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News Briefs 13-01-2011

By red pill junkieon

Our thoughts & prayers go to our friends in Brisbane.

Quote of the Day:

“The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy or the grey aliens or the 12-foot reptiloids from another dimension that are in control. The truth is more frightening, nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.”

Alan Moore.

red pill junkie
Agnostic gnostic, walking conundrum & metaphysical oxymoron (with emphasis in the 'moron' part), the mysterious RPJ leaves a double life: By day he serves as Grand Master of the International Sacred Order of Lucha Libre, but at night he pursues his life-long study of everything considered mysterious and/or 'paranormal' --a term he personally detests... When he's not exploring the web looking for his daily fix of Forteana, he can be found blogging, doodling, fooling around and offering his services as news administrator and writer at The Daily Grail. He also regularly participates in other websites and podcasts like Radio Misterioso and Where Did the Road Go? He impatiently awaits for the return of the mothership in Mexico City. absurdbydesign.com
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16 Comments

  2. Philoshophy is the talk on a cereal box….
    Indeed the key to enlightenment may be found on a dog’s tongue….or wolf depending on your state of mind 😉

    also thanks for the 90s song memory

  3. Cahokia
    I looked around a little, couldn’t find it: I seem to recall that the Cahokians (I know that’s the wrong name) were supposedly not the same group of (native) people who later lived in the same area. Not sure if that is correct or not. However by the time the area was settle seriously by Europeans, the original Missipeans were apparently gone.

    Or is this wrong? Did they simply abandon their more organized ways gradually, perhaps due to insufficient population density?

    1. Couldbe

      Or is this wrong? Did they simply abandon their more organized ways gradually, perhaps due to insufficient population density?

      That could be it (gradual abandonment). That’s the current theory regarding the decline of several important cities in Mesoamerica.

      Although maybe it didn’t have to do with population decline, but the opposite: overpopulation. There’s this theory that the Pueblo tribes in Chaco canyon resorted to cannibalism during the later years of that civilization.

      Although I admit I’m a neophite when it comes to pre-columbian cultures in North America.

  4. From Pravda, {Truth}, Is Very Interesting!*
    *Pravda is Russian for truth, verdad! During the cold war when nobody was telling the truth, I always got a good laugh about “Pravda”!

    Red Pill,

    We are having some of the same problems here in Japan, i.e. fauna deaths, etc.. In Yokohama we are having a peculiar problem. Yokohama is on the coast; but, it covers a very large area. So, per square kilometer population density in Yokohama isn’t as high as it is in most cities with populations of over 4,000,000 and it is possible to be in Yokohama without being very near the coast. But, Terns are flying farther inland this year and nesting along rivers in populated areas. Furthermore, most of the Pigeons have disappeared from most areas and completely disappeared from river bridges and river banks. Usually Pigeons are all over the place and a very few Terns will fly in for a while: but, they don’t nest very far inland. On the other hand, for Crows and Ducks, it seems to be business as usual!

    1. The Russian Enquirer
      Nowadays Pravda is nothing but a tabloid, not unlike the National Enquirer —even though it must be remembered the editor of the NE had connections with the CIA 😉

      Sorry to hear about the terns. Those however seem to be effects of climate change. Not similar to those more peculiar die-offs reported elsewhere.

      1. Die-Offs, Too!
        Red Pill,

        We are having die-offs, too. But, except for the Crows and Ducks, the fauna is mysteriously changing their habbits. If you have lived in Japan as long as I have, over 25 years, the fauna are acting strangely. I think that maybe it is connected to the die-offs, maybe not!

          1. That Is One Of The Things That Worry Me!
            Red Pill,

            The birds are in just far enough so that a tsunami from an earthquake is Tokyo Bay wouldn’t effect them too much. Chiba Peninsula protects Kamakura, Yokohama, Kawasaki, and most of Tokyo from a tsunami in the Pacific Ocean!

            Another thing that worries me is a super volcanic eruption at Yellowstone National Park in the U.S..

          2. In Queensland
            In Queensland, if a cyclone is hell-bent on crossing that part of the coastline in which you live, you find that anything up to 24 hours before the event the birds take off for inland parts, or vanish as they have buried themselves into little safe niches in grassland or somesuch. If a cyclone is expected to cross your part of the coast and the birds are still here, you can stop worrying.

            regards, Kathrinn

          3. Excellent Point!
            Kathrinn,

            I totally agree; but technically, typhoon season in Japan ended on December 1, 2010!

            However, I appreciate the thought

  5. “Hallelujah!!: Will NASA’s
    “Hallelujah!!: Will NASA’s new ‘Glory’ spacecraft silence climate-change deniers?”
    “RealClimate picks apart Forbe’s rich list of cooling nonsense.”

    Blimey. Has TDG gone warmist?

    1. Chill 😉

      Blimey. Has TDG gone warmist?

      Chill, dude, chill! TDG retains its mission of providing a variety of news that *may* show opposing opinions —like it says on top of the page, “Caveat Lector” 😉

      I decided to play around with the sentence of the link, because I found peculiar the name NASA chose for this particular spacecraft.

      1. opposing opinions
        Among the opposing opinions are also those inside the article, where the investigators tell us about important factors influencing the climate, which are not currently quantified sufficiently.

        After all, that’s why they are doing this research, because we (as in everyone on the planet) don’t know the quantity of human-generated aerosols in the atmosphere. And we (the same “we”) don’t know the contribution to the climate.

        So this is important research which will hopefully help to answer open questions that the journalist writing the headline doesn’t seem to have.

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