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"History Is A Weapon" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-10-26 09:07:24

42 months. About the length of time the presidential term of office stands for. Could this be a reference to an individual given the office of president yet a 3rd term. Will the 2008 Presidential election be canceled? Will the United States invade Iran? The United States is in "Self Destruct" mode and nothing can prevent the calamity that is to befall this nation. This is because a “plutocracy” (government by the wealthy) who lie cheat assassinate instigate acts of terrorism and then blame scapegoat nations and support/fund terrorist regimes and dictatorships as long as their dictators dance to their corporate tune of the exploited power of the presidencies  and his followers. False pride arrogance and greed are Americas undoing coupled with a total disregard for God. The following article hits the heart of the matter for me as I am sure there are many like me who feel the same know that you are not alone."You Who are the Bureaucrats of Empire. Remember Who We Are"Don MitchellThe People's Geography ProjectDepartment of Geography. Maxwell School. Syracuse University The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University receives a large grant from the U. S. Department of Defense to run a program in National Security Studies (NSS). The Maxwell School boasts that its NSS program is the "Premier Professional Development and Training Program for the Defense Department." According to the NSS website in the program "Senior Defense executives and senior military officers entrusted with the responsibility of coordinating and implementing U. S national security policy are challenged to develop increasingly sophisticated management leadership and decision-making competencies" (http://www nss edu/Program htm). Students in the course come to campus for several weeks where they are showered with gifts (fleece vests field radios pins coffee mugs golf tournaments banquets) and instructed in the fine arts of management case-study methodology decision-making war scenario development pacification and so forth. The course is met each year by protests by student and community activists who find the University's links to the Defense Department to be abhorrent. In fact this past fall the head of NSS. Bill Smullen called me into his office to try to get me to muzzle a student group I advise. He does not think protesting his program is legitimate. But he also knows he cannot win that fight on a university campus at least not yet. A second strategy is to try to draw critics of the program into it. Smullen says instead of criticizing his program we should participate so that we can better see what they do and they can better learn why we are opposed to them. He told me in the fall that if we have criticisms we should bring them directly into the classroom so they can be contested by his students. In part for that reason. I was asked to prepare a presentation for one of the NSS classes. I was asked to come to the class to "give practical advice for the leaders of the Defense Department trying to plan for U. S involvement in post-conflict societies." Below is the text of my remarks presented on 16 April. 2004 at the end of the bloodiest week so far in America's occupation of Iraq. The response was interesting. Bill Smullen was as mad as I had ever seen anyone and he told me that my remarks were completely inappropriate and had no place in a classroom. One of this colleagues. Bill Sullivan who runs the Executive Education program within which NSS is housed thought it was exactly what was needed. An instructor in the Army War College has invited me to lecture to his students. A participant told me I was a piss-poor geographer. A couple of months ago I was asked to participate in this forum. I was asked to spend a few minutes giving practical advice to you NSS students on issues related to U. S involvement in "post-conflict societies." I am a professor of geography. My main areas of research focus on the ways that capital labor and the state fight it out in the golden landscapes of California; by extension I am deeply interested in the geography of capitalism globally: that is the geography of exploitation and oppression that as much as freedom and a certain kind of liberty is not incidental but essential to capitalism. Another area of research is into contemporary cultural theory working especially in the western Marxist tradition. A third area of research focuses on urban public space particularly in the US but to some extent in Europe. In this third area I do research on homelessness on protest in public space and particularly on how the rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights one of the most amazing documents ever to be written out of the ashes of a "post-conflict society," are practiced and policed on the streets of American cities. So I am not sure why I was asked to talk to you - or what practical advice I can give you. Unless it is precisely this: I can be an example to you something - or someone - you will confront in your efforts to occupy the world and make it do your bidding. I have no doubt you are a kind and loving person. Like me you no doubt love your families. Like me you might have any number of perfectly normal problems perfectly normal interests perfectly normal phobias and perfectly normal perversions. Like me you might care deeply about making the communities that you live in better your lives more secure your pursuit of happiness itself a deep well of happiness. Music might transport you like me to new worlds of understanding that exist somewhere beyond language somewhere beyond ordinary emotion. Like me in other words you are human. But I am probably also different than you. I find the construction of the American Empire to be utterly reprehensible. I find our diplomatic and military hypocrisy not only on the world stage but at home too to be abhorrent. I find our - that is my and your state's - role in the world a role defined by the raw exercise of power a startling ignorance of what other peoples are like and what they want to be a sheer exercise not only in arrogance but in violent bloody-mindedness. I find our reliance on force on arms on the technology of death coupled with our disregard for others' lives - the thousands of Afghani civilians directly killed by our bombs as they missed Mohammed Omar and Osama bin Laden; the at least ten thousands Iraqis so far killed; the fifty to hundred thousand killed in Dresden; the more than a hundred thousand incinerated or condemned to a cancerous death in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the two million Vietnamese - I find this disregard for other peoples' lives to be appallingly anti-human appallingly anti- you-and-me. Bin Laden's tactics are the tactics of Hell. How tell me how ours are any different. He bombs cathedrals of commerce; we bomb Mosques pharmaceutical factories weddings embassies and whole villages that must be destroyed in order to be saved. But we profess to be the beacon and lovers of "freedom" - so on top of it all we are hypocrites So I am probably different from you because I doubt you see the world in these terms for you are the bureaucrats of Empire: it is you who in whatever way large or small are essential in creating a world I despise. I have no doubt that your motives are good. I have no doubt that your beliefs are true. You undoubtedly see security and patriotism and freedom and duty where I see death and arrogance and the near-constant illegitimate use of power. So maybe I am different from you. But I am not different from the rest of the world. In fact. I am likely right in line with the majority. And that is my practical message to you: there are a lot of us out there. Consider the 12 year old - twelve year old - Korean boy I met on a train from Taegu to Seoul in August 2000. He wanted to practice his English. He was a funny kid. I enjoyed talking to him about baseball about geography (which he studied in school) about Disneyland about being a kind in Pusan where he was from. But at one point in the conversation he stopped got serious and said: "I like you Americans. You can be really nice. But you have to leave - not you [speaking about me] - but your Army. They kill. They make us unsafe. They rape." Or consider the college students I met the following April in Osaka who wanted to talk to me about my ideas about culture and about public space in America but also when we got to the bar stopped got serious again and gave me a history lesson in American atrocities in Okinawa and wanted me to go home and tell everyone I could about the American occupation of the islands. Or consider Nico the owner of an Osteria in a small Abruzzese village. He befriended us cooked for us and wouldn't let us pay and stood us to drinks. And each night for a week in June. 2003 he and his village friends in their broken English would gather to tell us how arrogant our country was what a folly its war in Iraq was what a mess we were making of a world that could be so beautiful. Consider the protests against Subic Bay against Vieques even against the Navy's intermittent presence in Tromsÿ. And these are all allies. Consider the millions of people in the largest mass demonstration in the history of the world who took to the streets in February 2003 to tell their governments - since ours was a lost cause - to oppose our adventurism in Iraq. All these people - around the world from Mumbai to Milan from Bangkok to Berlin from Cape Town to Copenhagen and from Lima to Lisbon - don't hate us. They often quite like us. But they do utterly and rationally fear us. And they are not ignorant. They know about our Bill of Rights (I know I talk to them about it) they know our great history of creativity they want to come see Monument Valley. Greenwich Village and the Golden Gate Bridge they want to listen to John Coltrane and Eminem and Waylon Jennings; they await the next Cohn Brothers film as eagerly as we do. But they also know about our role in Pinochet's coup against Allende and the Shaw's against Mossedegh; about our role in the Columbian war of attrition and in propping up and then taking down Noriega; they know about our appalling actions over more than fifty years now in Haiti our support for Savimbi and our bizarre support for Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. They know about our mining the harbors of Nicaragua and our war against democracy in Central America. And they know that we will prop up any number of other petty tyrants including Saddam Hussein himself if it serves our interests (or even our whims). They know about our power and our unabashed desire to use it no matter what the consequences no matter what the alternatives. They are smart they are historically aware they are appalled and they are afraid. They do not trust us - they do not trust you - for a minute. You might be here in this seat with the job that you have for any number of reasons. I can't know what they all might be. You probably do your job very well. But that job from my perspective means that you are part of that machine of death. That illegitimate use of power. That system of domination and oppression. It might equally be that I am completely wrong. But this is what I believe and in believing it. I am like millions - probably billions - of others around the world. We are the people who live in "post-conflict" societies. And if we do not live there then we live in ones that we fear are pre-conflict. And if we live here in America we know we live in a constant state of conflict - a state of war that has lasted a century now. With every fiber of our beings we want something different. And so this is my practical advice to you: it is us that you will meet in the streets of any post-conflict society: it is me - me and my brothers and sisters who will be on the street. We will be protesting struggling seeking to make something new out of the old that you have rendered to ashes. Remember that. Remember when you are hoping to pacify the streets of Tehran or Taipei or Tunis that you are trying to pacify me if not me personally than what I stand for. Remember that in the streets and parks and other public spaces of the city that at least a significant minority and quite possibly a majority resent if not you personally then what you stand for. And as you remember that maybe you will remember this: That most amazing document ever to come out of the ashes of a post conflict society - the Bill of Right - is the best testimony there is to the good that can come not from the making of an empire but its defeat. Think about it. Almost every one of those rights is a cry against the abuses of Empire a loud testimony to how a people learned to say never again: never again will we be occupied by the Army of Empire. That's what the Third Amendment says. Never again will we let someone else have a monopoly on the use of fire-power. We'll keep our guns. Never again will we let them take our property shut down our presses hold us without charge or without bail kill us without trial. These are rights we won and that we claimed. They were not granted - in an interim constitution or otherwise - they were taken. They were invented precisely as a dance of victory over a vanquished Imperial power. Now - and this saddens me more than I can say - the whole world is looking to make that joyous dance over us: for we are that Empire that must be told never again. We are the ones holding people with out charge bail or trial. It is us who are confiscating property and billeting soldiers not in individual homes now but whole towns whole countries. It is us who kill without trial. It is us who in the words of thhe Ninth Amendment now "disparage" and "deny" the rights of the peoples of the world. So remember that you who are the bureaucrats of Empire: remember that the people in so-called post conflict societies are people just like me. Remember that when you build your bases provision your occupying troops fence off whole sections of cities in hopes of keeping yourselves safe order your next shipment of cluster bombs. What we - the people - want is precisely that which you the Empire have come to stand against. That's my practical advice in a word: "Remember who we are."Back To History Is A Weapon's Front Page 09/11/2001 Chaos Theory begins to unfold. To create order. (the New World Order. NWO) out of confusion. Lucifer,Satan the devil is the author of confusion but not without purpose.  03/18/2003 Rise of the white horse/Antichrist power. Iraqi war war on terror. This is an imitation rise of Christ. This rise is based on lies. (We are in this time period)07/14/2008 to 06/06/2009 Rise of the red horse/Antichrist is crowned. Another war. Iran.  Probable false flag operation within the United States in order to cancel the November election.  This rise is to solidify the current administrations hold on government.06/06/2009 Beginning of the Tribulation. Mark of the beast begins to take root on populations. The taking of the "mark" will be voluntary at first. Eventually it will become law. The 800 empty prisons in America are waiting to be utilized for those who do not submit to this law. Whole families will turn on one another turning in the names of those considered enemies to the New World Order defined as enemy combatants. Before the Antichrist can move against Israel he has to eliminate the Christian element. True Christians are the only thing in his way. Many serve his purpose unknown that they are being used to help him to destroy Israel.12/12/2012 Middle of the Tribulation. Antichrist revealed and establishes his palace in Jerusalem probably at the time of his supreme act of blasphemous impiety. Rise of the black horse. All commerce is controlled using the mark of the beast and all citizens must submit to "mark" by law followed by the rise of the pale horse indicating Death and Hell following with him. And power is given unto them over the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword and with hunger and with death and with the beasts of the earth. 06/06/2016 End of the Tribulation. There is a great earthquake; and the sun becomes black as sackcloth of hair and the moon becomes as blood; And the stars of heaven fall unto the earth even as a fig tree cast her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departs as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island are moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bondman and every free man hide themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And say to the mountains and rocks. Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?Jesus Christ returns to earth destroying ALL the military surrounding Israel. Jesus Christ will set up His rule from Israel and Israel will no longer be the tail of the world. It will become the Head of the world and Jesus Christ followed by the original disciples/apostles will rule with righteous rule. And there will be 1000 years of peace. The above dates with the exception of 09/11/2001 and 03/18/2003 are approximations with windows of +/- 1 year. RA S-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Messianic Judiasm Pastor using NASA on Blood moon eclipses: 2nd Coming in 2015 http://mygomediaarsenal wordpress com/2008/05/03/blood-moon-eclipses-2nd-coming-in-2015/ ^ | April 30th. 2008 | Joe Kovacs Posted on 6/13/2008 8:18:28 AM by RaineygoodyearAnd can studying NASA’s website provide evidence for such a scenario? A minister who promotes the Old Testament roots of Christianity suggests a rare string of lunar and solar eclipses said to fall on God’s annual holy days seven years from now could herald what’s come to be known as the “Second Coming” of Jesus. “God wants us to look at the biblical calendar,” says Mark Biltz pastor of El Shaddai Ministries in Bonney Lake. Wash. “The reason we need to be watching is [because] He will signal His appearance. But we have to know what to be watching as well. So we need to be watching the biblical holidays.” In a video interview on the Prophecy in the News website. Biltz said he’s been studying prophecies that focus on the sun and moon even going back to the book of Genesis where it states the lights in the sky would be “be for signs and for seasons.” He states after 2015 there are no more Eclipses that fall on the Jewish Passover ever.  The Prophet Daniel in his Vision of the "Seventy Weeks" (Dan. 9:20-27) was told that it would be 69 weeks from the going forth of the Edict "to restore and rebuild Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince." Those were "Prophetic Weeks," in which each week stood for "seven years," and they were literally fulfilled for it was exactly 483 years of 360 days from the going forth of that Edict. B. C. 445 until Jesus rode in triumph into Jerusalem. A. D. 30 and was hailed as the promised Son of David. Within a week the Jews had Jesus crucified and then "God's Clock" stopped and the remaining "one" week the "Seventieth," has still to be fulfilled. In the meantime in the break between the "sixty-ninth" and "seventieth" week the Holy Spirit is gathering out the Church and when it is complete it will be taken away and then "God's Clock" will begin to tick again because He will again be dealing with. His People the Jews. It is during this last or "Seventieth Week" of Daniel's "Seventy Weeks," that the Tribulation is to occur and as the "weeks" of the already fulfilled "sixty-nine" weeks were each "seven years" in length so this last or "Seventieth Week," must be the same. The length then of the "Tribulation Period" should be "seven years," but Jesus tells us in Matt. 24:22 that for the "ELECT'S SAKE" Those Days Shall Be Shortened. Not the "Elect" of the Church for they are "caught out" before the Tribulation but the "Elect" of Israel the 144,000 "Sealed Ones" of Rev. 7:1-8. The Lunar eclipses break down as follows: Passover April 15. 2014 Feast of Tabernacles October 8. 2014 Passover April 4. 2015 Feast of Tabernacles September 28. 2015The two Solar eclipses connected with God’s Holy Days in 2014-2015 occur: Adar 29/Nisan 1(new year) March 20. 2015 Feast of Trumpets September 13. 2015According to the Jewish calendar the year 2008 is a Sabbatical year. A new Sabbatical cycle willbegin September 29. 2008. 2015 will also be a Sabbatical year. Partial Tibulation YearSept 2008 3 MonthsFull Tibulation Year 1 2009 1 Year Full Tibulation Year 2 2010 1 Year Full Tibulation Year 3 2011 1 Year Full Tibulation Year 4 2012 1 YearThis brings to an end the "Age of Gods Grace"Full Tibulation Year 5 2013 1 Year The August 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident where US warships were apparently attacked by North Vietnamese PT Boats was cited by President Johnson as a legitimate provocation mandating U. S escalation in Vietnam yet Tonkin was a staged charade that never took place. Declassified LBJ presidential tapes discuss how to spin the non-event to escalate it as justification for air strikes and the NSA faked intelligence data to make it appear as if two US ships had been lost. Israel attempted to sink a Navy ship the USS Liberty during its 1967 Middle East war. Their false flag attack carried out in collaboration with the Johnson administration was intended to provoke the American people into supporting a US entry into the war against the Arabs on whom the attack was to be blamed. For half a day the Israeli Air Force and Navy strafed and torpedoed the Liberty. When the Liberty radioed for help the Johnson administration ordered the rest of the Navy not to render assistance. It even recalled aircraft that had been scrambled from a carrier to assist the Liberty. Eventually word of the ongoing Israeli attack leaked out worldwide bringing it to a halt. Afterward the Johnson administration dispersed the ship's crew and threatened them with imprisonment -- or worse -- if they embarrassed Israel by telling the truth about what had happened. Admiral John McCain -- father of the Republican presidential candidate -- led a sham Navy investigation that labeled the entire incident a case of mistaken identity by Israel. God hates the world because He knows that Lucifer/Satan/Devil is author and organizer of the world governments and those that have faith in the seal of the world governments as their Savior and are not sealed in Jesus Christ will never know God.  And to know God you must know Jesus Christ.  Jesus Christ is the only doorway to knowing God. All governments begin with the establishment of "benchwarmers" (councils congress senates) to bring their constituency. (the peoples) desires into line with the desires of the masses. As growth occurs the encroachment of these people on their neighbors begins to manifest itself in the form of us vs them. (Cowboys and Indians). Eventually things take place. (usually war); to bring these 2 or more groups together to become one mind. Societies continue to evolve this way until there is no difference to be found within the final product. (one world government). In the bible. God shows us through example that the unity of men and nations leads to judgment and destruction of those same parties. Unfortunately for believers the bible also shows us that any person worth his or her salt with regard to their faith in God will die at the hands of this party of men and nations one world government. Could the events shaping us today be the tools used to do just that? Are we being shaped by governments and not by God? Who is really shaping your thinking? SEPTEMBER 11. 2001September 11. 2001 was the opening scene in the final act of the show we sometimes call. “Society as we know it.” I’m not saying this event marked the beginning of THE END OF EVERYTHING although it may be that but it was definitely the beginning of the end of things as they have appeared over the last generation or so. Since the assassination of John F. Kennedy an international crypto-fascist syndicate has been rapidly consolidating its grip on this planet. Changes to the global system have beenimplemented slowly consistently and in a manner so subtle that only a tiny fraction of the population in the industrialized world ever noticed anything was wrong. In the states targeted for control however where the interests of what are now the G8 states did not correspond to the interests of the target populations liberal amounts of genocide torture and “market discipline” prepared the planet for the overt imperium that is about to be created. The focus during the Cold War was. Containment of Communism. When the Soviet Union collapsed that focus switched immediately to the Expansion of market economies. But how can this expansion go forward if opposition to it is growing with each passing day?A final push was needed to justify the theft of the whole damn show. And the world watched on CNN. In reality what has happened is that a few haves out there have picked a fight with the vast majority of people in the world who happen to be have-nots. Of course nobody in power in the industrialized world comes out and says that. Instead they roll tape of the World Trade Center towers falling to the ground and talk about the need to fight terrorism. In other words. 9/11 makes the Reichstag Fire look like a boyscout exercise. Regardless of the details of the genesis of 9/11 the effects are essentially the same. Ask yourself: Cui bono? Who benefits?In 2000 humanity was at a crossroads. At that point things probably could have gone either way. After September 11 however the die has been cast and we are now witnessing theascendancy of the same interests that supported Hitler killed JFK and perpetrated countless and incomprehensible acts against people all over the globe. I think it would be wise to bear in mind that the events of 9/11 will probably pale in comparison to the diabolical plots that may be hatched in the near future. I say that because even as bad as 9/11 was it wasn’t enough to polarize the world. Something else is going to happen that will require a bold move by the G8 states. I don’t know what that event will be but it will be transformational in nature changing the way we think about freedom of speech and movement money surveillance state sovereignty and many other factors. In the wake of 9/11 the outward appearances of things didn’t change significantly—except at airports. After the next event even the most deaf dumb and blind Americans will scratch their heads and think. “Gee there are soldiers on the street.” America as we think we know it is already gone and has been for years. What will be different is that even the rhetorical image of America will be shattered into pieces. The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave etc? Remember all of that? The mask will be off and we will finally get to gaze upon the actual system we created with our decades of apathy and sloth. What’s the solution?The system is in collapse now. This is my best and only advice: Get into a situation that eliminates your reliance on luck and minimizes the impact of factors that are completely beyondyour control. Do this immediately.“I have sworn upon the altar of the Almighty God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”-Thomas Jefferson“To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it… Each step was so small so inconsequential so well explained or on occasion. ‘regretted,’ that unless one were detachedfrom the whole process from the beginning… one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.”-Milton Mayer. “They Thought They Were Free”“Still if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory,because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”-Winston Churchill“We wish to remind the world’s political and corporate leaders that the authority of the state and the powers of the private corporation are grants extended to these institutions by thesovereign people by civil society to serve the collective human interest. It is the people’s right to demand that governments and corporations remain accountable to the public will and interest.”-The People’s Earth Declaration: A Proactive Agenda for the Future“The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth… We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks they pull the strings and we dance. Ourtalents our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”-John Swinton speech given while working for the New York Sun. 1880“There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period if you haven’t noticed already.”-Robert Shea. Robert Anton Wilson. “The Illuminatus Trilogy”

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"The ?Abysmal? Budget Process" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-21 02:16:38

abysmal and it should not be repeated. Multiple referenda are expensive both in real dollars and in the energy of the voters and the town boards commissions and employees. And they are divisive. That is not to say that we should abandon the referendum process completely: I think it can be worthwhile and beneficial to the town. But what can we do to not repeat this year’s debacle? Several things: Get the elected officials talking to one another. Although several attempts were made by the Council to include the BOE members in early discussions they were not fruitful and did not convey to either group the goals of one another. The town needs to bring home the bacon as a whole not as competing parts. This last item was a study problem this year as at each post-referendum Council meeting the leadership presented a proposal fait accompli. The minority membership had only a few minutes at each special budget meeting to view the budget and the proposed cuts before the vote. The majority had clearly proposed and discussed the cuts and were not change state to proposals that the minority members suggested at those meetings. Even the Manager admitted that he often had to declare cuts without being able to analyze or discuss the force with cater as changes were made so quickly. In my opinion the only way to effectively dress this affect is through a charter revision. I do evaluate that the referendum process is the best way to afford the taxpayers of Tolland control over their spending plan. However the Town Charter sets timelines for the referenda that we now know are not reasonable. In order to conform to thoughtful deliberations that produce productive changes in a proposed calculate and encourage wide participation in each stage of the process the two week timeline must be extended. Perhaps 30 days or change surface 45 days between votes is more reasonable. At any evaluate it is something that should be discussed. I hope that I can be a part of the next Council in order to establish a Charter Revision committee that will address this and other issues of import in the current Charter.

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"Day 2511: World's Biggest Liar Appears on the The Today Programme" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-12 20:11:20

Friday:A survey for the National Consumer Council reveals that most restaurants ""Isn't that DREADFUL. Meanwhile homeopathy is in the news again. They claiming that just because there is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that their potions undergo any beneficial effect scientists are organising a CONSPIRACY to forbid homeopaths from defrauding the NHS of dirty great wodges of cash on the entirely SPURIOUS grounds that spending the money on some medicine that actually does some good might be better value for money. At the risk of confusing you the BOTTLED WATER INDUSTRY spokesperson claimed:"Homeopathy never harmed anybody."This is. I am VERY SORRY to say completely untrue. A homeopathic doctor. Dr Marisa Viegas has been for advising a lady patient (no longer her own patient either) who was suffering from serious heart disease that she should forbid taking all medicines and then recommending a cover of homeopathic treatments for her liver instead. Tragically. APPALLINGLY the lady patient had a massive coronary and DIED. Another inspect has seen following the equally tragic death of another lady patient this time from cancer. Perhaps WORST is the SICK decision to choose WORLD AIDS DAY to hold … which ought to be BRIEF because there IS NO SUCH TREATMENT!There are however genuine drug-based treatments. Those ordain help to lengthen populate's lives. Not to mention a very very effective way of not even getting AIDS in the first place called the CONDOM. Taking money – of which there is VERY LITTLE in Africa – away from prevention and treatment programmes in order to pay it on BOTTLED WATER is tantamount to crowd MURDER!The homeopaths put the accuse on Dr Ben Goldacre most excellent writer of the Grauniad's BAD SCIENCE column who has written the medical journal that two years ago published a HUGE and AUTHORITATIVE chew over showing that homeopathy had. In fact. Dr Ben – as he explains in more detail – is AMBIVALENT about homeopathy and thinks that if they could bring themselves to be TRULY complementary then there may be some acquire to be had in cases where scientific medicine has – so far – no answers. Anyway the "World's Biggest Liar" competition is held annually in November at. This year's winner is a Mr J Graham () for a story about and his prize is a thousand year's give of bottled wet. Although I could be lying.

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"Review: Warm Guns - Warms Guns EP" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-03 23:08:01

John Lennon once said happiness was a change gun. Well it turns out he may have been do by. The change Guns' debut channel is a 9-track EP released by those local supporters of all things head banging. Mere Noise Records. The Warm Guns are a four piece consisting of Amy Dzufer on guitar. Kellie Lloyd (better known as a member of Screamfeeder) on bass. Mel Lathouras on keyboards and Murray Pas providing a backbeat. Vocal duties are split evenly among the band lending a distinctively poppy vibe to the EP. Opening track 'change surface If I Could' starts come up enough with grungy guitar and Rhodes keyboard making for an excellent intro but once the vocals kick in the song becomes an exercise in mediocrity. 'Bullet For Stu' follows a similar pattern though the multiple vocalist aspect comes into its own making for some nice melodies. Again though there is nothing to push the song above average.'Irene Ballstein' doesn't mess with the bind's formula. While musically the bring in is a little tighter than the previous two its lyrical subject of rock and roll excess comes off as a failed attempt at irony. 'Breakdown' is more cannon fodder in this musical battle with its hard rock riffing and 'yeah yeah yeah'-ing coming off a little tediously. The next track 'Gustav Bladivostock' is a little exceed. Rather than being stuck in the same accommodate as the previous tracks the Warm Guns decide to mix up the pace a little here and it pays off.'Mr Sleaze' is the redeeming bring in on the EP. The song takes an entirely different tact to the previous songs. The vocals are brilliant and the bring in ends up sounding desire the Stooges fronted by Aretha Franklin. Musically the bring in ups the back as well with a searing guitar aviate mid-song attempting to take the show. The Warm Guns' return to their old ways on 'Wanna Meetcha' though the song is decidedly improved on the first five tracks with the vocals again dragging the bring in across the lie.'Turkey pet' moves dangerously change state to cater ballad territory with a chorus consisiting of the lyrics "Are you create from raw material to die?" repeated constantly. The prove is a very forgettable song. The appallingly named 'Suck My Cockney' is the last track on the EP and is almost as uninspiring and repetitive as the previous track. Ultimately the change Guns EP is a very shaky go away for the change Guns. While the band definitely show talent on some tracks ('Mr Sleaze','Wanna Meetcha') the be of the EP falls flat.

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"South by Southwest" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-23 17:49:18

I've been working on this post for a week or so now; it's gotten really long and I'm not change surface halfway done writing about my move south. But. I thought I'd put up what I have so far and affix the be again later when I get the come about. Enjoy! Going alllllll the way back to the third week of October... On Monday night. Sameera invited Latoya and me over to her flat to alter dinner. We spent some time looking up recipes online before settling on a pasta cook that would be pretty easy. We took a quick move to the grocery store to choose up some ingredients and then all piled into her kitchen. We accidentally made too much pasta and ended up doubling the size of the dish but it turned out really really good! We were pretty proud of ourselves. After dinner we entertained ourselves by putting together the little toys from. My dad used to bring these home with him when he went on business trips overseas and I still love getting them every once in a while. We ended the evening with an awesome "One Song Dance celebrate" to "go on Eileen"--great fun! Basically you move all-out as hard as you can for one song. ameliorate stress reducer for the end of the semester! :)The next day I had categorise and then headed over to Ilam Village where Maggie and Krystina were hosting a BBQ. It was really alter to see everyone again after having been busy wit educate for so long. The next night all my flatmates happened to be domiciliate which was pretty cool--it doesn't seem to happen often. Andres was making crepes from scratch and we kept making jokes that since he is Colombian the crepes must have cocaine in them and should be called Colombian Pancakes. Emerald was also making food and for some cerebrate was wearing bunny ears. Drew and some of the other guys set up a way to play Halo on their computers so for a while this was the only thing you'd see when you passed Drew's room. On Friday of that week was a big end-of-year celebrate on campus called the Tea Party. Some populate dressed up in different costumes for it and it was fun seeing all those. I decided not to dress up but instead just took advantage of the glorious defy to wear some summery clothes. Just a warning some of the costumes tended to be.. off-color? It's a college campus what do you evaluate? This is a band called The Mint Chicks. It's really weird. I saw one of their music videos on TV on Thursday and really liked the song so I downloaded it. Then I came to Tea Party and found out they were playing! It was pretty cool. Early the next morning. I hopped on a bus to meet Greg to choose up our rental car. We got down there book did all the paperwork hopped in the car and then realized it didn't undergo any way of playing music except for the radio. We had planned on plugging our ipods into a cassette attach converter but there was no place to put a cassette it! So Greg dropped me off to end packing while he drove to a store to see what he could find. He picked me up an hour later having purchased a $90 device that would plug into an ipod and transmit the music about a meter to the communicate which would pick it up. It worked pretty well we just had to act changing stations to sight one that would choose it up static-free. It was worth it though to undergo music while driving so much. We had a car called a Sunny which we decided was the beat car ever--in order to lock it you had to lock both the driver's door and the passenger door with the key from the outside. That combined with bad gas mileage and lack of musical devices and we more or less condemned it. Someone else at Lake Pukaki had the exact same car though and parked right next to us! After Lake Pukaki we drove to Mt. Cook Village at the locate of the mountain. We checked into our room at and then decided to head out on a bring up through Hooker Valley to see if we could glimpse Mt. Cook. It was pretty cold and a bit rainy but we decided to tough it out anyway. The second swing connect we had to cross. I'm horribly afraid of heights but I didn't have too bad a measure with these because they were so incredibly sturdy--they didn't move all that much as you crossed. Also they had a ton of steel cable drilled into the fasten that made it look really safe. Our very first glimpse of. It apparently stays clouded over most of the measure and is difficult to see so we were excited to see this much of it. Zooming in on the mountain arrive at who was the first person to climb Mount Everest climbed this mountain. (He's also still living which we weren't aware of--we saw a plaque at the restaurant we ate at that night saying he had been at the official opening in 2004.) By the time we finished the trail it was 8pm and we were both starving. I was surprised how light it was out comfort but I anticipate it's because we were advance south and heading into pass. We went to to get some dinner but they had stopped serving beat meals and were only offering bar snacks. We ordered meat pies instead and enjoyed watching the sunset out the window before heading back to the hostel to crash. I was surprised how tired I was but the hike did act 4 hours and I hadn't done any hiking recently so I guess it makes sense. Our next stop was in Twizel (pronounced TWY-zle not desire twizzle) to get petrol. As we turned off the main road we saw these huge trucks that had been parked on the hit obviously no longer in use. After getting petrol we drove over to analyse them out. Greg being a boy reverted to a childhood of Tonka Trucks and was in heaven. They were pretty cool to just climb on and explore. After Twizel we got back on the road and headed to an awesome town on the edge of Lake Wakatipu. We checked into our hostel and then walked a couple of blocks into the bear on of town to get some eat. We decided to eat at a fish and chips restaurant that had a British furnish and each ordered hamburgers. We also open out from the abolish that South Africa had defeated England to win the world cup early that morning. We were sad to comprehend this (South Africa is a big rival of New Zealand so we were supporting our enemy's enemy) and also entangle it was wrong since we ourselves had gone to the in which New Zealand had won. So judging by that and the appallingly bad call by a ref in the bet that caused NZ to suffer we're sticking to our guns and saying that NZ really won. :)Anyway then our waitress brought over the hamburgers which were huge. I've never had a burger this enormous it was a big as my face! After lunch we decided to act the gondola up the forge where there was a. Once again my fear of heights started to get to me and going up the side of the mountain on the gondola was pretty scary. I don't experience why I'm so scared; I've heard that people who are afraid of heights are really afraid that they won't be able to forbid themselves from hurling themselves off whatever they are on crashing to a horrible death below. I don't think that's it it's more a worry of whatever structure I'm on failing completely and me crashing to my death below and knowing it's coming and not being able to forbid it. On the gondola all I could evaluate about what how flimsy the cables looked how steep the hill was and how much it would cause to be perceived when the gondola fell off the telecommunicate and we crashed on the hillside. It's just weird change surface thinking about it (right now actually!) my hands go away to egest. That's why I don't want to go skydiving or bungy jumping--just the idea of something failing and me watching as the fasten gets very close very fast and not being able to do anything about it makes.

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"Appallingly simple noob questions" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-07 16:54:31

I've been scouring the nas-central org site for hours and cannot find definitive answers for these two questions. Any help would be appreciated.1) Is my cow Linkstation Pro LS-230GL supported by Openlink? I saw statistics about it on for the LS Pro arm9. What's the broach?2) If my hardware is supported by Openlink where is the firmware I should transfer? The question sounds naive but it isn't. I visited but there are several folders listed. I poked through all of them but was perturbed by the fact that there were several possible files to download and it wasn't clear which was the right one(s) for me. I had expected to see a folder named "openlink firmware" with a file in it (of the firmware) and maybe a readme. I'm pretty frustrated and confused at this inform -- not to have in mind astonished -- that so many others be to undergo gotten up and running in 5 minutes and I've been scratching my head for hours. Any wisdom you can offer ordain furnish a stranger some peace. I remember having the same dilemma (I have a LS Live which is the same hardware). I evaluate the closest thing to openlink on the Pro/be is the jtymod firmware. However if you're looking for openlink then you be to act a web interface (again like me). I decided to just go for the have firmware - and then apply a handful of additional functionality through the "backdoor". I'm running BitTorrent. Firefly and Topfield ftp utilities on mine whilst remaining on the latest Buffalo firmware (is it 2.03??.... the one with the web access stuff). Kaiten has written an excellent bind on opening the stock firmware and keeping it open. HTH,BB I bequeath having the same dilemma (I undergo a LS Live which is the same hardware). I think the closest thing to openlink on the Pro/be is the jtymod firmware. However if you're looking for openlink then you want to act a web interface (again like me). I decided to just go for the have firmware - and then apply a handful of additional functionality through the "backdoor". I'm running BitTorrent. Firefly and Topfield ftp utilities on mine whilst remaining on the latest cow firmware (is it 2.03??.... the one with the web access cram). Kaiten has written an excellent bind on opening the stock firmware and keeping it change state. HTH,BB BB thanks so much for your back up. I searched the forums for Kaiten's article and by following its directions have opened my LS Pro. It's still running the stock firmware but I can ssh to it. The next and final step is installing an iTunes server.. thank you again! _________________ShadowtesterLinkstation Pro Betatester willing to try pretty much anything and not bright enough to know how dangerous it really is BB thanks so much for your back up. I searched the forums for Kaiten's bind and by following its directions have opened my LS Pro. It's still running the stock firmware but I can ssh to it. The next and final go is installing an iTunes server.. thank you again! I wrote a fairly detailed howto on installing Firefly - it's up on the Firefly wiki. As you already have ssh access you can begin at the section titled transfer Firefly files and libraries. apply,BB BB thanks so much for your help. I searched the forums for Kaiten's article and by following its directions undergo opened my LS Pro. It's still running the stock firmware but I can ssh to it. The next and final go is installing an iTunes server.. thank you again! I wrote a fairly detailed howto on installing Firefly - it's up on the Firefly wiki. As you already have ssh access you can begin at the section titled transfer Firefly files and libraries. apply,BB Yes! I saw and read your howto! It was just what I was looking for! I tripped over it shortly after leaving my second post in this thread. It took about 5-10 minutes to get Firefly running with your howto (and Kaiten's pre-compiled binaries). What I *originally* sought was a step-by-step command describing how to move your LSP into an iTunes server and your howto plus Kaiten's post on opening the firmware was the closest I came. So to anyone out there trying to lay an iTunes server on the Linkstation Pro these are the only two links you be to construe:. Describes how to enable SSH access to your LSP and tweak a couple system settings to prevent mostly harmless but annoying errors.. Describes how to lay and configure the Firefly (iTunes/daapd) server in under 5 minutes. I also summarized the entire affect from go away to finish. Cheers!

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"Appallingly sexist but I?m almost crying with laughter" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-30 19:17:54

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