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  Great forum just wanted to say hi
Posted by: MariaPr - 02-11-2023, 09:55 PM - Forum: Introduce Yourself - Replies (1)

Love the content on here keep it up.

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Wink The World Health Organization Tedro Warns Of Bird Flu
Posted by: statusquo - 02-10-2023, 05:02 PM - Forum: Here There And Everywhere - Replies (5)

WHO is engaging global pharmaceutical manufacturers "to make sure that if needed supplies of vaccines and antivirals will be available for global use," Tedros added.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/sal0lzY5mf0c/

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  Controlling the Perspective
Posted by: Guest - 02-04-2023, 03:01 AM - Forum: Learning From The Past - Replies (8)

Blame the weather for government controlled food exports.


Considering these vegetables can be grown in mutiple countries, it takes a governing bodies such as NATO, the UN, and EU to pass legislation that only Spain is allowed to make trade deals exporting these goods.


Severe Vegetable Shortage Deprives Europeans of Spinach, Broccoli | Heat Street

http://heatst.com/world/severe-vegetable...-broccoli/




Remember you voted to starve people when the food shortages get worse.


Just like Venezuela, we'll learn alot about how Europe will react to controlled population starvation. It's been awile since the Ukrainian grain shortage, and we need to modernize the way people view death.


Now be sure to show how PC you are so nobody picks up that you're liers who support government slowly killing the western populace. Why deal with ISIS now when weak women and betas can fight them later.

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  Thinking Historically
Posted by: Quartus - 01-14-2023, 02:05 AM - Forum: Here There And Everywhere - Replies (7)

History is only taught as a game of trivial pursuits. The wisdom of history is slowly defined through experience and spirit.

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  New Law Stops Cops From Taking Innocent People's Stuff
Posted by: Guest - 01-05-2023, 08:05 PM - Forum: Here There And Everywhere - Replies (3)

New Ohio Law Stops Cops From Taking Innocent People's Stuff 
 
Ohio Gov. John Kasich ® on Wednesday signed a bill reining in law enforcement’s power to permanently seize property from people who have not been convicted of a crime, and in many cases have not even been charged with one.
 
The bill, HB 347, addresses the controversial practice known as civil asset forfeiture. Police say they use the tool to target the financial proceeds of criminal enterprises, as it allows officers to confiscate cash and property from individuals whom they suspect of being involved in illegal activity, even when officers may not have clear evidence of the supposed crime. But critics say the broad application of civil forfeiture has made it ripe for abuse, and has given rise to a system of policing for profit that lets departments pad their budgets with assets seized from innocent civilians.
 
The new law, set to go into effect by early this year, will take care of a number of key concerns about civil forfeiture in Ohio.
 
HB 347 creates a two-tier system for forfeiture. Cash or property valued at under $15,000 will require a criminal conviction prior to forfeiture. Anything above $15,000 will remain in the civil system, though the bill raises the burden of proof for forfeiture, meaning authorities will first have to show “clear and convincing evidence” that property is linked to criminal activity. Although this is a lower burden of proof than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard required for a criminal conviction, it is the highest standard in the civil system.
 
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-ohi...ar-BBxU3ES

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  The 'Outrageous' 40-Year-Old Film That Predicted the Future
Posted by: Guest - 12-29-2022, 10:59 PM - Forum: Here There And Everywhere - Replies (3)

Forty years ago this month Network was released to widespread acclaim. But its shocking satire turned out to be eerily prescient, writes Nicholas Barber.
 
Network was their furious howl of protest. It was a triumphant black comedy, winning four Oscars, being nominated for two more, and going on to be held in ever higher acclaim. In 2006, the Writers Guilds of America chose Chayevksy’s screenplay as one of the 10 best in cinema history. Last year, BBC Culture’s critics’ poll of the 100 best American films ranked Network at 73.
 
But is it really “perfectly outrageous”? It’s easy to believe that, in 1976, Chayevsky and Lumet’s bleak view of television’s crassness and irresponsibility was deeply shocking. But the scary thing about re-watching Network today is that even its wildest flights of fancy no longer seem outrageous at all. The film was so accurate in its predictions that its most far-fetched satirical conceits have become so familiar as to be almost quaint.
 
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/12/no_a...old-movie/

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  Do You Believe in Magic?
Posted by: MrChips - 12-24-2022, 08:39 PM - Forum: Philosophy, Psychology and Religion - Replies (3)

The psychology of ritual
 
Psychologists and anthropologists have typically turned to faith healers, tribal cultures or New Age spiritualists to study the underpinnings of belief in superstition or magical powers. Yet they could just as well have examined their own neighbors, lab assistants or even some fellow scientists. New research demonstrates that habits of so-called magical thinking — the belief, for instance, that wishing harm on a loathed colleague or relative might make him sick — are far more common than people acknowledge.
 
These habits have little to do with religious faith, which is much more complex because it involves large questions of morality, community and history. But magical thinking underlies a vast, often unseen universe of small rituals that accompany people through every waking hour of a day.
 
The appetite for such beliefs appears to be rooted in the circuitry of the brain, and for good reason. The sense of having special powers buoys people in threatening situations, and helps soothe everyday fears and ward off mental distress. In excess, it can lead to compulsive or delusional behavior. This emerging portrait of magical thinking helps explain why people who fashion themselves skeptics cling to odd rituals that seem to make no sense, and how apparently harmless superstition may become disabling.
 
It is no coincidence, some social scientists believe, that youngsters begin learning about faith around the time they begin to give up on wishing. “The point at which the culture withdraws support for belief in Santa and the Tooth Fairy is about the same time it introduces children to prayer,” said Jacqueline Woolley, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas. “The mechanism is already there, kids have already spent time believing that wishing can make things come true, and they’re just losing faith in the efficacy of that.”
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/health...magic.html
 
The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity: Five predictions and a drum roll
 
Prediction 1. Dysphoric rituals produce more tribal warfare, intra-elite conflicts, military revolts, and separatist rebellions.
 
Prediction 2. Routinized rituals enabled the emergence of larger polities.
 
Prediction 3. Intensification of agriculture leads to routinization and orthopraxy.
 
Prediction 4. Widespread orthopraxy makes polities more stable and long-lived.
 
In the study of religion, orthopraxy is correct conduct, both ethical and liturgical, as opposed to faith or grace etc. This contrasts with orthodoxy, which emphasizes correct belief, and ritualism, the use of rituals. The word is a neoclassical compound—ὀρθοπραξία (orthopraxia) meaning 'correct practice'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthopraxy
 
Prediction 5. Routinization and orthopraxy lead to the expansion of political dominion and trade.
 
The process of inferring general patterns in human history has usually meant cunningly plucking out facts to fit your argument—for instance ‘cherry picking’ historical events to lend credence to your judgments about the ‘errors’ of the past and your favoured ‘prescriptions’ for the future. However flawed this methodology, alternative options were limited. Anybody seeking to use our accumulated experience of the past to predict likely patterns of history-making in the future has been limited by how much knowledge they could personally command, given the difficulties of accessing information, the limitations of brains (especially memory and processing power), and the shortness of scholars’ lifespans. To overcome these very human frailties, what has long been needed is a computerized database of global history in which patterns of correlations across space and time between variables of interest could be reliably tracked using statistical tools. Seshat: Global History Databank, a vast collection of information gleaned from the work of scholars who study the human past, will provide a new way of addressing this challenge.
 
DMR theory posits two clusters of features pertaining to collective ritual and social morphology in the world’s religious traditions (Whitehouse 1995, 2000, 2004, 2012). One cluster—the imagistic mode of religiosity—is characterized by low-frequency (i.e., rarely performed), high-arousal (typically painful or frightening) rituals and small but intensely cohesive communities. The other cluster—the doctrinal mode of religiosity—is characterized by high-frequency (i.e., routinized) low-arousal (often tedious and repetitive) rituals and large-scale, hierarchical, but more diffusely cohesive communities. The imagistic mode is thought to be adaptive for groups that need to stick together in the face of strong temptations to defect—for example, when engaging enemies on the battlefield or large prey on the hunting ground. The doctrinal mode is thought to be adaptive for groups seeking to pool small amounts of resource from individuals in a much larger population so as to create a large, centralised resource in the form of charitable donations, legacies, tax or tribute – for example, when competing coalitions are organized via categorical ties of caste, race, ethnicity, or belief.
 
https://evolution-institute.org/focus-ar...drum-roll/
 
 
 
 

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  Yard sale regulations on the rise
Posted by: Guest - 12-20-2022, 02:19 AM - Forum: Here There And Everywhere - Replies (4)

In the down economy, the beloved American pastime of unloading crap in your front yard or driveway has become increasingly popular. And so have local laws regulating garage sales of the 'extreme' variety.
 
To be clear, yard sale crackdowns exist mainly to curb those of the “extreme” variety, i.e. disruptive, rubberneck-inducing roadside retail operations that are held every weekend and involve multiple junked cars, large appliances, and ungodly amounts of crap ... we're not necessarily talking about a couple of card tables set out on a Sunday afternoon that have been topped with the remnants of a seasonal closet cleanout. That’s totally understandable — I wouldn’t want to live next door to a perma yard sale. But still, in many areas of the country where garage sale limits, permits, rules, and fees are being imposed, it doesn’t really matter if you’re unloading a washer and dryer set or a box of old baby clothes. 
 
http://www.mnn.com/your-home/at-home/blo...n-the-rise

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  The Soviet InterNyet
Posted by: Guest - 12-09-2022, 02:05 AM - Forum: Here There And Everywhere - No Replies

Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation. What stalemated them is now fracturing the global internet 
 
After the Soviet Union’s leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin’s personality cult in 1956, a sense of possibility swept the country. Onto this scene entered a host of socialist projects to wire the national economy with networks, among them the first proposal anywhere in the world to create a national computer network for civilians. The idea was the brainchild of the military researcher Anatoly Ivanovich Kitov.
 
In 1959, as the director of a secret military computer research centre, Kitov turned his attention to devoting ‘unlimited quantities of reliable calculating processing power’ to better planning the national economy, which was the most persistent information-coordination problem besetting the Soviet socialist project. (It was discovered in 1962, for example, that a handmade calculation error in the 1959 census goofed the population prediction by 4 million people.) Kitov wrote his thoughts down in the ‘Red Book letter’, which he sent to Khrushchev. He proposed allowing ‘civilian organisations’ to use functioning military computer ‘complexes’ for economic planning in the nighttime hours, when most military men were sleeping. Here, he thought, economic planners could harness the military’s computational surplus to adjust for census problems in real-time, tweaking the economic plan nightly if needed. He named his military-civilian national computer network the Economic Automated Management System.
 
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-soviets-i...idn-t-work
 
 

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  The Royal Order of Jesters
Posted by: Guest - 12-08-2022, 06:53 AM - Forum: Here There And Everywhere - Replies (8)

Freemasonry's Animal House 
 
Documentary about the Royal Order of Jesters, an invitation only Order of Shriners. Features hundreds of examples of Jester artwork from dozens of Courts over decades, plus news articles detailing a forgotten but major debacle from 25 years ago, as well as a host of other topics, including a segment on SOBIB.
 
Using extensive documentation, the film asks the question: Why does a "gentlemen's club" reside at the heart of American Freemasonry?
 
 
https://youtu.be/VtgBdUtw26c
 
http://https://youtu.be/VtgBdUtw26c
 
The Shriners' Dirty Little Secret
 
There is a bigger problem, however, that the Shriners should address. It is one that leaders will never acknowledge and one that members will never be allowed to discuss and that is the Shriners secret sub-group, the Royal Order of Jesters and their prostitution/sex crime scandals.
 
On the link below is a list of 35 Jester related articles, beginning with "Jesters Exposed," the first article ever written about the ROJ. It was published on February 15, 2008 and was mostly about nonprofit tax technicalities and how the nonprofit group's leaders ordered that the internet be scrubbed of ROJ information to "minimize to the extent possible, our public exposure or its access to Jesters information" because it had been alleged that their weekend meetings were nothing more than prostitution parties where they drank and played high stakes poker.
 
A few days after that, I learned about how 19 Jesters were named on a witness list for the defense in a defamation action between two fishing tour operators who took groups to fish the Amazon in Brazil. "'Jesters' To Testify about Illegal Drugs, Child Prostitution?" was published about three weeks later, on March 6, 2008, and reported how these Jesters were expected to testify about "their first hand knowledge of prostitution, minor prostitution, use of illegal drugs and/or the alleged illegal entry of one of the tour operators into Indian reservations by the plaintiff and his customers."
 
http://www.freezonemediacenternews.com/2...royal.html
 
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