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News Briefs 24-11-04

The statistically-based art forgery software was founded on data authenticated by other means… Lies, damned lies, and statistics, as the saying goes.

  • Britain’s 911 foiled by security forces.
  • Experts debunk JFK conspiracy theory.
  • Current restrictions on Marijuana research are absurd.
  • Scientists hope to unravel Moon mystery.
  • Residents shaken by mysterious booms.
  • Prehistoric site found in underwater cave.
  • Self-repairing teeth on the way.
  • Scientists discover that air is heavier than previously thought. A measurement inaccuracy or has it become more dense?
  • Pain linked to permanent brain loss.
  • Thousands of new species discovered in the ocean.
  • Mycenaean tomb unearthed.
  • Dinosaur bones on the Isle of Wight rewrite evolutionary history.
  • A possible ancient origin for tuberculoses in Casablanca. Here’s coughing at you kid.
  • Atlantis has been found again and again.
  • Tomb may shed light on the 10th Plague.
  • Scientists debate blending species. Ancient examples: cats, dogs, humans?
  • Ukraine in turmoil after claims of election fix.
  • Yushchenko poisoned by dioxin?
  • Life on Planet Charles. Does he believe he was born to be King by social convention or by genetic pre-determination, or both?
  • A compendium of evidence for Psi.
  • Should a charge of plagiarism ruin your life?
  • Von Braun: ultimate rocket builder.
  • Defending repression.
  • Flying triangles.
  • Artful software spots faked masterpieces.
  • Strange illnesses blamed on police radio system.
  • Not so fast, Chicken Little.
  • So what if Iran gets nukes.
  • Moon/Mars initiative harms science.

Quote of the Day:

Learning without liberty is always in vain.

JFK

  1. Back Pain Shrinks Brain
    “. . . it makes it all the more important to treat pain early to prevent any permanent change . . .the changes may be irreversible and render pain treatment ineffective. It might well be that it (the damage) is reversible, but that depends on whether they get the right treatment or not. More research is needed, they say.”

    This is a typical pharmaceutically-backed article — induce fear before all the facts are in so we’ll buy more drugs. That’s their bottom line. What the article doesn’t say is more telling than what it says. Nearly every adult I know has back pain. Nearly all of us take some kind of pain relief when the pain gets hard to bear. Could the pain relief be killing off the neurons? Do you think the pharmaceutical companies would tell us if it did? Could those with back pain, who also take pain relief, and who meditate, or drink red wine, or exercise regularly, or you-name-it, NOT experience permanent brain loss. They don’t even suggest that may be a possibility because then we won’t buy their drugs.

  2. Mysterious booms
    “For now, city officials are considering all options.” That means one thing to city officials, but has an entirely broader set of criteria for me. Have they contacted the military (if they did, the military probably gave them their stock answer, “If we told you, we’d have to kill you.”)

    Okay, let’s see, Richmond, VA is close to Washington DC, which has an extensive network of subterranean facilities controlled by Masonic ‘elite’, according to researcher Alan Walton. He claims these facilities exist underneath most major cities (Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas, London, etc.) with terminals existing beneath Masonic Lodges, police stations, airports, and federal buildings. Timothy Good presents similar research in his book, “Unearthly Disclosure” — the Masonic elite apparently have advanced technical assistance from extra-terrestrials in the form of nuclear powered thermol-bore drills that can melt tunnels through the Earth at a rate of 8 mph — and that was 40 years ago!

    So I’m wondering if the Richmond officials are asking the right questions. Maybe “they” are simply redecorating or adding a new structure under their fair city.

  3. Atlantis
    I like the progress we are making on finding Atlantis, as reported in that article. Certainly, we have quantity, its been found plenty of times. But now, with the next reported finding in the spring of 2005, we have the beginning of a schedule of who gets to find Atlantis and when. Its much better to have these things properly organized.

    We should look at geographical coverage next. Has it been found in China ? In Laos? If not, why not, lets look for it there lest the locals are insulted that we leave them out!

  4. Yushchenko
    Strange story about Yushchenko.
    His face was on the TV as I passed it last night and I stopped to look at this person who I thought looked dead.
    I remarked at the time about his dreadful appearance and when I see the picture of how he looked in August I am stunned.
    Has to be something more than just an ordinary illness.

    shadows

  5. plagiarism
    It’s a funny thing plagiarism, it seems as if you are ok as long as you are not caught.
    I used to write to a woman in America and one day I found she had written my experiences as if they had happened to her,and posted on a very big site, which btw I would not deign to write for.
    They were personal experiences so I felt a bit used to say the least.
    I don’t write to her anymore although she is still posting on the site.
    There was a big kerfuffle here in Brisbane a few years ago about uni students taking whole swathes of material from the net and using them for assignments.Some from students who could barely speak English.
    The final agreement was that if they knew enough to know where to get the information from then that was OK.
    Not to me it’s not.
    The generally accepted norm now is that plagiarism is fine as long as you say where you got it from, so you can write a whole assignment or whatever with endnotes and it will be passed.
    Crummy!

    shadows

    1. Shadows,

      I totally agree.
      Shadows,

      I totally agree. Plagiarism is the reason why I’m keeping my novel ideas very secret and not disclosing them on the internet — when I get my website up, it’s going to have a very prominent Copyright (c) Rick Gned 2004 on every page!

      Rick

      “Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.” – Philip Pullman

  6. Marijuana research restrictions
    Hi ,

    No they are not! We cant have nature undercutting our business model, and our business is treating as many sick people who can pay up as possible!

    Long live the pharmaceutical junkie ! We will extend his /her life for as long as they can pay the price.

    ” Anguished, stressed ? Zombinol will relief your soul ! “

  7. Debunking JFK Conspiracy Theories
    Welp, I’ve heard an awful lot recently about how there were no conspiracies, and Lee Harvey Oswald did the deed alone. I wonder why this anti-conspiracy stuff is so prevalent these days. Most of the debunkers concentrate on how a single person in the book depository could accomplish the job, ‘proving’ that Oswald was alone. Baloney.

    I’ve fired rifles and handguns, bolt action and automatic, and I have serious doubts that Oswald, who is described often as ‘clumsy’, could execute the plan.

    But my real problem with the so-called debunkers is that they always ignore the many other oddities of evidence in the case. For example, the descriptions from the Texas physicians of the body, and the obvious direction of the bullets that hit JFK. These guys had seen many bullet wounds in their normal work in the emergency room, and knew how to determine entry and exit wounds. Their descriptions made it clear that at least one, and probably 2 bullets entered from the front. Suddenly, at an autopsy presided over by FBI and other government authorities, the doctors see something very different, nevermind that they were not experienced in this type of procedure.

    As well, we might also consider the ‘pristine’ bullet found on JFK’s stretcher by an agent at the Texas hospital, before he went in for the doctors to try and revive him. There is no way this bullet (which fit the supposed murder weapon) could possibly have been through anyone or anything and remain in that condition, yet it was used as evidence, and no comments made about its impossible origin.

    There are so many anomalies in the evidence and witness statements, that one has to believe that more was going on than a single nut case pulled the whole thing off.

    I recommend a book called ‘Best Evidence’ by David Lifton. This deals only with hard evidence, especially the body and its condition. This is what is used by forensic pathologists, to develop proof against the guilty. The book is hardheaded, and does not go off into outer space.

    I can only think that the recent spate of ‘debunkers’ is either trying to take a different tack than most people just to generate interest and sell books and articles, or someone wants to bolster confidence in the government and its many pronouncements. (good luck there).

    Chris

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