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Imperial Japan's last 'holdout' soldier dies
Hiroo Onoda, who waged World War Two in the jungles of the Philippines until 1974, was last Axis soldier to surrender.
How to Stop Credit Card Offers from Littering Your Mailbox
I unknowingly conducted an experiment two years ago. My husband
and I love to travel, and I wanted to sign onto one of those credit card
offers that gives you free airfare. So as each offer came in the mail, I
added it to a stack on my desk.
Condemned man dies slowly
Dennis McGuire did not die an easy death.
After the poison was injected he was still for almost five minutes, then
he gave a loud snort, as if snoring, and continued to make that sound
over the next several minutes. He opened and shut his mouth several
times without making a sound as his stomach rose and fell. His awareness
and terror cannot be known.
Ohio, which poisoned and killed McGuire, merely says "you're not
entitled to a pain-free execution."
McGuire was executed for murder and his death was part of an admittedly
experimental method of lethal injection.
Death is seldom pr
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Iran news agency claims 'US is run by aliens'
A bizarre news report from Iran's Fars News Agency has claimed
that America is run by extraterrestrials. Fars, which describes itself
as "Iran's leadi...
Garden of Eden Part 2 One Happy Family
Quinn, Shelly, Inok and the kids join Crake to explain the Garden of Eden and how they came to be a happy family. Inspirational.
website: www.intothegardenofeden.com/
Forgotten: Historic hot temperatures recorded with detail and care in Adelaide
What I found most interesting about this was the skill, dedication
and length of meteorological data taken in the 1800′s. When our climate
is “the most important moral challenge” why is it there is so little
interest in our longest and oldest data? Who knew that one of the most
meticulous and detailed temperature records in the world from the 1800′s
comes from Adelaide, largely thanks to Sir Char
Mark Leon Goldberg and Rebecca Hamilton discuss how to end the South Sudan conflict
South Sudan is in crisis. For the past month, the world's newest
country has teetered on the brink of a full-scale civil war, with
thousands of casualties and a major refugee crisis. In a recent
conversation with UN Dispatch's Mark Goldberg on Bloggingheads.tv,
former Sudan correspondent Rebecca Hamilton describes the conflict and
explains how the international community might contain it.
The Vigilant Citizen
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The Hidden Meaning of the Movie “Coraline”
Coraline is a popular stop-motion movie released in 2009. While
the film appears to be aimed at young people, Coraline’s imagery tells a
hidden story: The programming of a mind control slave at the hands of a
sadistic handler. We’ll look at the hidden meaning of the movie
Coraline.
Warning: Gigantic spoilers ahead!
Coraline was the first animated movie released by Focus Pictures, the
same company that later released 9, another animated movie with a dark
underlying meaning (read the article about it here). However, unlike 9,
Coraline received rave reviews and almost universal praise for its s
South Park Trivializes NSA Spying, Edward Snowden, and Anybody who Cares
Season 17 Episode 1 of South Park is all the Surveillance State.
The episode is titled “Let Go, Let Gov.” Satire has the potential to
bring to light important issues. It also has the ability to trivialize
important issues. The full episode can be found at
www.SouthParkStudios.com
It should come as no shock that the creators and writers of South Park
have devoted an episode to trivializing the importance of the NSA and
the public surveillance that was exposed by Edward Snowden. After all,
these are the same people who stated that anyone who does not believe
the official narrative of 911 is a r
Satanic Temple Looking to Build Statue of Baphomet at Oklahoma State Capitol
Rendering of the proposed statue
The Satanic Temple, a New York-based organization, unveiled designs for a
seven foot-tall Baphomet statue to be placed at the Oklahoma State
Capitol. The statue features Baphomet sitting on a throne adorned with
an inverted pentagram flanked by two smiling children. (Maybe I should
point out that the Caduceus rising from Baphomet’s lap also represents
an erect phallus, which makes the whole children thing quite
inappropriate).
According to Temple spokesman:
“The monument has been designed to reflect the views of Satanists in
Oklahoma City and beyond. The statu
Jan 09
Sports Programming, People Programming
It’s almost time for the Super Bowl, the championship game of
American football. This seems like a good time to share some of my
thoughts with you regarding the current nature of sports. My hypothesis
is that sports and especially televised sports are being used to program
people for the benefit of those whom I have labeled the PRICs
(psychopaths really in charge). Others call them the Illuminati.
Jan 04
Born to Die – An Esoteric Analysis
We all know Lana Del Rey by now. Her recent epic short film cum
music video Tropica has again brought relevance to the young songstress.
She’s a strange one this Lana. Her music is significantly not
mainstream yet she seems to bask in the fame glory her more pop sounding
counterparts share. It makes sense to think Lana Del Rey was thrust
into the spotlight for all to see. So it was Born to Die tha
Jan 03
Boston Bombings: Tamerlan Tsarnaev Claimed He Was Victim of “Majestic Mind Control”
Every time I ponder on the Boston Bombings, the events surrounding it,
the history of the alleged terrorists and the way things went down,
things do not compute. Everything is shrouded in mystery. The Tsarnaev
brothers appeared to be too “Americanized” to hate America; The way both
brothers went down is still unclear; Everyone who knew the brothers do
not believe the official story; The Martial L
Dec 24 2013
Despite the Doom and Gloom Part III: My 2013 Holiday Message
At the beginning of 2013, I told myself: “This year should be
interesting”. Well, I was wrong. The word “interesting” was not an
appropriate word to describe 2013, even if it was meant sarcastically.
Looking back at the events that happened this year, the best word I can
think of is “foul”. 2013 started in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook
shooting and things only got fouler.
In 2013, the world dis
Dec 18 2013
Symbolic Pics of the Month (12/13)
This edition of SPOTM is all about the One Eye sign. As the year
2013 comes to an end, it appears that the sign of the Eye of Horus is
more ubiquitous than ever. It is in our faces, all around the world and
in all types of media. Here are some examples.
Rihanna is the new face of Balmain fashion house. Unsurprisingly, the
two promotional pics that were released focus on Rihanna hiding one eye.
Dec 17 2013
The Snake That Swallowed Itself
Did you hear the one about the snake that started swallowing its
own tail…and ended up eating itself? Probably not, because it hasn’t
been written yet. But it’s a tale of something that is actually
happening all around you. You are the snake, the serpent – or at least a
part of it.
It seems that its tail, its back-end, appeared to it as a juicy mouse or
something to eat. Maybe a real mouse was the
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Britain: ‘Pedophile Network at the Heart of Government’
Via: Express: A FORMER female MP was involved in a paedophile
network at the heart of government, police have been told. She is
alleged to have forced a boy in care to perform a “vile” sex act at one
of a series of drug-fuelled parties in Westminster in the Eighties where
boys and girls as […]
U.S. Military on Path to Become Google’s Single Largest Customer
Via: DailyCaller: Google CEO Larry Page has rapidly positioned
Google to become an indispensable U.S. military contractor. Google
recently purchased Boston Dynamics, a robotics pioneer that produces
amazing humanoid robots for the U.S. Defense Department. This
development invites attention to Google’s broader military contracting
ambitions — especially since Boston Dynamics is the eighth robotics
company […]
Spectacular Bubble in Pot Stocks
Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any
financial instrument. Believe it or not, I ran one of my bottom feeding
screens, fat fingered the minimum price and one of the companies that
came up on the erroneous scan was HEMP. I laughed, thought, “Well I’ll
be damned,” and moved on. […]
Yesterday
NSA Collects 200 Million Text Messages Daily; ‘Untargeted’ Global Sweep
Via: Guardian: The National Security Agency has collected almost
200 million text messages a day from across the globe, using them to
extract data including location, contact networks and credit card
details, according to top-secret documents. The untargeted collection
and storage of SMS messages – including their contacts – is revealed in a
joint investigation […]
Jan 15
Blackphone, for Whatever Ails Ya
Via: ZDnet: On Wednesday, Silent Circle and Geeksphone announced
the formation of a new Switzerland-based joint venture and its first
surveillance-thwarting product, the Blackphone. Powered by a
security-oriented Android build named PrivatOS, Blackphone is touted as a
carrier and vendor-independent smartphone which allows consumers and
businesses to make and receive secure phone calls, exchange se
Recovery: JCPenny to Cut 2,000 Jobs, Close 33 Stores
Via: Business Insider: JCPenney is cutting 2,000 jobs and closing
33 stores as the battered department store seeks to revive revenue
growth, the company announced Wednesday. The move will save about $65
million annually beginning in 2014, the company said. JCPenney, which
has about 1,100 stores, has struggled to turn a profit since former CEO
[…]
‘Chasing the Dream of Half-Price Gasoline from Natural Gas’
Frack that. Via: MIT Technology Review: At a pilot plant in Menlo
Park, California, a technician pours white pellets into a steel tube and
then taps it with a wrench to make sure they settle together. He closes
the tube, and oxygen and methane—the main ingredient of natural
gas—flow in. Seconds later, water and ethylene, […]
Law Enforcement Agencies Use of Drones Increasing
Via: Washington Post: Federal, state and local law enforcement
agencies are increasingly borrowing border-patrol drones for domestic
surveillance operations, newly released records show, a harbinger of
what is expected to become the commonplace use of unmanned aircraft by
police. Customs and Border Protection, which has the largest U.S. drone
fleet of its kind outside the […]
Jan 14
NSA Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers
Via: New York Times: The National Security Agency has implanted
software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the
United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also
create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks. While most of the
software is inserted by gaining access to computer networks, the N.S.A.
has […]
DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel
Via: Business Insider: An investigation by El Universal has found
that between 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an agreement with
Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organisation to smuggle
billions of dollars of drugs in exchange for information on rival
cartels. Sinaloa, led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, supplies 80% of the
[…]
Jan 13
Ex-Cops Acquitted in Beating Death of Homeless Man in California
Via: CNN: A jury has acquitted two former Fullerton, California,
police officers on trial in the beating death of Kelly Thomas, a
mentally ill and homeless man. The verdict was read in a Santa Ana
courtroom Monday afternoon. Eight women and four men began deliberating
the case on Thursday. The beating of Thomas in a […]
Via: Al Jazeera: In January 1961, US President Dwight D Eisenhower
used his farewell address to warn the nation of what he viewed as one
of its greatest threats: the military-industrial complex composed of
military contractors and lobbyists perpetuating war. Eisenhower warned
that “an immense military establishment and a large arms industry” had
emerged as […]
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How the Friendship Paradox Makes Your Friends Better Than You Are
The friendship paradox is the empirical observation that your
friends have more friends than you do. Now network scientists say your
friends are probably wealthier and happier, too.
Energy Teleportation Overcomes Distance Limit
The ability to teleport energy from one location to another could
revolutionise the way quantum devices operate, but only if it can be
made to work over practical distances. Now physicists think they know
how.Teleportation is the transfer of an object from one point in the
universe to another without travelling through the space in between. It
is common practice in many labs around the world. Since the early 90s,
physicists have used it to teleport increasingly complex objects
starting with photons and more recently with atoms and ions.
How Information Flows During Emergencies
Mining the mobile phone data from 10 million people over 4 years
reveals the subtle changes that occur in the flow of information when
disaster strikes, say network scientists.
Jan 13
The Tricky Problem Of Making Smart Fridges Smart
Smart fridges have never been good enough to make a difference.
But a team of Korean scientists hope to change that with a new approach
to the problem of making kitchen coolers clever.
Jan 10
Other Interesting arXiv Papers (Week Ending 11 January 2014)
The best of the rest from the arXiv preprint server.New Method for
Localization and Human Being Detection using UWB Technology: Helpful
Solution for Rescue Robots
Jan 09
New Form of Spacecraft Propulsion Proposed For Uranus Mission
An exotic new form of propulsion could send a spacecraft to Uranus
in the time Galileo took to get to Jupiter less than half as far away,
say rocket scientists.
Jan 08
App Turns Smartphone Into Virtual Cane for the Blind
A smartphone app inspired by Greek mythology has the potential to
help the blind navigate indoors where GPS is unavailable.It’s easy to
imagine that being blind or visually impaired more or less excludes
people from using smartphones or tablets. But nothing could be further
from the truth. App stores have a dizzying variety of products that help
the visually impaired access all kinds of informatio
Jan 07
How To Track Vehicles Using Speed Data Alone
Computer scientists have developed an algorithm that works out a
vehicle’s destination using only its starting location and speed
throughout its journey.
Jan 06
How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View
Google can identify and transcribe all the views it has of street
numbers in France in less than an hour, thanks to a neural network
that’s just as good as human operators. Now its engineers reveal how
they developed it.
Jan 02
Best of 2013: Edit Wars Reveal the 10 Most Controversial Topics on Wikipedia
In July, an analysis of the most highly contested articles on
Wikipedia revealed the controversies that appear invariant across
languages and cultures.
Jan 01
Best of 2013: Million-Year Data Storage Disk Unveiled
In October, nanotechnologists designed and built a disk that can store data for a million years or more.
Dec 30 2013
Best of 2013: How Google Converted Language Translation Into a Problem of Vector Space Mathematics
In September, a team of Google engineers showed how to translate
one language into another by finding the linear transformation that maps
one to the other.
Dec 29 2013
Best of 2013: Redesigned Window Stops Sound But Not Air
In July, materials scientists built a window that allows the passage of air but not sound.
Dec 26 2013
Best of 2013: An Autopsy of a Dead Social Network
In February, following the collapse of the social network
Friendster, computer scientists carried out a digital autopsy to find
out what went wrong.
Dec 25 2013
Best of 2013: World’s First Digital Laser Designed and Built in Africa
In February, African physicists built the first laser with a beam
that can be controlled and shaped digitally.Lasers are one of the
emblematic technologies of the modern world. The chances are that most
readers will be less than a metre away from a laser of some kind as they
read this. Lasers fill our world.
Dec 24 2013
Best of 2013: Moore’s Law and the Origin of Life
As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially,
just like Moore’s law. In April, geneticists announced they had
extrapolated this trend backwards and found that by this measure, life
is older than the Earth itself.
Dec 23 2013
Best of 2013: New Form of Carbon is Stronger Than Graphene and Diamond
In August, the blog revealed that chains of double or
triple-bonded carbon atoms, known as carbyne, should be stronger and
stiffer than any known material.
Dec 22 2013
Best of 2013: Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet for Over Two Years
In May, the blog revealed that for more than two years, Los Alamos
National Labs has been running a quantum Internet capable of sending
perfectly secure messages.
Dec 20 2013
Other Interesting arXiv Papers (Week Ending 21 December 2013)
The best of the rest from the arXiv preprint server.One Billion
Word Benchmark for Measuring Progress in Statistical Language Modeling
Dec 19 2013
World's First Photonic Integrated Circuit For Manipulating Atoms
The ability to manipulate atoms with photons in an integrated
circuit should allow physicists to explore entirely new ways in which
matter and light interact.
Dec 18 2013
Data Mining Exposes Embarrassing Problems for Massive Open Online Courses
Not only does student participation decline dramatically
throughout the new generation of Web-based courses, but the involvement
of teachers in online discussions makes it worse.
Dec 17 2013
The wires that ferry electronic data across microchips are too
power hungry for future microchips. But photons can now do the job
instead thanks to a new generation of ultralow power optical
interconnects.Moore’s law is the observation that the number of
transistors on integrated circuits doubles every two years or so. When
Gordon Moore spelt out his eponymous law in 1965, the numbers involved
wer
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