Month: March 2015
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Campaign Pushes For a Woman’s Face on $20 Bill
from boston.com: “A Woman’s Place is on the Money.” That’s the slogan of a campaign that is underway to get a woman on the $20 bill. And the choice for the new face of the bill is in the hands of the public. The aim of the campaign, Women on 20s, is to garner enough…
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‘Our #Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is @StonesThrow Records’
from netflix.com: Storied independent label Stones Throw Records is the subject of this enthusiastic documentary that recounts the company’s roots and personality.
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Leo Strauss’ Philosophy of Deception
from www.alternet.org: What would you do if you wanted to topple Saddam Hussein, but your intelligence agencies couldn’t find the evidence to justify a war? A follower of Leo Strauss may just hire the “right” kind of men to get the job done – people with the intellect, acuity, and, if necessary, the political commitment,…
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How Close to the Truth Was the Manchurian Candidate?
from historynewsnetwork.org: The Manchurian Candidate takes place during 1952 and this fact is considered important. It is virtually the first thing we learn: “Korea 1952” we are told in the film’s initial scenes, a pseudo-documentary of a grotesque brainwashing experiment perpetrated upon GI prisoners by an evil fusion of the venerable Fu Manchu and the…
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“Starry Eyes” : A Movie About the Occult Hollywood Elite – and How it Truly Works
from source: Starry Eyes is a horror movie about a struggling actress getting mixed up with the Hollywood elite. Through the metamorphosis of the main character, the movie describes how the entertainment world actually works: via rituals, blood sacrifice, and occult initiation. Starry Eyes is a typical horror flick: scary, bloody and disgusting. But the…
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Jesus’ House? 1st-Century Structure May Be Where He Grew Up
from livescience.com: Archaeologists working in Nazareth — Jesus’ hometown — in modern-day Israel have identified a house dating to the first century that was regarded as the place where Jesus was brought up by Mary and Joseph. The house is partly made of mortar-and-stone walls, and was cut into a rocky hillside. It was first…
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Big Agra Descends on Cuba to Spread GMOs
from startribune.com:: A delegation of 75 top U.S. agriculture leaders organized by Minnetonka-based Cargill Inc. will arrive in Cuba this weekend on a trade mission to explore the potential for increased business between the two countries. Leaders said the trip will be a “learning journey” to understand what Cuba may need from U.S. farms, including…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode149 – Get This Right
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode149 – Get This Right which features brand new sounds from Lord Huron, Hot Chip, Work Drugs, Waters, Toro y Moi, Avers, Hanni El Khatib, Lilly Hiatt, Twerps, The Sidekicks, Christian Bland & The Revelators, Lower Dens, Other Lives, Ashley DuBose and Helio Sequence… Download/Subscribe Previous:…
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The Shamanic Significance of the Blood Moon and the Green Fire
from theholisticworks.com: Our Feeding the Dog shamanic ceremony this year will take place on the Blood Moon, Saturday April 4th,. You may have been wondering what a Blood Moon is and about its significance with shamanic work? So here’s an article all about it. When I performed the same Feeding the Dog ceremony last year,…
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Japan Slams Brakes On Uber Taxi Service
from channelnewsasia.com: Japan has slammed the brakes on taxi service Uber less than a month after it launched a pilot programme in the country, with a government official saying Wednesday (Mar 4) it likely violates transport laws. The development marked another blow for the web-based taxi app, which has become an object of scorn from…
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Drones to scan for evidence of ancient civilizations in Amazonia
from popular-archaeology.com: A UK-led initiative to scan the Amazon rainforest for new signs of ancient settlements was announced at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Jose, California. The project, which has already been awarded $1.9m grant from the European Research Council, will include conducting laser scans…

