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A String Theory for the Sun

Filamentary Birkeland currents transport electrical energy from the Sun to Earth and the rest of the Solar System. Could ancient human beings have seen this phenomenon visible in their skies?

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The Danger of American Fascism

This story ran in the New York Times in 1944. Draw your own conclusions and compare Henry Wallace's analysis to the situation we find ourselves in today.

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- SOTT: Fascism is the natural world view of psychopaths. It's that simple.
  posted by kropotkin on 2008-07-09
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
In every big nation of the world are at least a few people who have the fascist temperament.
The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.
there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.
American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information, and those who stand for the K.K.K. type of demagoguery.
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- SOTT: One is also reminded of the "Protocols of the Pathocrats".
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Fascism is a worldwide disease.
American fascists of this stamp were clandestinely aligned with their German counterparts before the war, and are even now preparing to resume where they left off, after "the present unpleasantness" ceases:
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
Fascism in the postwar inevitably will push steadily for Anglo-Saxon imperialism and eventually for war with Russia. Already American fascists are talking and writing about this conflict and using it as an excuse for their internal hatreds and intolerances toward certain races, creeds and classes.

Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets: Damages, Disasters, Injuries, Deaths, and Very Close Calls

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For 20 years from the publication of his first book on the Reichstag fire trial in 1934, Douglas Reed enjoyed a reputation as probably Britain's best political analyst and author. All his books written during that period demonstrate a quality of investigative journalism that is still unmatched. His writing is researched in depth and is subjective in comment only by virtue of his unparalleled level of personal experience of major political events of the 1930's and 40's.
"Controversy" is his summary of the circumstantial evidence for the existence of a "supra-power" at work in world events throughout the first 50 years of the 20th century. The link with earlier political upheavals is covered in detail, as is the probable origins of the religious influences. It is prophetic in that much of what he suggests has come about or continues its influence to this day.
"Controversy of Zion" is ESSENTIAL reading for any serious student of modern history or "political science", primarily as a benchmark against which the credibility of other works might be measured.

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The Bible Hoax and Middle East History

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Recent Cosmic Impacts on Earth - Do Global Myths Reflect an Ancient Disaster?

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Did the Red Sea Part? No Evidence, Archaeologists Say - New York Times

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The origins of agriculture ?

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o other species is a farmer
agriculture, far from being a natural and upward step, in fact led commonly to a lower quality of life.
psychoactive substances in certain agricultural products - cereals and milk
drug-like properties of these foods
Large, hierarchically organised societies appeared, centred around villages and then cities. With the rise of civilisation and the state came socioeconomic classes, job specialisation, governments and armies.
Why was this way of life adopted, and why has it become dominant in the human species?
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ealth deteriorated in populations that adopted cereal agriculture
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‘If agriculture provides neither better diet, nor greater dietary reliability, nor greater ease, but conversely appears to provide a poorer diet, less reliably, with greater labor costs, why does anyone become a farmer?’
The major behavioural changes made in adopting the civilised lifestyle beg explanation.
What animus impelled man to forego the independence, intimacies, and invariability of tribal existence for the much larger and more impersonal political complexity we call the state?
every civilisation that came into being had cereal agriculture as its subsistence base, and wherever cereals were cultivated, civilisation appeared.
Prompted by a possible link between diet and mental illness, several researchers in the late 1970s began investigating the occurrence of drug-like substances in some common foodstuffs.
chizophrenia became prevalent in these populations only after they became ‘partially westernised and consumed wheat, barley beer, and rice’
Most common drugs of addiction are either opioid (e.g heroin and morphine) or dopaminergic (e.g. cocaine and amphetamine), and work by activating reward centres in the brain. Hence we may ask, do these findings mean that cereals and milk are chemically rewarding? Are humans somehow ‘addicted’ to these foods?
Brostoff and Gamlin (1989:103) estimated that 50 per cent of intolerance patients crave the foods that cause them problems, and experience withdrawal symptoms when excluding those foods from their diet. Withdrawal symptoms are similar to those associated with drug addictions
Food intolerance research suggests that cereals and milk, in normal dietary quantities, are capable of affecting behaviour in many people. And if severe behavioural effects in schizophrenics and coeliacs can be caused by higher than normal absorption of peptides, then more subtle effects, which may not even be regarded as abnormal, could be produced in people generally.
The effects of exorphins are qualitatively the same as those produced by other opioid and / or dopaminergic drugs, that is, reward, motivation, reduction of anxiety, a sense of wellbeing, and perhaps even addiction.
This chemical reward was the incentive for the adoption of cereal agriculture in the Neolithic. Regular self-administration of these substances facilitated the behavioural changes that led to the subsequent appearance of civilisation.
Exorphins attracted people to settle around cereal patches, abandoning their nomadic lifestyle, and allowed them to display tolerance instead of aggression as population densities rose in these new conditions.
The fact that overall health declined when they were incorporated into the diet suggests that their rapid, almost total replacement of other foods was due more to chemical reward than to nutritional reasons.
Civilisation arose because reliable, on-demand availability of dietary opioids to individuals changed their behaviour, reducing aggression, and allowed them to become tolerant of sedentary life in crowded groups, to perform regular work, and to be more easily subjugated by rulers.

21st century technology cracks alchemists' secret recipe

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The Original Affluent Society

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"This matter of presents gave us many an
anxious moment. We were humiliated by the realisation of how little
there was we could give to the Bushmen. Almost everything seemed likely
to make life more difficult for them by adding to the litter and weight
of their daily round. They themselves had practically no possessions: a
loin strap, a skin blanket and a leather satchel. There was nothing that
they could not assemble in one minute, wrap up in their blankets and
carry on their shoulders for a journey of a thousand miles. They had no
sense of possession."
"A woman gathers on one day enough food to
feed her family for three days, and spends the rest of her time resting
in camp, doing embroidery, visiting other camps, or entertaining
visitors from other camps. For each day at home, kitchen routines, such
as cooking, nut cracking, collecting firewood, and fetching water,
occupy one to three hours of her time. This rhythm of steady work and
steady leisure maintained throughout the year. The hunters tend to work
more frequently than the women, but their schedule uneven. It 'not
unusual' for a man to hunt avidly for a week and then do no hunting at
all for two or three weeks. Since hunting is an unpredictable business
and subject to magical control, hunters sometimes experience a run of
bad luck and stop hunting for a month or longer. During these periods,
visiting, entertaining, and especially dancing are the primary
activities of men.(16)"

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Terry Eagleton: The original political vision: sex, art and transformation

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