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Bizarre Video: Pope Performs "Exorcism"

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Pope Francis appears to have been captured on video performing an exorcism in St Peter's Square.

The IRS Has Proven Once Again That They Are A Domestic Terrorist Organization

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The Internal Revenue Service is a domestic terrorist organization. They have terrorized millions of Americans as part of an effort to scare them into paying an unlawful and unethical tax on their labor called the Federal Income Tax. The recent scandal involving the IRS specifically targeting various patriot and tea party groups who applied for 501(c)(4) tax exempt status is outrageous but really only represents a small portion of their criminal activity.

For anyone not familiar with the nature of the scandal, the IRS has admitted that it made it difficult if not impossible for specific organizations related to tea party and patriot causes to achieve 501(c)(4) status. The IRS was actually requiring these groups to provide them with all sorts of ridiculous information including social media postings, donor lists and even reading lists as part of the application process. Some of these groups have reported that the IRS took years to process their applications. Other groups gave up seeking tax exempt status when faced with the absurd requirements and lengthy application times.

Despite making it difficult for these particular organizations to achieve 501(c)(4) status, groups supportive of the Obama regime had none of these troubles over the same period of time. Take for example the illegally run charity group started by Barack Obama’s half-brother Malik. The organization called the Barack H. Obama Foundation had its application for tax exemption processed in roughly a month. Even more outrageous is the fact that the IRS approved retro-active tax exemptions for the so-called charitable foundation.

In addition to this criminal activity...

Centralization and Sociopathology

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Concentrated power and wealth are intrinsically sociopathological by their very nature.

I have long spoken of the dangers inherent to centralization of power and the extreme concentrations of wealth centralization inevitably creates.

The Master Narrative Nobody Dares Admit: Centralization Has Failed (June 21, 2012)

The Solution to Concentrated Power: Decentralize, Diffuse and Devolve Power (June 22, 2012)

To Fix Healthcare, Let 100 Solutions Bloom (February 26, 2013)

Longtime contributor C.D. recently highlighted another danger of centralization:sociopaths/psychopaths excel in organizations that centralize power, and their ability to flatter, browbeat and manipulate others greases their climb to the top.

In effect, centralization is tailor-made for sociopaths gaining power. Sociopaths seek power over others, and centralization gives them the perfect avenue to control over millions or even entire nations.

Even worse (from the view of non-sociopaths), their perverse abilities are tailor-made for excelling in office and national politics via ruthless elimination of rivals and enemies and grandiose appeals to national greatness, ideological purity, etc.

As C.D. points out, the ultimate protection against sociopathology is to minimize the power held in any one agency, organization or institution:

After you watch these films on psychopaths, I think you'll have an even greater understanding of why your premise of centralization is a key problem of our society. The first film points out that psychopaths generally thrive in the corporate/government top-down organization (I have seen it happen in my agency, unfortunately) and that when they come to power, their values (or lack thereof) tend to pervade the organization to varying degrees. In some cases, they end up creating secondary psychopaths which is kind of like a spiritual/moral disease that infects people.
If we are to believe the premise in the film that there are always psychopaths among us in small numbers, it follows then that we must limit the power of any one institution, whether it's private or public, so that the damage created by psychopaths is limited.

It is very difficult for many people to fathom that there are people in our society that are that evil, for lack of a better term, and it is even harder for many people in society to accept that people in the higher strata of our society can exhibit these dangerous traits.

The same goes for criminal behavior. From my studies, it's pretty clear that criminality is fairly constant throughout the different levels of our society and yet, it is the lower classes that are subjected to more scrutiny by law enforcement. The disparity between blue collar and white collar crime is pretty evident when one looks at arrests and sentencing. The total lack of effective enforcement against politically connected banks over the last few years is astounding to me and it sets a dangerous precedent. Corruption and psychopathy go hand in hand.

A less dark reason for avoiding over centralization is that we have to be aware of normal human fallibility. Nobody possesses enough information, experience, ability, lack of bias, etc. to always make the right decisions.

Defense Against the Psychopath (video, 37 minutes; the many photos of political, religious and secular leaders will likely offend many/most; if you look past these outrages, there is useful information here)

The Sociopath Next Door (video, 37 minutes)

As C.D. observes, once sociopaths rule an organization or nation, they create a zombie army of secondary sociopaths beneath them as those who resist are undermined, banished, fired or exterminated. If there is any lesson to be drawn from Iraq, it is how a single sociopath can completely undermine and destroy civil society by empowering secondary sociopaths and eliminating or marginalizing anyone who dares to cling to their humanity, conscience and independence.

"Going along to get along" breeds passive acceptance of sociopathology as "the new normal" and mimicry of the values and techniques of sociopathology as the ambitious and fearful (i.e. almost everyone) scramble to emulate the "successful" leadership.

Organizations can be perverted into institutionalizing sociopathology via sociopathological goals and rules of conduct. Make the metric of success in war a body count of dead "enemy combatants" and you'll soon have dead civilians stacked like cordwood as proof of every units' outstanding success.

Make lowering unemployment the acme of policy success and soon every agency will be gaming and manipulating data to reach that metric of success. Make higher grades the metric of academic success and soon every kid is getting a gold star and an A or B.

Centralization has another dark side: those ensconced in highly concentrated centers of power (for example, The White House) are in another world, and they find it increasingly easy to become isolated from the larger context and to slip into reliance on sycophants, toadies (i.e. budding secondary sociopaths) and "experts" (i.e. apparatchiks and factotums) who are equally influenced by the intense "high" of concentrated power/wealth.

Increasingly out of touch with those outside the circle of power, those within the circle slide into a belief in the superiority of their knowledge, skills and awareness--the very definition of sociopathology.

Even worse (if that is possible), the incestuous nature of the tight circle of power breeds a uniformity of opinion and ideology that creates a feedback loop that marginalizes dissenters and those with open minds. Dissenters are soon dismissed--"not a team player"-- or trotted out for PR purposes, i.e. as evidence the administration maintains ties to the outside world.

Those few dissenters who resist the siren song of power soon face a choice: either quietly quit "to pursue other opportunities" (the easy way out) or quit in a blast of public refutation of the administration's policies.

Public dissenters are quickly crucified by those in power, and knowing this fate awaits any dissenter places a powerful disincentive on "going public" about the sociopathology of the inner circle of power.

On rare occasions, an insider has the courage and talent to secure documentation that details the sociopathology of a policy, agency or administration (for example, Daniel Ellsberg and The Pentagon Papers).

Nothing infuriates a sociopath or a sociopathological organization more than the exposure of their sociopathology, and so those in power will stop at nothing to silence, discredit, criminalize or eliminate the heroic whistleblower.

In these ways, centralized power is itself is a sociopathologizing force. We cannot understand the present devolution of our civil society, economy and ethics unless we understand that concentrated power and wealth are intrinsically sociopathological by their very nature.

The solution: a culture of decentralization, transparency and open competition, what I call the DATA model (Decentralized, Adaptive, Transparent and Accountable) in my bookWhy Things Are Falling Apart and What We Can Do About It.

How to Rob Africa

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The world's wealthy countries often criticise African nations for corruption -- especially that perpetrated by those among the continent's government and business leaders who abuse their positions by looting tens of billions of dollars in national assets or the profits from state-owned enterprises that could otherwise be use to relieve the plight of some of the world's poorest peoples.

Park Avenue: money, power and the American dream - Why Poverty?

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

How much inequality is too much? To find out more and get teaching resources linked to the film, go to www.whypoverty.net

740 Park Ave, New York City, is home to some of the wealthiest Americans. Across the Harlem River, 10 minutes to the north, is the other Park Avenue in South Bronx, where more than half the population needs food stamps and children are 20 times more likely to be killed. In the last 30 years, inequality has rocketed in the US -- the American Dream only applies to those with money to lobby politicians for friendly bills on Capitol Hill.

Director Alex Gibney
Producer Blair Foster
Produced by Jigsaw Productions

Why Poverty? http://www.whypoverty.net/en/video/29/

Understanding Electricity - Tesla Documentary

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

"Opposite charges attract; like charges repel" is the basic truth about electricity. And because of this we are able to use the most mobile of charges, the electron, to perform a great deal of work.
Electrons cluster about a proton-packed nucleus until negative and positive charges exactly match, as many electrons as protons. In fact, electrons are constrained to fill discrete energy "slots" when attracted to the neighborhood of a nucleus. The first, innermost set of slots can accommodate up to two electrons, the next eight, the next eighteen . . . the rules are complicated, but starting from closest to the nucleus each set of slots, called a shell, fills up before an electron must be kicked upstairs to the next shell.
The ways in which electrons try to fill shells, sometimes sharing slots in two atoms at once (forming molecules), or flying off altogether (leaving ions behind) is the substance of chemistry and of life. This complexity, from table salt to DNA, is all about electrical charge. So is the everyday power that we tap into at a wall outlet.
A Closer Look at Charge
Whether positive or negative, every charged particle carries a magnetic field. Charge and field are inseparable aspects of the same force, the electromagnetic force. The two quantities interact constantly. Every electron (or proton, for that matter) is a magnet, with its own north and south pole. There are some more rules, like the shell rules, that describe how these tiny magnets may align themselves in an atom, canceling out, so that atoms are not left noticeably magnetic. If, however, some electrons are forced to move all in the same direction along a conductor, like a copper wire, they build up a magnetic field around the wire. Conversely, if a magnetic field is passed across the wire, it will cause electrons to move—a phenomenon termed induction.

Of course, energy of some kind must be applied to pry electrons away from the protons they would prefer to orbit. Batteries separate charges by chemical means, as do the mitochondria in living cells, our own tiny batteries. Dragging the rubber sole of a shoe across synthetic or wool carpet forces charges apart by physical means, friction in this case. Dynamos and generators use magnetic fields to push electrons into motion through induction.

And wherever an excess of charge is built up, it will flow—if given the opportunity—toward some point with less charge. The difference in charge between one point and another is voltage, commonly stated in volts. The higher the voltage, the more force acting to move charges from one place to another. The number of electrons flowing, the strength of the current, is measured in amperes, or just amps, for short. The path a current is made to take, presumably to accomplish some useful work, is called a circuit. In a modest electrical device, say a flashlight, the voltage and current are not large, and the circuit is quite simple—but it took a few centuries of scientific inquiry to arrive at a comfortable grasp of the principles involved.
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and flow of electric charge. Electricity gives a wide variety of well-known effects, such as lightning, static electricity, electromagnetic induction and the flow of electrical current. In addition, electricity permits the creation and reception of electromagnetic radiation such as radio waves.
In electricity, charges produce electromagnetic fields which act on other charges. Electricity occurs due to several types of physics:
electric charge:
electric current:
electric field (see electrostatics):
electric potential:
electromagnets:
In electrical engineering, electricity is used for:
electric power where electric current is used to energise equipment
electronics which deals with electrical circuits that involve active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies.
Electrical phenomena have been studied since antiquity, though advances in the science were not made until the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Practical applications for electricity however remained few, and it would not be until the late nineteenth century that engineers were able to put it to industrial and residential use. The rapid expansion in electrical technology at this time transformed industry and society. Electricity's extraordinary versatility as a means of providing energy means it can be put to an almost limitless set of applications which include transport, heating, lighting, communications, and computation. Electrical power is the backbone of modern industrial society

The word electricity is from the New Latin ?lectricus, "amber-like"[a], coined in the year 1600 from the Greek electron meaning amber, because electrical effects were produced classically by rubbing amber.

The Legend of Marilyn Monroe (1966)

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Broadcast on UK Channel 4 December 2001 with additional recent interviews from the film-makers.

DREAM - Art & Culture of Burning Man

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Illuminating the culture of Burning Man – the annual pilgrimage to Nevada's Black Rock Desert – as a catalyst for community, innovation and the actualization of dreams, this film offers a glimpse into the art and culture of this dynamic community with the hope to spark a dream within you.

DREAM premiered at the Sonoma International Film Festival. Directed and produced by Rich Van Every of lightworkscreative.tv. Rich also was a cinematographer for "Spark: A Burning Man Story," a feature film on the inside story of Burning Man during a year of unprecedented challenges and growth.

"Spark: A Burning Man Story" premiered at SXSW 2013 and will be in general release Summer 2013. See sparkpictures.com for more information and to sign up for email updates on upcoming screenings.

Money Is A Form Of Social Control And Most Americans Are Debt Slaves

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Is America really "the land of the free"? Most people think of money as simply a medium of exchange that makes economic transactions more convenient, but the truth is that it is much more than that. Money is also a form of social control. Just think about it. What did you do this morning? Well, if you are like most Americans, you either got up and went to work (to make money) or to school (to learn the skills that you will need to make money). We spend a great deal of our lives pursuing the almighty dollar, and there are literally millions of laws, rules and regulations about how we earn our money, about how we spend our money and about how much of our money the government gets to take from us. Not that money is a bad thing in itself. Without money, it would be really hard to have a modern society. Unfortunately, our money is based on debt, and debt levels in the United States have exploded to absolutely unprecedented levels in recent years. The borrower is the servant of the lender, and if you are like most Americans, nearly every major purchase that you make in your life is going to involve debt. Do you want to get a college education so that you can get a "good job"? You are told to get a student loan. Do you want a car? You are encouraged to get an auto loan and to stretch out the payments for as long as possible. Do you want a home? You are probably going to end up with a big fat mortgage. And of course I could go on and on and on. The cold, hard truth of the matter is that most Americans are debt slaves. Most of us spend our entire lives trapped in an endless cycle of debt that we never escape until we die, and meanwhile our years of hard labor are greatly enriching those that own our debts.

Have you ever found yourself wondering why you can never seem to get ahead financially no matter how hard you work?

Well, it is probably because you have gotten yourself enslaved to debt.

Just consider the following.....

DAGON FISH WORSHIP IS ALIVE IN CHRISTENDOM

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

"The two-horned mitre, which the Pope wears,
when he sits on the high altar at Rome
and receives the adoration of the Cardinals,
is the very mitre worn by the priests of Dagon,
the fish-god of the Philistines and Babylonians."
- The Two Babylons ; Alexander Hislop; p. 215

Even the "Chinese" Pope Wears
The Dagon Mitre Hat.

"Mr. A. Trimen, a distinguished London
architect and author, found that on a
certain occasion every year the Chinese
Emperor, as Pontifex Maximus of his nation,
wears a mitre which is the very counterpart
of the Papal mitre."
-(Hager, on Chinese Hieroglyphics,
B. xxxv, in the British Museum)

"In Babylon there was "Oannes" a fish god
who imparted great knowledge to the people.
He taught them how to build cities. He also
taught them math and geometric laws, and was
credited with giving them all the knowledge
that they would ever receive. At night,
he would go back into the sea to spend the
night, because he was amphibious. He had
the head of a man; covered by the head of
a fish, and had the legs and feet of a man
and the torso of a man, but was covered by
the scales and tail of a fish. "
-Berossus; from ancient fragments
(Isaac Preston Cory)

DAGON or OANNES - "He would go back
into the sea to spend the night, because he
was amphibious. He had the head of a man;
covered by the head of a fish, and had the
legs and feet of a man and the torso of a
man, but was covered by the scales and
tail of a fish. "
-Berossus; from ancient fragments
(Isaac Preston Cory)

"The great apostate church of the Gospel Age,
true to its Babylonish origin, has actually
adopted this fish god in its ritual....