Thursday, September 17, 2009

Snake afoot!

Snake with foot found in China

A snake with a single clawed foot has been discovered in China, according to reports.

 
Snake that grew a foot out of its body: Snake with foot found in China
Snake that grew a foot out of its body Photo: CEN/Europics

Dean Qiongxiu, 66, said she discovered the reptile clinging to the wall of her bedroom with its talons in the middle of the night.

"I woke up and heard a strange scratching sound. I turned on the light and saw this monster working its way along the wall using his claw," said Mrs Duan of Suining, southwest China.


Mrs Duan said she was so scared she grabbed a shoe and beat the snake to death before preserving its body in a bottle of alcohol.

The snake – 16 inches long and the thickness of a little finger – is now being studied at the Life Sciences Department at China's West Normal University in Nanchang.

Snake expert Long Shuai said: "It is truly shocking but we won't know the cause until we've conducted an autopsy."

A more common mutation among snakes is the growth of a second head, which occurs in a similar way to the formation of Siamese twins in humans.

Such animals are often caught and preserved as lucky tokens but have very little chance of surviving in the wild anyway, especially as the heads have a tendency to attack each other.



The Science Cartel vs. Immanuel Velikovsky

by Joshua Snyder
by Joshua Snyder

Recently by Joshua Snyder: What Would Asia Do Without America?

In 1950, Immanuel Velikovsky culminated decades of research with a book titled Worlds in Collision that "proposes that many myths and traditions of ancient peoples and cultures are based on actual events." His approach was interdisciplinary, a rarity in the 20th century, taking into account astronomy, physics, chemistry, psychology, ancient history, and comparative mythology.

He noted, for example, that Venus, the second brightest object in the night sky, was not mentioned by the earliest astronomers. He proposed that the planet was a newcomer to our solar system, a comet, appearing in historical times with an irregular orbit that caused catastrophic events on our own planet.

Coming in close contact with the Earth, the latter's rotation altered, making it appear that The Sun had stood still, a phenomenon reported on in the Book of Josue. What has come to be known as Joshua's Long Day is corroborated by the texts of the ancient Chinese, Japanese, Egyptians, Babylonians, and Mayans; the East Asians reporting a extremely long sunset, the Mexicans reporting an extremely long sunrise.

Immanuel Velikovsky was too eminent a scholar to be dismissed outright as a kook, and he counted some respected people among his friends. (See The Einstein-Velikovsky Correspondence). Nevertheless, his Catastrophism was rejected outright by a scientific establishment that couldn't stomach an interdisciplinary challenge to its dogmatic Uniformitarianism, even after Velikovsky's predictions about the temperature of Venus and radio activity from Jupiter were proven true.

Stephen Jay Gould summed up mainstream scientific opinion, saying, "Velikovsky is neither crank nor charlatan – although to state my opinion and to quote one of my colleagues, he is at least gloriously wrong ... Velikovsky would rebuild the science of celestial mechanics to save the literal accuracy of ancient legends." Velikovsky would counter that "the ancient traditions are our best guide to the appearance and arrangement of the earliest remembered solar system, not some fancy computer's retrocalculations based upon current understanding of astronomical principles."

While recognized as "neither crank nor charlatan," Velikovsky and his ideas were denied a hearing in what same to be known as the "Velikovsky Affair."

Australian philosopher David Stove, took up the Velikovskian cause in a 1972 essay – "The Velikovsky story: the scientific mafia." He begins, "The story of Velikovsky's theory, its reception, and its subsequent confirmations, constitutes one of the most fascinating chapters in the entire history of thought; and it is one which is still unfolding."

While acknowledging the book's "enormous appeal to what I call the 'anti-fluoride belt' in modern societies," he says "the books convinced me of two things: that a thesis of extraterrestrial catastrophes in historical times is at least a distinctly live option; and that in historical times Venus has done- something peculiar, at any rate."

Prof. Stove notes the book "became the target of nearly universal abuse and derision" and "[t]he professional scientists' campaign against Worlds in Collision began well before the book appeared" and resulted in, among other things, its author being "rigorously excluded from access to learned journals for his replies," "the sacking of the Senior Editor of Macmillan responsible for accepting the Velikovsky manuscript," "the sacking of the director of the famous Hayden Planetarium in New York, because he proposed to take Velikovsky seriously enough to mount a display about the theory," and "Macmillan finally cav[ing] in, and prevailed on Velikovsky to let them transfer their best-selling property to a competitor, Doubleday, which, as it has no textbook division, is not susceptible to professorial blackmail."

Prof. Stove also "mention[s] some of the more startling pieces of evidence that have come to light since Velikovsky published." It was he who gave "altogether novel importance to electrical and magnetic forces in the solar system" and who "said that the earth must have a magnetosphere much stronger, and extending much further into space, than anyone else believed possible." He also "predict[ed] that Jupiter would be found to be a radio source, long before the astonished radio-astronomers found it so." Most interesting was what he said about the second planet:

According to Velikovsky, there were all over the world, as folklore alleges, rains of burning pitch. This, among other things, led him to assert in 1950 that the clouds of Venus must be very rich in petroleum gas. All contemporary knowledge of the chemistry of the planet's clouds was flatly against it. Yet it has turned out to be so. If you think this is a bit creepy, you have heard nothing yet.

According to Velikovsky in 1950, Venus must still be very hot, because of the circumstances of its recent birth and subsequent career. The astronomers had long "known" that it was cool, and as late as 1959 accepted estimates of its temperature, such as 59 degrees centigrade, were still being revised slightly downward. Yet it has turned out that the planet has a surface temperature around 800 degrees Fahrenheit.

This would be hard enough to reconcile with any "uniformitarian" theory which requires a common origin for all the planets. But worse was to come. For Mariner II put it beyond doubt that the rotation of Venus is retrograde – that is, while it revolves in the same direction as that in which all the other planets both revolve and rotate, it rotates in the contrary sense! No doubt ad hoc amendments will be tried, to fit this fact into conventional theories of the origin of the planets (just as desperate ad hoc amendments to a "greenhouse" theory are still being made to account for the temperature); but this one will test their ingenuity, that is certain.


Prof. Stove offers an observation "quite independent of the question whether Velikovsky's theory is true," suggesting that "it is on professional science itself that the case throws the most revealing light." He says, "The great Italian probability-theorist, de Finetti, speaking in 1964 about Velikovsky's case, compared the scientific complex to a 'despotic and irresponsible Mafia.'"

Say what you will of Velikovskian cosmology, more scientists themselves are questioning whether it is right to dismiss outright celestial events as described in ancient texts, as this article suggests – The Odyssey astronomically accurate? And exciting news just today that the largest planet of our solar system "snared a passing comet in the middle of the last century, eventually releasing it 12 years later," rings a Velikovskian bell – Jupiter had temporary moon for 12 years.

Whatever conclusions one may come to on this matter, it raises interesting questions about the tyrannical conformity of thought that plagues not only the scientific but also the economic and political spheres as well. Are not proponents of the Austrian School of Economics similarly marginalized by the academic cartel, as are advocates the traditional United States non-interventionism by the political cartel? Alternative medicine's long history of suppression by the American Medical Association is also a parallel.

The thoughts of Frank Furedi, who recently suggested that "deference to traditional authority has given way to the reverence of expertise," come to mind – Specialist pleading. The author noted, "Unlike traditional authority, which touched on every dimension of the human experience, the authority of the expert was confined to that which could be exercised through reason."

Like Velikovskianism, both Austrianism and Non-interventionism touch on more dimensions of the human experience than do the "mainstream" approaches to economics and foreign policy they oppose. Velikovskianism appeals to the traditional authority of ancient texts; Austrianism appeals to the traditional authority of the discoveries of the School of Salamanca, and Non-interventionism to the traditional authority of the Founders.

Also, just as many insights of Velikovskian Catastrophism were confirmed and are still being confirmed, as the search for Moon Water attests, the many insights of the "anti-war, anti-state, pro-market" philosophies that gird LewRockwell.com have been confirmed and are being confirmed, especially within the past year.

Fascinating as the cosmological speculations detailed above are, they are far less convincing than the economic and political ideas mentioned in the last paragraphs. It is nothing less than scandalous that these are denied a hearing.

September 16, 2009

An American Catholic son-in-law of Korea, Joshua Snyder [send him mail] lives with his wife and two children in Pohang, where he lectures English at a science and technology university. He blogs at The Western Confucian.

Copyright © 2009 by LewRockwell.com. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given.




Friday, September 04, 2009

Just Another Bad Ass

I really had fun with this write up, I like the matter of fact modern take and spin the author has. I personally feel that these figures of history were real at one time. Perhaps made much larger than life by story telling down through the years. God only knows I have seen simple stories on the Internet these days and years enlarged to hurendous proportions by each teller that adds a little to it. Actually in the tradition of many aboriginal peoples these stories are built on and upgraded in the circle tellings on purpose. Each generation it seems had to figure and look at the story from slightly different perspective. We called it "The generation gap". But to these old story telling traditions it was a new spin to make an empression on minds that craved new and bigger and better things. Anyway this was a fun read.. PS Thanks Cynthia!!

Zeus

From Odysseus to Aeneas, Greek Mythology is filled with heroic stories and epic tales of asskicking warriors, gods, and monsters doing all sorts of legendary, ridiculous shit.  Every myth is filled with feats of unrivaled strength and determination, and the entire religion just oozes things that are badass ike a festering wound of awesomeness.  However, among the towering acts of peerless greatness that dominate the entire mythological system, there is one figure that transcends these heroes and stands on a plane of righteous badassitude all by himself – the almighty Zeus, the powerful, petty, pimp-tastic Ruler of Mount Olympus.

It all started back in the days before the gods as we know them came to power.  Zeus' dad was a dude named Cronus.  Cronus was the king of the Titans and generally just an all-around bastard, but things really got out of hand in his household when one day he heard some random prophecy claiming that one of his own children would overthrow him and take over as the head honcho of all existence.  So Cronus, being the afore-mentioned bastard that he was, came to the rational and logical conclusion that the best course of action to prevent his own violent overthrow was to eat his children as soon as they were born:



NOM NOM NOMZ


(True story:  An old roommate of mine insisted on hanging a print of this painting in the dining room of our old apartment.  When the rest of us objected, he argued that it was the perfect place for such a work of art because "it was a picture about eating".  Needless to say, this resulted in quite a bit of awkwardness whenever one of us wanted to invite a new girlfriend over for dinner.)

Well, Mrs. Cronus eventually got sick of popping out babies just to have them horked down by some crazy baby-eating dipshit, so when she gave birth to baby Zeus she wrapped a rock in some baby clothes and fed that to Cronus instead.  Apparently King Cronus was so hungry he didn't even give a crap, because he wolfed that shit down like it was a pan of my wife's delicious homemade spanakopita and didn't seem to notice the subtle textural and flavoral difference between a newborn infant and a large inanimate granite boulder.  Zeus' mom then snuck her son off to the island of Crete, where he was raised to adulthood by a celestial goat in a cave full of mythical bees.  It was... weird.

Cave life among the crazy goat-bees was apparently somewhat fruitful, however, because Zeus grew up with one thought on his mind – vengeance.  Zeus trained himself rigorously, day after day, and when the time was right he ran out and punched his dad so hard in the balls that Cronus barfed up all of the kids he'd eaten.  The kids all got together and revolted against the Titans, and under the able command of Zeus the Olympians kicked the Titans' asses off the face of Greece forever.  Cronus and his defeated buddies were banished to a place called Tartarus, a horrible vortex of suck that was pretty much like the Ancient Greek equivalent of Satan's bunghole.  Seriously, if Hell was the original Death Star, Tartarus was like that awful, sewage-filled trash compactor room with the evil swimming penis eyeball thing and the walls that closed in and smashed Wookies into bloody pulps for no reason at all.

Well, even though the Titans lost the war, some folks still had their backs, and there were a couple revolts against Zeus early on in his reign.  For the most part he kicked faces and took names, but the Big Z got quite a test when the horrific monster known as Typhon showed up looking to avenge the fallen King Cronus.  Typhon was pretty much the most insane of all the legendary Greek beasts – this towering hydra/dragon/lizard thing was like Tiamat on steroids mixed with the Tarrasque and the Great Wall of China – and one day this thing showed up and started eating cities and throwing giant boulders around in an effort to eradicate all life on the material plane.  Needless to say, everybody was pretty worried about that whole situation.  Well Zeus didn't give a shit about this roid-raging beast from some ungodly, narcotics-induced Final Fantasy summon spell.  He nut-shotted Typhon with a couple dozen lightning bolts and then bodyslammed a mountain on top of him before shipping his ass off to Tartarus to enjoy an eternity of ball-sucking agony with his good buddy Cronus.



The landmark court case of Zeus v. Tartarus.


After all the threats to his rule were effectively face-smashed into the seventh circle of the next thing worse than Hell, Zeus took over as the head boss of everything ever.  He sent his bro Poseidon to rule the ocean and his other brother Hades to oversee the underworld, while the Z-man climbed up to the top of Mount Olympus and spent his days enjoying scenic views and having topless nymphs hand-feed him Ambrosia and grapes and methamphetamines.  He just hung out up there ordering around gods and mortals and smashing peoples' asses with lightning bolts whenever they pissed him off.  As they say, it's good to be the king.

In addition to being the patron saint of lawgivers, Kings, and oracles, Zeus was also tasked with upholding the morality of the people as well.  This is pretty ironic, because Zeus was a total man-whore who had more adulterous affairs than a Lifetime Original Movie marathon.  I mean, you can't pick up a book on mythology without reading some story of how the King of the Gods was out there giving golden showers to bored housewives or seducing comely young maidens with his insanely good looks or generally just getting it on with a veritable army of chicks and dudes and anything else that moved.  During his wild escapades across Greece this guy also fathered badass gods like Ares, Apollo, Dionysus, Hermes and Hephaestos, and produced heroes like Perseus, Hercules, Helen of Troy, Orion, and King Minos.  Hell, even Alexander the Great claimed to be descended from this guy, and Zeus was such a divine pimpenstein that nobody really even questioned it.  This guy was so virile that one time he was just sitting around thinking about something awesome and all of a sudden the ridiculously badass warrior-goddess Athena spontaneously busted right out of his head wearing her full battle armor.



The Temple of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
This thing was made of gold, silver, and marble and stood about forty feet high.
It eventually fell apart when it imploded from the insane gravitational pull generated by Zeus' general bitchin'-ness.


As the head of the Greek pantheon, Zeus was also the most widely-worshipped of the Gods, and was the focal point of many crazy religious cults.  Of course, it was a good idea to worship this guy, because he was a totally petty bastard who wasn't above making your life miserable for no reason at all.  Sure, he gave great rewards to good people – if you were virtuous and cool you could find yourself getting morphed into some sweet animals or receiving Time Extends on your lifespan or something – but if you were a dickhead you could expect some pretty harsh vengeance to be laid down upon your ass with the realness.  Like one time a dude named Salmoneus wanted to show everyone his badass Zeus impression so he went out and started riding around in a bronze chariot yelling "BOOM!" really loud, pretending that he could shoot lightning or something, so Zeus fragged that dumbass straight to Hades with a bolt of electricity so huge it would have made Tesla jizz. Another time, a dude named Prometheus gave the secret of fire to humans so Zeus chained him up to a rock and had rabid, pissed-off eagles disembowel him every day from that point until forever.  Yet another time, a rather ambitious fellow named Ixion tried to seduce Zeus' wife Hera (a badass goddess who, in my opinion, is probably the most compelling of all the Greek deities), so Zeus responded by strapping the guy to a wheel of fire and having him raked over a bed of hot coals, condemning that poor bastard to an eternity of agonizing, skin-melting pain.  The King of the Gods obviously transcended that whole "eye for an eye" thing.

Of course, in the Roman tradition Zeus was known as Jupiter, a name that nowadays makes most people thing of the fifth planet from the Sun.  Well, it's no coincidence that Jupiter is named what it is – it's definitely the most badass of the planets in the Solar System.  Not only is this massive beast the system's biggest planet – 11 times the size of the Earth (and with over 16 times the number of moons) – it also sports an insane permanent storm that rocks the planet like a hurricane all day long.  The Great Red Eye of Jupiter is the size of Earth and constantly maintains insane sustained winds of 225 miles per hour, which is roughly enough velocity to take Dorothy and Toto and blow them out of Kansas, past the Emerald City, and into a wormhole leading to the Delta Quadrant.  Its gravity also kicks the ass of Earth gravity, and is so powerful that the entire planet generates a gravity well that sucks in asteroids and any other space shit stupid enough to get close to the planet's inescapable atmosphere.  The crazy gravity is so awesome that it compresses Hydrogen into liquids and solids, which kicks ass.




The Mighty Zeus was the God of Lightning and the King of the Gods – kind of like Odin and Thor together with a toga and a year's supply of weapons-grade Viagra - and one of the craziest and most vengeful deities this side of the Old Testament.  Generally appearing as a totally ripped old guy with a sweet, flowing white beard and a washboard stomach so over-the-top that it could only be described as a 24-pack of MetRx protein shakes, this guy not only appears in an obscene number of completely epic-looking sculptures and paintings and provides the namesake to the craziest planet in our corner of the universe, but he also served as the head honcho for two of the most badass classical civilizations on Earth – the Greeks and the Romans.  He lived rough, partied hard, and didn't think twice about destroying anyone who stood in his way.  As far as I'm concerned, that's a pretty sweet legacy.



Zeus chills while some babe falls all over him.


Sources:

Apollodorus.  The Library of Greek Mythology.  Trans. Hard, Robin.  Oxford Univ. Press, 1999.

Hesiod.  Theogany and Works and Days.  Trans. West, Martin L.  Oxford Univ. Press, 1999.

Homer.  The Iliad.  Trans. Lattimore, Richmond.  Univ. of Chicago Press, 1951.

Willis, Roy G.  World Mythology.  Macmillan, 1993.



Links:

NASA.gov

Pantheon.org

Wikipedia


Sunday, August 30, 2009

Interesting tidbits to ponder.



How to Answer The 64 Toughest Interview Questions


Friday, August 28, 2009

The Move to Depopulate the Planet



By Stephanie R. Pasco
It is my intention to give you clips from documents, many from the United Nations that prove there is a plan to
depopulate this planet. I will also provide quotes from various people and organizations that further show this
agenda is afoot. I pray the guidance of the Lord God Almighty will be with me in this pursuit to warn others of
this dark plot against humanity.
Everything written in this paper is easily verifiable. It may take some time and effort, but I took great pains to
make this paper as accurate as I possibly could.
The depopulation agenda is based on nature worship, or Gaia worship. In Genesis, God clearly told Adam and
Eve, and then Noah and his family to go forth and multiply to fill the earth. Nowhere in the Bible does God
rescind that clearly spoken commandment. Therefore man is attempting to supercede the command of the Lord
God in heaven: The Creator! I ask you, who knows more about the state of the earth, the created, or the
Creator?
The basis for the depopulation agenda is a standard all elitist's hold dear. This standard is called:
The Hegelian Dialectic:
Problem – Reaction- Solution
Create the Problem
Cause a Reaction
Offer a Solution
You will see exactly how they have created the problem; caused a reaction so widespread it is really quite
impressive how successful they have been; and offered a solution: A deadly solution.
I ask that you please make an attempt to distribute this paper everywhere you possibly can. The time grows
short and so many are going to be caught unawares. By getting the word out, you may be able to prevent
someone from needless pain and suffering.
William Benton, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State at UNESCO 1946:
(UNESCO is the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization)
"As long as a child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can produce only
precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme
nationalism. The schools therefore use the means described earlier to combat family attitudes that favor
jingoism (nationalism)…we shall presently recognize in nationalism the major obstacle to development of world
mindedness. We are at the beginning of a long process of breaking down the walls of national sovereignty.
UNESCO must be the pioneer." (Emphasis mine throughout)
Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution, 1991:
"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global
warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill (this is absolute proof that man made global
warming is a fabrication)…. But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap of mistaking symptoms
for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and
behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."
Mikhail Gorbachev:
"We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control
population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there
aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage."
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World 1946:
"There is, of course, no reason why the new totalitarians should resemble the old. Government by clubs and
firing squads, by artificial famine, mass imprisonment and mass deportation, is not merely inhumane (nobody
cares much about that nowadays); it is demonstrably inefficient and in an age of advanced technology,
inefficiency is the sin against the Holy Ghost."
Aldous Huxley, Lecture named Population Explosion 1959:
"…Let us ask ourselves what the practical alternatives are as we confront this problem of population growth.
One alternative is to do nothing in particular about it and just let things go on as they are…The question is: Are
we going to restore the balance in the natural way, which is a brutal and entirely anti-human way, or are we
going to restore it in some intelligent, rational, and humane way…Try to increase production as much as
possible and at the same time try to re-establish the balance between the birth rate by means less gruesome
than those which are used by nature – by intelligent and human methods?…There are colossal difficulties in the
way of implementing any large-scale policy of limitation of population; whereas death control is
extremely easy under modern circumstances, birth control is extremely difficult. The reason is very simple:
death control – the control, for example, of infectious diseases – can be accomplished by a handful of
experts and quite a small labour force of unskilled persons and requires a very small capital expenditure."
Barry Commoner, Making Peace with the Planet:
"There have been 'triage' proposals that would condemn whole nations to death through some species of global
'benign neglect'. There have been schemes for coercing people to curtail their fertility, by physical and legal
means that are ominously left unspecified. Now we are told that we must curtail rather than extend our
efforts to feed the hungry peoples of the world. Where will it end?"
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, April 28, 1997, Testimony before Congressional
Committee: "There are
some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and
that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of
some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so
that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of
engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of
terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of
electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which
they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and
that's why this is so important."
Jacques Cousteau UNESCO Courier 1991:
"In order to save the planet it would be necessary to kill 350,000 people per day."
Jacques Cousteau, Population: Opposing Viewpoints:
"If we want our precarious endeavor to succeed, we must convince all human beings to participate in our
adventure, and we must urgently find solutions to curb the population explosion that has a direct influence
on the impoverishment of the less-favoured communities. Otherwise, generalized resentment will beget hatred,
and the ugliest genocide imaginable, involving billions of people, will become unavoidable."
"Uncontrolled population growth and poverty must not be fought from inside, from Europe, from North America,
or any nation or group of nations; it must be attacked from the outside – by international agencies helped
in the formidable job by competent and totally non-governmental organizations."
Bertrand Russell, The Impact Of Science On Society 1953
"I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing... War... has
hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a
Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely
without making the world too full... The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of that? Really
high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's... There are three ways of
securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of
infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority..."
Henry Kissinger, 1978:
"U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation"
David Rockefeller, 2000:
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept
the New World Order."
David Rockefeller: Memoirs 2002
Founder of the CFR:
"We wield over American political and economical institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret
cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as
'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political
structure, one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
David Rockefeller, Co-founder of the Trilateral Commission:
"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine & other great publications
whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promise of discretion for almost 40 years. It
would have been impossible for us to develop our plans for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights
of publicity during those years. But, the world is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a
world government.
Thomas Ferguson, the Latin American Case Officer for the State Department's Office of
Population Affairs (OPA) (now the US State Dept. Office of Population Affairs, est. by Henry
Kissinger in 1975): "There is a single theme behind all our work
- we must reduce population levels," said Thomas Ferguson, the Latin American case officer for the
State Department's Office of Population Affairs (OPA). "Either they [governments] do it our way, through
nice clean methods or they will get the kind of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran, or in Beirut.
Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control it requires authoritarian
government, even fascism, to reduce it. "The professionals," said Ferguson, "aren't interested in
lowering population for humanitarian reasons. That sounds nice. We look at resources and
environmental constraints. We look at our strategic needs, and we say that this country must lower its
population - or else we will have trouble.
"So steps are taken. El Salvador is an example where our failure to lower population by simple means has
created the basis for a national security crisis. The government of El Salvador failed to use our programs to
lower their population. Now they get a civil war because of it.... There will be dislocation and food shortages.
They still have too many people there." (1981)
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, April 28, 1997; Testimony before Congressional Committee:
"And advanced forms of biological warfare that can target specific genotypes may transform biological warfare
from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."
Sir Julian Huxley, UNESCO: its Purpose and its Philosophy:
"Political unification in some sort of world government will be required... Even though... any radical eugenic
policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see
that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at
stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable."
In the early 1950's, former Communist Joseph Z. Kornfeder expressed the opinion that UNESCO was
comparable to a Communist Party agitation and propaganda department. He stated that such a party
apparatus 'handles the strategy and method of getting at the public mind, young and old.' Huxley would lard the
agency with a motley collection of Communists and fellow travelers.
President Richard Nixon believed abortion was necessary as a form of eugenics to prevent interracial breeding
Theodore Roosevelt to Charles B. Davenport, January 3, 1913, Charles B. Davenport Papers, Department
of Genetics, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.:
"I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of
these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feebleminded
persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them…The emphasis should be laid on getting desirable people to
breed…"
Theodore Roosevelt:
"Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind.... Any group of farmers, who permitted
their best stock not to breed, and let all the increase come from the worst stock, would be treated as fit inmates
for an asylum.... Some day we will realize that the prime duty, the inescapable duty of the good citizens of the
right type is to leave his or her blood behind him in the world; and that we have no business to permit the
perpetuation of citizens of the wrong type. The great problem of civilization is to secure a relative increase of the
valuable as compared with the less valuable or noxious elements in the population... The problem cannot be met
unless we give full consideration to the immense influence of heredity..."
"I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of
these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feebleminded
persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them... The emphasis should be laid on getting desirable people to
breed..."
By Carl Teichrib:
"The Georgia Guidestones, a massive granite edifice planted in the Georgia countryside, contains a list of ten
new commandments for Earth's citizens. The first commandment, and the one which concerns this article, simply
states; "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature."
Robert Walker, former chair of PepsiCo and Proctor & Gamble on water:
Water is a gift of nature. Its delivery is not. It must be priced to insure it is used sustainably.
Ted Turner makes the radical statement that, "A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from
present levels, would be ideal,"
Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood, funded by the Rockefellers) said in her proposed "The
American Baby Code", intended to become law:
"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
This is the woman (Margaret Sanger) whom Hillary Clinton publicly declared she looked up to, during the 2008
presidential debates.
Here is a short list of some advocates of eugenics;
Alexander Graham Bell, George Bernard Shaw H. G. Wells, Sidney Webb, William Beveridge, John Maynard
Keynes, Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Emile Zola, George Bernard
Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Winston Churchill, Linus Pauling, Sidney Webb, Sir Francis
Galton, Charles B. Davenport
Futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard (who wanted to create a Dept. of Peace): "Out of the full
spectrum of human personality, one-fourth is electing to transcend…One-fourth is ready to so choose, given the
example of one other…One-fourth is resistant to election. They are unattracted by life ever evolving. One-fourth
is destructive. They are born angry with God…They are defective seeds…There have always been defective
seeds. In the past they were permitted to die a 'natural death'…we, the elders, have been patiently waiting until
the very last moment before the quantum transformation, to take action to cut out this corrupted and corrupting
element in the body of humanity. It is like watching a cancer grow…Now, as we approach the quantum shift from
creature-human to co-creative human—the human who is an inheritor of god-like powers—the destructive onefourth
must be eliminated from the social body. We have no choice, dearly beloveds. Fortunately you, dearly
beloveds, are not responsible for this act. We are. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth.
He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death. We come to bring death to those who are
unable to know God…the riders of the pale horse are about to pass among you. Grim reapers, they will separate
the wheat from the chaff. This is the most painful period in the history of humanity…"
Alexander Haig is quoted referring to the US State Department Office of Population Affairs, which was
established by Henry Kissinger in 1975. The title has since been changed to The Bureau of Oceans,
International Environmental and Scientific Affairs: "Accordingly, the Bureau of Oceans, International
Environmental and Scientific Affairs has consistently blocked industrialization policies in the Third World, denying
developing nation's access to nuclear energy technology--the policies that would enable countries to sustain a
growing population. According to State Department sources, and Ferguson himself, Alexander Haig is a "firm
believer" in population control.
Although the above stated quotes should be sufficient to prove that the elitists in power have definite intent to
depopulate this planet to what they deem to be a sustainable level. Some will argue these are only opinions and
are of no real consequence. I will now move on to providing bits of documentation showing this is a plan that
has a worldwide scope of influence.
Most of these documents are at least 10 years old, some older. That however, does not take away from the
seriousness of the content. Do not think them invalid due to their age. It takes time to foment plans on such a
grand scale. But, if you are honest with yourself you can see glimpses of these things happening today.
I am going to cover some issues stemming from the UN Treaty on Biological Diversity (Agenda 21), which Bill
Clinton signed into law in 1993 before it was sent to the U.S. Senate for ratification.
EPA Internal Working Document Ecosystem Management:
"The executive branch should direct federal agencies to evaluate national policies…. in light of international
policies and obligations, and to amend national policies to achieve international objectives."
"In other words, our federal bureaucrats are writing U.S. law, independent of Congress who has Constitutional
authority to do that. They are changing regulations and creating laws out of thin air."
"They are no longer working for the people of the United States. They are working for the international
community. There are so many treaties written up that they have (effectively) bound the United States.
Whereas a few of the treaties were not a problem, the abundance (100's) of them have now taken control over
all of our lives" - Michael Coffman
UN Treaty on Biological Diversity Assessment on Desirable Culture:
"…Traditional societies have considered certain sites as sacred, where most human activities are prohibited."
That is the heart of the Convention on Biodiversity. Locking up nearly 50% of the land area of the United States
is their idea of protecting biological diversity. - Michael Coffman
UN Treaty on Biodiversity Diversity
Usage of Fertilizers Not Sustainable:
"That fertilizers have played an essential part in producing the world's harvests is undisputed. (It) is estimated
that if the use of fertilizers ceased, the world's harvests would be cut almost in half. However, the negative side
of the equation is that the nitrates from fertilizers seep into ground water aquifers and they are seriously
implicated in the eutrophication of lakes, rivers and coastal ecosystems causing often drastic changes in the
fauna and flora."
"They are willing to take a course of action that will reduce the world's food supply by half, or more, as they will
likely reduce the use of pesticides knowing full well how many people this will kill". - Michael Coffman
UN Biodiversity Assessment on Sustainable Human Population; US Senate September 9, 1994:
"A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of
living would be one billion people. This must be implemented within 30-50 years, 2/3's of the population must be
cut."
"The UN says property rights are not absolute and unchanging, but are there for the convenience of whatever
government wants to do." – Michael Coffman
"Nobody owns biodiversity, so everything we do impinges on biodiversity. Property rights become meaningless.
At the Rio De Janeiro Summit it was decided that the Global Environmental Facility would be the depository of all
property rights." – Michael Coffman
UN Biodiversity Assessment
The Worldview of Western Civilization
Section 12.2.3, Page 835:
The western "worldview is characteristic of large-scale societies, heavily dependent on resources brought from
considerable distances. It is a worldview that is characterized by the denial of sacred attributes of nature…
(which) became firmly established about 2000 years (ago) with the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religious traditions."
This same treaty considers rocks to be living beings on an equal plane with human beings. Rocks, many
believe, will reincarnate into lower life forms; and gradually into human beings.
Bureau of Land Management Internal Working Document
Human Dimensions of Ecosystem Management Objective/Purpose:
"All ecosystem management activities should consider human beings as biological resources…" (Reminiscent
of Soylent Green)
This document was brought before Congress. This statement created such an uproar that it was removed.
Regardless of its removal, it still serves to prove the mindset of these people; and just because this was
removed from a document it does not mean it was removed from the thoughts and the intended goals of those
who penned it; or who believe it.
"For the elite to be able to have management of the ecosystem, humans would have no more value than a
rock." – Michael Coffman
UN Biodiversity Treaty
UN Global Biological Assessment
Sustainable Human Populations:
"Population growth has exceeded the capacity of the biosphere" (i.e. the earth)
"It is estimated that an 'agricultural world' in which most human beings are peasants should be able to support 5
to 7 billion people."
Now I feel is an appropriate time to cover some other areas of government, as well as private organizations that
would like to see the population of the world decrease at an astounding rate (up to 90%). This is a dark, bloody
agenda that will cause terrible hardship and pain upon millions of people.
World Wildlife Fund, World Resources Institute
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN):
The IUCN involves the EPA, US Fish & Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, the United States Forest
Service, Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, the National Wildlife Fund, the National Audubon Society,
National Resources Defense Council, UNESCO, the Environmental Defense Fund, the U.N. Environmental
Program, etc.
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UCN 1992
Covenant On the Environment and Development:
"Eventually a wilderness network would dominate a region and thus would itself constitute the matrix, with
human habitations being the islands. The remaining half of the US would be used as buffer zones."
"The night before this treaty was ratified, Senator Mitchell withdrew it from the calendar and it was never voted
on. It took four men, devoted to God in prayer to stop this treaty. The treaty still waits in the wings. Upon
ratification, the US will have no ability to protect its own citizens." -Michael Coffman
Henry Kissinger had a similar plan to use food as a weapon in 1974, found in the National Security Study
Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests;
which was adopted as official policy by then President Gerald Ford in November of 1975. This Memorandum
outlined a covert plan to reduce population growth in lesser-developed countries by means of birth control,
and implicitly, war and famine. Brent Scowcroft, who had by then replaced Kissinger as National Security
Advisor, (the same post Scowcroft held in the Bush Administration), was put in charge of implementing the plan.
CIA Director George H.W. Bush was ordered to assist Scowcroft, as were the Secretaries of State, Treasury,
Defense and Agriculture.
This document has never been renounced, only certain portions have been amended, leaving it as the
foundational document on population control issued in the U.S. Government.
The major players in the founding of this document are as follows:
Henry Kissinger
Richard Nixon
Margaret Sanger
Paul Ehrlich
Werner Fornos
Timothy Wirth
The United Nations Population Fund
The United States Agency for International Development
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
International Planned Parenthood Federation
The Club of Rome
UNICEF
WHO
United Nations World Bank
The document can be read here in its entirety, along with the other organizations and individuals complicit in this
abomination:
http://www.usmutes.com/NSSM200.htm
Let it be noted that Adolph Hitler also used food as weapon, stating that food is "a beautiful instrument…for
maneuvering and disciplining the masses." Food has been used as a weapon of war for centuries. Why then
would it be outrageous for the elite to use food as a weapon, both a physical and a psychological weapon, in a
declared war on overpopulation? It would not be outrageous at all. As has been said time and time again,
history repeats itself.
Now we will cover the Earth Charter.
The Earth Charter; A Radical Global Religion, created by Mikhail Gorbachev and Michael Strong:
"The Earth Charter initiative reflects the conviction that a radical change in humanity's attitudes and values
is essential to achieve social, economic and ecological well-being in the 21st century… The commission…plans
to circulate a final version of the Charter as a People's Treaty beginning in mid-1998. The Charter will be
submitted to the U.N. General Assembly in the year 2000…(where it will) ensure a very strong document that
reflects the emerging new global ethics." This is unprecedented (it is) the first component of an authentic
global governance. We are working for dialogue and peace. We are demonstrating our ability to assert control
over our fate in a spirit of solidarity to organize our collective sovereignty over this planet, our common heritage."
The American people were not allowed to see this. Americans as a whole do not want the UN to be the head of
a world government. The one thing the majority of this country values, above most everything else, is their
freedom. Or the semblance of freedom we have left should I say.
At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the Presidential Council on Sustainable Development in 1996 came to
the conclusion that the world's human population should not exceed 500 million people. That is a 93%
reduction in population!
According to the UN video, "Armed to the Teeth"; and also in the Freedom From War Policy - put into effect by
JFK in 1961- general and complete disarmament and US military power was given over, in full, to the UN. This
is a loss of the sovereignty of America. (Read this document at http://www.scribd.com/doc/5009662/Freedom-
From-War).
The Earth Charter (1992), A Spiritual Vision:
"A consensus has developed that the Earth Charter should be…the articulation of a spiritual vision that reflects
universal spiritual values, including, but not limited to, ethical values…a people's charter that serves as a
universal code of conduct for ordinary citizens, educators, business executives, scientists, religious leaders,
non-governmental organizers and national councils of sustainable development; and a declaration of principles
that can serve as a "soft tax" document when endorsed by the UN General Assembly. "
In its original form, The Earth Charter failed miserably due to open, blatant pantheistic approach. Gorbachev
and Strong have worked diligently to change the language and make it appear less obvious. You may be
wondering what the Earth Charter has to do with depopulation. It has everything to do with it. Here is a very
brief synopsis of what the Charter holds for us.
According to the Charter, we must:
* "Recognize that all beings are interdependent and every form of life has value..." (Unborn children, of course,
are not included in the UN's definition of "every form of life." The Earth Summit II documents continue to support
the UN's pro-abortion policies.)
* "Affirm faith in the inherent dignity of all human beings." (UN agencies, however, support policies of euthanasia
for those determined not capable of living a "quality" life.)
* "Adopt at all levels sustainable development plans and regulations...." (This is a prescription for global
socialism in a super-regulated global state.)
* "Prevent pollution of any part of the environment..." (Enforcing this dictum would mean stopping virtually all
human activity.)
* "Internalize the full environmental and social costs of goods and services in the selling price." (This seemingly
harmless sentence would empower the state to price, tax, and regulate all production and consumption.)
* "Ensure universal access to health care that fosters reproductive health and responsible reproduction. (This is
a thinly disguised call for that includes abortion and population control.)
* "Eliminate discrimination in all its forms, such as that based on race ... [and] sexual orientation." (This provision
is clearly aimed at criminalizing those who refuse to accept homosexuality as positive and good.)
* "Promote the equitable distribution of wealth within nations and among nations. (See;
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+new+world+religion%3a+presented+to+the+world+as+a+mystical...-
a091968392 for the full article)
The Earth Charter has not been ratified. Do not make the mistake of assuming it has not been interwoven into
our society, however! It is being taught in our schools and promoted shamelessly by Hollywood, the UN, NBC
(owned by GE), ABC, CBS, CNN, HLN & all the Fox owned stations, with the exception of Fox News in order to
keep the supporters blinded to the machinations of Rupert Murdock. Do not be deceived!
The ability to freely procreate is soon to be removed from us, much as it has been in China for many years. Not
only will we not be allowed to have children, anyone who is termed a "useless eater" (A term coined by Henry
Kissinger) will be euthanized: Mercilessly culled.
In Sweden , the "Sterilization Act of 1934" provided for the voluntary sterilization of some mental patients. The
law was passed while the Swedish Social Democratic Party was in power, though it was also supported by all
other political parties in Parliament at the time, as well as the Lutheran Church and much of the medical
profession. - Wikipedia
America is scheduled to become compliant to Codex Alimentarius (CA) as of December 31, 2009.
Codex Alimentarius is going to regulate virtually anything that you put into your mouth that is not a
pharmaceutical. The World Trade Organization (WTO) has accepted Codex Alimentarius and any nation that is
a member of the WTO must become compliant with CA. In any dispute between 2 countries, the one that is
Codex compliant automatically wins. This is quite an incentive for all nations to become compliant. – Rima
Laibow
CA guidelines set for vitamins & minerals are said to be voluntary, however, they are scheduled to become
mandatory on December 31, 2009. In 1994, Codex Alimentarius declared nutrients to be poisons: See the
Dietary Supplement Health Education Act (DSHEA). Yet fluoride is acceptable! Why? It creates
complacency. Proper nutrients will ensure a longer, healthier life. Not at all in keeping with a depopulation
agenda.
From Esoteric Agenda, a documentary by Ben Stewart:
"In 1962 it was decreed that there would be a move toward total global implementation of Codex Alimentarius.
The date set for implementation is December 31, 2009. WHO and FAO are the commissions in charge of CA.
They fund it and run it at the request of the U.N.
According to WHO & FAO, epidemiological projections, it is estimated that according to the vitamin and mineral
guideline alone; when CA goes into global implementation on December 31, 2009, it will result in a minimum of
3 billion deaths; 1 billion due through starvation. The next 2 billion will die from preventable diseases due to
malnutrition."
"The U.N. has put out dozens of reports calling for an 80% reduction in population (most put the number at
90%). At the 1997 Women's World Conference in Beijing, the head of the U.N. Food Program said, "We will use
food as a weapon against the people.""
In conjunction with Codex Alimentarius, food will be limited and water consumption will be decreased to 10
gallons per day, per person. The average American uses 140 gallons of water every day. The food provided
will be Genetically Modified and nutrient deficient.
As of the Codex Alimentarius (CA) implementation date of 12/31/09, if there were a famine anywhere in the
world, it will be illegal to send any high nutrient density biscuits. Or to distribute them!!
Once a country becomes CA compliant, CA can never be repealed. Membership with the WTO robs the
member nations of any and all sovereignty. Germany is now CA compliant.
Codex Alimentarius goes hand in hand with Agenda 21 and the Kyoto Treaty. The deadline to implement both
Agenda 21 and the Kyoto Treaty is 2012." (Rima Laibow)
Agenda 21 was birthed out of the Rio Summit 1992. Agenda 21 (A 21), a.k.a. Smart Growth, Regionalism,
Visioning Processes, Action Plans, Shared Values; 20/20, Best Practices; Community Festivals & Public/Private
Partnerships. These are the names you will hear A 21 called, the buzzwords.
Every county must set up a council to oversee the implementation of A 21. A 21 is Sustainable Development.
Steven Rockefeller set up the Earth Charter, referenced above. The Earth Charter is the new One World
Religion: Earth worship. The earth is considered to be 'sacred', and its protection is a 'sacred trust'. Global
responsibility will demand basic changes in values, behaviors and attitudes of government, the private sector,
and civil society.
Under Sustainable Development man is considered to be responsible for the pollution of the planet and is
subordinate to all other living creatures. This is a direct contradiction to the Bible where God placed man in a
position of dominance over the entire earth. The elite will worship and serve the creature, rather than the
Creator.
"The environmental agenda is a spiritual agenda with earth worship at its root. As such, the following practices
are all considered to be unsustainable: Fossil fuels, artificial fertilizers, modern systems of agricultural
production, irrigation water, herbicides, pesticides, farmland, pastures, grazing of livestock, consumerism, dietary
habits, salt, sugar, private property, paved roads, dams, reservoirs, logging activities, fencing of pastures". –
Joan Peros
"Every environmental resource must be measured. What can be measured can be managed under the
Millenium Ecosystem Assessment Project." – Joan Peros
Among the things considered to be unsustainable, as listed above, these are included: Monotheism and the
family unit. The health care plan of President Obama is under A 21. Under this health care plan, the family unit
is very much being attacked. Anyone over age 65 must undergo 'end of life counseling' by their doctor every 5
years. Abortion will be pushed that much harder, especially with the Science Czar wanting sterilants put into our
water supply! One of the new appointee's to the Obama Administration once said in a book he co-wrote that a
child could be killed up to the age of 2 years old! What kind of a monster could think that is acceptable?
Nearly the exact language used to define Sustainable Development was taken from the 1977 Soviet
Constitution!
The Family Dependency Ratio, under the United Nations, will look at every household. They will gauge what
that household has produced in accordance with what it has used (i.e., resources) by the water bills, energy bills,
etc. Are you using more than you are producing? Are you adding to the collective, or merely taking away? This
is how the powers that be will determine whether you are a productive citizen, or, in the words of Henry
Kissinger, "A useless eater".
In 1990, Prince Charles formed The Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum to bring together 50-60 of the
world's topmost multi-national/transnational corporations to start buying up governments around the world. This
is Public/Private Partnerships: This is the very definition of fascism.
I must stop here. At the rate things are now moving, I could add to this daily. But, December 31 is not so far
away now, only 4 months. I must get this out now. Time is short.
If you find this to be worthy, please, spread it everywhere you can. Email it, blog it, post it on forums; mail it. Do
what you must. People are asleep. They must be woken up. Forced immunizations are right around the
corner. These things will come to pass. It is our job to warn people. Please, I ask you, warn them.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

I don't know if I should laugh or cry!?

New drug fights fat, diabetes

WASHINGTON - RESEARCHERS searching for a cure for obesity said on Thursday they have developed a drug that not only makes mice lose weight, but reverses diabetes and lowers their cholesterol, too.

The drug, which they have dubbed fatostatin, stops the body from making fat, instead releasing the energy from food. They hope it may lead to a pill that would fight obesity, diabetes and cholesterol, all at once.

Writing in the journal Chemistry and Biology, Salih Wakil of Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, Motonari Uesugi of Kyoto University in Japan and colleagues said the drug interferes with a suite of genes turned on by overeating.

'Here, we are tackling the basics,' Dr Wakil said in a telephone interview. 'I think that is what excited us.' Scientists are painfully aware that drugs that can make mice thin do nothing of the sort in humans. A hormone called leptin can make rats and mice drop weight almost miraculously but does little or nothing for an obese person, for instance.

But Dr Wakil, whose team has patented the drug and is looking for a drug company to partner with, hopes this drug may be different. 'I am very, very optimistic,' he said.

Fatostatin is a small molecule, meaning it has the potential to be absorbed in pill form.

It works on so-called sterol regulatory element binding proteins or SREBPs, which are transcription factors that activate genes involved in making cholesterol and fatty acids.

'Fatostatin blocked increases in body weight, blood glucose, and hepatic (liver) fat accumulation in (genetically) obese mice, even under uncontrolled food intake,' the researchers wrote.

Genetic tests showed the drug affected 63 different genes.

After four weeks, mice injected with fatostatin weighed 12 per cent less and had 70 per cent lower blood sugar levels, the researchers wrote.

The drug also had effects on prostate cancer cells they said - something that may help explain links between prostate cancer and obesity. -- REUTERS

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Tech%2Band%2BScience/Story/STIStory_422329.html

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Below from the Eagle's Nest, Sheepy says THANKS!!!

It is with profound sadness in the temporary parting, yet supreme faith in the rejoining, that I confirm the passing of BILL UHOUSE.

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Bill passed from this life on May 29.

While Bill was with us in this life, he was another man who worked closely with a J-Rod. His work in craft diagnostics, with the other J-Rod paved the way for Majestic's understanding of the operations of the craft, and allowed for back engineering which has protected the United States of America (and other countries) to this day, and far beyond.

He was a HERO, an honorable Military Officer and I can personally attest for the authenticity of his account with the other 1953 crash occupant.

I can say all this without ever having the honor of personally meeting Bill.

Bill's passing was only announced to me, last night, by Will, his son, and Teri, Will's wife; as we had not spoken for some months during the time of the great changes in Marcia's and my life.

Many of you know that Will, Teri, Marcia, and myself are good friends. We look forward to having a drink in the memory and certain rejoining one day with Will's father!

In the mean time, Eagles Disobey will design a Memorial to be placed on its front page, in honor of Bill, and Angel Eagles will be dedicating next week's run all the way to Roswell, New Mexico, in his name!

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With that, I send this song to Bill, a song which means a lot to us from Majestic, we intend it as an expression of the great way we all feel about him!

May God Bless and Keep you, Bill! Meet you soon! :)

Love,
Dan
(and for Marcia, and the entire Eagles Team)



Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Eat Your Sprouts!

Neanderthals wouldn't have eaten their sprouts either

August 12th, 2009 by Denholm Barnetson Visitors at the Museum for Prehistory in Eyzies-de-Tayac look at a reconstruction of a Neanderthal man

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Visitors at the Museum for Prehistory in Eyzies-de-Tayac look at a reconstruction of a Neanderthal man. Spanish researchers say they have found that a gene in modern humans that makes some people dislike a bitter chemical called phenylthiocarbamide, or PTC, was also present in Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Spanish researchers say they're a step closer to resolving a "mystery of evolution" -- why some people like Brussels sprouts but others hate them.



They have found that a gene in modern humans that makes some people dislike a bitter chemical called phenylthiocarbamide, or PTC, was also present in Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of years ago.

The scientists made the discovery after recovering and sequencing a fragment of the TAS2R38 gene taken from 48,000-year-old Neanderthal bones found at a site in El Sidron, in northern Spain, they said in a report released Wednesday by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

"This indicates that variation in bitter taste perception predates the divergence of the lineages leading to Neanderthals and modern humans," they said.

Substances similar to PTC give a bitter taste to green vegetables such as Brussels sprouts, broccoli and cabbage as well as some fruits.

But they are also present in some poisonous plants, so having a distaste for it makes evolutionary sense.

"The sense of bitter taste protects us from ingesting toxic substances," the report said.

What intrigued the researchers most is that Neanderthals also possessed a recessive variant of the TAS2R38 gene which made some of them unable to taste PTC -- an inability they share with around one third of modern humans.

"This feature ... is a mystery of ," said the report.

"These (bitter) compounds can be toxic if ingested in large quantities and it is therefore difficult to understand the evolutionary existence of individuals who cannot detect them."

The report's lead author, Carles Lalueza Fox of the University of Barcelona, speculated that such people may be "able to detect some other compound not yet identified."

This would have given them some genetic advantage and explain the reason for the continuation of the variant gene.

Neanderthals and modern humans shared a common from which they diverged about 300,000 years ago.

Excavations since 2000 at the site at El Sidron, in the Asturias region, have so far recovered the skeletal remains of at least 10 Neanderthal individuals.

The squat, low-browed lived in parts of Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East for around 170,000 years but traces of them disappear some 28,000 years ago, their last known refuge being Gibraltar.

Why they died out is a matter of furious debate because they existed alongside modern man.

The CSIS research was published in the British Royal Society's Biology Letters.


Wednesday, July 29, 2009

FOIA

Mr. Uhouse,

 

               Here is the following link to assist you with a FOIA request: http://www.foia.va.gov/FOIA_NCA.asp

 

V/R,

 

JC

 

JOSHUA C. WHITE

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

WASHINGTON CROSSING NATIONAL CEMETERY

Program Analyst

P: 609-877-5460

F: 609-871-4691

Joshua.White2@va.gov



Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Proof that language is math.

Love and Tensor Algebra

from "The Cyberiad" by Stanislaw Lem:

Come, let us hasten to a higher plane Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to n Commingled in an endless Markov chain!

Come, every frustrum longs to be a cone And every vector dreams of matrices. Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: It whispers of a more ergodic zone.

In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our asymptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting, face to face.

I'll grant thee random access to my heart, Thou'lt tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove, And in our bound partition never part.

For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel, Or Fourier, or any Bools or Euler, Wielding their compasses, their pens and rulers, Of thy supernal sinusoidal spell?

Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

Ellipse of bliss, converge, O lips divine! the product o four scalars is defines! Cyberiad draws nigh, and the skew mind Cuts capers like a happy haversine. I see the eigenvalue in thine eye, I hear the tender tensor in thy sigh. Bernoulli would have been content to die, Had he but known such a^2 cos 2 phi!



http://webplaza.pt.lu/laurent3/include/html/poems.html



Sunday, July 26, 2009

Amazing plant photographs

The amazing plant photographs which were ten years in the making and are filled with electricity

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:06 AM on 16th July 2009

These extraordinary images reveal what happens when electrical surges pass through a metal board with a simple plant on top.

Photographer Robert Buelteman sends 80,000 volts through his flowery subjects and then literally paints photographs of the outcome.

In three awe-inspiring series, the 55-year-old uses roses, petunias, and even cannabis in mind-blowing detail to give an extraordinary view of ordinary plant-life.

Artist Robert Buelteman

Artist Robert Buelteman sends 80,000 volts through flowery subjects and then literally paints photographs of the outcome to create these amazing pictures

The process to capture these unique images is so complex it has taken him 10 years - and a gruelling average of 60 hours-per-week - to produce just 80 photos.

Working in complete darkness, he begins by placing his chosen plant onto a metal board which he then passes the electrical surge through.

He can even pinpoint areas where he wants to focus the charge using a wand and a simple car battery.

Artist Robert Buelteman

The artist uses roses, petunias, and even cannabis in his amazing works

As his subject lights up with the current, and emits radiation invisible to the naked eye, Mr Buelteman captures the moments by passing a fibre optic cable back-and-forth over the plant.

The cable emits a beam of white light which is just the size of a human hair and whatever the miniscule torch-beam touches, transfers the image onto film.

The captivating blue haze that surrounds every leaf, petal and stalk is actually gases ionising around them as the plant is electronically shocked.

To explain the baffling process, Buelteman, from Montara, California, USA, uses a trusted analogy.

Artist Robert Buelteman

This picture of Eucalyptus provides an amazing inside into plantlife

Artist Robert Buelteman

Buelteman spends an average of 60 hours-per-week - to produce just 80 photos

'You just have to imagine it like a painter creating a picture on canvass,' he said. 'The plant is the subject just like the painter's bowl of fruit or the person they are capturing.

'The electrified board I place the plants on is the canvass. The fibre optic cable emitting the light-beam is my paintbrush.

'Another way to try and understand it is like a normal photograph on a normal camera, except I am manually controlling the exposure by hand. In the same way the image I capture is simply burned onto film.' 

To give the pictures an added dazzling effect, Mr Buelteman's aluminium canvass actually floats in liquid silicone.

Artist Robert Buelteman

This Geranium image has taken hours to produce

Artist Robert Buelteman

The Californian said his unique technique has been around for decades

And to make sure he doesn't get killed or injured in the process, he erects a protective frame of wood around his easel.

But despite these being the first pictures of their kind in his profession, Mr Buelteman says he has in fact invented nothing and uses a combination of age-old techniques developed decades ago.

Semyon Kirlian - developer of Kirlian photography - accidentally found in 1939 that it was possible to photograph electrical discharges at the edges of objects if that were being shocked on an electrified plate.

Artist Robert Buelteman

The 55-year-old makes ordinary Chrysanthemums look extraordinary

'When people see my work I want them to feel an awakening. The world is an amazing place and evolution has created some breathtaking things for us to look at.

'For me, art is about looking at the world and all it's wonder in a new way, seeing something differently.' 

Mr Buelteman has written about the project and the techniques he uses in his book Signs of Life.

His works are being bought for a phenomenal five figures by art collectors.