DC : Life imitates art, art imitates life

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Study: If aliens exist, they probably want to destroy us

British scientist Simon Conway Morris believes there are only two possibilities for alien life; either we're alone or aliens exist, and they are out to get us.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/0 ... destroy-us

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Study: If aliens exist, they probably want to destroy us

Yes, even Stephen Hawking has started being a lot less enthusiastic about trying to contact anyone out there. Wonder if he knows something we don't...although it has to be said he already knows a LOT that we don't

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“This is like a civil war on steroids, a post-apocalyptic Armageddon with child soldiers smoking heroin, cross-dressing cannibals, systematic rape*, it’s total hell on earth.”

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide- ... ria-1-of-8#
from
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide- ... to-liberia

* Or Detroit on any given Saturday night.

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He then alleged that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who headed JSOC before briefly becoming the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, and his successor, Vice Adm. William McRaven, as well as many within JSOC, “are all members of, or at least supporters of, Knights of Malta.”

Hersh may have been referring to the Sovereign Order of Malta, a Roman Catholic organization commited to “defence of the Faith and assistance to the poor and the suffering,” according to its website.

http://www.blacklistednews.com/index.php?news_id=12345

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He then alleged that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who headed JSOC before briefly becoming the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, and his successor, Vice Adm. William McRaven, as well as many within JSOC, “are all members of, or at least supporters of, Knights of Malta.”

Well, makes a change from lizards I suppose.

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Just another drug bust...

Spanish police raid Europe's biggest cocaine laboratory
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/ja ... laboratory
Locals unaware of villa's role before 25 arrests made and refining equipment, guns and 300kg of drug seized

(Sounds normal, right? Until you get to this...)

The only female member of the gang was a devotee of santeria rituals, and would sacrifice ducks, chickens and pigeons at a river outside Madrid in order to ensure the safety of their trafficking operations.

Her luck, however, ran out two weeks ago. Police said the operation was continuing and more people could be detained soon.

NasalCannibals

SILVER SPRINGS, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - Marion County Sheriff's deputies on Tuesday arrested five burglary suspects stemming from an investigation which began last month.

The victim in the burglary said she returned to her home on Locust Lane in the Silver Springs Shores to discover that several items were missing. Some of the items included electronics and jewelry, but what she found most troubling, was the theft of her late father's ashes and the ashes of her two Great Danes.

During the investigation, detectives learned that the ashes were taken because the suspects mistook the cremains for either cocaine or heroin. It was soon discovered that the suspects snorted some of the ashes believing they were snorting cocaine.

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpps/news/calif ... s_11491640


CHICAGO (AP) -- As a decorated Chicago police lieutenant, Jon Burge prided himself on sending bad guys to prison by getting them to confess to terrible crimes - and by committing terrible crimes himself in the process, prosecutors say. Now, having been convicted of lying about the violent means he and his men used to get confessions, it is Burge's turn to face prison time.

With the sentencing hearing for Burge scheduled to start Thursday, prosecutors say his perjury and obstruction of justice convictions add up to 30-plus years in federal prison. Defense attorneys are arguing for less than two years for the 63-year-old former commander whose name has become synonymous with police brutality in the nation's third-largest city.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... SECTION=US

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A source from within the inner circle of the Wikileaks team has confidentially leaked to All News Web the content of a State Dept cable, concerning UFO affairs, that Wikileaks has declined to upload onto their website.

The cable states: "It is critical all embassy staff understand that they are not to discuss under any circumstance concerns DOD has with UFOs entering orbit, once again the seriousness of this matter cannot be overstated"

The cable was sent on 9 November, 2005 by the State Dept to a diplomat connected to the US embassy in Kiev, Ukraine. As it implies, the State Dept was concerned with diplomats with loose tongues chatting about UFOs at cocktail parties and conceding that the US does allocate resources to the matter. Due to the fact that UFO and alien affairs fall within the absolute highest level of secrecy and security clearance it is hardly surprising that Julian Assange has chosen, as a safety measure, not to reveal such information.

http://www.allnewsweb.com/page1199999467.php

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The mystery sculptor who left two towering works of art on Boulder lawns last month continues to spread the love to his online admirers.

Read more: Boulder mystery artist strikes again - Boulder Daily Camera http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_17132105? ... z1BuNxdKt2
DailyCamera.com

DC twist - alien art? Navigation markers?

http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/m ... tw_300.jpg


Physicist Brian Greene
In his new book "The Hidden Reality," theoretical physicist Brian Greene explains how a multitude of parallel universes is possible. Greene joins host Terry Gross for a conversation on the cosmos. Greene is also the author of "The Elegant Universe."

KQED Public Radio -- Mon, Jan 24, 2011 -- 1:00pm Mon, Jan 24, 2011 -- 1:00pm

KQED Public Radio -- Mon, Jan 24, 2011 -- 7:00pm Mon, Jan 24, 2011 -- 7:00pm
http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/index.jsp?pgmid=RD20
http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/

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Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation - in which magnets are used to disrupt neural activity in specific parts of the brain - scientists managed to "turn off" people's moral centers.

http://io9.com/5505122/scientists-disru ... -the-skull

[ReHerakhte]

Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation - in which magnets are used to disrupt neural activity in specific parts of the brain - scientists managed to "turn off" people's moral centers.

http://io9.com/5505122/scientists-disru ... -the-skull

Now this is very interesting and has some implications for DC - imagine the Corps. using such a technique to keep the Proles in their 'care' calm (i.e. sedated and pliable) "Why yes we'll look after you if you give us your vote, in return you have to wear this hat to identify you as one of the people in our care" (or worse, forced surgery to implant the magnets).

And that's just the 'nice' end of the spectrum, you could easily have people going in to hospital for neuro-surgery, the doctors are paid/blackmailed/whatever by a Corp. to place a remote control magnet device into the patients head. When the Corp. needs a particular thing to happen, they activate the magnet to remove the patient's (victim's) moral beliefs.

Ahh the possibilities...

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(Reuters) - They work as doctors and lawyers by day but lurk as vampires by night. While they may not wish to suck your blood, there are plenty of willing victims on tap, according to a top U.S. scholar on a subculture that emulates the undead.

Idaho State University sociologist D.J. Williams, newly hired as a consultant for a proposed television documentary about "self-identified vampires," said true modern acolytes of Dracula seek consensual blood-sharing relationships.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7 ... 22&sp=true

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Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group largely focused in recent years on Google's privacy practices, has called on a congressional investigation into the Internet giant's "cozy" relationship with U.S. President Barack Obama's administration.
In a letter sent Monday, Consumer Watchdog asked Representative Darrell Issa, the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, to investigate the relationship between Google and several government agencies.
The group asked Issa to investigate contracts at several U.S. agencies for Google technology and services, the "secretive" relationship between Google and the U.S. National Security Agency, and the company's use of a U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration airfield in California.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/2011012 ... hipwithnsa


A New Jersey man who was severely beaten - and part of whose ear was hacked off - was found tied up inside the trunk of a BMW that crashed in upper Manhattan early Wednesday, police said.

The victim survived the harrowing ordeal despite spending a frigid night trapped inside the trunk, police sources said.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crim ... z1CF0yr48F


A grand piano recently appeared on a sandbar in Biscayne Bay, about 200 yards from the Quayside condominiums off Northeast 107th Street. Whoever put it there placed it at the highest point of the sandbar so that it's not underwater during high tide.
How and why the piano got there is a mystery. A grand piano weighs at least 650 pounds and is unwieldly to move, said Bob Shapiro, a salesman at Piano Music Center in Pembroke Park. ``You don't take it out there in a rowboat,'' Shapiro said.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/24/2 ... z1CEzp7n3m

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Utah Army base locked to solve 'serious concern'
(AP) – 5 hours ago
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah military base that carries out tests to
protect troops against biological attacks was locked down Wednesday to
resolve a "serious concern," officials said.
Base commander Col. William E. King said no one was in danger and the
gates will reopen as quickly as it's feasible.
His statement did not provide any details of the problem.
Base spokeswoman Bonnie Robinson told the The Associated Press early
Thursday that officials hope to have the problem resolved shortly.


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Dugway would not detail reasons for the shutdown, but did stress that no damages or injuries were reported, and no threats received. The installation does house small amounts of chemical and biological warfare agents for defense testing purposes, and Dugway also is a prime Army base for testing of an array of conventional military weaponry and ammunition.

Asked specifically Thursday if a chemical or biological leak or spill may have prompted the lockdown, Dugway public affairs specialist Bonnie Robinson said she could neither confirm nor deny that scenario.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/51134 ... n.html.csp

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A night fire in an apartment block has been caused by a woman who tried to reanimate her long-dead elder sister with electricity.
The horrific story happened in Ekaterinburg, the biggest city in the Urals.

The suspected arsonist, 69, apparently was not completely of sound mind, judging by her mental health record.

A year ago, her 73-year-old sister died from natural causes, prosecutors told Noviy Region news agency. However, instead of reporting the death, the woman preserved the body with gasoline and had been trying the reanimate it ever since.

http://rt.com/news/fire-sister-revive-mummy/


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TAMPA — Four years ago, John Wade Agan told deputies he was robbed at gunpoint in his taxicab, roughed up and stuffed into the trunk of the car.

Three years ago, he drove to a fire station with a butcher knife sticking out of his chest.

Two years ago, in a news conference from his hospital bed, he told the world he'd been bitten by two different snakes at the same time, a claim experts doubted.

He told the St. Petersburg Times he might have been the unluckiest man in the world.

Now, Agan occupies another hospital bed, befallen, he said, by yet another freak calamity: lightning.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninter ... 147889.ece

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CARLSBAD - A frozen human body stuffed inside a freezer was found Monday evening by two people cleaning out the home of a deceased relative.

According to a news release from Capt. Jeff Zuniga with the Eddy County Sheriff's Department, officers are currently investigating the discovery of the body of an unidentified person.

http://www.currentargus.com/ci_17199456

Additionally, documentation allegedly drafted by Barbara Sharpe was found in her personal property explaining why her husband was in the freezer.

The documentation reportedly indicated that she was remorseful, but couldn't afford to survive without his retirement income.

"The ECSO Special Investigations Unit will continue to work closely with the Office of the Medical Investigator to confirm the official identity of the decedent as well as the cause and manner of death," said Zuniga.
http://www.currentargus.com/ci_17207844

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nb : posted not for the political content, but to illustrate the scary prescience of the original DC framers.


The fact that Immelt is a Republican is as beside the point as the fact that Daley is a Democrat. Increasingly our nation is divided, not between Rs and Ds, but between TIs and TBs: tribute imposers and tribute bearers.

http://blogs.forbes.com/jerrybowyer/201 ... enklatura/

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nb : posted not for the political content, but to illustrate the scary prescience of the original DC framers.


The fact that Immelt is a Republican is as beside the point as the fact that Daley is a Democrat. Increasingly our nation is divided, not between Rs and Ds, but between TIs and TBs: tribute imposers and tribute bearers.

http://blogs.forbes.com/jerrybowyer/201 ... enklatura/

Yeah, some of the concepts for DC (and also Cyberpunk & dark future games in general), feel very prescient now.
I wouldn't mind so much if what was foreshadowed came to pass 40-50 years afterwards but some of what they mentioned & hinted at occurred within 20 years or so of the games publication