Gay Porn’s Erik Rhodes Is Dead After Slowly Dying in Public for Years

Surprisingly poignant, as clear, yet untreated addiction and depression issues ending in death usually are.  Gawker.  Excerpts:

On Wednesday night, adult performer Erik Rhodes (born James Elliott Naughtin) died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack that may have had something to do with his use of steroids, says Towleroad. He was 30 years old.


Rhodes seemed to consider putting it all out there as his round-the-clock job. I didn't know him from his porn work, which began in 2004, but from his painfully confessional online presence via a Blogspot blog he started in 2008 with a gushing post about a Marilyn Manson concert he attended. Things went downhill from there and his expressed misery crossed platforms and ran all the way through his most recent Tumblr post: five days ago, he discussed his steroid and human growth hormone usage, adding, "I'm waiting until i pop. Or my liver to fails… which every comes first."

Frontiers L.A.com points to a post from two months ago, in which Rhodes discussed his use of meth and a resulting 72-hour period he spent at Bellevue under observation. It's an extreme example of the kind of show-and-telling of his own destruction Rhodes did for over four years:
(There are several posts, but this one is most telling)

From February 16, 2009, "What A Shame (first part)"

I feel old. I think i'm starting to look old. This hard life i forced my body to endure is starting to show. I get a nosebleed almost everyday, my heartburn feels like i'm constantly being stabbed in the chest, my knees ache, my body aches. Painkillers are crutch in my life and just not for recreational use.

Pathetically i have even considered botox and all this other bullshit to help my battle with aging. If that isn't a new low for me... has vh-1 and this self absorbed society finally gotten to me to? If steroids and the couple hundred pills i pop a day weren't enough, what else can i do look pretty just alittle while longer? Who cares if my liver in struggling to work, who cares if it feels like i'm being punched in my kidneys all day long...honestly who cares. You know, turning 27 i sit there and say myself "only 3 years left, i better make them good".

Oh... i have given myself and expiration date, kinda like a carton of milk. You can't expect things to last forever, and with the way things are going, 30, i'm just gonna call it quits. That's if i even make it to 30. If things get better then i might change my mind but, that is what is engraved in my brain at the moment.

Sometimes when people die, we search for pieces to mash together and create a picture of why. There's no need for that here. This guy wrote his own eulogy and it's as emotionally articulate as any. Erik Rhodes was tortured, he wallowed and then he died at age 30. His demons were a formidable match for the notoriously destructive world of porn.

Poor thing:  It was all too much for him to handle.

Election Day! All Eyes On Greece, Please..

Greece's economic fate hangs in the balance, and will be decided shortly.  A sampling of the calm before the potential beginning of the Global Financial Super Storm..  Selections from Der Spiegel(via The Extinction Protocol) and Zero Hedge.  Excerpts: 


Greeks empty bank accounts ahead of historic election (Der Spiegel)



Many Greeks are emptying their bank accounts out of fear that the country may return to the drachma. But most of the money is not going abroad. Instead, individuals are storing cash in safe deposit boxes or at home — leading to an increase in burglaries. Joanna Stavropoulos is not proud of what she has done. “I had a guilty conscience when I withdrew my money from Greece,” says the 43-year-old. Of course she knew what would happen if everybody does the same: Greece’s banks would be threatened with collapse. But she says she had to think of her two-month-old daughter, Josephina, who is currently asleep on Joanna’s shoulder. Increasing numbers of Greeks are following Joanna Stavropoulos’ example and emptying their accounts. They are afraid that Greece may leave the euro zone and return to the drachma. Stavropoulos is one of the few people who know very well what this scenario would look like in concrete terms. As a journalist and NGO worker, she has traveled all over the world, most recently in Haiti and Iraq. “I have been to countries where banks closed,” she says. She was in Argentina, for example, when the government declared a national default. She has also lived in Zimbabwe, where three-digit inflation destroyed the currency. Joanna is sure that Greece could face the same thing if it returns to the drachma. “My country is going downhill,” she says. There is still little sign of panic in Greece, and there has not been a stampede to the banks. Nevertheless, people are withdrawing hundreds of millions of euros from the banks every day. In May alone, outflows totaled €5 billion. According to official figures, €80 billion has been withdrawn since the start of the crisis. Rich Greeks have long been moving billions to countries such as Italy or Switzerland, or buying luxury properties in London. But overall, according to estimates by the Greek central bank, only about one-fifth of the total money withdrawn has gone abroad. Many customers have left their money in the bank itself, Christiana says — but in a safe deposit box rather than in their accounts.
 
As Greek Banks Run Out Of Safe Deposit Boxes, An Eerie Calm Takes Over The Country 24 Hours Before D-Day (Zero Hedge.)
 
Oddly enough, despite the all too real dangers of a complete lock out by and of the local banks, Greeks refuse to believe that the worst case scenario could realistically happen:

There is still little sign of panic in Greece, and there has not been a stampede to the banks. Nevertheless, people are withdrawing hundreds of millions of euros from the banks every day. In May alone, outflows totaled €5 billion. According to official figures, €80 billion has been withdrawn since the start of the crisis.  

Which however is not to say that most people have not already commenced preparations:

Christiana (not her real name) can see the capital flight every day with her own eyes. The 46-year-old, who wishes to remain anonymous, works as an asset manager at a large Greek bank. "It's not just that it is increasing," she says of the withdrawals. It's not only major customers who have been taking out money in recent months, she explains, but all kinds of clients, from account holders with a few hundred euros to the bank's most important private customers. "Naturally, the wealthy ask particularly often what they should do with their money," she says.

Yet the most ironic moment in the Greek denouement will come when fractional reserve lending collapses onto itself:

Stavropoulos and her friends have a new strategy to deal with their daily expenses. "We charge everything to our credit cards," she says. If the Greek banks fail, they won't be able to collect the outstanding debts, she argues. "If they want to mess me around, I will do the same to them."

In other words, Greece is now America, where the vast majority of people also live on credit alone, and have taken up the following motto when dealing with banks: "you pretend to be solvent, we pretend to have money."


At the end of the day, it is all just one big global monetary circle jerk, only this time in reverse, as the snake of fractional reserve banking has finally started to eat its own tail. With people spending money they don't have, and in debt to their eyeballs to a banking system that itself is just as insolvent, is there any wonder that nobody really panics any more over daily threats the grand reset is finally coming?


But in the end, it probably won't even matter..


Citi's Buiter: Greece will be forced out of the euro regardless of who wins the Sunday elections.  (Zero Hedge)



New Democracy. Syriza. Doesn't matter. According to Citi's senior political analyst Tina Fordham, chief economist Willem Buiter, and global economist Ebrahim Rahbari, "any new Greek government, regardless of its composition, will struggle with implementation challenges related to the imposition of further austerity measures demanded by the Troika in exchange for further assistance," and as a result, they "consider it likely that a new troika deal would ultimately fall apart and lead to Grexit."



Citi notes that there is growing sense among European leaders that "promotion of economic growth can no longer be subordinated completely, even in fiscally unsustainable euro area member states, to the requirements of fiscal austerity," but no one has any idea what that means.


We will find out soon.  Riots will probably be forthcoming.  Cue Riot Dog, stage left..

Former aide says Tony Blair was pressured by Murdoch not to delay Iraq invasion

Drip, drip, drip..  More damaging allegations from Blair.  Any more bombshells, Alastair or Tony?  Please?   The Raw Story.  The Whole Thing:

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch allegedly telephoned then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair on March 11, 2003 — eight days before the U.S. invasion of Iraq — and urged him not to do anything that could delay the start of the conflict.


The allegation appears in the diaries of Blair’s former communications director, Alastair Campbell, excerpts of which have been appearing in The Guardian.

As summarized by the Associated Press, Blair told Campbell that he “felt the Murdoch call was odd, not very clever.” Both men suspected that the call “was prompted by Washington, and another example of their over-crude diplomacy.”

Blair recently admitted in testimony before Britain’s media ethics inquiry that Murdoch had phoned him three times during the run-up to the war. Murdoch himself claimed during the inquiry that he’d “never asked a prime minister for anything.”


According to the latest revelations, however, Murdoch wanted to let Blair know that his News International would support Britain if it backed the U.S. war. “Murdoch was pushing all the Republican buttons, how the longer we waited the harder it got,” Campbell wrote.

"Rosebud..  Rosebud.."  Small potatoes, really, when compared to his modern day counterpart. More to come, I'm sure..

Fukushima Triple Shot Is Not A Drink..

1.  Mystery Continues: Professor theorizes black substance on roads is actually radioactive particles — “Phenomenon occurs even in regular soil containing no cyanobacteria” — All roadside dirt can have high radiation, regardless of color.  Enenews  Excerpts:


There are two major theories on why the cyanobacteria in the black soil has such high levels of radiation, but nothing has been confirmed.



One theory posits that the radiation becomes concentrated in the cyanobacteria. There is scientific evidence that cyanobacteria absorbs cesium, but confirmation has yet to be made on whether such radiation concentration has occurred in the cyanobacteria found in the black soil samples.


Hayakawa’s theory is that the high radiation levels are due to radioactive cesium from the Fukushima nuclear accident that was pushed by rain and wind and accumulated along roads. He believes that the phenomenon occurs even in regular soil containing no cyanobacteria.


According to Hayakawa’s theory, all dirt along roads is capable of recording high radiation levels, regardless of the color of the soil.


2.  Good news/Bad news:  Tepco: New 60-ton cover on top of Unit No. 4 fuel pool installed (PHOTOS) /[JNN live camera] Red light between reactor 4 and 3


3.  BREAKING: Typhoon Guchol to cross Tokyo and then on to Fukushima - this could be it!  Maybe..  This is a good thread to refer back to, as they'll keep up with the typhoon's direction until it hits Tokyo and Fukushima, or veers off onto another course in real time.  Remember, this is a model, but couple the storm's potential with this little nugget:  Fukushima worker “Tepco is having difficulty to increase tanks because of poor ground”  Fukushima Diary.  Excerpts:


Related to this article..Possible uneven settlement of reactor 4



Tepco postponed the construction to increase tanks for the contaminated water.


They were planning to start the construction in July but it will be postponed to August.
Tepco explains it is for the construction scheduling and there is still enough capacity of the tank, but actual Fukushima worker, Happy11311 tweeted like this below

I think the construction of the new tanks is behind the schedule and it’s not for what Tepco explained. I think that’s because of the ground. They are taking time to build the base of the tanks.



Typhoon-style rain on already unstable ground will make the ground more or less stable?

Ocean X Baltic Sea UFO: Finally, An Update!

With every dispatch, the picture becomes less clear!  So much intrigue; I love it!  Ocean Explorer website.  Excerpts:

2012-06-15

NEWS RELEASE
15/6/2012, PRESS RELEASE

THE TREASURE HUNTERS, OCEAN X TEAM, DISCOVERED SOMETHING UNIQUE WHEN THEY DOVE DOWN TO THE MYSTERIOUS CIRCLE-SHAPED OBJECT IN THE BALTIC SEA

Treasure hunters confirm they have found something abnormal in the seabed
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 15, 2012

The Ocean X Team dove down to the circle-shaped object in the Baltic Sea and met something they never experienced before. First they thought it was just stone or a rock cliff, but after further observations the object appeared more as a huge mushroom, rising 3-4 meters/10-13 feet from the seabed, with rounded sides and rugged edges. The object had an egg shaped hole leading into it from the top, as an opening. On top of the object they also found strange stone circle formations, almost looking like small fireplaces. The stones were covered in something resembling soot.

“During my 20-year diving career, including 6000 dives, I have never seen anything like this. Normally stones don’t burn. I can’t explain what we saw, and I went down there to answer questions, but I came up with even more questions “, says Stefan Hogeborn, one of the divers at Ocean X Team.

The path to the object itself can be described as a runway or a downhill path that is flattened at the seabed with the object at the end of it.

“First we thought this was only stone, but this is something else. And since no volcanic activity has ever been reported in the Baltic Sea the find becomes even stranger. As laymen we can only speculate how this is made by nature, but this is the strangest thing I have ever experienced as a professional diver“, continues Peter Lindberg, one of the founder Ocean X Team.

Right now, scientists are examining samples from the circle-shaped object, and experts in sonar imaging are processing data from the ship to hopefully shed more light over the mysterious object.


2012-06-15


BREAKING NEWS


Please find below first updates from Ocean X Team in Swedish media.


http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/sa-ser-den-mystiska-cirkeln-ut-pa-nara-hall/  (Video)

So excited..

Baltic Sea 'UFO' still cloaked in secrecy

Some more background, and a better perspective on whatever this anomaly turns out to be..  The Examiner. Excerpts:

The so-called "Baltic Sea UFO" is in the news again this week after a research vessel returned to its co-ordinates and sent a team of divers down to the seabed for a closer look. Despite having a live feed and access to updates on Facebook, so far, only cryptic messages have been released.


What's down there? At this point, it's either the biggest story the world has ever known or a massive publicity stunt engineered to lure in faithful UFO disclosure advocates. Either way, the public (believers and non-believers alike) are waiting for every breathless dispatch.

The story began last summer when treasure hunters Peter Lindberg and Dennis Asberg were sweeping an area off the Swedish coast when their side-scan SONAR picked up a large, rounded object on the seabed hundreds of feet below the surface.
Initial observation aboard the vessel revealed the object was not like any other sunken vessel ever discovered because of its immense size (200 feet in circumference) and its unusual, circular shape. Not having the means to dive down on the mystery object, its position was recorded and all data saved for later review.


In July, 2011, Lindberg and Asberg studied the data further and released a video of the SONAR images on YouTube, which quickly went viral. Paranormal researchers immediately seized on the video as evidence of ancient alien visitation and the object was nicknamed the "Millennium Falcon" because of its uncanny resemblance to the spaceship made famous by the Star Wars saga.


For his part, Lindberg has left the alien speculation open to debate. In his initial statements he landed on the side of something man-made and floated the possibility of a sunken Stonehenge or a remnant of the fabled Lost City of Atlantis.

Debunkers (mainly scientists) have decried the early speculation, believing rather that the object is merely an anomaly of the equipment used or perhaps a sunken vessel, possibly of Russian origin, lost more than a century ago.

The so-called "Baltic Sea UFO" is in the news again this week after a research vessel returned to its co-ordinates and sent a team of divers down to the seabed for a closer look. Despite having a live feed and access to updates on Facebook, so far, only cryptic messages have been released.


Still, the story was much too juicy to let it go at that, and, over the winter and spring of 2011-2012 donations came pouring in for a revisit to the site.
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Over the past few days, only dribs and drabs of information have been forthcoming, the most tantalizing being the "breaking news" dispatch released on June 7, from the research team's own website, claiming that, "The divers are now down and investigating the circle and reports from the ship say they are really amazed. There is definitely something unusual hiding at the seabed – a Mystery Beneath. More information and pictures will be released next week."

Then, on Sunday, Dennis Asberg sent out a Facebook update which only adds to the confusion while deepening the mystery--and the hype. "Everything is top secret now because of the risks, hope you all understand this is no game." posts Asberg. "But the truth will be reported shortly."

Sketchy details are more the province of the treasure hunter rather than the legitimate scientist, so these dispatches have to be taken with the proverbial grain of salt. But, if there is a startling, world-changing discovery in the offing, even the dedicated professional would be hard-pressed on just how to release that news.

So, maybe, there is something to this after all. If it turns out to be the prototype gun turret from some old Russian warship, it will still be an important archaeological find.

But, if it ends up being real evidence that ancient aliens have indeed visited Earth, it could be the biggest story of all time.

Either way, stay tuned...

I like this interpretation of events a little better than yesterday's post, as the term "hoax" was thrown out far too quickly to be impartial or realistic.  Events unfolding in real time do not have a schedule, and are not subject to the whims and wishes of the Internet observer or blogger.  This event will play out as it plays out, and I, for one, will be patient for whatever statement Ocean X provides..  When they provide it.  If it is indeed a Russian warship, that will be a cool consolation prize, as any new archaeological find always is..

Having said that, I'd still love to see this "anomaly" rise out of the ocean, live on every news network, and fly off.  If that happens, I will go crazy with glee!  C'mon aliens:  Give us a show!

Estimating The Potential Impact Of Failure Of The Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 Spent Fuel Pool

Subtitled:  A Local Problem for Japan or a Global Mega Crisis?  Holophi.  Just The Abstract as excerpt, as this is a long read:

Extreme opinions are being voiced about the risk of global catastrophe resulting from a possible collapse of the Fukushima Daiichi unit 4 spent fuel pool.  These claims are appearing mostly among the public through Internet media and other non-­‐official channels.  Officials sources remain largely mute on the subject or downplay the risks.  This report provides an approximate bounding of the risks using available data.  The results of this analysis suggest that a nominal release of 10% of the SFP 4 inventory of cesium and strontium would represent 3-­‐10 times the March 2011 release amounts, substantially increasing risk levels in Japan and impacting marine life.  Release of 100% of the SFP 4 inventory, or 30-­‐100 times the March 2011 release amounts, could result in significant global impact.

Holophi's analysis is not necessarily a doomsday scenario globally, but even in the best of Reactor 4 collapse scenarios, even if the Spent Fuel has cooled to prevent a radiological fire as opposed to a major heat release, any event spells massive contamination for the great majority of Japan, and possibly globally.  Holophi's modeling is based on quantity approximations of SFP 4's fuel assemblies and their relative remaining heat.  They also note there's no accurate way to approximate a collapse scenario of the pool and how these 1331 to 1535 fuel assemblies will fall the 30 meters to the ground.  Yeah, our Best and Brightest were so sure nothing bad would ever happen to their precious Reactors that they built the highly dangerous Spent Fuel Pool 90 feet above the ground.  Nice.. 

The absolute best case scenario is that SFP 4's fuel assembly removal will take place (Starting in Late 2013) before another earthquake, explosion, or another variant event completely destroys Reactor 4.  Remember, this analysis doesn't include data regarding Reactors 1, 2, 3, or any combination event thereof.  The overall outlook for Fukushima is still bleak/dire to catastrophic.

Eurozone critical mass: How it could all go down this summer with Italy and Finland exiting and banks in flames

Interesting theory as to how the Eurozone may spin down/spin out of control and implode/explode..  The Extinction Protocol.  Excerpts:

 Here’s how the Eurozone crisis might come to a head over the summer: a “Spanic,” followed by a “Quitaly,” followed by a “Fixit.” A fresh panic in Spain might be followed by rising demands for Italy to quit if it doesn’t get the same terms its fellow Mediterranean country has been offered, followed by a Finnish departure from the euro that might finally bring the whole saga to a climax. It would be a rough ride — and you wouldn’t want to be holding many assets other than dollars or gold or possibly Swiss francs while it was playing itself out. But at least it might bring a resolution to the crisis. Almost a quarter of the euro’s 17 members have now needed outside help, and Cyprus will probably join the list soon. It is hardly a great record for a monetary experiment, which, let us remember, was meant to bring greater stability — not less. So how could this play out over the summer. Here’s how the sequence might work: First, the Spanic (for a panic in Spain). We’ve just seen one rescue package for the troubled Spanish banks. But who says 100 billion euros is enough? This is a country that is sliding into deep recession, and where the government is cutting spending fast — which is only going to deepen the recession.
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 Imagine how that is going to feel to the Italians. The Spanish get borrow money at half what it costs them — and this at a time when very high borrowing cost are pushing your country into the fifth recession since the nation joined the single currency. Worse, Italy has to stump up around 22% of the Spanish rescue — borrowing money at 6% to give to its neighbors at 3%. That isn’t going to go down well.  Finally a Fixit (for a Finnish exit). The crisis will finally come to a head when one country decides to get out. Finland is the most likely. Why? Because it is a small nation with a strong economy. It is easy to head for the door. Finland would be better off on the first day, just as Estonia was when it decided to leave the ill-fated ruble zone created after the collapse of the old Soviet Union. It doesn’t particularly have to worry about the impact on the European Union, in the way that Germany would if it opted out. If a country such as that leaves, it is effectively game over, but no one can really say that of a tiny place such as Finland. And it has a strong anti-euro political grouping; the True Finns scored well in the last election and may well improve their position in the polls. Finland is already demanding collateral for its portion of the Spanish loan. That could well turn into a deal-breaker — no collateral, so we’re out of here. Once one country leaves, it is much easier for the next to leave, in much the same way as it is easier to be the second person to leave a really bad party than the first.

(Emphasis from the article)European Banks will be wiped out: Few large eurozone banks would be left standing and the banking sector could face a €370bn (£298bn) loss if the euro crisis results in the single currency bloc breaking apart, according to one of the first in depth analyses of what might happen if the eurozone disintegrates. The analysis by Credit Suisse estimates that up to 58% of the value of Europe’s banks could be wiped out by the departure of the “peripheral” countries – Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain – from the eurozone. Even if the single currency remains intact some €1.3tn of credit could be sucked out of the system as banks retrench to their home markets, unwinding years of financial integration, the Credit Suisse analysis warns his represents as much as 10% of the credit in the financial system. “We find that a Greek exit could be manageable … but in a peripheral exit, few of the large listed eurozone banks would be left standing,” the Credit Suisse report said. The banking sector could need capital injections of as much as €470bn if the three scenarios considered by the Credit Suisse analysts – a Greek exit, an exit of the periphery countries and a situation where banks retrench domestically – happen at once.
And:(My emphasis)
The Credit Suisse analysts insist they are not expecting the euro area to break up – or for Greece to leave – but they believe it is likely there will be a dramatic reduction in cross-border business – leading to less loans for businesses and individuals. The International Monetary Fund has estimated that some €2tn of credit could be lost through a euro zone break up and the Credit Suisse analysts point out they have only analysed the impact on banks they research.

Remember the good old days of say, January, when any mention of Greek, Spanish, or Italian bailouts, defaults, or anyone at all leaving the European Union was so far fetched it wasn't even discussed?  Wow, six months later, and here we are..  So what does that say about the real magnitude and urgency of Credit Suisse's analysis?  Is this close to an accurate assessment, or a vastly under-estimated threat?

Omen? Waters near Osaka bay Japan turn pale yellow

Two entry post from The Extinction Protocol.  Check out the creepy picture:  Yellow means caution..  Excerpts:

(From Fukushima Diary)  At this moment, people in Osaka and Kobe are tweeting the color of Osaka bay looks strange. From the picture, it looks pale yellow. One follower on the site tweeted: “Moving from parents house to Mikage. Osaka bay looked yellowish when I saw from an eminence. Am afraid it’s a sign.”  From local citizens, it became strange color before the great Hanshin earthquake (1995) as well. 

(From Democratic Underground)The region is near the area of a recent sardine mega-fish kill. In May of this year, Japanese seismologist warned of the dangers of a triple-earthquake strike in the area: “If three earthquakes simultaneously occurred along the Nankai Trough located in the seabed off central to western Japan, high-rise buildings in Osaka would be shaken by long-period ground motion five times stronger than that in the Great East Japan Earthquake, researchers have predicted. A group of researchers with the University of Tokyo made the announcement on May 21 at the Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, currently under way in Chiba. The group also speculates that, if the three temblors — the Tokai, Tonankai and Nankai quakes — took place together, high-rise buildings in Tokyo would be shaken by long-period ground motion twice to three times stronger than that in the Great East Japan Earthquake, which struck northeast Japan on March 11, 2011.

Stay safe, global neighbors..

Euro 2012 violence among Polish and Russian fans could prompt changes by UEFA and FIFA

File Under:  The world is losing its damn mind..  Yahoo News.  With Video.  Excerpts:

The most widespread case of soccer hooliganism for more than two decades erupted between fans of Poland and Russia on Tuesday, and the incident has prompted the sport's two biggest governing bodies to order an investigation that may change the way major tournaments are organized.

In the hours leading up to a 1-1 draw between the two teams in Group A of Euro 2012, hundreds of fans fought bloody battles with fists, bottles and metal weapons on the streets of the Polish capital Warsaw, as riot police firing rubber bullets and releasing tear gas tried to keep them apart.


A series of factors combined to make this the highest-risk match of the championships in terms of fan violence, as highlighted by Yahoo! Sports on Monday, and unfortunately violence transpired. Although officials claimed only 10 people had been seriously injured, onlookers estimated that figure to be much lower than they observed.

The disgraceful scenes, the likes of which soccer hoped were a thing of the past, will prompt an immediate response from both UEFA (the European governing body that is organizing the tournament) and FIFA (the international overseer of all things soccer).

It's a soccer game, ya nutbags; Not a Proxy War!  Fucking calm down and enjoy the game.  There will be plenty more European riots to take part in before the year is over. 

Jesus, it's amazing you're still awake after that snoozefest..  He holds it!  Holds it!  HOLDS IT!

Baltic Sea UFO A Hoax After All?

A weird story takes another(!) turn for the weird-er..  UFO Blogger.  Facebook thread screen shot at the link.. 

Earlier we had reported:


200-foot wide unidentified object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea

Another UFO Spotted In Baltic Sea

Russia, US Forces Blocking The Crash Site

Definitely Something Unusual Hiding At Seabed Says Search Team

Baltic UFO : Everything Is Top Secret Now, Says Search Team
(All stories are available at the link)

Just a quick update with some new developments that’s been causing havoc on the Ocean X Team’s Facebook page, which has seen a lot of non-moderated activity in the last couple of days.  Moderators stepped in quickly today though when a local long-time professional marine archaeological diver — a resident of Norrtälje, where the Ancylus is moored — posted a picture of her son on the Ancylus bridge together with a comment that read along the lines of “no no, the anomaly is surely not a UFO.” The photo and comment were quickly deleted.


Viral marketing 101 — control the flow of information!

This new direction is interesting.  So far, the narrative has gone from "There's Something down there!," to "Russia and US don't want us to see it!," to "It's all Top Secret!," to "It's a hoax!"  This is classic "You-know-that-I-know-that-you-know-that-I-know" PsychOut.  Is there something to this cascade of events, or is this part of the trickery?  No one knows for sure:  It really is a brilliant strategy!

The question remains:  Is there a damn 200 foot wide UFO in the Baltic Sea, or what?  If, in the future, a huge UFO jumps out of the sea and starts flyin' around, we will know for sure.  Until then, I really have no idea how this one will end..

Former British prime minister challenges Murdoch testimony

How does that old saying go?  "It takes a village of Prime Ministers to spank the ass of a media mogul?"  Something like that..  In any case, pop some popcorn, and let's watch!  Raw Story.  The WHOLE thing!:

Former British prime minister John Major told the Leveson inquiry on Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch demanded he change his policy on Europe, directly contradicting the News Corp. chief’s own testimony.


Major’s challenge comes a day after another former premier,Gordon Brown, also accused the Australian-born tycoon of misleading the inquiry into press ethics.

Major, who was the Conservative prime minister from 1990 to 1997, said he had dinner with Murdoch in February 1997 as part of an effort to get closer to the media baron’s newspapers ahead of elections.

“It became apparent in discussion that Mr Murdoch really didn’t like our European policies, which was no surprise to me, and he wished me to change our European policies,” Major told the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics.


“It is not very often someone sits in front of a prime minister and says ‘I would like you to change your policy and if you don’t change your policy my organisation cannot support you.’”

Major says he told Murdoch there was “no question on us changing our policies.”

Murdoch’s Sun tabloid, Britain’s best-selling daily newspaper, switched its support to Major’s Labour rival Tony Blair shortly afterwards, and Blair went on to win the May 1997 election.

Murdoch told the Leveson Inquiry on April 25 that he had “never asked a prime minister for anything”, as he tried to downplay his papers’ political influence.

On Monday, former Labour premier Brown appeared at the inquiry and denied the media baron’s claim that he had telephoned the tycoon in November 2010 threatening to “make war” on News Corp.

News Corp. said on Monday that Murdoch “stands by his testimony” regarding Brown.

The inquiry, chaired by senior judge Brian Leveson, was set up by current Prime Minister David Cameron last July in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at Murdoch’s now-closed News of the World tabloid.

Cameron is due to give evidence to the inquiry on Thursday.

Ooh!  Let's check back then!  More fireworks!  More popcorn!  My favorite comment from the Raw Story readers? 

"If a conservative ends Murdoch's empire it may be the irony of the century."



And that irony will be delicious!  And I won't even bitch about it if I gain some weight..

File Under: Please Billy Corgan; STFU!

Ahh, if only he were his own worst critic..  ‘Egomaniac’ Billy Corgan Says He’s Sick of Radiohead’s ‘Pomposity’



To coincide with the release of Oceania — the upcoming studio album from the latest iteration of the Smashing Pumpkins (now featuring the girl from the cover of Siamese Dream!) — frontman Billy Corgan decided to drum up some publicity by picking a fight with Radiohead. (Yawn. Of course..)


Speaking with Antiquiet, the aging rocker, who readily admits to having a "need for attention, and ego gratification," said he'll happily "piss" on Radiohead "because of all this pomposity."
He went on to blast "this value system that says [Radiohead guitarist] Jonny Greenwood is more valuable than Ritchie Blackmore," before conceding that Greenwood has made contributions to music.

"I'm not attacking that," he explained. "I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that. I'm so fucking sick of it, and nobody seems to tire of it."  (Nobody, including you?  Or, especially you?)

Poor Uncle Fester:  Still talking like he's 24 and on a five day coke binge..  We know, we know;  with you, it's always been about the "art."  Know what I'm sick of?  An Attention whore musician who had a couple of great albums early in his career(Gish - Siamese Dream), nothing good past '99(Melon Collie..), yet he continues to put out as much shit music as much as shit talk.  Until someone makes another Addams Family movie, take your seat in the back, and for the love of God, keep quiet!  You.  Are.  Not.  Impressing.  Anyone.

Bath Salts May Be Behind Naked Man Confronting Girl In Park

This whole Zombies-and-bath-salts meme is super-inclusive.  Now we're including near misses with crazy homeless people, not even physical attacks.  Question to myself:  Am I prepetuating a false meme by reposting the story, even though my comments point to the artifice of said meme?  CBS Miami.  The Whole Thing:

The drug that made headlines after the causeway cannibal case is back in the news again.

This time, North Miami Beach Police said a man believed to be on bath salts stripped nearly naked at a childrens playground and threatened a three-year-old girl with sexual advances.

Police said surviellance video shows Shane Shuyler stripping in the tot lot and then going very close to a three-year-old girl.

The girl’s mother told police that she and her daughter had entered the park at 20th Avenue and NE 168th street and were headed to the tot lot when they saw Schuyler lying on a park bench. The woman said the man was completely naked and his genitals were exposed.



She told police she tried to walk past the man, but said he stood up, exposed his genitals to the girl.



The police report said he told the child, “Come here little girl, I want to stick it in you.”


The woman fled her with daughter. The man never got close to them.


The bizarre incident unfolded in the tot lot that is located literally in the back yard of the North Miami Beach Police Department. Police arrested Shuyler and a detective in court said his behavior could be explained through a drug called bath salts.

“In his wallet was what appears to be bath salts,” said the detective. “Upon talking to him, he made some statements to me which led me to believe that he was cooling off in the fountain by the tot lot because he was hot; which is consistent with ingesting bath salts.”



Mothers bringing their children to the park Monday were alarmed to learn about the story.

“Its so scary, its very scary,“ said Glorida Moutran, a mother of two young kids. “You would expect that it would be safe especially here like we said its next to a police station you would expect it would be safe.”

If this dude were a booze hound, would we be reading about this?  The exact same behavior, sans bath salts add whiskey?  No, we would not.  City life (not fucking suburban life..) affords these types of encounters; A lot of these encounters.  My distant past includes life in both St. Louis and Denver with no car.  I walked everywhere, or rode the bus.  This type of encounter with street people is not unusual;  I've had plenty of "near misses" with the agitated, the schizophrenic, the homeless..  Life in the city, babies.  It's just the way that it is.

This incident is more "Dumbass, waste-oid pedophile pervs it up next to cop shop; Gets caught," Don't you think?

Of interest regarding this widening meme, though:  Did the zombie insanity actually expose a serial killer?  Maybe..

Cirque De Soleil Sex

Crazy Days And Nights.  Ridiculous, over the top oral PDA(In front of kids?  C'mon, now..), with surprise punchline!  Thank, Enty!  Excerpts:

I have been to several Cirque De Soleil shows in my life.  ..but I have yet to find one that made me really want to have sex right then and there. This is not the case for one San Diego couple who were caught having oral sex during a show. Apparently someone saw the couple doing this and the person was not amused. She was even less amused when she (saw) the recipient of the oral sex giving a high five to the two boys in front of him who had turned around and watched. So, the witness then turned on her cell phone. The brightness attracted the usher and the couple stopped what they were doing. The man was upset at being stopped and shoved the witness at the end of the show who called the police. The couple are both immigration officers.



Beautiful.  Turn-Ons?  Public sex in front of children, Circuses, bureaucracy, witness intimidation.  Turn offs?  Immigrants, decorum, decency, ushers, and witnesses who "won't let it go.."

People are losing their minds.

High Five!

Greek Bank Run Update: €100-€500 Million Per Day

From Zero Hedge.  Emphasis from post itself.  Excerpts:

Five days ahead of the Greek parliamentary re-vote, the media propaganda machine has gone mute due to the moratorium on the RAND() known as popular polling: forgotten are the days when Syriza' popularity rating would swing from -100 to +100 in the span of hours, Diebold notwithstanding. Which leaves the media machine just one tactic: updates on the economic collapse as a tacit suggestion of what may happen if situation is not fixed. And while at this point it is nearly impossible to distinguish propaganda from fact, the latest numbers out of Kathimerini are just stunning. As Bloomberg's Marcus Bensasson reports, citing Kathimerini, the Greek banking system has continued to hemorrhage deposits this month, amid uncertainty over the outcome of elections on June 17.
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"Deposits are leaving the banking system at a rate of 100 million to 500 million euros ($125 million to $625 million) a day, Kathimerini said, without specifying over how long a period that rate of outflow has continued."

And:
Putting this in the US context, which has over $8 trillion in various forms of deposits, this would be equivalents to about $25 billion getting withdrawn. Every day.


It all happens/accelerates next week!

"It Upsets All Our Ideas About What The Ancient Greeks Were Capable Of.."

The 2,000-year-old computer that you’ve never heard of  You really must watch the video.  The Truth Behind The Scenes.  Excerpts:


Have you ever heard of the 2,000 year old Antikythera mechanism?
The Antikythera Mechanism as it is known, is regarded as the world’s oldest “computer” and is thought to have been used to predict movements of the sun, moon and planets and record dates of the ancient Olympiad. Its remains were recovered from a Roman shipwreck off the southern coast of Greece in 1901.


The significance and complexity were not understood until a century later. The construction has been dated to the early 1st century BC. Technological artifacts of similar complexity and workmanship did not reappear until the 14th century, when mechanical astronomical clocks were built in Europe.

What was initially dismissed as an anomaly – a rock with a cogwheel embedded in it must be so for other reasons, including much later shipwrecks – was a device with at least 30 (some say 70) gears, all precision engineered (the teeth were hand-cut equilateral triangles).

More proof that yes, we have no idea of our ancestors' technological capabilities.  How many of our computers would survive 2000 years?  Our modern perspectives must be retooled, and our minds opened to the possibility that ancient societies achieved more than we understand, and more was lost than we can comprehend..

The Sexual Depravity of Adelie Penguins Is One of Science’s Dirtiest Secrets

Landmark polar research about the Adélie penguin's sex life by Captain Scott's expedition, deemed too shocking for the public 100 years ago, is unearthed at the Natural History Museum..



Dirty, dirty, DIRTY little tuxedo-clad birds!  Don't you know to hide your shame in front of Englishmen?  Jezebel.  Excerpts:

It was the sight of a young male Adélie penguin attempting to have sex with a dead female that particularly unnerved George Murray Levick, a scientist with the 1910-13 Scott Antarctic Expedition. No such observation had ever been recorded before, as far as he knew, and Levick, a typical Edwardian Englishman, was horrified. Blizzards and freezing cold were one thing. Penguin perversion was another.


Worse was to come, however. Levick spent the Antarctic summer of 1911-12 observing the colony of Adélies at Cape Adare, making him the only scientist to this day to have studied an entire breeding cycle there. During that time, he witnessed males having sex with other males and also with dead females, including several that had died the previous year. He also saw them sexually coerce females and chicks and occasionally kill them.

Levick blamed this "astonishing depravity" on "hooligan males" and wrote down his observations in Greek so that only an educated gentleman would understand the horrors he had witnessed. Back in Britain he produced a paper (in English), titled Natural History of the Adélie Penguin. However, the section about the animal's sexual proclivities was deemed to be so shocking it was removed to preserve decency. Levick then used this material as the basis for a separate short paper, Sexual Habits of the Adélie Penguin, which was privately circulated among a handful of experts.

Update:  My two drafts of comment have not been satisfactory.  If you saw the first draft, I apologize if I offended you.  I was a little taken aback by my own harshness.  Inappropriate.  Rescinded. 

Miami police warn of 'Cloud Nine' drug after homeless man threatens to eat officers

Is anybody else troubled by the lack of a definitive statement tying bath salts to zombification?  The oblique highlights in red.  The Telegraph.  Excerpts:

Police in Florida have warned of a potent new mind-altering drug called 'Cloud Nine', after a homeless man threatened to eat two officers a week after a naked man chewed off most of a homeless man's face before being shot dead. (Homeless man under the influence of bath salts?  But it doesn't say that, now does it?)




The ecstasy-like drug is part of a new line of over-the-counter "bath salts" implicated in last week's attack.


The police department is now warning officers to be extremely cautious around disorderly homeless men and telling the public to call police immediately if they see anyone showing signs of being on the new drug.

In the latest incident, Miami police took Brandon De Leon into custody after he entered a restaurant shouting obscenities and initially resisted arrest.

On the way to the station he slammed his head against the plexiglass barrier in the patrol car, shouting to the officers: "I'm going to eat you!"

Later, the 21-year-old growled and grunted like an animal, and tried to bite an officer's hand, police said, prompting them to fit him with a bite mask and leg restraints.

In addition to the Cloud Nine, police also believe De Leon finished off a bottle of rum and was working on a beverage called Four Loko, which combines alcohol and caffeine. He tested positive for marijuana, Xanax and alcohol.



The case "bears resemblance to an incident that occurred in the city of Miami last week, when a male ate another man's face," a police memo to officers warned.

"Please be careful when dealing with the homeless population during your patrols."

Since a large percentage of homeless people are mentally ill and will, sooner or later, show some of these same symptoms zombies supposedly have(In public, that is..), there should be an uptick in arrests of the homeless.  The bath salts/zombie cannibal angle provides cover to arrest the easily agitated.  And those crazy, cornered homeless people will, at some point, become agitated, causing an overreaction by authorities, causing more headlines from the media outlets.  An expanding, sensational meme circle, growing larger and more sinister with each event..

Bath salt users are on the increase.  Who's manufacturing this shit, who's making money on it? 

And why the uptick of horrifying violence?  Did the recipe change, or are humans more susceptible the crazy around them and just embracing the madness?  A bad omen, this is..

And The Spiral Of Life Continues..

Really cool video from Russia(I assume, as the main titles are in Cyrillic).  What if, rather than the planets just rotating around the Sun, our Solar System remaining static within our portion of space, planets are actually spiralling around the Sun as our Solar System cruises through the galaxy, rotating around the Galactic Center, never coming back to the same point in space:  Ever?  Very, very compelling.  Oh-My-God-Moment-of-Realization beginning at 5:20..  Video courtesy Godlike Productions.

Interesting related thought:  If we are indeed spiralling and hurtling through space, this would explain a persistent conundrum people have about different types of aliens and UFO's.  If this theory is true, maybe we are traveling through already-established "galactic neighborhoods."  Maybe these different types of aliens are "just checking out the new neighbors.."  Or maybe word's gotten around about Earth, our galaxy's Florida, and everyone is watching and waiting, just to see what we'll do next..