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News Briefs 17-11-2009

By Jameskeon

Rebellion is called for…

  • Satan, the great motivator.
  • Anti-war soldier faces 10 years in jail.
  • Smart hand: merging mind and machine.
  • Mozart and Orientalism.
  • Mystery dark flow extends towards edge of the universe.
  • Hypnosis has real effect.
  • Tuna body shies from fishing ban.
  • Wake from cryonics.
  • Fluoridation increases infant death rates.
  • Body parts sold to kebab stand.
  • Bacteria glow near landmines.
  • UFO hacker, Gary McKinnon, may have extradition stopped.
  • Ancient Egyptian library rivaled a modern residential university.
  • Red-faced worlds.
  • Last ice age took six months to arrive.

Thanks Moezilla

Quote of the Day:

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils

Berlioz

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15 Comments

  1. dark flow, library
    well, if nassim haramein is correct, that dark flow is the outer geometry of the tori(black hole) our universe exists w/in.

    library of alexandria… why didn’t the author mention the subsequent burnings, and the ‘final breath of light’ extinguished in 415 w/the murder of Hypatia by Cyril’s RC mob… he was made a saint for that, btw…

    i harbor a secret hope, that in their wisdom, copies were networked out, and humanity has yet to be lucky enough to find them.

  2. Anti-war soldier
    Corporal Joe Glenton deserves to be praised for his stand against this and other conflicts that the UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair led the U.K into. These conflicts are at best unjustified and entered into because of the ‘special relationship’ between George W Bush and Tony Blair.

    The only people who were able to vote on these conflicts were the UK MPs, who backed the wars, based on now dubious claims from the governement of Tony Blair.

    1. Hang him…
      This soldier deserves the death penalty, and nothing less. his refusal to serve means someone else took his place, and faced the dangers that he was too cowardly to step up to.

      You never get to pick and choose your wars. You serve as ordered. Had he truly been a concientious objector, then there are procedures in place in Britain’s military, as in most all other military, to adjudicate such a claim. He refused to follow those, and instead took the coward’s way out.

      These wars were fully vetted by both the United Nations, and the various states, and anyone who claims that they were based upon lies is, at best, naive, and at worse, willfully ignorant of the truth or supportive of the anti-civilization terrorists who continue the wars against civilization that Islam has carried on since the 7th Century.

      Corporal Glenton deserves a hangman’s noose, or at minimum, a life-long stay in Her Majesty’s prisons. As a combat veteran, and a defender of Western Civilization, I have no time, not any mercy for scum like him.

      1. Also…
        [quote=Gwedd]You never get to pick and choose your wars. You serve as ordered. [/quote]

        And I should add to that: Vote one for the cold-blooded asshats that send their little meat-puppets off to fight their small-minded, small-penis-compensating wars!

        This has been a Daily Grail public service announcement. I now return you to your vicarious blood-letting.

      2. Huh?

        These wars were fully vetted by both the United Nations

        Funny how things get fuzzy the older I get. As I recollected the event, the US & Britain went on to invade Iraq without waiting for the full approval of the UN’s Security council, which was still debating the matter —some time after that enjoyable performance by Powell, where he showed those ice-cream trucks and telling everybody those were used by Saddam to create chemical weapons, trample on daisies, and castrate little fluffy bunnies.

          1. Fair enough
            Fair enough. But still, Gwedd was making a case about both wars, implying they were based on the same principles. There’s a reason the international community gave its full support to the US when going after the Talibans, and heavily criticized the decision to invade Iraq.

          2. this soldier,
            i’m having trouble understanding why he joined the army in the first place.
            As for Afghanistan, all thats happened is they have replaced one lot of bad rulers with another lot of bad rulers. At least girls can go to school now, if they ever build the schools they promised (not likly-all the funds have disappeared).

          3. Maybe
            Maybe the man thought he was going to help the Afghans. Once there, he might have witnessed events that made him questioned the purpose of the war.

            Because the main purpose of the war hasn’t been accomplished: last I heard, Osama was still at large, the Taliban were a secondary objective —or so we all thought.

          4. purpose
            maybe not what we think it is……ask the Russians. but all that aside it mainly is to democracise a very strategic position. Osama is and will be a danger to Western ideas as long as he is about, but not in the way most have been told. The fundermental error made by the US and Allies is to belt Taliban and chase Osama, I’ll just add here that they had him several times but let him be, and the powers that be will continue to dance around this war. If they were serious about what they were there for, the life of average Afgans would have improved, but it has not, just changed to a different set of ruling surpression.
            It’s like the time they had the music around the world thing and raised 300 million dollars for food and poverty.
            Well, that changed nothing except line pockets of currupt goverments.
            The whole thing is a properganda campain that looks good on the surface but stinks like hell underneath.

      3. Let’s All Stand at Attention
        Pardon me Gwedd but those comments you make. Really ! Are you kidding ? I am struggling to get into your headspace such blind unswerving obedience. Your not a lemming by any chance ? You must be the one eating all the recalled muesli bars at my local store just because they haven’t taken them of the shelf as yet. Your right you never get to pick or choose your wars but if you were given a chance you wouldn’t pick one to begin with. Go and google ‘ list of wars ‘ and you’d be surprise because sure enough there’s a lot to choose from. Now I know the reason behind it. Because of people like you. As an ordinary human being leading a natural life Joe Glenton has every right to oppose a war. It’s a society that promotes war and let’s face their not exactly right all the time. Let me rephrase that they are not right at any time. There are no good wars and there are no just wars. So maybe whilst your sitting by your bed tonight polishing your brass buttons and spit polishing your boots. Spare a thought for Joe he might just be the 100th monkey that finally puts a stop to all this insanity.

  3. Better Late Than…… No, Just Late
    I’m so pleased that the BBC managed to find some boffin (or is it wag? I’m not up on Britenglish) to say that brain scans show that hypnosis is “real” in terms of actual neural activity. Finally I can relax in the knowledge that the brain imaging work I did on hypnosis over that last dozen years wasn’t bogus after all. I’m the hyphenated one.

    Crawford, H.J., Horton, J.E. and McClain-Furmanski, D. (August 2002). Hypnosis and Pain Control: Why Can Highly Hypnotizable Individuals Control Pain? Invited paper for Symposium on “Altered States of Consciousness”, 11th World Congress of Psychophysiology of the International Organization for Psychophysiology, Montreal, QE.

    Crawford, H.J., Horton, J.E., McClain-Furmanski, D., & Vendemia, J. (1998). Brain Dynamic Shifts During The Elimination Of Perceived Pain And Distress: Neuroimaging Studies of Hypnotic Analgesia. On-line Proceedings of the 5th Internet World Congress on Biomedical Sciences ’98 at McMaster University, Canada (available from URL: http://www.mcmaster.ca/inabis98/simantov/dus0133/index.html).

    Crawford, H. J., McClain-Furmanski, D., & Horton, J. E., . Inhibition of pain: Somatosensory event-related potentials changes during hypnotic analgesia in high but not low hypnotizable individuals.

    Crawford, H. J., McClain-Furmanski, D., & Horton, J. E., . Underlying gamma oscillations (40 Hz) during pain and hypnotic analgesia: Evidence for pre-attentive processing differences in low and highly hypnotizable individuals.

    Crawford, H. J., Horton, J. E., Hirsch, T. B., Harrington, G. S., Plantec, M. B., Vendemia, J. M. C., Shamro, C., McClain-Furmanski, D., & Downs III, J. H. (1998) Attention and Disattention (Hypnotic Analgesia) to Painful Somatosensory TENS Stimuli Differentially Affects Brain Dynamics: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 30(1-2), 77.

    Horton, J. E., McClain-Furmanski, D., Mészáros, I., & Crawford, H. J. (1998) To Inhibit Pain is to Actively Shift Conscious Awareness: Somatosensory Event-Related Potential Evidence During Hypnotic Analgesia. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 30(1-2), 234-235.

    Crawford, H. J., Horton, J. E., Hirsch, T. B., Harrington, G. S., McClain-Furmanki, D., & Downs III, J. H. (November 1998) Brain Dynamics of Hypnotic Analgesia: New Evidence from SERP and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.

    McClain-Furmanski, D., Horton, J. E., & Crawford, H. J. (April, 1999). Inhibition of pain: Effects on Somatosensory event-related potentials during hypnotic analgesia in high but not low hypnotizable persons. Presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, Washington, D.C.

    Crawford, H. J., Horton, J. E., Hirsch, T. B., Harrington, G. S., McClain-Furmanki, D., Downs III, J. H. Brain Dynamics of Hypnotic Analgesia: New Evidence from SERP and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, November 1998.

    Crawford, H. J. Horton, J., Hirsch, T. B., Harrington, G. S., Plantec, M. B., Vendemia, J. M. C., Shamro, C., McClain-Furmanski, D., and Downs III, J. H. (October 1998). Attention and Disattention (Hypnotic Analgesia) to Painful Somatosensory TENS Stimuli Differentially Affects Brain Dynamics: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. Invited Paper for Symposium on “New Perspectives on Brain Imaging of Human Pain and Pain Control: Symposium in Remembrance of Bonica” (Chair: Andrew Chen). 9th World Congress of Psychophysiology, Sicily, Italy.

    Horton, J. E., McClain-Furmanski, D., Mészáros, I., & Crawford, H. J. (September, 1998). To inhibit pain is to actively shift conscious awareness: Somatosensory event-related potential evidence during hypnotic analgesia. Paper presented at 9th World Congress of Psychophysiology, Sicily, Italy.

    1. So, the result was people who
      So, the result was people who are hypnotizable show up the neural activity. but those that are not hypnotizable do not? Any chance there are far more people who are hypnotizable than those that are not?

      1. Hypnotoozits
        [quote=Jameske]So, the result was people who are hypnotizable show up the neural activity. but those that are not hypnotizable do not? Any chance there are far more people who are hypnotizable than those that are not?[/quote]

        About 10% are not hypnotizable, or so weakly so that it’s too easily disrupted, forgotten, etc. to have much effect. About 10% are highly hypnotizable. The rest tend to fluctuate between ‘pretty much’ and ‘pretty much not’ rather than than having a stable, say, 45% rating or some such. It comes out as the familiar bell curve as though we’d planned it that way, but we didn’t. So if you’ll accept the middle range as the “sometimes” they are, then yes, far more are hypnotizable to a significant degree.

        In our work, the people who were more hypnotizable had a greater interconnection (corpus callosum) between left and right frontal regions. Whether more connections, or more insulation per neuron we can’t tell, but either way they get better conduction and therefore more efficient communication between frontal areas.

        The highly hypnotizables, especially while hypnotized and imaging something, and especially while undergoing a negative hallucination (being unable to perceive something that’s there) had a great deal more activity in the cingulate, the part of the cortex tucked into the split between the frontal lobes. This area controls attention, including focusing, splitting, maintaining divided attention, and disattending (blocking out). Hypnosis is a function of attention and these components of attention, under one’s own control.

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