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News Briefs 18-06-2009

I’m running out of ideas for a gift to give to my old man on Father’s day. A book? a CD? a DVD? Booooring… Wait! I’ve got it: A tattoo!! Now that’s something he’ll never expect 😉

  • Scientists show that monkeys also use what we once thought was mankind’s greatest invention: Lying.
  • Did gene mutations give raise to human thought? Maybe Yahweh’s finger is radioactive 😉
  • If your boyfriend is an insensitive pig, it may be because he doesn’t get enough sleep —Gee, 2 AM already?
  • Interview with Keith Aronowitz, director of Metamorphosis —an Ayahuasca documentary.
  • First glimpse at James Cameron’s Avatar —both video game & movie— looks fairly promising. But don’t take my word for it & see for yourself.
  • Oldies but goodies: Restored 1967 photos focus on moon’s south pole.
  • Future lunar astronauts will get a guardian angel, in the form of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), programmed for launch today.
  • Black triangles are being observed from both sides of the continental U.S.A.
  • (Audio) Gene & David from The Paracast interview 2 heavyweights of the Alien Abduction movement: Dr. David M. Jacobs and Budd Hopkins.
  • The truth about Roswell is out there —that is, if you can actually manage to separate the facts from the compost.
  • You know the old saying: “Where there’s smoke, there’s UFOs”.
  • The Military are looking in an unexpected place for new weaponry ideas: the Book of Ezekiel.
  • Chiropractor Richard Brown argues that the criticism of his profession is um… let’s say ‘quite misaligned’.
  • Physicists create ‘black hole for sound’. Wait, hadn’t they accomplished that since the 60s?
  • From jumping over babies (is that some sort of morbid revenge?) to battling with tomatoes & oranges, behold the world’s weirdest festivals.
  • Story that takes 1,000 years to read is antidote to Media whirlwind. But who’s gonna write its review in 3009, a cockroach??
  • This pile of rocks, once the seat of kings, proves that the fate of all empires is to crumble into dust.
  • Cities are like cells: you let them grow without control, and they turn into tumors —for which there’s only one solution.
  • What’s brewing beneath Mt St. Helens? Best case scenario: a super volcano. Worst case scenario…
  • Video: Why the Hell is the Media still talking about GM, and not talking about this Japanese car that runs on water??
  • WARNING: This story about a new documentary that focuses on the US food industry might leave you a bad taste >_<
  • I used to get upset with the NSA for slowing down my incoming e-mails, until I found out I’m part of a VIP group that includes former US presidents! 😛
  • As a way to empower citizens against their government, Teh Internet RULZ! Exhibit (A): Mexico. Exhibit (B): Iran.

Thanks Rick & Kat.

Quote of the Day:

“Voting for the least bad candidate is like buying the least rotten fruit”.

José Antonio Crespo Mendoza —Mexican historian, PhD

    1. Aaaaaaw…
      I think I’d actually prefer the Worst Case Scenario. It would be something to break the routine 😉

      —–
      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

    1. Kind of stupid, really….
      I mean, I could understand a story that would require 10*, 30, hell maybe even 100 years to unfold.

      But a thousand?? Kind of pointless if you ask me.

      (*)Since I was 15, I’ve been fan of a series of books called “Caballo de Troya”, by J.J. Benítez. Next year Benítez will release the 9th and last one, and I’m pretty excited about it but it’s been a loooooooong journey.

      —–
      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

      1. intersting
        And who is to say that the last 900 years worth are actually there?

        The author probably just wrote a few pages and got bored with it.

        —-
        It is not how fast you go
        it is when you get there.

  1. Perception of deception
    Probably all animals that compete for mates are deceptive in some way – puffing themselves up to look bigger etc.

    ——

    I don’t believe in belief!

    Perceval

    1. True, but…
      We Homo Sapiens have turned Lying into an art form 😉

      —–
      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

  2. US processed food
    As scary as it is, the US food industry is great compared to China and other countries.

    Meals used to have a deeper meaning and fill more than just our stomachs, but to our detriment, meals are increasingly just soulless consumption.

    1. What is it they say?
      “You are what you eat”. So what do we make of that?

      —–
      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

  3. Lying is mankind’s greatest invention???
    The TDG intro to the article about lying was disheartening. Is it supposed to be a joke? Does the moderator really think that?

    I worked as a Scientist for US Federal Agencies for 11 years, and had 3 seperate immediate supervisors during that period. All three felt they could lie about the work I completed for them, so that they could steer my professional life according to their whim.

    As time has passed and I have grown wiser, I see VERY CLEARLY that it is the weak and stupid who lie, cheat, and steal. The prisons aren’t filled with brilliant, disciplined, geniuses. They are filled with those who tried to take the easy way out and were caught.

    But what I realized recently is that ultimately I don’t lie, cheat, and steal from my brothers because I know I have a soul. And that every deed I am responsible for is recorded in my soul. How STUPID do you have to be to not even know that you have soul, and that all good and evil deeds are rewarded/punished many times over?

    I realize now how stupid those past supervisors were. They traded their souls for nothing. And an individual’s life comes and goes in the blink of any eye, no matter how long it sometimes appears to be.

    1. wow!
      After last week’s complaints about sexist remarks, someone else has something to say about RPJ’s news briefs this week. What will it be next week? Pouring diesel over an ants nest? “where is the editor to censor his employees crime against humanity and screwing the environment” Sheesh! Must be a conspiracy. RPJ is certainly doing it on purpose to really p!ss people off, a few at a time, every week…

      1. Oh noes!
        My evil plot has been discovered! I must return to my secret underground lair 😛

        1)Yes, it was a sarcastic remark.

        2)As with most of my jokes, there’s also a tinge of truth. If you think about it, one of man’s greatest talents is the ability to try to discern the intentions of other people —by reading their facial expressions for example. This has obviously been enhanced out of necessity since there are many among us who try to deceive us all the time; so, in a way, one could argue that our species became the most intelligent in the planet because of our predilection for deception. Our intelligence had the evolutionary pressure of lies.

        So maybe, instead of being called Homo Sapiens, perhaps we should be named Homo Mendacius 😉

        PS: And although I really don’t want to sound like Gordon Gecko defending greed in the movie ‘Wall Street’, it just came to me that Lying is also behind one of mankind’s noblest endeavors: Art.

        Constantly the artist is trying to use illusions & tricks in their craft —e.g. Perspective drawing— in order to deceive the senses of the spectator. So maybe deception in itself is not negative; it’s in the intended use of the deception that we might start to judge and make distinctions.

        —–
        It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
        It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

        Red Pill Junkie

        1. Yeah, I reacted strongly to the article lead-in…
          My experience with “Homo Sapiens” is that many spend their whole lives justifying their theft of other’s property: physical, emotional, spiritual.

          All the while spreading misery and trying to deny the responsibility for their actions.

          Hey, that’s cool if you want to somehow justify “lying”. I just wish I could sail away to a place and leave all the liar’s behind. Of course, I am not a saint. I work hard to live a life of “rigorous honesty”. But it would be worth the effort!

          1. BTW, I really DO appreciate the TDG…
            Yeah,

            One more note: though I don’t share your point of view on this lying topic, I DO appreciate TDG and your service (and the others who support the TDG) to your loyal readership!!!!

            Isn’t it great that we can have different points of view on things? (now how do I get to that island!)

          2. Don’t know
            But if you ever manage to find a way to that island, buy a ticket for me too, will you?

            PS: Of course, once inside the island, I would then become Supreme Divine Emperor Red Pill the First, aaaaand the whole cycle begins again… 😉

            PS: Thanks for the kind comment.

            —–
            It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
            It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

            Red Pill Junkie

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