Adam Crowe

[What we gonna do here is go back...] by Alan Kay

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:53:26 GMT

[What we gonna do here is go back...] by Alan Kay
via: tele-task.de/archive/lecture/overview/5819/

Big Gang

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:17:05 GMT

Big Gang

Intergenerational Warfare [by ????]

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:03:49 GMT

Intergenerational Warfare [by ????]

(Give a dog a bone) [by famous cartoonist]

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:56:15 GMT

(Give a dog a bone) [by famous cartoonist]

Faulty Perceptions [by Unknown]

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:55:03 GMT

Faulty Perceptions [by Unknown]
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Twitter -- @joshu: maybe it's time now to ship a next-gen bookmarking site.

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:16:38 GMT

https://twitter.com/#!/joshu/status/119155544077504512

YouTube -- RussiaToday: Cash Sweet Poison: 'Greece victim of Europe cheap money'

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:06:38 GMT

YouTube -- RussiaToday: Cash Sweet Poison: 'Greece victim of Europe cheap money'
'Dr Markus Kerber, says that German taxpayers are fed up with being Europe's cash cow.' -- "There's a growing split between the German public and the political elite. Never ever before the split has been greater than today. The political elite is still united to support the Chancellor's policy of continuous bailout and the German public is more united than ever to oppose it. And sooner or later the European project is going to lose the popular support it has always had in Germany until now. So, we are really at a crossroad."'

The Daily Bell -- Barroso Says EU Will Overcome

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:36:47 GMT

'It seems very clear that the powers-that-be subscribe to the idea that they have been chosen to deliver appropriate direction to the masses. This sense that one has a kind of divine right to rule was supposed to have dissipated years ago – at least last century – but the EU's top people obviously believe they are Charlemagne's second coming. The only reason they could believe this is because they have the backing of money power – endless torrents of central banking fiat paper controlled by a handful of individuals at the apex of the Anglosphere power elite. But what they may not realize is that they too are perhaps being manipulated, that those who seek to run the world via military force and political unions will betray their enablers without a backwards glance. This is an elemental understanding that even velvet thugs like Barroso seem to fail to understand.'

http://www.thedailybell.com/3009/Barroso-Says-EU-Will-Overcome

Wikipedia -- World War I reparations

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:32:19 GMT

'The economic problems that the payments brought, and German resentment at their imposition are usually cited as one of the more significant factors that led to the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler. -- #Current status: After Germany’s defeat in World War II, payment of the reparations was not resumed. There was, however, outstanding German debt that the Weimar Republic had used to pay the reparations. An international conference decided (Agreement on German External Debts, 1953) that Germany would pay some parts of the remaining debt only after the country was reunified, at that time an event thought very unlikely to happen. West Germany paid off the remainder by 1980. According to the agreement, the debt would be serviced for 20 years, leading to the last payments being due on 3 October 2010, the 20th anniversary of German reunification. About 10% of this debt, about 20 million euro, has not been claimed yet.' -- Debt repayment is a sin!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_reparations

YouTube -- RussiaToday: Cash Sweet Poison: 'Greece victim of Europe cheap money' -

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:31:42 GMT

YouTube -- RussiaToday: Cash Sweet Poison: 'Greece victim of Europe cheap money' -
'Dr Markus Kerber, says that German taxpayers are fed up with being Europe's cash cow.' -- "There's a growing split between the German public and the political elite. Never ever before the split has been greater than today. The political elite is still united to support the Chancellor's policy of continuous bailout and the German public is more united than ever to oppose it. And sooner or later the European project is going to lose the popular support it has always had in Germany until now. So, we are really at a crossroad."

The Onion -- Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:59:52 GMT

'According to the historians, by looking at things that have already happened, Americans can learn a lot about which actions made things better versus which actions made things worse, and can then plan their own actions accordingly. While the new strategy, known as "Look Back Before You Act," has raised concerns among people worried they will have to remember lots of events from long ago, the historians have assured Americans they won't be required to read all the way through thick books or memorize anything.'

http://www.theonion.com/articles/historians-politely-remind-nation-to-check-whats-h,26183/

The Daily Bell -- Depression Leaves Investors Feeling 'Like a Dog Without a Bone'

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:59:46 GMT

'Dominant Social Theme: Look. Depressions happen. But what would you do in 1932? You'd stick it out! By, say, 1960, you'd be back where you were! No problem ... -- Every day of your life you look anxiously in the newspapers to find out what "they" are saying about inflation, about Europe, about the budget crisis and whether taxes are going up. You have a job, but you're worried you're going to be made "redundant." Or maybe your company is going to go out business. Or your skills simply aren't going to be needed anymore. It's your fault, too. Plenty of people are "making it" in the modern world and if you're not it's because you haven't planned properly. You haven't taken the right degrees, focused on the right industry, created the image for yourself. Your fault anyway ... And so you worry. You live with worry. You worry all the time. There are so many outside factors weighing down on you. So much you can't control ... Recession, depression ... global warming, overpopulation ...'

http://www.thedailybell.com/3004/Depression-Leaves-Investors-Feeling-Like-a-Dog-Without-a-Bone

The Last Psychiatrist -- Finding Existential Solace In A Pink Tied Psycho

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:13:11 GMT

'Though narcissism demands the right to self-identify, narcissists are often unable to do so because they don't know what it is they want to be. Who am I? What are the rules of my identity? So people look for shortcuts, like modeling oneself after another existing character. But the considerably more regressive maneuver is to define yourself in opposition to things. What do the protestors want? Can they articulate it meaningfully, not in platitudes or "people over profits" or "more fair income redistribution" soundbites? They can't tell you because they don't know. They can, however, yell at you what they don't like, and the louder they yell it the more they hear it themselves. If I hate the protestors, I'm on Wall Street's side, and vise versa, no further branding, let alone thought, is necessary. And now you have a quick way to decide if you hate me.'

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/09/finding_existential_solace_in.html

Partial Objects -- Protestors Get Maced

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:09:25 GMT

'...when the oppressive entity is so poorly defined (e.g. Wall Street, “the banks”, corruption) these protests always and without fail turn into protests against the police. ...iphones at the ready, praying someone maces them so they can get a video out of it. Here’s a clue that this is a pathologic narcissism, the nihilistic kind that 17 yo boys have when they threaten to kill themselves if their girlfriend leaves them: I actually agree with the protestors about Bank of America in principle, but because they are putting their identity ahead of the cause and are making it about themselves, I find myself hating them more than Bank of America. Their arrogance and entitlement drives me away from them, into the arms of their enemies. I’m hardly alone in this. Either they are not aware of this effect, in which case they are merely idiots, or the are aware of this effect and do not care.'

http://partialobjects.com/2011/09/protestors-get-maced/

YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: True News: The Wall Street Protests

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:43:23 GMT

YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: True News: The Wall Street Protests
'Amateur surgery always ends in a bloodbath...' -- "Begging the mafia to solve the problem of crime is a futile, ridiculous and embarrassing thing to do."

Narcissistic Allocation: Over-valuation (Idealization) and Devaluation

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:44:17 GMT

'Narcissists idealize potential new sources of narcissistic supply and later devalue and discard them. Cycles of over-valuation (idealization) followed by devaluation ... They reflect the need to be protected against the whims, needs, and choices of others, shielded from the hurt that they can inflict on the narcissist. The ultimate and only emotional need of the narcissist is to be the subject of attention and, thus, to support his volatile self-esteem and to regulate his sense of self worth. The narcissist is dependent on others for the performance of critical Ego functions. While healthier people overcome disappointment or disillusionment with relative ease – to the narcissist they are the difference between Being and Nothingness. The quality and reliability of Narcissistic Supply are, therefore, of paramount importance.'

http://samvak.tripod.com/faq44.html

The Daily Bell -- How Tony Blair Earns His Millions

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:42:00 GMT

'Dominant Social Theme: Blair started the Libya war. Gaddafi didn't give him and JP Morgan what they wanted and now he's paid a dreadful price. It's all about the money. Modern wars are always about resources. Besides, we're running out of aluminum. Peak Aluminum is only years away! -- The Anglosphere elites have a motive in ensuring the war-for-resources meme is spread about the mainstream media, mainly in leftist newspapers. The idea of greedy, grubbing capitalists is a quite convenient one as it confuses what is actually happening. Much better to blame wars on exploitative corporations than intergenerational familial regimes controlling central banks. Blair ... is being paid to attract heat and light that might otherwise end up striking London's City itself... Blair is yet only a pimple on a larger, uglier visage, though surely a sizeable blemish. -- The roots run much, much deeper. And so does the institutionalized malevolence. Maybe all the way back to Babylon.'

http://www.thedailybell.com/2996/How-Tony-Blair-Earns-His-Millions

The Daily Bell -- Are the Tribes of Europe Ready to Explode?

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:27:31 GMT

'Pre-Internet, what's happening in the EU would have been buried under mainstream media misdirection. People might not have understood the larger forces at work. But the EU unraveling along with much else has played out under the merciless glare of the alternative press, and the European tribes are aware of the manipulations that are taking place. It is realization of these manipulations that informs the article, which is a surprisingly good piece of reporting. It is written by Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight's Economics Editor, who is broadcasting regularly from Greece, and it seems to have concentrated his mind, at least for a while, on what's actually happening. The problems are happening to people, individual people, and it is these people, ultimately, who will formulate a response, not "Greece," not politicians, not "working groups" – not even the IMF or ECB. The EU was not an accident. Central banking is not happenstance.'

http://www.thedailybell.com/2995/Are-the-Tribes-of-Europe-Ready-to-Explode

The Onion -- California To Allow Prisoners To Serve Sentences Online

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:17:34 GMT

'Faced with a mandate to cut the state's prison population by 30,000, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced Monday it would begin allowing prisoners to serve their sentences online. "Inmates are required to log in promptly every morning at 6 a.m.," CDCR secretary Matthew Cate said. "But make no mistake, this is not some online holiday resort prison. Offenders spend at least eight hours a day entering data and can only see visitors in the chat room once a week.'

http://www.theonion.com/articles/california-to-allow-prisoners-to-serve-sentences-o,26173/

Freedomain Radio -- #1335 Sunday Show April 19 2009 - 00:49:00 Virtue Is A Relationship

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:24:25 GMT

"Virtue is a relationship. And it is a relationship where both parties need to bring value to the table – like any economic relationship. If there are rules, so to speak, like UPB ... we are not authentic if we are following rules – even if those rules are rational – we are not authentic if we are following them because they are rules ... The rules have to be alive, the rules have to be sensitive, the rules have to be reciprocal, the rules have to be relational. People will constantly try to put hooks in you based on their perception that you will obey abstract rules in a vacuum – despite what they, no matter what they do. Rules bow to evidence. Empiricism trumps abstractions every time. That's why people's behaviour matters a lot more than what they say. It's the constant reciprocity of how other people are treating you that is the challenge of ethics. How is the other person treating me now? How is the other person treating me now? How is the other person treating me now?"

Global Dashboard -- What is resilience? [Three-dimensional (3D) wellbeing]

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:28:46 GMT

'...wellbeing is a dynamic process with #material (what people have), #relational (what people are able to do) and #subjective (how people feel) dimensions. These dimensions are interlinked, co-evolving and fluid. The review is largely an individual/household level analysis but potentially could be applied to community/country-level resilience too. #Material dimension: ...households suffer asset loss; people’s health deteriorates; families go hungry. And attempts to minimise vulnerability in the present can have material consequences in the longer term... #Relational dimension: Social networks are important in enabling migration towards areas of relative safety and opportunity, even when restrictive policies are in place to limit movement. #Subjective dimension: The way in which an individual feels vulnerable is ultimately shaped by the culture and environment in which they grew up, by their position in society, by gender, and by a whole other range of contextually specific factors.'

http://www.globaldashboard.org/2011/09/24/what-is-resilience/

YouTube -- RT: Junky spirits of Kabul: Afghanistan world's narco plague epicenter

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:52:28 GMT

YouTube -- RT: Junky spirits of Kabul: Afghanistan world's narco plague epicenter
'Every year the production of opiates is growing, despite the billions of dollars spent by the international community to fight the country's narcotics machine. Heroin and opium are openly used even in the center of Kabul, while NATO says stopping all this is simply not its goal.' -- Guns, Oil Drugs. Doin' GOD's work.

Dynamic Hedge -- How To Time A Market Crash

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:25:05 GMT

http://dynamichedge.com/2011/09/22/how-to-time-a-market-crash/

YouTube -- NMAWorldEdition: Facebook announces big changes at F8 conference

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:25:05 GMT

YouTube -- NMAWorldEdition: Facebook announces big changes at F8 conference

Partial Objects -- 1000 Days: a Postmodern Man Curates His Own Suicide

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:25:05 GMT

http://partialobjects.com/2011/09/1000-days-a-postmodern-man-curates-his-own-suicide

Vimeo -- "The rainforest in your gut: A brief tour through your intestinal bi...

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:25:05 GMT

Vimeo -- "The rainforest in your gut: A brief tour through your intestinal biome, why it’s messed up, and how to fix it"

The Daily Bell -- New Crisis, New Currency?

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:45:20 GMT

http://www.thedailybell.com/2986/New-Crisis-New-Currency

The Daily Bell -- Lady Gaga Wants a New Hate Crime

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:44:05 GMT

http://www.thedailybell.com/2987/Lady-Gaga-Wants-a-New-Hate-Crime

The Daily Bell -- Blame Republicans for the Depression

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:08:05 GMT

'The great central banking families that want one world government seem to be driving the West toward bankruptcy in order to get their way. Yes, perhaps the economic degeneration will not cease until global governance is achieved. People will be forced to cry out in grief and pain, accepting the political, monetary, military and judicial centralization... They will be driven toward one world government like beasts herded toward an abattoir. Is there some other explanation that makes sense? This economic system with all its dysfunction and ruin is premeditated. It didn't just "evolve." There are central banks all over the world now, where 50 years ago there were not. Most of these report to the Swiss-based BIS. And what the heck is the BIS? Did you ever hear a news item about the BIS? Did you ever see a reporter standing in front of the BIS, explaining what was going on inside? The BIS may as well not exist. It is part and parcel of a system that does not explain itself...'

http://www.thedailybell.com/2975/Blame-Republicans-for-the-Depression

The Daily Bell -- DB Briefs: Big Prison for Afghanistan

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:54:06 GMT

'Dominant Social Theme: The Afghan war is under control and the perpetrators will be punished. -- Having helped create the "Arab Spring," NATO and the US now face the hard work of keeping it under control. The idea apparently has been to create a large, low-impact war between a resurgent Islam and the West. To this end, a number of secular regimes have been removed in the Middle East and Africa and if we are correct in our perspective, these regimes will be replaced by Islamic Republics. Most of these republics may be influenced by Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, which is penetrated by the CIA at the top. This is how controlled wars are waged. A war is a war. And wars spin out of control or, as in the case of Afghanistan, don't work out so well. The Anglosphere is doing what it can to maintain control. It already has in place a kind of gulag for the Middle East's population of religious young men, many of whom are radicalized by their involuntary incarcerations.'

http://www.thedailybell.com/2977/DB-Briefs-Americans-Like-Gold-A-Lot-Big-Prison-for-Afghanistan-Disturbing-Reports-From-Libya

The Daily Bell -- West Sponsors Afghan Civil War

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:44:29 GMT

'Western powers-that-be also intend to drag India and Russia directly into the conflict... It would be most surprising if the current Afghan war does not resolve itself with a further, bloody civil war that pits the Northern Alliance and the remnants of NATO against the Pashtuns and an increasingly destabilized Pakistan. It is a most cynical and even genocidal outcome. ...the Afghan war was never about revenge for 9/11 or even about nation-building. It was a war to advance the one-world ambitions of the Anglosphere power elite. Having been thwarted again, the City of London will be merciless in defeat. The Afghans will pay. That bloody, tortured, irradiated land will not receive a moment's peace. This is the fate that the Anglosphere elites have in mind for the Pashtuns, to punish them for their continued resistance. The Pashtuns have doubtless slowed the rush to one-world government but the price, apparently, shall be one of continued death and despair.'

http://www.thedailybell.com/2976/West-Sponsors-Afghan-Civil-War

The Archdruid Report -- Clarke's Fallacy

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:06:31 GMT

'Philosophers and psychologists down the centuries have tried to bring our attention to two important but generally neglected facts: we know more than we realize, and we affect more than we realize. Look at the human organism from an evolutionary standpoint and this isn’t hard to understand. Our rational, conscious, symbol-using minds are recent and rather rickety structures built over the top of a superbly adapted mammalian nervous system. ...a great deal of what goes on in our lives depends not on our rational, linguistic, symbol-using minds, but on an intricate and richly communicative nonrational substructure inherited from our animal ancestors, most of which we never notice at all and much of which is highly resistant to any kind of conscious control. Today’s science treats the placebo effect as an obstacle to be gotten out of the way... The operative mage doesn’t want to get rid of the placebo effect. Quite the contrary, he or she wants to amplify it and use it...'

http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2011/09/clarkes-fallacy.html

Partial Objects -- Who are the important characters in Star Wars?

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:14:06 GMT

'Most stories have a Macguffin (or two) but you want to make sure your life doesn’t use them: something you pursue, or which motivates you, drives you, that, after all, turns out to be pretty meaningless.'

http://partialobjects.com/2011/09/who-are-the-important-characters-in-star-wars/

The Narcissist's Addiction to Fame and Celebrity by Dr. Sam Vaknin

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:55:04 GMT

'As far as their fans are concerned, celebrities fulfil two emotional functions: they provide a mythical narrative (a story that the fan can follow and identify with) and they function as blank screens onto which the fans project their dreams, hopes, fears, plans, values, and desires (wish fulfilment). The slightest deviation from these prescribed roles provokes enormous rage and makes us want to punish (humiliate) the "deviant" celebrities. But why? When the human foibles, vulnerabilities, and frailties of a celebrity are revealed, the fan feels humiliated, "cheated", hopeless, and "empty". To reassert his self-worth, the fan must establish his or her moral superiority over the erring and "sinful" celebrity. The fan must "teach the celebrity a lesson" and show the celebrity "who's boss". It is a primitive defense mechanism – narcissistic grandiosity. It puts the fan on equal footing with the exposed and "naked" celebrity.'

http://samvak.tripod.com/faq19.html

NYTimes.com -- In Study, Fatherhood Leads to Drop in Testosterone

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:39:16 GMT

'The study, experts say, suggests that men’s bodies evolved hormonal systems that helped them commit to their families once children were born. It also suggests that men’s behavior can affect hormonal signals their bodies send, not just that hormones influence behavior. And, experts say, it underscores that mothers were meant to have child care help. In the new study, said Christopher Kuzawa, a co-author and Northwestern anthropologist, having higher testosterone to start with “actually predicted that they’re more likely to become fathers,” possibly because men with higher testosterone were more assertive in competing for women or appeared healthier and more attractive. But regardless of initial testosterone level, after having children, the hormone plummeted. Scientists say this suggests a biological trade-off, with high testosterone helping secure a mate, but reduced testosterone better for sustaining family life.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/health/research/13testosterone.html?_r=1

Vimeo -- Faces

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:50:28 GMT

Vimeo -- Faces
'This is a technical demo for face substitution technique.'

Asia Times Online -- China squeeze drives boom in 'black' banks

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:22:46 GMT

'About 3 trillion yuan (US$470 billion) of bank loans have been channeled into underground lending in the eastern coastal provinces, China Banking Regulatory Commission chairman Liu Mingkang told a recent closed-door conference with lenders. Companies are not alone in engaging in such lending businesses; individuals are welcome to join. Liu Chumei, a housewife in Liantan town in Yunfu city, in southern Guangdong province, close to Hong Kong, said credit companies had promised her family a 7.5% interest rate per month on deposits of 10,000 yuan. "Seeing the inflation rate is higher than the [official] deposit rate, we actually loose money putting our cash in the bank ... I would put my money in such credit companies if I had any, so I called some of my relatives in Hong Kong to see if they were interested," she said. "They refused on security reasons."'

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/MH26Cb02.html

The Big Squeeze: Part 3: The Quiet Rebellion: Civil Disobedience, Local Markets, and Debt Erasure

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:28:04 GMT

'We are coming to the big face-off between top-down control by those who would be gods over us and impose value on us, and bottom up creativity which recognizes that any “god” (energy, good, intelligence) comes up through us and is connected between us. It is this “within” and “between” well-negotiated and exchanged that produces real value. We need to transfer that growth and “frontier” mentality to non-scarce, non-material assets like learning, intellect, culture, music, community, family, creativity, human connection and interest. This is now happening. This movement will be driven by the younger, Generation X and millennial generations. Baby boomers may follow, but probably only after initially resisting, and trying to make the system work long enough so they can cash in their corporate 401(k)s and extract their welfare state entitlements. ...but eventually they will have to capitulate, find a renewed purpose, dust off their 60’s idealism, and reapply themselves.'

http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan11/Zeus-three01-11.html

The Daily Bell -- Using Mercenaries Is a Dangerous Development

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:18:14 GMT

'Great empires often turn to mercenaries to fulfill their military needs. But mercenaries are a sign of weakness, not strength. Their presence indicates that those prosecuting a war do not have the resources to do so legitimately. It means the citizens in whose name the war is being fought are not sufficiently involved in the matter to support it. It also means that the elites running the war are using extra-curricular means to prosecute it... Such mercenary power truly makes government unaccountable to the people it is supposed to serve. And the use of mercenaries gives rise to bigger questions as well. If these mysterious troops can be used in foreign wars, what stops those who are funding them from using such shadowy forces to enforce unpopular agendas at home? The use of such forces raises uncomfortable questions; unfortunately, Western mainstream media, and American media in particular, have not reported on this growing trend or the evident danger it represents.'

http://www.thedailybell.com/2970/Using-Mercenaries-Is-a-Dangerous-Development

The Daily Bell -- Advisers Emphasize Calm as Global Depression Gathers

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:05:34 GMT

'Almost no modern advisers will admit that central banks fix the price of "money"... Central banking blows up economies regularly, and during economic contractions the middle class becomes increasingly unprosperous while more and more wealth is centralized in the hands of great Anglosphere banking families. These families then use their wealth to create dominant social themes – fear-based promotions featuring scarcity memes – that are intended to push Western middle classes into surrendering wealth and power to the globalist solutions (UN, IMF, WHO, etc.) that the familial elites have already prepared. One of the dominant social themes that was remarkable successful in America during the late 20th Century was the idea that various forces were conspiring to erode middle class wealth. The only way to address this potential ruination was through "investing" in a menu of pre-prepared investment solutions featuring rigid, fragile and highly controlled "public" money pools.'

http://www.thedailybell.com/2969/Advisers-Emphasize-Calm-as-Global-Depression-Gathers