John Maguire: James Randi On LENR

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John Maguire
John Maguire

James Randi is considered by many to be the Godfather/Icon of “Modern Skepticism”. A former magician, Randi has been exposing fraudsters for years and is famous for offering a million dollar prize to any person who can definitively “prove” psychic abilities. While he and his JREF organization have rightfully brought the hammer down on a plethora of scammers, there remains a convincing body of evidence that Randi and his acolytes dogmatically/stubbornly deny the legitimacy of; most notably in the fields of parapsychology and alternative medicine. And judging from this clip, it would appear that Randi also harbors a strong bias against LENR/Cold Fusion as well.

Admittedly, this video clip is over a year old. However, upon searching I discovered no recent comments/announcements from Randi concerning Cold Fusion. Therefore I feel safe to assume this is still his official position on the subject. With that disclaimer in place, let me begin to demonstrate why almost everything that Randi and his co-host seem to believe about LENR/LANR (aka Cold Fusion) is painfully antiquated and uninformed. As Wolfgang Pauli might say, they are so beyond wrong that they are “Not Even Wrong.”

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Marcus Aurelius: Germany Ends Spying Pact with US & UK

Corruption, Government
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius

Public flogging for US with German wet noodle.  Snowden's fault.

Germany ends Cold War spying pact with US, Britain

By FRANK JORDANS

AP, 2 August 2013

Germany canceled a Cold War-era surveillance pact with the United States and Britain on Friday in response to revelations by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden about those countries' alleged electronic eavesdropping operations.

The move appeared largely symbolic, designed to show that the German government was taking action to stop unwarranted surveillance directed against its citizens without actually jeopardizing relations with Washington and London. With weeks to go before national elections, opposition parties had seized on Snowden's claim that Germany was complicit in the NSA's intelligence-gathering operations.

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Noam Chomsky: US and Canada Virtually Expelled from South America

Cultural Intelligence
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky

On Morales and Snowden, US & Canada Virtually Being Expelled from the Hemisphere

On July 9, the Organization of American States held a special session to discuss the shocking behavior of the European states that had refused to allow the government plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales to enter their airspace.

Morales was flying home from a Moscow summit on July 3. In an interview there he had said he was open to offering political asylum to Edward J. Snowden, the former U.S. spy-agency contractor wanted by Washington on espionage charges, who was in the Moscow airport.

The OAS expressed its solidarity with Morales, condemned “actions that violate the basic rules and principles of international law such as the inviolability of Heads of State,” and “firmly” called on the European governments – France, Italy, Portugal and Spain – to explain their actions and issue apologies.

An emergency meeting of UNASUR – the Union of South American Nations – denounced “the flagrant violation of international treaties” by European powers.

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SchwartzReport: Singapore and the Arctic Council + Solution + Water Flood Meta-RECAP

12 Water

schwartz reportHere is what climate change and the melting of the Arctic looks like from Malaysia. It is a very sensible assessment, of a depth one rarely sees in the Western media.

Polar Politics and the Melting Arctic
JOSEPH CHINYONG LIOW, professor of comparative and international politics – The Malay Mail (Malaysia)

Singapore’s recent accession to the Arctic Council as an observer has, understandably, raised eyebrows, given how it is more familiar with monsoons than frost. That said, there is good reason why this city-state at the Equator is casting its eyes so far northwards.

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Dolphin: Selfish traits not favoured by evolution, study shows

Collective Intelligence, Crowd-Sourcing, Cultural Intelligence, Resilience
YARC YARC
YARC YARC

Selfish traits not favoured by evolution, study shows

Evolution does not favour selfish people, according to new research.

This challenges a previous theory which suggested it was preferable to put yourself first.

Instead, it pays to be co-operative, shown in a model of “the prisoner's dilemma”, a scenario of game theory – the study of strategic decision-making.

Published in Nature Communications, the team says their work shows that exhibiting only selfish traits would have made us become extinct.

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Crucially, in an evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you, Dr Adami explained.

This is exactly what his team found, that any advantage from defecting was short-lived. They used a powerful computer model to run hundreds of thousands of games, simulating a simple exchange of actions that took previous communication into account.

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Chuck Spinney: The Politicization of Science — Neo-Nazi Eugenics Rampant

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Chuck Spinney
Chuck Spinney

My good friend Pierre Sprey emailed me the attached article by Jonathan Latham along with his introduction. While this truly frightening critique applies to genetics, the politicization of science is a widespread phenomenon that is now undermining our contemporary culture. It can be seen many fields ranging from defense science to climate science. With Pierre's permission I am his forwarding introductory comment and as Latham very important essay to you.

—-[Begin Pierre's email]—-

I commend to you this excellent article, a most interesting example of negative marginal returns in science research:

The third and fourth paragraphs from the end are particularly telling:

“Not sufficiently understood by outsiders is the fact that most of science is essentially now a top-down project. There persists a romantic notion (retained by many scientists) that science is a process of free enquiry. In this view, the endless grant applications and the requests for applications are merely quality control measures, or irritants imposed by bureaucrats.

But free enquiry in science is all but extinct. In reality, only a tiny proportion of research in biology gets done outside of straightjackets imposed by funding agencies. Researchers design their projects around funding programs; universities organize their hiring around them, and every experiment is carefully designed to bolster the next grant application.

The consequences of this dynamic are that individual scientists have negligible power within the system; but more importantly it opens a route by which powerful political or commercial forces can surreptitiously set the science agenda from above.”

Needless to say, the article in toto is a reminder that the despicable Progressive penchant for eugenics–so fulsomely admired by Hitler and so eloquently excoriated by Alexander Cockburn–is once again flourishing among us.

Can it be a coincidence that this eugenic resurgence comes just when our ever-present native American fascist undercurrents are rising on a perigean spring tide of metasticizing secret surveillance, police aggrandizement, corporate kleptocracy, Judeo-Christian fanaticism and racist xenophobia?

Pierre Sprey

Science as Social Control: Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda

By Jonathan Latham, Independent Science News | News Analysis

Thursday, 01 August 2013 10:41

 

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