Recent ruminations

You may have heard from the video by Tom Cruise on $c!ento!ogy, that was taken off-line by same institute. It is still available at Gawker.  The videos (in complete form) are also available below. Download and distribute to your liking:

On 02/06/2008 we discovered the Iranian router to be off-line. All the graphs were empty.

Was it  ... ?

A re-edited version of LC 2nd edition is out, and here it is! It has been toned down and is less confrontational then the earlier edit. Some of the more confrontational material has been left out and new material added so that it plays better to the average skeptical person. LCFC is also available as torrent.

Released September 8th; a video from the families who fought to create The 9/11 Commission -- and succeeded

Headline: LA Weekly reported Mahmmud Ahmed (Top ISI Official) ordered the transfer of funds from Pakistani banks to Florida, where it was picked up and distributed by Mohammed Atta to the 9/11 hijackers via money orders throughout the United States to sponsor the attacks.

This documentary presents the many-faceted events that led up to, and then scrutinizes, the 9/11 Comission hearings. Massive injustices and mis-representations are brought to light and "exposed" by respected members of the mainstream American media, and from the families themselves in the narrative of events that shaped most greatly our world today;

In between everything else: "That I can be named paranoia doesn't mean they're not after me."

In conversations a couple of years ago, I said that in the next cycle it would be highly unlikely that "demonizing" of "others" by governments to create more fear in order to gain public acceptance of more control, would be based on "race" or "religion" ... likely intelligentsia would be demonized next time around. That's us. And here it is.

This is the story of Anne, her partner and their family: "If you are intelligent, and you have friends, and you don't belong to any specific part of the left movement, then you could be a terrorist."

Download 9 min

Being warned that a US Spy satellite is going to hit Earth I investigated what is known on the web.

Articles seem to display all the signs of a non-confrontational confused response. Many articles mentioning statements of so-called government officials and experts include:

"could contain hazardous materials" : Does that include ...

Overview

The authors take the thesis that, prior to World War I, the world effectively lived in a state of globalization, which they term the "First Era of Globalization."

The CIA's Secret Manual on Coercive Qestioning

By Juan Santos, The Fourth World, December 30, 2007

... Naomi Klein is a writer, one who sees with the eyes of her heart, one who backs the knowledge and vision of the heart with the most rigorous research - research she uses to build the sharpest and most aggressively articulated and documented of cases, a case developed as if our lives depended on it. They do. And Klein, like Subcomandante Marcos, has taken sides, the side of the poor. Marcos has said her latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, “is one of those books that is worth having in your hands. It is also a very dangerous book.” ...

Das Quecksilber fällt, die Zeichen stehen auf Sturm,
Nur blödes Kichern und Keifen vom Kommandoturm
Und ein dumpfes Mahlen grollt aus der Maschine.
Und rollen und Stampfen und schwere See,
Die Bordkapelle spielt „Humbatäterä",
Und ein irres Lachen dringt aus der Latrine.
Die Ladung ist faul, die Papiere fingiert,
Die Lenzpumpen leck und die Schotten blockiert,
Die Luken weit offen und alle Alarmglocken läuten.
Die Seen schlagen mannshoch in den Laderaum
Und Elmsfeuer züngeln vom Ladebaum,
Doch keiner an Bord vermag die Zeichen zu deuten!

Der Steuermann lügt, der Kapitän ist betrunken

Prof. Bryan Caplan, Econ 918, Spring, 1998

• The Monetary Explanation Proposed: The Classic Case of Friedman and Schwartz
• The Monetary Interpretation Confirmed: The International Evidence of Eichengreen and Bernanke
• The AS Puzzle: Whatever Happened to Long-Run Neutrality?
• Questions

"Mfkzt", used by ancients to “feed their light bodies” – or travel to an “alternative dimensional state of being.” The powder found in ancient Egyptian stores is white.

According to one source, "Mfkzt" was the ancient Egyptian name for a transformed state of gold. By a process of arc heating, gold and other platinum group metals (PGM's: iridium, palladium, rodium, osmium, and ruthenium) can be turned into a single atom or monatomic substance that has superconductive properties.

According to another source "Mfkzt" is made from deposits (perhaps sediments) taken from the bottom of the Dead Sea.

Did my cousin read my previous post on Dragons, Unicorns and Gryphons?

He just sent me a link to Spectacular Results With Electronic Medicine, truly spliced genomes of lions, our guardians, and an eagle, together making a gryphon:

Dec 1, 2007
An incident that occurred in the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina earlier this month is at least a curious coincidence, or it may possibly even represent assassination and suppression of another highly important “energy from the vacuum” (EFTV) invention. At least such a possibility should be considered, and then if all the facts warrant questioning the autopsy finding of death from natural causes, the incident should be more deeply investigated.

The victim’s name was M. DeGeus. DeGeus was found slumped in his car in the long term parking area of the airport, totally unresponsive. He was rushed to the hospital, and was pronounced dead very quickly, according to http://www.WBTV.com

The resulting autopsy indicated heart failure, and thus concluded “death from natural causes”. Hence police are not investigating it any further, and they are not considering it as a possible homicide.

• What if the base of objectivity is subjective?
• What if no formal system will ever be able to prove itself?
• What if consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg?
• What if consciousness follows reality, meaning forms itself after an experience or action?
• What if consciousness is an illusion?
• What if consciousness (re)orders events in linear time?
• What if *I* don't exist, yet *me* does?
• What if the whole world is a living entity and everything is connected?
• What if we cannot regulate, manage, and plan changes in our environment?
• What if the world will stop and egg, and acceptance of our dark parts, our subconscious and unconscious, is required?
• What if after the three days of darkness, we get two harvests a year, animals are different, and we get one generation time of humane peace and rebuilding (lif and lifthrasir) before the psychopaths strike again.

... It’s hard for me to exaggerate or overstate what is happening. Economists call this monetary-expansion process “inflation.” It really should be called “dilution” -- dilution of the money supply, and consequently its value. This inevitably, sooner or later, causes rising consumer prices, which laymen (and the media – and even Wall Street) will mistakenly call “inflation.” Calling rising prices “inflation” is like calling falling trees “hurricanes,” but sooner or later consumer prices respond ...

A little excerpt from an excerpted condensation from Chapter 1 of Howard Ruff’s New 2008 Edition of How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, due in April, 2008