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Clandestine LSD experiments in mind control and memory-clearing figure heavily in the below summary of events :

The CIA, with a little help from the Nazis, accidentally helped invent hippies while they were trying to figure out how to brainwash communists.

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Robert Wright :

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the new atheists really got traction in the years after 9/11. The rise of fundamentalism in Islam, but also in Christianity in America, has so highlighted the dark side of religion that people denouncing religion as a whole have a receptive audience.

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Note not only the way the horn disappears into the matador’s stomach, but the number of knives and spikes the matador has rammed into the bull’s back :

More Photos & Video Here

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Look, it’s simple, you either find clowns intolerably creepy and disturbing or you don’t.

If you do, be warned. Clown Funeral ahead :

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Movies depicting the great cities of Earth being destroyed by eco-disasters are nothing new.

Way back in 1933, a now rarely seen movie called Deluge showed New York City being smashed by monster waves. Here’s a clip :

A summary of the 1927 novel on which this movie was based from an excellent i09 piece on the history of Eco-Disasters in early science fiction :

A global flood turns oceans into deserts, and sinks land masses everywhere except what remains of the English midlands, which are transformed into an archipelago. (Hello, Waterworld.) With a marked lack of idealism, Wright - who also translated Dante’s Inferno, and who uses this novel to criticize 1920s British society - tells the story of a new Adam and Eve: Martin Webster, a lawyer who attempts to find his wife; and Claire Arlington, an athlete (”like a valkyrie”) and one of the few women to survive the flood. The two store up food, fend off feral dogs, and battle sex-starved and flood-maddened miners, laborers, and vagabonds. If it wasn’t so un-cozy, you’d have to call Wright’s novel an early example of the cozy catastrophe - because the author is obviously thrilled that modern civilization, with its motorcars and bureaucrats, is gone.

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Any repeat-viewing fan of John Carpenter’s The Thing will feel a thrill up the spine when they look at this photo of a massive unexplained circle of heat under the ice of the world’s deepest lake :

One massive unexplained circle of heat that can be easily spotted from the International Space Station is weird enough. But there’s a second ring under the ice, at the other end of the lake, and it’s about the same size.

More At Wired

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This ad appeared recently in a London newspaper. Once.

Schweppes claimed it was “satire” in the “great British tradition.” The Mexican embassy was upset.The ad won’t run again.

However, that doesn’t mean this technique of getting some leg and arm space on a crowded Tube is not effective.

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Jesse Ventura :

“This country will impeach a President for cheating on his wife, but we won’t impeach a President for lying to us and taking us to war where thousands are killed. Something is wrong with that”

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By Darryl Mason

You can ask answer machine Wolfram Alpha anything. These are birthday temperatures in Sydney across my life :

You can ask it the deepest philosophical questions :

WoPha appears to know all.

But not everything.

You won’t always get an answer from Wolfram Alpha, sometimes it doesn’t know what the hell you’re asking it four or five times in a row, so you have to warn it not to mess with you :

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However great it will be for scientists and dedicated researchers of statistics and graphs, the answer engine point blank refuses to come clean when you bombard it with certain questions about where its true loyalties lie :

When you get specific, it chooses to play dumb :

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Something very similar to Wolfram Alpha logarithms will be in the first robohuman brains that can almost pass for old human.

However, if they want to move amongst us mostly undetected, they will have to come up with a better answer than “I am not sure what to do with your input.”

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By Darryl Mason

What is that little reassuring phrase that politicians like to tell us when we say we don’t like the level of surveillance and scrutiny they put us under as we go about our daily, mostly non-law breaking lives?

Oh yeah, here it is :

“If you have done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to be worried about.”

So why are some British MPs so worried, and why are some threatening, or promising, suicide because their taxpayer-funded, gratuitously expensive lives are being exposed?

The campaign to expose MPs’ Commons expense claims has become so personal that it has started to resemble a McCarthy-style witchhunt, a Tory backbencher said today.

Nadine Dorries, the member for Mid-Bedfordshire, also warned that the relentless drip-drip of leaked claims was creating such an atmosphere of terror that there was a real risk of an MP committing suicide.

“People are seriously beginning to crack,” Ms Dorries told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “The last day in Parliament this week was, I would say, completely unbearable.

“I have never been in an atmosphere or environment like it, when people walk around with terror in their eyes and people are genuinely concerned, asking, ‘Have you seen so and so? Are they in their office? They’ve not been seen for days.’

“There’s a really serious concern that this has got to a point now which is almost unbearable for any human being to deal with.”

Ms Dorries’ comments, echoing postings on her weblog, appeared to be part of a fightback by MPs tired of having their reputations dragged through the mud even though they may have broken no Commons rules.

In an angry outburst yesterday one MP who was forced to stand down over the size of his gardening bills complained that his critics had merely been jealous of his “very, very large house”.

“I’ve done nothing criminal, that’s the most awful thing,” said Anthony Steen, who spent £90,000 (on) his second home, including big sums for lopping trees. “And do you know what it’s all about? Jealousy.”

Jealousy.

This ignorant groffon has no idea, no vivid comprehension of the level of outrage that boils amongst the British over this just plain fucking outrageous swindling of taxpayers for everything from dog food to maintenance of a moat. A moat.

As the Daily Show’s John Stewart said, England now has a real Watergate.

Jealously.

In an earlier age, when so many people were not so subdued by prescription drugs, shit food and cheap corner shop alcohol, the British would be hanging some of these scumbags from the thickest high branches in that 500 tree forest.

There were so many expenses claims in the original leak to the UK Daily Telegraph, newspaper staff are still going through them, days later. It could take weeks to unveil the true depths of this continuous, malicious mugging by fountain pen.

The panic amongst the British MPs is obviously spreading because many of them know there is worse, incomprehensible exposes of intense, ‘Fuck The Peasants’ corruption still to come.

Do not be surprised if a British MP has tried to claim for the cleaning of a suit of armour, and jousting sticks.

England is right on the edge, perhaps closer to anarchy and civil disorder than even during the Miners Strikes. The people are ready for 18th century style justice. They’re not going to get it.

And the newcomers to politics, the Farmer Johns, the unemployed 22 year old woman who has a better way than fighting Left Vs Right paradigms, or the single dad from Manchester, the stream of people who could come and revolutionise British politics and smash the two party system to pieces, will never get there.

That is what the anti-terror laws are for.

A man or woman who spoke to the people, like a real person, who has no affiliation to any existing political party, would never be allowed to gather thousands in the streets for speeches about “taking back Parliament”, the police will smash any and everyone they need to. They’re allowed to do this now, ram shields into faces, do this to non-violent people, to passers-by, while they send in the ski-masked ‘helpers’ to throw bottles and smash windows to get the one-sided rioting started.

Those who want to use this moment to strip away the facade of democracy in England, and bury forever the centuries old belief that sitting in Parliament entitles you to a stunning range of benefits and freebies that are denied to those who work outside, those who work the hardest, who work themselves to death, those who want to come up with something better will be followed, harassed, infiltrated, profiled and psychologically assassinated at every step of their rise.

This is how this ancient business is done now.

When those who know they can change everything, and find millions who agree with them, are blamed for terror attacks they didn’t have anything to do with, the vast majority of the public will not believe the ‘official story’. They know it won’t be the truth.

They don’t even have that trick now to shake, rattle and terrify the British public back into plodding silence.

So how will the British establishment stop this from escalating?

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By Darryl Mason

After being sprung bowing to the Saudi King, US President Obama has repeatedly tried to visually remind Americans that because he is a tall man, he must bow to those much shorter than him, particularly Saudis and small children.

So began a series of official White House potraits of Obama caught mid-bow, sending the message. “Hey, I do this all the time. It’s no big deal. Why aren’t you noticing how I began my Secret Muslim plan to wind down usury by going after the credit card companies instead of focusing on twaddle and pliff about my preference for bowing so I can talk face to face to someone?”

Okay, we get it, you bow a lot. Let’s move on. But the White House thinks it needs to remind everybody there is nothing weird or unusual about bowing to Saudis, or small children, so yet another official White House Obama Bows portrait is released :

Great Moments In Obowmarama :

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A ‘Shock’ ad for British teenagers that is actually shocking.

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A fantastic interview below with a free-thinking American who inspires hope that The Truth Behind ‘The Truth’ is finally getting out, a man who I absolutely loathed once, hated with a “should I kick in the TV right now, or wait until after the Jake The Snake match?” intensity when he was in the wrestling game, an interview full of Take Absolutely No Shit From Dickheads attitude and deal it back faster than you get dealt it , and note how fast the Fox News host changes the subject when talk comes around to the financial connections between the Bin Laden dynasty and the Bush dynasty :

Politics, the American economy, the Bush legacy, and it’s one of the most popular YouTube clips online at this moment.

This Jesse Ventura interview is less than 48 hours old, and already has wracked up hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube, and across the various other blogs and alternative news sites that have re-hosted it. No nudity, no surfing dogs or skateboarding midgets or typing cats, but still hundreds of thousands of mostly young Americans have watched this interview and shared it with their friends. Why? Because Ventura blasts us with riveting, smacked-face Truth.

He just has to remember to stay out of small planes.

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A hater of youth and the Free culture and the mostly (for now) unrestricted information exchange of the internet writes a book :

…“the abandonment of grammar, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, et cetera, and the substitution for these things of either nothing or of idiotic and inexpressive pictograms, jargon and expletives, is often not a choice but an artifact of a decadent and dysfunctional educational system.”

I think it’s fantastic that young people feel incredibly free, are in fact utterly free, to reinvent not only their language and how they spell the words they use (goodbye vowels) while they kick in the teeth the staid, old rules of grammar, as they text and Facebook and Twitter and blog themselves crazy, but that they also feel monumentally empowered to revolutionise their vocabulary, just like Shakespeare, making up new words to replace the old worn-out ones, even if those words are in fact symbols, an emoticon followed by LMFAO, or a tiny GIF of a few seconds of looped video.

We are moving into an age of visual language replacing written ones, it doesn’t matter if you don’t like it, it’s happening.

The English language hasn’t seen such a shattering of the once elite-enforced rules and regulations of speaking and writing in its entire history. Shakespeare’s biggest and most enthusiastic audience was, of course, the youth of his day.

In another chapter Mr. Helprin rails against “mouth-breathing morons in backwards baseball caps and pants that fall down; Slurpee-sucking geeks who seldom see daylight; pretentious and earnest hipsters who want you to wear bamboo socks so the world won’t end; women who have lizard tattoos winding from the navel to the nape of the neck; beer-drinking dufuses who pay to watch noisy cars driving around in a circle for eight hours at a stretch; and an entire race of females, now entering middle age, that speaks in North American Chipmunk and seldom makes a statement without, like, a question mark at the end?”

Wow, how he must hate every second he spends outside his home walking where young Americans gather to talk and laugh, while he seethes with bitterness and discontent.

Ths boffo c r e a k y GeezR rlly needz 2 LOL MoRe.

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Err, The Corrupt, The Dodgy, The Compromised

If you believe in this type of thing, this mind-boggling appearance on Jay Leno by a very young girl effortlessly answering questions that would confound the vast majority of adults would be a perfect example of the brilliance of Indigo Children.

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By Darryl Mason

Ho, ho, ho, you heard that from Alex Jones? You read Prison Planet? Ha hahahaha! Isn’t he one of those loons who’s been going on for years about a new world order and false flag terrorism and total surveillance and global taxes and a One World Bank? Oh wait….that shit doesn’t seem so crazy anymore….

Jones, sounding these days a lot less like a screaming, ranting, angry American, is spot on when he explains why free independent alternative online news media is leaping ahead of the mainstream corporate media.

The truly delicious thing about the immolation of corporately compromised news media is that they are beginning to pick up on the news themes and once scarily conspiracy-heavy links at sites like WhatReallyHappened.com, PrisonPlanet.com and Rense.com because they can see the massive online audiences these sites, and hundreds of alternative news blogs, already have and are continuing to grow.

Why, the mainstream news chiefs wonder, are people going to these sites for their news instead of coming to us? But they know why.

The audiences for alternative news, the Truth Behind ‘The Truth’, is growing fast and vastly, while it seems audiences for sites like the Washington Post, or CNN, or the New York Times has peaked.

As those closed newspapers now only publishing online editions have already discovered, you won’t find a huge online audience if you keep publishing the kind of fluff and historical disinformation and war industry lies and PR celebrity press release news-o-tainment that can be found on every other mainstream news media site.

The alternative media doesn’t have to change what it does to capture ever larger online audiences, it’s the mainstream media that has to reinvent itself and replicate the kind of content alternative news media built their audiences on to compete now.

If they don’t, they will die.

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By Darryl Mason

NeoCon propagandist Mark Steyn was flown to Australia for speeches and interviews by the Howard government a few years back, racking up a taxpayer tab believed to be in excess of $15,000.

What did the Australian taxpayer get in return? Fuck all. The interviews he did were terrible, full of his ‘I’m So Witty Aren’t I?’ guff and twaddle and more lies about the Iraq War to prop up his original lies. This miserable cunt laughed during one interview when conversation turned to the tens of thousands of civilians who lay dead in Iraq, thanks to the invasion and occupation he backed so heartily.

Now totally discredited by the ever emerging truth about the mountain of lies that led to the War On Iraq, that he so enthusiastically helped spread around and personally profited from, Mark Steyn now searches desperately for something, some way to be relevant, and he thinks he’s found a meme worthy of getting outraged about in the new Star Trek movie :

I see they followed the Casino Royale reboot template, and saved the catchphrase and the theme tune till the end. And then they threw both down the toilet. The theme music is horribly re-orchestrated and sounds very weedy. And “To boldly go where no man has gone before” is now “To boldly go where no-one has gone before…”

Surely this must rank as the world’s all-time most pitiful capitulation to political correctness. I don’t know what Leonard Nimoy was paid, but there’s no amount of money that could persuade me to read that line and so dishonor the original.

Why would anyone pay this squeaky voiced man to voiceover anything? You’re not Leonard Nimoy, fantasy boy, you’re a fucking moron.

His own readers remind Steyn of what an unresearched idiot he is :

UPDATE: Okay, I surrender. A gazillion readers say the line was changed for Star Trek: The Next Generation back in 1987. I seem to be the only one who missed it.

But no, he’s not wrong, it’s everybody else who’s wrong. So Nyah!

If the Casino Royale reboot was designed to get closer to the tougher Bond of Fleming’s first terse little novel, so the Star Trek back-to-the-beginning story should have had the guts to restore the original line. Two decades of illiterate PC fatuity is more than enough

Here’s Mark Steyn in December, 2003 :

The insurgency will continue for a few weeks yet, but it will peter out, like the dictator, not with a bang but a whimper.

And here’s Steyn only a couple of weeks after the Iraq War began :

This war is over.

Isolated atrocities will continue to happen in the days ahead, as dwindling numbers of the more depraved Ba’athists confront the totality of their irrelevance. But these are the death throes: the regime was decapitated two weeks ago, and what we’ve witnessed is the last random thrashing of the snake’s body.

….for everyone other than media naysayers, it’s the Anglo-Aussie-American side who are the geniuses. Rumsfeld’s view that one shouldn’t do it with once-a-decade force, but with a lighter, faster touch has been vindicated…

What a tool.

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The ‘War On Terror’ was a religious war, Christianity Vs Islam?

Crazy! You sound like one of those damned conspiracy theorists.

Draper’s biggest find is a collection of daily cover sheets that Rumsfeld approved for the Secretary of Defense Worldwide Intelligence Update, a highly classified digest prepared for a tiny audience, including the president, and often delivered by hand to the White House by the defense secretary himself. These cover sheets greeted Bush each day with triumphal color photos of the war headlined by biblical quotations. GQ is posting 11 of them, and they are seriously creepy.

Yes, they are.

Then President George W. Bush declaring the new War Of Christianity had begun shortly after the 9/11 attacks :

This crusade, this war on terrorism…is gonna take a while.”

Donald Rumsfeld never let Bush forget he was fighting a religious war.

And he never did.

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In a comment on this story about why China’s Yuan will replace the US Dollar as the world’s reserve currency, Michael Rivero shows how he can be one of the most powerfully concise commentators in the realitystream media :

We cannot make China out as the villain here, because they have exercised fiscal restraint to the point where they have a surplus. China, in large part, has been making deals, instead of dropping bombs, to get what it wants and needs.

US government de-regulation of the financial industry, coupled with the massive debt being wrung up on funding these immoral wars without end, have put the US in the financial position in which it finds itself, and the power brokers in Washington and their high-roller financial friends have no one but themselves to blame.

It would have taken an editorial in the Financial Times 1200 words to explain that.

It’s remarkable to look around the mainstream media and see just how few ever mention the impact of $1 trillion spent in the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, with at least two trillion more in post-war costs to come, have helped shatter the American economy.

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By Darryl Mason

Australian current affairs show Dateline aired a small number of the thousands of still classified Abu Ghraib sexual torture photos back in 2006. These are believed to be some of the same photos President Obama is now having second thoughts about declassifying. They say they’re worried, like President Bush was, what effect such images might have on the people of Iraq, and across the Arab world. The people of Iraq, and the hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims who watch Al Jazeera already know the depths of depravity American soldiers and contractors sank to in that horrorshow. They don’t want us to know.

Rumours persist inside American media and military circles that there are other photos and video of Iraqi children being raped, some in front of their parents, as part of the interrogation process.

The Muslim and Arab world know all about what happened there, much more than we in the West do. The key worry amongst western governments is not what Arabs will do if all the photos got out, but what we might do.

Now let’s turn to the considered opinion of Rupert Murdoch’s leading Australian conservative commentator, and pro-war propagandist, to explain what we are seeing :

“the pictures of this beat-up controversy”

“the pictures of this beat-up controversy”

“the pictures of this beat-up controversy”

“the pictures of this beat-up controversy”

The conservative commentator, Andrew Bolt, is a one-time journalist who appears on Channel Nine, the ABC, various Australian radio stations, and is published in Australiia’s biggest selling newspaper and a fleet of other Murdoch papers and online news sites. Andrew Bolt believes the torture, humiliation, prolonged sexual brutalisation and killing of many innocent Iraqis in Abu Ghraib was “a beat-up controversy.”

I wonder if he would call it that if he had been dragged off the street and raped by a German Shepherd.

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