World War 3's Starting - And This Time, I Mean It! (I think..)

Israeli army: More than 10 killed on Gaza flotilla.

Israel denied anything happened..

Turkey and Syria are furious. So is Iran.

Turkey is screaming violation of international law.

Israel is recalling tourists from Turkey./Turkey calls out the Israeli Ambassador.

So, of course, Israel bombs Gaza.

Have a terrific week!

Terrifying events with hilarious mental images

Indonesian Mud Volcano Continues Fourth Year. How strange, complex, and scary! And since it's a Mud Volcano, hilarious! You know what would make that scenario worse and not so funny? Placing it 5000 feet under the ocean! And, of course, changing its name to Oil Volcano, and being able to see that unfolding disaster from space..

A Busy Week To Be Off..

It wasn't intentional. I am a little overloaded with information at the moment, and just never felt like posting. Motivational paralysis, ennui, what the fuck ever It was, it's presence rendered me totally unwilling to blog. I just surfed.

It's a gloomy moment of time we're inhabiting, and metaphorically, we are just inside the tunnel of a very large mountain that may or may not totally collapse with us still in it. None, or rather, very few indicators trend positive. And the near and long term forecast, well, is bleak by any stretch of the imagination. Take, for example, the Oil Volcano currently erupting in the Gulf.

The Media continues to repeat the similarities between this catastrophe and the Bay of Campeche spill in 1979. The big difference lies not with reactions or technique, but is solely a matter of volume. The Bay of Campeche spill produced 10 to 30 thousand barrels of oil daily; This spill is gushing at 76 to 104 Thousand barrels a day. And that's just at this moment! What if their equipment continues to degrade? What if there are other gushers? Oops! There are. Any permanent solution is possibly months away, possibly longer.

Let's see: What else? Korea might go live, Europe's economy super sucks, our economy could collapse, Israel's prepared to attack.. Iran, according to this article, or Syria, or Lebanon.. And then there's some really out there possibilities that are really hard to visualize, much less process. And if those possibilities occur, the world will not ever be the same.

So, subconsciously I guess, I decided to "blank out. The time was needed. Something has changed. Matrix fatigue has set in, and the desire to observe, passively, has revived, and become stronger.

Maybe He Died Of A Broken Heart.

Brittany Murphy’s widower dead at 39

Sinking Deeper Into Catastrophe..

Awful News From The Gulf: Explosions Collapse Seafloor At Deepwater Horizon Well Head.

This, really, might be the cataclysm that destroys us all. Or, rather, most of us.

I hope so.

Is Karma Ever Finished or Completed?

Wednesday night, October 1993

“We are who we are. We’re just like anybody else.”
-The Other Ones, “We are who we are.”

She told me a story once, about growing up in the boot heel of Missouri, before he became a transsexual. His uncle was a clock maker and repairman, and there were over one hundred clocks in his shop. He visited often, as his uncle was non-judgmental about how he was different from the rest of his family. Sometimes they would wind as many clocks as they could, the alarms and chimes and ticking one giant, cacophonous, beautiful sound.

His family hated the way he was. His effeminate nature, his original thoughts, and his general behavior frightened them. But his uncle was good to him. When he died, he took one of the clocks as a memento.

He tried not to think about growing up in Missouri. This was difficult, though, as those were his formative years, like it or not. He went back a couple of years before, in 1989, this time as a drag queen. The experience wasn’t pleasant. He had not gone back or spoken with his family since.

She had good pot and needed to talk sometimes. She, I, and a guy who had been a professional photographer in New York had come over to the apartment, taking a break from the Wednesday night ritual of dancing at the Copa. She kept rolling joints and telling me about how great Key West was as opposed to the narrowness of Missouri. The photographer sat and listened, contentedly stoned and intrigued about how different life could be in the mid-west as opposed to the East Coast. The photographer had had a promising career until manic depression made him unreliable, not worth hiring.

I was really uncomfortable with my first impressions of the transsexual. She screamed in my face as well as the face of our mutual acquaintance during a drunken introduction. Later I realized it was just her exuberant way of saying hello. “Ahhhhhhh!” She had shrieked, rolling her head around her shoulders, arms extended upward.

She said sometimes she would wind the clock and think of her uncle. She stroked the long blond hair of the photographer who sat next to her, who still listened intently. It was 3 a.m. when we got back to the bar; and most of the people had already cleared out. The transsexual disappeared when the photographer and I went for a drink. I saw her out the next night and asked her where she’d gone. She said she’d gone to another bar, looking for someone. But she didn’t say who.

Super-ish Tuesday: Tale of the Turnout

Democratic turnout far outpaces Republican...

Random Doom Roundup: May 20, 2010

North Korea has threatened "full-scale war" after an international report concluded a torpedo fired by one of the reclusive regime's submarines sank a South Korean navy ship in March.

Gulf oil spill may be 19 times bigger than originally thought

This one should piss you off. Should.

May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s economy grew less than forecast in the first quarter as an export-led recovery failed to stoke consumer spending, putting pressure on the central bank to do more to end deflation as it begins a two-day meeting.

The Other Foreclosure Menace Mortgage Paid Off, Woman Loses Home -- Over a Small Water Bill

Sell it All, Risk of 'Major Crash': Dow Theory’s Russell

Turkey Deploys Air Defense System To ‘Defend’ Syria, Iran Against Israel Raids

That's enough for the moment, eh?

So I.. SHOULDN'T Use LifeLock?

LifeLock CEO’s Identity Stolen 13 Times. Excerpts:

"Apparently, when you publish your Social Security number prominently on your website and billboards, people take it as an invitation to steal your identity. (Apparently. Me.)

LifeLock CEO Todd Davis, whose number is displayed in the company’s ubiquitous advertisements, has by now learned that lesson. He’s been a victim of identity theft at least 13 times, according to the Phoenix New Times.

That’s 12 more times than has previously been known.

And

A spokeswoman for the Albany police, who investigated the AT&T/Cingular account but never made any arrest, told the New Times that Davis’ publication of his Social Security number created more victims than just himself.

And

The company was fined $12 million in March by the Federal Trade Commission for deceptive advertising.

And (hilarious!)

Davis’ history as an identity-theft victim would seem to call into question the company’s ability to protect consumers from a similar fate."

Heh. Heh heh.

Low Point On The Earthquake Wave Graph..

6.0 Earthquake in Northern Peru. Nothing special about the quake's magnitude, but when I looked at the week's list(The page changes, so I'm formally referring to May 12th through the 19th.), this was the highest magnitude and only earthquake at 6.0 or over. What a nice break from January through March, huh?

So: Has the earth calmed back down, or is this the quiet before another.. increase in intensity?

Can You Guess Which Crisis Just Got MUCH Bigger In Scope?

Tarballs reported at Key West beach; surveys continue Tuesday.

I LOVE Colorado!

Rasmussen: 49% Of Coloradans Think Marijuana Should Be Legal

Decades of ash clouds forecast by scientists

Decades.

This Might Be The Most Beautiful Woman I've Ever Seen..

Dearborn's Miss Michigan wins Miss USA pageant.

Seriously. Whatever that intangible, subjective "it" is, she has as much as anyone I've ever seen. Blindingly Beautiful. For maximum charm, watch the video on the link. I'm gay, and she knocks my socks off! You're in trouble, straight guys.. Rima Fakih's gonna break your heart with just one smile..

Great News is on break, now. My name is Apocalypse; How can I help you?

Gulf Spill Could Be Much Worse Than Believed.

"A computer program simply tracks particles, and calculates how fast they are moving. Wereley put the BP video of the gusher into his computer. He made a few simple calculations and came up with an astonishing value for the rate of the oil spill: 70,000 barrels a day — much higher than the official estimate of 5,000 barrels a day."

A barrel is 42 gallons. So the equation is(for the moment), 70 thousand barrels of oil multiplied by Day 24(FYI - estimates run between 20 and 100 thousand barrels per day. 70 thousand was used, I'm sure, as the low end of the high estimates.). Oh yeah, and BP isn't even close to containing this yet..

"At NPR's request, experts analyzed video that BP released Wednesday. Their findings suggest the BP spill is already far larger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska, which spilled at least 250,000 barrels of oil."

So we have this doom to look forward to, which is nice..

A Visual Representation Of Time?

Look at this picture.

Then think about these circles as a pipeline, in which the earth is currently travelling through space. Is this what time looks like?

Laser Beams Penetrating Thick Canopy Detect Thousands of New Structures, Show Maya Adept at 'Building Green'

Science Daily (May 12, 2010) — A flyover of Belize's thick jungles has revolutionized archaeology worldwide and vividly illustrated the complex urban centers developed by one of the most-studied ancient civilizations -- the Maya.

Central America, Mexico, the American South West.. Is it too fanciful to think that we are a few years away from finding the Mayan culture was massively bigger than previously thought?

Jupiter Prefers The Term "Misplaced.."

Jupiter loses one of its belts.

Looks Like We've Got A Psychic On The Forum..

In 9 days we will witness an event so catastrophic it will change society as we know it. Above average Doom delivered right to the day..
"And it's just the beginning . . . . 4.20.2010"

A lot of people made fun of this prediction. And then it happened. But, more importantly, it also Started To Happen that day, and only becomes worse.

Laura Bush - Democrat?

Laura Bush supports gay marriage and abortion rights. Huh. A couple thoughts:
*She was politically bound to not voice her opinion until Bush's term of office was up.
*She was also bound by marriage. This is not James Carville and Mary Matalin. There will be no public disagreement within the First Family. It isn't fair to say "If she would have said this earlier...," a response I initially had, as it was simply not an option for her.
* Is she a Democrat? She's loved by more liberals than you'd think..
* Her views are out there, now.. Where to, next? Will she become more active for her political beliefs? How will the Right respond? Will the last sitting Republican First Lady be unwelcome at future Republican events? She's been forgiven, but she's pissed off the faithful a couple times before..
*Just how betrayed will "True Believers" feel? And, more importantly, how will they react?

What The Hell Is Going On In China?

China children 'hacked to death' in new school attack. This is not the first attack of its kind; it's attack number SIX. Two factors contributing to this weird and grisly new.. trend are Social/Economic revenge, and Copy Cats, both types of crimes committed by the insane. This type of attacker poses a major problem for China both short and long-term.

According to one of the links, China has an estimated two percent of their population that is mentally ill. Two percent of 1.3 billion people is 26 million, so that's A Lot. There is also a stigma attached to mental illness and counseling, so not many seek it out and there isn't a system in place to cope with growing numbers of overstressed, less educated, newly poor(er) Chinese. The first attacker claimed revenge against society as his motive, and that, evidently, has resonated within a certain segment of China's populace. And these copycat/revenge killings will likely continue, as the economic circumstances that changed and collectively stressed Chinese society will also likely continue.

So, unless the unreported mentally ill and socio-economically disadvantaged classes get bored with the idea of attacking and killing kids or the Chinese government(and the people in general) gets its shit together regarding treatment for(and the outlook for those with) mental illness, there will be a major increase in these attacks. The memories of these attacks, not only the direct victims, but on this entire generation of children, will directly effect their collective psyche with fear that the rest of us will never understand. From almost infancy, this generation of Chinese children will Never Feel Safe, and they'll live their entire life from the shadows of this horrible, dark perspective.

Sad, and the global implications for the future are a bit disturbing..

Mother's Day Doom Roundup

Oil Doom:

Problem for Containment Dome in Gulf

BP Oil Spill : 7 Secrets BP doesn't want you to know

What next? After failure, BP mulls gusher options

Economic Doom:

EU Crafts $962 Billion Show of Force to Halt Euro Crisis

Ron Paul Warns That "Greece Is Just The Beginning!" (VIDEO)

Earthquake Doom:

Tsunami warning issued after 7.4 magnitude earthquake off Indonesia

Volcano Doom:

More from Eyjafjallajokull

The Good People Of Nashville Would Like A Word With You, Governor..

Rick Perry Blames God For Gulf Oil Spill. Corporate negligence or Terrorist attack(Maybe Tectonic Movement/Volcanoes..), neither really qualifies as "Act of God." Not like, at the moment, Tennessee..

In a reltated thought, evidently, Not Counting a cataclysmic event, supporters say Offshore Drilling should only (along with the overall industry) be judged only by most of its successful past.

"Goldman Puts Its Own Interests Ahead of the Interests of Its Clients"

The Interrogation of Lloyd Blankfein. Carl Levin? Who knew?

SEN. CARL LEVIN: June 22 is the date of this e-mail. "Boy, that Timberwolf was one shitty deal." How much of that "shitty deal" did you sell to your clients after June 22, 2007?

DAN SPARKS: Mr. Chairman, I don't know the answer to that. But the price would have reflected levels that they wanted to invest...

SEN. CARL LEVIN: Oh, of course.

DAN SPARKS: ... at that time.

SEN. CARL LEVIN: But you didn't tell them you thought it was a shitty deal.

DAN SPARKS: Well, I didn't say that.

SEN. CARL LEVIN: Who did? Your people, internally. You knew it was a shitty deal, and that's what your...

DAN SPARKS: I think the context, the message that I took from the e-mail from Mr. Montag, was that my performance on that deal wasn't good.

SEN. CARL LEVIN: How about the fact that you sold hundreds of millions of that deal after your people knew it was a shitty deal? Does that bother you at all; you sold the customers something?

DAN SPARKS: I don't recall selling hundreds of millions of that deal after that.

Levin was just as tough on Blankfein, reiterating the same question over and over again: "Is there not a conflict when you sell something to somebody, and then you bet against that same security, and you don't disclose that to the person you're selling it to? Do you see a problem?"

At first, Blankfein acted like he'd never considered the question before, as if "putting himself in his client's shoes" was something that never even entered his mind. His look of utter bewilderment was revealing. Then he launched into the excuses, the evasions, and the elaborate, long-winded ruminations that one expects from schoolboys and hucksters. But Levin never gave and inch. He kept pushing until Blankfein finally gave up and responded.

"No," he stammered, "In the context of market-making that's not a conflict."

Blankfein's answer was a triumph for Levin, and he knew it. To the millions of people watching the sequence on TV, Blankfein's denial was as good as an admission of guilt. It showed that Wall Street kingpins don't share the same morals as everyone else. In fact, Blankfein seemed genuinely confused that morality would even be an issue. After all, it wasn't for him.

File Under: Worst Case Scenario/Massive Oil Slick

Leaked report: Government fears Deepwater Horizon well could become unchecked gusher Excerpts(Italics indicate quote/Colored emphasis mine):

A confidential government report on the unfolding spill disaster in the Gulf makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the well could become an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf.

"The following is not public," reads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Emergency Response document dated April 28. "Two additional release points were found today in the tangled riser. If the riser pipe deteriorates further, the flow could become unchecked resulting in a release volume an order of magnitude higher than previously thought."

And:

In scientific circles, an order of magnitude means something is 10 times larger. In this case, an order of magnitude higher would mean the volume of oil coming from the well could be 10 times higher than the 5,000 barrels a day coming out now. That would mean 50,000 barrels a day, or 2.1 million gallons a day.

And:

Gouget said the loss of a wellhead is totally unprecedented.

"How bad it could get from that, you will have a tremendous volume of oil that is going to be offgassing on the coast. Depending on how much wind is there, and how those gases build up, that's a significant health concern," he said.

Pay attention: This is a big deal. We might be witnessing(potentially) the beginning death throes of a large portion of, or the entire Gulf of Mexico. Due to this spill, a large number of living things on this planet are going to die soon. Think about that for a moment, and get ready to bear witness.

Baby's Breath flower can boost anti-leukaemia drugs by up to a million times

A million times!

Why The Face, CNN?

Do you find yourself thinking, "Why isn't there Any News on.. (Insert Corporate Media Network Here)? You're not alone.

Sorry CNN.. You did this to yourself.. As much as a Corporate Entity can be considered a "You."

This Sounds Plausible, China Edition..

Billionaire Commits Suicide Over High Pressure.

Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy

Mysterious, indeed. Relevant excerpts: (Italics indicate Quotes)There is something strange in the cosmic neighbourhood. An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the universe before.

And

It certainly does not fit the pattern of radio emissions from supernovae: they usually get brighter over a few weeks and then fade away over months, with the spectrum of the radiation changing all the while. The new source has hardly changed in brightness over the course of a year, and its spectrum is steady.

Yet it does seem to be moving – and fast: its apparent sideways velocity is four times the speed of light. Such apparent “superluminal” motion has been seen before in high-speed jets of material squirted out by some black holes. The stuff in these jets is moving towards us at a slight angle(Me: What is "slight?") and travelling at a fair fraction of the speed of light, and the effects of relativity produce a kind of optical illusion that makes the motion appear superluminal.

And

His best guess is still that the radio source is some kind of dense object accreting surrounding material, perhaps a large black hole or a black hole in an unusual environment. Perhaps the phenomenon also happens occasionally in our galaxy, but is more common in M82 because it is a “starburst” galaxy – a cosmic cauldron where massive stars are forming and exploding at a much higher rate than in the Milky Way, creating a lot of new black holes.

First: Radio waves. Next: High speed jets of material squirted out by some black holes(Maybe). That stuff hitting earth sounds fun! Space-themed Doom is so.. Imaginative.

Public Service Article for those who don't know Debit Cards act like Checks..

Are you a debit or credit card user? Sad that this article needs to be written in 2010.

Death by Fungus is not "Fungicide," although, maybe it should be..

Potentially deadly fungus spreading in US, Canada. Excerpts:

A potentially deadly strain of fungus is spreading among animals and people in the northwestern United States and the Canadian province of British Columbia, researchers reported on Thursday.

The airborne fungus, called Cryptococcus gattii, usually only infects transplant and AIDS patients and people with otherwise compromised immune systems, but the new strain is genetically different, the researchers said.

"This novel fungus is worrisome because it appears to be a threat to otherwise healthy people," said Edmond Byrnes of Duke University in North Carolina, who led the study.

And:

The spore-forming fungus can cause symptoms in people and animals two weeks or more after exposure. They include a cough that lasts for weeks, sharp chest pain, shortness of breath, headache, fever, nighttime sweats and weight loss.

And:

Freezing can kill the fungus and climate change may be helping it spread, the researchers said.

Climate change? Haven't enough billions been thrown at that problem for you to forget about it, already? Awesome. Fake Global Climate Change may be spreading a very real, very deadly fungus.

Global Climate Change is not caused entirely by human consumption. Just a HUGE portion of it. HUGE. Really Big. Big, big portion. A Lot caused by humans.

I'm not ruling out solar changes, solar system changes(Brown dwarf, binary twin, Supernova 1987 A, Planet X), increased volcanism, etc.. But to deny that almost 7 billion eating, shitting, and consuming entities have neglible effect on the systemic global health of the planet? Apologies to your sensitivities upfront, but You're a Fucking Idiot.

Follow Up: Sure It's Not.

Air Force: Robotic X-37B Space Plane Not a Weapon.

Unsettling Headline Of The Week..

Air Force Launches Secretive Space Plane; ‘We Don’t Know When It’s Coming Back’

The Air Force launched a secretive space plane into orbit Thursday night from Cape Canaveral, Florida. And they’re not sure when it’s returning to Earth.

Perched atop an Atlas V rocket, the Air Force’s unmanned and reusable X-37B made its first flight after a decade in development shrouded in mystery; most of the mission goals remain unknown to the public.

And

perhaps the most intriguing answer came when he was asked by a reporter wanting to cover the landing as to when the X-37B would be making its way back to the planet.

“In all honesty, we don’t know when it’s coming back for sure,” Payton said.

Independence Day, anyone?

Joe the Plumber is back (and he still can't stand McCain -- or Palin)

"Sad news today from Pennsylvania. Joe the Plumber not only still harbors resentment toward Senator McCain but now he doesn't like Sarah Palin. It seems that magical Republican trifecta from 2008 has splintered even further."
And
Yeah, but without McCain and Palin, where would Plumber be? That's what Detrow thought too.

"I pointed out he’d just be plain old Sam Wurzelbacher of Ohio — Joe the Plumber wouldn’t exist – without McCain," Detrow writes. "His response was blunt. '...He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it.'"

"McCain was trying to use me," Plumber told Detrow. "I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy."

Really? A.. Ploy? What: Your name? Occupation? Your willingness to be used? Your every response?

And.. you didn't know that.. Then?

Hyperinflation Looms – The Dollar Arrives at Its ‘Havenstein Moment’

Economic devastation soon!
Excerpts: How is deflation possible when crude oil prices have more than doubled since their post-Lehman crash low? Or more broadly, how can there be deflation when the price index of 19 commodities compiled by the Commodity Research Bureau rose 47% during this same period? It cannot of course, which means there is no deflation.

The ongoing decline in the purchasing power of the dollar has been masked by wealth destruction as over-priced assets like houses fall back to realistic levels. There is also the problem that the mainstream media broadcasts only the government calculated CPI (Consumer Price Index. GDP is Gross Domestic Product), which is an inaccurate measure of the dollar’s eroding purchasing power.

-And-

Rothbard provides his usual brilliant insight to explain what happens once the “Havenstein moment’ is reached. There are two alternatives.

“If the government tightens its own belt and stops printing (or otherwise creating) new money, then inflationary expectations will eventually be reversed, and prices will fall once more – thus relieving the money shortage by lowering prices. But if government follows its own inherent inclination to counterfeit and appeases the clamor by printing more money so as to allow the public’s cash balances to ‘catch up’ to prices, then the country is off to the races. Money and prices will follow each other upward in an ever-accelerating spiral, until finally prices ‘run away’…[i.e., hyperinflate]”

Weimar Germany took the second alternative.

And, sadly..

The dollar has now reached its ‘Havenstein moment’. Will policymakers follow the prudent advice of Murray Rothbard and ‘tighten its belt’? Or like Herr Havenstein, will Mr. Bernanke continue to ‘print’?

No need to ponder these two alternatives. The Federal Reserve must ‘print’, for one reason. Despite the noble goals assigned to it in textbooks and offered in Congressional hearings, the Federal Reserve exists for only one reason – to make sure the federal government gets all the dollars it wants to spend, which consequently has put the dollar on a hyperinflationary course.

Bottom line: By following its inherent purpose, the Fed will print us into hyperinflation. We will knowingly follow the failed economic model of the Weimar Republic and expect different results. Things do not look good, even in the short term, here in Universe "B.."

Report: Syria, Hizbullah On Full Alert

This is disturbing..

Mercury Retrograde Begins

This is late by a few days. Pardon.. Looks like this Retrograde period might be a little heavier than most. From Robert Wilkinson's Aquarius Papers.. Excerpt: "Add the current Yod and Mercury septile Jupiter, and by the end of this period we'll know we've hit a major fork in the road of destiny in at least a third of our existence. Besides all this, one thing is certain: the truth WILL be known by the end of this period 3 weeks from now. Just slooooow down....."

Primary message: Just slow down.
Retrograde advice is applicable for almost every situation you might encounter.
Look again. Just slow down. Finish well.

New Pictures, Perspective On The Sun

Our scientific knowledge regarding the Sun is about to grow way past our current comprehension, all thanks to the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Here is their informational video.
Some data sets improve from information gathered every 90 minutes per frame to 10 SECONDS. Other close range information improves from three minutes to 10 seconds. Check out this Flare and blast wave.

This will change most of what we think regarding the Sun, the rest of the Solar System, and of course, Earth. Science is about to get even more Amazing..

I Could Have Had A Dr. People!

Aussie Cookbook Recalled After Recipe Includes 'Freshly Ground Black People'.. This was not a spellcheck program problem. This was most likely: A. Hacker, B. Prankster - In house, C. Disgruntled employee, or D. Industrial espionage smear campaign. These are not in order, just the strongest options.

As an aside, I'd like to show you a journalistic trick, that might have more of an effect on your life than you understand. Here's some text from the story.. "It is a tiny misprint, but an Australian publisher had to pulp a cookbook after one recipe called for "salt and freshly ground black people" to be added to the dish, AFP reported Saturday.

Penguin Group Australia pulped and reprinted about 7,000 copies of "Pasta Bible" after the typographical error was found in the ingredients for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

Now, from that portion of article I could craft the headline "Bible Advocates Murder, Cannibalism." It is the Pasta Bible, and in order to get freshly ground black people for cannibalistic recipes, you must murder them first. Duh. Or I could think of another set of headlines only peripherally connected to the facts for the same type of Wow! Factor response.. It doesn't matter what I'd come up with and how damaging it might be to my targets (never mind how innocent or not they may be), I really can't be held liable, as it isn't against the law to lie when delivering the news.

It's important to know that the media can lie about the story and the headline, because even if you didn't read that particular story, you would read the headline to decide to read further. And, whether or not you realized it, that headline effected your worldview consciously for a few seconds, and subconsciously, until further notice.. Your worldview is then steered, shaped, and altered in four to ten word increments, which aren't necessarily true. And this has been happening for awhile now, and it's getting worse.

Bottom Line: Discernment is required. Knowledge of the trick diffuses some of the subliminal power. Think about what you read, and what you read over, as it might influence you more than you think.

Taking A Break

And doing some reading. I'll be back.. Saturday.

Something Wicked This Way Comes..

Meteor Showers Rocks on Midwestern Homes. Uh-Oh..
Sorry. RUH-ROH. (Scary excerpts-My emphasis in red)

The midnight sky flashed an eerie blue early Thursday over four Midwestern states as a meteorite exploded in the atmosphere, sending rocks as big as softballs crashing through some houses.
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"`The sky lit up completely from horizon to horizon. We've seen lightning storms, but this was nothing like that,'' he said. ``A minute or so later the house started rumbling and we heard all these tiny particles hitting the house.''
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Kenneth and Karen Barnes of Park Forest, Ill., told WGN-TV in Chicago they were sleeping when a 5-pound meteorite crashed into their living room. Thursday morning their son spotted a hole in the ceiling.
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..He said the debris field appears to cover a path about 80 miles long by 20 miles wide from north of Bloomington, Ill., to Chicago's south side and possibly part of northwestern Indiana.

He said all of the pieces came from a stony meteorite he estimates was about the size of a Volkswagen bug when it exploded as it plunged into Earth's atmosphere.

What makes this significant? It looks like there were at least two.. Excerpt:
There are also unconfirmed reports of a possible impact near Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. That's about 2 hours north of the Quad Cities on the Mississippi River.

So, if this one did hit in Prarie du Chien, the Other Meteor that exploded in the atmosphere was Another Meteor.

Something seems to be agitating our little corner of the Solar System.. Volcanoes are erupting (or going to-again), we're receiving "Mysterious radio waves emitted from nearby galaxy." rising ocean floors, still more earthquakes..

Revision: There might only be one meteor. The video here shows the meteor continuing on after the explosion, so Wisconsin might be the impact site for the (single) meteor. That being said, there is still major agitation planet wide, and off planet, and we seem to be experiencing an.. uptick.. System-wide.

April 13, 2010

The latest from Goro Adachi on the End of Ratzinger. The Scandal is Catastrophic, and hasn't yet begun.. There's talk of arresting The Pope when he travels to England. If that were to happen, what happens next?

Underwater, Super-Volcano Doom..

China earthquake kills hundreds in Qinghai.

Expected.

Something Else is Up, other than what's implied..

The New Moon in Aries, and what that means to you.

Polish leader, 96 others dead in Russia jet crash. Several conspiracies here..

Erykah Badu video here. Marketing ploy? Absolutely not. The real message is the last 45 seconds.

At The Moment, It's All About The Earthquakes..

Since the sun(and its neighborhood) went crazy last week, there's been a noticeable uptick of earthquake activity around the world, but something troubling seems to be happening in Calexico.. Could be a turbulent week.

Maddow Airs Unedited ACORN Videos: 'Firestorm that Killed ACORN Was Fueled by Pure Manure'

Holy shit! Really? Excerpts from the excellent BradBlog..

Finally, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow covers the actual phony ACORN tapes themselves by airing the newly release unedited versions, since CA AG Jerry Brown forced hoaxsters O'Keefe and Giles to turn them over in exchange for immunity from criminal prosecution, as we noted in our coverage last Friday. (That coverage also includes links to the full, unedited versions of the tapes, clips of which Maddow aired last night, as seen below.)

Maddow video at link..

Maddow slams the entire hoax as pulled off by O'Keefe, Giles and their employer/publisher/con-man Andrew Breitbart, and aptly describes it as "a dishonest political stunt that bears no resemblance to journalism"...

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For the record, yes, as Maddow notes, Fox "News" endlessly pimped the phony ACORN tapes and got the story completely --- and likely purposely --- wrong. But it should also be noted that so did New York Times, AP, Baltimore Sun, CNN, New York Post, Washington City Paper, Philadelphia Daily News, NPR, Dallas Morning News and many many more, some of which are listed here.

Really: If "they" (Fox, O'Keefe, vast Right Wing Conspiracy) went to this much trouble to get ACORN, think of how far they'd go to get Obama? Oh yeah, all you have to do is turn on the TV or Radio or computer to see how far they'd go..

A Little Taste Of "Above Top Secret.."

Mt. Etna Blows!

Iraq War Vet: "We Were Told to Just Shoot People, and the Officers Would Take Care of Us"

Freaky Physics Proves Parallel Universes Exist

Squashing the Digital-Ego

Mandelbrot to Mandelbulb - 3D Infinity (Super cool fractal pictures)

Giza Pyramid Machines: Their true purpose finally revealed.

This Is Probably Too Late, But..

From Urban Survival, April 5 (scroll almost halfway down)
(Selected from)Coping: Flux Rope. Satellite Outages & Birkeland Currents Not often that things work out well, while working out badly, but for some reason that's how things seem to be going around here. My long-time friend who is visiting does a lot of work with something called "subtle energies" and is off to meetings in Florida later this week; he's pretty well-known in the world of subtle energy work, but has held back on writing a book or raising his profile too far; now's not the time to be doing such things.

But with not too much speculation, we could be witnessing the evolution of something which has been in Cliff's predictive linguistics modeling for at least 10-years. "sun disease".
Let me back up: Our Canadian Prairies correspondent reported in an overnight note that the Northern Lights were going nuts last night:

"Wow, 5:00 am your time, up to use the washroom, and noticed streaks and flashes through the west horizon like lightening in the distance through the window. Went outside, and the whole sky is flashing here and there like a strobe with the aurora. Never seen anything like it. from directly above, spreading out in all directions, but to faint and flashing way to fast to photograph. Big dipper is almost directly above at the moment and its all arcing from around that point. Never seen anything like this. Normally they light up and shimmer across the sky in the northern region and slowly spread south. this has huge flashes covering half the sky and lasting maybe one quarter of a second.
The things I get to see."

All of which points out that the Sun, which has been in quite a period of lull, seems to have come back quite energetically -- indeed so much so that there was a solar "PRESTO" alert issued on Saturday which pushes up the blood pressure a bit...pay particular attention to the highlight:

"A B7.4 flare peaking at 09:54 UT was detected today in the Catania sunspot group 56 (NOAA AR 1059) located around S25W05. It was accompanied by a post-eruption arcade, coronal dimmings, possibly an EIT wave and a partial halo CME (angular width around 210 degrees). The CME was first detected at 10:33 UT (by LASCO) and at 09:54 UT (by SECCHI/COR2 on STEREO A). The CME was moving at a projected plane-of-the-sky speed of around 250 km/s (according to the LASCO data). Using some reasonable assumptions on the CME geometry, the true radial CME speed can be estimated to be around 600 km/s. The arrival of the corresponding ICME (possibly an interplanetary flux rope) at the Earth is thus expected in the morning of April 6.

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The "flux rope" sure sounds like the "h-field" part of Jim McCanney's 'electric solar system model', where he postulates actual 'arcing' from the Sun to the planets (or does it go the other way...don't recall at this hour). But regardless, when CME energy shows up, really BIG effects start to happen on Earth.
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Don't know how much welding you've done lately with a stick or wire welder, but what does arc welding create? Low voltage but incredibly high currents: Heat - all kinds of heat and enough to melt pretty much any metal in the way.
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This is totally cool stuff, except for one small got'cha: As the Sun's flux-levels get turned up, and more ropes arrive, what does that do to the temperature of the earth's core and possibly (under the plasma expansion model) what does this do to the little things floating on the surface of the planet like, oh, I dunno, Haiti, Chile, and now Mexicali?

All of which might sound really wonky except for two things. Just in the last few minutes, this showed up:

Space Weather Bulletin:
A geomagnetic storm began at 05:55 AM EST Monday, April 5, 2010. Space weather storm levels reached Strong (G3) levels on the Geomagnetic Storms Space Weather Scale. The source of the storming is an Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejection associated with a weak solar flare that occurred in Active Region 1059 on April 3 at 05:54 AM EST. This is expected to be an isolated storm that should subside quickly. Other than the flare and CME erupting on April 3, this active region has not produced any significant activity. Systems that can be affected include electric power systems, spacecraft operations, high-frequency communications, GPS, and other navigation systems.
Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services and other observatories, universities, and institutions. More information is available at SWPC's Web site http://swpc.noaa.gov.

And two: I can't seem to get rid of that image of "Wednesday - Los Angeles" out of my head.

Send your comments to george@ure.net.

Super short answer: Sun-doom possible soon.

Big Shaker, Baja, Mexico

7.2 Earthquake felt in San Diego, as far north as Santa Barbara, and east to Phoenix..

Welcome To Latvia! If You Can Find Us, Come Visit!

Cool photoblog devoted to Riga, Latvia, and another, also found quite by accident. And, for good measure, here's a webcam of Riga from the tourism board. (Map of Latvia in relation to the rest of Europe here). Why? Why not?

What Makes Chechen Women So Dangerous?

Great article about a subset of strategy (suicide bombers) in a war most Americans know nothing about, much less its location. If you even have a limited perspective regarding this ongoing war, it's probably not as.. nuanced.. as you might believe.

The Larger Point being, there are many conflicts, events, philosophies, and machinations that we have based Perspective out of randomly remembered bits of information cobbled together from hit and run exposure from the various medias, without context of the reporter's or broadcaster's agenda. These loosely connected bits are then co-processed with other items and the random bits of information about all the other events within each person's field of experience or exposure, all fighting for priority, comprehension, and the expansion or assimilation into Perspective.

Chechnya is but one barely, barely understood conflict of hundreds in the world, all exploding simultaneously, all with dire implications for those involved, most unfolding behind the media's deafening curtain of silence..