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Month: April 2018
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Video (otw) Nuclear Furniture
Rose Goes to Yale
The government is meddling way too much in our private lives and bullying us around with their food pyramid scheme. What ever happened to that thing called “freedom”?
Image source: momdishesitout.com
Recently, about 100 children became infected with measles in an outbreak, and everyone has been quick to blame the parents who refuse to vaccinate their children. However, I think that the vaccine skeptics’ arguments make perfect sense. I just don’t think that we should be limiting these arguments only to vaccines, and if we’re really serious about keeping our children safe, we should treat even the seemingly innocent things like food with the same amount of healthy skepticism. Here are 10 reasons why you as a parent should never give your children any food.
1) Food has some scary side effects, and hundreds of people die of food poisoning every year.
2) There is an established link between food and autism, because 99.95%…
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The Processed Food Matrix
Whoa!
Remember the scene in “The Matrix” where Neo has the choice of taking the red pill to open his eyes to the reality of what actually is, or taking the blue pill and remaining comfortable, but blind to the reality of things?
A similar choice occurs within The Processed Food Matrix we live in today.
We’re like “Neo” except instead of a one time decision, every eating decision of choosing the blue pill of processed food, or the red pill that is cleaner more whole foods eventually accumulates into getting out, or staying in, The Processed Food Matrix.
Take breakfast as an example of one of these eating choices. “Morpheus” extends two hands:
In one hand is plain oats. In the other “Cap’n crunch.”
It’s like a “Choose Your Own Adventure” of the eating variety that will influence later eating decisions for that day, week, month, etc. If the oats…
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Battlefield America … and Beyond
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EGG RECALL
I eat my own eggs, from my own chickens (ducks and geese too).
When we (the wife and I) eat out, we don’t order the commercialized ones.
Company Recalls More Than 200 Million Eggs Due to Salmonella Scare
Nearly 207 million eggs produced at a farm in Hyde County, N.C., are being voluntarily recalled because of concerns of contamination with the salmonella bacteria, the egg company announced.
In a statement, Rose Acre Farms of Seymour, Ind. said that 22 illnesses but no deaths have so far been linked to the tainted eggs.
The eggs “have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella Braenderup, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems,” the company said Friday.
The recall arose after illnesses were reported in East Coast states. The outbreak “led to extensive interviews and eventually a thorough FDA (Food and Drug Administration) inspection of the Hyde County farm, which produces 2.3 million eggs a day. The facility includes 3 million laying hens with…
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Why Does Coffee Make You Poop?
Many people love their morning cup of joe.
Not only is this caffeine-fueled beverage a great pick-me-up, it’s also loaded with beneficial antioxidants and nutrients (1).
What’s more, some people find it can jump-start the other end of their body.
In fact, one study found that 29% of participants needed to use the bathroom within twenty minutes of drinking a cup of coffee (2).
This article helps explain why coffee can make you poop.
It was initially believed that the caffeine in coffee makes you poop.
However, studies show that decaf can also do the trick. This means there must be other factors at work (6).
Chlorogenic acids and N-alkanoyl-5-hydroxytryptamides are both compounds of interest.
Studies have found that they can stimulate the production of stomach acid. Stomach acid helps churn food and move it quickly through the gut (7, 8).
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Doctored photos can easily create false memories. What happens when there’s fake video?
Seeing is believing. And because of this fact, we’re screwed.
Due to advances in artificial intelligence, it’s now possible to convincingly map anyone’s face onto the body of another person in a video. As Vox’s Aja Romano has explained, this technique is becoming more common in pornography: An actress’s head can be mapped onto a porn actress’s body. These “deepfakes” can be generated with free software,and they’re different from the photoshopping of the past. This is live action — and uncannily real.
On Tuesday, BuzzFeed published a demonstration featuring the actor and director Jordan Peele. Using FakeApp, the same tool used in the celebrity face-swapping porn, BuzzFeed took an old video of President Obama and swapped in Peele’s mouth as he performed an impression of Obama. It’s a creepily powerful PSA with a forceful message: “This is a dangerous time. Moving forward, we need to be more vigilant with what we trust from the internet.”
Combine fake audio with fake video and it’s not hard to imagine a future where forged videos are maddeningly hard to distinguish from the truth. Or a future where a fake video of a president incites a riot or fells the market. “We’re not so far from the collapse of reality,” as Franklin Foer recently summed up at the Atlantic.
But I fear it’s not just our present and future reality that could collapse; it’s also our past. Fake media could manipulate what we remember, effectively altering the past by seeding the population with false memories.
“The potential for abuse is so severe,” says Elizabeth Loftus at the University of California Irvine, who pioneered much of the research in false memory formation in the 1990s. “Once you expose people to such a powerful visual presentation, how do they get it out of their minds?”
We don’t have psychological studies directly looking at the ability of AI-faked video to implant false memories. But researchers have been studying the malleability of our memories for decades.
Here’s what they know: The human mind is incredibly susceptible to forming false memories. And that tendency can be kicked into overdrive on the internet, where false ideas spread like viruses among like-minded people. Which means the AI-enhanced forgeries on the horizon will only make planting false memories even easier.
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Video (otw) Masaru Emoto
The Secret Life Of Water
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BL’s Journal: April 21 2018
Does cinema imitate life, or does life imitate cinema?
Throwing the truth out, can you see it?
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The Unknown Children
Society tries to hide the darkness of humanity, by NOT reporting, and that’s why stories like this are important.
Hwy A3 – Botswana – Google maps – 2012
Six-year-old Otilia cried herself to sleep every night for the past two weeks, ever since mother sold her to the man. The man took her and four other children in a truck, hiding them in big boxes. Now she was at her new home, the mansion of a rich man in Gaborone.
The maid gave her a bath and new clothes so she could meet him. He was sitting behind a desk in a big library when the maid took her in. Otilia stood in front of the desk. The maid left and closed the door.
He was a big man, and his voice was booming. “You look like you’ll make a fine domestic.”
Otilia was supposed to call him “Mr. Mlalazi,” but she was too scared to talk as he stood and walked toward her.
“First, your initiation, though.” He…
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Scary Medical News
Saturday and a day of rest and relaxation…..the garden will be the spot for my day’s work……
In the past we have had several different diseases that had the potential of becoming our next world-wide pandemic….Ebola and the Bird Flu are first to come to mind.
There is a theory that our constant trips to the doctor for every little sniffle is causing problems that could be disastrous……
“Nightmare bacteria” with unusual resistance to antibiotics of last resort were found more than 200 times in the US last year in a first-of-a-kind hunt to see how much of a threat these rare cases have become. That’s more than health officials expected to find, and the true number is likely higher as the effort involved only certain labs in each state, per the AP. The problem mostly strikes people in hospitals and nursing homes who need IVs and other contamination-prone…
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NOTE: This article cites a press release FROM 2010 that is no longer available. You can however read more about Merck’s knowledge of the possible reactions, including the very short time they tested it with the very small number of ‘guinea pig’ humans in this article by Dr Mercola…
Time for the Truth about Gardasil
Also related is The Truth About Gardasil website, check it out for further info: http://www.thetruthaboutgardasil.com/
Hilary Butler – Saturday, June 05, 2010
What other explanation is there for a comment in Truth About Gardasil’s latest press release which stated: A medical source close to TAG (Truth about Gardasil) has stated: “I find it disturbing that Merck’s agreement with the FDA is based on an agreement that no adverse events will be labeled as such unless there is a TWO fold increase seen of diseases that occur at least as frequently as 1/10,000. This takes away…
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Victims of our own confinement
We decorate and gild our cage
Make it nice and decorate
The confines of our own entrapment
The bars of our own restraint
And we focus so much on this
That life passes us by
And we see nothing but this
And do not see we live a lie
Imprisoned within our own minds
Unable to escape
Because we lock our own cage
Then we throw away the key
And become victims of our own misery
Do we not see
Are we asleep?
It’s a nightmare not a dream.
The harmful effects of being overweight have been underestimated, according to a new study that analysed body mass index (BMI), health and mortality data in around 60,000 parents and their children, to establish how obesity actually influences risk of death.
Previous studies have suggested that the optimum BMI, at which the risk of death is minimised, appears to be above the range normally recommended by doctors, leading to claims it is good for health to be mildly overweight. However, scientists suspect these studies do not reflect the true effect of BMI on health, because early stages of illness, health-damaging behaviours, such as cigarette smoking, and other factors can lead to both lower BMI and increased risk of death. This makes it difficult to estimate how BMI actually influences risk of death (the causal effect), as opposed to the observed association between BMI and risk of death. This aim of this…
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Video (otw)² Twilight Zone episode
The Obsolete Man
pay attention, or this one will get ya
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Behind the masks
Whoa…
Whether a Doctor, a Radio Personality, a Sailorman, a Robot, a Penguin, an Extra-Terrestrial, a Cross-Dresser, a Boy who was never supposed to grow up, or a Genie…..the masks we hide behind are only what we present to the world.
But often times, we are trying so hard, with those masks, to live up to the expectations of others, that we create a jail cell in our own minds. And that is a place that we cannot hide from. There are no masks that can shield us from what we are imprisoned with inside our own heads.
You can’t escape your thoughts. You can train them, you can push them away, you can wallow in them, you can act on them…there are many ways of dealing with your thoughts, but you can never truly escape them, except for those who escape in the way that the person depicted in the…
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Video (otw) 99 Luftballons
The American version never caught on so, here you go, in German…
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Fermi paradox…
Simply put:
is the contradiction between the lack of evidence and high probability estimates for the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations.
Huh? Why is the solar system, galaxy, universe so large if we (humans) are the only ones?
How about this:
*** We have been in contact but it is not on a global scale.
Or perhaps
***We haven’t broken the interstellar travel record (FTLT) yet – like in ST First Contact
There could be AND are a number of reasons why they haven’t just shown up on your doorstep.
***Perhaps their Prime Directive prevents them?
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Saturday Matinee: Soaked in Bleach
You Decide: “Soaked in Bleach” expounds on the events leading up to Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994
By Bryan Thomas
Source: Night Flight
In 2015, Benjamin Statler produced, wrote and directed Soaked in Bleach, a docu-drama that expounds on the events leading up to the death of Nirvana‘s Kurt Cobain as seen through the eyes of a private investigator, Tom Grant.
The former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept. detective turned private investigator — who had an exemplary resume and a spotless reputation — had initially been hired by Courtney Love on Easter Sunday 1994 to track down Cobain, who had gone missing after checking himself out of a drug rehab facility.
Soaked in Bleach focuses mainly on Grant’s investigation between April 1st and April 8th, with a particular focus on what may have happened on April 5, 1994.
At the time, the official Seattle Police Department incident report stated that…
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