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Disguising celestial intentions: ‘Chinese space debris collides with Russian satellite’

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It’s interesting that they don’t even entertain the possibility that a space rock might have collided with the Russian satellite, especially since they state that “the predicted distance would seem to preclude a collision”. Given that fireballs are currently raining down on our planet and given that the International Space Station was hit by a small space rock last year, shouldn’t cometary debris at least be on their radar of possible explanations for what happened to these satellites?

Disguising celestial intentions: ‘Chinese space debris collides with Russian satellite’

Teams looking at the event had to work backwards to review archival satellite data and determine what piece of space debris could be large enough to cause a change in orbit in the BLITS satellite. They found a close approach between debris from FENGYUN 1C and the BLITS satellite. Although the predicted distance would seem to preclude a collision, the fact that the close approach occurred within 10 seconds of the estimated change in orbit made it appear likely that this piece of FENGYUN 1C debris actually collided with BLITS, AGI reported.

Dr. Heinrich Gross: A perfectly psychopathic doctor

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This is an absolutely classic case of how psychopaths become “authorities” and corrupt science.

Dr. Heinrich Gross: A perfectly psychopathic doctor

Filmmaker Andreas Nowak’s excellent documentary, Ein ganz normaler Arzt (‘A perfectly normal doctor’), dealing with crimes committed during the Second World War, won the Austrian Dr. Karl Renner Prize for Journalism in 2000. We are making this documentary available to a wider audience, complete with English subtitles, because it so clearly illustrates some of the important concepts put forward by Andrzej Lobaczewski in his ground-breaking work on psychopathy and psychopaths in power, Political Ponerology.

A Perfectly Normal Doctor

In Broad Daylight

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If you have never watched this movie, do so. It’s about a psychopath who terrorized an entire town, and what the town did when the law failed:

Yes, the book is much better and more detailed. What is interesting to me is that it reveals the very same dynamic at work over the entire US (and other countries) between the masses and the ruling elite. It also reveals the probable solution that may be taken at some point when the elite finally lay on the straw that will break the camel’s back.

Propaganda? Furious over sanctions, North Korea vows to nuke U.S.

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Is a comet or asteroid on its way and they are creating a cover-up in advance?

Furious over sanctions, North Korea vows to nuke U.S.

North Korea vowed on Thursday to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric hours ahead of a vote by U.N. diplomats on whether to level new sanctions against Pyongyang for its recent nuclear test.

An unidentified spokesman for Pyongyang’s Foreign Ministry said the North will exercise its right for ”a preemptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors” because Washington is pushing to start a nuclear war against the North.

Although North Korea boasts of nuclear bombs and pre-emptive strikes, it is not thought to have mastered the ability to produce a warhead small enough to put on a missile capable of reaching the U.S. It is believed to have enough nuclear fuel, however, for several crude nuclear devices.

Murder of baby found in stolen SUV prompts soul searching in China; censorship revealed

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So senseless it is jaw-dropping!

Murder of baby found in stolen SUV prompts soul searching in China

“Journalists leaked a circular from the Changchun propaganda department instructing local media on how to report on the crisis. “No frontpage coverage allowed,” it said. “There shall be no questioning of the police’s work.” Posts containing the instructions have since been deleted by internet censors.”

The Dixie Chicks, Bush, and War Crimes

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10 years later, Dixie Chicks right all along

It was 10 years ago this week — as the country was barreling toward war with Iraq — that Natalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks, stood in front of a packed house in London and said:

“Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.”

It didn’t matter that the evidence to invade Iraq was questionable or that Maines later apologized. The damage was done, and one of the most popular acts in the country became its most hated. Its music was banned from radio, CDs were trashed by bulldozers, and one band member’s home was vandalized. Maines introduced “Soldier” with a call for peace, but she would soon find that the group needed metal detectors installed at entrances to shows on its stateside tour because of death threats.

Yes, they were right all along. A great interview extract here. Watch and share! I probably never would have listened to them if it hadn’t been for that incident. Now I’m a big fan of their music, too!

Bush’s legacy? War crimes: 10 years after invasion, U.S. depleted uranium continues to devastate Iraq

A radioactive heavy metal found in weapons used by the U.S. military and other forces in the war on Iraq continues to plague the country as hundreds of sites are still contaminated and causing the spread of the radioactive substance, according to a new report by Netherlands peace group IKV Pax Christi.

Tens years after the invasion, the U.S. has done almost nothing to clean up the toxic legacy of the war and continues to deny the well-documented harms caused by the radioactive residue that remains.

Why food riots are likely to become the new normal

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I’ve been warning that it’s coming for years and now it is upon us. Was anybody listening? Did anybody believe me? Or did the Normalcy Bias have you in an iron grip?

Why food riots are likely to become the new normal

Since 2008, global food prices have been consistently higher than in preceding decades, despite wild fluctuations. This year, even with prices stabilising, the food price index remains at 210 – which some experts believe is the threshold beyond which civil unrest becomes probable. The FAO warns that 2013 could see prices increase later owing to tight grain stocks from last year’s adverse crop weather.

What’s behind Earth’s mysterious new radiation belt?

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What’s behind it? Probably a significant change in the electrical state of the solar system. Weird things are going on, Earth Changes are happening, and most of the population slumber on. The Elite leadership is little more than the blind leading the blind. And you know how that always ends.

Space puzzle: What’s behind Earth’s mysterious new radiation belt?

At first, Daniel Baker, director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado and the lead author of the paper, thought there must be some mistake. “It looks so odd, so unexpected, that I start to get a sinking feeling that maybe something’s wrong with our instruments,” he recalls. But everything was in working order, with both probes sending back identical observations. The slender third belt remained for about a month before being destroyed by a coronal mass ejection – an eruption of energy and particles from the sun that sent a shock wave racing towards Earth.

Tom Flanagan: Watching Child Porn Does “Not Harm Another Person”

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This guy is one sick critter.

Former aide to Canadian PM fired after child porn comment

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s office quickly distanced themselves from former Harper aide Tom Flanagan on Wednesday after the political commentator said viewing child pornography did not harm others.

Flanagan was a campaign manager and chief of staff for Harper or the Conservative Party at various times before the Conservatives took power in 2006, and has long been a commentator for CBC. …

“…you know a lot of people on my side of the spectrum, a certain side of the spectrum, are bent on kind of a jihad against pornography and child pornography in particular, and I certainly have no sympathy for child molesters, but I do have some grave doubts about putting people in jail because of their taste in pictures,” Flanagan, a political scientist at the University of Calgary, told the seminar on Wednesday night.

He said there was a real issue as “to what extent we put people in jail for doing something in which they do not harm another person.”

Currently Reading: Steven Lukes’s “Power: A Radical View”

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Steven Lukes’ Power: A Radical View is a seminal work still widely used some 30 years after publication. The second edition includes the complete original text alongside two major new essays. One assesses the main debates about how to conceptualize and study power, including the influential contributions of Michel Foucault. The other reconsiders Steven Lukes’ own views in light of these debates and of criticisms of his original argument. With a new introduction and bibliographical essay, this book will consolidate its reputation as a classic work and a major reference point within social and political theory.

This is a scary book when you realize what kinds of minds are out there thinking up schizoidal justifications for a New World Order of total control.

Lukes’s best-known, still controversial academic theory is his so-called ‘radical’ view of power. It can be simply stated. It claims there are three dimensions of power. The first is overt power, typically exhibited in the presence of conflict in decision-making situations, where power consists in winning, that is prevailing over another or others. The second is covert power, consisting in control over what gets decided, by ignoring or deflecting existing grievances. And the third is the power to shape desires and beliefs, thereby averting both conflict and grievances. The first is the most public of the three and is how the powerful usually want to be seen: for instance, the power of political leaders to make policy decisions after widespread consultation with opposition parties and the wider public. The second is the power to control agendas. It has been called the ‘mobilization of bias,’ reinforcing the powerful by excluding threatening issues from discussion in public forums. The third kind of power can be the most insidious. It is the most hidden from view—the least accessible to observation by social actors and observers alike. It can be at work, despite apparent consensus between the powerful and the powerless. It is the power to influence people’s wishes and thoughts, inducing them to want things opposed to what would benefit them and to fail to want what they would, but for such power, recognize to be in their real interests.