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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

21 Aug - Late Links


What information can remote neural monitoring pick up?

Remote neural monitoring is one of those things that “everyone knows” either can’t possibly exist, or is never used against middle aged nobodies.
Remote neural monitoring, described briefly in theElectronic Harassment section, has a few advantages over traditional forms of surveillance. First, it is “passive” – meaning the listener does not have to risk detection by probing the target’s area or placing electronic listening devices in his vicinity. Second, the electromagnetic activity being monitored is at low frequencies, meaning the radio waves pass through most obstacles and hundreds of miles of atmosphere with little interference. Third, the surveillance picks up high quality and real-time information about the person of interest’s location, focus of attention, and plans; it is an essential tool in psychological warfare campaigns directed at a single person.
How Sound Shapes What We See
Head of the Laboratory of Mathematical Physics at Rockefeller University
And all this time you thought you saw with your eyes. A mathematical physicist explains his research into how sound defines the wo

Novel Copy

Down the Rabbit Hole: Finding ‘Evidence’ of WikiLeaks’ Crime—Part I of II
Down the Rabbit Hole: Finding ‘Evidence’ of WikiLeaks’ Crime—Part I of II
Today and tomorrow I’ll hopefully make peace with my curiosity about WikiLeaks and the accusation that it disclosed the names and locations of Afghan informants serving the U.S. and coalition forces. Evidence supporting the accusation has been scant while the accusation itself has been repeated so ... READ MORE


California's Loyalty Oath
I just had to sign a loyalty oath as a condition of my employment at a California state university. The California constitution requires all state employees to sign the oath. And I frankly find it offensive. It’s not that I have any reservations about bearing “true faith and allegiance to the ... READ MORE
PARANOIA
Top Ten Conspiracy Theories
From commercial airplanes whose exhaust trails are secret experiments in weather control to the New Jewish World Order behind the Federal Reserve, everyone is out to get the paranoid Right

NATURE
Green Psychology
Are our cities making us unhappy? The diversity of plant life surrounding us affects several quality of life metrics such as the ability to concentrate, relax and make major life decisions.
MULTICULTURALISM

MIDDLE CLASS
The New Poor
"While America's super-rich congratulate themselves on donating billions to charity, the rest of the country is worse off than ever." Der Spiegel reports on the rising rich-poor gap in the U.S.

The Seas Could Turn to Sulfur
The Seas Could Turn to Sulfur
Paleontologist, University of Washington, Seattle

Questions About Angels
Questions About Angels
Poet; Former U.S. Poet Laureate
Can Gay Rights Boost Economic Prosperity?
Can Gay Rights Boost Economic Prosperity?
Director, The Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management
Playing Nice in Outer Space
Playing Nice in Outer Space
Astronaut

Sexuality and the Revival of Scientific Determinism _Rw005g

Scientific Determinism has left the field of eugenics and race and invaded the sphere of sex, money and relationships.
 Everywhere I go, I find books that say that human beings are "wired" to cheat, that promiscuity is "ingrained in our genetic code" as are our tendencies to cheat, steal, bully and lie.  Selfishness is proclaimed the most natural and virtuous of tendencies.  The excesses of the CEOs of countless greedy companies and the dictators of countless petty states are rationalized and supported as being the inevitable product of our genetic code. "Greed is Good," said Gordon Gecko. Oliver Stone meant this as irony, but for many it was gospel.
Yet the age-old question remains. Should society embrace and give greater voice to the inner-nature of the human animal, or should culture and institutions be created to defeat these tendencies, tendencies which can be self-destructive and nihilistic at the macro, tribal level? Isn't this what Sigmund Freud had in mind when he wrote "Civilization and its Discontents?"
Was Freud correct to believe that over-reliance on scientific determinism is an excuse for ignoring social convention and rules in an effort to satiate the individual ego?


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Is Capitalism Doomed? - Part III - Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall 

Hat Tip  see what happens, when you starve public education?

In The Coming Struggle for Power, Strachey also writes about the important role of fascism associated with end stage capitalism. He explains how declining profits and growth will result in reduced wages, poorer working conditions and a claw back of social welfare benefits enacted during more productive periods. This, in turn, leads to more conflict between workers and capitalists, at the same time that capitalist controlled governments are experiencing increasing conflict with foreign capitalist controlled governments.
According to Strachey, ensuring that production continues during a period of heavy stagnation necessitates the rise of fascism – in which the capitalists themselves organize workers to install governments which enact laws unfavorable to working people.

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