Month: August 2015
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The British Occult Secret Service, The Untold Story
from newdawnmagazine.com: It is not really surprising that historically occultism and espionage have often been strange bedfellows. The black art of espionage is about obtaining secret information and witches, psychics and astrologers have always claimed to be able to predict the future and know about things hidden from ordinary people. Gathering intelligence is carried out…
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The Secret Spiritual History of Calculus
from scientificamerican.com: In the 17th century Italian mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri proposed that every plane is composed of an infinite number of lines and every solid of an infinite number of planes. One could use these “indivisibles,” he said, to calculate length, area and volume—an important step on the way to modern integral calculus. Swiss mathematician…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode173 – Don’t Wait Up
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode173 – Don’t Wait Up which features brand new sounds from Swervedriver, Robert DeLong, Menace Beach, Futurebirds, Low, Daniel Romano, Charlie Parr, The Dead Weather, Drinks, Here We Go Magic, Electric Wire Hustle & Kimbra, Reina del Cid, Reuben Hollebon and Golden Gardens… Download/Subscribe Previous: Episode172…
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#Obama Meets With #IsraelLobby After #IranDeal
Barack Obama to Seek Repair of U.S.-Israel Relations After Iran Vote: “President Barack Obama said Friday he plans to move quickly after next month’s congressional vote on the Iran nuclear deal to repair U.S. relations with Israel, following months of strained relations over his diplomatic outreach to Tehran… The president, in a webcast hosted by…
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The Fembots of #AshleyMadison
The Fembots of Ashley Madison: “Now we know that almost none of the woman in the Ashley Madison database ever used the site. The question is, was this a deliberate fraud? Or was it just a dating site gone wrong? Yesterday I published the results of my analysis of the Ashley Madison member database, which…
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“So Help Me God”: A George Washington Myth that Should Be Discarded
from historynewsnetwork.org: One of the most widely held myths about George Washington is that immediately after he took the prescribed oath to become the nation’s first President, he solemnly added the words, “So help me God” and thus began a tradition that has been followed ever since. Unfortunately, this myth, accepted by such fine historians…
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Disco and the End of Atheism
from americanvision.org: Atheism seems to be on the rise. A number of young people are taking to it like they did to disco in the 1970s. But alas, like all trends, it met its end on Disco Demolition Night July 12, 1979 at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, where a crate filled with records was…
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John Frum and the Cargo Cults
from damninteresting.com: Every year on February 15th, natives of Tanna Island in the Republic of Vanuatu hold a grand celebration in honor of an imaginary man named John Frum. Villagers clothe themselves in homemade US Army britches, paint “USA” on their bare chests and backs, and run a replica of Old Glory up the flagpole…
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode172 – Sugar ♬
♫Makin’ a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode172 – Sugar which features brand new sounds from The Good Life, Saintseneca, SOAK, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Ezra Furman, Royal Headache, ScotDrakula, Hezekiah Jones, Silversun Pickups, Briana Marela, The Selecter, Peter Wolf Crier, El Vy, Vök, Other Lives vs. Dan Deacon and Strange…
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Interview w/Vince Edwards of LiveWithHonor.Info
Vince Edwards of LiveWithHonor.Info is creating a model for a network of self-sustaining communities. He’s got 20 acres in Colorado and has written a book about it called, “I’m Leaving Civilization, Wanna Come With Me?”. Download/Subscribe
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Temple Medicine, Oracles and the Making of Modernity
from forbiddenhistories.wordpress.com: Among the key figures in the hidden history of the human sciences are the Munich philosopher Carl du Prel (1839-1899) and the Cambridge classicist and psychologist Frederic W. H. Myers (1843-1901). Eclipsed by psychoanalysis, Jungian analytical psychology and other depth psychologies throughout the twentieth century, the contemporary significance and reception of these writers…
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Police Departments To Equip Patrol Cars With Guns That Shoot GPS Projectiles
from copblock.org: A company by the name of StarChase has developed what is being claimed as a high-tech way to safely deal with high speed car chases. The Virginia Beach company describes itself as a “pursuit-management technology company” and says that over 55,000 injuries occur each year due to high-speed pursuits. The technology will fire…
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Transhumanism — The Final Religion?
from disinfo.com: Transhumanism and its associated philosophies can be divisive. To be sure, the movement has some negative stereotypes attached to it. But nonetheless, it’s gaining traction in mainstream discourse. Over at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology, Dirk Bruere, explores transhumanism’s relationship to religion: After several decades of relative obscurity Transhumanism as a philosophical and…

