Tragedy and Hope, book notes part 5, TRR#134
The final episode of book notes on Tragedy and Hope. Aaron finishes up reading from his notes, and gives some added commentary on the book as a whole.
The final episode of book notes on Tragedy and Hope. Aaron finishes up reading from his notes, and gives some added commentary on the book as a whole.
On this installment of Themes and Memes Adam and Aaron review The Brotherhood of the Bell, a made for TV film that is well known in alternative media. This podcast is in the same vain as the previous episode which was a review of Rosemary's Baby. The theme of secret society membership, and more specifically how to break from the cult and expose it, is explored here.
On this installment of Themes and Memes Adam and Aaron review the original 1968 version of Rosemary's Baby by infamous director Roman Polanski. At the least this film points out some very real aspects of cult behavior, but to what extent are the darker occult practices it portrays real?
Topics include: cults, 1960s, sexual revolution, witches coven, occult rituals, sex magic, Aleister Crowley, black magic, dreams, consciousness, confusion, psychology, fragility of human psyche, Roman Polanski, satanism
On this installment of Themes and Memes Adam and Aaron review the movie The Machine. This is yet another film about artificial intelligence development, but is unique in that it portrays transhuman technologies being developed by the military. Do independent productions tell the truth while Hollywood deceives, or is there more to the story than that?
On this installment of Themes and Memes Adam and Aaron review the movie Transcendence. Johnny Depp stars as a Kurzweil-like Ai researcher who is assassinated only to be given second life by uploading his consciousness into a machine. What seems to be an obvious Singularity sales pitch has a bit of a twist.
On this installment of Themes and Memes Adam and Aaron review the movie Her. By far the best movie reviewed on this podcast to date, Her is a film that addresses many complex issues. This film is set in the near future, but is quite obviously a commentary on our current situation, specifically the relationship between humans and their machines.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
June 16, 2015
Video: ACO News on firing range in Poland during NATO Exercise Noble Jump
Xinhua News Agency
June 16, 2015
NATO to hold exercise Trident Joust 2015 in Romania, Bulgaria
BRUSSELS: Twenty-five NATO nations and more than 1,000 personnel will participate in exercise Trident Joust 2015 June 18 to 28, NATO said Tuesday.
The exercice marks the first time a joint force command headquarters will deploy to Romania, and the first time a NATO response force command and control exercise will conduct the shifting of control to a deployed location.
HJS has turned to demonising Edward Snowden supporters and privacy advocates as accomplices with al-Qaeda and the ‘Islamic State’ (IS) — as is also being done by Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times, with its hole-ridden story claiming Snowden’s revelations’ had allowed Russia and China to identify active MI6 agents.
The post The American Far Right’s Trojan Horse in Westminster appeared first on BSNEWS.
What follows was inspired by Lynne Everatt’s post – Bilderberg. A secret society that rules the world. Or not. – wherein she shares her erroneous assumptions, within a particularly disturbing argument, and draws the astoundingly inaccurate and illogical conclusion that:”The truth of Bilderberg lies somewhere closer to benign nerdy supper club banter than diabolical new world order scheming.” Let me […]
We may not be hearing much from Ted Cruz in the mainstream media lately-- not that I want to look a gift horse in the mouth-- but he and his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination are still very active on the fringes of the far right. So, for example, despite the fact that nearly 80% of likely voters support expanding Social Security benefits, he told his inbred core of crackpot true believers that Bush was right to try to privatize Social Security and give it to Wall Street. "I… think you've got to give George W.
By Barbara Erickson | TimesWarp | June 15, 2015 It takes some attention and a bit of math, but readers of The New York Times now have the means to discover just how great the chasm is between Israelis and Palestinians—not just in politics but in hard cash. In an article and follow-up editorial concerning a […]
By Jonathon Cook | The Blog From Nazareth | June 16, 2015 Experience should have proved that one has to be credulous in the extreme – or brainwashed by Zionism – to take seriously “rebuttals” by the Israeli army of evidence of its abuses and war crimes. But for any who still harbour suspicions that claims by the Israeli army […]
By Jonathan Cook | Dissident Voice | June 16, 2015 Two recent reports suggest that Israel could face catastrophic consequences if it fails to end the mistreatment of Palestinians under its rule, whether in the occupied territories or in Israel itself. The Rand Corporation’s research shows that Israel could lose $250 billion over the next […]
Periodically, I look at what is happening in the formerly great United States of America, and especially the clowns that are vying for the office of President.... I have been troubled in trying to figure out the American mindset that they continue to rely on a crooked two party system where both sides, both Democrat and Republican, are criminals and crooks.... Both sides absolutely do nothing more than kiss Jewish ass and pledge their undying devotion to the criminal and psychotic state of Israel above and beyond the American citizens that are gullible enough to vote them into office...
By David Swanson | War is a Crime | June 15, 2015 I’m not sure if there’s been a better written book published yet this year than Ukraine: Zbig’s Grand Chessboard and How the West Was Checkmated, but I’m confident there’s not been a more important one. With some 17,000 nuclear bombs in the world, […]
For 22 years Positive News has pioneered solutions-based journalism. As we set to hand ownership to our readers and journalists with the launch of our community share offer last week, we look back at our content and reveal our most viewed online stories
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net June 16, 2015 Inclined to believe that the Magna Carta was really a charter of liberties for the English people? Guess again. The rights enumerated are mainly those of predatory feudal barons. These rights included the right to wage bloody civil war against the king, killing anybody and everybody except [...]
Post has been updated- scroll down for info!That is an actual headline to one of the articles I will link below!Note to Kurds in Iraq and Syria: Worried about your image? Don't commit war crimes!I think their image was ruined way back when they mass killed, raped and stole Assyrian property? Maybe that's just me? Perception is everything in this world. Dam the facts all to hell!I however prefer facts to spin. We're going for facts today!
US cites fictional Russian threat Sputnik | 16.06.2015 Washington is mulling the delivery of stealthy F-22 Raptor fighter jets to Europe in the face of a “resurgent Russia”, according to US Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James. The US Air Force plans to further increase the number of its rotational forces in Europe amid tensions […]
Civil Georgia
June 16, 2015
Georgia Says Signed Deal in France to Buy ‘Air Defense System’
Tbilisi: Georgia has signed an agreement in France on procurement of an “advanced” system that will “guarantee country’s air defense” and another deal is being prepared for signing on arms purchase, Defense Minister Tina Khidasheli said on June 15.
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Charles Dickens
From American Notes (1842)
The upholders of slavery in America – of the atrocities of which system, I shall not write one word for which I have not had ample proof and warrant – may be divided into three great classes…
Far from being victims of social exclusion who have to be raised out of their shit, slum-dwellers are fully part of the class that will communize society.
The post Are Slum Dwellers Passive Victims? appeared first on BSNEWS.
Anyone who cooks on occasion usually has a pantry full of spices, but they can do more than flavor our food. Some might be more exotic, like Pasilla de Oacaca Chile or Ajwain, but many common spices have incredible healing properties. And there are simply some healing herbs and spices everyone should have in the kitchen.
Tobacco has been cultivated as a cash crop in the USA for many decades. Because of its high revenue potential, tobacco growers often went the extra mile to ensure a good harvest. Toward that end, the growers eagerly embraced the latest and ‘greatest’ farming methods which kept pests and weeds at bay.
Here’s a disturbing reality: the average woman in America now weighs as much as the average American male weighed in 1960. What’s more, the average weight of a male is ballooning as well. But don’t worry, mega food corporations like Monsanto and soda lobbying groups say we’re doing just fine.
There’s no way there could be a connection between the degradation of the food supply and America’s massive increase in obesity rates, right?
Our recent “Stand Up for Truth” whirlwind speaking tour through London, Oslo (see here and here), Stockholm and Berlin last week as well as webinars, visual presentations and speaking events in U.S. cities was exhausting but quite successful. Truth has always been a difficult and often frustrating business, especially when that old story line tends […]
In the 1989 film Batman, after the caped crusader rescues a damsel in distress from the Joker using a fancy zipline gun, the clown prince of crime, played by Jack Nicholson, asks in bewilderment: “Where does he get those wonderful toys?” Especially upon seeing Batman’s nicest toys — his armored Batmobile and his military-grade Batwing fighter plane, […]
Recently making the news was the successful attempt by President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at the G-7 summit in Germany, to get all seven industrialized nations to continue economic sanctions on Russia in response to its annexation of Crimea and military meddling in eastern Ukraine, as did the recent U.S.-led allied boycott […]
Families are beginning to return to Tikrit after fleeing fighting earlier this year. They waited weeks to come back due to fears that the Shi’ite militiamen who liberated the town would seek revenge on them. At least 129 were killed and 20 were wounded: Mortars killed six security personnel and wounded seven more near Falluja. […]
As Judd Legum notes (see below), the list of signatories "includes two presidential candidates, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee." (Click to enlarge -- a little.)by KenOne thing the Roberts Court has had to cultivate, given the number of bombshells it drops in among its major-case rulings, is a sense of theater, or at least careful planning of the way and especially the sequence in which those decisions are released.
By Finian Cunningham – Strategic Culture Foundation – June 15, 2015 In a sane world, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond should be forced to quit his post in disgrace as the country’s top diplomat, following reckless remarks that Britain may henceforth site American nuclear weapons to counter the “threat from Russia.” So here we have […]
By Naji Dahi | ANTIMEDIA | June 15, 2015 In 2014, it was revealed that Israel was spying on the secret negotiations between Iran and the five permanent UN Security Council members (China, France, Russia, the U.K., and the United States plus Germany—together known as P5+1) regarding Iran’s nuclear program. More recently, it was revealed […]
[audio mp3="https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/flnwo27-lq.mp3"][/audio]The universe is the internet is the library is the internet is the universe. Or is it? And if so, who are the librarians? And if we have all the information we can ever want, does that mean we have knowledge or wisdom? If not, how do we make it? Or who will make it for us? Join James this month for a Film, Literature and the New World Order examination of "The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges.
Kristiina Ojuland studied law and politology at University of Tartu. She is the founder and leader of the People’s Unity Party 2014. Ms. Ojuland was once the Foreign Minister of Estonia, a member of Riigikogu (Estonian Parliament), and served on the European Parliament in the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) group. Kristiina is with us to talk about the increasingly troublesome issue of mass immigration in Estonia and Europe in general.
As Washington reacts to massive security breaches, Murdoch’s “serious” newspaper attacks leaker with hysterical, official leaks, “journalism at its worst”...
--Read Glenn Greenwald’s analysis here
--Team Obama slow to admit scope of security breach, media portrays US only as victims of cyberattacks
--gates of Gitmo swing open for 6 Yemenis, 2 more releases in the pipeline don’t seem to include Brit Shaker Aamer
No one should have expected anything good coming from conservative New Dem Kathleen Rice when she joined the Republicans and other conservative Democrats to try to pass Fast Track authorization. John MacArthur, writing Friday for Harper's, said, "Rice last week reversed her opposition to fast-track the TPP.
Jewish settlement in West Bank (Photo: Reuters)
Ukrinform
June 15, 2015
UN not fulfills its functions, it should be reformed – Yatsenyuk
KYIV: The United Nations should be reformed, because it does not perform its basic functions.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said this in an interview with TV Channel 5, Ukrinform news agency reports.
Two recent reports suggest that Israel could face catastrophic consequences if it fails to end the mistreatment of Palestinians under its rule, whether in the occupied territories or in Israel itself.
by Jonathan Cook
The National – 15 June 2015
USANATO
June 15, 2015
USANATO, 1GNC Soldiers conduct Exercise Noble Jump in Poland
By USANATO Public Affairs
Conservative constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein agreeing with Alan Morrison: Fast Track is "defective constitutionally" (source: Thom Hartmann program)by Gaius PubliusThere's a growing recognition within the legal community that the ISDS provisions of treaties like NAFTA, TPP, many trade agreements already signed and almost all agreements going forward ... may well be unconstitutional.
763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
1215 – King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
1219 – Northern Crusades: Danish victory at the Battle of Lyndanisse (modern-day Tallinn) establishes the Danish Duchy of Estonia. According to legend, this battle also marks the first use of the Dannebrog, the world’s first national flag still in use, as the national flag of Denmark.
1381 – Wat Tyler, English leader of the Peasants’ Revolt (b. 1341) died.
By Lauren McCauley | Common Dreams | June 14, 2015 In a decision that may have long-lasting repercussions for the university’s reputation, a leading university group on Saturday voted to censure the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for firing Professor Steven Salaita after he made comments critical of Israel’s attack on Gaza last summer. […]
… or at least he tried to butcher them. On this day 800 years ago, King John was compelled to sign Magna Charta, formally accepting a limit to his prerogative to ravage everything in England. But the ink on his signature was barely dry before he brought in foreign forces and tried to wipe out the barons who had compelled him to sign the Charta. The English almost lost their newly-recognized rights within months of the signing because they were not sufficiently suspicious of the King. As David Hume noted in his magisterial History of England, “The ravenous and barbarous mercenari
Press TV – June 15, 2015 As the prospect of a UN report on Israel’s 2014 bloodletting in Gaza draws nearer, the world body’s point man on human rights situation in the occupied territories is kept outside the Palestinian territory by Israel. Tel Aviv once again prevented Makarim Wibisono from visiting the coastal enclave last […]
In 1968 Phillip Morris launched a brand and marketing campaign targeting women... for death-- Virginia Slims: "You've come a long way, baby," which later morphed into "It's a woman thing." Women HAVE come a long way since then, a very, very long way. And women have more real economic and political power now than ever in recorded history. When a clown like Jeb Bush comes out and declares, in public, that unwed mothers should be publicly shamed, women count that against him.