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News Briefs 05-04-2012

Look under your bed. It’ll set you free.

  • Eff chocolate eggs! The Aztec rabbits were all about Pulque.
  • Mexico’s National Anthropology Museum is included in Google Art Project.
  • Multitasking comes easier to bilingual kids –that’s why I can play Angry Birds while writing this news briefssssCORE!!!
  • How would you sound on Mars?
  • Through a Fracture Dark Glass Darkly: A critical assessment of Whitley Strieber’s encounters with the Visitors [part 1] [part 2].
  • -Audio conversation between Mike Clelland & Jason Horsley –a.k.a. Aeolus Kephas– exploring the murky territory that defies our mental maps.
  • UFO encounters revealed after almost 40 years –Close encounters of the menopause kind?
  • Baddabing BaddaWOW! Unexplained lights over Vegas.
  • First alien Earth might be found in 2014 –but when did the aliens find US?
  • Prometheus: Ridley Scott, Alex Jones & the Illuminati agenda.
  • I’m the king of the Deep!: James Cameron says Mariana Trench is “desolate, lunar-like”.
  • Joe Davis: the (beautifully) mad scientist of MIT, who beamed the sound of vaginal contractions to nearby stars [Trailer].
  • Red pill of the day: Dalek relaxation tape.

Thanks to Rick & Penny Lane

Quote of the Day:

“Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid

Goethe Basil King

  1. 400 Drunk Rabbits
    In most countries, kids leave a carrot out for the Easter Bunny. In Mexico, they leave a bottle of tequila. With 400 drunk rabbits running around, I’m glad it’s only once a year!

    1. Jonestown
      Alex Jones reminds me of a TV evangelist — the line’s blurry whether he really believes his own spin, or if he’s only in it for the money and attention (or it’s a weird mix of both). Worringly, I think he really does believe most of his spin! You just have to look at Rense for another example. I know people who used to be right into Jones, believed everything he said. Then they woke up and called bullsh*t; and they went through a period not dissimilar to people who have just escaped, or been rescued from, a cult. It took them quite a while to readjust their channel normal.

    2. Come on!
      Jones is an ever-flowing fountain of laughter 😉

      I thought the article was interesting because it shows there’s a deliberate intention from Scott to promote the Ancient Astronaut Theory. And since his work has always shown a preoccupation with the dangers of leaving big corporations unchecked, it’s inevitable that people like Jones would not feel the need to appropriate this in order to bolster their position.

      To me it’s interesting from a sociological perspective 🙂

      1. a theory
        [quote=red pill junkie]I thought the article was interesting because it shows there’s a deliberate intention from Scott to promote the Ancient Astronaut Theory. And since his work has always shown a preoccupation with the dangers of leaving big corporations unchecked, it’s inevitable that people like Jones would not feel the need to appropriate this in order to bolster their position.

        To me it’s interesting from a sociological perspective :)[/quote]

        This much is true, I too think that there is some merit to that theory, but that aside, the last thing humanity needs is another fire and brimstone voice fueling their already manifesting stupidity. When someone comes up to me and starts discussing a conspiracy theory about whatever, and this, this , and that are going to happen, I ask them to kindly stop wasting their time and go adopt a dog (or cat). At least then they will have done something good with their life. (This is assuming they are rational enough to have a pet, of course)

      2. Come on, Eileen
        [quote=red pill junkie]
        I thought the article was interesting because it shows there’s a deliberate intention from Scott to promote the Ancient Astronaut Theory.[/quote]

        Kind of obvious he’d talk about what influenced Prometheus’s story, don’t you think? 😉

        You’re reading far too much out of Scott’s comments, amigo. Just because Scott believes it’s “logical” that Earth may have been visited by extraterrestrials in the distant past, and thinks Von Daniken is on the right track, doesn’t mean there’s a global Illuminati conspiracy. Ridley gave an inch, and Alex Jones took a mile.

        Coincidentally, Roland Emmerich’s 1994 Stargate was heavily influenced by Erich Von Daniken as well. He recently made 2012, so does this mean Emmerich believes the world will end on Dec 21st 2012? I’m sure he thinks a global cataclysm is possible in the future, but that doesn’t mean he’s part of an Illuminati plot to depopulate the world and enslave the survivors. You can read whatever you want out of it, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

        1. Reading far too much
          No, I totally agree with you. There are people who believe certain movies are actual road-maps revealing the intention of these evil cabals. What I do believe is that some artistic expressions tap into the archetypal imaginal realm and become exceptional representations of the Zeitgeist of a given era.

          And there’s even a sort of precognitive element involved. Case in point: Jules Verne’s novel about an airship published years before the 1897 airship wave in the US.

          I do support the notion that great artists are not so much the authors but a channel into which the collective dreams and anxieties of humanity are portrayed. Scott chose to show Future Los Angeles always dark and raining not because of some deliberate desire to bring a message about Climate Change, but because it helped him with his sets; and yet Blade Runner would not have been as powerful and even prescient had it not been shot that way.

          Same thing with all the alleged Illuminati symbols –the pyramid, the owl, etc– shows Scott is a well-read man and as such all the material he’s been exposed to has been properly brewed and filtered through his mind in order to coalesce into a work of art. But this is more unconscious and involuntary than people realize –the real mistake comes when you try to force the introduction of certain elements in a very literal way. That’s probably Emmerich’s greatest mistake.

          Another fine example of this is Giger’s Alien. Such a perfect iconic monster would have never been conceived from a ‘rational’ POV. It could only have burst out (pardon the pun) from the darkest recesses of a man who has only escaped the mental asylum thanks to the escape-valve Art provides.

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