On the Impermanence of All Things
Recently I’ve been thinking on what needs to be done to prepare for the future. With all of the disasters that seem to be right around the corner, preparation for these things is a daunting task. It seems like we are about to witness some great changes worldwide as the snowballing economic, socio-political and spiritual problems are about to slap us in the face in a way that is more personal than we are accustomed to.
The deeper I think about it, the more I realize what true preparation is and what it is not. For the last few years, I’d thought of preparation in the “survival” sense, sacrificing many other aspects of my life so that I’d be ready for the big event that was down the pike.
Survivalists will tell you that preparation is storing up supplies of non-perishable foods, weapons, ammunition, etc. They want to be ready to “tough it out” when all hell breaks loose, but all of the supplies and equipment in the world won’t help you if you lose it, someone steals it or it is destroyed in a catastrophe. read full article »
How to Improve Health With Helpful Bacteria
When most of us think about what we can do to stay healthy and promote health and longevity, the solutions that society provides come to mind: bathing our bodies constantly with antibacterial soap, eating pasteurized foods, taking anti-biotics when we get infections and zapping our foods with microwaves.
All of these commonly-accepted practices cause great harm to the balance of good versus bad bacteria in your gastro-intestinal tract, tipping the scale in favor of the bad bacteria. This can have a drastic effect on overall health. read full article »
Is There Anything Good About Men? And Other Tricky Questions
By John Tierney | tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com
What percentage of your ancestors were men?
No, it’s not 50 percent, as I’ll explain shortly. But first let me credit the source, Roy F. Baumeister, who answered that question – and a lot of other ones – in an address on Friday at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco. I recommend reading the whole speech: “Is There Anything Good About Men?”
As you might expect, he did find something good to say about men, but the speech wasn’t an apologia for the gender, or a whine about the abuse heaped on men. Rather, it was a shrewd and provocative look at the motivational differences between men and women – and at some of the topics (like the gender imbalance on science faculties) that got Larry Summers in so much trouble at Harvard. Dr. Baumeister, a prominent social psychologist who teaches at Florida State University, began by asking gender warriors to go home. read full article »
Ron Paul Wins By Landslide in Alabama Straw Poll
Tom Tancredo – 0 (0%)
Sam Brownback – 2 (.75%)
John McCain – 2 (.75%)
Mike Huckabee – 6 (2%)
Rudy Giuliani – 7 (3%)
Fred Dalton Thompson – 9 (3%)
Duncan Hunter – 10 (4%)
Mitt Romney – 14 (5%)
Ron Paul – 216 (81%)
Tags: Election 2008, Ron Paul
U.S. Commercial Debt Meltdown
Now the credit derivative implosion problem has worked its way into the commercial paper market which since last week has declined by $90 billion. The word is that the commercial paper market for all purposes is closed down, yet Professor Bernanke sleeps on. No one can say with a straight face that a shut down commercial paper market will fail to shut down the US Economy. It will.
The Dow was down 300 points until rumors of a secret meeting being held at the Fed made their rounds. When that one ran out of steam the next rumor was a major injection of cash was going to be made into Bear Stearns. That has to give you an idea what people think about Bear Stearns’s financial condition and therefore most other major investment banking firms with prime names. read full article »
Tags: Economic Collapse, Jim Sinclair
TED Talks: The Metaverse of Imagery is About to Merge
Seadragon is a program which allows massive amounts of image data to be viewed and organized in whatever way desired. This allows one to view a virtually unlimited amount of visual data including images and text.
The Photosynth software, powered by Seadragon, has the capability to pull together a large collection of photos taken of a certain place. The photos can be spatially related to one another based upon the metadata and graphical analysis. The demo shows a view of the Notre Dame Cathedral that was created by thousands of photos scraped from Flickr.
video: Blaise Aguera y Arcas Demos Photosynth and Seadragon
Evidence of the Existence of Aliens and Extra-Terrestrial Craft
A friend recently showed me some interesting footage, much of which is not widely known of outside of the UFO/ET research community. The footage is enough to make anyone rethink their assumptions about whether or not advanced life-forms are actively interacting with the Earth and its people.
The first video is a NASA video, which was shot their famous “tether mission,” where they unfurled a tether that was several kilometers long. The tether broke and went spinning off into space where it stretched out.
While they were filming the tether, they started seeing several sorts of craft flying all around the tether, both in front of and behind, some of these craft were over 2km in Diameter, judging from their size in relation to the huge tether and their appearance behind it, signifying that the craft must be at least the length of the proportion of the tether which it spans in the image. read full article »
Cheney – why we shouldn’t take Baghdad (1994)
Video Surfaces of Cheney, in 1994, Warning That An Invasion of Iraq Would Lead to ‘Quagmire’
NEW YORK It’s not the first time that citizen “investigative journalists” have uncovered some embarrassing, or telling, nugget from the past that apparently remained buried for years. But it has happened again with the posting of a now wildly popular video on YouTube that shows Dick Cheney explaining in 1994 that trying to take over Iraq would be a “bad idea” and lead to a “quagmire.”
The people who put it up come from a site called Grand Theft Country, the on-screen source appears to be the conservative American Enterprise Institute, and the date on the screen is April 15, 1994. That looks right, by the look of Cheney. read full article »
Dr. Steven Jones Presents New 9/11 Evidence
Here is a fascinating video of BYU Physicist Steven Jones presenting new evidence regarding the results of his analysis (energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy) of the WTC dust. The dust was found to match with thermite residues, thus providing irrefutable scientific evidence for use of thermite in the demolition of the World Trade Center towers.
This video is a must-see for anyone who wants to understand the scientific evidence for alternative theories about the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11; including new experiments conducted by Dr. Jones which were collected and analyzed over the past 5 years. read full article »
Tags: 9/11, Steven Jones
Bush Set To Veto the Bill To Remove Mercury From Infant Vaccines
President Bush would veto the HHS-Labor-Education Appropriations Bill because of the cost and “objectionable provisions” such as a measure to ban the use of childhood flu vaccines that contain thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative.
Autism advocacy groups are outraged because President Bush stated in a questionnaire during his 2004 campaign: “I support the removal of Thimerosal from vaccines on the childhood national vaccine schedule. During a second term as President, I will continue to support increased funding to support a wide variety of research initiatives aimed at seeking definitive causes and/or triggers of autism. It is important to note that while there are many possible theories about causes or triggers of autism, no one material has been definitely included or excluded.” read full article »