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News Briefs 22-03-2005

Let’s all have a go, sans dictionary: What exactly is virginity?

  • With no words for want, worry, wealth, or when, nomadic Moken remain close to nature.
  • Women and men differ genetically almost as much as humans differ from chimpanzees.
  • Protein recovered from dinosaur eggs. Looks like we’ll soon be needing a review of Crichton’s Jurassic Park.
  • Silver coin offers solid evidence for a long-dismissed claim that Domitianus had indeed declared himself an emperor at a time of upheaval in the Roman Empire.
  • Archaeologists date Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Buddhas.
  • The tomb of a four-year-old heir of the Medicis has mysteriously disappeared.
  • At Rosslyn chapel, present-day Knights Templar are just the Rotary Club in fancy dress. Knight says, “There’s no hocus pocus here.”
  • Saladin and Sir Ridley: Kingdom of Heaven will soon bring the Knights Templar and the Crusades to the big screen, but what’s historical fact and what’s fiction?
  • Scientific genius isn’t just about I.Q. It helps to be an outcast with nothing invested in the status quo, and no academic position or reputation to lose.
  • Son’s disease propels stem cell pioneer to continue research – in an unmarked Harvard lab, kept secret for fear of protesters.
  • Gigantic ripples in space-time – larger than the observable universe – may be the cause of the accelerating expansion of the universe.
  • Light may arise from relativity violations.
  • Parallel Universes & The Suppression of Ether Physics.
  • Emerging vision of the body electric is providing fixes beyond the ken of the medical mainstream.
  • Will a 19th-century invention, the Stirling engine, become the 21st-century’s solar powered alternative-energy miracle?
  • Have hackers recruited your PC? More than one million computers on the net have been hijacked to attack websites, pump out spam and viruses, and worse.
  • Just don’t call it “telepathy”: Neuroscientist says “distant neural signaling” is a real phenomena.
  • Love at first smell: Males previously rejected by females were rendered irresistible after the synthetic perfume had been applied.
  • Why colonize the Moon before going to Mars?
  • Tsunami victims, Iraqis to get first taste of recycled water from space technology.
  • The Gift Of ADHD?
  • Bust-Up chewing gum is said to fight aging, reduce stress, help circulation, tone muscles, and oh yeah, it increases the size of women’s breasts while also improving their shape and tone. Who wants to volunteer for the clinical trial?
  • U.S.’s Billion Dollar Abstinence Education Program Yields Results: Adolescent Virginity Pledgers More Likely to Engage in Risky Sexual Behavior.
  • New report says UK’s I.D. card plans too risky.
  • A special report published by eminent scientist Leuren Moret names Depleted Uranium as the definitive cause of Gulf War Syndrome. Of 580,400 U.S. soldiers who served in the first Gulf War, 11,000 are now dead, and as of the year 2000, 325,000 were on permanent medical disability.
  • Network of top scientists helped ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele.
  • Hitler’s Mein Kampf sells 50,000 copies in Turkey in three months.
  • Collective Narcissism – Narcissism, Culture, and Society.
  • ‘The Military Unleashed My Mind‘ Says Paul H. Smith, author of Reading the Enemy’s Mind: Inside Star Gate–America’s Psychic Espionage Program.
  • London Druids celebrate rites of spring.
  • Iceland grants citizenship for former world chess champion Bobby Fischer.
  • Smitten Bigfooters keep making tracks into Oregon’s Blue Mountains.
  • New cameras, Internet connections, sophisticated DNA and fingerprint examinations have already produced a wealth of new information which has researchers convinced modern technology is on the verge of proving Bigfoot’s existence.

Quote of the Day:

A major truth about the Grail, often overlooked, is that it can take different forms. It is not just ‘one thing’, contrary to popular belief.

Karen Ralls, PhD, medieval historian and Celtic scholar

  1. Brains and Body Electric
    Hey, I enjoyed the news. I read the bit about the body electric, somewhat a follow up from yesterday’s news on some neurosurgeons and different brain thingies….

    What I think it so strange is to have your brain cut on and have electrodes placed in it. I have siezures at different times, my brain sends electrical shocks and my limbs will flip and twitch and my head jerk….It hurts and feels bad…It feels like some one is putting a electric power cord to me and jolting me. My consciousness expands and I feel like I am floating out of my body….So I am always interested in reading about the “new tech” on brain waves and all. I have never allowed a doc to cut on my brain.

    I copied the text below from the article I read yesterday on the brain. This is a doc I would run away from, real fast….I would never be bored if I never had any more seizures. This is a quote from him.

    “So for a couple of weeks these patients are lying there, bored, waiting for a seizure,” says Rizzuto, “and I was able to get their permission to do my study, taking advantage of the electrodes that were already there.”

    Good grief….
    XC

    Dr. Colette M. Dowell ND
    Circular Times
    Moving Forward Publications

    1. Colette: What of the 3mm Nodule ?
      I have not had the opportunity to read the 1994 paper “Brain Scan Anomalies of Two Abductees: Two reports-Report 2” apparently published in Pritchard, A et al (eds) (1994.) Alien Discussions. Cambridge. North Cambridge Press pp. 275-279 [a paper referred to on Keith Basterfield’s Project47)] website. Basterfield’s brief review suggests that in that paper you claim to have a 3mm nodule located near your pituitary gland, as identified on a 1989 MRI scan, and that this nodule may be linked to multiple alien abductions.

      I am not in a position to attest to either the existence or authenticity of the article. I would however be interested to hear your perspective on the claims made by you (or about you) of having been abducted by aliens (possibly on more than one occasion) and the facts in regard to the whether or not there is an implanted(?) nodule near the pituatary gland in your brain.

      I am not approaching this from a sceptical point of view here, as I have x-rays that show nine metal screws, a 15 inch stainless steel rod and a metal plate in one of my legs.

      1. i knew it ankh
        you ride motorbikes don’t you ankh.i knew it.i could tell.my son used to ride bikes until an accident that could have killed him.
        i thought i had an alien implant in my foot and i asked the doctor and he said it was a bunion.
        bugger.

        shadows

      2. 3 mm Brain
        Sorry I just read this blog of yours, I would have responded quicker if I knew it was there. I am scouting the Grail….

        There are different explanations. No one has been able to diagnose it and agree with any one else. Even a board of the top 5 neuro surgeons in the US on a panel at Cedar Sinai in Los Angelos….only the chairman of the board would comment and it was stupid what he said, because if it was so simple, every other neuro surgeon and doctor from where ever, New York, Atlanta, Japan, the whole world… I don’t care where they are from, should have been able to diagnose it as well, especially after all of the years that went by…. Just a bunch of shit….If you are interested in that part of my life, than you should read the book Alien Disussions, that was a book about the conference held at MIT…years ago on abductions, I worked with the editor of the book as well as there is info on me and the MRI and CAT SCAN are in there from the conference…..long story, also you may want to read Whitley Streiber’s book Confirmation or what ever, hell I can’t remember it anymore…but he has part of it right and part of it wrong….Every body has different things to say, and nothing adds up. There are other books out there as well, they are all f88ked up….every one wants to make money off me…write a book….what ever, cut me up and explore…There are other things going on besides the 3mm in my head….. I was involved in many forms of research.

        …it is now the year 2005…I am still alive. I have learned the human race needs to grow up and mature.

        It is my head and my brain…my body and my life…different spectrum from every one else as in, I am not you , you are not me….

        What I experience is real to me because
        it is my brain that registers the information.

        Anything you find on the internet or in most books is not true. Everything is twisted and turned…..Few people really know me….Although many people know me….But they really don’t know me.
        I have a very private life that few people really know and I will not share that information. Just remeber as I told you before, unless I write about me and I personally tell you, You will never know who I am, because everything out there that you will read is twisted or conveyed in the wrong manner, or all of the facts are not listed…editing goes on, what ever, most of it is not true as I have said it to be.

        Other than that I will not discuss any more about that. OK?

        XC

        Dr. Colette M. Dowell ND
        Circular Times
        Moving Forward Publications

  2. What? No parrot?
    Hi Kat,
    I have been hoping Archdake is OK, haven’t heard from him since the big KUNG FU story.
    Haven’t heard from Floppy either.

    Now is it a definition of a virgin you want?
    Let me know.

    I know all about parallel universes.I went to have a sleep on 24th Dec 2002 in the early afternoon and woke up in another universe and cannot get back to my own.I don’t mind this universe of your’s but it isn’t mine.
    How do I know it is not my universe?
    Well as soon as I woke up I went downstairs for the Xmas tree, found the box and brought it upstairs.
    As I was putting it together, I realised that although the box was the same old one I had had since my kids were little, about 40 years ago,the tree was not the same tree.
    This was a totally different tree.It was me that tied the box up, I could see that, but the tree was different.
    My old tree had aluminium struts that fitted into a rim around the base and each year I had to poke the damn things in and wrestle with it.This other tree however, had a plastic cross for the base.It is not the sort of useless thing I would have bought so unless someone snuck in and untied my knots and swapped trees, and retied my knots, then the only thing I can think about it all is that this is not my universe.
    And also most of my old tree decorations were missing and there were some different ones I had never seen.
    I have given up trying to work it out.My son asked what happened to the old tree and took the new one and made a great base for it, but our own tree is missing.
    My own universe did not have a war in Iraq either.
    And there were lots of parrots.

    Great links, thank you.

    shadows

    1. Can you switch when you want?
      I do not remember your parrot’s name. In your parallel universes, which one are you living in now? WEll, wait a minute that was dumb of me, the one with the war…in Iraq, so I guess what I am asking is ….are you able to go back and forth? Like if you don’t want something so bad, are you able to change your reality and universe so it does not exist anymore? Do you have free will with your skipping across the cosmos, or do you think this stuff just happens at random? I really wish I could control my reality more of what happens. That is a strange story about the X-mas tree. Did you bring your parrot with you across the wave/particle bridge?

      Dr. Colette M. Dowell ND
      Circular Times
      Moving Forward Publications

      1. No unfortunately
        Hi Colette,
        My parrot’s name is Captain,and depending how I feel about him his surname changes.
        When he is being loonie he is Captain Queeg,when he is being adventurous he is Captain Cook,when I find all my keyboard eaten I threaten him with ending up like Captain Ahab and so on and so on.
        He is Captain because these birds are long lived and if he sees me out he will go to my son who is a Captain.

        No I can’t travel across the dimensions, but I wish I could.I have never been so confused in all my life as the day I woke up and nothing was as it should be.Here I am putting together someone else’s Xmas tree,and here are someone else’s decorations.It was like being in a dream and I couldn’t wake up.I felt strange when I woke up like I do today.Often if I am over-tired and have been very busy I have a sleep in the afternoon and it takes me a while to return to this place.I don’t know where I go to in my dreams.
        There must be a logical reason for what happened but I can’t find it.I mean I believe in logic and so logically someone must have substituted the tree and decorations.The problem is why.
        There is no why.
        There is no logic.
        One day I will work it out and I will let you know.

        shadows

    2. christmas tree swap
      THAT was just a glitch in the Matrix. They happen to me now and then, only different. What I sometimes notice is that I will see or hear something (anything) new to me, something I have never observed before. (Usually just mundane things) Then shortly, a few seconds, a few hours later, I will observe the same kind of thing again. Then not again for a long time, or maybe even never. I remember the first time I was aware of this, was back when I was about 9 yrs. I noticed it but had no idea what to make of it. I only notice this on the average of only once every 3 or 4 or 5 years. Coincidences.
      Just weird coincidences.

      tronicus

        1. I was joking about the movie…
          ‘Matrix’. If you didn’t see it, the idea is that everything you experience is just virtual reality. Your actual self is floating in a capsule filled with dirty bathwater, and you have a DSL cable plugged into the back of your neck, providing the interactive link between your brain and the Matrix. That part you don’t have a clue about. You just think the virtual reality is the true reality. So you live your whole life suspended in the bathwater experiencing nothing but the dream being piped into your brain by the Matrix, which is also piping interactive v.r. into the billions of other humans. (machines are actually harvesting energy off our bodies, you see, for their own uses.) Yeah, so the Matrix of massively parallel supercomputers is always doing this superb job of generating this integrated v.r. for everyone so you can just keep on pumping out that bio-energy for the machines. However, every so often there might be a glitch or a disturbance in the Matrix, which can cause small anomolies to occur in your ‘reality’. These little shifts or incongruities in your reality, such as your christmas tree changing, or George Bush being mal-elected twice in a row, you will not understand, of course, because you don’t know about the Matrix, and the fact that your reality is only virtual. Anywhey, that was the premise of the movie. Re-packaged zen-gnosticism or whatever. I was mainly just joking, and yet also acknowledging the occurance of funny little slips here and there.

          tronicus

          1. thank you tron
            at long last i now understand that damn movie.do you think i am ready to move on to the next one as it is on cable here. i wouldn’t watch it because i didn’t understand the first one and thought i would be more confused than i am.
            thanks again.

            shadows

  3. Simply irresistable
    Where can I buy the Irresistable Perfume, and how much is it?

    I want the human version, not stickleback fish femals following me around (although there are plenty of those at the pub…)

    1. you don’t need it
      You don’t need perfume Rick.I could say that you have the Odour of Sanctity about you but what I really mean is that you come across nice and fresh, not cynical, not hard,not mean,certainly a breath of fresh air.
      And we all need fresh air.

      shadows

  4. What exactly *IS* virginity?
    The reason I asked for definitions of virginity is that a substantial portion of these Virginity pledgers believe that as long as they abstain from vaginal intercourse, they qualify, even though they routinely engage in oral and anal sex.

    And since the U.S. government has spent over a billion dollars in the past 7 years on this “abstinence-only until marriage” program, and plans to spend another $206 million in 2006, it seemed to me, they need a better working definition of virginity. Especially since the program includes odd little rules, like the only thing they’re allowed to say about condom use is how often it fails as a method of birth control. They’re not allowed to educate these adolescents on how to use condoms to prevent disease.

    The whole thing just seems like a very expensive form of stupidity to me. What do you guys think?

    Kat

  5. Virgins
    OK Kat, here we go, you asked for it.
    IMHO,you can call yourself whatever you like.Technically a woman who has not had vaginal intercourse is a virgin.
    Morally speaking of course that is all bullpoop.
    It never fails to amaze me how clever some people can be when adhering to the letter of the law.
    Clinton tried this tack when he said “I have never had sexual relations with that woman”,regarding what he did as not having actual sex.
    But sex as we oldies know it can mean a lot more than just poke it in and pull it out.
    I would find it difficult to take these people seriously in any other field of endeavour if they find self-delusion so easy.
    For me it is the moral question rather than the actuality of the act.I couldn’t care less in which hole they shoved it.
    (Sorry folks, but Kat asked us and this is the way I reply to such stuff).
    I am more concerned with the very liberal interpretation of the whole thing.
    What I mean is…if you can allow yourself such delusion on an issue like this, how much delusion could you whip up for something really important like allowing all those fine young men and women in America to go and kill and be killed by the innocent Iraqis.
    To me it is just another sickening instance of truth avoidance when you can see a benefit for not using it.

    shadows

  6. D.U.
    The article(s) on d.u. are too far out. But then it does seem we live in a prison planet of managed media. I do not know anyone who was involved in the 90s Gulf War, or the current war either. Does anyone have some reliable info either way on this subject. Something more substantial than the disinfomedia.

    tronicus

    1. D.U.hhhh
      Hi Tronicus,

      I used to live in Mississippi, and I remember reading many articles in the small local newspapers about veterans in Wayne and Jones counties, and the medical problems they and their families were having, especially all the birth defects, after they got back from Desert Storm.

      How about this BBC article?

      Isn’t this peculiar?…
      Up near the beginning of the BBC article it says:
      “What actual evidence exists that DU can be harmful?
      There is no scientifically proven evidence that it is harmful.”

      But later in the article it says:
      “Several years ago a report by the US Army Environmental Policy Institute said: “If DU enters the body, it has the potential to generate significant medical consequences. The risks associated with DU in the body are both chemical and radiological. Personnel inside or near vehicles struck by DU penetrators could receive significant internal exposures.””

      Here’s a short list of articles for further reading.

      What? – you don’t think that list is short? 😉 Okay then, here’s the long list — based on the name of the soldier mentioned in the BBC article.

      I don’t know why the mainstream media seems to shy away from this sort of thing. I haven’t read many articles on the people in New York City who are having problems from breathing all that WTC smoke either.

      Has the mainstream media mentioned that 56% of Desert Storm vets are medically disabled? I don’t know. But if it became common knowledge, I guess that would kinda put a damper on sign-ups for our ‘all-volunteer’ army.

      Kat

      1. the truth
        is probably somewhere in the middle. Thanks for your reply and the additional links. I will get to them as soon as I can.
        I think (hope) the article in todays post (and the even more radical link inside that page) are exercises in sensationalism. But the 56% may be true, but that is an extreme number. If it was just from nuclear armor busting artillery, how much was actually fired off? The figures in the article seem exhorbitant. Sensational. Outrageous. Insane. As I said, I don’t want to think things are that bad, yet. More likely, there was much less, but still excessive, use of nuclear artillery, etc., and it probably did result in a lot of overexposure to the soldiers, and thus some high medical and disablility statistics. And this was probably done knowingly and carelessly by the elitist brass. But probably not for intentional massive overkill. This is where sensationalism is bullshit. It actually does more harm to the truth than cover-ups do. Because it leaves everyone “ho-hum, yeah yeah, what else is new”. But maybe that is the very intended purpose of it. To deliberately confuse, overwhelm and desensitize. People who amplify the truth do as much harm as those who suppress it. The only way to promote truth is to speak truthfully. “Let your yea be yea, and your nay be nay”.

        But for all that, here are a few words from old Adolph:

        “in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper stata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily, and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.” Mein Kampf

        So, someone is lying. But which side, or are both sides..? Are both sides actually operated by one hidden head? The ladder is what I think. Two opposing hands are very effective for manipulation of the object. Unless we are willing to settle for being mere cattle, I think it is imperative to think and intelligently communicate about what is going on. And intelligent communication means rational, objective, focused discussion of the issue, and keeping subjective, or personal tangents to a minimum.
        But I think this accusation that the US military / government has been recklessly overusing d.u. weapons for intentional radiation poisoning is an extremely serious issue. Even if the truth is far less sensational than the accusations, the ramifications are stupendous.

        Did Hitler have us pegged?

        I hope there will be some more comments with sound insights here.

        tronicus

        1. escape prison planet media
          Here are a couple of recent news articles, and a new book that tackles DU and more.

          Lawmakers want state to track health effects of depleted uranium

          “State legislators in Connecticut want to keep track of Sterry and other veterans’ health problems as they return from Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

          On Thursday, the Select Committee on Veterans Affairs unanimously passed a bill that would establish a commission to study the health effects of depleted uranium and other toxic substances. It would also create a new health registry for Connecticut’s returning military personnel and veterans.”

          Weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq
          “Depleted uranium is a crime against God and humanity.”- Dr. Doug Rokke, U.S. Army health physicist

          You might be able to escape the ‘prison planet media’ by reading True Lies. I always enjoy checking out amazon’s reader reviews, whether I plan to buy the book or not.

          Kat

        2. Never underestimate…
          …the power of greed.

          Yes, DU artillery were in major use in the first G.W. There were reports (which I don’t have the time to track down now) that DU was used extensively against all manner of targets (military and civie) because, “Saddam was using civilians as ‘human shields’ to protect his military installations.” Just like the whole WMD fiasco.

          And the N. Korean “nuclear weapons program” too.

          It’s all an excuse to use the weapons that they’ve made, and then–crickey! we’re running low!–make lots more.

          Money, and Tigers, and Weapons. Oh my!

          1. And another factor…
            noted in one of the weblink articles:
            How to dispose of thousands of tons of nuclear waste material. ‘Kill’ to birds with one stone.

            tronicus

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