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Global Consciousness Project Welcomes Collaboration With Skeptics

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:28:08 +0000

When it comes to claims of a global consciousness linking us all to tragedies like the earthquake in Haiti, or the terrorist attacks of 9/11, there are many skeptics.

While the research results of the 12 year old Global Consciousness Project have withstood serious skeptical examination from researchers who’ve dug into the millions of test results collected on the publicly available website, skepticism persists.

But according to Alex Tsakiris, host of the Skpetiko science podcast, dialog between controversial science researchers and their doubters is a good for science, “it’s easy to have a knee-jerk reaction to unconventional science – that’s what makes it unconventional – but skeptics need to look deeper… critical thinking demands we’re sometimes critical of our own cherished beliefs.”

Tsakiris continued: “We’ve helped initiate a collaboration on the Global Consciousness Research Project work of Dr. Roger Nelson, and a skeptical researcher from the University of London named Dr. Chris French. That’s a step in the right direction. Many skeptics bemoan the lack of interest in science education, but when presented with the chance to explore topics like the Global Consciousness Project, that clearly have great fascination to the public, they shy away. This is unfortunate. Science is a method, it’s not a position. There are no unscientific topics, just unscientific methods.”

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Alex Tsakiris: Welcome to Skeptiko, where we explore controversial science with leading researchers, thinkers, and their critics. I’m your host, Alex Tsakiris, and on this episode of Skeptiko I wanted to do a little bit of an update.

I’ve received several e-mails from folks saying, hey, what’s going on with this project, what’s going on with that project? And I realized that over the last couple years I have started several initiatives and maybe not updated everyone as well as I could as to what’s going on. So this and a couple episodes after this will be quick little updates, if you will, of some of the things that are going on here at Skeptiko. And there will be a call for you to maybe get involved if you can. There’s a couple of areas where we could really use some help.

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Global Consciousness Project Welcomes Collaboration With Skeptics | Skeptiko – Science at the Tipping Point

Brave New World narrated by Aldous Huxley

admin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:50:16 +0000

Did you know that Aldous Huxley’s dystopian classic “Brave New World” is available on LP, narrated by the author? Neither did I. Better yet, you can download it for free.

Thanks Mac…

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Massachussett’s S.2028 Mandatory Flu Vax Update

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:13:28 +0000

We spoke with Bob Dwyer, a district coordinator and citizen advocate for the Liberty Preservation Association of Massachussetts (Mass LPA) to update us on the status of S.2028. The bill is currently still in the Ways and Means committee. MASS LPA is composed of grassroots citizen advocates who are confronting their local lawmakers about the Constitutionality of S.2028. We asked him about his organization’s recent actions and the effort to stop Massachussetts from becoming a precedent setting state for both pandemic tracking and mandatory administration of a flu vaccine. Dwyers group organized to confront State legislators on issues of Constitutionality. They interpret S.2028 to be a mandatory or coercive vaccination law for their state.

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wakinguporwell’s Podcast

H4RDW4RE : An RFID Clean Up Team

admin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:18:45 +0000

Radio Frequency ID chip technologies are “too vulnerable in too many ways,” says Chris Paget, ethical hacker and partner for H4RDW4RE, a new company creating privacy and security solutions to existing RFID problems in the marketplace.

The public has been made aware of RFID or Radio Frequency ID technologies commissioned for national identity documents: passports, Enhanced Drivers Licenses, TWIC cards, Speed Passes and even Tribal Identity Cards. Unfortunately, RFID as a government sanctioned technology earned a big brother reputation from its ability to track a persons current location, storing and conveying private information from 20 – 30 feet away.

Chris Paget, a technology penetration consultant, found the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative compliant RFIDs especially troublesome. He began doing live demonstrations exposing identity security flaws RFIDs had on average cardholders. Then Chris Paget and his business partner Tim Mullen formed H4RDW4RE.com. They have made it their business to demonstrate exactly how insecure Western Hemisphere compliant RFID chips can be for people to possess in identity cards, smart-contactless cards and credit cards.

In this interview they explain the benefits of technology penetration testing or “ethical hacking” for investors and adopters. One of Paget’s demonstrations went viral via YouTube in February, blowing apart any faint notion of RFID’s billing as a secure identity technology. Equipped with only a 0 signal reader and a conventional laptop which he cloned or copied private passport information from a parked car in San Francisco.

H4RDW4RE recently featured high profile demonstrations at 2009 conventions like DefCon & Black Hat and continue to invent solutions for the security problems and risks ordinary people face from identity technologies present in U.S. passports and other public cards.

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wakinguporwell’s Podcast

ACLU on a Real ID repeal effort

admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:23:23 +0000

The ACLU’s Chris Calabrese, veteran legal counsel assigned to the anti-Real ID effort in Washington updates listeners on a newly filed legislation. The new bill filed in the House of Representatives, would repeal Real ID entirely and replace it with the negotiated rulemaking process. The rule making process, part of a 9-11 Commissions reform bill, was itself repealed by the Real ID Act of 2005. We observe the modern marvel of when the ACLU can finally agree with the Secretary of DHS on something – that Real ID is dead. More is also included on the PASS Act.

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wakinguporwell’s Podcast

Discussing the PASS Act with Lee Tien

admin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:21:07 +0000

With an upcoming hearing in Washington to evaluate the Real ID Act next week, Lee Tien articulates the standard for acceptable identity in America. Here’s a hint: the Real ID Act is not part of the plan.

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wakinguporwell’s Podcast

Flashback: Madness Radio 2006 with John Judge on Government Mind Control

admin — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:44:21 +0000

Madness Radio 2006-04-05 : John Judge Government Mind Control.

John Judge was active in the 1970s psychiatric survivor movement and is now special assistant to Congressperson Cynthia KcKinney. Judge discusses MKULTRA and other US psychiatric mind control experiments, which involved torture of thousands of mental patients. Judge also looks at the Jonestown massacre, LSD, and the convergence of Nazism with the roots of biomedical psychiatry.

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Via the Freedom Center.

Aldous Huxley: The Ultimate Revolution, 1962

admin — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:36:28 +0000

ce399 | research archive: Aldous Huxley: The Ultimate Revolution, 1962

Lecture given at the UC Berkeley Language Center, March 20, 1962

Download Huxley_TheUltimateRevolution_1962.mp3 (60.5mb) TRT: approx 44 minutes.
(Lecture)

Download Huxley_TheUltimateRevolution_QA_1962.mp3 (52.5mb) TRT: approx 38 minutes.
(Question and Answer Session)

According to Francis King in Sexuality, Magic and Perversion:

...Aldous Huxley was first introduced to mescaline in pre-Hitler Berlin by Aleister Crowley and one of his disciples. Curiously enough Huxley made no mention of this fact in his Doors of Perception. (Pg 118n)

‘Curiously enough,‘ King does not cite a source for the origin of this alleged ‘fact.‘