Breaking The Set
Jan 28, 2014
Abby Martin speaks with Andreas Antonopoulos, founder of Root Eleven and co-host of let’s Talk Bitcoin, discussing how Bitcoin works, and why it’s so important to have a decentralized system of money.
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Dutchsinse
Sept 8, 2014
We don’t see something like this every day. A toxic tornado consisting of most likely Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) emitted from the large volcanic eruption occurring at Bardarbunga Volcano in Iceland.
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The erupting magma (lava) is producing its own weather, clouds, and now the superheated air is producing superheated tornadoes like one would see in a large forest fire.
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News Forage
Aug 26, 2014
We’re all well aware by now of the Ice Bucket Challenge – a viral trend in which people, including celebrities and pro athletes, are funding ALS research and raising awareness of the deadly disease.
But how about the Rubble Bucket Challenge?
No ordinary copycat, the Rubble Bucket Challenge almost mocks the frivolity of the North American trend of taking an icy cold shower by displaying the harsh reality of everyday life in the Gaza Strip.
Yes, residents of Gaza have taken to dumping rubble, sand and gravel over their heads to raise awareness of the harsh living conditions in the war-torn region.
“The use of water is more important than to empty over our heads,” said Palestinian journalist Ayman al Aloul, who posted the first Rubble Bucket Challenge on Facebook. “And even if the water is available it is difficult to freeze it.”
Instead, rubble from destroyed buildings appears to be bountiful in the region.
The Rubble Bucket Challenge Facebook page was started on Saturday and has quickly garnered over 4,000 likes, as well as submissions posted by a variety of people from all walks of life.
Gnostic Media
Sept 2, 2014
This episode is Remedy Roundtable 04, titled: Psychopaths: The Morally Insane.
Released on Thursday, August 14, 2014, Recorded on Monday, August 18.
In this series we have an international team with the Joe Atwill – the author of Caesear’s Messiah, who’s been on many times before; Bill Joslin from Canada – whom we introduced a few weeks ago with our video Meditation: Deconstructing Nonsense; and also Ryan Gilmore – host of Inside Out Asylum, in the UK. Both Joe and I are in Southern California.
Joe Atwill’s websites:
www.caesarsmessiahdoc.com
http://caesarsmessiah.com/
http://caesarsmessiah.com/blog/
Ryan Gilmore’s website:
http://insideoutasylum.com/
Trivium Education:
www.triviumeducation.com
Notes for this episode:
Past episodes:
Dr. James DeMeo interview – “Saharasia, Pt. 1″ – #007 – members only.
Dr. James DeMeo interview – “Saharasia, Pt. 2″ – #009 – members only.
Saharasia book:
http://astore.amazon.com/gnosmedi-20/detail/0962185558
A Conversation on LSD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qaumQvMWBA
How To Become A Cult Leader:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4oEYQhtsYw
Well-known but misleading movie portrayals:
Psycho (1960) (Norman Bates)
• depicts psychopaths as having multiple personality disorder
slasher movie villains (70s & 80s) (Jason Voorhees, Freddy Kruger, Michael Myers)
• deranged and manic criminally insane killers. Could be classed as psychopaths, but are very rare in the real world.
Silence of the Lambs (1991) (Hannibal Lector) (nb. Manhunter (1986) is more accurate)
• Links psychopathy to cannibalism.
American Psycho (2000) (Patrick Bateman)
• gives the impression that psychopaths are psychotic and hallucinate.
Accurate movie portrayals:
Gaslight (1944) (Gregory Anton)
• A psychopath marries a woman to get at her jewels, and convinces her she is insane.
Clockwork Orange (1971) (Alex)
• The state using aversion therapy to control a psychopath. It doesn’t work.
The Devils (1971) (Urbain Grandier)
• portrayed as a victimised hero in the Ken Russell film and in the source novel (Aldous Huxley’s The Devils of Loudun (1952)) (see chapter 5 of Thomas Sheridan’s Defeated Demons (2012). Sheridan argues that Huxley is a psychopathic author defending the actions of a psychopathic character from history, and that the charming and sexually promiscuous Grandier was the real cause of chaos and strife at Loudun in 1634).
To Die For (1995) (Suzanne Stone)
• Dr. Robert Hare consulted Nicole Kidman on her character
The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) (Tom Ripley)
The Imposter (2012 documentary) (Frédéric Bourdin)
• low-level con man, who constantly changed his identity, spins an amazing web of lies on camera
Accurate symbolic fictional portrayals:
Some fantasy stories evoke the emotional realism of a psychopath using symbolism:
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) (nb. Count Dracula is in part based on real-life actor Sir Henry Irving)
• drains life energy from victims (blood drinking)
• can spread his psychopathy (by biting victims)
• cannot self reflect (no reflection in mirrors)
• can assume different personalities (shapeshifter)
• able to seduce others (usually presented as very attractive to women)
Children’s Fairytales (various wicked stepmothers, imps, and wolves) Example: Rumpelstiltskin (16th century?)
• predatory lender (creates gold out of thin air for the miller’s daughter in exchange for her life and first born child)
• uninterested in riches, really interested in human ownership and control
• Is defeated when protagonist becomes aware of who he really is (when she finds out his real name, a way of bringing something clearly into consciousness, the ‘spell’ on her is broken)
Marshall McLuhan: Classical Trivium
Adrian Raine’s “Anatomy of Violence”
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CoinDesk
Sept 9, 2014
Published on September 9, 2014 at 03:55 BST
The bitcoin world is abuzz with speculation that some of Satoshi Nakamoto’s online accounts have been compromised, concerned a hacker could potentially access information concerning the bitcoin creator’s true identity or use the accounts to defraud key members of the bitcoin community.
Wired reported that the alleged hacker had posted on Pastebin that they would reveal key details of Nakamoto’s identity if 25 BTC were sent to a specified bitcoin address. While small donations have been coming in, the address still appears well short of that mark.
Administrator ‘theymos’ of the Bitcoin Talk forum (aka Michael Marquardt) a key figure in bitcoin’s online community, posted just after 9pm (BST) on 8th September, alerting the community of the development, writing:
“Today I received an email from satoshin@gmx.com (Satoshi’s old email address), the contents of which make me almost certain that the email account is compromised. The email was not spoofed in any way. It seems very likely that either Satoshi’s email account in particular or gmx.com in general was compromised, and the email account is now under the control of someone else. Perhaps satoshin@gmx.com expired and then someone else registered it.”
“Everyone knows that Bitcoin runs on drama, so this should do wonders for the recent price slump!” theymos added later.
Shortly after, another mysterious message appeared on the P2Pfoundation’s ‘ning’ message board, as a reply to Nakamoto’s original introduction to bitcoin. The post was sent from the Satoshi Nakamoto account, but appeared to warn him of what was happening:
“Dear Satoshi. Your dox, passwords and IP addresses are being sold on the darknet. Apparently you didn’t configure Tor properly and your IP leaked when you used your email account sometime in 2010. You are not safe. You need to get out of where you are as soon as possible before these people harm you. Thank you for inventing bitcoin.”
Bitcoin’s source code page on SourceForge also redirected to anti-bitcoin troll site ‘buttcoin’, although it was later returned to its original state (it would still be prudent to not download anything from that particular page, however).
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[hat tip: Crypto Junky]
by Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Sept 4, 2014
People have such short memories. Even though we are repeating so many of the same patterns that we witnessed in 2000-2001 and 2007-2008, most people do not think that another financial crash is coming. In fact, with the stock market setting record high after record high lately, I have been taking quite a bit of criticism for my relentless warnings about the coming financial storm. Many of the comments go something like this: “Snyder you are a moron! Nothing you say ever comes true. The stock market is going to keep on rocking and Obama is going to lead this country back to greatness. I hope that you choke on all of your doom and gloom.” Of course these critics never offer any hard evidence that I have been wrong about anything. They just assume that since the stock market has soared to unprecedented heights that all of us “bears” must have been wrong.
But the truth is that what we are observing right now is classic bubble behavior. The stock market crashes of 1929, 1987 and 2008 were all preceded by irrational market rallies in the spring or summer. The financial markets have become completely divorced from economic reality, and such a state of affairs never lasts forever. It is just a matter of time before a correction comes.
But every time there is a bubble, most people end up getting caught up in all of the euphoria. And it is happening again. In fact, CNBC has just reported that bearishness among market newsletter writers is the lowest that it has been since 1987. But of course we all remember what happened back in 1987…
Professional investors haven’t had this little fear about stocks since Ronald Reagan was president.
It was the same year Michael Jackson told us in a song he was “Bad.” The New York Giants won the Super Bowl.
And oh yeah … by the way … the stock market crashed.
As gauged by the weekly Investors Intelligence report, bearishness among market newsletter writers has fallen to 13.3 percent, a level it has not seen since 1987 as the market continues to set new highs despite a seemingly endless call for a long-overdue correction.
People need to understand that just because something has not happened yet does not mean that it is not going to happen.
In this day and age, we have extremely short attention spans and we do not have the patience to wait for much of anything. But the financial world is not a game of checkers. It is a game of chess where things can take an extended period of time to play out.
Those that are mocking those of us that are bearish should consider where we stand financially in comparison to previous crash cycles. For example, the derivatives bubble is 20 percent larger than it was back in 2008, the “too big to fail banks” are 37 percent larger than they were back in 2008 and global debt levels are 40 percent larger than they were back in 2008.
In other words, many of our long-term economic problems are a lot worse than they were just prior to the last major financial meltdown.
But most people pay such little attention to the fundamentals these days. All they can see is that little stock market ticker going up and up and up.
Other analysts with much stronger credentials than I are issuing similar ominous warnings about what is ahead for the financial markets.
by Joshua Krause
Activist Post
Sept 1, 2014
On the surface, self driving cars sounds like a godsend. You could sit back and relax during your commutes, safe in the knowledge that your computer-driven vehicle will get you to your destination safe and sound. “Safe” being the keyword here, because these vehicles will supposedly be safer than any human driver. The computer will never experience road rage or fatigue, and will have lightning fast reflexes. So far, Google’s test vehicles have driven over 700,000 thousand miles without incident.
However, we don’t really know how safe or effective they’ll be until ordinary drivers begin adopting the technology on a wider basis. Many of the test drives may have been restricted to ideal conditions. In California, for instance, Google has painstakingly mapped out 2000 miles of roadway for their testing, ignoring the other 172,000 miles of public roads. They’ve essentially created the perfect lab setting to test the technology, and their self-driving cars may not be prepared for real-world conditions.
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