satan”: Vandals Deface Tennessee Church
from christiannews.net: Vandals defaced a church in a small Tennessee town this past weekend, leaving behind Satanic messages for the congregation. On Sunday morning, members of the Lebanon United Methodist Church arrived for services to find that someone had used the facility not for prayer, but to glorify Satan.
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Twitter Advertisers Say Service Needs More Users
from wsj.com: For some advertisers, 218 million people isn’t a big enough audience. That’s their message to Twitter Inc., which Thursday detailed plans for an initial public offering. Ad buyers say that the short-message service will need significantly more users, and a bigger sales force, to win more spending from their mass-market clients. “Scale still…
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‘Heart Attack Grill’ Founder Jon Basso: “My Food Will Kill You”
“I am probably the only restaurateur in the entire world who is unapologetically telling you that my food is bad for you, that it will kill you and that you should stay away from it.”
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode168 – Silk Road Shutdown, Fukushima Fast Food, Exercise Pills
Story #1: FBI Seizes Silk Road, an Online Drug Market, and Makes Arrest // Story #2: Popular Fast Food Chain Yoshinoya To Grow Food 60 Miles From Fukushima Plant // Story #3: Exercise ‘Can Be As Good As Pills’
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Flowering plant origins pushed back 100 million years
from bbc.co.uk: Flowering plants may have originated more than 100 million years earlier than previously thought, according to scientists in Switzerland and Germany. The previously oldest known flowering plant-like pollen dates from the Early Cretaceous period. But the team described six types of fossil pollen grains from older Middle Triassic core samples that closely resemble…
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Comet ISON: Will the Government Shutdown Ruin NASA’s Big Chance?
from policymic.com: On October 1, the comet ISON will pass near Mars, where monitoring equipment can gain more information on what could be the comet of the century. As long as the coincidental government shutdown causing the furlough of nearly the entire workforce of NASA doesn’t interrupt these observations, that is.
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How a partial government shutdown will affect food in America
from foxnews.com: No doubt you’re well aware that a shutdown doesn’t actually mean the government pulls the shades, locks the door, and puts the key under the mat. Essential services—anything involved in protecting life or property — remain operational… But if this goes on long enough even you, Joe and Jane Citizen, will be affected.…
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Occult Humanities Conference In NYC On October 18-20
from boingboing.net: Pam “Phantasmaphile” Grossman and artist Jesse Bransford have organized The Occult Humanities Conference taking place October 18-20, 2013 at New York University. Focused on the intersection of art and the occult, the lineup features some of my favorite writers on esoteric matters and high weirdness including Mark Pilkington, Mitch Horowitz, Gary Lachman, and…
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Pyramid Rooftops & Ritual Sacrifice
from News.nationalgeographic.com: Yes, it’s yielded human remains—including five females who may have been ritually sacrificed. But it’s the signs of life that make a half-excavated Peruvian pyramid of the Moche culture stand out, archaeologists say. “Often these pyramidal mounds were built as mortuaries more than anything else,” said excavation co-leader Edward Swenson. (See pictures…
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Fathers of the Modern Occult Revival
George Sieg cites two figures in 2010 Examiner brief as “Fathers of the Modern Occult Revival,” during 19th Century. Sieg names Eliphas Levi and Aleister Crowley. Levi, best known as creator of the goat-headed Baphomet, whose occult career, is summarized, in excerpt from article below: “Alphonse Louis Constant was born the son of a Parisian…