Month: May 2015
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The Ghost in the Machine and Mass Mind Control
from blacklistednews.com: Lately we’ve been looking at various techniques and approaches to Psy Ops and how they are not merely for military warfare, but an entire approach to human behavior modification and mass population management. The notion of large scale deception and manipulation, we have seen, is impossible for even the education section to grasp due to…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode160 – Glory, Glory
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode160 – Glory, Glory which features brand new sounds from Crocodiles, Thee Oh Sees, Rose Windows, Meg Mac, Girlpool, Novella, Patrick Watson, Celeste, Pornonono, Phoenix Foundation, Surfer Blood, Riothorse Royale, Funk Ark and Speedy Ortiz… Download/Subscribe Previous: Episode159 – Big Bang **************************************** ♬Liner Notes♬: Let’s close…
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Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion
from edge.org: It might seem obvious to you that contractual societies are good, modern, creative and free, whereas beehive societies reek of feudalism, fascism, and patriarchy. And, as a secular liberal I agree that contractual societies such as those of Western Europe offer the best hope for living peacefully together in our increasingly diverse modern…
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A Christian Nation? Since When?
from nytimes.com: America may be a nation of believers, but when it comes to this country’s identity as a “Christian nation,” our beliefs are all over the map. Just a few weeks ago, Public Policy Polling reported that 57 percent of Republicans favored officially making the United States a Christian nation. But in 2007, a survey by…
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Ancient Cities Provide A Warning for the Modern World
from newhistorian.com: In this age of urban-living, how cities grow is vitally important. The way cities expand in relation to their geographical surroundings has been an important consideration for eons. One of the ways of making a city sustainable is to make it ‘smarter.’ Making a city ‘smarter’ means improving the management of its infrastructure…
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The “Karmic Visions” of H.P. Blavatsky
from blavatskytheosophy.com: It is quite well known that the highly renowned Carl Jung had a powerful premonition of the First World War about a year or so before it began. What is unfortunately not so well known is that H.P. Blavatsky had what “The New Yorker” magazine of May 1964 called a “much earlier and…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode159 – Big Bang ♬
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode159 – Big Bang which features brand new sounds from Surfer Blood, The 4onthefloor, Sweet Spirit, Other Lives, Kopecky, Mylko, Miami Horror, Rainy Milo, Holly Miranda, Shilpa Ray, Hop Along, Sean Anonymous and Dimitry Killstorm, deM AtlaS, Saun & Starr and Sleater-Kinney… Download/Subscribe Previous: Episode158 -…
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A spirited story of the psychic and the Colonel
from alpheus.org: On a warm autumn afternoon in 1874, Henry Steel Olcott, an attorney and popular New York journalist, found himself in Vermont looking for ghosts. On assignment for his newspaper, he planned to investigate one of the séances, or “spook shops,” that were then enjoying a surge of popularity across America. Olcott’s credentials as…
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@RadioFreeBlood: James Evan Pilato on Limited Hangout
Media Monarchy joins Jack Blood for the very merry month of May to talk about Bin Laden’s bookshelf, Letterman’s 33 years and phony filibusters + ‘This Day In History’ headlines and more on Radio Free Blood! Download/Subscribe
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How the Council of Nicea Changed the World
from livescience.com: When Constantine became the first Christian leader of the Roman Empire in the 4th century, his vast territory was populated by a hodgepodge of beliefs and religions. Within his own young religion, there was also dissent, with one major question threatening to cleave the popular cult — as it was at the time…
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“Masonic Police Force” Uncovered in Los Angeles
from vigilantcitizen.com: Claiming to be descendants of the Knights Templar, the Masonic Fraternal Police Department vowed to “protect Masonic Grandmasters” across 33 states. Three California residents were arrested on April 30th on suspicion of impersonating a police officer and were released later that day. Claiming to be the “oldest police force in the world”, the…
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Ancient Deity Drawing May Shed Light on Rise of Andean Religion
from scientificamerican.com: A painted gourd fragment recovered from Peru has added an interesting piece to the archaeological puzzle of where and how religion evolved in pre-Columbian Andean society. Estimated to be more than 4,000 years old, the artifact may be the earliest representation of one of the principal gods in primitive South American religion. The…


