Month: May 2015
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode228 – Resurrecting Osama, Templars Arrested, Nullification Spreading
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode228 – Resurrecting Osama, Templars Arrested, Nullification Spreading 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: Seymour Hersh Says Official US Account of Osama’s Death is Full of Lies!…
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How Netflix’s New @Daredevil Series Makes #Torture Into a Virtue
from reason.com: The Daredevil series on Netflix is about how one man, alone and with right in his heart, can change a city for the better using only one weapon: torture. Politically the Daredevil series, based on the long-running Marvel comic about a blind superhero whose alter-ego is a criminal defense lawyer named Matt Murdock,…
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Women’s Role in Film on the Red Carpet at #Cannes
from reuters.com: Charlize Theron’s character Imperator Furiosa in “Mad Max: Fury Road” is pretty much on an equal footing with Tom Hardy playing the road warrior of the title, but the South African actress says it’s not often that way in an industry dominated by men. The much heralded reboot of the famous 1980s dystopian…
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The Strange and Mysterious History of the Ouija Board
from smithsonianmag.com: In February, 1891, the first few advertisements started appearing in papers: “Ouija, the Wonderful Talking Board,” boomed a Pittsburgh toy and novelty shop, describing a magical device that answered questions “about the past, present and future with marvelous accuracy” and promised “never-failing amusement and recreation for all the classes,” a link “between the known…
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‘Intruder Spray’: Subway Restaurant Armed With Traceable Synthetic DNA Mist
from RT.com: A Subway restaurant in Knoxville, Tennessee is now equipped with a product known as SelectaDNA, which aims to tag anyone who breaks in with an identifying spray containing a DNA code viewable only under ultraviolet light. The “intruder spray,” as it is nicknamed, contains “a unique DNA code which can be used to…
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Espionage and Occultism: The True Nature of Secret Societies
from jwmt.org: For as long as the hairless, semi-domesticated Killer Ape has been making war on the tribe next door, there has been espionage; spying, sabotage and subversion, intrigue, double dealing and power grabs, all of which can be considered as varieties of espionage. In their original sense, these activities were simply forms of politics,…
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: $9 Microcomputer Kickstarting a Revolution?
from cnet.com: What can you do with a $9 computer? Just about anything. A new microcomputer called Chip is hot on crowd-funding site Kickstarter. It promises an easy way to learn how to program with a tiny board that packs Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and internal storage — something you don’t find in another popular microcomputer, Raspberry…
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Ashes, Yarmulkes and the Hijab: Communitas and Religious Symbols
from blogs.scientificamerican.com: Today is Ash Wednesday, the start of the Lenten season for Western Christians—the 40 days (or 46 if you count weekends) leading up to Easter. Last year, I discussed the actions of a local homeless woman, who used the observance to help her connect with passersby: she would say “I went to church…
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#FastFood Kills Gut Bacteria That Can Keep You Slim, Study Finds
from theaustralian.com.au: Fast food diets make people fat not just through excess calories but by killing off the gut bacteria that help people burn off their excess energy, a leading British researcher has found. Diets with just a few highly processed ingredients, rather than the dozens of foods found in a healthy diet, are so…
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#ThirtyThree-Year @CIA Vet: #ISIS Could Direct 9/11-Style Attack
from usatoday.com: The Islamic State simply inspired the deadly assault by two men on an exhibit of cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed near Dallas last week, CIA veteran Michael Morell says. But it’s only a matter of time before the jihadist group is likely to be in a position to direct more elaborate attacks on…
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The Long Forgotten History of Tolerance for Religions of All Kinds in the Middle East
from historynewsnetwork.org: The Middle East is fertile ground for religions. Its deserts, mountains and marshes have inspired mystics and prophets; its tribes have provided followers and fighters who can form a new prophet’s core following; and older, persecuted religions can find refuge in its impassable topography. Also, although much of that region seems today to…
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Why Transhumanism Won’t Work
from futurisms.thenewatlantis.com: This weekend, a philosophy professor will step up to the podium at Harvard University’s Science Center and drop a bomb on the audience gathered for the annual transhumanist showcase now called the “H+ Summit.” Although he shares their aspirations and even tells me that he “would love to be uploaded,” he will explain…
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Why Bad Science Is Like Bad Religion
from huffingtonpost.com: In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. My concern here is with the bigger picture. I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode157 – Hold On Tight
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode157 – Hold On Tight which features brand new sounds from Whitehorse, Greg Holden, Bouquet, US Elevator, Oddisee, 79rs Gang, Bhi Bhiman, Sweet Spirit, Beach Baby, POW!, Ava Luna, Speedy Ortiz, Warpaint and Rocky Votolato… Download/Subscribe Previous: Episode156 – Light It Up **************************************** ♬Liner Notes♬: It’s…
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Micro-Psi and String Theory: How Occultists Beat Physicists to the Punch
from blog.world-mysteries.com: In few, if any, science textbooks or records of Nobel laureates will you find the name of a bona fide and publicly acknowledged occultist or clairvoyant. This, however, is not because such individuals never contributed anything to the history of science. On the contrary, it is due to a profound hubris and acute…