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News Briefs 16-09-2014

As the father of a beautiful girl named Isis, the recent news headlines have been getting me down. Help me out by taking a look at this petition to the media.

Quote of the Day:

To search expectantly for a radio signal from an extraterrestrial source is probably as culture-bound a presumption as to search the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant.

Terence McKenna

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  1. Frack Gas
    It has been known for at least a few years that about 15 percent of frack well casings fail within a short time, and that this was a major cause of contamination. This is not a new study though BBC is pretending it is for some reason. The next question is why so many casings fail. Surprise, surprise – it’s the money stupid. Thicker, higher quality well casings cost more money. As we see the economics of fracking become increasingly shaky because the wells peak so soon, and pipeline companies don’t see the dollars there to go to the expense of extending line to various wells and fields, the likelihood of the drillers spending more money on casings diminishes. It will probably have to be mandated by law.
    The real problem with fracking has to do with water in another way – the wells require huge of amounts of water for the hydraulic fracturing process, and in most areas of intensive fracking there isn’t really enough water to pull it off without damaging local aquifers and streams.

    1. Shermer
      Hasn’t our major beef with the likes of Randi and Shermer always been their lack of ethics in applying the scientific process? It should come as no surprise then that Shermer gets caught in a date rape – he rapes the data – we knew that already.

      The Atlantic Magazine story of the paranormal is yet another example of a writer not really having much knowledge of the subject and trying to rig the argument from the get-go by zeroing in on the shakiest data – ghostly images in photos. There are so many writers like this out there who have not really kept up with all the new data and experiencer reports, yet they posit themselves to be worthy of having an opinion about this stuff.

  2. lockness
    Are they trying to be serious here? They made a huge 3D blow up of the hoaxed photo that started this whole thing and took a picture of it. C’mon, it’s so poorly done it’s pathetic.

  3. Love….Hatecraft
    “Yet even Joshi cannot deny that Lovecraft was racist. Instead, he strives to portray this fact as immaterial for reasons that include: Everyone was racist back then; Lovecraft’s racism was perfectly natural when you consider his upbringing; ”

    A lot of people would not approve of that statement. Yes there was a lot of racists “back then” and many of the so called “greatest authors” of all time had hang ups on one or more race. That includes pretty much every author your kids read in school folks. By today’s standards some of them would be called outright Nazis. I really never got into reading a lot of Sci-Fi books, but if we were to stop reading just because of an author’s racism imagine how empty our libraries would be? Does that make racism right? NO!

    Sometimes though I do agree that people go a little crazy with the race thing. Oops! I guess that makes me racist 😛

  4. Isis
    Aww I didn’t know you had a daughter :3

    A lot of the news and even the President have been calling it ISIL as of late maybe because of this. However you should blame the terrorists too as they are the ones who thought it clever to pick an acronym named for an Egyptian goddess. It’s kind of like when Hurricane Katrina hit and everyone with that name got trashed, you hear “Katrina” and you shutter even when the person involved obviously had nothing to do with it.

    1. What’s in a name?
      [quote=LastLoup]Aww I didn’t know you had a daughter :3[/quote]

      Two actually, and a son. 😀

      [quote]A lot of the news and even the President have been calling it ISIL as of late maybe because of this. However you should blame the terrorists too as they are the ones who thought it clever to pick an acronym named for an Egyptian goddess.[/quote]

      ISIL and ISIS have been used interchangeably for as long as I’ve heard the news, though ISIS seems to have become the go-to word in the media for the last couple of months (perhaps because of it being an actual name used previously). I think recently they have been trying to call themselves simply IS, for Islamic State – though I find that problematic as well as it seems to be propaganda move to make them (a) seem like an official State and (b) make them the official State for all of Islam.

      [quote]It’s kind of like when Hurricane Katrina hit and everyone with that name got trashed, you hear “Katrina” and you shutter even when the person involved obviously had nothing to do with it.[/quote]

      Funny you should say that – my wife and I were discussing it in terms of a terrible ‘hurricane’ (what we call a cyclone) we had here in Australia, Cyclone Tracy – we both noted that sometimes it’s just luck of the draw. I also noted that I’d imagine a lot of people named Adolf pre-1939 took to using their middle name from the 1940s onward…

      The problem when it comes to Isis is that it’s such a unique name, there’s not the multiple associations you might have with a Tracy or a Katrina, as we probably all know people by that name growing up (either personally, or in media etc). Not to mention that a hurricane, regardless of the damage caused, doesn’t provoke the kind of revulsion that the association with slow beheadings with a small knife do…

  5. > In his address on September
    > In his address on September 10th, President Obama only referred to the group as ISIL and countless media outlets misquoted him saying ISIS. This must stop.

    Yes, it should stop. From where comes this attractor to call ISIL or whatever ISIS?

    1. It comes from the same people
      It comes from the same people who photoshopped Baphomet horns on Obama’s photo in the New York Times.It is a psyop:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MLUPTaqjs8&feature=youtu.be

      This video above catches mainstream media doctoring a press release photo of Obama during the ISIS speech to make it appear he has the horns of Baphomet. This photo was run in the NY Times and other mainstream media pages. The original photo from the original speech had Obama standing in front of a window that looked out onto the White House lawn.
      The satanic imagery – calling cards if you will – being sneaked into staged media events is not evidence of genuine satanic power. It is part of a psyop to make the public think certain string pullers do have such powers and that it is “futile to resist.” Another way to look at it is that the string pullers are simply messaging us that that they are badass and not to be messed with – sort of like biker iconography. That is essentially what Putin has been observing of the new United States – it has positioned itself as a mad dog with a hair trigger willing to smash up everything in the bar.

    2. ISIL
      [quote=Elgon]> In his address on September 10th, President Obama only referred to the group as ISIL and countless media outlets misquoted him saying ISIS. This must stop.

      Yes, it should stop. From where comes this attractor to call ISIL or whatever ISIS?[/quote]

      They have been fairly interchangeable terms of description which have both been in usage – ‘Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’ and ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’. The Levant is an area of coast on the Eastern Mediterranean largely composed of Syria.

          1. ISIS is just the latest
            ISIS is just the latest product of central casting designed to further the military/geopolitical agenda. Look at the lineup of people within it:

            http://www.tatoott1009.com/2014/06/27/who-is-isis-really-proof-youre-not-going-to-believe/

            “According to the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, Saad Hariri, the United States runs ISIS operations in Iraq out of its embassy in Ankara, Turkey. The plan to carve up Iraq and spark a regional war in the Middle East was masterminded by the Atlantic Council, according to Hariri.
            A source close to Hariri said the finishing touches were put on the balkanization plan during a George Soros funded Atlantic Council energy summit held in Istanbul last November.”

            “Likewise, the elite will deal with ISIS and covertly support endless sectarian and religious strife and violence in the resource rich Middle East. The Atlantic Council and its partners approve and are pushing for endless conflict between Sunnis and Shi’as because this will serve to erode the influence of Shia Iran.”

          2. geopolitical agenda

            The Atlantic Council and its partners approve and are pushing for endless conflict between Sunnis and Shi’as because this will serve to erode the influence of Shia Iran.

            That explains Iran’s most-recent response:

            The airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq come as the United States won pledges to fight ISIS at an international summit in Paris. Some 30 countries signed on to a statement vowing to defeat ISIS “by any means necessary.” The United States did not invite Iran to the summit, but confirmed it had reached out with an unspecified offer of cooperation against ISIS. The Iranian government rejected the U.S. overture as “hollow and self-serving” and marred by “evil intentions.” France had wanted to invite Iran to the talks in Paris, but Secretary of State John Kerry said Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates would have boycotted. …

            Have you read this?

            A Two-Faced Friendship: Turkey Is ‘Partner and Target’ for the NSA (published Aug. 31, 2014)

            Documents from the archive of whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal wide-scale spying against Turkey by America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ. They also show the US worked closely with Ankara to battle Kurdish separatists.

            On a related note:

            Pope Francis has issued one of his strongest condemnations of war and the arms trade to date, saying the spate of conflicts worldwide amounts to a “piecemeal” World War III. Francis made the comments in a visit to Italy’s largest war memorial, built for soldiers who died in World War I.

            Pope Francis: “Finding myself here, in this place, near this cemetery, I am able to say only one thing: War is madness. Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction. Today, too, the victims are many. … How is this possible? It is so because in today’s world, behind the scenes, there are interests, geopolitical strategies, lust for money and power, and there is the manufacture and sale of arms, which seem to be so important.”

            Pope Francis recently “un-blocked” the beatification of a leading advocate for peace, the Salvadoran Catholic Archbishop Óscar Romero. Known as the “voice of the voiceless,” Romero was a prominent advocate for the poor and a leading critic of the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military government. He was killed in 1980 while delivering mass at a hospital chapel by members of a U.S.-backed death squad. With Pope Francis’ move to unblock him, Romero would be eligible for a declaration of sainthood in the Catholic Church.

          3. Inconceivable!
            [quote=Rick MG]Besides, IMF is too close to EMF for my liking.[/quote]

            I find that hard to believe (sorry, can’t think of a one-word term for what I’m saying)…

          4. FMF

            I propose we should start calling them IMF –Islamist Mother F#$ers.

            And to avoid confusion, we could rename the International Monetary Fund the Financial Mother F#$kers.

            Much clearer. I like it. 😉

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