Month: July 2014
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode199 – War In Europe, FBI Forensic Fraud, #NoTechTuesday
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode199 – War In Europe, FBI Forensic Fraud, #NoTechTuesday Welcome to 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: Story #1: Obama Announces Expanded Sanctions Against Russia as EU Aligns Ukraine Economy Shrinks…
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Scientology, the Jet Propulsion Lab, and Occult Sorcery
from io9.com: One of the weirdest historical confluences you can imagine took place in Pasadena, California, in the 1940s. There, a darkly handsome young man and chemistry autodidact named Jack Parsons had just made a bundle of money by inventing solid rocket fuel and selling it to the military. He was part of a group…
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In Search of the Illuminati: A Light Amidst Darkness
from jwmt.org: The Bavarian Illuminati is certainly among the most famous, if not the most infamous, groups to emerge from the Western mystery traditions. A mere mention continues to evoke a sense of profound mystery and sinister sentiments – especially among contemporary conspiracy theorists where “commonsense distinction between fact and fiction melts away”.[1] Much confusion…
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Feds Doled Out Millions Towards #Tor Online Anonymity Tools
from RT.com: The National Security Agency may be working to crack the anonymous Tor browser, but the US government actually donated close to $2 million to the project in 2013. In fact, the large majority of the money gifted to the Tor Project has its origins in the State Department and the Department of Defense.…
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The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment
from historytoday.com: Twenty-first century Britain is a society in which the fascination with the ‘occult’ is flourishing. Paul Kléber Monod’s new book seeks to illuminate one phase of the convoluted history of this phenomenon: its fate and fortunes during the long 18th century. The period 1650-1815 is synonymous with the onward march of scientific reason…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode120 – Repeat Pleasure
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode120 – Repeat Pleasure which features brand new sounds from How To Dress Well, Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Bobby Patterson, Twin Peaks, Porter Robinson, Brownout, Tobacco, Hundred Waters, Lust for Youth, Nicole Atkins, Moonrise Nation, Alpha Consumer, Bear In Heaven, Deadmau5 and James Apollo……
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Getting Started In The Western Mystery Tradition
from jwmt.org: Getting started in the Western Mystery Tradition is a very exciting affair. It is full of intrigue, novelty, real magic and adventure. It is a rich and complex Tradition, very meaningful and deeply personal. It is not surprising then, that the aspirant often jumps in impulsively! It is commendable that they are excited.…
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The US Meat Processing Company At The Rotten Center of China’s Latest Food Scandal
from QZ.com: A US-owned factory in Shanghai is at the center of China’s latest food scandal: Chinese health authorities have suspended operations at Shanghai Husi Food, owned by the Illinois-based OSI Group, for reprocessing old and discarded meat to extend its use-by date. Husi was supplying meat to KFC, Pizza Hut and McDonald’s restaurants in China. Staff…
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Genesis Creation: Babylonian Enuma Elish?
from carm.org: The Enuma Elish is a Babylonian creation myth that is named after its opening words, “When on high.” It was discovered in the ancient Royal Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (current day Mosul, Iraq) in 1849. George Smith translated the text and released his work in 1876 in the book, The Chaldean Account of…
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This Woman Has Been Confronting Her Catcallers — And Secretly Filming Their Reactions
from buzzfeed.com Several weeks ago, 28-year-old Minneapolis resident Lindsey was standing on an escalator when a stranger began touching her hair and calling her “blondie.” When she told the man he “could just say ‘hi’ next time,” she said, he began screaming at her and calling her ugly. The situation reminded Lindsey — a longtime…
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The Importance of the Legend of Hiram Abiff
from masonicworld.com: The legend of “Hiram, the widow’s son,” is the foundation of Freemasonry’s ritualistic drama of the third, or Master’s Degree. While it would be improper to reveal the details of the drama as it is presented in the lodge room, or to make public the ritualistic secrets and symbolism which it contains, the…
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#TEPCO failed to disclose crops over 20KM from #Fukushima were contaminated
from RT.com: Fourteen different rice paddies outside of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant evacuation zone were contaminated with radioactive material in August 2013, Japan’s agriculture ministry has found. Despite the findings – which blamed the removal of a large piece of debris from the Fukushima No. 3 reactor building for the contamination – Tokyo…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode119 – From Now On
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode119 – From Now On which features brand new sounds from Dead Stars, Tunde Olaniran, Peter Matthew Bauer, Delta Spirit, Tennis, Reigning Sound, Ought, Young Buffalo, New Madrid, Beverly, Garotas Suecas, Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 and THE FAME RIOT… Download/Subscribe Previous: Episode118 – Lovely Day…
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#Shocker: Corporate Polluters Are Almost Never Prosecuted For Their Crimes
from grist.org: If you committed a crime in full view of a police officer, you could expect to be arrested — particularly if you persisted in your criminality after being told to cut it out, and if your crime were hurting the people around you. But the same is not true for those other “people” who inhabit…
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The Devil’s Dictionary
from thesmartset.com: Ambrose Bierce was published as The Cynic’s Word Book. It was Bierce’s preference that the book — a collection of satirical definitions which he had written for various newspapers “in a desultory way at long intervals” from 1881 to 1906 — be called The Devil’s Dictionary, but publishers had always been nervous about…