Saturday, November 22. 2008
'There was no evidence of the global financial crisis as tycoons and celebrities streamed into Dubai last night for the world’s most expensive private party.
'Having spent £1 billion, the owners of the Atlantis hotel, which they hope will become the new symbol of excess in a region already replete with towering statements of wealth, splashed out £13.5 million on its opening.' (Times Online article). media-underground.net
'The majority of parents believe that watching television is good for children, according to a report by a Government adviser.
'Despite the negativity often associated with children watching television, eight out of 10 parents questioned believed it has a positive effect on their child's development, including helping them to expand their imagination (63 per cent) and broaden their vocabulary (60 per cent).' (Telegraph article). media-underground.net
Wednesday, November 19. 2008
'A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore's chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.' (Telegraph article). media-underground.net
Saturday, November 15. 2008
'Scientists from Maastricht University have developed a method to look into the brain of a person and read out who has spoken to him or her and what was said. With the help of neuroimaging and data mining techniques the researchers mapped the brain activity associated with the recognition of speech sounds and voices.' (Science Daily article). media-underground.net
Thursday, November 13. 2008
'Students of consciousness know that fear is a disconnecting frequency; it separates and diminishes with cold efficiency. Fear restrains consciousness by contracting it and binding it to the 3D, effectively isolating the individual from higher awareness. So it is that in these days of shifting paradigms, as the old hierarchies scramble to contain the effects of polarizing consciousness and wider galactic alignments, it is wise to be mindful of those who deal primarily in fear.' (The Cleaver article). media-underground.net
Friday, November 7. 2008
'Once in a while, we run across a science story that is hard to believe until you see it. That's how we felt about this story when we first saw human beings operating computers, writing e-mails, and driving wheelchairs with nothing but their thoughts.
'Quietly in a number of laboratories, an astounding technology is developing that directly connects the human brain to a computer. It's like a sudden leap in human evolution - a leap that could one day help paralyzed people to walk again and amputees to move bionic limbs.' (CBS News article). media-underground.net
Thursday, November 6. 2008
As the credit crunch bites and a global economic crisis threatens, Robert Peston reveals how the super-rich have made their fortunes and the rest of us are picking up the bill. (Google video stream). media-underground.net
Tuesday, November 4. 2008
'BC's illegal marijuana trade industry has evolved into a business giant, dubbed by some involved as "The Union", Commanding upwards of $7 billion Canadian annually. With up to 85% of "BC Bud" being exported to the United States, the trade has become an international issue. Follow filmmaker Adam Scorgie as he demystifies the underground market and brings to light how an industry can function while remaining illegal. Through growers, police officers, criminologists, economists, doctors, politicians and pop culture icons, Scorgie examines the cause and effect nature of the business - an industry that may be profiting more by being illegal.
'The Union: The Business Behind Getting High is a movie about the big industry that creates and selling illegal Cannabis. Cannabis is still illegal most parts of the world, despite that cigarettes and Alcohol is taking more life's then Cannabis.' (Blip.TV video stream). media-underground.net
Sunday, November 2. 2008
'A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer generated music.
'The songs were captured by the BBC in the Autumn of 1951 during a visit to the University of Manchester.
'The recording has been unveiled as part of the 60th Anniversary of "Baby", the forerunner of all modern computers.' (BBC News article). media-underground.net
Thursday, October 30. 2008
Interview with Professor John Rush regarding his new book Failed God: Fractured Myth In A Fragile World. This is the first academic book since the publication of John Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom And The Cross which argues that Allegro was correct and provides ample support for the mushroom foundations of Judeo-Christianity. (Gnostic Media podcast). media-underground.net
Wednesday, October 29. 2008
'The problem with the internet, as we all know, is that it gives free rein to loonies. Once upon a time, green inkers would rant away on writing paper, seal their 30-page global conspiracy theory into a recycled envelope and post it to a newspaper, which would drop it harmlessly into a wastepaper basket. Now they infiltrate chat rooms, scrawl anonymous abuse in web discussions and even have their own video blogs.' (Times Online article). media-underground.net
Tuesday, October 28. 2008
'Our right to own property is at the core of freedom and liberty. Simply put, if you can't own property, you become property! Is the environmental movement really concerned with protecting nature or is there a hidden agenda to control and eliminate private property? Who is behind this movement? Are the constitutional rights of ordinary citizens being systematically violated? Behind The Green Curtain blows back the green veil hiding the environmental movement. It reveals a dark, cynical reality of the movement unconcerned about nature and the environment. It focuses on the mega-foundations and the financial elite behind them. Learn about their hidden agenda of power, control and the goal of eliminating private property altogether.' (Google video stream). media-underground.net
Saturday, October 25. 2008
'While a pink sky at night might be a shepherd's delight, London residents were left scratching their heads last night as a mysterious pink cloud drifted over the city.
'Bemused bystanders in Mayfair craned their necks to witness the strange alien-like cloud that appeared for just under an hour at around 8:30pm.
'It hovered over buildings before breaking up and slowly disappearing.' (Daily Mail article). media-underground.net
Wednesday, October 22. 2008
'From an Attic in the far West Suburbs of Chicago, Cody and Sancho are bringing you the sounds and ideas that will hopefully inspire you to "find the others".
'Join us each time as we take little trips through our thoughts and experiences and bring you little jewels to ponder on as well as new ways of looking at the world. You'll also get a measured dose of some good tunes and tripped out soundbytes.' (Black Light In The Attic podcast & weblog). media-underground.net
Tuesday, October 21. 2008
'Is technology changing our brains? A new study by UCLA neuroscientist Gary Small adds to a growing body of research that says it is. And according to Small's new book, "iBRAIN: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind," a dramatic shift in how we gather information and communicate with one another has touched off an era of rapid evolution that may ultimately change the human brain as we know it. "Perhaps not since early man first discovered how to use a tool has the human brain been affected so quickly and so dramatically," he writes. "As the brain evolves and shifts its focus towards new technological skills, it drifts away from fundamental social skills?.' (Newsweek article). media-underground.net
Saturday, October 18. 2008
'Daniel Tatman has done some very interesting scholarly research on the history and architecture of Bath, Somerset, UK. We begin our conversation by talking about Dan’s family history and connections to the City of Bath. One area of particular interest is his grandfather’s work in Africa and its implications.' (Occult Of Personality article). media-underground.net
Friday, October 17. 2008
'In making Inside The Teenage Brain, we seemed to hit a nerve - a parental one - when we began looking into the world of teenagers and how they sleep. The patterns that young teens seemed to be experiencing - an inability to go to sleep at night, followed by profound drowsiness on waking - seemed so pervasive that it should come as no a surprise that what parents were seeing at home had already been corroborated in university sleep labs at Stanford and Brown.' (PBS article). media-underground.net
Sunday, October 12. 2008
'An exclusive interview with science fiction legend Ridley Scott for an update on his adaptation of Aldous Huxley's classic dystopian novel Brave New World. While he's still knee-deep in the details of the adaptation, he's already got some strong opinions - including his view that Brave New World is closer to the truth than George Orwell's 1984. So what does Scott have in mind for his Brave New World?' (io9 article). media-underground.net
Saturday, October 11. 2008
'Given the socialistic leanings of our Prime Minister, it may well have been a move he undertook calmly and, quite possibly, with a little excitement
A quarter of a century ago, in the era of the Labour manifesto that was dubbed (by a member of the Labour shadow cabinet) “the longest suicide note in history”, when one wanted to depict the absurdity of the view of the world advanced by Tony Benn and Michael Foot one simply had to say: “They want to nationalise the banks!” People fell about laughing.' (Aftermath News article). media-underground.net
Friday, October 10. 2008
'Zeitgeist: Addendum, attempts to locate the root causes of this pervasive social corruption, while offering a solution. This solution is not based on politics, morality, laws, or any other "establishment" notions of human affairs, but rather on a modern, non-superstitious based understanding of what we are and how we align with nature, to which we are a part.' (Google video stream). media-underground.net
Tuesday, October 7. 2008
'The fractal spiral is the evolutionary movement of consciousness through the universe. Each iterative resolution of the fractal is encoded with the whole, meaning that every element and compound, from a hydrogen molecule to a Beethoven symphony, unfolds from the same elegant rule set and is capable of connecting to, or becoming, anything else in the universe. Every holographic fragment contains the big picture. It is the frequency of one’s own channel of consciousness that determines how deeply we can go.' (The Cleaver article). media-underground.net
Monday, October 6. 2008
'Renowned author, philosopher, and mythologist Joseph Campbell presents this program, an exploration of primal mythical images. Campbell traces the mythological symbols left to us by the ancients, revealing the drama played out across the screen of the universe. Primal mythological images evoke a sense of the experience as well as the spirit of the great story that so excited Joe. Filmed around the world, SUKHAVATI is a journey of transcendence and illumination.
'By casting his sharp critical eye on the images and practices of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity as well as the ruins of Ajanta or Ellora in India, Eleusis and Delphi in Greece, and Stonehenge, Campbell sets off on a journey filled with visual poetry to find the land of bliss.' (Google video stream part 1 & part 2). media-underground.net
Monday, September 29. 2008
'Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen. The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression. Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.' (You Tube video stream part 1, part 2 & part 3). media-underground.net
Sunday, September 28. 2008
'As Colin Wilson explains in The Occult, Aleister Crowley was hardly the first occultist to proclaim the dawning of a new epoch in the early years of the twentieth century; August Strindberg, the radical playwright and painter, was just one in a long line of prophets of dissent whose voice and preoccupations Crowley (and his Guardian Angel) unconsciously reflected. But rarely, if ever, can the perennial philosophy have been communicated as forcefully, and with such delirium, as in The Book of the Law - 'transcribed' over three days in April 1904: a communication which, for Thelemites, marks the beginning of the (new) Aeon of Horus. In keeping with the approximate duration of a Precessional Year- the time it takes for the sun to complete a circuit around the full circumference of the sky, as measured by the changing astronomical conditions behind its rising point on the equinox - the end of the Aeon was not expected for around 2,160 years.' (Ben Fairhall article). media-underground.net
Sunday, September 21. 2008
'Bill Moyers sits down with former Nixon White House strategist and political and economic critic Kevin Phillips, whose latest book Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism explores the role that the crumbling financial sector played in the now-fragile American economy.' (PBS article). media-underground.net
Thursday, September 18. 2008
'Soldiers barking orders at each other is so 20th Century. That's why the U.S. Army has just awarded a $4 million contract to begin developing "thought helmets" that would harness silent brain waves for secure communication among troops. Ultimately, the Army hopes the project will "lead to direct mental control of military systems by thought alone."
'If this sounds insane, it would have been as recently as a few years ago. But improvements in computing power and a better understanding of how the brain works have scientists busy hunting for the distinctive neural fingerprints that flash through a brain when a person is talking to himself. The Army's initial goal is to capture those brain waves with incredibly sophisticated software that then translates the waves into audible radio messages for other troops in the field.' (Time article). media-underground.net
Wednesday, September 17. 2008
'The Ascent of Man (1973) was a groundbreaking BBC documentary series, produced in association with Time-Life Films, produced by Adrian Malone and written and presented by Jacob Bronowski.
'The title alludes to The Descent Of Man by Charles Darwin. Over the course of thirteen episodes, Bronowski travelled around the world in order to trace the development of human society through its understanding of science. It was written specifically to complement Kenneth Clark's Civilisation (1969), in which Clark argued that art was a major driving force in cultural evolution. Bronowski wrote in his 1951 book, The Commonsense Of Science, "It has been one of the most destructive modern prejudices that art and science are different and somehow incompatible interests". (Pirate Bay torrent download). media-underground.net
Sunday, September 7. 2008
'Children are being offered money by councils to spy on neighbours and report petty offences such as 'bin crimes' and dog-fouling.
'The youngsters are among 5,000 residents encouraged to photograph or video neighbours in the act of 'environmental crimes'.
'In some cases children as young as eight, are being bribed with rewards of £500 for passing on the names of neighbours or taking down their car registration numbers.' (Daily Mail article). media-underground.net
Sunday, August 31. 2008
'The mayor of New Orleans has issued a mandatory evacuation order for the entire city, as Hurricane Gustav bears down on the US Gulf Coast. Ray Nagin said residents of the city's West Bank should begin moving out at 0800 (1300 GMT) on Sunday, with the East Bank leaving at midday (1700 GMT).
'He called it "the storm of the century" and added: "You need to be scared".
'Gustav, which is forecast to strengthen to a Category 5 storm over the Gulf, powered through western Cuba overnight.' (BBC News article). media-underground.net
Saturday, August 30. 2008
'The controversy over the Georgian surprise military attacks on South Ossetia and Abkhazia on 8.8.08 makes a closer look at the controversial Georgian President and his puppet masters important. An examination shows 41-year-old Mikheil Saakashvili to be a ruthless and corrupt totalitarian who is tied to not only the US NATO establishment, but also to the Israeli military and intelligence establishment.
'The famous ‘Rose Revolution of November 2003 that forced the ageing Edouard Shevardnadze from power and swept the then 36-year-old US university graduate into power was run and financed by the US State Department, the Soros Foundations, and agencies tied to the Pentagon and US intelligence community.' (Online Journal article). media-underground.net
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