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Oklahoma GOPer Proposes Bill To Outlaw ‘Aborted Human Fetuses’ In Food

2012-01-26T20:13:00.002-06:00

Jillian Rayfield January 25, 2012,

An Oklahoma Republican is pushing a bill to outlaw the use of human fetuses in food, because, as he says, “there is a potential that there are companies that are using aborted human babies in their research and development of basically enhancing flavor for artificial flavors.”

State Sen. Ralph Shortey introduced a bill on Tuesday “prohibiting the sale or manufacture of food or products which contain aborted human fetuses.”

Though he has allowed that he is not aware of this occurring in Oklahoma, or anywhere for that matter, Shortey cited research he did on the internet that claimed that some companies use embryonic stem cells to help develop artificial flavoring. “It would be a public relations nightmare for a company to use” aborted human fetuses for R&D, Shortey told KRMG Radio, so when asked they usually say something like “we strive to do things ethically.”

“I’m not entirely sure if there are any” companies doing this, he continued. “But the fact is that there is a potential that there are companies that are using aborted human babies in their research and development of basically enhancing flavor for artificial flavors. And if that is happening — because it is a possibility — and if it’s happening then I just don’t think it should even be an option for a company.”

Shortey added that if you took this idea to its logical conclusion, you could “force every human being” to be an organ donor, “and that’s kind of what we’re doing with these children. Before they’re born, we’re going to kill them and then we can do anything we want to with your body.”

“You may think it’s ethical to kill a child in the womb,” he said. “But the question now before us is: is it ethical to then use that aborted child for research and development to enhance flavors in food?”

You can listen to the full audio of the interview here.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman Pat El-Hinnawy told the Associated Press
that the “FDA is not aware of this particular concern.”

And Tony Lauinger, the executive director of Oklahomans for Life, a pro-life group that has pushed anti-abortion laws in the state, said “I don’t know anything about that.”

The bill will be taken up by the Senate Human Services Committee in February.

The Woman in Black Trailer 2012 Official [HD]

2012-01-26T19:45:00.001-06:00

Taoism Exorcism Ceremony (Tin Yat Lineage) - The real Exorcism 道教遠距離驅邪法事

2012-01-23T18:43:00.001-06:00

Building The Devil's Toybox

2012-01-21T12:09:00.000-06:00

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2012-01-21T11:08:00.001-06:00

Apparition Action Cam

2012-01-21T11:01:00.002-06:00

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Dunwich Priory

2012-01-21T10:46:00.000-06:00

Aswang (Philippine Ghoul)

2011-12-25T18:58:00.002-06:00

Aswang

An Aswang (or Asuwang) is a ghoul in Filipino folklore. The myth of the aswang is popular in the Western Visayan regions such as Capiz, Iloilo and Antique. The trademark or major feature of aswangs which distinguish them from other Filipino mythological creatures is their propensity to replace stolen cadavers with the trunk of a banana tree carved in the cadaver's likeness. They are also said to like to eat small children. Their favorite body parts are the liver and heart. Other local names, especially in Capiz are tik-tik and wak-wak.

Aswang, at times, is also a generic term applied to all types of mythological creatures, ghosts, manananggals, witches, shapeshifters, lycanth and monsters. Aswang is often interchanged with manananggal, but they are different. There are also characteristics and features that the aswang also varies from Filipino to Jalapeño. They usually live near the mountains and they never go in to cities

The myth of the aswang is popular in the Visayan region of the Philippines, specially in the western provinces of Capiz, Iloilo Antique. Aside from entertainment value, mothers are said to tell their children aswang stories to keep them off the streets and keep them home at night. Similar to Count Vlad III Dracula of Transylvania in Vampire stories, the most popular characters are the clan of Teñente/ Tenyente/ Tiniente Gimo of the town of Dueñas, Iloilo.

Appearance and activities

An aswang is a regular townsperson by day and prefer an occupation related to meat, such as butchery or making sausages.
Aswangs have an ageless appearance and a quiet, shy and elusive manner. They can be distinguished from humans by two signs. One is the bloodshot eyes from staying up all night looking for opportunities to sneak into houses where funeral wakes are being held, and stealing the dead bodies.

According to the elderly, the aswang can also transform from human to animal and animal to human. The aswang can disguise him/herself as a pig, dog or a black bird. Supposedly if a person looks at them in the eyes, the reflection would appear inverted. During their nocturnal activities, they walk with their feet facing backwards and toenails reversed.

One type is the tik-tik which transforms into a huge bird/bat at night and prowls. The tik-tik looks for a pregnant person. Then extends a very long proboscis into the womb and licks the baby to kill it. While performing, a 'tik-tik' sound is heard.

In some stories, the tik-tik is an aswang's familiar, said to confuse people by its 'tik-tik' sound. If the aswang is near, the sound would be faint so that people hearing it would think that the aswang is still far away.

The term wak-wak or wuk-wuk is frequently used for the same creature in the Cebu region. The legends of the wak-wak and tik-tik are much the same, but the wak-wak is specifically supposed to change into its birdlike form by leaving behind its lower body, much like the Manananggal, another Philippine vampire. The cry of a night bird which makes a "wuk-wuk-wuk" sound is believed to be the call of this monster and is feared by superstitious villagers. As with the call of the tik-tik, the wak-wak is believed able to make its cry sound distant when the creature is near.

Dangga or Agitot

In Panitan(Panit'an) Capiz, there is a myth of the Dangga or Agitot. This type of aswang is typically funny because some say it is a handsome gay man that hunts women during the night and eats fresh blood like a vampire.

Sigbin or Zegben

Another familiar is the sigbin or Zegben . Some say that this is another form that the aswang transforms into and yet some say it is the companion of the tik-tik. It appears to be similar to the chupacabra and Tasmanian devil in appearance with the exception of spotty fur. It supposedly has a wide mouth with large fangs.

Zone of The Dead [2009] (full movie)

2011-12-24T11:15:00.000-06:00

The Man Who Told the Internet He'd Come from the Future

2011-12-21T21:31:00.001-06:00

What if someone from the future popped up in our timeline and started answering questions from people on internet message boards? That's exactly what John Titor did in the late 1990s. Claiming he was sent from the future on a mission to retrieve an antique computer, he talked with thousands of people online and told stories of futuristic life in 2036. Many of his tales warned of imminent disaster for the world, but he said he couldn't help.

As abruptly as he appeared, Titor vanished in 2001. Did he finish his mission? Who - or what - is behind the legend of John Titor?

Top image from Xetobyte on Deviant Art.

The Titor Faxes and Art Bell

Titor first popped up on July 29 1998, through two faxes sent to Art Bell, host of the overnight talk show Coast to Coast AM. The faxes tell of the discovery of time travel in 2034 and devastation following the Y2K disaster. Art Bell reads the second of the two faxes on air:

Let me explain, Mr. Bell. I sent a fax with this opening on July 29 1998. As I said then I am a time traveler. I have been on this world line since April of this year and I plan to leave soon. Typically time travelers do not purposely affect the world lines they visit. However this mission is unusually long and I've grown attached to some of the people I have met here.

Titor is absent until 2000, when someone with a similar background begins posting under the username TimeTravel_0 on the Time Travel Institute Forum with a story similar to the faxes Bell received in 1998. The name John Titor is not used until January 27, 2001, when an individual posts on an Art Bell BBS Forums opening up to others about his life as a time traveler and inviting questions:

Posted by John Titor on 01-27-2001 12:45 PM. Greetings. I am a time traveler from the year 2036. I am on my way home after getting an IBM 5100 computer system from the year 1975. My "time" machine is a stationary mass, temporal displacement unit manufactured by General Electric. The unit is powered by two, top-spin, dual-positive singularities that produce a standard, off-set Tipler sinusoid. I will be happy to post pictures of the unit.

Conversations between Titor and posters on Art Bell Post to Post continue for the next few months. Titor talks of imminent problems across the world beginning in 2004 – the cancellation of the Olympics, the splitting of the United States into warring factions, an epidemic of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and a series of Russian nuclear strikes in 2015 that devastate all major U.S. cities along with the European Union and China.

Life in 2036

Titor talks about his life as well, including living in Florida as a child, his service in the second American Civil War as a member of the Fighting Diamondbacks in 2013, and the communal/agricultural nature of life in 2036.

Titor admits he lives in a parallel timeline, one that varies 1-2% from ours. Enough to be slightly different, but not diverge from the major societal events. Titor is on a mission to obtain an IBM 5100 in order to debug computers in 2036 due predicted problems with Unix in 2038. The IBM 5100 emulates APL and BASIC programming languages, an interesting feature. John also posts pictures of his time travel machine along with schematics and the logo used by his military unit.

Titor's story eventually falls apart, with answers inconsistent and terse, and the user quits posting in April of 2001. The Titor story contines to grow as the conversations are re-posted onto other sites and through e-mail lists, with Titor fever reaching a peak in 2003, culminating with the release of a book about Titor, John Titor: A Time Traveler's Tale in late 2003 by the John Titor Foundation, Inc.

Narrowing down the possibilities

The Razimus Report, a list of 88 people associated with the original Titor posts are cross referenced in amazing detail, with the researcher suggesting that Titor is a fraud - simply a guy on the internet answering questions he posed to himself. Of the 88, all but 7 are exonerated. Among those seven are people associated with a "pro-Titor" website Time Travel Institute, or those with a financial stake in the Titor story, mostly from merchandising.

The John Titor Foundation, LLC.

An IP address associated with Titor is located in Celebration, Florida, the site of the lawyer overseeing the John Titor Foundation. The John Titor Foundation is established as a limited liability corporation in Florida on September 16, 2003, led by Lawrence H. Haber .

The Razimus report names Haber as the head suspect behind the John Titor story. Haber is an Orlando, FL entertainment lawyer and former vice president of the Florida Motion Picture & Television Association who currently resides on the board of directors for the Women in Film & TV – Florida. Haber provided legal services to Walt Disney World and Universal Studios in the past.

I contacted Lawrence H. Haber at his law office and inquired about ongoing or future projects regarding Titor. Haber said that he knows of no projects. The John Titor Foundation holds the copyright on the 177th Military Unit insignia used by Titor, inscribed with a quote from Ovid - tempus edax rerum, or "time, that devours all things."

Delving into the Haber Connection

Mike Lynch, a private detective hired for an Italian documentary on Titor, suggests that Haber's brother, John Rick Haber, is Titor. John Rick Haber is a computer scientist who would have known about the IBM 5100 and Unix 2038 problem, with a post office box application later linking John Rick Haber with the John Titor Foundation. Lynch believes John Rick Haber to have the computer knowledge and wit to perpetrate the Titor hoax.

Viral Marketing and the Future of John Titor

I believe it is likely that the John Titor story started out as a bit of internet fun, but as interest picked up, several individuals attempted to make money on it. However, no one has succeeded in marketing the Titor story yet (though My Future Boyfriend might be based on it).

Additionally, I believe it completely possible that the Titor who faxed Art Bell in 1998 and the Titor posting in 2001 are different people – the internet Titor provides much more detail than the faxing Titor. The faxes could be source material for the internet Titor, or fodder for a number of people posting in an organized manner as Titor.

The legend of John Titor continues on, regardless of the failure of his predictions, and his time travel theory received a U.S. patent in 2006. If the process works, the patent holder is set for some financial gains.

Titor's attempt to play on common fears and conversational manner are his legacy – Titor's approachability did wonders for credibility. Maybe his mission finished and he left? Given his explanation that he was from a parallel timeline, we'll never know.

Images courtesy of Johntitor.com, IBM, & the John Titor Foundation. Sources linked within the article.

Abney Park- Rocking Around the Christmas Tree, Silver Bells

2011-12-10T10:09:00.000-06:00

Paranormal Searchers on Facebook

2011-12-03T10:34:00.000-06:00

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In Search Of... Life After Life (retro TV)

2011-11-28T10:16:00.000-06:00

Coast To Coast AM - 13.10.2011 - Debate: Science vs. Spirituality

2011-11-27T10:05:00.000-06:00

Paranormal Searcher on Facebook

2011-11-26T10:31:00.000-06:00

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In Search Of... Moon Madness (retro TV)

2011-11-26T10:15:00.000-06:00

In Search Of... The Man Who Wouldn't Die (retro TV)

2011-11-25T10:14:00.000-06:00

Coast To Coast AM - 07.20.2011 - Richard C. Hoagland Vesta Game Changer

2011-11-24T10:03:00.000-06:00

In Search Of... Dracula (retro TV)

2011-11-23T10:13:00.000-06:00

Noroi: The Curse - JAPANESE HORROR-FULL MOVIE WITH SUBTITLES

2011-11-23T05:28:00.001-06:00

Close Encounters: Proof Of Alien Contact

2011-11-23T05:14:00.000-06:00

Close Encounters: Proof Of Alien Contact Synopsis

Featuring purported proof of alien existence in the form of interviews with government scientists and astronaut Gordon Cooper, plus physical evidence from the Roswell Incident and the removal of an alien implant. Also includes over 250 UFOs caught on video, plus special appearances by Will Smith, Sigourney Weaver, Steven Spielberg, and more.

Bunshinsaba "Ouija Board" - ASIAN HORROR-FULL MOVIE WITH SUBTITLES

2011-11-22T19:32:00.000-06:00

Paranormal Searchers Investigations: The Myrtles Plantation

2011-11-22T18:23:00.004-06:00

We were at the Myrtles Plantation back on November 3rd. What we thought was an eventless evening turned out to be the opposite, with further review of recordings and cameras. The attached photo was going to be deleted until it was cleaned up and brightened. No one was in the room when the photo was taken. Barry Gooding from London, who was part of our group, took the photo. I took his original and cleaned it up and you see a woman, her hair highlighted by the flash, looking back into the room. She was between the camera and the mirror as her hair is highlighted.

1. Given her perspective, she must of been right next to the mirror. No one is there.

2. The height of the mirror above the fireplace would exclude this type of image. So is she IN the mirror?

I also attached an audio captured around the same time in another room. It sounds like she says "A pinch and a glass of water (waatah)" A pinch of snuff or some Pinch scotch? Put it on a playback loop as it is only 3 seconds long and you will hear it.

I still haven't gone through the hours of video. I recorded using IR in the main foyer for the night. When I watched it live on my monitor, you could see all sorts of things going on. Many of them just dust orbs floating about. But occasionally you would see a bright orb light go across the room, stop then go back under the stairs. This went on all night.

The Myrtles Plantation is amazing.

Dave

The Myrtles Plantation is amazing.

Dave

Inside Fukushima: A Look Inside Japan's Crippled Nuclear Plant

2011-11-22T17:47:00.002-06:00

Inside Fukushima: A Look Inside Japan's Crippled Nuclear Plant

Darkness Radio/GAC Ohio State Reformatory Funniest Moments

2011-11-22T10:11:00.000-06:00