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Junk Mail Calendars From Conservation Groups? Conservation FAIL

John — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:05:30 +0000

Not something I’d normally write about in here, but this is ridiculous! In the last week I received two unsolicited calendars from conservation groups!

Your Free Nature Conservancy Calendar 2010
Your Free National Parks Conservation Association 2010 Calendar

Does sending bulk junk mail calendars send the wrong message?
I think so. I’m going to keep a list of the free calendars I receive (and throw away) here, just to remind me NEVER to support these clueless conservation groups.

Let’s add Carl Pope and the Sierra Club for this Free U.S. Wall Map.
And a bulky full-color guilt trip of a reminder letter from The Nature Conservancy that I still haven’t donated to them for the calendar I didn’t want or ask for.

E. Howard Hunt names the men who killed Kennedy

John — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:24:39 +0000

On November 23, 1963 I was a grade two student. I sat in the desk in the front row next to my friend Bruce. I remember that it was very unusual that the Sister who taught us rolled a television set into the classroom. She seemed to be very upset. There was the sense of something being very wrong. She turned on the black and white television and explained to us that the President had been killed. Today is the 45th anniversary (do you call it an anniversary if it was a tragedy?) of the murder of JFK
The following is a re-post of an article from May of 2007.
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I’m not familiar with prisonplanet.com, but they tell the story of a recording E. Howard Hunt made on his deathbed. The tape was recently made public by Howard Hunt’s son, Saint John Hunt. On the tape Howard Hunt describes a bitter LBJ and his involvement with the murder of JFK. Hunt names others who were involved in the conspiracy. Five minutes of the tape were aired recently on CoastToCoastAM.com
There is a direct link to the mp3 file here.

What’s been bugging me about it is, what if it’s true? I mean – just for a minute – inhabit a world where the Kennedy assassination has been solved- We know who did it, who helped who and why.
Now what?
How is justice served over 40 years later? Who’s going to pay?
What does it mean? What would change?
How do I heal, or why, or who cares?
Is it just miscellaneous information?

Media Maven Robert Logan’s new $45 book out The Extended Mind!

synthum molyart — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:26:35 +0000

Logan’s jammed web site for all the free stuff

new media aggregator site with amazing network graphs of tags

synthum molyart — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:58:53 +0000

Silo Breaker uses tags from this story

News You Might Have Missed: Court Confirms President’s Dictatorial Powers

to generate

Amazing networking news animated 6 degrees effects!

Immortality, Life Extension, Life_X, anti-aging, ongoing conference UCLA

synthum molyart — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:04:25 +0000

Check out some of these topics and links to more clues. Immortality, Neurologic, Space Migration emerged in the early 1970′s and morphed into Life Extension ( life_X) , intelligence increase, and local Space Stations. We still need back-up mini biospheres of the biosphere! Gaia! Gaea! Later these morphed into

SMI2LE. Early Bible stories of communicating with God, traveling UP to Heaven, living for 500 years! So this is the latest update!

9:00 AM	Session 3A: accumulation of damaged molecules (9:00) Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, University of Florida “Mitochondrial iron accumulation with age and functional consequences” (9:30) Marisol Corral-Debrinski, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie “Optimized allotopic expression of mitochondrial genes: a strategy for treating mitochondrial DNA diseases” (10:00) Bruce Ames, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute “Delaying the Degenerative Diseases of Aging” http://www.mfoundation.org/UABBA/agenda/

9:00 AM

Session 3A: accumulation of damaged molecules

(9:00) Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, University of Florida
“Mitochondrial iron accumulation with age and functional consequences”
(9:30) Marisol Corral-Debrinski, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
“Optimized allotopic expression of mitochondrial genes: a strategy for treating mitochondrial DNA diseases”
(10:00) Bruce Ames, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute
“Delaying the Degenerative Diseases of Aging”

http://www.mfoundation.org/UABBA/agenda/

Freeman Dyson on Carbon and Global Warming

synthum molyart — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:58:37 +0000

Freeman Dyson says

When we put together the evidence from the wiggles and the distribution of vegetation over the earth, it turns out that about 8 percent of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is absorbed by vegetation and returned to the atmosphere every year. This means that the average lifetime of a molecule of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, before it is captured by vegetation and afterward released, is about twelve years. This fact, that the exchange of carbon between atmosphere and vegetation is rapid, is of fundamental importance to the long-range future of global warming, as will become clear in what follows. Neither of the books under review mentions it.

Psychological Psychedelia by Delphi from downunder and the antipodes of S. Africa

synthum molyart — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:25:30 +0000

from

Along with a host of other literary, artistic and scientific luminaries of the period, novelist Anais Nin was one of the new wonder- drug’s early guinea-pigs. At the dawn of the psychedelic sixties, she saw herself as part of a larger social organism that was liquefying; opening like a sea-anenemone to countless imaginary worlds of the imagination made flesh. Like the generation of psychonauts that followed in the wake of the bomb, she experienced an epiphany that, for a few brief and glorious hours, exploded her right out of history. The term ‘psychedelic’ was coined to describe this experience of the ineffable. It means “mind- manifesting” and represents the transposition of inner and outer psychological and experiential realities; the detonation of the ‘self’.

Energy Export Database

synthum molyart — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:04:57 +0000

very cool online database

A databrowser for exploring:

Where are oil & gas produced?
Where are oil & gas consumed?
How has this changed?

http://mazamascience.com/OilExport/index.html

ReInventing the sacred, again! Stuart Kauffman speaks 7PM, 26 June, Thur., 2008

synthum molyart — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:37:19 +0000

from Skeptics Society

Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason & Religion

SPECIAL Event Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Location: Baxter Lecture Hall
Speaker: Dr. Stuart Kauffman
Tickets: First come first served at the door. Sorry, no advance ticket sales for this lecture. Seating is limited. $8 Skeptics Society members & Caltech/JPL Community; $10 General Public.

In this controversial lecture based on his new book, the world-renowned complexity theorist Dr. Stuart Kauffman argues that people who do not believe in God have largely lost their sense of the sacred and the deep human legitimacy of our inherited spirituality,

from BioComplexity site

An essay outlining Kauffman’s Reinventing the Sacred thesis is contained in a new series of 13 essays by distinguished thinkers on the topic “Does science make belief in God obsolete?” currently published on the John Templeton Foundation website at: http://templeton.org/belief/. The preface and first chapter of the book are currently published as an essay titled “Breaking the Galilean Spell” on Edge.org at:http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kauffman08/kauffman08_index.html
An essay by Kauffman titled “Reinventing the Sacred” is also scheduled to be published in the May 10 issue of New Scientist magazine.

Listen to an interview from IT Conversations – Stuart Kauffman 060608

Arts, Inc: how the DMCA, Clear Channel and copyright extension are killing culture

synthum molyart — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:33:51 +0000

From BoingBoing.net

“My new book, Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights, is just out (May 10). The idea for Arts, Inc. hit me when I was chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, during Bill Clinton’s administration. I became convinced that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, copyright extension, and Clear-Channel-style media consolidation were undermining our basic rights to an arts system that really serves the public.”

Bill Ivey was the seventh chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. He was appointed by President Bill Clinton and served from 1998 to 2001.